Brown and White Vol. 108 No. 34

              the brown and white n 1894 vol 108 no 34 tvieiday much 6 2001 all the lehigh newt first sharing her growing pains by amy cohen lauren bell actress gold tells about experiences with eating disorder television fame news editor and news writer it was standing room only at packard lab auditorium wednesday night as actress tracey gold took the podium to discuss her experience with anorexia gold was the keynote speaker for eating disorders awareness week which took place all last week best known for her work as carol seaver on growing pains gold starred in the television movie for the love of nancy she played nancy a college-aged woman suffering from an eating disorder at 12 years old gold developed anorexia but when she saw how dis traught her parents were she worked to overcome the disease when gold was working on growing pains she began to gain a lot of weight she joked by saying that she gained the freshman 15 only she didn't go to college she felt self-conscious and wanted to lose weight with the help of a doctor she lost 20 pounds and loved the attention she received from the weight loss the feeling that i got because i began to lose weight became addictive gold said as time went on gold continued to b&wphoto by steve lucks lose weight and fall deeper into the disease the producers of growing pains told gold that she had to gain weight a actress tracey gold spoke wednesday in packard auditorium about how she developed and overcame her long battle with the eating disorder anorexia international experiences shared by gina montana news writer vice president for sales and customer care at at&t william a stake 70 announced friday at the fifth annual global symposium that there are three innovations molding a revolution for future global communications the internet broadband solutions and wireless technologies are the driving changes in the technological market stake said we tend to think of them as mature technologies because we use them on a daily basis but their use is revolution ary he said they are setting new market dimensions that businesses will have to adapt to stake said communication companies such as at&t must be flexible and face the changes in responsible fashions the significance and effects these revolutionary mediums have on com munications and the marketplace is best represented through discussing what they have already accomplished stake said according to stake it took television 13 years to reach its first 50 million clients there are currently 20 million people on the web with that figure doubling every eight months stake said americans spend 280 billion hours per year on the web downloading information it provides immediate delivery of information whenever and wherever you are it shows the automatic creation of useful information regardless of loca tion stake said broadband solutions are systems comprised of fiber optic wires enabling the passage of information at high speeds the purpose of broadband commu nications stake said is to communicate a larger amount of information faster all the time stake said the technology of a broadband system has the capability of downloading every issue ever released of the new york times in one second with this power and speed doubling every nine months each business day there are 60,000 new subscribers to wireless services stake said by 2003 there will be 1 billion wireless phones in use worldwide the future wireless phones will not have regional or state boundaries stake said powered by thousand-hour batteries they will work anywhere in the world he said instant messaging is being transferred from the desk to wireless wireless is about providing new and better service to consumers at low prices stake said the innovation is unprece dented with its level of convenience stake said the knowledge revolution has made speech technology become increasingly important there are tremendous opportuni ties for user interface technologies with new speech identification systems he said users do not need to understand gold gets up close personal by amanda gontarz news editor look sage look at this keynote speaker tracey gold do you know who that is the little boy's grand mother said sage sure knew who tracey gold was but to him gold is just his mother to many students at lehigh gold is syn onymous with carol seaver the teen-age character she portrayed on the 80s sitcom growing pains since wednesday though gold has taken a different image in the minds of many students - that of someone who suc cessfully overcame a battle with anorexia gold spoke about her experiences with her weight gain while on growing pains during an interview after the reception in die women's center she said the writers and producers were writing jokes and comments about her weight into the show's scripts but that none of her castmates were coming to her defense about it they all thought it was funny and thought i took it good-naturedly because i was good natured gold said i'd laugh about it and then close the door and cry about it she said the cast members didn't say anything because joanna kerns who played her mother on the show had never had a weight problem while the others were children and men who weren't affected much by their weights gold said she was starting to recover from the depths of anorexia when she filmed for the love of nancy she said a body double was used for some parts in the movie when you see the girl in her under pants and bra it's not me gold said i got to see some girl who was deeply in anorexia it was a great healing process for me when i was starting to emerge from anorexia it was emotionally difficult for her to make the movie but she said it helped her recovery see gold page 4 see global page 5 see personal page 5 p j men's tennis team delta upsilon honors the science of a tza^t hb beats drexel loses to favorite professors hangover fac-1 sports 13-16 news 1-5 science 7-9 not allow billboards spring sports 14-15 college news briefs 2 threatened speech 7 pi women's basketball 16 lehigh brief 5 science briefs 7 c 3 source:http://uselessknowledge.com