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Dandruff ACCENT: The Odd Couple comes to ND Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of morning snow showers. High in the upper 20s. Cloudy tomorrow with a VIEWPOIN1F: Two ways to get involved high 20s. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's P.E. blood Candidates drive nets square off 70 pints for primaries By NATASHA WILSON Associated Press Staff Reporter Dem ocratic presidential con The Third Annual tender Gary Hart pledged on Pasquerilla East blood drive Wednesday to get to the bottom recently collected enough of allegations concerning ille blood to supply St. Joseph gal contributions to his cam County for one day, according paign, while Republicans Bob to local Blood Bank officials. Dole and Jack Kemp feuded The drive, held Tuesday and publicly over Social Security. Wednesday in P.E.’s chapel, Dole, in Iowa, defended his attracted 102 Notre Dame stu 1985 support for freezing Social dents who donated a total of 70 Security cost-of-living in pints of blood, said Maureen creases, while Kemp said the Trubac, blood donor recruit two candidates’ views on the ment manager of the Central retirement system marked “a Blood Bank of the South Bend fundamental difference” be Medical Foundation. tween them. Trubac said the blood drives In New Hampshire, mean sponsored by P.E. and other while, Hart faced questions on Notre Dame residence halls a new controversy as his rivals have been “an excellent source ■ M l prepared for a minority- of blood ” over the past few sponsored debate Wednesday years. night in Iowa, where the Feb. The blood collected at the 8 caucuses will provide the first recent P.E. drive will be used formal test for the Democrats. in St. Joseph County, which is Five of the candidates were in need of all blood types, said participating in the debate. Trubac. The county “is doing The Observer / Suzanne Poch Hart and Tennessee Sen. Al more open heart surgery so Pasquerilla East freshmen Rachel Hall and Kathy during the third annual Pasquerilla East blood drive.bert Gore Jr. were skipping it. see BLOOD, page 3 Pellek trade some of their blood for a bed to rest on Story at left. see POLITICS, page 3 Eating disorders reach ‘epidemic’ proportions By CHRIS BEDNARSKI can lead to death, he said. Thispercent below ideal body News Editor rarely occurs, however. weight, said Rita Donley, staff Although 90 percent of psychologist at the University Anorexia: How to Help The eating disorders, anorexics and bulimics are wo Counseling Center. anorexia nervosa and bulimia, men, Donley said the disorders Some anorexics lose their DO encourage your friend to get are “epidemics” on college are “growing among men, es sexual drive and the menstrual a professional assessment. campuses including Notre pecially wrestlers and gym period is disrupted in female DO encourage decision-making and being Dame and Saint Mary’s, said nasts, who need to keep their patients, she said. In men, Dirk Miller, director of the weight down.” anorexia can lead to im responsible for those decisions. HOPE program at Memorial Anorexic patients, primarily potence. DO realize that by giving up control, you're Hospital of South Bend. middle- and upper-class wo setting the stage for your friend to develop men between the ages of 17 and As the disorder progresses, Miller estimated that about 30, have an obsessive concernMiller said, permanant healthy self-control. 20 percent of the female stu with dieting and exercise, Milchanges in the individual’s dents at Notre Dame and Saint ler said. The eating disorder ismetabolic rate may occur and DON'T be manipulated. Require your friend to Mary’s have an eating disorder accompanied by an “intenseher hair may fall out. or its symptoms. fear of gaining weight or being Although there are more be responsible for his/her behavior. “The numbers are huge,” fat,” he said. bulimics on college campuses, DON’T minimize their pain. Listeningone Is of said Miller, who heads the Miller said, “anorexia is more the best ways to show you care. However, Healthy Options for Problem An anorexic m ay “ spend 90apparent to the naked eye. don't Eaters program. “It’s alarm percent of their waking hours Bulimia is more secretive, let yourself get dumped on. ing and it reflects on our soci thinking about food,” he said. more closet type behavior.” DON’T discuss weight or dieting with ety’s values.” Many anorexics exercise you believe to have an eating If untreated, both disorders ritualistically and are often 25 see DISORDER, page 4 Two Notre Dame women share experiences of anorexia, bulimia By KATHY SCARBECK woke up at 5 a.m., did aerobics really thin, and I