THEY GOT GIG’D: BEARS BEAT TO A&M AFTER FIVE OVERTIMES PAGE 5 ROUNDING UP CAMPUS NEWS SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008 Baylor breaks RecycleMania to kick off recycling record on Sunday beginning to yield a lot of good fruit,” By Sommer Ingram Orr said. “The idea behind the com- By Sarah Rafique Staff Writer mittee is that we work together to Reporter see what’s going on around campus Baylor set a new record for recy- now and what we want to endeavor Whether it’s buying bottled water or print- cling in 2007 by sending 160 tons to improve.” ing out mounds of PowerPoint slides for your of paper and cardboard to the recy- Baylor hasn’t had much of a next biology exam, college students consume cling center. focus on sustainability issues in the paper and plastic daily. Recycling is part of the new effort past, which radiation safety special- Baylor’s University Sustainability Commit- to increase awareness about sus- ist Alan Stover said the university is tee is encouraging student participation in a tainability issues around campus. working to change. nationwide recycling competition called Recy- Pattie Orr, head chair of the recent- “We’ve never had very much of Jeff Leslie/Lariat staff cleMania, which kicks off Sunday. ly formed University Sustainability an emphasis on recycling, though Recycling bins are used on a regular basis outside of Martin Residence Hall. Sunday a Carl Flynn, computer support specialist and Committee and vice president of we have tried several times in the 10-week national recycling competition will begin to further encourage green efforts. sustainability committee member, said Recy- Information Technology, said the past,” Stover said. “In 1998 we only cleMania is a 10-week competition in which committee is working toward a sent 18 tons to the recycling center, schools all around the nation can compete in complete recycling program for the and last year we sent 160 tons, which ing, in 2004 recycling was a part of a where students will be able to recy- four different categories to see who recycles entire campus. was about 30 tons more than 2006, job designated for a specific person, cle paper, cardboard, plastic wrap, the most. “All these areas have been work- so we are making great strides.” but in the years following, it was no plastic bottles and aluminum and Dave Thiel, Memorial’s Real Food on Cam- ing to increase recycling, and it is But the amount of recycling longer a task delegated to anyone. tin cans. pus manager, said though many people may material sent The sustainability committee’s “With the new recycling initia- not know, this is Baylor’s second year partici- to the center in job is to get people to work together tive, recycled tonnage is expected to pating in RecycleMania. 2004 was close to make recycling a priority cam- rise by several hundred,” Tull said. He said the competition was not really Baylor Recycling Eorts to the record set pus-wide. “It is possible for us to double the pushed last year, but this year will be differ- 200 in 2007. There “I think the committee has raised amount of recycling currently hap- ent. cled cy were 154 tons awareness and done a lot of educa- pening at Baylor. Once this phase is “Last year Baylor ranked 137 out of 201 150 sent, just six less tional things,” Orr said. “A big part complete we are planning on rolling participants, and recycled 6.77 pounds per than this past of it all is about education because out a similar program in the librar- person,” Thiel said. This year, Baylor hopes to 100 year. Toby Tull, people can’t succeed if they don’t ies, SUB and SLC.” recycle about 10 pounds per person to make it 50 coordinator for understand what they can do.” Tull said he thinks the new fervor more of a competition. aper and Carboard Re Carboard and aper housing infor- Beginning in February, the uni- for sustainability is some-thing that In addition, last year Baylor delivered more 0 cled since 2004 mation systems versity will launch a residence hall has been embedded within everyone than 160 tons of paper and cardboard to the 2004 2005 2006 2007 cy ns of P To Year and ITS analyst, recycling program, which will con- for some time, and now is the right recycling center, said Alan Stover, radiation This represents how many tons of paper and cardboard that that cardboard and paper of tons many how represents This re Baylor said that from sist of the distribution of 145 recy- David Poe/Lariat staff his understand- cling bins throughout the halls, Please see RECORD, page 8 Please see MANIA, page 8 One-third of young women get degrees Men 25 to 29 years old to 134 females. However, the Hanmaker fall behind 7 percent, School of Business awarded 188 degrees according to study to females