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In an effort to promote overall health and wellness, while also advocating healthy lifestyle choices, Delta State University, through the work of its own Health and Wellness Committee, has officially marked the \u201cGreen Mile\u201d on campus. Green painted arrows across campus sidewalks and paths now direct visiting walkers or runners along the \u201cGreen Mile.\u201d<\/P>
While there is no official start or ending point, bidirectional arrows along the course allow participants to begin at any point, as the arrows will always return them to their original starting point. Popular starts include in front of the H.L. Nowell Union, Forest Earl Wyatt Gymnasium, the <\/SPAN>O.W.<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>Reily<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>Student<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>Health<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>Center<\/SPAN> or Brumby-Castle Residence Hall. <\/SPAN><\/P> Health and Wellness Committee chair, Dr. <\/SPAN>John Alvarez<\/SPAN>, associate professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, maintained, \u201cOur committee really wanted to provide fellow staff, faculty, students; as well as the community an opportunity and a place to get moving, whether it\u2019s walking or running. The \u201cGreen Mile\u201d is a marked route, so you can calculate exactly how far you\u2019ve gone.<\/SPAN><\/P> \u201cMuch of the credit should go to Dr. <\/SPAN>Richard Houston<\/SPAN>,\u201d Alvarez continued. \u201cHe took it upon himself to paint the trail and was instrumental in designing the route. We\u2019re hopeful providing the space will motivate folks to get moving and include exercise in their daily routine.\u201d<\/SPAN><\/P> For more information on <\/SPAN>Delta<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>State<\/SPAN>\u2019s \u201cGreen Mile,\u201d please call Dr. <\/SPAN>Alvarez at (662) 846-4564.<\/SPAN><\/P> <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delta State University Health and Wellness Committee members (front row, l. to r.) Dr. John Alvarez, associate professor of HPE&R; Dr. Richard Houston, director of Counseling; Dr. Paula Norris, professor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40361,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/40361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}