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XV NO. 90 an independent student newspaper serving not re dame and saint mary' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981 Supports FLOC ND continues boycott body. “We’re calling for details in spending all their tim e — a trem en By MARY AGNES CAREY November,” he said. dous burden — to re-educate the Staff Reporter In February, 1982, the review students." committee will then decide if the Ccci Schickel, president of FLOC, The University-wide boycott of University will honor a student vote said the purpose of the boycott is “to the Campbell, Libby McNcil-Lihby for a boycott. make a statement.” She explained and Nestle Corporations will con FLOC m em bers must obtain 15 that a three-way negotiation be tinue until February, 1982, accord percent of all undergraduate student tw een FLOC, farmers, and ing to Dr. Jam es McDonnell, signatures currently enrolled (not Campbells and Libby McNeil l.ihby director of student activities. studying abroad) to have the issue- to improve conditions for I placed on a ballot. If approved by farmworkers is FLOC’s immediate The Student Boycott Affairs Com students, the boycott will continue goal. “They (farmworkers) live in in mittee, which met last Thursday, for another two years. human conditions, are treated un based the decision on reports sub McDonnell explained that a two- justly, and deserve improvements in mitted by both the Farm Labor year boycott was approved, living and working conditions, Organizing Committee (FLOC) and "(otherwise) students would be wages, and safety, ” she said. the Campbell Soup Company. "It did not appear to the committee that anything had changed from a year ago," McDonnell said. ANAD offers help Students are helping the public fill out their income tax forms, Committee members also ap (photo by Rachel lilount) proved guidelines establishing a new committee to review future to anorexia victims "student initiated boycott Flames sweep referenda.” This committee will Editor’s Note: Anorexia Nervosa with different proposed remedies. consist of the vice president of stu is a disease which afflicts Hospitalization might, of necessity, dent affairs, assistant to the vice thousands of college students, be the first step in treatment. Be eight die in president for student affairs, dean of mostly female, every year. In this havior Modification Therapy is es students and director of student ac three-part series, The Observer e x sential: the group encourages taking IAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Ar refugees listened outside the Con tivities. amines the circumstances and courses in nutrition and assertive sonists set the four fires whiclf sent vention Center meeting room Representatives from Volunteer symptoms surrounding anorexia, ness training. "Sometimes individual flames sweeping through the giant where the news conference was Services, Center for Experiential the avenues of help available, and psychotherapy is most effective,” Las Vegas Hilton, bursting out an held. Learning, Campus Ministry. the specific case of a Notre Dame Meehan said, “but the group places eighth tloor window and roaring up About 4,000 people were rescued Minority Student Affairs, and student with a more severe variety most of its hope in sell-help the side of the hotel, authorities said or evacuated from the building, in Housing will also serve on the com of anorexia known as bulimia. programs.” yesterday. Fight people died and cluded 110 plucked from the roof by mittee as well as at least one student Today: Part Two. One anorexic support group 198 were injured. helicopter. and one faculty representative which has enjoyed considerable Unlike the killer MGM Grand Parrish said fires were started “on chosen by the vice president for stu By BRIDGET BERRY progress since its inception in Mic- Hotel fire which claimed 84 lives the eighth floor in the elevator lobby dent affairs. News Staff hiana in the summer of 1980 meets Nov. 21, "building codes were not a area. Another was on the second bi-weekly in the Oaklawn Psyc factor in either point of origin or floor in the uniform linen area and The current boycott, which ex Anorexia Nervosa and Associated hiatric Center in Elkhart. "Family Disorders is a national non-profit spread of fire,” Las Vegas Fire Chief the o th er was in the third floor in a tends to University administered therapy is always encouraged, as the educational and self-help group Roy Parrish told reporters. service elevator.” The fourth fire areas directly serving the Notre victim’s entire family is generally im based in Northfield, III. ANAD offers Parrish said fire hoses on the ninth started in a ninth-floor firehose. Dame student voting population, mersed in her crisis, ” Meehan said. floor were severed, stuffed with counseling, Information and refer Consequently, self-help groups in Parrish said he could not link the will be reviewed again in late flammable material and set afire. rals, and educational programs to clude anorectics and often one or Hilton blaze with earlier fires on the November or early December, Hilton Hotels Corp. Vice Presi anorectics and their families. Foun more family members, former famous Las Vegas Strip. 