Spring Break
SNO Organic Chem. Club do health fair
By Suzanne Penna
in FeaturesIssue date: 4/23/09 Section: Features
The Student Nurse Organization held a health fair in the College Center Solar Lounge yesterday to help students understand all six dimensions of health (physical, spiritual, social, environmental, emotional and mental) and to offer tips to maximize the members' own level of health while reaching out to students outside of the nursing program.
When first proposed at an Inter-club meeting early in the semester, several clubs verbalized an interest in taking part in the fair. In the end, only the Organic Chemistry Club joined SNO in putting on the health fair.
Jen Fischbach, vice president of SNO, was the director of planning for the fair. Along with Master Eeric Alders, Fischbach demonstrated some martial-arts maneuvers in an attempt to inform people about physical fitness. Adam Rinaldi, a business-studies student, took part in the demonstration. He was instructed on a few punching techniques and proper body positioning.
Dan Wong, treasurer of SNO, manned the spiritual-health table. Wong emphasized a few of the least expensive ways to achieve greater spiritual health through meditation, prayer, yoga and tai chi.
"Spiritual health is not religious health," Grant Shea, president of SNO, said. "Spiritual health is an individual experience. Reli-gion can be a part of spiritual health, but it does not have to be," he added.
Jay Vitale, class representa-tive for SNO, was responsible for the social-health table. Smoking was the main focus of the table because smoking has asignificant impact on people's social health in more than one way, said Vitale.
"Most people are ignorant of the real effects of smoking," he said. As part of his presentation, he had breath sounds transmitted from his laptop to a set of speakers so people could hear for themselves the damage caused by smoking.
For environmental health, the club chose to focus on bottled water in comparison to one's own tap water. Through several pamphlets and fliers, the detrimental effects of bottled water on the environment were explained, and it was suggested people switch to a reusable stainless steel water carrier. "It doesn't rust or react with the water," said Shea.
When first proposed at an Inter-club meeting early in the semester, several clubs verbalized an interest in taking part in the fair. In the end, only the Organic Chemistry Club joined SNO in putting on the health fair.
Jen Fischbach, vice president of SNO, was the director of planning for the fair. Along with Master Eeric Alders, Fischbach demonstrated some martial-arts maneuvers in an attempt to inform people about physical fitness. Adam Rinaldi, a business-studies student, took part in the demonstration. He was instructed on a few punching techniques and proper body positioning.
Dan Wong, treasurer of SNO, manned the spiritual-health table. Wong emphasized a few of the least expensive ways to achieve greater spiritual health through meditation, prayer, yoga and tai chi.
"Spiritual health is not religious health," Grant Shea, president of SNO, said. "Spiritual health is an individual experience. Reli-gion can be a part of spiritual health, but it does not have to be," he added.
Jay Vitale, class representa-tive for SNO, was responsible for the social-health table. Smoking was the main focus of the table because smoking has asignificant impact on people's social health in more than one way, said Vitale.
"Most people are ignorant of the real effects of smoking," he said. As part of his presentation, he had breath sounds transmitted from his laptop to a set of speakers so people could hear for themselves the damage caused by smoking.
For environmental health, the club chose to focus on bottled water in comparison to one's own tap water. Through several pamphlets and fliers, the detrimental effects of bottled water on the environment were explained, and it was suggested people switch to a reusable stainless steel water carrier. "It doesn't rust or react with the water," said Shea.
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