Nutritional Snacks

Granola bars as well as gooey confections and chips are available for the time-being from campus vending machines, thanks to a one-woman effort by Kathy Phillips '77.

A psychology-English major who is taking some pre-med courses, Phillips was inspired by her work in nutrition to ask College officials to arrange to have health food snacks put in the vending machines. "They were not uncooperative," she said, "but they were skeptical about the market."

So Phillips set out to sound out student opinion. She printed petitions and explanations of her campaign, gaining wide support from faculty and students. With 1,000 signatures on her petitions, she persuaded the College and the vendingmachine company to put three rows of health food in each machine and a milk-vending machine in one dormitory. In the future, she hopes they will also offer fruit.

She doesn't want to force anything on anyone, she says, just educate people on good nutrition and offer alternatives. After the few months trial run she's won for health foods, "if they do not sell, that's it."

Meanwhile, Phillips, who is keeping her options open for a career in the health field, is writing a series of articles on nutrition for The Dartmouth.