V OLUME 79, N UMBER 99 THE BALL STATE M UNCIE, INDIANA DDAAIILYLY NNEEWWSS ONLINE ACCESS News desk: 285-8245 REMINDER HIGH 20 10 cents www.dailynews.bsu.edu; Friday Editor: 285-8249 Spring break LOW - 5 off VA X users: at the $ prompt, campus FEBRUARY 11, 2000 type “dailynews” Classified: 285-8247 begins March 5. mostly cloudy COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES DN Events planned to help cure eating disorders INSIDE Freshman tells personal tale her lack of food. McConkey. p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Student Center Lobby. After this the 5-foot-9-inch,19-year-old “We live in a culture that says ‘to be any- “The screenings will be used to see if any- of living with anorexia, freshman shrank to 110 pounds and realized thing you have to be thin’ and then (people) are one needs to be sent here or just for those who she needed to change her lifestyle. trying to figure out ‘Who am I?’’’ said Kim are concerned to see if they are moving in that starving herself to 110 pounds. Twenty percent of college and high-school Gorman, psychologist for Counseling and direction,” Gorman said. aged females are on the verge of an eating disor- Psychological Services. “Being thin begins to The 19-year-old freshman suffered from der, according to Counseling and Psychological become important, There are a lot of rewards anorexia during a period in high school and said BY J ADA A CH Services. For this reason, the organization is for becoming thin in our culture, and when peo- that the illness was rooted with her mother’s CHIEF REPORTER hoping to educate students about loving their ple see that they really strive to reach it.” desire for her to become thin. Along with not A piece of bread, along with countless glass- bodies during their events for the National The events kick off on Sunday with keynote eating, she would take diet pills and drink as es of water was all that she consumed on a daily Eating Disorder Awareness Week. addresses and presentations by Ron Thompson much water as possible to try and fill the crav- basis. Her body became so thin that it was The athletics department is assisting with and Roberta Sherman from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and ings. almost impossible to lay in bed without her planning, and funding came from Dean of 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Student Center “My mom would tell me that I needed to bones becoming sore. This constant soreness Students Donald Mikesell and Associate Vice Ballroom. Along with the presentations, free eat- was often associated with a dizzy feeling from President for Student Affairs Douglas ing disorder screenings will be available from 5 DISORDER SEE PAGE 2 Page 8 King of spoof Mock musician “Weird Al” RESIDENCE HALLS HIGHER EDUCATION O’Bannon says community service can not end in community. Yankovic brings his high-tempo New housing brand of parody to Emens. plan encourages ENTREPRENEURSHIP Researcher students to stay shares work in halls longer philosophy Premium Plan, approved last month by Board of Trustees, lets Don F. Kuratko stresses students sign a two-year contract. individualism over large institutions, businesses. BY T IFFANNEY D AY STAFF REPORTER BY C HET B AUMGARTNER Ball State is hoping students will enjoy the STAFF REPORTER residence halls enough to stay an extra year. The premium plan, approved last month by Utilizing stories and statistics, the Board of Trustees, gives students extra incen- speaker Don F. Kuratko stressed that tives for signing a two-year housing contract. businesses and students need to acquire With the plan, student’s housing rates are the “millennium mind-set” in order to frozen for two years, said Alan Hargrave, direc- thrive in today’s business world. tor of Housing and Residence Life. Even if there The millennium mind-set is part of is a room and board rate increase during the what Kuratko calls the “entrepreneurial time of the contract, students on the Premium perspective,” a school of thought which Plan would still pay the rate they paid during the asks employees to think like entrepre- previous year. neurs within the context of a larger com- In addition, students will receive $50 per pany. semester of extra dining-plus money, standard Kuratko, the founding director of vehicle registration for both years and priority the Entrepreneurship Program at Ball room sign-up for the State, has been studying entrepreneur- Premium Plan second year, Hargrave ship for the past 17 years. He has writ- ■ HOUSING RATES said. Students on the ten eight books and published more Frozen for two years, Premium Plan will also BY JOE KRUPA, CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER