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Texas A&M University Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists Student Ctiaptor ,C. .<< Thursday, March 2nd ; Rich 114 6:45 pm Free Chiek-fil-si!!! Southwest Institute Research Speaking^!!! ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE? SSRS PROPERTIES INC. IS NOW HIRING LEASING CONSULTANTS FOR THE SPRING AND SUMMER SEMESTERS. APPLY AT 410 S. TEXAS AVE. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. 'utonnfr- 725B University Drive SUN Mar 5 MON Mar 6 TUES Mar 7 WED Mar 8 THUR Mar 9 4-6 PM PHYS 208 Prac. Test A PHYS 208 Prac. Test B PHYS 208 Prac. Test c 6-8 PM SUN 4-8 PM PHYS 218 Review Part 1 for all sections 6-8PM PHYS 218 Review Part 2 for all sections 6-8PM PHYS 218 Prac. Test A 6-8PM PHYS 218 Prac. Test B 6-8PM PHYS 218 Prac. Test C 8-10 PM CHEM 107 Review Part 1 CHEM 107 Review Part 2 CHEM 107 Review Part 3 CHEM 107 Test Review for Thr Exams CHEM 107 Test Review for Fri Exams 10PM MID CHEM 102 Test Review Dr. Williamson CHEM 102 Review Part 1 CHEM 102 Review Part 2 CHEM 102 Review Part 3 CHEM 102 Review Part 4 2-4 PM CHEM 228 Ch 21B 4-6 PM CHEM 102 Test #2 6-8 PM MATH 141 Review #1 MATH 141 Review #2 MATH 141 Review #3 MATH 141 Review #4 MATH 141 Review #5 8-10 PM CHEM 228 Ch 26 CHEM 228 Test #1 Hardina/Tiner ' CHEM 228 Test #2 CHEM 102 Test #4 CHEM 102 Test #5 10PM MID CHEM 101 KK Review CHEM 102 Test #3 Phys 201 Test #t Phys 201 Test #2 Phys 201 Test #3 6-8 PM Gene 301 Review 1 Gene 301 Review II Gene 301 Review III Gene 301 Review IV 8-10 PM Math 152 Review 1 Math 152 Review 2 Math 152 Review 3 Math 152 Review 4 10PM MID CHEM 238 LAB CHEM 227 Review 1 CHEM 227 Review 2 CHEM 227 Review 3 Don’t miss the Communications Career Fair. Friday. March 5. 2000 MSC Flag Room 10:50 A.M. - 5:50 P.M. *>* * , v V :*• # Companies scheduled to attend: 7/1 * wC'. * Houston Chronicle Sunburst Media Abilene Reporter News The Victoria Advocate Bryan-College Station Eagle Conroe Courier PR Newswire - Dallas Hart Publications Blue Bell Creameries Wichita Falls Times Record News Sealy News Madisonville Meteor KAMU - TV Texas Association of Broadcasters 92.1 KTSR- 1150am WTAW University of North Texas Ackerman McQueen KVTJE - TV Galveston County Daily News Hartman Newspapers, Inc. SPONSORED by the Texas A&>M University Department of Journalism. -30- Brenham Banner-Press Fogarty Klein Public Relations Brazos Valley Sports Foundation Killeen Daily Herald Arlington Morning News Longview News-Journal Temple Daily Telegram Huntsville Item Yearlook/ Camp TV, Inc. Tyler Morning Telegraph Beaumont Enterprise Taylor Publishing Company Peace Corps Publicis Vollmer Public Relations San Angelo Standard-Times Dallas Morning News Monroe News-Star Fleishman-Hillard SEADEV.COM, Inc. STATE Page 6 THE BATTALION Thursday,March2,1 Inmate denies accusations HUNTSVILLE, (AP) - Convicted killer Odell Barnes is adamant about his innocence. “I’m being executed for something 1 didn’t do,” Barnes, 31, says of his lethal injection, set for this evening for the slay ing of a Wichita Falls woman more than 10 years ago. “I know the odds are stacked against me ... but you just don’t give up.” The prosecutor who put him on death row is just as adamant that Barnes, with nine felony convictions, is danger ous and violent. “I sincerely believe, based on his conduct, based on his record, he is a violent career crirpinal and unquestionably would commit violence again,” Wichita County District Attor ney Barry Macha said. Barnes, whose convictions include five for robbery, two for rape and one for burglary, plus the capital murder, would be the 10th condemned killer put to death in Texas this year and the first of four set to die in March. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 18-0 earlier this week against recommend ing a reduetion of his sentence. The panel also rejected a request for a 360-day reprieve. The courts also refused to halt the execution. The U.S. Supreme Court in November refused to re view his case and state courts threw out another attempt to re view the case two weeks ago. Barnes was convicted of killing Helen Bass, a 42-year-old nurse, at her home in Wichita Falls during a robbery. Bass was raped, beaten, stabbed and shot. The Nov. 29, 1989, slaying occurred three weeks after Barnes was paroled after serv ing 19 months of a 10-year prison tenn for robbery. Earlier, he had been paroled after serv ing only three months of an eight-year sentence for robbery. Bames insists evidence was fabricated and falsified and that authorities investigating the Bass slaying were too quick to rule out others. “I had just got out of prison when they arrested me,” he said in a recent interview. "And what they had in mind was that he is going back to what he was do ing. They pretty much had their minds made up.” “That’s a farce,” Macha