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1 ation by late August of 1998. The
| indent Employment Center plans
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lie World Wide Web available to
indents by mid-October of 1997,
awson said.
Students will be required to at-
nda short orientation session to
eceive a password to access the
inployment Center’s software over
|e Internet.
The service is free to students.
Lawson said he did not want to
ass on the costs of operating the
enter on to the students benefit-
igffom the service.
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sthat it had to be really free for stu-
Jents," he said. “The only thing it
iould cost is time. But with access
the Web anytime, it is the stu-
ent’s time, on the student’s
round. ”
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jrsummer employment was diffi
bit.
“It (the Student Employment
enter) sounds definitely benefi-
ial," Beach said. “It would be a lot
[iiicker to have everything in one
accessible place, instead of driving
around and looking for signs in
windows.”
Cliff Nash, sophomore comput
er science major, said he had used
the Texas A&M home page to search
for jobs in the past.
“I don’t know how different this
service would be, but contacting
employers listed on the home page
was difficult,” Nash said. “I never
know how to respond — e-mail,
phone or drive to visit. It’s a good
resource tool, but the student still
has to go out and get an application
and an interview.”
Lawson said two of the most im
portant components of the Student
Employment Center will be the Stu
dent Advisory Board, made up of
A&M students, and Peer Coun
selors.
“Good student advisors can
keep in touch with us and with their
peers to tell us what to do to make
our mission successful,” Lawson
said. “Anyone interested should
stick with it. We are going to listen
to what you want us to do. We want
meaningful dialogue about what’s
needed by students and how we
can best deliver it.”
Students interested in the Stu
dent Employment Center, becom
ing part of the Student Advisory
Board or training as a Peer Coun
selor can contact the Center at
SEC@famail.tamu.edu.
Employers
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“The majority of internships are
during the summer,” Turner said.
“But we are seeing some students go
into part-time internships during the
fall and spring semesters.”
Turner said the Career Center
wants to help students get job expe
rience.
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“This is such a good job market
that the tide has lifted for everybody,”
she said. “We would like students to
pick up job experience sooner rather
than later.”
The Career Center provides career
advising and job placement for A&M
students. The Center also offers pro
grams to help students with inter
view skills and resumes.
The Career Center’s homepage is
at http://aggienet.tamu.edu/cctr.
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LUBBOCK (AP) —
TexasTech has hired a
vice chancellor fo
cused on gaining mi
nority students and
faculty.
It is the state’s first
major public universi
ty system to create
such a position.
Cathy H. Allen be
gan work Tuesday at
the system’s main
campus in Lubbock.
“What I would like
... is to increase the di
versity on our campus
at all ranks—students,
staff and faculty — in
cluding higher-level
administrative posi
tions,” Ms. Allen said.
The move comes in
response to the court-
ordered end to enroll
ment policies that give
minority students pref
erences in admission.
Even before U.S.
5th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruling last
year, only about 3 per
cent of the Tech sys
tem’s 20,420 under
graduate students
were black and less
than 11 percent were
Hispanic.
According to NCAA
figures, only about 25
percent of blacks and
Hispanics who enrolled
as freshmen from 1987-
91 graduated from
Tech. The graduation
among white students
over that time was 42
percent.
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9:30 pm
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I fTekas’ new luxury football stadium suites —
| quipped with kitchenettes, sound systems and
a lectronically operated sliding windows — in-
ludesome big UT donors, the Austin American-
1 latesman reported
1 Wednesday.
| The 14 new suites
the stadium’s west
le—and 52 more under
instruction on the east side for
te 1998 football season—are part
Iihe university’s overhaul of Royal-
llemorial Stadium.
' The university released the names of
pants to the newspaper after it filed a
buest for the information under the
[late's open records law.
Included are Freeport-McMoRan executive
imBob Moffett of New Orleans, car dealer Red
ilcCombs of San Antonio, Dallas investor and
HIregent Thomas Hicks, and Austin lawyer and
Wftind-raiser Frank Denius.
UT athletics officials are using a list of 9,200
individual and corporate donors, giving them
first crack at renting the 66 suites. The univer
sity is considering the prospective leasehold
ers’ cumulative donations, the American-
Statesman reported.
For the 14 suites
leased for this year,
three of the lease
holders — Mc
Combs, Moffett and Mike My
ers of Dallas, chairman and
owner of Myers Financial Corp. —
gave more than $3 million apiece to
UT over the years, the American-States-
man reported.
