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...everyone has heard of the Adams "Gong Show," last week's "protest" by Adams House residents of students from other houses who dared to eat in their dining hall. We at Dartboard were tremendously disappointed with the Gong Show--not because it went too far, but because it didn't go far enough. Why only protest in a single dining hall when the entire College is plagued with infiltrators...
Take Loker Commons, for example. Established as an undergraduate hangout, Loker is currently overrun with graduate students, loafing TFs are sucking our lifeblood of coffee and pizza, sitting in our plastic chairs, checking e-mail at our kiosks. We at Dartboard urge the undergraduate community: Gong those grads out the door...
Fred Levine, 62, a retired computer-systems analyst from Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., began doing Qi Gong in September. He takes a weekly class taught by Claire Cunneen at the New York Center of the Integral Way and practices every other day at home. He also plays tennis, poorly, in his estimation, at least until recently. The first time he did a Qi Gong warm-up--gently pummeling his body with his fists--in preparation for his weekly game, he noticed a dramatic change. "About halfway through I suddenly started playing differently. I was using my mind more...
Indeed there is. Levine studies a form of Qi Gong called Eight Treasures, composed of 32 linked exercises, with poetic names like "The Unicorn Turns Its Head to Look at the Moon" and "The Weeping Willow Shivers in the Early Morning Dew." There are thousands of other forms, each embracing a complete set of exercises...
Kathleen Moloney, 61, a social worker for the State of New York, got into Qi Gong by accident. Six months ago, she attended what she thought would be a Tai Chi demonstration. It turned out to be Eight Treasures Qi Gong, taught by Cunneen. No matter. Moloney has been doing the form ever since. Not only does she feel less stressed out and more able to concentrate, she also enjoys the excursion into another culture. "It opens you up to a lot of things--Chinese martial arts, medicine and Chinese painting," she says. "There's a whole way of looking...