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Tuesday AGGIELIFE sday. April 25, 2000 THE BATTALION Page 3 The Fake Bake Cult echnology paves the way for tanning the masses who used to worship the sun P) The White House lui rdativ es for forcing thews boy, asserting that "noneof ected the law and allowed BY JUAN LOYA The Battalion orshiping the sun is nothing new. The A/tees and the an- cienl lygyptians did it, and aid it was proper forlede.j(y 0nc from Mesopotamia to ancient . stormed the house. "Iheri B followed the same theological in- *•* r uns in the house. outinaiKtn. Thousands of years later Amer- i Joe Lockhart said. Kv no different, though pledgingal- udiuan Committee CbrJLc to the spherical deity usually . ‘p rc l |mmar > ■ ni l u i r ) " 'olves spending a few hours outside re-daw n raid. The inquit}/. jjng a darker complexion, look into whether theuseol&Hd as always, Americans have found ' I Iv de said in a statement K a nd more convenient way to engage et Reno will meet onTuKH&lis ine experience: the tanning salon. > Leader I rent Lott. R Jot Keen, a senior civil engineering the raid, Lott spokesy jjor, said that tanning is something that o has inv ited about adoze pAim a quick revitalization. iaid. Kui kx)k better and feel better,'’ he said, he raid was "the righttl bitdon't feel like you’ve been inside all maining. Lockhart y,e\en tltough you may have just spent None of this had to hapy ent, e day in class.” did not respect the legal"; Fnshman general studies major Chris aid be reunited with the lam -aid he has been to the tanning sa- it\ with Clinton today.! nahandlul oftimes, and it gives him a lift. I ban and his father, Juan “It s relaxing,” he said. “I do it when I i'l thing that would be in m’thave time to go and lay out in the Hid 1 don't want to look pasty white.” ed to second-guess they Tanning before a social event is com- u hatsoever.' she said, lonpiace, according to Natalie Ed- > make sure we avoided ards an employee at Aggieland Tan d. so he it." she said on nd| freshman general studies major, ic result." jiesaid that business always picks up cousin w ho looked alb ighjiefore spring break and events such ' w s two great-uncleslef sRDig Dance. eak to whoever we have: 1 “jgot a tan before my prom,” she said. ! ither. She said the Mia: Keen said said he also began his tan- . ause "we are in his ten dnglegiment before spring break, o the Miami home oftkT i went 10 times for about two months,” icr negotiations withthei esid. “I was getting tanned for spring a > said. " We were told we reak but I got drunk the first day and ;s and we did it and it eu asseil out on the beach. I got sunburned, d Republicans in:./. a the tan was pretty much wasted.” of Texas - of playing' Getting a tan preceding the week of inaccurate smtemen: nder-the-sun activities might not make a e\ ision vesterday anc )t of sense until one realizes there may be they didn't get a sc. /ther reasons behind the visit to the salon, ly not true, and eaaj)te think people do it to attract the fas." opposite sex, you know, to look hot for s > >rkcd hard to make sateH xitli lus father in a peace! ® ried and tried.”IntheemlH w need to move forwanWI chance to heal.” ), Aaron I’odhurstwasW uni relatives Thursdaysni cneral just before the raii*! s w ithin minutesorantai . I was disappointed.ltd i TV.” i Reno shortly aftt She was as sad as Fveit aying at Andrews AirFs ;ome of their Cuban relsi .istody battle that hasiwt| o getting renewed te family awaits thenevi " Continued from president for linance, changes before they wet; onsive to the changes, ho find the new service of going off campusu the honeys,” Koen said. 'That’s what I was hoping for, but it didn’t really help much, unfortunately.” And sometimes, it is the simple act of going to the tanning salon, not the tanning process, that customers hope will aid them in their romantic endeavors. “A lot of attractive girls go to tanning salons, and it’s a good place to go and meet some of them,” Koen said. Another reason people congregate at the tanning salons before spring break is to regulate their tanning, Edwards said. “I think people do it to attract the opposite sex, you know, to look hot for the honeys." — joe Koen Senior civil engineering major “People do it so they won’t go out and get burned under the sun,” Edwards said. “You can lay in the booth for about eight minutes to build a bast and you won’t get sunburned.” And as those 8 or more minutes go by, different people have different things lloating through their minds. “I usually just listen to the music,” Adams said. “Whatever is on the radio when I go in there is fine.” Koen said that while he suggests peo ple bring a favorite CD to the tanning sa lon to listen to, he also establishes a plan before entering the booth that helps him get his homework done as well. “I’d be doing homework before hand, while I’m waiting for a booth,” Koen said. “I usually did the harder problems last, so while I get tanned I can think over some of the problems and how to work them out.” So as this quick-fix for the pale complexioned has now been estab lished as a way to meet women and help one’s grades, the idea of the “sun as deity” idea is now considered obso lete. But can there be an even quicker and more beneficial way to tan than the tanning booth? According to research conducted at the University of Arizona, researchers have been working on a drug to prevent skin cancer, a new drug called Melano- tan II. It has been created in an effort to get a protective suntan in a safe way. In deed, Melanotan II darkened skin pig ment, but the researchers soon learned that it had other effects as well. “It so happens that one very astute ob server who took this drug reported to us that he was developing spontaneous erec tions,” said Dr. Norman Levine, a der matology researcher. This development now has the researchers exploring the drug’s possible effectiveness against erectile dysfunction and as an alternative to the drug Viagra. For now, Melanotan II must be inject ed under the skin, but an eyedrop or nasal spray could be formulated as a commer cial version. While this technology is years from reaching American markets, the search for the perfect tan at tanning salons still continues. And the technology is not only more efficient, but safer as well, Edwards said. “Tanning salons are government-reg ulated,” she said. “They mandate the amount of UV rays a person can receive. We can tell people how much time they can get or we can sell them protective lo tions as well.” And since there are no 24-hour tanning salons in College Station, dedicated prac titioners may resort to alternatives to the established tanning methods, Koen said. “If you really need a tan, you could always sit under the heat lamp at Whataburger,” Koen said. “That might work.” JEFF SMITH/Thi; Battalion nconveniencetotheslufc igize for that,” Floyd saic y isn’t going toaccoc :d in the Commons Lott; ilion, Reed Arena, East' i the surcharge forstudfl* bnncrly known as Non'? 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