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Laura Smit Emerald Students practice assertiveness training in Nadia Telsey’s self-defense class. Many who have taken the decade-old class say the experience was life-altering for them. Self-defense continued from page 1 replace. She is pretty amazing,” De Vore said. “When I took this class as a stu dent, I got so much out of it I wanted to see what it was like on the other side,” said Jessica Geraci, 19, who is a student facilitator for Telsey’s class. “I wanted to help other women.” Facilitators are former self-de fense students who volunteer ap proximately eight hours of their time each week to help teach the class. Facilitators such as Geraci demonstrate physical moves in class, help students role-play attack situations and lead outside discus sion groups. Geraci said she loves facilitating, even though it is hard for some of her peers to understand w'hat she does in class. “A lot of people call it ‘The Man Hater’s Club’ because they think there should be men in the class too,” Geraci said. “They don’t un derstand how difficult it would be for a woman who has been victim ized by a man to recreate those situ ations with a male classmate. Many women wouldn’t take the class if there were men in it. ” Many would-be students of Telsey’s are disappointed to hear of her impending absence. Some of these are students who were unable to register for Self-Defense for Women, also known as Women’s Studies 399, because the class is nearly always full after the first week of registration. “I think the University definitely needs to continue to have classes like this,” DeVore said. Telsey, who grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., didn’t always want to be a self defense teacher. She majored in an thropology in college and had vi sions of digging up fossils in faraway places. Attending school amid student protests against the Vietnam War, Telsey began to think seriously about how she would like to affect the world around her. She went back to school and earned her teaching degree. At the time, she was also becom ing an avid student of the martial arts. She credits Gerald Orange, her role model and sensei, or martial arts teacher, with being the catalyst that helped her realize she had the power to change the world. “He believed in me, so I began to believe in me,” Telsey said. Telsey feels both sadness and contentment about the possibility that she may not return to teach. “On one hand, I am tired of schlepping my equipment to class and ready to slow down a bit,” Telsey said. 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