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? Scene 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 O BSEEVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 59 HTTP://OBS ERVER.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 Editor's note: Kathleen McCann is a Notre disorders. Dame senior who has suffered from an eating disor der. This is her story. By LAURA ROMPF News Writer I'm an intensely private person, but I am sharing my experience — The stress on Notre Dame students is not to be understood as typical — overwhelming. Papers, tests and com to raise aw areness on campus. muter programs. Volunteering, sports and Eating disorders, I believe, are one of the most misunderstood, under relationships. I laving control over even one - - aspect of life is an accomplishment. diagnosed, and stigmatized dis Unfortunately, for approximately 10 per eases. cent of the student population, this “con Eating disorders, I would like to trol" is causing harm and even permanent define, are not just about ‘really damage to their bodies. skinny girls.’ Only those girls in On the national level more than 5 million advanced stages of anorexia ner Americans suffer from eating disorders — vosa, one type of eating disorder, .I percent of adolescent and adult women, appear Too thin.' Bulimia and com and I percent of men have anorexia ner pulsive overeating can also affect vosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating dis KEVIN DALUM/The Observer both men and women; eating disor order. About one in 10 Notre Dame students and 5 million Americans struggle with an ders may include not only just food eating disorder. Fifteen percent of young women have but those who have addictions to substantially disordered eating attitudes power bars or power shakes and and behaviors, and an estimated 1,000 disorders is students worry about gaining being away from home for the first time all excessive exercise. women die each year of anorexia nervosa. the “freshman 15,” said Pendley. “This cause eating disorders,” she said. In retrospect — as in everything else in life! — it is easier to pin “Western culture itself puts a focus on worry causes them to forget that their bod “Bulimia might develop because students point how my eating disorder looks, body image, and being thin," said ies are naturally maturing and changing, have unlimited access to food in the dining Chris Pendley, assistant director of and the weight gain experienced is not hall. Where at home dinner would consist developed. High school is stressful Counseling and Career Development at St. always fat." of what was served and once it was gone, for everyone. I had the usual academic stress Mary's. “On a college campus appearance “A nother factor is residence halls. I it was gone. Because students can go back is very 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 can especially in the age group 18 to 24. true of Notre Dame, our students are very said. relate: I was highly active in NHS, athletics, student government and Appearance is seen as a key to success.” competitive. This competitiveness can Due to all these factors, the environment Pendley added that many other aspects carry over into appearance; they want to on college campuses cause for a higher orchestra. My father was diagnosed with cancer my freshman year, and of college life add to the ideal environment look the best,” Pendley continued. concentrated source of the three main eat- for eating disorders. “Several other factors are also involved. died my sophomore year; my “An aspect of college that causes eating Stress both academic and financial and see EATING/page 4 see MCCANN/page 4 Let it s n o w ! 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 1933 with the assistance $400,000 challenge grant from the of the French medievalist and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to philosopher Etienne Gilson. The endow a fellowship in medieval 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 program s 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 selective basis to Humanities (NEH). The NEH 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 public fellowships in the Medieval Institute affairs. It has provided support for and the Keough Institute for Irish Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, the 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 BENNETT/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. page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, November 30, 1999 Insid e C olum n Q u o tes o f the W eek “It is absolutely “Being a part of the “Those workers are “The people in the ‘I W ant It T hat imperative that we [SOA] protest was a powerless; we are United States are the address the campus way of being faithful apathetic. This is just biggest consumers. W a y ’ problem of binge to our call as the reality of the We affect other drinking. ” Christians to be peo society we live in. ” countries without ple of peace 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. OUTSIDE THE D om e Compiled from U-Wire reports Okay sure, make fun of me. I went to their concert. Go ahead, say that you would never lower yourself Minnesota students debate animal rights to listening to those songs. Tell me w hat they sing is MINNEAPOLIS “Legally, they have many, the sidewalk below, other SOAR not music at all. Believe Laura Rompf Demonized and harassed for many rights, but when they members handed out copies of me, I’ve heard all the criti years, University of Minnesota ani 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 CDs 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 ... Rock Your 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.