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Campus Shootings: Bleak Future of the U.S. Elisabeth Slay @Eslayslay Reporter

Afghan security forces stand guard after an attack on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. The attack has ended, a senior police officer said Thursday, after several people were killed.

Kabul police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said the dead included one guard, and that about 700 students had been rescued. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A campus wide shooting at the American University of Afghanistan occurred Wednesday in Kabul, Afghanistan, involving three men who attacked the student body, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more.

Seven students, three professors, two university guards and a night guard at the neighboring school for the blind, which is where the attack began, made up those who were killed.

According to The New York Times, one of the attackers first shot the night guard while another drove a car full of explosives into the front wall of the American university.

The Times interviewed a spokesperson for the Kabul police, Abdul Baseer Mujahid, who said that over 30 people were hurt in the shooting. There was also a report from the Health Ministry of Afghanistan that said 16 had been killed and 53 wounded.

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Earthquakes: An Increasing Global Phenomenon

Megan Prather @meganthefeline Reporter

The Italian cities that were at the epicenter of the devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred Tuesday, Aug. 23, are in ruins as the death toll continues to climb.

The cities of Amatrice, Accumoli, Arquata del Tronto as well as other parts of central Italy were shook by an aftershock with a magnitude of 4.7 the following morning. The death toll has risen to 250 with more than 1,000 people missing.

The same area was also affected by similar quakes in 2009 that killed over 300 people.

“I’ve never seen a quake quite so similar to another one,” CNN International meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said, calling the juxtaposition “eerily similar.”

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the central spine of the mountainous country is incredibly seismically active and has fault lines running through it. Many of the buildings were constructed with unreinforced brick and concrete frames offering less resistance to the powerful quake.

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Rescuers work amid collapsed building in Amatrice, central Italy, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Rescue crews raced against time Thursday looking for survivors from the earthquake that leveled three towns in central Italy and Italy once again anguished over trying to secure its medieval communities built on seismic lands. (Italian Firefighters Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

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CONTENTS Campus News................................................3

Public Safety.................................................10

Campus Shootings.........................................4

Feature.........................................................11

Around Campus.............................................5

Column........................................................13

Earthquakes....................................................6

UCO Football..............................................14

Health.............................................................9

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UCO Rave Guardian App Helps Campus Safety Katie Standlee @kkkkkatiemarie Reporter

The University of Central Oklahoma recently issued a new app called Rave Guardian as an initiative to keep students, faculty and staff safe on campus.

Norman Nieves, director of Emergency Management said, “It’s an added layer of safety for our students, there’s a panic button module within it and there’s a 911 module within it so it’s kind of like a onestop emergency phone-call area.”

The app has multiple safety features that benefit not only the user, but also UCO’s Police Department in being able to better locate people in danger.

There is an option to press a button that will automatically call UCO PD or 911. When the police are called from the app the department can gain access to the user’s name, picture, home address, and a GPS location of where the person is at the time of the call.

Using the button on the app to call UCO PD makes it so that if the user

is in a dangerous situation to where talking on the phone is not an option the button can be pressed and UCO PD can find the person from the GPS location.

However, UCO PD can only see what the user allows them to see, so if the user wants to keep some information private that is an option.

Another option on the app is to assign guardians, UCO PD is an automatic guardian on the system, but other guardians can be added such as parents, friends, etc.

The aspect comes into play with the Safety Timer button. The user can set the safety timer up when they are going out and want their guardians to keep an eye on them virtually.

For users who wish to send in tips to UCO PD there is also a button for that available on the app.

There is also a button on the app for an inbox, the app itself will notify users using the inbox when there is an update or something of that nature. The inbox will also be used

by UCO PD to notify the user if an ongoing case with is open or closed.

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The Rave Guardian app allows users to call police if they are feeling threatened and talking on the phone is not an option. Photo by Cara Johnson, The Vista.

