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Show e n u b i r T e k he Salt La JAZZ DROP HEARTBREAKERTO KINGS Utah falls to Sacramento 90-87, trails in NBA playoff series 22-1 C-1 Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 aber 14 alt Lake Tribune SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2002 2 Losing Game A burning competitive and social desire compels some Utah high schoolathletes, particularly girls, to develop eating disordersin pursuit of perfection thesi Mackenzie was not sofortunate. each other. cie graduated from Dixie 5-foot-9 and weighed 88 pounds. ‘There is nosingle exp! tion for an eating disorder. Theprob arises from common.Both lovedathletics. Marcie c ing bingeing on food and purging it from their systems oftenfind reinforcement in high schoolsports. The intense focus on body image and performance, team weigh-ins, even a skimpy swimsuit or form-fitting volley even ina Marcie whittledher5: foot frame from 100 to 69 pounds. After intensive medical and psychological in- and through numerous inter alt Lake Tribune sportswriter Wodraskafoundeatingdisorders amo igh school athletes are increas y teen-agers who t risk for starvingthemselves or sire for order,self-control and perfection. Andboth suffered through thehell of eat stick of gum oA al and psychologi found joy in running track; M: e gravitatedto ballet and drill team. Theywere driven by a compulsivede- b ticipate in track and espec' ial in which e lew ounces a difference are vulnerable, Ina survey of Utah high school homeon Feb. 11. She was High School in St. George and Fullmer from Skyline Highin Salt Lake County Yet the two young womenhad plentyin ing disorders. Bycounting every calorie riskfor eating disorders, Struggling for years with self-imposed starvation, she took an overdoseofpills Growing up on opposite ends of listed on A-2 some feel to be thin at any price. And while girls areby fa tervention, she is recovering. arcie Lemmon and Mackenzie Fullmer never knew one numbers Liptiectiogd athetes;5 28 percent seea problem in maleathletes Thetroubling story begins on Page ball uniform can add to thepressure C-1 in today’sSportssection, 3 Killed In Casino Shootout MOTOIN THE MUD Biker gangs clash in Laughlin, Nev. At least one man was arrested and 100 others were de tained for questioning after the shootout that prompted the temporary closure of highways and a bridge leading out of BY ANNA GORMAN town. By nightfall Saturday, the riverfront gambling town and DAREN BRISCOE LOS ANGE LAUGHLIN, Nev. An escalating turfbattle between ri val motorcycle gangs erupted into a shootout at a Nevada ca sino Saturday morning, killing three, sending panic-stri ken gamblers diving for co shutting down heard gunshots bang, bang, bang,” said Aniko Kegyulics, 25, who was near the casino bar when the chaos began Everybody fell to the floor said the casino battle Poli The melee of gunfire, stabbings andfistfights, broke out at Harrah's Casino & Hotel about 2:15 a.m. as the town was feud betweenthe Hells Angels and Mongol motorcycle gangs tending an annual biker party brecughit in fromCalifornia and Arizona to patrol the town and packed with 80,000visitors at Heavy rain dampenedthetrack but not the enthusiasm Saturday at the AMA EA Sports Supercross Series event at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Above, motorcycle racers takeoff in the second heatof the 250cc class. At right, Ricky Carmichael, of Havana, Fla., acknowledges the crowdafter winning the heat. A total of 76 riders tookpart in the event, the 15th stop on the series circuit. Riders participated in two classes — 125cc and 250cc. See story and more photos on Page C-5. fighting thenall of a sudden we culminated a nearly 18-month Desert town for severa Photos by DannyLa/TheSalt LakeTribune ly back in business. a bunch of people TIMES calledthe Laughlin River Run. At least 16 people were in juredin thecasino,policesaid, and the bodyof a fourth man waslaterfoundonInterstate 40 in San Bernardino, Calif., County were hehadridden on his motore: who had been fighting over oy and membership. er of police were ined in force overnight ars of more trou of retal Tunforss, spokesman for the fire See CASINO, Page A-10 Huntsman Awards Expand To Celebrate 10th Year Award Winners They are principals, teac! ers andvolunteer: in all 20Ut: whohave found a way to better the lives of public schoolchildren. Their efforts havenot gone unnoticed The Jon and Karen Hunts Elementary Schools Anita Bruce, teach