Meredith Herald
Volume X, Issue 15 January 26,1994 Raleigh, North Carolina
New semester brings new Senate Chair
by Clarky Lucas
Many students returned to
Meredith with big hopes of a fresh
start with a new semester, but Kelly
Formy-Duval, junior, returned with
more than her spring classes in mind.
Along with the responsibilities of
school, she is tackleing her new posi
tion as Senate Chair and Student Gov
ernment Association (SG A) vice presi
dent with great enthusiasm and a posi
tive outlook.
“We are going to do the best we
can to voice sOJdents’ opinions and
improve the college,” said Formy-
Duval.
As Senate chair, it is her responsi
bility to preside over the Senate meet
ings. Formy-Duval is not allowed lo
vote on the bills presented, but she is
permitted to rule if a tie occurs.
The fiinctions of the Senate are to
receive recommendations about
changes in the constitutions and to
review the constitutions of other
Meredith organizations. The Senate
wants to ensure that there is diversity
among the various organizations, so
that they all participate in different
projects which serve a number of pur
poses. The Senate also checks for er
rors such as grammar in the format of
the constitutions in order for the con
stitutions to be consistent through out
Meredith.
At this time the Senate is prepar
ing an outline of the open house to
present to the Board of Trustees in
February. The outline is based on a
student bcxly survey completed by the
Senate.
“I think Kelly will add a lot of
excitement andenthusiasm to the Sen
ate and SfjA,” said SGA President
Camille Hatch. “ She is ftill of good
ideas about upcoming open house
weekends.”
The process through which
Formy-Duval acquired this position
included applying through the depart
ment of Student Activities and com
pleting an interview with Hatch and
other school leaders present.
Formy-Duval is a business mar
keting and political science major with
a conceniration in public administra
tion. While at Meredith, she has been
active in ihe Meredith Entertainment
Association (MEA) and was a senator
for the junior class.
One oriier main goals as the Sen
ate chair is to “try to make sure
Mereditii's new constitutions bring
the college successfully into the 21st
century,” said Formy-Duval.
Musical Chairs: Jennifer Smith, Kelly Formy-Duval, Angela Toms, Sheryl
Long, Tracy Beth Salter and Janna Morgan belt out a number at the MEA
Picnic January 19.
Balancing school and exercise helps it all work out
by Hollace Dowdy
Every morning Jane* gets up at
seven, runs five miles, goesbackhome,
showers and then rides her bike to
class. L^er on in the day, Jane usually
spends at least an hour working out uc
the spa.
If Jane can’t find at least two
hoursexercisingaday.shefeelsguilty,
Mary* eats one meal a day—din
ner. She skips both breakfast and lunch
and by the time she eats dinner, she
shovels in her food so quickly that she
is finished before anyone else.
Mary used to be both anorexic
and bulemic, and even now her eating
habits reflect the U-oubles that she ex
perienced in the past.
* names have been changed
In the December 1993 issue of
Mademoiselle, an article entitled “Pris
oners of Thin” states that research
suggests as many as 30 percent of
women in college and graduate school
show symptoms of an eating disorder.
“What young woman in America
doesn’t feel that if she only lost five
pounds (ten would be better, of course),
she would be more attractive, more
enviable?” writes Mademoiselle staff
writer Michelle Stacey. “Thinnessand
the control and self-control it signifies
is an American mantra, a never-quite-
attained promised land of beauty and
power.”
According to the American Psy
chiatric Association (APA), a patient
will be clinically diagnosed as anorexic
if she weighs 15 percent less than her
normal body weight, hasn’t menstru
ated for at least three months, and
feels fat andisunwilling togain weight,
even when she is very thin.
The APA says a patient is bulimic
when her constant exercising and/or
repeated dieting is accompanied by
severe eating binges at least twice a
week for three months in a row, Usu
ally the binging will be followed by
purging (self-induced vomiting, use
of laxitives or diuretics).
Mary, a Meredith College sopho
more, began feeling self-conscious
about her weight at an early age. By
her sixth grade year, she felt she was
“not fitting in because I was over-,
weight.”
In high school, Mary problems
deepened. She begandating guys who
were “nice at first” but who treatedher
badly and often told her she was fat.
During tJiis lime she gained a lot of
weight.
Since then, Mary has recovered
from both anorexia and bulimia,
mainly thanks to her best fiiend who
noticed Mary’s problem and helped
her through it.
She is, however, still very con-
sciousabout herself and aware of other
people and how they add to her anxi
ety. “Something that would cause
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