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Seven operators to serve you Theresa - Marti - April Jennifer - Mary 846-0629 Open Mon. - Fri. 8-5 Located in the basement of the Memorial Student Center BRING VOIIR APPrnTE INTO APPLEBEE’S LATE NIGHT T AT IT $1.00 Domestic Drafts 1/2 Price Munchies Sundays: 8 - Close Monday - Thursday: 9 - Close Friday - Saturday: 10 - Close 200 Texas Ave. • College Station • (409) 260-3003 I Hpplebee’s M oi >. <1 C/5 University CT3 X .0J Tower 1 1— University Ave. Neighborhood Grill & Bar Student Rec Center set to open Aug. 2 □ The $36.4 million complex will provide jobs and recreation for A&M students. Staff and Wire Reports On Aug. 26, Texas A&M stu dents will finally get to see what all the hype — and the ex tra $50 on their fee statements — is all about. On the Saturday before fall classes begin, the Student Recre ation Center will open its doors for the first time. “What we’ve planned to do is give the keys to the building to the student body president (Toby Boeing), who will then dedicate the building to the students,” Assistant Director of Recreation al Sports Judy Reising said. “This will start at 6 p.m., and the students will pretty much have the run of the place until about 2 a.m.” Construction began on the center in 1994, but the opening has been delayed several times because of various problems. The $36.4 million building takes up 286,000 square feet on A&M’s West Campus and is ad jacent to Olsen Field. The $50-per-semester fee en titles A&M students the use of nearly everything in the complex from 6 a.m. to midnight on weekdays and from 10 a.m. to midnight on weekends. “Use of lockers, along with the exercise classes will cost additional,” Reising said. “However on Monday through Saturday, we will offer one free exercise class for students who don’t have the time or money to make the other classes.” One of the most prominent features of the center is the natato- rium, which will be the new home for the Texas A&M Men’s and Wom en’s Swimming and Diving Teams. The natatorium is comprised of a 50-me ter, eight-lane competi tion pool, a 17-foot deep diving pool with 1-, 3-, 5-, 7 and 1/2- and IO meter platforms. The natatorium has 1,300 seats and room for up to 1,200 additional tempo rary seats. The Student Recre- The nearly-completed natatorium at the Student ational Center will A&M Swimming and Diving Teams and host the host the 1996 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships. Reising said the athletic department is in the process of courting several other tournaments for the natatorium. The center will offer some thing for everyone, regardless of what sport they enjoy. On the third floor of the fa cility is a 1/4-mile, four-lane track for walking and jogging. At the front of the facility, the track passes next to an obser vational window that overlooks Olsen Field. A&M’s first permanent rock- climbing wall is located inside the center and allows students to climb four stories with the help of handholds and A 42-foot tall rock climbing wall is part of the new Student Recreational Center. footholds. Students must pass a skills test before attempting to climb. For more conventional sporting areas, there are eight multipurpose gyms for basket ball, volleyball, soccer and bad minton, along with 12 racquet- ball courts. In the outside activity area, there are four sand volleyball courts and several basketball courts, all with fiberglass back- boards. Currently, all intramural games are held in the Read Building and G. Rollie White Coliseum. Reising said the plan is to move ‘A’ and ‘B’ intramural leagues to the new facility while ‘C’ and ‘D’ will remain at Read and G. Rollie White. “We feel this will encourage more people to join intramu rals to have a chance to play in the new building and encour age people to play in a higher bracket,” Reising said. The center also houses one 50-seat and one 150-seat classroom on the second floor. It has four 2,000- square-foot activity rooms | and a large special events room with a seating ca pacity for a 430-person banquet. Fully-equipped locker rooms are available on the first floor, along with staff offices for coaches, lifeguards and pool personnel. For those into lighter activity, the first floor houses several areas video games with Photos courtesyok, Recreational Center willb Big 12 Championships in games, board games a.' , tennis. A snack area: cepts Aggie Bucks will: as well as a retail sar for clothing and sport • ment. Perhaps the most:, sive part of the new the 14,000-square-foo'i; and fitness room. The fers machine weigh:* weights and cardiovd equipment. A very special feato - locker rooms is what is * as the family changing: “This is helpful es;‘. for graduate student' families,” Reising said ' father brings his dac • swim, he can helpcha::* swimming suit in thisr: stead of having to take:. the men’s locker room can be used by caretai people with disabilities Not only does the rtf J ter provide students cj' ty of opportunities fr: ational activity, butital* vides them with another for working on campus. The Recreational' 1 Department currentlyis' applications for mors 200 jobs at the center ing workers for the:* ics department, eqiii: room attendants an ' leaders. Trip leaders work' junction with the TAM doors program whichf- variety of clinics, won and trips that vary it and destination. 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