Elton Wong’s failed to point out “Xena” is on late at night and sometimes carries a TV-MA rating. “South Park” is always rated TV-MA and is violent. So it stands to reason its audience will like other violent things. Anorexia and Bulimia are not “often” fatal. Last time I checked, they kill about two dozen people per year in the United States. I wish he had provided statistics. Admittedly, this is more than the people who die from school violence, but both numbers are pretty insignificant next to the millions of school-age children. The current “it” look is a dark-skinned, athletic, big-chested Brazilian thing. The skeleton-plus look hasn’t been popular for several years. Eating disorders are a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder and not really caused by anything external. They may shape the form it takes, but these people would have had problems no matter what. I’ve heard politicians speak about this sort of thing lots of times. It’s just not obvious what sort of legislation to make, and there is less demand for such. What are you going to do? Ban skinny people from TV and print? People are shown speeding on TV and in video games all the time. Where’s the outcry about that? If the media are making us kill people and starve ourselves to death in minute numbers, why are all the other effects ignored? Could it be stories carry themselves on sensationalism for lack of evidence? Dan Rudolph

Freshman

Computer science