March 2, 2001
Volume CXXXII, Number 18

 










 
WARRIORS leads fight against eating disorders

    This past week, members of the Bowdoin community, including students, deans, professors, coaches and alums attended various events in recognition of Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Kresge Auditorium was filled to near capacity on Monday evening, when Catherine Steiner-Adair '76, Assistant Director of the Harvard Center for Eating Disorders spoke. Later in the week, a student from the class of 2000, in addition to deans, members of the counseling center and Dudley Coe, and coaches, gathered with several WARRIORS members to discuss the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Throughout the week, WARRIORS hosted a table in Smith Union where students could read literature about eating disorders, take a yellow ribbon, paint a self-portrait, and get infromation about WARRIORS meetings.

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PETA protest marginalizes a good cause

    Craig Hansen's letter to the editor in last week's Orient implored the Bowdoin community to follow PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in a boycott of CBS's Survivor. The reason? A bloodthirsty Survivor contestant (Mike, for those of you "in the know") "brutally stabbed" and killed a pig, apparently in violation of Australian animal rights laws. "By not watching Survivor," reasoned Hansen, "perhaps CBS executives will realize that Bowdoin students do not tolerate blatant acts of animal cruelty."

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Silly "melon" heads, spelling's not just for kids

   We hate to be ones to chide. Well, actually we love it. But at any rate, it is time the Orient pays attention to a nasty habit infesting Bowdoin's pristine academic community-poor spelling. A host of rather daft errors have recently wriggled their way onto various campus announcements.

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