The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1996 Page: 7 of 8
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Life
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alcohol and drug problems.
The center’s phone number is 733-2175.
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Some stressed-out students may seek ways to stay awake to
An intramural tennis singles tournament open to men and
women will begin at 3 p.m. March 25 at this college’s tennis
courts.
Winners will be decided on the best
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determine how many and which courts
are used, interim intramural Director
Gil Castillo said.
First-, second- and third-place
winners will receive medals.
For information, call Castillo at 733-2686.
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cers and other medical conditions a person may not know they
So what is a safer alternative?
“Students looking for a natural stimulant that will also help
cause adverse reactions to B-12 vitamins,” said Scott Prichard, employee at Sun Harvest
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The Little Caesar’s franchise, owned by Little Caesar’s of San other?” Hotchkiss said.
“We would have stayed and given the franchise another try to
make money, but they (Delta Food Service) weren’t willing to
budge on anything.
“They wanted us to open franchises
Financially it wasn’t good for us.”
Despite the loss of the Little Caesar’s Pizza franchise, Christ
not like average Little tried to keep up with the demand for pizza and introduced an-
other brand of round individual pizzas called Lil’ Charlie’s Pizza.
“I realize that it’s not Littie Caesar’s, but apparendy the stu-
dents like them because I am selling at least 78 pizzas every-
day,” Christ said.
Christ did not know how many Little Caesar’s sold daily.
“I am welcoming any feedback from students on the new piz-
zas or anything else in the cafeteria area.”
Feedback on the new pizzas has been less than impressive.
While biting into a Lil’ Charlie’s Pizza, sophomore education
major Brandon Cummings said, “I don’t really like the new round
ones (pizzas) they are offering downstairs, but if I want pizza, I
don’t have much of a choice in between classes.”
Another student said because of the loss of the Little Caesar’s
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An intramural cross-country competition will begin at 1
p.m. March 11 at San Pedro Park.
The tournament will be based on predicted time.
Participants will predict the time they expect to run the 2-
mile race, and winners will be based on the finishers closest to
their predicted time.
The tournament is open to men and women.
The top three winners will receive medals.
For more information, call interim intramurals Coordina-
tor Gil Castillo at 733-2686.
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The student-employee assistance program offers meetings
of Alcoholics Anonymous in Room 116 of Moody Learning
Center.
Meetings, at noon Monday,
Wednesday and Friday and at
8:15 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday,
are open to anyone. Attendance is
confidential.
The program assists people with personal and academic
concerns, such as individual, marital, emotional, financial,
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The American Cancer Society needs used appliances,
sporting goods or clothes in good condition for the World’s
Greatest Garage Sale.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 2 at
Armstrong Moving and Storage, 4679 Walzem Road.
The annual event will benefit the cancer patient support
program of San Antonio.
Donations can be dropped off at the American Cancer
Society, 8115 Datapoint Drive, or arrangements can be made
for pick up of larger items by calling 653-1110.
For information, call the society office at 614-4211.
In the mood for some fun? Looking for a way to burn off
some stress?
A swimming pool, weight room, basketball court and
several racquetball courts await you in the physical education
center.
To use these facilities, students should bring workout
clothes and a student identification card.
Locker rooms are available to the left of the main entrance.
* Lockers are free, but students must provide locks.
These facilities are open to students during hours classes
are not scheduled.
The swimming pool, located to the right of the main
entrance, is available from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and
Wednesday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 1
*’ p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
A conditioning room in Room 125 is available from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.
Gym 2 is available for basketball from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
> Monday, Wednesday and Friday and from 2:45 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday.
Racquetball players may use a court in Room 113 from 1:45
p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and from 1:30
p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
B Some packages contain label warnings
V that the products should be used for en-
ergy and appetite control. However, the
Ulb labels also stress product usage should be
slowed or discontinued if sleeplessness or
loss of appetite occurs.
Herbal Ecstacy, another popular form
l|F °f stimulant, contains ma huang, cola nut,
■F ginko, gotu-kola, ginseng and green tea
extract.
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stimulant herbs found in the drug, has balanc-
^8 effects on the body, Landers said.
SHGinko improves circulation to the brain, and
the tonic gotu-kola has a rejuvenating effect on
the body, which adds to its popularity among herbal stimu-
lants.
