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A UO CAMPUS ALTERNATIVE SINCE 1974 a proud member of Unique Eugene raiaaraiiiniiraEiiiiinirarciiiianiira □ Horn annuel □□ Find fun stuff in the ODE Classifieds: Comics, your daily horoscope, and, of course, the crossword. Students can look to yoga as a way to relax University and community classes teach yoga techniques for beginners and experts JESSE DUNGAN FREELANCE REPORTER The University provides a num ber of yoga courses, including Hatha, Kundalini, Ashtana and Gen tle yoga, and many interested Uni versity students fill up these cours es every year. Last year, more than 2,000 Univer sity students enrolled in yoga, ac cording to Laurel Hanley, office coor dinator for the Physical Education Department. “The University offers a broader range of yoga classes than most other four-year universities,” yoga instruc tor Viriam Khalsa said. “The main philosophy behind yoga is that every human being has the birth right to be healthy and to live a healthy human life,” Khalsa said. “Yoga strives to bring the real in line with the ideal.” Khalsa teaches Kundalini yoga, which involves breathing methods and postures, but also includes sound, mantra and meditation. His 50-minute course strings together many different exercises, none of which is longer than three minutes. “Kundalini is relatively easy to practice and is well-suited to people who live in the world,” Khalsa said. He said yoga can help students re lieve stress, relax, get more sleep and study better. “Pun intended, yoga is flexible,” Khalsa said. “One thing that drew me to yoga is that it fits throughout your lifespan.” Hatha yoga, the first school of yoga to reach the United States, is the most widely offered school of yoga at the University and is the most popular amongst University students. Hatha mostly emphasizes breathing tech niques and postures, said Khalsa. Adras Khalsa — who is not related RELAXATION, page 14B Tickets: Unclaimed tickets go up for sale Continued from page IB ticket office at the Casanova Center. Student tickets are purchased from the athletic department by the Athlet ic Department Finance Committee using student money. ASUO Accounting Coordinator Jen nifer Creighton said that the number of student tickets has remained stable for several years, because each year all of the tickets are picked up. However, Creighton said it’s not clear how many students are actually using their tickets after picking them up. Harris said if any student tickets remain on the Tuesday prior to a home sporting event they will go on sale to the general public for general admis sion prices, which are $18 to $20 each. Harris said student attendance of sport ing events is generally up but fluctuates based on how the team is doing. “If we lose a little bit, it usually takes a while for attendance to pick up again,” Harris said. There have been rumors that the Student Senate has considered elim inating the incidental-fee subsidized ticket system and replacing it with a system like the one used at the Uni versity of Southern California, Stu dent Senator and ADFC member Kevin Day said. Students at USC who wish to attend games pay for tickets at the beginning of the year and get a card that provides them with access to all the games, Harris said. Day said there is some talk, but nothing official has been put into mo tion. Day also said he thought the change would be a bad idea. “There are rumors, but there are al ways rumors,” said Day. “I don’t see the point of changing a working system. ” More information about sports tickets can be found at www.go ducks.com. benbrown@ daily emerald, com A week focused on academic success. Workshops & Prizes October 11 th-15th For more information contact: Academic Learning Services i “ http://als.uoregon.edu http://als.uoregon.edu/services/workshops/getsavvy.html
