1983_03 The Daily Collegian March 1983

              4    March 2, 1983
To your health
Contributing Writer
Occasionally, a medical article attracts
the press and captures the imagination of
the people to such an extent that one
simply must have, or profess to have, an
acquaintance with the theme to survive
social situation. Such an article entitled
"Running — An Analogue of Anorexia?"
appeared in the Feb. 3 issue of the New
England Journal of Medicine. The article
is written by Yates, Leehey and Shisslak,
two physicians and a Ph.D. from the
Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Arizona
Health Sciences Center.
The authors present three brief case
histories of 'obligatory runners' and draw
some remarkable parallels between their
psychological make-up and that of the
anorexic patients. The authors them¬
selves are runners and make it clear that
their remarks don't apply overall to the 31
million running enthusiasts in seeming
perpetual motion on our trails and side
walks, inspiring admiration or perhaps a
little defensive disdain in the more pedes-
Parallel between eating disorder and
running still being disputed
than among us. The key word is obligatory.
This small group is driven to running in
the same way the anorexic is driven to
dieting. Both become dedicated to loss of
weight, in the runner's case specifically
loss of body fat. Both seem impelled to
activity and motion. Both can never
achieve the satisfaction of attained goals
because the goals are continually reset to
unattainable limits. Both seem also to be
related to societal pressures towards slim■
ness and towards athletic prowess.
The compulsion is so strong in both
cases that when anorectics are deprived
of dieting or runners of their exercise,
they tend to become anxious, depressed
and experience lowered self-esteem.
Both groups seem to have difficulties in
close interpersonal relationships.
The anxieties and self-doubts they
share lead the authors to hypothesize
that the symptoms of running and dieting
represent an attempt to establish control
arid thereby mastery of life and to consol¬
idate identity.
There ate, of course, contrasts as well.
Anorexia is a serious and life-threatening
disease occurring predominantly among
young females, whereas obligatory run¬
ning occurs mostly among, middle-aged
males. The runners, although seeming to
wreak vengeance on their bodies by run¬
ning even when they have suffered stress
fractures, sore knees or common illness,
only rarely run themselves into the grave.
In anorexia nervosa, the mortality is dis¬
tressingly high.
While the comparison between ano¬
rexia and obligatory running is interesting
and mind-catching, I feel that it can also
be somewhat deceptive. These are only
two examples of more basic psychologi¬
cal processes in motion. They are'exam-
pies of the human psyche overwhelmed
by external realities such as the pro¬
longed dependency and external controls
of childhood. Or it may be unwise parent¬
ing that often unwittingly tends to dis¬
courage the development of indepen¬
dence.
At some later stage in life, in adoles-v
cence or middle age, the conflict becomes
more acute as that person unconsciously
strives to attain those goals that should
have been reached by a natural process'
much earlier. Thus we could add'to these
two groups the 'obligatory' weight lifter.
not yet described as such but certainly
apparent. He seeks an identity in the
spectacularly muscled body and works
through pain even as does the runner.
Should we consider as well the 'obliga¬
tory' religious ascetic who also fasts and
afflicts himself in the pursuit of ever beck¬
oning concepts of greater purity and
devotion?
These and others are exaggerated
examples of the conflicts we all share. By
seeking to understand them, we take our
own personal steps toward maturity.
McGaHto perform atGSUF
for Women's History Week
r Tulis McCall will
af "Women I Have
Known" Monday, March 7 as part ol the
Arts and Humanities Forum in the Uni
versity Lecture Series at CSUF
The program will be held at 8 p m in the
College Union Lounge. Admission is $2
lor CSUF students and $4 for the general
public. Tickets are available at the Infor
mation Desk in the College Union.
Described by some as a "female Hal
Holbrook." Ms. McCall portrays a variety
of women from history including journal¬
ist Nelly Bly, frontierswoman Calamity
Jane, birth control crusader Margaret
Sanger, anarchist Emma Goldman, suf
Iragist leader Alice Paul and others
Using "Everywoman" as her narrative
c haracter who is described as "being born
somewhere around the beginning" with
an ability lo be at the nght place at the
right time, Ms. McCall relates stories of
friends past and times shared, including
the first women's rights convention in
1850.
