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THE UNIVERSITY BABY KANSAN
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2008
quote of the day
"Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible."
—Bob Harper
fact of the day
Yoga is defined as a practice of physical health, diet control, positive thinking and harmony in the mind, body and environment.
—emedicinehealth.com
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Yoga Club
BY HELEN MUBARAK
hmubarak@kansan.com
Lindsay Major, Chicago, ill. senior, practices yoga with Yoga Club in the Burge Union Tuesday night. Yoga Club offers free yoga every day for students who are interested.
When the Student Recreation Fitness Center stopped offering free fitness classes in the fall of 2006, Brandon Hidaka, Prairie Village senior, and Molly Daugherty, Topeka junior, founded the Yoga Club in order to give students and faculty the chance to try yoga free of charge.
Although Hidaka usually leads the class, guest teachers from yoga studios in Lawrence teach on occasion. Recruiting different instructors allows club members to gain exposure to many styles of yoga.
The club meets Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Courtside Room of the Burge Union. Its members currently include only students, but Hidaka said faculty were more than welcome to join.
"The club was founded on the belief that yoga is a right, not a privilege." Daugherty said.
Hidaka, who is now an instructor at the recreation center, experienced yoga for the first time in the summer of 2006 after taking an interest in
Eastern thought and practices.
"I found it to be a wonderful blend of mindfulness, strength and flexibility," Hidaka said. "I'm the kind of person who loves a good workout. After my first class, my entire body was sore the next day. I was hooked."
Hidaka said yoga strengthened muscles proportionally to how useful they were for the body. He also said it helped him relieve stress.
"Stress physically manifests itself in hunched shoulders, a higher heart rate and shallow building," Hidaka said. "I have techniques to quell it... I roll my shoulders down and back, away from my ears...take a couple of deep breaths through my nose and feel my heart recede."
In addition to the physical benefits of yoga as a form of exercise, it also holds a therapeutic quality for many people. Daugherty said she used yoga as a vehicle for self-discovery and self-actualization.
"I am drawn to the introspection that yoga allows," Daugherty said. "The positions are challenging enough that full concentration on the body is required. Through this
Chris Westphal, Kansas City senior, has been involved with the club since its inception. He said yoga helps him in his ordinary life.
concentration, a lot can be learned about the state of oneself
"It's a good combination of stretching, strengthening and focus," Westphal said. "It's great for studying."
Hidaka said he has noticed camaraderie develop between club members.
"Personally, my relationships with my friends has benefited from sharing the experience of yoga with them," Hidaka said.
The wheels go round and round
Adam Hess, Lawrence resident, builds a bike at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop. At the height of the season, bike mechanics fix around 15 bicycles a day. When the weather is cold though, mechanics usually fix about five bicycles a day. This leaves time for more creative tasks, such as creating bikes from scratch.
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ODD NEWS Man's best friend gives back, saves furry friends
HOWELL, Mich. — He's donated blood 20 times and is being honored by the Livingston County chapter of the American Red Cross.
Lurch's owner, Joni Melvin-Thiede, said Lurch donates blood for other canines about once every four weeks. His blood has helped dozens, including saving one dog who got into some rat poison.
"We're doing something different this year," executive director Diane Serra said. "We're honoring Lurch because he's actually donated blood."
Not bad for a 200-pound, 2-year-old English mastiff who answers to the name Lurch. He'll receive the chapter's "Pet's Best Friend" award at an event here Thursday.
Besides being cooperative with nurses, Lurch is also friendly with his housemates: four pugs, seven cats and the occasional litter of kittens. There's also an American mastiff named Lucas, who teams with Lurch to eat about 200 pounds of food per month.
"You really don't end up knowing which dogs he helps, but his little picture goes on each bag so the person that gets it will actually know it."
"Mastiffs are just like 200-pound pugs," Melvin-Thiede said. "They're just as friendly and just as goofy except they have a couple more zeros at the end of the weight."
campus
El Lissitzky: futuristic Portfolios will be shown from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. as the South Balcony Gallery in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The seminar "KPERS Benefits in Retirement" will begin at 1 p.m. in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
The seminar "Globalization(s)
Seminar-Stephen Goddard" will
begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Conferen-
ce Hall in the Hall Center.
The lecture "Tea & Talk Series: Beyond Sports: The Cultural impact of the Olympics in China" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
John Holbrook will present the lecture "Geology Colloquium: Base-Level buffers and Buttresses; A Model for Upstream vs. Downstream control on Preservation of Fluvial Geometry and Architecture within Sequences" at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
Duncan Farrah will present the seminar "Infrared observations of ultraluminous infrared galaxies at high redshift - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium" at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott Hall.
The film "Ballet Russes" will begin at 6:30 p.m. in The Spencer Museum of Art.
The concert "SUA Presents: The Sklar Brothers" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Woodnuff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The concert "Brock McGuile Band" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Regn师 Hall auditorium.
Troy Duster will present "What Can DNA Tell Us About Race?" at 7:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The film "Running in High Heels" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The concert "University Band
& Symphonic Band" will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
on the record
A 12-pack of Natural Light beer was reported stolen to Lawrence police. The total loss was valued at $7.93.
A 2000 Dodge Stratus fourdoor valued at $1,500 was stolen from outside the Jimmy John's on Sixth Street.
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