The Carolinian [February 21, 1984]

              Best wishes to Carolinian
Photo Editor Robert lumpkins.
Get Well Soon! Poet May Swenson
will read
3:30 p.m. today, loyner Lounge
EUC.
Elections Today and Tomorrow
Dorm Students in ARA
Commuting Students in EUC
Bring your ID and Vote!
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Ebony Revue
The Neo-Black Society troupe.
"Ebony Revue," will be having iu
first Spring Production on Thurs-day,
February 23, 1984 at 8:16 in
Cone Ballroom. The theme of the
program ii 'Those Were the Days":
A dedication to black poets. Admis-sion
is free and everyone is
welcome.
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Taesday. February 21, 1984 Volume LX111 Number 36 The (Jaiversity of North Carolina at Greensboro Have a story idea? Call us at 379-5752
^ Candidates for SG Vice-President
Colleen Quinn, Senior Acting major, is playing Nina in "The Sea Gull."
She is playing opposite Bill Wendt. See story, page 3.
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BY SANDY ALVIS
N«waE«n«r
Apathy has been used by many of
the candidates for student govern-ment
to describe the lack of involv-ment
with campus activities.
Apathy is also an appropriate word
to use while looking at the empty
stalls on election day. A group of
unidentified students have shown a
great deal of concern over student
government election, specifically
for the office of Vice-President. Un-fortunately,
these students have
chosen to show their support in a
way that is harmful to the other
candidate.
During the week of campaigning
the candidates for the office of Vice-
President have been harassed and
threatened. The candidates Corey
Hudgins and Wendell Carter are
unaware of who these students that
are causing the trouble are.
Hudgins has been verbally threat-ened
and had her room broken in-to.
Drawers were opened, some files
were moved, and some of her cam-paign
documents are missing. Two
of Hudgins' supporters' cars were
severely damaged. Carter has
received some anonymous threaten-ing
phone calls. Carter reports that,
"I've been lucky. I've only receiv-ed
a few calls and comments. Some
of them had racial overtones."
Carter is black and Hudgins is
white.
Hudgins exasperatedly said, "I've
been called a bigot, which infuriates
me especially consideraing all the
work I've done with Student
Government to insure provisions for
equal treatment for everyone on
campus." Chuck Murph, Student
The "Thinness" Fad
By SANDY ALVIS
Newt Editor
A lone figure walks toward the
dorm carrying an inconspicuous
looking bag. Could it be another
suitor coming by to entertain his
young lady? No, this is a man of
great importance. He is commonly
referred to as "the pizza man." He
calmly delivers the pizza to a group
of girls who act as though they
haven't eaten in weeks. The girls
then disappear with their treasure
and proceed to eat themselves into
oblivion.
This is a scene common to most
college campuses. College, which
has traditionally been known as a
time to expand your mind, has also
gained the unwanted blame for the
expansion of many waistlines. The
infamous "Freshman Ten" are
often the beginning of a long and
sometimes fatal battle of the bulge.
The need for social acceptance.
stress, and the problems of being
away from home combine to make
the college years a time for a varie-ty
of nutritional problems. A study
done by two researchers at Toron-to
General Hospital, David M.
Garner and Paul E. Garfinkel,
revealed that 12 percent of college
age women have some type of
serious eating problem.
Psychologists have carefully placed
names on the new herd of nutri-tional
diseases. But basically they
can be divided into two main
groups, anorexia nervosa and
bulimia.
Anorexia nervosa is usually defin-ed
as a loss of at least 25 percent
of one's normal body weight.
Despite their skeleton-like ap-pearance
the victims of this afflic-tion
feel as though they are
overweight and constantly worry
about how to lose weight. They are
on a never-ending diet that can
cause scores of health problems and
eventually death.
Bulimia victims have the luxury
of eating all they want and more.
Then they rid themselves of the
enormous amount of calories by
vomiting or using laxatives. They
often use diuretics, amphetamines,
and are prone to over-exercise.
These are two of the most ex-treme
types of eating disorders.
Overall they are fairly healthy yet
their constant dieting and resulting
see-sawing weight can eventually
produce problems. They also ex-perience
the mental anguish of
always being five or ten pounds
overweight. They constantly go on
fad diets and fast, only to quickly
return to their overeating habits.
