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LADY BEARS TAKE ON LANGSTON HUGHES NOT GOING PRO? ATTEND THE ATHLETIC TEXAS WEDNESDAY PROJECT AND ALL JOB FAIR PAGE 3 PAGE 5 THAT JAZZ PAGE 7 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT WEDNesdAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2008 Filing taxes for a good cause Baylor and A.J. Moore various different academies in accounting, said. returns in this location than any including finance, A.J. Moore This is the first year Baylor other.” Academy team up junior Josephine Wooten said. students have participated in Both Baylor students and to aid community When the students enter ninth the program, he said. A.J. Moore students have to grade, they decide what acad- “We wanted to get involved go through training to be able By Victoria Turner emy to join. A.J. Moore has been with VITA. We could either set to participate in the program. Reporter offering the Volunteer Income one up ourselves or we could Baylor students take an online Tax Assistant program dur- incorporate (ourselves) (in)to training program and a certifi- This spring, Baylor students ing tax season for the last four another VITA program,” Wilkin- cation exam that is required by are giving back to the Waco years. It provides free aid on tax son said. the IRS, Wilkinson said. community by helping people returns to low-income people. Ron Smith, academy of The A.J. Moore students with their taxes free of charge. “It’s a great service to the finance chairman at A.J. Moore, take a training program as one On Feb. 4, accounting students Waco community. They’d be directs the program. of their classes during the fall Jeff Leslie/Lariat staff began volunteering with a pro- spending quite a bit of money “We were the largest volun- semester. When they are sopho- Mineola graduate student Abby Haston volunteered Tuesday to help locals gram at A.J. Moore Academy. if they had to pay a profession- teer site from either AARP or mores they don’t prepare taxes, with their taxes at the A.J. Moore Academy. Haston is getting her masters in A.J. Moore is a charter school al to do this work,” Dr. Brett VITA in the Dallas territory last taxation. for Waco High School and has Wilkinson, assistant professor year,” Smith said. “We did more Please see TAX, page 8 The Christian good panel asks Shepherd if war is just By Stephen Jablonski Often uncredited in stats, Reporter Amongst empty pizza boxes and Dixie cups, fan favorite helps lead in a room cluttered with chairs from neighboring classrooms, assistant professors for religion Dr. Bears on, off court Jonathan Tran and Dr. Paul Martens continue a discussion on Christian pacifism that was sched- By Will Parchman uled to end ten minutes earlier. Sports editor The “Being Christian in a Nation at War … What A re We to Say?” discussion and presentation Tues- Enter the Ferrell Center through the main gates day saw an unexpected turnout as the Heschel between the new basketball practice facility and Room of the Marrs McLane Science Building was the ticket office and you’re greeted with basketball packed full. Chairs were being placed in the last player banners adorning the concourse rafters. spaces in front of the podium as the discussion’s The banners of juniors Curtis Jerrells, Henry first speaker, Dr. Jon Singletary, began to present Dugat and Kevin Rogers represent a seminal 2005 his personal experiences with Christian moral recruiting class that makes up three of Baylor’s five philosophy. current starters. Dr. Marc Ellis, director of the Center for Jew- Sophomore guard Tweety Carter’s banner sym- ish Studies and university professor, began by bolizes Baylor’s first-ever McDonald’s All-Ameri- commenting on the significance of utilizing the can. Mamadou Diene’s banner signifies head coach Heschel Room, named after Jewish theologian Scott Drew’s first scholarship 7-footer and one of Abraham Joshua Heschel, as the site of conversa- the most popular and recognizable figures on cam- tion concerning pacifism. pus. “I think Abraham Joshua Heschel would be But tucked away in the back of the arena near glad for this conference on Christian attitude on the intersection of University Parks Drive and war,” Ellis said. “He felt it was imperative for him Route 77 is one banner that hasn’t received nearly to speak out against war.” as much attention. Urrutia introduced the conference as a discus- That banner belongs to 6-foot-9 reserve forward sion of issues that are highly contested and that Mark Shepherd. “have been so throughout Christian history.” His stats aren’t eye-catching. The senior has “We’re all here as co-participants