Baylor Looks to Push Past Purdue
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NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE GOT SERVED?: BAYLOR STUDENT RECEIVES PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE AWARD WWW.BAYLOR.EDU/LARIAT PAID BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008 Baylor looks to push past Purdue By Will Parchman Selection Sunday, the team has If Drew puts five guards on Sports editor tried furiously to scout Purdue, the court as he did against the travel to the east coast and accli- University of Colorado in the Big Now that the celebratory con- mate to the notion that they’re 12 Tournament, all 10 players on fetti’s been swept away and the actually playing an NCAA Tour- the court at one point could be send-off celebrations are over, nament game today. guards. Baylor men’s basketball is finally “I really enjoy that fast pace,” “Its a great match-up from the ready to step on the court. senior guard Aaron Bruce said. standpoint that their strength is With No. 11-seeded Baylor’s “Go somewhere, practice, pre- in the perimeter, they have great NCAA Tournament match-up pare, have a quick turnaround guard play, they have more size today against Purdue University and do it all again. That’s out- and length in their guards, they at 1:50 p.m. in Washington D.C.’s standing I think. That’s the way rely on the 3-point shot like we Verizon Center — Baylor’s first it is in professional leagues ... It do,” Drew said. “So it will be a such pairing since 1988 — the really tests a team’s preparation very exciting game to watch.” team said it’s more than ready to skills and tests the full spectrum Purdue’s defensive set is delib- put the speculation to rest and of what it takes to be an excellent erate and hounding, not unlike decide the outcome on the hard- team.” Washington State University, a wood. The Boilermakers rely on their team Baylor’s faced already this “Now it’s getting ready for the guard-play to power the rest of year. Purdue ranked second in the game and that’s what coaches their offense, something Baylor Big 10 in steals and first in turn- love to do,” head coach Scott can relate with well. Guards over margin, a full point ahead of Drew said. E’Twaun Moore, Scott Martin second-place Minnesota. Baylor’s last week has been a and Keaton Grant lead Purdue The Boilermakers also don’t whirlwind of activity. On March in minutes played and repre- score a ton of points, preferring 13, the team lost a double-over- sent three of the team’s top four instead to keep point totals into Associated Press time decision to the University scorers. The team was just three- the 50s and 60s. of Colorado in the Big 12 Tour- tenths of a percentage point from Baylor’s high-octane offense Baylor head coach Scott Drew does five push-ups Wednesday at center court after a successful team practice at the nament, placing them atop the leading the Big 10 in 3-point per- will look to stretch that advan- Verizon Center in Washington D.C. in preparation for the NCAA first round West Regional basketball game. Looking on NCAA Tournament bubble. After centage and was third in scoring are Baylor players Curtis Jerrells, center, and Fred Ellis, right. being the last name called on offense. Please see BEARS, page 6 ELG to attend Dallas film festival By Shannon Daily tion. reflected — connections between the The Da l l a s fe st i va l pack s it s sched- Staff writer “The festival kind of runs the films from different cultures. It will ule with independent films as well as gamut,” said Christopher Hansen, an be a wonderful venue for students to panel discussions meant to inform This semester the Film and Glob- assistant professor of communica- be exposed to this kind of thing,” said viewers about different aspects of the al Culture Engaged Learning Group tions and one of the group’s faculty Dr. Xin Wang, an assistant professor filmmaking process. will be taking a unique approach to leaders. in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core At last year’s festival, Hansen was studying filmmaking. The students will be given pass- and another ELG faculty leader. a panel member for a discussion on In addition to participating in a es they can individually use for the Wang said it’s important to him filmmaking in Texas. semester-long film production simu- entire week of the festival and will that his students understand they “It was filmmakers from Texas, or lation, the group of more than 40 stu- take a group trip to Dallas for the first live in a global community. who had shot in Texas, or both, and dents will be attending the American weekend. “We need for Baylor to help stu- just kind of how they made every- Film Institute festival in Dallas. One aspect of the festival the stu- dents, these students who are going thing work,” Hansen said. The festival takes place March 27 dents will focus on is the cultural to be future leaders, understand These kinds of discussions will through April 6 and hosts filmmak- similarities and differences shown in that they have to plug into society. mirror the simulation the students ers from all over the world. These the films. We have a larger context outside of are participating in. filmmakers work in areas from pro- “I think when they go to the fes- Baylor, and Texas and even the Unit- duction to marketing and distribu- tival, they’ll see common themes ed States,” he said. Please see ELG, page 6 Economy hinders student loan options Alex Song/Lariat staff Cedar Park senior and Brooks CL James Nortey was By Anita Pere tified the mortgage market as the cul- agree the credit crunch is the lend- ers for Federal Stafford Loans also, accepted to Harvard Law School. Staff writer prit of student loan worries in their ers’, not the students’, problem. as many banks can’t afford to lend article, “The Real Story on Student At a United States Senate hearing these types of loans. College students may need an Loans and the Credit Squeeze.” March 12, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Kantrowitz supported Kennedy’s alternative to alternative education “Mostly because of problems in head of the Senate Education Com- stance that the economy is more loans next school year. the mortgage market, there has been mittee, said the credit crunch is pri- severely affecting the lenders and not Brooks CL Once easy to get, the availability of a decline in the number of inves- marily impacting banks and other students. private or alternative education loans tors willing to purchase some types lenders, as many financial lenders Kantrowitz also said the dimin- may be hindered by more stringent of financial instrument,” the article can no longer afford to lend educa- ishing competition of loan lenders regulations on lending, prompted by reads. “Some student loan compa- tional loans. shouldn’t be a huge concern to stu- accepted to the unstable economy. nies have been using these methods This week manufactures and dents now, but may be next year. A student with a less-than-perfect of financing to raise money to make Traders Trust Company, The Hong “Choices are going to be much credit history could get a high-inter- student loans. With the unexpected Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- more limited…I’m much more con- Harvard Law est loan from a private lender in past loss of financing, these companies poration and the Twin City Federal cerned about lenders leaving a year years, but this may not be the case will need to either get out of the stu- Bank all announced this week a halt from now,” he said. now, said Mark Kantrowitz, publish- dent loan market or revamp their on college lending, Kantrowitz said. Bob Shireman, president of The By Sommer Ingram er of finaid.org. financing methods.” Kennedy warned that students Staff Writer The Project on Student Debt iden- But the good news is that experts might have to choose different lend- Please see LOAN, page 6 Cedar Park senior James Nortey stood motionless outside the boys’ entrance to Brooks College, his cell phone glued to his ear. He played the voicemail again, this time on speak- Bush defends high cost of Iraq War erphone. He’d heard right the first time. The assistant dean By Ben Feller world is better, and the United in Iraq.” of admissions at Harvard Law School was calling to The Associated Press States of America is safer.” The U.S. has about 158,000 inform him of his admittance to the school. A war-weary country isn’t troops in Iraq, and that number “My initial feeling was disbelief — it felt so surreal,” WASHINGTON — President nearly so convinced. is expected to drop to 140,000 Nortey said. “I played the message over and over. I Bush defiantly defended the Iraq The majority of people think by summer. But Bush signaled didn’t tell anyone at first, for a few days at least. Then war Wednesday as U.S. troops the invasion was a mistake, anew that he will not pull more I told my parents, and eventually my friends one by began a sixth year of combat in polls show. However, Ameri- troops home as long as his com- one. It’s definitely a blessing.” the long and costly conflict that cans are more split about how manders worry that doing so Nortey said that because he’s never been very has dominated his presidency.