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UNG students learn self-defense skills
Class helps boost confidence, teaches students how to protect themselves
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Women practice self-defense Thursday night at the University of North Georgia. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Several women attacked a different kind of final exam Thursday evening at the Gainesville campus of the University of North Georgia. “Over a two-week period, we have the class two nights a week,” said instructor Paul Kent. “This is the final week where everything the students learned over the course of teaching the class — how to defend themselves, the warning signs, how to protect yourself — this is when they put everything together.”