Desperate for Control • Counseling Services + One Student's at Notre Dame and Personal Struggle Saint Mary's Offer Help with Anorexia
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------.---.-----~ ~ DMB blues Mir ready for 2000? .':!cene reviews Dave Matthews Band's third After 13 years in space, Russian officials claim Tuesday live album in two years. A second studio that the Mir Space Station is ready for album is due out in May. New Year's. NOVEMBER 30, Scene + page 10 World &Nation + page 5 1999 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLXXXIII N0. 59 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Desperate for control • Counseling services + One student's at Notre Dame and personal struggle Saint Mary's offer help with anorexia. for students with eating disorders. Editors note: K111hlun McCann is" Notre Dame senior who hm suffirrd from '"' rati11g disor der. This is her story, By lAURA ROMPF News Writer I'm an intensely private person, but I am sharing my experience - Tlw stn~ss on Notrn Damn studnnts is not to be understood as typical - ovnrwlwlming. Papnrs, tests and com to raise awareness on campus. rnutPr programs. Voluntnnring, sports and Eating disorders, I believe, arc one n~lationships. !laving control ovnr nven one of the most misunderstood, under aspnrt of lifP is an accomplishment. diagnosed, and stigmatiznd dis Unfortunatnly, for approximately 10 per eases. n~nt or thn studnnt population, this "con Eating disorders, I would like to trol" is causing harm and nvnn permanent define, arc not just about 'rnally damagn to tlwir hodins. skinny girls.' Only tlHJS(\ girls in On thP national lnvnl morn than !i million advanced stages of anorexia ncr Anwri<:ans sull"nr from Paling disorders - vosa, one type of eating disorder, !i pnrnmt of adol(~scnnt and adult women, appear 'too thin.' Bulimia and com and I pnrr,nnt of men havn anorexia nor: pulsive overeating can also afl"ect vosa, bulimia nnrvosa, or binge-eating dis KEVIN DALUM/The Observer both men and women; eating disor ordnr. About one in 10 Notre Dame students and 5 million Americans struggle with an ders may inelude not only just food Fi!"tn(Hl Jmrcnnt of young wornnn have eating disorder. but those who have addictions to substantially disordnrnd eating attitudes power bars or power shakes and and lwhaviors, and an estimated I ,000 disorders is students worry about gaining being away from home for the first time all excessive exercise. womnn din nach ynar of anon~xia nnrvosa. tho "freshman 15," said Pendley. "This cause eating disorders," she said. In retrospect- as in evnrything "WPstPrn rultun~ itsPif puts a focus on worry causes them to forget that their bod "Bulimia might develop because students else in life! -it is easier to pin looks. body imagP, and bning thin," said ies are naturally maturing and changing, have unlimited access to food in the dining point how my eating disorder Chris i'PtHliPy, assistant director of and the weight gain flxperirmefld is not hall. Where at home dinner would consist developed. I ligh school is stressful Counsding and CarnPr I>Pvnlopnwnt at St. always fat." of what was served and once it was gone, for everymw. Mary's. "On a rollegn campus appmtrancn "Another factor is residence halls. I it was gone. Because students can go back I had the usual academic stress is vnry important in attracting a mate, know at Saint Mary's and I assume it is several times, bingeing may occur," she to which most of us here ean PSIWcially in the agn group 18 to 24. true of Notre Dame, our students are very said. relate: I was highly active in NilS, Appnaranw is snen as a key to success." competitive. This competitiveness can Due to all these factors, the environment athletics, student government and i'Pndlny addnd that many other aspects carry over into appearance; they want to on college campuses cause for a higher orchestra. My father was diagnosed of colh~gt~ lifn add to tim ideal environment look the best," Pendley continued. concentrated source of the three main eat- with cancer my freshman year, and li1r nating disordnrs. "Several other factors are also involved. died my sophomore year; my "An aspect of collegn that causes eating Stress both academic and financial and see EATING/page 4 see MCCANN/page 4 LET IT SNOW! Medieval studies endowed with $400,000 challenge grant will strengthen it yet further." Special to The Observer Father Philip Moore established Notre Dame's first medieval studies Notre Dame, has received a program in 19:-l3 with liHl assistance $400,000 challenge grant from the of the French mndievalist and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to philosopher Etiennn Gilson. Tho endow a fellowship in medteval stud University's Medieval Institute was ies. established 14 years later and is The Mellon Foundation's challenge today, under the direction of Patrick grant, which requires Notre Dame to Geary, among the most prominent raise an additional $350,000, is itself interdisciplinary