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3B LIFE/tSije C()arlntte $o«t Thursday, December 14, 2006 Watching hoops at the arena can be good experience Continued from page IB see that this was a popular place for fans. Parents also have a chance to let the kids play, especially if they’ve - grown bored with watching the Bobcats miss shots and forget to play defense. The Rufus Room has games for kids and some of the young ones I saw shooting the rock should’ve suited up and joined the team on the floor. Tbo bad people didn’t come down inside the arena, though. I’m sure there were more empty seats than man agement wanted to count. (And I was worried that this game was going to be sold out because of Houston star 'IVacy McGrady.) Seeing the people milling aroimd the arena, you almost get excited about finding your seat and watching the game, and then there’s tip off. Oh well. 'I'he most noise the Bobcats fans made was when it was time for the tee shirt toss. I seriously believe the Bobcats don’t have fans. For a minute, I thought that there was going to be some good clean trash talking when a group of young men sat beside us and started cheering for the Bobcats. But after about 10 minutes and 30 Rockets’ points, they got up and left. I think they headed back to the bar. The Bobcats also provided pregame and postgame music by some band that played a lot of cover songs. They weren’t particularly good, but the concept is. Local musi cians have a chance to play for thousands, OK, hundreds of people and expose them to their music. Strolling around the arena is almost worth the price of admission. You never know who you may run into, an old acquaintance from college or a Carolina Panthers defen sive lineman. But if you want to see competitive basketball, you might want to head down Beatties Ford Road and step into Brayboy Gymnasium and watch the Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith. Food drive shows spirit of giving in one stndent Continued from page 1B some extra canned goods that he would end up wdth 207 of them. “On the first day I got 102 cans from the grocery store and on the second day I got 105 cans from friends and family,” he said. The Sedgefield campus is awed by Antonio’s commit ment to the project and the way he exemplifies the December character trait of caring. This is especially meaningful • because Sedgefield is a Focus school and students do not come from wealthy homes. Ninety percent of the students at Sedgefield receive free lunch, according to school officials. Principal Lenora Shipp said Antonio exemplifies what is being taught at the school. “We’ve tried to instill good character in our students,” she said. “We have an at risk population and they still want to give to others.” Shipp said students know there are other people who need help and they want to give to others. Antonio, Shipp said, got really excited about the canned food drive and took it on as a personal mis sion. “He’s a quiet student, very reserved and one wouldn’t have expected this finm him,” she said. “I think it says he has a giving spirit and a good heart.” According to Shipp, Sedgefield students like help ing others and always find ways to do so. F ollowing Hurricane Katrina, students raised $800 to help the victims of the storm. “People really want to give, especially when it’s from a child his age,” Shipp said. Claflin student seeks to counter stereotypes one friend at a time Continued from page IB “The news gives only, the bad things happening,” he said. Incorrect assumptions, he said, range from Mexicans being short—Rivera is 6 feet tall—to Mexican cities being dirty and dangerous. 'T talk about cities that are safe and clean. We have reaUy beautiful places, beautiful lakes,” he said. He tells friends about cities’ tradition al festivals "just to change their minds.” Rivera, who loves to cook spaghetti, said he misses authentic Mexican food. His friends treated him to a good bye dinner at a Mexican restaurant last week, but the food is not the same, he said. While earning A’s for his own coursework, Rivera, a business major, also helped students learn Spanish. As for stereotypes, "when Continued from page 1B * Height loss “may well be ' another marker of declin- ^ ing health in the elderly,” • said study co-author Goya Wannamethee, an epi- ; ^ demiologist at Royal Free University College Medical School in London. ^ Height loss almost always occurs with other .. evidence of frailty, she said, such as loss of mobili ty, weight loss, breathing trouble and musculoskele tal problems, such as arthritis. Other research has shown similar factors underlie both osteoporosis and heart disease, such as high cholesterol, inflam mation and high blood pressure, she said. Inflammation and lipids in the blood may contribute to low bone mineral density, although the exact mecha nism is unclear. The findings, published in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, suggest that men should exercise to maintain the muscle strength needed to stand tall, said Dr. Anne Kenny of the University of Connecticut Health Center, who studies osteo porosis and frailty, but was not involved in the new study. A small study has shown that yoga can increase height in women, Kenny said, and yoga may also help men. “It points to the need to increase physical activity and try to maintain strength to ward off dis- you meet Ramon, it shatters all that,” said Claflin senior Brittany Jones, 21. "At first, I didn’t understand a thing he was talking about. ... It’s funny, because we made a friendship out of nothing.” He encourages friends to study a semester in his coun try. Rivera said he spent more on books at Claflin than he spent on his entire college career in Mexico. There he spent the equivalent of about $60 a semester to go to school. "I want to learn a whole lot more and broaden my hori zons on every race possible,” said Claflin senior Brandis Francis, 21, whose travels so far include only the East Coast. "Ramon is really an ambas sador for his country,” said Ingrid Watson-Miller, director of Claflin’s international stud ies program. "Americans need to get rid of their ethno- centrism.” Rivera is encouraging his 16-year-old sister to study in the United States, too. "The personal experience, another point of view, helps you grow and mature and believe in yourself,” he said. He’s sad about leaving this week. "This is like my second family here.” Sex just a game today Continued from page 1B these sex party stories. And if the people who were inter viewed about these parties are so proud of what they’re doing, why were their names changed? Casual sex should’ve died when the first case of HIV was diagnosed over 25 years ago. This isn’t to be prudish, it’s just being smart. Although the Essence article states the swingers use condoms, it doesn’t negate the fact that black women are dying in growing numbers from AIDS. According to blackaids.org, we’re on the right road but are a long way from ending the epidemic. “People who don’t know theyre infected are less likely to protect their partners and completely unable to receive treat ment. . . Before we can get people into care, we must encour age the black community to take ownership of the disease, to understand the science of the disease and participate in com prehensive, age-appropriate and culturally-competent pre vention methods,” the site states. Writing about suburban sex parties and making swinging a part of oiu popular culture is not the way to do this unless you 'Height loss linked to heart I disease, earlier death in men ability and mortality,” Kenny said. Researchers measured the height- of 4,213 British men, first in the late 1970s' when the men were between the ages of 40 and 59, then 20 years later,. when the men were 60 to 79 years old. About 15 percent of the men lost more than 3 cen timeters in height. That’s about 1.2 inches. Osteoporosis is usually associated with much greater height loss. The men also completed a medical and lifestyle ques tionnaire, were weighed and gave a blood sample. The researchers followed the men for another six years, during which 760 of the men died. The men who lost 3 cen timeters or more in height were 60 percent more like ly to die within six years than the men who retained their height, the researchers found. When the scientists con sidered age, smoking, alco hol use and pre-existing health conditions, they still saw a relationship between height loss, earlier death and heart disease. 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