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STATE & LOCAL
Wednesday, February 15,1989
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A&M gets new emergency phones
Eleven outdoor phones provide convenience for dorm residents
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Eleven new convenience speaker phones with
emergency capabilities have been installed out
side campus residence halls.
Since last semester, residence hall doors have
been locked from 7 p.m. until 10 a.m. for safety
reasons. Guests must be admitted into the hall by
residents and escorted. The phones have been
installed to notify residents of visiting guests.
The phones, which all have an emergency line
routed directly to the University Police Depart
ment, have been installed by the Department of
Student Affairs to provide a safer environment
for on-campus students.
Dan Miser, housing operations supervisor,
said locking the doors at 7 p.m. caused problems
with students propping the doors open. The new
phones should alleviate such problems, he said.
Bob Sather, telecommunications manager for
campus, said the phones not only enable students
to dial into dormitories after hours, they also can
be used should an emergency arise.
Students need to be aware that these phones
are monitored 24 hours a day for emergencies,
he said. The phones have been installed with
safety in mind. They are cordless to prevent van
dalism and possible cutting of lines.
In addition, a single emergency button auto
matically routes calls to the UPD, the A.P. Beutel
Health Center and the radio room of the physical
plant. These locations also have display panels
that pinpoint the caller’s location on campus.
The caller’s location can be traced without the
caller uttering a word.
“It’s almost the same as dialing 911,” Sather
said.
The phones are mounted outside entrances to
most residence halls. Puryear and Law Hall share
a phone on the side of Puryear’s Ramp 9.
Krueger and Mosher also share the phone out
side of Krueger. The phone that serves Hart Hall
is located near Ramp 2.
“We put these first few in to get them off the
ground as a test,” Miser said. “Eventually we plan
to install phones for each residence hall.”
A person using the phone to dial hall residents
or friends is given only one minute to complete
his conversation.
Sather said, “The phones are not to be used
long for non-emergency type traffic.”
■ In addition to the dormitory convenience
phones, seven similar phones are in the process
of being installed in remote areas of campus.
These phones, identical to those outside resi
dence halls, will be placed in remote parking lots
and at key points alongjogging trails and in Hen-
sel Park and the Research Park, Miser said. The
phones, to be installed by the end of the month,
will be mounted and illuminated like phone
booths.
Hitler paintings awarded
to first owner’s children
HOUSTON (AP) — Four wa-
tercolor paintings by Adolf Hitler
that U.S. soldiers found hidden
in a castle more than 40 years ago
must be returned to the children
of the owner, a man who was Hit
ler’s friend and personal photog
rapher, a judge ruled.
The family of Heinrich Hof
fman Sr., a German photogra
pher found guilty at Nuremberg
of war profiteering, also will get
two archives containing hundreds
of photographs from the U.S.
Army, U.S. District Judge Lynn
N. Hughes’ ordered.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank
Conforti claimed the paintings le
gally belong to the United States
under the U.S.-German treaty
signed after World War II, but
Hughes said the government
failed to prove it has a legal claim
on the paintings or photographs.
“Equal justice under law pro
tects people without exceptions
for those people whose father’s
politics were wrong,” Hughes,
who made the ruling last Thurs
day, said.
Two of the paintings most
likely will be returned to Ger
many, while the remaining pair
will remain in Houston as part of
a collection owned by Billy F.
Price, a local art investor who has
been battling the government
about the paintings’ ownership
for years.
U.S. troops discovered the
paintings in May 1945 in a Ger
man castle where Hoffman had
stored them for safekeeping dur
ing World War II. They were
mistakenly identified as German
government property and later
transferred to an Army ware
house in Virginia.
They remain in a federal ar
chives warehouse in Alexandria,
Va.
Investigation prompts PUC
to change reporting system
AUSTIN (AP) — The Public Util
ity Commission, in the wake of alle
gations that it has allowed utilities to
overcharge customers hundreds of
millions of dollars, directed its staff
Tuesday to report to it in a new way
on utility company earnings.
