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By THOMAS CONROY

BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) -
If you think astrological
misfortune is why you didn't
qualify for the Winter
Olympics, a team of scholars
and scientists has bad news
for you. The fault, they say,
lies not in your stars, but in
yourself.

Their conclusion follows
an unsuccessful attempt to
verify the claim of two
French psychologists that
the position of Mars at a
person’s birth influences his

The Clansmen of. the
Simon Fraser soccer team
will be taking on the
Canadian Nationa! Youth
Team at Swangard Stadium
on Saturday night starting at
7:30, and the Clan are
making the game free for
kids under 18 years of age.

John Buchanan, the head
coach of the powerful SFU
squad is hoping the free

admission will draw out

some of the younger players
of the area who want to see
some top calibre soccer they
can aspire to.

Simon Fraser is coming off
a big recent win over Por-
tland Timbers. Last week the
Clan downed Timbers 2-1 in
Portland.

The local university is one
of the more powerful teams
in North American college
soccer and has since 1975,
placed about 15 boys in ‘the
North American Soccer
League.

In the game against
Timbers, Bruce Gant, an
SFU grad playing with
Timbers had his nose broken
after a collision with his
keeper. Buchanan reports
that the Vancouver native
will require plastic surgery
to repair the damage. ~

or her ability in sports.
The psychologists, Michel
and Francoise Gauquelin,

statisticians  apreé “is a
noteworthy difference from
the 16.7 percent probability,

‘jective,
view.”

Kurtz, a philosophy

contend that world-class to the *Marseffect”. professor; Marvin Zelen, a
athletes are born statistically The study came to the _ statistics professor at
more often under the attention of the Committee- Harvard; UCLA astronomer
astrological sign of Mars. for the Scientific In- George Abell, and -science
They based their study on vestigation of Claims of the -« iter Dennis Rawlins set
2.088 European sports “Paranormal: The group, out to test the “Mars effect”
champions - cyclists, headed by Dr. Paul Kurtz of using birth data of great
aviators, soccer and rugby the State University of New American athletes.
players - which they con- York at Buffalo, is an The assembled a list of 700
tended showed nearly 22 organization of 80 scholars noteworthy American
percent of them were born and scientists “committed to- sportsmen, including boxer

under Mars.
The Gauquelins attribute
the figure, which

examining claims of
paranormal or frmmye-science
Phenomena from an_ ob-

Muhammed Ali, _ baseball's
Henry Aaron, swimmer
Mark Spitz and golfer Jack

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“scientific point “of -

Nicklaus.
Then then contacted the
birth registries in the

athletes’ home states to find
the time and place they were
born. While some states
withheld the information
because of the Privacy Act,
others waived the restriction
because of the scientific
nature of the request. Birth
data on 408 athletes was
obtained.

~The data showed that only
13.5 percent of the athletes,

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including Ali, were born
~under Mars, failing to verify
the Gauquelins” claim.
“We found no evidence of
“Mars effect",” Kurtz
said, adding the claim has
“received considerable
international attention in
astrological circles”.
“When it comes to ex-
Plaining the extraordinary
success of certain athletes,”
he said, “the answer, it
seems, is not in Mars, but in

themselves.” \

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