Volume Lll, Number 23
Inside
This
Issue...
Too Sick to Move?
Rest may be the best cure for
recent outbreaks of viral illness / 2
Beyond Words
St. John’s
and UNCW
collaborate
on sympo
sium about
art and
commemo
ration / 5
Women in Slump
T
Women
take game
on the
road, men
face W&M
for home
coming/ 9
Serving UNC-Wilniiii^toii Siiicc 1
SGA decides to make discount movie
tickets off limits to faculty and staff
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Staff Writer
The SGA voted on Tuesday, Jan. 15,
to restrict UNC Wilmington faculty and
staff from purcha.sing discount movie tick
ets from the information desk in the Uni
versity Union.
The vote was the result of a roundtable
discussion concerning complaints by stu
dents that the tickets were always sold out.
During the discussion, many representa
tives were surprised to learn that faculty
and staff were even allowed to buy the
tickets.
SGA Representative Clifton Williams,
a freshman, said he was not fully aware
of the program and thought that an imme
diate decision to restrict the faculty and
staff from buying the tickets was unfair.
Williams did, however, vote in favor of
the restrictions.
Because it is a student-based program,
WiUiams said, “1 thought they shouldn’t
be getting the tickets.”
The program is funded by student fees
and has been available to faculty, staff and
alumni since its inception more than 10
years ago. The tickets are sold for $4.50
each and can be used at Carmike movie
SGA acts
on student
complaints
regarding
movie
ticket short
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theaters in the Wilmington area. Carmike
currently charges adults $7 per ticket and
$4.75 for its matinee showings.
The department of Campus Activities
uses $700, which is appropriated by the
SGA, to order the tickets as they are
needed. Currently, students can purchase
an unlimited number of tickets at one time.
Carolyn E. Farley, director of the Uni-
versity Union and campus activities, said
that in the past, the supply of tickets $7(X)
buys would normally last about a month,
but now that same amount lasts for about
three weeks.
There was some controversy surround
ing the decision to restrict the sales dur
ing the week following the SGA decision,
SGA President Katie Russell said several
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Beach and media contribute to low self image
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Sports
STAFF Writer
The fa.scination society has with having
the “perfect body” has increasingly become
a critical issue for young people. Eating dis-
oiders and body image obsessions are ram
pant on college campuses across the coun
try.
UNC Wilmington may have a greater
challenge with this problem than other
schools. Due to its proximity to the beach
and its climate, the student body is more sus
ceptible to the dangers of body image obses
sions. The desire to look good on the beach
drives students to great lengths in order to
attain their ideal size and shape.
“Because of the beach culture, the par
ticular images of the way women are sup
posed to look are really, really strong
here.. .more so than, say, somewhere in the
Midwest,” said Yael Gold, psychologist for
Student Development Services.
Another problem unique to this univer
sity is the number of students that come from
higher-income families. According to Nicole
CouHesY ol TMS Campus
Like many other actresses, Calista
Flockhart represents what many call
an unrealistic ideal of feminine beauty
Hinson, university nutritionist coming from
a higher-income family can produce perfec
tionist tendencies, which may be applied to
the student’s perception of their own body
image.
The media also plays a significant role in
setting standards for what is awLsidered beau
tiful. Through magazines, television and
advertising, a clear and con-stant message is
sent - fat is bad. Hinstm attributes a great
deal of the influence to Hollywood, refer
ring to the “Calista Flockhart and Jennifer
Ani.ston look.”
“It’s definitely a problem here, and all
college campu-ses,” Hiason said. “Accord
ing to a university survey, 80 percent of fe-
m^e college .students said they were ‘terri
fied’ of being overweight.”
Gold and Hinson work together on cam
pus to try to help those students that are overly
conscious of their body image, and work to
reduce this growing problem.
“We work hand-in-hand and u-sually re
fer to each other,” Gold said.
Although both women castomarily meet
with the same patients, Gold is a liceased
psychologist and has the certifications to deal
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