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20 percent of college students say they have an eating disorder
10 million women, 1 million men in America struggle with unhealthy disorder
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‘All my friends were naturally skinny, and I felt like I had to work for it.’ Meg
general studies sophomore
By Leslie Presnall • Staff Writer Meg was always the thinnest of her friends, but the idea of being thinner consumed her life as she silently suffered in a losing battle. When Meg, general studies sophomore, was 14 years old, a friend heard her vomiting in the bathroom, not just once but several times during the course of a few
months. “She didn’t even talk to me about it,” Meg said. “She went straight to my mom, and it all got real at that point.” Meg, who wanted to conceal her identity, struggled with bulimia nervosa purging type for several months, and barely breaking 100 pounds, her mom forced her into counseling. “I never got intense treatment
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because I was only eating and throwing up for eight months,” she said. “All my friends were naturally skinny, and I felt like I had to work for it.” Like Meg, 10 million females and 1 million males in the U.S. DISORDER, see page 10
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Controversial judge was Amphitheater renovation on faculty at Law School suggested as 2010 class gift By Nate Monroe Contributing Writer
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A former law professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center has become a controversial figure for his role in drafting legal documents authorizing the Bush administration’s use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Jay Bybee, a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District,
was on faculty at the Law Center and taught administrative law, constitutional law and civil procedure from 1991-1998. Bybee served in the United States Justice Department as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Council from November 2001 to March 2003, where he signed a number of legal memos concerning harsh interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration against detained terrorists. The controversy picked up steam Monday when the Department of Justice made public memos drafted during the Bush administration JUDGE, see page 5
New University group looking to garner support By Lindsey Meaux Staff Writer
With Thursday’s dedication of the 2009 Class Gift, Dodson West Garden, one group is looking to the future — one marked by preserving the past. Landmark LSU is a historical preservation society aspiring to make vast improvements to the University — including renovations to Lockett Hall, the Huey P.
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Long Fieldhouse and the eventual rebuilding of the Forever LSU campaign. The student organization has a short-term goal of improving the Greek Amphitheater, which it will suggest to a subset committee of Student Government as the 2010 class gift. “It’s time for our class [of 2010] to really step up,” said Landmark LSU President Michael Finkelstein. “Our campus is completely fractured, and there’s not really any campus unity ... We thought that it would be a great way to get all the LANDMARK, see page 5
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