Dawn Breakers

A new dawn will begin for the Dawn Breakers club at Utah State University.

A club dedicated to waking up early in the mornings will be starting up again after it took a short break.

Nathan Ruben, the founder and president of the Dawn Breakers, held a meeting to go over the newly reinstated constitution.

“It was an idea I had when I first got here to Utah State,” Ruben said. “The Dawn Breakers is designed for people to have a place and time to meet and do something active.”

When the Dawn Breakers first started, it was not an official USU club. It began as a few friends getting up early in the morning just to be healthier.

“I’d wake up between 5 and 5:30 in the morning and I felt really good—especially if I did something active,” Ruben said. “There were four or five of us that would get up to the Field House no matter how cold it was.”

Ruben had applied for the Dawn Breakers to be an official club to be sponsored by USU in February, but never heard back. Recently he has heard otherwise.

“We didn’t even know we were a club,” he said. “A couple of months ago I got a phone call saying that I haven’t been attending my mandatory meetings. I had no idea.”

Since then, Ruben has taken off with putting the organization together.

“I think it’s a good idea,” said Ruben’s wife, Sarah. “Iv’e been there and done that--you study till three in the morning and then you get up and you feel like crap,”

The next step for the Dawn Breakers is to incorporate more service projects. One activity that Ruben would like to start is shoveling sidewalks on campus that aren’t maintained by the city or the school.

“I think there is a lot of people who would like to have the mentality to wake up early,” Ruben said.  “They don’t think that they are a morning person, but they’d like to say they did something good with their morning.”

“It will be worth trying,” said Evan Thacker, a prospective member. “Some friends and I were talking about doing an early morning hike before and now we can.”

“Here’s my theology—everyone inside is actually a morning person, but your body is not a morning person,” Ruben said. “When your body is tired, even if you’ve gotten enough sleep you’re still tired. We need some people who are really gung ho about it to really bulk up the membership.”

Ruben wants to keep the club going during the summer.

“It’s not for the faint of heart, the Dawn Breakers,” Ruben said. “It’s sort of a daunting task. You really try it and you’ll realize the benefits immediately.”