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percent report onset of eating disorder by age 20 percent of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting. 22 percent dieted “often” or “always.” percent of 185 female students surveyed on a college campus felt pressure to be a certain weight, and of the 83 percent percent of college-aged that dieted for weight loss, 44 women engage in bingeing percent were of normal weight. and purging as a weightmanagement technique.
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By Savannah Martin DAILY WILDCAT The economy may be looking up, but Arizona’s legislators are looking ahead. To cover costs that may accumulate in the future, members of the Republican-controlled Legislature proposed a budget last Monday that neither cuts nor increases funding for higher education. If passed, it would mark the first time in a decade that the university’s funding has gone unchanged. If the budget passes, the UA will receive a little more than $200 million. While this isn’t a decrease in funding, it isn’t an increase either, and some students may see a hike in tuition as a result, according to Jun Peng, an associate professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and an expert in government finance management. The tuition plan released by UA President Eugene Sander on Friday would increase tuition by less than 3 percent for incoming undergraduate resident students, resident graduate students and all out-of-state students. Sander’s proposal would not increase tuition for continuing undergraduates, though they would pay $750 in additional tuition because of the expiration of a financial aid award. “If we keep this process going, we’re going to price out middle-class families from sending their kids to school,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva of Congressional District 7. The budget plan is “a disappointment on many levels at a time when we need to be investing in education in general,” he said. If the state fails to give additional support to universities, costs will rise and students will have to work harder to pay for college, according to Dan Fitzgibbon, a business economics senior and chair of the Arizona Students’ Association. The more time students put into covering those costs, the less time they can spend enriching their university experiences through extracurricular activities and campus involvement. In the worst case, they may acquire debt that follows them beyond their graduation and keeps them from seizing opportunities in the future, Fitzgibbon said. “Students are economic development engines in this state,” he said.
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During National Eating Disorder Week , Tumblr tackles self-harm blogs By Samantha Munsey DAILY WILDCAT A woman’s hair is pulled up to reveal her spine, protruding from her back like a mountain range, her shoulder blades the highest peaks. She leans over, clutching the front of her body while staring at the floor. For Tumblr user skin-and-daintybones, the image is beautiful. It is ideal. It is “thinspiration.” Blogs with images like this are often labeled “thinspiration” blogs. A search on Tumblr’s website of phrases such as “thinspiration,” “anorexia” and
“skinny” — just to name a few — bring up thousands of photos of emaciated men and women clutching pronounced ribs, angular collarbones and sharp hipbones. “How you lose weight is your business,” reads one post on wishingforskinny’s Tumblr blog, “Give Me Skinny or Give Me Death!” However, Tumblr’s new policy on selfharm blogs may challenge this opinion. Tumblr officials announced through their staff blog on Thursday that the microblogging platform is developing a policy to deal with self-harm blogs, which include blogs that “glorify or
promote” eating disorders. In an effort to raise awareness, the site is seeking input from bloggers. Staff members hope to have a policy set this week. The conversation about the potentially harmful effects of pro-eating disorder blogs comes just in time for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which began Sunday. UA students took surveys on Monday that will be used to assess trends in eating disorders. Campus Health Counseling and Psych Services is putting on a Love Your Body Day event today to raise awareness about
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Rights advocate accused of bias By Savannah Martin DAILY WILDCAT
A member of Human Rights Watch was forced to defend his statements at a heated forum on Tuesday after several members of his audience accused him of taking a biased approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bill Van Esveld is the senior researcher on the Middle East and North Africa for Human Rights Watch, a group that defends human rights worldwide. He spoke to a crowd of about 35 UA community members at the “Separate and Unequal” talk, hosted by UA No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, on a report he wrote that examines discrimination in Israeli-controlled areas of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory. Van Esveld emphasized that both he and his organization are nonpartisan and concerned with prosecuting those who abuse human rights law regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or otherwise. This disclaimer became important later on in the forum when members of the audience accused Van Esveld of being pro-Palestine in regard to Operation “Cast Lead,” an Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed about 1,400 Palestinians during December 2008 and January 2009. War has been raging between the Palestinians and the Israelis since at least 1917, when the international leaders designated Palestinian
territory to be the new home for displaced Jews. Conflict broke out as a result of the decision, and tension only increased when the United Nations divided the land into separate Jewish and Palestinian states in 1947. Ken Miller, a graduate student in the Judaic Studies department and self-declared supporter of Israel, was the first to challenge Van Esveld’s comments. He said Van Esveld’s criticisms of the operation failed to mention what took place the year before it began. “A couple thousand rockets, mortars and missiles were launched from the populated areas in Gaza against the residents in Southern Israel,” Miller said. “You’re not mentioning that at all in context with why Israel would go in to retaliate against Hamas in Gaza.” As he continued, two other men in the audience, both of whom were pro-Palestine, spoke up. Soon, the three men were shouting over each other and Van Esveld was struggling to regain control of the discussion. “Let him speak! Let him speak!” Jeff Wilson, a professor of anthropology at Pima Community College yelled from the back of the room, referring to Van Esveld. Once Van Esveld recaptured the floor, he acknowledged that wrongs have been committed by both parties. However, Human Rights Watch seeks to hold governments accountable for violating the laws of war. In order to do that effectively the group
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Bill Van Esveld speaks to an audience during the “Separate and Unequal” talk put on by the UA’s No More Deaths/No Más Muertes in the Cesar Chavez building on Tuesday. The event focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
must investigate specific events, not longstanding conflicts left over from the 1940s. “We do not try to say, ‘Yes, Hamas launched rockets for years, therefore everything Israel did was justified,’” Van Esveld said. “We would say, ‘Hamas launched rockets for years, Israel is justified in launching a military campaign to stop rocket fire against civilians, but that doesn’t justify everything.’ You have to fall within the laws of war.” Van Esveld then turned the discussion over to his report on the West Bank, which outlines discriminatory policies implemented by the Israeli government toward Palestinians.
The majority of the West Bank is occupied by settlers from Israel and controlled by the Israeli government. However, a population of about 150,000 Palestinians also live in these areas, according to Van Esveld. His report found that Palestinian residents in the area suffer from discrimination due to biased government policies, whereas Israeli residents do not. “For every building permit that the Israeli military gives to Palestinians, it destroys 18 Palestinian houses and issues demolition orders against another 55,” Van Esveld said. “If you’re
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