Washburn University Volume 143, Issue 13
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Community wellness program exceeds expectations
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Pumpin’ Iron: Tanna Terry, junior nursing major and wellness program assistant, working out in WU-Moves’ facility. The program is located in PC 252.
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WU-Moves Community Wellness Program program can be found in Petro Allied Health Center, room 252. After an internal grant last spring, Washburn has started a wellness program dedicated to overall wellness, both physical
and mental. “It’s all-inclusive wellness, not just fitness, but also nutrition, stress management, psychology, things like that,” said Park Lockwood, associate professor of kinesiology. Not only is the kinesiology department involved, but so are many other departments and organizations across campus, with
more planning to join the program. “We’re trying to expand it and talk to different people across campus,” Lockwood said. “We’ve started the program and we’ve hired student workers, interns and volunteers that take clients through an individualized wellness program. We find what they need, whether it be a health issue or they just want to change their fitness level or nutrition or whatever it is and we try to tailor it to their needs and create a program for them.” Geared towards low-income Topeka residents, it provides services completely free of charge to those who wouldn’t have access to them otherwise. While the wellness program is already staffed by kinesiology and nursing students, there are plans to expand the program’s volunteers to physical therapy students, psychology students and even the law school. “We’re eventually going to contact law because we have clients come in that have some legal issues and this is really geared for low-income people who don’t have access to this,”
Lockwood said. “So we give testing, cholesterol, weight, them access to it. [We’ll] bring BMI, body fat percentage,” in law for things that they have Monzon said. “And then we do questions about.” different physical assessments While the program has been in like VO2 max estimate, differits infancy, only having been op- ent things like how many pusherating for a couple of months, ups they can do. Then we can the program is already garnering reassess them in a month and attention far above initial expec- then 3 months to see if they’re tations. improving.” “They somehow hear about The program has access to us, [often] through Chris Omni cardio equipment, resistance from Makin’ Moves,” said equipment and free weights, in Courtney Monzon, senior exer- addition to much more. cise physiology major and intern For any students who want for WU-Moves. “She does a lot to volunteer for the program or of different things with the com- want to join the program and munity, with low-income people take advantage of its services, and does it for free. She does they should visit PC 252 or walk a lot of cool things. So we’re into the kinesiology department talking about it, getting more in PC 201. people in here, but so far we “It’s really just trying to inhave had a ton of people. We’re corporate different departments already past our maximum.” to try and make a really wholeStudents in the program are some approach at wellness, beput through a variety of physi- cause there’s not one specific cal tests to help personalize their part of wellness that’s more imprograms and identify what they portant,” Monzon said. might need to work on. “Their first session is sort of like an assessment. We bring Jackson Hermann, jackson. them in and we do all kinds of paperwork and do different as- hermann@washburn.edu, is a sessments like blood glucose sophomore mass media major.
Professor hosts discussion on gender, election Ali Dade
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The final gender brown bag discussion of this semester took place Nov. 29 in the Shawnee room of the Memorial Union. James Schnoebelen, associate professor of communication studies, led the event, that was called “Re-evaluating the Glass Ceiling: Clinton’s Gender and the 2016 Presidential Campaign”. As well as being a professor of communication, Schnoebelen’s specialty is in political communication. The main focus of the dis-
cussion was an overall look at how gender permeates politics more than most people realize. Schnoebelen started by giving the audience some facts about gender stereotypes that had been gathered, where many people were asked what qualities they would want to see in a candidate of each gender. The results concluded that most people wanted the men in politics to be aggressive, tough, rationally-thinking and direct, whereas women in politics were expected to be sensitive, emotional, helping, warm and passive towards their male
counterparts. Both genders were expected to have former political success. Schnoebelen then used these stereotypes and compared our former Presidential candidates to them to see how they measured up. He noted that Trump held many of these aforementioned qualities: aggressiveness, toughness and being direct with his actions. Schnoebelen believes that this is part of the reason he won the election. GENDER: continued on page 4
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Gender Roles: Jim Schnoebelen leads a discussion on how gender played a role in this election. He spoke on both nominees likability to the public.