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, so they were facing a
,relatively unprecedented situa-
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diets“The students are aware of
,the problem now. They are
starting earlier, interviewing
harder and investigating all
their options.”
Dr. W.D. Von Gonten, head
, of the Petroleum Engineering
/Department, agrees students
iare going to have to start earlier
and interview harder than they
have in the past.
i “Petroleum engineering gra
duates historically have gotten
their jobs during the fall semes
ter,” Von Gonten said. “People
who are graduating in May and
August are getting their jobs in
October and November and last
October and November the eco
nomy was still good so the job
situation was still good.”
Von Gonten said thejob situa
tion was much tighter in the
spring but as far as he knew, pet
roleum engineering students
who didn’t have jobs at the be
ginning of the spring all have
jobs now.
“If all of our students had
been trying to get jobs last
•spring, we probably would have
had some major problems,” he
said. “I don’t think that this fall
Vill be as lucrative as last fall.”
ual’s cl* Vulliet said the graduates are
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•me acC J I the last minute, interview with
of stu® I their top three choices and ex-
: groups I pect to get a job.
“The economy is not allowing
..that to occur,” she said. “They’ve
got to put in a little extra effort
to compensate for the fact that
times are slow.”
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Von Gonten said he believes
the good students are going to
get a lot of job offers, but stu
dents with lower grades are
going to have to work harder.
“They will have to interview
harder and interview more com
panies and they may have to go
out and interview companies
that haven’t come to A&M,” he
said. “Some of the students are
going to work for companies
they wouldn’t have even inter
viewed with last year.”
But Vulliet said the engineer
ing jobs still are lucrative com
pared to other disciplines.
“It generally tends to be the
non-technical areas that really
get aced when things like this
(recession) occur,” she said.
“They tend to fill the slots that
are ‘icing on the cake’ so to
speak.”
Vulliet said hiring in the non
technical areas is probably even
lower than in the technical areas.
She said this semester looks like
it will be slow, so students are
going to have to work hard and
investigate all options.
But, she said, other schools
have much deeper problems
than Texas A&rM.
“We are in very good shape
compared to other schools in trie
state and in the nation because
we are a highly technical school
and it is the highly technical dis
ciplines that are still in demand,
even though the demand for
those might even be less,” she
said.
Recruiting organizations that
may have traditionally gone to
150 schools and have cut back to
about 40 schools still are coming
to Texas A&M, she said.
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i NEW YORK — Miss America,
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/Americans place too much im
portance on looks.
' A native of Pittsburgh, Kan.,
Maffett lives in Anaheim, Calif.
iHer family lives in Cut ’N Shoot.
iMaffett, 25, who won the com
petition over the weekend, said
( iif the contest would have been
'lurS « j uc, g ed on beauty alone, she
would not have been the winner.
“I wasn’t the prettiest girl on
the stage,” Maffett, who com
peted as Miss California, said.
“Miss Alabama was super, su
per intelligent. I thought she
would win,” she said referring to
Yolanda Fernandez, 19.
Miss Maffett told reporters at
a press conference that one of
B her heroes is British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher.
“She stuck to her principles
during the Argentine crisis. I
like that." she said.
“I feel like modern day socie-
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Vulliet said the engineering
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al, petroleum and electrical en
gineering — accounting, and
the computer sciences still are in
demand, though they have been
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But an incoming freshman
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asis on shallow things. There’s
much more to life than appear
ances.”
She said the men in her life
“would not have to be really
good looking.” However, she
said, she has had very little time
for men.
“Now it will be the same
thing, but on a bigger scale.” she
said.
As for the future, Maffett
said her speaking engagements
as Miss America will help make
her better talk show host.”
She said she would also like to
run for a Republican office, but
she did not specify what post she
would seek.
She advised women who want
to be Miss America to get a nice
evening gown and an interview
dress.”
The slim, blonde confessed to
a few imperfections: “I have a
crooked nose and one side of the
face is different from the other.”
She also admitted having one
vice.
“I love chocolate.”
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