189.. THE NATIONAL COLLL NEWSPAPER 0 Student Bode NOVEMBER 1989 9. NOVEMBER 1989 4ment and Opinion 0 U.. THE NATION* COLLEGE NEWS Hockey without the ice 'a great way to sweat' By Rod Porsche The Daily Barometer Oregon State U. Every Thursday night at 8:30, they take the floor in Oregon State U.'s women's PE building ready for another night of intense action. At a time when most students are in front of the "Cosby Show" waiting for a pizza to arrive, Floor Hockey Club mem- bers are turning over benches to form boundaries for the big game. "I had never even touched a hockey stick before, but it's real easy to pick up," said Bob Thayer, who is in his second term as a club member. "It's a blast." "It's a great way to sweat," club mem- ber John Lance added. It's shirts against skins every week. 'S .A,.,. PAUL CONE, THE DAILY BAROMETER, OREGON STATE U. Goalie Neil Gearheart fends off an attack from the offense during a Floor Hockey Club session. I Mt ....__ -- i . -__-- . __ __m_ _ -- - --_ ___ The most difficult task is convincing someone to be goalie. "I'd rather take shots at people than have them take shots at me," newcomer Lee Hatter said. They don't use a puck, opting for a Mylec ball (about the size of a racquet- ball). "The plastic puck just bounces around too much," club President Joe Conyard said. "A ball in floor hockey works more like a puck on ice." Conyard started the club at OSU last fall. "This is kind of a 'feeler' year for me and the club. I would definitely like to see floor hockey form a league." Floor hockey, also called Deckhockey, has powerful leagues on the East Coast. In the West, a league may just be a dream, but Conyard is still optimistic. "You only need five or six guys to make a team," he said. Exercise junkies can cause more harm than good By Sonja Lewis r State Press Arizona State U. An increasing number of men and women are identified as obsessive-exer- cise pathorexics - people addicted to exercise as a way of controlling their weight. Pathorexics do not realize what they are doing to themselves, according to Arizona State U. health officials. Pathorexic exercise is characterized as an eating disorder and is often more difficult to detect by the victim and oth- ers than eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia. There are often visible signs with anorexia or bulimia, such as vomiting after meals and use of laxatives, but overexercisers conceal some ofthe harm- ful physical effects of their disorder. ASU Health Center Physician Dale Bowen said "massive amounts of run- ning" often result in bone fractures, muscle pulls and back problems. Mary Lou Frank, ASU coordinator for treatment of eating disorders, said most overexercisers who think of physcial activity as the only healthy way to lose weight, deny that they are harming themselves. "People don't realize they have it because they don't see it as a problem," she said. She said that exercising becomes both physically and mentally unhealthy when people exercise because of feelings of guilt and remorse after eating. Alyne Yales, a U. of Arizona associate professor of psychiatry, has studied overexercisers and found some runners resemble anorexics in several ways: acmost are self-effacing, hard-working achievers, " most come from affluent or middle- class families, " intense exercise begins after a time of depression or uncertain identity and * exercise gives them feelings of self- control. ASU Health Center Nutritionist Karen Moses said bulimics and pathorexic exercisers are very similar except in the way they manifest their eating disorder. "Whatyou might be see- ing in pathorexic exercisers is athletes that like to exercise and don't like to vomit," she said. 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Yet, if a protected nexus exists betwixt speech and thought, it seems fair to ask what type of thought is encour- aged by defending hardcore pornogra- phy with the First Amendment. Even some of the most devout civil lib- ertarians have become distraught by defenders of pornography who cite the First Amendment to protect their pecu- liar form of "speech." It is hardly con- ceivable that it was the intent of the framers to formulate a legal "catch-all" in the First Amendment. The First Amendment and the protections con- tained within it were designed not as absolute demarcations, but rather as ideals that could be balanced against other democratic values. Certainly the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, while giving substan- tial weight to "free speech," has never held that free speech reigned supreme over other equally important human and constitutionally enumerated values. Indeed, the Court's perpetual struggle to define the parameters of guidelines such as the "fighting words doctrine" and the "clear and present danger test" indicate that all speech is indeed not protected. Pornography reduces men and women to mere animals, incapable of intellectual, spiritual or emotional intimacy. Irving Kristol, a legal philosopher, adds that the effects of pornography are particu- larly destructive and dehumanizing toward women. Pornography, as a pro- fession (if such a term can be applied), is dominated by men, both as producers and consumers. Women in pornography are presented as animal recipients of grotesque acts of sexuality. The usual response from defenders of pornography via the First Amendment is that if we leave pornography alone, it will disappear by itself. Consumers will see pornography for what it is and refuse to buy it. Simultaneously, we will exempt ourselves from the dirty task of regulat- ing or restricting the purchase of porno- graphic material. This is really quite unpersuasive. First, the primary consumers of hard- core porn are not curious, adolescent schoolboys; they are adults who enjoy pornography in and of itself. Would any- one suggest that a voyeur or rapist would be likely to "mellow" his sexual tenden- cies once he had "had his fill" of whatever he was seeking? Similarly, we have little reason to believe serious consumers of pornography will abandon it once they have "had enough." When we argue for restricting pornog- raphy, we need not adopt some Victorian notion of morality. Quite the opposite is true. In restricting pornography, we affirm that sexuality is, indeed, good and deserving of respect. We affirm that sex, when connected with intimacy and affec- tion, is worthwhile. We need not involve religious or parochial moralities to argue that pornography is degrading. Flag-burni is protecti By Jack McPeck The Daily Beacon U. of Tennessee, Knoxvilk By a 5-to-4 vote this su Supreme Court reversed the and sentence of a man who 1 U.S. flag outside of the 19841 National Convention in Dalla the decision holds that flag b legal and legitimate form of p as such, is protected by Amendment guaranteeing f speech. The public outrage that fo decision is not surprising. 2 poll showed that Americans with the decision by an aln margin and about 70 percen it should be made illegal to bu Equally unsurprising is with which the decision has political issue. President Ge has called for a constitution ment to outlaw this form of p Congress is debating a statut flag burning. But in their zeal to flow v opinion, our elected officials ing the reason why such a de key to the strength of the Co That a conservative court der such a seemingly liber (especially by the 5-to-4 m typically represents the co: majority on the court) is a rea of the First Amendment. Th refused to do exactly what A loves to do - make a politic of the Constitution. The flag symbolizes the fi America-that any person is f and express his or her though reprisal from the elected gove Despite the great power of t must resist the temptation symbols and icons. In doing forget they are only represen higher ideal. Letter to the editor Article was u Dear Editor: I am writing to express co an article in your September i anonymous gay sex titled "S bathrooms worries gay acti article is rank sensationalis: it does present the opinion of c dent in a positive light as bei bathroom sex, the article ove ative. It promotes the concepts promiscuous deviants and dirty and dangerous. Thougi deny that anonymous sex do publicize it in this manner su, it is a mainstream lifestyle fc And to publicize it on cam serves to promote negative se in those college students wh oping facets of their sexual i I protest this negative st and want to strongly encou follow up with a positive articl vices and resources available lesbian students on college c Mark vo Secretary, Standing Coin Lesbian and Gay Affairs, The College Personnel A FREE PHONE CALL COULD HELP PUT YOU IN A NEW GM CAR OR LIGHT-DUTY TRUCK THE EASY WAY. THE GMAC COLLEGE GRADUATE FINANCE PLAN...GET $400 AND MAKE No PAYMENTS FOR 90 DAYS.* Call 1-800-237-3264, and you'll find out how GMAC can make your after- college math a lot simpler. 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