UNAIR NEWS– In welcoming 25th Anniversary of Faculty of Public Health, FKM UNAIR Student Executive Board in a series of events entitled “Metamorph” held a Dean Cup event.The Dean Cup is one of the largest BEM FKM work programs routinely held once a year.It consists of sports and non-sports competitions, the Dean Cup was held from September 3 to October 24.
“The uniqueness of FKM UNAIR Dean Cup is from Health Debate Competition held themed Modern Lifestyle causing the onset of Degenerative Diseases,” said Taufik Imanuddin, FKM 2017 student.
The student explained that FKM is one of the faculties that focus on public health which prioritizes the prevention of disease, including degenerative disease.
“The health debate competition is suitable to open students’ insight to be more sensitive to the problems that occur,” said Opek.
The theme was related to changes in lifestyle due to urbanization and modernization.Changes in lifestyle can be seen clearly, such as the emergence of places to eat junk food in almost all regions of Indonesia, especially urban areas.
“People’s eating patterns tend to be instant, such as banana fries, tofu with filling, fried sweet potatoes, chocolate bananas (piscok), bala-bala, and others.Fried food causes a high risk of triggering degenerative diseases such as diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, and stroke, ” he explained.
Opek also said that Dean Cup is an open competition for the entire FKM community.It becomes a training event for students™ agility in some categories and teamwork of each class.According to him, Dean Cup as a whole gives students opportunity to develop their interests and talents through competition.
“The opening of the event was held last month, followed by the parade event, photo contest and basketball events on the same day.The basketball competition for men’s and women’s categories was won by Class 2015, ” he continued
The cooking competition and solo cover, he said, was held 4 days later.The competition was attended by all classes from 2015-2018.In the cooking competition, participants are required to cook food with salted egg, the rest were freed in creating food.
In the end, Opek hoped that this Dean Cup event can bring benefits to all participants.It is not a matter of winning and losing but on sportsmanship of participants.Besides, it can also strengthen the brotherhood of FKM students.
“In the future, hopefully Dean Cup can hold more competitions,” he concluded
Author: Tunjung Senja Widuri
Editor: Nuri Hermawan
