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Commuiiications Career Fair & Workshops
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1997 1-6 p.m.
5tli Floor Rudder Tower
Resume & Portfolio Critiques
Internsh ip/Job Recruiting
• Scheduled Professional Workshops
• Great Door Prizes
Tickets $5 at Rudder Box Office
(Aggie Bucks, Credit Cards, Checks and Cash Accepted)
ALL MAJORS WELCOME!!!
Sponsored by: Public Relations Student Society of America &
International Association of Business Communicators
Career Fair/Workshops Itinerary
1- 1:15 p.m.
1:15-2 p.m.
2- 2:15 p.m.
2:15-3 p.m.
3- 4:30 p.m.
Welcome & Introduction
Sherry McDonnell, Vice President PR, NationsBank
Break
Dress For Success—A presentation on the “Do’s & Dont’s”
Resume & Portfolio Critique Booth open &
Internship/Job Recruitment Booths open
4:30-5:15 p.m. lABC/Brazos Valley Round tabl e - -A panel of professionals
offering practical job advice.
5:15-6 p.m. AlexTravieso, Head Recruiter, SBC Communications
(formerly Southwestern Bell, Corp.)
6 p.m. Close & Announcement of Door Prize Winners
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a
dark cave 100 feet below the sur
face of the Pacific, hidden in the
tissue of a rare sea creature, scien
tists found one of the most power
ful cancer-fighting compounds
they had ever seen.
They have not been able to find
it again.
The discoverer, William Fenical of
the Scripps Institution of Oceanog
raphy, has returned repeatedly to the
Philippine island of Siquijor in a vain
search for more of the chemical.
“We’ve been looking for years, and
still have never found it again,” he
said. “We find some creatures that
look a lot like it, but none of the ani
mals there had the right compound."
Researchers do not even know if
the creature itself produced the com
pound, or if it was a byproduct of
some symbiotic fungus or bacteria.
But the story, reminiscent of the
1992 fictional movie Medicine
Man, in which Sean Connery finds
— and then loses — a cure for can
cer in the Amazon, may have a
happy ending.
Researchers at the University of
California-Santa Cruz saved some of
the sample, and say within a few
years they expect to synthesize the
compound, called diazonomide A.
Fenical’s team, working on a Na
tional Cancer Institute grant, made
their discovery in 1991.
They collected samples of a rare
creature called Diazona chinensis, a
jellylike animal related to the sea
squirt, which attaches itself to rocks
and filters its food from the ocean.
The creature had been studied
two or three decades earlier, but
showed no promise.
This time, laboratory tests turned
up something new.
“Much to our surprise and shock,
there were enormous amounts of
this new molecule, and the molecule
had the ability to kill human colon
cancer cells with very high proficien
cy,” Fenical says. “It was very potent
at very small doses.”
He emphasizes that such test tube
success does not mean the com
pound works in humans. That can
only be determined by clinical trials,
and many times such compounds
prove too toxic for medical use. But
the lab tests were exciting.
Diazonomide A was also exotic
structurally, with an unusually rigid,
compact form that interested
chemists. Fenical sent some to
chemistry professor Joseph Konopel-
ski at UC Santa Cruz.
“My own interest was in the fasci
nating structure of the molecule it
self,” Konopelski said.
But when he tried to build a
model of the molecule using plas
tic balls to represent its 99 atoms,
it would not work.
“The pieces don’t fit — you have
to jam them in,” Konopelski said.
“Nature seems to have gone to a lot
of trouble to put this thing together."
No one is certain what role it plays
in the sea creatures. It may help the
soft-bodied animals repel predators,
Konopelski said.
Fenical wanted more of the com
pound to run more elaborate cancer
tests. Konopelski wanted to explore
its chemical properties.
“... there were enor
mous amounts of
this new molecule,
and the molecule
had the ability to kill
human colon cancer
cells with very high
proficiency.. M
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end is in sight.
“Our goal is to make
this stuff to test, and I believe®
succeed,” Konopelski said
two graduate students who®
ting their Ph.Dsonit.”
In the long run, both Fenics
Konopelski say, the failuretoi
natural source of diazonomi;
again may be for the best.
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also opens up more possibilities
But despite repeated efforts by
Fenical, including more than two
months of actual search time over
four years, none of the creatures they
found contained diazonomide A.
So Konopelski stepped in with a
$500,000 American Cancer Society
grant and began trying to synthesize
die compound.
“This is the most challenging
project I’ve ever been associated
with,” he said.
Slowly he has assembled pieces
of the molecule, and believes the
“If I had found the original®;
cule, I would only have a sii
chemical substance, and it®
have been abandoned as a pots
drug and nobody would haw
at anything else,” he said.
By assembling the molei
Konopelski and others can
variations that may prove
successful.
Ultimately, Konopelskiwi
ceed in synthesizing the comp
and perhaps even more
compounds, Fenical said.
“So I don’t feel like themed
man in the movie,” he said.
American Airlines dispute goes to federal mediatio
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Both pilots and man
agement at American Airlines say they do not
want a strike, but a walkout looms as they pre
pare for federally mediated talks this week.
The Allied Pilots Association and AMR Corp.,
parentcompany of American Airlines, take their
dispute before the National Mediation Board on
Monday, five days before a strike deadline of
12:01 a.m. EST Saturday.
Failure to agree could mean the nation’s
largest domestic airline could be grounded dur
ing the bqsy Presidents’ Day weekend. It's a sce
nario that has passengers, businesses and Amer
ican’s 90,000 employees making arrangements in
case the stoppage comes.
Union president Jim Sovich said last week that
a strike is “more likely than not” after the union
met with American president Donald Carty and
other top American managers.
The union has created a “war room” to fol
low its pilots this week to assure they will know
if a strike is called and to help them if the air
line stops flying and leaves them stranded.
To pay the bills in case a strike ends flight op
erations, the airline has borrowed $1 billion from
an existing credit line and has pledged its fleet as
collateral for another $1 billion in credit.
The money would support the coin
through a three-month strike, basedonl
projection that a strike would cost thee®
about $1 billion each 30 days,
The phots have not had a bask vnf
crease since their contract becameaiis
able in 1993.
They have vowed to strike if deniamfe
met for raises of about 11 percent ovei feffi
plus increased stock options.
The company is prepared to increased
by 3 percent this year and 2 percent in B
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