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Thursday, OciotJ ilrsday, October 12, 2000 Intern AGGIE/r/r Page 3 Continued front dosser said. “So many >pen in Washington thaty tay a little longer.” Julie Le, a junior speed) at ion major, said her hanged her life last Minima “It was incredible,” said .Tiled with the State Depaitirti ;au of Oceans, Environment! nee. "The summer was soil helped shape future plans tied my career focus and wl THE BATTALION aofi Dying Anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders can des law. She encourages sit] sigh the pros and cons oldotj i do in school.” By Rac.hi i. Landry I e said her internshipeA> Battalion t to pursue a career in ^iJ]^j C0 | e was j n school when pressure to be beautiful and pop- , . u«.r first began to take its dire toll. In 1 The'ppip'bmsh “eal r orld where h some,imes seems urces' through whichit f' ^ ver >' < ™ ^ su PP osed 10 resem : k , rns e ® the models dawning the pages or “The congressmen oftbeff and Vouge being normal is just xas are willing to tokeA. J 01 § ood ei } ou £ h - •ay ” Rosser said P ul l ' lc pressure on myself. I US. Congressman Kevirl s very involved in athletics, and Fexas, has had internsfmj 11 1 ^ot injured;' Nicole said. "I J has been very' pleased. I work out ' and 1 be g an t0 "It is all good,” Brady said tain weight. 1 slowly stopped eating, ns we get through A&Mrlim a perfectionist — very critical s up here. They really m af myself. I thought that if I gained nation to my oflice.” weight, people would talk negative- Brady said internships I about me. My appearance is very PPIP are good for Ai.\l||portant. I felt it was the only thing dents. ■ life I could control. v “It gives them a chanceto« The current Texas A&M student ngress works from the in Jio wishes to be known only as l. 'It is a win-win situation ^ j C ole“ is a survivor of anorexia. Rosser said she is taking* p) r ^ nn R ee( j an associate med- !t) ashington. D.( i feal director for the A.P. Beutel Stu- ish moie contuds. Health Center, said statistics Wo re really exciledand. H (1W lha( one out of every l0() fe . uu> s ikoil s.isssccan. m j | es j )as an eat j n g dts or jei and'90 cosser is not the only per'- B . r .u A domic B U ildingoftS.F c ? nto J fthosewhosufferfro,neat - pro'’ram ' Wg disorders are women. )r Carol Albrecht in# said 80 percent of anorexics rdinator for the Derf' L elo P the d ] seas ? wilhi " ^ 10 iology and a sociolog. J#' y ears at , ter Ihe onset of their a common problemar# 51 rae " st ™ al with the ma- S is that thev set a ds # nt y ol sufferers being high school into a job " ^ ni - 1 college students. Each semester, he sociology departm4 man y students are forced to face a 1 started about two year# ockin § reallt y about a tnend who ilaced students in a vanti? s" 11 ? 1 )' dying to be thin, hips. The sociology iniff Nlcole sa >d pressure from society esigned to motivate stief rove her t0 starve herself, beginning late school and prepare ^hh her high school society where e job market throughpro;*>oks were deemed very important. 1 experience and netratef She said that when people told ’ve found that netwtaler she was skinny, it only made the il,” she said. "Welitowaboproblem worse because she felt nt of the first jobs may ;h networking.” J§ e said one of the most s of the internship prog! its do not know what if ips tire out there until it e sociology internship iology majors and min e PPIPdeadlineforSpi . 16. The deadline fori ill 2001 is March 5,2d Correction people liked her more because she was thin. “My nickname in high school was ‘bulimic chick ? ’ ” she said. “It was a joke, but nobody realized that I did have an eating disorder. I had my problem long before my nickname came about. “My friends saw that I was getting skinny, but they did not realize how 66 My appearance is very important. I felt it was the only thing in life I could control” — Nicole Former anorexic serious my problems were. One day, I fainted, but I was lucky. I started reading books on eating disorders, and I finally admitted to myself that I had a problem.” Nicole said her friends were a ma jor source of support during her bat tle with anorexia. While she still feels pressure not to eat, she tries not to give in to it. She said watching her friends battle their own eating disor ders has helped keep her on track. “It’s hard. It’s always in the back of my mind,” Nicole said. “My ap pearance is important, but I need to remember that starving myself is not the way to look good.” Rhonda Rahn, a nutrition health educator at Beutel, said there are many different types of people with eating disorders. Some sufferers are perfectionists. Others are “people pleasers” who feel it is important for everyone to like them. In life, a person is bombarded with millions of images from the me dia. Magazines show models, televi sion stations run advertisements and movies show actors and actresses liv ing the happy life — smiling, happy, rich and skinny. Many believe that the images a woman receives from a young age regarding what is attractive and what is not leave a woman believing she should resemble the pictures of emancipated models lounging around in string bikinis. Dr. Mary Ann Covey, a coun selor with the Student Counseling Service, said that the influence of media upon society is sometimes misconstrued. “Women are raised with con fusing images. They are raised to look at pre-pubescent, air- brushed models,” Covey said. “We model ourselves after peo ple whose job it is to look good. I loved this quote by Madon na. ... She said on being a role model, ‘Tm not a role model, you pay me to do this.’ ” Covey said the media is not responsible for someone’s having an eating disorder. The media does not tell someone not to eat or to throw up; how ever, it does influence women’s negative images of their bodies. Rahn said bulimia is the most common eating disorder. Howev er, it is difficult to diagnose because bulimics often do not have the stereo typical warning sign of the disease, a skeletal appearance, because some nutrients can remain in a person’s See Anorexic on Page 10. i/Vednesday's rical review stated! ? Players are perfo 1 )mache at Rudder A The play is being id at Rudder Forum MUSIC Blij s marketii is coming j! ig die-han Divide” to etplace for n release r” 3. ext.191 at Divide , I0H * mRQuQH ?; • Inn—^ iH ■ ff f) f"'C** m *** PAM jj m~p. mm ij Ifii! I* nr * J ! ii mm h* ^ ii <o OCi K PA 101 PA 102W i h N mn Ft* l : COMMIT® I ; ! 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