Numerous conversation! are
dedicated to the topic of dieting and
the agony of being fat.
A study researched at Ohio State
University at Columbus attempted
to discover what type of women are
susceptible to anorexia nervosa and
bulimia. They polled three groups of
female subjects: 944 sorority
women, 28 upper-level dance ma-jors,
and 244 regular coeds. The
results showed that 23 percent of
the dance majors, 16 percent of the
sorority women, and 9 percent of
the regular students had some type
of eating disorder. The obvious
reason that so many dance majors
are effected is because their future
career depends on how their body
looks. The sorority women ap-parently
have a problem with eating
disorders because they usually are
more socially oriented and therefore
concerned about their appearance.
Susan Squire discusses male
anorexics in her book The Slender
Balance. Approximately 10 percent
of all anorexics are males. She says
that male anorexics are usually am-bitious
and hard working like the
females but the males tend to be
unorganized as opposed to the
Fight Back-door Campaigning
Government Vice-President, com-ments
"The irony of it is that it
takes place during Black History
Month." Student government has
worked on activities for Black
History Month.
With all of the trouble and tension
one would think that the candidates
do not get along. The opposite is
true. By their actions and
statements the candidates have
shown that they are not upset with
the other. Because of working
together in the past they get along
well and claim to respect each
other. Carter says, "I'd call us
friends. We've worked together for
two years." Hudgins says, "I want
to dispel rumors. I have not accus-ed
Wendell of doing anything and
I don't blame him.'
Murph says, "It's sad this thing
has gotten out of hand. I regret that
it's gotten blown out of control."
The obvious reason that it has got-ten
out of control is that no one can
identify the perpetrators. Neither
of the candidates believe that the
trouble could come from either of
their official campaign supporters.
Hudgins says, "There is no way 1
can point out that it is any of
Wendell's campaign helpers or
supporters."
The problems have been reported
to Campus Security and Vice
Chancellor Allen held a discussion
with the candidates on Monday.
Murph claims, "It hasn't nearly
reached the magnitude that people
have made it appear. It will subside
after the campaign is over." Carter
says, "Corey and I both have the
qualifications for the office and we
agree on some of the issues. I think
obsessive, organized manner of
female anorexics. Male anorexics
are more difficult to treat and have
a more dismal prognosis that,
females.
The reason for the explosion of
eating disorders is the importance
that has been placed on thinness in
recent years. Advertisements,
movies, and magazines stress the
importance of being thin and conse-quently
beautiful and glamorous.
To many this may appear to be a
silly fad, but actually it's a
dangerous disease. Not only does
this obsession cause mental anguish
and physical deterioration but it can
and often does result in death.
The only way to cure this afflic-tion
is to get rid of the pressure to
have the perfect figure. This will
probably not happen overnight-there
is too much profit in
marketing thinness.
There are many organizations
who have gotten together to fight
eating disorders. If you or someone
you know has this problem you can
get advice by calling: HELP Line
274-4357 or Family to Family
373-1402. For more information
you can write to American Anorex-ia/
Bulimia Association, Inc., 133
Cedar Lane, Teaneck. N.J., 07666
or call (201) 8361800.
we would both handle it in the same
way." "I don't see either of them as
being racial bigots. I think people
will find this out after they are
elected," Murph commented.
The two candidates have been
desperately trying to show the stu-dent
body that they do not want
that kind of support. Along with a
joint letter to the editor in today's
Carolinian, they also attended the
forum at the Presbyterian House on
Monday. Carter insisted, "Corey
and I are both concerned about the
election, the students, and the safe-ty
of our campaign people. We don't
appreciate people working for us in
a negative way."
Elections will be held February 21
and 22 in the dining hall for dorm
students and on the main floor of
Elliot University Center for com-muting
students.
New Candidates Speak
at Presby House Forum
BY LEIGH TRAPP
Several new candidates spoke at
the Presbyterian House Forum
Mondsy evening. Those candidates
who recently joined in the election
campaingning or who were
unavailable for comment at the past
forums were given an opportunity
to express their ideas and platforms
along with candidates who had
already spoken at previous forums.
Davis Swaim, who is running for
the office of Student Government
President has been involved with
Student Government for approx-imately
two years. During that time
he has served on EUC Council,
NCSL and several other organiza-tions.
