WIN AGAINST JAGUARS GROOVIN’ OUT: THE LARIAT WILL NOT LOOKS PROMISING STEPPIN’ OUT AFTER PARTY TO BOAST LIVE PRINT NEXT WEEK IN FOR BEARS BATTLE OF THE BANDS OBSERVATION OF PAGE 5 PAGE 4 THANKSGIVING BREAK Student senate calls for improved campus lighting ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008 Students ‘step out’ to beautify Waco By Chad Shanks Ashley Anderson, Pueblo, Colo., out of this event,” said Graeme community members bring in Staff writer junior and Steppin’ Out opera- Siebel, operations supervisor for tires to be properly disposed, tions. “We hope this event gives Waco Parks and Recreation. free of charge. Baylor’s Steppin’ Out orga- people a passion to serve.” “Once people see how bad Other service opportunities nization will partner with City One of the main projects is the river can get, hopefully they include painting houses, gar- of Waco Parks and Recreation, a river clean-up organized by won’t throw their bag out the dening, tree trimming, recy- McLennan Community College Keep Waco Beautiful, a local window next time they eat at cling, neighborhood clean-ups and Keep Waco Beautiful on non-profit organization that McDonald’s.” and interactive opportunities in Saturday for a massive day of hosts similar clean up events Another 200 volunteers will nursing homes and schools. community service. and beautification projects assist McLennan Community Baylor Steppin’ Out will hold Approximately 3300 Baylor throughout the year. At least College in eradicating the kudzu a block party featuring live students are already registered 200 of the Baylor volunteers will vine, an invasive and destructive music and free food Saturday to volunteer, with over 70 indi- join the community in cleaning plant that has covered trails and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Dewey vidual work sites scheduled trash from the shores of the Bra- art at Art Center Waco. Park at Ninth Street and Bosque throughout Waco. zos as members from the Waco An additional 100 volunteers Boulevard for all the Baylor and “We want people to want Paddle Club scoop trash out of will help clear dangerous debris community volunteers to help Courtesy Photo to serve graciously and know the water in their canoes. from Cameron Park’s biking and create a sense of unity. Saturday’s Steppin’ Out event Saturday is collaborating with Keep Waco Beau- they’re doing a great thing, even “We want to see a lot of educa- jogging trails while others assist tiful, The City of Waco Parks and Recreation and McLennan Community Col- if it’s just for a few hours,” said tion and a clean riverbank come in the tire-recycling day where Please see BRAZOS, page 6 lege to help clean up local parks and rivers in the Waco area. Business school We remember ... Campus study predicts A look back at the JFK assassination police housing stability offer tips By Ashley Corinne Killough “Anytime the demand goes Staff writer down and supply goes up, to deter there’s going to be a reduction in After nearly two years of prices,” said Dr. Charles North, rapid declines in the housing professor of economics. market, a report by the Keller North conducted the sur- robbery Center in the Hankamer School vey, along with Dr. Chris Pullig, of Business suggests prices may professor of marketing, Laura Jade Ortego stabilize by the end of 2009. Indergard, associate director of Staff writer The report, released in the Keller Center, and Jacque- November, surveyed more than line Simpson, an M.B.A. candi- The Baylor Police suggests 700 economists in July on antici- date. using common sense to protect pated trends in prices and mort- Major metropolitan areas yourself and your property while gage rates, as well as reasons for such as Los Angeles, Las Vegas gone over Thanksgiving break. buying a home. and Sacramento, especially, Chief of Police Jim Doak said The economists not only witnessed severe dips in hous- that making an apartment or agreed that prices will stop fall- ing prices, some as high as 17 house look occupied is usually ing, but 80 percent believed pric- percent. sufficient in deterring potential es will be higher in five years. The survey was conducted thieves. Students should leave a Home values are expected to prior to September’s dramatic Associated Press Photo radio on and buy timers that will rise at moderate rates, however, market downturn, kicked off President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy were in Dallas on Nov. 22, periodically turn lights on and with nearly half the respondents when Lehman Brothers declared 1963 during a tour of five Texas cities when the president was shot by gunman Lee Harvey off. “You can get timers at Home predicting increases at less than bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch’s Oswald. