NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE DENIM DASH: KAPPA ALPHA THETA SELLS DESIGNER JEANS TODAY FOR HALF-OFF PAGE 3 PAID BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2008 12 of 30 teachers up for tenure denied Luis Noble/Lariat staff By Anita Pere the tenure decision. Six of the dates, have not been released. categories, however, are not Staff writer nine women up for tenure were Dr. Lori Baker, assistant pro- spelled out in the Tenure Policy STEP 1: denied, while six of the 21 men fessor of anthropology, brought and Procedures of Baylor Uni- STEP 2: During the first five years of Frustration with the chang- were denied. national attention to the univer- versity. employment, compile a During sixth year of employment, present notebook demonstrating tenure notebook to university tenure ing tides of tenure and promo- “There is a significant dis- sity with her DNA research to Matt Cordon, chair of the research, committee in November. The committee tion requirements at Baylor Uni- parity in those numbers and identify the remains of immi- faculty senate, said the criteria teaching and service reviews the notebooks and makes versity resurfaced this month that warrants explanation from grants found in the Sonora Des- for awarding tenure “needs to endeavors. Meet annually recommendations to the Provost, who then makes STEP 3: with the university’s rejection of the university,” said Rene Mas- sert. According to off-the-record be explained more clearly.” with department dean, all recommendations to the available tenured faculty in If you are granted tenure, 12 of 30 tenure candidates. sengale, assistant professor of sources, Baker did not receive O’Brien said many people President. President you have a job for life. If you are not the department, and the makes final decision to granted tenure, you have a contract for At a meeting of the universi- biology. tenure. She was not available play a role in university tenure department chair for a grant or not grant review of progress. tenure. Letters of the next year. That will be the end of ty’s Executive Council Tuesday, O’Brien said gender wasn’t a to confirm or deny her tenure decisions, including tenured tenure decisions are your employment. You may choose to given in March. appeal. To do this, first you must obtain the council discussed the ten- factor in awarding tenure. status. professors, the tenure commit- in writing the reasons for your denial. ure issue, said Lori Fogleman, “There’s absolutely no sexual O’Brien said tenure appli- tee and deans, but the president Within a month of receiving this, you director of media relations. discrimination (or) racial dis- cants were examined in four has final say in approval. must submit to the Provost a written request for reconsideration. Provost Randall O’Brien said he crimination. This is just not a categories: record of teaching, O’Brien said he feels the four couldn’t comment on the meet- place where we discriminate,” research and creative endeav- categories should have been ing. O’Brien said. The names of the ors, interpersonal relationships known by applicants this year, There has also been specula- 12 rejected, which represent within the academic commu- tion of sexual discrimination in 40 percent of the tenure candi- nity and service. These four Please see TENURE, page 6 BIN still offline following breach By Christina Kruse Staff writer The office of Judicial Affairs is scheduled to meet with the student employee who breached the Baylor Information Network. Over Christmas break, a student employee breached the security of the Baylor Information Network and obtained access to the Bear ID and Luis Noble/Lariat staff passwords of those logging on to the BIN. Federal authorities are still investigating the incident said Lori Fogleman, director of media Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletics Complex expected to be completed in October communications. Currently, the BIN is unavailable. The network The first vertical beams for the $34 million Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletics Complex went up last week as the facility creeps closer to completion. Athletic director has been down since the incident in December. Ian McCaw said Monday he’s expecting an October completion date for the complex. Baylor athletics set an optimistic date for early fall completion, but obtaining the According to the BIN Web site, “Staff members requisite permits and the realities of construction tempered those thoughts. The football team would then move its offices and academic center into the facility at the end of from the Division of Student Life and Informa- the season. “This is really another very important step in overall development of Baylor’s campus, certainly the riverfront area,” McCaw said. “It makes dramatic