15 Years of Eating Fresh, Fighting Obesity
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University of South Florida Scholar Commons Crow's Nest University History: Campus Publications 11-4-2013 Crow's Nest : 2013 : 11 : 04 University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/crows_nest Recommended Citation University of South Florida St. Petersburg., "Crow's Nest : 2013 : 11 : 04" (2013). Crow's Nest. 693. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/crows_nest/693 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University History: Campus Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Crow's Nest by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The student newspaper at USF St. Petersburg Nov. 4 - 10, 2013 | Volume 48 | Issue 11 What’s on tap? Ice, ice baby Greenbench Brewing Student keeps it cool Company for the Tampa Bay p. 4 Lightning p. 8 crowsneststpete.com New police director happy to be home Officer David Hendry comes to USF St. Petersburg after 28 years with the Tallahassee Police Department By Amanda Starling Petersburg, he plans to return to his return to St. Pete. So I’m real happy Staff Reporter favorite pastime -- training therapy to be back here. I’ve noticed a lot. St. dogs to visit hospitals and nursing Pete has grown a lot. Certainly, the homes. downtown area is real exciting and David Hendry, 51, recalls USF To get to know the new direc- lots of activities are going on. It’s St. Petersburg as a cluster of build- tor, the Crow’s Nest sat down with exciting to go along with that. ings serving as a small extension of Hendry to discuss his background the Tampa campus. He was born at and plans for USFSP. CN: What was the most outra- Bayfront Medical Center and edu- geous or bizarre case you ever had cated at Shorecrest Preparatory The Crow’s Nest: What was it in Tallahassee? School and St. Petersburg College. like for you to police in Tallahassee? Years later, he returns to his DH: Oh wow. It runs the gambit. hometown as USFSP’s new police David Hendry: I did 28 years You know, we get a bit of every- director, pleased with the growth of with the Tallahassee Police thing. There was one exciting one the city and school. Department, which is a big munic- where I was undercover, and I was Though he hasn’t spent much ipality. It’s a big city. It’s a college in an unmarked car, and I wore time on campus yet, Hendry has town with over 60,000 students. plain clothes and all that. I was three decades of college town expe- We were very engaged. All of our stopped at an intersection, and a rience from attending Florida State police activities were interrelated car came screeching up next to University, and serving with the to college activities. Of course, we me and stopped at the red light, Tallahassee Police Department and worked real close with all of the uni- and as they did, the driver kind of Tallahassee Community College. versities there. So I was very used waved his arm out the window as Now, after a day in the office to college life and policing in col- he was holding a big bottle of beer. or being out in the field with lege areas. As I retired from there, A stream of beer went flying across University Police Services, he I went to Tallahassee Community the intersection. explores outdoors with his two College. I’ve been there the past two So here he was, right next to a dogs, Georgia and Mason. After years. When this position opened, police officer. taking a year to settle back in St. it really was a great opportunity to See HENDRY, p.2 Courtesy of David Hendry 15 years of eating fresh, fighting obesity Jared the Subway Guy never expected fame. Now, he uses his celebrity status to promote healthy living. By Jennifer Nesslar Staff Reporter turkey sub for lunch, leaving off the and 205 pounds. challenges. In the past five years, interesting, Fogle said, when he mayonnaise, oil and cheese. He had He still works with Subway, trav- with the growth of social gets texts from concerned friends a diet coke and baked lays on the eling around 200 days a year. Last media and internet usage, asking if he is OK because they Twenty-four sandwiches a week, side. For dinner, he ate a foot-long weekend, he was in the Tampa Fogle has been the sub- heard he died. He tries to keep a a 200-pound weight loss and a fea- vegetable sub, with the same sides Bay area for the American ject of harsh rumors. sense of humor and laugh off the ture story in Indiana University’s as his lunch. Heart Association’s Heart