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NEBRASKA WESLEYAN FRESHMEN Melissa Schneider and Summer Hayes look for their countries Sunday afternoon in the Weary Center on the Wesleyan
campus as a part of The World Game Workshop. The game simulates global interaction, where students represent a percent of the world’s population
or an international organization. The students were then challenged to solve global concerns.
Eating disorders week events planned
‘Celebrating Every Body’ organizers educate
students on maintaining positive body image
By Cara Pesek
Staff writer
Several University of Nebraska-Lincoln
organizations are encouraging students to cele
brate every body this week.
Eating Disorders Awareness Week events
begin today.
“I think the issue of body weight and appear
ance and the connection to eating disorders is
prevalent on this campus and every campus,”
said Sue Bukacek, psychologist and adviser for
the Eating Disorders Education and Prevention
student organization.
In order to raise awareness of the prevalence
of eating disorders - Bukacek said one in 20 col
lege women has struggled with an eating disor
der at some time in her life - a variety of activi
ties are planned for “Celebrating Every Body.”
At 7:30 p.m. today, Tiffany Cohen Adams, an
Olympic gold medalist in swimming, will speak
about her battle with bulimia.
The presentation will be held in the Nebraska
Union auditorium.
Laura Schweer, former EDEP president, said
Adams’ speech will focus on the eating disorder
she developed after she failed to break a world
record. Weakened by bulimia, Adams gave up
swimming. Now recovered, she travels the coun
try speaking about the dangers of eating disor
ders.
Adams will also be speaking Tuesday from
8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Nebraska Union for
faculty and staff.
A body bazaar will be held Wednesday from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. About
20 businesses and organizations, including the
Campus Recreation Center, HuskerVision and
the Body Shop, will encourage students to “unite
body, mind and spirit,” Schweer said.
A new event will also make its debut
Wednesday. A presentation called “Room with a
View” will take place in the Rotunda Gallery
from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Schweer said “Room with a View” is a visual
representation of the progression of an eating
disorder. The gallery will be divided into four
small rooms depicting the stages of an eating dis
order.
Thursday will feature three presentations by
a group called Students Helping Individuals
Nurture Esteem.
The first presentation, “Mirror, Mirror,” will
be held at noon at the Nebraska East Union.
“Freshman 15: Myth or Reality” will be held at
4:30 p.m. at the Campus Recreation Center, and
“How to Help a Friend,” will be held at 7:30 p.m.
at the Nebraska Union.
In addition to these events, the Women’s
Center will hold a series of workshops called
“Reconstructing Barbie.”
Jan Deeds, gender specialist and director of
the Women’s Center, said a series of workshops
in which students can “reconstruct Barbie” will
be held at residence halls throughout the week.
“What do we learn when we play with dolls
that are so unbelievably thin and strangely pro
portioned?” Deeds asked.
At the workshops, students will be able to
make over Barbies to look like themselves. The
dolls will be displayed in the Rotunda Gallery on
Thursday and Friday.
Those involved with EDEP and the Women’s
Center hope the activities will educate students
about the dangers of eating disorders and help
them learn to be happy with their own bodies.
“Our idea is to raise awareness,” Bukacek
sflid. “This is a very prevalent issue on our cam
pus.”
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Insurer of ABC’s hit game show files suit to get out of contract
NEW YORK (AP) - Just how hard
are the questions on “Who Wants to Be
a Millionaire” anyway?
“They’re only easy if you know
them,” said John Carpenter, the
Connecticut man who last November
became the first of two million-dollar
winners on ABC’s hit game show.
The British insurer responsible for
paying out the show’s top prizes dis
agrees. Goshawk Syndicate filed suit
in Britain’s High Court of Justice to get
out of its contract, worried it would
have to pay too much unless the show
asks harder questions and selects
dumber contestants.
“Millionaire” host Regis Philbin
said the company was “chicken.”
“Can you believe this?” Philbin
said on “Live with Regis & Kathie
Lee” Friday. “This is what insurance is
all about. It’s a risk. You can’t take the
risk, don’t insure the show to begin
with.”
Michael Davies, executive produc
er of “Millionaire,” declined to talk
about the lawsuit on Friday. But last
month, he vigorously defended the
show’s questions.
To win $1 million, a contestant
must answer 15 multiple-choice ques
tions in a row correctly.
Goshawk’s policy required it to pay
prizes of $500,000 or $1 million.
Goshawks responsibility didn’t kick in
until a $ 1.5 million deductible was met,
and there was a ceiling of $5 million.
The “Millionaire” production compa
ny, Buena Vista Entertainment Inc.,
was responsible for all smaller prizes.
Bill would increase
number of senators
Legislators discussed a resolu
tion Friday that would increase the
number of senators in the
Unicameral.
LR287CA, introduced Jan. 6 by
Sen. Jim Jones of Eddyville, would
change the number of senators from
50 to 55.
Jones represents District 43,
which covers the largest land area in
the state. It includes Cherry County.
“My area is so big it represents
more miles and area than I can cover
right now,” Jones said.
The number of senators in the
Omaha-Lincoln area also could be
affected.
The Government, Military and
Veterans Affairs Committee did not
vote on the issue Friday.
If the committee votes to advance
the resolution to the floor and the sen
ators pass it, it will be on the
November election ballot, Jones said.
Bill would request apology
for World War n war crimes
Members of the Legislature’s
Government, Military and Veterans
Affairs Committee had a lesson in
history Friday.
The senators discussed LR298,
which is part of a nationwide move
ment seeking an apology from the
Japanese government for war crimes
committed during World War II.
The committee heard testimony
in support of the resolution from sev
eral WWII veterans.
The resolution was introduced
Jan. 19 by Sen. Don Preister of
Omaha.
“What we’re doing here today is
helping young people understand
what happened during WWII and
also the grave consequences of war,”
Preister said.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
testified in a neutral capacity and
argued that if the resolution is about
crimes committed by national gov
ernments, then the U.S. government
should apologize for the treatment of
blacks during slavery, as well as the
treatment of American Indians.
“I couldn’t allow this matter to be
presented with just one point of
view,” he said.
The committee did not vote
Friday and will decide at a later date
whether to advance the bill to the
floor for debate.
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Researchers
test DNA of
ancient man
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)
Federal researchers will try to
extract DNA from the bones of
Kennewick Man in an effort to
learn the racial ancestry of the
9,000-year-old remains.
The U.S. Department of the
Interior last month classified the
bones as Native American. But the
DNA tests may help bury conclu
sively theories that die bones are of
European or African ancestry, said
Francis McManamon, chief
archaeologist for the National Park
Service.
The DNA tests also may show
whether Kennewick Man is an
ancestor of any modern Indian
tribes, he said.
“We believe that DNA analysis
will help determine the biological
and genetic racial ancestry of the
remains,” McManamon said. “It
will be useful for cultural affilia
tion purposes if we can obtain
accurate mitochondrial DNA
analysis.”
