Fixation On Image Rising?

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CHICAGO -- With a reputation for emphasizing brains over conventional beauty, the women of the Delta Zeta sorority at Indiana's DePauw University endured the jokes and unkind nicknames: Their chapter was widely known among students as the "dog house."

"As a sorority, they had a different image on campus," says Cindy Babington, the university's dean of students. "Student culture was not kind to them."

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Fixation On Image Rising?

Obsessing about looks has long been a rite of passage for young people -- well before the days, nearly two decades ago, when tennis star Andre Agassi brashly proclaimed that "image is everything" in an advertising campaign.

Today, though, some worry that the f...

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