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Students learn difficulties of aging in RLA event

Vera Ulitina
Megan Greenwood, 20, sophomore of Sidney, Mont., tries to assemble her name from the letter beads while wearing goggles greased with vaseline during the Show Us Your Strength event in the Ballroom last Thursday. — Photo by Vera Ulitina
Megan Greenwood, 20, sophomore of Sidney, Mont., tries to assemble her name from the letter beads while wearing goggles greased with vaseline during the Show Us Your Strength event in the Ballroom last Thursday. — Photo by Vera Ulitina

An RLA event helped students understand old age through a series of activities in the Student Center Ballroom.

Show Us Your Strength, organized by Keanna Gross, sophomore of Ainsworth, and Kelsey Warren, senior of Rawlins, Wyo., offered the students a number of games as “a way to simulate aging for younger generations,” Warren said.

There were four main activities at the Show Us Your Strength event.

In the first activity, the participants were to assemble their names with beads and put them on a string while wearing goggles greased with Vaseline. The activity simulated partial loss of sight. Megan Greenwood, 20, sophomore of Sidney, Mont., said that assembling the name was a very difficult task, and putting the beads on the string was even more impossible.

Cory Schroeder, 20, sophomore of Wright, Wyo., tried two other activities: step-ups while breathing through a straw, which simulated loss of lung capacity; and buttoning a shirt with his fingers taped, which simulated arthritis.

“It was challenging,” Schroeder said.

The fourth activity was not as popular as the first three. This activity used earplugs to simulate the loss of hearing.

The total turnout for the event was 46 people, some of whom took part in all the events, some who tried just one, and the others who just came to watch.