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DOUBLE FEATURE: ‘Grindhouse’ resurrects nearlY FORGOTTEN GENRE PAGE 5 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007 Group targets sexuality policy Mystics Petitioners want Baylor ley, the petition reads, “We, as stu- prets homosexual practice.” sent to Lilley’s office “when and if” take dents, recognize Baylor as a Chris- San Antonio senior Christina Ci- she gets enough signatures. As of to be more accepting tian University, and place an utmost gala, who wrote the petition, said it press time, 56 students had signed, of homosexuals importance on love and acceptance. didn’t come as a result of Soulforce’s although some did not use their last Mosby We find Baylor’s attitudes, actions Waco stop, but that she was troubled names. By Jon Schroeder and policy on homosexuality to be by some students’ reactions to the “Baylor has had policies that have Staff writer offensive, bigoted, and antiquated visit. She started the petition to raise changed as a result of the way so- 6th and wrong. student awareness of the issue and ciety has changed,” she said, citing Almost two weeks after Soulforce “Our goal is to have a University to start conversations about it. changed policies on dancing and in- Staff report Equality Ride’s stop in Waco, the that is tolerant of sexual minorities. “The conversations I heard among terracial dating as examples. Baylor campus is still feeling its ef- We feel that spiritual superiority my peers during the Soulforce inci- “Whether the petition will cause After leading the Baylor women’s basket- fects. and judgment does not further our dent concerned me enough to raise Baylor to change the policy is highly ball team to the second round of the NCAA This time, it’s in the form of an Christian message, but degrades it. awareness about what some feel is doubtful, but presenting an opin- tournament this season, senior forward online student petition protesting Fueling attitudes of fear and hatred a moral view, although it may not ion is the first step in facilitating Bernice Mosby was rewarded for her hard Baylor’s statement on human sexu- towards those of homosexual orien- be the popular view at Baylor,” she change,” she said. work as she was taken with the sixth pick ality. tation is wrong, regardless of how said. in the WNBA draft by the Washington Mys- Addressed to President John Lil- one feels about how the Bible inter- Cigala said the petition will be Please see POLICY, page 6 tics. Mosby, who transferred to Baylor from REPAY from page 1 the University of Florida prior to the 2005- 06 season, led the Lady Bears in points and rebounds this season, averaging 17.6 and 9.1 respectively. Court “I am very excited to be able to continue playing basketball at the next level,” Mosby told baylorbears.com. “It has always been my dream to play in the WNBA.” Mosby is the fifth Baylor player to be orders taken in the WNBA draft and the fourth to funds be taken in the first round. repaid Chaplain Student officials claim addresses African group misused appropriated money faith, politics By Kate Boswell Staff writer By Jon Schroeder Staff writer Five months after receiving $3,500 from the Student Life Dr. Barry C. Black, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Fund to sponsor the eighth spoke 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Paul Powell room annual Baylor African Student of George W. Truett Seminary. Association Cultural Extrava- The Lariat sat down with Black after the speech, ganza, the African Student As- taking a peek into the state through the eyes of sociation was ordered by Stu- the church. dent Court to return $603.66 to Q: A common perception of U.S. politics is that our the Student Life Fund. leaders do not communicate well across party lines. Tolu Itegboje, a senior from Is that view a correct one, or do our leaders in the Nigeria and the association’s Senate take time to sit down president, said the issue had and talk with each other about been resolved but that he wished issues going on in American Student Senate had not taken life? the matter to the court. “My organization, including I think that the issues the officers and the advisers, they debate are nuanced, and just wish Student Senate would many times the members of try to dialogue in the future in- the different sides give the stead of going through the court talking points of their par- process,” he said. “This could ticular party. have been resolved if we had Like a debating society, been given a chance to sit down you can hear what the other Black and talk. We were not given that side is saying, but you’re pri- chance.” marily