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Flournoy took part in a home school program for six years be fore she started her college edu cation at the age of 15 in a Lufkin community college. At the age of 16, Flournoy en tered Taylor Christian College in Indiana and stayed for a semester before transferring to A&M in the fall of 1991. Flournoy said she chose A&M because even though she wanted to go to a private Christ ian school, she was responsible for paying for her education. She knew a state school would be cheaper, and A&M had a good business college and a good reputation. In the three years Flournoy has been at A&M, she has been a member of the A&M Tennis Team and a member in the man agement society and the manage ment honors fraternity. Though Flournoy will not stay at A&M to work on a mas ter's degree, she and her fiancee As a res 1 rgoposa have' discussed returnii!; l fj as created A&M in a couple of yeai students w they can both earn their % ca m P u s to at the same time. business. "I'm kind of at the stage, "Student now where 1 am burnede R| ae P ar , Flournoy said. "But, it's a de:P a3S W1 1 possibility in a few years.v. ancee says he may want tor;:! I to A&M for graduate work,' After graduation, will move back to Lufkins hopes to get a marketing or counting job at a local products corporation. She also get married in February. INIVERS Northga Galveston beer merchants criticize alcohol ban as illeg The Associated Press GALVESTON — Restrictions on the use of alcohol on Galveston beaches are under attack by a group that includes store owners and beer distributors. Organizers of an effort to repeal the ban call it illegal and bad for business. A.R. Lucas, who owns three convenience stores on the island, said constraints cost him $5,000 in beer sales and $10,000 in other sales in June alone, when the restrictions went into effect. ■"It is blatantly against the law/' he said Wednesday at a meeting of about a dozen peo ple held at the offices of a beer distributor. City officials have credited the ban for re ducing rowdiness and crime on beaches and "I feel the ban of alcohol is illegal and the city fathers should not have the authority to break the law." -Ron Yandell, local sales manager AGGIE ^ insist they'll enforce it on the island's 32 miles of beachfront. "What we've seen is that the alcohol ban has worked," Mayor Barbara Crews told the Houston Chronicle. "It's reduced weekend problems almost 100 percent on the west end of Galveston Island," Police Chief Dale Rogers said. "It has really eliminated accidents, gunshots being fired, fights and the traffic tie-ups caused by young people who went to the west end of theis to drink on the beach." Rogers noted that drinking is still all on certain beaches, including a stretch ol beach extending for more than four miles Organizers of Wednesday's meeting sal: may take the ban to court and will ask the Alcoholic Beverage Commission and other agencies to press the city council to snap it "I feel the ban of alcohol is illegalaa; city fathers should not have the authon: break the law," Ron Yandell, sales m for Del Papa Distributing Co. Inc. said. City officials passed a drinking ban Galveston seawall in 1988 but didn’t enforcing it until two years later in res] to increased drunkenness and violence, A computer mputer to lil ke and a fa 1 A terriffic Ch randparents feeds a lift!! Only *1 MESA 260 P.O. Box 86! 1-1 VISAS. For over 40 years we have been uniting students and organizations. Sunday, January 23, 1994 2-6 p.m. Registration Deadline is January 18, 1993. For more information call 845-7627 or come by the Student Programs Office and see IVIancy Adams. 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