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Stu( Hughe4 of self By BETH WILLIAMS Staff Writer Yoga is being offered this semester "in an open atmosphere with no teacher" as a Short Course, according to Phil Hughes, instructor. Hughes explained that the program is threefold, offerring mental and spiritual yoga as well as physical. Exposure to the philosophy and the methods of meditation work to bring out inner potential, he said. Speaking on the recent history of yoga, Hughes said that yoga "is shrouded in mystery. From a cultural standpoint, this ancient practice is a subject of many misconceptions." "Yoga came into Western society as an outside movement or fad, and has only been recently accepted in its essence as a pure philosophy of self-control," he said. Hughes believes that yoga has much to offer everyone. esDecially Wo rIld finds - Tomn Price Markham . ........ lents explore Phik contr college students. He explained, "As students, we have our old concepts shattered, and find ourselves in a state of limbo. We are faced with a divided self, torn between interests and respon sibilities." "Our minds are in a state of flux, moving from one experience to another. We expand energy out ward; we are the battery cells," he said. Hughes continued, "Yoga channels energy inward and shuts down the thinking processes. This allows us to harness and un derstand our emotions and feelings. Thus, a greater ob jectivity of self is arrived at." Sessions are planned to bring about self-exploration a& well as physical relaxation. In Hughes' words, "meditators learn to or chestrate the internal symphony and explore the ocean of con sciousness." Other aspects of yoga, such as Napo time By ANN Staff He is a world leadmng authority on visiting professor in the University The author of two books on N Professor Felix Markham is a visitir in England. This is the gray-hai University. He was first invited by the history the spring semester. "South Carol United States," he said, with a very: Jamaica and Florida, " he laughed. South when visiting the United Stai Half-lensed. glasses resting low on a cigarette, the professor said he hat South Carolina as well as In Canada a In addition to his visits in the Unit time in France and Italy where he d France and Italy about every year The first part of his best selling nov Italy while a guest of the Rockefeller His novel "Napoleon", publishes biography," he said. It took about while the research covered a perio writing of the book took place during when his mind was at its best for conc The professor admitted that his yoga )Sophy :31' philosophy and diet, are also in corporated into discussions. Sadajaii, the Respected Elder Brother, will offer personal in struction on Feb. 28. Students may obtain mantras, "words used in meditation to move awareness to more subtle regions of the- mind" at this time, Hughes said. Hughes has been practicing yoga for two years and is a member of the Ananda Marga ("Path to Bliss") yoga group. This organization has begun a food co op and .is now exploring other social problems. "It is~hard to talk of bliss when so many are suffering. It has become a mythological type word," Hughes said. He believes yoga is capable of taking people away from a stifling social environment and into a new existence of individuals. The class will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday and Thursday nights in Russell House. leon 0 to tea WINTERS Writer Napoleon who still finds time to be a 's history department. apoleon, one a best-selling novel, ig professor from Oxford University red professor's second visit to the department in 1967 to teach during ina was my first experience of the British accent. "I arrived by way of "It's rather unusual to start with the the bridge of his nose and puffing on I done "quite a lot" of sightseeing in nd said he planned to do more. ed States, he spends a great deal of oes research on Napoleon. "I go to ," Markham said. el called "Napoleon" was written in Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni. I in 1963, Is "strictly a straight two years to do the actual writing d of 25 years. Markham said his "a long morning stretch" of the day entration on writing. entire book was dne In longhand -Weve KI.5 Instructor demonstrates xpert still ch history because he does not type. In addition to his best selling novel on Napoleon, Markham did a smaller b'ook on him in 1954 called "Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe."' Markham said this was the first thing he had done on Napoleon and an expert on the Elizabethan era, Dr. A.L. Rowse had encouraged him to pursue his work. The professor said his work had concentrated on the late 18th and 19th centuries and Napoleon" sort of became my field. I'm writing sort of an anthology on Napoleon now called "World Profiles" which is simply putting together a collection of articles by Napoleon historians," he said. Markham not only writes about Napoleon but he is also an advisor about Napoleon. "When I returned from South Carolina in 1968, I was rung up by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer that Stanley Kubrick wanted to talk to me." Kubrick wanted the professor to advise him on a future film about Napoleon. Kubrick and Markham are still working together on the Napoleonic research. In the University's History Department, Markham applies his research in a way different from writing best-selling novels and advising film producers. Hs teaches a class on the revolution and Napoen s1ela a small gaduate cls on European diplomacy tHis lectures are no only evoltieon and nNapleon at Capstone House February 25 where he will informtio etuag fons on Napoleon, Markham sai wth a chukl,I think only Jesus Christ has had morwite m.about hm."