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A Low-Impact Diet
A&M sprouts Vegetarian Society
By Pamela Lee
The Battalion
"People have the wrong per
ception of vegetarian eating. I
thought I would starve when I
became a vegetarian. You don't
have to he reduced to eating
salads."
- Scott Guttormson
Vegetarian Society President
t | Ihe Texas A&M Vegetarian Society
I is showing students an alternative
JL to a meat diet. Scott Guttormson
and Scott Spider founded the organiza
tion two weeks ago to combat vegetari
an stereotypes.
"The primary goal is to educate the
community as to what vegetarians are
{about) through informational flyers,
lectures that we are going to sponsor
and word of mouth/' said Guttormson,
president of the Society.
Guttormson said a radio telecast last
year of John Robbins sparked his inter
est in vegetarianism. Robbins, whose fa
ther owns Baskin-Robbins, wrote the
Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Diet for
a New America/'
Guttormson said the society mem
bers are concerned with maintaining a
low impact diet, animal rights and eat
ing healthy.
A low impact diet is what Grittorm-
son describes as "eating lower on the
food chain." By substituting meat prod
ucts with other foods, low impact di
eters hope to efficiently use natural
food resources.
"We want animals conserved, they
are not for our whim," he said. "Ani
mals are not ours to eat, wear or do ex
periments on/’
Guttormson cited die meat industry
as one exploiter of natural resources-
"Three hundred million pounds (of
meat) are imported to the US by Central
and South America."
Meat industries, he said, chop down
trees, burn and then raise cattle on un
claimed rain forest land.
"The rain forest land is becoming
grazing land," he said.
By eliminating meat products from
his diet, Guttormson and other vegetari
ans hope to reduce further exploitations
of the land.
"The US has the largest meat con
sumption in the world," he said. "If
people would eat TO percent less meat,
we could feed the entire world with the
grain they use in meat production/'
Besides trying to maintain a low im
pact diet, Guttormson said he refrains
from meats and meat byproducts to
lower his risk of cancer and other dis
eases that may be caused by the over
consumption of meat.
Guttormson said restaurants are be
ginning to accommodate vegetarians in
maintaining a healthy diet.
"The restaurant industry has asked
all restaurants to offer vegetarian en
trees," he said,
Guttormson said he has spoken with
campus restaurants to urge them to of
fer more vegetarian foods.
"They've been real open to our sug
gestions, and they even (the MSC cafete
ria) have a vegetable plate/'
Guttormson may meet with campus
officials again later in the academic year.
"People have the wrong perception
of vegetarian eating," he said. "I
thought I would starve when I became a
vegetarian."
Guttormson said he was later sur
prised by the number of food items
available for vegetarians.
"Have you ever had bean burritos?
There are a lot of entrees that are vege
tarian. You don't have to be reduced to
eating salads. That is a common misin
terpretation. Although you may need to
eat more because vegetarian foods are
less dense, you are doing your body bet
ter."
By Terri Welch
The Battalion
S unday afternoons are something
special for Anne Gurnee and Hope
Holloway.
The two Texas A&M students spend
three hours every Sunday afternoon
playing music as disc jockeys for
KANM-FM 99.9 (Cable), the student-
run radio station.
"We like playing music," said
Gurnee, a junior psychology and an
thropology major from San Diego,
Calif. "We come up here and we can
play what we want to play."
Both emphasized how much fun it
is and that they are exposed to a lot of
new music. It gets hectic, they said, but
they have a new appreciation for radio
Riding
the
Radio Waves
Students spin a variety of
music on campus station
prodcution now.
"It raises your blood pressure," said
Gurnee. "Anybody who enjoys music
would enjoy doing this."
The girls have a special format they
follow that had to be selected by the di
rectors of the station.
"We play mostly music by psychotic
people - it's silly music," said Hol
loway, a senior psychology major from
Dallas. "It is sort of like elevator music
of the '90s with spoken word pieces and
groups like Lydia Lynch."
But that is only a small taste of all
the station has to offer. Holloway said
there are 56 time slots at three hours
each and every slot uses two people.
Most play industrial music or hard
dance music.
But the variety includes a talk show,
classical, Christian, heavy metal music
and more.
"It's everything you wouldn't hear
on regular radio," said Holloway.
The station is set up in personnel
See Student DJ/Page 4
Mike McDonald, a sophomore mechanical engineering major El Paso, hosts a blues ahow on KANM, Tuesay from noon to 3 p.m.
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Gay and Lesbian Student Services of Texas A&M is
pleased to announce that Friday, October 11, is
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
And for the sake of the straight members of the university community, we would like to
answer some of the most common questions about this day.
What is Coming Out ?
Gay men and leshiaas are different from women and minorities in that we are often invisible:
all stereotypes about limp wrists and swishy walks aside, gay men and lesbians cannot usually
be recognized by our physical appearances and our mannerisms. Coming out is the process by
which gay men and lesbians reveal ourselves to our families and friends, and identify ourselves
as present and active members of the human race.
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Coming out is first and foremost an act of pride and self-affirmation. It shows that we have
overcome the stigma of prejudice and ignorance, and have accepted ourselves for who we are.
Coming out is also the ultimate revolutionary act tor gay men and lesbians, for it shows our
straight families and friends that we are everywhere, that we have been in their midst all this
time and have done them no grave harm. Coming out shows straight people that we are the
fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers whom they have always loved: that we are the
professors and teachers and doctors and dentists and lawyers and police chiefs whom they have
always respected; that we are the secretaries and mail carriers and gardeners and clerks whom
they have always depended upon; that we are the neighbors and classmates whom they have
always turned to for help and friendship and the latest Dan Quayle joke. Coming out shows
straight people that we are just like them in most regards; that we put our pants on one leg at
a time, just like them: that we slough off to school and work every morning, whether we like
it or not, just like them; that we work hard for our money, just like them; that we pay our taxes,
and worry about drugs and crime, and care about the quality of schools, and have families and
friends and loves, just like them. When we come out to straight people, they can no longer deny
us, for in doing so, they would only be denying themselves.
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with an openly gay man or lesbian. They should not worry about this reaction: the fear of the
new and unknown is a very natural protective instinct. To help straight people overcome this
reaction, we offer these Ten Suggestions:
1. Do not run screaming from the room. This response is mde.
2. If you must hack away, do so slowly, and with discretion.
3. Do not assume that we are attracted to you. On the other hand, do not assume that
we are not attracted to you.
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about meeting a gay person. We were all raised with straight people.
5. Do not start talking about your boy/girlfriend or husband/wife in order to make it
clear that you are straight. We probably already know.
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