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CABLE INSTALLATION AT NO CHARGE!! Sign up between September 25 and October 13 Bring in 12 or more nonperishable food items to be donated to the Brazos Food Bank - Save over $30 on cable installation! CALL TCA CABLE TV 4114 E. 29th Street in Bryan For more information 846-2229 Some Restrictions may apply. Texas Instruments Career Fair Wednesday, October 4,1995 Texas A&M John J. Koldus Building Room 110-111 Interviews Scheduled Please bring your resume and a copy of your transcript or a list of courses. (Minimum 3.0 GPA Required) TALK TO TFS MAJOR PRODUCT & SERVICE GROUPS. TI’s technical managers and recruiters want to see you. They want to tell you about the job opportunities in the many technologies which make Texas Instruments a leader in electronics. That’s why TI is having a Career Fair on the Texas A <St M campus, October 4th, 1995. It gives the company three days to bring in key engineers and managers to meet you. They’ll come from various TI sites to describe programs, answer questions, and schedule interviews. SIGN UP FOR INTERVIEWS IF YOU ARE GRADUATING WITH THESE DEGREES: Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degrees in: • Electrical Engineering • Computer Engineering • Computer Science (Business and Scientific) • Business Analysis (BANA) • Mechanical Engineering Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Physics (Engineering and Solid-State) MBA with EE undergraduate degree Finance Accounting The Career Fair and sign-ups for interviews will be held: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., October 4, Room 110-111, John J. Koldus Building. Interviews (by appointment): October 5 & 6. TI will be on campus again in February 1996 for more recruiting. Look for us! For more information, please contact the Texas A&M Placement Center Texas Instruments An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/H Page 4 • The Battalion Tuesday • October 3, uestbp Credit cards and CD clubs complicate life I remember buy ing pixie sticks and other crap from Mr. DeNina at swim meets when I was a kid. He was the richest man in the neighborhood, but he liked kids, so he volunteered at Michael Landauer jUg m;- the meets. And he always called me Mr. Landauer. I was eight years old and he called me mister. He had all the money, and he called me mister. That seemed cool to me then, and it still does. Only now, it’s not Mr. DeNina who pulls out the ti tle to win my affection, it’s credit card companies and CD clubs. Whenever I used to get mail that addressed me as Mr. Landauer, I knew it had to mean good news. “You’re credit limit has been extended.” “You have no minimum payment due.” “Buy one CD and get 58 free.” This is stuff we want to read in our mail. But those same com panies have gotten ruder in re cent times. They still call me Mr. Landauer, but they mention things about interest, finance charges and collection agencies. These people with all the money are not as nice as Mr. DeNina was at the swim meets. That was a cash for candy trans action. Things just aren’t that simple anymore. Credit card companies and CD clubs are evil in stitutions out to control our lives. Yeah, they treat us like adults, but who wants that when it comes with a finance charge. MfMRFR 1988 A credit card company should offer a differentap proach to our spending habits. When we use our card, we should get a letter in the mail that appear to be from our parents — and doesn’t call us mister. The letter would remind us that our parents art not made of money and can’t help us out with that bill. It would question us on how much we really needed what we bought. It would tell us that things were going to get tighter next month and that Christmas was almost definitely cancelled. But most credit companies don’t work that way, Mail is more likely to bring the message that your account has accrued $5 million in interest but noth worry, your credit level has been tripled again. Of course, if I ran one of these companies, I would go for the ripe audiences, too. We tell ourselves that we’ll put our own limits on things, but we neverdo, We tell ourselves that we will beat the CDcompa ny at its own game by returning all the music we don’t want. But somehow a promise to party is the only promise college students tend to keep. If we could live by simple rules, we would have no rea son to fear the friendly, rich companies. If we just mailed back that CD they sent us,if we just left the credit card home when we went to New Orleans, if we just... john Doe Acted responsibly? Oh god, the alternative is to sickening. Bring on the finance charges. Try to screw up our credit with idle threats of a collection agency. Well live just like our parents and Congress live. America wasn’t built on dreams, it was built on credit. We’ll