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\_tss'? \NVV^ Page 6AThe Battalion/Wednesday, December 17, 1986 * f °* used boo ^ s Campus landscape may mirn effect of state funds deficienc Our 2 Bedroom Studios best kept secret in town! Rates starting at $325 East Gate Apartments 401 Lincoln Dr. East (409)696^7380 By Tesslyn R. Mustain Reporter The budget crunch at A&M has meant tighter belts in most departments, but for grounds main tenance, cuts may adversely affect campus land scaping. Gene Rey, a landscape architect and director of grounds maintenance since 1973, said funding cuts could mean bare spots and dead growth without money to prevent them. Rey said grounds maintenance is funded by the state and his department submits a request for funding to maintain landscaping projects. The department determines the minimum amount of money it needs by using a formula it established 10 or 11 years ago, he said. In 1980, the state cut funding from 100 per cent of the formula, he said. The department re ceived 60 percent of the amount derived by the formula this year, compared to 73 percent in 1984, he said. Low funding levels have had a big impact on various sections of his department, Rey said. The grounds crew is planting much less around cam pus and cutting back on vegetation in the floral test garden. These areas are the easiest to restore if funding is refurbished, he said. Equipment is not being replaced as often as it used to be and fewer parts are stocked for exist ing equipment, he said. The cuts will also af fect hiring, Rey said, and so they are using fewer landscape architecture students. “We have one (architecture student) working now, working part-time,” Rey said. “We had to drop one in the drafting and design department and made it a part-time position because of the budget cuts.” An on-going commitment is especially imper ative in his department because they deal with nature, he said. Once an area is lost it is irretrie vable without completely starting over, which is very cosily. Funds for initial landscaping are included as part of the total project cost for all new construc tion, Rey said. But it is wasteful to implement landscape designs without money to maintain them, he said. His department is responsible for all landscape maintenance anti 90 percent of landscape design and implementation on campus. Landscape in cludes all plant life as well as seating areas, walk ways and trashcans, he said. “We do the landscaping and irrigation around most new buildings,” he said. "We also decided if we’re going to embellish everything, we have to water it. Each new landscape plan has an irriga tion plan with it to provide water (because of our climate).” For larger projects, Rey said his department contracts with firms that specializei architecture. The department is organized byt nance areas, he said. The campus isdJ sections and one person is responsiHl maintenance of each section. Thai pets vales, weeds, waters and picks up all he section, Rey said. Other employees jobs such as mowing. Rey said school officials take priJel beauty of the campus. Lane Marshall, head of the I lure department, agreed. Marshall simj unusual for a good university toemphi. scape design. University of ficialstakeaj of pride in campus grounds, he said Rey said the real growth in landv yj < m red in 1974-75, wher f sity committed to campus beautifiau 1976 centennial. At that time, the Unit traded with a landscape architectureli-l las, specializing in college campuses,toiT master plan for six major projects,feJ each project then was sub-contractedti firms for final planning. R< \ said these pi(>je< ts indudedthe i north dorm areas; the east plazaniai!:l the Chemistry Building and Hairing®; tion Center Complex; thecampusp entrances. Party Une Call Little Caesars.' We'll handle any size party. 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Income from the state land is used for public education. “The public lands of Texas are going to be a partial solution to the fiscal crisis facing the state,” Mauro said. “I’m proud of what our staff is doing.” The Austin American-Statesman last week published stories that in cluded questions raised by state Rep. Randy Pennington, R-Houston, about a swap involving the West Texas and Houston tracts. In that transaction, the state wound up with a four-acre tract near the Willowbrook Mall in northwest Houston. A developer who is leasing the tract from the state has been de layed in his efforts to build a hotel on the site. Mauro’s staff said projections show the state would have made up to $1.5 million during the next 50 years by keeping the West Texas land. The Houston tract could pro duce as much as $104 million in that period, according to the projections. What's up Wednesday LUBBOCK HOMETOW N Cl.LB: will have a Qi party at 7 p.m. Sunday at 43 1 1 44th St. in Lubbock MSC LITERARY ARTS: is now acceptingsubmisskra literary magazine, “Litmus.” Call 845-lal5formorta mation. PARENTS WEEKEND COMMITTEE: Appta nominating 1987-88 Parents of the Yearareaf the Commons, Sterling C. Evans Library, the .fe Student Center and the Pavilion. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The In 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three i prior to desired publication date. Telephone call reunites fathei, son after separation of 15 yem DAI.LAS (AP) — Five day started like any other for 60-year-old John Kruse, but before it was over a tele phone call would reunite him with a son he had not seen in 15 years. On Friday, Kruse read a newspa per story about a DeSoto police offi cer whose car had been damaged in a chase and as he read, he slowly be gan to realize who the officer was. Kruse leapt from the table, shout ing, “It’s him. It’s got to be him.” Because he has a hearing prob lem, Kruse asked his daughter to telephone Officer Dennis Kruse. The phone call touched off a week end of hugging and reminiscing. The elder Kruse lost track of his son in 1971 after moving to Califor nia and taking a logging job in the Sierra Nevadas. He had given up hope of ever seeing his son again. “He’s my llesh and blood,” Kruse said. “I thought about him con stantly.” The two had been living only 40 miles apart for almost six years. “What’s so amazing is that we were so close together,” said Dennis Kruse, 42. “I had forgotten how he looked. But looking into his face is like looking into a mirror.” Both father and son said they never stopped looking for each other. At 8, Dennis Kruse lost touch with his father when his parents di vorced. He grew up with his mother in northern California. After a stint in the Air Force he moved back to the West Coast, tookajokB officer and set outtofindlE At 25, Dennis Kruse(< ther in California. Buttbl was brief. Dennis Kiw i came terminally ill audal moved to Oklahomasoefl near her family. The two kept in totid letters for a time, but it\ apart after the younger died. By the time he foundil the DeSoto police depr* 1974, Dennis Kruse Lg track of his father. The weekend reunio: added bonus for the elder! 1 was also reunited old grandson. LCE-86-747-b C-P Prepare Your Car For The Holidays. "No surprises" 3024 Texas Avenue South College Station. TX 77840 (409) 696-3775 : ■ ith Professional Car Services, there are no surprises. Not only do they give efficient service, but the repairs are estimated in advance. 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