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Dick's House offers a variety of services

By Michelle Hogan | January 30, 2002

Dartmouth's mental health services, centered around the Counseling and Human Development Department in Dick's House, provide students with a variety of therapeutic options, from topic-specific support groups to individual counseling. Dartmouth's basic health care plan, included in each student's tuition, covers these services. The mental healthcare staff at Dick's House -- which consists of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and fourth-year psychiatry residents -- counsels students in need of short-term care.

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Play addresses eating disorders

By Michelle Hogan | February 2, 2001

Dartmouth commemorated its sixth annual Eating Disorders Awareness Week yesterday in Filene Auditorium with the week's keynote events, a one-woman play starring Jessica Peck entitled "The Thin Line" and a panel discussion about eating disorders. The play strove to give the audience a realistic view of the causes, the defining characteristics and the effects of eating disorders and aimed to end common misconceptions and to explore the confusion and sense of helplessness experienced by those close to someone suffering from an eating disorder. A girl named Ellen was the play's main character.

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Applications stay constant for '04s

By Michelle Hogan | February 10, 2000

The College received 10,165 applications for about 1,075 spaces in Dartmouth's class of 2004 as of Tuesday, numbers that closely mirror recent years' application numbers. The pool for the class of 2004 is roughly the same as last year.

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Whitehead-LaBoo: body image varies by race, culture

By Michelle Hogan | February 4, 2000

Emory University counselor and Psychologist Dr. Cynthia Whitehead-LaBoo discussed the views different cultures have concerning body images in a lecture last night in honor of National Eating Disorders Week. In a speech titled "Does Everybody Hate their Body," Whitehead-Laboo stressed that Western European American culture has the narrowest -- and potentially the most dangerous -- view of what is beautiful in regard to the human body. More than in any other culture, white woman, often in response to the media and views of others, are harsh on themselves. She said, 96 percent of American women are unhappy with their weight. For Caucasians, a thin frame is often matched with success, happiness and intelligence, while a heavier figure is associated with sloppiness, laziness, poverty, and poor self-control. "There is nothing telling someone it's okay not to be a toothpick," she said. Harsh self-criticism is often passed down from mother to daughter in American and European cultures.

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APA students get first programming liaison

By Michelle Hogan | October 20, 1999

For Nora Yasumura -- Dartmouth's first programming liaison for Asian Pacific American students -- her interest in Asian American affairs stems from stories about her Japanese American father's internment in California during World War II. Yasumura said her father's struggles and the hardship of those interned during the second World War has taught her about discrimination on a national scale. "I was stirred to provide support for all people," she said. In her new role at the College, Yasumura serves as an advocate for the Asian Pacific American community, a group that has previously never had an advisor, addressing personal, social and academic issues surrounding Asian American life. Yasumura saw a great capacity to be of service and "to make a real difference" in the lives of the Dartmouth's APA students.

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