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...desk says in her best tour guide voice. The second student continues, "We still have language classes, but now there's a lot more emphasis on technology and exhibits and computer classes for kids." Oddly, there are no kids around. Actually, no one is around, and the volunteers' goodbyes echo across the empty foyer...
...members of ECHO (Eating Concerns Hotline Outreach) were postering during Eating Disorders Awareness Week one afternoon, a couple approached a freshly-plastered bulletin board and began reading a poster aloud: "If the average male fashion model were of the same proportions as the average female fashion model, he would...
...stall, we found written on a poster about fat hatred: "To ECHO--I don't think this sign helps. It only reminds the overly-weight conscious of how much the world does care about how s/he looks." Someone responded, "Do you mean to say that in your opinion our culture does not have weight issues?" Not everyone agreed, but we were still successful: dialogue began and that was our goal. As someone responding to the same poster so aptly put it: "Self-awareness is always a good thing...
During Eating Disorders Awareness Week and throughout the entire year, ECHO hosts workshops, outreaches, discussion groups, postering, speakers and movie nights in order to promote awareness and create a community dialogue regarding eating disorders, eating concerns, body image and self-esteem...
Therefore, ECHO is focusing on engaging Harvard in dialogue, both on the personal level through our hotline, and on the community level through our outreaches and discussions. This two-part dialogue is an essential step towards successful activism...