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Organizations offer unique experiences
Lindsay Major, Chicago, Ill. senior, practices yoga with the Yoga Club in the Burge Union. Yoga Club offers free yoga every Tuesday for students who are interested.
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Student can get involved with more than 500 groups on campus this year.
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
smiyakawa@kansan.com
Students can make friends, experience diversity and gain leadership skills through extracurricular activities.
Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of Student Involvement and Leadership Center, said 560 student groups registered at the center last year.
"Campus is a big place and some students are overwhelmed," Quisenberry said. "The big campus can start to become manageable if you participate in a student group. It makes you feel like you belong here."
Quisenberry said students could talk to representatives of student
Quisenberry said the center's Web site would give an overview of KU student groups and guide students to their best matched group, based on their interests, majors and goals. For example, if a student is interested in campus political organizations, the student could go to the directory of student organizations and try the category search. This would narrow down the student's options.
groups during Hawk Week.
One hundred of the groups will participate in two information fairs during the week.
One is scheduled on Aug. 19 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall.
The other is on Aug. 22 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Kansas Union. He said any student would be welcome to the fairs.
The 560 available groups cover a variety of topics, from dance to outdoor activities to cultural activities.
The Ball Room Dance Club offers beginner level and intermediate level classes for dances like the salsa. Members will pay $30 a semester and take up to 15 lessons.
AARON QUISEBNERRY Associate director of SILC
Voss said ball dance could be
"The big campus can start to become manageable if you participate in a student group."
"We don't do competition," Voss said. "We just promote ball dance and have a fun time."
the waltz and tango.
Kellen Voss Shawnee graduate student and president of the club, said beginners were always welcome and could participate in either the salsa lesson or the beginners' lesson, which features different forms of dances like
athletic and a good workout.
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Brandon Hidaka, Overland Park senior and president, teaches Yoga in the Burge Union once a week for free. He started the Yoga Club a year and half ago to increase the awareness of Yoga on campus.
Hidaka said Yoga would improve health through a blend of breathing and stretching. It has also calming effect and relives stress.
Groups like the Nontraditional Student Foundation connect students who share similar interests or backgrounds.
Trish Jackson, Sterling graduate student, finds it hard to split time between raising her son and socializing with her classmates. Although
"People in all shapes and sizes can join. Whether you are flexible or strong doesn't matter," he said. "It improves what you already have."
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