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There’s a “ Place for You Peace Corps Melissa Guerra, Volunteer in Guatemala Peace Corps works with any major. Opportunities exist in the fields of business, health, education, environment, agriculture, community development and information technology. Find out how you can earn a graduate degree while serving. Apply now and you can be overseas next summer oversee ing development projects in Africa, the Pacific, Asia, South America, Europe, the Middle East or the Caribbean. Currently 39 TAMU Alumni are serving throughout the globe. Since 1961, 375 TAMU grads have joined. Have your application ready and want to interview? E-mail Kimmi at kmcminn@peacecorps.gov. www.peacecorps.gov • 1-800-424-8580 Integrity and innovation — these are the qualities that enabled Williams employees to take a century-old construction company and turn it into a multibillion dollar diversified energy leader for the new millennium. As a new college graduate, a career at Williams isn’t just about what you have learned — it’s about what you will learn. It isn’t about knowing all the answers — it’s alxiut coming up with new and more relevant questions. It isn't alx>ut memorizing how tilings have lieen done — it’s about finding new and better ways to do new and better things. Electrical Engineers Mechanical Engineers Civil Engineers Environmental Engineers To hear more about Williams, stop by the Presentation on October 9th, 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm at 707 Rudder. Willi ams representatives will lie available to answer your questions about a possible career with us. Williams will tie on campus on October 10th to interview graduating seniors and intern candidates. Resumes are due at Career Services by September 21st. Williams Find out more about Williams at williams.com. leading fcncrgy Solutions. Q Xcel Energy OPLE. REAL POWER. Xcel Energy Inc. is a prominent U.S. electric and natural gas utility. It’s our people that make this possible every day by providing the best service, value and information. We have opportunities for you to energize vour career in the following areas: Electrical Engineers Mechanical Engineers llilllHiBl For more information on available positions, please visit us at the Student Engineers’ Council Career Fair or e-mail M. J. Griebler at maiy.j.griebler@xcelenergy.coni Visit our website at www.xcelenergy.com Xcel Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. State Page 8 THE BATTALION Monday, September 1 lay, Septemb* Barge knocks sections from bridge, at least 4 dea Only bridge leading into South Padre Island clos Here ^ PORT ISABEL (AP) — A group of barges smashed into a pillar of.the only bridge leading to popular South Padre Island early Saturday, toppling three 80-foot sections of the bridge, and killing at least four people whose vehicles plunged into the water 85 feet below. Adrian Rivera, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said four people were dead and three were hospitalized. An unknown number of peo ple were missing, while 13 were rescued from the Laguna Madre, part of the Intracoastal Waterway shipping route along the Gulf Coast, officials said. Rhonda Fife stood near the four-lane bridge Saturday after noon and said she had not heard from her 18-year-old daughter. Tiffany, since she went to the island with friends late Friday. “Nobody called and they always call,” said Fife, her voice trembling. Michael Burke, father of two sons who had gone out with Tiffany, anxiously waited with Fife. “I just want to know where my kids are at. I hope they’re all right and just can’t call me," Burke said. Five vehicles were located in the 50-foot-deep water by early afternoon and divers took pic tures of their license plates for identification, said Cameron County Sheriff Conrado Cantu. The sheriff said as many as 10 vehicles could be in the water. Crews had pulled two vehi cles out of the water by midafternoon when the piling damaged by the barges toppled into the water. No injuries were reported when the piling fell. The Coast Guard was noti fied around 2:30 a.m. that the tug Brown Water V and its four barges, loaded with coiled steel and phosphate, had struck the 2.37 -mile-long span, the longest bridge in Texas. None of the cargo spilled. The tug opera tor was ques tioned and passed a sobriety test, officials said. The crash * victim was i -iv Piyiq 2,(KK) permanent re^ Isabel Fire M;, r island hotels were abo Harris, said D e . i Najera, an cent txxiked for the emergency n Most tourists on the is dinator. The three < t ythc victims were to celebrate Mexico’s 1 de Scptiembre indenen Stevan Texas, Riv t tutus jz-year nouncec Medical and a m Oiortlv • Id • % mdS I / just ran and heard a roar under my feet. I ft shake. it'lt it — Faustino Ramirez witness executwti Det dropped two adjacent 80-foot segments of the Queen Isabella Causeway into the channel near the center of the span. Rescue efforts were suspend ed until Sunday morning when a third 80-foot section of the bridge collapsed about 2 p.m. Saturday. Rivera said. “There’s a consensus that we’re in the recovery phase, not the rescue phase,” Cantu said. Three people died at the scene, and the fourth died at a hospital, authorities said. One ii ,c Q ble condit Medical C The st serve as ferries' ‘‘hq ering bringing ** $ vehicle ferry *foi Christi. said Rjr'^al the Texas ^‘Pai Transportation fate- pill | Faustino R;» inir ez was bridge when th^ P l llarcoII, “I don’t knv 7 ^ - 1 just rt heard a roar un t C r my feet it shake," Rami*?* said- South Padre s kind has >n the l enncssee. Adams suA nsetl Officials of Browl n and Marine Sen ice did Ml I felt repeated telephone The Associated Pm about Saturday. j^f^CAREER CENTER Employer Workshop Series Lj Texas A&M University ~\ Resume Writing GE Monday, Sept. 17 3pm 111 Koldus Target Thursday, Sept. 20 4pm 111 Koldus Ferguson Monday, Sept. 24 4pm 404 Rudder Pepsi Bottling Group Tuesday, Oct. 2 3pm 111 Koldus Equiva Friday, Oct. 5 1:30pm 410 Rudder A Place to meet your next employer. http://carcercenter.tamu.edu 209 Koldus 845-5139 This Week In Aggie Athletic Texas country mi cians included D L Tuesday ^Saturday Texa£ A&M Voll^Vball ys. UT- San Antonio 7:30 P.m. $ .25 Sodas Friday Texas A&M Volleyball vs. Florida State 6:00 p.m. Soccer vs. Stanford 7:30 p.m. Sunday Soccer vs. Stanford 7:30 p.m. Texas A&M t Soccer f vs. California 7:30 p.m. Tickets: (979) 845-2311 or 1-888-99-AGGIE ifti m Co xysunction Sq C/?c<? Career Fait Session I September 19, 2001 Langford Building A 4* Zeta Tau Alpha Welcomes New Member Class 2001 Log cli Kelley Amort Jennifer Blades Morgan Brady Natalie Brandt Lauren Bron Kim Brzozowski Dana Carnahan Renee Chapman Tiffany Clifton Carin Compton Emily Davis Gina Della Valle Kristen Ellis Carly Feuerbachor Jessica Files Ryann Fox Erin Garrison Sarah Glasscock Courtney Graybill Kristen Hamilton Carrie Hanley Kristen Harshaw Cara Hart Jennifer Hicks Lindsay Hitt Karrie James Melissa Kalka Andie Kelly Mandy Klopsteck Angela Klusman I.aura Lyne Lindsey Mathews Natalie McElroy Mitzi Milligan Lindsey Mims Dawn Moehlman Whitney Morris* Brenda Neff Cecily Norris Stacey Pool Chelsea Ray Ashley Reed Ana Rincon Lindsey Rudloff Mary Katherine Slocut Amber Somers Jessica Templet Katy Walden Kelsey Walker Leigh Whitaker Kelly White Sarah Williams Holly Winn Courtney Wren Congratulations! We love y’all! ©2001 Xcel Energy Inc.