Student discovers underwater classroom
By Sheryl McGlory
Issue date: 3/21/03 Section: Life
I’m not a big fan of sports. I know next to nothing when it comes to basketball, soccer, tennis and pretty much any other sport you can name. Besides that, my coordination is atrocious. So not surprisingly, I am not looking forward to filling the physical education block of the liberal studies credits.
Skin and scuba diving class isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when I think of physical education classes. It’s one of those activities that I thought was neat when I was younger but never thought I’d have the opportunity to do.
I can remember going to the aquarium and watching the people in scuba gear hanging out with the sharks, wishing that I could do that someday, never thinking that one day I’d go to a college that offered that possibility to its students.
Students from all different majors meet at the pool in Morrow Field House each Wednesday evening to have some fun and learn a new skill from Robert Ogoreuc, professor of physical education and sport management.
Some of the students are there because, like me, they think it’s a fun activity to learn. Others are there because of their major.
Before anyone got in the water, the oxygen tanks were filled at the air compressor and the 20 sets of scuba gear were laid out.
Then one by one, everyone entered the deep end of the pool. The only reason I did not join them was because at the beginning of the semester, every student must pass a pre-test consisting of ten minutes of treading water and a 200-yd swim.
As the semester continues, the class works on masteringmodules, or skill levels. During this class they worked on modeul four.
As the class split into two groups to make the instruction process easier and descended to the bottom of the pool, I went downstairs to the observation window to watch.
Once everyone was on the pool floor, Ogoreuc started to give instruction using hand signals that the students had learned in a previous class. They paired off and then each pair practiced hovering about three feet off of the bottom while Ogoreuc watched their progress.
Skin and scuba diving class isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when I think of physical education classes. It’s one of those activities that I thought was neat when I was younger but never thought I’d have the opportunity to do.
I can remember going to the aquarium and watching the people in scuba gear hanging out with the sharks, wishing that I could do that someday, never thinking that one day I’d go to a college that offered that possibility to its students.
Students from all different majors meet at the pool in Morrow Field House each Wednesday evening to have some fun and learn a new skill from Robert Ogoreuc, professor of physical education and sport management.
Some of the students are there because, like me, they think it’s a fun activity to learn. Others are there because of their major.
Before anyone got in the water, the oxygen tanks were filled at the air compressor and the 20 sets of scuba gear were laid out.
Then one by one, everyone entered the deep end of the pool. The only reason I did not join them was because at the beginning of the semester, every student must pass a pre-test consisting of ten minutes of treading water and a 200-yd swim.
As the semester continues, the class works on masteringmodules, or skill levels. During this class they worked on modeul four.
As the class split into two groups to make the instruction process easier and descended to the bottom of the pool, I went downstairs to the observation window to watch.
Once everyone was on the pool floor, Ogoreuc started to give instruction using hand signals that the students had learned in a previous class. They paired off and then each pair practiced hovering about three feet off of the bottom while Ogoreuc watched their progress.
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