GOALKEEPER WACKY PATENTS HOT FAIR AND RODEO KEY TO RECENT PATENT NOT PENDING ON THESE OFFERS SNEAK PEEK SUCCESS PAGE 6 OFF-BEAT ITEMS PAGE 4 TONIGHT PAGE 7 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006 Mom’s studies worth sacrifice Single parent balances After Minor gets out of class at 3:20 p.m., she studies until work, school for 5 p.m. when she picks up her daughter’s future daughter at school. Mother and daughter play By Christine M. Tamer tennis or ride bikes together be- Staff writer fore dinner. “I don’t let her watch TV be- Saturday night parties, in- cause TV is just so bad,” Minor tramural sports, greek date said. “There is nothing on there functions and midnight calls for her to watch, so she doesn’t to Pizza Hut don’t describe the get to watch it.” college experience of Temple se- While Minor cooks dinner, nior Ester Minor. Alexandria does her homework. Minor is the mother of 8- “We eat together and then go year-old Alexandria. over her homework and then it’s “I don’t have time to experi- time to get her ready for bed,” ence the college experience,” Minor said. “We do her required Minor said. “I have time to come reading before bed, and she gets here and go to class and then to bed at 8:30 p.m. I do more leave.” studying until 11.” At 5 a.m. on Mondays, Minor was married and had Wednesdays and Fridays, Mi- her daughter at 19. Minor and nor wakes up and gets her her husband were divorced daughter ready for school. At 6 three years later. After the di- a.m. she drops Alexandria off at vorce, she joined the Army and a baby-sitter who later takes her went to Iraq from March 2003 Melea Burke/Lariat staff to school. to March 2004. While Minor Minor then drives to Temple, was overseas, Alexandria stayed Hunter Weakly, an Alvin junior, has been living in an RV park for two years with his roommate Austin Lindsey, a Del Rio sophomore. Weakly said living in the where she works for the U.S. with her father. camper is cheaper than living in an apartment near campus. Department of Agriculture un- “After I came home I was able til 1 p.m. She then commutes to to decide if I wanted to stay in Baylor just in time for her 2 p.m. or get out (of the Army),” Mi- class. nor said. “I didn’t get to see my “I don’t really rely on anyone daughter a lot, so I decided to BU pair calls RV park else because people are unreli- get out and join the National home able,” Minor said. “The only per- Guard because they also pay for son I can count on and know school.” Wide-open spaces, camper with his roommate, Del his former roommate Jackson es, including utilities, lot rent is going to be there is myself. Minor has taken 18 hours ev- Rio sophomore Austin Lindsey Lindsey, Austin’s brother, took and laundry, Weakly said he If something needs to be done, ery semester and will graduate low bills make and his English Lab named a drive to explore the Waco pays about $267 a month. then I either do it or find a way camper economic Cloud. area. Weakly quickly felt that Scotty Scott, the grounds to make it happen.” Please see PARENT, page 8 Weakly said he had a good this was the right place for him keeper for the campground, By Sarah Viesca time living in the basement of because he still felt cluttered has lived there for eight years Reporter Martin, but he just got tired of living in an apartment. and said there’s no better place being around so many people “I’m not going to pay some- to live since real estate prices After a year in Martin Resi- all the time. The noise late in body $500 when the place isn’t are so high. He also said at the dence Hall, Alvin junior Hunter the evening kept him awake. worth that and it’s not even campgroup you get your own Alumnus takes Weakly decided it was time for “I hated being confined,” he yours,” Weakly said. space. a change. said. “I’m used to the country His camper is just like any Although some people don’t He moved into an RV park. with open spaces and animals. apartment, yet smaller, he said. think buying a $30,000 camper bell-ringing reins For the past two years I’ve always kind of been a coun- It has a gas stove, microwave, is cheaper than paying for an Weakly has been living at the try boy.” refrigerator, queen-size bed, apartment, Weakly said in the Riverview Campground (locat- Weakly discovered the bathroom and wireless Inter- By Katelyn Foster most listeners bring their own ed near Loop 340) in a 40-foot