VOLLEYBALL GEARS UP WHERE DO STUDENTS FOR SPRING MATCHES WORK TO KEEP THEIR PAGE 5 POCKETS FULL? PAGE 6 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2007 Freshman recovers from meningitis scare By Aileen Wong The next morning, his par- ing out, not eating right and just Providence Health Center and father arrived, he saw his con- ber a whole lot. I was transferred Reporter ents took him to Seton Hospital wearing my body down without waited until 4 a.m. for him to be dition and took him home to in an ambulance to a different in Austin, and after a blood test, considering the consequences released. The doctors diagnosed Austin. hospital.” He thought he had the flu. Austin freshman Preston Wal- of it,” Wallace said. him with the flu and sent him That afternoon, Wallace’s In Austin, doctors tried to di- At least that’s what the hos- lace was diagnosed with bacte- He began experiencing se- home with pain medication for condition worsened. agnose Wallace. pital told him. So he returned to rial meningococcal meningitis. vere flu-like symptoms Feb. 10 a headache and instructions to “I had the worst headache “The doctors didn’t know his dorm room at Penland Resi- Wallace said at the time he and said he felt cold when his rest. in my life,” he said. “I couldn’t what it was till I was in a near- dence Hall. contracted the bacteria, his im- body was running a fever. He threw up all night and think. I didn’t remember my comatose state,” Wallace said. “I Later that night, the flu-like mune system was weak. His condition worsened, and called his father at 6 a.m. to own name, so my mom took wasn’t very responsive at all in symptoms worsened and he be- “I was going to the (McLane his roommate, Austin freshman send him some medicine. The me to the emergency room, and gan vomiting violently. Student Life Center) a lot, work- Madison Sadler, took him to next morning, when Wallace’s from there I don’t really remem- Please see SICK, page 4 Security The end main of the line priority Baylor dumps p.m. to 2:30 a.m. seven days a blue bus route week and offers the only late- night bus service on campus. for ITS after inactivity Another transportation pro- gram, The Ride, is available By Claire St. Amant through Student Activities By Jon Schroeder Staff writer and runs from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Staff writer Monday through Thursday. The bus stops here. Peak hours for the night bus The days are getting longer, Effective Sunday, the Blue route occurred around 9 and the leaves are turning greener Bus Night Route will no longer 10 p.m., with the lowest rider- and it’s time for students to be running. The route, which ship occurring at 2 a.m. change their Bear ID passwords provided transportation from Deats said there are plans again. But this time there’s east campus areas to various to increase publicity for The a twist — both students and locations near Eighth Street, Ride in an effort to absorb the Baylor employees may receive a was created Nov. 26 in con- students who were riding the Windows update prompt asking junction with Waco Transit night route. them to change their passwords. to offset the closure of the “The Ride should be more But if they click yes, they may Eighth Street parking lots for than sufficient for the nightly lose access to some university construction. Shelley Deats, transportation needs on cam- services. manager of parking services, pus,” she said. Technology support special- said the night route is being Mark McKown of Waco ist Patricia Black sent out an cancelled because of low rid- Transit said the cancellation e-mail Thursday on behalf of ership and high costs. of the route was made for lo- Information and Technology “Our statistics show that gistic and budgetary reasons. Services informing students of the route isn’t being utilized “Students never really the method they need to use. very much,” she said. “The picked up on the idea,” he “Windows will prompt you cost outweighs the gain.” said. “It wasn’t cost effective about needing to change your Deats said there have only to keep it running.” password several days before been around 600 riders total Freshman class president it is required,” the e-mail read. since the route’s inception, Noah Hutchison Jr. said that “When you receive the notice, with numbers as low as six after meeting with Deats and it will prompt to change your riders per night. password now. It is important The route runs from 5:30 Please see BUS, page 4 that you click no. Changing your password by following this prompt will not make the change for all Baylor systems.” Blue Night Route — Ridership by location To change