programs of its kind a response to a $450,000 challenge in the nation. grant to the University from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation National Endowment for the makes grants on a seleetivn basis to Humanities (NEH). The NEB grant, institutions in higher education, in made earlier this year, is contingent cultural affairs and the performing upon Notre Dame's raising $1.8 mil arts, in population, in conservation lion for library collections and faculty and the environment and in publie fellowships in the Medieval Institute affairs. It has provided support for and the Keough Institute for Irish Notre Dame's Medieval Institute, tlw Studies. Kellogg Institute for International "We are grateful to the Mellon Studies, the Institute for Scholarship Foundation both for this generous in the Liberal Arts and, most recent grant and for the recognition it con ly, a research project on the effects veys," said University president of secondary education on students Father Edward Malloy. "The at selective colleges. Medieval Institute is among Notre The grants are components of the SHANNON BENNEIT/The Observer Students were welcomed back to school on Monday with November's first snow. Dame's most celebrated academic University's $767 million Generations Temperatures reached a high of 41. entities, and these challenge grants campaign. -------- -------~- -- --~- r--~. ':' I r t page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Tuesday, November 30, 1999 : ======================================================================================================================= t ! INSIDE COLUMN QUOTES OF THE WEEK ~ "It is absolutely "Being a part of the "Those workers are "The people in the t 'I Want It That imperative that we {SOAJ protest was a powerless; we are United States are the address the campus way of being faithful apathetic. This is just biggest consumers. problem of binge to our call as the reality of the We affect other Way' drinking." Christians to be peo- society we live in. " countries without ple ofpeace and to even knowing it." Father Mark Poorman stand with those who Christine Hinze As I sit down to type this column, my ears vice president, Office of are suffering." Marquette professor on Christie VanKeuren can still hear a faint ringing from the week Student Affairs sweatshop labor Saint Mary's senior on end. No, not from a long plane ride back after Thanksgiving break, rather from over 22,000 Jan Pilarki 'Buy Nothing' day pre-teen girls screaming at Peacemakers member the top of their lungs. What for? None other than the top 40 sensation: the Backstreet Boys. Compiled from U-Wire reports Okay sure, make fun of OUTSIDE THE DOME me. I went to their concert. Go ahead, say that you would never lower yourself to listening to those songs. Minnesota students debate animal rights Tell me what they sing is MINNEAPOLIS "Legally, they have many, the sidewalk below, other SOAR not music at all. Believe Laura Rompf Demonized and harassed for members handed out copies of me, I've heard all the criti- years, University of Minnesota ani many rights, but when they Bullard's demands and protest cism. mal researchers are taking the break the law and threaten materials. Yes, I know each boy by offensive against animal rights pro people - that's too far. " Bullard is scheduled to appear in name, and I admit that is Copy Editor testers by working to eliminate Hennepin County District Court on somewhat pathetic. But at their most strident on-campus crit Dec. 21 to face charges of fourth least I'm honest. ic. Dick Bianco degree burglary and criminal tres I've discovered that there The Student Organization for assistant vice president of the passing. are more closet Backstreet fans on this cam Animal Rights was the subject of a Academic Heath Center During the incident, SOAR violat pus than I even dreamed possible. Maybe they Nov. 11 grievance filed on behalf of ed specific provisions, including do not own both COs as I do. Maybe they did University researchers asking for a regulations. wrongful use of University facilities, not recently purchase a poster for their room, revocation of the activists' student Dick Bianco, assistant vice presi disorderly conduct, violation of reg but they know the songs. group status. If successful, SOAR dent of the Academic Health Center, ulations and state laws, according They sing along to the hits "I Want It That would lose University funding and filed the complaint, specifically to Bianco's complaint. Way," "As Long as You Love Me," "All I have access to facilities. referring to SOAR's most recent Bianco and his colleagues are to Give" and "Everybody ... RockYour Body." The grievance marks the first protest this fall. now trying to make sure the group I have examples. I've been to three parties attempt to strip a student group of Beginning Sept. 7, Matt Bullard, a cannot continue unscathed from the this year which have had the same wonderful its University standing.