OCR Text |
Show Wednesday, April 2, 2003 ca 1840 S. 1300 E. Salt Lake City, UT 84105 & & - ca Volume XXXV Issue 22 , Shaman Shares Path to Healin ' Addie Ryder Staff Writer Journey through the Earths crust, past the bedrock toward an underground river. Rest in that river and let it purify you. Allow the river to take you to the Gate Keeper who will help you find a lost part of your soul. Embrace this missing piece and tell it you will care for it. Then call on your power animal to guide and protect you on your journey back up the river and bed rock to your life. During his workshop, Shaman, Healer, and Sage Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. led the participants on a soul retrieval demonstration. Soul retrieval is one of the four healing practices of the Medicine Way. Villoldo also described the other three methods Friday in Malouf. These original wounds make people repeat unhealthy actions. Malouf on Friday. The second chamber conVilloldo described Soul tains the soul contracts. Retrieval as, Recovering a These are contracts people make during desperate times part of ourselves that we have lost as a result of pain or trau- in there lives. Villoldo said n ma. most of these contracts need Villoldo related a story of to be torn up or renegotiated. a women who lost the part of her soul that allowed her to Villoldo gave the example have fun and enjoy life. He of a child with an abusive discovered that this piece of father.This child makes a conher soul left after a car ran her tract with herself. If she acts over as a child. She escaped good and submissive to her the accident with no physical father, he will not beat her. This contract follows her into damage, but the fear left her adulthood where she continutraumatized. She became a sullen child. Villoldo took this ally involves her self with abusive men. Medicine people or woman on a soul retrieval where she recovered her abilishamans would help this woman to change or eliminate ty to enjoy life. this soul contract. , According to the Inca medicine people, the soul has four chambers. The first chamber houses the wounds. See Shaman, pg. 8 processes (illumination, extraction and death rites) in a seven hour workshop in -- Guskin Urges College to Focus on Kenneth Dames Staff Writer Westminster students, at least those who read their and possibly even this paper, should by now be aware of the effort to create a new strategic plan for the college. Since last fall, school administrators, faculty, staff, trustees, alumni and students have given their time and energy to facilitate the creation of a plan which will help the school retain credibility in these times of change. Wednesday in the Gore Auditorium, trustee Alan E. Guskin spoke about the future of higher education, and how a school like Westminster can use technology and nontraditional methods to progress into the future. A crowd consisting mostly of Strategic Planning Committee and task force members listened to Guskin as he explained his ideas about the future that all colleges and universities face, and the changes a school must undergo in order to keep up with the times. Using transparencies and an overhead projector, Guskin identified several of the faulty assumptions school administrations tend to make about the present situation, when the cost of education is rising much faster than the rate of inflation. These assumptions allow organizations to muddle through with short-terpolicies and initiatives, believing the cyclical nature of history and economics will make everything even m again. Guskin warned that the future he envisions will not forgive inactivity on the part of an administration. He said a college must consider a wide range of institutional changes in order to move forward, while others Cgg Page 3 Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi will speak about Religion and Violence behind. The changes must reflect a shift from instructor-oriente- d methods of educating methods, to student-oriente- d with emphasis on student-learnin- g outcomes. Westminster has already begun the process of change by creating the Strategic Planning Committee who, along with the task forces, is creating a vision statement for the college. Guskin said the vision statement is a necessary first step that will identify the ideals and values of the college, and will provide direction when the school starts to consider fall changes. Once a school has identified essentially what it stands for, it can then make changes to the system without lowering its standards or marring its reputation. And the changes might be many. Guskin believes in the interest of staying viable, noth Page 6 GrifFin Men fall short in quest for NAIA Championship Goals Long-Ter- m ing is sacred. Of course the budget must be altered to align with the vision statement of the college. How much money you spend on something tells how much you value it, he said. If that doesnt match up with the values you have identified for your school, then that needs to be changed. Structural changes could also be implemented, which . change the way an education is delivered to students. Guskin presented a list of changes, ranging from online classes and learning communities to interdisciplinary courses and multicourse clusters, a school might consider when searching for ways to maintain success in the future. Audience members waiting for Guskin to present them with the perfect solution for Westminsters future were disap pointed. I dont have the you do, he said. Thats why you have to identify the values of your institution, to see what might work for you. What works for one college might not work for another. Guskin said colleges hoping to continue their success in an uncertain future must look further ahead, and implement changes with the understanding they are not quick fixes for passing trends, but long-terpolicy changes designed for m long-ter- m success. With the effort to create a new strategic plan for the college, it seems Westminster has its eye on the future. The path the school takes could very well change the way of life here on campus, and future Westminster students might find themselves going to school in a much different place, os answers for your school, but os Page 7 Battle agianst bad haircuts continues, targets the mullet |