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LSA junior Rachael Ankley discusses how the community can help raise awareness of eating disorders and increase
body positivity at Riots, not Diets hosted by The University of Michigan Body Peace Corps at the Union on Thursday.
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‘Riots, Not Diets’ emphasizes
building body image positivity
THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan women’s
basketball team has
won four of its last
five games. They will aim to
extend that streak against
Northwestern Tuesday.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Stress
workshop
WHAT: This
presentation will
give an inside look
to the side effects
of sustained stress,
particularly in relation
to dissertation writing.
WHO: Rackham
Institute
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School
Nevada
Gov.
Brian
Sandoval (R) removed
his name from a potential
list of Supreme Court
nomineess, according to The
Huffington Post. Sandoval
reportedly dropped out in
order to avoid what he sees
as a vicious partisan battle
occuring in Washington.
1
Viola recital
WHAT: Lindzy Marie
Volk will perform a
masters recital, including
various pieces from
“Romeo and Juliet,” as
well as work by Johannes
Brahms.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore
Building, Britton Recital
Hall
President
Barack
Obama
plans
a
historic visit to Cuba
sometime in the next
month. This will be the first
visit by a sitting president
to the country since 1928
when
Calvin
Coolidge
travelled to the country.
3
Love Your
Genes drive
WHAT: As part of Eating
Disorder Awareness
Week the Body Peace
Corps will collect old
clothes to celebrate “all
bodies” by hanging up
the clothes on a line.
WHO: Body Peace Corps
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: West
Quadrangle Connector
Latino
political
participation
WHAT: Ph.D. candidate
Vanessa Cruz will have a talk
focused on Latino political
participation and ability to
find opportunities while
under political threat.
WHO: Latina/o Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Haven Hall, room
3512
Varsity Tennis
match against
Washington U
WHAT: The Michigan
men’s tennis team will
play against Washington
University. They will be
playing for their sixth
straight win at home.
WHO: Michigan Athletics
WHEN: 4 p.m.
WHERE: Varsity
Tennis Center
Basement
Arts musical
WHAT: “Passing
Strange,” the award-
winning musical, will be
put on by the Basement
Arts as a free show.
WHO: Multi-Ethnic
Student Affairs
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen
Drama Center, Studio One
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Yiddish Reading
WHAT: The reading group
will be open to the public.
WHO: Judaic Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: 202 S. Thayer, room
2000
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International
engineering
WHAT: IPE will host
a free consultation for
engineers wishing to
plan for internationl
experiences.
WHO: International
Programs in Engineering
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 4:30
p.m.
WHERE: Chrysler
Center, room 245
Student org holds
event for National
Eating Disorder
Awareness week
By NEIL SCHWARTZ
For the Daily
The Body Peace Corps held
a group presentation and dis-
cussion in the Michigan Union
Thursday evening to discuss the
positives and negatives of body
image associated with eating
disorders.
“Riots Not Diets” was one
part of a week-long event, held in
conjunction with Active Minds
and the University of Michigan’s
Counseling
and
Psychologi-
cal Services for Eating Disorder
Awareness Week. The series of
events focused on promoting pos-
itive body image through online
articles, poster making, sharing
experiences about eating dis-
order recovery, clothing drives,
events and fundraisers.
Throughout the presentation,
event coordinators Traci Ayub, a
first-year master’s student at the
School of Public Health, and LSA
senior Rachael Ankley encour-
aged the audience to talk about
current issues society is facing
regarding the portrayal of body
image and eating disorders.
One student commented on
the large volume of body image
stories focused around adoles-
cent girls and younger women
and the lack of stories about
the transition to adulthood and
beyond, where she said these
issues remain a major concern.
Another
student
highlighted
the sensationalized way losing
weight is treated, which they said
leaves out the emotional struggle
that those affected by eating dis-
orders might go through.
Ayub and Ankley emphasized
those issues in their presenta-
tion, along with several other
topics, such as the prevalence
eating disorders in marginalized
social and ethnic groups. In par-
ticular, Ayub discussed the feel-
ing of being alone that she said
members of this group may expe-
rience, along with fears about
being accepted by their peers.
“We started mentioning sto-
ries about men, stories about
people of color, stories about
those in the LGBT community...
anything that wasn’t that typical
story about the white woman,”
Ayub said. “That is an important
story, but it is being told already.
It’s just that there are not a lot of
identities talked about in terms of
eating disorders.”
The
presentation
also
explained
several
underly-
ing concerns in the treatment
of eating disorders. One of the
most common ways individuals
with eating disorders suffer in
everyday life, they said, is from
comments of others about their
image.
“You can’t tell if somebody is
healthy looking at them,” Ayub
said. “And a lot of times, we try to
police people of a certain weight.
You’re not really helping them.
They are aware of their health
status. They have seen a doc-
tor; they know whether they are
healthy or not.”
The coordinators also pre-
sented facts about eating disor-
ders. Approximately 28 percent
of women and 10 percent of
men at the University who were
screened in a U-SHAPE survey
were found to have an eating dis-
See DIET, Page 3
Council to address possible dioxane
contamination in A2 groundwater
Work session to feature
remarks from Dept.
of Environmental
Quality
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Ann Arbor City Council will hear
the Michigan Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality’s plans for mov-
ing forward with the plume of toxic
1,4-dioxane in the city’s groundwa-
ter during a Monday working ses-
sion.
The contaminated plume —
located underground in Scio Town-
ship and Ann Arbor, and creeping
toward the Huron River, which is
where the city’s drinking water is
drawn from — was caused by Gel-
man Sciences’ improper disposal of
1,4-dioxane from 1966 to 1986. Pall
Corporation, which acquired Gel-
man in 1997, is the company cur-
rently liable for the contamination.
Public scrutiny on this issue was
re-energized in recent months by
the Flint water crisis, and local lead-
ers have been clamoring for DEQ to
take a harder stance.
In a Washtenaw County Board of
Commissioners meeting earlier this
month, DEQ representative Robert
Wagner said state regulations and
legal settlements dictate Pall is only
required to “risk manage,” rather
than clean, the dioxane plume.
According to the City Council
meeting agenda, Pall Corporation
was invited to give a presentation at
the meeting but will not be attend-
ing.
Councilmember Sabra Briere
(D–Ward 1) said her first priority is
to learn how soon DEQ’s cleanup
guidelines for 1,4-dioxane will be
revised. With revised guidelines,
Briere hopes that further legal
action could be taken against Pall
Corporation to compel a more thor-
ough monitoring and cleanup sys-
tem.
The current DEQ standard for
1,4-dioxane is 85 parts per billion
in groundwater, despite EPA stan-
dards saying 3.5 parts per billion is
carcinogenic. Ann Arbor has been-
pushing for the revision of DEQ
standards for the past three years.
Wagner hadassured the Washt-
enaw County Board of Commission-
ers that revised standards would be
released soon despite unforeseen
delays in releasing them in the past.
“Once we have (revised stan-
dards), the city and the county are
in a position to go to the courts, and
ask the courts to enforce to that
standard instead of the 85 parts per
billion,” Briere said. “That allows
us to open up the entire discussion
about how the enforcement works,
what the cleanup looks like, how
effective the cleanup needs to be.”
She added that she thought that
the current agreement between the
state and Pall Corporation over-
whelmingly favors Pall.
“Unlike every other major pol-
lution issue in this state, the state
of Michigan is paying for this, not
the polluter,” Briere said. “All the
time that the DEQ spends on this is
See CITY, Page 3
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