One donor — whose name wasn’t
available — gave less than $20,000, ac
cording to associate athletic director Chris
Plonsky. UT said it still was finalizing the
unidentified donor’s lease.
“I think one reason for the big range is that some
of our top donors wanted suites on the east side,
which is closer to the parking garage,” Plonsky said.
The average suite costs $50,570 a year to
lease. Leaseholders must commit to a mini
mum of three years.
About 20 people have expressed interest in
leasing east-side suites so far, but no decisions
will be made until Jan. 15, when cumulative
contributions will be assessed to determine the
pecking order for lease awards.
McCombs, who had given UT athletics $3.04
million by the July 1 cutoff for west-side suites,
said he was pleased with his 12-seat sky box.
“It’s more than I hoped for,” he said. “I didn’t ex
pect the sight lines to be as good as they are... And
the ability to open the window to give you the at
mosphere of the stadium is a very exciting feature.”
McCombs, however, won’t be using the suite
when UT kicks off the first of its five home games
in the 1997 season Saturday against Rutgers.
He’s making the box available to key employees
and customers. He prefers to sit in the 10th or 15th
row so he can focus on the game and soak up the
“squeals and feels” of the crowd.
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Last day to register a player is Nov 12.
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No money; less troopers
AUSTIN (AP) — Not enough
late troopers patrol Texas high-
rays because the Department of
’ublic Safety spent money ear-
narked for hiring new officers
)n other things, a state audit
says.
The audit said the state’s main
aw enforcement agency used the
money to pay for salary increases,
Juilding repairs, improved com
puter and radio technology and
other items.
Higher speed limits have com
bined with the state’s rapidly grow
ing population to make roadways
more dangerous at a time when
the state has a trooper shortage. In
1996, for example, there were
about 450 more fatal car accidents
than in 1995.
The report issued Tuesday by
State Auditor Lawrence Alwin
says that by redirecting the mon
ey, the agency has given the im
pression that “the number of
commissioned officers protect
ing the public was greater than
the actual number of officers em
ployed.”
“In fiscal year 1997, the monies
from approximately 140 of the 237
Traffic Law Enforcement commis
sioned officer vacancies were be
ing used to fund other expenses
than hiring additional troopers,”
the report said.
The $4.7 million allocated to
fill trooper positions in 1996 was
spent elsewhere, the auditor said.
The agency has 563 vacant posi
tion and about half are trooper
jobs.
The DPS now has about one
trooper for every 215 miles of rur
al road. If the vacancies were
filled, the state would have one
trooper for every 125 miles of
highway, DPS Director Col. Dud
ley Thomas said.
Despite the trooper shortfall,
Thomas says Texas roads and
highways are safe.
He said the DPS has been
forced to shift money for troopers
to cover costs of legislative man
dates that state lawmakers didn’t
provide enough money for. He
noted that half of a 3 percent
salary increase lawmakers gave
state employees in 1991 had to be
paid for by agencies.
Johnson owes millions
after taking kickbacks
AUSTIN (AP) — Convicted
banker Ruben Johnson asked a
federal judge to drastically reduce
the $4.6 million he was ordered to
pay the federal government for
looting the financial institution he
controlled.
Johnson’s has entered a motion
claiming he owes $109,741, at
most, but has asked U.S. District
Judge James Nowlin to reduce the
restitution to the amount he al
ready has paid.
The U.S. Probation Office has de
clined to release his payment
records. Court documents show
Johnson, who left prison in July
1994, had paid $1,684 as of Novem
ber 1995, the Austin American-
Statesman reported Wednesday.
Johnson, former chairman of
the failed United Bank of Texas,
now gets $61,242 a year as an aide
to Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro, a politician to whom John
son had made contributions and
loans before Johnson’s 1989 con
viction.
Attorney Denise Tomlinson has
said Johnson paid $100 a month
after his release from prison and
increased the amount to $200 a
month after he was hired by Mau
ro this year.
Nowlin sentenced Johnson to
eight years in prison, five years of
probation, $4.6 million in restitu
tion and a $65,000 fine for taking
kickbacks from a contractor who
worked on space leased to tenants
at United Bank’s 15th Street head
quarters.
Johnson was general partner of
the company that owned the
building, and characterized the
kickbacks as “developer’s fees.”
In the court motion filed Tues
day, he claimed the restitution or
der is illegal because it is not con
nected to the specific acts for
which he was convicted.
“There simply is no connection
between Mr. Johnson’s actions re
lated to the fees and the bank’s
payments on the leases for addi
tional space,” the motion said.
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