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By Kristina Buffin
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A college woman walks into a bar intend
ing to relax and have a good time with
friends* She does not expect to remem
ber this night as the worst night of her life. She
meets someone who she believes is a nice guy,
but 10 hours later she wakes up and cannot re
member anything that happened.
K a p e — most college women try not to
think about it, although it may be their biggest
fear. Nationwide statistics indicate one out of
every four women between the age of 18 and
25 are victims of acquaintance or date rape.
And in a national survey, 25 percent of college
women admitted they had been coaxed into
having sex, 10 percent had been forced, and 4
percent of men admitted they had forced
themselves on a woman.
These numbers have increased dramatically in
recent years, and a new variable has been added to
the equation — the so-called “date rape” drug,
l inda Castoria, executive director of Brazos
| County Rape Crisis Center, said the first reported
case of a woman being drugged and raped in this
community was last summer.
Since then it has escalated,” Castoria said.“it is
occurringaroitpd the nation, and everyone is up in
arms. We’ve had similar problems with alcohol but Castoria said. “We try to work with everyone in-
with these drugs, it is a whole different ball game.” volved in a situation like this, but they [date rape
The drugs Castoria speaks of are Gamma Hy- cases] are difficult to take on. The survivor lias
droxyburaty (GHB) and llunitra/.epam. conT^ 'such a low recall.”
monlv known as Rohypnol. Rohvnnol sedates a person one to two hours
monly known as Rohypnol.
Rohypnol is produced throughout the world
and is used as a drug for people with severe
sleeping disorders. However, the Federal Drug
Administration has not approved the drug in
the United States because of the dangers asso
ciated with it. U.S. Customs banned the impor
tation of Rohypnol last year.
Castoria said the trend always has been
that there are more incidents of date or ac
quaintance rape than stranger rape. Howev
er, the Crisis Center is seeing more cases of
stranger rape with the use of date-rape drugs.
“It is a stranger, even if you know their name,”
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Rohypnol sedates a person one to two hours
after it is ingested, and its effects usually last six
to eight hours. The drug impairs a one’s ability
to remember details of an event. When com
bined with alcohol, the effects are even worse.
Cindy Larson, a senior geography major,
said Texas A&M students need to become
more aware of their surroundings and realize
they are not safe from harm.
“I don’t really know that much specifically
about the drugs,” Larson said. “But I’m in an or
ganization for medical students, and we were
talking about how it would be nice if people
were more aware at parties and not take drinks
that have already been opened.”
BobWiatt, director of University Police Depart
ment, said A&M has seen a high proportion of date
rapes on campus compared to stranger rapes.
“We have two or three at the most reported
every year,” Wiatt said. “These are date or what we
call ‘acquaintance rapes,’ and we have a crime-
prevention unit which constantly speak with stu
dents about date cind acquaintance rapes.”
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Artwork by Tim Moog
INKS' latest from Outback defies classification
By Brandon Truitt
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eparated from the rest of the
X world, Australia may be one
oJ of life’s great mysteries.
How much is really “normal”
ibout the land down under?
It is a land of strange animals,
uch as koala bears, kangaroos
ind duck-billed platypi.
It also is a land of strange
novies. [Priscilla: Queen of the
lesert? Crocodile Dundee? —
inough said.)
There’s also Australian football,
be 1788 penal colony (better
aiown as Sydney), the dingoes,
theveggiemate, the mass numbers
ofsheep and toilets that suppos
edly flush backward.
So it should be no surprise that
INKS
Elegantly Wasted
Mercury Records
★★★★ (out of five)
the country’s music is just a little
out of sync with the rest of the
world’s as well.
The largest Australian musical
mainstay is perhaps INKS, who
has sold over 20 million records,
played thousands of concerts and
had a steady stream of hit singles
ever since today’s college students
were able to operate a radio.
INXS’ 10th studio album, Elegant
ly Wasted, is as familiar and different
as anything the band has ever done.
Throughout its career, INXS
has always been one of those
unclassifiable bands: not quite
rock ’n’ roll, not quite pop, not
quite like anything else. It could
be the duck-billed platypus of
the music industry.
Elegantly Wasted has the same
distinct sound of every INXS al
bum, but it also has a few newer
concepts thrown in.
There are far fewer keyboards in
this album, and this emptiness
gives the songs a less “’80s” sound
than some of the band’s past efforts.
INXS’ guitar and keyboard
player, Andrew Farriss, elabo
rated on what else is new about
this album.
“For the first time in our entire
career, we were not just capturing
the best, but often the first take of
each song,” Farriss said in a press
release. “Some of the vocals on the
record are the first time those
words have ever come out of (lead
singer) Michael (Hutchence) ’s
mouth! A lot of instrumental parts
are first takes as well.”
This spontaneity shows
through in the songs and gives the
album a nearly live feel, especially
“Show Me,” “Girl on Fire” and the
title track, “Elegantly Wasted.” No
one knows what the band will do
next, because in a way, its mem
bers do not know either.
This album could be de
scribed as unclassifiable, like a
platypus; cool, like Australian
football; and different, like a toi
let spinning the wrong way. But
probably the best description is
that it is simply Australian —
whatever that really means.
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