than 140 articles on the subject. For immune to rises in fees. be allowed to move these contributions, he received the Indiana’s First Lady Judy O’Bannon talks to Patricia Hughes, the director of speaker for “Linking Teachers of Today with Teachers of Tomorrow.” She $50 of extra dinning-plus into the residence halls Researcher of the Year Award, given the Office of Educational Field Experiences. O’Bannon was the keynote spoke on the importance of education and community service. included in plan. a day early. once a year by the university, according “If you add all of to James Pyle, executive director of the ■ RELOCATION that up, it’s about a Office of Academic Research and Students pay difference $600 value,” Hargrave Sponsored Programs. in dorm fees only. said. “You’ll find...one of the things we ■ CANCELATION According to ’ [professors] dearly love is the scholarly A $750 cancellation fee Douglas McConkey, State s first lady visits BSU work that we do,” Kuratko told the is given to the student. vice president of stu- group of about 25 people. “To be recog- dent affairs, a survey nized as the outstanding researcher is a of Tomorrow,” was sponsored by someone else.” of students and par- BY C AROLINA PROCTER real, real special honor. There is no Ball State’s Office of Educational Though some politicians, “The difference ents of incoming students was administered to CHIEF REPORTER question.” see what they thought of the plan. Field Experiences. according to O’Bannon, “act like between being Part of the scholarly work Kuratko “People responded pretty well, so we thought Future and current educators The annual seminar, in its education is a meal ticket to a loves includes researching entrepreneur- this was a good option,” McConkey said. of Indiana got a word of encour- fifth year, aims to strengthen ties better job,” the First Lady main- educated and ship within established companies, or Hargrave said test marketing showed that 76 agement Thursday afternoon between established and aspiring tained that teachers are a commu- “intrapreneurship.” The majority of his percent of the parents of this year’s freshman from Indiana’s First Lady Judy teachers. nity’s lifeblood. not educated high-spirited speech revolved around class said that if this plan had been available last O’Bannon: Be proud to be a Patricia Hughes, director of “The difference between being his findings. Though most of those in summer, they would have encouraged their chil- teacher. the Office of Educational Field educated and not educated is like is like the attendance were faculty members, dren to take advantage of it. “There’s something very spe- Experiences, introduced O’Bannon the difference between an alive Kuratko said that the entrepreneurial If students signed up for the Premium Plan cial about being there with some- as “an advocate for education.” person and a dead person,” difference “spirit” is for anybody, including stu- choose to move to different residence halls dur- one when something comes to As chairwoman of the Hoosier O’Bannon said. between an dents. ing the second year of their contracts, or to a sin- life,” O’Bannon said. “All of you Millennium Task Force, O’Bannon “You’re giving life to kids and “All graduates are going to need this gle room, they pay only the difference of what have stepped up and said, ‘I want anchors various projects to young adults all the time.” alive person perspective,” he said. “Your idea can be the room would have cost during their first year that challenge.’ And as the wife of strengthen community and public In order to bring life to the so powerful that you can move the on the plan, according to Hargrave. the governor, I’d like to thank service. She said teaching is a classroom, O’Bannon said teach- and a dead world.” “There’s really very little for students to risk you.” vital part of doing so. ers must instill creativity, origi- He also stressed that graduates on this,” Hargrave said. “It doesn’t cost them any O’Bannon’s lecture capped a “Public service isn’t, ‘I think nality and curiosity in students. person.” should not become lost in the large more money to do it.” day-long seminar at the Ball State today I’ll go do some community “That’s the key to education,” companies’ established institutions. The only risk involved in the plan is if stu- Alumni Center that drew 175 service, and then come home and O’Bannon said. “You’re empower- Judy O’Bannon “In my day, coming out of college, teachers, student teachers and close the electric gates to my ing people to participate. Some dents continue to take classes but want to move First lady, Indiana we were an institution-laden society. We off campus during their second year.