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October 12, 1983
Spelman Spotlight
Page 9
Volleyball Team Downs Fisk
pride in the whole team and felt
they worked as one unit. Ms.
Cooper mentioned the strong
serving of Angela Burnett, a
sophomore, and theoutstanding
performance of Carol Lawrence,
a junior, throughout the game.
The team’s captain also thanked
Coach Anthony for developing
the talent on the team and for
going beyond the call of duty.
The volleyball team is also
active in the community.
Through the National Athletic
Association’s (NAA),
Volunteers For Youth (VFY),
sponsored by the Morehouse
College chapter, Spelman's
volleyball team will become big
sisters to disadvantaged teenage
girls.
Both Deidre Haywood and
Princess Cooper want to urge all
Spelmanites to support their
volleyball team, and they
promise an exciting match each
week. Every team member
should be commended for her
contribution.
by Delphia Simpson
In the season’s opener on
September 23, 1983, Spelman’s
volleyball team soundly
defeated Fisk in front of a packed
crowd in Read Hall. Spelman
overtook Fisk in four games,
losing only the third game in a
three-out-of-five match. The
front line used its excellent
spiking abilities to the fullest,
point after point Fisk was
devastated by the front three.
In an interview, line judge
Spelmanite Deidre Haywood
expressed the improvement
shown by the team since last
year. “The team gained most of
its points from the traditional
setting-up technique: bunt,
volley, and spike. The team
worked so well together; no one
tried to be the ‘super-star.’ They
were the true essence of the
word ‘team.’”
On defense, the team ex
ecuted what Deidre described as
the "double block." Two team
members move one behind the
other in order to prevent a
successful spike by the oppo
nent. Ms. Haywood felt that the
only thing that could stand in the
team’s march to the top is lack of
confidence. "There is no doubt
that the talent is there,” stated
Haywood.
Princess Cooper, a senior
political science major and cap
tain of the team, expressed her
Guide To A Better You
Starving For Attention
by P.M. Berliner
American's have an obsession
for thinness. Our crackers are
thin (WheatThin). Our cigarettes
are slim (Virginia Slims). Our
bacon is lean (Sizzlean). Even our
sanitary napkins are thin (Max-
iThins). This image is projected in
our fashion models, beauty
queens, re-enforced in our radio
and television commercials and
plastered on billboards,
newspapers and magazine
stands thru-out the country. It’s
no wonder that 20% of all
American college women are
either anoxeric or bulimic.
Anoxeria Nervosa and Bulimia
are both eathing disorders which
have psychological origins.
Anoxeria Nervosa is simply self-
induced starvation. More recent
scientific updates of anoxerics
uncover alarming damages done
to our mental and physical
health. Anoxerics can ex
perience brain abnormalities,
coupled with impaired mental
performance. As the result of the
loss of nutrients and water, the
brain shrinkage may occur. Con
centration, reaction time, speed
and cessation of menstruation
are other direct effects. If un
checked (AN) could even lead to
severe malnutrition and in some
cases death, the most recent case
being of entertainer Karen
Carpenter.
Bulimia another closely
related eating disorder is the
direct opposite of (AN), but
instead of starvation ... binge
over-eating. The cycle is usually
binge and purge, binge and
purge. Historically this practice
has been traced as far back as the
Roman Empire in Roman orgies.
Direct physical effects of Bulimia
are digestive problems, liver
damage, rectal bleeding, dental
cavaties and the erosion of tooth
enamal from forced vomiting
and in some case when the
body’s natural electrical balance
even heart problems.
Some of the similiarities of
both diseases is their psy
chological origins. Both begin at
pre-teen age as a result of peer or
parental pressures, usually con
tinuing into early adulthood and
subsiding in middle adulthood.
In rare incidents there have been
reports of eighty year old women
practicing bulimia for over sixty
years of their lives. Both of these
disease sufferers have low self
esteem, often suppressing their
own feeling to play the role that
is expected of them by their
family or friends. Their fears are
that they will not be loved if they
don’t meet these expectations.
As individuals, anoxerics and
bulimics are very sensitive and
bright people usually setting
very high standards for
themsleves and are not only high
achievers but perfectionists.
Their insecurities about their
bodies and wanting to reject
adult responsibilities forces
them to take control or conquer
it by either starvation or binge
eating their bodies into remain
ing childlike.
But there is help that one can
seek; individual psychological
therapy, family therapy,
behavior modification, relaxa
tion and nutrition counseling are
just a few of the services that are
available. On campus we have
the Crisis Center which may
help, or consult your family
doctor.
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