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Biochemistry graduate student Tara Nickels meditates after yoga class at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Jan. 23.

Museum hosts free 50-minute fitness classes for students KATE BERGUM

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About 20 people lay down their yoga mats on a museum floor to practice movement and meditation — all in view of a giant mammoth sculpture — Friday morning.

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is currently teaming up with the University of Oklahoma Fitness and Recreation to

host yoga and tai chi classes in the museum.

The yoga take place at 9 a.m. Wednesdays and the tai chi classes take places at 9 a.m. Fridays, according to the University of Oklahoma’s Fitness and Recreation web page. Both classes last 50 minutes.

The classes, which take place in sight of the museum’s well-known mammoth sculpture, are part of Fitness and Recreation’s initiative to get people moving on campus, said Heather Kirkes, the university’s fitness and outreach coordinator.

Some people don’t like the

“I never thought I’d be teaching tai chi under a mammoth or in a museum.”

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atmosphere of a gym, and holding fitness classes in the museum offers them an alternative location to stay active, Kirkes said. Fitness and Recreation has also offered classes in the Oklahoma Memorial Union and on the Van Vleet Oval, Kirkes said.

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FIT Project offers variety of workouts Four-month series of exercises gets Sooners in shape AMBER FRIEND News Reporter

Students and locals can get a taste of different workout activities through the Huston Huffman Fitness Center’s FIT Project, a series of open and free workouts taking place throughout the semester.

The sessions will be held at various times and locations throughout the semester, though remaining sessions will be held on the last Fridays of January, February, Ma rc h a n d Ap r i l , s a i d

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Sessions span a variety of campus locations and workout activities, most of which do not require any equipment. The last January session will cover yogalates, which combine yoga and palates, at the Huff.

The February session will focus on power walking with bands at the Union, and March’s session will take place at the OU MSC Swim Complex for deep-water high intensity interval training. The project will conclude with the April session, where attendees will climb stairs at the stadium.

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Accounting junior Naome Kadria and HES junior Chelsea Davis enjoy a meal together in Cate center Sunday afternoon.

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The spring semester has once again brought a drop in the number of commuter students using meal plans.

According to records acquired by The Daily, the number of commuter students using meal plans often drops in between the fall and spring semesters.

Since the fall of 2011, the total number of commuter meal plans purchased has increased only once between the fall and spring semesters, according to the records.

Between the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013, the total number of commuter meal plans purchased rose by slightly more than three percent.

This trend is also seen for students with residence hall meal plans, with the exception of those for Headington Hall. The number of meal plans for Headington Hall has increased between the fall and spring semesters in each of the past two years.

One of the main reasons for these drops is that there are fewer students in the spring, said Frank Henry, director of food services.

“I think we lose about 300 people, typically, out of the resident halls between the fall and spring semesters,” Henry said.

There are fewer commuter students in the spring as well, said Amy Buchanan, assistant director of marketing and communications for OU Housing and Food Services.

Another reason that meal plan purchases decrease is because students realize that they did not use all of their meals in the fall semester, Henry said.

Christian Brewer, a biology sophomore, has a commuter meal plan this semester. However, he has a smaller meal plan this year, dropping from 100 meals in a semester to 25 meals in a semester.

“I had problems using all of them within the semester,” Brewer said.

If all of the meals are not used, they do not roll over to the following semester, Henry said.

The block 25 plan is the most popular plan for commuter students. It costs $253 for a semester, according the OU Housing and Food website.

Multiple block 25 plans can be purchased and stacked on top of each other, said Frank Henry, director of food services.

Brewer said that it made more financial sense for him to pay with other methods.

With the exception of Couch Restaurants, the value of a meal plan is capped $7.50, Buchanan said.

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FIT: Sessions are free with student ID card Continued from page 1 Sessions are open to anyone in the community, including families and retirees, as well as OU faculty, staff and students, Kirkes said.

Students should bring a student ID if they wish to participate, according to the project’s website, though they do not need a FIT pass or Huff membership, said Malinda Williams, assistant director for OU Fitness and Recreation.