passwords cor- rectly, users should instead go 3% to www.baylor.edu/bearID and 13% 18% make the changes on the Web site. Donna Herbert, ITS manager of client support systems, said she used the Windows update 9% on a university computer to change her password, then tried out some of the Baylor software 57% to see what works and what doesn’t. For her, at least, most of Eighth Street (20) Speight St. Stop (351) Abbie Rosen/Lariat staff the programs worked. Herbert Allen/Collins Hall (112) Misc didn’t have trouble accessing After months of infrequent use, Baylor transit has decided to do away with the blue route, which takes students her e-mail account, logging into East Campus Garage (53) from the east side of campus to stops near Eighth Street. The route was started on Nov. 26 because of parking Blackboard or using university Waco Transit shortages caused by construction of a new garage adjacent to Collins Residence Hall. printers through PawPrints. Some programs and services still might not work — Herbert mentioned GetGrades in par- ticular, along with “a few pro- grams” that use a different au- thentication method. Former aide implicates attorney general in firings scandal “But the safest route is to go through the Web site,” she By Lara Jakes Jordan this process of asking certain U.S. attor- needs to explain himself to Congress, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., stopped short said, adding that students who The Associated Press neys to resign,” Sampson said. and quickly. of calling for Gonzales’ ouster. But may have mistakenly updated Sampson’s testimony, for the first The attorney general is not scheduled Leahy reminded a reporter Thursday, their Bear ID passwords already WASHINGTON — Attorney General time, put Gonzales at the heart of the to appear publicly on Capitol Hill until “I voted against him,” when the Senate through the Windows update Alberto Gonzales was briefed regularly firings amid ever-changing Justice De- April 17. “I agree three weeks is a long confirmed the Gonzales as the nation’s can still “re-update” through the over two years on the firings of federal partment accounts of how they were time,” Perino said. top law enforcer in 2005. Web site without problems. prosecutors, his former top aide said planned. The Justice De- “If the president feels Mr. Gonzales Baylor first required pass- Thursday, disputing Gonzales’ claims Gonzales has said repeatedly that he partment did not is upholding the highest level of profes- word changes by Nov. 12, and he was aware of the dismissals from was not closely involved in the firings have an immedi- sionalism that he wants in his adminis- the system requires that pass- afar and newly undercutting his already and largely depended on Sampson to ate comment about tration and that the president wants to words be updated every 180 shaky credibility. orchestrate them. Sampson’s testi- be remembered for, then he’ll stay on,” days. If passwords are not up- Gonzales and former White House Sampson resigned March 12. A day mony. Leahy said. dated by the deadline, users counsel Harriet Miers made the final later, Gonzales said he “never saw docu- A growing The stony-faced Sampson, a long- must reactivate their accounts decision on whether to fire the U.S. at- ments. We never had a discussion about number of Demo- time and loyal aide to Gonzales, said before the password change can torneys last year, said Kyle Sampson, the where things stood” in the firings. crats and Republi- other senior Justice Department offi- be made. attorney general’s former chief of staff. The White House stepped back from cans has called for cials helped to plan the firings, which Since deadlines for the “I don’t think the attorney general’s defending Gonzales even before Samp- Gonzales to step the White House first suggested shortly change are user-specific, there is statement that he was not involved in son finished testifying. down. after President Bush won a second term no single cut-off date. But some any discussions of U.S. attorney remov- “I’m going to have to let the attorney D e p a r t m e n t in 2004. students have already passed als was accurate,” Sampson told a Sen- general speak for himself,” White House spokesman Brian Gonzales Sampson said he was never aware of their deadlines and the rest are ate Judiciary Committee inquiry into spokeswoman Dana Perino said as Roehrkasse said any case where prosecutors were told to fast approaching. whether the dismissals were politically Sampson entered his third hour in front Thursday the attorney general has no step down because they refused to help However, faculty, students motivated.