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STATE & LOCAL
Monday, February 26,1990
845-3314
UPD alerts truck owners
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By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
A recent rash of tailgate thefts has prompted the
University Police Department to warn owners of late
model trucks to secure their property.
Quick release tailgates, standard equipment on all
new trucks, can be stolen in about Five seconds, Lt. Bert
Kretzschmar, of the UPD Crime Prevention Unit, said.
They are worth about $ 100-400 each.
Seven tailgates w r ere stolen last week from Parking
Area 89. The lot is behind the tennis courts and south
f of Kyle Field.
Kretzschmar said truck owners can secure their vehi
cles by engraving their driver’s license numbers on the
bottom inside of the tailgate, switching the quick release
bolts or welding the right bolt closed.
To switch quick release bolts:
• Remove the tailgate from its bottom hinges as sug
gested by the owner’s manual.
• Take the bottom hinges off the truck body by uns
crewing the bolts.
• Switch the left hinge to the right, and the right
hinge to the left. Put into place on the tailgate.
• While one person lifts the tailgate with the hinges
in place, the second person will screw the hinges back
into the truck body. Depending on the truck and the
year model, the rear bumper may have to be removed
to get the hinges back in place on the truck. If the
hinges have a center alignment pin, the pin may have to
be cut back slightly.
This may not work on all makes and models with
quick release tailgates, but Kretzschmar said it is effec
tive on most models.
Kretzschmar said the only way the tailgate can be re
moved after this process is to unscrew the hinges at the
body of the truck again.
This procedure will prevent opportunity theft only,
but, Kretzschmar said, between 80 and 90 percent of
on-campus crimes are opportunity thefts.
“If they (thieves) have to spend time to steal it, they
will go somewhere else and look for a better opportuni
ty,” Kretzschmar said.
Truck owners can also take their vehicles to any local
body shop and have the right bolt welded shut for
about $20.
Engravers can be obtained from UPD or from any
resident adviser.
—
Section of Lewis Street closes to traffic today
Beginning today, the west
bound section of Lewis Street be
tween Spence and Bizzel! streets
will be closed to all traffic.
The street is being closed so
that brick can be ptit on the south
side of the parking garage, and it
will remain doseo until the pro
ject is completed prior to the start
of the fall semester.
Bizzell Street will remain
dosed. Access to the area will con
tinue by way of Throckmorton
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Lt. Bert Kretzschmar removes a tailgate on a mechanism. Kretschmar said a stolen tailgate
chevy pickup truck with the new “quick release’’ can sell for up to $400.
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Subcommittees take first steps to examine advising problems
President Mobley sets June deadline for research findings
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
A presidential advisory committee on
student advising and counseling at Texas
A&M formed four subcommittees Friday in
its first act of business.
Dan Robertson, associate dean for aca
demic programs in the College of Business
and chairman of the committee, split the
19-member committee into four subcom
mittees to study the problems and inade
quacies of student advising at A&M more
dosely.
The four subcommittees will analyze ad
vising and counseling for high school stu
dents, current A&M students, graduate stu
dents, and students with special needs.
Robertson said he wants each subcom
mittee to prepare skeletal outlines on the
different areas by March 23.
Each subcommittee is expected to pre
pare outlines concerning the current status
of advising and counseling in the different
areas, where advising and counseling
should be, how to make it better, and an es
timate of the financial and non-financial re
sources to get advising where it should be,
Robertson said.
“In some departments, there might be a
small gap between what they are doing now
and what they should be doing, but in oth
ers, there might be a rather large gap,” he
said. “That’s what we need to find out by
March 23.”
The committee was formed at the request
of the Board of Regents and A&M Presi
dent William H. Mobley after members of
the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board
told the regents in December about incon
sistencies and lack of coordination in advis
ing and counseling services.
The full committee includes faculty, stu
dents, and staff from offices that deal with
student services, admissions and records, fi
nancial aid and other advising offices.
Robertson, who is expected to name
chairpersons for the subcommittees later
this week, said the committee realizes the
time limit that Mobley placed on the com
mittee. Mobley said he wants the commit
tee’s findings by June 15.
“Everyone observed that we don’t have a
lot of time,” Robertson said. “The reason
we’re not holding our next meeting for al
most a month is because it will give every
one the time during Spring Break. I imag
ine that’s when most of the work will get
done.”
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