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The Battalion
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75 No. 190 USPS 045360 18 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, August 31, 1982
staff photo by Jane Hollingsworth
Cotton Bowl bound
lembers of the Aggie football team joined thousands of
exas A&M students Monday night in G. Rollie White
loliseum during All-University Night festivities. The band
layed, the students roared and many got their first glimpse
of the 1982 Texas A&M football team. The hour-long event
also featured speeches by student leaders, University officials
— including University President Frank E. Vandiver — and
Head Football Coach Jackie Sherrill.
Soviet Union
receives first
pipeline parts
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union
took possession of the first U.S.-
designed equipment for its gas pipe
line to the West and more was being
loaded today.
As the loading progressed press
ure mounted for President Reagan to
drop his sanctions against companies
who supply parts.
In Glasgow, Scotland, a Soviet
freighter began loading six turbines
for the pipeline, making Britain the
second European nation to defy
Reagan’s technology ban.
While Washington squabbled with
some of its closest European allies ab
out sanctions and economic strategy,
Soviet dockworkers unloaded three
compressors that arrived from
France Monday in the Baltic port of
Riga.
The compressors were built by
Dresser-France, a subsidiary of Dres
ser I ndustries of Dallas, for use on the
3,500-mile trans-continental pipeline
from Siberia to Western Europe.
Administration sources said Sec
retary of State George Shultz and
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Bal-
drige were pushing for reduced sanc
tions against a British firm that was
expected to ship compressors to the
Soviet Union today.
The sources said the calls by Bal
dridge and Shultz to officials with the
vacationing Reagan were part of an
effort to minimize the damage
already done to relations between the
United States and its allies because of
sanctions imposed on two firms in
France.
In Scodand, the Soviet freighter
Stakhanovich Erinolenko (Good
Worker) arrived in Glasgow despite
stormy seas to pick up six British-
made turbines, built by John Brown
Engineering under the U.S. license of
General Electric.
The delivery of the turbines would
make Britain the second European
nation to defy the U.S. embargo on
selling U.S.licensed parts to the pipe
line. Reagan introduced the embargo
following the imposition of martial
law in Poland.
The compressors unloaded Mon
day in the Soviet Union were the first
of 21 the French government
ordered Dresser France to supply as
stipulated in a contract between Paris
and Moscow.
The compressors, built under U.S.
license, were aboard a freighter that
sailed Thursday from Le Havre,
prompting Reagan to ban the export
of products, services and technology
to Dresser-France and Creusot-Loire,
the company under contract to install
them.
With British and Italian firms set
to follow the French in defying
Reagan’s ban on supplying the pipe
line, U.S. trade representative Wil
liam Brock will travel to London this
week in search of a compromise that
will keep in focus Reagan’s target —
easing martial law in Poland.
Binge, purge habit ruins health, sufferers say
ditor's note:
Carol ami Martha are fictitious
imes for two Texas A&M students
'ho wanted to tell of their experi-
nces with bulimia and to alert others
) its dangers. Their names were
mged to protect their privacy.
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Carol wanted to lose weight so she
iedany method she could find.
The article on purging sounded
bagreat way to lose 10 pounds and
introl weight, but it didn’t mention
de effects.
Trying hard for that 10-pound
iss, Carol developed what doctors
Corps to
honor
Woodall today
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
ill honor retiring Commandant
imes Woodall with a cannon salute
t6:30 p.m. on the main drill field.
During the ceremony, he will re-
eive the Legion of Merit for his ser-
ice at Texas A&M. The drill field
cremonies will be preceded by a re-
eption from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in 201
ISC.
Woodall, a member of the Class of
)0, has served as commandant for
iveyears. He retires from active duty
nthe U.S. Army on Wednesday.
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call bulimia (or bulimarexia). Bulimia
means “insatiable appetite.” People
with this condition go on eating bing
es. They eat packages of cookies, gal
lons of ice cream and anything else
they can find.
After a binge, bulimics usually feel
guilty and critical of themselves, so
they try to purge the “binged food.”
Bulimics may induce vomiting, take
laxatives, use diuretics, take ampheta
mines or exercise to get rid of the
food. Some starve themselves.
