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Paul Quiram
Campus Rec
I know of very few ways to motivate someone to exercise. So, here’s the first one
for you: Spring Break countdown T minus 21 days (give or take a few hours depending
on when you read this). The second way I know of motivating someone to exercise
is a little more year-round: groups, friends, and accountability. All of these can
be found in one place on campus: The Campus Rec Fitness Classes.
There is still room available to join these, and the choices are diverse. We have
classes that range from hip hop dancing (think Grandma from The Wedding Singer)
to advanced Yoga. Never mind the fact that our instructors are not only passionate
about getting you fit and more often than not, “kicking your can all over this place.”
These guys and gals know their stuff inside and out on how to train you in their
own unique ways, whether that be dancing at Kickin’ it Kountry with Ray, getting
blasted by a body bar with Erik, going for the stretch with Gary in Yoga, or perhaps
training to run Grandma’s half or full, with yours truly.
So you’ve got a variety of styles of exercise to choose from, knowledgeable instructors
to guide you, and, hopefully, motivation. If you say to yourself, “Self, I am
going to exercise and be fit, healthy, and happy,” it usually stops there or about a week
later, but if you go and join a class, then suddenly you have not only yourself, but also
the instructor and the other people in the class wondering where you are if you don’t
show up.
The other great thing about taking a class is that the instructor is going to make
you do exercises that you would never have thought of on your own, nor done on
your own if you did think of them. In some of my fitness classes, I have used exercises
I learned from training for World Team trials, and others I have come up with
on the fly during the exercise before it. Either way, it is nothing someone would
think to do on their own.
Think about going to the gym. If you don’t know what to do for exercise, you
jump on an elliptical for a while until that’s boring or you realize that you read that
issue of “PEOPLE,” and then you go do some dumbbell curls. Now, think about what
happens in a fitness class. You’re jumping, throwing, crunching, stretching, getting
spun around, running stepping, swinging, and don’t forget sweating.
I hope I have sufficiently convinced you to at least try a fitness class. Check it out
and sweat it out.
PQ out – Stay fit my friends
Va r i e T y
“alleluia” Film reView
Barbara Patten
Contributing Writer
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In celebration of the Feast of St. Scholastica, the film “Alleluia”, featuring the Sisters of St.
Benedict was shown on February 9th in the Rockhurst dining room. The black-and-white film,
by William Grisham and Howard Smith, was made in 1967 in recognition of the 75th anniversary
of the The St. Scholastica Monastery. The film was also made to counter the Hollywood
portrayal of nuns as “either too sweet or too stern”.
The Sisters describe the founding of the St. Scholastica Monastery “modeled after the great
Benedictine abbeys.” They also share comments they heard about their decision to become
nuns, such as, “Some say ‘What happened to her?’ and ‘Maybe if she’d tried harder she could’ve
gotten married.’”
There are many scenes away from the Monastery including the DECC, Cathedral High
School, and St. Mary’s Hospital. “When you have a nun as a teacher, she’s not just there to teach
you, she’s there to be with you,” said one student in a voiceover. But the Benedictine Sisters
didn’t want to limit themselves to teaching, domestic work, or hospital work. The film shows
the sisters at play and work whether its ice skating, photography, cancer research or teaching.
“We serve the people of God in any capacity we are needed with love,” said another Sister.
In a very memorable scene the Sisters sing a sonorous “Gloria” in English in the chapel that
is now the campus library. At the time it was quite modern, singing in English instead of Latin.
“We don’t agree on everything, of course, except our final goal, and that, I think, is reached in
great joy.”
There were many Sisters in attendance for the film and many murmurs of acknowledgement
throughout the film. “Everybody looks so young!” one audience member said when the
film was over. The film was recently converted from reels to DVD to preserve the film for future
generations, and this was the first showing of the film on DVD.