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Build a Barbie—and Become Aware
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FEBRUARY 19, 2001--What would Barbie look like if she were the size of a real person? The campus community is invited to find out while they build a life-size model of the pop-culture icon--and raise their awareness of eating disorders. Joan Boettcher, the campus dietician and nutritionist, will lead the activity Saturday, March 3, beginning at 2:00 P.M. in the Starlight Lounge, on the second floor of Langston (North) Residence Hall.
The Barbie Doll caper is part of Oberlin's month-long eating-disorders-awareness program that starts today with a free lunch and informal discussion about eating under stress, coping with unhealthy eating, and changing one's relationship to food. Lori Morgan Flood, wellness coordinator, is conducting the event from 12:00 noon to 1:30 in Wilder Hall 112 (and needs an RSVP at x6577 from those who wish to attend).
"Four out of 100 college women have eating disorders," says Jennifer Pugh, psychology postdoctoral intern at the College’s Counseling Center. Popular media like television and magazines are partially to blame for a national obsession with thinness, she says. "What people don't realize is that the fashion models they see are thinner than 98 percent of American women." Aiming to become that thin simply isn't realistic, Pugh says, and can be unhealthful. In a March session that she will lead, Pugh will show a videotape, Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness, and lead a discussion of how women are portrayed in the media.
Oberlin's Eating Awareness Month--with the theme Celebrating EveryBODY--runs to March 16. The Counseling Center, Wellness Center, Student Health, Allen Memorial Art Museum, and campus nutritionist Joan Boettcher are sponsoring events throughout that period.
All events are free and open to students and the public.
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