and 212 degrees to males. Carson Mencken, associate professor By Anita Pere of sociology, said these shifting educa- Staff writer tional patterns can be attributed to two factors: socialization and the job market. The prevalence of female students in “What we’ve seen for that cohort of higher education isn’t a new trend, but a people is more job opportunities for study recently released by the U.S. Cen- males that don’t require degrees,” Menck- sus Bureau revealed some interesting en said. “Graduation rates are going down facts about the dwindling education gap among men. Something’s pulling them between men and women. out. It’s jobs.” The study, titled “One-Third of Young But women are now more apt to stay Women Have Bachelor’s Degrees,” sur- in school. veyed women and men ages 25-29 and “There’s been a big push among found that 33 percent of women in this women to socialize their daughters to age range possess bachelor’s degrees or finish college,” Mencken said. higher, as compared with 26 percent of Mencken said the pressure on women males. to finish college stems from parents urg- The same educational comparison, ing their children to become financially when broadened to examine women and independent, which wasn’t the case for men ages 25 and older, showed the sexes young women 50 years ago. As a former almost even, with 30 percent of men ver- undergraduate adviser at Baylor and West sus 28 percent of women in this group Virginia University, Mencken said finan- holding bachelor’s degrees. cial independence and stability is of the Baylor awarded many women with utmost concern to parents of daughters. bachelor’s degrees last spring, accord- Men, on the other hand, can earn a liv- ing to the Statistics on Enrollment and ing in fields such as manufacturing and Degrees Awarded, a report compiled by construction, vocational areas almost the department of Institutional Research exclusively for men due to the hard-labor Luis Noble/Lariat staff and Testing. Three-hundred nineteen aspect of the work. Women usually opt women obtained a bachelor of arts degree, for more flexible jobs, like education, said while only 169 men received degrees in Mencken. Lady in red this department. Only 60 males earned bachelor’s degrees in science, compared Please see WOMEN, page 8 Performance studies master’s candidate Nanako Urase performs during a graduate piano recital Wednesday in Roxy Grove Hall. Palestinians carry goods as they Thousands of Palestinians flood Egyptian border return to the Gaza Strip through the destroyed barrier — influx of weapons and militants to tian government assured the United Wednes- By Ibrahim Barazak day after some estimated the crowd in the Gaza and threatened to undermine States the border would be closed crossing the The Associated Press hundreds of thousands — Egyptian crucial Egyptian participation in a quickly. border into security forces lined up on one side Mideast peace push by President For ordinary Gazans, it was a day Egypt ear- RAFAH, Gaza Strip — On foot, of the border and Hamas forces Bush. of joy and plenty. lier following in cars and in donkey carts, tens of lined up on the other side. None of Official reaction to the day’s Osama Hassan, 25, said the a series of thousands of Gazans flooded into them interfered in any way, and it events ranged from dismay to embar- border opening will enable him to explosions Egypt on Wednesday through a bor- appeared Hamas militants actively rassment to outright anger. marry his 17-year-old fiancee next by mili- der fence blown up by militants — participated in the border breach. The United States expressed con- week, because they were able to get tants along puncturing a gaping hole in Israel’s That breach, though likely tem- cern about the border breach. Israel items they need to set up a house- the border airtight closure of the Gaza Strip and porary, seemed certain to strengthen demanded that Egypt take control of hold. He bought a special mattress b e t w e e n giving a boost to Hamas. Hamas in its showdown with Israel, its border. Hamas called on its rivals for his injured back and she assem- Gaza Strip In a shopping spree that was both the West and its Fatah rivals — reliev- to help come up with new arrange- bled kitchen supplies. and Egypt, festive and frenzied, Gazans cleared ing some of the pain of an interna- ments for Gaza’s crossings. Hassan said he belongs to Fatah, in Rafah. out stores in an Egyptian border tional blockade of the Gaza Strip Egypt’s leader said he had no not Hamas, but still wants to “kiss town, buying up everything from TV following Hamas’ violent takeover of choice but to let in the beleaguered the forehead” of Gaza’s Hamas prime Associated sets to soft drinks to cigarettes.