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► 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
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(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.
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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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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:
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