August 24, 2012 Baker University Student Media/Baldwin City, Kansas vol. 120 [issue 1] Boyd Center opens doors to students Sara Bell MANAGING EDITOR The Ivan L. Boyd Center for Collaborative Science Education was scheduled to be completed by the time the school year began, but construction is not expected to be completed until the end of September at the earliest. Despite the setbacks, some classes were able to begin as scheduled Wednesday in the building most students still call Mulvane Hall. For full story, see page 3 Tera Lyons/The Baker Orange CAMPUS NEWS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT Websites shift to navigational layout Wildcats open season against Braves Jarnot prepares for solo exhibition PAGE 6 PAGE 13 PAGE 20 PAGE 2 www.thebakerorange.com NEWS What are the biggest changes for the a Baker’s Dozen 2012 school year? 1. 2. Daily Wildcat Wire In an effort to reduce the number of emails students receive each day, all campus-wide announcements will be sent to students through a daily Wildcat Wire. Page 6 3. BU websites improve The Baker University website has been revamped with more visually appealing aspects and slideshow images. The Baker University Athletics website was also transformed and will include athlete and coach profiles. Page 6 Modern science building 4. Employer transition to BU From a new dean of academics, to new admissions department staff, The Ivan L. Boyd Center for Collaborative Science and Education Baker’s faculty and staff have seen a number of changes, including the has been a work in progress for the past several months. The building new dean of academics for the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Brian Posler. was originally planned to be completed by the time students returned Page 7 to campus, but after setbacks, it is estimated crews will still continue to work through September. Page 3 ’Cats in 6. 5. top 10 The Baker University women’s soccer team is ranked No. 6 in the 2012 NAIA preseason poll. The team started off its season Tuesday with a 2-2 tie versus No. 9 Westmont College. The McDonald’s set to close Aug. 31 men’s team is ranked No. 2 nationally. The Baldwin City’s McDonald’s restaurant, 522 Ames St., will be closing on Aug. 31. team opens its season The restaurant will be serving food on that day, but will be closed thereafter. Interest today against No. 7 in the building has been shown, but there are no official plans in the works as to Oklahoma University what will take its place. of Science and Arts. Page 15 11. Total enrollment decreases 7. Yearly tuition increases The total number of full-time degree-seeking students enrolled at Baker has decreased since the fall of 2009. There are currently 800 students enrolled, while Tuition prices for the 2012-2013 school year increased from last there were 821 students in fall of 2011, 863 in the fall of 2010 and 890 in the fall of year’s tuition. The total cost for full-time undergraduate students 2009. is now $24,470 for the year. Over 200 freshmen enroll Wildcat statue removed 12. 8. As of Sunday, 205 full-time first time freshmen are enrolled at Baker University. This is an increase from previous years, as there were 200 last year and just 185 in The Wildcat statue which used to stand in the middle of 2010. Hartley Plaza was removed during the summer. Crews repair 9. Orange goes online first13. Gessner Hall With online and social media becoming more prevalent, the Crews worked throughout the Baker Orange is switching to an online-first mentality, with news summer to fix some of the issues that being posted as it happens on www.thebakerorange.com. Page 3 occurred in Gessner Hall last year. The piping for the heating and cooling system was replaced and all heating and cooling fan coil units were also replaced. New carpet was also put Wetlands debate ends into the upstairs common living area 10. and the basement game room area. After more than two decades of debate, the South Lawrence Although the construction is complete, Trafficway will now travel through a section of land previously the basement will be unoccupied part of the Baker Wetlands. Page 8 because of low enrollment numbers. Page 5 NEWS www.thebakerorange.com PAGE 3 Orange has online-first philosophy Chris Duderstadt EDITOR As many readers may have noticed, the print edition of the Baker Orange is different from that of years past. With online and social media becoming more prevalent in society because of the ability to quickly break news stories, staff members will now have an online-first mentality. The Baker Orange has been one of the most prestigious weekly print newspapers among private schools in Kansas over the past couple of decades, but this will be the first year the newspaper will be a monthly publication. When there is a big event on campus or involving the Baker community, the Orange staff has set a goal to have a story posted on www.thebakerorange.com the day of or at least one day following the event. The Baker Orange also has a Facebook page and two Twitter accounts, @bakerorange and @bakersports, which will provide links to stories and other breaking information. While the Baker Orange will no longer be published on a weekly basis, the 24-page magazine style format, just like today’s print version, will still recap important stories that have occurred over the past month Tera Lyons/The Baker Orange Senior Katerra Shackelford, front, and senior Bailey Buchman, back, enter the Ivan L. Boyd Center for Collaborative Science Education building and report on upcoming events. Wednesday. Construction on the Boyd Center, also known as Mulvane Science Hall, is scheduled to completed by end of September, but classes For those who do not regularly have begun on the second, third and fourth floors. check www.thebakerorange.com, Twitter or Facebook, anyone can register to be emailed a weekly newsletter. Boyd Center endures setback, Shortly after Labor Day weekend, anyone interested in receiving the newsletter will need to send an email to [email protected] to begins hosting certain classes indicate that they want to be added to the newsletter email list. “I will be able to live in Mulvane in more of a literal One other change viewers of Sara Bell www.thebakerorange.com may MANAGING EDITOR sense than classes in the past. I will be able to spend a lot more time in there.” notice is the convergence between A buzz has surrounded the Ivan L. Boyd Center for the Baker Orange and KNBU-TV. Collaborative Science Education since construction Chip Allen/junior The television station will have crews took over the project in the spring. immediate event coverage linked to The noise can be heard through talk of the building staircase can still be found in the main front entrance. www.thebakerorange.com from its around the Baldwin City campus or by crews working Larger and more specialized labs add to the new YouTube page. KNBU-TV station on the building’s additions and renovations. features of the building, as well as student lounges and manager Brad Barnes and Baker The Boyd Center, also known as Mulvane Hall, workspaces. Orange editor Chris Duderstadt will was originally planned to be completed by the time Junior biology major Chip Allen is excited to not start hosting pregame coaches shows students returned to campus. However, setbacks only learn in the new facilities, but to share those as one of the main convergence occurred after crews discovered the floors on the experiences with his classmates. projects for the Baker Orange second and third levels could not bare the weight of “I’m super pumped to get in there and share a new website. cement. Baker monument with a monumental class,” Allen While the staff understands that “They had to redesign the floors and then have them said. “I absolutely love my class of biology students many students, faculty and alumni approved and all the engineering,” Professor of Biology and after this really hard last semester where we didn’t have become accustomed to picking Darcy Russell said. “That set us back about five weeks, have like a home, now we are going to have a castle up a copy of the Baker Orange every which is why we are not done. The top floor was good and it’s going to be awesome.” Friday, each member of the staff and the bottom floor was on ground, but those middle Allen said he will utilize the spaces the building has hopes that those who have read two floors were a real problem.” to offer and plans to make it a second home. the print edition will go online to Construction and renovation of the building began “I will be able to live in Mulvane in more of a literal keep up-to-date on what is going on from the top down, so the fourth floor was the only sense than classes in the past,” Allen said. “I will be within the Baker community. level to be completed before classes began. able to spend a lot more time in there. When people say The staff hopes everyone who has “My one disappoint is that I was kind of hoping that ‘oh yeah, I practically live in that hall,’ well, we will be read the weekly version of the Baker we would be completely done before the students got almost living in that hall.” Orange will continue reading the here and we are not going to be,” Russell said.