THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
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Creating healthy habits
'Celebrate EveryBODY Week' focuses on body image, lifestyles
BY MARY SORRICK msorrick@kansan.com
"Celebrate EveryBODY Week" is bringing discounted food, positive
messages and a comedian to the University of Kansas this week to promote healthy body image among students.
Student Health Services, From The
an important event for raising awareness about the prevalence of eating disorders.
"We try to focus on body acceptance — a positive rather than a negative."
Inside Out and H.O.M.E.B.A.S.E., organizations that focus on body image and health, are sponsoring Celebrate EveryBODY Week to target eating disorders.
Of people with eating disorders, 95 percent are younger than 25, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
MAI DO Student Health Services marketing coordinator
Events throughout the week will target eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, as well as abnormal eating habits such as restrictive dieting and binging and purging.
Mai Do, marketing coordinator for Student Health Services, said the week's events, which coincided with National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, would be aimed at helping disorder, up to 15 percent are male.
The NIMH estimates that 20 percent of women struggle with an eating disorder or abnormal eating habits.
Of the 24 million Americans battling an eating disorder, up to 15 percent are male.
ing students develop a healthy lifestyle.
Lindsey Hirschorn, Overland Park junior and president of From The Inside Out, said negative body image was also a significant issue on campus.
Chapman said that obsession with food and overeating also qualified as eating disorders.
From The Inside Out aimed
"We try to focus on body acceptance — a positive rather than a negative." Do said.
"If you sit in the girls' bathroom for 10 minutes, you will not hear one positive thing said," Hirschorn said.
"If you sit in the girls' bathroom for 10 minutes, you will not hear one positive thing said."
Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutritional services at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said Celebrate EveryBODY Week was
LINDSEY HIRSCHORN
From The Inside Out president and Overland Park junior
to encourage a more positive body image by helping to tape positive messages onto mirrors in public restrooms around campus on Monday, she said.
» 25 percent of college women binge and purge to maintain their weight
eating disorder statistics
86 percent of people with eating disorders said they started by age 20
Celebrate EveryBODY Week include bringing Stacey Prussman, a comedian who has struggled with an eating disorder, to campus to talk to students.
Other events planned for
> 24 million people in the United States battle eating disorders
Eating disorders are the third most common chronic illness among adolescents
The ideal body type promoted in the media is natural in only 5 percent of American women
Hirschorn said Prussman's experience with an eating disorder would be eye-opening for many students.
Source: Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders
Better Bites entrées, available in cafeterias across campus, will also be provided at a 20 to 25 percent discount for lunch on Thursday, Chapman said. BetterBites entrées have fewer calories and less fat than many other food options on campus.
Hirschorn said events such as these were important for KU students.
"There's a huge need for things like this on college campuses," Hirschorn said. "It's a place where eating disorders run wild."
Stacey Prussman will speak at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom and will be available afterward to answer student questions.
— Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
POLITICS
Bush confident Republicans will hold White House
BY BEN FELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Bush predicted Monday that voters would replace him with a Republican president who would "keep up the fight" in Iraq.
President Bush speaks during the 2008 Republican Governors Association gala on Monday in Washington. Bush said he was sure a Republican would replace him in the Oval Office.
"I'm confident we'll hold the White House in 2008," Bush told donors at the Republican Governors Association annual dinner, which raised a record $10.6 million for GOP gubernatorial candidates.
Bush has promised to be an active fundraiser, and had no trouble slipping into enthusiastic campaign mode Monday evening.
He said Republicans still offered the bedrock positions that voters embraced: strong defense, low taxes and personal freedoms.
"When I say I'm confident, I am so because I understand the mentality of the American people," Bush said. "There's no question in my mind, with your help, 2008 is
going to be a great year."
Democratic governors have a 28-22 edge nationally, having regained a majority in 2006 after 12 years of GOP dominance. Eleven seats are up this year.
Democrats took control of the House and Senate in 2006. Republican governors, as chief executives and effective fundraisers, see themselves as the key to turning around their party.
CRIME
Change of venue sought in trial Sect leader to face charges as an accomplice to rape
BY AMANDA LEE MYERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was handed over to Arizona authorities Tuesday to face charges alleging he arranged the marriages of two teenage girls to older men.
Deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff's Office took custody of Jeffs from Utah officials, sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said.
Jeffs, 52, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, is scheduled to appear in court to enter a plea Wednesday in Kingman, Ariz.
He is charged as an accomplice with four counts of incest and four counts of sexual contact with a minor in an indictment.
Defense attorney Mike Piccarrre plans to ask the judge for a change of venue, saying Kingman is too close to St. George, Utah, the site of Jeffs' first trial, for him to get a fair trial here.
"If people want to give Mr. Jeffs a fair trial, we have to hold it in an area as far away as practical from
the other case in Utah," he said.
Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith said the trial, which will be months from now, should be held in Mohave County because that's where the alleged crimes occurred.
Jeffs was arrested in August 2006 in Nevada and was convicted last year in Utah of rape as an accomplice in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
The mainstream Mormon church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, renounced polygamy more than a century ago.
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February 27, 2008
Start and End at Maceli's, 1031 New Hampshire.
One mile Walk and 5K Walk/Run.
Registration 7-8am. Stretch and run with Red Dog, at 7:50am. Walk steps off at 8am.
A full breakfast, sponsored by NetworQ, will be served for returning participants from 8:30-10am.
Awards Ceremony 10am.
Registration is online at www.douglascountyaidsproject.org
Saturday, April 12th
We have 15 volunteer programs working throughout Lawrence and can connect you to many local programs.
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What: Engineers Without Borders General Meeting When: Wednesday, February 27th at 7pm Where: 3152 Learned Hall
Lawrence's only live reggae band, Yuca Roots, will be playing following the auction.
Event: NSCS general meeting Date: Tuesday, March 4 Time: 8 pm Location: Pine Room in 6th floor of KS Union
Come and support the next generation of urban planners!
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008 Silent Auction 6:00-8:00 pm AT 23rd St.Brewery
KAPS
Leap Years Eve Bash Fundraiser
Contact: Anna Kathagnarath
annatkat@hotmail.com
Wishing spring was here? Come join CCO EARTH to discuss plans for the Campus Garden!
March 6,2008 4-5 PM
Kansas Union Governor's Room