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Show I I Westminster College cisirMsisui;, in By Jonathan Massimino Staff Writer The Westminster Men's Soccer team experienced just about everything this past weekend: a win, a tie and a loss. The three games played at the West Jordan Soccer Complex last weekend widely ranged in their flow and style. The inconsistency is attributed to the continued evolution of these individual athletes into a solid team. Hastings College, Northwest Nazarene College and Christian Heritage College implemented different strategies to attempt to defeat Westminster, and the team not only struggled with these opponents, but with the search for their own identity as well. On Thursday, Sept. 9, Westminster took on the Hasting College Broncos of Nebraska. Westminster attempted to take advantage of opportunities in the first half, but an extremely physical defense frustrated Westminster at every turn. ifUio MiTifflaiifstE Encouraged by the constant direction of defensive stopper, Trent Wann, Westminster rallied to counter the Hastings attack. Along with veteran midfielders Gabe Anguino and Ted Diven, Westminster employed a crafty defense that frustrated Hastings into numerous offside errors. Eenalties and other mental best efforts, Hastings scored first in the minute 32 on a close penalty kick. A ricocheted ball off the defensive wall snuck past goalie Mike Packer for me first goal of the game. Westminster pressed to regain the in the latter stages of upper-han- d the first half, and after a nicely executed setup, Westminster freshman Ryan Walcott tied the game. The first half ended in a Westminster began the second half more aggressively on offense, but Hastings quickly countered Westminster's advances into their territory. Wann drew a yellow card early on after a vicious hit on one of Hastings midfielders. The yellow card, along with a number of (fblimbtHg c? Ikfl&s CPlfiY o &&! Ijc-fci'tf- s SjH questionable offside calls by the lead official, served to swing the momentum against Westminster's favor. In the minute 21, Westminster regained their focus and senior Sky Trammell scored on an excellent assist from Anguino. Sensing the game was in hand, Westminster focused on their defense, and became more selective of which offensive opportunities to pursue. Coach Doricn went to his deep bench to avoid the cramping that the Hastings players were experiencing. But Hastings took advantage of another close penalty kick to score the tying goal late in the second half. Westminster had an open shot on the goal in the final minutes of regulation for the win, but the ball soared wide left and the game entered overtime. Westminster had two great chances to score in the first overtime period. A great save by the Hastings goalkeeper on a shot by junior Scott Rose prevented the win for Westminster, and then a goal was negated by an offside call in the closing minutes of that The Westminster Soccer Team rode a weekend rollercoaster with a win, tie and loss. first overtime period. The second overtime witnessed Hastings take the offensive, but the stingy Westminster defense scrapped to See Soccer, page 3 New Nursing Dean Helps Teach From The Heart By Gia Throndsen Staff Writer the New Dean of Nursing, feels that community involvement is necessary in academic nursing. Marj Peck, Images of a white uniform, a clipboard, and maybe one of those stiff white hats spring forward when the word "nurse" is mentioned. However, Westminster's new dean of nursing Marj Peck, believes that "teaching is also nursing." Peck sees both the person wearing white clothes, and the person at the whiteboard as nurses. Peck would certainly never she has left the nursing field, say but rather, changed positions. Peck feels that, ypeople often see the physical part of nursing and say 'that's what nursing is, there are many ways to do nursing." This kina of comparison coming from Peck is not unusual since sne has recently made the transition from hospital administrator to academic administrator. Both careers Peck has chosen require her to make decisions in the best interest of others. Health has always been Peck's main concern, and now that she has taken care of patients, she wants to take care of students. Peck's perspective is Instead of seeing one or two sides of patient care and education, she sees all sides. Concern for the family and the sick child as a pediatric nurse is the same as taking concern for the students and the faculty as an academic nurse. A commitment to health, to people, and to everyone involved, are a few characteristics that have dominated Peck's past work as a pediatric nurse, hospital administrator and teacher. As a pediatric nurse, Peck worked to improve not only the child's health, but also to improve the support of the child's family . As dean. Peck will work to improve the education of the students, the resources of the faculty, and even the preparation of hign school students planning on a nursing major. Part of Peck's job as dean is. what she calls, "networking in the community." In pediatric nursing, family involvement is considered to oe necessary by Peck. Similarly, Peck feels that community involvement is necessary in academic nursing. Peck talks to hospital administrators in the community to find out what they are looking for when they hire new nurses. This gives Peck an idea of what to add or what to drop from Westminster's nursing curriculum. Questions about patient care like, "Who needs to visit you?" "Tell me how I best support you? and "what kind of information do you need?" are seen by Peck to have primary importance in the physical nursing field. Peck says that the same is true in the academic nursing field. Getting students what they need to become successful nurses and finding See New Dean page 3 |