Collette He man family has namedthi Teen Boot Camp Conditions Criticized Butthis is where the former Sandyresi Ex-BYUstudent’s program sued over alleged horrors dent and his wife Debbie old son Jeffafter he was sent their 15-year- caughtshoplifting a necklace in Phoenix, the city where the DeLancys nowlive withtheirfive children. BY CHRISTOPHER SMIITH The program was called Pacific Coast Academy andit was thelatest manifesta- © 2002, THESALT LAKETRIBUNE tion of the so-called “wilderness therapy” treatment philosophy for defiant teens developed in the late-1980s by Brigham Young PALM DESERT,Calif. Thetelevision screen in the conference roomofan attorney’s office flickers with images from the homemadevideotape that the U.S, Embassy University dropout Steve Cartisano, Hailed as a savior by some anda scoundrel by others, the former Mapleton man helped Bob DeLancy smuggle out of the is- land nation of Samoa last summer. A girl on the screen weeps uncontrollably as she recounts how staff members in a tropical teen reform camp held her down and “felt my breasts and butt and kissed me.”A shirtless and shoeless teen boy appears on camera,standingin the jungle, his torso, back, arms and covered with hundreds of mosquito bites and red boils, a administrator dministrator educators recipientsof the Huntsman Awards for E lence in Education. They will divide $200,000 in prize money. tors literally work miracles in the lives of the youngpeople to Middle Schools Naomi Kauhane, teacher DienaA. Riddle, teacher Woodford A. Short, EvanWhitaker, teache their Stephen Dimond, admini J, Scott Jeppesen, administrator “Utah's public school educa whom they have dedicated professional f said Jon Huntsman. “ 2 delighted and honored to “be able to show ourrespect and appreciation for the tremen: dous jobs they do.” The family doubled the numberof recipients this year to commemorate the 10th anni 1s program. created Utah's multimillion-dollar bootcamp teen treatment industry. But most programoperators today wouldrather not be associated with Cartisano’slegacy. Since his “Challenger” outdoor teen treatment program in southern Utah closed in 1990 following the death of a 16-year-old girl in his care, Cartisano has launched several ness leaders. acheckfor$10,000 anda ta obelisk trophy during a ban quet on Friday in Salt Lake City. High Schools J. Terry Eardley, teacher John Mark Krenkel, teacher SuzanLake, teacher Sherry Peterson Paxton, teacher Scott A. Nielson, administrator James E. Starr, administrator Volunteers Debbie Bradshaw Ingrid Perkins Recipients are featured on Pages A-6 and A-7. unregulated “tough love” programs for re- Teen-ies attending the Pacific bellious teens in Hawaii, the U.S, Virgin Isgle with no mosquito netting or repellent. demy for troubled youth lands, PuertoRico, Costa Rica and Samoa. Another boy asks the camera why he is Sayitis far from the tropical paradise All collapsed amid claimsofchild abuse still confined to the camp, even though heis depicted in the company’s brochure. and financial improprieties. now 18 years old. “I thought you were free Pacific Coast Academy (PCA) was no when you turned 18, at least in America you are,” he says. A girl different, The Samoan camp wa: raided by U.S, Embassy offi. says she’s afraid the staff will see her beingfilmed,then explains cials last July and most of the students were returned to their she was hogtied andleft in the jungle for two days withoutfood or parents after Embassy officials saw the videotape shot by Bob shelter. “They made me go to the bathroom on myself,” she says and Jeff DeLancy and concluded the allegations made by the with shame, children were “very serious, coherent, credible and consistent.” “This is ugly, prisoner of war stuff,” DeLancy said as the paIronicaily, the only people ever charged with a crimein the rade of hollow-eyed, shaved-head teens continue their video- case are the DeLancys, whoflew to Samoa to retrieve their son taped testimonials of beatings, sexual assaults, eating food with after another student whohad beenreleased from the camptold bugs in It, untreated injuries, sleep deprivation and the constant \Ebeaiai by staff members, result of sleeping on a grass matin the jun- >OOR copy}j \ ~ See BOOT CAMP,Page A-14 WEATHER Scattered valley rain, mountain snow north; isolated rain south AL BUSINESS Want to know the key to unlocking yourfamilyhistory mysteries? ied Astrology F-21 Books D-5 Cr'word D4, F-20 Classifieds... 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