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AGGIELIFE
sday. April 25, 2000
THE BATTALION
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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
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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.”
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