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Campus health saluted
Wellness Week to focus on mind and body
bt Erin Gibson
Staff Reporter
Is your nose running?
Follow it to Focus on Wellness Week.
Beginning Sunday, the Chancellor’s
Wellness Planning Committee will present “Well
Worth It,” a week of wellness events and semi
nars for UNL students, faculty and staff.
Wellness events will include an interactive
video seminar and walk or bike to work day
Thursday.
A campuswide health fair in the Nebraska
Union will wrap up the week’s activities Sept.'
27. Organizations at the fair will offer free health
screenings and assessments, health information
booths and hourly give-aways.
Carof Ash, communications coordinator for
the University Health Center and a member of
the Chancellor’s Wellness Committee, said that
many students misunderstand the concept of
wellness.
“They hear the word ‘wellness,’ and they
think fitness,” Ash said. “Wellness includes
much more than fitness.”
Beginning with the wellness fair, the
chancellor’s committee will try to change this
misconception, she said.
Wellness includes all activities that help
people improve their quality of life through eight
dimensions: cultural, emotional, environmental,
intellectual, occupational, physical, social and
spiritual, Ash said.
The Association of the Students of the Uni
versity ofNebraska will promote campus safety
during the week, said Kara Marshall, ASUN
second vice president. At the fair, represents
ti ves will distribute safety tips on avoiding sexual
assault, theft and using the campus escort sys
tem.
They will also remind students to lock doors
and caution them against walking alone at night.
“The reminders are things you know are the
right things to do, but you don’t think about them
on a daily basis,” Marshall said.
“Well Worth It” will not end with wellness
week, Ash said. The slogan belongs to a com
prehensive plan that will improve wellness ef
forts on campus.
Ongoing efforts of campus wellness organi
zations, including the Campus Recreation Cen
ter, ASUN and the University Health Center, will
be coordinated under the “Well Worth It” slo
gan, Ash said. ; <
The chancellor’s committee hopes to expand
wellness efforts after gauging the needs of the
campus population, said Janet Crawford, depart
ment head of community health at the health
center and co-chairwoman of the chancellor’s
committee.
“We want to continue the week’s enthusiasm
and interest and determine what the campus
population wants to see happen in the future,”
Crawford said.
Wellness Week Events:
— Sunday: Fitness Instructor TVaining at the
Campus Recreation Cotter, 9 ajn. to 3 pjn.
-—TUesday: “Get Real! Changing the Campus
Climate Integrating Mind, Body and Spirit” an
interactive video seminar in the Nebraska Union,
noon to 2 pun.
— Thursday: Walk or ride a bike to work day.
—Friday: Well Worth It Health Fair in the Ne
braska Union, 9 am. to 3 pm.
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Residence halls dishing out
health-conscious diets, menus
By Todd Anderson
Staff Reporter
If you can walk past the pizza and fries in
the residence hall cafeteria line, you might just
find entrees that are nutritious and taste good,
too.
Pam Edwards, coordinator of food service
operations for university housing, said her of
fice is waking on the residence hall menus to
provide a wide choice of foods that are healthy
fa students.
She said the residence halls have been plan
ning with Dave Ellis of Performance Nutrition
and Karen Miller from the University Health
Center to identify how the menus can be im
proved.
“It’s becoming a group effort,” she said.
“With different areas waking together, we’re
aware of what each other is doing.”
She said she and her management staff have
made low-fat and vegetarian items available for
students.
“Having a broad selection is important,” she
said.
Julie Nelson, a freshman broadcasting ma
jor, said she thought the residence hall cafete
rias provide a good variety of foods.
“If you want to eat healthy food, you can,”
she said. “There’s at least something you want
to eat.”
But Julie Schoolmeester, a freshman news
editorial major, said the food available, like
pizza and fries, sometimes isn’t very nutritious.
She said she doesn’t eat meat, except for
chicken once a week.
“I don’t have any problems, but I feel bad
fa the people whcrdon’t eat meat because some
times the (vegetarian) meals are bad,” she said.
She said she would like to see mae choices
of nutritious foods in the cafeterias.
Schoolmeester said she uses the nutritional
her decide Whattoeat.
But Nelson said she only glances at them to.
see what they are.
“I don't pay much attention to them,” she
said. ^
Edwards said her office is working with the a
program to identify changes that need to be "
made. r
“We’re reviewing the recipes, making sure g
they’re correct,” she said. “We’re also looking
at listing other nutrients like sodium.” .
Edwards said other programs are available
for students to eat a healthy meal with little time.
She said the Grab *N Go breakfasts and
lunches and the Sack Lunch program have been >
successful with students.
She also said the Nutrition Education Com
mittee, of which Edwards and a representative
from each cafeteria are members, provides lit
erature on nutrition in the residence halls and
will soon begin to provide education programs g
on the Food Guide Pyramid.
She said students are invited to contact the
committee with their concerns and to partici
pate in the meetings. Students should contact
Edwards at 472-9045.
Even with all the resources available, plan
ning a meal can still be confusing, Edwards said.
She said students who have concerns about •
the menus should contact their dining room
manager or her office.
‘When you plan a menu, it’s never set in
stone,” she said. “Ideas and tastes change. When
that happens, you need Jo regroup and address
the students’ needs.”
“Never think there’s not an option for some
thing different,” she said. “Contact the manage
ment staff. Always ask. The staff is eager to
help.”