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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009
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Model to speak on women and body issues
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Stacy Nadeau, a model from the original Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, celebrates her body by
Nadeau
embracing it and reaching out to women around the country. Nadeau, a 23-year-old native of Ann Arbor, Mich., visits college campuses to encourage
From the Inside Out, a student organization dedicated to promoting positive body images on campus, is sponsoring Nadeau's appearance tonight at the Wooldruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union in honor of "Celebrate EveryBODY Week" in conjunction with National Eating Disorders Week, which runs Feb. 22-28.
positive body images, to examine the way women are portrayed in the media and to try to diminish stereotypes.
Leslie Latham, Republic junior and president of From the Inside Out, said the week would provide a number of opportunities to learn how to combat negative media messages and eating disorders.
Nadeau, who described herself as curvy, said it was important for all women to feel comfortable in their own skin.
"My goal is to make more women feel great about themselves and widening the stereotypical definitions of beauty," she said.
Latham said she thought National Eating Disorders
schedule of events
CELEBRATE
EVERYBODY WEEK
Tuesday, Feb. 17:
Embracing Real Beauty,
7:30 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 23:
Positive Affirmation Day.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A banner will be up at the Kansas Union for people to write their favorite body part.
Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Celebrate Activity Day.
3 to 5 p.m.
Receive useful health information at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. Prizes available.
"Critical Conversations" panel discussion, 7 p.m.
Get questions answered regarding eating disorders and body image issues at the Corbin Lobby.
Wednesday, Feb. 25
Wednesday, Feb. 25:
I Love Me Day, 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Have a photo taken with positive affirmation posters in the Kansas Union. Prizes available.
Intervention episode about eating disorders. Big 12 Room
Thursday, Feb. 27:
Celebrate Food Day
at the Kansas Union, 7 p.m.
The most recent report by the American Psychological
Friday, Feb. 28:
Celebrate Food Day
Better Bites entrees and smoothies will be featured in eateries all over campus.
"Fearless Friday" - a non restrictive eating day in the dining halls.
Programs are sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, From the Inside Out and Homebase.
The Dove advertisements feature women of different shapes and sizes who are meant to debunk female stereotypes.
"I think the media portrays women as usually being skinny and perfect," Coffe said. "Women and girls see images of what they're supposed to be and are disappointed when they can't measure up."
"I think the Dove campaign has inspired a lot of people," Latham said.
Audrianne Coffer, Wichita junior, said she liked the Dove advertisements because she thought the women were realistic looking.
Association concluded that eating disorders were one of the three cognitive consequences of female sexualization in the media. The other two are depression and low self-esteem.
"I think women compete against other women," Clare Higgins, Topea freshman, said.
Higgins said in high school she had friends who struggled with eating disorders. She said she appreciated seeing commercials featuring women with imperfect bodies.
"They're still beautiful," she said.
Donna Adams, a graduate intern at the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said female celebrities experienced societal pressures too. She said she was disappointed by the recent tabloid
"We're all affected by body image." Adams said.
attacks on singer Jessica Simpson's weight.
Sam Stepp, Mission Hills graduate student and one of the few male members of From the Inside Out, said men could help affect the way the media portrayed women by spending more time with their girlfriends and female friends and less time watching shows such as "The Girls Next Door," a reality TV show about life at the Playboy Mansion.
"Rejecting the objectification of women should be common sense," he said, "It's all about respect."
In a survey conducted by Dove, 81 percent of women felt the media placed unrealistic physical expectations on women.
Ann Chapman, Watkins
LECTURE SET FOR 7:30 P.M. TONIGHT
Stacy Nadeau, a model from the original Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, will speak today at 7:30 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union as an introduction for "Celebrate EveryBODY" and National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Feb.22 to 28.
Memorial Health Center dietitian, said she often visited with women who had eating disorders.
Chapman said it was important to acknowledge that women experienced weight fluctuation because of hormonal changes that occur on a day-to-day basis. Chapman said that on any given day, a person's weight could fluctuate by three or four pounds.
Nadeau said one of her goals was to address the extremes women go through to achieve a certain image.
"Women have surrendered to diets and insane eating habits to live up to social stereotypes for too long," she said.
Nadeau is sponsored by Coca-Cola, Student Senate, the Multicultural Education Fund, the Student Involvement and Leadership Center and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
POLITICS
— Edited by Melissa Johnson
Clinton warns North Korea Country to test what is suspected to be a long-range missile
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles poses for photos with athletes of the Special Olympics athletes in Tokyo, Japan on Monday. Clinton arrived in Tokyo for her first trip abroad as President Barack Obama's chief diplomat.
TOKYO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's first official overseas trip was overshadowed by harsh North Korean rhetoric, epitomizing how new administrations often can be hemmed in by problems inherited from their predecessors.
At the outset of her Asian trip, Clinton declared in Japan: "I have come to Asia on my first trip as secretary of state to convey that America's relationships across the Pacific are indispensable to addressing the challenges and seizing the opportunities of the 21st century."
"We will be looking for ways to collaborate on issues that go beyond just our mutual concerns to really addressing global concerns," Clinton said at a ceremony to commemorate the arrival of the first secretary of state ever to make Japan her first overseas stop.
Yet her message was in danger of being eclipsed by Pyongyang, which just hours before vowed to press ahead with test-firing what wary neighboring governments, particularly Japan and South Korea, believe is a long-range missile.
