Events
Debate
Friday, February 5 at 4pm in The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street
Free and open to the public
Is it Okay to be Fat? "Nightline" tackles this question and other delicate questions related to dieting and obesity and how it relates to health in a "Face Off" to air Monday, February 22. This will be the program's fifth "Face-Off," a series launched two years ago that is a debate style format where hot topics get discussed among prominent voices in their field.
Crystal Renn, model and author of Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves and Marianne Kirby, co-author of Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere will face-off against MeMe Roth, president of National Action Against Obesity and Kim Bensen, author of Finally Thin. Renn and Kirby advocate against constant dieting and contend that you don't have to be thin to be healthy while Roth and Bensen advocate against an obese America and believe in the importance of a responsible diet.
The "Face Off" will be moderated by co-anchor Cynthia McFadden.
