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ELECTION TIME: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EACH OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT CANDIDATES PAGES 4-5 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT WEDNESDAY, AprIL 18, 2007 Panel discusses staff wage raise Faculty member calls Austin junior Jenny Parker, “Now it’s up to the adminis- many people can do the same co-chairwoman of the adequate tration to decide,” she said. job is a valid question for eco- adequate living wage wage task force, has been work- Waco senior Anali Gatlin, nomics,” he added. Odegaard ‘inadequate’ for many ing with the justice group since a member of the justice group, said his view on the impact of fall 2004. said the discussion was timely implementing a living or ad- By Claire St. Amant “We have continually pres- because the decision on wheth- equate wage is “agnostic.” Staff writer sured the administration to er to increase wages at Baylor “I don’t know what the re- raise wages,” she said. will be made this summer by sults will be,” he said. “Forecasts Students for Social Justice The task force was founded Lilley and the Baylor Board of are all over the map.” held a panel discussion Tuesday in 2005 under then-Interim Regents. Dr. Thomas Offit, anthropol- night in Draper Academic Build- President William D. Under- Thomas Odegaard, senior ogy professor, shared statistics ing to discuss adequate wages wood and has been continued lecturer in economics, shared about the gap between the rich for campus workers. by President John Lilley. Parker, his views about the correlation and poor in the United States. The panel consisted of six an economics major, said the of markets, prices and the value “Income is distributed exact- faculty members and was mod- task force developed a “stepping- of what’s produced. ly as unequally in the U.S. as it David Poe/Lariat staff erated by Dr. Jon Singletary, as- stone process” to raise wages to “What one’s due is tied to Dr. Thomas Offit (left) listens as Dr. Tony Talbert discusses adequate wages sistant professor of social work. $10.40 per hour by 2010. what one does,” he said. “How Please see WAGE, page 8 Tuesday in 116 Draper Academic Building. Virginia Tech mourns one day later Schools close after threats Measures taken after suspicious activities in several states The Associated Press AUSTIN — Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacua- Associated Press tions at universities and grade schools in seven states Tuesday, Students embrace during a memorial service Tuesday at Worsham Stadium on the campus of Monday. Thousands of students and other mourners gathered at the football stadium and the a day after a Virginia Tech stu- Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va. The school held a service for those slain by a gunman basketball arena. dent’s shooting rampage killed 33 people. One threat in Louisiana directly mentioned the massacre Killer identified as troubled English student in Virginia, while others were reports of suspicious activity in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, President Bush Man who left 32 dead depression and that he was be- Another was about students North Dakota, South Dakota and first lady coming increasingly violent and fantasizing about stalking and and Michigan. Laura Bush was ‘loner’ who wrote erratic. killing a teacher who sexually In Louisiana, parents picked leave flowers violent plays for class Despite the many warning molested them. up hundreds of students from at a memo- signs that came to light in the “When we read Cho’s plays, Bogalusa’s high school and mid- rial Tuesday on By Matt Apuzzo bloody aftermath, police and it was like something out of a dle school amid reports that a the campus of The Associated Press university officials offered no nightmare. The plays had really man had been arrested Tuesday Virginia Tech University. clues as to exactly what set Cho twisted, macabre violence that morning for threatening a mass The president BLACKSBURG, Va. — The off on the deadliest shooting used weapons I wouldn’t have killing in a note that alluded to addressed the gunman in the Virginia Tech rampage in modern U.S. his- even thought of,” former class- the murders at Virginia Tech. student body massacre was a sullen loner tory. mate Ian McFarlane, now an Schools Superintendent Jerry at a memo- who alarmed professors and “He was a loner, and we’re AOL employee, wrote in a blog Payne said both schools were rial at Cassell classmates with his twisted, vio- having difficulty finding in- posted on an AOL Web site. locked down and police arrest- Coliseum at the lence-drenched creative writing formation about him,” school He said he and other students ed a 53-year-old man who alleg- school. and left a rambling note in his spokesman Larry Hincker said. “were talking to each other with edly made the threat in a note he dorm room raging against wom- A student who attended Vir- serious worry about whether he gave to a student headed to the en and rich kids. ginia Tech last fall provided could be a school shooter.” private Bowling Green School in A chilling picture emerged obscenity- and violence-laced “We always joked we were Franklinton. Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui, a screenplays that he said Cho just waiting for him to do some- Both towns are in southeast- 23-year-old senior majoring in wrote as part of a playwriting thing, waiting to hear about ern Louisiana. English, a day after the blood- class they both took. something he did,” said another “The note referred to what bath that left 33 people dead, in- One was about a fight be- classmate, Stephanie Derry. “But happened at Virginia Tech,” cluding Cho, who killed himself tween a stepson and his stepfa- when I got the call it was Cho Payne said. “It said something as police closed in. ther and involved the throwing who had done this, I started like, ‘If you think that was bad, News reports said he may of hammers and attacks with a Associated Press have been taking medication for chainsaw. Please see SHOT, page 8 Please see CLOSED, page 8 Senior doesn’t let Baylor dumps program Fort Worth senior Samreen Hooda (right) was chosen that shares loan money success go to head for the International Waezeen Training By Melissa Limmer the university has received a to- Program in London. By Sapna Prasad summer. She said she learned Staff Writer tal of $4,207.48 in shared rev- Reporter The program’s about the role of the imam and goal is to create a enue. Baylor’s policy was to put closely examined the teach- global perspective Amid ongoing controversy this money exclusively toward A preacher who doesn’t ings of the Quran. She also was on Islam by inviting regarding student loan compa- need-based scholarship aid. preach. A believer in confident trained to give speeches and people from all over nies, Baylor has decided to no According to Jackie Diaz, as- humility. presentations on the history of the world to partici- longer take part in the revenue- sistant vice president for finan- Samreen Hooda’s life is full Islam. pate. sharing program of the student cial services, 262 students had of paradoxes, but she has never “It’s a passion for me,” Hoo- loan group Education Finance received loans from the group. felt so complete. da said. “It’s teaching me to Partners. The $4,207.48 in revenue Baylor At 22, the Fort Worth se- become a good articulator be- Baylor officials released a received will be distributed nior was chosen for the Inter- cause the Ismaili denomination statement Friday regarding the evenly between the 262 stu- national Waezeen Training of Islam has been misarticulat- decision and the university’s re- dents who took out the loans, Program in London. Hooda is ed in the past.” lationship with the loan group. and $16.06 will be placed in only the second person to enter Hooda said Ismaili-ism is Courtesy photo The company is a revenue- each student’s account. the program, akin to a graduate a liberal, Shia denomination sharing student loan organiza- Diaz said despite the fact that program, before completing an of Islam. She said there are no tion that returns some of its Baylor will no longer participate undergraduate degree. strict guidelines for when or The Waezeen program se- trainees to connect with di- profits to the universities it is in the revenue-sharing program, The average age of a Waezeen how to pray, and the focus is lects 10 to 15 people from hun- verse audiences. contracted with. it will remain on Baylor’s pre- trainee is between 35 and 40. on spiritual living. dreds of countries, creating a She said the program is also According to a Baylor press ferred lender list. Hooda spent three and a Hooda said Ismaili-ism is unique global perspective on beginning to see the importance release, since the university be- Education Finance Partners’ half weeks at the Institute of “taking what we believe and Islam. Hooda said the inter- came affiliated with Education Ismaili Studies in London last living it spiritually.” national interaction allows the Please see LONDON, page 8 Finance Partners in March 2006, Please see LOANS, page 8 VOL. 106 No. 94 www.baylor.edu/Lariat © 2007, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY 2 The Baylor Lariat OPINION Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Plummer, Hay, Fonville make strong government trio Election season is under way for stu- intent on using all the technologies dent government. Students can vote for available to help students better inter- their favorite candidates starting today act with student government.

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