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The Battalion I) F R R T F F l IV ,iL^ f M,j .4 11 \J Thursday • October3,1! ► Campus A&M engineering brings ranking up Texas A&M’s Dwight Look College of Engineering ranked among the na tion’s top 25 schools for undergradu ate programs in a new U.S. News & World Report survey. The college, ranked 16th, im proved its 17th-place ranking from last year. The survey was completed by 4,200 college presidents, deans and admissions directors who were asked to rank 1,422 accredited four-year schools by category. Ranking criteria included accep tance rates, standardized test scores, faculty and financial re sources, retention rates, graduation rates and alumni contributions. ► Nation Fuhrman plea bargains in trial LOS ANGELES (AP) — The charges and Mark Fuhrman’s plea bargain came exactly one year after a mostly black jury voted to acquit OJ. Simpson, whose defense rested largely on allegations that the detec tive led a racist police frameup. It was Fuhrman who found one of the most critical pieces of evi dence — the bloody glove in Simp- ► This day in history son’s yard. But the detective be came the prosecution’s biggest embarrassment after his past statements came to light. Fuhrman was charged with lying on March 15, 1995, when he agreed under cross-examination from E Lee Bailey “that he had not addressed any black person as a ‘nigger’ or spoken about black people as ‘nig gers’ in the last 10 years.” Four defense witnesses contra dicted that testimony, including an aspiring screenwriter who testified that Fuhrman said the word at least 41 times on tapes they made while working on a screen play over the previous decade. Ju rors were played one example on the tapes. Fuhrman could have gotten four years in prison on the felony per jury charge. Man police want to question caught COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A man wanted for questioning in the dri- ve-by slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur. was arrested in a roundup of 22 gang members before dawn Wednesday, police said. Orlando Anderson, arrested in suburban Lakewood, was to be questioned by police in Las Vegas, where the gangland-style shooting took place Sept. 7. The sweep was aimed at gang members implicated in as many as a dozen shootings in the Compton area in which three people were killed, possibly in retaliation for Shakur’s slaying. Police Chief Hourie Taylor re leased few details about Ander son, saying only that he was in his early 20s and believed to be a gang member. No immediate charges were filed in connection with Shakur’s slaying. “He was arrested exclusively for a homicide that happened in the city of Compton,” Taylor said, de clining to give further details. Shakur, one of rap’s most suc cessful and notorious singers, died a week after he was shot fol lowing a Mike Tyson boxing match. Marion “Suge” Knight, the head of Shakur’s Death Row Records, was driving when another car pulled up and sprayed their car with gunfire. Breast cancer laws have little effect BOSTON (AP) — Laws requiring doctors to tell breast cancer pa tients about alternatives to mas tectomies have had little effect on the kind of care women receive, a study found. At least 18 states have rules requiring surgeons to inform women about the possibility of breast-conserving surgery to re move just the lump. Surgeons once routinely treated all breast cancer by cutting away the entire breast. In the early 1980s, hovVever, evidence began to accumulate that lumpectomy, combined with radiation, is safe and effective for small tumors. At first, many doctors were skepti cal of the safety of this approach, but its use has increased steadily. Doctors compared the use of this kind of surgery in four places with the legislation — Detroit, Atlanta, New Mexico and Hawaii — and four without — Seattle, Utah, Connecticut and Iowa. ► State Austin to pay school district $45.7 million AUSTIN (AP) — The city of Austin will pay a local school dis trict $45.7 million to move four of its schools from the flight path of the city’s new airport. The Del Valle Independent School District had asked for $57 million for the move. The city initially offered $36.4 million, before negotiators set tled on the agreed value of the prop erty and cost of the move. The city’s Austin-Bergstrom Airport is expected to open in 1999. Del Valle school officials said they hope to have new schools built before then. But they have not set a closing date for the high school or three ele mentary schools. ► Weather Hangin' Out Freudian Rony Angknwan, TmBir 4 the Dixie Tf Karyn Lesuer, a senior psycholoq) major, spends time with herfrienii front of the Copasetic CafeWecM Crystal ! House of Ja Metropol the Chelsea (AP) — Today is Thursday, Oct. 3, the 277th day of 1996. There are 89 days left in the year. On this date: In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Fran ciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228. In 1863, President Lincoln declared the last Thurs day in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.” In 1944, during World War II, U.S. troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany. In 1974, Frank Robinson was named major league baseball’s first black manager as he was placed in charge of the Cleveland Indians. In 1988, the space shuttle Discovery completed its four-day mission, the first American shuttle flight since the Challenger disaster. In 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country. One year ago, in a decision that outraged some and elated others, the jury in the OJ. Simpson mur der trial found the former football star innocent of the 1994 murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simp son, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs Slows Today’s birthdays 83°F Tonight's Expect; 63°F The Don Fitzwilly’s. MSC Filn atre Comple Author Gore Vidal is 71. Rock ’n’ roll star Chub by Checker is 55. Texas oilman Jim Collier is 47. All-star outfielder Dave Winfield is 45. Rock musi cian Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) is 34. Actress Neve Campbell (Party of Five) is 23. 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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY uu 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 On University Drive between Randall’s & Black Eyed Pea SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE ucs CO-OP CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Universal computer Systems, Inc. is the leader in automotive dealership computer systems. Our headquarters are located in Houston and we have been in business since 1970. Our service automate accounting, sales, finance, parts & service departments for our dealerships nationwide. Our profession al image and commitment to service have driven our success for 26 years. Current openings include: • Client Support Representative • Marketing Trainee • Technical Writer • Applications Programmer We hire non-smokers only and provide a professional environment with team orientation. For more information stop by our booth or call 1-800-883-3031. TEXAS A&M CAREER FAIR FIRST FLOOR ZACHRY OCTOBER 7 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. m The ). Wayne Stark Northeast Trip Visit the nation's top business and law schools in: i (Harv jrfkfcjUi Chicago (University of Chicago, Northwestern) Boston (Harvard, MIT, JFK School of Government) New York (NYU, Columbia) ft January 5-12, 1997 Informational meetings will be held on Tuesday, October 1 st and Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 pm in room 21 6T in the MSC (21 6T is in the Student Programs Office - SPO - on the second floor) Participants will be selected based on academic performance, ex tracurricular activities, and interest in future law or business stud ies. Applications will be available in the MSC SPO in the MBA/LAW booth on October 1. For more information contact: RJ Kosadnar 693-3741 • Paul Henry 845-1515 • mbalaw.tamu.edu Tomorrow's LxpecteAbJ 62°F Freudian [Dixie Theatn Information courtesy of the TAMU Student Chapter ofl Mike Car gene's Hous Metropol | the Chelsea 4.0 & GO TUTORING Located at 700 East Univ. 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