Both binge eating and purging set
up a cycle of guilt, said Dr. Fran Kim
brough, a counseling psychology in
tern at the Personal Counseling Ser
vice.
Mexicans
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Mexican house
wives today were set to boycott stores
in a mass protest against soaring infla
tion, a demonstration that sparked
strong criticism even before it started.
“These stupid housewives,” Mex
ico’s Novedades newspaper said in an
editorial Monday. “How little patriot
ism! There’s no way to make them
understand that protesting the situa
tion only is playing the gringos’
game.”
The one-day strike, organized by
the Mexico City-based Union of
Housewives, seems to have wide
spread grass-roots popularity,
though no support from unions.
Union of Housewives spokesman
Alicia Gonzalez told Mexico City
newspapers that her middle-class
“It’s a vicious cycle,” Carol said.
“You punish yourself by making
yourself eat and throw up.”
Bulimia is an ancient practice. In
the Roman Empire it was an accepted
practice to gorge oneself and then in
duce vomiting.
But recognition of bulimia as an
illness is recent. According to the
Nov. 2, 1981, issue of Newsweek
magazine, the American Psychiatric
Association identified bulimia as an
eating disorder separate from anore
xia in 1980. Both eating disorders are
results of an obsession with thinness,
but they have distinct differences.
The anorexic avoids food and peo-
group was not calling the boycott to
protest government policies, but only
to cut food prices and help poor
people.
Organizers passed out thousands
of leaflets on the streets and in stores,
especially in middle-class neighbor
hoods, during the last week urging
Mexicans not buy anything and to
stay home all day today if possible.
Many foods, including milk, bread
and tortillas, have gone up 100 per
cent this year. The currency has suf
fered three major devaluation in six
months, cutting its value from four
cents to less than a penny.
The El Financiero newspaper re
ported that the Mexican Central
Bank beginning Thursday will halt
the sale of dollars to private banks in
Mexico, a move expected to push up
the price of the dollar now selling for
pie and may stop menstruating as'a
result of excessive weight loss, Kim
brough said.
The bulimic, on the other hand,
usually maintains a normal weight
and normal body functions, she said.
They eat normal meals between
periods of binge-eating and purging.
Frequency of binge-eating and purg
ing varies from person to person.
Bulimia can cause scarring in the
esophagus and throat, hernias, rup
tured blood vessels, eroding of the
teeth enamel from acids, heart prob
lems and emotional scars, Kimbrough
said. Sometimes the action of vomit
ing becomes so habitual the bulimic
108 pesos.
The banks will only be able to get
dollars from people buying pesos in
side Mexico or by buying the U.S. cur
rency abroad, the newspaper said.
In an effort to help rescue Mexico
from its current crisis, the United
States said Monday it will lend the
country another $1 billion.
The U.S. loan is part of a $1.9 bil
lion bail-out package agreed to by the
central banks of 10 Western nations.
The money is “to be used to maintain
an orderly exchange market,” a West
ern diplomat in Mexico City said.
Earlier in August, the United
States also gave Mexico $1 billion in
food credits and an advance payment
of about $1 billion for Mexican oil, all
of which will go to the U.S. strategic
petroleum reserve.
no longer has control over it, she said.
It also can cause depression and car
ries a high risk of suicide.
“This isn’t an answer to a diet aid; it
doesn’t work,” said Carol, who has
scars in her throat and problems with
her blood sugar from binge-eating
and purging. “Don’t do it; it can take
over your life.”
Carol is a 19-year-old student at
Texas A&M University. At one time,
she went on binge/purge sprees four
times a day.
“I was totally out of control,” she
said. “The whole thing is a blur.”
She said she was eating so few
calories a day she couldn’t think
clearly.
Carol had been binge-eating and
purging herself for about a year and
was contemplating suicide when she
came to the Personal Counseling Ser
vice for help.
“It’s kind of like being gay — com
ing out of the closet,” she said. “Peo
ple are repulsed by it.”
Carol said she felt guilty about her
parents’ sacrifices for her education.
