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12TH MAN Orga n iza tional Meeting 5:15 p.m. MARCH 19 Kyle Field Dressing Room 1990 Aggielands Are Available If you ordered a 1990 Aggieland and haven't picked it up, stop by the English Annex between 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Yearbooks will not be held and refunds will not be made on books not picked up during the academic year in which they are published. /T ULCERATIVE COLITIS Do you have physician diagnosed ulcerative colitis? VIP Research is seeking individuals for a one month research study. A $400.00 incentive will be paid to those who enroll and complete this study. CALL VOLUNTEERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH, INC.* 776-1417 HEARTBURN STUDY Do you experience heartburn after eating certain foods? VIP Research is seeking individuals for a short-term research study of a currently available medication. A $150.00 incentive will be paid to those who enroll and complete this study. CALL VOLUNTEERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH, INC.® 1 776-1417 Page 6 The Battalion Do Something Exciting This Summer and Earn Credit for it! STUDY ABROAD Spend Six Weeks Studying in ITALY, GERMANY or DOMINICA For information contact: ITALY - Dr. Joe Hutchinson 845-0584 GERMANY - Dr. Arnold Krammer 845-7108 DOMINICA - Dr. Doug Slack 845-5777 First American Bank Welcomes The Customers Of United Citizens Bank First American Bank has just had an addition to its family of customers. United Citizens Bank is now part of First American. As in any family, our customers want to feel secure that the home for their money is protected by a strong financial institution. We know you have worked hard to make your money and you want a bank that works hard for you. First American Bank has been rated “A” for the second consecutive year by Sheshunoflf Information Services Inc. First American has family ties right here in Bryan/College Station. We are owned and managed by people who call this community their home. And management decisions are made locally, the way hometown banking should be done. United Citizens Bank customers will find that it will be ‘business as usual” under the First American name. Checks under the former bank’s name will be honored. Our family tree has deep roots in our two cities and Texas A&M University. We are committed to our community by keeping your deposits working for you locally. The Family of First American means more than just lending, checking, and savings. We promise a commitment to our customers to provide personal and professional banking services. This is the pledge we give to our new United Citizens Bank customers... as we do to all our loyal customers. Maybe that’s why more and more families in Bryan/College Station are coming home to First American. Supporting the Community Main Office: 1111 Briarcrest Drive • Convenience Center: 1660 Briarcrest Drive Downtown Drive-In Facility: 27th and Houston Streets • University Center: 711 University Drive • Member FDIC Friday, March 8,1991 Refinery fire injures five; origin unknown LEFORS (AP) — An explosion and fire at a refinery Thursday in jured five workers, one critically. The blast of undetermined origin hit the Phillips Petroleum Grayco booster station shortly after 10 a.m., and at least one of the victims was hurled as much as 30 feet in the air, police reports indicated. “We had an explosion and fire at our booster station,” said Milan Westenskow, administration super visor for Phillips in Pampa. “The situation is now under con trol,” he said. Lefors is about 15 miles southeast of Pampa and 50 miles northeast of Amarillo. Gage . Continued from page 1 financial aid sources. “We are telling these students, ‘There will be a way for you to go to college. We will help you,’ ” Gage said. Once minority students enroll at A&M, Gage said, they have a better chance of advancing through the University than at other Texas schools. Nationwide, the number of grad uate students has fallen, particularly domestic graduate students. But A&M’s ratio of graduate students to undergraduates increases 1 to 2 per cent yearly. Money magazine ranks A&M 11th in the nation in best college buys. Gage said these gains are chal lenged by the University’s growth, which cannot be allowed to exceed 41,000 students. The large 1987 freshman class that placed enormous strains on the University still taxes its resources in 1991, Gage said. Most of that year’s freshman class are now seniors. “It took every resource and dollar we could find to staff and to teach the curriculum we offered to stu dents when they decided to come to A&M,” Gage said. “It’s time to start building back the infrastructure,” Gage said. “That means more tenured positions.” If an enrollment plan had not been instituted, A&M’s enrollment was projected to have topped 60,000 by the year 2000. Texas A&M now ranks as the sev enth largest university in the United States. With enrollment capped, the Uni versity can now concentrate more on providing a better education to the undergraduates already enrolled, Gage said. Resources can also be devoted to increase the number of graduate students from 19 percent to 25 per cent of total enrollment. The quality of undergraduate ed ucation also depends on A&M’s abil ity to attract honor students and na tional merit scholars, many of whom enter graduate school or profes sional fields like law and medicine. Schulte— Continued from page5 average,” Schulte said. “I hit. 191 my freshman year, and .200 something my sophomore year, and this being my junior year. I’m hoping to hit that .300 mark.” Her No. 1 goal, however, is to reach playoffs and to win the Na tional Championship as a team. “As far as the personal stats go, they’re great, hut what’s really im portant is when the team needs me, that I’m there,” she said. “I want to be a team player.” Ball playing is a team sport for the Schulte family. Stephanie has a younger brother, John, playing mi nor league baseball in the Pittsburgh Pirates system, and both her father Charles, and sister played ball in Brenham. “My parents are my biggest sup porters, and they seldom miss a game,” Schulte said. “A lot of parents try to live through their children,” Schulte said. “But my dad was never one to make me play, he’d always askmeil I wanted to go out and practice.” She said being mentally tough isa big part of it too, and that you need to be up all the time while playing ball. “I try to give 110 percent even time,” Schulte said. “I’m not one to come out there and say well, todays just going to be a bad day.” When she does get free tintf Schulte said she likes to go out, M she also likes to go home (to Bren ham) as much as possible. Mainly^ cause when she is in season slit doesn’t get to spend much time wilt her family. Schulte thinks this year’s team looks solid and that they are finally^ complete team. As far as individual goals, Schulk said her dream is to be an All-Amer 1 can, although she is not sure shew! attain it. “Sometimes I sit and wonder, n this as good as I’m going to get, nj do I have even further potential' Schulte said. “I guess I’m going’ 1 ’ have to be patient and see whattw future holds.”