STELLAR STUDY: BAYLOR STUDENTS RESEARCH WITH HELP OF GERMAN UNIVERSITY’S SATELLITES PAGE 4 ROUNDING UPP CAMPUSCAMPUS NEWSNEW SINCE 1900 THE BAYLOR LARIAT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2007 Health week Students encourages wholesome pledge eating habits Alaskan By Kimi Willingham Reporter expedition Campus Recreation will dedicate a week to teaching students about nutrition education. To promote suicide prevention, Be-A-Healthier-U Week will begin today. four friends plan summer-long trek Events will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. today through Thursday in 308 McLane Student Life Center. Each day different lectures will be presented By Caitlin Forehand by registered dieticians and nutrition professors Reporter on campus. Van Davis, McLane Student Life Center fitness “Four guys, one destination, one mission: Sui- coordinator, said this program is one of the big- cide prevention.” gest events of the fall season. She said Campus This Facebook group was started by four Recreation has sponsored it for about five years. Baylor students who will do whatever they can “We have great presenters coming in,” Davis to raise awareness for suicide prevention. They said. made a pact that if the group reaches 250,000 She said the seminar series is strategically members, they will ride their bikes from Waco to planned to take place right before Thanksgiving Anchorage, Alaska this summer. They started the and finals. group Nov. 4. Six days later, the group had 100 Today’s lecture, “Eating to Fuel the Body,” will members. Now there are 153,000 members from be presented by registered nutritionist Regina all over the globe, and the group’s size continues Mastin. to grow. Membership isn’t limited to students but Baily Dizdar, Mission senior and nutrition also includes parents whose children committed major, is in charge of advertising and orchestrat- suicide. ing the details of the event, such as speakers, fli- The decision to start this group came about ers and publicity. when juniors Kyle Ferguson from San Antonio, Dizdar said the seminar will educate students Justin Brown from El Paso, Steve Zimmerman on the variety of foods that can fuel the brain from Austin and Nathan Lloyd from Itasca were during finals. eating dinner and talking to a friend who had She suggested it is important to feed the body attempted suicide the day before. They told him with food that will build up the body, rather than that life was worth living. tear it down. “We gave him a lot of clichés,” Zimmerman said. Wednesday’s lecture is titled “Healthy Holiday “Eventually we told him that if he wasn’t afraid of Eating.” This lecture will be given by Dr. Kay Wil- death, why doesn’t he do something crazy like liams, part-time lecturer in the family and con- jump across the Grand Canyon or burn down the sumer sciences department. drug fields in Colombia?” Her presentation will serve to prepare stu- Ferguson then suggested they bike across the dents for making good decisions regarding the United States. The rest of the idea developed from abundance of food that will be on hand during there. Ferguson, Brown, Zimmerman and Lloyd the holiday season. decided to form the Facebook group. Okinawa, Dizdar said during the Thanksgiving and David Poe/Lariat staff Japan, junior Andi Nakasone, although not at the Christmas season it is easy to overeat and select initial planning meeting, has decided to make the unwise food choices such as pie, stuffing and trek as well. The trip is 4,312 miles long. candy. The lecture will express the healthier ways Bear on a boulder “This trip will take roughly three months,” to cook a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Placed in front of the McLane Student Life Center, the Pyfer bear sculpture, nearly 9-foot-tall and weighing Lloyd said. “It will take the entire summer to do.” It will also educate students on how to select 1,200 pounds was created by Dr. Douglas W. Crow, professor of German and sculptor-in-residence at Baylor. Ferguson said they are doing this to raise aware- the best items on the holiday dinner table. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 17. ness about suicide and to show their friend he has Please see HEALTH, page 8’ Please see ALASKA, page 8 Baylor foreign graduate student numbers defy national trend tion this week. ers. come here and work here, they dents at Baylor, actually differs ling in this area. By Amanda Allen David Clinton, political sci- This information almost will do it. from the study’s information. “Ultimately, I want to do what Reporter ence professor and member of directly lines up with the According to the study, the From 2003 to 2006 the num- I can to help all of the grad pro- the political science graduate information in the study. The increase in enrollment still ber of non-resident alien gradu- grams recruit the best and the Total enrollment of foreign committee said he agreed that top three increasers in foreign hasn’t make up from the decline ates dropped from 198 to 170, a brightest,” said Kramer. students at American graduate international enrollment in U.S. enrollment are India, increasing many institutes noted in 2004. 