Nieve said that the last time he checked, just under a hundred people were already utilizing the app. Guardian has been live since May and it has been tested over the summer to make sure the app works fully. The advertising for the app, however, just started.

The app is free and available for

download in the App Store or Google Play Store.

“Our goal, to be honest with you, is we hope you never have to use it,” Nieves said.

Central Alert will still be used as it has been in the past, the guardian app is just an added safety initiative that is available for use as well.

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CAMPUS SHOOTINGS

Campus Shootings Elisabeth Slay @Eslayslay Reporter

The men entered the school and went after any students or professors on campus, while at the same time fighting off local and campus police for 10 hours.

All three of the attackers were killed, with no information yet regarding any terrorist group affiliation.

School shootings have become fairly common occurrences for all levels of education, from elementary to university.

According to Time magazine, there was a total of 53 school shootings in 2015 in the United States and of those, 23 occurred on college campuses.

Some of these shootings were not as massive as the American University of Afghanistan attack, but others have come close to the same death toll.

One of the largest university shootings in 2015 was at Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Oct. 1 that killed 10 people including the gunman.

There have also been numerous school shootings over the past six months. On June 1, 2016 two men were killed at the University of California, Los Angeles in a murder-suicide.

“Two people died. One was a professor and the other was the shooter.

It was a targeted attack,” Tanner Walters, editor-in-chief of The Daily Bruin at UCLA said.

The victim was identified as William Scott Klug, an associate professor that taught the gunman, 38 year-old former UCLA Ph.D student, Mainak Sarkar. Following the gunshots there was a campus wide notification sent out to warn students and other professors of the threat In the aftermath of the shooting, the UCLA Police Department and the UCLA administration made changes to campus security and procedures.

“Right after the shooting UCLA started a task force and they are working on creating a gun violence research center. The task force is working on the locks of the doors because when the shooting happened people couldn’t really secure the doors to classrooms,” Walters said.

Currently this is the biggest job the task force is working on to make sure that everyone is safe in the future.

“They have until Sept. 1 to recommend a new lock system and that is

their main focus,” Walters said.

Walters said that although the shootings are different in regards to the death toll and the motivation, they both violated the safety of college students.

“Even though it wasn’t a mass scale attack, you didn’t know that in the moment so [the shooting] highlights the flaws in the system. So the American University shooting highlighted the flaws in the security system as a whole,” Walters said There have been at least two college shootings in Oklahoma, within the last two years and there was a perceived shooting at the University of Oklahoma in 2014.

Although it was only a false alarm, OU has put forth new policies and procedures to ensure the safety of students and faculty.

According to Vice President of Public Relations at OU, Catherine Bishop, there are numerous protective initiatives in place.

“The OU Emergency Communication System can notify all our students, faculty, and staff of any potential emergency situation within minutes by phone, text message, and e-mail. It is our belief that continuous and rapid notification is one of the best protections available for members of our community,” Bishop said.

OU also has on campus counsel-

ing, a joint SWAT team with the OU Police Department and the Norman Police Department. There are also emergency blue phones directly linked to the police all around OU’s campus.

While there has not been a shooting on the University of Central Oklahoma campus, there are procedures in place to prevent such an event.

According to Director of Emergency Management, Norman Nieves, the Edmond police are the first responders to any sort of gun violence threat.

“The police assess the situation and call for backup. My job is to call the president [Betz] and the vice president [Barthell] and from there I would get the police the resources they needed,” Nieves said.

Both the Edmond and the UCO Police Departments have had the same training pertaining to a situation such as a campus shooting.

“There is a first team that comes and their job is to eliminate the threat. Then there is another team that comes to help the wounded,” Nieves said.

To prevent the possibly of a shooting, UCO has the Behavioral Assessment Team that gathers information from professors, housing and other sources to evaluate a potential situation.

BY THE NUMBERS: U.S. University Shootings in the 21st Century

- 247 deaths nationwide due to university shootings since 2000.

- 171 injuries nationwide since 2000.

