Editor,
Taking a stroll out on the Health Sciences Center Plaza last Thursday afternoon, one could see a multitude of health sciences representatives promoting their departments with free literature and health-related information.
Adjacent to them you would have seen handouts of a completely different kind - plate upon plate of free, processed food given out as part of Welcome Back Days on North Campus. This is a dandy opportunity for the center to promote its health departments to students, but do they have to promote unhealthy food?
I wistfully thought that perhaps Welcome Back Days would consider handing out nutritious food for a change - not so. Instead you'll find hotdogs. Whoa, wait a minute. Can there be a more nitrate-loaded, chemically preserved and regurgitated meat by-product such as hotdogs? Well, if you don't care for hotdogs, there were ice cream bars and nachos, too.
Yes, very delicious to our sense of taste I admit, but does it make for a very nutritious meal? Hardly. Why not serve stew, beans, green chile or raw vegetables? I've noticed that it hardly makes a difference where you are on campus; you'll always find easy access to quick, cheap, processed, chemically-treated food. I would ask those in charge of choosing the food for the center's Welcome Back Days to at least offer something nutritious; and to think about the institution they represent - the "Health" Sciences Center.
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Chris Sharp
UNM staff
