Inspiring memorials will help friends and family remember the late Jeff Morgan. Tracie Vickerson, Morgan's neighbor for two years, said she is trying to get a compact disc made with Morgan's songs on it and then to sell it to anyone who would like it. The money will go to Morgan's mother, Joy, to help pay for some expenses from Morgan.
Summer vacation is probably the last hopeful thought any of you students out there have left - I'm here to crush it. Whether you're staying in Baldwin City, or heading back to your ancestral home, there are plenty of unforeseen challenges waiting for you all this summer.
"Imagine a country where the President never reads the newspaper, where the government goes to war for all the wrong reasons and more people vote for a pop idol than their next President." That's the tag line for the movie "American Dreamz," starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Mandy Moore.
A brief meeting on Tuesday over ice cream sundaes concluded the semester's Baker University Student Senate meetings. Student Senate President Ryan Boyer announced the results from the online survey conducted about censorship and free speech on campus would not be discussed.
Wayne Osness will be taking Athletic Director Dan Harris's place as the new physical education department chair next year. Harris is currently both department chair and athletic director. "The decision came in 2005 when we decided to have an outside consultant come in and assess the department," he said.
For those among us who will be graduating, our entire lives have led to this moment. We are faced with the question of what comes next. Some of us will find jobs, some of us will find careers. Others will continue their educations, while some will move home with mom and dad and wonder why they were ever in such a hurry to get out of college.
To Baker University, the CDC is not the agency intent on exterminating the avian flu, it is the Career Development Center. "Our goal is to educate students regarding careers, internships and job opportunities," Susan Wade, director of the CDC, said.? "We tend to act as a broker between employers and students and bring them together.
With another large freshman class expected, Baker University's faculty and staff will be working hard to make sure there are enough classes to accommodate all the students. Lisa Johnston, assistant dean of student academic services, said compared to this time last year, Baker is ahead in the number of people who have expressed interest in the university and who have already signed up for one of the summer enrollment dates.
As the semester draws to a close, I find myself becoming increasingly irritated by what unfortunately seem to be growing trends in Baker's classrooms: rudeness and hostility. I know sometimes our fellow classmates say things we don't agree with, and we feel the need to express and defend our own beliefs.
Students, staff and faculty tried their best Wednesday to imitate the famous scene in "A Streetcar Named Desire," where Stanley Kowalski yells his wife's name, Stella, in despair. Each of about 20 contestants stepped up and belted out "Stella" to the judges sitting in the windows on the second floor of Mabee Hall.
The temperature is starting to get hotter and students everywhere are getting restless, which could be the cause of the recent instances of vandalism around campus and Baldwin City. Baldwin City Chief of Police Michael McKenna said last week, the police department received several calls from members of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority saying the tires in their cars were flat.
