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Features Friday, April 24, 1987 3 Only the sly survive Assassinatio ii_. am a nt/ nr a ny m/ini Senior reporter ^ He stalks his prey. Quietly holding his ? pistol in the afternoon sun, he zeroes in for his next kill. "I kill people to relieve the boredom of college life," he says with a sneer. Pulling the trigger with remarkable accuracy, he shoots his victim in the back. "I got her! She's dead now!" he yells triumnhantlv as he runs un to his victim, takes her card and proceeds with the 'bloodshed.' And it's all a game to him, because he's part of "Circle of Death, Killer: The Assassination Game," or TAG. In this game, potential assassins stalk one another with water pistols or dart guns, looking for victims. TAG has become a popular game on college campuses all over the United States, said biology junior Edward Switzer, who coor dinated a round of TAG at Bates West residence hall. Bates West's government sponsored the game, which was played in and around the residence hall this past week. Horseshoe and Preston residents are playing a round of TAG this week. "The game kind of evolved on campuses from the water bomb games and role-playing games like 'Dungeons and Dragons,"' Switzer said. John Johnson, an assistant professor of folklore at Indiana University, wrote an arti cle on TAG which appeared in a book written by Steve Jackson on the game, callcd Killer. In his article, he said the ideas for the presentday version of the game were based on the short story "The Seventh Victim," by science fiction author Robert Shockley, which was published in Galaxy magazine in 1953. The first forms of TAG were played in 1966 I WE'RE CAROI PROUD! JOIN US APRIL 2! Work to Beautify USC in th( ^ all afternoon. Join other USC students, Fac the BLOSSOM STREET CL !J ur~i~ J ?? ~i? i lcip cican diiu sweep aiung 1 until noon (Brooms Provided). All participants receive ticket: MEN OUTDOOR CONCERT Free hotdogs and cokes. E ? with students from Columbia's universities. NO COOLERS OR CUPS TH SHOW ID AND TICKET F Check in and Broom pick-i Parking lot beside Blossom St, * FREE BUTTON TO FIRST 1( I n u a iui c Is Finally N Come Out And Support the 198 r Marathon Tennis Players Saturday, The Marathon Will Be Taking Blatt P.E. Center Tennis jrfrh\ m ' ' 1 " I CHAMPS . w 1 | Come Support The Specie g I BE A REAL CHAMP in game come; WiMrT "v at the University of Texas, Johnson said in his article. The game exists today bccause of an oral tradition. TAG'S popularity has been enhanced recently by movies that feature the game, such as 1983's "TAG: The Assassination Game" ioo<'c aim i /UJ ^ vjuivua ; The TAG game at Bates West ended this past Friday, Switzer said. "We had a low response with only 12 people playing. I was disappointed, but we went on with the game anyhow." The official winner in the Bates West game was Spanish literature senior Paul Salas. His last victim was computer science freshman Helen Cummings. "We had a big duel out in the front parking lot Thursday night," Cummings said. "We ran around the parking lot, ducking behind cars, shooting at each other. "People looked at as if we were crazy, but it was just harmless fun. After he got me, it JNA BEBSE Broad I Coi Jusl Clc J I Safe . . : Morning. Play BWSHBflSRfl! ulty and Staff for EAN SWEEP. [ pXI ^ i Blossom Street s to THE THIN from 1:30-4:00. I ,/ //v^ njoy the concert > 9 colleges and I >s?^tl0^s Xs 1 z /y /' ROUGH GATE I j COC( REQUIRED I : ! A^\SS "lo jp 8:30-12:00. E I .Vs n T FEW , Garage. . wh : ccv )0 WORKERS : OUTRAGEOUSLY II s- I CON lere ? ^ I 7 C.H.A.M.P.S. | April 25 At 11 AM. ^ Place At the Courts. I | Say "g "better luc! Simply , ad you wou ad and mall | 29. Checks /-% Ioaan The Gradue a suppleme I Olympics I I Wee : 11 ? $ to Carolina was over. He killed six people before it was all over," she said. i i.? Horseshoe area game started on April 3 with . bout 49 dcodIc nlavinc. said English sophomoii Kathy Lewis, who is coordinating the game for The Horseshoe. Lewis, who is also a resident adviser for DeSaussurc residence hall, said about 20 people are still "alive" in the game. "People were really excited about it. It was the best turnout for any program on The Horseshoe," she said. Katherine Watt, a psychology sophomore and representative for Rutlcdge residence hall, said the idea originated for a TAG game at The Horseshoe because government representatives there were looking for a way to get students involved. "The game provided this chance, along with a lot of mischief," she said. Watt is participating in the TAG game. "I am still alive," she said. English senior Kathy Woodward also played, but she was assassinated early in the game. However, she said she took out a few people before she went down. "I killed four people before my assassin nailed me the other day in the Humanities area. "I enjoyed it. It was a good way to blow off steam," she said. Lewis said the TAG game is still being played and will end only when the last two assassins left alive meet in a duel to the "death." She said the winner, whom she hopes to announce by the end of April, will ? nc f? ? c ? i? 1 a 4> i- j 5111 cci 111 icaic Hum a iutdi rccord store. Swit/cr said Bates West residents arc trying to schedule another TAG game before the end of the semester. "It just depends on how many people we can get interested in killing each other before exams." 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DEADLINE Inesday, April 29 i?i1||BBHU HI JBHL~3 I JI So^/iern draft-dodger subject of USC play at Drayton Hall By KATHRYN JEFFRIES umbia resident Elaine Joyner Senior reporter and graduate student Cynthia Home, a play about a young Martino, who play many man's journey away from assorted characters ? both home in the 1960s and his men and women ? in Miles' struggle to return years later, life, arc the only other cast opens at 8 p.m. today in members. Drayton Hall. Joyner, a local Presented by the depart- schoolteacher, said her main mcnt of theatre and speech, character is Pattic Mae Wells, the play is the story of Ccphus Miles' first love. Martino's apMiles. a voiinu hlack man nraranrnt; inrlnrtn a nrienn from the rural South. guard, a young boy, a bus The play begins and ends in driver, an alcoholic and a the fictional town of Cross seductress. Roads, North Carolina. But in Cooke, department of the interim, Miles spends theatre and speech chairman, several years struggling in a said, "It's a play about a black big city ? and five years in a American. It is also a play that Raleigh prison before that. He has a great deal to say to is jailed because he is a draft- everyone. It shows everything dodging conscientious objec- that alienates him from home, tor to the Vietnam War. then his struggle to get back to Graduate student Stan it. .. It's his story." Brown plays Miles. "He's Brown agreed. He said labeled a conscientious objec- Home has a simple, powerful tor. . . He just basically docs message that appeals to not believe in fighting," everybody. "It has a universal Brown said. message about home and the Miles' strong moral fight, sometimes, to get teachings from his childhood back." help to secure his fate as a Home, written by draft-dodger, Brown said. playwright/actor Samm-Art "He almost becomes a vie- Williams in 1979, appeared on tim of the Bible. All his life, he Broadway in 1980. has heard, 'Thou shalt not The play runs today through kill' and 'Love thy Sunday and April 29 through neighbor,'" he said. May 3. Showtimes are at 8 While in prison, Miles loses p.m., with Sunday matinees at his land and must travel to a 3 p.m. Tickets arc $6 for the large Northern city to find public, $5 for senior citizens \xir\r V ii/Knn Vi n tc rnloocnrl CI f rtoff TTUI l\ TTIICIi 11V ID I VIVUJVU. UIIU J) J . JU 1U1 ^lUUVIIlJ) 3lOI I Miles' background gives and faculty. 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