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T\ ?r\ S K LBQH GAUTHIER Copy Editor Why would anyone of a perfectly good t "For the adrenaline rush," said Chris Rot ing for the first time. "Tve been wanting to d( "I want to feel the ride," said Manny Cordei Experienced skydiver Jenny McCallen sj and a half years ago, and I just kept coming dictive." Tony Civitella, an instructor who has be years, agrees. Tm still addicted after 700 ju "If s just something you have to try," said has completed almost 50 jumps. Despite the reasons new and experienced si ing from airplanes, I couldn't help questioning when the door of the small Cessna opened, earth, 11,000 feet below, and my instructor sh to skydive?" If end of the semester boredom is setting seems like a replay of the last, relief is only 2 born Skydiving Center, located in the small \ instruction in three types of skydiving and1 from a plane the day you show up. Skydiving students arrive around 9:301 around 10 a.m. Students choose from three1 Static line - Divers are strapped into a to the plane with a cord. At 3,500 feet, the cord automatically deploys the parachute aft of freefall. This is a good way to learn to skyc Tandem - Divers are attached to an in; the airplane exit, the freefall and the opening student gets to ride worry-free, or as close as tree, when jumping trom a plane. Accelerated Freefall - This method take Two instructors jump alongside students, r falling properly as they reach speeds of 120 r structors stay with students through the 60-sec and make sure they deploy the parachutes, lease the parachute at the right time, an in them. Thrills like these don't come cheap. Static li are $150, but anyone you bring, will pay only Hey U Bring this Bal Issi BBHfflfle Eat in or take We also cater parties or, ^gjjlTESM INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTI Monterrey Eugenia Carta Soda Guaymas Chihuahua cd.juira Visiting Professor Tampico Lagum ' Ph D degree in one of the SaiiiUo following areas: tocaum + gus|ness Administration Hidalgo irapuaw International Business udn Marketing, Finance Queritaro * ECOnOrtly San Luis Polos! Toiuca . Candidates must come in Cd. de Mtaco ^is/her sabbatical year Ckufas (ideally) injanuary 1996 or Central de Veracruz August 19% Estado de Mexico Morelos To Apply: Applicants who wish to be considc Cd. Obregdn transcript and diploma belore Dec Guadalajara Lie. Claudia Ferrer Masaiidn Phones in Mexico: (528) 358-96 Fax:(528)328-4199 Sinaioa E-mail: cferrer@qm.mty.itesm.nSonora None EE Y D linson, who is skydiv) this for a long time." ro, another first-timer. ^ Eiid, "I came once two back because it's ad- ^ ien skydiving for five I. | 0,1 mps," he said. Jimmy Graham, who r Jiff * * " cydivers give for jumptheir sanity and mine I looked, down at the outed, "Are you ready ; in or every weekend 0 minutes away. Airtown of Gaston, offers will have you leaping i.m., and class starts ways to skydive: pack that is attached diver jumps, and the er about four seconds live. ^, A itructor, who controls of the parachute. The you can get to worry3 divers to 11,000 feet oaking sure they are I niles an hour. The in- I ?nd, 5,500-fbot freefall If students don't re structor will do it tor | ine and tandem jumps $75, and group rates jjsc graduate student Jot Mir ad and your ID and we'll give youa Tea! 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Columbia, SC 29208-00112 Tuesday, November 28,1995 VE N G e price down to $60. Accelerated freefall jumps are , but credit cards were invented for once-in-a-lifetime i like these (that's what I told myself, anyway), dents decide how they want to jump, instruction beusually takes around five hours, with a break for he length of the class depends on the number of stulow quickly they catch on. on includes practicing the plane exit, simulating the le laying on a small bench, and simulating the para- 1 vhile hanging in a harness. Though this practice is like the real thing (how could it be?), the instructors oeat each step with students until they can go through i without problems. ;tice includes acting out what to do in case various rise. When students know how to handle every situme to put the pack on and load up the airplane, sn't thinking of all I had learned as I looked out at n, a 2000-jump skydiving expert and the owner of anding outside the plane and holding on to the wing, structor ripped my white-knuckled hands from the plane and pushed me out to Bill, who was grinning next thing I knew m hurtling facetoward the earth. me thumbs up. /1 was clinging to a bar beneath the wing, flapping ing wind. I thought of what my instructor Tony had class. If you're out on the wing, you're going. If s too a student back in the plane." Now there was only one ; thing I knew I was hurtling face-first toward the i parachute opened at 4,500 feet, I began drifting to at a peaceful 20 miles an hour with the entire city of pread out below me. Only then did I understand why se to jump out of functioning airplanes. Ifs a feeling I else, of freedom and exhilaration. M B E R 2 4 ie is... imick at yet. 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