Brown and White Vol. 106 no. 31

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 106 no 31 friday february 19 1999 all the lehigh news first new art and architecture journal views life at eyelevel by deanna dutkus news writer the saying there is more to life than meets the eye is explored in eyelevel a student-initiated jour nal of the visual arts the journal is a way to showcase the projects and writing lehigh stu dents and professors within the department of art and architecture a student founded this journal as a college scholars thesis project after the initial publication another immediately followed and received rave reviews the journal drew important attention from alumni and future employers as well as ivy league graduate schools after a two year lapse period the journal is back in print this volume has a theme about community and its context it is about the role of a community and its surroundings and concentrates on the rational of the construction or deconstruction of communities and buildings looking at the eyelevel and beyond revealing layers of history and constructing visions of the future understanding and respond ing to physical and cultural con texts these are the challenges and rewards of our education as archi tects editor in chief mark malseed 98 said the idea for this volume came from the many student projects that were focused on restructuring lehigh's hometown of bethlehem one of the projects was to turn a vacant piece of land into a beautiful community maze garden the inspiration for the maze design of the garden came from the greek myth of daedalus however this maze must not have any tall bushes to hide behind and no bench es to sit on the planned purpose of this garden was for it to be a safe place where the people of the com munity could gather the final design was accom plished by a collaboration bet ween the archi kids a group of local elementary students and lehigh students in his article sean dooley 98 said in our garden we wanted to capture the essence of this period of change by perhaps somewhat naively envisioning our garden as a seed of growth sprouting in the shadow of the steel plant this seed of growth was a successful effort to bring the univer sity north and south bethlehem closer together this garden is now a beautiful place where members of the com munity can choose to gather following the theme of commu nity to other countries and places there are articles about semesters studied abroad after years of reading about b&w photo by andrea pope lehigh is one of only a few universities to possess the equipment for earthquake research data on the columbian earthquake has arrived and students are now analyzing the information see page a6 for story speaker warns women about female athlete triad ' by jennifer keenan assistant news editor jennifer becker a nutrition consultant for the sports medicine department spoke tuesday night about a serious health problem that often affects female athletes called the female athlete triad in perella auditorium of rauch business center the triad is a chain-link series of disor ders that generally begins with disordered eat ing which if left untreated can lead to amen orrhea and eventually to osteoporosis in women becker said the actual trigger of the triad is energy deficiency which is caused by eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia becker said a characteristic of anorexia is voluntary starvation factors of the disorder include coming from a middle or upper class family and being an over-achiever most affected are young women between the ages of 13 and 14 or 17 and 18 and the disorder is generally based on losing control becker said anorexics are typically trying to control their image becker said they have a wast ed look no muscle tone are often pale and have sunken eyes bulimia on the other hand is a disease based on shame insecurity and inadequacy she said this disease usually involves white females binge eating and then purging bulimics usually think they've lost con trol becker said they give in and binge and then feel guilty so they throw up they are caught in limbo to gain control also bulimics are usually within normal weight ranges in fact they may be slightly overweight these eating disorders force a woman's body to spend all energy on necessary func tions such as brain functions and breathing since reproduction is not a necessary function menstruation will cease women who have any thoughts of having children later on in life put dents in this thought if they develop amenorrhea becker said women need about 7 percent more body fat than men do in order to bear children according to becker the body realizes that it will be incapable of supporting another life the impact of this doesn't hit home until it actually happens or your issues change becker said everyone's issues change at some point she warned that amenorrhea occurs in two percent of the general population of women but in 40 percent of women athletes the final stage of the triad is osteoporosis amenorrhea causes it because this disease is directly correlated to the menstrual cycle the strength of a woman's bones depends on the number of periods she has in her life the fewer periods a woman has means bone weakening is worse in the long run becker said she said that female athletes are especially at risk of eating disorders because athletes nutrition consultant jennifer becker spoke tuesday about the female athlete triad a problem facing many women see eyelevel page a6 see athlete page 6 iiiiiiimffiiiii 1 1 1 n wi«m«__a in wm^\m\wm quick pwill brett eppehimer sexual responsibility women's success /\ w i b|sfg#f 1 play for the week increases anticipated for valleydawgs awareness of safer grammy awards iss - th . e on-campus wm ™ see page a2o behavior see page a3 see page 81 custodial service has jf - n r r changed its name to sports al3-a2o news al-a7 lifestyle 81-b8 onesource w * robßonn al6 world news briefs a2 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