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DID YOU KNOW? Morphine was named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. • THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 • NEWS • A5

Yoga program letwithout a regularmeeting place

By Andrew Flohr-Spencespencand@mscd.edu

Aurarians looking or exibility,

a healthy workout, or simply a quick

de-stressing used to know where to

go.

Drop in pretty much any time o 

day at the atrium in the St. Francis

Center, and Healthy Moves, Auraria

Health Center’s ree yoga, pilates and

belly dancing instruction, had a class

to join. This all that changed.

Ater six years in the atrium,

Healthy Moves lost its space there

and currently meets wherever it can.

While the ree classes still exist, the

trick now is fnding them.

“We are really working hardto fnd a new home,” said Linda

Wilkins-Pierce, preventive health

and community outreach coordi-

nator at the Auraria Health Center,

and director o the Healthy Moves

program. “The stability will return

… we’re just going through a little

rough spot.”

Auraria Higher Education Cen-

ter, the olks in charge o doling out

rooms, notifed her ofce three weeks

beore the start o all semester that

the classes would have to move.

Working with the last-minute news,

her ofce called around and located a

patchwork o rooms.

Wilkins-Pierce said her ofce

was looking or possible long-term

locations, but that or now, most o 

the classes would take place in the

Auraria Events Center or the Tivoli.

The Healthy Moves web site includes

weekly class location updates.

Wilkins-Pierce, who put together

the program 12 years ago, said it

was important the program to fnd

a consistent meeting place. Most o 

the people who attend the 50-min-

ute classes, do so when they fnd time

ree rom classes or work, she said.

“They need a place they know

they can always go when they get a

chance,” she said.

Finding a ree space at Auraria,

however, is easier said than done.

Wilkins-Pierce said she understood

the space problems Auraria was hav-

ing and that Healthy Moves might be

wandering or a while.

She said AHEC had been very

nice about delivering the news and

had met with her oten since then to

work with her on fnding a solution.

She said the Auraria Events Cen-ter “really saved” Healthy Moves by

giving it a temporary space but the

building was cutting back its pro-

grams to do so.

One possibility talked about so

ar was St. Cajetan’s, but the build-

ing hosted so many special events,

setting established times would prob-

ably conict, Wilkins-Pierce said.

It’s not just about fnding a regu-

lar meeting place, but fnding a space

big enough or the ever popular

classes, she said.

New classes were added each

semester to keep up with demand,

and 25,000 people attended a drop-

in class last year, with most classes

attended by 20 to 40 people. The

Health Center considered the pro-

gram one o their essential services

because the exercise kept people ft

and improved their long-term health.

“It’s nice to have ree yoga,” UCD

history senior Stephanie Mitchell

said.

Warming up or the noon ses-

sion in the lobby o the Auraria

Events Center, Mitchell said she at-

tends yoga because it helps her deal

with stress and improves her concen-

tration or school. “It’s really a great

program with great teachers and it

doesn’t cost anything.”

Mitchell said she is sad that the

classes had to move rom the pleas-

ant atmosphere o the atrium. She

stopped attending the 10 a.m. class

because it was always changing loca-

tions and now attends the noon class

Tuesdays and Thursdays in the lobby

o the Auraria Events Center because

it’s always in the same place.

“It was annoying to have to

check online everyday to see wherethe class was meeting,” she said.

Mitchell said the three schools

should support the program more.

“There are always a lot o people and

it promotes a healthy liestyle … it de-

serves its own place.”

Pat Hansen, one o the Healthy

Moves yoga teachers or more than

a decade, said she didn’t worry so

much about the change.

She misses the atrium, too, but

remembers the time beore the loca-

tion, when the classes where held all

around campus.

“I remember when we had class-

es 12 years ago up in the tower o the

Tivoli … wherever we could,” Hansen

said. She said she was sure they’d

fnd a new place eventually. “We miss

St. Francis, but yogis are exible.”

‘Healthy moves’ orced to run around

Auraria fnds hope in commemorating national tragedyCampus concertembraced concepto reedom

By April Zemyanazemyan@mscd.edu

Audience members recentlygathered in Ninth Street Historical

Park to pay respect to those who lost

their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, and

embrace their own reedom.

Many people brought picnics and

lawn chairs to watch and listen to the

“Sharing the Freedom” concert as

they were reminded not only o the

tragic events but hope or the uture.

The event opened with Metro’s 1

O’Clock Jazz Combo; Metro President

Stephen Jordan and Denver Mayor

John Hickenlooper spoke prior to the

concert as well.

The concert eatured the context

o two historical events, commemo-

rating the pain and triumph o both

Sept. 11 and World War II.

For composer Chie Imaizumi and

Falconaires bandleader Master Sgt.

Scott Crump, the event was about

bringing together two countries that

once ought in a war. Crump said

the band was excited to play or the

heroes that died but also to share the

music with a Japanese composer.

“The whole event tied in with di-

erent nationalities,” Crump said.

When Imaizumi was asked to

write a piece or the Falconaires to

play at the Monterey Jazz Festival,

she said she looked back and thought

o all the stories her grandmother

told her.

Imaizumi said she grew up in

  Japan and when remembering her

grandmother’s stories o World War

II, she realized how ar the nations

have come.

Both Imaizumi and Crump said

they recognize the revolution both

countries have gone through to

make this event possible.

“Only 60 years later, Japan and

the Air Force are working together,”

Imaizumi said.

The concert, named “Sharing

the Freedom” ater the piece Imai-zumi wrote, was brought to Metro

to help remind people o the history

o the United States. Since this is

the frst year Sept. 11 has been rec-

ognized as a national day o service

and remembrance, Metro Political

Science Proessor Norman Provizer

said he thought it was appropriate

to have the Air Force Academy band

and a Japanese composer together at

Metro.

“One thing that emerges in Sept.

11 is the importance o reedom,”

Provizer said.

Provizer and Imaizumi have

known each other or years and

when Imaizumi approached him

with the idea o a concert, Provizer

said he thought this was the perect

day to have the event.

The 18 members o the Fal-

conaires traveled rom Colorado

Springs or the event. When asked

why they chose Denver to play, both

Crump and Imaizumi agreed that it

was the best place or the concert.

Imaizumi said when she compos-

es and perorms in ront o an audi-

ence she looks orward to seeing the

people’s eelings and emotions.“She is a very emotional musi-

cian,” Crump said.

Provizer said while the music

takes a dierent angle than most re-

membrance events, it fts well with

the meaning o the day.

“Music is a powerul messenger,”

Provizer said.

The concert was sponsored by

 Jeppesen Aircrat Company, the Japa-

nese Foundation, Domo Restaurant

and Auraria.

As or next year, both Provizer

and Crump said they would like to

work together again but there are no

set plans. Provizer said he wants to

remind everyone o the importance

o looking orward.

“While we remember the past we

should hope for the future,” Provizer 

said.

Yoga instructor Pat Hansen helps student Sue Stephen hold apose during a Sept. 15 Healthy Moves class in the lobby at the Au-raria Events Center. Healthy Moves is a tness program designedby Auraria Health Center to ofer a variety o classes, which areree or students. Photo by Jamie Cotten • jcotten1@mscd.edu

Master Sgt. Mark S. Israel, trumpeter with the Air Force Fal-conaires, warms up beore the remembrance concert Sept. 11 inthe Ninth Street Historic Park at Auraria. Photo by Adriana Carlson •acarls15@mscd.edu