2008 Woodie Awards
'Passport' program rewards healthy habits
By Stephanie Arnemann
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Culture
The Passport to Wellness program is up and running again this semester as of March 17, and it will last five weeks.
The program rewards people who engage themselves in the six areas of wellness. It is designed to encourage students to engage in all aspects of wellness, including physical, spiritual, social, emotional, intellectual and environmental.
"[The purpose is to] get people aware that a much cleaner life is a much simpler life," according to Miles Ledford, coordinator of club sports and outdoor programming.
All students and faculty may participate in the Passport to Wellness program. Each student may register with the program by picking up a "passport" at any of the stamp station locations on campus, filling out the back page of the passport and turning it in to the stamp station.
The student will then receive an email that will describe what the program entails in further detail and how to turn in passports at the end of the semester.
Stamp stations can be found in any of the dorm offices, in the Maclellan gym, in the counseling center and in the University Center office.
Buster Skrine, an Atlanta freshman, said, "I think if students look into [the program] that it will make a change."
Students will receive a stamp for each wellness activity they participate in that week.
The Passport to Wellness program will host several events with clubs and programs on campus such as club sports and the outdoor program. There will be speakers who will come and speak with students about drugs and alcohol.
Spring Fling is also an event coordinated in conjunction with the program. Participating in any of these events will earn a student a passport stamp as well.
Janay Roberson, a Union City, Tenn., sophomore, said, "I think [the program] is good and I think a lot of students should get [involved] because a lot of people are out of shape and this could help a lot of people get back in shape."
The program rewards people who engage themselves in the six areas of wellness. It is designed to encourage students to engage in all aspects of wellness, including physical, spiritual, social, emotional, intellectual and environmental.
"[The purpose is to] get people aware that a much cleaner life is a much simpler life," according to Miles Ledford, coordinator of club sports and outdoor programming.
All students and faculty may participate in the Passport to Wellness program. Each student may register with the program by picking up a "passport" at any of the stamp station locations on campus, filling out the back page of the passport and turning it in to the stamp station.
The student will then receive an email that will describe what the program entails in further detail and how to turn in passports at the end of the semester.
Stamp stations can be found in any of the dorm offices, in the Maclellan gym, in the counseling center and in the University Center office.
Buster Skrine, an Atlanta freshman, said, "I think if students look into [the program] that it will make a change."
Students will receive a stamp for each wellness activity they participate in that week.
The Passport to Wellness program will host several events with clubs and programs on campus such as club sports and the outdoor program. There will be speakers who will come and speak with students about drugs and alcohol.
Spring Fling is also an event coordinated in conjunction with the program. Participating in any of these events will earn a student a passport stamp as well.
Janay Roberson, a Union City, Tenn., sophomore, said, "I think [the program] is good and I think a lot of students should get [involved] because a lot of people are out of shape and this could help a lot of people get back in shape."
