Volume 100 ∙ November 6, 2008 ∙ Number 9

Path helps students stay on track

• Clear labeling of healthy food and use of pedometers help participants keep track of progress
Amanda Powers
Opinions Editor
When the Cage Center opened
in January, junior Taylor Jackson
saw it as a perfect opportunity
to get himself in shape. Tired of
having very little energy and bad
eating habits, Jackson made it his
goal to drop some weight.
“I just got fed up one day,”
Jackson said. “I was 207 pounds,
and as soon as the Cage opened,
I started working out.”
Jackson said his goal was to
slim down to a healthy weight in
the 150s. To date, he has lost 57
pounds, but, more importantly, he
is maintaining a healthy lifestyle,
and the thought of going back to
his former self “grosses him out”
and keeps him motivated.
While pursuing his weight
loss goals, Jackson said he had
wished Berry would have some
sort of program.
Now, a little more than one
month after the launch of Berry’s
health initiative, “A New Year,
A New You,” and alumnus Will
Clower’s The Path, lots of Berry
students, faculty and staff are
joining Jackson and jumping on
the healthy living bandwagon.
Clower’s presentation “Live
Mediterranean” Sept. 23 drew
in 750 people. The next day, 532
LAUREN WRIGHT, PHOTO EDITOR people stopped by the first an-
Freshmen Courtney Collins and Christy Kyle take time to exer- nual Student Fitness Expo.
cise in The Cage. The Path program, since its creation, has had a To date, 388 people have
positive effect on students’ awareness of exercise and eating healthy. signed up for The Path, which
focuses on healthy eating choices
and portion control.
Jackson said he has not signed
up for The Path simply because
he’s too busy, but he employs
many of the behavioral hab-
its emphasized by Clower and
is continuing to exercise regu-
larly and cook and eat healthier
meals.
Many in the Berry community
are participating, in one way or
another, in the health programs
and are taking time to evaluate it
after one month.
Freshman Amanda Cromer,
senior Amos Black and senior
systems engineer Patrick Foley
all have one thing in common.
They’re all leaders in total num-
ber of steps logged in on The
Path.
Foley, as many people around
Berry may well know, has been a
cyclist for years.
He is currently leading all 388
Path participants with 541, 602
total steps logged in. Foley said
he cycles between 5,000 and 6,000
miles per year.
“To give you an idea how I
accumulate the steps I do, I rode
my road bike 4 hours and 11 min-
utes this weekend,” Foley said.
Four hours of moderate cy-
cling is equivalent to just more
than 53,000 steps.
Even though Foley is a veter-
an cyclist, Black is not far behind
in steps, with a total of 481,315
logged in.
Black said he hadn’t always
led a healthy lifestyle, but com-
ing to college opened up doors
for him to get active.
“The environment here has
a lot more opportunities to get
physically active,” Black said.
He said he usually works out
in the Cage twice a week, but
loves to hike and play intramu-
rals, specifically soccer. An aver-
age two to four hour hike equals
30,000 steps, Black said.
Like Foley, who was very
physically active before starting
The Path, Black said he hasn’t
experienced much of lifestyle
change, but said he’s always
eaten healthy and wanted to log
his steps in see how active he was
compared to his peers. From the
results, he stacks up pretty well.
“[Exercising] just feels good,”
Black said. “Every time I exercise
I feel good, and it just gives me a
reason to do it again.”
For Cromer, The Path was a
good way to help her meet her
goals she set for herself as a col-
lege freshman.
“Instead of gaining the fresh-
man 15 when I came to college,
I wanted to lose it,” Cromer said.
Cromer said that during the
past few years, she has become
more health conscious and is us-
ing The Path to help her develop
and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
See “path” P. 2

Technology revisited: Farnham details plans for campus telecommunications

Kyler Post
Deputy News Editor
In the April 3 issue of the Carrier, Chief
Information Officer Tim Farnham detailed
some of his expectations for on-campus in-
formation technology. The Carrier recently
met with Farnham to examine the depart-
ment’s progress.
Wireless Services
Given the increasing number of stu-
dents using the Internet on campus, wire-
less services are becoming a more and more
discussed topic among students. In April,
Farnham told the Carrier that a plan for
adding wireless Internet to residence halls
was submitted to the vice presidents.
Farnham said there is a plan in place
to have wireless Internet in every resi-
dence hall by August of 2009. Farnham
said IT would install the wireless service
themselves.
East Mary went wireless after it was
renovated this summer. Dana will be wire-
less- ready after its renovation is complete,
also. After Dana is completed, IT will begin
installing wireless Internet in all remain-
ing residence halls, starting with the town-
houses. The new residence halls will come
equipped with both wireless capabilities
and Ethernet ports.
Farnham said he predicts that student
wireless use will skyrocket to nearly 80
percent once the campus is completely
wireless.
Student Web Server
Farnham was quoted in the fall of 2006
as saying that he believed the project for a
student Web server would be “wide open
in less than a year.” However, plans for a
student server have yet to fully materialize.
Currently, students must post their sites on
a faculty server.
Farnham said his department is looking
for a solution, whether it comes internally
or from an outside source. Though he said
he and the administration preferred a free
student Web server, he also mentioned they
were willing to pay for a quality service.
But Farnham also said he was unsure
that many students would actually use
such a service, should the college imple-
ment it.
“I think only about 100 or so students
will use the server,” Farnham said. “Be-
yond that, I’m not sure it would be of much
use.”
Bob Frank, communication department
chair, said he thinks students would likely
use the server frequently if they were prop-
erly trained on how to post their own sites.

see “Tech” P. 3

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