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rather that health reasons. And although the ‘"ideal" feâ€" male physique is extremely thin, only a very few women meet that standard naturally. While ‘the "ideal" weight and shape for women has been gradually getâ€" ting more slender over the past decade, the actual weight for women has been increasing, creating a growing disparity beâ€" tween the size of women and the size women want to be. Almost every women who deveâ€" lops an eating disorder has been on some sort of diet. Fearless Friday has been established durâ€" ing Eating Disorder Awareness Week to promote normal eating ous link between the amount of energy or calories taken in and the vitamin and mineral content of the diet. According to statistics released by the regional health unit, apâ€" proximately 70 per cent of women in Canada watch what they eat, while 40 per cent are actively Fearless Friday Clint Lawson of Cardill Crescent stands outside a student occupled house that burned late last front lawn and street parking, and the occasional loud party. And there is the matter of fires â€" two house fires in as many weeks in September. Yet according to Clint Lawson of 27 Cardill Crescent, the troubles with studeénts ebbs and flows. And right now, things seem to be ing just fine. & "It rises and falls de; on the students (renting). Some students are good â€" they keep Crescent area and Dorset Street â€" and how they are affected by university students: The two neighborhoods are near both Waterloo Lodging houses can be found in both areas. But there the similarities end. & Cardill Street has seen 17 per cent of its houses converted to student dwellings, mainly lodging houses. p::l' longâ€"term residents, that has led to a few ems. Foremost among them are property standards issues â€" neglected lawns and landscapes as well as garbage piling up in rear yards. Then there is the matter of front lawn and street narking. and the nccaszinmal land This is the tale of two neighborhoods â€" Schumilas said. "It becomes a spiralling downward cycle, and it‘s difficult to break out of." One way to break the cycle, Schumilas said, is to begin to recognize the preâ€"occupation this society has with weight. "We have to deal with that preâ€" occupation, rather than take a selfâ€"blame sort of approach. We have to look more at healthy‘ weight, and why we even think we should be at these ridiculous \ weights." o ced If someone feels they should lose weight for health reasons, with a visit to the family physiâ€" :iln to discuss the weight probâ€" em. In most cases, if the physician feels his or her patient‘s health is â€" but as an alternative to dieting and to encourage people to take a more critical look at restrictive eating. not in the true sense of the word at "Dieting is like an addiction â€" (Continued from page 1) people coming and going. It‘s like I live in Toronto." * & ks 2 / Baflduwibnhh::ln?uhingverymwd,but b ? y has some difficulty expressing exactly why. There‘s the & M disappointment at seeing the neighborhood change, s some of the properties mismanaged, the prices driven ~4 9m out of reach of moderate income people by absentee [ m landlords. Then there is the disintegration of the community C ethic that Ball grew up with. People used to look out for . each other, he said. If he left his car lights on, a A neighbor would call. .Â¥ Because they are not there for long, most students _ [imf se dox:it bother to become‘ part of the neighborhood, Ball 6 ) ""You lose something; you lose a quality of life." * lc ce " Some students are tidy residents, others neglect property. Some park on the road. Others have loud _ Gord Ball shows the beer bottles he collected last parties, particularly at the end of the semester. weekend from in front of his Dorset Street home. Lawson is optimistic that student leaders, city officials and residents working together can achieve a liveable neighborhood. Gord Ball, of 79 Dorset St. no longer shares that optimism. f.fll' 42;81;1:; :fie&mmm in, |in an old ily nei t is ing revolutionary change. In the last halfâ€"dozen years, he has watched as homes all around him have been sold and converted to lodging houses. j In fact, 11 of 21 houses immediately adjacent to Ball have been converted. And it gets even worse a couple of blocks away, he said. "I have no idea wh blocks away, he said. : â€"â€" i ty dh . 2 2l ""I have no iflea who owns the lodging house across the road. I don‘t know how many people live there â€" th L ";;’eV lT_m" f â€"'I- m;'| jorrs> 2. Aues . y ""v y dogt ney,lpminn-amn'.mwn:' in Toronto should use the city‘s bylaws to apply pressure to offending owners. The city, for its part should consider hiring more bylaw enforcement officers and set ceilings for the number of lodging houses allowed in the core areas of ;Waterloo. Cardill Crescent already has its share, said Under recent provincial legislation, such may be illegal. After all, students are just looking for somewhere decent to live. Ultimately, the responsibility lies with landlords to kfep‘ properties neat, he said. Meanwhile, neighbors (properties) clean and take out the garbage. But that T erae m ‘gi’.“.gp..m“" Cns on residerces after the city distributed the "It‘s (Y)our Neighborâ€" hood" guide in midâ€"September. That guide outlines the rights and responsibilities of residents. But Lawson is concerned about the longâ€"term implications of a neighborhood gradually being bought up by absentee landlords and converted to lodging It is the landlords as much as the students who must accept the blame for bylaw infractions, Lawson said. excess weight, he or she will be referred to a registered dietitian. So this Friday, dieters are enâ€" coured to eat without guilt, not to worry, and just relax. "We‘re not telling people to pig out, but we‘re telling people not Waterioo Regional Health Unit‘s nutrition services is encouraging dieters to eat what want to,wlmmungwm.mmg.mndty. they different to worry about it," Schumilas said. "Food is incredible stuff, with pleasure, social context and wonderful memories attached to it. So for one day, can‘t we just enjoy all of that." A film night and discussion "«You‘re crowding more people into an area than it was meant for. I‘ve got 11 lodging houses. How many more do you want me to have? If you say something, people think you‘re an Archie Bunker." It is time other neighborhoods took their share of students, Ball said. He believes the regional police are unable to make enforcement of parking and noise bylaws a priority, and is worried l::lt being labelled a "troublemaker" by complaining too often. But his area suffers an additional problem. Students heading downtown for an evening of drinking pass through. On the way home, they are often loud and obnoxious. "I can‘t count the number of times I‘ve been woken up at 2 a.m. by drunken students smashing signs and stealing everything not nailed down. 1 collect an lavenge of $5 or $6 a month in beer bottles left on my awn. "You can‘t have pots, hanging ornaments or Christ« mas ornaments anymore. I‘ve called everybody and no one seems able to do anything." "I sometimes get the feeling that city hall is dancing to the tune of the universities, the Uptown merchants and Beechwood. It‘s like they‘re not listening to us." about society‘s preâ€"occupation with weight will be held at the Waterloo Regional Health Unit auditorium, 850 King St. West in Kitchener, Oct. 27 (Fearless Friâ€" day) at 7:30 p.m. For more inforâ€" mation contact 744 â€" 7357