could eat Annie reached that point Annie, like many of her class Staff Reporter for an hour, ran eight miles, anything,” she said, “But then during her sophomore year at mates, describes herself as and then walked to school-all I hit puberty at age 18 and Notre Dame. As a freshman, very competitive, an overac Annie, a Notre Dame stu before 9 a.m. When Jennifer began gaining weight quickly. Annie said she experienced few hiever. So when Annie began dent, hated what she saw in her didn’t skip meals, she often I thought I was going to be problems with anorexia. “I felt having problems, she sought to mirror. “You’re a cow. Why forced herself to throw up the ‘blimpo’ by age 20.” I had lots of friends who would regain her lost self control by are you eating?” she asked her food she did eat. During her senior year of get on my case if I did anyth manipulating her weight. self. But Annie was eating less Annie, an anorexic, and Jenhigh school, Annie said she be ing,” she said. She said she limited her food than 500 calories a day and was nifer, a bulimic, are two Notre came nervous about going to The following year, though, intake to 500 calories a day, far almost 40 pounds underweight. Dame students who suffered college. She lost about twenty Annie began having problems. below the 1200 calories recom When she lay in bed at night, from, and overcame, eating pounds but could still control “I had no major, and I didn’tmended for people on diets. she felt as if her ribs were cut disorders often found amongher eating habits. “I was still know what I was doing,” she Annie regularly took laxatives ting through her skin. A victim young women. Before enter at the point where (anorexia) said, “During freshman year, to rid her body of food. of anorexia nervosa, Annie was ing Notre Dame, Annie (not her didn’t necessarily have to hapeveryone is confused. But by She exercised frequently, slowly starving herself. real name) had her first expe pen, but you can reach a point sophomore year I thought running in the mornings and Jennifer was also underrience with anorexia. where you can’t control it everyone had got it all together weight. During high school she “In high school I was always anym ore.” but m e.” see ANNIE, page 4 page 2 The Observer Thursday, January 21, 1988 Of Interest Become a Couch Potato Father Theodore Hesburghhas been awarded and live to a ripe old age the distinguished public service medal of the Department of Defense. Hesburgh was cited for “his commitment to “Top doc says exercise may be bad for your the success of ROTC programs at Notre Dame.” There health. Take it easy - and live longer!” Mark are 749 students in Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC Never has there been more reason to be lazy. programs at the University, about 10 percent of the un Newsweek has declared fitness “out” and Pankowski dergraduate student body.- The Observer laziness “in.” Stuffed Couch Potatoes are on the market. has been received by the University Managing Editor A $250,000 pledge VCRs are cheaper and TV dinners are better from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation for research than ever. and the development of junior faculty in the Department Lincolnwood, 111. is hosting Couch Potato of Chemical Engineering. The first installment of $50,000 Weekend, a convention to be held Saturday and has already been received. The- Observer Sunday complete with a discussion of TV therapy and a PotatOlympics (No real Couch Potato will show up, however. They’ll watch it on TV.) In Brief And now this. “A leading researcher says that exercise may not help you live longer - in fact it may hasten Junior Robert Costellowill relieve senior Robert your death,” the Jan. 19 issue of Weekly World Henke as Battalion Commander of the Naval ROTC unit News reports. at the annual change of command ceremony at 4:30 p.m. “Dr. Roger McCarter of the University of today at the Stepan Center.- The Observer Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio Keenan Revue ticketswill be distributed tomorrow. theorizes that humans are equipped to burn just Distribution for Notre Dame students will start at 3 p.m. so many calories in a lifetime. He says when inside Gate 10 of the Joyce ACC. Saint M ary’s students that number of calories is burned the person may pick up tickets at the O’Laughlin Auditorium box dies. office beginning at 6 p.m.- The Observer “The idea is that since exercise burns up calories it may actually speed up the aging Hall Presidents’ Council will be featured tonight process - depending upon the person. on Campus Perspectives on WVFI-AM 640 with several “It could mean that a person with a middle HPC members.