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INDIE FAvorite’s SECRET TO SUCCESS: BAylor’s big lead LATEST THROWS FAIR APPEALS TO STUDENTS, OFFERS TOO MUCH FOR CU TO OVERCOME PAGE 6 FANS CURVE PAGE 7 FREE BOOKS FOR SEMESTER PAGE 3 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2007 How can Baylor achieve BU supporters Unapproved department proposals defend grant for ’07-’08 total nearly $700 million 2012? Lilley, ambassadors “We go and talk to the con- By Jon Schroeder gressional staffers, asking them Staff writer lobby in Austin on to maintain the funding levels behalf of students (for the grant) and stress why When the dust settled from Baylor’s Dec. 15 strategic it is important to us that they planning deadline, the university had about 60 major By Melissa Limmer maintain that funding,” said proposals carrying a total price tag of about $700 mil- Staff Writer Phoenix sophomore and Baylor lion over the course of the next 10 years. Ambassador Cassidy Ford. That’s a “very rough” amount, said Dr. Larry Baylor President John Lil- “TEG is a really big deal be- Lyon, vice provost for institutional effectiveness, not- ley played a role other than the cause it is only for private in- ing that $700 million is only an estimate school’s leader last week when stitutions. It makes a huge dif- and that none of the proposals have he served as a lobbyist. Lilley ference to the students who do been evaluated yet by Baylor’s budget was in Austin on Jan. 23 speak- receive it,” Ford said. office. ing with state officials and Baylor On Feb. 8 the ambassadors “This is as much or more for direc- alumni regarding the Texas Tu- will make their monthly trip to tion of fundraising as it is for alloca- ition Equalization Grant. Austin where they will attend tion of existing money,” Lyon said. While in Austin, Lilley met a coordinating board meeting After being submitted, each proposal must be with legislative leaders in the made up of state senators and evaluated first by the deans, then by Baylor’s Senate, members of the Senate representatives. The Tuition budget office and human resource depart- Finance Committee, Lt. Gov. Equalization Grant group will ment, he said. David Dewhurst, the chairman give a presentation at the board This part of the evaluation process of the Senate Education Com- meeting regarding the budget will end in February, when the Uni- mittee and a representative for next year. versity Strategic Planning Council from the Speaker of the House’s “Hopefully we will get to talk makes recommendations to Presi- office, said James Odom, Baylor to the representatives,” Ford dent John Lilley about which director of public affairs. said. “Our main priority was the For students who wish to Please see VISION, page 8 TEG. It is the most important apply for the grant, “it is very source of state financial aid for simple,” said Celeste Sheehy, Baylor students,” Odom said. associate director of processing In the 2005 legislative ses- and audit services. sion the TEG received “a sub- All students have to do is fill stantial increase” in funding of out the FAFSA to be automati- roughly 50 percent, Odom said. cally considered for the grant, “The goal for this session is Sheehy said. to sustain that increase for fu- In order to receive the grant, ture years,” he said. students must show financial Odom also said that about need, maintain a grade point av- 25 percent of Baylor students erage of 2.5 and be enrolled in at receive funding from the grant. least 24 semester hours per year The grant is also a priority for undergraduate students and for the Baylor Ambassadors, a 18 for graduate students. Those student group that lobbies for David Poe/ educational issues. Please see GRANT, page 8 Lariat staff 12th-day enrollment figures show slight increase By Jon Schroeder and 14,040 students enrolled, re- direction when we have more stu- tive calls for an increase in fresh- Staff writer spectively. dents,” Morley said. man retention rate “from 83 to This semester’s enrollment con- The department of institution- 95 percent.” However, the two This spring Baylor’s 12th-day sists of 11,005 undergraduate and al research and testing released its statistics cannot directly be com- enrollment statistics are actu- 1,215 graduate students. George semiannual retention report Tues- pared, since the 2012 document ally its 13th-day numbers. When W. Truett Theological Seminary day. The report showed retention references the fall-to-fall retention classes were canceled Jan. 18, students total 381, and 384 stu- holding steady with 94.6 percent rate, not the fall-to-spring rate re- Baylor skipped a day, creating a dents are enrolled in Baylor Law of