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By Mark Figart
Reporter
The Texas A&M University Phys
ical Plant replaced 6,023 light bulbs
and 1,832 air filters during March.
“And that was a slow month,” says
Jennie Bilbo, a maintenance fore-
nan for the department.
Director Joe Estill says the Physi
cal Plant is the school’s largest non
academic department, with about
1,000 employees.
“Our responsibility is to keep this
[campus operational,” he says.
The following statistics show just
plow big of a job t hat can be.
The transportation department
(maintains 900 vehicles for the Uni
versity, 500 of which are leased to
Various departments. All of the fa-
Imiliar white trucks and small utility
■vehicles belong to the plant.
Two crews, a filter crew and a re-
llamping crew, work around the
clock replacing f ilters foi the heating
land cooling systems and light bulbs
■in every building on campus. Light
Ibulbs account for $65,000 of the de-
Ipartment’s $80 million annual bud-
|get.
The department’s power plant,
fccross the street from Heaton Hall,
■supplies nearly all of the electricity
lused on campus. During peak elec
tricity usage, some power is pur
chased from Brazos Power & Elec
tric.
The wastewater treatment plant
handles 4 million gallons of waste ev
ery day.
The Physical Plant maintains not
only buildings on campus, but the
research annex on Highway 21 as
well.
Estill says the Physical Plant uses
an “area maintenance concept,” op
erating out of five area shops. This,
he says, allows quicker reaction time
to emergency service orders. The
shops are equipped and staffed to
handle minor repairs, while more
complicated problems are tackled at
the main shop on Agronomy Road.
Nearly every aspect of campus
maintenance and operation is han
dled by the Physical Plant. The staff
also is responsible for custodial serv
ice, fire safety equipment, telephone
service, shuttle bus service, water
supply, garbage collection, mainte
nance and modification of buildings
and minor construction.
Most of the funding comes from
state appropriations, Estill says, but
student fees, including bus passes
and parking permits, also help pay
the bills. Other departments that use
the plant help out with the funding
as well.
In Advance
Speaker to explore ‘Religious Right’
“The Religious Right” will be
explored in a program presented
at 8 p.m. Thursday in 601 Rud
der by the MSG Political Forum.
Admission is free.
The Rev. John H. Buchanan
Jr. will be the featured speaker.
Buchanan is chairman of People
for the American Way, a private,
non-partisan group espousing
constitutional liberties.
Buchanan served 16 years in
the House of Representatives’ Al
abama delegation, and was a se
nior member of the education, la-
bor and foreign affairs
committees.
He also is president of the
Council for the Advancement of
Citizenship and vice chairman of
the Republican Mainstream Com
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Reporter
Romance and courtship —
chaperoned by a game-show host
— will fill the air at Texas A&M
Thursday when Aggies play their
own version of the television
show “The Dating Game.”
Pi Beta Phi sorority and Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity are pre
senting the Aggie Dating Game at
7:30 p.m. Thursday in Rudder
Auditorium.
The show’s format will feature
a male or female interviewing
three members of the opposite
sex, says Dawn Butz, the event’s
co-chairman.
The interviewer cannot see the
bachelor or bachelorette during
the program. The interviewer
asks the contestants three to five
questions about their likes and
dislikes and then chooses a date
from the three contestants.
Contest prizes include concert
tickets and a day of boating. A
couple also will be flown to din
ner.
The game will benefit the Mus
cular Dystrophy Association and
Phoebe’s Home, a Bryan shelter
for battered women and children.
Butz says Corps outfits, frater
nities, sororities and dormitories
all were asked to nominate con
testants.
Two of the games will involve
members from the audience.
These contestants will be able to
win a date with former yell leader
Troy Ireland or Diamond Dar
ling Lisa Murray.
Door prizes including free
scooter rental, haircuts and
makeovers will be awarded to au
dience members.
Advance tickets for $4 are on
sale now through Thursday in
the Blocker Building and the
MSC or from any member of Pi
Beta Phi or Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Tickets will be $5 at the door.
Prison inmates testify
DC failed to provide
recreation, health care
HOUSTON (AP) — A parade of
■prison inmates testified Tuesday
that the Texas Department of Cor
rections failed to give them adequate
Irecreation time and health care and
Improperly confiscated personal
property in violation of court-or-
Idered reforms.
The inmates appeared before
J.S. District Judge William Wayne
Justice during the second day of a
ihearing to determine whether the
pate should be ordered to pay
$800,500-per-day fines as Justice
had ordered.
“What’s important to note is that
limprovements have been made,”
Isaid F. Scott McCown, special assis-
Itant attorney general.
William Bennett Turner, attorney
|for the inmate plaintiffs, agreed,
■saying the department — the na-
Ition’s third-largest corrections sys-
item — is placing officers in dormito-
Iriesand has hired medical personnel
|in line with J ustice’s orders.
“But the TDC responds only to
|court orders with dollar signs,”
[Turner said. “This hearing is just a
[clean-up effort at this point. We’ll be
|back into court time after time.”
Turner said deficiencies remain
jjin treatment of prisoners confined
[to administrative segregation, in sin-
[gle-celling of inmates and in mixing
[inmates of differing custody classifi-
I cations.
Justice on Dec. 31 found the state
[in contempt of an agreement to im-
jprove prison conditions and gave
[the state until April 1 to comply or
[face fines of $24 million a month.
■The fines were delayed pending the
[putcome of this week’s hearing.
Attorneys for both sides said they
did not expect Justice to rule on the
fines immediately but instead to take
the matter under advisement.
Turner began his case Tuesday by
calling as witnesses inmates in ad
ministrative segregation, where pris
oners are confined due to the likeli
hood of violent behavior.
Inmates told of having feeding
times coincide with recreation times,
meaning they had to decide whether
to miss recreation or a meal. They
also complained about sporadic rec
reation, having basketball nets but
no basketballs and volleyball nets but
no volleyballs.
John Whiteman, an Eastham Unit
prisoner, said guards confiscated his
personal property without a hearing
and never returned the items to him.
Most of the inmates complained
about not being able to have water-
immersible heating elements, which
are plugged into electrical outlets to
heat cups of water for tea or coffee.
McCown said the devices —
known as “stingers” — also are used
to toss scalding liquids on officers
and other inmates. He characterized
several of the witnesses as members
of violent prison gangs.
Three physically handicapped in
mates, all confined to wheelchairs
and all from the Jester III Unit,
complained about inadequate work
ing conditions and poor health care.
Carl Jeffries, Corrections Depart
ment assistant director for treatment
and classification, testified the state
is moving to make single cells avail
able for inmates and construction
will add more beds for female in
mates.
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