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Or drop by the Student Media office in Suite L400 of the MSG BATT Mark Dore, Editor in Chief Aimee Breaux, Managing Editor Katie Canales, Life & Arts Editor Jennifer Reiley, Asst. Managing Editor Carter Karels, Sports Editor Lindsey Gawlik, News Editor Shelby Knowles, Photo Editor Samantha King, Asst. News Editor Allison Bradshaw, Asst. Photo Editor Katy Stapp, Asst. News Editor Meredith Collier, Page Designer John Rangel, SciTech Editor Claire Shepherd, Page Designer THE BATTALION is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam periods) at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Offices are in Suite L.400 of the Memorial Student Center. News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in Student Media, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs. 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MARTIN CONTINUED “Mr. Martin had visited campus for AggieCon and other events and was ap proached by librarians here about possibly depositing his collections here to be a part of this science fiction collection and that sort of planted a seed,” O’Sullivan said. “It was several years later before he actually did begin depositing his collections here, but that’s a sense of the history of it. It has been an active, ongoing and fruitful relationship.” O’Sullivan said the hope is this will not just be a celebration in the libraries but in the Texas A&M community. “The ceremony will be a celebration of where we’ve come from but also to look forward to our vision of where we want to go as an organization,” O’Sullivan said. Patrick Zinn, University Libraries mar keting manager, said whenever the librar ies reach a milestone like this one, it likes to celebrate. No tickets are required. Seating will be first come, first serve. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m. HEALTH CONTINUED an eighth-grade health chapter and an introductory course to psychology, if at all. Increasingly, voices and cam paigns spin a hypersexualized media saturated with photoshopped images with slogans like “love your body” and “body peace” — both empower ing messages. But too often are these slogans highly gendered, excluding males, ages, people of color and those of the LGBT community. Eating disorders are rarely superfi cial illnesses and they are not a “white woman’s” illness. It is more than just about loving your body. When you reduce a complex problem down to a simple solution, you isolate those people who feel stuck. With the exception of the cases that go unreported, eating disorders will clinically afflict approximately 30 million people in the United States at some point in their lives, according to the National Eating Disorders As sociation. This organization sets aside one week in the month of February to bring attention to an epidemic that is likely independent of gender, race, socioeconomic status or background and age. When I was sick, I cringed when someone reached out to hug me. I didn’t want people to know about my condition when their arms encircled me. But, like other mental illnesses or addictions, there is a heaping shame that accompanies any attempted discussion. During the day, I was exhausted. It was like I had vacated my barely functioning body. At times, Ijd wake up in the middle of the night, fearful. My heart rate was a slow “thump, thump,” and when I eventually went to the doctor I was hurried off to an emergency room. I laid in one of those uncom fortable rollaway beds, overwhelmed and wondering how I became so involved with my disorder. Eating disorders are frequently not acknowledged outside clinical labels. The most commonly discussed are anorexia nervosa and bulimia ner vosa. Windham referenced the term “disordered eating” — behaviors that may not necessarily warrant a clinical label, but something I, and others, "When you reduce a complex problem down to a simple solution, you isolate those people who feel stuck." would consider to be no less serious. Binge-eating disorder is another illness that has only recently garnered a climcal label, said Meghan Wind ham, a registered and licensed dieti cian at Beutel Health Center, who works with eating disorder cases. For anyone else in between, who can’t put a name to what they are going through, I imagine they become lost in the shuffle. This makes asking for help com promising, especially when the strug gling person fails to see themselves as “sick enough,” or does not somehow meet the archetype of an “eating disordered person.” Eating disorders are odd in that they rope in both a person’s mental and physical state. I struggled with anxiety and depression, two things that sometimes still creep in and out of my life. I wasn’t alone — countless articles and personal accounts document how these two illness often go hand in hand. It’s difficult to say which came first -— the depression or the eat ing disorder. And therein lies more ■ misinformation that people receive about eating disorders — that there is a linear path for how these illnesses function. Months went by before family and people I knew could lay a finger on what they thought I was struggling with, and most of them didn’t under stand. How could they understand? Not even I did. My experience, as I came to dis cover later on in numerous counsel ing sessions, manifested from a long list of contributing factors, some of which, five years later, I am still working to sort through. Whatever the type, spectrum of severity, et cetera, it is imperative that all disordered eating be recognized as legitimate to the individual. The NEDA and numerous other resources rank eating disorders highest when it comes to mental illness mortality rates. People sometimes approach me and ask if I’m “okay now.” Physical ly, yes I am. And sometimes stabiliz ing your physical health is the first priority. Taking care of my mental health, though, is a process that knows no end. Someone close to me once said, “Promise me that if this depression monster chases you around for the rest of your life, that you will be able to cultivate a life where you can find ways to heal.” It’s worth seeking. ’ .i f 'I HISTORY Texas celebrates 179th birthday Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to speak Sunday By Kylee Reid Happy birthday, Texas. T exans, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, will gather this weekend at the Washington on the Bra zos State Historic site to celebrate the state’s 179th birthday. “Washington on the Brazos is the location where Texas became Texas,” said Cathy Nolte, complex manager. “In 1836, men from across the territoty of Texas, delegates who had been elected to come here, declared independence from Mexico. That was a monumental event because it created the Republic of Texas.” Patrick, introduced by state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, will deliver a short key note address Sunday before cutting into a giant Texas shaped birthday cake. “We celebrate the cre ation of the republic, our independence for T exas, on the weekend closest to March 2 every year,” Nolt said. Nolt said that aside from giving people the oppor tunity to learn about the history of Texas Indepen dence, the weekend cel ebration will also include a wide range of activities in cluding ceremonies, enter tainment, special programs, food vendors and reenact ments. According to a press re lease, the event will also mark the recent opening of a local museum’s new exhibit titled “Enduring Spirit: African Americans in 19th Century Texas.” The exhibit will will display slav ery artifacts and will include documents of the period such as slave records, freed- men contracts and an oath of allegiance. The event is about a 40-minute drive from Col lege Station and most events are free to the public. T F . 3 - - . Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, grad students THIS WEEK get your picture taken for Texas A&M's 2015 Aggieland yearbook, if you didn't last fall. Your portrait sitting is free. Just walk in 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the Student Media office. Suite L400 of the MSC. February 23-March 12 will be your last chance. It's your yearbook. Be in it.