interested in defending your position. Internal vice president and Obviously at a prayer breakfast they sit, and San Antonio junior Travis Plum- they eat together at a weekly basis at a Bible study. mer said taking an organization They discuss theological issues, and what is hap- to court was up to the attorney pening in the Senate may creep into those discus- general’s discretion, not Sen- sions. So they do talk, but the way a position is set ate’s. up and argued, it’s more like the prosecution and “Senate takes no one to David Poe/Lariat staff defense in a courtroom. court,” he said. It’s set up that way. Even as you would not be “Senate only passes legisla- frustrated because the prosecution and the de- tion and allocations. The attor- fense aren’t talking to one another, the nature of ney general, who is under the Blasting the competition the deliberative process is adversarial. executive branch, takes some- Two stories are being presented, and people Kosice, Slovakia, junior Zuzana Zemenova serves Wednesday against the University of Texas at the Baylor Tennis Center. Baylor Please see REPAY, page 6 defeated the Longhorns to move to 7-1 in conference play. For the full story, please see page 4. Please see BLACK, page 6 Armstrong to host Iran leader releases Shakespeare play captive British sailors By Nasser Karimi ran was a breakthrough in a By Kate Boswell 7 p.m. Tuesday at Armstrong The Associated Press crisis that had escalated over Staff writer Browning Library. nearly two weeks, raising oil This is his second play at TEHRAN, Iran — President prices and fears of military In Shakespeare’s classic Baylor (last year he directed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad de- conflict in the volatile region. comedy A Midsummer Night’s Twelfth Night), but directing fused a growing confrontation The move to release the sailors Dream, a group of rustics (the amateur productions of Shake- with Britain, announcing the suggested that Iran’s hard-line Elizabethan equivalent of red- speare has become something surprise release of 15 captive leadership decided it had shown necks) struggles to put together like a second job for Prickett. British sailors Wednesday and its strength but did not want to an amateur production of a fa- He produced four plays dur- then gleefully accepting the push the standoff too far. mous tragedy. They fail miser- ing his time at Australian Na- crew’s thanks and handshakes Iran did not get the main ably at the tragedy part, much tional University and once di- in what he called an Easter gift. thing it sought, a public apology to the amusement of their on- rected a traveling production of British Prime Minister Tony for entering Iranian waters. Brit- stage audience, and the rest is Macbeth in Nigeria. He directed Chris Weeks/Lariat staff Blair expressed “profound re- ain, which said its crew was in theater history. his first play, Shakespeare’s Cast members rehearse in Armstrong Browning Library for Shakespeare’s A lief” over the peaceful end to the Iraqi waters when seized, insists Dr. Stephen Prickett, direc- Pericles, Prince of Tyre, while in Midsummer Night’s Dream, set to open at 7 p.m. Tuesday. 13-day crisis. it never offered a quid pro quo tor of the Armstrong Browning graduate school at Oxford. “Throughout we have taken either, instead relying on quiet Library and the Margaret Root Carrying on the tradition brary’s McLane Foyer of Medi- He said there were a few ini- a measured approach, firm but diplomacy. Brown professor for Browning when he moved to Baylor in tation, which includes a bal- tial doubts. calm, not negotiating, but not Syria, Iran’s close ally, said Studies and Victorian Poetry, 2003 seemed like the natural cony and roof-to-floor length “People here took me aside confronting either,” Blair said it played a role in winning the has assembled his own crew thing to do, Prickett said. pillars. and were telling me, ‘This is in London, adding a message to release. of amateur performers to put “Have you seen it?” he asked, “As soon as I walked in the Baylor. You can’t do Shake- the Iranian people that “we bear “Syria exercised a sort of qui- on a production of A Midsum- referring to the architecture of room, it shrieked to me, ‘This you no ill will.” mer Night’s Dream beginning at the Armstrong Browning Li- place needs a play!’” Please see PLAY, page 6 The announcement in Teh- Please see IRAN, page 6 VOL. 106 No. 91 www.baylor.edu/Lariat © 2007, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY 2 The Baylor Lariat OPINION Thursday, April 5, 2007 Going back on your word has serious consequences I’m tired of excuses. I’m tired imposed responsibility.