The Voice
SPRING SEMESTER
January, 2006
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Bathroom scale an obstacle to a balanced life
By Julie Deardorff
Chicago Tribune
Against my better judgment, I signed up for a
holiday weight management contest through
the company fitness center Just before
Thanksgiving, a group of us threw $20 each
into a pot and stepped on a scale. When we
weigh ourselves again next week, the people
who stayed within two pounds of their original
weight will split the money.
I've never owned a scale or regularly
weighed myself, mostly because I hate how a
silly little number can ruin my day. My jeans
often tell me everything I need to know.
But a new study found that people
who are trying to lose or maintain their weight
did better when they weighed themselves
every single day. It's much easier to make
small corrections and get back on track when
you've gained only a pound or two, according
to the researchers at the University of
Minnesota, whose results were published last
month in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
It certainly sounds logical, especially
at this time of year, when weight loss is
among the top New Year's resolutions. But
tracking certain things on a daily basis _
whether it's weight or stock prices _ often does
nothing but drive people crazy.
Bathroom scales may look fairly
innocuous, but these are devices that can feed
obsession, self-loathing and mood swings.
They can armounce weight gain in people who
are actually just well-hydrated or increasing
muscle mass. Worst of all, scales inevitably
promote dieting, the least-effective way to lose
weight over the long term.
For those with eating disorders,
scales can trigger the self-destructive
pathology. In the warped Internet world of
pro-anorexia, which views the illness as a
lifestyle and a choice rather than a disease, a
major tenet is that "scales should be used to
measure daily success and failure."
A recovered anorexic from Los
Angeles shed some light on the mindset when
she recounted her troubled _ but hardly
unusual _ relationship with scales on Big Fat
Blog (bigfatblog.com).
"I weighed myself after going to the
bathroom, but never right after a shower, as
the extra water clinging to my body and hair
may skew the result," she wrote. "I laid the
scale in a section of the bathroom that sloped
downward. ... I know this is extreme, but that's
what scales begin to do to you: pin your life
on a number."
Often, that number doesn't even
reflect the true health of your body. Thinner is
not necessarily better; when I was fit enough
to complete my first Ironman triathlon (2.4-
mile swim, 112-mile bike, 26.2-mile run), I
See BALANCED LIFE, Page 8
Glory Road' A reminder barriers still need to fall
By Drew Sharp
Detroit Free Press
The magnitude of the move didn't
register with Texas Western coach Don
Haskins until weeks after his Miners' seminal
1966 national championship.
Never before had five black players
taken the floor together in a national
basketball title game.
If that wasn't audacious enough,
they had the unmitigated gall to actually win.
Thousands of hateftil letters flooded
Haskins' office in El Paso, Texas, the vast
majority venting their bile with the same
pejorative racist preamble.
Haskins didn't keep the incendiary
correspondence . He set to flames a
documented archive to a tumultuous social
climate that Texas Western further shook up
on March 19, 1966, when it defeated all-
white Kentucky, 72-65, at College Park, Md.
"At one time," Haskins recalled
during a telephone interview Monday, "I had
gotten about 35,000 to 40,000 of them. And
they were all pretty much the same. I burned
them. I had no use for them."
Haskins even became a target of the
rising black militancy movement of the time,
branded as an exploiter."I just thought the
time had come to change how people thought
Featured Flashback Story
Stepping Stones to Success
April 1957, The Voice Student Newspaper
Courtesy of the Fayetteville State University Archives
By: Editor Melba Johnson
Why so some men succeed and others fail? The reason why cannot be easily
disclosed, for the answer lies in the man himself... it is in his character.
We are living in the atomic age when new techniques are being utilized. We are
confronted with specialties more than in the past. Even ten years makes a different in business
and education methods.
The division of labor seems to apply to practically everything. No man can become
learned in all of one thing. He may acquire a smattering, but there are no more universal
geniuses. The world has become complicated, unlimited, and highly special. You can become
well versed in some one thing and life is not too short to leam that it can be mastered. Yes, but
how? How can we survive in this highly competitive world?
There are some little “stepping stones” to success that may seem so insignificant that
we are prone to overlook them. Let us consider some of them.
STONE I: Set up goals and then make a start! You may not be entirely ready and may have to
stop on the way for changes, but all the same-START. Some people spend so much time
getting ready that they never get around to making a real start.
STONE ir. Don’t wander incessantly! Try to keep on a straight route and don’t let counter
attractions tempt you away. Keep thinking about what you are going to do when you reach
your goal.
