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Aggielife Pat IT Wednesday • November U 3 Whc We ggie Democ ost-election 11 Koldus. t- ill give a mol SEA:The las lester will bt .m. in MSC )rrnation ct 045 or Rhon iternationa uccess Gro cross cultur hown from ne LRD, Eva iformation, .427 ext. 14! Ottmers and Carter plan to return to Alaska after their December graduation and open a guiding business. ielt i Sigma Shill be an in1 Special to i hei ^; jnterestei ;:3<) p.m. in 6 Wilderness Continued from Page 3 to do something like that.” Ottmers said the mountaineers became fascinated with the cari bou and moose trails they encountered as they hiked through the snow. “We saw a lot of trails,” he said. “The snow was about the consistency of a slushie and was black from vegetation from the previous summer. We called it licorice slurpee.” Ottmers said he could not begin to describe all that he learned from his trip. “It taught me a little something about every thing,” he said. “It helped me ground my knowledge of the world. It’s an alternative to Col lege Station, and it helped me to appreciate both places more.” Ottmers also learned about some less impor tant things, such as how to pack for his next trip. “I learned you need less stuff than we original ly thought,” he said. “It was like Christmas, with all this new gear, but the gear lost its newness. Most of what you need is just a pack, a tent and some food.” Special to The Baitalion Ottmers' parents were concerned about their son's Alaskan adventure lareer Centei ■||| rative Edu ! p.m. in 504 imerican Sot engineers: Ek leeting will t .01 Richards' ided. For det it 691-6369. estival Singt ■pen rehears ils for all the n 402 Acad >.m. For mo iachel at 84 ;rasso@tarnu AMU Snow irith us on Me ormation on 1 elluride. Mee 1:30 p.m. teformed Un iome join ut 'orship, prai Special toiHEBAraufayer at 8:30 The mountaineers returned to basics during their or informatioi three months in Alaska. At one point, the group atft 764-2903. mosquitoes to maintain their weight. ggie Sack Talk show guest guilty of second-degree murdc ootbag Ck estyle hackii dder Statue The Jenny Jones Show denies any responsibility for Scott Amedure’s death PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — In a case that put “ambush televi sion” on trial, a Jenny Jones Show guest Tuesday was spared a mandatory life in prison and convicted of second-degree murder for shooting a gay man who revealed a crush on him during a taping. In deciding against a first-de gree murder conviction, the jury found that 26-year-old Jonathan Schmitz acted without premedi tation in the 1995 slaying of Scott Amedure, 32. Schmitz could get anywhere from eight years to life in prison, with the possibility of parole. First-degree murder carries no hope of parole. Jurors said they concentrated almost entirely on Schmitz’s state of mind when he shot Amedure, who revealed an at traction to Schmitz three days earlier as a studio audience whooped and hollered. Juror Joyce O’Brien said that for Schmitz, it was like “someone pulls the rug out from under you.” “Even a sane person might have trouble dealing with all that stuff,” O’Brien said. The case had focused attention on “ambush” television and titil lating daytime TV tactics, with Schmitz’s lawyers arguing that the show misled him into believing he was going to meet the woman of his dreams. They said he was publicly hu miliated when his secret admirer turned out to be a man. That, cou pled with his history of depression, suicide attempts, a thyroid ailment and other problems, left him incapable of forming the intent necessary to commit first-degree murder, his lawyers said. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated all day Friday and about two and a half hours Tuesday be fore reaching its verdict, rejecting the lesser charge of manslaughter. “We all felt he had a definite mental problem ... and the show exacerbated that,” said another juror, Dale Carlington. Prosecutor Roman Kalytiak said: “I think we had a more com pelling case with the facts. The defense had a more compelling case with making jurors feel sorry for Jonathan Schmitz.” Defense attorney James Burdick said Schmitz would appeal and predicted the judge would be le nient at Schmitz’s sentencing Dec. 4 and give him the minimum. Amedure’s brother, Frank Ame dure Jr., said that he was disappoint ed by the conviction on a lesser charge and that his family would press ahead with its $25 million law suit against The Jenny Jones Show. “None of this would have hap pened if it wasn’t for the Jenny Jones show’s exploitation of ho mosexuality, a sensitive issue, and then exploiting those persons that had difficulty with the toler ance of homosexuality, such as Jonathan Schmitz,” he said. The show’s producers denied misleading Schmitz to get him to go on the episode, which was titled, unbeknownst to Schmitz, “Same- Sex Secret Crushes.” Jones testified that she knows very little about how her show operates and usually gets the scripts the night before a taping. Pm definitely a heterosexual I guess you could say." Jonathan Schmitz convicted murderer The show was never aiver was played for the jury.» Amedure outlined sexua tasies of Schmitz invl “whipped cream and ^ pagne” and rhapsodized® his “cute, little, hard body. 1 !; Schmitz reacted withal' barrassed smile but no apfl anger. He turned away | Amedure put an arm aroialf and tried to kiss him. “I’m definitely a heterosesj guess you could say,” SchmiCj Three days later, Sci bought a shotgun, drove to dure’s mobile home nearb killed him at his doorstep. [ Schmitz’s parents tesli that their son behaved odii early as 3 years old, whe would bang his head againsj wall in anger. They saidt)l time he was 16, he was h weeks-long periods ofde[ sion. Later, he attemptedst several times. A Detroit gay rightsgi that saw the shooting as a crime said it was satisfied!' conviction. “Their verdict that humiliation and sexua entation are not reasons to said Jeff Montgomery of tin angle Foundation. 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