Japan, with an unpopular government and struggling with deep economic woes, is particularly jittery at the moment and Clinton aims to reassure the country of its importance in the international arena.
"The bilateral relationship between the United States and Japan is a cornerstone in our efforts around the world," she said.
On Tuesday, she is expected to announce that she will send a special U.S. envoy to a Japanese-hosted donors conference for Pakistan.
In addition to meeting with top government officials and members of the opposition, Clinton will sign
an agreement to move about 8,000 of the 50,000 Marines on the island of Okinawa to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.
But, North Korea looms large over her visit. She has promised to meet with the families of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. "We do want to press the North Koreans to be more forthcoming with information," she said en route to Tokyo.
Last week, she had warned North Korea against any "provocative action and unhelpful rhetoric" amid signs the Stalinist nation was preparing to test fire a missile capable of reaching the western United States.
But on Monday, the 67th birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong II, Pyongyang claimed that it has the right to "space development" — a term it has used in the past to disguise a missile test as a satellite launch.
ers aboard her plane that North Korea needed to live up to commitments to dismantle its nuclear programs, saying Washington was willing to normalize ties with it in return for nuclear disarmment.
She also implicitly criticized the Bush administration for abandoning the so-called 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, reached during President Bill Clinton's first term in the White House, which called for the North to give up its plutonium-based weapons program.
The framework collapsed when the Bush team accused Pyongyang of maintaining a separate highly enriched uranium program, about which Secretary Clinton said there was still great debate.
"The North Koreans have already agreed to dismantling," she said. "We expect them to fulfill the obligations that they entered into."
When North Korea test-fired a long-range missile in 1998, it claimed to have put a satellite into orbit.
NATIONAL Obama to decide number of troops for Afghanistan
As a result, she said, the North had restarted and accelerated its plutonium program, allowing it to build a nuclear device that it had detonated in 2006.
On Sunday, Clinton told report-
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's chief spokesman said Monday that he will make a decision "within days, not weeks," on how many additional troops to send to Afghanistan, and when.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made the observation in a chat with reporters Monday aboard Air Force One as Obama and his family flew back to the Washington area after a long weekend in his hometown.
Obama has been widely believed likely to send fresh forces to the Afghan battle even as a wide review of U.S. strategy and goals there gets fully under way.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Pentagon news conference last week that Obama "will have
several options in front of him" Gates suggested that the ground commander in Afghanistan would eventually get all the forces he has asked for, but no more.
Lt. Gen. David McKiernan wants more fighting forces and support troops such as helicopter crews to push back against the Taliban in Afghanistan's increasingly dangerous south and eastern regions.
Associated Press
NATIONAL
Ice a possible cause of Buffalo plane crash
CLARENCE, N.Y. Investigators have located key components that might help reveal what the pilot did to try to save Flight 3407 during its final desperate seconds, when the plane plunged to the ground so suddenly that sending a mayday was impossible, an investigator said Monday.
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After a seemingly routine flight, the airplane endured a 26-second plunge before smashing into a house in icy weather about six miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 49 people on the plane and one on the ground.
National Transportation Safety Board member Steve Chealander said investigators have located the steering column, or yoke; all the propeller blades; five of six deicing valves; and rubber bladders designed to protect the tail from ice.
The cause has remained elusive in part because there was no distress call from the pilot, no mechanical failure has been identified and the plane was so severely damaged.
The crew had
"They were trying to save their lives and the lives of everybody on that airplane."
STEVE CHEALANDER National Transportation Safety Board member
turned on the plane's deicing system 11 minutes after leaving Newark, N.J. Shortly before the crash, they notified air traffic controllers that they were experiencing significant ice buildup.
Chealander acknowledged that it was possible that the pilot overreacted by yanking the yoke back, further destabilizing the plane, but he said that was one of an almost unlimited number of possibilities.
Kirk Koenig, president of
Chealander said Sunday that the pilot appeared to ignore recommendations by the NTSB and his employer that the autopilot be turned off in ice conditions.
Expert Aviation Consulting of Indianapolis and a commercial aviation pilot for 25 years, said the airplane may have been in a predicament that would challenge even the most experienced pilots.
the autopilot remained on until an automatic system warned that a stall could occur, pushed the yoke forward and shut the autopilot off.
For example, if ice were forming on the wings, the pilot would want to put the nose of the plane down and increase power; if the icing were on the tail, the opposite would have been required, pulling the nose up and reducing power.
"Things happened so quickly and they were so low to the ground that it would not have mattered if Chuck Yeager and Neil Armstrong were flying the plane; there wouldn't have been a different outcome." Koenig said.
Chealander agreed, saying the pilots had their hands full and had no time to send a distress signal.
"They were trying to save their lives and the lives of everybody on that airplane," Chealander said.
The plane's deicing system was
apparently working, the NTSB has said.
That system includes strips of rubber-like material on the wings and tail that expand to break up ice, then contract and expand again to break up new ice.
The victims' relatives that visited the scene Monday left red roses dangling from temporary fencing and in a semicircle on the ground.
The site of the house on a quiet, tree-lined street in a middle-class neighborhood is now an almostempty dirty lot.
All that is left are a garage with a scorched door, a basketball hoop, four steps leading to nowhere, a mailbox — the numbers 6038 on its side — and the plane's enormous tail.
Chealander said half the plane had been removed by Monday, when the engines were lifted by a crane onto the road and studied.
He said a preliminary analysis of the engines was "consistent with high-powered flight," a sign that they were operating properly at the time of the crash.