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...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 Problems Outreach, a three-year-old peer counseling group under the auspices of UHS, is located as a drop-in center in the basement of Memorial Hall from Sunday through Wednesday and is accessible every night through a hot-line from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Room 13, in the Stoughton basement, also handles calls and visits from people with eating problems...
Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) appreciates The Crimson's coverage of the intercollegiate conference on peer counseling, which took place on Saturday in Boylston Hall. However, we noted several glaring inaccuracies and would like to set the record straight...
...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...
...colloquium--called the Intercollegiate Conference on Peer Counseling for Eating Concerns--was sponsored by Harvard's Eating Problems Outreach (EPO). The peer counseling group hoped to share its experience dealing with students' eating-related problems with visiting concerned students, deans, and health services personnel, said Louisa A. Smith '88, co-director...