- 29 deaths nationwide since August 2015.

- 45 injuries nationwide since August 2015.

- 12 deaths nationwide in the year 2016 (January to present).

- 25 injuries nationwide in the year 2016 (January to present).

- 112 deaths nationwide in the past five years (since 2011).

- 1 death in the state of Oklahoma since 2000.

- 8 deaths in the state of Texas since 2000.

- 24 injuries in the state of Texas since 2000.

A wounded man is assisted in an ambulance after a complex Taliban attack on the campus of the American University in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. University President Mark English told The Associated Press that security forces had arrived on the scene soon after the attack began around 7 p.m. (1430 GMT) (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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AROUND THE CAMPUS Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 UCOSA: The UCO Student Association (UCOSA) will have their open-

ing session in the Nigh University in Ballroom A from 12:30 p.m. through 2:30 p.m.

AASA: The Asian American Student Association will have their ‘Fall

Kick-Off Meeting’ in the Nigh University Center from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. in in Room 320 C. Students can meet the UCO AASA Executive Board and also sign up for other events for AASA. Student dues include $5 per semester and $10 per year.

F/64 PHOTO SOCIETY: F/64 Photo Society will have their kick-

off meeting in the Mass Communication Building from 5:00 p.m. – 6 p.m. in Room 214.

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 THE GATHERING OF STUDENTS: The Gathering of Students is an event to welcome Native American students to connect them to peers as well as faculty and staff. The event will be from 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. in Plunkett Park. The event will have music, activities and food and is open to the public.

SPBRONCHO MEMORY BOARD: The UCO Student

Programming Board will be providing memory boards and decorations for students to create their own memory boards from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. by the Broncho Lake Clock Tower.

TEAM USA: Team USA will have a pep rally and send off as they

leave for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. at the Wellness Center. USA Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams will be there to meet people and sign autographs.

Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 TASTE OF AFRICA: The UCO African Student Association will

host a Taste of Africa cookout event in the UCO International House from 5 p.m. – 11 p.m.

ICSO: The International Christian Student Organization will have their

general meeting for members from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. in the Nigh University Center.

Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 SAFE: The Student Alliance for Equality will have their first meeting

from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. in the Nigh in Ballroom A and B. The meeting will include social time, icebreakers, and light refreshments. The meeting will explain an overview of SAFE’s plans for the 2016-17 academic year.

HAC: The Housing Activity Council will have a general meeting from

7 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in the Nigh University Center in 320 B or C. HAC meets once a week to discuss business and to plan events.

EDMOND MOBILE MEALS: Edmond Mobile Meals are looking for volunteer drivers to deliver meals to homebound residents in Edmond from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30p.m. each day. Edmond Mobile Meals are located at 25 W. 3rd St., Edmond 73003.

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 TPS: UCO Transportation and Parking Services will have a booth 1 p.m.

– 3 p.m. by the Broncho Lake Clock Tower. TPS will be there to answer any questions about the new programs they offer such as Park & Pace.

JEWELRY EXHIBIT: There will be an open exhibit for Lucem

Ferre: The Jewelry of Lopeeta Tawde in the Melton Gallery from 5:30 p.m.

– 7:30 p.m. At the opening artists can make jewelry, which incorporates biology and modern technology. The exhibit will remain open through Sept. 22.

ACM: The UCO Association for Computing Machinery will have their

general meeting from 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. in the Math and Computer Science Building in Room 126.

BARNES & NOBLE: The UCO Barnes & Noble Bookstore in the Nigh University Center will be hosting a Welcome Back event for students on Wednesday, Aug. 31 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. They will have free food, door prizes, pictures and even a hug-a-coke machine. With students having such a stressful week back, the event was initiated as a way to congratulate students on pushing through the first week of classes.

The University of Central Oklahoma was established in 1890 as one of the first higher education institutions in the state. In the years since, the campus has grown into an institution full of hustle and bustle, events, and spirit. Photo by Cara Johnson, The Vista.