When she was considering killing her
self, she said she got out her calculator
and figured out a funeral would be
cheaper than staying in school.
see BULIMIA page 14
Record-breaking fall
enrollment expected
More than 35,000 students
already have enrolled in Texas
A&M for the fall semester, Associ
ate Registrar Donald Carter said
Monday.
And by the time late registra
tion and cancellations have been
tallied, fall enrollment should ex
ceed last year’s 35,146, Carter said.
This increase is expected
although as many as 200 fewer
freshmen and up to 400 fewer
transfer students were accepted
this year than last year. Director of
Admissions Bill Lay said.
The lower number of accept
ances is attributed to higher admis
sion requirements affecting those
students enrolling in the fall
semester.
Fall admission standards re-
? [uire a minimum of 1,200 for the
ourth quarter, 1,100 for the third
quarter, 950 for the second quar
ter and 800 for the highest
quarter.
The fall increase follows a re
cord-breaking summer enroll
ment that Lay also attributed to the
stricter fall admissions require
ments. He said some of the 13,340
summer students may have been
freshmen trying to avoid the high
er admission standards.
prepare for protest
Teen with
1,600
SAT score looks ahead
United Press International
SPRINGFIELD, Va. — For 17-year-old Eric
Engels, being perfect is almost as much work as
trying to be normal.
Engels spent the summer swimming and
working on merit badges toward an Eagle Scout
rank while he pondered what a perfect 1,600
score on his Scholastic Aptitude Test will mean
for his future.
Engels is one of four in 1 million students
who achieved a perfect score on the 1982 SAT
test.
School administrators said he was the first
Fairfax County student to do so.
“I’m enjoying the attention,” Engels said.
“With a good score you can get into a good
school. I could have gotten a 1,590. It would
have done the same thing but the media
wouldn’t have noticed.”
The SAT, compiled by the Educational Test
ing Service of Princeton, N.J., is used by col
leges and universities to test students entering
their senior high school year.
The test has sections for math and verbal
skills. Engels scored a perfect 800 in each. The
average Fairfax County student scored 457 on
the verbal and 507 on the math in 1981, school
statistics showed.
“I consider myself an average kid who hap
pens to do well in school,” he said, trying to
suppress a grin.
Engels says he has to work at being consi
dered a “normal” kid.
While the others are plunking quarters into
video games, Engels sits at his father’s basement
computer terminal, developing an interest in
“pure physics, particle physics and the ultimate
constituents of matter.”
He thinks solving the problem of creating
energy by fusion would be interesting.
He likes puzzles, too, and sometimes peeks in
the back of the book if he can’t solve one.
The perfect English score might have been
inspired by his mother, Rosalind. A former En
glish teacher, she says her son gets his drive
from her and his brain from his father, Eugene,
an engineer.
He enjoys reading Aldous Huxley and
George Orwell, but mathematics is his real love.
“I got interested in math in the 7th or 8th
grade, but I didn’t see the implications behind it
then,” he said. “Career-wise, I got serious about
it the last couple of years.”
Engels said some kids at West Springfield
High School made remarks behind his back
about his high score. But most are his friends,
he said, even though he has a 4.0 grade average.
“I work hard for those grades. I’m happy to
get them,” he said.
If Engels doesn’t get too much razzing about
his scholarship, it’s probably because his high
school is going through a speedup in computer
courses.
“Our high school is expanding its computer
program dramatically,” he said. “I don’t know
what the effect will be but, in the future, I think
some students may attain computer literacy be
fore they attain literacy.”
His summer has included a lot of favorite
teenage pastimes — the swimming pool and a
part-time job. When classes start, he plans to be
on the school paper and lead the math team.
It will be several months before he faces the
agonizing choice of a university, such as Prince
ton, MIT or a state school. Even the high score
won’t guarantee a place at a high-tuition school.
Without some form of financial aid, “If it’s
$12,000 or something, I’ll have to forget it,” he
said.
Until then, there are lots of interesting things
to do, like hiking, puzzles and wondering at the
ultimate constituents of matter.
“I just want to grow and get out of this kid
stage,” he said.