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Class features relaxing tactics to reduce stress Strand uses Buddhist meditation influences to encourage heightened awareness Sarah Murphree Staff Writer UT’s College of Veterinary Medicine will host an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction class. The first class was held Monday. The class will be held every Monday night in the Sequoyah Room at the UT College of Veterinary Medicine. Elizabeth Strand, director of Veterinary Social Work at UT, will teach the class. Strand has followed a meditation process her whole life and reflected that her inspiration for this practice came at a young age. “My oldest brother became a Buddhist monk when I very young, and he taught me how to meditate, so I grew up meditating,” she said. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is designed to teach mindful practices for the alleviation of accumulated daily stress, chronic pain, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression and many other conditions exac-
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
The College of Veterinary Medicine will be hosting a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction class throughout the fall semester. Sessions will be held each Monday in the Sequoyah Room at the College of Veterinary Medicine. For more information about these classes, contact Tressie Brown at nuchols@utk.edu.
erbated by stress. The tactics aim to increase awareness so one can respond to situations by choice instead of automatically. MBSR was founded by John Kabat-Zinn in 1979. He developed the practice to help treat human patients who were not benefiting much from traditional medical interventions. MBSR has gained popularity in recent years. “It has a lot of research to support its effectiveness for human health and well being,” Strand said. In this eight-week course, four basic skills of MBSR are taught, including mindfulness while lying down, mindfulness while sitting, mindfulness while stretching and mindfulness in walking. “Mindfulness is not about sitting on a pillow meditating,” Jay Valusek, a teacher of MBSR at the Rocky Mountain Mindfulness Center said. “It’s about learning to be fully present to what is happening.” For more information on how to register, contact Tressie Brown at nuchlos@utk.edu
Trial begins for Fort Hood attacker Associated Press
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An officer demonstrates proper walking technique to a student taking the beer goggle challenge at the VolAware Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 13. The beer goggles were used as a demonstration to give students an idea of how alcohol can affect motor skills without the risk of arrest for public intoxication.
A gunman appeared to be trying to hit anyone who moved — not any specific person — as he fired upon Army personnel and civilian workers in a deadly rampage at Fort Hood last November, a military court heard Monday. Pvt. Justin Johnson said he was chatting with his mother on his cell phone as he waited to undergo pre-deployment medical exams when the shooting began. He threw himself down and started to crawl. The gunman “was aiming his weapon on the ground and he started shooting, and he was hitting people that were trying to get away,” Johnson told the Article 32 hearing via video link from Kandahar in Afghanistan. “It didn’t seem like he was targeting a specific person, sir. He was just shooting at anybody.” Johnson, who was shot three times in the attack and still has a bullet wedged in his lungs, could not identify the shooter. In the first week of testimony, several witnesses said they made eye contact with Maj. Nidal Hasan, a 40-year-old American-born Muslim, and identified him as the gunman in the Nov. 5 shootings at the Texas Army post. The hearing is to determine if Hasan will stand trial on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the worst attack on an American military base. The investigating officer at the hearing, Col. James L. Pohl, said earlier this year that he wanted to hear from the almost three dozen people who were wounded in the attack. The Article 32 hearing is unique to the military in that Pohl, along with prosecutors and defense attorneys, can call witnesses. Col. Morgan Lamb, a Fort Hood brigade commander appointed to oversee judicial matters in Hasan’s case, will decide if the prosecution has shown probably cause, thereby allowing the case to go to trial. Witnesses last week told similar stories of how a balding man in an Army combat uniform stood by a front counter, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” - “God is great!” in Arabic - and started shooting at unarmed soldiers in a building where they went for routine medical tests before deploying. When the volley of gunfire sprayed across a crowded waiting area, startled soldiers initially thought it was a training exercise. On Monday, Spc. Joseph Tracy Foster said he was among those who thought the bullets being fired were not live ammunition. “I felt a sharp pain in my hip,” said Foster, of the 20th Engineer Battalion. “I believed it was a paintball round, or something along those lines. ... I remember bringing my hand up to my face and thinking: ‘These paintball rounds feel really real.’” Many witnesses were shot more than once - some as they tried to pull buddies to safety, others as they hid under tables or chairs. One wounded soldier ran outside, but the gunman followed him and shot him again, soldiers testified. Upcoming witnesses are expected to include the two Fort Hood police officers credited with taking the gunman down. Hasan, who was paralyzed from the chest down after being shot, remains jailed. The hearing is expected to last at least another week.