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Glee Clubbers
By KATHY WILSON
Staff Writer
ich, mellow voices filled the
room with more harmony
.than one could ever hope
for. The vibrant notes resounded
throughout the chamber. The 40
singers leaned forward with intense
expressions, eyes glued on the direc
tor in front of them, changing their
voices at his slightest gesture. Some
members of the UNC Glee Club
cupped their hands around their
ears, straining to hit the perfect
pitch and this was merely the
warm-up.
Just 20 minutes earlier, the prac
tice room in Hill Hall had
resounded not with golden voices
but with disharmony resembling the
Tower of Babel or the din of a thou
sand chattering magpies. Members
of the UNC Glee Club liken their
group to a social organization as
much as to a singing group, and
their friendly rehearsals testify to the
fact.
Mike Tamte-Horan, a slight man
with gold-framed glasses, runs the
rehearsal like his singers say he runs
the whole club with energy and
lots of enthusiasm. The singers say
that Tamte-Horan is also demand
ing, a charge he doesn't deny. He
says that he strives to make his
group sound like one rich voice a
refined and highly polished one. He
says he doesn't want his group to
sound like 40 individual voices.
I strive for a very warm, lyrical,
1 well-blended and unified kind of
Cosmetic surgery: the new way
to fight the battle of the bulge
By JIM MOCK
Staff Writer
I he next time you meet a plas
tic surgeon, call him a "fat-
11 sucker " and then watch his
face. At first hell look cross, then
hell have to laugh because sucking
out patients' unsightly bumps and
bulges has been part of a plastic sur
geon's job description since around
1980 when liposuction was intro
duced to the United States.
Liposuction is one of many types
of cosmetic surgery now available in
America. This form of surgery was
developed by Yves-Gerard Illouz, a
French surgeon, and has been grow
ing increasingly popular in our
image-conscious society.
The technique involves the remo
val of fat from the hips, abdomen,
thighs, knees, arms or face by inser
tion of blunt-ended metal suction
tubes through small skin incisions
into the subcutaneous fat layer of
the skin. With repeated back-and-forth
motions, "honey-combed"
defects are made in this fat layer,
which are subsequently closed in the
weeks following surgery with the use
of bandages and girdles.
The result is a very specific
method of body shaping.
"Liposuction is a form of body
contouring or localized fat removal,
; not weight control," said Dr. Tho-
mas Lawrence, assistant professor of
plastic surgery at the UNC School
of Medicine. "We rarely remove
more than one liter (about two
- pounds) of tissue at a time.
"Liposuction is not indicated for
the obese person," he added, "but is
most often used to help non-obese
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of the UNC Glee Club rehearse in
strive for musical perfection
sound," he said. "We are known for
that."
The music is warm and lyrical,
probably because that's the way the
men and women in the UNC Glee
Club seem to be. Friendship flour
ishes in the club, something which
Tamte-Horan encourages.
Tamte-Horan's philosophy is that,
to sing as one, all his singers must be
able to communicate emotionally.
They must also trust each other dur
ing performances, as well as in prac
tice sessions.
Tours and performances serve as
a means of getting the group to gel
emotionally and musically. During
Spring Break of 1987, the group
went on a regional tour that
included stops in New Orleans and
parts of Florida. They performed
every day except one and traveled
on a bus for hours each day to
arrive at the next performance on
time.
The group takes a retreat each
semester to get to know each other
better. According to Anne McLean,
president of the Women's Glee Club
and a senior psychology major from
Laurinburg, these friendships often
spill over into their social lives. She
said the choir members often had
parties together outside of the class
room, and she liked to show up 20
minutes before rehearsal just to talk
to her friends.
"IVe gained wonderful friendships
from the group," McLean said.
Maria Stone, a senior physical
recreation major from Salisbury,
agrees with McLean and said social
people (those within 25 percent of
their ideal body weight) improve
their self-image."
According to Lawrence, typical
liposuction patients are active, pro
fessional women in their 30s who
want to shape their hips, thighs, but
tocks or chin. Men often elect to
have liposuction to help them con
trol the infamous abdominal bulge.
As with any form of surgery, lipo
suction may involve some post
operative complications. The most
common complication of this
surgery is asymmetry, or waviness in
the skin over the site of fat removal.
"The surgeon must judge from
experience just how much fat to
remove," Lawrence said, "and since
all people heal a little differently
after surgery, judging can be
difficult."
Lawrence said the rehabilitation
period usually lasts six to eight
weeks, during which time bandages
are used to facilitate contouring.
Almost all liposuction patients
experience severe bruising around
the fat-removal site, which eventu
ally resolves.
Lawrence said that of those hav
ing fat removed at North Carolina
Memorial Hospital, 80 to 90 percent
said they were very happy with the
results, while some are occasionally
disappointed in slight asymmetries.
