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Tuesday, September 27, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 it Antartica object of study meral.wond g- I Kenneth’s ere relieved in; vay. attered — — but it somdi hadn’t failed.il idstohimafleii licidestaywii ig 10 years oil >n her oldest. Kenneth’s brolU . m looking fei lm « e buslness "'V 6 vou re ;in oceano^i anh an on, too. icle recently all “en suicides iol rched for theiil an that lachel ir friends, alked with sou ipletely gave lem in life, of lem thatnomt led, and no mi lit they were ait o longer warm somewhere can them thatthefi e the peoplei Brazosbanc, Safeway agree to open branches staff photo by John Makely But I wasn’t reading the sign. Finding a quiet place to study on campus is sometimes difficult but Kay Tangner, a Junior Marketing student from College Station, seems to have found the perfect spot. Never mind that administrators frown upon the use of dining space for studying. Researchers to take cruise by Chris Cox Battalion Hcportcr BrazosBanc Savings Associa tion of Bryan has made an agreement with Safeway stores to open branch bank offices in seven Houston stores and one Huntsville store in 1984. Ralph Reed, president of BrazosBanc, says the branch offices will be self-enclosed buildings within the Safeway stores that will of fer everything BrazosBanc offers except safety deposit boxes. “The branch banks will open accounts, do transactions, make applications for loans and do anything else BrazosBanc pre sently does,” Reed said. “It is a way to provide con venience to the customer be cause the bank will be able to get closer to them,” he said. “Most people spend a lot of time in Retiree drops big surprise; eomplaints fall c mtcd Press International TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona Fish and Game Department su pervisor dropped his pants at a retirement program meeting to show off the specially decorated underwear given to him as a gift by fellow employees, it was reported. At least two women employees filed eomplaints with Gov. Bruce Babbitt, apparently not amused by what some said was intended as a joke, the Tucson Citizen re ported. grocery stores. Through this natural outgrowth, BrazosBanc can provide service to the cus tomer at that store. Because of the arrangement with Safeway ‘stores, the branch offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. To day the country has two wage earning members in a family. This will give some extended hours for families like this to conduct services at Safeway. It is just more convenience for the customer.” The first eight offices will be in the Houston area, Reed said, but BrazosBanc does have plans and an agreement with Safeway that branch offices will be com ing to the Bryan-College Station area. “All of this depends on the succcess the bank has with the first eight stores,” he said. “Bra zosBanc feels that because of the convenience and extra service, the branch offices will be suc cessful.” BrazosBanc has been a leader in trying to introduce new pro ducts and conveniences in order to give the bank a head start on the competition, Reed said. And, he said, with these pro ducts and services the Brazos Banc brings, it can move to other markets and be successful. Currently BrazosBanc, a divi sion of Lamar Savings in Austin, operates 19 branches through out central Texas. “Houston offers another opportunity,” he said. “The agreement with Safeway is just another way to give the custom er what he wants — an easy way to get his money, to conduct his banking business, and to get on with other things because lives are very busy.” I] bv Debbie E. Warren Battalion Reporter A cruise to Antarctica is not an unless you’re an oceanographer. Two Texas A&M oceanographers will spend November aboard West Wind, a Coast Guard iceb reaker, studying microscopic plants and animals along the ice edge of the continent. Greta Fryxell and Kurt Buck will study phytoplankton, the only group of microscopic them ol thetlf plants in the Antarctic. The group is a food source for krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures that may someday increase the amount of high protein food available from the sea. Researchers from other col leges and scientific institutions also will be on the cruise, but for different reasons. They will study bird ecology, marine ‘mammal ecology and marine chemistry. “If we are going to be able to manage a resource we must have more information about how those resources are supported,” Fryxell says. “In this case, what feeds the krill, what feeds the penguin, what is the base of the biological food chain — we need to know these things to make management decisions.” Fryxell says studies have been conducted along the ice edges of Antarctica, but the area has not been researched adequately. “It’s difficult unless you have an icebreaker,” she says, “be cause ship captains are very le- ary of getting their ships caught in the ice. The ice pressures are so great that ships can sink easily.” Ninety percent of the world’s ice and snow is found in Antarc tica. During the polar summer — November, December, and January — day and night are arbitrary terms. Residents set their watches by New Zealand time and try to ignore the eter- Inmates play the market; win with investments y is all right to' hat they can’ll •aid. Butthecafl them anythingn have that ffl g to haveabulE ore children, money to print!! d to talk witli ; shows ation to childrei by Jit Earle United Press International CHINO, Calif. — Convicts at the maximum security Califor nia Institute for Women are tak ing the advice of the gruff- spoken actor John Houseman and are learning how to make money “the old fashioned way” by earning it. The eight-week course, which runs through September, is designed to teach the basics of investing in stocks and is taught by Ira Distenfield, Beverly Hills manager of the investment firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham and Co. “The goal of the program is to help inmates develop a sense of accomplishment, a basic under standing of how business oper ates and to give them an oppor tunity to meet prospective fu ture employers.” nal daylight of summer. While Fryxell will be on the continent during the summer months she is still expecting winds more than 100 miles per hour and temperatures below 40 degrees. The U.S. Congress will pro vide the transportation for the ice-coated cruise, while the Na tional Science Foundation will provide the funding. The iceb reaker will do more than just serve as a floating lab. It will be responsible for taking supplies to year-round stations through out the Arctic region and trans porting people from various sta tions. Fryxell says the facilities for scientists on the West Wind are not good. She says they have outfitted a van that will be used as a lab. “It will be chained down firm ly on the ship,” Fryxell says. “We’ll have heaters and some electricity, but no running wa ter. We will, however, be able to carry water in containers.” Traditionally, the southern most continent was a place for men only. The officers of the Coast Guard made it clear to Fryxell that women have not been allowed aboard their facili ties. “The women will have a hard time there,” Fryxell says. “The three women aboard the ship will be in a cabin meant for one." The icebreaker is equipped with a helicopter that will allow researchers to do a survey of the area. “We will be able to see how far the ice goes and do things like count seals,” she says. “The heli copter will allow us to go further into the ice, drill holes and take samples there.” These samples will be studied • in the floating lab and some will be transported to Texas A&M in containers similar to picnic bas kets. “When we come back, we’ll keep them in growth chambers at about 4 degrees,” Fryxell says. “By bringing the samples back we can continue to watch them grow.” The Oceanography Depart ment has many samples from the southern region. Fryxell says by collecting and comparing the new data, she will be able to bet ter understand the dramatic changes that are going on in the biological community in Antarc tica. STUDENT SPECIAL RENT A VMS MOVIE MON.-THURS. $2.00 FRI.-SAT. $4.00 (with student I.D.) 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