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Battalion R e g u l a tors estimate $2 billion
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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. Most of the subsidy comes from covering losses on
the failed banks’ $3 billion to $3.5 billion in sour com
mercial real estate loans.
The FDIC will be part owner of Bank One Texas for
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of everyone involved in the program
and put responsibility on each per
son,” she said.
In her letter, Johnston said she
had hoped A&M would upgrade the
women’s soccer program to full var
sity status. Currently the team is a
Varsity Level II program.
“The Varsity II program was de
signed to meet a specific need, which
was to enable student-athletes to
participate in an NCAA sport,” Opal
said.
“But the funding sources would
not be equal or equitable to what a
full-supported team would be.”
The A&M rifle team is the only
other Varsity II sport.
The Athletic Department’s only
responsibility to the women’s soccer
team is to make sure it meets NCAA
requirements. 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
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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
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off into the sunset and live happily
ever after.”
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Now all of a sudden this man is an
avenger — you don’t mess with
him.”
Jones said Bobbi’s Books had sev
eral old Batman comic books which
dated back to the early 1950s that
cost about $45 each. Last Friday, a
mar^ came into the store and pur
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Jones said he had four Batman
comic books from that same time pe
riod that he put on the shelf after
the man left, and they too were all
sold by Monday night.
He said back issues of Batman
comic books are becoming hard to
find because collectors have been
buying them up since the start of the
character’s new popularity.
Lawana Rodgers, assistant man
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material since last year.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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we’ve got as soon as we’ve gotten it,”
Reed said. “I guess that says some
thing for the success of the movie.”
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they’ve had great success with the
selling of the compact disc. She said
they sold out their entire first ship
ment, which was about two weeks
ago.
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