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id installediSlt, “Emancipation."
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at the southl i The 38-year-old star wouldn’t
Great Walkjy^even confirm whether his baby
has been born.
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Lucy Buck, as;: ’ Prince and his wife, Mayte,
ie Downtown were expecting their first child
i the spring,® 8 month.
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HOWELL TOWNSHIP NJ. (AP)
“Maria Espinosa, where are
you tonight?”
I That’s what Bruce Spring
steen called out as he sang
Highs & Lo^atout his first kiss during a re
cent benefit concert in Freehold,
lav’s Expectedhis hometown.
ygop The 15-year-old he kissed
more than 30 years ago is now
lays Expecteiylana Espinosa Ayala, a 48-year-
57°F old mother and grandmother.
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my name,” she
told the Asbury
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ala said she
never told any
one about her
secret smooch.
“My parents
were so strict. I
wasn’t allowed
to have a
boyfriend so I couldn’t let anyone
know what happened,” she said.
I When Springsteen became fa
mous, she didn’t think anyone
would believe her.
[; Her memories of the tender
moment at a dance in downtown
Freehold are hazy.
I “It must have lasted about a
minute,” she said. “It was good. I
dreamed about it afterward.”
Friends find place
as hottest celebs
j NEW YORK (AP) — Goodbye,
old friends — David Caruso, Ar
senic Hall, Mike Myers, Axl
Rose. Hello, new Friends — Jen
nifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt
LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and
David Schwimmer.
j People magazine’s annual list
of the 400 hottest celebrities is
out, and the Friends stars were
big winners. The five other cast
members join Courtney Cox, a
holdover from 1995.
Ah, but the losers. Caruso, who
swapped NYPD Blue for obscurity, is
off the list. Ditto ex-talk show host
Hall, ex-Saturday Night Live star My
ers, and once-hip Guns N’ Roses
frontman Axl Rose.
Goodbye also to singers Jack-
son Browne and David Byrne, fun
nyman Chevy Chase, former CBS
anchorwoman Connie Chung, rap
per Hammer and “The Bridges of
Madison County” author Robert
James Waller.
Other newcomers: Gillian An
derson of X-Files, rapper Coolio,
Politically Incorrect host Bill Ma
her, multi-hued hoopster Dennis
Rodman, “Goosebumps” author
R.L. Stine and Aerosmith off
spring Liv Tyler.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
Young artist is
no Milli Vanilli’
daughter of a Los Angeles prose
cutor defended her singing con
tract at Death Row Records, say
ing it was talent, not her father’s
pull, that landed her the deal.
Gina Longo, 18, said she is un
fairly being linked to a controversy
between Death Row owner Marion
“Suge” Knight and her father,
Deputy District Attorney Lawrence
W. Longo, who handled an assault
case involving Knight.
“I’m no Milli Vanilli,” said Lon
go, referring to the pop duo that
lost a Grammy Award after it was
discovered they lip-synced their
1990 debut album. “This was no
sweetheart deal.”
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It’s all Goodall
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) —
Jane Goodall was initially “horri
fied” at the idea of using her
beloved chimpanzees in HBO
commercials.
Now she hopes the commer
cials will help the species.
‘‘I realized
this would be a
way to make a
statement and
that this is how
animal advertis
ing should go in
the future,” the
primate re
searcher said
in a speech
Monday at Col
orado State
University. “It’s working to every
one's good.”
The commercials show the
chimpanzees watching televised
movies and repeating well-known
lines from some of them.
Money raised through HBO is
providing a year’s worth of funding
for chimpanzee research and sanc
tuary work at the Jane Goodall In
stitute, based in Ridgefield, Conn.
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Walking the
Wilder
A Texas A&M student
uses his own two feet
travel across Alaska.
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By April Towery
The Battalion
J effrey Ottmers, a senior recreation, parks and tourism
sciences major, spends his free time eating mosquitoes
and boldly going where no man has gone before.
Ottmers’ dreams came true this summer as he spent 90
days on what he calls “The Alaskan Range Traverse.”
Ottmers and three other mountaineers: photographer
John Burcham, Kevin Armstrong and Doug Woody,
climbed 27 mountain passes, crossed 29 rivers and trav
eled on 13 major glaciers, to become the first men to com
plete a continuous trip across the Alaskan range.
The mountaineers hiked 600 to 700 miles beginning
along the Glenn highway, south of Tok, Alaska, and ending
at the Cook Inlet near Anchorage.
The mountaineers were interviewed by National Geo
graphic and featured in Climbing magazine for braving the
freezing weather in the isolated and unspoiled subarctic
mountain environment.
Ottmers, an emergency medical technician, outdoor
guide and rock-climbing instructor, said several factors
came into play after spending his summer in Alaska.
Special to The Battalion
Jeffrey Ottmers, a senior recreation, parks and
tourism major, spent his summer with three other
moutaineers walking across Alaska. The group hiked
600 to 700 miles in 90 days.
“The wilderness has become an
integral part of my life,” he said. “All
I’d learned was that wilderness was
immense. This was a chance to see
more of it.
“It’s important to get away from society,
music and traffic to learn and critically ana
lyze yourself.”
Ottmers said the experience was a soul-
searching time because, with the exception of a few
travelers and miners, the four people only communicat
ed with one another.
The mountaineers stayed in lodges and ate wild mush
rooms, berries, leafy vegetables, roots, fungi, willow leaves
and lots of butter — fats were the best thing to eat because
they contain more calories per pound.
Ottmers, who was afraid of losing too much weight,
once ate mosquitoes to survive.
He said his parents were skeptical about their son’s de
cision to spend his summer hiking across Alaska.
“They had a hard time with me running off to Alaska
and doing nonproductive things,” Ottmers said. “There’s a
ton of social pressure and loss of income. It’s kind of like
being a musician. There’s not much recognition, only per
sonal rewards, and your parents don’t really understand.”
His friends were more accepting of his travel plans.
Jason Carter, Ottmers’ friend and a senior anthropology
major, has hiked in Mexico with Ottmers. Carter said he
has encouraged Ottmers to travel to Alaska.
“It’s doing something no one has ever done before,”
he said.
Carter and Ottmers plan to graduate in December and
go to Alaska in the spring to open a guiding business.
“Contact with the earth is an important need we
have,” Carter said. “I enjoy traveling with Jeffrey because
of his unique outlook on foreign locales. I’m looking for
ward to traveling with him in Alaska to see him in an en
vironment he knows something about.”
Utah Jung, a senior recreation, parks and tourism
sciences major, said he is amazed by Ottmers’ excur
sion to Alaska.
“If anyone were to do it, it would be Jeffrey,” Jung
said. “I don’t think it surprises anyone because it fits
him. He’s brave for doing it. I don’t know near enough
See Wilderness, Page 4
See Freudian Slip for two shows as
they bring peace and joy to Bryan
on this leg of their worldwide tour,
Friday & Saturday, Nov. 15 & 16
Dixie Theatre 10 p.m.
Tickets $6 in advance at Marooned,
Rother’s and $6 at the door.
Compact
Discs
$5 99 _ $7 99
Thousands In Stock
m
403 University Drive
(across from Campus)
We Pay Cash For Used CD’s.
Do you love Country & Western dancing
and spreading Aggie Spirit?
If so, come to one of the
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Nov. 18 7-8:15 p.m. MSC 292a
Nov 20 7-8:15 p.m. MSC 230
All ability levels welcome!
Partners and Partner-less!