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The 26-year-old free-lance artist from Bryan even puts off those trips until the last possible moment. Gianetti belongs to an elite group of “anti-shoppers,” who make up 15 to 25 percent of the respondents in shopping studies. Dr. James McNeal, a Texas A&M marketing professor, is researching this atypical category of consumers. He says the numbers are significant enough to warrant retailers’ atten tion. Because Gianetti hates shopping, he says his wife makes all the house hold purchases. She even buys his shoes — the same brand he has worn for three years because he knows they’ll fit. “I’m real tight,” Gianetti says. “I don’t like to spend my money. I like to know I’m getting a good deal, so I “Traditionally, women are supposed to love to shop, but as my career demands become heavier, it’s the last thing I want to do. It's a burden. ” — Yvonne Kosolow, independent insurance broker. feel like I have to comparison shop, and I hate doing that.” Aggressive clerks turn off this re luctant shopper, and if they offer to assist him, he refuses. “I don’t like the feeling of a vul ture wanting me to buy something,” he says. McNeal says that for some, shop ping evokes feelings of suspicious ness and of being threatened. He adds that anti-shoppers often think prices are too high, ads are mislead ing and clerks are dishonest. “These people just don’t like to go to the store,” McNeal says, “and there’s no simple reason.” For others, an aversion to shop ping has more to do with time and convenience. Yvonne Kosolow, 47, an indepen dent insurance broker, says she never shops for fun. “Traditionally, women are sup posed to love to shop, but as my ca reer demands become heavier, it’s the last thing I want to do,” she says. “It’s a burden. “My business is very demanding, and I want to focus on that. It’s in credibly frustrating to have to take time to buy clothes and computers.” Kosolow has anti-shopping ten dencies, but unlike the anti-shoppers McNeal identifies, her reasons for not shopping are practical rather than psychological. McNeal says anti-shoppers avoid stores and minimize shopping by asking friends or family members to pick things up for them, hiring per sonal shoppers, ordering goods Counseling program offers help with eating disorders from catalogs or over the telephoiif or using convenience stores lotm. cessities. With a significant number ofpo tential customers avoiding ife stores, retailers may be missing ot on a considerable amount of but ness, McNeal says. For this reasm retailers need to understand ait shoppers, he says. Retailers should know that ant I shoppers are not moved by crcdi price or advertising appeals. Ttiev not impulse buyers and persou sales efforts offend them. Anti-shoppers also react r vely to changes in products, aging and location of merchandtt McNeal says. Since these shoppers often dtl gate their shopping to others, i suggests retailers market their pros nets to a third party, promotcj| them as “sure to please.” He adds that retailers whom the anti-shopper’s business she., allow undamaged goods to bets turned and make shopping m convenient. By Matt Diedrich Reporter A counseling program for victims of anorexia and bulimia has been helping to save the lives of Texas A&M students for four years. The program, offered by A&M’s Student Counseling Service, relies on group therapy to treat students with the potentially fatal eating dis orders. Cases of both eating disorders are widespread on college campuses, said Dr. Judy McConnell, a psychol ogist for the Student Counseling Service. Anorexia, the less common but more dangerous of the two, is willful self-starvation in pursuit of weight loss. It usually affects teenage women and can cause extreme weight loss, heart problems and eventual death. “(Anorexics) spend all their time concerned about their weight, watching their calories and overex ercising,” McConnell said. “They are very concerned with what other peo ple think about them and their ap pearance.” Bulimia, which most often affects college-age women, operates on a binge-purge cycle. When under stress or worry, bu limics may overeat (binge), then ei ther force themselves to vomit or use an excessive amount of laxatives (purge). The binge-purge cycle may occur as infrequently as once every few weeks or as often as 12 times a day, McConnell said. Bulimia often starts as a dieting shortcut, she said, but can eventually cause severe tooth decay, ulcers in the esophagus and damage to the di gestive system. Bulimia, which may affect as many as 20 percent of college women, can also cause a chemical imbalance that can lead to heart trouble and death. Both anorexia and bulimia are usually symptoms of other problems like depression, McConnell said. “It’s easier to focus on your weight than it is to focus on the other prob lems,” she said. “It’s easier to say, ‘If I were just thinner, everything would be fine.’ Anorexics and bulimics tend to be “It s easier to focus on your weight ... to say, ‘IIT were just thinner, every thing would be line. ’ ” — Dr. Judy McConnell, counseling psychologist. overachievers and people with low self-esteem, McConnell said. “They’re always trying to please other people,” she said, “so there fore, they don’t express — or don’t know how to express — what they want.” McConnell said society’s preoccu pation with appearance is partly to blame for recent increases in eating disorders cases. “Our society focuses so much on how you appear,” she said. “They’ve set up some pretty unrealistic stan dards.” McConnell said early recognition of an eating disorder is crucial. “The sooner you get help for the problem,” she said, “the easier it is to change.” The group approach used by the Student Counseling Service is the most effective way of treating ano rexics and bulimics, McConnell said. “They’re around other people who are just like themselves,” she said. “They don’t feel so alone. They can confront each other on their thinking patterns, and they won’t let each other get away with as much.” The program consists of weekly group meetings conducted by Mc Connell and Dr. Virgie Nolle, also a counseling psychologist. In the course of the 90-minute meeting, group members are asked to discuss personal problems ihey may be hav ing. The group then tries to deter mine the origins of the problems and ways of dealing with them, Mc Connell said. First-time group members are not obligated to participate in dis cussion. “We don’t push them to say any thing the first time or two,” McCon nell said. “It’s up to them. We just try to help them feel as comfortable as possible.” The meetings also involve teach ing students how to cope with stress, how to develop a positive self-con cept, and how to be more assertive, she said. Another positive aspect of the group approach is the fact that the students are able to lend each other support, McConnell said. Students can call each other, for example, if they need someone to talk to in or der to avoid going on a binge. Treatment of people with eating disorders is a long-term process, Mc Connell said. “(An eating disorder) is a problem that takes a lot of time to get over,” she said. “It involves changing your whole way of thinking about your self and the world in general. “(The program) helps people look at their problems and start to make some changes in their behavior.” The program is open to any stu dent enrolled at A&M. Students should arrange for an initial screen ing interview with a counselor by calling 845-4427 or going to the Stu dent Counseling Service’s office in 300 YMCA. Local lawye says NBC film inaccurate BRYAN (AP) — An Ml docu-drama about a formti Bryan resident’s custody fightfe his daughter was a highly ficto I nalized movie, said Bryan atior ney John Hawtrey. "It brushed up against lit truth in a couple of instances^ mostly it was just fiction,’'Ha* trey said. Hawtrey criticized the numt for emphasizing the racial tsst* of Linda Pahnore’s remarriageto a black man rather than focusii; on the custody suit. The docu-drama, "A Fightfe: Jenny,” revolved around thectfr tody battle between Palmoreane her ex-husband, AnthonySidoo When the two divorced inflot ida in 1980, Palmore hi awarded custody of their onli child, Melanie. 1 wo years af ter the divorced lepj doti tried to get custody ofto daughter, saying his wifewasit gle< ting Melanie and havingrdrlffic t m >n > with a inimbet of men. A Tampa circuit jud awarded custody of thechildto Sidoti, but the Supreme Coun ruled the decision invalid in Apti 1984. But the Supreme Court rukc lou the argument invalid in Apti ig 1984, declaring, "The Cons® lion cannot control such dices, but neither can it total At them.” [fiiiii Shortly after the verdict,Sidot moved to Bryan where he woiitii as an air-conditioning repaintm He also had his lawyers pursiit custody again. 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