EARTHQUAKES

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Earthquakes Megan Prather @meganthefeline Reporter According to StateImpact Oklahoma, the state of Oklahoma has seen a large increase in earthquakes in recent years.

The largest earthquake seen in Oklahoma in occurred in Prague five years ago and had a magnitude of 5.6.

There is a general consensus among scientists that the increase Oklahoma has seen in earthquake activity has been caused by disposal wells which are used to dispose of waste from oil and gas drilling operations. This includes hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

With many severe earthquakes happening globally in recent years, in places such as Nepal, China, and Italy, scientists believe that climate change could be to blame.

“Climate change may play a critical role in triggering certain faults in certain places where they could kill a hell of a lot of people,” University College London’s Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazard,s Bill McGuire, said

during an interview with Newsweek last year.

There is evidence from the Ice Age that has shown that the Earth’s uneasy web of seismic faults are incredibly sensitive to the small pressure changes that are caused by climate change.

As of now, rescue crews are still hard

at work searching for those who are still missing in Italy.

“We will work relentlessly until the last person is found, and make sure no one is trapped,” Lorenzo Botti, a rescue team spokesman, told the Associated Press.

Rescuers recover a lifeless body from a collapsed house following an earthquake in Pescara Del Tronto, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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The Rave Guardian App helps keep you safe on campus by giving you direct connections to campus safety, family, friends, and others you trust, you can feel safe anytime, knowing your Guardians are watching out for you.

Set a Safety Timer Set a Safety Timer whenever you are are alone or in an unfamiliar place.

Connect with Guardians Invite family, friends, and others you trust to be part of your safety network.

Easier Emergency Communications Call UCO police for help and send text tips if you see something suspicious.

To download, search “Rave Guardian� in the App Store or Google Play Store.

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HEALTH

Purple Bread: A New Super-Food

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Queila Omena @queilaomena Reporter

Bread has been under attack for decades as nutrition experts have informed the public that white bread spikes blood sugar levels and has been linked to obesity, but a new bread could be the answer for all the healthy eaters.

If you are looking for a snack with a vibrant color, this might be your next option.

A food scientist at the National University of Singapore, Professor Zhou Weibiao, invented a purple bread that is digested 20 percent slower than normal white bread. The new bread is rich in cancer-fighting antioxidants, and is made entirely of natural compounds.

The purple bread was created when Weibiao extracted anthocyanins from black rice and infused it to his bread, giving the bread greater antioxidant qualities. According to Weibiao, the challenge was to create a new formula of bread without changing the smooth texture of white bread that people enjoy.

While tasting the same as the white varieties, the purple bread is rich in iron and Vitamin E, containing more

were also interested to try to infuse an- healthier than a white bread, it’s imantioxidants than blueberries. thocyanins in chocolate, but according portant to double check the amount of The best part of it is that 80 percent to Weibiao it would not have the same food consumed when trying to mainof antioxidant qualities are still preserved in crumbs and bread crust when reaction due to different starches found tain a certain weight. in chocolate.

For those with gluten allergies, this baked at 200 degrees Celsius, Weibiao When it comes to calories, however, purple bread will satisfy the need to said. the purple bread has the same nutrition eat bread while not harming a sensitive The problem with white bread is value as a white bread if one eats the stomach. that it is rapidly digestible, and people Furthermore, it is believed that the often eat more than they should. Purple same amount of starch and wheat flour.

So even though the purple bread has purple bread could be the first subread in the other hand, tends to help incredible benefits to the body and is per-food for the baking world. people eat less because of its filling components and it also helps the body release energy slower, using less calories over a longer period of time.

According to the US National Library of Medicine, anthocyanin pigments have showed the ability to protect against a series of human diseases.

Studies have shown that anthocyanins can help prevent cardiovascular and neurological diseases, and also help control obesity and diabetes.

Anthocyanins are members of a group of phytochemicals found in teas, honey, wines, fruits, vegetables, olive oil and cereals.

