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Thf Community of Single Adults will hold an autumn social
tonight, beginning at H at the Ruinada Inn in College Station.
Refreshments will he provided. New single faculty and stafi
members are especially welcome. Dress is after 5 p.m.
COSA was founded on the Texas A&M University campus in
1981 as a service to the single faculty and stall mcmhers of the
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Ultra-light planes on display Sunday
A special show of ultra-light aircraft will he held Sunday, Sept.
II, from 2 p.in. to 4 p.m. at the Bryan Utilities Dike Park on
Sandy Point Hoad
The one and two seat planes w ill he on display and will
perform flying demonstrations. Admission is the same as the fee
charged to fish, boat or picnic at the park: $2 for a car holding up
to sis people, and senior citizens and annual passholdcrs can
enter free.
Israeli consul will speak Monday
Mcdad Medina, consul with the Consulate General of Israel,
will participate in a roundtable discussion alxmt the impact
Prime Minister Begin s retirement will have on United Statcs-
Isrealirelations. The program will Ik- begin at 8 p.m., Monday,
Sept. 12, in 302 Rudder Tower. Two Texas A&M faculty mem
bers from the political science department, Dr. Michael Levy
and Dr. William Snyder, will also participate in the discussion.
The program is sponsored by the Hillel Student Foundation,
the Israel Club and the Political Science Society.
She wouldn t go now anyway'
Young girls could lose eyesight
United Press Intermitional
LEWISVILLE — The mother
of two girls denied entry to the
Sov iet Union for eye treatments
says she would not take the nearly
blind daughters to Moscow now
even if the Russians granted per
mission.
1 wouldn’t want to risk getting
over there and then being held
prisoner, like what happened in
Iran,’ said Marlene Syc. “Things
are just too sticky right now. Even
if we got permission, I wouldn’t
go. I just don’t trust them.
Svc said Wednesday, in the
wake of the Soviet Union shooting
down a South Korean airliner, that
a Moscow trip now looms as dan
gerous.
The family made an initial trip
to the Soviet Union in November
1982 and the girls received unique
enzyme treatments for the condi
tion that were developed by a
Soviet scientist.
The daughters. Ginger, 10, and
Sherry, 7, suffer from retinitis pig-
mentosis, a rare disease that
causes a gradual loss of sight and
results in blindness.
Ben and Marlene Syc s two
daughters were scheduled to re
ceive their second series of injec
tions in November 1983, but Sye
said she was informed Sunday by
the Soviet tourist agency that the
trip had been canceled.
Syc said she approves of Presi
dent Reagans response to the
South Korean jet crisis and that, if
anything, Reagan has been too
easy on the Soviets. She said she
does not worry that severe reper
cussions against the Soviets might
further damage relations and hurt
her daughters’ chances of getting
additional treatments.
“Getting this thing cleared up is
more important than the girls at
this time, she said. “War would
mean their whole future is
threatened, not just their
eyesight."
Sherry already is legally blind
and Gingers eye condition is
stable, but both girls’ vision is faint
and blurry, the mother said. Both
could be completely sightless by
the time they are 20 years old, she
said.
Sye said the Soviet eye treat
ments do not cure retinitis pig-
mentosis, but do seem to arrest
the disease.
Even if the furor over the
deaths of 269 passengers and
crewmembers aboard the Korean
commercial flight subsides by
Christmas, it would take another
six months for the Sycs to go
through Soviet channels for the
medical trip, she said.
“We ll just keep giving them as
much visual stimulation as we can.
Just day-to-day things, like nature
and colors, and other things that
will stick in their memory if they
do go blind, Syc said.
Large banks facing changes
United Press Intenmtional
FORT WORTH — Small coun
try banks and big bank holding
companies will be able to meet the
stiffening competition in the
financial industry, but banks in
larger communities will have to
change to survive, a Texas Christ
ian University professor believes.
City banks will have to align
themselves with big organiza
tions. Dr. Stanley Block said.
I really think the consumer is
going to have so many options and
alternatives that a financial institu
tion that is not providing these
alternatives is going to have a diffi
cult time competing," Block said
in an interview.
As a professor of finance and a
writer on the banking industry.
Block closely observes move
ments and trends in the financial
community. Lately he’s had a lot
to watch.
"Five years ago, everybody was
well defined," he said in an inter
view. "You’re a savings and loan,
you a commercial bank, and you a
brokerage house.
The clear delineation no longer
exists, he said, and that makes it
tougher for small banks to com
pete.
Increasingly, Block said, non
banking institutions such as Sears
and American Express are moving
into areas traditionally served by
banks. Some banks are trying to
find special areas of a market
which they can effectively serve.
But as competition increases,
Block said, “the fairly safe defined
niches in the marketplace will be
more difficult to establish.
Block sees bank holding com
panies as “very viable entities able
to compete with the new partici
pants in the financial services are
na. I also think they will have to
compete,” he said.
“I think you’ll see more situa
tions such as Citicorp going up
against Merrill Lynch, or Bank of
America competing with Sears
Roebuck. Lm not sure anybody
wants this, hut it’s coming."
New technology makes it easier
to expand into other financial
The consumer is going to
have so many options and
alternatives that a finan
cial institution that is not
providing these alterna
tives is going to have a
difficult time competing.