Students who attend could also win prizes, including t-shirts, 30-minute massages and personal training sessions, Kirkes said.

Kirkes and Williams will run the sessions, Williams said.

“We’ll be there to help people with form, for safety, for encouragement, just to add the energy and the enthusiasm and the expertise into the class,” Williams said.

The 45-minute sessions will consist of an explanation of the activity, approximately 30 minutes of the activity itself, and a stretching portion to cool down, Williams said.

As the classes are a new, Williams said they are hoping for feedback from attendees so that the sessions can improve in later semesters. She hopes that, this semester, the sessions will appeal to and challenge those new to exercising, and to those more experienced.

Williams said that she and her fellow instructors put a lot of effort into making classes the best experience for the individuals taking them. “[Instructors] need to be prepared for whatever. You need to really be there to be able to identify who is in the class and what the needs are of those people in the class, so you have to be able to make adjustments on the fly and be creative on the fly and be able to sometimes even turn 180 degrees from where you are,” Williams said.

Kirkes and Williams hope that the sessions push people to be more fit and involved, as well as come away with new skills.

“I hope that they learn that its fun and that you can challenge yourself in many different ways,” Williams said. “We like to bring a lot of fun and enthusiasm into the classes and be silly and not take ourselves super serious all the time, so that it can be fun, and doesn’t feel like torture. “ For more information about the project, check the OU Fitness and Recreation website under “FITness,” or @ OUFitandRec.

MEDITATE: Museum offers quiet environment Continued from page 1 During the class, participants can hear the sounds of the exhibit upstairs — including automated bird chirping and bison grunts, said Jennifer Tregarthen, the museum’s public relations specialist.

“You’re surrounded by a natural scape,” Tregarthen said.

Silas Wolf, who teaches the tai chi class, hopes more people experience the benefits of the practice, and the museum might appeal to a new crowd, he said.

“If a museum will help light that spark, that’s great,” Wolf said.

The museum offers a quiet environment to practice and meditate, said Caroline Pr is elac, who teaches the yoga class.

Because the class begins before the museum officially opens, there are fewer distractions than students usually face at the gym, Priselac said.

“It’s so beautifully open, and there’s so much to see,” Priselac said. “And there’s such a nice energy to the museum.”

Wolf has taught in hospitals, gyms and churches, beside lakes and on top

of mountains, he said. The museum, however, offers a new environment.

“I never thought I’d be teaching tai chi under a mammoth or in a museum,” Wolf said.

Though her favorite place to practice yoga is outdoors, Priselac, who teaches yoga at the Huston Huffman Fitness Center as well as Yogalife in Norman, jumped on the opportunity to teach in the museum, she said.

As a mother of 2- and 4-year-old daughters, the natural history museum — which her girls call “the dino museum” — is one of Priselac’s favorite places in town, she said.

Priselac offers many KATE BERGUM/THE DAILY movement options during Students and faculty partake in a yoga session at Sam Noble the class so that anyone, re- Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Friday morning. gardless of their yoga experience or fitness level, can Wednesdays SAM NOBLE take it, she said.

“It’s definitely a lightOKLAHOMA MUSEUM Tai chi: hearted class,” Priselac said.

OF NATURAL HISTORY 9 to 9:50 a.m. Fridays Anyone with a Huston FITNESS CLASSES Huffman Fitness Center Classes are available membership and students to faculty/staff/OU with a FIT Pass membership Where: retirees with a Huston can take the yoga and tai chi Sam Noble Museum, Huffman Center classes, Kirkes said.

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allowed him to eat at Couch Restaurants. However, he found that it was not worth Brewer said that the main it for him to buy so many benefit of having a commut- meals because it was cheaper meal plans was that it er to eat at other campus

eateries without using a account, Henry said. meal exchange.