Walk, “Jared is dead” and rumors. student newspaper transformed the He also began walking 20 min- which Subway sponsored. “Jared gained all his “It is what it is,” he said. overweight Jared Fogle into Jared utes per day, gradually working his “It’s been surreal,” Fogle said weight back” are Fogle is married with two chil- the Subway Guy. way up to 30- and 45-minute walks. of his 15 years of fame. “I never among them. dren — one, 2 years old, and the Fogle’s story began in the spring After his significant weight loss, one expected to have any of this.” It’s always other, 3 weeks old. He believes of 1998, when he was a student at of his friends, who wrote for the the But being a house- he wouldn’t have his family if he Indiana University. He weighed Indiana Daily Student, didn’t even hold name has had its hadn’t lost the weight, and hopes more than 400 pounds. recognize him. He wrote a front to keep his children from becom- “I was sick and tired of being page piece about Fogle’s weight loss ing overweight at a young age like that heavy,” he said in an interview triumph. Subway made contact in he did. with the Crow’s Nest. 1999. His efforts extend beyond his He looked through the nutri- From that point on, overweight family with the Jared Foundation, tional brochure at the Subway fran- Jared Fogle was no longer. He was an organization that seeks to stop chise next door to his off-campus Jared the Subway Guy. childhood obesity. housing and made a life-changing Fifteen years after achieving decision. Each day, he ate a 6-inch fame, Fogle, 35, sits between 200 See SANDWICH, p. 3 Jennifer Nesslar/The Crows Nest Nov. 4 - 10, 2013| Volume 48 | Issue 11 crowsneststpete.com New trails for student cyclists, skaters By Amanda Starling Staff Reporter for trail planning with area hos- News Briefs pitals, research facilities and John New bicycle and pedestrian Dickson, USFSP’s facilities director. Monday, Nov. 4 - Friday, Nov. 8 paths will line the roads along USF Stacks said the trail will give Save energy and support your St. Petersburg by November 2014. USFSP students access to other favorite campus organization. This City Trails, an initiative by the areas of St. Petersburg. It will con- is the rallying cry for Race for the City of St. Petersburg, is funding nect directly to the Pinellas Trail, Watts. Sponsored by the Student the creation of the Historic Booker which could allow some com- Green Energy Fund, this competi- Creek Trail. The recreational trail muter students to choose bicycling tion pits your organization against will allow access to non-motorized or longboarding to campus over others in a race to see who can traffic, including bicycles, long- driving. produce the most energy or go the boards and pedestrians. In preparation for the new trails, most miles. Visit the second floor “It’ll look a lot like a wide side- bicycle training and safety classes of the Fitness Center to use “green” walk immediately adjacent to The dotted-line marks current and future bicycle paths. Courtesy of Cheryl Stacks will be offered to students and treadmills and bicycles between 11 the campus,” said Cheryl Stacks, faculty. a.m. and 1:30 p.m. as well as 4 and bicycle and pedestrian coordina- down 16th Street South through happening around the waterfront It will take more than six 9 p.m. If your team isn’t registered tor for City Trails. The sidewalk is Campbell Park. that are really exciting,” Stacks said. months to construct the entire trail. yet, go to SGEF’s PeteSync page to designed to be 10 feet wide. Other plans include path access The St. Petersburg City Council To view a map of current and future sign up. Trails will run from Roser along St. Petersburg’s waterfront to adopted bicycle trails as a proj- trails in St. Petersburg, visit www. Park through Martin Luther King include First Street South near Al ect in 2003. In 2008, residents and mapguide.stpete.org/stpetegoogle/ Monday, Nov. 4 Jr. Street South, taking the path Lang stadium. Altogether, the trail members of the Bayboro corri- transportation/. Celebrate Diwali, the “festival through Third Street South, past additions will extend over three dor of St. Petersburg voiced inter- of lights,” with the Multicultural Harbor Hall. Trails already con- miles. est in a trail running through the Affairs office from 7 to 9 p.m. in structed include one that runs “There’s so many thingsarea. Stacks noted communication [email protected] the University Student Center ballroom. Diwali, which occurs on Sunday, Nov.