Healthy Moves: Three schools, one campus, tight quarters

Campus is full of stress and exhaustion as students run from class to class. Their minds focused on grades, tests and getting through the semester. Luckily there is a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of college life, and currently it is located in the Tivoli.

Facing front, Healthy Moves instructor Stefania Noavickova demonstrates a pose for her beginning yoga class Nov. 30 in the Roger Braun Lounge. Photo by Caitlin Gibbons

The Healthy Moves program offers yoga among other classes, and I am a huge fan.

Not only is it convenient, it gives me an entire hour of relief from school — and it’s free.

Sadly though, the program has been moved all around campus and has yet to find a permanent home.

Last semester it was in a quiet room on the sixth floor of the Tivoli but moved because campus clubs need more space. Now it is in the Roger Braun Lounge, which was great because a lot of people didn’t know the program existed until they walked by it, but I’d rather not be doing a downward dog while listening the loudmouth on her cell phone outside of the door.

So what’s next? Where will the program be shuffled to now? And why isn’t this program — one that benefits students and faculty greatly — not a priority to the campus?

It sounds to me like the fight is over space. Look, we are three schools packed tightly into one campus — a campus that has nowhere to expand except up, or to overtake parking lots.

So why do I keep hearing about this school deserves this space and this school should have that space? Haven’t we all figured out by now that we share everything?

I think it’s time to get priorities straight and give the Healthy Moves program — a program we all share — some space and some respect.

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