More serious complications have
followed liposuction. These have
included skin numbness, discolora
tion, infections, skin necrosis (skin
death), swelling and embolism of fat
into the circulation, which causes
blood clots. However, these prob
lems occur in no more than 1 to 2
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Hill Hall
interaction was an important aspect
of the UNC Glee Club.
"It's what you associate yourself
with," she said. "It's your group."
The UNC Glee Club is actually a
combination of the men's and wom
en's clubs. Each group rehearses
separately twice each week, and they
also practice singing together two
times each week.
The Men's Glee Club started in
1848, and women joined about the
time the University opened its doors
to them.
Tamte-Horan aims at a balance of
secular and sacred music in his pro
gram. He said he likes to perform
spirituals and folk songs, but he also
said his group sings more serious
music. For example, the group sings
a 20-minute, a cappella song in Ger
man. During rehearsal, the German
accents of this song are almost
flawless.
Tamte-Horan is the catalyst for
this dynamic group. Though some
UNC Glee Club members admit he
is demanding, they seem to respect
and appreciate his enthusiastic drive.
Michelle Patton, a sophomore early
childhood education major from
Dallas, N.C., is one such student.
"He always knows exactly what
he's doing," she said of Tamte
Horan. "He can answer any 'ques
tion you have. He gets a lot out of
people.
"IVe gotten a whole lot out of it
(Glee Club)," Patton continued. "I
don't think there's anything else I'd
rather be doing."
percent of the cases.
There have been two deaths
reported to be a direct result of the
liposuction procedure.
"Serious complications often seem
to result from removing too much
tissue at one time," Lawrence said.
"Considering the thousands of cases
done each year, liposuction is one of
the safest procedures done. Fortu
nately, we have not encountered any
serious complications at UNC."
Typically, liposuction is done on
an outpatient basis under general
anesthesia, where the patient is put
to sleep. The operation lasts about
three hours, and the patient goes
home the same day.
Costs run about $1,500 to $2,000
per liter of fat removed, and the
money must come directly out of the
patient's pocket because health
insurance policies do not cover elec
tive cosmetic surgery.
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Again we talk of boxers, past their
prime, trying to regain their lost glory
and win in the squared circle again.
This time it was former great Larry
Holmes who tried to come back.
Holmes did so and lost terribly to
boxing's newest king, Mike Tyson.
As HBO commentator Larry Mer
chant said before the fight, correctly
predicting the ring-cleaning ahead for
janitor Tyson and mop Holmes, the
fight was a passing of the torch from
the old king to the new king, unde
feated and undisputed heavyweight
titlist Tyson.
It would seem the elder Holmes,
a man 38 years old, would know that
coming back after a two-year layoff,
or any sort of sabbatical from the
sport, is more than difficult. For a
man old enough to be the 21-year-old
Tyson's father, and Holmes even
has little ones who call him "Grand
daddy," it was impossible.
Maybe Holmes looked at the
comeback of one Ray Charles Leo
nard, who, at age 30 came back and
defeated 32-year-old then middle
weight champion, Marvelous Marvin
Hagler in April 1987.
However, one would have thought
that Larry would have looked instead
at a fight he had in 1980 against a
boxing icon who had captured the
heavyweight title three separate times,
Muhammed Ali.
In that fight, Holmes ravaged the
ex-champ .with a barrage of body
blows, forcing the 38-year-old Ali to
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It was in this stance that Ali
received what turned out to be the
coup de grace to his career, a TKO
loss to a Holmes who eight years ago
was who Tyson would call after
Friday's victory, "The best of our
times."
And yes, Larry, you were, but
unfortunately for most boxers, they
can't seem to forget.
Unfortunately for Holmes, his
inability to let the past rest got him
stretched out on a New Jersey boxing
canvas no fewer than three times
Friday night, the recipient of three
crushing rights and numerous left
hooks from Tyson.
"I knew I could get him with the
right," Tyson said afterwards. "I
studied his films, and he's always been
vulnerable to the right."
Vulnerable was quite correct.
Holmes, in suffering the most telling
defeat of his storied career, brought
back visions of Tyson's championship
victory over Trevor Berbick, who
defeated an aged Ali after he lost to
Holmes.
There was Larry Holmes, stum
bling around the ring, unable to keep
his balance. His savvy and determi
nation kept him within five seconds
of lasting the fourth and final round.
Even more sad than this fight that
shouldn't have been was the sight of
Ali, wearing sunglasses at night, being
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his introduction aides had to hold his
arms aloft.
Ali suffers from Parkinson's Dis
ease, as we all know by now, and
it seems that looking at the Alis and
Joe Louises would be enough of a
forewarning of emminent danger to
keep the Larry Holmes and Ray
Leonards from trying it again. Do
you hear me, George Foreman?
After this fight, however, Holmes
was in good spirits. He said he was
going to have a party, and he even
offered to buy Leonard a drink.
Larry, I hope you toasted to your
final fight.
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