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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1979 Off-campus merger Hassle-Free, OS A combine to form Off-Campus Aggies By LORI SHULER Battalion Reporter All off-campus students at Texas A&M are now officially Off-Campus Aggies. No more Off-Campus Stu dents Association and no more Hassle-Free. Officers of a new organization representing all off-campus students announced Friday that the merger of OSA and Hassle Free is com plete. The organization will be called “Off-Campus Aggies.” Glenna Witt, student develop ment coordinator and OCA adviser, announced the name Friday in the Memorial Student Center as a part of Hassle-Free Week. The name was chosen from about 25 entries in the organization’s name-finding con test. Cindy Corn, a Hassle-Free member, and Janice Mrazek, secre tary in the Off-Campus Center, were winners of the contest, as the name is a combination of entries submitted by the two. Witt said the two organizations decided to work out a merger earlier in the semester because of similar purposes but different methods, and therefore, a duplication of services. “We decided on the name of Off-Campus Aggies because it’s to the point — it’s what we re about,” Witt said. Debbie May, OCA president, said the merger is the best thing that could happen to off-campus students because there has been an overlapping of efforts. Cindy Corn, who represented Hassle Free on the merger commit tee, said she was against the merger when it first started because she didn’t see how the two organizations would be able to work together. “Now I’m excited. As time passed, I realized it was the right thing to do,” Com said. “It’s great to think that two-thirds of the student body will be represented in this or ganization. I don’t think they realize what they can do in the community or in the University.” May said one of the most impor tant steps the organization will take next semester is to work more closely with the off-campus senators. “This has never been done in the past and we think it will provide greater representation for off- campus students. I’ve talked to some of the off-campus senators and they said they would be glad to come and report at our meetings and listen to our ideas.” May also said she would like to have more activities, such as par ties, and groups working on Bonfire and at the All-Nite Fair, directed solely toward off-campus students. Scott Terry, OCA vice-president, said in order to organize these ac tivities the group would have to FOR A NATURALLY LIGHT LUNCH ) Come to the Sbisa Dining Center Basement. The fresh crisp salad items are almost unlimit ed and the superb sandwiches are made with big loaves of bread baked daily for this special purpose. 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For Leasing Information Call 693-5196 Monaco I (under new management and ownership) Magnificent, easy living can be found at Monaco I, with a swimming pool for a refreshing swim and balconies for a private visit with friends. Monaco I also has efficiency, 1, 2, & 3 BR with a laundry room for your convenience. The apartments have electric range, refrigerator, disposal and dishwasher and are fully carpeted. For further information call 693-2614. All bills are paid. Monaco II (under new management and ownership) Here's the spacious apartment you've been looking for. You'll like our 1 & 2 bedrooms, complete with electric range, refrigerator, disposal and dishwasher. Each apartment is fully carpeted and has fenced patio. We are located V2 block from campus and on the shuttle bus route. Call us today 693-2614. All Bills are paid. Now leasing for summer & fall. ^Posada 'Dell Dey (under new management and ownership) Quiet living with Spanish flair describes Posada Del Key's atmosphere. You will find an apartment that is close to campus and on the shuttle bus route. For an afternoon swim or a relaxing evening on the balcony, you'll like Posada Del Rey. We have 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms with gas ranges, refrigerators and dishwashers. Call us, 693-9364. All bills are paid. Pool and Laundry. Going Places from Cinema 5 % Jbaring Concern ” Monday April 23 $1.00 Rudder Theater 8:00 PM MSC Arts have more manpower. Con sequently, OCA will be recruiting heavily for the rest of the semester and at the beginning of the fall semester. “If a student lives off campus, he is automatically a member of OCA. We just need people who live off campus to come in and fill out an application and say they would like to help,” Terry said. Corn said getting students to gether will be OCA’s biggest prob lem. She said the organization will have to work while it’s young to get recognition and build up prestige. David Gary was a member of both Hassle Free and OSA before the merger and will be active in OCA next year. “Hassle Free has the manpower and OSA has the funding. The stu dents are ready and willing to work together, so the organization can’t help but work. If everyone con tinues to work as hard as they have, we shouldn’t have many problems,” Gary said. Paula Sorrells, secretary of OCA, agreed with Gary and said the new constitution written by the merger committee will help work out the problems of joining the two groups. May said OCA has applied for two cubicles in the Student Programs Office of the Memorial Student Center, and if it does not get both of them, the organization will be in a bind. May said the group has talked about the possibilities of getting a room in the MSC, much as the Re sidence Hall Association. “We really need it,” she said. “I think we ll get one in a couple of years.” Budget bill T still debated g United Press International AUSTIN — The House returns today