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. Tuesday, March 10,1987/The Battalion/Page 7 ce hedeligt,, quo. Bro., 3 >he ma 1( )ing. Jl icemen, r , our ^ get less st, - money ials vowed' ms of nj ge Grear iS said they st, >loy to m.,. hire’s actii; latable win Jt drastkt,. r Whitmin that the pi, Hen with tl( i’s econo® : o ingup,'li en you ha; unempfc crime." inority students to benefit in A&M medical program By Adelle Hedleston Reporter m Minority students interested in Biedical careers will have the op portunity this summer to receive ■dentation, encouragement and SMpport through the Bridge to li|fedicine Program, sponsored by fexas A&M’s College of Medi- ne. The program, which started st year, is for minority or disad- ntaged college students who lave completed at least 60 hours ol undergraduate work and are interested in entering the medical profession, said Arthur Hernan- dez, program director. ■ “By disadvantaged, I mean Ipeople who come from small, ru- Rjal communities, where their ed ucational backgrounds are lim- ■ed because of the small size of ne schools,” Hernandez said. I Economically disadvantaged students also are included in the program. I “The program requires stu dents to have some background in some of the basic science areas because a component of the pro gram is academic,” he said. The program is geared toward helping students make successful applications to medical school through application skills semi nars and programs to develop in terviewing and study skills. The program also provides an introduction to the medical school curriculum, Hernandez said. “One afternoon a week, the students go out into the local community and are assigned to a physician to practice and work with him,” he said. “The student spends anywhere from 24 to 40 hours in the com munity, seeing patients and doing case histories, among other things,” Hernandez said. “The program has a variety of different specialities,” he said. “Some of the students go out and work with gynecologists, for ex ample, and some work with pedi atricians.” The College of Medicine finan cially supports the program to some extent, according to Her nandez. In addition, the program has received a grant from the fed eral government called the Health Careers Opportunity Pro grams Grant. This grant pays room and board for the students during the six-week program. Everett Sandies, a junior eco nomics major with a minor in bi ology, attended the program last year and said the program gave him insight into applying and be ing chosen for medical school. “I think the program broad ened my perspective to how the- medical school admissions (proc ess) works,” Sandies said. Working with the doctors also was helpful, he said. “We got to see hands-on inter action with the doctors and pa tients,” he said, “and that is al ways good experience.” Airline uses automatic tellers to offer low fares to students DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Air lines has added a new twist to the traditional mode of travel arrange ments by offering students standby tickets at cut-rate prices through au tomatic teller machines located at convenience stores. For $15, passengers between the ages of 18 and 21 can fly between several major Texas cities by pur chasing standby tickets in advance at their neighborhood 7-Elevens. Donald Valentine, vice president of marketing for Southwest, said Monday that after the first week of operation, the MoneyMaker auto matic tellers had dispensed 400 tick ets in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Anto nio and Corpus Christi. The figures indicate the fare is gaining attention on college cam puses, he said. “It ought to be,” Valentine said. “We’ve got it down to the price of a burger and a movie.” Normally, it would cost a college student $68 to fly from Dallas Love Field to Houston Hobby Airport and back on the regional carrier. But un- Cooke County V ) cart asAve, i, Tern 79-4758 DENTON (AP) — It’s difficult to imagine that buried beneath the North Texas prairie are the crum- ■ng remains of giant ground sloths and 9-foot armadillos. ■ But archaeologists sifting though ex< avation sites on Lake Ray Roberts sa\ they won’t be surprised to dis- |c|vei evidence of these unbelievable creatures in an area generally pop ulated today by commonplace dairy Cows and quarterhorses. B“In Cooke County, we have 30 or D sites,” said Dr. Reid Ferring, an achaeologist with North Texas Slate University’s Institute of Ap plied Sciences. “We will be looking at ejerything from prehistoric Indian Camps to homesteads that people may have lived in last year.” Bhake Ray Roberts, scheduled for completion later this year, is being btiilt by the U.S. Army Corps of En gineers in parts of Cooke, Grayson and Denton counties as a water sup- pl\ source for the Dallas-Fort Worth afea. ■ Last year, the Institute of Applied iSciences received a $903,000 grant prom the Corps to conduct archaeo- Hgical and environmental studies on boih Lake Roberts and Lake Lewis ville. ■ “Although we’re in the early stages, the students love it,” Ferring said. “There aren’t too many who aren’t excited about looking for evi dence of people living here. And they’re getting a chance to do re search firsthand.” Ferring is in charge of the stu dents working part-time on the sites, Then we bring the things back to the lab and clean, label and preserve them,” Ferring