impression tion Technology Services are working with repre- on University Parks. It’s just going to add that much more.” sentatives of Student Government to review and evaluate the services provided by the BIN in order to provide the best functionality and the greatest security.” In an interview by e-mail, Fogleman said that students who held jobs with BIN were offered con- Gas prices guzzle dollar value down tinued employment with Information Technology Services. Also, Patti Orr, vice president for Information By Ashley Killough Good news came this week, how- edented high prices. Technology, has met with Student Senate, Student Reporter ever, as oil prices fell Tuesday to While one relation of the dollar to !VERAGE2ETAIL'ASOLINE0RICES Life and former BIN student staff to discuss the $99.35 per barrel on the New York gas prices involves an array of com- concern for student government’s spring elec- The dollar is falling. A nd for many Mercantile Exchange, breaking a plex details, the key explanation lies tions. ITS has allocated resources to accomplish Americans, the sky seems to be fall- streak of record-setting gas prices in the classic economic principle of that goal this spring, Fogleman said. ing with it. that lasted for weeks. supply and demand. According to In a step toward a more secure network, the With the decline in the dollar’s According to the United States theory, when the supply of a prod- university purchased PGP Whole Disk Encryption value triggering increased oil prices, Department of Energy, the retail uct, such as the dollar, increases and in order to protect sensitive information and stu- and as a rumored recession draws average of regular gasoline prices its demand decreases, the price of dents’ privacy, according to the PGP Web site. near, an economic headache can be increased five weeks in a row from that product (or currency) declines. With access to Bear IDs and passwords, it is felt across the country. $2.96 on Feb. 11 to $3.28 (the high- “We’re in a situation now where possible to attain personal information through Bridgeport freshman Jon Green est price ever recorded) on March 17. both supply and demand are work- Bearweb. On the home page of Bearweb, there is is one of many students learning to The AAA and the Oil Price Informa- ing against the value of the dollar,” the option of attaining a student’s ID as long as economize his gasoline usage. tion Service reported Tuesday that said Dr. Kent Gilbreath, professor of the student’s Bear ID and password is known. The “Since we only had four days last the national unleaded average fell to economics. PIN may also be reset, and the new PIN will be week between two back-to-back holi- $3.25 a gallon. On the supply side, the Federal sent to the student’s e-mail account. Once a stu- days, my sister Lauren, a junior, and As prime spring break season Reserve System is increasing the dent’s ID number and PIN are known, anyone may I decided to take just one car back comes to an end, gas prices seem money supply by reducing interest access their information on Bearweb. Employee to Baylor after spring break to share to be slowly easing their way back rates and pumping up dollar circula- &EB &EB &EB -AR -AR -AR until Easter,” Green said. “It saved down due to a slight dip in demand 3/52#%53$EPARTMENTOF%NERGY Please see BIN, page 6 our family two tanks of gas.” after an alarming string of unprec- Please see GAS, page 6 Luis Noble/Lariat staff Followers of a radical Shiite cler- Shiite militia fight U.S., Iraqi troops ic Muqtada al-Sadr stage a sit By Robert H. Reid lowers announced a nationwide Tuesday. lation is high.” in protest The Associated Press campaign of strikes and demon- An American soldier was The burgeoning crisis — part Tuesday in strations to protest a government killed in fighting Tuesday after- of an intense power struggle the mainly BAGHDAD — Iraq’s leaders crackdown on their movement. noon in Baghdad, the U.S. mili- among Shiite political factions Shiite faced their gravest challenge in Merchants shuttered their shops tary said. No further details — has major implications for neighbor- months Tuesday as Shiite militia- in commercial districts in sev- were released, and it was unclear the United States. An escala- hood of men loyal to anti-American cleric eral Baghdad neighborhoods. whether Shiite militiamen were tion could unravel the cease-fire al-Amil in Muqtada al-Sadr battled for con- U.S. and Iraqi troops backed responsible. which al-Sadr proclaimed last Baghdad, trol of the southern oil capital, by helicopters fought Shiite mili- Although all sides appeared August. Iraq. fought U.S. and Iraqi troops in tiamen in Baghdad’s Sadr City reluctant to trigger a conflagra- A resumption of fighting by Baghdad and unleashed rockets district after the local office of tion, Brig.