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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.”
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By TRACEY BUCHANAN
Battalion Reporter
A dwindling supply of students
in engineering doctoral degree
programs is a key national crisis,
says Dr. Robert Page, dean of
Texas A&M’s College of En
gineering.
High salaries, which are offered
to persons holding all levels of en
gineering degrees, lure engineers
away from continuing studies, he
said. 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
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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.