MCC StairWELLs

Folks on MCC's city campus are taking steps in the right direction by joining a robust exercise regimen, complete with free membership and equipment!

Take the Stairs is a new health and wellness campaign the college has kicked off for occupants of its city campus, due in great part to unavoidable construction taking place on two of the main campus building's four elevators.  The work by state contractors commenced weeks ago, but despite the college's fervent wishes, it couldn't be wrapped up in time for the start of the fall semester.

To try to ease the crunch in the other two elevators, MCC administrators and its fitness team are encouraging everyone - students, faculty and staff, to use the building's two stairwells as often as possible and has launched an ambitious fitness program to entice folks to participate!

MCC's Health and fitness guru Jonathan Crockett and his colleagues have been standing at the stairwells handing out prize tickets to anyone caught using the stairs.  The tickets are entered into a random raffle for prizes like a front lot parking space, cafeteria food coupons, MCC merchandise, and coupons for discounts off textbooks or at downtown businesses.

By the way, if anyone's curious, there's quite a few stairs at stake in each of the city campus stairwells - 118 of them, ground floor to 5th floor!  The average person can burn 10 calories per minute using stairs.  So step right up, and generate some stairs!