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THETHE VOICEVOICE OFOF VANDERBILTVANDERBILT SINCESINCE 18881888 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2007 • 119 TH YEAR, NO. 19 THE WALL compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI IMAGE week TODAY Campus engineers Alternative Spring Break Benefit raises body The benefi t will feature food and entertainment by a cappella groups drop into E-Week and will take place in image awareness the Student Life Center Ballroom from 5-7 p.m. Student organization has positive effect Tickets are on sale at the Sarratt Box Offi ce on students with disorders, image issues. for $8 or at the door for $10. Groups and by CHRISTINE BROWN someone alienates them and student organizations Staff Reporter can actually damage their can receive a discount. healing process.” All proceeds go to Senior Regan Bush, a IMAGE addressed the issue Alternative Spring Break. student who has recovered of body image in the media from anorexia, may never and how that infl uences THURSDAY, FEB. 22 have shared her story eating disorders at a Tuesday Networking confi dently if she had not met discussion. Th is program your way to an 2006 graduate Katie Protos looked at how the media internship session and become involved with the infl uences the public and The session will provide student organization IMAGE. aimed to off er students ways you with tips on how “I was anorexic in my to combat negative media and when to search senior year of high school; confrontations. and the benefi ts of when I came to Vanderbilt, IMAGE will hold a forum interning. The session I was in recovery, but I was entitled, “Bodies Across will also explain how still looking for people who Cultures” today at 12:10 p.m. to use networking to encouraged positive body in the Student Life Center fi nd internships. The image and self-acceptance,” and a nutrition lecture event will take place said Bush. “So I searched tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Sarratt in Student Life Center, around the campus, and after 363. Th ursday, there will be Room 220 from 4:30- meeting Katie I a panel discussion 5:30 p.m. found IMAGE. led by people who She was also have survived eating THURSDAY, FEB. 22 in recovery disorders. Open Mic Night at herself and I think there’s “Th e survivor the Writing Studio understood the such a pressure panel discussion Take fi ve minutes in the pressures that to focus on the is a very deep spotlight to showcase students face opportunity to your original works of at Vanderbilt. number on the look at how eating poetry, songs, fi ction, T h r o u g h back of your disorders have non-fi ction or satire. IMAGE I found aff ected someone’s Sign up online at www. a group that was jeans. We en- total life and the life vanderbilt.edu/writing/ willing to reject courage people of their family and events.html, at the that ultra thin to get rid of friends,” Protos said. Writing Studio or at the stereotype.” “It is particularly door. The event takes S t u d e n t s those. powerful because it place from 9-11 p.m. in met Monday —Regan Bush, senior is students’ stories, Alumni Hall, Room 117. in Furman for people just like you the fi rst event and me who have THURSDAY, FEB. 22 of IMAGE week to discuss struggled with this, who you MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler how they can best approach may have never thought have LAN Party in Sarratt Freshman Fred Hijazi prepares to compete in the egg drop competition held Tuesday afternoon in Featheringill Hall as a part of E-Week. Student Center friends whom they believe struggled with these issues.” —See video coverage of the egg drop on: Come for a full night of have an eating disorder. Th roughout the week gaming tournaments IMAGE is a student IMAGE will raise awareness on PlayStation 3, Wii, organization designed to with a table on the Wall XBox and even the raise awareness about eating featuring a lifesize Barbie Alternative Spring Break disorders and negative body doll. Th ey will also sponsor a N64. Show up early to get raffl e tickets for image as portrayed in the clothing drive, where students free game copies, a media. An event each day this are encouraged to give away console (either wii or hosts benefi t today week will address diff erent clothes that are too small for Xbox 360) and other issues surrounding eating them. door prizes. Come to Proceeds to offer financial aid to participants. disorder illnesses. “I think there’s such a play, watch or just eat “It is an activist group not a pressure to focus on the the food. The event by KELSEY PENDLETON as Momentum, Swingin’ Dores and Shun support group,” said Protos. number on the back of your will take place from 7 Contributing Reporter Minutia, a medical school band. Senior “We are a group where people jeans. We encourage people p.m. to midnight. Bart Freeze and sophomore Jade Morales can go and express their to get rid of those,” Bush said. Alternative Spring Break, the largest will also perform. Larry Dowdy, dean frustrations with body image Although IMAGE is FRIDAY, FEB. 23 student organization on campus, will host of electrical engineering and computer on campus, vent about body particularly active this week, AND SATURDAY, a fundraiser Wednesday. The benefit, science, who has participated in 15 ASB image and eating concerns it has had a positive eff ect on FEB. 24 which is in its second year, has become trips, will speak. but use that energy to do many students at Vanderbilt Dance Marathon the major fundraiser for scholarship Senior Sarah Reinhold, public relations good.” who have been struggling Support the Monroe funds available to ASB applicants. chair for ASB, said she expects a large Protos discussed various with body issues. Carell Jr. Children’s The average cost to participate in ASB crowd this year. tactics that students could “IMAGE was a place where Hospital at Vanderbilt is $260; however, “We’re trying to use to approach their friends I could talk about body by coming to Dance some sites grow more and give at the Monday event. For image,” Protos said. “I could Marathon. The event where airfare is out more aid every instance, she recommended talk about eating disorders, is this weekend, Feb. necessary can We don’t feel like money should be year until we can meet being caring but fi rm and and it didn’t have to be secret. 23-24, 7 p.m. to 9 cost more than a factor that inhibits students from everyone’s needs up confronting the issue by It was always nice to have a.m. in the Student $500. to 100 percent,” she being honest but not accusing IMAGE when I would start to Recreation Center. “This year, we being able to participate in ASB. said. your friend. Above all, she struggle again; it was a place There will be food, gave out about —Stephanie Saclarides, ASB Education Co-Chair ASB Benefit will be stressed the importance of to reground myself. IMAGE prizes, entertainment ten thousand held today from 5-7 friends in dealing with eating is a great way to use our own and games. Tickets dollars in financial aid, and one of the big p.m. in the Student Life Center Ballroom. disorders. experiences to help other are $10 and a silent contributors was last year’s ASB Benefit,” Tickets are available at the Sarratt Box “Th is event is mainly people.” ■ auction will take place. said ASB Treasurer, senior Marcela Office for $8 or at the door for $10. aimed at helping people For more information Camargo. “We don’t feel like money should be a communicate with their —Listen to IMAGE President Reagan Bush visit www.vudm.org. This year, ASB Benefit will feature factor that inhibits students from being friends, help them in the discuss her struggle with anorexia and refelct a buffet with samplings from local able to participate in ASB,” said ASB right way,” Protos said. “Too on the role IMAGE played in supporting her recovery on: restaurants including Maggiano’s, Boscos Education Co-Chair, senior Stephanie often friends have the best Check out and Calypso Cafe. Live entertainment Saclarides. ■ intentions, but the way that http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu for more events. will be provided by student groups such they go about talking to 615.352.9696 Monday–Friday 10–7 Saturday 10–6 6000 Hwy 100 at 70 & 100 split 2 Wednesday, February 21, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com CORRECTION The photo in the Feb. 19 issue IN THE KNOW entitled, “Students use local The news you need — in brief Danny Glover makes center to climb,” was innacurately compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI credited to Mason Hensley. Tyler Hagen shot the photo.The Hustler regrets the error. CAMPUS Vanderbilt economist James Foster to be Vanderbilt appearance WEATHER compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI honored in Mexico TODAY A Vanderbilt University economist will be honored this month in Mexico; his work on anti-poverty measures is one to support living wage of the foundations of Mexico’s “Oportunidades” program to help the poor.