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For about the last six years, Creating a Healthy, Interesting, Livable Lafayette (CHILL) has provided fun activities to help students constructively manage the stress of rigorous academic schedules. The student-run group emphasizes safe, healthy activities for the campus community.
“Lafayette is very focused on academics, as it should be, but often students become too stressed to the point that it isn’t healthy,” says co-president Maureen Giblin ’07 (Braintree, Mass.), a psychology major. “CHILL tries to provide activities that are lighthearted and fun as stress-relievers. Rather than cramming for hours, a student can study, take a quick break by bowling, and return to studying with a clearer mind to focus. The activities are a good outlet for getting rid of stress without jeopardizing schoolwork. It’s also important that CHILL provides alcohol-free alternatives as a means of relieving stress in healthier ways.”
Giblin has been involved with CHILL since her first year at Lafayette, when she tagged along to several meetings and events with friends. When the club’s president left for a semester abroad, Giblin and a friend decided to take over the organization for one semester and enjoyed it so much they decided to stay on.
“I thought it was a brilliant idea for a club,” she recalls. “It had good, free events, so I’d go to the ones I liked.”
Each year, CHILL organizes bowling trips, miniature golf outings, and barbecues. Last year, it sponsored trips to Halloweekend at Dorney Park and a comedy performance at The Stress Factory in New Brunswick, N.J. Other past activities include hiking, kite flying, and make-your-own stress balls.
CHILL holds biweekly meetings open to all to discuss ideas for events. It sends out an e-mail detailing upcoming activities, allowing students to choose events that interest them and fit their schedules.
Other CHILL officers include economics and business major Anthony Farrar ’07 (Townsend, Mass.), co-president, and English and psychology double major Danielle Ward ’08 (Chatham, N.J.), secretary.