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Anorexics characteristically have a distorted perception of their body size according to experts. "Anorexics I've talked with--they weigh half of what I weigh, and they can't tell who is fatter," says Sheila Reindl, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and co-director of an EPO group...
...There are definitely society pressures," says Julie M. Mihelich '86, co-director of Eating Problems Outreach (EPO). "There's a dislike of femininity, with the roundness associated with it. If you're really slim, you are denying the notion of femininity," she says...
Eating disorders may begin when people feel a need to gain control over their lives, according to EPO's Mihelich. "In college they enter a new situation. At home you are controlled by your parents. At school, there are more issues over which you have direct control--how much you eat, study, if you stay out late or not," she says...
First, the story suggested that we place troubled students in organizatonal and administrative positions withing the group. This is not the case. EPO and the other peer counseling groups are made up of concerned and capable students, never students "not sufficiently in control to help others" as was quoted in The Crimson article. Our counselors are open-minded and sensitive to issues related to eating and body image. Moreover, members of both the outreach and counseling comittees do not represent an atypical population. Recent studies show that a large percentage of men and women on college campuses share these concerns...
...Response, Contact, and Room 13) for participating in the conference, a fact opverlooked by the article. The peer counseling groups are considering a future conference which would deal with peer counseling generally, not just with sexual issues, as was indicated in The Crimson. Louisa A. Smith '88 Co-Director, EPO...