live in debt, and we'll like it. A se net li y all PAP ,mbolc ction est ir ranee cent N ith mi The reenpi eneat Vench [front iealanc ith fi nd Nm ie Frei But ther 1 IN THE NEWS in Bay watch star to wed husband for third time LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bay- watch star Pamela Anderson wants to make a habit of getting married to rocker Tommy Lee. “We’ve been married twice al ready and we want to get mar ried again in Venice, Italy, pos sibly on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day,” Anderson said in an Extra TV show interview for broadcast Tuesday. “We just want to get married everywhere, and eventually my mom will be able to come. She hasn’t been to either one yet, and neither has Tommy’s family.” “It’s such a sentimental thing,” Jones said. “It means more to me really than all the other things, except the hits.” Dorn steps in to help Deep Space Nine Hawking reconsiders time travel possibility Beaumont's honor is Hawking only second to hits BEAUMONT (AP) — He’s traveled a bumpy road to get to George Jones Place. The country music star, whose problems with alcohol and drugs have often made him a concert no-show, got a warm welcome home Sunday, when part of a Beaumont street was named in his honor. Hundreds of fans watched the mayor present Jones, 64, a proclamation and a street sign in front of the Jefferson The ater, where he first performed 51 years ago. LONDON (AP) — Physi cist Stephen Hawking, who once doubted people could ever travel through time, now seems to be back tracking. Hawking’s forward to a new book, The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss, indi cates he has reconsidered, The Sunday Times reported. “One of the consequences of rapid interstellar travel would be that one could also travel backward in time,” Hawking is quoted as saying. “If you combine Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum theory, it does begin to seem a possibility,” he was quoted as saying Saturday. Hawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, is the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Time. LOS ANGELES (AP)- Michael Dorn, who playedtk Klingon Lt. Cmdr. Worf onSlor Trek: The Next Generation, has been called in to keep StarTri Deep Space Nine from disap pearing into a wormhole. For Dorn, it means 70 min utes of makeup every morning. “Actually, I had to weigh tk thing with the makeup,” Dorn said. “And what they were offer ing far outweighed the makeup, or else I would not have done it; Author's trip home gives him the chills COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-l was enough to give children! author R.L. Stine goose bumps. He stopped by elementary schools in Bexley, the Columbus suburb where he grew up.At Montrose Elementary School, te kindergarten teacher, Barbara Drugan, met him at the door and greeted him as “Bobby” and hugged him. “I wasn’t scary in kinder garten,” said Stine, creator of tk Goosebumps and Fear Street se ries of horror books for kids. Stine has written more than 100 books, which have sold more than 90 million copies. Free Computing Short Courses for Fall, 1995 Computing and Information Services (CIS) offers many short courses free of charge to everyone at Texas A&M. No pre-registration is necessary. All coursesare offered on a first-come first-served basis. For more information call 845-8300 or 862-3139. CIS Microcomputing Short Courses •Word for Windows 10:00 am Mon. Sept. 25 & Wed. Oct. 11 121 WCCC •Word for Macintosh 10:00 am Tue. Sept. 26 and Thu. Oct. 12 121 WCCC •Microsoft Access (database) 10:00 am Wed. Sept. 27 & Tue. Oct. 10 121 WCCC •Introduction to the Internet 10:00 am Thu. Sept. 28 & Wed. Oct. 4 121 WCCC •Excel for Windows 10:00 am Mon. Oct. 2 & Wed. Oct. 18 WCCC •Excel for Macintosh 10:00 am Tue. Oct. 3 & Thu. Oct. 19 121 WCCC UNIX Short Courses For more information on UNIX short courses, please call 847-UNIX •Programming Tools on UNIX 6:30-8:00 pm Mon. Sept. 25 116 Bright •UNIX Networking: An Introduction 6:30-8:00 pm Wed. Sept. 27 116 Bright •PC to UNIX Communications 6:30-8:00 pm Mon. Oct. 2 116 Bright •UNIX Electronic Mail 6:30-8:00 pm Wed. Oct. 4 116 Bright Supercomputing Short Courses For more information on Supercomputing short courses, please call 845-0219 SGI Power Challenge Tue. Sept. 26 (I) Thu. Sept. 28 (II) 3-5:00 pm 39 WERC Thread creation, parallel constructs, dependencies, and compiler directives •Cray J90 Code Optimization: Vectorization Concepts and Techniques Tue. Oct. 3 (I) Thu. Oct. 5 (II) 3-5:00 pm 39 WERC U P 1 □ TI rele tha bee rad w little notify tenu perm theC Cc term idea vide the e In am the a tests ingo E) wap Fi Conti i "We w about expres islator Krif zation literat about and its Per have : candid they s Handc 111, v , We nform mow i ty sta Demoi hopin at w Per has tr Politic year T