But Commissioner William Cas-
sin, who presented the resolution
approved unanimously by the three-
member panel, said he doubts utili
ties have overcollected that amount
from customers, as charged by Sen.
Carlos Truan.
The Texas Senate approved a res
olution Monday by Truan, D-Cor-
pus Christi, directing the PUC to
promptly review the impact of a
1986 federal tax reduction on utility
rates. Truan said customers have
been overcharged because the 12
percent federal corporate tax reduc
tion has not been reflected in lower
utility rates.
“I’m not saying that there were
not (hundreds of millions of dollars
lost). I’m saying I seriously doubt it,
because we have a system in place
that was designed to prevent that,
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and I think the system probably
functioned adequately to prevent it,”
Cassin said. “But we’re going to find
out by virtue of my motion.”
The PUC soon after the enact
ment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986
established a staff task force “to en
sure that utilities under the jurisdic
tion of this commission did not earn
excessive amounts by virtue of any
tax reductions accruing to them un
der that Act,” stated the resolution.
The commission at that time was
composed of Dennis Thomas, Peggy
Rosson and Jo Campbell. Ms. Camp
bell still serves on the commission,
along with Cassin and Marta Grey-
tok, who heads the panel.
Currently, commission members
individually review staff reports on
utilities monthly, Cassin said. But he
said there is no system for discussing
the reports.
The staff also was told to report
on the last rate of return authorized
by the commission, and on the rate
the staff would likely recommend to
day based on current costs of capital.
Panelists address
crime on campus,
safety precautions
By Sherri Roberts
STAFF WRITER
Though Aggies do not lie,
cheat or steal according to the
Aggie Code of Honor, a survey
published in the Oct. 4 issue of
USA Today reported that Texas
A&M had the highest rate of re
ported crimes of all college cam
puses in Texas.
Rape, sexual harrassment and
safety precautions were just a few
of the issues addressed Tuesday
night by a three-member panel at
the program “Campus Issues for
the ’90s.” The program was the
first in a series of safety aware
ness programs being presented
this week, designated as C.A.R.E.
week — Creating Attitudes for a
Rape-Free Environment.
According to statistics, one of
every four women has been sex
ually assaulted or experienced a
sexual assault attempt. In 65 per
cent of the rape cases, the victim
has met or is acquainted with the
rapist.
Betty LeMay, patrol officer at
the University Police Depart
ment, told the 13-member audi
ence that a common risk that
many students take is jogging
alone. Students who jog should
do so with a friend, she said.
It is important that one be alert
and aware when walking alone,
she said.
“You want to communicate, T
am confident. I know what I’m
doing,”’ she said.
Although the majority of sex
ual assault victims are women,
one of every seven males is sex
ually assaulted as well, she said.
Gene Zdziarski, student devel
opment specialist of Student Af
fairs, said many males disregard
precautions to avoid sexual as
sault, thinking it is a crime affect
ing females only.
LeMay said the majority of
crimes reported at A&M involve
property theft.
It was reported that $65,000
worth of bicycles were lost or sto
len at the University last year, she
said.
LeMay said many thefts from
residence-hall rooms occur when
students leave their rooms to do
laundry or take a shower. For this
reason, students should lock their
rooms when they intend to leave
for short periods of time, she
said.
The second program of the
C.A.R.E. week series, titled
“Rape: What Now?” will be pre
sented from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. to
day in 225 Rudder.
Construction conundrum
continues to confuse campus
Construction on campus is contin
uing to impede traffic because of the
closing of several inner-campus
streets.
Lubbock Street is closed near the
power plant work site and between
Coke and Nagle Streets.
Coke Street is closed between Joe
Routt Boulevard and Lubbock
Street, while Ross Street is closed
from Spence to Ireland. Ireland is
closed to through traffic south of the
Northside parking garage.
Mosher Lane and Spence are local
access near construction of the new
residence halls.
Spence is open to one lane of traf
fic adjacent to the new Petroleum
Engineering Building.
The construction situation on
campus will continue with minimal
change for some time.
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