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Show o 4 LetthelM Keep Snow On The Mountains attendingschool, only to become stuck in the parking lots or on the unplowed streets. As one student storms out of his immovable car and slams the door, he mutters some unprintable word and curses the school for not finding someone to plow the parking lots. In fact, many students have commented on the same thing. Why can't someone clear out the parking lots and the side streets leading to the school early in the morning before students arrive? It would make students lives much less complicated. , Crowds of people pushing cars to enable them to move through the layers of snow is not a rare sight. Cars sliding from one side of the road to the other is not a rare sight. The parking lots are often nothing short of icerinks, a dangerous hazard forcars without ice skates. Many students are ciying for help. Is anyone out there listening? By Jennifer Killian Snow. Snow. Snow-- . Those seem to be the foremost three words in any Utahns immediate vocabulary. Snow is on everyones minds, affecting everyones lives. Snow encircles everyones homes and backs up everyones roads. We are all surrounded by snow. To some it is a miracle; to others it is a plague. Some find the snow an exhilarating experience after last year's warmer than usual winter. Others find the snow to be a threat of death. Whatever the reaction to the snow, one fact remains unquestionable: the snow makes y living anything but normal. In fact, it makes everyday responsibilities a hardship. One familiar and widespread hardship for Westminster students is the battle of day-to-da- Symphony blow your caraway Jtinim 8 & January . 9. RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major & BEETHOVEN Symphony No, 2 ; Violin Concerto No. 15 & 16; PROKOFIEV January 23: Chamber Orchestra, with Ida Levin, also BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 HAYDN Cello Concerto, Christopher Wilkins conducting January 30: Youth Concert, Space Voyage," . I 1 1 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. January 30: Thats Entertainment! Watanabe Wizardry on Piano & Violin Symphony Hall, 8 p.m. unless noted Box Office: 533-640- 7 UwiSymphony By Laurie Staton-Cart- er of New Years resolutions has been the same for as long as I can remember: Lose ten pounds, run MORE, lift weights, swim, ski and remember peoples birthdays. NO MORE JUNK FOOD. January is possibly the worst month of the wholeyear. Winter poundage is at a peak, due in part to avisit home for the holidays. I have, once again, started The Annual Diet, which consists of V--8 juice, lots of carrots, Mexican food. I cucumbers and yogurt-- no can be Irritable. I can get bunchy. ' My mother, a nutritionist, was assistant dean and professor of home economics at Oregon State University for many years. I remember a typical dinner when I was growing up as being a small patch of peas, a baked potato, and clear over on the other side of the plate, a chicken wing no dessert. I remember saying how chocolate and avacadoes were for adults only, and that they somehow didnt register with childlike taste-budMy younger sister somehow managed to discover chocolate by the time she was twelve, but it took me until I was almost twenty to realize that chocolate even existed. But boy, have I made up for lost time since then: Ill admit it! I like the (nutritionally) worst things sometimes. Like fried clams at the Broiler, carmel triangles at Mrs. Backers and It happens eveiyyear. My list s. eggnog. True junk food is exactly what its name implies: empty calories," few redeeming nutrients, excessive amounts of salt, fat, sugar and additives. Excessive sodium (salt) intake over a long period of time can lead to or blood (high aggravate hypertension to handbook pressure), according vegetarian Laurels Kitchen. Fat is high in calories and cholesterol. Sugar produces a quick energy high, then the inevitable plummeting blood sugar levels that follow, leaving you in the wasteland of a hypoglycemic blood sugar low. And additives arent even real. Junk food, readily available to the hungiy and study-craze- d student, is almost always found in student union vending machines convenience stores. Its a and in late-nigexcessive studying and that strange thing ht numerous cups of coffee causes students to put virtually anything in their mouths. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Information Service puts booklet called The out a detailed Nutritional Value of Foods (1985). It is available for $2.75 by mail, and is an excel-- . lent tableside junk food binge deterent. According to the U.S.D.A., for example, one glazed doughnut, weighing a mere two ounces, has 235 calories, including 1 3 grams of fat, 26 grams of carbohydrates and 4 grams of protein. One large apple, on the other hand, weighing seven ounces, has,p,nly 125 calories, 1 gram of fat, 32 grams of carbohydrates and a trace of protein. Likewise, an d eight ounce carton of low fat (1-two 230 calories, has only yogurt grams of fat, 43 grams of carbohydrates and ten grams of protein. A cup of regular vanilla,, ice cream (11 fat) has 270 calories, 14 grams of fat. 32 grams of carbohydrates and five grams of protein. Choose your lavorite 72-pa- . ge 2) , fruit-flavore- junk food carefully! Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but here are the American Heart Associations recently updated dietary recommendations of Americans: The emphasis is on lowering total fat intake, instead of lowering various types of fat. The AHA recommends decreasing the total fat intake to less than 30 percent, which means that a person eating a total of 2,500 calories per day is allowed 83 grams of fat per day: the AHA also recommends decreasing cholesterol intake to no more than 1 00 mg. per 1 ,000 calories of food intake a day; the AHA recommends decreasing sodium ( salt) intake to 1 00 mg. per 1 ,000 calories of food intake per day. The total number of calories allowed by the USDA for 19-2- 2 men weighing about 155 is year-ol- d 2,900 (including 56 grams of protein); for a 19-2- 2 woman weighing about 120 year-ol- d pounds, the total number of calories allowed per day is 2,100 (including 44 grams of protein). So, back to The Annual Diet. Im promising myself a trip to Mrs. Backers on Valentines Day, just as a sort of personal bribe. Whats one little carmel triangle between friends? V . SrwrfM4r StudentTickets $3 When you fill out your Form W-- 4 or Employees Withholding Allowance Certificate, W-4- A, remember: If you can be claimed on your parents or another persons tax return, you generally cannot be exempt from income tax withholding. To get it right, read the instructions that came with your Form W-- 4 or W-- 4 A. OK, so theres no party. But there IS going to be a poetiy reading (which really is a party in the loose sense of the word) in Syme Lounge on Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 12:00 noon. d friends. RefreshBring your ments will be served. No cameras please. THIS IS NO JOKE. WERE NOT KIDDING. A Public Service well-behave- of lw IRS WE REALLY ARE HAVING A POETRY READING. So come and listen and maybe, just maybe, youll walk away a better person. Sponsored by ELLIPSIS Westminster's Literature and Arts Publication January 19, 198- 8- Issue 9 I i . t , 1 1 j : $ Forum 7 |