University Apartment maintenance workers inspected the gas connections in the apartment of Saquib Ejaz prior to the July 31 explosion that fatally injured a 4-year old child, and left her pregnant mother and paternal grandparents severely injured, said Sandeep Bhatnager, a family friend.

This year, more MBA graduates found jobs within three months after graduation than in years past due to changes in the career placement services in the Lowry Mays MBA program. Mays reported 90 percent of graduates had accepted positions at graduation and 95 percent three months later, compared to 86.

Ralph Nader accepted his nomination as the presidential candidate for the Reform Party at the Reform Party National Convention this weekend, along with the party's vice presidential nominee Peter Camejo and urged Texas A&M students to make their own voting decisions.

Contenders for congressional district 17 - incumbent Congressman Chet Edwards and State Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth - discussed differing philosophies in a debate Friday, in which Edwards said the government's main duty should be to provide strong national defense and Wohlgemuth countered that it should be to maintain social and moral order.

Texas A&M President Robert M. Gates announced at the annual academic convocation on Friday, Aug. 27, that A&M has broken a seven-year trend of declining minority enrollment by increasing minority enrollment across the board. According to enrollment data as of Aug.

Texas A&M University's new campus master plan is turning heads in architectural and design circles, already winning awards in Austin and Boston. The plan, intended to provide 50-year guidelines for architectural concepts and land use on Texas A&M's 5,200-acre campus - one of the largest in the nation - has been cited for excellence by the Austin-based Texas Society of Architects and the Boston Society of Architects.

Graduate students in chemical engineering will enjoy a coded-access study room in Texas A&M University's new chemical engineering building scheduled to open this fall. The Gene L. Tromblee '70 Graduate Study Area bears the name of the retired Sterling Chemicals executive who, with his wife Donna, contributed almost $103,000 to construction of the seven-story, $38-million building.

NEW YORK - Abortion-rights protesters and the first Republican delegates descended on President Bush's heavily fortified convention city Saturday as campaign officials said their boss would use the nomination spotlight to defend his hawkish foreign polices and offer a second-term agenda for health care, education and job training.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina Sunday with near hurricane-force winds, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as power was out for thousands of people. Gaston made landfall near McClellanville, a small fishing village that was brushed by Hurricane Charley earlier this month when it came ashore for a second time after devastating southwest Florida.