Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!ethan From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) Newsgroups: net.college,net.misc Subject: Re: Suicide Pills at Brown Univ. Message-ID: <672@utastro.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 17:36:10 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.672 Posted: Fri Oct 19 17:36:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:36:02 EDT References: <677@pucc-i> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 17 ["Belladonna? How ingenious!"] As a publicity gimmick it's about what one might expect. It would be appalling if Brown actually bought the pills. The dangers involved in having a stockpile of that crap lying around on a college campus should be obvious even to a Brown undergraduate. Now if there *were* a nuclear war Providence would almost certainly get nuked. The only question would be how anyone could tell the difference. "I can't help it if my Ethan Vishniac knee jerks" {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan Department of Astronomy University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712