8* BENNETT BANNER • OCTOBER 10, 1997
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Compiled By Staff and
Erisha Lipford Banner Reporter
53rd NsUoaai Baptist Sutdent Union Retreat
Wouldn’t you like to experience a weekend of Christian
fellowship with students from over 145 colleges and
universities? The 53rd National Baptist Sudent Union
Retreat will be March 26-29, 1998 in Birmingham, Ala.
For more information call (919) 859-0756.
Gtunbei / Disney Scbtdarsbips AvaOable
It's back. Tia Smith, a mass communications major in the
class of '97 won it. It is the $5,000 scholarship being
offered by the Bryant GumbelAValt Disney World Tourna
ment Scholarship Program. Juniors with a 3.0 gpa are
eligible. The deadline is Oct. 17. For more information
contact the Finanicial Aid Office at 370-8677.
Mattie Sden^s Asssoc. Offering Scbolsrships
Attention freshwomen, sophomores and junior. The Multiple
Sclerosis Association of America PROJECT: Learn MS' 98
is sponsoring an essay contest with one $5,000 scholarship
and three $1,000 scholarships. Under contest rules a student
submits a 500-1,000 word essay on multiple sclerosis and
how it impacts a person and his or her family on a daily
basis. All essays must include the registration and sponsor
forms, a minimum of $7.50 in sponsors fees and postmarked
by June 5, 1998. To obtain registration form call MSAA at
1-800 LEARN MS.
Ttick or Treat
The Chidren's House annual Halloween parade will be Oct.
31. If you want the children to stop by your office or dorm
room for treats, call Sharon Bibbs, director of the laboratory
school, at 370-8709
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Compiled By
A'Shauna Tyler
Banner Reporter
•1,1945 Dr. Mary
Schmidt Campbell
becomes dean of New York
University’s Tisch School of
the Arts.
• 3,1904 Mary McLeod
Bethune founded Daytona
Normal and Industrial
School(now Bethune Cookman
College) in Daytona Beach,
Florida.
• 4,1944 Pearl Primus
makes her dancing Broadway
debut at the Belasco Theater.
Bittersweet story explores
women’s cravings
RITIC’S !
ORNER I
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(NAPS) Americans often
confuse food with love.
Evidence of this can be found
in Jillian Medoff s brutally
frank and wickedly funny first
novel about body image and
self esteem.
"In Hunger Point"
(HarperColUns, $24), Medoff
explores the tortured and
sometimes fatal relationship
that women can have with food
and how women use food to
feed feelings of emptiness.
“ Eating disorders are not
about food,” Medoff said.
The novel’s two main charac
ters, funny, irreverent and self
destructive Frannie and her
seemingly perfect but anorexic
sister, Shelly, have grown up
obsessed with food and body
image. In this family, “The
word fat assumed a meaning
deadly as cancer.”
Their family is ultimately tom
apart by this obsession when
SheUy’s anorexia sends her to to
a hospital and ultimately causes
her to kill herself.
“ Food is easy to abuse, because
you have to eat (unlike alcohol
which you can give up com
pletely), it is very desirable ancl
tastes good. When you have no
other control over your life, you
can control how much you
ingest,” Medoff said.
Medoff said she knows these
control issues intimately. Her
preoccupation with weight
developed into anorexia at 12
and bulimia from 14 on. It also
led her into self-destructive
relationships with unsuitable
men (whom the book dubs “rat-
boys”) that did litde for her self
esteem.
“ My foundation was shaky to
begin with and as I got older, I
got more confused until I was
whirling in an emotional vortex
that was the result of this
incredible void. I developed a
coping mechanism-albeit a very
destructive one-to deal with it.
Writing the novel proved to be
cathartic. My eating disorder was
a way for me to function in the
world,” Medoff said.
“My relationship with Hunger
Point, which has spanned four
years, has been my greatest love
affair.”
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Biach HERstory *
MNOUNCEMENTS
• 5,1929 Autherine Lucy,
the first African-American
student to enroll at the Univer
sity of Alabama, is bom.
•5, 1977NaimaQ.
Barbour, mass communica
tions major, from Fort
Washington,Md. is bom. Naima
is a copy editor for The Bennett
Banner.
• 5,1932 Yvonne
Braithwaite becomes the first
African-American woman from
California elected to the House
of Representatives.
• 8,1930 Faith Ringgold
is bom in New York City. She
will become a multimedia artist.
Happy 21st Birthday
Jamie! Have a great day
and no rebukes.
You deserve it.
We all love you.
Love your roommate
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