WAV^SV Class 2 0° f 0 0 JAN. 31 is your LAST CHANCE to take your Senior picture for the 2000 Aggieland! Have your picture taken for the Aggieland year book at AR Photography by JAN. 31, 2000. Located next to Copy Corner at 1410Texas Ave. Open M-F 9 a.m. - noon, 1:30-4p.m. —ar ■ wcm rviail ^ 693-6429 cMsea $tUl mi' kj w mn ki r J PETE & CEDRIC Tuesday.s ator . ^ IC * H w a J c pm * N ° Co ; er e in near- Cadillac took meticulous care of his hous by Southfield. He owned a I99f Seville and liked to rollerskate. Co-workers said they knew he occa sionally gambled, but never saw signs of a problem. Then, on his day off, authorities said he lost $15,000 to $20,000 at the MOM Grand Detroit Casino, which opened in July, and the 6-week-old MotorCity Casino. At MotorCity, spokesman Jack Barthwell said, Bell tried various black jack tables in the high-stakes VIP room before losing roughly $4,000 on a single hand at a $ 100-minimum game. Bell then pulled his gun and fired a shot into his temple so abruptly the few players and about 20 casino workers on the fourth floor had no time to intervene. II. from the casin The Nat Gambling, citir one in five pat nal L Hi Problem at- ed tempts suicide. A 1908 Harv ard Med School study estimated that 1.6 pen of adults in the United States and Ci da had experienced pathological g; bling at some point in their lives. “Short of someone leav ing a note ‘The reason I killed myself is the a lot of annehair detective work to termine what chain of events can someone to do that,” O’Hare said. “Frequently, what you have is things playing together. Many times you have drinking problems or marital problems.” A third temporary casino is expected to open in Detroit this spring. Larger, per manent casinos with hotel rooms, show - rooms and other amenities are expected to open by 2004. 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I'h on the i the Big I The sm pi ist 8 I nisi. I Yet. fei cncc Stale U I Mis: Tigers a a\ eragii than 50 I “Thi kciball hits broi place to I That are av er I For. Nlissoiu iiig into to Iowa confide] 1 " <)ui are still have to that is h I The up as W tijre ban tar. Ton Gilehris The Biii 12 M 1 As ' women’ Louisiai is faced SUecessi fifed Ma out due I Toda pjm.attl' Desf ELans, their sw oceasioi Mayors discuss school shootin, call for Congress to c do its part I “Our spondin WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling on Congress to pass more stringent gun laws, the nation’s mayors displayed on Thursday a “wall of death,” filled with the names of nearly 3,100 Americans fatally shot since the killings at Columbine High School. “Our hope is the tragic message of this wall will not be missed on Capitol Hill,” Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb said, standing before a black, 10-foot board with victims’ names recorded in white and the date of their deaths in red. “It’s time for Congress to do its part.” Webb, who is president of the U.S. Conference of May ors meeting here this week, called on Congress to renew its work on gun restrictions. Last spring, in consideration of ajuvenile justice bill, the Senate passed new provisions requiring background checks at gun shows. But a similar set of proposals died in the I louse when Republicans complained the measures were too strong and some Democrats said they were too weak. Work on the gun legislation continues. The bloodshed didn’t end with Columbine, Webb said, noting last year’s other high-profile school and workplace shootings, which included the November slaying of seven at a Xerox office building in Honolulu. Mayors are on the front lines of the battle, New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial said in releasing a survey on gun deaths. “We attend the funerals 1 ,” he said. “We comfort the families. We clean up the blood.” The 3,094 victims’ names and ages on the movable wall were reported from the group’s survey of 100 cities, which recorded gun-related homicides from April 20, 1999 the date of the high school shootings in Littleton, Colo, through Dec. 31, .1999. Chicago, with a population of about 2.7 million, was the largest city in the survey. It recorded the largest death toll at 343. The smallest city surveyed — Superior, Wis., which has a population of 27,500 — reported a single death. Eleven cities had no gun violence deaths in the period re ported, but among the other 89 cities surveyed, not a day went by without a gun fatality. The next highest death counts were reported in: Detroit with 273; Baltimore, 197; Houston, 186; Miami-Dade Coun ty, Fla., 169; and Philadelphia, 164. Denver, the nearest city to Littleton, reported 35 deaths. The victims ranged in age from 2 to 96, but one in three were 18 to 25 years old. Most of the deaths were homicides. Not all cities distin guished accidental shootings or suicides. The mayors want congressional action on gun control, but a separate conference meeting on school violence, it was the mayors who were asked to take action. On J Gun-related deaths A survey of 100 cities, conduc after the mass killing at Columbine High School onAc 20, 1999, found that 3,094 Americans were fatally shotfR that time through the end oft year. Here is a look at the fatalities, by age group. (7:0 Tickets $3.00 In Box ! All li Rudder persons v please cj inform us 2-10 years 123 11-20 years 639 21-30 years 31-40 years 556 41-50 years 315 51-60 years 145 61-70 years a; 72 71-80 years ■ 60 81-96 years 131 AVI CAI TRy I Wh on coll dec acc you cer the Up ( you can can job aim Source: U.S. Conference of Mavors