The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 16, 1980, Image 19

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By BARBARA LYNCH
Battalion Reporter
Gloria Slobnik glanced at the lib
rary clock. It was 8:50 a.m. She
knew she’d be late for chemistry if
she didn’t get moving, so she grab
bed her books and dashed into the
bookstacks, hurrying as fast as she
could through the narrow aisle.
Someone called her name softly;
she turned to see a young man fol
lowing her, smiling strangely and
carrying a wadded-up raincoat.
The thought flashed through her
mind that she’d seen him som-
where before. He pulled back the
raincoat, and she caught a glimpse
of steely blue. Looking around fran
tically for a place to hide, she
gasped, "oh, rats! I don’t want to
die yet!” Her assailant pulled the
trigger, and the dart struck her in
the shoulder.
Grinning, the “killer" dropped the
crumpled raincoat and pulled an
equally withered scrap of paper
from the nether regions of a back
pocket. “Here,” he said, “you gotta
sign this saying I killed you.”
Just this sort of sinister occurr
ence is now taking place on and
around the Texas A&M University
campus.
Killing as Organized Sport, or
K.A.O.S., has come to College Sta
tion, and anyone who has become a
member of this organization now
finds himself looking over his shoul
der for the diabolical “killers” who
might be lurking behind every bush.
K.A.O.S. is a game. Each person
is given a plastic gun with a suc
tion-cup dart, a photograph and
dossier on his victim. Each killer is
issued a “sanction authorization”
which permits him to shoot only the
person named on the authoriza
tion.
Mark Ollington, the organiza
tion’s president, got the idea for
starting up a K.A.O.S. at Texas
A&M after reading about the game
in a magazine. "I figured crazy
Aggies needed something to vent
their craziness,” said Ollington. “I
thought it would be fun to put some
effort into something not worthy of
our time for once.”
Ollington and the two vice-
presidents of K.A.O.S., Sean Pat
rick and Scott Holliman, persuaded
chemistry professor Dr. Rod
O’Connor to sponsor the club so
that they could get University recog
nition.
Ollington himself is not a partici
pant.
“I would like to have a meeting of
all the players in the spring, and
elect new officers so we can play
again,” he said.
There are certain rules in
K.A.O.S. to which every good
assassin must adhere. The killers
cannot shoot their victims in the
head. Every shot must be below the
neck. Any other part of the body, be
it arm or foot, counts as a fatal shot.
Killers cannot go after their vic
tims during a class in order to pre
vent total disruption. Also, killing a
member of the Corps while he is in
formation is strictly taboo.
“You can’t just run up to some
body out in the open and shoot
them,” Ollington said. “You gotta do
this thing like you’re really trying to
kill somebody.” Every assassin
must be as stealthy and calculating
as possible to avoid detection.
What recourse does a victim
have if he knows he’s about to be
killed? Shooting his stalker in self-
defense, of course. If the victim
manages to kill his assassin, the
killer is out of the game for 24 hours.
A successful assassin picks up
where his victim left off, and begins
stalking his victim’s victim.
Every assassin must remember
that while he is stalking, he himself
is being stalked by someone who
holds his dossier, photo and sanc
tion authorization. A killer who is
tracking his victim might consider
being suspicious of anyone seen
dogging his own tracks.
Once a killer has completed his
mission, he must obtain his victim’s
signature on the authorization. In
this, Ollington said K.A.O.S. de
pends on the honesty of good Ags.
In other words, if you’ve been killed,
admit it.
The point of the game is to re
main alive while everyone else
around is being assassinated.
Ollington said the last person alive
in December will win a prize (which
hasn’t been determined yet.)
The fall semester game began
Monday. So far, of the 120 mem
bers of the organization, five have
been successfully “hit.”
One prolific killer hit two victims in
five hours. Another killed his victim
by taking a “political poll” in the vic
tim’s dorm hallway. The last ques
tion the victim responded to was,
“And what do you think about being
assassinated?”
Ollington said he hopes to be
able to have a party at the end of the
year for all the members. There will
also be a prize for the most original
assassination. The $2 entrance re
quired of all players covers the cost
of the guns and the prize.
K.A.O.S. is also a good way to
meet people. Can’t you just hear it:
“By the way, now that I’ve killed
you, what are you doing Saturday
night?”
Above: the "sanction” which authorizes the
"assassination” of a Killing As Organized Sport
player is shown along with the photo of the in
tended victim and the gun which will be used to
carry out the “killing.” Below: Mark Ollington,
president of K.A.O.S. Ollington does not partici
pate in the game, since he keeps all the records of
who is after who. Ollington says he hopes there
will be new officers next time, so that he will get to
participate.
Photos by Dillard Stone
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