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[ OLD FASHIONED HAMBURGERS ] ALL THE FRENCH TOAST OR SCRAMBLED EGGS YOU CAN EAT your choice of our made fresh scrambled egg platter or french toast platter. OFFER EXPIRES JANUARY 31, 1986 Page 4AThe Battalion/Monday, January 20,1986 Anorexia, bulimia A&M students not immune to eating disorders By LEN BRILEY Reporter They are achievers and “go-get ters”. They may be your classmates or your neighbors. They are anorexics and bulimics — sufferers of eating disorders — and their numbers at Texas A&M are consistent with averages at col leges across the United States, says Dr. Judy McConnell, a counseling psychologist with Student Counsel ing Services. Anorexia nervosa is the willful starvation in pursuit of slenderness. Anorexics claim to feel fat when they actually are not overweight. Bulimia is a psychological craving for food which results in uncontrol lable eating, often followed by vom- iting. Bulimics are excessively con cerned about their weight. At least 20 percent of the nation’s college women are bulimic and at least 1 percent are anorexic. Pressure to succeed often leads to these disorders in college women, McConnell says. “It’s a way people deal with stress,” she says. “Some people run, and some people use food.” While anorexics and bulimics strive to fulfill the expectations of their parents or peers, McConnell says, they actually are competing with their own expectations. One of their expectations is being perfect in and out of the classroom. “They compete with an image they themselves build,” she says. Often sufferers’ families expect them to succeed when other siblings have failed, McConnell says. She adds that there is a high inci dence of alcohol abuse in sufferers’ families, although alcohol abuse is only one of many causes. Anorexia and bulimia are a prob lem because of our society’s preoccu pation witli being thin, McConnell says. Unlike anorexics, bulimicsgf ally appear to eat in a normal ner when not on an eating bingi I'ERNON eating in public. 'lari Standi While the mortality rate ofbui |r kicked uj ics is undetermined, between4(IgerCount) 25 percent of anorexics eventu;! its a pi die from such complications as lit uigry 11s disease, McConnell says. report co ied researcl esday by tl }ol of Put Task Fo barger as ftndes” acn “When we form stereotypes of people,” she says, “we give them at tributes they may not actually have. “When we look at a thin person, we believe they are in control. When we look at a fat person, we believe they are out of control.” McConnell says anorexics and bu limics use food to gain control of their lives. “It’s an escape from feeling bad about themselves,” she says. Along with a need to feel in con trol, they may have low self-esteem, addiction to perfection and a dis torted body image, she says. They also develop a denial or a lack of awareness of such body needs as hunger; Anorexics have eating rituals, Mc Connell says, often eating alone or occasionally with small groups. Anorexia and bulimia are noltl women’s problems, McConnellsal However, she says, men sukl nate their preoccupation withfij and control in different ways. Although excessive exercixfcas has 29 characteristic of both men jMortsaid. women with these diseases, Alunger coi more often devote themselves loApercent or gani/ed sports. ■ below pos She adds that the number ofcA-third of tl afflicted with anorexia and buliRn receive 1 are on the rise. ■That rep< Student Counseling Servicesiidlee said, both men and women anorexicsAnty. This is bulimics on an individual and ptBe to be pre basis. p ud stamp “There’s often a lot of underliMiandlee’s s depression in these people," * of those c says. "We try to relieve theirdepiBdents of tf sion — sometimes with anti-deptfcr north sants, sometimes not. ft acknowl "We also work on a realisticlA image for them.” They are encouraged to dew strong interpersonal relationsh and to Ik* independent, she says. Girl’s murderer still eludes investigators one year late Associated Press MESQUITE — A far-flung search fueled by widespread publicity turned up the body of a missing child, but her killer remains a mys tery a year later. Following the abduction of Christi Lynn Meeks last January, dozens of police officers converged on the Mesquite neighborhood where she was last seen playing. Helicopters circled the area for days, and volun teers met at shopping centers to search nearby fields. Christi’s kindergarten picture, plastered on leaflets, billboards, milk cartons, grocery sacks and national television prompted hundreds of tips. Her decomposed body was found three months later in Lake Texoma, but investigators marking the crime’s year