Women's Center Honors Eating Disorders Week and Women's History Month
by Andrea Zarate-Benoit
Issue date: 3/10/10 Section: News
The National Eating Disorders Week takes place every year during the last week of February. This year the Women's Center at Simon's Rock had a couple activities planed as well as a project in order to raise awareness on this issue.
Wai Phu '06 and Michelle Gonzalez '08 are in charge of the Women's Center's actives and weekly meetings. Phu conducted a project around campus in which the most important goal was to "create awareness and spread positive energy around campus."
The project consisted of putting submission boxes around campus, where people could anonymously write something that they really like about their bodies. Phu believes that one way of getting positive energy flowing is to "focus on one part of your body and love it."
The project appears to have been a success around campus because of the large number of submissions. Some of the submissions are currently being displayed in the Dinning Hall, Student Union and in front of the Women's Center.
The Women's Center is located in the apartment of the first floor of Crosby and meetings are held every week on Mondays at 8:00 pm. Gonzalez and Phu encourage the entire Simon's Rock community to read the submissions in order to promote healthy ideas of beauty and increase acceptance.
Phu and Gonzalez agree that peer pressure, beauty standards, and the desire to have control over how we look are among the most important causes of eating disorders.
Some goals of Eating Disorder Week are to spread ideas such as "beauty is subjective," "different kinds of beauty" and "getting rid of norms." These counter eating disorders and teach women to love their bodies.
Among the other activities of Eating Disorder Week was a meeting in which a clip of the movie Thin was shown, followed by a presentation by Harrison Simms '08 about his experience with anorexia. There was also a discussion on body image issues.
Gonzalez thinks that this was a great opportunity to raise awareness about male eating disorders.
A major issue in confronting eating disorders is that "most people don't know when someone else has an eating disorder or what to do about it," says Gonzalez. Phu and Gonzalez agree that counseling can be a great support for people who suffer from eating disorders.
Another purpose of Eat Disorders week is to remind the Simon's Rock community that March is Women's History Month. Some of the topics that will be addressed during this month are legal abortion and teen dating violence. There will also be movies shown like "Iron Jawed Angels" and possibly a discussion of Umberto Eco's book, The History of Beauty.
The autobiographies of some prominent women in history are already being displayed around campus and there are more to come.
Wai Phu '06 and Michelle Gonzalez '08 are in charge of the Women's Center's actives and weekly meetings. Phu conducted a project around campus in which the most important goal was to "create awareness and spread positive energy around campus."
The project consisted of putting submission boxes around campus, where people could anonymously write something that they really like about their bodies. Phu believes that one way of getting positive energy flowing is to "focus on one part of your body and love it."
The project appears to have been a success around campus because of the large number of submissions. Some of the submissions are currently being displayed in the Dinning Hall, Student Union and in front of the Women's Center.
The Women's Center is located in the apartment of the first floor of Crosby and meetings are held every week on Mondays at 8:00 pm. Gonzalez and Phu encourage the entire Simon's Rock community to read the submissions in order to promote healthy ideas of beauty and increase acceptance.
Phu and Gonzalez agree that peer pressure, beauty standards, and the desire to have control over how we look are among the most important causes of eating disorders.
Some goals of Eating Disorder Week are to spread ideas such as "beauty is subjective," "different kinds of beauty" and "getting rid of norms." These counter eating disorders and teach women to love their bodies.
Among the other activities of Eating Disorder Week was a meeting in which a clip of the movie Thin was shown, followed by a presentation by Harrison Simms '08 about his experience with anorexia. There was also a discussion on body image issues.
Gonzalez thinks that this was a great opportunity to raise awareness about male eating disorders.
A major issue in confronting eating disorders is that "most people don't know when someone else has an eating disorder or what to do about it," says Gonzalez. Phu and Gonzalez agree that counseling can be a great support for people who suffer from eating disorders.
Another purpose of Eat Disorders week is to remind the Simon's Rock community that March is Women's History Month. Some of the topics that will be addressed during this month are legal abortion and teen dating violence. There will also be movies shown like "Iron Jawed Angels" and possibly a discussion of Umberto Eco's book, The History of Beauty.
The autobiographies of some prominent women in history are already being displayed around campus and there are more to come.
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Igor
posted 3/12/10 @ 9:20 AM EST
Great and creative idea how to free people from the problem of eating disorder and extra-weight.
Junior
posted 3/16/10 @ 7:17 PM EST
I'm pretty sure it's "Eating Disorder Awareness" week.
Lancaster movers
posted 4/01/10 @ 6:09 PM EST
It's good that Eating Disorder Week takes place every year to raise awareness.
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