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Show I 'There's a new 3ir{ in town ... Free self~defense classes· offered for SUU females UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS !PAGE 6 , . rfhe efeaarit yface to dine with your date. !)inner served Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 5 p .m . to 10 p.m. Reservations are recommended. • 867-45.4 5 • Check out :Betty's aood o(djashioned :Breakjast on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 y.m. 227 Authorized Reseller ~ South 'Main • Cedar City •• •• •• •• THURSDAY, SEPTE,MBER 28, 2000 students to attend and believes it would be beneficial for them. "In the world we live in today, we never know what is going to happen next. You SUU's female students may be getting a don't know who's going to be in that lot tougher due to a women's self-defense parking lot next to you when you're all by class taught every Wednesday night in the yourself," said Featherstone. Cedar Breaks room in the Sharwan Smith . Kandie Callister, a freshman elementary Center. education major from Delta, Utah, and Rick Featherstone, a junior member of the communication T-Bird Martial Arts major from Salt lake Club, believes the City. has been club is important for teacl:ling karate for ; women and that the past four years ~ learning these and is now offering a g techniques would be free women's self~ "for their own good." defense class. ~ Featherstone also The classes run ~ teaches karate every from 6:45 p.m. to ~ Thursday night to eight p.m. every ~ both men and Wednesday night ~women. To and the only thing participate in these students must do is Rick Featherstone and Lacey Batson, a classes, students show up. freshman music major from Frederick, must pay a $10 fee, In the class, Md., demonstrate techniques used as which goes toward . students are taught a part of the women's self-defense class. training and a T-shirt. variety of techniques, "For some reason, in smaller towns, ranging from s.imple to more advanced. people have a false ser.ise of security that Students will start with a simple fighting we're all going to be OK, even when we stance and up-and-down blocks and will are really not," said Featherstone. slowly increase their knowledge to learn The women's self defense class has harder moves sucil as the reverse talon. been taught for the past three weeks and Women will also learn how to defend an average of 15 to 20 women have themselves if they are attacked from attended each week. behind or if they are pinned up against a Students who decide to start attending wall. now will not be behind the rest of the class. Featherstone encourages any female BY ANGIE MANZANARES JOURNAL STAFF WRITER • ••• ••••• ·Digital quality ·at prices you'll want to call home about! .. |