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CO-OP CAREER FAIR AND
SEMINAR ON INTERVIEWING
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Monday, October 31, 1988, the employers listed will be on campus partic
ipating in the Co-op Career Fair. These employers will primarily be inter
ested in visiting with prospective co-op students, but students who are in
terested in either summer or full-time employment, should also feel free to
come by. The Co-op Career Fair will be held between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30
p.m. in the lobby of both Zachry Engineering Center and Horticulture Sci
ences Building with a lunch break from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
A seminar on “How to Interview for Co-op, Summer, or Internship Jobs”
will also be conducted at 7:00 p.m. on October 31 in Room 103 Zachry.
Employer representatives from McNeil Consumer Products and IBM will
assist the staff members from the Co-op Office and Career Planning and
Placement Office in conducting this seminar.
EMPLOYERS IN ZACHRY LOBBY
Advanced Micro Devices-Austin/Sunnyvale, CA
Bell Helicopter Textron-Ft. Worth
Central Intelligence Agency-Washington, D.C.
Datapoint Corporation-San Antonio
Dow Chemical-Freeport
DSC Communications-Dallas
Fort Hood-Ft. Hood
Frito-Lay-Rosenberg & Dallas
General Dynamics-Ft. Worth
IBM-Clear Lake/Austin/Dallas
LTV Missiles & Electronics-Dallas
McNeil Consumer Products-Round Rock
Northern Telecom/BNR-Richardson
Texas Instruments/DSEG-Dallas
The Trane Co.-Tyler
Union Carbide-Texas City
Vetco Gray-Houston
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The Battalion
Friday, October 28,1988
2 shooting reports
released by police
after legal battle
What's Up
DALLAS (AP) — Detailed internal
accounts of two fatal shootings by Dallas
police were released after the department
lost a two-year legal battle to withhold
them from public scrutiny.
The police on Wednesday gave report
ers files on the shootings of Russ Gran-
derson in 1985 and of James Cook in
1984.
The documents, released to the Dallas
Morning News and the Dallas Times
Herald, included reports on investiga
tions by the Internal Affairs Divison,
witness’ statements and detailed ac
counts provided by the officers involved.
the right side of the chest after Clark and
her partner answered a domestic distur
bance call.
The autopsy found Cook was shot in
midback, through the spine. There was
no exit wound.
The documents also showed that in the
slaying of Russ Austin Granderson. in
vestigators resolved an apparent incon
sistency in the officers’ original ac
counts.
Friday
The Cook file cunt .med a letter from
the district attorney’s office to then-Po-
lice Chief Billy Prince critical of Phyllis
Clark, the officer who shot Cook.
The grand jury found the shooting jus
tified, the letter noted, but many jurors
felt that poor judgment was exercised by
Officer Clark and that the shooting could
have been avoided if backup officers had
been called.
The initial police report, which Clark
helped compile, stated Cook was shot in
The nternal documents released
Wednesday said a bullet wound in Gran-
derson’s left buttock was caused as an
officer fired in an “arc-like fashion” as
Granderson ran past him.
Both officers were exonerated by a
grand jury.
The release of the files Wednesday
came two weeks after the city of Dallas
dropped a lawsuit against Texas Attor
ney General Jim Mattox, who had ruled
that all closed files on police shootings
and complaints should be released to the
public.
The city was seeking in its lawsuit to
keep the records closed.
Large crop expected
for 1015 onion lovers
By Melissa Naumann
Reporter
Onions bring tears to the eyes of many
people and leave them sniffling hope
lessly in the kitchen. Next spring, how
ever, a large amount of 1015 onions in
grocery stores will keep onion lovers
dry-eyed.
Researchers from the Texas Agricultu
ral Experiment Station have found a way
to produce more of the popular 1015
Texas SuperSweet onion by cloning a fe
male version of the onion.
“Now farmers can be assured of better
seeds that will not present as many los
ses,” Pike said. “Some of them will
never know of the problems such as fusa-
rium bulb rot. We’re anticipating prob
lems and dealing with them before they
happen.”
Rogers said the cloning process also
speeds up onion production.
Dr. Leonard Pike, a TAES researcher,
said the cloning process, which involves
tissue culture techniques, allows the pro
duction of more 1015 onion offspring
than ever before.
“We’ve just brought the onion indus
try into the 21st century and can develop
new strains in a matter of years,” Pike
said. “It once took up to 12 years. In my
career I might have developed three or
“It usually takes two years to get on
ions,” she said. “You plant the seeds one
year to get the bulb and then plant the
bulb another year to get the onion. Now
we’ve eliminated the initial seed-to-bulb
phase. We’re trying to get this cloning
process patented right now.”
Pike said the actual quality of the on
ion has improved as well.
“Also being bred into the plants is the
size of a grapefruit and a sweetness that
won’t make you cry,” he said.
MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will present a dialogue on JesuiJ
mon link between Moslims and Christians" at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tow ),
the screen for the room number.
LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION; EarldeSchamps;,;
rector of the church educational system, will speak at noon duringitiescv,
seminar at the Institute Building.
KOREAN CHURCH OF A&M: Pang-Une Kim will present a pianoc?t?
7:30 p.m. at 3333 Oak Ridge Dr. in Bryan. A $3 donation is suggested
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a Bible study at 6:15pan
Presbyterian Church.
