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University News Service
Minority college students
om throughout the Southwest
will receive $2,000 stipends and
free dormitory accomodations
ai Texas A&M for 10 weeks this
summer through a program
sponsored by the College of Ge-
Isciences.
The five students selected for
le program will have the op
portunity to work one-on-one
ith a faculty member on a re
search project in geology, geo
physics, ocean drilling, meteo
rology or geography.
Research subjects include
mapping ancient river terraces
in the Brazos Valley, study of
sediments from the sea floor,
seismic field studies and deep
sea drilling.
The program, which was sug
gested by a faculty group, be
gins June 4 and is one of the
several summer projects at
Texas A&M designed to en
hance minority recruitment and
representation on campus.
The College of Engineering
will also bring about 50 black
and Hispanic Texas high school
students to campus June 17-22
during its “Summer Enrich
ment Experience in Engi
neering” program. Participants
in the engineering program at
tend special classes in science,
math, engineering and com
puter programming.
“The College of Geosciences
is strongly oriented toward re
search,” said Dr. Davis Fahlqu-
ist, director of the summer ap
prentice program.
A $3,000 grant from the Uni
versity and donations from in
dustry support the program,
Fahlquist said. Applications for
the program were sent to about
20 colleges in Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas and New Mexico,
each of which have at least 40
percent minority student pop
ulations.
onsumer prices higher in April
United Press International
would kB^ASHINGTON — Consumer
l rt, nW r ‘ ces climbed 0.5 percent in
nil f'MndltMp,j| q ie Labor Department
patticukBaid Tuesday, with housing,
formBsed cars, fuel, pork products
nd many other goods and serv-
ites growing more expensive.
The rise in the Consumer
rice Index was more than dou-
|le that in March, reaching an
nnual inflation rate of 5.6 per-
lent.
Another Labor Department
eport showed the spending
power of the average blue-col-
fcr worker — earnings adjusted
Bor inflation —jumped 1.6 per-
^ent in April, the most since De
ember 1982. Pay has increased
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3.3 percent faster than prices in
the past year.
Also Tuesday, a Commerce
Department report showed
April factory orders for heavy-
duty items fell 6.4 percent, a
larger decrease than in any
month of the last recession, per
haps signaling a long-predicted
economic slowdown.
Two-thirds of the decline was
in defense orders.
The Consumer Price Index
in April was 308.8, meaning the
government’s sample “market
basket” of goods and services
that cost $100 in 1967 would
have cost $308.80 last month.
Although . the month’s in
crease in prices was not quite as
much as the year’s peak growth
of 0.6 percent in January, the
upward movement was no
longer localized in food prices.
All prices besides food and
energy were up 0.6 perceni, re
inforcing the view that has been
discouraging investors lately —
that fundamental inflation
forces are building in the econ
omy.
A White House spokesman,
however, said the figures are a
sign that inflation remains “un
der control” during a period of
economic expansion.
Half of April’s increase was
in housing and another third of
the change was in gasoline and
used car prices, the report said.
Mixed with the increases was
one especially sharp decline, an
11.9 percent drop in fresh vege
table prices, the most in nearly
10 years.
Pork prices jumped 2.2 per
cent. Analysts said that this is
the inevitable result of a grow
ing shortage of hogs that will
last for a long time.
Beef prices, however, slipped
a little.
Housing rose the most. The
0.6 percent increase in housing
costs was made up of many in
gredients, including an upturn
in natural gas and home heat
ing oil prices, and maintenance
and repair costs.
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University News Service
Persons interested in careers in
electronics will have an oppor
tunity to begin training this
summer during night and ex
tended-day courses offered by
the Institute of Electronic Sci
ence, the Texas Engineering
Extension Service.
Courses beginning June 11
include “Introduction to DC
Circuits,” “Introduction to
Math for Electronics,” “Intro
duction to Pulse/Digital Cir
cuits” and “Introduction to
Electronics for Drafting.”
Each course is taught twice a
week for eight weeks. Registra
tion is $135 per course. A de
posit of $35 must be made by
June 1 to ensure enrollment,
said officials. Courses will be
taught at the Texas A&M Uni
versity Research and Extension
Service Center on Highway 21
near Bryan.
The Institute of Electronic
Science, operated by the Elec
tronics Training Division of
TEEX, has been training tech
nicians for high technology in
dustries since 1963. Tradition
ally, students undergo 18
months of extensive training
which prepares them for posi
tions in electronics, with a 100
percent job placement record
for graduates.
The practical approach of
the courses exposes persons in
terested in electronics to the
kind of work they would be ex
pected to perform as techni
cians. In addition, successful
completion of courses enables a
smooth transition into the regu
lar 18-month program which
begins in September.
Admission is open to any per
son with a high school diploma
or equivalent.
“When I Went Off to College
My Dad Sure Got Smart.”
He bought a Cripple Creek Condominium. Now he’s
enjoying the tax advantages of ownership-he’s
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after I’ve graduated. That’s important to my dad.
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vho will nol Walter Mondale stepped up
alist lacker )ressure Tuesday on rival Gary
peace ini Hart for a debate among the
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ty night in New Jersey, saying
is schedule called for him to
jmpaign in California.
Jackson agreed to take part
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Virginia, South Dakota and
New Mexico hold primaries on
June 5 — “final Tuesday” —
when there are 486 delegates at
stake.
Mondale campaigned in
West Virginia at Wheeling-
Pittsburgh Steel. He said he
helped keep the plant open by
sponsoring a government loan
program that Hart voted
against.
In Washington, Jackson met
with Democratic Chairman
Charles Manatt. Jackson plans
to challenge party rules at the
national convention in San
Francisco in July, because he
says party rules discriminate
against poor and minority vot
ers.
He said he has received 21
percent of the popular vote to
date and 9 percent of the dele 1
gates, while Mondale has 42
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