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BU Team Lays Down Law DREAMWORKS FAILS BATTLING ‘TIL THE END: what’s ON HEY SPORTS FANS! TO ENTERTAIN WITH A RECAP OF THE LADY BEARS’ BUMPY The CHECK OUT THE PODCAST MONSTERS V. ALIENS SEASON AND ROAD TO SWEET 16 WEB? FOR THE LATEST NEWS PAGE 5 ONLINE PAGE 6 www.baylor.edu/lariat ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 BU team lays down law Mock Trial team San Antonio on March 28. Tim Goines and Kendall Cock- said Policastro. “We were not “I was quite proud of our rell. allowed to tell the judges where takes No. 1 at team’s performance at the Waco attorney and adjunct we went to law school for three national competition NTC,” said Brad Toben, dean law professor Robert Little, days, and when it was over, I of the Baylor Law School. “The along with Gerald Powell, was never more proud to say Shauna Harris team and its coaches put in an director of the Practice Court that I am a Baylor lawyer.” Reporter inordinate amount of time pre- Program and the Abner V. According to Bailey, he and paring for the competition, but McCall Professor of Evidence Policastro practiced ever y night Baylor Law students once that preparation paid off.” Law, coached the teams. Law and weekend, including this again reigned victorious. The team consisted of third student Crystal Y’Barbo served Spring Break in order to excel For the first time ever, a year law students Eric Policas- as the evidence coach. at the national competition and Courtesy Photo Baylor mock trial team won tro of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. “It is a wonderful feeling to come away with a victory. Back row from left: Tim Goines, Robert Little and championship winner, Joel the American College of Trial ,and Joel Bailey of Cleburne. be national champions, but an “I am as proud as I can pos- Bailey. Front row from left: Crystal Y’Barbo, Kendall Cockrell and national Lawyers National Mock Trial The other mock trial team rep- even better feeling to say that sibly be of these fine young championship winner Eric Policastro. All attended the American College of Competition held by the Texas resenting Baylor at Nationals we were able to bring a nation- Trial Lawyers National Competition in San Antonio on March 28. Baylor took Young Lawyers Association in was regional co-champions, al championship to Baylor,” Please see TRIAL, page 7 home first place for the first time ever at the competition. SDSU, Baylor Waco tip off in plans the Garden for new By Justin Baer famous arena” will be, accord- trolley Sports writer ing to senior guard Curtis Jer- rells, greatly cherished. Baylor’s mythical postsea- “It is the first time for a By Brittany Hardy son journey arrives at its final lot of us to go up there,” the Staff writer destination at 6 p.m. tonight Del Valle native said. “They when the Bears invade the showed a little film before the The Waco Metropolitan Estranged wife target of famed Madison Square Gar- Auburn game on some of the Planning Organization policy den to take on the San Diego history there and that added board voted and approved to State University Aztecs in the some extra motivation for us. launch an engineering study National Invitation Tourna- Our main focus is to win and into a proposed trolley to link nursing home shooing ment semifinals. I think we have done a good downtown Waco with Baylor Rising from the ashes of a job of enjoying each win, but campus. disparaging season, Baylor has moving on to look ahead to the The study was approved on won six of its last seven games, next games.” March 17, but most of the prog- including victories over pres- As a No. 1 seed, the Aztecs ress is yet to come. The date for tigious programs like the Uni- have scorched through the the plan to begin is unknown versities of Georgetown, Kan- tournament winning games by at this time. sas and Texas. While the Bears nearly a 13-point average. With “There’s a lot that has to fell short of an NCAA tourna- only one starter not at least happen between now and con- ment bid, the team has given 6 -foot-5, San Diego State equips struction. These are the very excitement to Baylor fans once a size advantage over Baylor at first steps that would be neces- again. almost every position. sary,” Chris Evilia, director of “I think it’s great for the “We haven’t gotten a chance the MPO said. basketball program, especial- to watch much film, but I think The designs have yet to be ly for Baylor University fans anyone could see in the game drawn, but when they are and and community,” head