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Activist sets self on fire as ‘torch for liberty’ ■ SUICIDE: Few students know what Kathy Change’s final message was By Michael Raphael The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — For years, Kathy Change tried to bring atten tion to her message of world peace by dressing in tight T-shirts and thong bikinis, waving flags and playing music around the Univer sity of Pennsylvania campus. No one seemed to listen. On Tuesday, the students couldn’t help but notice. On that day, 46-year-old Change calmly walked to a large metallic peace symbol in the heart of the campus, doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire. The suicide, carried out in front of 50 people, was meticulously planned as a final, last-gasp at tempt to draw attention to her be liefs. “My real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peace fully transform our world,” Change wrote in a statement she delivered to students beforehand. “I offer myself as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liber ty-” Students, who for years had walked by her with indifference or vague unease as she ranted on, couldn’t stop talking Wednesday about her spectacular suicide. They remembered little of her message, though. "It's a tragedy,” said Justin Pier gross, 22, as he sat a few feet from the shiny peace sculpture. "I think a lot of people just didn’t give her any respect because) sire was a bit different.” To 21-vear-old Kate Saliba, a Penn junior, the almost daily per formances were like a “show.” “People would be sitting by the li brary and just cringe,” she said. “What was she against? Every thing,” said Kyle Bartlett, 24, a graduate student from Little Rock, •Ark. “Destruction of the rain for est. Government with a capital G.” Throughout the morning, peo pie made their way across the Col lege Green and paused before a shrine of sunflowers, purple lilies, burning candles and col ored beads left at the 15-foot-high peace sign along with a balloon with the message: “In memory of one who lived and died in pain.” Change was something of a mystery. About the only thing anyone knew about her is that she listed an address in the city’s de pressed Powelton section in West Philadelphia and that police said she was from Springfield, Ohio. It wasn’t clear how she support ed herself or whether she had any family, though in a radio inter view she once said that her father was an engineer and her grandfa ther a Harvard professor. She had no connection to Penn. The extent of her education was unknown. But Brendan McGeev er, a student who interviewed Change recently on his campus radio show, said: “When you talked to her she was just so artic ulate and normal. She could be a professor, a grad student.” A woman who only gave her first name, Jessie, stood with tears in her eyes at the makeshift shrine. She said she had lived near Change for 17 years. “I’m going through feelings like I could have prevented some thing,” she said. “She was a very cheerful, very friendly, very love ly woman.” Change, who changed her name from Chang to reflect her commitment, danced and dis played flags for 15 years to pro mote her belief in a “Transforma tion” —- a crash of the world : economy-that would,-foi&e. every one to come together to work out an answer. A year ago, fliers announcing Change’s impending self-immola tion began circulating among the tight family of protesters in West Philadelphia. "We can all kind of take the blame for this together,” McGeev er said. “She saw this as a neces sary step because she had ex hausted the other avenues.” Lottery officials will consider adding video slot machines ■ GAMBLING: Bar owners ask for the new games to help compete with casinos The Associated Press SALEM — The state lottery during the next year will consid er adding slot machine-type games to its video terminals, a move bar owners are pushing for because of competition from In dian casinos. Lottery Director Chris Lyons said the lottery commission de layed taking up of the subject of so-called line games until a gov ernor’s task force finished its study of gambling in the state. The study was completed last month. The issue of new games now will be considered, but a year of hearings and commission meetings will be needed before the panel makes a decision, Lyons said Tuesday. A longtime lottery opponent, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, does not like the idea of more games. “It would expand the numbers of people participating, and the numbers addicted to gambling,” said Ellen Lowe, a Ecumenical Ministries lobbyist who served on the governor’s task force. Gov. John Kitzhaber said when he took office last year he wanted a cautious approach to any lot tery expansion, and the task force urged the same. But the rapid de velopment of Indian casinos in the state has made tavern and bar owners anxious to expand video lottery games. “They told us to wait for the task force report. Now it’s done, but the governor still wants to drag his feet,’’ said Mike McCal lum, executive director of the Oregon Restaurant Association. The organization represents about half the bars and taverns in the state that offer video poker. Indian casinos give a large amount of their floor space to the popular line games, so named be cause they pay off when symbols line up in a row. Salem tavern operator John Ross estimated he has lost 25 per cent of his lottery business since the casinos opened. Though some customers may return to his tavern, he said, the “big players are all gone. They went to the casinos.”