18 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Student Body MARCH 1989, 18 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER Student Body U MARCH 1909 0 Financial fallout Eating it up Card games Mind conditioning Some athletic departments Cereal makers are cashing These winter meetings Hypnotherapy is helping need outside help to balance in on health-oriented bran are where the biggest athletes reach their full their budgets. products. trades are made. potential. Page 19 Page 21 Page 22 Page 22 Studying time in 'trenches' still loses out 0 0 in race for nwLUMre et By Sonya Donaldson * University Times California State U., Los Angeles Jesse Owens. Bruce Jenner. Mark Spitz. All are Olympic athletes who have been recognized and praised for individual accom- plishments. Names that have earned them recognition and re- spect. Male athletes in particluar have earned the respect and admiration of many while their female counter- parts have sunk into virtual obscurity. Remember Debbie Brill, Olga Korbut or Wilma Rudolph? Each has contributed tremendously to her sport; Brill and Rudolph in track and field and Korbut in gym- nastics. Everyone remembers the great men who contributed to their sport. Few women athletes, by con- trast, can say they have received respect for achievements. How can thegreatwomeninsports, pastand present be remembered tomorrow when instead of being given due credit, they are called "cute" and "adorable." The media and the public seem to concentrate more on the appear- ance of a female athlete than the skill she exhibits. No one remem- bers the perfect 10, the broken re- cords or a skillful tennis match. In- stead, the athlete's makeup, the color of her eyes, orher"perky"per- sonality is the focus. Women want and need to be tre- ated as athletic equals. They have contributed just as much to their respective sports as their male counterparts. A gymnast's looks, a highjumper's diet or the length of a runner's nails shouldn't matter. What should matter is the skill of the athlete. Howfast does sherun a mile? How high can she jump? What was her score on the beams? These should be the questions asked. Personal appearance, "perkiness" and whether or not the costume matches the color of the individual's eyes should have no place in sports. It'stime we take our female athletes out of the past and put them where they belong: in our future. " By Mike Larkin S The Daily Californian U. of California, Berkeley W ) Sure, all those intercollegiate J athletes at the power athletic schools don't study. They just play football and basketball. But how about athletes at U. of California, Berkeley (UCB), where the academic environment sometimes resembles the grind of trench warfare? You bet they study, say the players. But a report released this winter by 6 the NCAA shows that football and bas-. ketball players nationwide are spend- ; ig more time playing their sport than 5 they spend in the classroomor studying. Kit Coleman soaks up some artificial rays. UCB was one of the 42 Division I in- stitutions sampled. ThIe debate over tanning safeyThe nationwide $1.75-million study surveyed over 4,000 students, compar- lea es a burning ing experiences of football and basket- it? ball players, players in other sports, and Is that bronzed look uorth itstudents involved in extracurricular activities. By Duane Marsteller actually goes into the skin ... but, Football and basketball players The Alligator when used right, tanning machines spend an average of 30 hours per week U. of Florida are safer than the sun." on the field or the court during the sea- An owner of a popular tanning Pierce said, "Tanning booths do son, while spending13.7 hoursperweek salon said most people have "no idea damage the skin, and the eyes can be in the classroom, according tothe study. of what they're doing" when they en- permanently damaged without prop- Students in other sports spent 24.6 ter his studio, but a U. of Florida er protection. The light emitted by hours playing and 14 hours in the clas- (UF) dermatology professor said if tanning lamps are somewhat safer sroom per week. Students involved in they did, they would avoid the places (than the sun), but they still can extracurricular activities spent 20 and altogether. damage the skin." 15 hours in each respective area. Both JayiFogle, owner of All Sea- UVB is the most damaging ray in "The study basically confirms what sons Tanning Studio in Gainesville the ultraviolet light spectrum while we already knew (about athletes' sche- and assistant professor Doug Pierce, UVA is the least damaging, Pierce dules)," said UCB Athletic Director chief of Dermatology Services at the said. Dave Maggard. Veterans Administration Hospital, UVB rays penetrate melanocyte The study also showed that the aver- agreed that too much exposure to cells in the lower-most layer of the age grade point average for football and ultraviolet rays is damaging to the epidermis, which forms pigment basketball players was 2.46. For other skin, but disagreed on tanning booth particles that slowly rise to the skin's athletes, it was 2.61, and for students safety. surface. When UVA rays reach these involved in extracurricular activity it "There is no totally safe way to pigments, the skin turns brown due was 2.79. tan," Fogle said. "Most people who to oxidation and causes a tan. "GPA isn't as important a statistic as walk in have no idea of what they're doing. They have no idea of what See TANNING, Page 19 See REPORT, Page 19 Ecstasy: Sorting the myths, finding the facts By David Dudenhoefer Colorado Daily U. of Colorado Ecstasy, a drug tried by 20 percent of Colorado U. (CU) students, remains an under-studied substance, and "each and every one of you who are using it is a guinea pig," according to a CU health expert. The one certain thing about Ecstasy, or methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is that not enough is known about its side effects, said Michaela Cooney- Polstra, a drug and alcohol counselor. A 1987 survey found that 20 percent of CU students have tried Ecstasy, and 90 percent of them had tried it for the first time at CU. Ecstasy is a popular drug among students, and may be re- placing cocaine for many students, Cooney-Polstra said. Students said the drug's popularity was because of its pleasant effects, low price and lack of a hangover. One man "Each and every one of you who are using (Ecstasy) is a guinea pig." - MICHAELA COONEY-POLSTRA described the drug's effects as a "six- hour orgasm." The ignorance about possible dangers of the drug stems from the fact that it is illegal, Cooney-Polstra said. Ecstasy is classified by the government as a "sche- dule I" drug, which means it is as illegal as heroin or LSD. The illegality of Ecstasy means that the government doesn't encourage in- stitutions to study it. That makes it hard to monitor Ecstasy's effects on society because users won't report that they use it for fear of arrest. A recent primate study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates thatEcstasycould cause sleep disorders. Cooney-Polstra, in her talk entitled "The Truth About Ecstasy and Your Spinal Fluid," dispelled the rumor that See ECSTASY, Page 19