Green tea extract in Herbal Ecstacy cleanses the body. How-
appetite ever, it too contains natural levels of ephedrine.
Landers doubts Herbal Ecstacy’s claims.
“I have used it before, and it does work,” he said. “But if you
unsafe, and you could get very sick.”
The herb Escalation, another popular over-the-counter stimu-
lant, contains high dosages of cola nut, ma huang and green tea
extracts.
Ma huang and green tea provide high levels of ephedrine.
No products claim to substitute for sleep. Their labels simply
state they are alternatives for people who do not want to ingest
caffeine.
Bonugli warns
Antonio which runs 45 stores throughout Texas, had two loca-
tions in Loftin Student Center. ‘
One was on the second floor across from the game room.
The second location was a revolving warmer for whole pizzas in
the cafeteria.
Christ said she thinks the franchise saw low profits because
she believed the quality of the pizza was
Caesar’s pizza.
“The general quality of the pizza was not the same as a regu-
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not a gold mine,” said Diana Christ, manager for Delta Food corner franchise,” she said.
“In fact, there were times when we had to throw away some
: You’re not going to get the same money here that you could of the pizzas because the workers had let them sit for a long
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effects, but they cause Jf w
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lasses have kicked into high gear, and students may anxiety and can even
begin feeling the pressure of exams, research papers, lead to liver and kidney
projects and assorted other stress-related assignments, damage,” Dominguez
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make it through the crunch. Pep n’ Energy, cited as the natural
Nursing Instructor Becky Bonugli, warns students to con- energizer, claims to wake you up without any
suit a doctor before taking any kind of over-the-counter stimu- side effects, but it also is considered an appetite
lant.
“People also need to become more responsible when read-
ing these package labels,” Bonugli, a registered nurse, said.
“Don’t always buy into what the person across the counter is
telling you.”
Ken Smith, peer educator for the Fund for the Improvement tion. It is also the primary product in most herbal
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est on the market.
be mixed,” Smith said.
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palpitations,”hesaid. in the face of loss of sleep and increased stress is good time
management and proper nutrition.
“The best alternative is to stay away from these products,
because we’re not aware of what is in them,” Bonugli said. “A
Most of these types of stimulants contain a lot of stuff you very healthy lifestyle, exercise and stress management will go
don t even want to know about and it is all because of these much further than taking these drugs.”
, Laura Jesse contributed to this story.
huang to adverse effects
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“All of these energy products started out as
suppressants,” Smith said.
“As soon as people figured out that it also made them stay ; 1X
awake they began using them as ‘energy substitutes,’ ” he added, take it at too high a dosage or for too long a time, it becomes
BDI Pharmaceuticals, a division of Body Dynamics Inc. Io- r ‘ “
iriety of inactive ingre- cated in Indianapolis, produces a variety of energy stimulants.
The company’s two most popular products are Mini Thin, a
synthetically produced stimulant, and Super Mini, a herbal
stimulant like Mini Thin.
Mini Thin and Super Mini can be purchased at any conve-
nience store or at Planet K shops.
According to the products’ labels, both contain the drug ephe-
drine.
The ephedrine in Super Mini is derived from high levels of to take extreme caution if they have an ongoing medical prob-
Ma Huang and Cola nut founo in the product. lem such as diabetes or cardiac problems.
The Mini Thin label states that the ephedrine found in that “These products can make worse conditions like peptic ul-
product is synthetically produced ephedrine hydrochloride. t J_
Ephedrine is used to relieve nasal congestion and asthma and have, ” she said,
can constrict some blood vessels, a search through medical
books reveals.
Users of products containing ephedrine should always read their body without producing any side effects should look into
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pregnant or nursing women or people with high blood pressure Farms.
“B-12 is the type of energizing vitiman that will go in, make
you feel better and then expel itself through the pores in your
body so it does not stay in there and slow your body down,”
Smith said,
The experts interviewed agree the best way to keep healthy
Tryouts for extramural softball teams will be at 4 p.m.
Sunday and 3 p.m. Wednesday at Koger Stokes Softball
Complex, 1315 San Pedro Ave.
Tryouts will be for one men’s
team and one coed team.