STONE III: Dare to try for a higher position! Study to get it. Talk with others who have risen
and find out how they got there. Don’t become a carbon copy, but try to arrive at your goal in
some better way.
STONE IV: Don’t be afraid to work! Take it as it comes. Don’t always select the easiest jobs,
for you will get tked before you reach the hard ones. If it seems as if you are going
backwards, pause for a moment to see if you can find the reason. It could be something as
smoke as eating too much or too little. Good physical health is of utmost importance to
success.
STONE V: Leam self-control! Be slow to anger and think seriously before starting a fight.
You may win the fight and lose your own self-respect. Remember. A man cannot afford to
throw away a fnend; he needs all he can fmd.
STONE VI: Keep in touch with the outside world! Read newspapers and magazines and leam
to talk over the various topics of the day. You cannot leam too much; you may fail because
you don’t know enough. Very few persons, if any, are turned down for knowing too much.
STONE VII: Use creativity and imagination! Refrain from doing the same thing, the same
way all the time. “Variety is the spice of life.” This in tum leads to efficiency and invention.
STONE VIII: Save your money, but don’t become a miser! Since man is a social animal, he
cannot afford to be considered a “beat” or mean. If you are considered mean because you
refuse to spend your money unwisely, let it go, and hope that some day you will be understood
better.
STONE IX: Mind your own affairs and let other people mind theirs! It requires too much
work to attend to your business and somebody else’s at the same time. To do that a man must
sit on two stools at the same time, which is quite difficult to do well.
STONE X: Shy away from bragging about what you can do! Do your job well and there will
certainly be no need to brag. Somebody will see what sort of person you are and give you
credit for having common sense, and for knowing more than you probably do.
Remember! Everyone has burdens to bear; never forget that yours are not the only
ones that are hard to carry. Set your goals and when you have accomplished all you can
according to your ability, let a feeling of peace steal over you, and trust God for the remainder.
- The Editor.
about certain things," he said.
Forty years later, barriers still need
smashing. The Southeastem Conference is
only two years removed from welcoming its
first black head football coach. The NFL
must legislate an open interview process
because it cannot wholly trust the color
blindness of its owners.
So Hollywood turns historian,
molding the Miners' story into a timeless
reminder of virtue's resilience.
The film "Glory Road" uses the
significance of that single basketball game as
a backdrop for the political and racial
upheaval of the 1960s. The movie has all the
elements of a big money-maker _ heroes and
villains, good and evil and, of course, the
happy ending that, in this instance, wasn't the
fhiit of a scriptwriter's imagination.
But if the movie accomplishes
nothing else, it should inspire a respectful
thank you from the youthful descendants of a
once-segregated sport and culture _ both
black and white.
"I met LeBron James recently and
he told me how thankful and grateful he was
for what we did and went through," said
Harry Floumoy, one of the five Miners
starters.
"And usually when we talk with
young players, people have told them the
stories about us and how if not for us they
would have been pigeon-holed into a certain
type of player. But now they're free to spread
their wings and express themselves on the
basketball floor."
The Miners' tale still resonates
today. Their victory helped shoot down the
myth that blacks were incapable of mastering
what were considered the more cerebral
positions in sports, like point guard and
quarterback.
Texas Westem's point guard was
Bobby Joe Hill of Highland Park, also the
team's leading scorer.
The Miners' enduring legacy is that
winning ultimately incites change. But that
still requires someone willing to take a
chance.
Haskins proved the perfect
facilitator.
As a teenager in mral Enid, Okla.,
Haskins befriended a young black man
named Herman Carr when both worked at a
feed store. When they weren't working,
they'd play basketball on a primitive hoop at
Haskins' home.
Segregation stared Haskins flush in
the face one day in the late 1940s when both
he and Carr needed a drink of water. There
were two fountains _ one for the whites and
another for the blacks.
"That left a lasting mark on me,"
Haskins said. "Here was a person who bled
the same color as I did, yet he was treated
differently. That's why it was very, very easy
for me to treat all of my players the exact
same regardless of what they looked like."
"Glory Road" is the latest cinematic
confection from Hollywood uber-producer
Jerry Bmckheimer, the same man who
brought "Remember the Titans" to the screen.
"Titans" was the tme story of an unlikely
football state championship bonding a newly
desegregated Southern high school.
Haskins' relationship with Carr
didn't make the movie's final cut. And there
are some creative liberties taken for the sake
for drama. A scene in which the team finds
its hotel rooms ransacked with racial epithets
on the walls never happened.
But the tale of Texas Western really
didn't require any alterations. The unfiltered
tmth proved dramatic enough.
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