anniversary still do not have an arrest or a strong suspect. “I want to get the guy and put him in jail,” Mesquite police officer “This (case) will be with us until we're dead or we've figured it out. You can't forget....” — Bruce Bradshaw, Mes quite police officer. Bruce Bradshaw said. “This (case) will be with us until we’re dead or we’ve figured it out. You can’tTorget something like that.” The strongest link to the child’s abductor is a composite sketch based on descriptions provided by six el ementary school children, investiga tors said. The children, who were playing with Christi outside her mother’s apartment complex the evening she disappeared, told police they re membered seeing a brown-haired. medium-built young man. Although the composite dm and widespread distribute Christi Meeks’ photograph spaJ a proliferation of tips to po/ice,is withstood further investigation. Hopes of finding the chiidi ended last April. Initially ideni as the body of a boy when * Lake Texoma, the decompa corpse was identified as Christi two weeks later afterani of clothing were recognized Lt. Larry Sprague, who heads; investigation, said investigai thought finding her body w« provide crucial clues. Instead, discovery of the body more than miles away from where she dis INTER. peared raised more questions. Nine months after the bod) found, Mesquite still has three« cers working on the case. “From day one, we have I* praying for that break,” Spraf| said. MSC VA MSC a Staci P MSC TR 9:30 p more i offca: Founti ALPHA Martir &D) R kin at MSC TR spring CUSS ( Mond; MSC. 845-U UTERA are to inforn a New Texas legislator celebrates 25th year in U.S. Congress Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, who is celebrating 25 years in Congress this year, has al ways taken up the cause of the out sider, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo says. “Henry Gonzalez’s politics have been the politics of inclusion,” Cuomo told about 1,200 people at tending a 25th anniversary banquet for the San Antonio congressman Saturday night. “He is forever taking up the cause of the outsider, the immigrant, the oppressed,” Cuomo said in his key note address. Cuomo said he agreed to speak at the event as a favor to House Major ity Leader Jim Wright, who also was on hand for the festivities. He den ied his appearance in San Antonio was aimed at achieving more expo sure for a possible bid for the presi dency in 1988. But San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros said he normally would be expected to introduce Cuomo as possibly the next president of the United States. Cisneros said Cuomo asked him not to make such an intro duction, but the mayor said the statement “might very well be true.” Cuomo has said he plans to run for re-election to the governorship this year, but he has not ruled out a presidential bid. In his tribute to Gonzalez, Cuomo likened his own background to that of the San Antonio congressman. “I don’t think the view of the world I had growing up in South Ja maica, Queens, New York, was any different than Henry Gonzalez’s was growing up on the West Side of San Antonio,” Cuomo said. “I came here tonight thinking how well those two boys have done,” Cuomo said. “Henry Gonzalez has fought to make the American dream available to everyone,” he said. Gonzalez assured his supporters, who paid .$100 each to attend the dinner, “This is not a retirement party. We have continued challenges ahead.” Gonzalez first was elected to Con gress Nov. 4, 1961. He was the first Hispanic congressman from Texas. Gainesville crash vicM identified Associated Press GAINESVILLE — Two Kj sas men and one from Runa«l Bay, Texas, were identified Su( day as the three people the crash of a single-engine 3 craf t in a rural field nearCaiiK*! ville. Nicholas Oliver, 30, of R#* away Bay; Roy Will, 30, ofSat«| Kan.; and Mark Nelson, 24,a of Salina and the plane’s died Friday when their era crashed and burned about < miles south of Gainesville, Cooke County Justice of Peace Royce Martin. “I am ruling them aeddetij deaths due to multiple extre® bodily injuries,” Martin said. Cooke County SheriffJohn4l ton said the aircraft appattjff tried to land about 10 a.m. i grassy field, but its nose dip hit a ditch and flipped over. € C BAR-B-Q RIBS 50% Off the Second Order Buy one order at regular price, get the second order at one half price.. all this week at... Includes: • 1 Lb. Country Style Pork Ribs • Delicious Homemade Rolls • Our Famous Salad Bar 1 Bring This Ad And Get One Free Baked Potato With Every Two Orders of Ribs!! 1 JTORT SlflLOll Remember our daily Noon Special Chicken Fried Steak, Baked Po tato, Rolls- $2 89 J STEAK HOUSE 2528 South Texas, C.S. 693-1164 (