coach against St. Mary’s that they’re a the study begins, it will address Scott Drew said. “My greatest great team,” Drew said Thurs- safety, funding, traffic and other concern was this senior class day. “They have size, athleti- concerns. putting in so much work and cism and they play extremely “Safety is an issue that will energy into rebuilding this hard.” be handled when the actual program and having a disap- Senior forwards Lorrenzo designs are worked up, but we pointing farewell. Losing to Wade and Kyle Spain lead the think by reducing the amount Nebraska in a half-empty arena team offensively with 14.3 of traffic going between the two on senior night was never how points and 14.0 points per (places), ultimately it’ll be safer we envisioned these seniors game respectively. But the big than everyone getting into their going out.” challenge for a big team could vehicles and driving by them- The seniors were able to be keeping up with Baylor’s selves,” Evilia said. redeem themselves when they high-octane offense. Right now, the MPO is look- were hosts to Georgetown. In The Bears have been averag- ing at the long-range future of Associated Press front of a packed house, the ing an astounding 77.3 points downtown Waco and how it group of seniors propelled the per game in the tournament, Baylor center Mamadou Diene attempts to block the shot of Auburn’s Lucas Hargrove during their National Invitation relates to Baylor campus. Bears in a 74-72 victory in its with Dallas senior Kevin Rog- Tournament third-round college basketball game at the Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum in Auburn, Ala., Tuesday. “The hindrance that keeps last career home game. ers and Monroe, La., sopho- coming up is: access,” Evilia And while the memories more LaceDarius Dunn catch- thinks the NIT is anything but was hard initially because we game is a game and we are just said. The two main issues that of rebuilding a program in ing fire in the recent games. a consolation prize. were pulling for the big tourna- looking forward to playing come from developing access the Ferrell Center have been While Dunn was originally His numbers seem to indi- ment, but things happen for a Baylor basketball and we know are distance and getting past numerous, the nostalgia at disappointed in not making the cate that. reason and we just have to take that is what we have to do to Interstate 35. This trolley would playing in the “world’s most NCAA tournament, he said he “It’s still on my mind and it it as it come,” Dunn said. “A win.” satisfy both of those issues. “The study is to see if the project is feasible and how much we can do. Nothing’s really set in stone, nothing’s for sure, it is all kind of a preliminary thing Local government politics at play in Lorena ... to see if and when and where we can do it,” Brandon Thom- as, administrative assistant for form of government in Lorena educating the community on to Coleman, two ex-mayors, at ers. Waco Transit said. By Nick Dean and replace it with a mayor-run the merits of voting ‘against’ least two ex-councilmen and The professionalism and Waco Transit will hire a Staff writer form. on this proposition,” Bill Cole- 100 percent of the downtown education of a city manager company to design the study, The ballot also includes the man said. Coleman is the cur- business owners also support compared to mayor-run govern- Thomas said. The move to what is com- two candidates for Lorena’s rent mayor protem of Lorena. A Lorena Citizens Against Propo- ment is one main concern for “We don’t know what the monly known as a “strong mayor if the city were to change mayor protem assists with poli- sition 1. some members of the coalition. study is going to say. We still mayor” form of government is its form of government. Incum- cies and local affairs and is also According to the City of “By going to t he st rong mayor have to find a way to fund the a polarizing issue in the town bent Chuck Roper is one choice responsible for the interpreta- Waco Web site, more than 75.5 system, you are getting someone project,” he said. of Lorena. With a population for voters. The other is Joe Sand- tion of citizen’s views when million Americans live in com- who may not be trained or may Waco Transit would most of approximately 1,900 people, ers, a current municipal judge operating in a city manger form munities that operate under not be educated to run your likely act as the operator of the including several Baylor pro- in Lorena.
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