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Box 50397 Dallas, TX 75250 PS/2 Rules "Take No Survivors" Basketball Tournament Registration will open September 5th and close September 19th at the Micro Computer Center from 9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. Look for registration tables at Sbisa Dining Hall the 12th - 14th. Registration fee - $15 per team. Register for prizes to be given away at the IBM FAIR September 25th-26th MSC Room 212 From 9:00a.m. - 4:30p.m. 3 ON 3 TOURNAMENT 22&23 OF SEPTEMBER M icroComputerCenter ComputerSaks and Supplies l Located on the main floor of the Memorial Student Center Monday thru Friday 7:45a.m. - 6:00p.m. (409) 845-4081 For more information contact Frank Munoz at 845-4081 Homestead Savings Extends Drive Thru Banking Hours Homestead Savings Association has extended its drive thru banking hours for the College Station office, President William F. Phillips Jr. announced recently. “We added four hours a day to the drive in schedule to accommodate the busy schedules of our regular custom ers,” Phillips said. “Continued growth of the home office traffic also played a part in the decision,” he added. The College Station banker noted that Homestead was growing at a time when many financial institutions were having problems. “Homestead Savings continues to grow and continues to show profits for its shareholders,” he pointed out. “At a time when some financial institutions are offering less service, we are able to offer more.” Phillips attributed Homestead’s steady growth to a conscious manage ment decision to pick solid loan customers and offer competitive ser vices to banking customers. “Homestead is in the enviable posi tion of having a solid capital base, a portfolio of current loans and an in creasing number of banking customers. When Homestead was opened, we sought a particular customer who paid loans on time and wanted checking and savings services without frills. Those customers have stayed with us through the hard times. They have built this in stitution into a highly visible part of this community. The success of Homestead is theirs — but you can be sure that management is very proud of their ac complishments.” The new drive thru banking hours will be 8 - 6, Monday thru Friday, Phillips said. Hours for the Bryan of fice will not be changed, he reported. Homestead Savings Association oi Texas 1063 South Texas Avenue in College Station (across from TAMU) DRIVE THRU BANKING FROM 8 - 6 Monday-Friday MEMBER SAIF Locally Owned and Managed Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, September 13,1989 To one student, the 3 Rs meat reading ritin% and rodeos I I I l I I I I l K I I I I I I J When she isn’t studying, Kim Atkins prac tices breakaway calfroping. Atkins was a fi- Photo by Hardy Merit nalist in the national rodeo finals this sunv mer. By Julie Myers Of The Battalion Staff Countless horse shows and youth rodeos prepared Kim Atkins for some serious competition — at the na tional level. Atkins, a sophomore animal science major, took sev enth place in the breakaway calf roping event of the Na tional College Rodeo Finals in June in Bozeman, Mont. “I was really intimidated at first,” Atkins said. “I thought college rodeos were going to be so tough. I was happy I did so well; it was a real accomplishment.” Women’s breakaway calf roping differs from men’s calf roping in that women do not wresde the calf to the ground. The rope, which is tethered to the saddle horn, breaks off when the slack is taken up. Time stops when the rope breaks. Atkms said she prefers breakaway calf roping to other rodeo events, such as barrel racing, which she said rely too much on the horse. “Breakaway is an event with a lot of you in it — not so much your horse,” she said. Having grown up on a farm in Nacogdoches, rodeo life wasn’t far away. From the time she was “litde bitty,” Atkins participated in horse shows, which taught her balance and control. When she was about 6 years old, she began entering youth rodeos and progressed to high school competitions, where she went to the state fi nals all four years. “It taught me a lot of responsibility,” she said. “All through high school, on the weekends, I went out and rodeoed instead of going out and running around. Even now, a lot of my going-out money goes for horse feed.” Kim’s parents, who own a feed store in Nacogdoches, always have supported her efforts, she said. “My parents were not the ‘win, win, win’ types,' 1 ! said. “They taught me to be thankful for everytliir that happens to me — to be a good winner and a loser.” As a college student, Atkins compares her schediu to that of a student athlete — with the added respcr. bility of caring for a horse. “If I have an 8 o’clock class, I still have to makesiii my horse is fed before I go,” she said. “I rideandrtf every night and fit studying in somehow. All athles tt If I have an 8 o’clock class, I still have to make sure my horse is fed before I go ride and rope every night and fit studying in somehow. All athletes have to practice but I don’t know if they have to feed their horses every morning.” — Kim Atkins rodeo have to practice, but I don’t know if they have to fe their horses every morning.” Besides loss of free time, Atkins also has suffered^ injuries. She does not, however, consider kneesurjt and a calf roping accident a high price to pay fortto tivities she will eventually have to replace withajV 1 allows less free time than college. “I put off everything on the weekends to go Atkins said. “Unfortunately, it is becoming moreol reality that I won’t be able to do this to the same exit: but I’ll never quit riding.” Prison board restricts furlough policy V i AUSTIN (AP) — Despite strong objections from the state’s top prison officials, the new Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Tuesday revis ited the “Willie Horton” issue and halted furloughs for inmates who have been convicted of homicides considered “crimes of passion.” officials said the furlough program allowed to Several members of a legislative oversight committee said the board’s decision, stopping furloughs for the majority of some 420 prison trust ees, could result in more dangerous criminals being returned to the street on parole. Texas Department of Corrections — in which inmates are leave the prison system unsuper vised, usually for seven days — has an almost 100 percent success rate and is used to reward “model” in mates and manage prison over crowding. The state prison system is under court-ordered inmate limits, and when a prisoner is on furlough they are not counted in the prison pop ulation. But Criminal Justice Board mem ber Allan Polunsky of San Antonio urged the panel to exclude from the furlough program those convicted of homicides m “crimes of pass! and those who have been denied role two or more times. The Criminal Justice Board proved stopping furloughs crimes of passion inmates, 5-2, rejected Polunsky’s proposal to low furloughs to inmates who been denied parole two timesbyl 1 vote. State Rep. Allen Hightower Huntsville and chairman of House Corrections Committee, limiting the furlough program exacerbate prison overcrowding put more dangerous crimin; the street. 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