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Exceptional People Exceptional Technology An equal opportunity employer 1KAPLAN STANLEY H. KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD. WHAT IF YOU DON'T GET INTO THE GRAD SCHOOL OF YOUR CHOICE? Sure, there are other schools. But why settle? Kaplan prep courses help students raise their scores and their chances of be ing admitted into their first-choice schools. Fact is, no one has helped students score higher! SUMMER CLASSES REGISTERING NOW. GET A HEAD START ON THE LSAT, GMAT, GRE, MCAT, NCLEX, NTE, CPA, OR BAR EXAM. FOR INFORMATION ON THE LOCALCENTER NEAREST YOU, CALLTOLL FREE: 1-800-KAP-TEST SUMMERTIME IS KAPLAN TIME. Job opportunities opei for chemical engineers Vol. 87 By Alan Sembera Staff Writer Chemical engineering graduates are having an easy time finding jobs this year. At Texas A&M, all the chemical engineering students who graduated this May found jobs if they wanted them, said Dr. Ray Flu- merfelt, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering. The improvement in job opportu nities was partly caused by a recent surge in the traditional chemical processing industry, Flumerfelt said. But he attributes much of the grad uates’ success to a new outlook being taken by chemical engineering stu dents in the past five years. Flumerfelt said chemical engi neering students now enter areas such as ceramics, biotechnology, the food industry and the environment. He said cleaning the environment is the major new challenge chemical engineers face. New applications such as this will increase the job openings for chemi cal engineers, he said, but the num ber of chemical engineering grad uates is decreasing. “Before the Arab embargo of ’74, we were graduating about 3,500 chemical engineers,” he said. “We were very comfortable then in a sense of students getting jobs. “Then the energy crisis hit — a lot of students came into chemical engi neering, as well as petroleum engi neering, and our enrollment sky rocketed ... we were overinflated; not just here but elsewhere. “In ’81 when the price of oil went down and the energy industry was hurt, the demand went down and we were caught with a large number of students. As soon as the students picked up on this . . . they stopped enrolling in chemical engineering.” Flumerfelt said in the 1987-88 school year about 4,500-5,000 chem ical engineering graduates in the United States and Canada. That’s down from 8,000 four years ago. He said that in two years there only will be 3,500-4,000 graduates in the field. Graduate (Continued from page 1) This will cause a shortage of chemical engineers, he said. He said now is a good time for stu dents to enter the chemical engi neering field. Freshman enrollment at A&M in chemical engineering has increased 5 percent this year, he said, the first increase since the oil econon; lapsed. “We expect to see an inen the fall, hut the word : have gotten completely intotlit schools that the job situationi; vorable,” he explained, bly be the fall of ’89 beforene big jump in our freshman c. ment.” lost its edge to foreign markets. Our technological edge is essential to our national security. There is hope, though, and I’m looking at it to 14018610night.” Dr. James H. “Red” Duke Jr., a physician and surgeon, spoke Friday to graduates receiving doctorates in the College of Veterinary Medicine. He warned graduates that they now will face decisions that will de termine the shape of their personal and professional lives for years to come. “Each of you is going to concoct your own recipe for your way of life, and it’s not going to be easy,” Duke said. “You’ve got a long way to ride.” He also cautioned them not to lose track of their humanity. “It’s important to try to learn to be honest with yourself about who and what you are, and to be able to share it with others,” Duke said. “We’re here; it’s time to stop and take a deep breath of fresh air. The fun is just beginning.” In a brief welcome speech at every ceremony, David Eller, chairman of the Board of Regents, told students to remember their memories. “Some of you may be remem bering trying to learn the subjunc tive tense of Spanish ... or some of you engineering students may re member passing Math 152,” Eller said. “Some of you here are graduating with a straight 4.0,” he said. “Unfor tunately, you don’t know the thrill of getting a ‘C’ in a tough course. How ever, I’m sure there are some of you graduating with an equally-straight 2.0, and you do know the thrill.” During the ceremonies, four for mer students were honored as Dis tinguished Alumni. James H. “Red” Duke, Class of ’50; J.B. “Dick” Her- vey, Class of ’42; Ormond R. Simp son, Class of ’36; and Harwood K. Smith, Class of ’35, were all given ci tations by the Association of Former Students. The Brown Foundation Out standing Student of the Year Award, in honor of former A&M president Earl Rudder, was presented to James Michael Jumper, a biochemis try major, and Kristen Allen, a fi nance major. National Briefs Official: U.S. used drug traffickers WASHINGTON (AP) — A House subcommittee chairman said Tuesday he has evidence that the Reagan administration used known drug traffickers to secure guns for the Nicaraguan