The Baylor Alumni Association remains an independent voice after members voted Saturday not to pass the Transition Agreement that would merge the BAA with the Baylor Alumni Network.

This will mean the termination of the BAA’s license to use the Baylor name, according to a letter sent by the university on May 31.

Tensions built up for months leading up to meeting as some alumni wished to remain an independent entity while others wished to dissolve and become a part of the university.

Alumni wishing to remain independent voted no to the agreement and those wishing to dissolve voted yes.

For the first time in Baylor’s history, university sustainability efforts have been recognized by the Sierra Club. Baylor was ranked 133 on the organization’s “Cool Schools 2013” list, which honored 162 four-year colleges and universities that offer exemplary environmental initiatives.

Schools featured on the list, which was released in August, were ranked based on the presence of campus sustainability resources.

Participating universities completed an extensive survey regarding student, staff and faculty access to green initiatives such as environmental organizations, campus-wide energy saving efforts and sustainability-oriented curriculums.

Baylor will kick out the old to make way for the less old.

Faculty and staff using Windows XP on their computers will soon have to change to a newer version of Windows.

Any computer still using the Windows XP operating system will be blocked from the Baylor network come April 1, according to the Baylor ITS web page. The campus-wide operating system block will take effect in preparation for Windows XP’s End of Life on that date. The Windows XP End of Life is when Microsoft will stop providing security updates that protect Windows XP computers from viruses, spyware and other malicious software. Each Microsoft product that is released has a lifecycle that ends with this step.

President Ken Starr will discuss current national and world events with Os Guinness, promoter of cultural and religious freedom around the world, during the president’s On Topic session today.

Guinness will discuss his newly released book “The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity” at 7 p.m. in Waco Hall. Guinness has written and edited more than 30 books and worked for some time as a freelance reporter for the BBC.

“In his wonderful book, ‘The Global Public Square’, Os Guinness articulates a much-needed solution for maintaining healthy perspective amidst the conflicts that arise in modern life,” Starr said in a press release. “In what he calls ‘soul freedom,’ Os offers a constructive vision for how society can address the issue of human dignity and justice for all.”