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By April Towery
Staff writer
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reptL\ not far behind, students are taking their
inces jLbikinis and swim trunks out of the attic.
>licie tese students are heading for local tanning
I ;ds in high hopes of transforming from Casper
crisper.
| ; Annette Smith, owner of Aggie Land Tan, said
lii' is week is the beginning of the peak tanning
|hir ason. And tanning is not just for girls anymore,
nts "I’d say we have about one guy for every five
rls; who tans here,” Smith said.
An* )ther crowd that will be visiting the tanning
ids this month is the high schoolers wanting to
F ase their swimsuit tan lines in order to look their
ist in a prom dress.
One of these girls is Bryan High senior Rebec-
t Petty, who said she went to a tanning bed six or
a Wen times before prom last year.
' “There’s a few girls that go year round, but al-
'ost everyone goes at the end of the year right
ifore prom,” Petty said.
But, in the past few years, tanning has caught
naerica’s attention. Many health hazards, mis-
mceptions and myths have become the topic of
scussion in tanning beds across the country,
i Smith read from an issue of California Tan
(agazine that pointed out some of the miscon-
jptions of tanning.
; “One girl went to a tanning bed for a week and
nelled a burnt smell, and her doctor said her
tsides were burned,” Smith said. “This is a
myth. UV rays don’t penetrate to the third layer
of skin. Wavelengths of tanning rays cannot im
pact internal organs.”
Allison Shepherd, a senior environmental de
sign major, said she goes to a tanning bed at least
twice a week, year round.
“At first, my mom was concerned that it was
unhealthy and that 1 would fry my ovaries,” she
said. “When Christmastime rolled around and
everyone looked like they had the flu, my mother
had a change of heart. Before we go to Padre for
Spring Break this year, Mom’s going to the tanning
bed with me.”
Smith said she prefers indoor tanning because
the amount of time exposed to the rays can be
regulated, whereas the day-to-day variation of in
tensity of actual sunlight cannot.
The maximum time allowed in most beds is 20
minutes. Smith said the time frames assigned de
pend on the clients’ skin types.
“You have to start very conservative, or you’ll
burn,” she said. “And once you burn, you have to
start all over again.”
Shepherd said she tans to add color to her body
and enhance her self-confidence.
“When I’m not tan, 1 look so washed out,” she
said. “I don’t recommend it for everyone, but I
know it’s best for me to have a tan all the time,
even in winter.”
Smith said that people who have experi
enced a bad sunburn before the age of 18 can
increase the chances of developing skin cancer
by 50 percent.
Shepherd said she has never experienced skin
problems. Smith said this is not a surprise con
sidering the lack of statistics supporting a link be
tween tanning beds and skin cancer.
“There’s no evidence which substantiates that
tanning causes melanoma,” Smith said. “One
clinical study of more than 2,000 melanoma pa
tients showed no link between sun exposure and
melanoma.”
Shepherd said people who tan just need to take
the proper precautions.
“Don’t stay in the bed too long, and don’t go
too often,” she said. “When tanning is abused, it
causes your skin to look orange or leathery. But
if you do it right, it can have a very positive ef
fect on the way you look and the way you feel
about yourself.”
Petty said tanning is not always the safest or
most attractive option.
“I think it is OK to do it to get some color, but I
don’t think it makes you look very good if you do
it all the time,” she said.
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JEW YORK (AP) —
in the right to play
Df his comedy idols,
Carrey had to do
Nothing rarely asked
ears with his box-of-
clout: audition.
Vith actors such as
in Spacey, Edward
: ton, John Cusack
Nicolas Cage in the
ling to play the late
ledian Andy Kaufman in the upcoming bi
ography Man on the Moon, director Milos For
man asked for audition tapes.
Sources close to the casting said in the
March 13 issue of Entertainment Weekly
that Carrey sealed the deal with a stand-up
routine that featured some of Kaufman’s
best-known characters.
They included Foreign Man — which
evolved into his role on “Taxi,” the profes
sional wrestler and a Las Vegas lounge
lizard named Tony Clifton.
Kaufman died of lung cancer in 1984 at
age 35.
Before deciding on Carrey, Forman
also screened The Truman Show, the co
median’s upcoming movie. Man on the
Moon, which will co-star Kaufman’s
friend Danny DeVito, is scheduled to be
gin shooting in July.
Lead singer of Hole
receives court fees
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)
— Courtney Love will
get only a fraction of the
legal fees she wanted
from a central Rorida
County where she was
charged with battery.
Love, lead singer
of the band Flole
and widow of Nir
vana’s Kurt Cobain,
was accused of
slugging two fans
show in Orlando.
The charges were thrown out after a
judge ruled that the two teen-age fans
were not exposed to any more violence
than could have been expected at a
rock concert.
An appeals court ruled that Or
ange County must pay Love for some
of her expenses.
Love, also an actress who appeared
in The People vs. Larry Flynt, had asked
the county to reimburse her $27,543 she
paid for a private investigator, expert wit
nesses and other expenses.
The county agreed to pay 7 percent of
the request.
“We offered $1,900, and she took it,"
said George Dorsett, assistant county at
torney. The county was notified last week.
A&M Jazz Band
plays sounds of
blue notes
By Leah Templeton
Staff writer
T here are few people in the world who are
musically talented, and those who have
the ability should share it with the rest of
us. Most students involved in music at this uni
versity are either in the Fighting Texas Aggie
Marching Band or the symphonic band.
However, students now have an opportunity
to join the Texas A&M Jazz Band. The Jazz Band
is an ensemble of fifteen members who are
looking to perform at campus events. The only
problem is they do not quite have full instru
mentation, and are looking for new members.
Derrick Farrell, president of the Jazz Band
and a sophomore genetics and biomedical sci
ence major, said the band is open to students
with any level of musical ability.
“It’s a way to be in a full band,” he said.
“We’re open to any skill level, but some experi
ence is necessary.”
Farrell also said the band is looking for peo
ple to play trombones, trumpets, tenor and
baritone sax and a bass player.
“If the band expands more we can easily add
on another and expand into two or three
bands,” Parrel said. “One will hopefully be a bet
ter band and we can hold auditions.”
Jerry Robles, vice president of the Jazz Band
and a sophomore chemical engineering major,
said he thinks the new band will give students a
chance to try something a little different.
“The reason I wanted to get in the Jazz Band
is because if the you played in high school or
just enjoy playing, it provides a source,” he said.
Robles said he believes “everyone should
have a fine art,” and the Jazz Band provides
something new for A&M since it is basically “the
only game on campus.”
Eric Watson, treasurer of the Jazz Band and a
freshman engineering technologies major, said
the purpose of the band is simple.
“It’s a group of friends who play,” Watson
said. “You’ll meet a lot of interesting people who
share a common interest, which is music.”
Watson said that in joining the Jazz Band
students can “hopefully learn something
about music.”
The Jazz Band practices at First Baptist
Church in Bryan on Thursdays, and if interest
ed, please contact Derrick Farrell at 847-1539.
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