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Don’t miss the Communications
Career Fair.
Friday. March 5. 2000
MSC Flag Room
10:50 A.M. - 5:50 P.M.
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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.
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University Department of Journalism.
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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
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