The Fukienese dialect is close to Taiwanese. The Department of Occupational Health Services is offering classes in yoga, muscle conditioning and toning as well as seated massage for JHU faculty and staff. Yoga will be offered on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings on the Homewood campus, beginning March 13. Occupational Health Services is also offering seated massages. Faculty and staff can receive a 15-minute seated massage from a certified massage therapist for a reasonable fee.
Class size is limited.
Classes in aikido, yoga, tae kwon-do and aerobics are also available. The Johns Hopkins University Press staff development fund is currently accepting donaions of used and unwanted books for its Hurt and Used Book Sale, scheduled for April 25 and 26. The fund wants both hardbound and paperback books, fiction or nonfiction. The last day for donations is April 21. Proceeds of the book sale benefit the staff development fund, which underwrites professional development for Hopkins Press employees.