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* ★ ★ ★ NOTICE ★ ★ ★ ★ Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving) Nov. 25 Friday Nov. 26 Saturday Nov. 27 Sunday Your Student Health Center Urgent Care Service is open from Noon-8pm BROCHURES FLYERS P O S TER S AND M (V R E LETTER PERFECT GRAPHICS 300 EMU 686-5511 Midterm help Longterm financing If you need a Macintosh* computer now-but would rather pay later- check * into the Apple Student S Loan to Own Program. If your parents qualify for the loan, they'll receive a check in a few weeks. And you’ll have a Macintosh on your desk soon after that. So stop by and pick up an application. But do it now, before the term’s over. | Apple’s Student Loan-to-Own Program Microcomputer Support Lab Room 202 Computing Center M-F 9am-5pm 686-4402 C1988 Apple Compiler, Inc Apple, the Apple logo, and Maontf *h are regtsrtrd trademarks of Apple Computer. Irx Lewis & Clark Law School Portland, Oregon Are you ready for the challenge? Paul Wilson, Director of Natural Resources and Externship Programs, will be on campus to answer your questions about: ■ A generous merit scholarship program, the Dean’s Fellowship for Excellence. ■ Our nationally known program in natural resources and environmental law. ■ Externship opportunities. ■ An international business law specialty that is part of an already solid business curriculum. ■ Career opportunities in public and private law. University of Oregon 3:30 p.m., November 21,1988 Complimentary refreshments 164 Oregon Hall Academic Advising Photo bv MU! Hainn Kevin Baurer, a campus lazer tagger, readies himself with his Lazer Tag gun for war. "T"cl§ Continued from Page 1 I-azer Tag players bumping and setting off a late-night burglar alarm. "We go out there thinking a crime's being committed, bur glars might carry guns," Mc Kee said. “We're going around a corner and out pops a guy holding a gun .... If a guy drops down on you with a gun and he's got this fierce look in his eyes because he thinks he's shooting his buddy, but he's actually shooting a cop, we've got the potential for an acci dent," McKee said. McKee said another scenario, an armed civilian investigating shadowy figures brandishing weapons, concerns him even more. "At least the police are pre dictable," McKee said. “You know what they're going to do. The people you have to worry about are the NRA, gun-toting citizens. "Some citizen is going to sec some activity outside his house, maybe it resembles some crime activity they've been experiencing in their neighborhood." he said. "If a l.azer Tag player turns around with a gun in his hand, you have the definite possibility of an armed confrontation taking place." Eric Neustadter, a University sophomore, is a member of an informal Lazer Tag group that fights its make-believe skir mishes anywhere from the KMLJ to the University Library Saturday nights. He said his group has never had any of the problems the police are con cerned about. "People who walk by. if they see us, they just go, 'Oh, Lazer Tag,"’ he said, “We've never had any instances where peo ple thought they were being shot at or anything. It's pretty hard when you're playing Lazer Tag to be involved in mass destruction." Neustadter said his group usually numbers about 30 or 40 people, all just out to have a good time on a Saturday night. "With that many people it get's real interesting," he said. "It's usually just a free-for-all. It's not set rules. I mean, there are rules, hut there's no set goal. It’s just go out and kill." McKee said that although he realizes the game is probably more enjoyable in the dark and in settings such as the areas fa vored by l.azer Tag players, he would like to see designated areas for players to avoid po tentially dangerous encounters between them and police and citizens. He added that aside from the confusion, relations between players and officers have been pleasant. "If we could just have the co operation from the people in volved as to when they're play ing we could probably avoid any problems," McKee said. Suzie Hunter, crime preven tion officer for OPS, said l.azer Tag players should contact Campus security and KPD about where and when games will be played, and added the Pioneer Cemetery is off-limits after dark and trespassers face the prob ability of being cited for tres passing. "Nobody would feel as bad as we would if something hap puuc*d».’.'AlUM(lg.#4Hl» v „* + -r->
