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MUW is making an effort to beat the statistics
By Juna’uh Allgood
Managing editor
Photo credIT: Juna’uh Allgood

When production season heats up, Theatre students practically live in the Cromwell Building, sometimes working 12 or 13 hours a day. Other pursuits – like getting exercise and eating right – can fall by the wayside. 

Theater instructor Brook Hanemann saw what was happening and wanted to find a way to help students make health a priority. This semester, the department has encouraged students to commit to a health and fitness contract for 30 days. As part of the program, students will keep track of what they eat.

“The logging of nutrition is already really helping people learn how to make healthier choices. The nutrition tracking tool alone can change your lifestyle tremendously,” said Hanemann. “When you are regularly logging what you eat and you see how the calories/fat/carbs and protein add up, you start to make more informed decisions about what you choose to put into your body.” Read More...

LIFESTYLES

Massively multi-player gaming is the big trend for PC gaming, and has been for a few years now. Since 1997 and the release of Richard Gariott's “Ultima Online” – yes, the crazy “going to space” guy recently interviewed on the Colbert Report – more and more of these pay-per-month online games have been showing up in your favorite Wal-Mart.

You may have a passing familiarity with this type of game because it devoured one of your friends.
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OPINION

The 2008 presidential election will be another one for the history books because as it stands, we’ll either be electing the country’s first black president or the country’s first female vice-president. If the last year’s worth of twists and turns weren’t enough, this past week’s flurry of news events put a bizarre spin on it all.

The oddest thing about it all is the frequent absence of the Republican Party, literally and figuratively.

VP nominee Sarah Palin burst on to the scene and quickly gained ground with her acclaimed speech at the Republican National Convention. Read More...

CAMPUS

Lisa Foster
Culinary Arts, Sophomore

“I procrastinate a lot and I would like to change that.”

See what other students are saying...