While the purple bread is still not available to consume, Weibiao has Purple bread, made with black rice and other natural compounds is rich in been approached by food manufactures cancer-fighting antioxidents. Purple bread is the answer to white bread, which T:9.75 ‘’ to bring the product to display. spikes blood sugar levels and is linked to obesity. Photo illustration by Ryan Some people in the food industry Naeve, The Vista.

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PUBLIC SAFETY

Man Killed in One of Many Avoidable Acts of Violence Megan Prather @meganthefeline Reporter

On Wednesday, Aug. 24 a 61-yearold Tulsa man plead not guilty to charges of a hate crime, the first-degree murder of his Lebanese neighbor.

Stanley Majors was charged by prosecutors on Tuesday, Aug. 23 for the Aug. 12 shooting of his neighbor, 37-year-old Khalid Jabara, as well as illegally owning a firearm. Majors was also charged with committing a hate crime and threatening a violent act, which are both misdemeanors under Oklahoma law.

Jabara made his first call to 911 on the evening of Aug. 12 to report that Majors was tapping on the window of his home. The second call was made to report that Majors was firing a gun inside of his own house next door.

Police arrived at 6:27 that evening to investigate, but they left at 6:40 stating that Majors wouldn’t open his door and there was nothing they could do.

Eight minutes after the officers left, 911 then received a call from Mounah Jabara, Khalid’s father, stating that his son had been shot. Khalid died in the hospital.

The Jabara family said the shooting

follows years of racially motivated harassment from Majors. The Jabaras moved into their Tulsa home 12 years ago, and when Majors moved into the house next door a few years later, the harassment began almost immediately.

The family reported multiple incidents of verbal abuse, claiming that Majors would scream things like “dirty Arabs,” “filthy Lebanese,” “Aye-rabs,” and “Moos-lems.”

The shooting of Jabara also came less than a year after Majors was arrested and put in jail for hitting Haifa Jabara, Kalid’s mother, with his car while she was jogging. This violated the protective order the family had filed against him in 2013 in response to his ongoing threats and harassment.

She spent weeks in the hospital with a broken shoulder, collapsed lung and fractured ribs.

“He came from the back and hit me hard,” Haifa told CNN. “I fell on the floor, bloody—bleeding from my head.

A lady was passing by ... called 911 and rescued me.”

Police charged Majors with felony assault for this incident, and he was initially to be held in custody without bond until his trial in March. However, three months ago, a judge allowed his release until his trial, although the

Tulsa County prosecutors called him “a substantial risk to the public.”

“My family lived in fear of this man and his hatred for years; yet in May, not even one year after he ran over our mother, and despite our repeated protests, he was released from jail with no conditions on his bond—no ankle monitor, no drug/alcohol testing, nothing,” the family said.

Majors’ lawyer, Marvin Lizama, said

that he had been in good spirits since his release from jail.

“I don’t know what happened last week that could have changed that,” Lizama told CNN. “Never did I expect Mr. Majors to do something like this.

This was unexpected and unfortunate.”

Majors has been appointed a public defender and is currently being held without bail until his preliminary hearing on Oct. 5.

This Aug. 12, 2016 file photo provided by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, shows Stanley Majors. Majors has been charged with first-degree murder and committing a hate crime in the killing of his Lebanese neighbor, Khalid Jabara. (Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)

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FEATURE

Former UCO Professor Continues Work Saving Children Eriech Tapia @eriechtapia95 Reporter

One former University of Central Oklahoma professor, at the age of 92, is hoping to bring freedom to children in sex slavery after his life was changed forever.

Hall Duncan of Edmond learned one day that a sexual predator in South Africa had abused one of his two children.

“As long as I am alive, I am hoping to go out and talk about this cause,” Duncan said. “It is so urgent.”

Claiming to be the most active person in his assisted living center, many staff members agree with Duncan. He has created several books in recent years and takes trips around the world.

