THE BATTALION Page 3
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1979
Turtles and lizards join
snake in glass in MSC
A gopher snake tries to scale
the slick side of his aquarium in
the Memorial Student Center.
He does not flicker his tongue to
demonstrate his reaction to
being penned up in glass; rather,
he is gathering information. The
tongue constantly tastes its
environment, and may help in
picking up vibrations, which the
snake primarily feels through his
skull. It also helps determine
smell, temperature and taste.
Snakes cannot hear normal
soundwaves, but have good
eyesight. Thus, the humble
snake needs his multi-talented
tongue. This slim slitherer shares
an exhibit with four other snakes,
a yellow mud turtle, and two ar
madillo lizards. The collection of
cold-blooded creatures is being
presented by the Texas A&M
Herpetological Society.
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Women in combat,
volunteer army
hit by ex-general
United Press International
HONOLULU — Retired Gen.
William Westmoreland says women
don’t have the stamina for combat
and thinks the volunteer armed
services method is “a failure. ’
Westmoreland, who was the
United States’ commander during
the Vietnam War, said in comments
during a discussion with executives
of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Fri
day that he was told by a battalion
chief women were tough in the first
two days of difficult field exercises
but “collapsed on the third day.”
Westmoreland called the all
volunteer armed services “a failure’
and said the experiment was result
ing in an army of “the under
privileged.” He added it was forcing
“a substantial dip into the zomen
pool” to fill manpower needs.
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Hassle-Free,
OSA to merge
By LORI SHULER
Battalion Reporter
Negotions of a merger of Hassle-Free and the Off-Campus Student
Association, two groups that represent the 22,000 students living off
campus, began Thursday night when executives of the two organiza
tions met to discuss their proposals.
Meetings will continue to be held Thursday nights at 7 p.m. in
room 138 of the Memorial Student Center until all details of the
merger are ironed out and the groups prepare a joint constitution for
the new organization.
The idea of a merger was initiated last semester by various mem
bers of the two groups and their adviser, Glenna Witt, student de
velopment coordinator, because of the overlap of services provided
by each group.
Hassle-Free chairman Mike Pettus said while the two groups have
the same purpose — that of providing services for off campus stu
dents — they have different meanings.
Hassle Free, whose office is located in Puryear Hall lounge, was
started six years ago and is a community-based organization, a
mediator between off campus students and the city and apartment
complexes.
Pettus said they are more a “grass roots” organization than OSA.
They stress that their representatives in all apartment complexes get
to know the managers and the other students and help them work
together.
OSA, however, is more of an education-information type organiza
tion, Bruce Martin, vice-president of programs for OSA said. OSA
was established two years ago and has a cubicle in the Student Pro
grams Office of the MSC.
Martin said OSA is oriented toward involvement between the
community and the University and is interested in “drawing students
back to the University.”
“Both organizations are badly needed and with the merger we
could have more output,” said Pettus. “Why have two separate or
ganizations when we could have one and be stronger?”
Martin also expressed a desire to unite the best qualitites of both
organizations. Witt said a representative body of all off-campus stu
dents has the potential of being very powerful and effective because
so many students live off campus.
While the representatives of both Hassle Free and OSA who were
present at the meeting considered their basic differences an advan
tage to a new organization, they had different opinions concerning its
structure.
Hassle-Free’s officers are elected internally while OSA has a
school-wide election for the president, secretary and treasurer. Both
groups wanted to retain their election method but decided on a com
promise of the two methods.
Details of the compromise and the subsequent final structure of the
new organization were not completed at the meeting.
Other areas yet to be decided on include selection and number of
represetatives, a name for the organization and the use of commit
tees.
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