said. Although everything found dur ing this dig belongs to the govern ment, the archaeologists said the ar tifacts will be kept at Institute labs. “We will preserve, catalog and “We will be looking at everything from prehistoric In dian camps to homesteads that people may have lived in last year. ” — Dr. Ried Ferring, NTSU Institute of Applied Sci ences and also is involved with the digging. In addition, 43 professional archae ologists labor at the sites full-time. “We look into the cultural re sources offered by the area,” said Corps archaeologist Karen Scott. “If we have 50 areas that are identical, we’re not going to spend money on excavating all of them.” Crews work on a grid system, with various groups assigned to squares of land. Dirt is sifted through mesh screens — some with the aid of a wa ter wash —- and artifacts are bagged and labeled. store all the artifacts and our field notes,” Scott said. “Nothing will be thrown out or sold.” During the dig, Ferring expects to find items as old as 9,000 years and as recent as the 19th century. So far, digging crews have uncov ered evidence of prehistoric cul tures, including stone chips and fire pits. On historic sites, they have found fragments of pottery, bottles and hardware. Ferring said evidence of various types of animals have been uncov ered, including remains of camels. When viewed as pieces in a puzzle, the archaeologists hope, the artifacts ultimately will tell them more about the many cultures that converge in this part of Texas. “We will study the initial periodic settlement, the counties’ devel opment and the lifestyle of the pre historic and historic people,” Fer ring said. Workers are using special tech niques such as carbon dating, to find out more about artifacts. Sciences such as dendrochronology — tree ring dating — enable the archaeolo gists to discover more about climate and how the early peoples dealt with natural phenomena. The whole body of information will be obtained from a relatively small section of the 48,821-acre lake. “We’re doing careful excavation in a smaller area,” Ferring said. “We don’t want to destroy the whole site. Our strategy is to recover fewer things more carefully.” One of the archaeologist’s pri mary concerns, Ferring said, is to protect the site from curiosity seek ers and vandals. der the new fare package offered through Southwest, MoneyMaker and 7-Eleven, the cost is $30. Travelers must prove they are be tween 18 and 21 when checking in at the airport. No luggage may be checked, but officials point out that not many young people need more than a carry-on bag for a weekend trip. Airline spokesman Charlotte Goddard said, “Southwest was looking for a way to target the youth market. We thought youth was an other untapped market.” For MoneyMaker, the airline plan offers a graphic demonstration of the convenience and capabilities of its automated teller machines. Tricia Norvelle, manager of cor porate communications, said the sky’s the limit. MoneyMaker now is discussing the possibility of using its machines with other customers, including other airlines and theme parks, Nor velle said. “Basically, all we have to do is implement the software,” she said. To buy an airline ticket, the cus tomer inserts a bank card or credit card into the MoneyMaker machine. In addition to asking if the customer would like to make a cash withdra wal or deposit, it also asks if he would like to purchase a Southwest Airlines ticket. The machine asks other details, according to the program installed by MoneyMaker — such as destina tion, round-trip or one-way. Valentine said advertising for the student tickets began last week, with the first ads aimed at campus publi cations. At a 7-Eleven store near the Southern Methodist University cam pus, the MoneyMaker machine was a popular item Friday night — but for cash transactions, not airline tickets. Several students interviewed said they were unaware of the tickets for sale despite the presense of red-and- white flyers contained in a plastic pocket on the front of the machine. Andy Wright, 19, of Wichita, Kan., and Andy Bryan, 18, of St. Louis, said the tickets could come in handy if they went to visit friends in Houston. “It sounds like a good deal to me,” Wright said. “There’s only one drawback and that’s standby. But they’re not going to be full.” The current program ends May 31. Valentine said Southwest is eval uating the response to determine whether to expand the teller-ticket operations after that date. 13 stockholders took $612 million in loans at failed federal bank DALLAS (AP) — Some of Arkan sas’ most prominent names are on a ■ list of 13 stockholders who received more than $612 million in insider loans from failed FirstSouth Federal Association of Pine Bluff, Ark., the Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday. The stockholders also include seven developers and brokers active in Dallas real estate, the News said in a copyrighted story. In documents obtained by the newspaper, federal regulators said that some of the loans to the stock holders were based on inflated ap praisals. Regulators have cited insider lending abuses as a major reason for the failure of FirstSouth, which had been Arkansas’ second-largest sav ings institution. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board closed the thrift Dec. 4. 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