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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1986)
Wednesday, December 17, 1986/rhe Battalion/Page 5 $ r Veterinary students receive jy )ands-on training in prisons wr •''* V r« ^-1 D 4 r v * "WAT 11. ..1 *1 *1 By David Betz Reporter Jl particip. \ fe\ v Texas A&M veterinary stu- * United d| a ctually volunteer for a trip lind bars every week. important kR olved in t|. rho students are involved in a ‘Ip with the,® 11 ’ run jointly by the A&M so togeta( !r '^» Veterinary Medicine and s : Texas Department of Correc- ivolvedinlif® 11 w hich every senior veteri- , (|rs : ry student is given two chances South ttlfi t ^ ie y ear to s P en d a week many A Br 0111 c * assroon,s a,u ^ w °rk on v ' y^i ‘ ison livestock. New Ltd, . ... . ernnm s e P nsons Participating in the are ( ij v j ( ] e( j into two ' . . . m. the North and South pris- is invoke ^ ar is in\t*M| enl . s t [ ie option of visit- ,. , Hth divisions, only one, or nei- tr of them. A group of about live idents goes to each of the week- t, with Am lin ^ ‘ igsessions. year dunnfBg.J. Martens, a professor of phase Irom.rHIarv l^r$re animal medicine Hary large d slrgery, said most students vol- tllion has f or on jy one 0 f sess i ons , The students not only learn, but lylhemselves while working with prison animals, he said, it’s a very worthwhile program imlan educational standpoint,” Bis said. “The students learn a ilites alone, i xjtingtheki JS-WOCIm ’OCE is ado itriesandiul: ise it pro«it E data. DrlCharles Page, a veterinarian ■ssed (ixii 1° P 35 been with the program vithinthf'itB'*78> directs the students dur- ^wir stay at the South prisons. : ^Bkes the students to several H units and supervises their -|rkwith the livestock. J ijet to work with some good stu- anf| intsj Page said. i Joe\ Hajda, a senior veterinary ‘uden!, went to the South prisons this semester. He said most mips leave early Monday morning idreiurn Friday afternoon. Helsaid his group stayed in a tra il h^use on a prison farm just out- dethe prison walls. Tn the mornings we went over to lepfison and ate with the guards,” 3jd|said. “The prisoners served us lofbur meals. “Dr Page would pick us up at xmt 7:45 a.m. and drive us to the ted mill nirger p mproper rt saidihi ay in the spector. (its were xl was 9 ralk-incoi KEN 90; eport predicts ethnic majority Texas will disappear by 2015 Immi- 1207 E.2j y David Pk r-poim rid he report i 'blem.Ihei e tor ro.ii to seal 9 'WASHINGTON (A P) P a herns and low fertility will restroom ffl y, ...... , \ . lose a dramatic shift in the ethnic o said a °f Texas in the coming Jj j piles, leaving no clear ethnic ma- rityin the state by 2015, according lastudy released Tuesday. The report, written by economist Ray Marshall and demographer led. An a^Bp iolation because prisons. We would treat the animals and then eat lunch with the guards at the unit where we were working.” Page said the students he works with travel about 500 miles each week, working at seven prison units. Dr. Mark Young, the veterinarian who works with the students at the North prisons, said the units with livestock are almost self-supporting. About 45,000 people are fed by the TDC daily, Young said. There are about 7,000 beef cattle, 1,600 dairy cattle, 2,500 sows and thousands of chickens on the prison farms, he said. “We spend quite a little time with the swine herds, pregnancy diagno- “The students get to see a well-organized livestock production program and they get some hands-on experience. ” — Dr. Mark Young, veterinarian sis in cattle and maintenance of guard horses,” he said. Hajda said his group mainly treated wire cuts and saddle sores on horses and worked on the dogs used for tracking. Kevin Hertel, a senior veterinary student, said the food and the living accommodations for the students were much better at the North pris ons than at the South prisons. “It was just like going to a restau rant for breakfast at the North pris ons,” Hertel said. Hertel said he worked mostly with dairy cattle at the North prisons. Hajda said the students work di rectly with prisoners, who restrain the animals while the livestock is be ing treated. Hertel and Hajda both said they