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.
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unboat chases
|hrimp boats
r trespassing
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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
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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. They said the board
ing took place 30 miles off the
coast and outside the 12-mile
U.S. jurisdiction.
Hubbard also said Texas
shrimpers have been escaping
the Chihuahua, a destroyer lar
ger than most gunboats patroll
ing Mexico’s fisning grounds, by
fleeing into shallow water where
the Mexican vessel could not
pursue.
“The American shrimpers
know when they see it coming to
get closer to shore in shallow wa
ters, hug the coast and travel
north practically laughing in
their (Chihuahua sailors’)
faces,” he said. “Usually all it is
able to do is report their name
and that they were fishing in
Mexican waters.”
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