Feed us the good stuff

Bloomingfoods has decided to team up with Ivy Tech Community College to install a café and food store in the Connie and Steve Ferguson Academic Building of Ivy Tech’s main campus.

The café will offer sandwiches, salads, baked goods and more — all in the store’s trademark organic style.

So all the Ivy Tech students can be health nuts while we drown in fry oil in the hubs of the IU-Bloomington campus.

Locations such as the Herman B Wells Library and Indiana Memorial Union still have stunning eateries like Burger King, Pizza Hut and Chick-fil-A.

These are the two barracks of studying on campus and demand a certain amount of student sustenance for this reason alone.

Residential Programs and Services has made nutrition a hot-ticket item for quite some time now.

On the RPS website, there currently is a spot for IU Health and Wellness to make a plug about its healthy plate photo contest and a page for all IU students to see how they can eat a balanced meal at all of the RPS food courts and cafés.

Not to mention the fact that the nearly virginal Union Street Market was built and marketed especially toward organic and nutritious options.

Eat Right locations in RPS dining halls offer students smarter choices and the opportunity to be informed about nutrition before they choose what to eat.

To be fair, RPS doesn’t run food service in the Union or the library, but if the University seems to have such a grasp on nutritious living, how have the grease-ridden Union-sponsored cafés been allowed to prosper for so long?

Sure, Chick-fil-A might taste good and might be some students’ guilty pleasure while they’re hammering out some late-night finite homework, but that doesn’t mean Pizza Hut needs to be the alternative option in Wells’ Cyber Café.

If we have one unhealthy option in the food court, couldn’t the other be at least marginally better?

The IMU boasts that its food court has “added many zero trans-fat products and (is) adding more as they become available,” but it’s still mainly serving up cholesterol.

One cheese-only Personal Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut contains 590 calories, 24 grams of fat and 0.5 grams of trans fat — none of that is good.

We’re not saying everything needs to be replaced by When Eddie Met Salad, but we should recognize the need for more of a balanced, healthy presence on campus.

RPS has it down. Why shouldn’t the rest of campus?

So feel the pressure from Ivy Tech, IU. Before we start feeling it in our guts.