TABLE OF CONTENTS
March 12, 2014
The Statement magazine examies the stigma behind disordered eating.
(c) The Michigan Daily
Magazine Editor: Carlina Duan
Features
A Silent Battle: How students cope with disordered eating
Why are some students brave enough to get up on stage and discuss their struggles on eating with an audience of strangers, but aren’t comfortable enough to tell their friends and seek out treatment?
Photo by ruby wallau
Oedipus and Drugs: The History of Psychoanalysis in Ann Arbor
In a society that demands things at ever-greater speed, a theoretical discipline such as psychoanalysis, which asks of its patients to engage with their self histories of trauma and loss for an extended period, may be unsettling when first encountered.
Visual Statement
An english Major’s pilgrimage
Photo by Teresa Mathew
Columns
The Writer’s Notebook: Not Literature, not theatre
Slam poetry is a synthesis of those two mediums of art done poorly. It isn’t literature, and it really isn’t theatre.
Illustration by megan mulholland
The writer’s Notebook:
by Max Radwin, Deputy Magazine Editor
Falling out of love with Harry potter
Is it a fun read? Definitely. But I want something more out of the books I crack open and, more generally, from the art I choose to intake.
I’m a writer, you’re not
That application is the sole defining factor: What is a writer? It’s simple. A writer is someone who writes.
Campus mechanics:
by Amrutha sivakumar, Deputy Magazine Editor
Campus Mechanics: you are the trend
By the transitive property, I can walk into a party or a club and feel an immediate connection to the stranger next to me if we can both recognize the song being played.
the donors and the Best
Everything that the University does can be expected to be a carefully calculated endeavor, and the process of convincing donors to invest their resources in the University may just be plain science.
Personal Statements
This week:
Diving into my Insecurity
Weight transformed into a number that I couldn’t stop thinking about.
Courtesy of Ruby Wallau
the archives:
Party’s Over, Now What?
Of course we endured endless jeers of “Freeeeeeeshmaaaaaaan” from congested porches.
That sexy sweater
It was the kind of morning I would have missed 99 times out of 100, but the fact that I should have missed it, but didn’t, is what makes it so miraculous.
Naming our Dual society
“Have you ever seen a grown man twerk for a dollar?”
Mustache Girl
Mustache Girl,Nick cawed, his voice like a vegetable peeler, cutting me into sharp curls of shame.
On the Blogs
Fashion Voyeur: Clothing as an expressive tool
I think students use clothing more than they imagine as a tool to express who they are and what they stand for — even seniors who say they barely make it out of bed each morning in time for class.
Trending: #MarsOneWay
What’s trending this week at the ‘U?’
The Rules
TMD’s weekly survival guide.
Five reasons to stay in AA over spring Semester
We’re like Buzzfeed, only better.
The Thought Bubble
For this week’s Thought Bubble, the Statement magazine spoke with LSA freshman Megan Skrzypek.
