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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
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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
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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.
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radio from the open sea, reports in
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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.”
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“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.”
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