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Eating healthy, exercise easier than students realize By Cheryl Allen ■ The Daily Tar Heel U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill It » much easier than students think to eat n^ht and exercise regularly accord mg to l of North Carolina health experts The first step is to make exercise and eating healt hy a pnonty. I N< Wellne-s Research Coordinator Susan Chappell said "It you have the attitude that mak ilift healthy choices is going to make you phvsically and psy chologically healt hier, then you are more likely to do that Whether you make it hard for yoursell or not is all in your attitude CNC Kinplovee Wellness I’rogram Coordinator Toni Branner agreed it s usually a matter of motivation rather than having enough time,' she said Diet But most experts agree that tor most students eating nutritionally is difficult “It's hard to eat right while living in a dorm and being on campus all day. liranner said According to 1‘dlen Molotsky, mtramu ral aerolites coordinator, eating healthy begins with paying attention to food intake lie aware of likid.-1li.ii Mm w.mt to gradualh eliminate she said foods high m saturated falx should he replared with carlmhvdrates lor ont*rg\ to help sustain a |KTson through the da> Ijuantitv. not just qualiH is a lartor in A . • ’ t Mt All T 1 AM t . ' • ” maintaining good rating h.11>11 ( happell said No 11 m•<i is unhealthy il you oat it in modor'alion Hut ulii'ii mu have a diet lia md on that I.I it Us nines unhealthy " See OIET. Page 22 r Sociology major trains professional fighters By Mike Austin ■ Stale Press Arizona State U Arizona State 1’ student and former boxer Rob Sale. \x ho was born w ith glau coma and told In doctors never to fiox, has returned to the ring as a trainer Tin really excited with the concept of being aide to mold fighters, to take them from scratch and make them want to lie the liest ." Sale said Tin 12-\ear-old sociology major, who retired from professional Imxillg ill Max after 1 1 years in the sport, began work mg as head trainer at a lempe boxing gym in September "1 approached Rob because I respect his boxing knowledge and talent as a lighter said Scott Mating, a boxing manager and co-owner of the gym I know a lot o! people older than Rob w ho don't know the business as xxell Sale currently manages one estab lished professional, light lieax \ xxeight Steve Damon, and txxo others who recently made their professional debuts Other professionals also have shown interest in the gy m We re in the process ot negotiating .AMU scon IYTIE suit PStSS AHI.TOAIA STATE U Rob Sale leaches a tighter how to throw a correct punch w ith tin- World I leavy weight Kicklmxmg Champion Dennis Alexio. Sale said “Alexin would Ik1 our No 1 man Sale, a New Jersey native, liegan box inj» when he was X year' old At lx, he was favored to win the New Jersey Golden (Jloves welterweight title Although lie knew he w as risking blind ni'ss and ('veil tlu* lo.v» of ms rvr. fit* run turned to light InNuvemlicr litsfi after hi* third eye surgerx. Sale.-, eve bewail to heal too qmekls < her the next lour months, 'ix davs a week, an anti healing agent was injected into Sale ' eye to slow the heal mg process "I’ve had my nose broken, my eollarlHine broken and nothing has come close to the level of pain I had w ith those treatments. he said Although doctors told Sale he would never light again, he was determined to return to the ring Indanunry 1‘Wii.Sale long lit in the Arizona (lolden (Iloves competition as an amateur Sale went pro and alter three proles sional bouts, he w as undefeated w it h one knockout In May 1IIK9, Sale went to Muling for financial support for a come back, but Mating coin meed lum to retire "The bottom line was my health was at risk and I was in tear ol walking around blind lor the rest ol my life Sale said The transition from boxer to trainer has collie easy, despite initial fears "I m (tit percent right now but there s 'till I percent of me that shoots punches into the air w hen no one s around Racism Continued trom page 18 lastor He also said it all started with selective breeding during the days of slavery Alter a Hood of complaints about The (Ireek's remark^ he was tired Once again. Snyder is not the architect of those theories Those same white men who control CHS and fired Snyder are mem tiers of elitist w hile dubs such as I he Kmckerliocker ( luh and ! he l niversity ('luh Neither of these clubs had even a single black memtier at the tune of the firing A caref ul analysis of Snyder s remarks shows that although they were clearly insensitive, there is some truth in what he said His claims that some blacks jump higher and run faster than some whites is supported by the fact that National Basketball Association teams arc HO percent black, and black.- donn naU* track and field in this country Ihll Russell, a black basketball coach and Cornier -portscaster. has commented more than once on black dominance m basketball Russell even proposed hav inp more white players to increase alien dance (’an you imagine a white coach today petti tip by with such a suppestion ' While Snyder s remark. “There won t lie anything left for whites ” is an exag peration; if blacks dominated the execu tive as well as the athletic side of sports thev would indeed control virtually all of sports Snyder didn t indicate whether this was a piHxi thing or not. he simply made an honest observation Firing these two men did not eliminate racism w it bin the Dodger and (’BSorga mzations Their dismissals only provid ed the media and the public w ith a false sense of justice Although their comments were unquestionably insensitive, they were ^till very mild m comparison with Jesse Jackson's hateful remarks about Nev. York City being "Hymietown ” Or the Philadelphia disc jockey, George Woods w bo complained alMint Korean business men m black neighborhoods “They don t look like we do: they don't live like us. and they don't art like us Woods is still employed and Jackson is still considered a political leader According to Waller Williams, a black economist at George Mason l these double standards exist because the media and the public have lower ex pec latinos lor blacks Williams also says that tolerating these racist and bigoted remarks bv blacks profanely violates the civil rights movement Kacism is not a black and white issue And su|>erficial remedies, like tiring 70 plus-vear-old men for misspeaking on television, will only serve to cover up the real problems w hile the wounds of true hatred continue to fester Coffee keeps students alert during finals By Ralph Jennings ■ I ho [ i lily C.i ilomi.m U of California, Berkeley ll you re hko a lot of people. you ipiall a maple elixir railed roller to pet you I hrouph i he fren/ied moments of last-minute -tody inp But. allhouph medical experts disagree, people yy ho drink coflee or consume rafleme m any form may lie nskmp l>oth immediate and lonp-term side effects People all over the I of ('aliform.i. Berkeley drink roller and yylulr some just enjoy the taste, most drink it to keep ayyake and --lay alert Some I I Berkeley students use rotlee and other rat lei nr products to si ay ayy ake for u|> to :jii hours m order to study lor finals "I take roller partly tor the cal feme and partly as a distraction loi a break said I (' Berkeley student Umore Uustip Student Isiwrence Waiters said he drinks i appuccmo "fiasically to stay awake at mpht Berkeley abounds with coffee shops to serve people studyinp for finals and tempt those who are try inp to break the caffeine habit Sandy Boyd, who owns four Berkeley coflee shops, said any one of his operations mipht serve cus tomers more than .100 pounds o! coffee a day "There's probably 7.000 cups that we serve com hmed ’ IV Berkeley student Mike Kice a self-described "hyper sensitive male." drinks an averape of two cups of coff ee each day. “There was a time when I drank two plant cappuccinos and a [sit of coffee a day. hut that pot a hit out of hand," he said See COFFEE Page 23