for additional debateooli $20.4 billion appropriations bill — the state’s budget for the IMJ biennium — with no hopes of reducing the complicated measimi E Wh what Gov. Bill Clements wants. award Clements’ own budget version calls for the state to spendSlj Lssum billion. During three marathon sessions last week the HousetacUyear s on $156 million, including $106 million for teacher pay increase! certai The House will continue work on the public education arid the p Monday and perhaps even more budget increases will be allmi RSTh However, the additional $106 million legislators voted to criti c! teachers has already put them in disfavor with the governor, war. 1 Clements as late as last week vociferously stated he would notal nieot teachers more than the 5.1 percent salary increase all otherstj so th employees will receive. The amendment would hike the salaries! anti' v ' percent each year of the 1980-81 biennium. However, if Clements decides to slash the pay raise for teaclm the House could conceivably override that veto. House Speaker! Clayton has indicated at least 100 members would be willing to ride the governor’s veto, which is essentially correct since 93mg bers voted for the teacher pay raise. But there are some legislators who feel the governor will not (a out a veto threat against the teacher pay raise. However, Rep. Bill Presnal said the budget includes a 2 pew reduction in state operating costs from the 1978-79 biennium an) also $269 milion less than the Legislative Budget Board s recoi mendation Computer cuts ship collisions staten from Vietn settin about poin If a United Press International HOUSTON — It’s a tricky job getting 5,500 ships a year through the narrow Houston Ship Channel, but the port has a sophisticated computer system to make the task are a mere Offshore rig destroyed in explosion, fire United Press Internationa) PECAN ISLAND, La. — An offshore gas well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico off the southwest Louisiana coast Saturday, forcing the evacuation of 40 workers and touching off a raging fire that sent flames 100 feet in the air. No injuries were reported and there was no pollution. The $25 million drilling rig, the Salenergy II, was destroyed by the fire, and collapsed into the Gulf atop the well. Wild-well fighting teams from the Houston-based Red Adair Co. were called to the scene. But a spokes man for McMoRan Offshore Ex ploration Co. said it might take sev eral weeks to control the fire'. Three other rigs were located within about one mile of the burn ing hole, but a McMoRan spokes man said they were not threatened. “Let’s say we prevented one major collision,” said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Gary Bird. “What would it cost to clean up the pollution from a million-barrel oil spill? And you could have loss of life or blockage of the channel for an indefinite period. “We’ve tried to eliminate the element of surprise in transit,” he said. “The amount of casualties has not increased with the volume of traffic (which climbed more than 10 percent from 1977 to 1978.)” Bird’s job as commander of the Coast Guard’s Houston Vessel Traf fic Service is to alleviate the transit problems of the increasingly crowded manmade waterway to the nation’s third busiest port. The service helps ships enter and exit through the winding 36- to 40- foot-deep channel that narrows from 800 to 250 feet on its way to the port of Houston, 50 miles inland. Bird and 30 other Coast Guard personnel rely partly on television, with windshield wiper-equipped, zoom-and-pan cameras (infrared- rigged for night use) on towers along the upper channel. They also use radar, radio and a computer. A ship’s captain contacts VTS by radio from the open sea, reports in with his ship’s name, size, cargo, course, speed and destination. The FC adh . wo nit) sep.i perh; movei 1,^,,, h comp anno FOR A NEW DINING EXPERIENCE Come to the big new salad bar in the Sbisa Dining Cen ter Basement. Open 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday vessel then is logged into tk computer. The computer notes the 1 I speed and course and, at 15-ra intervals, automatically q record with projected movements. The controllenj visual depictions of their sed! I television computer terul Manual adjustments corred ships that move faster or expected. When the computer fail) center relies on a card system. Each ship is giveni and the cards are advanced i ally through slots on board, signifying through the channel. Bird’s staff members, wliost operation is one of several al ports, are not controllers lib traffic controllers at airports. “It is not a mandatory sysJ Bird said. “Ships are not reqii participate. There are rej under study that would mandatory, but we have percent participation on a\ basis.” Participation is safer. “Those we find not partic| E'i'i). usually have electrical proble! the s something’s wrong with theiii munications system, or thej ’cide new to the area and don’t k#| said exist.” Some of the shipping gi however, is purely human For example, when ships passi narrower parts of the channel) g‘1 pilots play a controlled gas chicken, aiming their bows on lision course and then sud( the r abou what accur Wl ports Penn Russi lOthi in ca tomo )1( ’was i $6 n pa) ‘som. veering off to ride a dividing® bkp r 7011 water past each other. “It’s a situation we call al meeting, Bird said. “They’reMfryin collision course. They intend! p In If they tried to work their ™ ’ mun to the edge of the channel, thei cushion (another wall of i the other side of the ship 1 ® I tend to throw them intofl other.” Bird said the maneuver is us 1 taken only by highly skilled ps* | sionals. 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