ETSU students have been challenged to focus more on what makes them beautiful and not what other people want them to look like. Speaking yesterday during the marking of "Eating Disorder Awareness Week," the coordinator of outreach programs at the Counseling Center, Kim Bushore-Maki, urged students to believe in themselves and not live in the shadows of other people.
Max Turner realized he had a problem when his weight topped out at 95 pounds. The 19-year-old is 5 feet, 11 inches. "So skewed was my view of myself, that I did not even realize that I had lost any weight until I went to the campus health center for a regular check-up and saw my weight," the University of Southern California student said via e-mail.
ETSU's fifth annual Hispanic Student Day will be held Friday, March 4, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the D.P. Culp University Center. In response to the growing Hispanic population and its need for access to higher education, the Department of Foreign Languages in ETSU's College of Arts and Sciences holds this event to bring regional high school and middle school students of Hispanic heritage to the university for a one-day introduction to ETSU and its resources.
The ETSU chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Public Relations Student Society of America will hold a social gathering for journalism and public relations students and faculty Sunday, March 20. The goal of the event is to help journalism and public relations students get to know each other and become more comfortable with the program and its campus organizations, said Melanie Herrington, president of SPJ.
The ETSU Arboretum will hold an Arbor Day Celebration with a tree give-away on Friday, March 18, at noon in Borchuck Plaza, in front of the Sherrod Library. Three species of trees will be available free of charge to members of the ETSU community and the general public: tulip poplar, Virginia pine and willow oak.
Four injuries and a roadway strewn with food were the results of a six- automobile pileup Monday on Interstate 26.