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Show ffOBMU 6 Financial Aid m Apply Now to beat April 15 f I I jfelKWU?. j Attention all continuing students seeking financial aid: The priority deadline for FAFSA applications is coming up on April 15. Although students can turn in applications after the priority deadline, they will be considered on a e basis. Craig Green in the Financial Aid office encourages students to hand in their applications before the priority deadline in order to get the best consideration for aid. Green said, Its to the students advantage to turn it in before the deadline. FAFSA stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Virtually everyone is eligible to fill one out and is highly encouraged to do so. By filling one out, students are considered for all kinds of student loans, grants and work programs. Although FAFSA financial rewards can be great, filling out an application is a lengthy and time consuming process. Now the application is offered online and over the phone, which greatly reduces the time it takes to complete. Students can visit www. fafsa.com in order to prepare themselves and their parents for the application process. first-com- e, first-serv- The Web site is very helpful for first time FAFSA applicants to get an idea of just what the application will be asking. If students have any questions, the financial aid office is happy to help, just 0 call in advance to let them know youre coming. Green suggests students bring in a copy of their FAFSA 832-250- applications so that someone in the financial aid office can look over it w ith them. MUnei? pMm Draw uMiiHV'Siaas:-- Deadline VUicA 22. 2006 As I wait in the new Dolores Dore Eccles Health, Wellness, and Recreation Center to meet with Alesha Kientzler, director of fitness, wellness, and recreation at Westminster College, she suddenly walks out right on time as though a timer had just gone off. We shake hands, walk into her office, and Kientzler politely offers me a seat, hut not just any seat a yoga ball. Between her almost obsessive compulsive filing and color-codin- g systems to the Asian symbol hanging around her neck, I am convinced Kientzler has the right amount of balance of the Type A get the job done mentality mixed with the Type B take it one step at a time approach. This is a woman who makes a goal and meets it, no questions asked. As the interview continues, I learn exactly how she is going ahout doing just that. On Monday, March 27, Westminsters new health and wellness center will start its first set of group exercise classes. Offering every- thing from yoga to strength training classes to Aikido, a Japanese marital art, Westminsters new group exercise program guarantees that they have something for everyone. We are going from having only three types of group exercise classes offered at Westminster to 20, Kientzler said. Before the new center wras built, the only classes D crowd and quite the attention just what the Center is looking for to launch its grand opening. Some examples of the classes include belly dancing, cardio orientation, faculty and staff strength training, hip hopfunk dance, indoor cycling (a.k.a. spinning), meditation, restorative yoga, and social dance, among many other classes. The 20 classes offered are categorized in two ways: their difficulty level and the corresponding mode level, or exercise focus level. To easily differentiate and make the schedule each level of difficulty and its corresponding mode will be communicated through symbols. For example, Kientzler explained that the level of difficulty, from the beginner level to advanced, will be shown through the d use of a charts, so viewers can easily and quickly find their specific level among the multiple user-friendl- y, color-code- classes offered. Once viewers have found their targeted class level, they can pick their activities based to relax in the yoga classes offered at Westminster. classes, and integrated classes. Kientzler and her team are working on the symbols to on the class mode. There will be five modes: cardio classes, orientation classes, muscu- lar strength and endurance 3 classes, mind, body, spirit fe. ' X f rr A 4 - l P offered were yoga once a Aveek, dance aerobics twice a week and step aerobics twice a week, totaling five classes to choose from per week. Now, there will be a total of 47 classes, 20 classes offered at different times, for students and faculty to choose from per week, Kientzler said. This dramatic change is bound to get quite the diverse i i i 4, i i b r I i if U4 0 th ? i! A" A : P , a- . , , - 1 - ' i . 4 j rn- k if y PTPH i $ f J i i t A v- y. A8 4 - J iP l , 9 4 4 I ,, WAlidl 1 a jb, |