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i sa ys she liberal, ' hav ing ii| e f r u sit yastk (i Dab ‘°rced«, ■ "l thinkil onrning h; 'PPortumt en their ej P ts > thine J I,10 fe easit Wednesday, August 26, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5B hanges abroad ffect A&M’s mix f foreign students By Alan Sembera Reporter ■ The mixture of international stu dents at Texas A&M is undergoing major changes because of economies abroad, says international student adviser Tina Watkins. || In the early 1980s, most interna- tibnal students attending A&M were from Latin America, but because of weakening economies in that area, their number has fallen and they are niversitHt replaced by an increasing number of Asians, Watkins said. 1 When she first came here eight years ago, Watkins said, about two- thirds of the international students Were from Central America and beil 'g fo J 1 °t AmeJ - n are fuuj an d in theJ 'orvices k : ’ a gain ^resident oil on for \y s tand somtj 4,1 are cow e so scare] s of Cadciij n e field, | U P on theiil importaml u talk abl 7’ r e afraidj "traditionij til they M •utdated," 'rganizatioi i been reco;: ; ars, proiij ort tormtij various rl >eheduled a •d in They t the MSCr Its Slo-pen idudet aJ es. Jlan to cord dth infomij sentationsi:i xual hara«:< came the kj cause theni ngs coned needed i: South America. During the last school year, they were one-fourth of the international student popula tion. ■ Watkins said A&M is also losing many students from the Middle East Because of the fighting there. There has been a large decrease in Iraqi, Ijebanese and Palestinian students attending A&M since she came here, she said. fl The largest group of new interna tional students that applied to A&M Biis year are from Asia. She said Ko- ffba had the most applicants — 61. Rfty-eight students applied from Qhina, 53 from Taiwan, and 29 from India. I Usually about 75 percent of the applicants will actually come here, Watkins said, because some students apply to more than one university. Watkins said there are usually about 1,700 international students at A&M, but this year she expects an increase of about 100 students. ■ This increase is caused by the im provements in the economies of epuntries in Asia, she said. I Kyo Sang Chung, a Korean stu dent, said education plays an impor tant role in Korea. He said increas ing numbers of students are going into universities. “If they miss the chance to study in a university, they’ve failed,” Chung said. “They’ve failed to get a Because of weakening economies in Latin Amer ica, many Latin students are being replaced by Asians. — Tina Watkins, interna tional student adviser. good job, a good husband or a good wife.” Yong Hun Lee, a 24-year-old en gineering graduate student who just arrived in the United States, said he came here because the United States is outstanding in his field. He said he chose A&M because it is a good engineering school and is not expensive compared to other schools. A&M also offers a lot of assistantships in engineering, he said. Another Korean engineering stu dent, Choi Jaebum, agreed that A&M is a good engineering school. He said A&M is also attractive to for eign students because they can at tend classes while they work on their English. Jaebum said many other universi ties require foreign students to pass English tests before they can attend classes, but A&M lets students who fail parts of the tests improve their English while they take classes. of young vho don't Stock says, is for some;* a ey don't uj m is a p® ■ women ira wers as nffi and woiiieil their fullpti Researchers in Texas work to end worries about pork, health I HOUSTON (AP) — Texas scien- . I tists are working on relief for those P nn .T Jijholesterol-conscious Americans 310 0 J|iwh o are tired of eating sushi and imepeop- crave a traditional pork chops and ev potatoes meal. || Research is producing a new way of raising swine that makes pork meat higher in unsaturated fat, which has been shown to signifi cantly reduce the risk of heart dis ease. ipus as W ed. || “If this type of meat became ntered pw available, then you could eat bacon mien pi and sausage and ham without rais- ” SamMj i n g your cholesterol level,” says Dr. ; got for lb 1 Scott Grundy, who heads the Cen- tenure wif ter for Human Nutrition at the University of Texas at Dallas. 1 studenci re. e people v'hich wettf think wei men, w'fc a lot of (fef mpus as (fl is working on sexri fl Grundy says studies show the new pork Would be extremely bene- vare here ficial because unsaturated fats trying totd| lower cholesterol in the bloods- ual harass^ tream and reduce the risk of heart o about it disease. >s of pr4i Pork already has one of the high- s or ref ek levels of unsaturated fats among s leave the 11 all meats and doesn’t deserve the ippropf nasty image of heart disease it con jures up in the minds of some peo ple, notes Steve Smith, one of the researchers conducting experi ments on the subject at Texas A&M. 1 “We’re starting with something gl^od and trying to make something tter,” he says. I® Researchers are putting labo- j ratory animals on a health regimen I of their own, increasing the amount of unsaturated fat in their diets to raise the ratio of unsaturated-to- saturated fat deposited in tissues, he says. ■The meat is not lower in total fat, | however. ■Smith says the unsaturated fat in research animals was about 76 per- ■ cent of total fat, while normal pork | contains about 58 percent unsatu rated fat. |TlThe meat cooks and tastes about j the same as regular pork, but is /e slightly “springier” when bitten, he says. But the diet does have problems. The modified feed costs about 30 cents per pound, compared with about 6 cents per pound for regular feed. So researchers now are looking into cheaper ingredients, such as sunflower and cottonseed oil, to provide the unsaturated fats, Smith says. Another drawback is a sheen of oil on the raw meat that makes it look less desirable. Similar experiments with cattle have not been as successful because of differences in the digestive sys tems between the two types of ani mals, he says. Grundy says the idea for the ex periment came from a study of Mediterranean people showing that mono-unsaturated fats in the diet reduced the risk of heart disease. The experiment also is part of the doctoral studies of Texas A&M student Lori St. John and is among the first to try to modify animal fat. Not everyone, however, is opti mistic the product of the research will end up at supermarket meat counters. Darrell Knabe, who is in charge of the swine at the Texas Agricultu ral Experiment Station, says, “My guess is that it will never fly, be cause of the higher diet cost and la bor involved.” A major Texas pork producer says his industry might be inter ested if the cost of feed were low ered to about 10 cents per pound and if the consumer demand for the meat was sufficient. Fred Woodley, whose 1,200 sows in Uvalde County make him one of the largest swine producers in the state, says, “I think the industry is going into it whole hog. The price will come down, but it won’t hap pen overnight.” get Superconductivity findings ‘ ‘overwhelm’science world iendsts working on supercon ductivity have found a “cave full of gemstones” in recent months. ■ i he pace of reports about discov eries in the field is overwhelming ^ scientific journals, says Energy Sec- Tetaryjohn Herrington. ‘ r In May, Herrington announced the creation of a special computer database to keep track of the re search into the ability of some materials to conduct electricity with out losing any current to resistance. If Reid Terwilliger, assistant editor at the prestigious Physical Review Letters, says in his 15 years there he has never seen such a flood of pa pers on a single topic, with more than 300 so far this year. 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