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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1981 Page 7 Local 1 rts, Lacey tamatical ■73-to-l; ath began 70s, when acey said, 1 common siphoned ajoring in ith nowa- ie said, waged in ield - a Concrete will replace Prarie Film in heavy traffic areas Grounds department works to improve sidewalks By DAVID CALVERT Battalion Reporter If you have ever stubbed your toe or ruined the rim of your licycle wheel going through one of those craters in the peb- >ly-surfaced sidewalks on the Texas A&M University campus, you have been introduced to Prarie Film. (Yes, that’s the way the company spells it.) The Texas A&M Department of Grounds Maintenance, however, is changing the use of the epoxy-rock in hopes of improving the material. Prarie Film is used because it allows air and water to reach ic root system of trees, said Eugene Ray, director of grounds laintenance. He said there are around 2,000 live oak trees on campus that benefit from the material. Ray said the department is in the process of patching and replacing the bad sections. “We are taking out the epoxy-rock material and replacing it with harder concrete in places where pedestrian traffic is heaviest,” he said. Ray said he suspected the problems with Prarie Film surfaced because contractors who originally laid the material did not follow exact specifications. The epoxy-rock must be mixed precisely as indicated in its instructions or the mix will not cure correctly, Ray said. Ray also said crushed limestone is called for as a base for Prarie Film. The architectural engineers felt limestone was too expensive and they substituted washed gravel instead. Washed gravel does not provide the same stable support that crushed limestone does, Ray said. Ray also said Prarie Film was probably used too much when it was first developed. “The epoxy-rock must be considered as an aid to trees,” he said. “It was not developed as a total sidewalk material.” Ray said the epoxy-rock was developed and manufactured in Illinois and is marketed by a retail firm in Fort Worth. He also said the epoxy-rock costs nearly twice as much as concrete due to more materials and handling. This cost, however, is offset by the benefits trees get from Prarie Film. Ray said there have been fewer problems with Prarie Film since 1976 when the grounds department took over its instal lation. This was due to the department using the correct materials and following instructions. “Anything that has gone wrong with the Prarie Film since we started putting it in has been due to something we did wrong,” he said.” Ray said although the repairs were an inconvenience to students, they had to be made now. “The epoxy-rock has to be installed when the average temperature is at least 55 degrees, but we prefer to work with it when it is in the 60s,” he said. “This eliminates making the repairs during Christmas break.” IPONS! Midget mghorw CM I SAliWAY YOU'LL FIND AN EXPRESS CHECKSTAND OPEN FROM 8:00 AM UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR 9 ITEMS OR LESS! • • - • Engineering doctorates decreasing SHF Beverage Co. El Paso, Texas Pepsi, [Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Light or IMountain Dew Granola Bran Breads PHOTO & GIFT DEPT. Tax-Return Helpers! 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The result is a shortage of peo ple with doctorates in engineering and a critical shortage of engineer ing professors. “We don’t have attractive gra duate fellowships to compete with the salary offers (of industries),” Page said. “Unless we can offer a fellowship to them that pays at least half of the salary they can get in industry, they probably will not accept the fellowship, unless there’s some unusual circumst ance. ” Currently most engineering schools are offering fellowships that are about one-fourth of the starting salaries industries offer, he said. In 1980 engineering graduates with doctoral degrees averaged a monthly starting salary of $2,500, the Engineering Manpower Com mission reported. Graduates with master s degrees,, m ; engineering averaged $1,900 monthly and gra duates with bachelor’s degrees av eraged $1,700 monthly. In the fall of 1980, 1,800 to 2,000 positions for engineers with docto rates were unfilled in the United States, Page said. The number of students study ing for doctoral degrees in en gineering reached its peak in about 1972, he said. From 1972 to 1980 the number of persons holding en gineering doctoral degrees drop ped from 3,700 to 2,700, a 27 per cent decrease. Page said. And ab out 1,000 of the 2,700 doctoral de grees were held by foreign stu dents who returned to their own countries. “The industry is so anxious to get the graduates at the bachelor’s level that sometimes they forget that they need the upper-level gra duates, too,” Page said. About two-thirds of the gradu ates with doctorates go into indust rial work and one-third go into the academic area. Page said. Since doctoral degrees are essential for engineering professors, a crucial shortage of engineering teachers also exists. Page is preparing a report about the shortage for the General Accounting Office of the federal government, because they recog nize there is a problem, he said. Professional societies, congress men and even industries admit a problem exists and corrective ac tion is needed. Even if the number of people working for doctoral degrees in en gineering increases soon, the prob lem will persist for at least three to four years. Page said. It takes that long to get the degree. Chicken fan robs store seven times United Pres* Entemational NEW ORLEANS — For James Lacy, robbing the Jim Dandy Fried Chicken store in New Orleans was like “taking candy from a baby,” police said. And it was — until he got caught. Lacy, 38, has been charged with robbing the restaurant on seven different occasions. The amounts ranged from $37 to $136.32. Business was so good for the robber that last Wednesday he hit the restaurant twice. At 4 p.m. he got $50, then at 7:05 p.m. he got $64.89, said the police report. Police said they saw Lacy leaving the restaurant Friday with a ba^fe^fe’S^Bf^Fasid a gun in the other.