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Lac Staff Th was b end, a Color* versit Sal Michi limit, 8-15, MSU year, dropp Sei Jenni Lady kills , percei the A outsii srud, Bi HC Chris- up to Sund* Oilers Bu: dre R game next level Take it to the Graduate School Graduate School Information Nights: September 20 & October 27 From 6 to 8 p.m. 110-111 KoldusBldg. Topics covered will include: • How to apply to graduate school • GRE/GMAT • Fellowships and assistantships And more! For more information, contact the Office of Graduate Studies at 845-3631 Get Organized! • The Aggieland Yearbook is now accepting contracts for all University recognized organizations (including Greek), sports clubs and dorms. Come to Room 012 Reed McDonald and pick up a contract for your organization. • The DEADLINE for all organization contracts is Monday, Sept. 19. If you have any questions concerning 1995 Aggieland organization contracts, call 845-2681. Aggieland Dollar Shots! AGGIELAND AGGIELAND AGGIELAND AGGIELAND I t’s that time again, SENIORS! 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The views expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of MSC Political Forum, or Texas A&M University. J Page 8 • The Battalion Commission proves Elvis’s funeral faked 'JTiE BATTALION Stick MONETA, Va. (AP) — Dead men don’t sweat. That’s one reason the Presley Commission claims to have proof the King lives. Threats from organized crime forced Elvis to fake his demise and stage a phony funeral replete with his perspiring wax likeness inside a coffin so he could enter the federal witness protection program, a commission report said Friday. Elvis has moved from place to place, living in disguises and us ing a dozen aliases and validating at least some of the sightings re ported in supermarket tabloids, the report contended. After working on the conspira cy theory for 2 1/2 years, the com mission’s writers, researchers, unidentified federal officials and other assorted gumshoes un veiled their report at Camper’s Paradise Resort in Moneta. Phil Aitcheson, a freight truck ing broker who put the commis sion together, did it all with a straight face. “This was a very serious effort. A lot of people spent a great deal of money and time and effort to determine the truth,” he said. The 25 members used materi als from several best-selling books purporting to show that Elvis faked his death and ob tained hundreds of new govern ment and medical documents un der the Freedom of Information Act. And here, the Presley Com mission maintained, is the shock ing truth: The body found in the bath room of Presley’s Memphis, Tenn., mansion, Graceland, on Aug. 16, 1977, actually was the cousin of the King’s manager. What mourners passing the King’s catafalque saw was a wax dummy cooled by an elaborate system of dry ice and battery- powered, soundproof fans con cealed inside the casket. That, the commission said, ex plains why a dead Elvis sweats. Aitcheson and the investiga tive coordinator performed their own experiment by cooling a wax candle in the freezer, then taking it out into room temperature. Condensation formed on the can dle’s surface. Elvis wanted people to think he was dead to protect himself and his family from death threats stemming from his top-secret role as a government agent. In 1970, President Nixon named Elvis an honorary special agent at large for the agency that would become the Drug Enforce ment Administration. Rumors about Elvis’ drug use were spread to support a cover-up, the after- math of which continues to this day, the commission said. “There is a pretty good chance you wouldn’t even recognize him if you saw him on the i street,” Aitcheson said. “This guy is a master of disguise and he’s had to do this to protect himself and his privacy.” Why didn’t the King of Rock ’n’ Roll attend the wedding of his only child, Lisa Marie, to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson? “We’re not so sure he wasn’t there,” Aitcheson said. He said one witness suggests that a white-haired man wearing a baseball cap pictured in the background of a nuptial photo was the incognito father of the bride. 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