Her performance is intended to provide
another dimension to the past, because
as she said, "I discovered that history was
written by men, for men about men.
amen. Now I don't mean to discount that
history or those gentlemen, I just mean to
add to the picture zt little bit."
Her touring one-woman show is in its
ninth season. She resides in New York
where she continues to study and teach
with Michael Monarty and the Flayers'
Acting Company
She is a graduate of the Departn
Connecticut
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Murphy and mummy dominate 'Time Walker*
Lately Hollywood has had a lot of time
on its hands; "Time Bandits," and Just
recently "Time Rider."
Now, another entree into this category
of chronologically comprising cinema has
come along; a low budget, low quality, low
mentality effort called Time Walker."
"Time Walker" is not only a poor
a 11 empt at sci-fi-horror, but a rip-off of two
very  good science fictions: "Close
Review
Encounters of the Third Kind," and
ET." Throw ma dose of The Mummy's
Revenge" and you've got a fairly strong
impression of what this film's about.
The movie stars Ben Murphy, who first
rose to fame on TV as the late Peter
Duel's partner in the western series "Alias
Smith & Jones." Murphy plays a young,
handsome college professor who returns
from an archaeological expedition of the
3reat pyramids of Egypt, with the remains
of a mysterious second-mummy Disco¬
vered in the burial chamber of King
Tutai___unen.
The mummy is found to be covered
with a strange green powder, which turns
out to be a dormant fungus of an
unknown nature. Soon after the age-old
body is brought back to civilization, the
weird fungus "comes back to life," as one
student finds out when he touches it,
resulting in the fungus consuming his arm
to the point it has to be amputated before
it reaches the rest of his body.
Meanwhile, one of the professor's
young assistants .discovers still another
oddity in a print of an X-ray taken of the
mummy.
Not only are th* mummy's features
underneath the wrappings different from
those of normal humans, but five peculiar
"blots" appear in the upper left comer of
the print. The student reopens the coffin
and finds five perfectly round crystals,
which he figures are worth a king's
ransom.
He puts the crystals in his greedy little
pockets and takes them to various jewel¬
ers and hockshops around town; each
time being told that the crystals are worth¬
less. Undaunted, he finally sells them to
some of his school mates for a pittance.
When the mummy awakens to find his
five round crystals gone, he is madder
than hell. For you see, he is not a mummy,
but a time-traveling alien who was buried
in Tut'S tomb after inadvertently causing
the death of the boy king. And the crystals
are not priceless gems, but power cells
which operate his time-travel device..      The producers of Time Walker" start
U1**-    - «1 out with a good idea, but their eopout-
Wait-Igetmymitsonthecreepthat    of an ending, or rather, their lack of one,
made off with'em!" he Burgles in his ' totaDy destroyed the fieri as entertain-
_ monst erish way. And rnent.
get them be does, as every person posess- The airoag of a script wasn't helped any
»"3 onepf the crystals is tossed about and by its cast, who aside from Murphy,
rippecrto shreds by the mummy/alien. hammed it up so horrendousiy that one
The   mummy's   mayhem   goes has to wonder how they got work as
undetected for a time, because every one actors before landing parts in this movie.
who witnesses the brutality lapses into a The only thing lean think of is either the
state of shock; when asked what hap- .producers were desperate for Ic
pened, all they can utter is "i
Thepofice,be_evetngthe terrified people of the producer's own family.Shecshl
to be calling for their "mommy," quickly Imustadmftlr^WghrMpesforTime
deduce that the victims are deranged Walker," but now ! cannot convince
and disregard their testimonies. myself to reccotnend it. The fin* two
Finally, again posessrngaB the crystals, thirds of the film are acceptable with
the mummy assembles his time-travel some fair camera work and suspenseful
mechanism in an old college storeroom,     rnornents strung throughout. But the-
Before he can activate it, however,   film's ending flops almost as loudly as the
Murphy and the police burst upon the   "big bang" itself.
scene; believing they have cornered him.
Now, up to this point, the movie, Time
Walker" is a semi-interesting but honest
attempt at sci-fi horror that holds the
audience's attention considerably well.
What happens next can only be described
as a total blow-out.
When the alien finaDy converts^himself
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