Contras. Rep. William Hughes, D-N.J., who chairs the House crime sub committee, said he would air the allegations — which he acknowl edged were unproven — at public hearings next month. Hughes said the subcommittee has been tracking a S'A-year "pat tern” of administration officials either ignoring or encouraging criminal activity on behalfofii» Contra rebels. Hughes said the crime pas has uncovered repeated alb tions of f ederal agents recniitt* or coercing criminals to work? behalf of the Contras, whoa’ trying to overthrow the Itfe Sandinista government. Hugh: said the criminals may have bet recruited as part of a pleabs gain. Hughes said allegations : elude possible abuse of thecric nal justice system in ihe Coniri behalf. I The 1 for the T Bem, whic nan the ■roved N of Regen R The n IS about : ■987-88 Hampus i the total Explosion hits Soviet production plat WASHINGTON (AP) — A production plant in the Soviet Union that makes the main rocket motors for Russia’s newest long-range nuclear missile suf fered a major explosion last week and is now shut down, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. In a statement released in reac tion to a report broadcast by NBC News, Pentagon officials said the explosion occurred May 12 and “destroyed several buildings at a Soviet propellant plant in Pavlo- grad.” "Apparently, this will dehd viet solid-propellant missile pit grams,” Pentagon officialsadik The Pavlograd plant, loas about 500 miles southwest Moscow in the Ukraine, is ti only facility the Russians have! manufacturing the main rodt motors for the new SS-24 inte continental ballistic missile,; ministration officials said Tut da >: . . . 5 « 1 hat missile is a large 10-w; head weapon that can k launched from either unde ground silos or rail cars. I A&M If 011 sa ' ( * Imieet all < I “Thes ■one, es| ■ificant t Several ] Son said long way ■te morr PP make Hr 1 key 3 problem f) Prairii . Cated I jprhich is H&ver the State l ■22,973 more th Senate delays OK of Pentagon budget WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, hung up over a fight on the death penalty, delayed final appro val Tuesday of a Pentagon budget bill that has become a vehicle For anti-drug proposals and a condem nation of administration proposals to cut a deal with Panama’s military ruler, Gen. Manuel Antonio No riega. The dispute involves an amend ment that would permit the death penalty for drug dealers convicted of killing people. At the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said President Rea gan will talk about the drugprckH B in a commencement addtt® Wedncsd.tv .it the Coast Guard. 1 . }>i. ms demy in New London, Conn said the piesidenl wants the ni'. G. . J 1 “to depoliticize the drug polio! 1 lie lull authori/es Pentai . ^ S . J( spending of $299.5 billion in the! signed 1 cal year beginning Oct. 1 and ■ j tlar y G j eludes a trio of anti-drug prow skuatior overwhelmingly added by senaa p ose( j p who contend the U.S. public's PA 2- sterner action to halt illegal dr: tn ons trafficking. Meese explains firing of Eastland Moffi the facil Texas fi WASHINGTON (AP) — Attor ney General Edwin Meese III said Tuesday he fired chief spokesman Terry Eastland because “it was time for a change in leadership” and that the dismissal did not revolve around a question of aggressively defending Meese. Meese made the comment to re porters after President Reagan reit erated his confidence in Meese and said in reference to Eastland’s firing that “there is more than meets the eye with regard to this latest depar ture.” Meese said “I suspect” what Rea gan “had in mind” concerning Eastland’s departure was “that I de- that the termined it was time for a chans" tlmate< l leadership.” E| Eastland, Meese’s public aflgi, dan chief since April 1985, said 1,1 Monday that the attorney gc “The had told him Friday he war" ^ ne , someone “willing to aggressive^ Comm{ lend you against • • anyandalh be buih icism. He said Meese had eluded “my efforts have sufficed.” Meese flatly contradicted portion of Eastland’s letter Tuesday afternoon, tellingrepof' that Eastland’s departure “hadn a de ing to do with a defense of me Actually, . . . defending me. ' not one of Terry’s tasks.” Senate set to open debate on pact WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was ready to open debate Tuesday on the U.S.-Soviet me dium-range missile treaty, one week before President Reagan leaves for the Moscow summit. The White House is appealing for quick action to permit Reagan to go to Moscow with a ratified treaty. Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said he too hopes the president can take to the summit “the treaty with a blue ribbon on it.” But there is no guarantee the Senate will be able to act before Reagan meets Soviet leader Mik hail S. Gorbachev in the Kremlin on May 29. The president is to leave Washington next Wednes day for a rest stop in Finland be fore going on to Moscow. The Intermediate-range Nu clear Forces treaty requires tht destruction of certain ground launched medium-range missiles The ground-breaking ants control pact has been under cot sideration by three Senate com mittees since the beginning of tlit year. 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