PSH program targets
healthy weight loss
Michael Stone
Capital Times Staff
When you hear the word "diet," do you
picture yourself starving for weeks and
losing a few pounds, only to gain them
back again?
Now there's a program on campus to
help you lose those extra pounds and
develop good eating habits that will keep
them off-permanently.
"My New Weigh of Life," a weight
management program offered by Health
Services, is the first step to healthy
weight loss.
New campus club educates
PSH citizens about the world
Sharon Barris
Capital Times Staff
International students, faculty and staff
make up an important part of Penn State
Harrisburg.
They not only have a fresh perspective
of our nation, but they have the
knowledge and experience of a different
nation.
This semester* The Citizens of the
World Chib will ’ bring out theSe
Russia, from page 1
"I don't think I could afford school [in
such a situation]," Ogwal added Ogwal
grew up in the African nation of Uganda,
where some items cost up to 10 times
more than here. "I can relate to what’s
happening in fcussia," she said.
Like most Americans, students at PSH
have a hard time imagining what it would
be like to live with the conditions in
Russia and the other states. Some said if
food prices were double or triple what they
are now, they would have a hard time
affording things like rent, car payments
and insurance because their budget would
be dictated by the cost of food.
"Who could afford paying $9 for a sub
and still be able to pay tuition?" said Brian
Campbell, a senior accounting major.
Some students will get to experience
the lifestyle for themselves. Carol
Nechemias, associate professor of public
policy, will be leading a Penn State
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According to Marylou Martz,
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Health Services, the program focuses on
permanent solutions to weight problems.
"It's not just for 12 weeks," Martz said.
"It's for the rest of your life.”
Unlike most programs, Martz said
‘‘New Weigh" focuses on building self
esteem, the key to any successful weight
loss program. It is designed to re-educate
you to a new way of eating by making
healthy starving or
missing your favorite foods.
perspectives and experiences and offer
them to anyone with an interest in world
affairs.
The club was created at the end of the
fall 1991 semester when Joan Swetz,
International Student Advisor, and a
number of Penn State Harrisburg students
attended a workshop at Gettysburg
College.
Gettysburg’s active international club
sparked an interest in Swetz and the
students for our Harrisburg campus.
Swetz's main goal for the fctub is to
Harrisburg-sponsored trip to Russia from
March 6-19. She said the mammoth price
increases have only resulted in a $4O-$5O
hike, to the cost of $1975 per person.
"This is the first time there has been an
increase," Nechemias said. She has been
on four previous trips to what was
formerly called the Soviet Union.
Nechemias spoke of what the situation
in the country must be like today with the
recent price increases.
"People's energies are being spent on
surviving and coping," she said.
"This is the first time in history that
anyone has tried to create a market
economy from a socialist system," she
added, saying that perhaps "too much is
trying to be accomplished at once," and
that a slower process of change would
have been preferable.
Nechemias said she can remember
asking people during a recent trip to
Russia, "What do you think will happen
in six months?"
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See "New Weigh," page 8
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provide an open forum for the campus and
to provide an understanding of different
worlds.
All students, faculty and staff are
encouraged to join in at the club meetings.
Each meeting will explore a new country.
South America is the next topic of
discussion.
Music and films will • also be
"They sort of looked at me and
smiled," she recalls. "We don't know
what's going to happen tomorrow," was
the response.
Lioudmila Kouznetsova, a graduate
student from St. Petersburg who arrived
last August and is currently earning a
master's degree in health education here,
expects to return to St. Petersburg in June
upon earning her degree. Kouznetsova is
concerned about the future.
"People have become very angry," she
said. "They're even fighting in the food
lines.”
Kouznetsova, who was an assistant
principal in the Soviet Union, said, "I'm
an optimist, but I think the people have
lost hope."
She said many, like her parents, are
living on a fixed retirement income.
"My mother receives a pension of 250
rubles per month," she said. Her concern
becomes understandable when it is revealed
that two pounds of sausage costs 150
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incorporated into the discussion to find
similarities and differences in the cultures.
International students tend to stick
together at our campus. Swetz hopes that
this club will break down some of the
barriers that isolate the international
students and will create new friendships.
Anyone interested in joining the club
may contact loan Swetz in Room 'W-11'7.
rubles instead of the three that was charged
18 months ago.
Although she is able to care for a 12-
year-old daughter who accompanied her to
Middletown, Kouznetsova said she is
worried about her 19-year-old daughter
Elizabeth, an accounting student who lives
alone, and has pleaded for her mother to
send canned food or money to buy basic
staples.
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Terry Heffelfinger, humanities/business
senior, summed up the situation by
saying, "Food is the most important item
in a budget because you obviously need it
to survive. Most people spend about a
third of their budget on food. You couldn't
afford to buy much more if prices
increased here by 300 percent"
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