Dr. Stanley Block said.
fields, he said. Investment houses
offer moneysaving plans; banks
and department stores sell stocks.
But deregulation pressures also
are involved.
"The Federal Reserve under
(Chairman Paul) Volcker is saying
“Let s go slowly. Banks have a spe
cial plate in our economy. Let s
take this step by step. Let’s not
unleash the banks into too wide an
array of services. And let s not
move too quickly letting others
into the tradiational banking
fields. Block said.
“At the same time, the adminis
tration and particularly Donald
Regan, the Treasury secretary,
with his Merrill Lynch hack-
ground, says “Let s go forward now
in terms of competition for finan
cial services. He views the finan
cial arena as similar to the airline
industry in which there has been
substantial deregulation.
"And basically, he suggests no
one has really benefited . from a
go-slow policy when it comes to
deregulation, Block said.
The two opposing concepts will
be coming before the Senate
Banking Committee this month.
"It s the feeling that Sen Jake
Gain, R-Utah, and h is committee
really haven t come to grips with
these issues. Block said.
"Nevertheless, I would say the
trend is toward increased com
petition. The question is when,
not if.
In the very small rural com
munities, banks probably will sur
vive, he said. “But most of the
other banks, in larger communi
ties, are going to have to align
themselves with viable entities —
like large holding companies — to
compete, Block said.
The professor thinks barriers to
interstate banking eventuallv will
fall.
"Subtly, they’re coming down
now. I think a lot of tthc technolo
gical developments are leading to
the breaking of interstate barriers.
And the banks are now positioning
themselves, on the drawing
board, to be ready for interstate
banking.
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Tickets for a barbeque held on the Professional Career Planning
in Agriculture day, Sept. 14, arc on sale through Sept. 12.
Students may choose to sit with representatives of the more than
40 agricultural companies participating in PCPA day. Tickets
cost 84, and can be bought in the Kleberg Animal and Food
Science Center, the main hallway of the Memorial Student
Center, and the Agriculture Building. The barbeque will be
held at 6:30 p.m. in the Brazos Center on Briarcrcst Drive.
A career fair featuring the participating companies will be
held on the second floor of the MSC from 9a.m. to 11:30a.in. for
juniors, seniors and graduate students, and from 1:30 p.m. to 5
p.m. for any interested students. The fair is free and open to
anyone interested.
The annual PCPA day is sponsored by the National Agri-
Marketing Association, the Career Planning and Placement
Center, and the College of Agriculture.
For more information, call John Gudehnan at 845-5139.
Library to offer tours next week
The Sterling C. Evans Library will offer free tours Sept. 12-16.
The tours last about 45 minutes and provide information about
materials and services available in the library.
Tour times and sign up sheets are posted close to the refer
ence desk on the first floor of the library. For more information,
contact Joe Jams at 845-5741.
Hobby Hall to sponsor dance Friday
Hobby Hall will sponsor a dance at the Texas Hall of Fame,
Friday, Sept. 9. It will begin at 8 p.m., and everyone is wel
come.
: Class of ’85 will sponsor ‘Playday’
I The Class of’85 will hold a “Playday” Saturday, Sept. 10, at the
4 Royal Oaks Racquet Club on Carter Creek Parkway. For a $2 fee
z paid at the door, participants can swim, play tennis, racquetball,
; or
*: basketball. Activities begin at noon. Everyone should bring his
/ own picnic lunch; drinks will be provided. Proceeds will go
/ toward funding the class gift, to be presented in 1985.
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Congressman fined,
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United Press International
; WASHINGTON — Rep.
Charles Wilson, D-Texas, paid a
525 fine for colliding with another
Jar in an accident on a rain-slick
bridge last month but a charge of
filing to report the accident still
inight be refiled, police said
Thursday.
I* Police originally charged the
six-term East Texas congressman
itvith misdemeanor failure to re
port an accident but were told that
the charge no longer existed
jmder a“limbo period” involving a
change in a District of Columbia
law allowing nofault insurance as
Ilf Oct, 1.
; "Maybe we were right after all.
The lawyers are trying to get
together to sort through the law,”
Brunzos said.
However, traffic division Capt.
James Brunzos said Thursday that
city lawyers now are saying the
original assessment inight have
been wrong and the charge could
have been filed.
However, he said that even if
the charge is now valid, he person
ally doubted the charge would be
refilled against Wilson after he
paid the $25 fine Wednesday.
“Probably, that will be one for
his team,” said Brunzos. “We
probably won’t attempt to bring it
back.”
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Freshmen
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Sept. 12-16
19-23
26-30
Oct. 3-7 Pavillion
10-14 Pavillion
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Juniors
Nov. 7-11
14-18
Nov. 28-Dec. 2
Dec. 5-9 Pavillion
Seniors,
Grad, Vet, Med
Oct. 10-14
17-21
24-28
Oct. 31-Nov. 4 Pavillion
Photographs will be taken at the Yearbook Associates Office at 1700 S. Kyle behind
Culpepper Plaza. Office hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. During the weeks Oct. 3-7 Oct. IQ-
14, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, Dec. 5-9, photographs will be taken at the Pavillion on campus. For more
information call Dena L. Brown at 845-2681.