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TANK! Outdoors . Sign Up and Begin Your Adventure Today 'Students and Facility with Rec Memberships. Non-rec membership trip prices available at the TAMU Outdoor office or call 845-451L Rock Climbing Sept. 27-29 Learn to climb and enjoy a weekend looking at the world from high above at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. Register at TAMU Outdoors today. Basic Outdoor First Aid Sept. 30, Oct. 1&3, 6-10pm Learn basic knowledge of first aid in the outdoors with Rec Sports. Class offers instruction in first aid for burns, poisoning, and other medical emergencies. Register at TAXfU Outdoors, located behind the Student Recreation C en terfacing Olsen l-'ield l-'or more information, please call R-15-4511 Visa. MasterCard. American Express, Discover <K- Aggie Rucks are accepted. Pagi Monday • Septemberl( f Thai Continued from Page 1 one of the event’s highlights. The soccer tournament ended in a three-way tie, but the held at A&M three years ago. Metinee Srivatanakul, a plant physiology graduate student, said she looks forward to the tournament each year. “I’m really looking forward to the whole day,” she said. “We’ve been waiting for it and prepar ing for it for about three or four months.” Organizers expected 100 stu dents to attended the game, but that estimate fell short as an esti mated 120 flocked to the campus. The sports competition was “Last year in Houston, we won every tour nament.” Ekasit Kitisakchaikuz ISA president University of Houston won the tie-breaker later at the closing banquet in the Memorial Student Center. Sood Naphuket, IS; president and an eng® graduate student, salt decided on a tie-breakei banquet because of the nature of the competitioe “We had the girls froa city kick a tennis ballintj and Houston won that,'] “It was all for fun.” A&M won both the v and basketball tournamec year, A&M won all three ett Ekasit Kitisakchaikuz, ident and an industrial engi graduate student, said he A&M would come out onto’ "Last year in Houston, every tournament,” he hope we can do it again.' uay »r R Melanie D. S The Battalic rmer Vice Pr Small town tries to boost econo^'^ 11 ^- LEFORS, TSxas (AP) — Since the oil bust hit a decade ago, there’s not much left in this Texas Panhandle town. A couple of swimming holes keep the few kids still here entertained in the summer and, on Thursdays, the senior citizens’ club serves a mean potluck lunch. Watching a good thunderstorm blow across the rolling plains always makes for an entertaining afternoon. But that’s about it. When the oil wells were capped and the workers moved out, Lefors lost two grocery stores, a bowling alley, a bar and one-third of its population. Only about 600 people remain, and enrollment is so low that the local school is in danger of closing. So, with ingenuity born of desperation, School Superintendent Norman Baxter and Mayor Bob James came up with a plan over coffee one morn ing: People could write in and, if they were lucky enough, they just might end up with a piece of Lefors — for nothing. Twelve vacant lots that failed to sell at auction — worth roughly $150 to $400 apiece — are up for grabs in a drawing Oct. 14. The only requirement is that each winner put a trailer on the lot or begin con struction on a house within six months. Before the deadline passed for entries last month, more than 480 postcards streamed in from as far away as California and Maine. Baxter and James are crossing their fingers that the gimmick will attract young families, restaura teurs and other wholesome, friendly folk. “We make no discrimination,” James says. “Of course, we’d like people with 18 or 20 kids.” But what Lefors wants and what Lefors gets could be two very different things. Meet, for example, applicant Becky Bremmer. She lives with her husband in a trailer home south of nearby Amarillo. Both are in their 50s and don’t work because of disabilities. “We want to get farther away from our Mrs. Bremmer says. “I want to say no wha ask me to baby-sit.” Then there’s Susan Daughety, a Dallas m up with traffic and crowds who doesn't cramped quarters of her trailer home park. “Kids play ball here and keep hitting and I have to keep yelling at them,” she says, feel like 1 need a lot of other people to getali Not exactly kid-friendly, young families. If history is destined to repeat itself, in last thing Lefors will get is the June “I wish them well, but it’s not going to work. It’s doomed to fail.” William W. Savage Jr. University of Oklahoma history professor Quayle speaks i. Cleavers of the world. “I wish them well, but it’s not going to woi doomed to fail,” says William W. Savage Jr., a professor at the University of Oklahoma. “They think they’re going to attract the class, people with money to invest, people whs going to add something. The historical that just the opposite is going to happen.’ A century ago, during the land runs Oklahoma homesteading, most peopleluredto free land were “bums and losers” who w something for nothing, Savage notes. And Itl he warns, shouldn’t expect any better. iport Saud 'ASHINGTON (A iy the Pentagon ; manders to focr contributed to tl te bombing in S 19 U.S. airi trdingto a task ased Monday, n response, Defer iiam Perry ordere< ther any Air Fore uldbe court-mart resident Clinton Grand Canyon Sept. 27-29 Backpacking $465* Join TAMU Outdoors in an awesome backpacking adventure to the Grand Canyon during the Thanksgiving holiday. Hike through a vast array of rock formations, colors, and climatic zones. T^ke A Gr^nd AdventHrS TAMU Outdoor Fall Schedule Event Date Rating Register Fee*/** • Intro Rock Climbing Sept 21 B Sept. 2-17 $25 • Kayak Roll Clinic Sept 24 B Sept. 9-23 $12/15 • Rock Climbing Trip Sept 27-29 B Sept. 9-23 $59/70 • Day Canoe Trip Sept 28 B Sept. 9-23 $28/33 »Basic Outdoor Sept 30, B Sept. 2-23 $40/48 First Aid Oct. . 3 •SCUBA-Open Water, Oct. 1-3, B Sept. 9-30 $150/180 Diver Course 8-10 12-13 • Kayak Workshop Oct. 5-6 B Sept. 16-30 $54/64 • Intro Rock Climbing Oct. 12 B Sept. 23-Oct.e $25 •Students & faculty with Rec Memberships acuity/staff without Rec Memberships and Bryan/College Station Community Members Irip Hating: (BJRegmner-requires no previous experience in the activity (1) Intermediate-renuires prior experience and/or instruction Intramurals Indoor Water Polo More Than Just Fun and Games Register Today And Get In The Game You've never felt so good* Relax, it's almost here at the Rec Intramural Registratioa Dates Soort Registration Ess „ j | 1 Table Tennis Sept. 9-1 7 Free innertube Water Polo Sept. 9-1 7 $20 i 1 Racquetball Sept. 9-1 7 $s Handball Sept. 9-1 7 Free | Tennis Sept. 16-24 Free Horseshoes Sept. 16-24 Free 1 Go,f Sept. 1 6-Oct. 1 Green | Fee '“' ’ 1 Pre Season Indoor Volleyball Sept. 23-Oct. 1 $5 Grab your tube and head for the Natatorium for a wet and wild intramural game of indoor water polo. Dive into the action today. Racquetball Strap on those goolges and get ready for some hard hitting intramural racquetball competition. Sign up Today or Tomorrow a the Rec Center. Don't be Late--get your team signed up now! Sponsored by McDonalds Aggie Bucks' Accepted At These Locations: •University Drive •Southwest Parkway •George Bush Drive All Open 24 hours $50 /sem. Unlimited Aerobics “I think we n Jo a great de lore to prot young men s iomen.” Rec Center Aerobics. Come tool free classes or purchase a pass to the classes you want. Unlimited Semester Pass $50 30 Class Punch Pass 20 Class Punch Pass 10 Class Punch Pass One Class Pass Newt Gingr Speaker of the Feature Programs American Taekwondo for Free iiPMttas "unvarnis Jflywjfcitfo ward. Ml pe intend to do * an” to protect tr Clinton said. “ fegressively imple rt.” ouse Speaker Nei L, campaigning i I accused the Clir (ion of being “c in its approact leans from terror think we need t< more to protect and women,” he focus of Perry’s r Classes begin September 16 and meet Mow Wednesday at 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Tuesdaf kftcfbe Air Fore day 7:00-8:00 p.m. room 134 Rec Center Classes Free the first week! Jazz Dance i J. “Terry” Schv der of the 4404tl ifficer responsibh :y of the roughly Classes begin September 23 and meet MoW' Wednesday at 5:20p.m.-6:20p.m. and M at 4:15p.m.-5:15p.m. in room 303 RecCe Class sessions are only $ 15. Students can up to 3 classes a week during a class se$S| e Battali TODA Golf Lessons Clinics for both beginner and intermed St Kick I' golfers begin September 23, 25, 30, & Otf 2, 6:30-7:30p.m. Clinics will be held at Pent# Golf Range. Costs are $25 for Rec Members' , n r j n t P . Arn ; nQ $30 for A&M Faculty/Staff Non-Memtif Participants must provide their own clubs') will be provided. Help Wanted Jitterbug & Two Step Instructon finds a life in t and punching Aggielife, Pa Pick up an application at the Rec Spors office or Member Serve# located in the Rec Center or call DeAun Woosley at 862-3W.' the Clutt Find out more about Rec Sports Feature Programs by corritf Rec Center Member Services Desk or calling DeAun Woostep 3995. 1 George Bush Drive Location Now Open! Specials Good Anytime At All Bryan/College Station McDonalds •Two Apple Pies $ t •Ten Pound Bag of Ice 79< \ l Sport Clubs Try-Outs Men's Club Volleyball try-outs for ‘96-'97 season will be held Sept. 16-18 from 8:00-10:00p.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum, Contact Jon Rye (862-4294) or Brian Lilly (846-7814). y Aggie nettei tie Smedsrud ting accolade h's go-to play' Sports, Pa iiV- Refills for McDonald Mugs 49<t Free Refill On All Drinks (Dine In Customers only) Open Practice Wrestling Club Practice will begin on Sept. 12 at 260 G. Rollie White from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and continue every Monday through Thursday. Contact Ross (696-8232) or John Paul (847-4597) for more information. Men's Lacrosse Practice will be held Monday through Friday from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Zachry Field. y Marriai dwin: Homos 'Uples should tube legal rigl arry. Opinion, Pag