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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 TI’S MAJOR PRODUCT & SERVICE GROUPS. SIGN UP FOR INTERVIEWS IF YOU ARE GRADUATING WITH THESE DEGREES: 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. Bachelor's or Master's degrees in: • Electrical Engineering • Computer Engineering • Computer Science (Business and Scientific) Business Analysis (BANA) Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Physics (Engineering and Solid State) MBA with EE undergraduate degree Finance Accounting That's why TI is having a Career Fair on the Texas A&M campus, February 17th, 1997. 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. The Career Fair and sign-ups for interviews will be held: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., February 17, Room 110-111, John J. Koldus Building. Interviews (by appointment): February 18 & 19. Visit TI's homepage on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com For more information, please contact the Texas A&M Career Center. Texas Instruments - An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V Page Thursday • February 13,1! Spring man's drownin reclassified as homicid WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) — The mysterious 1993 death of a Spring man, previously ruled an ac cidental drowning despite two gun shot wounds to the victim’s head, has been reclassified as a homicide. Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Edie Connelly reversed her 1993 ruling on Paul Jerome Beauchamp’s death Tuesday after three of four pathologists who re-ex amined his exhumed body agreed he died of die gunshot wounds. Beauchamp’s family had reject ed the theory that Beauchamp, who earlier had been drinking heavily at a Christmas party, got his pickup stuck on a remote road about 600 yards from a private pond, became disoriented, stumbled into the wa ter and drowned. Dr. Joye M. Carter, Harris Coun ty medical examiner, headed the team of pathologists who re-exam ined the body on Nov. 18. The pathology team’s lone dis senter from the homicide finding was Dr. Vladimir M. Parungao. Parungao is the Harris County pathologist who concluded in the original autopsy that two shots were fired into Beauchamp’s head on Dec. 26, 1993, after he drowned. A Spring auto mechanic who lives near the pond always con tended that he fired two shots from a .22-caliber rifle into Beauchamp’s head in the belief that he was shoot ing at a turtle. The mechanic has not been charged with a crime. Montgomery Sheriff Guy Williams said Wednesday he dis agrees with the new findings, but his department will meet with the district attorney’s office and tice of the peace to decidew to pursue charges “The district attorney have to prove that (the mecli; intentionally and knowingly the life of Paul Beaucha Williams said. “I’m not sped for the DA, but that’d be awful to do.’’ The level of alcohol Beauchamp’s blood was On ledh oming view: C This tii cent. The legal limit forintoxicBi' keeps, is . 10 percent. I Last Tuesd Neither Carter nor ParJate of the U could be reached to elaborateSimpson report, which said “all doctorsa«ate of Our that the initial and follow-upimMidress,” if yi gation was severely flawed.” 1 Some peoj Williams said his officers4rplexed ab thorough investigation nt that prob turned up no evidence Me ever-thot Beauc hamp was murderedMovided a sp new report still provides no:Me two proce that Beauchamp was killed!,'I| And in cas tionally, he said. Mm or were t But the pathologists’ reponMll, here is 1 ed that “items in police cu* They both were misplaced and-orlost.” Mesident wa: Williams said he was unaivKmpson was any evidence missing from! diet. Yet both partment. He also disputed! Clinton ah tions of the report that said“ttMis time aroi leged weapon was not tested Mlevised car- “a true physical examination oft veling tow pond was not conducted." Mvay from th “1 know that we did abi&ssport or d test on the weapon and itws'Mra black Su conclusive, just like thetestthionco. Department of Public Safety I* The two di ratory did on it recently/’WlMof fund rais said. “All I can say is thatwediiM a physical examination oftheyM then, and it’s been examtajj bunch of times since then,” ► Conservation Reserve Program USDA reveals final changes to program WASHINGTON (AP) —Texas agri culture experts and lawmakers greet ed with caution Wednesday the un veiling of a retooled Conservation Reserve Program that has pumped more than $1.8 billion into the state’s rural economy over a decade. Most adopted a wait-and-see at titude over the raft of intricate changes to the program, which has paid Texas farmers and ranchers to idle 4.1 million acres of cropland, mainly in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains. “We certainly do hope that Texas doesn't stand to lose major acreage to other parts of the country,” said Steve Pringle, legislative director of the Texas Farm Bureau. The 11-year-old program pays farmers not to plant crops in a bid to protect topsoil from erosion, reduce water runoff and shield wildlife. Texas has more enrolled acres than any other state. Nationally, nearly 33 million acres are idled through 10-year contracts. Con tracts covering 22 million acres are due to expire this fall. Up to 240 million acres — two thirds of the nation’s farmland — will be eligible for consideration. But no more than 15 percent of that total, amounting to a maximum 36.4 million acres, can be enrolled. “Under the new CRR we will en roll only the most environmentally sensitive land,” said Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. Although erosion remains promi nent in determining which land qualifies, considerations for wildlife habitat and water quality also have emerged as major factors to be eval uated by USDA in issuing cor Cost also is a consideration. || “The GRP is no longer soil protection programbui; conservation program man said. Using a complex Environm Benefits Index formula, USD determine which landissuitaif inclusion in the CRR The new regulations substantial departure fromtlKtj posed rules floated last yen think, when you lookatthep' criteria, they are somewhat than they were before,” sal en “The CRP is no longer just a soil protection program but a true conserva tion program." Dan Glickman Agriculture Secretary ast Wedr and Hun voted to Senate wf any Texans, fktors to not Certified mail Mithin 48 hou fcinor’s reque tion. The girl r able to avoid 1 seeking a jud£ | It is insane en a debate Mac Thornbeny, R-Clarefl whose Panhandle districting T] ie d oes j a huge chunk of the Texas acre* e u ts t0 gj ve p ( Thornberry and Combest procedure, ju: Texas is helped particularly if While a minoi inclusion of a new criteria: aM aspirin in schi ity, which weighs the amoiifl : lj ss i on as t i 1{ dust and dirt in the ait—akeyf jchjid can hav< in the windy Panhandle. 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