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1 Paee The Dally Journal, St. Franco! Co, Friday, August It, Wi tudent slays three faculty members on university caetpos sociate professor of mechanical engineering; and Constantinos Lyrintzis, 36, associate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. Davidson, a tall and balding Army veteran, wrote his thesis on shape memory alloy, a metal that can be twisted and will hold its shape until heated, Brashers said. Students who milled around the concrete, four-story building after the shooting said the stress of presenting a master's thesis usually the final hurdle before receiving a degree can often be overwhelming. "I can imagine the disappointment and anger if I were told I needed to go back and do some more work on something I may have worked several years on," said John Lovegren, a graduate student in electrical engineering.

A college worker who said she knew Davidson suggested he may have been frustrated because he couldn't finish his work quickly at the school, where only one engineering student a month is allowed to defend a thesis. "The problem is that the engineering school is so small and the students are so linear in their thinking that it is difficult for them to understand revision is not failure," said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Faculty committee members usually tell students to rework their theses rather than flunk them outright, Lovegren said. Graduate students also are guided by a faculty adviser through years of research and writing. Albert Nguyen, a mechanical engineering student, said he was in a computer lab on the same floor when he heard shouting and looked outside just as Davidson was being approached by campus police.

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Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison bashed President Clinton in her speech Tuesday by, going to the videotape: A flurry' of TV statements in which Clinton seemed to contradict himself produced a roar from the delegates. (As happens on TV, the Clinton tape was rerun two days later, as part of the speech by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.) But even GOP-TV, which pledged "unfiltered" coverage, proved selective in what it showed, including which women. Wednesday night it skipped a speech by the sometimes severe, former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick in favor of a backstage interview with a previous speaker model Kim Alexis.

JEWELL TUCKER Jewell Mullins Tucker, 83, formerly of Farmington died August 16, 1996 in Ferguson. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Cozean Funeral Home in fJtclalUlnQ In anting nts television audience "this convention is more of an infomercial than a news event." If so, that cake was iced with the party-sponsored GOP-TV, a chirpy newscast look-alike watched in about 360,000 homes on the Family Channel. "It doesn't even begin to pay lip service to balance," complained MSNBC correspondent Bob Faw. Meanwhile, a Russian television reporter for the ORT network based in Moscow told his viewers that the proceedings in San Diego were "as tightly controlled as anything the Communist Party ever put on." "People used to come to conventions to decide things," a Buchanan delegate from Missouri groused Wednesday to a CNN correspondent. "Apparently we're here to rubber-stamp things that have already been decided." Rubber-stamp them, that is, while smiling for TV viewers (of which there were about 25 percent fewer than for the GOP's convention).

where services were held on July 31. Survivors include two children: Terry Wayne Byers and Ardyth Ann Eaton both of Lyman, six grandchildren; seven SAN DIEGO (AP) After nine yean at San Diego State University, engineering student Frederick Martin Davidson submitted his master's thesis and was called upon to defend it before a faculty committee, Just after the meeting began, Davidson opened fire on his faculty adviser and two other professors, shooting more than 20 rounds and even stopping once to reload, police and witnesses said. All three men were killed in the shooting Thursday afternoon in a third-floor laboratory-classroom in a mechanical engineering building on the sprawling campus. Three students, the only other people in the room, were not injured. Davidson, 36, put down the gun and surrendered to campus police when they arrived after hearing the gunshots, authorities said.

He was booked for investigation of murder and was being held at the San Diego County Jail. 1 The shooting happened on the next-to-last day of summer classes at the hilltop campus 10 miles from Convention By Frazler Moore AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) A convention updated for the video age ended with a talking head. Still, Bob Dole's acceptance speech Thursday made for good television. A man at a podium delivering a lengthy address, Dole, in TV lingo, was "unplugged." "It had better be good," ABC News anchor Peter Jennings said in advance, stressing what had been pounded into viewers for days: The stakes for Dole were incredibly high. Things weren't made easier by Dole's lead-in act, the polished orator-running mate Jack Kemp.

