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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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