He is helping New Hope Girls, which is renovating and expanding a safe home for children in the Dominican Republic.

“When I was down there, I saw women and girls being sold,” Duncan said. “I want to dedicate the rest of my life to this problem that the children are facing.”

He is currently working with organizations from across the country to increase the size of the current safe house. He is also researching treat-

Hall Duncan sits with (from left) Keith, Amy, and Cole Melugin. Melugin also works with New Hope Girls with Duncan to help young girls in other countries. (Photo provided by Hall Duncan).

ment options. He recently made trips to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, continuing his work to coordinate a project that would allow children to be brought into a safe environment.

He is planning on traveling to the

Hall Duncan, 92, flips through his sketches, which will make up his new coloring book “Color Me Free.” Duncan intends for the coloring book to benefit his mission.

Photo by Cara Johnson, The Vista.

Dominican Republic in the next year to finalize plans for the expansion of the safe house and his current work on a coloring book.

“This is how I am working through it,” Duncan said. “There is a fear of getting too involved.”

Prostitution is legal in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, many children are brought in at an early age to help families make a living in those developing countries, according to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund.

“What is important to me is how the kids are treated,” Duncan said.

As a cartoonist, Duncan is creating a coloring book with images of the scenes he witnessed during his trips, which will explain his mission and facts about child slavery.

The coloring book is expected to be completed within the next year and will go on sale with proceeds going to his mission.

“The coloring book will show how things are for a child who is a sex slave and what they are going through,” Duncan said.

Duncan and a screenwriter, Tip Boxell, have also produced a screenplay about children who are trapped in child abuse in Haiti.

“It really does destroy a child. I have seen it,” Duncan said. “It just tears my heart up.”

He has produced books in French and English, common languages in the two countries.

Nearly one in 10 girls between ages 15 and 19 are sexually violated in the two countries, according to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, which works to prevent child violence.

“Our goal is to make children feel like they are rescued,” said Keith Melugin, 44, of Cleveland, Ohio. He and others have been working on the same project in the two countries.

The Dominican Republic and Haiti have some of the highest rates of child sex slavery outside of countries in Africa.

“We want children to succeed,” Melugin said. “We have been working with kids all of our lives.”

Melugin has been working with New Hope Girls, a Christian ministry that rescues girls and boys from sex slavery in the two countries. He also has been working with Duncan and the organization to build the new living center.

“These kids have gotten swept in by the monsters,” Melugin said.

He said children who are rescued sometimes have severe physiological distress.

Melugin and Duncan stay in frequent contact, and Duncan plans to return to the place he calls his mission field. He hopes to take a pediatrician and caregiver with him, to continue researching treatments for children.

“All of this is for the children,” he said.

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Benefits of Being a Yogi: Yoga for Beginners Queila Omena @queilaomena Reporter

If you are a yoga practitioner, you might have experienced some of the benefits of yoga: sleeping better, getting fewer colds or feeling more relaxed during stressful times. But there are many more life-altering rewards to be gained when practiced frequently, such as reformed mental and physical states of being.

For its physical benefits, yoga has shown to increase flexibility, muscle strength and tone. Research also shows that yoga practitioners have improved respiration, as well as better levels of energy and vitality.

Most yoga sessions include breathing exercises, meditation and postures, called asana or poses, that stretch and flex various muscles, protecting the body from injury and improving athletic performance. Yoga can also help with weight reduction and help in maintaining a balanced metabolism.

Even though practicing yoga burns fewer calories than traditional exercises such as jogging or swimming, yoga can increase one’s mindfulness on the way they relate to their body, helping them become more aware of what they eat and

making better food choices.

If one is trying to lose weight, it’s important to choose yoga classes that challenges the body and supports weight loss goals, such as Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Bikram—types of yoga that focus on strength-building and cardiovascular exercise.

According to studies published by the British medical journal The Lancet, clients with hypertension had their blood pressure dropped as they engaged in yoga regularly.

