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.
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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.
On the other hand, Telsey said
she will miss interacting with stu
dents and seeing how she is making
a difference in their lives.
“I like to think I have started
something here,” she said, smiling
through the rising steam from her
tea, “and that my students will con
tinue it.”
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