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The Battalion Wednesday • April! up debate h center ical officer to determin positive result was cat iccident or by an over iter medication, suck or fiu remedy, i addition, he said, tesk lable to determine if apes tested positive for t it have done so becausei; 2d poppy seeds, which « evels of morphine. [acFarlane said a ct whether a person wki >d positive for marijuaiti ly smoked a marijuana : or simply breathed s® 1 smoke. r. James R. Wild, Department of Biock r and Biophysics, discs; i technology. Phere have been cases 2h they have shown)! ain people actually lit! envelope of a threats ;r by analyzing traces r a,” he said. “What we ing about here is some ible technology that; >eyond anything we sa; !). J. (Simpson) trial. 1 ild also spoke aboutl l testing is used in anti yy to identify the bodies, as the means of death,t! ; historical figures, r. Steven M. Smith, ass irofessor of psychology,! id eyewitnesses, nith said juries often beli omewhat unreliable tesic eyewitnesses over more :e physical evidence, lyewitnesses have a i er chance of error than) ^pes of evidence becat le believe their menw when they are wrong,' “My colleagues and li ; laugh when we hear|i ay that they have all ence and that theyji they had an eyewitai mony to support it.” gma Xi is a national oig; n that promotes the dew! of the interdisciplinaiyi ;. The A&M chapter is * 'tubers by invitation only Attention Aggies $ Cash For Your Car $ Local Dealer Will Pay Up to $2500" For Your Mkl-80’s Foreign Cat 1412 S. Texas in Bryan ■aaiiaijiiKHiW WEDNESDAY April 10, 1996 GGIE Page 3 Pavarotti r. Robert E.w irk Place Medical Clinic Minor Emergency Family Practice iday-Friday 8 a.m.-8pi 2 appointment necessaif When you don’t have time to wait 696-2005 1 Texas Ave. South, m College Station, Texas Vo off with this ad, on on low $30 office visit Place Your Ad In he Battalion Call 845-0569 I tend. / f/oor Xx$ : , Midm pril l 2tt entertainment GLANCE Pavarotti and secre tary start life together NEW YORK <AP) — Luciano Pavarotti and his 26-year-old secre tary are making a home together, although they deny they've started making a family. The 60- year-old tenor and Nicoletta Mantova ni have been liv ing together for the past two weeks in Pava rott i' s Manhattan apa rt m e n t, and Pavarotti says, "We are together. We are very happy... extremely happy." Mantovani, visiting an art gallery with the opera singer Monday night, said she was "very sure of... my love for Luciano. Love wins everything!" Pavarotti and his wife of 35 years, Adua, are legally separated. Mrs. Pavarotti, who lives in Italy, reportedly has won a settlement of $150 million plus half his ongoing royalties for her and their three daughters Cosby fires writer to keep warm image NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Cosby wants America to remember him as a family man, not a crotchety curmudgeon. So says the writer-producer of a CBS sitcom just fired by Cosby in a difference of opinion over Cosby's new character. Richard Day says the untitled sitcom, slated for a 44-episode, two-season run, is based on the British series One Foot in the Grave about an old man who's lost his . Telma Hopkins has been to play Cosby's wife. "The British show is an edgy, ;, absurd program about an inef fectual curmudgeon awaiting death and, in effect, Bill signed on to do |at," Day said in Tuesday's New fork Post. Cosby, Day said, "lost his nerve because he's had a lot of suc cess with a very lovable persona." Assasins rises in popularity on campus By John LeBas The Battalion T he setting: a typical Texas A&M classroom, packed with a dedicat ed instructor and rows of atten tive students. T he scenario: one of these students is about to meet a tragic fate in a classic example of “the hunted meets the hunter.” Suddenly, another student rears up, wields his weapon and shoots the victim. The “killer” makes his escape. Yet this “hit” is not as bla tantly violent as it seems. The weapon is a water gun, and the two students are partici pants in Assassins, a game be coming popular on campus. Assassins players try to