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Page 4 The Battalion Friday, June 30,1989 Battalion R e g u l a tors estimate $2 billion classifieds needed to rescue MCorp bank * HELP WANTED SWIMMING COACH To fine tune swimming skills for two good swimmers. Experience required. Lessons twice a week, after 5p.m. at a pri vate pool. Call Gay at 776-0400 (8a.m.-5p.m.) isattfn ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING AND SOME AUT O CAD WORK: Minimum of 20 hrs. per week with at least one eight (8) hour day. Contact PAUL at W.S. Allen Sc Associates, Inc. 778-2398. 164t07/14 WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal bank regulators es timated Thursday they will spend $2 billion to rescue the 20 failed banks of the Dallas-based MCorp in the second costliest bank rescue in history. L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which backs commercial bank depos its, said he foresees no failures rivaling it in the immedi ate future. Regulators picked Banc One Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, the nation’s 25th largest banking company, from among six firms bidding to take over the insolvent banks with $13.1 billion in assets. Banc One Chairman John B. McCoy assumes the chairmanship of the Texas institutions on July 5 and will operate them under the name of Bank One Texas. The Ohio company, one of the most innovative retail banking operations in the country, is contributing $500 million in a complex arrangement that will permit it to exclude the Texas operation from its consolidated bal ance sheet and maintain its record as one of the nation’s five most profitable banks. The MCorp banks have been under federal control since March 28 when regulators stripped them from the parent holding company, leaving five banks and a trust operation still in private hands. Seidman said $2 billion was the agency’s “best esti mate” of the bailout cost, but cautioned that could end up being $200 million to $300 million too high or too low. 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The Recreational Sports Department is responsible for all other aspects of the program, in cluding equipment and travel ar rangements. The soccer team is supported by the University’s general operating fund, which provides it with about $13,000 per year. It’s possible for a Varsity II team to be promoted to full-varsity status, but the team must have an outstand ing record for the A&M Athletic Council to consider it. Bob Wilson, a member of the Ag gie Club in Washington, D.C., and a supporter of the women’s soccer team, said he thinks A&M needs to give the women’s soccer team more support. “A&M has not been terribly sup portive of women’s soccer,” Wilson said. “The team is totally under funded relative to other club teams. After all, these women do represent A&M.” Opal said she is concerned about the confusion Johnston’s letter cre ated for many people. She said she has received several phone calls from prospective re cruits and their parents who want to know if A&M will have a women’s soccer program in the future. Opal said she assures the callers that the women’s soccer team will continue at the same level, despite the fact that Johnston’s letter makes it look like women’s soccer was de moted. Opal said she hopes im provements in the program can de velop through better avenues of communication. A member of the women’s soccer team, Maria Theologos, said she was not personally affected by Johnston’s letter. She said she was afraid, however, that Johnston might have driven away recruits because it sounded like there was no motivation to play soc cer for Texas A&M. “I hope that with a new coach there will be better communication between the coach and players, and better understanding of program regulations,” Theologos said. School (Continued from page 1) situation is a good role model.” Costa and Calvert agree that, be cause the population of Texas has become so culturally diverse, more nationalities and races should be represented in situations like this. “We’ve gone past the idea of nam ing things after heroes of the Ala mo,” Calvert said. “The celebration of the Alamo is a celebration of an older and a macho Texas. This does not reflect the diversity and condi tion of the state now.” Some members of the Bryan School Board and the local commu nity want to find another place to bear Travis’ name. At a press conference Thursday, Lou Zaeske, founder of the Ameri can Ethnic Coalition and a Texas Senate candidate, offered a solution to repair the “ungracious, ungrate ful and unconscionable disparaging of William Barret Travis.” He sug gested that the Bryan School Board rename Bryan High School to Wil liam Barret Travis High School. “Notwithstanding the fact that Travis was estranged from his wife, having left her in Alabama with his comfortable bank account . . . and, notwithstanding the fact that Travis owned slaves, as did many in his day, William Barret Travis is a hero of the Texas Revolution,” Zaeske said. “A Bryan public school should con tinue to be named in his honor.” Travis Bryan Jr., a member of the Bryan School Board and a descen dant of Travis, will introduce a dif ferent solution at the next board meeting, he said. “We should change the name of the new junior high school, which nobody’s ever set foot in, from Sam Rayburn to William Barret Travis Junior High School,” Bryan said. “Then we can rename the Bryan School Administration Building the Sam Rayburn Building. 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Lawana Rodgers, assistant man ager of Waldenbooks in Post Oak Mall, said the store has seen dra matic increases in sales of Batman material since last year. “Since the news release of the out come of the movie in November, up until March, we had an increase of approximately 25 percent,” Rodgers said. “Since Batman has been re leased, we sell approximately 50 CarePlus^fft Presents Roc, The Good Doc tALM-PL**. “Classic case of orientation dis-orientation” CarePlus Medical Center can take the confusion out of orientation for you new Aggies. Our variety of services includes routine checkups and physicals, minor emergency care, eye injuries, immuni zations, female exams, sports injuries, and colds and flu treatment. We even have a pharmacy on site, so you don’t have to make another stop for prescriptions. Plus, A&M students, faculty and staff receive a 10% discount at CarePlus Medical Center. Come to CarePlus Medical Center for all your medical needs. We’ll orient you to quality care, plus value and convenience. CarePlus^fff 1712 Southwest Parkway College Station, TX 77840 Medical 696-0683 books related to it per day. That’s all been since last Friday.” Rodgers said Batman-related items that Waldenbooks has in stock include “Batman: The Making of the Movie,” a large paperback which she said was the store’s biggest Bat man-related seller so far, comic books, pins, graphic novels, fiction books and bookmarks. Rodgers said the movie is respon sible for the increase in sales. “I’d say the movie is making all the Batman items so popular,” she said. “We have books and things which mark (this year’s 50th anni versary of the Batman character), but what really boosts sales is the movie. Karate Kid III is out, too, and the book is selling like wildfire.” Waldenbooks will continue to sell Batman items long after the hype surrounding the movie has gone, Rodgers said. “I think it will keep going because they keep coming out with a lot more Batman books,” she said. “People are always looking for some thing different. The book always lasts longer than the movie. We still sell Star Trek books on a regular ba sis. Even if the movie had been a tiop, we still would have sold a lot of books.” Jones said he thinks the interest in Batman will subside in time, but may start again if a sequel to the movie is made. “It will eventually slow down,” Jones said. “There’ll come a point where some of the old comics just aren’t available, or they’ll reach the point where people say, ‘No, that’s just too much.’ They might come to a point, with all the Batman T-shirts, pins, toothbrushes and so on, where people just get saturated.” David Reed, assistant manager of Camelot Records in Post Oak Mall, said the store has been selling out its supply of the new Batman compact disc by Prince as soon as they’ve been getting them. “We’ve been selling everything we’ve got as soon as we’ve gotten it,” Reed said. “I guess that says some thing for the success of the movie.” A spokesman from Hasting’s Books, Records and Tapes said they’ve had great success with the selling of the compact disc. 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