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He said the students in the next generation need to have special skills, and that the schools that offer training for those skills are the ones that are building new media labs. “Those are the schools who will produce the talent for the industry’s needs,” he said. Johnson acknowledged the importance of internships and said he wants the journalism industry to provide a pathway to provide them to students. Loren Steffy, FJSA president, said media outlets receive hun dreds of internship applications, and a student without a journal ism degree is at a disadvantage because of the fierce competi tion each year. T'm not saying a student (without a journalism degree) will not get the internship,” he said. “But it sure makes it tougher.” Smith said students havet be encouraged to go and find internship, something than A&M journalism depart® does not do that well. Itisoi cial for a journalism departt: to emphasize the importance an internship at the freski level, she said. “They are going to have have had experience inaprofe sional setting, by that linear newsroom. That is whatweif looking for,” she said.”I student last year who have professional experi® and it did not work out well." Johnson said he was tool along in the decision process consider any additional diset sions and that he is lookingfc ward to the transition proc to take place over the nextfei years and said he hopes theft mer journalists will assist hit The Board of Regents*: make a final vote on theisss but it is unclear when At will be. Continued from page 1 said. A&M at Qatar will open in early September. The sc expecting to enroll 50 students per year for the first fiveyearsJ classes will be taught in English. The campus is a result of a joint effort between A&M Qatar Foundation. The Qatar foundation was founded by theEi of Qatar to support community services and education. It provide funding for the campus, including support for the facilities, demic programs and research centers. Bowman said he predicts the University will receive fui from both the public and private sectors. Bowman agreed to take the job temporarily while aseardii launched for someone permanently. He said he wants to retireso« and wasn’t looking to move out of the country. Bowman said he has enjoyed seeing this project progress «i appreciates the help he has received. “We got universal support and help, and that to me isveiygrai ifying,” he said. Griffith Continued from page 1 Continued from pagel “I said, ‘Yes, dear, you had to have girls come here before you could have something as neat as this,”’ Griffith said. Griffith’s student assistant, senior community health major Liz Tagle, has been working with Griffith for almost two years, and said Griffith has been a great boss and a great friend. “She’s so creative, and I’ve learned so much from her,” Tagle said. In her free time, Griffith said she enjoys reading, shopping, spending time with family and friends and gardening. “What is unique about A&M is that for all of its big size, it is still very caring,” Griffith said. “There are still people all over this campus that care very deeply about the students, and even though the students know it’s a big place, that Aggie Spirit is alive and very, very well.” iU.S. Claudette Continued from page 1 and struck the coast several hours ahead of initial predictions. At least two people inland died because of falling trees or limbs, officials said. Residents in the stonn’s path complained they were caught off guard. However, meteorologists contend tropical systems remain difficult to predict, and emer gency managers said many evac uation warnings went ignored. Shawn Childs, 36, rode out the storm in the Fina gasoline station she manages, watching the canopy over the unleaded pumps sway back and forth until it sank in a twisted mess, crushing one pump. Childs, a Victoria native, believes the city 40 miles inland fell into complacency after hav ing not taken a tropical beating since Hurricane Carla in 1961. American Red Cross workers continued damage assessments Wednesday along the 261 miles of affected coastline. an 8-year-old Iraqi when an assailant threwi grenade into a U.S. roilto vehicle guarding a bank iii«J Baghdad. The American driver of i* vehicle was wounded along»i four Iraqi bystanders, acc to Army Maj. Kevin West, “They’re killing more than they are Americans,"til said, shaking his head. Abizaid, the new U.S. Central Command, s Washington the attacks or forces in Iraq resemble a“( cal guerrilla-type war But, he added, “They’re driving us out of anywhere." Abizaid said U.S, tr should be ready to spend a on duty in the region, thi military planners are bring home some units such as the Army’s 3rd Infant) Division. U.S. soldiers have under increasingly ferocio: attacks by suspected Sadi loyalists in recent weeks reaching an average of attacks a day. Thirty-two Ui soldiers have been killed into tile action since President declared an end to ties on May 1, the Pentagonsrf Wednesday. A total of 150 U.S have been killed in combat sit® the start of the Iraq war, Pentagon said, exceeding total killed in combat during it 1991 Gulf War—147. One American was Wednesday in an accident. Tk military said a U.S. off the roof of a building he** guarding in the southern city of Hillah. 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