CAMPUS CRUSADE: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington.
CORPS OF CADETS: will run across campus to the centerpoleraisinc;-
p.m., ending at Duncan field.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Preventionand-i
tion at 845-0280 for details on today's meeting.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: DIS applications are due by 5p.m.in 161 fe
WESLEY FOUNDATION: will have a costume dance at 8p.m.ath
Foundation.
UNIVERSITY APARTMENTS COUNCIL: will have a halloweenpart)
dents and their children from 5-7:30 p.m. in the council room.
Saturday
TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will meet at 9 a m. at Rudder Fountainf#aS(
bike ride.
STUDENT Y AGGIE FRIENDS: will meet at 1 p.m in 504Rudder
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet at 8 am. at Duncan field for tjonfiret.
ROSICRUCIAN ORDER: will have a lecture on meditation, visuate
mysticism from 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Room 105 College StationCj-;
Center.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will have an autocross at 9 a.m. at Riveras;;
pus (formerly the A&M Annex).
ALCOHOLICS ANOYNMOUS: call the Center for Drug Preventionarca
tion at 845-0280 for details on today's meeting.
CORPS OF CADETS: will have the flight of the Great Pumpkin at 8:30c
the Quad. There will also be a wing regiment mixer at 9 p.m. inDuncaH
Hall.
Sunday
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANGERS: will demonstrate are
folkdancing from 8-10 p m. in 226 MSC.
CHINESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will screen the movie‘Scarecr:*a
p.m. in 224 MSC.
PRE-THEOLOGY SOCIETY: will present "An Introduction toTherari:|
dhism" at 4 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
INDIA ASSOCIATION: will have a variety of entertainment and dinnfti|
in 201 MSC.
TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will meet at 1 p.m at Rudder Fountaintor::|
bike ride.
ET ALIA DANCE CLUB: will meet and practice at 7 p.m. in266Reac
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Monday
RHA: will have RHAIIoween with booths, a costume contest and fun hi
to midnight in the Grove.
CO-OP FAIR: will be from 8:30 am. - 3:30 p.m in Zachry and the Hm|
Sciences Building.
INTRAMURALS: entnes open for the video triathlon and handballsrj
a m. in 159 Read.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prever.ttwi'cil
tion at 845-0280 for details on today's meeting.
PHI ETA SIGMA: will have a halloween costume party at 6 p.m. at hi
Hills Nursing Center. For more information call Joanne at 260-0665
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four new strains. Now someone can liter
ally develop hundreds.”
Barbara Rogers, a staff research asso
ciate working with Pike, said the 1015
onions — named for the preferred plant
ing date of Oct. 15 — will be ready
around mid-April.
“Last year, the onions had little labels
on them, and the grocery stores usually
have a big display,” Rogers said. “You
won’t miss them.”
Associate professor discuss
views on role of risk analys!
for Grc
jpthers
Mill!
By Andy Alexander
Reporter
Pike said onion farmers will earn big
ger profits from the 1015 onions since
the yield is twice that of regular onions:
40,000 pounds of 1015 onions per acre
instead of 20,000 pounds of regular on
ions.
Rogers said the large number of 1015
onions on the market will not affect
prices at first.
“They usually start out pretty high,
around 50 cents per pound,” she said.
“Then, as more onions come into the
stores, the prices will drop.”
Regular onions currently cost between
33 cents and 49 cents per pound.
The onions also are becoming more
resistant to diseases which can destroy
entire crops, Pike said.
The concept of risk plays an important
role in today’s legal thinking. Yet, when
are risks real?
This was the question presented by
Paul Thompson, associate professor of
philosophy and humanities, during a col
loquium Thursday. Thompson presented
a paper he had written titled “Risk Ob
jectivism and Risk Subjectivism: When
are Risks Real?” to a group of 15 stu
dents and faculty members.
Thompson introduced his views on the
role of risk analysts in determining issues
of public policy. Thompson said risk
analysts deal with issues such as the
chance of getting cancer when exposed
to a toxic substance, the risk of sending a
child to a school that has an AIDS in
fected student or the risk of a pump fail
ing in a nuclear reactor.
inompson described the various
views of objcctivists and subjectivists in
dealing with real risks. Objcctivists. he
said, take a stand based on a more classi
cal. or relative frequency probability of
events. Subjectivists simply rely on an
expression of confidence that something
may happen. He added that actions may
be taken without a feeling of risk, al
though some risk may actually be pre
sent.
In his presentation, Thompson told the
story of a man returning home from
work, giving two situations. In one. a 7-
year-old boy tells the man that someone
has put a voodoo curse on his mailbox
that changed his mail into a rattlesnake.
In the other, the man’s reasonably re
sponsible neighbor tells him that a group
of kids have reportedly been putting live
snakes into mailboxes and two have been
found already.
A risk analyst would determine the
real risk in opening themailla [
son said.
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Two Trials of Terror !
The Victims
The Victimizer
Don’t sleep
through this one !
You may not
wake up!
Meg Ryan Dennis Quaid
7:30 & 9:45 pm
Friday & Saturday
October 28 & 29
Rudder Theatre
Tickets $2.00 w/ TAMU ID
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