Volume 144, Issue #3
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HOW TO ENHANCE YOUR EDUCATION WITH CLASS Tai Chi Moves on campus
Oriental Flower Arranging
Test your accuracy in the field of Archery
Test your accuracy in the field of Archery
For love of Labor Chorus
Weaving the way with wool -- one thread at a time
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Tai Chi is practiced worldwide, and is considered by many to improve personal fitness, relieve stress, and improve overall health. While in class, students study Chinese herbs and medicine and practice Tai Chi (the organized, almost dance-like moves are called forms) outside. Fong teaches Tai Chi on the Ocean Campus Tuesday and Thursdays.
Instructor Bryant Fong leads a Tai Chi class in front of Cloud Hall on Ocean campus. 
Instructor Yayoi Sakai demonstrates the correct length to cut a stalk of bamboo in order to create a traditional Japanese arrangement. 
Guiliana Giometti (top and bottom pic) practices her form while aiming for the target.
Giometti is from a medieval town in Italy where they have professional archery competitions, which she hopes to join after perfecting the sport.
Instructor Chelsea Eng stresses the importance to her students (pictured at right and below) of form and structure when dancing, but instincts in matters of etiquette, like how to ask a person to dance, and having good-smelling breath.
Students in Begining Heritage Chorus, instructed by Patricia Wynne, don't just sing in class. 
The students in Music 48A also have performances (with delicious potlucks) and take their voices to support local protests on labor issues in the Bay Area. 
Carol White and Sherrill Crawford look over their yarn on the warp from which the weft is woven.
Gene Cadwell winds her warp with yarn.
Students study color and different kinds of yarn in order to create an original final weaving. The process is incredibly mathematical, since each length of yarn has to be measured perfectly for the area it will represent.