Yet for an hour, without the visual aids and other razzle-dazzle that had characterized the Republican National Convention, Dole relied on the spoken word and gave the speech of the plain-spoken man he said he was. "All things flow from doing what is right," he said, and went on to scorn the Clinton administration's Obituaries- LURA GORDON Lura Amanda Gordon, 9 1 of Far-mington died August 14, 1996, at the Baptist Home in Ironton. She was born on March 3, 1905 in Ste. Genevieve County, the daughter of the late Ressie and Ida Clay Hawn. She was also preceded in death by two sons: Edward and Alvin Ray Gordon; six brothers: Robert, Irvin, Charles, Harry, Julian and Lester Hawn; one sister, Mildred Cupplcs.

Mrs. Gordon was a member of the Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church, the Pythian Sisters, Royal Neighbors, and she was a volunteer Pink Lady at Farmington Community Hospital and a teacher at several nursing homes. On Sept 17, 192S, she was united in marriage to Burl Gordon, who preceded her in death on July 28, 1968. She is survived by one son, Lee Roy Gordon and wife June of Park Hills; one daughter, Marilyn (Mrs. Delmar) Watts; one foster daughter, Wilma (Mrs.

Jesse) Pinkley both of Farmington; four brothers: Jim Hawn of Farmington, Emmett Hawn of Ste. Genevieve, Melvin Hawn of DeSoto, Joe Hawn of Viburnum; 17 grandchildren; 26 greatgrandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held Friday after 3 p.m. at the Cozean Funeral Home in Farmington and on Saturday after 9:30 a.m. at the Chestnut Ridge Baptist Church.

Funeral services will follow at 1 1 a.m., with the Tunica, MS, Gary, IN, Kansas City, MO, Quad Cities, Minnesota Oklahoma Call Toll Free 1-888-777-8894 Greater St Louis: (314) 940-9700 I rA m. i t) vwvww NEW PRESCHOOL! Now Open! Birth-12-Yrs. the downtown convention center where Bob Dole accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination. A motive in the shooting was not immediately clear. Davidson had already co-authored several journal articles with Own Liang, his faculty adviser, and appeared to have a promising future.

McDonnell Douglas was funding the men's research. "He did sometimes think Dr. Liang was using him as slave labor, not giving him as much credit as he deserved," said Davidson's landlord, Howard Brashers, a retired English professor. Davidson was a loner and a "neatnik" who kept his space tidy, said Brashers, who watched police haul a computer and two brown shopping bags from Davidson's room Thursday night. Besides Liang, a 32-year-old assistant professor of mechanical engineering, the dead were identified as: D.

Preston Lowrey III, 44, as scripted like "dubious and self-serving schemes." Apart from the occasional reaction shot of people in the hall, the networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and MSNBC stayed focused on Dole. It was in fitting counterpoint to the crowd-pleasing talk his wife, Elizabeth, had made a night earlier not from the podium, but from the floor a more TV-sawy performance some feared would upstage his own. But CBS' Bob Schieffer spoke for many by saying, "I believe Mrs. Dole gave him some speaking lessons overnight" Dole's address brought to a close a four-night mini-series meant to reinvigorate his image and re-launch his campaign not stir debate or risk surprises. All week, viewers heard it said over and oven There was no news.

No suspense. No spontaneity. After Tuesday, there wasn't even Ted Koppel. ABC's "Nightline" anchor took his program back to Washington, D.C., after telling his Rev. Phil Vaughn, pastor of the church, officiating.

Burial will follow in the Chestnut Ridge Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Chestnut Ridge Church or to the Chestnut Ridge Cemetery Fund. MELISSA CRITES Melissa Ann Crites, 23, died Aug. 1 1 as the result of an automobile accident She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Keith and Carol Crites of Imperial, formerly of Farmington; two sisters: Mrs. Jennifer (Mark) Vandorah of Indiana and Miss Christine Crites of the U.S. Navy, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John and Mary Crites and Ruby Long of Farmington; one niece; one nephew; aunts, uncles, many cousins and friends.

Services were held August 14 at Heiligtag Funeral Home in Arnold. Burial was in the Chestnut Ridge Cemetery. NORMA BYERS Norma Ann Byers, 72, of Lyman, formerly of this area, died on July 28. She was born in Elvins on Nov. 20, 1923, the daughter of the late Marvin and Bess (Moore) McFarland.

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