campground when he and net. After adding up all expens- Please see RV, page 8 Reporter chairs and sit on the lawns sur- rounding Pat Neff, she said. Students hum along with the Others walk around campus familiar tunes resonating daily and listen. across campus. Geary served as carillonneur Republicans spar Baylor named Lynnette at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church Geary, assistant to the dean of for eight years. Her other musi- College of Arts and Sciences, cals pursuits include the clari- the official university carillon- net and singing. over Foley’s conduct neur after the retirement of Dr. Friend and co-worker Jan Herbert Colvin this summer. Holmes, office manager for the Drayton McLane dedicated dean’s office in the College of By Devlin Barrett resentatives asking them to intervene” the carillon in Pat Neff Hall to Arts and Sciences, said the best The Associated Press at the time. Baylor in 1988. The four-octave words to describe Geary are He made his comments as Rep. Roy instrument consists of 48 cast dedicated and conscientious, WASHINGTON — Speaker Dennis Blunt of Missouri, third-ranking leader, bronze bells ranging from 29 to noting that she practices on Hastert’s political support showed signs told reporters he would have handled 4,370 pounds. lunch breaks and weekends. of cracking on Wednesday as Republi- the matter differently than Hastert, had Geary said she is excited “She’s one of the most dedi- cans fled the fallout from an election- he known of it. about the new position. She has cated musicians I’ve ever heard,” year scandal spawned by steamy com- And Rep. Ron Lewis of Kentucky, been a 10-year volunteer caril- Holmes said. puter messages from disgraced Rep. in a tougher-than-expected re-election lonneur for Baylor. Julie Stahl, financial manager Mark Foley to teenage male pages. race, abruptly canceled an invitation for She said she views her new for College of Arts and Sciences, At the same time, the congressional Hastert to join him at a fundraiser next position as a service to Baylor. agrees. aide who last week counseled Foley week. “I’m one of those people who “Lynette is one of the loveli- to quit said in an Associated Press in- “I’m taking the speaker’s words at bleeds green and gold,” Geary est individuals you’ll ever want terview he first warned Hastert’s aides face value,” Lewis told the AP. “I have said. to know,” she said. “She’s totally more than three years ago about Foley’s no reason to doubt him. But until this is As the carillonneur, she is dedicated to Baylor University.” worrisome conduct toward pages. That cleared up, I want to know the facts. If responsible for many recitals, Geary graduated from Baylor was long before GOP leaders acknowl- anyone in our leadership has done any- such as the memorial on Sept. with a degree from the School edged hearing of it. thing wrong, then I will be the first in 11, homecoming, Christmas, of Music and later received her The aide, Kirk Fordham, who re- line to condemn it.” graduation and also two formal masters here. Including her signed Wednesday, said he had “more Ron Bonjean, Hastert’s spokesman, Associated Press recitals. time as administrative assistant than one conversation with senior staff A firestorm has erupted around former Rep. Mark Foley, While people can come into at the highest level of the House of Rep- Please see FOLEY, page 8 accused of sending lewd messages to young pages. Pat Neff to watch her perform, Please see BELLS, page 8 Vice president boosts soldiers’ morale during Fort Hood speech By Liz Austin Peterson America without paying a price. soldiers, many of whom face ma bin Laden. Fort Hood-based 4th Infantry “The dangers have been The Associated Press “If we can redeployment to Iraq later this Cheney said the U.S. backed Division are expected to return many, the duties have been hard learn any- month. “Pursue the enemy un- off its mission or failed to ef- home from Iraq by December. and the performance has been FORT HOOD — Vice Presi- thing from til there’s no place left to hide. fectively respond after each of Thousands of members of the superb,” Cheney said. dent Dick Cheney thanked modern ex- Stay in the fight until the fight the attacks, leading terrorists 1st Cavalry Division are head- Capt. Aaron Hatok, a native thousands of Texas troops perience it is won.” to believe they had power over ing to Iraq this month.