Receive campus news in your inbox. Sign up for the email edition. Amy Maitner created The Purple Ribbon Project to educate UCF about the different symptoms and types of eating disorders.Among the flurry of bright sportswear and whirring of exercise machines at the Recreation and Wellness Center, gym goers may have noticed the small purple ribbons in the corners of the office windows throughout the gym. The ribbons represent the work of a UCF student who has high hopes for what could be a campus-wide movement. Advertising and public relations sophomore Amy Maitner calls her mission The Purple Ribbon Project. Maitner’s project introduces a course that can be taught to the UCF community that teaches the symptoms of eating disorders and what resources there are on campus for students who are experiencing difficulties with eating disorders. “When they are fully certified with the class, they receive a purple ribbon, which certifies their office as a safe place,” Maitner said. Scott Mauro, RWC marketing and communications manager and purple ribbon advocate, has a ribbon of his own in his office window. “That is a signal to any student who either knows somebody or who themselves is struggling with an eating disorder, they can come in and this is a safe place for them,” Mauro said. Maitner, 20, utilized a few campus resources in order to get the ball rolling with the program. She currently works closely with the Counseling and Psychological Services at UCF, Project HEAL, as well as with the RWC. Maitner is also spreading awareness of the project in partnership with CAPS. Beyond seeing her project in window sills of the gym, Maitner has high hopes for the future of the project. She is working on adding a module for upcoming freshmen to take before entering the college life – much like the alcohol awareness entrance module. Her idea for the project stemmed from the Safe Zone program, which supports the LGBTQ community at UCF. Similar to the pride allies, she would like to branch out with her project to other departments. But it’s also personal for Maitner. She doesn’t only want to help the students who are struggling with their relationship with food, she can relate to them as well. Maitner said she went through a difficult time in her freshman year with a struggle between not eating and having an exercise addiction. “I started struggling a lot last year with body image issues and it led to very dangerous habits and consequences,” Maitner said. When she decided to seek help, she said there wasn’t any awareness or support on campus for eating disorders. “That really surprised me because eating disorders affect such a large percentage of young women, and yet we are the second largest college in America, and we don’t have really any sort of awareness for it,” she said. According to nationaleatingdisorders.org, more than 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at one point in his or her life, and Maitner is trying to decrease that number with this project. The website states that 31 percent of college females suffers from eating disorders. Maitner said she hopes this program serves as a stepping stone for those students who are suffering to get the help they need to recover and improve their self esteem. “I started seeing when I started taking women studies classes how women are so often objectified and oppressed through the media and how all of the images are false and all the Photoshop,” Maitner said. “So I decided, instead of blaming all of the media for these things, I would instead change the media and make my own media. Maitner said that this program has the potential to save lives and to give suffering students the help they need. “We are hoping once we get enough media recognition, students will know that purple ribbon means that they can go there and … professors will correctly refer them to help on campus,” she said. I am not posting spam. I understand posting spam or other comments that are unrelated to this article will cause my comment to be flagged for deletion and possibly cause my IP address to be permanently banned from this server. A gallery of the cartoons that appear every week in the opinions section of the Central Florida Future. 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