undergraduates returning be- leased Tuesday, Morley said. sort of enrollment statistic leap School, with one law student tak- tween fall 2006 and this semester, “I think our numbers are look- year. ing graduate hours. an increase of one-tenth of a per- ing good,” she said. Enrollment also jumped — it’s In addition, 180 students are cent over the previous academic Baylor is forecasting “a pret- up 150 students from last spring, taking classes at Baylor’s Academy year. ty steady hold,” said Dr. Rea- according to statistics released by of Health Sciences in San Antonio, Freshman retention also held gan Ramsower, vice president Baylor’s office of institutional re- and three Baylor doctoral students at about the same level. Between for finance and administration. search and testing. are enrolled at West Point. fall 2005 and spring 2006, 95.1 “(Baylor) 2012 did not envision Baylor has enrolled 13,169 Dr. Kathleen Morley, director percent of first-time freshmen re- enrollment growing significantly. students for the spring semester of institutional research and test- turned for their second semester. It did not envision enrollment compared to 12,715 in 2005 and ing, said Baylor is “making head- Between fall 2006 and this spring, shrinking significantly.” 13,019 in 2006. way” toward its goals for 2012. 93 percent of freshmen returned. Fall 2005 and 2006 saw 13,975 “It’s always a step in the right Baylor 2012’s fourth impera- Please see ENROLL, page 8 No appointment MCC to hold dialogue necessary at SLC discussing coal plants By Kate Boswell community in general,” Losak Number of ill students open to students until all avail- Staff writer said. “With this specific issue, able spots have been filled. because it’s so local, I think it’s leads to change in Emergency and urgent care ap- The award-winning docu- even more important for people Health Center policy pointments will be scheduled mentary Kilowatt Ours is receiv- in the community to get in- as needed throughout the day. ing a local angle tonight in the volved and be informed.” By Sapna Prasad Pre-booked appointments for lecture hall of McLennan Com- He said Kilowatt Ours is the Reporter routine medical needs such as munity College. The film, which latest in a film series called physicals and well-woman ex- examines energy issues and “Feed Your Head,” which was The next time sick friends ams will be scheduled for 8 to renewable energy, will be fol- started last semester. Other passes on their germs, an ap- 10 a.m. Monday through Fri- lowed by a panel discussion on films in the series have included pointment with the Health Cen- day. the plans to build coal plants in Robert Greenwalt’s Iraq for Sale ter will be readily available. Students can pre-book rou- McLennan County. and Brian Fleming’s The God As of today the Health Cen- tine appointments days or The event, which starts at 6 Who Wasn’t There. ter will be implementing a new weeks in advance. Depending p.m., is sponsored by a McLen- Losak said the showing of way of scheduling appoint- on the need of the student, ap- Abbie Rosen/Lariat staff nan Community College group Kilowatt Ours is particularly rel- ments for students. The goal is pointments will be made for Arlington sophomore Lauren Turner, a Spanish Education major, waits at the called Students for Dialogue, evant to students in Waco and to schedule fewer appointments 15-minute and 30-minute time Health Center in the McLane Student Life Center. which was founded by MCC the community as a whole due for routine medical needs while slots. sophomore Brent Losak. to the proposed coal plants in allowing a majority of the avail- Keating said winter finds the “There were so many ill the Big 12 universities meet Losak, who is also the group’s McLennan County. able appointments to open up needs of students overshadow- students who could not get and discuss the health care president, said the idea behind Robert Darden, associate for illnesses, injuries and emer- ing the capacity of the Health in when they needed to,” concerns of their students and the club was to offer students professor in journalism, said gencies, said Nancy Keating, Center. Townsend said. talk about the best way to serve a forum to discuss relevant is- he believes this issue is one stu- director of nurses. Rosemary Townsend, direc- Dr. Mark Schwartze, medi- each campus, Schwartze said. sues. dents should care about. Under the new scheduling tor of business affairs, said the cal director, said the Health “The perfect system is not “In general, what we want to “TXU’s plan to put, depend- method, appointments will fall Health Center decided to make Center’s new scheduling policy out there,” Schwartze said.