Is This College Fat Shaming Students?

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“The private women’s college Bryn Mawr emailed a group of students late last week encouraging them to join the new school-sponsored weight loss program. Students received the email based on their elevated body mass index, data that was mined from their medical records collected by the college’s Health Center.

The email instructed the possibly pudgy ladies to “give a HOOT!” about their weight. This was a reference, we presume, to the school’s svelte avian mascot, an owl.

“I’m clearly on a ‘fat list’,” one student wrote to Jezebel after receiving the email. She added: “I’m a size 6.””

*Read more here: http://jezebel.com/bryn-mawr-health-center-helpfully-emails-students-weigh-1682160292

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