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By Andy Skoogman
■ The Mfemeeoie (My
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On Oct SO, 19881, Mark 8aax top
Loaf I
nearly
t cost hint his football careen
As 3saypasssdatsen-age boy rid
ing his bicycle, he said, "Whafthap
pening, blood?” Sounds harmless,
right? Wrong. A California street
gang known as the Crips has arch
rivals I
i known as the Bloods.
The teen was so agitated ha
asm}
opened fire. Seay tried desperately
to shield Us nsios Ihshawnda.
She was not hit Her unde was.
A .38 caUbar bullet tore through
Seayk right kidney, stopping an inch
from his heart He lost his kidney.
However, Seay’s desire to play
football remained. He even partio
pated in spring drills six months
later, but university officials said he
no longer could play. They said the
ntB Of ugory to bio mnuninf kki*
nqrwastoogrMi
But aeaysaM Beaten wens*.
Shook! schools allow athletes to
riak th«ir lives over a aport?
Seay a criminal juMieemejar who
often counsels taaoa against joining
atzwt gangs, thinka so. Ha sued tha
They aattlad oat of coart in
September 1966, allowing 8aay to
play ifheaigneda waiver absolving
Long Baach SUU of liability and
wora a flak jacket to protact hia
remaining kidney.
Saay agreed to both and is back in
a Long Baach State 49ar uniform
this football season.
But —«* people an athlete
with high potential for serious
iqjury should not be playing, waiver
or no waiver. Forinstance, Rick Bay,
Minnaaota'a men’s athletics direc
tor, said, “Our policy hare is that
medical doctors have flw final word.
Signing a release doesn't change
anything in my mind.
HI had a team doctor who said an
athlete ahouldnt play, and he went
out and got hurt, or even killed, even
if! was legally protected, I would feel
morally responsible*
Seay was lucky. He will live to
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ACHIEVEMENT
Chronicle of a generation
Two female activists are putting together a book
about how this generation views reproductive rights.
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HEALTH
Eating disorder examined
A U. of Tennessee researcher is testing the ability of a
drug to stop the binge and purge cycle of bulimics.
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By Scott Easley
a The Daily Nexus
U. of California,
Santa Barbara
The Warlord stood
up, dazed from being
slammed to the
tarpaulin Kokina hit
him in the jaw, and
The Warlord’s sinews
' cracked like rubber
bands as the spiked
: chain smashed his
; mouth.
Dazed and reeling, he
fought for solid ground
Crimson against the
gray told him he had
met the concrete floor,
his jaw unhinged, and
blood pumped wildly
from his mouth. He
shook uncontrollably.
The Warlord was
scared for the first time
in his World Pacific
Wrestling Federation
career.
The wrestler’s real
name is 10m r orman, a b-toot-o-incn,
265-pound student at the U of
California, Santa Barbara The 24-vear
old now is willing to talk openly about
his professional wrestling career, which
ended about two years ago
The dividing line between Forman and
The Warlord had grown fuzzy, he says.
"It eats you up," he recalls, leaning
back in his chair “You get so caught up
in your character that soon there is no
difference. You train six days a week, 12
hours a day."
Kilisi Vailu'u, known to nng fans as
Captain Paradise, managed Forman, plac
ing him on a strict regimen that included
DANA MCCOY. THt DAILY NfcXUS. U Of CALIFORNIA. SANTA BARBARA
Tom Forman as The Warlord: “They said I was too ugly to be a good guy. "
“I saw a grown
man holding his
tiny little daughter
up to see me beat
this guy senseless...
1 had enough.
— Tom Forman
weight lifting and sprinting, combined
with a 15,000-calone-a-day diet.
Forman became interested in
wrestling at the U. of California,
Riverside. *1 thought it was all fake, just
like everybody else. I thought,‘Hey, what
a party! Travel, have a
fan club, and beat peo
ple up for money!
Great!’ ” He shakes his
head, smiling, “Now,
I’m a retired pinhead."
There was more to the
sport for Forman than
fame and recognition.
“You are always sore
and banged up, and
everyone hates you
I would go out to eat in
public and little kids
would be throwing
garbage at me, old
ladies would spit on me
— that’s something
hard to deal with," he
says.
The training became
as grueling as the
insults. Ted Williamson,
the owner of the gym
where Forman began
his training, said, “1
knew that Tom was a
great athlete, but I also
knew that to survive in
the ring, you need to
adopt a more aggressive auuuae us sim
ply a rough sport.’
Forman spent months simply learning
how to fall and bounce off the ropes, and
it was almost a year before his first offi
cial fight.
"1 was a villian,' he says, “because they
said I was too ugly to be a good guv.”
Bodybuilding champion Troy Zuccolutto
suggested Forman’s ring name, “The
Warlord,’ during a training session. Hus
trademark scream, neck chain and blond
mohawk came soon after.
Looking back at the videos of his
matches, Forman reminisces. On screen,
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Banking on sperm
Some students donate for cash, others for society
By T. Christian Miller
■ The Daily Californian
: U. of California, Berkeley
Eric, a U. of California, Berkeley, student, works at a job that
pays about $70 an hour, offers a flexible schedule and requires
him to have an orgasm each time he goes to the office.
He is a sperm donor.
“During the semester, I consider it like a job. I do it just to
make money,’ said Eric, who usually donates two times a week.
Eric is one of about 35 to 40 regular donors at the California
Cryobank of Berkeley, where 90 percent of the clients are UC
Berkeley students, manager Chns Haskell said.
“We target college students because the university has a
more relaxed atmosphere, and men are more willing to partic
ipate than in areas where it’s not considered correct,’ Haskell
said.
While the demand for donors far exceeds the supply, students
may encounter difficulties getting the job. The Cryobank
accepts only one out of six prospective donors, while the Sperm
Bank of Oakland accepts one out of 10 applicants Rejections
are usually based on the quality of the sperm.
Problems may occur with a donor's family health history, the
count and activity of the sperm, and its survival rate during
freezing, said Barbara Raboy, director of the Sperm Bank.
Once a donor has been accepted into a program, he must
agree to visit the bank fairly regularly. The Oakland center
has donors sign a legal contract requiring a one-year commit
ment to insure that clients who want to have more than one
child can use the same donor.
Tb donate, participants masturbate two or three times a
week, ejaculating into a bottle similar to a urine specimen jar,
Haskell said.
“We have three collection rooms, and there are (pornograph
ic) magazines in the cabinets if the donors want them,* he said.
Both sperm banks recommend that a donor abstain from sex
for two to three days before going to the clinic, in order to boost
the activity and number of his sperm.
Cryobank pays $35 per sample, while the Sperm Bank, a
nonprofit organization, pays on an individual basis.
Tb receive sperm, a woman must fill out a health application,
and then select a donor from a list describing donors’ physical
appearances. The cost for samples vanes, averaging about $ 100.
Once it has been determined that there is no possibility of
hereditary or other diseases, the woman learns more about the
donor, although his anonymity remains intact.
Those seeking impregnation are usually distnbuted evenly
among three sociological groups, Raboy said.
‘We get 35 percent lesbian couples, 30 percent married cou
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