Client Visit

In the presentation by our Redfern client, I was really interested with her take on making campus healthier from a planning perspective. It may be interesting to look at this project in terms of housing, meal plans, public space and student interactivity. It would be good to teach healthy habits freshman who have to live on campus so that they have those habits throughout college and hopefully the rest of their lives. This would include getting students involved on campus, not necessarily in clubs and activities but in social gatherings such as throwing frisbee on Bowman or going bowling at the union. When students interact in person instead of browse the internet or watch tv it makes them generally happier and healthier. It would also be a good idea to promote living on campus, which would get people to walk rather than drive, and doing so would require better housing. Doing a proposal for building new housing or upfiting existing housing would help Clemson housing make a better sell to the students to live on campus. We can also make freshman healthier by making their food source healthier, and Clemson has direct power over that in their meal plans. They should either get Aramark to serve healthier foods in their dining halls, or fire them.