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Show OPINION 2 Sugar House in review: HWAC group exercise RACHEL ROBERTSON ANGIE MERKLEY ANGIE MERKLEY ASSISTANT EDITOR CATHERINE BLAKEMORE It happened in slow motion. I swear, the world actually took a moment of pause to TAYLOR STEVENS intensify the situation I was in. My Precise VS RT Pilot round-ti- p pen fell from my exhausted fingers to the cushioned floor below. And now I had to pick Day one was Lean Legs and Abs, and I was expecting a few rounds of squats and it up. Dread washed through me as I engaged my hips and began the sluggish decent to my beloved writing utensil. Instantaneously, my body was scorched with pain from the small movement. My quadriceps were on the verge of splitting in two, my abs tore themselves from my belly, and my glutes dont even get me started on how those bastards felt. This was the result of my first week of group exercise at The Dolores Dore Ec-dHealth, Wellness and Athletic Center (HWAC). Winter Break has left me excessive- JACOB GRONBERG JOHNNIE ETHINGTON MATT BAKER (801) 832.2319 forumbusiness westminstercoIIege.edu es (801) 832.2320 forumeditorwestminstercoilege.edu ly squishy from holiday meals swathed in gravy and chocolate. My hibernation-lik- e activities resulted in my stamina to fall to a dismal state. And just like thousands of and hopelessly naive other women, I made a New Years resolution: get The first issue of The Forum is free and the subsequent issues cost $1. Please make payments to The Forum office self-conscio- If you want to do awesome stuff, come work for us! us fit, and quick. I have horrible problems, especially for healthy acts such as clean eating or getting off the couch. However, if others are motivating (competing against) me, I tend to get more into it. The clear answer was to get involved with the free group exercise classes in HWAC. self-motivati-on Writers i Designers Illustrators Photographers crunches to fill up some spare time between classes. My editor actually said that it felt like stretching to her. I must really suck at stretching. Laura Iverson, assistant director of fitness, wellness and recreation, leads many of . the classes and does well in adjusting her style to the beat of the class from tranquil deep breathing exercises to sweaty cardio torture. Lean Legs and Abs was packed with bouncy girls (and a couple of brave males) in the tossing their ponytails and man-buair to pop hits that get your heart poundns ing. The specialized exercises go beyond that of normal sumo squats and bicycle crunches, which will no doubt leave you in a deliciously sore state for days (unless CRUSH (Creating Results to become boot-cam- p Unbelievably Smokin Hot), a cardio class that tests strength, endurance and everything else. I shared my worries with Iverson, who told me not to worry because the class is deal. Still, I might a need a few more weeks of checking myself out in the giant mirrors during cycle class before I fully commit to being CRUSHed. Overall, I highly recommend getting involved with group exercise a few days a week. Its free with your student ID, is a great way to escape from the school environment and helps you stay motivated by urging you to keep up with all of the bouncing ponytails surrounding you. youre my editor). Yoga is a calm session that revitalizes your brain and body, which is the perfect getaway from the monotony of life (and an acceptable excuse to wear stretchy pants all day). Each session ends with about five minutes of savasana, also known as corpse pose, also known as a great time to take a nap. Cycle Fusion was the smallest class I attended, but the energy was still high. Note: plan to get sweaty and exhausted. Not only is this class filled with 40 minutes of ty cycling, but also 20 minutes of crunches, lunges and more after. After my week of training, Ill admit, I was too scared to expose my squish to high-intensi- ILLUSTRATION BY ANGIE MERKLEY Creating global community global Three students create first CATHERINE BLAKEMORE PRODUCTION MANAGER Three Westminster students and two professors are asking questions about global crises and global change and are now asking the Westminster student body and alums to join in their questioning. This April, Westminster will host the first Global Crises Global Change Undergraduate Conference. According to its website, the conference aims to provide a unique space to produce, interact, and debate the depth of these critical issues and to build platforms for the next generation of scholarship. Tim Lindgren, a junior from Sweden, is one of the conferences alongside junior Elhom Gosink. Luis Mario Ruiz, junior, joined the team in fall 2015. I have for long desired to organize a conference focused on global challenges that provide a space for al multilateral knowledge and exchange, Lindgren said. As I see it, some of the global challenges are so large that we ought to utilize knowledge in new ways that are inclusionary and seriously connects different ideas for novel conceptualizations of both critics and solutions. cross-disciplin- cross-cultur- ary awareness undergraduate conference The idea for the conference came in spring 2015 as a term project in Political Economy of Conflict. The process accelerated when Lindgren and Gosink received the Westminster College Griffin Grant. From the point of the first draft, we spent weeks on editing and streamlining the application to fit the Griffin Grant, Gosink said. In fact, after that we submitted the proposal we realized that the original format, which was actually a lecture series and a conference, was no longer the direction we wanted to go. We redrafted the proposal, and after learning that the original lecture format had been accepted, we asked for approval to change it to only a conference. The conference will be accepting submissions until the late deadline of Feb. 25. Submitting a paper to the conference offers students a chance to be published in The Myriad, Westminsters academic journal. The conference organizers, selected faculty and The Myriad together will select the three most promising papers presented at the conference to consider for publication. Our hope is that the conference will function as a platform for critical thinking and discussion about the global world we live in a platform for novel conceptualizations and deeper understandings of our individual and communal roles and responsibilities have succeeded. globally as well as locally, Lindgren said. If the individuals who partake leave with new novel knowledge, aspirations and ideas to tackle global issues, then we have succeeded. If we can be the space for better futures we ing keywords and a brief description of the writer. All papers must be submitted to by the late submis- to The guidelines for paper submissions are submit a 200-2- 50 words abstract includ- sion deadline: Feb. 25, 2016. For more information, visit gcgcundergrad.com. CATHERINE BLAKEMORE Juniors Elhom Gosink and Tim Lindgren, of the Global Crises Global discuss the conference, Change undergraduate upcoming deadlines for the |