Fifteen spaces are available
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B \ B Fischer Softball Complex,
10700 Nacogdoches Road, and
the men’s team will play
Wednesdays at the same time
and place.
The coach for the team will be interim intramurals Coordi-
nator Gil Castillo.
To try out for the team, participants should bring softball
equipment.
For information, call Castillo at 733-2686.
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After three semesters of operation on the second floor of
Loftin Student Center, Little Caesar’s has turned off its oven.
The reason for the departure of the franchise is simple —
money.
“Big business franchises like Little Caesar’s see the amount of
students at this college and think it is a gold mine, but SAC is lar Little Caesar’s pizza that you would pay $10 or $12 for at
Service in the cafeteria in Loftin Student Center.
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get if you opened a store on the comer and use all of the same time and no replacements were brought from upstairs.”
equipment.” Christ said Little Caesar’s wanted to pull out of the collegt
Jason Hotchkiss, director of operations for Little Caesar’s of before the semester ended.
San Antonio, said the franchise, which opened for business on “Delta got a letter from the Little Caesar’s management say-
Jan. 9,1995, closed because it was not making a profit. ing they wanted to close the franchise before the end of the fall
“I can tell you the reason why we closed; it was money. We ’95 semester, but we did not let them leave until the semester
just weren’t making any. If we would have been making enough ended, ” Christ said.
money, we would have stayed, ” he said. Operational methods were not the only conflict between Delta franchise, he simply switched franchises.
Hotchkiss said the franchise made enough money in the year and Little Caesar’s. Contract negotiations were also a problem. “I used to eat Little Caesar’s everyday, either the pizza or the
it was open to cover operational cost but not enough profit to “Delta wanted us to open franchises at all of the colleges in crazy bread. Now I’m always eating Taco Bell,” freshman unde-
justify keeping the franchise open. Hotchkiss would not give the ACCD, and if we weren’t making enough money at the big- cided major Manuel Soto said.
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isease.
Some product users have complained of headaches after tak-
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Landers said the products are safe to a certain level.
“But if you take too much of them you could experience
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“Too much of the stimulants can eventually depress your im-
mune system.”
Smith warned the products may contain toxic mixtures.
"Most of these types of stimulants contain a lot of stuff yoi
The herbal medicines you take may say they have no side herbs that do not belong in the same mixture,” he said.
suppressant.
This product contains a Chinese herb extract,
ma huang.
Ma huang, a natural appetite suppressant,
may help to control asthma and ease conges-
of Post-secondary Education, said caffeine pills may be the saf- energy formulas.
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Common forms of caffeine pills, such as NoDoz and Vivarin,
cost about $4 a bottle, but they do not claim to do the same
things that herbal products can do.
NoDoz and Vivarin contain 200 milligrams of caffeine, the
equivalent of two cups of coffee, plus a vai
dients to give the pills substance.
Users of over-the-counter medications should limit caffeine
intake from drink and food sources, Smith said.
“The problem with caffeine is it is not often thought of as a
drug,” Bonugli said. “But if it is used too much it can cause
adverse effects on the system.”
Such adverse effects are increased anxiety, irritability, agita-
tion, sweating and ringing in the ears, Bonugli said.
Cardiac problems, grand mal seizures and respiratory col-
lapse, in a small number of cases, are the most dangerous ef-
fects, Bonugli said.
A grand mal seizure is a type of epilepsy in which the victim
suffers convulsions and loss of consciousness.
Alternatives to NoDoz and Vivarin can be found at health
food stores, and a variety of herbal products found in conve- ± ;
nience stores claim to keep a person awake under most any cir- the warning labels as ephedrim
cumstances. And they cost less than $2. | ’
Carl Landers, assistant vitamin team leader from Sun Har- or heart or thyroid di:
vest Farms, 2502 Nacogdoches Road, said the Federal Drug Ad- S ± ’
ministration does not regulate herbal products because there ing stimulants that contain ephedrim
are no immediate side effects.
“The FDA cannot regulate these products because they are
all natural and are not synthetic in any way,” Landers said.
“Besides, if the FDA regulated them they would cost an arm
and a leg and you would only be able to get them by prescrip-
tion.”
FIPSE peer educator Veronica Dominguez disagrees with
Landers.
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