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Library holds book sale The Norman Public Library is starting its yearly Valentine’s Day event next Friday DILLON HAMILTON Staff Reporter

Romance novel aficionados and book lovers of all kinds will have the chance to track down a wide array of authors and novels in time for Valentine’s Day at the Norman Public Library.

The library’s annual Romance and More Book Sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Lowry Room of Norman Public Library Central, located at 225 N. Webster Ave. said Christian Potts, Pioneer Public Library system

spokesperson.

In addition to romance books, the library will sell genres including donated and discarded children’s books, DVD’s and non-fiction materials, Potts said. Several rooms will hold book-filled shelves for the sale.

“There’s an incredible variety of books,” Potts said.

Book sale earnings will help fund Norman Public Library programs, events, materials, equipment and books.

The Romance and More Sale is the first of four book sales sponsored by Friends of the Norman Library throughout the year, Potts said.

The Better Books sale will be held May 1 through 3, the Cookbook and Swap sale will be held in July, and the final book sale, the Fall Book Sale, is scheduled for October.

The books and materials that will be sold were acquired by donation and library discards.

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psychological and professional counseling orState Rep. Sally ganizations,� according Kern’s proposed bills to the Southern Poverty infringe upon LBGT Law Center.

Oklahomans’ rights and Attacking the LGBT are embarrassments to the state. community is not new for Kern, in fact she’s The carousel of idiknown for crusading otic bills proposed by against gay rights. A few Oklahoma lawmakers years ago Kern claimed goes round and round. homosexuality is “the This time, State Rep. biggest threat our naSally Kern is our legtion has, even more islative lunatic of the so than terrorism or SALLY KERN month with her trio of Islam,� and last year rights. For example, one she outrageously said, bigoted bills aimed at of the bills would make “Homosexuality is not a limiting the rights of it illegal to use tax funds civil right, it’s a human LGBT Oklahomans. to issue same-sex marThe bills include the wrong.� If being gay isn’t riage licenses and would a civil right, then sport“Preservation and Sovereignty of Marriage terminate any state em- ing a hairstyle as dowdy ployee who granted a Act,� the “Freedom to as Kern’s isn’t a civil gay couple a marriage Obtain Conversion right either.

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We implore Sooners You think that’s bad? bill that would allow and all Oklahomans to businesses to refuse ser- The “Freedom to Obtain let our state government Conversion Therapy vice to gay customers. know enough is enough.

Act� would make it legal Kern was elected to repThe bills are likely for parents of minor an attempt to hinder resent Oklahomans and children to force “conthe legalization of gay she’s actively condemnmarriage in Oklahoma. version therapy� on the ing an entire group of Last year a federal court child to change his or human beings. Whether her sexual orientation upheld a district court she’ll admit it or not, judge’s decision to strike without intrusion by the it’s likely there are a few state. Conversion thera- gay constituents in her down Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban as uncon- py is dangerous junk sci- district. In fact, a 2012 ence, and, “Conversion survey by Gallup shows stitutional, effectively therapy has been making gay marriage about 3.4 percent of discredited or highly legal in the state. We Oklahoma’s populacriticized by virtualbelieve Kern’s bills are tion identifies as LGBT, obvious assaults against ly all major American which is not far off the medical, psychiatric, LGBT Oklahomans’ 3.5 percent national average.

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California among other states. Furthermore, 55 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage and nearly eight in 10 young adults support gay marriage, according to Gallup polls.

Simply put, times have, thankfully, changed since Kern was growing up. The majority of Americans support same-sex marriage, President Obama used the term transgender for the first time ever in his recent State of the Union address and we are slowly but surely moving toward marriage equality across the county. Oklahoma was shoved in the right direction by the federal court system, and we urge Oklahomans not to let our state regress back to inequality, fear and non-acceptance.

You can find your state representative here to let them know you don’t support Kern’s bigoted legislation: www.oklegislature.gov/findmylegislature.aspx.

You can also contact Kern directly at sallykern@okhouse. gov or by calling her state capitol office at 405-557-7348.

