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State and local
Thursday, January 24, 1991
The Battalion
A&M program
offers solutions
to campus stress
Activities available year-round
BylSSELLE MCALLISTER
| Of The Battalion Staff
I Exams, term papers and campus
parking can be mind-numbing and
; muscle-tensing experiences for
1 Texas A&M students, but there is a
I solution for those affected by stress
-recreational activities.
Students, faculty members, staff
| and their families can take advan-
| age of the programs and services
] available year-round at the Depart
ment of Recreational Sports.
I To participate, students must be
presently enrolled and have a valid
| student ID.
1 Faculty members and staff can
purchase recreation passes for $10 a
a year. Passes for their families are
1 $20 a year.
A&M facilities are less expensive
j than other local outfits, says Judy
| Steffes, assistant director of recre-
1 ational sports.
Fitness classes are offered at seve-
| ral levels, from beginning to ad-
] vanced, and require a registration
j fee. Classes are offered several times
| aweek throughout the semester.
Those with a competitive nature
I can participate in intramural sports.
More than 70 competitive tourna-
I ments are conducted in a variety of
j sports at levels for the serious to the
I recreational competitor, Steffes says.
Participants must comply with the
1 rules of eligibility available at the
I recreational sports office in i59
Read Building oehind Kyle Field.
Adventurers can go backpacking,
canoeing, kayaking, rock climbing,
skiing and take trips offered by
TAMU Outdoors.
Trips are planned periodically
throughout the semester. Each ex
cursion generally has a registration
fee to cover the cost of equipment,
transportation and guides.
Athletic equipment also is avail
able for checkout, rental and pur
chase. Stop watches, megaphones,
rackets, balls and even tug-of-war
ropes can be checked out at windows
in the Read Building or DeWare
Fieldhouse.
DeWare Fieldhouse courts are
open from noon to 1 p.m. and 5 to
11 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The courts are available from 10
a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sun-
, day.
Courts are available hourly and
can be reserved one day in advance.
Read Building and G. Rollie
White Coliseum courts also can be
reserved. They are open from 6 to 8
a.m., noon to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to
midnight Monday through Friday.
The DeWare weight room is avail
able on a first-come, first-serve basis.
It is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on
weekdays and noon to 8 p.m. Satur
day and Sunday.
Tennis courts are open on a first-
come, first-serve basis from 5 p.m. to
midnight Monday through Friday
and 8 a.m. to midnight on weekends.
The driving range, which cannot
be reserved, also is available from 3
to 6 p.m. Monday through T hurs
day, noon to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6
p.m. Sunday.
For further information about
recreational court and gym availabil
ity, call the REC hotline at 845-0737.
Tie a yellow ribbon..
MIKE C. MULVEY/The Battalion
A KBTX Channel 3 camera man interviews a war supporter at a dreds of Bryan-College Station residents attended the event
yellow ribbon handout in the parking lot of Post Oak Mall. Hun- sponsored by KKYS, KTAM, AGGIE 96 and other media
Official indicted on charges of falsifying records
McALLEN (AP) — The board
E resident of South Texas School
'istrict has been indicted on charges
he falsified records of a govern
ment-funded day care center that he
had directed.
Romeo M. Villarreal was indicted
Tuesday by a federal grand jury on
eight counts in connection with al
leged irregularities at El Tule Dav
Care Center in Edinburg. Villarreal
directed the city-operated center
from 1979 to 1987.
He is accused of recruiting ineli
gible, non-indigent families and
coaching them to falsify financial ap
plication forms, Assistant U.S. Attor
ney Jack Wolfe said.
Wolfe said falsified applications
resulted in the loss of about
$250,000 in state funding.
“I feel I didn’t do anything
wrong,” Villarreal said. “There was
no gain for me, monetarily or in any
way.”
He said parents may have pro
vided false information that the day
care staff did not know about. Villar
real faces a maximum of five years in
prison and a $250,000 fine on each
count.
Federal charges were filed be
cause the funding in question origi
nated from the U.S. Departmenl of
Health and Human Services.
Wolfe said a routine state audit of
El Tule in 1987 prompted a three-
year probe that resulted in Villar
real’s indictment.
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