18 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Student Body FEBRUARY 1989 18 THENATIONLCOLLEG NEWSPAPE Stud8RECdRE1ATIONE Mountain madness All-Americans An age revisited Eye-opener Students find mountain The college sports media Some students are A new study shows bikes provide a new outdoor picks the best iootball adopting the sport of kings certain vitamins and perspective. players of 1988. as their game. minerals help protect your Page 21 Page 21 Page 21 vision. Page 22 TiATtI Athletes looking for an edge I Stories By Donna Berkehammer The Daily Northwestern Northwestern U., IL Mike Green has some stories to tell. Like the one about his college football team holding a contest to see who could get the drunkest. One guy swallowed seven light- bulbs in front of the judges, and instead of being disgusted or horri- fied, his buddies in the crowd just egged him on. The second contestant had been drinking so much he threw up into a clear plastic baggy. And he car- ried it around with him. When he faced the judges, he chugged the contents of the baggie back down. The guy who won started by going to the cafeteria stark naked. Somewhere along the way, he de- cided the salad bar looked good, so he tried to sit in the lettuce bowl. The 200-plus pounder broke the bowl, the table and his butt. He stood up with blood pouring down his thigh. So he grabbed a roll and stuffed it in the gash to stem the bleeding. But his performance wasn't over. He ate the roll. And his buddies cheered. He had won that contest. He had proven he was the drunkest. "We were the heroes," Green re- calls. They were the football players, the leaders, the animals. They had the girls. They were envied. They were cool. And they were alcoholics. All the discipline they learned on the field didn't last past the show- ers. Mike Green never drank at all until his high school senior prom. He drank for just seven years, and he'll never drink again. He doesn't want that to happen to anyone else. Apparently, neither does the Northwestern Athletic Depart- ment, which made all athletes, coaches and even administrators hear Green last week. What it couldn't do was make them listen. Mike Green had to do that. "My name is Mike Green. I'm an athlete. I was a fraternity brother. I am a recovering alcoholic. Do you want what I have?" See GREEN, Page 22 Steroids just not worth the weight By David Nakamoto and Paul f Young Ka Leo 0 Hawaii U. of Hawaii You're a serious athlete looking for an edge. It doesn't matter what sport you are in. Nor does it matter what level you're at. You need to be stronger, faster or just plain better - so you turn to ster- oids. While it is true that anabolic steroids increase body weight, often through in- creases in the lean body mass, they have been linked with many more adverse effects. Foremost on the list of adverse effects is death. Individuals have died due to liver cancer caused by steroids. The list also includes kidney dis- orders, cardiovascular problems, hyper- tension, decreased sperm count, breast growth and impotence in men, and men- strual irregularities and masculiniza- tion -the appearance of facial hair and deepening of the voice - in women. U. of Hawaii (UH) Associate Athletic Director Rockne Freitas said he has no reason to believe that anabolic steroids are a problem with the UH athletes. "I'm not so naive that (steroid use) doesn't exist," Freitas said. "In the past, I may have had reason to believe that they (steroids) have been used. This year, they have not. "Every one of us (in the administra- tion) feels a responsibility to educate our athletes on substance abuse, ster- oids, etc." dorm room in which he derived pleasure spread and growing toda Taking steroids does not only result from threatening a pizza delivery boy at A survey conducted at in physical damage; it also has psycho- point-blank range with a shotgun. tion High School in footb logical effects, according to Physician Because steroids increase muscle ida indicated that 18 perc and Sportsmedicine. mass and endurance, athletes who par- students had tried the dr In an extreme case of aggressive be- ticipate in sports such as football, to Physician and Sportsa havior, Tommy Chaikin, a former de- weightlifting, bodybuilding, track and A former UH football pl fensive lineman at the U. of South Caro- field, and swimming are likely candi- during his playing days he lina, said in the Oct. 24, 1988 issue of dates. for about three years. H Sports Illustrated that he was prone to Anabolic steroids are not a new phe- about 10 percent of the violent outbursts and nearly driven to nomenon. The first synthetic steroid them. suicide by steroids. was manufactured by Charles Kocha- Chaikin described an incident in his kin in 1935. Use of the drugs is wide- See STERI a 0 4 4 y. South Planta- all-crazy Flor-j ent of the male rug, according medicine. ayer said that e took steroids [e added that team was on RIDS, Page 21