"My ideas are plain and sim-ple,"
he aaid. "The main thing is to
adopt the new constitu-tion
... (which) gives us new
representation." In addition,
Swaim stressed that he would
always be available to talk to the
students and be open to their new
ideas.
Write-in candidate Lori Tyson
has been involved with SG for two
years also. During that time she has
served as a Senator and she is cur-rently
serving aa Current Concerns
Committee Chairperson for Senate.
Tyson stressed s need to recognize
and encourage all organizations on
campus. "Student Government
should communicate and create an
atmosphere of freedom ... snd (en-couragement)
for student participa-tion.
SG should rally behind these
social organizations such as EUC."
Tyson also voiced her hopes to
strengthen development of
minorities and to provide more ac-cess
for handicapped students at
UNC-G. In addition, she said SG
should be receptive to the needs of
students by dorms, CSA, Senate
and other organizations com-municating
and working together
for the benefit of all.
Kent Mathewt, who is running
for SG Attorney General has been
working within the UNC-G Judicial
Branch for three years. In addition
to protecting the students,
Mathews said he would like to work
on promoting education about
Judicial matters. "Education is a
field we need to work on. I would
like to see the Judicial Branch offer
career workshops to educate the
students about the Judicial
system." Mathews also said he
would like to see a faculty advisor
sppointed to help people make
career decisions who are working
within the Judicail Branch spec-trum.
Mathews summarized his
ideas, "We would like to educate
students. They need to realize that
the Judicial Branch is not
something to be afraid of."
Commuting Student Association
President candidate Dewey
Whitaker has served ss CSA Vice
President this year and served as a
board member the year before.
Whitaker said he plans to continue
with the basic programs CSA has
offered in the past. "I would like to
see more deli's..that is, if we don't
get another cut in our
budget... because CSA's main
responsibility is social programming
we hope to provide several activities
and programs for the commuting
students to enjoy in 1984-85."
The UNC-G Rugby Club won two matches against Duke Saturday,
beating the Blue Devils 13-6 and 12-6.
UNC-G Graduate to Run For House
Ann Duncan, a graduate student
in the Master of Public Affairs at
UNC-G has filed for the North
Carolina House of Representatives
after returning from the Southern
Leadership Conference in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Duncan has been a school teacher,
and a social worker in child abuse
and child welfare, most specifically
in placing children in foster homes.
Because of her experience with
education, she is interested in im-proving
the North Carolina
education system. 'The quality of
education in North Carolina has
long been neglected. Teachers' base
pay needs to be drastically upgrad-ed,
followed by merit pay awarded
for excellence. Professional
teachers should not have to con-tinue
to plead for equitable wages,"
Duncan protests.
Ann Duncan advocates efficiency
in government. "My kind of leader-ship
will signify attentive analysis
of issues. No bill will be signed
without careful research and
understanding of that bill, con-sideration
f the relative cost, and
discretion as to its benefits to our
citizens of Forsyth County."
Duncan's crime awareness in For-syth
County comes as a result of
serving on the grand jury this year,
currently as foreman. "1 am appall-ed,
and recognize a need for
stronger drug-laws, because a large
segment of other crimes stem from
drug-related involvement. The cold
facts are that crime does not solely
occur in large, far-away cities, and
we do not want Forsyth County
citizens to live in fear of it."
Duncan, 45, is the wife of Dr. Don
Duncan, a retired U.S. Navy Cap-tain.
They have five children, the
youngest a senior in college. The
Duncans reside in the Grandview
area of Pfafftown.
Ann Duncan is not new to politics,
being the daughter of Judge and
Mrs. John H. Quarterman. Judge
Qusrterman served several years in
the Georgia State Legislature.
Ann is a proven leader herself
having won awards such as the
Leadership award from the Elks
Club, and elected Educator of the
Year by the Jaycees in Nassau
County, Florida, as well as a
Superlative in her high school. Mr.
Duncan's social and civic leadership
over the years include many
volunteer activities. Ann attended
the University of Georgia and
received a Bachelor of Science
Degree from Jacksonville Universi-ty,
Jacksonville, Florida.
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Arts Pag* 3
Futures Pagt 4
Sports Paf« 5
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