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It is the most prestigious research opportunity available to undergraduates at Texas A&M and provides participants with opportunities usually extended only to students pursuing graduate degrees. Over the last several years, 40 to 70 students have been selected annually as Fellows based upon faculty review of research proposals submitted to the University Honors Program. The Fellows Program features a close, . master-apprentice relationship between student researcher and faculty advisor and involves both students and advisors in periodic interdisciplinary group meetings, to encourage the development of a scholarly community. Faculty acquainted with capable juniors who meet the criteria for participation in the Undergraduate Fellows Program may wish to encourage them to consider preparing a proposal. An informational meet ing concerning the 2001-2002 Fellows Program, open to faculty as well as students, has been scheduled for 4:00 PM on Thursday, 15 February, in 292B MSC. Research proposals will be due on Thursday, 22 March. Students will know whether they have been admitted to the program in early April. For additional information, contact Dr. Donald R. Dickson, Fellows Coordinator, d-dickson@tamu.edu or visit the Honors website at http://honors.tamu.edu. lA.kkkkkllklA.kki. THE MOST SECRET, ROMANTIC DATE PLACE! THE LIVE OAK RESTAURANT (formerly the Kaffee Klatsch) presents: A VALENTINE’S CANDLELIGHT DINNER Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Two Seatings: Six o’clock p.m. and Eight o’clock p.m. fP Intimate setting fP Fine dining ^ Long-stemmed rose for your date Complimentary photo fP Music fp Chocolate! 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Implicated in the plan is Joshua Maxwell, 22, who is awaiting a capital murder trial in connection with the slay ing of a Bexar County deputy during a cross-country crime spree, sheriff’s officials said Monday. The plot began to unravel Jan. 21, when jailers dur ing a routine mail inspection opened a letter Maxwell wrote to his girlfriend and co-defendant, Tessie McFar land, who has been in a separate area of the jail since their Oct. 17 capture. Inside the envelope, authorities found a diagram of Maxwell’s cell and the floor plan of his maximum-secu rity unit in the sixth floor of the jail, sheriff’s CapU Gabehart said. “We inspect hundreds of pieces of mail a day, something like a drawing sticks out. We opened itancK ‘Hey, this looks familiar,’ ” Gabehart said in Tuesday’s lions of the San Antonio Express-News. “It was adit move because we started paying closer attention tote: The next day, a fellow inmate in Maxwell’s unit investigators that Maxwell and another inmate, Joscl pinoza, planned to assault a jailer, then crawl onto the r of the jail and rappel down the side with bed sheets How the two planned make it past perimeter fer and heavily armed security was not clear. The inmate also told jailers that Maxwell and Espi: had made two knives and stashed them for the esc Jail officials soon found the knives hidden in a coni: area both men had access to. “It was half-baked,” Gabehart said. “You can’tgo through the roof unless you have a jackhammer. T: would have just been locked in with a dead or won officer.” State battles to shut down casini EL PASO (AP) — Attorney General John Cornyn says the state will go to court in July to try to shut down the Speaking Rock Casino, owned and operated by the Tigua Indians. A group of state lawmakers, how ever, hope to circumvent the legal ac tion with bills that would specifical ly allow the casino to continue offering gambling. The state contends that slot ma chines and card games at the casino on the tribe’s southeast El Paso reserva tion are prohibited by Texas law. The Tiguas argue that the State Lottery Act allows for those games of chance. “The question is whether the Tiguas may legally operate a casino in Texas,” Jane Dees, a spokes woman for the attorney general, said Monday. “We believe the answer is no.” She said Cornyn believes it is a simple case. Tribe spokesman Marc Schwartz said the Tiguas are looking forward to resolving the issue. “Texas is already a gambling state,” Schwartz said. “It has a variety of different laws providing for a vari ety of different gambling. Our law is modeled exactly after the Texas act.” Tigua attorney Tom Diamond said it still is possible there could be an out-of-court resolution. U.S. District Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth in his order for a July 24 trial date requests a report on “alter native dispute resolution.” In the Legislature, Reps. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Terry Keel, R-Austin, have filed a bill that would allow the Tiguas and two other Texas tribes —the Kickapoos at Eagle Pass and the Alabama- Coushatta in East Texas—tok lo< gaming on operations on exu reservations. Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-ElPi has a companion bill in the Senal “These people were heretei us,” Hinojosa said in Tuesday’s j| McL tions of the Austin American-Si Bush pi man. “They are sovereign natw 011 tax recognized by our country. ^ |S r i|e! should at least give them the lies es ^ 1 ity to be able to take care of their« ou ' c ' i folks and own needs.” ■ores a The Tigua tribe has said the;. 6 * ^ i ^ bling has generated money toim in businesses, build houses for members and make charitable tributions. After the state filed the lawsuit Tiguas asked in October 1999 be thrown out, claiming they had? Bush, ai ereign immunity from being sued “Ne> less Congress issues a waiver, going tc of pure o\\ ner ( Bush iver ti burbt ss ov Jooks, 1998 other. News in Brief Husband jailed for murdering priest DALLAS (AP) — A man infuriat ed by a priest who said God made him have an affair with his wife was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday after a jury convict ed him of murdering the holy man. Ramesh Kumar Wadhwa, 52, of Coppell, pleaded no contest to stabbing a popular Sikh priest, who claimed God led him to have the affair with Wadhwa’s wife. Wadhwa told jurors that he sat down for lunch with Iqbal Singh in his office-apartment in Coppell last January, expecting to hear the priest confess to having had an af fair with his wife and apologize. Instead, Wadhwa said he flew into a “sudden passion" when Singh blamed God for his affair with Sarita Wadhwa and said five other members of the small Sikh congregation knew of and sup ported the relationship. Sarita Wadhwa had told her hus band two days earlier that Singh had been forcing himself on her during weekly counseling sessions. Singh was found stabbed to death in the apartment after a phone call from Wadhwa’s attorney. Police found a bent, knife blade next to the tafyaw) bloodstained clothes belong Wadhwa in a bedroom closet. : second bloody knife was side a plastic bag in the Wadhwa faced up to 99yea in prison for the murder, who owns a check-cashing te| ness, was eligible for probation cause he had no previous fell convictions. Wadhwa was a music:' dent of Singh’s, who was con: ered an accomplished playen teacher of the tabla, the da used in Sikh — who are Hindus religious services. Slee ass; WIS An J robati resid( enced itiona Andi n pro omb 1 iscor everal eorge he wol jlice rep Nies eache Deadline: 2/12/01 Delivery date is 4/06/01 UIUDERGRADUATE STUDENT REQUIREMENTS 1. You must be a degree-seeking student with at least 95 cumulative undergraduate credit hours. 2. Transfer students need 60* hours of credit at Texas A&M University, or degree must be conferred and posted. 3. You must have a cumulative 2.0 GPR at Texas A&M University. 4. You must be in good standing with the University. 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