never felt threatened by the prison ers. Hajda said Page told the stu dents what to expect in every situa tion. Young said he has never had any problems with security or violence from prisoners who were working with the students. “The inmates we work with are all trustys,” Young said. Young said A&M has had an agreement with the TDC since 1967. Young was on the staff at (.he A&M large animal clinic before he started working with the prisons in 1979. “I was kind of the promoter of the program on campus,” Young said. Page said the TDC and A&M share the costs of the program. A&M provides two veterinarians and vehicles for them to drive to the prisons, Page said, while the TDC provides medical supplies and main tenance of the vehicles. Martens said the TDC benefits by saving money through the use of volunteer veterinary services. And the program helps the prison farms increase productivity, he said. Young said the program benefits the students. “The students get to see a well-or ganized livestock production pro gram,” Young said, “and they get some hands-on experience. The students find it a pleasant break from the classroom. They get a chance to get out in the air and work.” Hajda agreed that the practical experience he received was the most beneficial part of his visit. “Dr. Page let us do all the work, which was fun,” Hajda said. Hertel said he enjoyed the atti tudes of the veterinarians he worked with at the prison farms. “It was just like real life,” Hertel said. “The veterinarians would go with bur diagnosis.” Jean Weishuhn, a senior veteri nary student, said her experience at the prisons gave her a chance to see how the TDC works. “I learned more about the prison system than veterinary medicine,” Weishuhn said. “A lot of the ideas I had about prisons were wrong.” Leon F. Bouvier, predicts that An glos, who have been the dominant ethnic group in Texas since inde pendence from Mexico 150 years ago, will lose their majority within 30 years. “Texas may well be entering its Mexico 150 years ago,” the pair state in their study. “Ironically, some of the issues of that era remain un solved.” In 1985, Anglos represented 63 percent of the state’s population of 16.5 million people, compared to most crucial phase of development 22.7 percent for Hispanics, 12.5 per- since it secured independence from overed. 0: icted bean dties on Mexican border ght criticism of twin plants EL PASO (AP) — Sixty delegates Tiem.aifffrp 10 U.S. cities along the Mexi- •;i! optt ji border met Tuesday to devise a 7foorfe*''H|y against congressional crit- bof the twin plant program. KttaiiraniiOiKah plants, or maquiladoras, are factories in Mexican border Mi;ig3#PP iat tnke advantage of inex- ngtkiffiff'pive Mexican labor to assemble rowonti S.-made components. Proponents say the plants make it if: tkW'*oducts competitive in the face ■staufiuilltfj'nexpensive Japanese items and buildk pide employment to Mexicans in equip®! fir 6wn country, thereby helping -y six ffif-’K; ’illegal migration into the ed if a i«- ; | te i States. rectediii bt U.S. labor organizations have ■me more united in their opposi- , »n to the program, claiming that it takes jobs from U.S. workers and ex ploits Mexicans. Don Hagans, a former El Paso lawyer who is now legislative direc tor for U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, R- Texas, was a delegate to the two-day Border Trade Strategies Confer ence. He said Congress must be shown the benefits the twin plants program has for both the United States and Mexico. “If that vote is couched in Con gress as a maquila vs. union contest, I think we’ll have a serious problem,” Hagans said. A congressional attack on the law started this fall with questions about the funding of a pro-maquiladora conference in Acapulco, Mexico, by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Zt cent for blacks and 1.8 percent for Asians and other groups, according to the report. But by 2035, when the state’s pro jected population will be more than 30.2 million, Anglos will represent 43.4 percent of all Texans, Hispan ics 39.3 percent, blacks 10.9 percent and Asians and others 6.4 percent, according to the report. 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