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CHIMNEY HILL BOWLING CENTER 40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack Bar Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, October 30, 1985 701 University Dr E 260-9184 Contact Kathy Davidson for Sunchase Tours Ski Reservations GO COPY CRAZY The Moonlight Madness Marathon is coming! OCX 31-NOK 3 kinko's Copy tf you drop. 201 College Main 846-8721 Address for Success • Convenient Southwest Pkwy lo cation • Peaceful setting • 1 Br/1 Ba and 2 Br/1 1 /2 Ba ' Aggie Club gives A&M athletics $2 million-a-year shot-in-the-arm By TONY CORNETT Reporter We’ve got your apartment home and we’ve got your price! Come in to day! Limited offer! Office hours: Oakwood Apts. M-F 8:30-5:00 696-9100 WINTER BREAK OFFICIAL SKI BREAKS Each year, the Aggie Club raises one-third of the Texas A&M Ath letic Department’s budget. The specific chore involved is raising money needed to support A&M athletic scholarships. As a matter of fact, that is its slogan: “Scholarships for Student Ath letes." “That’s it," Aggie Club Executive Director Harry Green Jr. says. “That’s what we do. Our main pur- pose is just to raise the money for scholarships for student athletes.” The Athletic Department budget is around $6 million. Green says that since the department is a sepa rate University entity, it does not receive revenue from the state. “The only way we have to gain funds,” Green says, “is through the sale of tickets, the Southwest Con ference pool (television revenue) and the Aggie Club. The Aggie Club is comprised of the friends, neighbors and alumni of A&M who give money each year to support the scholarship program. “We raise somewhere around $2 million a year, which we support that program with,” Green says. “The Athletic Department budgets us a certain amount of dollars which covers the scholarships that we try to supply to them. “We’ve done a good job so far.” The Aggie Club raises the money it needs by offering a variety of membership packages, ranging from a $12 student membership to a $30,000 12th Man membership. T he latter is a permanently en dowed athletic scholarship entitling the donor to lifetime membership in the club, seats on the 50-yard line (or very close to it) for all home games and a personalized parking place in Lot A next to Kyle Field. The student donor receives an Aggie Club pin, a certificate, a membership card, a press guide and two club decals. Also, the stu dent has the option to reserve a space on a chartered bus to out-of- town football games. Green estimates that of the 35,000 possible student members, only 300 are Aggie Club members. Football tickets are a big incen tive to donote to the Aggie Club. “The Athletic Department allows the Aggie Club the first right of re fusal on all of the tickets on the sec ond and third deck (of the west stands),” Green says. “If we do not get enough mem bers to use them all, then, of course, we give them back and they sell them. We can fill the second deck and the majority of the third deck.” Green estimates that the $2 mil lion the club raises comes from 3,500 donors. The Aggie Club is a tax-exempt corporation housed in its newly ex panded building next to G. Roiiie White Coliseum on Joe Routt Boulevard. Including Green, the Aggie Club employs five people. There is an executive secretary, a membership director, a records technician and a ticket manager. The club was started in 1950 when some members of the Asso ciation of Former Students decided to form an organization dedicated to supporting athletic scholarships. From 1952-1965 the club direc tor was a volunteer. With the arrival of A&M Football Coach Gene Stal lings in 1965, the club picked up steam. “When Coach Stallings came,” Green says, “he hired John Hop kins to come in and be the director and start cranking up the Aggie Club as a vibrant asset to the Ath letic Department. That’s when it all really took off and really got off the ground.” JANUARY 5-12 and 12-19 NOW DELUXE CONDO LODGING I LIFT TICKETS MOUNTAIN SKI RACE / PICNIC / PARTIES A&M chapter promoting awareness of women's issues 5 Nights 1/5-10 & 12-17 $ 155 retail value $230 a 33% savings! 7 Nights 1/5-12 & 12-19 $ from 195 retail value $300 a 35% savings! Weekends 1/10-12 & 17-19 from $ 75 retail value $100 a 25% savings! 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Some men are very supportive, Vanlandingham says, and most of the opposition is due to a general hesitation to any new women’s group. “We’re not a radical group,” she says, adding that NOW wants to deal with issues concerning women at A&M. “A&M is unfortunately behind the times on these basic issues,” she says, citing the example of the recent issue concerning women’s health services at the A.P. Beutel Health Center. “Our initial goal was to improve what they had, but now they’re back n£k N ATI O M /V L OPGANIZ^VriQKI FOR WOMEN! to square one,” she says about the lack of gynecological services at the center. “We were trying to get better health care, and then they dropped it entirely. Being a new organization, it was timely for us because it al lowed us to get started on our goals. “I think that it was the issue that wasn’t accepted, not the organiza tion,” she says concerning the oppo sition to better health services. “So many people, including women, feel that these issues don’t concern them, so why should they get involved?” Vanlandingham says the organi zation wants to see improvements such as providing pamphlets on top ics including rape, birth control and breast cancer. A&M needs a place on campus where women can get infor mation on subjects that concern ev ery woman, she says. Rape awareness is another NOW goal. “Too often, universities like to overlook rape,” she says. “Any university official, any where, would claim that rape doesn’t occur on campus.” Vanlandingham says one of the group’s goals is to get better lighting in certain areas on the campus, such as between the Sterling C. Evans Li brary and the Academic Building. Another goal is to offer classes on self-defense techniques, she says. “Date rape has become more com mon, and society generally assumes that this is not a real case of rape,” she says. “It’s usually not reported because the victim believes it is not really rape or because she thinks no one will believe her. “Rape awareness and protection must be increased in today’s society and especially at A&M. “We don’t want to stand in the background and not let our voices be heard.” Future NOW projects include im proving women’s education and pro moting women’s sports, she says. rjEW LOOK THE SHAPE OF THINGS 'Hair BtyUng (or Mea and WoMa Bonfire Cut Special Bring in a friend and get two haircuts for $24.50 H€pS 4417 Texas Ave. South (next to Fajita Rita’s) 846-7614 STUDY STUDY II STUDY III Recent injury to wrist, knee or ankle? Severe enough pain to remain on study up to 10 days and 5 visits? Recent injury with pain to any muscle or joint? One-dose (4 hours) in-house study. 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