said. “The evidence in this case is compelling.” Witnesses said they saw him jumping over the fence around the woman’s house later in the night and that he was wearing coveralls. Oil prices continue to rise Prices for West Texas intermediate crude settled Wednesday at $31.77 a barrel, the highest level since January 1991. Here is a look at the daily settle prices since March 1, 1999. $35 per barrel 1999 2000 Source: New York Mercantile Exchange News in Brief Attorney seeks sentencing delay for Edwards informant HOUSTON (AP) —A fed eral prosecutor has asked a Houston judge to delay sentencing an informant in the racketeering case against former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards. Eddie Jordan, U.S. at torney in New Orleans, sent a letter asking state District Judge Bill Harmon to postpone the sched uled Friday sentencing of Patrick Graham until the end of Edwards’ public cor ruption case in Louisiana. The move could stall ef forts to depose two infor mants who are key to cor ruption cases in Louisiana and Texas. Jordan said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Letten and FBI agent Geoffrey Santini want to give the judge information about Graham’s cooperation with the government. ELIZABETH O'FARRELLThh BATTAUa Chris Collins, a sophomore business administration major, spins cotton candy, “Wehnerfest” was sponsored by the Business Student Council Wednesday. Austin school closes, students move for year due to high mold level AUSTIN (AP) — An Austin elementary school is closed indefinitely alter tests found high levels of a potentially harmful mold in the class rooms and floating in the air. School district officials on Tuesday closed Hill Elementary and announced they’ll move the school’s pupils and teachers to other schools for the remainder of the academic year. “It’s a prudent and cautious step we’re tak ing,” Superintendent Pat Forgione said at a news conference at a district administration building, where Hill’s 777 students were taken by bus about 11 a.m. alter the closure. “We cannot take a risk when we have a health concern, and we do not know the specific nature and extent of it,” Forgione was quoted as saying in the A us tin A merican- Statesman, adding that he hoped to re open the school by fall. The closure came after several Hill teachers and at least one student were treated at hospitals this year for health problems, many attributed to mold. On Friday, one of the school’s teachers was rushed from the campus to an emergency room af ter an asthma attack, the newspaper reported. Tests of the air have found elevated levels of mold. But samples of drywall taken last week re vealed that a more dangerous type also was present in classrooms, prompting officials to close the school. The second mold, stachybotrys, was found behind bulletin boards. Stachybotrys' potential health effects range from cold- and allergy-like symptoms to skin rash es, inflammation of the respiratory tract, bloody noses, fever, headaches, malaise, neurological problems and suppression of the immune system. The mold has been found at several schools and other buildings across the nation, expeits said. In March 1998, stachybotrys was found a a U.S. Senate day care center under construchu in Washington, D.C. The other mold detected at Hill is penicillim some strains of which also can produce allerg' like symptoms and more serious respiraloiy problems, especially with chronic exposure. District officials said Tuesday they W know how pervasive the molds are or at At levels they persist. But based on students’^ teachers’ symptoms, one state health officii said he doesn't think they pose a long-ten health risk, partial larly now that Hill i shuttered. Built 30 years act the school has bee struggling with mol and moisture proh lems as teachers a® students reported) suffered alleigysyif toms over the ye* Officials blamed leak and poor ventilation for Hill’s elevate! mold counts. The school also sits atop a cavern where mol has grown. Conditions worsened this fall after renova' tions began at the school. Teachers and pare* say black mold is visible on ceilings and wall in some rooms. In at least one classroom,I? say, the chalkboards are warped from excessh* moisture. In addition to the hospital admissions, sti’ dents and teachers have complained aM headaches, itchy eyes, sneezing, constantcout ing and breathing problems. “The magnitude of what we’ve faced this)® has been real scary,” said Debra Erck, a mi® - teacher who has worked at Hill for a dozen ye* "We cannot take a risk when we have a health concern, and we do not know the specific nature and extent of it” — Pat Forgione school superintendent CJAuck’s Pizz«L PIZZA STRO/VIBOH HOAGIES Medium One Topping Pizza *3.50 *Order 3 for free delivery "B93-BUCX 1 Not a follower. 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