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  • December 8, 1994 Western Carolinian Editorial "Skinny" Shouldn't be a "Bad Word" Blake Frizzell Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors Stephanie Trammell- Classifieds •Elizabeth Cullinan / Tracy Hart - Copy •Justin Menickelli - Photography • Amy Moss - Advertising & Design • Lynn Jones - Sports • Earle Wheeler- Features • Colleen Vasconcellos - News Comvuter Gnu Josh Wisenbaker Designers •Joe Shiver Photovravhers Noah Brackett • Gabe Nelson • Randy Stell Revorters • Frank Becvar • David Driscoll • Scott Francis •James Gray • Erin Hogg • Kevin Newman • September Nyang'oro • Erin Painter •John Rush • Will Sullivan • Scott Swift • Amy Wells • Dave Williams Kristin Dumas • Lee Hopper Distribution •Jamie Baize r>nctt>-im Director Webster Lyons Advisor •John Moore • The Western Carolinian is the student newspaper of Western Carolina University, produced entirely by students. • Deadlines for all sections are the Thursday preceding „ublication. -Office personnel may be reached at 227-7267. Blake Frizzell Editor-in-Chief I am "skinny." I have always been this way. I have come to find that skinny is a "bad word." I can remember for many years wearing baggy clothes, always dreading summer when I would be forced by mother nature to bear my knobby knees. My mother and brothers lovingly called me bony, and people were always telling me to gain some weight. During high school I went to the doctor, because I hadn't been feeling so well. He said, "Well, you're definitely not anorexic.. ." as if I had asked him. In high school being "skinny" had many benefits. Girls with figures were always telling me that they wished they had my flat- chested, flat-bottomed, tooth pick legged body. I still dreaded the summer months. I can't figure it out, but once I arrived at college, I gained more of a sense of who I am. It no longer mattered that my body wasn't perfect, that I could eat three hot fudge sundaes while watching a 30 Something marathon all day on my couch and not gain a pound. My body became to me all that a body should be to a person living inside it. A comfortable home. I was no longer ashamed to wear shorts or shirts that displayed my arms. My favorite pants are lycra leggings which I wear proudly. My brothers still tease me about my body, or lack thereof, and I laugh and parade proudly. The media and model industry seems to love thin people, and everyone else wants to know why? What did I do to get this way? Am I healthy? Do I want another helping? When I talk to people about the comments I receive about being skinny, I get little or no sympathy. This society, after all, praises small ones, puts them on pedestals and designs entire fashion lines around them. Girls around the country are dying every day trying to be thin. So why, I often wonder,'are people so unhappy with my weight? One of miy professors told me that she wa s worried about me, that I looked too thin in her opinion. Another faculty member told me that I looked like I'd lost 10 pounds. Really? I wondered. I haven't weighed 82 pounds in years. One of my good friends told me she thought I looked overly "skinny." While riding my mountain bike one day a friend stopped me and told me to go home and park the bike. After all, people like me don't need exercise. I began to get paranoid. Do I really look sick? I would stand in front of my mirror and examine my body from several angles. No ribs poking out, no sunken cheeks, no signs of feeling sick, unless I ate too much cookie dough. I even went to the hospital to get a blood test, to make sure I wasn't hypoglycemic. To my mother's great delight, the tests showed that I am healthy and don't have some strange disease, except a genetic history of small persons in my family. Shouldn't we all love our bodies, no matter how "imperfect" they are? Isn't our society too concerned with being "perfect"? Would the same people who approached me approach a person who was overweight and express concern over their weight? I mean, I may eat too many bags of Funyuns and cook with too much butter, but it's my body, and while we praise the thin, we persecute the "skinny". Otto Spilker in the Physical Education department fusses at me, telling me I need to work out. That I can handle, because it's true. After all, my body fat is around 30%, his is No Room for Fair Weather Football Fans Dear Larry Thomas, As a Catamount Kitten, I have worked with the football team and the coaching staff for four years now. After reading your letter in last week's paper, I question your "superior knowledge of football." You sat in the stands for three hours and watched the game. Now, let me give you some much needed insight about what happened during the other 165 hours that week. Due to injuries, one of which happened Thursday in RE. class, two of our starting offensive linemen were not able to play. In the middle of the first quarter, our starting quarterback tore several ligaments, therefore hindering his ability to scramble out of the pocket. When you combine these factors with the knowledge that Appalachian has the best pass rush defense in the southern conference, it doesn't take a genius to understand why the coaches chose to run the ball. Like yourself, I am a fifth year senior graduating in May. I have had the pleasure of watching five great seasons of football at home and away. In 1992, only his third year as WCU's head coach, Steve Hodgin and his staff produced what was ranked as the best turnaround among all college football teams in the nation. This feat was accomplished on the lowest recruiting budget in the southern conference. That same year, Coach Hodgin was awarded Southern Conference Coach of the Year. Also, in case you are not aware, this is only the second coaching staff in the history of WCU football to have three consecutive winning seasons. Yes, we had a winning season this year. We defeated some great teams such as Georgia Southern and The Citadel. After these wins, along with our homecoming victory, you probably praised the coaching staff, then you ATTEMPT to tear them to pieces when we lose. The coaching staff and the players work hard as a team to be competitive in every game they play. Although Western Carolina Football doesn't always have as much fan support as other schools, we can do without fair weather fans like you. Heather Boylston around 4%, or so I'm told. And the funny thing is, I have plenty of "skinny" guy friends, and they are "just built that way," while I must have starved myself or prayed to the porcelain God to "achieve my figure." I've got news for everyone. I have a mountain bike. It has a thick layer of dust. My cabinets are stocked with chips, popcorn, and anything sweet. I do not starve myself. In the mornings I opt for a delicious blueberry doughnut from Catnips, to hell with the low fat muffins or the fat free bagels. I want cholesterol! I want no sympathy for being "skinny," only understanding. Thousands of people are built like myself. I am lucky. I never pause before eating anything fattening, nor do I check the labels of food before buying. I should. I should not, however, be forced to feel paranoid about my body and begin wearing baggy clothes again. After all, my sizes are always on sale at the Gap. And the next time I have circles under my eves, consider that I might have been at the paper late, or at Bailey's until they closed, or, as strange as it may seem, that I couldn't sleep. Not that I have an eating disorder. I'd bet my "skinny" ass that I'll be small all my life, but I'm tired of defending it. WC accepting applications for Assistant Editor, Assistant Advertising and Sales and Classifieds Director. The opinions expressed on the Editorial pages are not the opinions of the Western Carolinian, the Carolinian staff, or Western Carolina University. The Western Carolinian welcomes editorial input, news tips, article ideas, etc. Please address correspondence to: Editor Western Carolinian P.O. Box 66 Cullowhee, NC 28723 All submissions will be considered, but the Western Carolinian reserves the right to edit for brevity and clarity. All editorial letters must be no longer than 250 words, typed and signed. However, names can be withheld from publication at the request of the author to the Editor .
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