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  • WCUem Sarah Caruso Contributing Writer Just in time for back to school, Western Caro- lina University Campus Dining/ARAMARK is launching Healthy for Life, a comprehensive and integrated approach to health and wellness that features healthy food choices, nutrition education and wellness programs that work together to support healthier lifestyles. Students are thinking differently about their menu choices and are ac- tively seeking informa- tion about how nutrition impacts their health, said Todd Littrell of Western Carolinas Campus Dining/ARA- MARK. Healthy for Life helps students gain a better understanding of food, and empowers them to make the choices that will ultimately help them live healthier lives. Healthy for Life in- cludes menus featuring lower calorie, lower fat, whole grain and vegetar- ian or vegan choices, as well as a variety of tools, programs and events designed to'make it easy for students to select balanced food choices and learn how they can. establish and maintain life-long healthy eating habits. Gee From a smartphone app and menu labeling to a dining hall Well- ness Center, some of the Healthy for Life program elements include: CampusDish Nutri- tion Smartphone App: This free tool can be downloaded by smart- phone users to quickly and easily search and view menus by location, item and nutritional content. * Healthy for Life Well- ness Center: Located in the Courtyard Dining Building, this digital wellness center serves as a central location for hutrition and wellness information on campus. Just4U Nutrition Messaging: This menu labeling system features bright, colorful, easy to identify, leaf-shaped icons to alert students to foods that are low in fat; 500 calories or less; organic; locally grown; low sodium; steamed and VINO hs + Campus Wellness _ Walk: A customized vir- tual tour, the Wellness Walk showcases healthi- er options across campus and alerts students to the menu selections that are available at each din- ing location. Special Events and Promotions: Throughout the school year, on-site health fairs, healthy food sampling events, cooking demonstrations by ARAMARK chefs and wellness workshops with ARAMARK dieti- tians will take place to continuously encourage students to eat well. On more than 30 college and university campuses where the program was piloted, ARAMARK found that Healthy for Life helped students gain a better understanding of food and empowered them to make balanced food choices. Feedback from participants at pilot loca- tions emphasized that ARAMARK has added Healthy for Life tools to help students make healthy choices. trends that focus on wellness, good nutrition and healthy lifestyles. More than 75 percent of students surveyed by ARAMARK Higher Education in the past year indicated they are Healthy for Life works because it is a lifestyle program, not a diet pro- gram. ARAMARK Healthy for Life builds on proprietary research as well as global health powers Healthy for Life oto by Chris Ward striving to be careful about what they eat and want to know how to make better nutrition and lifestyle choices. Check out the program in action: Healthy for Life YouTube Video. Change is Good: Western Carolin Sandra Nikula ; Staff Writer ~ What. from Western Universitys campus newspaper, The West-. ern Carolinian? What do they enjoy about the newspaper, and in what ways do they want it to change? How can The Western Carolinian appeal more to its read- ers? he Answers from around campus have varied from desires to See more informa- tion about clubs and organizations, advice on how students can better their lives and their experience here at WCU, more App uines on campus told from Western Carolina stu- dents, to investigative style reporting. Fellow students and professors express their opinions . on the paper and how The Western Carolin- ian should change. Tusually likethe _ front page, because it is whatever is important at the time, said Senior Stephanie McCann, McCann suggested that the newspaper should include tips related to student well- being. Kind of like how Student Health 101 does things that are relevant to our daily lives, Mc- Cann said. This advice would involve suggestions related to student bud- geting and ways that McCann describes as breaking out. Like you know, hik- ing trails; things like that. Sophomore Chappell Hartsell described The Western Carolinian as being very informa- tive. She stated that she would like to see more reports on the events that happen here oncampus. IT want to be in- formed about every- thing that goes on, Hartsell said. Just like events that go on in the UC. And, differ- ople want n Carolina The Old Student Union is the home of the Western Carolinian offices. ent departments have different occasions, you know, and clubs do stuff. Hartsell went on to describe the questions that revolved around the programs that were cut during the summer, Cause thats some- thing you hear from Facebook and word of mouth, she said. Senior Mike Williams said that he enjoyed reading the News sec- tion of The Western Carolinian. [Be]cause it usually catches me up on what campus has been doing, and what students have to say about it, Wil- liams said. He expressed that he wished that the pa- per would feature the various clubs around campus and the activi- ties they put on. You know because not many clubs are broadcasted over cam- pus, Williams said. You see the regular big clubs, but the smaller clubs are kind of hard to get to and see, branch out. Professor Thomas Salzman, director of the School of Stage and Screen, conveyed his thoughts on the school newspaper. Trarely find new in- formation in the paper that I do not know, but the readership focus is not for people like me but instead it is for stu- dents, Salzman said. So the information that is not new to me might be new to them. Salzman went on to convey his desire to see the newspaper cover more investigative style reporting, Dr. Chris Cooper, department head of the Political Science and Public Affairs Depart- ment, revealed that he enjoys reading stu- dents opinions on what happens at Western Carolina. T appreciate it when the university weighs in on whats happening at the university from a students perspective, Cooper said. Cooper divulged his wish to see more of what students have to say about the goings-on here at Western Caro- lina. Tm very interested in receiving more of a student perspective of whats happening at WCU, mostly related to administration and academics, Dr. Cooper said. Although The West- ern Carolinians read- ers take delight in what the newspaper has to offer, they do feel that the paper should be a little more student and lan style Photo Credit: Ceillie Simkiss/STAFF club-oriented, as well as investigative. Many col- lege students are look- ing for ways to branch out and get involved on campus. The independence of college can be over- whelming at time, and students seek advice on how to deal with it. People wish to hear the voices of students, and what their views are on the things that occur at WCU. For more informa- tion about the Western Carolinian, suggestions for improvement or to read more articles, visit http://www.westerncar- olinian.com or follow our page on Facebook.
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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