Monday, the first full day of the first full week of classes in many high-stress graduate programs in health sciences, the treadmills and ellipticals were humming in the workout room in the Student Alumni Center at 800 Madison.
Around the corner in the Schreier Auditorium, dozens and dozens of students and staff were breathing quietly, first through one nostril — then the next — with one hand over their face to modulate the flow. It sounded like the masses in a sleep clinic in deep RAM.
To Kennard Brown, executive vice chancellor and COO of University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is was the sound of complete bliss.