16.47 percent drop. Dr. Amanda Sturgill, an schools has increased 7 percent graduate schools is a prominent 6 percent, China 17 percent and Those drops were suggested Dr. Denny Kramer, assistant assistant journalism professor since 2002. But according to trend. South Korea 5 percent since the to be from harsh visa restric- dean of graduate school and who has been working with a Baylor’s institutional research The political science Ph.D. is last survey in 2002. tions enforced after the Sept. 11 graduate enrollment manager graduate student focus group, and testing Web site, non-res- only three years old, but Clinton Clinton said that economic terrorist attacks. has contacted the financial aid said, “A lot of them wanted to ident alien graduate student said, “We have a fair number of development in those countries Despite the fact that some office and office of internation- come to graduate school in the numbers have dropped. people who have found us, and is highly needed, meaning they Baylor graduate departments al students to find out how to U.S. because they would get a This study determining this many ultimately apply.” will need highly trained people. have agreed with this increase break down the numbers by different experience or perspec- was conducted by the Council of He said they have a good With higher education in Amer- in foreign graduate enrollment, program. He plans to find out tive than studying in their own Graduate Schools and appeared number of applications from ica having such a good reputa- the total numbers disagree The how many are in each program, in The Chronicle of Higher Educa- China, India, Nigeria and oth- tion, he said that if people can number of foreign graduate stu- to see which programs are excel- Please see FOREIGN, page 8 Benazir Bhutto put under house arrest again By Zarar Khan of her representatives had been erected around the house Mon- on a homecoming procession in The Associated Press served with the document. day and sharpshooters took up the southern city of Karachi as “We will go ahead with the positions on surrounding roof- she returned from years in exile. LAHORE, Pakistan — Oppo- march,” he told The Associated tops. The assassination attempt killed sition leader Benazir Bhutto was Press. The protest caravan was in- 145 other people. placed under house arrest for Aftab Cheema, the chief of tended meant to pressure Mush- She was placed under house the second time in four days to operations of Lahore city police, arraf to end the state of emer- arrest in Islamabad Friday to prevent her staging a march on told the AP that a Bhutto repre- gency he imposed on Nov. 3 and prevent her from addressing a Tuesday to protest emergency sentative had received the order give up his post as army chief. It rally in the nearby garrison city rule, police said. A close aide to issued by the government of had been expected to take about of Rawalpindi, where authori- the former prime minister said Punjab province, where Bhutto three days, and Bhutto’s party ties also warned they had in- she would try to lead the 185- has been staying at the house of said thousands of supporters telligence that suicide bombers mile procession anyway. a lawmaker from her party. were expected to join en route. were loose in the area. The showdown intensifi ed “She has been detained and Police said they had ramped With an escort of dozens of the political crisis engulfi ng she won’t be allowed to come up security around Bhutto due police vehicles, Bhutto ventured Pakistan and further clouded out,” Cheema said. to intelligence that a suicide out around Lahore Monday the prospect of a pro-U.S. al- He said about 600 police bomber was planning to attack to offer prayers at the grave of Henry Chan/Contributor liance against rising Islamic had been deployed around the her in Lahore. Ayaz Salim, a top Pakistan’s national poet, Allama extremism forming between house in Lahore and additional police offi cial, said offi cers had Iqbal, and declared to reporters Leaving on a jet plane Bhutto and President Gen. Per- forces could be sent later Tues- searched all the city’s hotels af- that her caravan was part of her vez Musharraf. day, when Bhutto was due to ter receiving a tip that a suicide campaign “to save Pakistan.” President George W.