1981. dent Henri Lewin offered a At that time, according to McDon der and President Vivian Meehan en anorectics and also "candidates" for 5100,000 reward for information Lewin said the hotel had not nell, all com panies involved in the courages and supports self-help the disease. leading to the apprehension of the received any threats before the fires, boycott, as well as FLOC members, groups. Through extensive Meetings are soothingly informal arsonists. but during the confusion of evacua will be asked to provide written research, the groups has discovered and familiar. The girls are painfully "This is a homicide investigation. tion, hotel management received a reports and possibly presentations what it believes to be possible honest and candid. They converse This is a criminal investigation," call in which the caller asked, “Is the to the committee and/or student causes, key symptoms and promis about their emotions and difficulties Gov. Bob List said as hundreds of fire fire still on? Have they got you yet?” ing remedies. freely, asking for sympathy Meehan is not concerned with sometimes, receiving empathy and weight loss except in its physical compassion almost always. Mem Up to$5G billion threat to the helth of the victim. bers asserted that until a victim ad Weight loss is only a symptom of a mitted illness, proposed therapy was much more serious problem,” she useless. The group, they said, had Reagan, Cabinet debate cutssaid. "The anorectic is generally given them the courage to admit and from a middle-class, success- oriented family. She was usually a WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan gave three "They did conclude that some more cuts were pos good child, never rebellious. As she Cabinet secretaries a chance yesterday to make direct sible, and still protect the truly needy," she said. grew, she developed a distorted self- appeals before he finally decides where his budget- “Truly needy” has become the administration’s image. She has low self-esteem and cutting ax will fall. catchword to defend itself against suggestions that perceives that she has little or no FOCUS But deputy White House press secretary Kama Small those dependent on government assistance will suffer control over her em pty’ life. She Is said "there were no fundamental disagreements” on under the president’s budget cuts. not happy. She often hates herself. confront their disease. spending reductions and that when the meeting broke It’s this illness, not the symptom, Crosson said that a group could Ms. Small defined the “truly needy” as "those people up, the president, his aides and the Cabinet members that has to be treated in order to not take the place of individual psyc who would have a very difficult time surviving without w ere looking for additional cuts.” cure the anorectic." hotherapy. "Anorectics must have the benefit of the programs.” With one week to go before he unveils his plans to ANAD • recognizes the key more to share than their pathology, In their search for further budget cuts, the Cabinet slash as much as $50 billion from proposed 1982 symptoms of the diet related disor and an effective group would he ex members were conferring with budget director David budget increases, the president is focusing almost ders as: exaggerated interest in food tremely difficult to organize ” The A. Stockman, who sat next to Reagan at the meeting entirely on the economy. coupled with the denial of hunger; care given through the University’s yesterday. sleep problems; excessive devotion Psychological Services is reflective Reagan met in the White House Cabinet Room with “They were told to go back and work out the details,” Agriculture Secretary John Block, Interior Secretary to schoolwork; and a program of of Crosson's viewpoint. Ms. Small said. James Watt and Richard Schweiker, secretary of the unrelenting exercise. “O ur staff, the w om en rectors, Department of Health and Human Services. He will hold Stockman said Tuesday that big business and upper- The 60 to 70 percent of anorec and physicians in the first floor of the clinic are aware of the increased in several such sessions with Cabinet members. income individuals will not escape Reagan’s budget tics who are trapped in the gor ging/purging cycle known as cidence of the pathology in the Energy Secretary James Edwards was present, but his reductions, which he said will cut federal spending on college age population," Crosson budget had not been taken up when the 90 minutes synthetic fuels and export import activity as well as bulimia, binge and then induce vomiting or use laxative excessively.