If enough of us make our voices heard, maybe Oklahoma’s lawmakers will finally state representing the interests of all Oklahomans, not just the ones who align with their ideologies.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Behind-the-scenes activity will bring you great and unusual rewards.

Volunteer work will open your eyes to a host of new avenues that you can stroll down.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Your ability to work in fine detail will bring approval from others. Avoid exhaustion, or minor ailments will slow you down. You must do a better job of pacing yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Don’t exaggerate or you will be disapproved of. Your idea of what you want in a mate is changing.

This could cause problems in your present union.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Don’t forget to enjoy yourself today.

Remember that working without rest isn’t good for anyone. You need to find an outlet that will satisfy your needs.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Your emotional life will go downhill if you continue to play both ends against the middle. Social activities will be fun, but you must not be overindulgent or excessively flirtatious.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Be careful whom you confide in. Someone you know may be twisting your words around. Be in the moment.

Preoccupation or distraction will lead to minor accidents.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Social events will be stimulating. You will meet someone who interests you in several ways. Look into activities that will help you get into tiptop shape.

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OUDaily.com ›› Perfect 10: the No. 1 men’s and women’s gymnastics teams both came away with victories this weekend

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Coale: team shows up, improves Women’s basketball complete a remarkable eight-game winning streak BRADY VARDEMAN

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After the media selected Oklahoma women’s basketball (13-5, 7-0) to finish fifth in the Big 12 preseason, expectations around the country were not high.

Dropped games early out-of-conference to No. 9 Kentucky, No. 13 Duke and even lowly University of Arkansas-Little Rock left some fans wondering if the doubters were right.

Entering conference play at just 6-5, Oklahoma had fallen off the radar.

Now, after opening Big 12 competition with an undefeated 7-0 mark and eight straight wins, the Sooners are firmly back in the thick of things in-conference.

“I think every team in the country goes through that spot in the season where we’re trying to find ourselves as a team, find our identity as a team, trying to establish roles,” sophomore guard Peyton Little said. “After that spurt that we went through we really decided that we can make this our season.

Conference starting, it’s a clean slate.”

Little is playing her first season in an Oklahoma uniform. After her freshman year at Texas A&M, Little transferred to OU and

“I think every team in the country goes through that spot in the season where we’re trying to find our identity as a team, trying to establish roles.”

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redshirted last season.

Now, she is one of the main drivers behind the total team turnaround. Little’s 10.9 points per game in conference play is third on the team, behind sophomore Gioya Carter and junior Kaylon Williams.

I think everything is falling in place,” Carter said. “I think the tough non-conference schedule that we had really prepared us. We had those trial and tribulations before, so now we know how to handle them better.”

In college athletics, the youngest teams often have the most difficulty handling adversity. Just look at the Oklahoma football team last year. However, while the Sooners may have struggled early, coach Sherri Coale said she uses the tough losses as a teaching tool.

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Sophomore guard Gioya Carter fires a jumpshot during the game against Oklahoma State on Jan. 19 at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners dominated the Cowgirls 73-54.

“They’ve just kept showing up and getting better little by little,” Coale said. “We weren’t that far away when we were getting beat. We had to stay with it and keep going.”

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Sophomore guard T’ona Edwards dribbles the ball towards the hoop during the game against Oklahoma State University on Jan. 19 at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners beat the Cowgirls 73-54.

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The team’s 7-0 start to conference play is the program’s best since 2008-09, when the Sooners finished 15-1 in the Big 12 and 32-5 overall and earned a Final Four berth.

Over its final 11 regular season games, Oklahoma only has three games against ranked opponents, starting with No. 8 Texas Thursday.

The Sooners also face No. 3 Baylor twice — Feb. 11 in Waco and Feb. 25 in Norman.

“I feel like we’re in a good place,” Coale said. “We have a lot of improvement left.

There are lots of things we need to get better at. The reason we’re undefeated right now is because we’ve taken them incrementally along the way and we have to continue to do that.”

Brady Vardeman brady.vardeman@ou.edu

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