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Fitness
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cause it cleanses your mind."
The Outdoor Pursuits Program
received its funding in November
2003 and now offers rentals, trips
and classes. There will be a total of
eight trips for adventure seekers to
take advantage of this semester.
Students will travel by bus to
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado
and other states for hiking, rock
climbing and white water rafting.
Prices for the trips vary from $13
to $390, depending on the distance.
Five-dollar value clinics, or 2-hour
instructional programs, will also
be offered to train them for the
trips. These workshops could also
be taken for self-benefit. These
include short sessions like "Out-
door Cooking" or "Whitewater
Paddling Areas." Five of the nine
workshops are free.
This program will also rent
equipment like stoves, tents, sleep-
ing bags, coolers, canoes - the list
goes on.
"I am really excited about this
new program," said NT junior Ja-
clyn Birkenfeld. Birkenfeld is also
an Outdoor Pursuits staff member.
"This semester, we finally have
equipment and all trips were ap-
proved, so I can't wait," she said.
Birkenfeld said she is "possibly"
going on the trips, and if she does
she can't wait to experience the
outdoor life.
"The outdoors provides an en-
vironment that promotes a simple
lifestyle, an uncluttered existence,
which people in modern society
have lost track of," said Safranek.
"It is also one of the ways we plan
to accomplish the recreation goal,
which is to enhance university
community environment."
Last semester at NT, a survey
was made asking the students
about their highest level of inter-
est for recreation. "The Outdoor
Pursuits was identified as the area
of the strongest interest," Safranek
said. "A huge number of students
wanted that last semester, so we
made it happen this semester."
The climbing wall was another
area of strong interest. It was open
last semester along with the open-
ing of the rest of the recreation
center.
Safranek said 2,200 people
climbed the wall last semester af-
ter only four months in operation.
For that reason, Safranek thinks
the Outdoor Pursuits Program will
have the same success.
"I didn't take advantage of the
wall last semester, but I just tried it
out this semester because it's free
for the first week," said Spencer
Davis, Houston junior. "It's a lot
of fun."
Davis says he loved rock-climb-
ing so much that he plans to buy a
semester pass.
Also, the indoor climbing wall is
beginning "Women's Mondays,"
which will give women a chance to
climb for free every Monday from
3 to 7 p.m. This was created to en-
courage women to climb.
Other programs that the Rec
Center will offer include aerobics
and Yoga classes. Some of these,
such as "Intro to kickboxing" and
"Abs/Back," are free of value.
Fitness is yet another area that
has been renovated.
"The weight room equipment is
all new since last semester. This se-
mester, however, we have 20 more
machines, including cardio and
weight," said Anneke Miller, assis-
tant director for fitness.
Venus Alexa, an NT freshman,
says she has been working out
since September.
"Honestly, everything that I've
tried has been beneficial and they
have a wide variety," Alexa said.
"But what tops it all are the free
yoga and aerobics classes. I love
it here because the environment is
very encouraging."
Other programs that will be of-
fered by the Rec Center this semes-
ter include intramural recreational
sports, leisure pools, aquatic class-
es and much more.
The Rec Center is open every
day and has plenty of informa-
tion about all programs, said Shara
Capper, coordinator of marketing
and membership services at Rec-
reational Sports. She said she has
enjoyed working with the students
at the center.
"I like how the students are
proud to have such a good facil-
ity," she said.
[[[the Wire]]]
Nation
President puts finishing touches on speech
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush put the finishing touches Monday on a
State of the Union speech that calls for modest expansions of voter-friendly pro-
grams while telling Congress to curb spending in the face of record-breaking bud-
get deficits.
Bush will open his address with remarks on national security, then move into
domestic priorities, contrary to past practice, aides say. He will urge Americans to
back him on the war on terrorism, arguing that the path he has chosen, including
invading Iraq, is the right one.
King's widow decries acrimonious politics
ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow called Monday for an
end to acrimony in politics as Americans paused to remember the slain civil rights
leader.
Coretta Scott King talked last year about avoiding war in Iraq, and her plea for
nonviolence returned this year. "Peaceful ends can only be reached through peace-
ful means," she said in her annual King Day address.
"The noblest goal is not conquest of enemies but reconciliation with adversaries.
We must remember in this election year that Republicans and Democrats, conser-
vatives and liberals, we are all sisters and brothers," she said.
Correction
In the Jan. 16 story "March honors MLK," Martin Luther King Jr.
Day is incorrectly identified as the anniversary of King's assas-
sination. The day celebrates his birthday. The NT Daily regrets
the error.
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