Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Students receive pamphlets or rhe Cardiovascular Health and Exercise Center booth. NU student learns about cardiovascular fitness or Wellness Fair. componenr, and rwo, exercise. Hope suggests a Wellness Club be developed so srudenrs con turn to rheir peers to discuss stress. Hope soys she hos always been involved in wellness issues. After she attended o University of Wisconsin conference a few years ago focusing on the concept of wellness, she decided to start o similar progronn here at North- eastern. Today, there is o lot more push for self- responsibility. This is because of economics — the idea of every man for himself — and becouse of a renewed interest in growth and development. In effect, by gaining wellness, you are saying Tm in control. ' However, there ore limitations, Hope adds. Financial issues are on aspect, espedolly for students at on enormous University such as this. You hove limited control, but you hove choices. It ' s important to re- member that a lot of other people ore in the some boot. ' ' Hope would like to see on an- nual Wellness Fair. She would also like to see the life-style assessment quiz become port of the medicol exam required of oil freshmen. Then we could evaluate the statistical data and hove the students recognize where they ore right now in terms of wellness. . The purpose of the survey also would ultimately reduce the attrition rote at the University. Hope feels there is a reol need among students and facul- ty member to develop poten- tiol, and both the University ' s ad- ministration and department ore extremely supportive The com- mitment is there, soys Hope. To become aware and not give up when the first door is closed, is the key. It ' s very easy to do that. Believe it or not, this is what really mokes the difference. — Maureen Muenster You must look Qt the different areas in your life; then determine the one that doesn ' t fit.

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Boston Douve College of Human Development Professions Wellness Awareness: Basis for Good Health We all know rhe person who jogs ren miles o day, then sirs down ro Q dinner conroining high levels of for and cholesrerol. Or how obour rhe srudenr who spends o good porr of his day in rhe library, so he con ger good grades only ro end up feeling like he hos no rime for any recreation. A Norrheasrern Universiry com- mittee presenrly is working on a sysrem where individuals con assess rheir life styles and degree of wellness. Dorette Hope, associate pro- fessor of physical educarion, was rhe driving force in the establish- ment of a wellness task force in rhe foil of 1984. Since then, according ro Hope, rhe concept of wellness has gained universiry-wide supporr. The wellness philosophy presumes on understanding and acceptance of on individual ' s potenrioi. It utilizes one ' s creative process ro inregrote the physical, mental, emotional, social, sexual, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of doily living. In the spring of 1985, a Wellness Day was held in rhe University ' s quod, where students and faculty members were able ro tolk to representatives from health services, personnel, food services, ere . . . and visit the various booths aimed or assessing wellness. Hope said, It was unbelievably successful. In addirion ro rhe fair, a life assessment survey wos given to the freshman class of 1985, in which students coulcf indicate the services rhey rhoughr would be helpful ro rhem rhroughour rheir nexr five years or Norrheasrern. In- -estingly enough, Hope soys, rhe - o cenrrol areas freshmen fo- .;sed on were, one, rhe srress Prof. Hope would like ro see both faculty and students rake the lifestyle assessment quiz and evoluare how heolrhy ocruolly are. rhey 1 The Wellness Fair, held in the Spting of ' 85 was unbelievably successful, according ro Hope. 26

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Professor Frank Schuben. College of Criminal Justice Police Discretion is Key to o Caliber Force Criminal Justice Professor Fronk Schubert grew up in en ocodemic ofnnosphere, oc- tuolly many academic atmospheres, as his fomily traveled the United States and Europe while his father taught in many col- leges and universities. This exposure to the world of ocodemio influenced his decision to come to Northeastern in the fall of 1976. An assistant professor in the College of Criminol Justice, he has been oworded the school ' s teaching aword twice. Schubert has noticed some changes in the quality of students since he began teaching in the College of Criminal Justice. The College is attracting some very high caliber students. I hove students that come in from high schools to attend the lectures becouse they ' re interested in low. Schubert ' s interest In police discretion was first aroused at the University of Wisconsin where he was studying low. I became attached to two professors w ho were heavily involved in teaching ond research In criminol justice at the University of Wisconsin ond so I joined a progrom there colled the Police Intern Pro- grom and between my first and second Phoro by Mike Gotch yeors of low school I went out to Portland, Oregon and was on intern for the Multinomo County Sheriff ' s Office for the summer. I hod my first reol close look at policing and I really got Into it. By my third year in low school one of my professors come up to me and said, Gee Fronk, there ' s on opening as the Chief Civilian Assistont in Doyton, Ohio with the most progressive police odministrotor in the United Stote.s ' . Schubert interviewed for the position and became on admlnistrotive assistant to the Chief of the Doyton Police Depart- ment, but not before graduating from the University of Wisconsin ' s Low School and being accepted to that state ' s Bar Associa- tion. The chief ' s name was Robert M. Idieburger whose picture still hongs in Schubert ' s book-lined office today. We had a unique collection of people under him and we ' ve all gone our separate ways. Schubert has several textbooks in his office which contain information and doto generoted by that unique nucleus of the Dayton Police Department in the early 1970 ' s. So I hod four amazing years with a very amazing mon. I just can ' t begin to ex- ploin the significance of those four years. He attrocted a group of reformed people around him, oil of whom have gone on from there to do very importont work in criminal justice across the country. We all went our seporote ways and hove con- tinued in vorlous capacities in criminal justice. It was just on amazing opportunity and unbelievable. Schubert felt that after four years in Doyton it was time to move on profes- sionally, never hoving intended to stay in Doyton permanently. Flok had been directed towards me because I hod gone directly from low school to police ad- ministration and there I was teaching police officers about search and seizure, lows of arrest, and I hod never been to court. So the time come to go to court. Schubert went bock to Wisconsin and became on Assistant District Attorney in a rural county there. In the next two years he prosecuted 25 criminal jury coses, oil the way from attempted murder-one down ond received tremendous ex- perience with court proceedings. After being a prosecuting attorney for two years, Schubert felt the urge to move on again. Part of the reason I was ready for Q change was that I grew up in on academic family and I hod grown up on college campuses all ocross the country. I ' ve lived all over the country, actually, ond overseas. We moved from Syracuse to UCLA to Howard to Rutgers to Franklin and Marshall to Michigan State In suc- cessive years. So I ' ve moved extensively. My dad hod o Fulbright Scholarship in Nor- way so I went to high school in Norway. I started college at the University of Howaii and finished my undergraduate work at Michigon State, which is where I really wanted to go. I hove always wanted to teach ond I was at Q point where I decided that if I ever wonted to teoch it would hove to be now or else it wasn ' t likely to happen, i begon looking oround in June of 1976 and Northeastern University hoppened to be the best ploce thot hod on opening. Criminal justice is a brood area with many facets, os defined by Schubert: It ' s police policing themselves, developing stondords, planning, determining what ' s right and wrong, it ' s the keystone to train- ing. Someone has to coll the signals for how we ought to operate, what we wont to do, and what kind of practices we wont to pursue ond what sort of gools we wont to follow. In Schubert ' s office there is o box con- taining 60 neotly filed use-of-force policies from town and city police departments all across the country, which he is currently onolyzing ond compiling and may put into o book. It is one of his first research projects, ond he has on undergroduote helping him compile the doto. Police discretion and policy-making and rule-making, is something which continues to be of primory interest to me. — Louis Hmieleski