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An education on eating

ISU worker killed in Ames car crash

Awareness Week pushes students to accept selves

By Kaitlin.York iowastatedaily.com

By Lea.Petersen iowastatedaily.com Monday marks the beginning of Eating Disorder Awareness Week at Iowa State. With various activities offered every day for students to attend and participate in, Michelle Roling, certified eating disorder specialist at Iowa State, said she hopes students can become more involved in the fight to “be comfortable in your genes.” “Students at Iowa State are really fortunate to have a strong [eating disorder] treatment center here on campus,” Roling said. “Iowa State ranks in the top of the nation regarding the many services we offer students struggling with food and body concerns.” Eating disorders can be categorized into four different groups — anorexia, bulimia nervosa, binge eating and disordered eating. Anorexia is characterized by extreme fear of getting or being fat. It includes starving oneself and avoiding situations with food, while still viewing oneself as overweight. For women, three missed menstrual cycles is another indicator of the eating disorder. Bulimia nervosa is defined as binging at least twice a week past the point of feeling full and then purging by either inducing vomit, excessive exercise or inappropriate use of laxatives. Binge eating includes eating large amounts of food in

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Drawing the line between being sick and being thin

Campus services teach about the reality of eating disorders

By Bridget Hart Special to the Daily

By Erin.Coppock iowastatedaily.com

Imagine that the mere sight of food repulses you and every bite has a number etched into it. That number grows bigger the more bites you take, and the more bites you take, the more sickening it becomes. You want to be perfect. You want to be thin. And each bite is taking you further from your goal. I recently became obsessed with eating disorders after my best friend, who lives two states away, called me in tears saying she had a problem. Her sister had posted some pictures on Facebook from the family’s trip to Paris. In those pictures, my

This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Eating Disorders Association and is recognized worldwide. Michelle Roling, Student Counseling Services counselor specializing in eating disorders, works in conjunction with fellow eating disorder counselor Erin Pederson to organize events that raise awareness on and educate people about the disease. “Eating disorders can affect all aspects of a person’s life. It can complicate their relationships, affect their academics and override their self-esteem,” Roling said. “It can also cause anxiety and can trigger

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College of Design

Class project sweetens students’ Friday

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tor for the “TOYS! Studio,” agreed. “When the idea to do cupcakes was under consideration in the studio, I could tell it was going to be very much on point regarding the assignment,” Squire said. “Their original idea was to make a giant cake and sit it in the

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Cancer group raises funds, awareness on ISU campus By Frances.Myers iowastatedaily.com

middle of the forum. The cupcakes made everything possible without heavy-handed orchestration. The plan was to interfere as little as possible in what would unfold. That’s a good lesson for designers

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Chase Kramer, left, and Ryan Gauquie, graduates in architecture, grab cupcakes from a table, Friday at Design Building. The cupcakes were part of the TOYS! Studio class project. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily

building larger versions of the toys we had made in studio or somehow integrating balloons. Eventually the thought process moved toward cake, and we settled on the idea of cupcakes,” Snider said. Mitchell Squire, associate professor of architecture and instruc-

Student organization

About 11.4 million Americans were expected to die of some sort of cancer in 2010 alone, according to the American Cancer Society. This means about 1,500 people’s lives are taken by cancer every day. ISU Colleges Against Cancer is a student organization dedicated to raising awareness as well as money for cancer research. Every year they work hand-in-hand with the American Cancer Society to hold events and get students involved in the fight against cancer. Students involved in Colleges Against Cancer become involved for various reasons. Some have family members who have fought cancer, while others are merely aware of its presence and want to do whatever they can to help find cures. “We have a very wide range of members who are in our club,” said Michael Tosney, junior in marketing and co-president of Colleges Against Cancer. “They come from all of the different colleges here on campus. Some people want to be very involved and can run for leadership roles, while others want to be involved in a lower level and help out at the events and in any way possible.” Tosney became involved with Colleges Against Cancer after his grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. “My grandmother had been struggling with cancer, and I felt like it was a good way to get involved and meet more people on campus while serving a great purpose to the community,” Tosney said. Ashley Yingst, senior in genetics, joined

By Nicole.Wiegand iowastatedaily.com The scene in the College of Design’s atrium Friday morning looked as if it had been taken straight from a child’s dream — and a very sweet one at that The 11 tables, typically packed with students diligently working on studio projects, were instead covered in more than 1,500 cupcakes, and for no apparent reason, it seemed. Little did students know that what appeared to be an explosion of sugar, frosting and sprinkles was actually part of a class project. Anna Snider, senior in architecture, said the display of cupcakes was the culmination of a project for her “TOYS! Studio” course. The assignment directed the 14 students in the studio to plan an event within the College of Design that allowed for student participation but needn’t necessarily integrate toys. “I believe the goal was to make the project as ambiguous as possible to allow us to formulate ideas without the constraints of an actual, traditional assignment,” Snider said. “We began with the idea of

Amy Rogers, budget analyst for the graduate college, died in a car accident Thursday. Rogers was a passenger in the vehicle driven by Jeffrey Michael Clendenen, 42, of Ames. Clendenen and Rogers were driving northbound on 500th Avenue when Clendenen failed to stop at a stop sign. Another vehicle, driven by Richard Keith Diltz, 62 of Madrid, struck Clendenen’s Ford F250 on the passenger side while heading westbound on 270th. The driver of the vehicle that hit them was transported by lifeflight to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and was injured, according to the crash reports from Iowa State Patrol. A seatbelt was worn at the time of the accident. Rogers and Clendenen were ground transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center. Clendenen was injured. Seatbelts for both passengers were worn. Roger’s job at the university included managing and providing fiscal support to the deans of the graduate college. She provided oversight of the Professional Advancement Grants and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. Rogers was also the wife to Marc Rogers, assistant hockey coach. “Amy was a very warm, fun-loving person and a mother to two children who she was very dedicated to,” said William Graves, associate dean of the graduate college. “She was respectful and quiet, yet very outgoing.” The graduate college’s staff is shocked at the loss of its co-worker, Graves said.

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