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“I heard nothing but bad things from peo
ple,” Brenner said. “He was tyrannical and
they lived in fear. I didn't know people felt
that way. I thought they loved him.”
Dellinger, who deployed in April 2003,
said the Iraqis told him stories of the
Saddam regime killing livestock and crops,
cutting off water supplies, evicting citizens,
forcing young boys to serve in the military
and executing dissenters.
Dellinger said he has seen great progress
in the past few months and that the Iraqis see
coalition forces as liberators.
1st Lt. Karl Herbst, Class of 2000 and
executive officer of 74th Engineer Company,
said the United States is seeing success.
“Despite all the bad news that comes out
in the newspaper or on TV, we are winning,”
Herbst said. “A very large portion of the
Iraqi people support what we are doing. Life
for them is getting stable.”
Herbst, who was deployed in late April
along with his battalion, said he has been
working on installing military bridges and
securing an area near Baghdad. His compa
ny constructed the famous “Birthday
Bridge” on April 28.
Murata said the Iraqis were constantly
bringing the troops tea and food and readi
ly offering up information about Baath
party officials.
“While on patrol, kids rush to our sides
to stand next to a soldier,” Dellinger said.
“They come to us smiling and laughing,
they chase our vehicles, waving, and they
bring us anything printed in English so we
can tell them what the words sound like. The
children are full of life and happy.”
Dellinger said he hopes the small pockets
of resistance that troops are encountering
now will not deter the United States from
continuing Operation Iraqi Freedom.
“We are at the turning part of the war where
our offensive operations are about to conclude
in order to focus on building a thriving and
independent Iraq,” Dellinger said. "The
Coalition is winning the war, and we have
truly earned the trust and confidence of the
people that we are serving on a daily basis.”
Dellinger said he is anxious to see his wife,
Carmel Allan Dellinger, Class of 1999, who is
seven months pregnant with their first child.
“I found out she was pregnant while I was
in Kuwait, the day before 1 started the jour
ney to Baghdad,” Dellinger said. “We are
missing a lot of important moments together,
but our love is strong and will endure.”
Murata, who has already returned, said
he is happy to be home with wife,Je®;
Murata, Class of 1998, and his threes
dren. He said he always kept his fami
his mind while in Iraq.
“The medical officer in our battalior
an Aggie, and when we crossed into Basis
1 asked him if he could hold my Aggie nijj
me,” Murata said. "I told him to give it in
wife if anything happened to me.”
Jennifer Murata said it was wondeifs
see her husband with their children.
‘Things now are as perfect as they caul
she said. “Our daughter’s birthday wasjs
day, and lie put her toys together. He
happy to he with her. It's so much better,
than it was when he was gone. It'spetfett
Brenner, w ho returned home from 1
this summer, said he is trying to get in
into college life.
"Aggies have fought in every war, ani
proud to carry on that tradition,”Brenneis
1 X'llinger said that he is glad the Aggiet®
lion has extended into Operation Iraqi Fm
“(Aggies) look out for the needsofti
ers before we look after ourselves. i|
empowering the Iraqis with those same:
ues of teamwork, selfless service, prat
the community and building trust
neighbors,” Dellinger said. “Plus, its
some kids to 'Beat the Hell OuttaSadi
Now that's progress.”
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"There is always going to be a
demand for students with experi
ence in accounting, human
resources and auditing,” said Jim
Dixey, director of Graduate
Business Career Services. ‘There
are jobs available, and students are
getting jobs. The economy is much
stronger than in the past few years.”
Banking, consulting and
automotive industries are still
slow, but jobs related to defense
and consumer products should
be available, Dixey said. More
students are hav
ing to work more
to find a job rather
than relying on
employers to
come to campus,
and more compa
nies are relying on
Web sites and
other strategies to
hire new employ
ees. Also, many
companies are hir
ing students just in
time to start rather
than hiring them
months in
advance.
“Getting a job
is a job,” Dixey said. “You have
to be prepared and do your
homework, but the single most
important element of getting a
job is networking.”
Students such as Nasserfar
who are having difficulty securing
employment are doing so largely
because of the type of employer
they are seeking, not because of
their major, Turner said.
Many students should also
rethink the steps they have
taken to market themselves to
employers, she said. For exam
ple, life sciences students who
are looking for jobs in pharma
ceutical sales find that this
field is competitive in contrast
to life sciences students who
seek work in the biotechnology
sector, where jobs are more
plentiful.
Similarly, a political science
student will experience more
success in securing employment
with a government agency ver
sus a consulting firm.
“I think it's imperative that
students begin looking for
employment at least two semes
ters before graduation," Turner
said. “Obviously, this maxi
mizes their opportunities and
provides them with more time to
research opportunities and to
make networking contacts that
will translate into interviews."
Students who have work
experience such as an intern
ship, cooperative education or a
part-time job that
is related to their
career interest are
valued highly by
employers. Also,
students who
maintain a
respectable grade
point ratio and
are flexible in
considering a
variety of loca
tions and career
options will be
able to find a job
much more easi
ly, Turner said.
“Students that
are actively seek
ing employment through network
ing, employer research and on-
campus interviews and job listings
are more likely to be employed
upon graduation,” Turner said.
The Career Center teaches
students how to network with
former students and how to
research employers. The Center
also provides students with
access to more than 700 fonner
students in our network of
Aggies Helping Aggies and
works closely with The
Association of Former Students.
Although many graduating
seniors are still struggling with
the process of finding a job, the
economy seems to have prom
ise for them.
“Graduating students in
2004 should do very well,”
Dixey said. '
/ think it is
imperative that
students begin
lookingfor
employment at least
two semesters before
graduation.
— Leigh Turner, director
Texas A&M Career Center
Study: Prostate screenin;
for older men unnecessar
By Paul Recer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Millions
of dollars are spent annually to
monitor prostate health in men
over 75 even though research
shows little benefit in screening
such men for prostate cancer, a
study says.
Prostate screeii
for the elderly
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one-third of men over75aie
screened for prostate canca:
despite general agreement:’
cancer screening test pro®
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screening men of this age would
be beneficial to them, so this
may not be the best use of health
care resources,” said Dr. Siu-
Long Yao, a genital-urinary
oncologist at the Cancer
Institute of New Jersey in New
Brunswick, N.J. He was senior
author of the study appearing
this week in the Journal of the
National Cancer Institute.
“If you take all elderly men
who die and do an autopsy, 30 to
70 percent will have prostate
cancer, but they died of some
thing else,” said Yao.
“Diagnosing the prostate cancer
may lead to unnecessary com
plications in elderly patients
who are more likely to die of
something else, such as cardio
vascular disease.”
However, Dr. Richard G.
Middleton, chairman of urology
at the University of Utah
Medical School and a contribu
tor to the prostate cancer guide
lines for the American
Urological Association, said the
study was “too simplistic.”
“A routine PSA (Prostate
Specific Antigen test) in a man over
75 would ordinarily not be neces
sary,” but the blood test would be
useful for a man witJi a history of
prostate problems, he said.
“There are many situations
where the PSAs are helpful in
monitoring and following an
elderly man,” said Middleton.
“I object to the idea that it was
somehow bad form to order a
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rence of tumors in elderly®
who have had surgery ortsi'
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researchers found that 32,5(*
cent of men over 75 recei't
PSA blood tests, an esliw“
1.5 million men a year.
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officials said, suggesting i
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