Vednesday, December 1,1983/The Battalion/Page 5 ■Banks of future on show m by Clara N. Hurter Battalion Reporter Imagine going to a floating ink with an adjoining yacht :lub, strolling through a mall I of shops for various financial Wvices, or living in a con- | dominium with your own ank and offices next door. This is only a sample of the wide variety of “Bank of the | Future,” research projects de- tned by Environmental De- b 403 students. “There is a possibility that I me of the design concepts III be used, but I’m not sure if liy would be adopted in [1 I ide,” finance professor Fe ll S. Rose said. The College of Business dministration and the Col- ge of Architecture and En- ronmental Design pooled r resources this semester the project that was [signed to 18 seniors in Pro fessor George J. Mann’s en vironmental design class. The two colleges teamed up to look at banking issues and banking of the future, Mann says. The idea for a banking project developed from the conversation of two friends, Mann and marketing profes sor Leonard L. Berry. Mann supplied architectu ral expertise, Berry contri buted his marketing skills and Rose his expertise in finance. Rose and Berry supplied information to the students about the banking industry; where it’s going in the future, marketing trends and finan cial outlooks. The project was assigned in September. The students set up their finished projects Tuesday at the art gallery in Langford Architecture Center. The three professors agree that the students put a tremendous amount of effort into their projects. “I have never had a class that put out as much as they did,” Mann said. The students were allowed to choose any type of bank for the project. “They picked a place in the United States and designed a bank for whatever fit their fancy,” Mann said. To these students, fancy means futuristic banks in all parts of the country, from New York City to San Fran cisco; small community banks to large skyscrapers; facilities ranging from educating the public on financial matters to norne banking, gold backed banks and mall-like multipur pose complexes. Students did their own re search on the project to fit the location and ambiance of the area’s residents, Mann said. Rose, Berry, and Mann met several times to review and make suggestions to the students to help them with the project. The class also heard a local Bryan-College Station banker and made a visit to Re public Bank in College Sta tion. Student Mike Borg, 20, said Rose and Barry were very helpful to the class. “Usually a project program is handed out to you, but we had nothing to start with, we knew absolutely nothing ab out banks just that this would be a bank of the future,” he said. Reports, drawings and models of the student’s de signs will be displayed at the Langford Architecture Cen ter second floor art gallery to day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Beached pygmy killer whale recovering, say scientists United Press International PORT ARANSAS — A team of scientists and volunteers trying to save the life of “Sugar,” the 7-foot pygmy killer whale that beached last week, put up screens and plastic sheeting Tuesday to protect her from a norther that dropped the air temperature from 80 to 40 de grees. “Sugar is still showing signs of- improvement,” said Tony Amos, an oceanographer at the University of Texas Marine Sci ence Institute. Amos said heaters also were being used to keep the water temperature in a holding pool at 72 degrees, because the rare whale’s natural habitat is deep tropical oceans. The female whale is the only whales found beached near Port Aransas last Thursday. The other two whales, both smaller males, died last weekend despite the around-the-clock care being afforded by UT sci entists joined by Texas A&M veterinarians and more recently by high school student volun teers. Their bodies were frozen and taken to Texas A&M for survivor of three pygmy killer - further study. r ill, Batulmst unboat chases |hrimp boats r trespassing .a junior irolsTues United Press Internationa] IBROWNSVILLE — The boat Chihuahua, which cap- id two Texas shrimp boats allegedly fishing in Mexican rs, was a “full-fledged des- A r|byer” that could have blown 1. luP tW ° traw ^ ers out l ^ ie waler had aimed at them, Mexican sul General Enrique Hub- Urrea said Tuesday. Hubbard said it is normal tice for Mexican Navy gun- to fire shots over fleeing p boats to warn them to :B> and that he has no doubt dousing po^ ; s w hat the Chihuahua did ipturing the Santa Monica Miss Charmaine, both out Brownsville. ‘They usually warn the jing vessels with a shot over boat,” Hubbard said. “That Ibne only when the other boat ses to stop. I assure you if a royer hits the boat (with a |t), the boat would not be e.” ubbard said he had not re- semester y e d an official report on the illy it doesm Idem early Monday inside fe-assign thf ^American fishing zone about manentroo- |miles off Brownsville, but had evert® a t the Chihuahua obviously eir permit 1S [ n p UrS uit” of the two end of tli< Ixas vessels. i,” he said ' He said the Texas boats ack- nience tl® owledged the Mexican gun- ih.” in pus Gen® Hall,^ I leasing Studf 5 845- boat was pursuing them, and he considered that to be “an explicit confession that they were fishing south of the border.” The owner of the Santa Moni ca, William Zimmerman, denied that the trawler had fished in side Mexico’s 200-mile zone and charged the Mexican Navy illeg ally boarded his boat 20 miles inside the 200-mile U.S. fishing zone. However, U.S. Coast Guard officials in Corpus Christi back ed the Mexican Navy, saying the gunboat had a right to chase the two boats. 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