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...would like to stress the breadth of the issues that Eating Problems Outreach addresses. The personal effect of eating disorders is one primary concern. We hope to respond to this concern with our forthcoming support groups. In addition, our educational efforts are part of our desire to erase the stigma of eating disorder and the isolation felt by those affected. We hope to increase public understanding of the problem. Our organization plans to distribute an informational pamphlet for spring semester, and to hold a spring workshop comprised of a speaker forum and small group discussions...
Because the clinies serve a large number of poor people administrators say they are constantly having to battle the image that there is a stigma attached to using the facilities. "People seem to think that clines have this poor people mentality and that you don't get to see the same doctor or nurse every time you go. That is the image we're lighting," Zotoff says...
...according to an aggregate of surveys done by the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI and the National Opinion Research Center. Using conservative estimates, experts calculate that a woman's chance of being raped at some point during her life is an appalling 1 in 10. But as the social stigma on rape victims begins to lessen, they are fighting back through the legal system, reporting their cases and seeing them through to prosecution. The number of reported rapes has steadily risen, jumping 35% to 99,146 in 1981, the latest year for which the Justice Department has figures. (Justice calculated...
...Richard Gere, resplendent in his Navy whites, carried Debra Winger off into the celluloid sunset in An Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
...think the guilty but mentally ill approach is silly," said Peter Arenella, professor of law at Boston University. Guilt is based on the moral accountability, hence the sanity, of the defendant, so a plea of guilty but insane would just "label the guy with a double stigma," he added...