Food for the starving artist

With Pierce College’s campus spanning more than 426 acres in the middle of the dry San Fernando Valley, mixed with different hills and passageways, at some point in the average fatigued students day, they are going to need to replenish themselves.

For the most part, students can find a decent source of energy close to their classes, there is a specific hill that seems to have been neglected.

The path to the art department is by far the most strenuous path to travel and it is far removed from any type of food options.

The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) reported that students who do not eat breakfast at home or at school were less likely to retain the information they had been taught. Hunger can also lead to attention, and behavior, emotional, and academic problems. This will lead to students who will either do poorly in classes, drop or just have to repeat courses altogether.

Hunger doesn’t just stop at affecting our academic performance, it can also hinder our long term physical health.

Scientists at the Imperial College London have demonstrated that severe hunger causes the body to go into a sort of survival mode that creates this craving for high calorie, high fat foods and eat in large portion sizes, which can lead to poor health and diets in the future.

So how can Pierce prevent this cycle of subliminal torture?

Since it is clear we won’t be revisiting the favored option of bringing back more food trucks on campus, Pierce will need to come up with some cost-conscious ways to fulfill the needs of its student body.

One plausible suggestion would be to put at least one vending machine at the top of the hill, but not limiting the options to chips and candy. They would need to offer healthier options like perhaps things like trail mix, nutritional bars, cereal, pretzels and snacks of that nature.

Another way we could tackle this problem is reaching out to the student run groups like art soup or any group effort of donations that would enable students to share the snacks that they aren’t going to eat and pay it forward to those in need of some nutrition.

That would be the most cost-effective, but isn’t concrete based on the fact that we would have to rely on

-Corrections-

Volume 131, Issue 5:

Front:

In the deck under "Coach under investigation" it's the CCCAA bylaws not LACCD.

The jump is not on page 7, it's on Sports page 10.

Opinions Page 2:

The Pierce College President's name was spelled wrong, it should be Alexis Montevirgen.

Features Page 6:

In "A professor with an aGENDa for Pierce" first graph, the second sentence should read "Now, Gend has a different weight on his shoulders, as he's now the Performing Arts department chair."

Campus Life Page 7:

Cecilia Parada took the College Fair photo.

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