MMC Joins Citywide “Take the Stairs” Campaign
Two student organizations, AWE and the Go Green Coalition, kick off the Take the Stairs campaign this week, promoting physical fitness and environmental responsibility by encouraging the MMC community to take the stairs instead of riding the elevators.
City official say the benefits of taking the stairs are,
- Stair climbing burns almost 700% the number of calories you burn standing on an elevator.
- Just two minutes of stair-climbing each day burns enough calories to eliminate the one pound an average adult gains each year.
- Men who climbed at least 20 floors a week (about 3 floors a day) had a 20% lower risk of stroke or death from all causes, in one study.
- Stair-climbing has been shown to raise good cholesterol and improve cardiovascular health
- Stair use also advances the city’s GreeNYC effort to reduce energy consumption. An escalator that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, can use 28,000 kilowatt hours of energy over the course of a year. That’s enough to create 43,000 pounds of carbon dioxide – more than three times the amount a car produces.
AWE: Advocates for Wellness Education is a peer wellness outreach organization under the Counseling and Wellness Center. Students host Stress-Down Pop-Ups and a number of other wellness initiatives on campus.
Go Green is a student club that promotes environmental awareness on the MMC campus.
Published: February 18, 2014
Math Department Holds The Eleventh Annual Pi-Day Contest
Every year, the Mathematics department holds a College-wide π-Day contest. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit an original sentence, paragraph, poem, or short story that uses the digits of π in order (π ≈ 3.1415926..).
