Life and Style

Intramural sports are as much a staple of college life as frat houses and sororities. Not unlike the Greek life, intramurals are always trying to find different and fun activities for students to join.

Sometimes I’d have the meat - if it looked alright."
-Jared Duke, a sophomore at University of Illinois, on his experiences in the dining halls.

Jared Duke was not about to put up with another year of Captain Crunch dinners.

Duke is a sophomore at the University of Illiniois. Last year, finding most of the dining hall food unappetizing, he was almost always stuck with a rather meager meal, such as pasta, or his default food of choice, cereal.

“Sometimes I’d have the meat - if it looked alright," Duke said.

Video games are frequently blamed for the sedentary lifestyle and high obesity rate of America’s youth, but Dance Dance Revolution or DDR, a videogame dancing competition allows players to get up and boogie without leaving the Playstation.

The game is a simple concept:
Dance steps are displayed onscreen as arrows that point either left, right, up or down. There is a three foot square pad on the floor hooked up in place of a controller and players step on the arrows on the pad that correspond to the arrows on the screen.

Attend three classes, study for that business test, squeeze in some reps at the gym, edit a history paper, try to eat some dinner, attend a group meeting--and train for the 2006 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon?

It’s not the typical way to workout for most college students, but this is how Norte Dame senior Dave McCormick kept in shape at the beginning of his fall semester.