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are pictured after landing at Dallas Love Field. Depot or WalMart. It’s a $5 or $6 2 percent per year. proposed merger with Bank of investment,” Doak said. Prices began falling when the America. If redone now, North By Anita Pere understand that they bear generation, the defining “We want to plant a seed subprime mortgage crisis, trig- speculated, the survey might Editor in Chief witness to history. moment was the assassi- of doubt in (potential thieves) gered by delinquent mortgage turn out slightly different pro- The young adults of nation of President John F. mind,” Doak said. He said that payments and foreclosures, jections. Every generation has this country will forever Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. potential thieves would probably caused an increase in the sup- “My hunch is that there moments of awe — moments remember where they were His death will have been not risk breaking into a house if ply of housing and a decrease in would be more pessimism now in which Americans, as and what they were doing 45 years ago Saturday. they think someone is home. demand. This resulted in strict- about the markets, but I don’t they watch news unfold on when airplanes flew into Kennedy was shot just He said students should put er financing requirements, mak- know how much. I can’t imagine television or read cover- the towers of the World at 12:30 p.m. that day their bikes inside and out of ing it more difficult for people there would be dramatically age of the event in an extra Trade Center on Sept. sight. There have been many with poor credit to buy homes edition of the newspaper, 11, 2001. But for another Please see JFK, page 3 bicycle thefts this semester. in recent years. Please see HOUSING, page 6 Doak also advised students to be careful when driving home over the break. He stressed that students should take frequent Poverty summit works to breaks when driving. “It’s the monotony of that stripe-space-stripe-space. You get lulled into a trance as you initiate Waco movement drive,” Doak said. He said that drivers should By Jacqueline Deavenport awareness of poverty in Waco, Among the challenges of stop every hour or hour and a Reporter and we’re trying to encour- poverty, Yancey said, were hun- half to stretch out their legs and age students to act and to get ger, disease, “at risk” children, break up the tedium of the road. In an attempt to start a involved in the community,” homelessness and immigra- Doak also said that getting grassroots movement among said Marianne Magjuka, coor- tion. These challenges should into confrontations with other Baylor students and the Waco dinator of Service Learning be addressed not based on drivers could be dangerous. community to address pov- Initiatives. worthiness; Christians must “Lack of courtesy when driv- erty locally, nationally and Povert y Summit, sponsored defy the norm, Yancey said. ing in becoming a real concern internationally, the inagural by the Department of Student “It is not just in doing it to to us. You need to be able to step Poverty Summit, held in Ben- Activities, Baylor Interdis- or for others, but in relation- back from a potential confronta- nett Auditorium on Nov. 20, ciplinary Poverty Initiative, ship with others,” said Yancey. tion,” he said. provided guest speakers, a Steppin’ Out, and Baylor Stu- Building relationships with Doak said that drivers should photographic exhibition and dents for Social Justice, kicked those in need was a foun- never pick up someone from the Alex Song/Lariat Staff poster session that featured off with a keynote address, dational concept explicated side of the road. Jimmy Dorrell, co-founder and executive director of Mission Waco, discussed the realities faced by those in “Poverty the Challenge,” pre- throughout the summit. “You don’t know what they’re the current poverty situation in Waco and ways Baylor’s Christian values could need and what can be done to sented by professor of social Following the keynote doi ng or wh at t he y’ve just done or help in finding a solution at the Poverty Summit held in Bennett Auditorium on help them. work and dean of baccalaure- Thursday. “I think we’re tying to raise ate studies Gaynor Yancey. Please see SUMMIT, page 6 Please see SAFETY, page 6 International students experience Thanksgiving in America By Melanie Crowson about a thousand dollars,” Gra- began in 1600s America, with Thursday of November. Since an American friend and share “It is not exactly the same as Reporter hams Town, South Africa junior the Plymouth pilgrims and then, the presidents who suc- Thanksgiving with their family. Thanksgiving, but New Year’s Carlin King said.