The benefits don’t stop there, as a recent study from the University of Illinois showed that practicing yoga for 20 minutes can also improve brain function.

Participants of the study focused better on their mental resources, processed information more quickly and held more pieces of information whenever they were practicing the breathing exercises.

Exercises in general help decrease levels of depression, but yoga specifically has proved that if practiced on a regular basis, it can help decrease depression drastically. Some of these poses, including the Cobra, Bridge or Supported Headstand, can be extremely calming to the mind.

Yoga asana is a key component to breathing well and can contribute to a state of calm, where the mind and body

Yoga was developed in India to help clear the mind, break bad habits, eliminate negavity, and relieve stress. Photo provided by Pizabay. connects and releases the attachment of worries, problems, fears and circumstances.

Patients who suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and frequently experienced nightmares and flashbacks were able to be significantly

more at ease overall whenever frequently practicing yoga.

Developed in India over five thousand years, yoga proves to help clear the mind and break bad habits, eliminating negativity and diminishing stress.

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Broncho Football:

Looking Ahead at the Season Opener

Quaterback Chas Stallard (right) hands the ball off to running back Clay McKenzie (left) during last year’s UCO v. Fort Hays State matchup. Photo by Ryan Naeve, The Vista.

Ike Wilcots @ikewilcots

Sports Editor

The University of Central Oklahoma football team will start a new season this Thursday as they travel to St. Charles, Missouri to face the Lindenwood Lions.

The Bronchos come into the game ranked sixth overall in the MIAA Preseason Polls. Lindenwood will be ranked ninth coming into Thursday night’s matchup.

Last year, UCO beat the Lions

37-20 in the last home game of the season. Lindenwood was able to out throw the Bronchos tallying 232 passing yards compared to UCO’s 196 yards.

It was UCO’s rushing game that was key in last year’s victory as the Bronchos rushed 237 yards compared to Lindenwood’s 32 yards for the game.

Last season, Lindenwood had a conference and overall record of 3-8, but will look to redeem themselves this year before sending off a quality player.

The All-American senior linebacker, Connor Harris, will be wrapping up a stellar career for the Lions this season.

Harris is a two-time first team All-MIAA member and a two-time All-American. He has recorded 495 tackles throughout his four years with the Lions.

Lindenwood will need Harris to continue his dominate performance on the defensive side of the ball against the Bronchos if they look to start the season off right.

The Bronchos finished 7-5 overall with a conference record of 6-5.

They will hopefully bring their elite playing style from a great ending of last season to this season.

The Bronchos finished last season winning seven out of eight games, including their bowl game victory.

UCO will also look to bring an equally dominant player on the offensive side of the ball to compete with Harris from Lindenwood.

Junior running back, Clay McKenzie, will be joining Harris as a 2016 D2Football.com Preseason All-American.

McKenzie made the second team while also being the only MIAA offensive player named to this year’s

preseason All-American list.

In only his sophomore year, McKenzie rushed for 1,902 all-purpose yards as he scored 21 touchdowns last season.

Mckenzie was also named the oklahomasports.net Offensive Player of the Year and was selected as a firstteam All-MIAA player last season.

Lindenwood’s star linebacker will also have to contain another prominent running back from the Bronchos lineup.

Junior running back, Jake Gandara, will make his return to the field for the first time since his season-ending injury in last year’s opener against Fort Hays State.

As a freshman, Gandara racked up 13 touchdowns while adding 1,632 all-purpose yards.

He was named second-team AllMIAA and was named to the conference’s Honor Roll as a freshman and looks to get back to his breakaway style of play this season.

The season opener for the Bronchos will be Thursday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. at Lindenwood before coming back to Wantland Stadium for their home opener against Pittsburg State on Sept. 8.

Nick Bobeck, head coach of the Broncho Football team, addresses the players after the scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 20. The first game of the season will take place on Sept. 8.

Photo by David Terry, The Vista.

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