We'v e got to stop eating like this! Th e lighter side of diets at LB C

"/ can't take this much longer; its been three nights now."

"Will you go to sleep? Don't think about it!"

"But its been three long nights, J need a fix just one peanut M&M anything."

"Will you forget about it? It's all a matter of will power."

"Will power? That's easy for you to say you've always been thin."

Fat against thin.

Dieting

It's a national obsession among Americans.Millions ofdollarsare spent yearly on fad diets, diet books,special foods and exercisedevices by women and men inan efforttoloseweight

For the fat man, thinness is eternal bliss.

Fatness not only hitstheman over 40with themidriff bulge, or the housewife who spends countless hours watching "One Life to Live" eating bon-bons Fatness hits the high school student and the college-aged.

At LBC, students find dieting a necessary part of theirlife when cafeteria food tends to be starchy and late-night snaking an addiction.

"It's funny because in a country where everyone is so obsessed with dieting,people are still overweight,"said Vicki Kelly,an LBC freshman.

"I think girls are more self-conscious about their weight than guys are,because in our society it's less acceptable for girls to be overweight than for boys to be," she said

Whether a person decides to go on a strictdiet or cuts back on his or her food intake,everyone is presented with certain problems to handle

"I hate togive up pop and icecream," said one RA who was trying to lose weight. "It seems like people tempt you when you try todiet."

"Iguess giving up sweets ismy problem," said Ruth Newton,an LBC senior

"I've patterned myself into eating so much junk that it's become a habit," she said

"Sweets are probably the biggest temptation for peopledieting," said Brian Wood, a physical education major from Rhodesia.

"Ifind it hard toadd exercise time into my schedule and I'm so used togoing ata high pace thatit makes dieting harder for me," said Mike Salsbury.

"After Iquit track I started having some trouble with my weight," said political science major Joni Berry "My biggest temptations are bread, and eating at night when I'm bored."

"When it comes to sweets—forget it! I'm gone I justcan't hack it," laughed Lisa Solheim,aLBC freshman. "My problem is thatI'm picky and won't eatthe food in the cafeteria Then I eat junk in my room at night."

While many students have problems with eating and give into temptation, some find resisting easier

"I have problems gaining weight," said Lori Moore, a 5'7" senior who weighs 115 pounds.

"I was brought up that Iwouldn't die if Ididn't eat I can skip meals anytime—I just don't think about it."

"I could be a lot heavier," said Carrie Bowron,a petite LBC senior, "but my figureis very important tome so I tryharder."

Karen Hobert, a town student who has lost 40 pounds, believes losing weight is a matter of thewill

"You have to want to lose weight bad enough before you will,"she said "Itdoesn't matter how many diets you've been on before."

Three nights was more than any body could take.

Quickly, she got out of bed and slipped out the door.

Once inside the lounge she dropped a quarter into the Lance machine and pulled out a pack of chocolate cookies.

Withing minutes she was fast asleep dreaming of M & M's and Milky Way bars.

-Carole Smith

• Hanford, Calif.,had just begun when a uniformed patrolman, a member of the church, slipped into the santuary. He motioned to the assistant pastor who, in turn, called the pastor out of the church Outside, the officer informed the Rev. Gordon Gilbert that his daughter Julie had been killed in an auto accident

JulieAnn Gilbert, 20, had just completed her junior year at LBC and had been chosen tobe music director for WLBU This had been in keeping with her goal of a ministry to youth through music via her own radio station.

Friends said thatJuliewas hurrying home tobe in timeto hear her father's Sunday sermon when the accident occurred. •

^^^ closefriends, leftLynchburg in May 1980 tobe with his parents Eleanor and Wallace Turnbull,missionaires in Port-au-Prince, Haiti David, 27, was returning home, eagei totake on the service ofa full-time missionary in theland he loved

According to his mother, he had spent two-and-a-half daysdoing businessinthecityand saw some peopleregardingthework hewas preparing for— avocationalschool for themountain children ofthePort-au-Prince area. Afterthis hewent to joina large group offriendsat a youth camp for a day

On June 8, four days afterhis return from school,David died while scuba diving in the Caribbean Sea While the causeofdeath was uncertain, itappeared thatDavid diedof a heartattack.

David was a student at Liberty Bible Institute and was known by students forhiswork with SMITE and the missionsdepartment One frienddescribed him as"200 pounds ofheart."

His mother said, "His generosity,active love forpeople, determination, enthusiam and humor caused him to be loved and remembered.

'#"• he day was July 11, 1980, and Stephen John Hofer "* hadjust returned from amissionary trip with SMITE to Romania He was planning on visiting his parents in Bridgewater,S.D., when he left Lynchburg, making only onestopin Charleston, W. Va., to visit friends. That wasthe lasttime his friends or family saw him alive.

Hofer, justa month away from his 22nd birthday, never showed up at his parents' home

Hofer's parents filed a missing persons report and the investigationthat was begun turned up nothing The family then resorted to a private investigator.He worked on the case up toNovember 1980 when a man mowing a fieldoff Interstate 70 near Springfield, Ohio, found the body that was identified asHofer's Littlewas known about what had happened to him His luggagehad beenfound on July12,1980, buthis carwas not found Hofer, who had just completed his junioryearat LBC, was a political science major. •