in our com- never averaged more than 2.4 points per game in a mon struggle to understand what exactly it is God season and he barely averages more than 10 min- would have us do with respect to war,” Urrutia utes per game for his career. All but the most die- said. “The issue is very ambiguous… What exact- hard basketball fans probably couldn’t pick him ly does it mean to be disciples called to make out of a crowd. Associated Press peace?” So what’s so special about a player like that? Baylor’s Mark Shepherd tears down a rebound during the Jan. 19 contest versus the University of Nebraska. The The conversation offered audience members “Mark is a coach’s dream from the standpoint Bears won 72-70. Although not often in the spotlight, Shepherd is an important part of the Bears’ bench. to share their concerns, comments and questions that he does what he’s supposed to do,” Drew said. in response to the speakers’ presentations. One “Off the court he’s an excellent student. He’s a great such question concerned the ability to reconcile teammate and plays hard. So he brings all the offered. Texas Tech University, where he walked on to the moral thought in the face of multiple ethical per- intangibles.” What Drew couldn’t have counted on when basketball program in 2003 in an attempt to play spectives. When Shepherd walked into the Ferrell Center Shepherd arrived in near anonymity was that he for legendary head coach Bob Knight. That path led “I think we all have a theological system from for the first time in late January of 2004 to pick up would serve as a durable caretaker for a Baylor pro- only to a dead end. which we can obtain different ideas and perspec- his Baylor jersey, Drew didn’t know much about gram working its way back from a deadly scandal. “They basically told me that it wasn’t going to tives on, in which we invite others to respond him. He knew he was tall and he expected to throw Humble beginnings happen there,” Shepherd said. to,” Singletary said. “Hopefully we’re always grow- that size — as meager as it might have seemed at the time — up against the best of what the Big 12 Shepherd’s college basketball odyssey began at Please see MARK, page 6 Please see WAR, page 8 Doctor discusses Obama, McCain sweep AIDS epidemic Potomac primaries Tuesday By David Espo time since the campaign began. Neither The Associated Press was close to the 2,025 needed to win the was centered on the personal nomination. By Lori Cotton side of HIV and his experi- WASHINGTON — Barack Obama pow- His victories were by large margins — Reporter ences with patients. Corrin has ered past Hillary Rodham Clinton in the he was gaining about 75 percent of the worked with HIV for 25 years as race for Democratic convention delegates vote in the nation’s capital and about two- Dr. Ray Corrin has been it has evolved in Western coun- Tuesday, scoring outsized primary victo- thirds in Virginia. studying the AIDS epidemic for tries. ries in Maryland, Virginia and the District Republican front-runner John McCain over 20 years, but admits that His first observation of the of Columbia on a night of triumph. won all three GOP primaries, adding to too much research isn’t always epidemic was that “people will “Tonight we’re on our way,” he told his insurmountable lead in delegates for in the patient’s best interest. always react badly,” he said. cheering supporters in Madison, Wis. the Republican nomination. A self-proclaimed “guitara- When other doctors in the late “But we know how much further we have “We know where either of their candi- holic,” Corrin, of the World 1980s first saw AIDS patients, to go on,” Obama added, celebrating eight dates will lead this country, and we dare Health Organization in Geneva, they would send the sick to straight victories over Clinton, the former not let them,” he said of the Democrats. spoke Tuesday in the Alexander other hospitals to protect their Luis Noble/Lariat staff first lady now struggling in a race she “They will paint a picture of the world in Reading Room. own well-being, Corrin said. Dr. Ray Corrin of the World Health Organization in once commanded. which America’s mistakes are a greater His lecture, “Notes from the Before working with the out- Geneva speaks Tuesday about the changes and dif- The Associated Press count of del- threat to our security than the malevolent Plague Ground: Is the HIV Virus ficulties the HIV disease has undergone in the last egates showed Obama with 1,186. Clin- intentions of an enemy that despises us Trying to Tell Us Something?” Please see HIV, page 8 quarter century. ton had 1,181, falling behind for the first and our ideals.” VOL.