College works to address eating disorders

However, for someone with an eating disorder, this everyday scenario is an entirely different situation. Food is the enemy, and each calorie is terrifying. Eating disorders usually manifest themselves in one of two forms-anorexia nervosa, which often times consists of extreme food restriction, and bulimia, which involves a binge/purge cycle. Both are characterized by a fear of weight gain and unhealthy eating patterns that can lead to malnutrition and excessive weight loss. We have heard all th

Takaki lectures on multicultualism in America

Urging audience members to reflect upon the lecture’s implications, Sharma introduced Takaki, who was on her Ph.D. committee at the University of California-Berkeley. “This lecture will also make evident the necessity of ethnic studies and Asian American studies in campuses across the U.S. and of course the Valley here,” she said. Takaki opened by noting his origins in ethnically diverse Palolo Valley on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Confessing that he was not an academically inclined teenager, T