avoid being shot by an assigned killer while trying to murder their own victim. If an assassin finds and shoots his or her victim, they then have to kill the victim’s target. In culmination of ^ this murder chain, the last living assas sin wins the game. Keith Randolph, a junior environmental de sign major, has been playing Assassins for the last two weeks with a group of friends. Randolph and his friends are assigned victims each week through a random drawing, and at midnight on Monday, the game begins. The campus is the only designated hunting ground for the group, Ran dolph said,' which often necessitates clever search and evasion techniques. “You have to make sure you don’t'get killed,” Randolph said. “It gets into espionage and trying to find out who has who.” Randolph said espionage may involve mak ing deals to avoid getting shot or to try to find a target. Conspiracy also abounds, he said, and ambushes are not uncommon. David Lee Murphy Saturday, April 13 10 p.m. Doors open at 8 p.m. SILVER WINGS R mSL sJpF BALL RO)1) O))) M Hwy. 105 East, Brenham, Tx Tickets: $ 10 advance/$ 12 day of show $12 reserved available at: Cavendar s Boot City - College Station (409) 836-4836 THE LARGEST INDEPENDENT CD SHOP MiMIN THE BRAZOS VALLEYS*! THIS SAT.-4/13-DOUBLE INSTORE MARK DAUID MANDERS-2PM DON WftLSER'4PM FREE REFRESHMENTS WITH ID COURTESY OF: Ip' AUSTIM f “Someone will get cocky, and everyone else will turn against them,” he said. “I was person ally one of the people set up. Someone brought (my assassin) into my class and hid them.” The resulting ambush ended Randolph’s play in that particular game. But since some professors might frown on this, killings often occur at bizarre times and places. Many of Randolph’s friends are architecture majors, making them easy to find and shoot in the architecture complex. One of his friends was shot there at 3 a.m. while working on a project. "We needed a more creative way to kill time." — KEITH RANDOLPH Assasins participant Hiding is part of the game as well. Players not afforded the convenience of a low profile must rely on trickier methods of seclusion. “We get real paranoid, watching every direc tion,” Randolph said. He said he takes different routes to class and adjusts his schedule to avoid detection. Of course, an assassin’s best friend is a water gun. “Be armed at all times,” Randolph said. Katherine Mengerink, president of the A&M Zoological Society and a senior zoology major, knows the importance of this advice well. She was “killed” last Monday in the Zoological Society’s As sassins game, caught unarmed by a tipped-off killer who tracked her to her workplace. “The vice president gave me away,” Mengerink said. “I work at a lab, and the person chased me down and got me in the lab.” In the Zoological Society’s game, which Started two weeks ago, assassinations are rendered null and void if a victim can manage to shoot his killer before or while being killed. Mengerink had actu ally thwarted an earlier murder attempt in this way, but last Monday, she forgot to pack her piece, and her luck ran out. Despite the fact she now cannot shoot her own victim, Mengerink said Assassins has been a fun way to get to know others from the Zoological So ciety. She also said she likes the feeling of wari ness that an Assassins player has while trying to skirt death. “Walking on campus and being afraid gives you something to do between classes,” she said. For Randolph and his friends, Assassins of fers a welcome diversion from daily schedules. “It’s different than the normal, everyday stuff — and I get to shoot random people,” Randolph said, referring to players’ habit of practicing their aim on the innocent. “We needed a more creative way to kill time.” CHAT & CHEW Discuss questions and concerns with your Vice President for Student Affairs RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE MONDAY-MIDNIGHT SALE-4/15 i^iew Fie: i i - en^ -rn i WE-Ei f-jc:-l_ lj r?u: : !—I LJ S-CHOOL-HOl_JS>E K.OChC, NMC E11—I"T". s>-r/F^ic>s> ir-j -the hui I , , IkVJT! -1 i l -1 • I 1 1 Q> college miEvl ra &^G-OQ A DR. 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