The Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 13, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 26, 2007 Page: 3 of 12
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April 26 2007 Yellow Jacket 13
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High
Demand
Adventure challenges
make revamped ESS
classes popular with
Howard Payne students
by Kelsey Halsell
YJ GuestWriter
What do James Bond and a
Howard Payne student have in
common?
If they were to accept their mis-
sion they'll get shot at and dive in
threatening waters while being sur-
rounded by suspicious persons dis-
guised in scuba apparel. Hopefully
at the end of the day they'll find
themselves single-handedly dan-
gling from the edge of a 100-foot
cliff.
HPU's Exercise and Sports
Sciences Department (ESS) has
been on a quest to create adventure
and challenge in their classes which
in turn has created an avalanche of
student demand since the new pro-
grams started three years ago.
Classes offered under the ESS
programs are: Paintball Wilderness
Leadership Alpine Skiing Surfing
Rock Climbing and Scuba Diving.
Usually when a student adds one
of these classes a faint Mission
Impossible theme song is mentally
cued and does not go away for
weeks.
Chris Taylor a junior has learned
many life-lessons from participat-
ing in Paintball including how to
run and dodge from enemy fire
that whizzes across your head and
most of all how to love enemies
after they "accidentally" shoot you
in the neck.
"Paintball broadened my view of
extreme sports" Taylor said "and
the circular bruises are only marks
of learning."
Or perhaps revenge?
Whatever the course is all of the
outdoor ESS classes nearly guar-
photo In Cluh Tayloi
Howard Payne students John Ryan
Seaman (left) and Kyle Kinser engage
in a hand-to-rock battle in Rock
Climbing class.
antee self-inflicted pain if you are
accident-prone or under-equipped.
Kelly Hulett a junior went with her
Rock Climbing class to Enchanted
Rock and fell eight feet off one of
the cliffs. Her fall left her with minor
muscle tears in her shoulder and
some ornately decorated bruises.
When asked if all the pain was
worth the experience she said "Oh
yeah! I'd do it all over again!"
Kelly is staying true to her word
and has signed up for Wilderness
Leadership and hopes to be in the
Intermediate Rock Climbing class
in the spring. No worries though
she'll also be taking Emergency
Responder and First Aid.
"The Surfing class will start up
again next spring" said Dr. Rick
Beelby chair of the Department of
Exercise and Sport Science. "And
we'll also be exploring the possi-
bilities of surfing in other regions of
Texas and California and hoping to
add Hawaii to the classroom loca-
tions." Perhaps the ESS department
will soon infuse the curricula with
other popular adventure-movie
themes such as "The Pirates of The
Caribbean." Just don't be expect-
ing a Piracy class at HPU any time
in the near future.
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