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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1978)
Kundalini vehicle to awareness Opportunity for inner peace in PE course By STEVE DODGE Of the Emerald Forty people sit crosslegged on a lawn behind Mac Court, their eyes closed. Then, as at the end of every Kundalini Yoga class, a white clad, turbanned man with a flow ing red beard leads the class in a light, harmonious song: May the long time sun shine upon you all love surround you and the pure light within you guide your way on... guide your way on... It seems a fitting end to the twice weekly sessions instructor Sat Kirpal Khalsa calls an “ex periential' course in awareness. Kundalini means awareness.’’ he says. “And the ultimate goal is to make you more aware of your self in the totality of the universe. It's up to each person in the class, however, to decide how much they want to apply themselves, Khalsa says. Part of that awareness deals with nutrition. he,pToplinaet T.oXfH 'T'"9 a Kun?°""'P°°° *■"-*>«yoga uses breathing aS°e«^T education JpJrlment e"e'9,' °'°e ”* c'ass ,s 0"ered "’'“'S'1 ,fte Unim^ ' We eat a ton of junk food and we’re really unaware of how to care for this machine,” he says gesturing toward himself. “A lot of evidence has come out recently to indicate that diet has a great effect on us.” In class Khalsa talks about hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and the affect of refined foods on the body. But the fundamental basis of yoga, says Khalsa, is that there is an unbounded, manifest, work ing and active" energy in all hu mans. Yoga attempts to get in touch with that energy through deep breathing and other exer cises. Western society, Khalsa says, has not tried to deal with human energy until recently. In 1969 Yogi Bhajan, a master of Kundalini and Tantric Yoaa Married housing rents unchanged i he University Housing Office recently announced it does not plan to recommend rental rate in creases for the married student housing complexes. H P. Barnhart, director of the housing office, said in a letter to the tenants of Amazon and Westmoreland housing projects that another rent hike for 1978-79 probably won't be necessary be cause of "management reorgani zation." Bob Minshall, business man ager for the housing, says the reorganization took the form of position changes, including the inception of his position. Minshalhsays this has led to a more efficient control of money management and a better review of expenditures.” Last year, tenants at the Ama zon project complained a prop osed rent hike was the result of inefficient maintenance manage ment by the physical plant. Minshall says the charge re ceived from the physical plant for project maintenance has been significantly less this year. F Hfl p|^y00g (Continued from Page 1) "I said nothing which would give Brown basis for such a state ment,” Lee says. Ruby Demaline, an employee of the department for eight years, has been off work since August with a "nervous problem.” She at tributes her current health prob lems to the way in which she was treated by Lee. “You’re not a person to him, just a number,” Demaline says. “He treated me like dirt, like a dummy, after eight years.” She says she was told by Lee June 17 that she was no longer needed in her present job and that another position within the de partment would be found for her. She claims that for the past eight months Lee has been lying to her, telling her she had a job but never doing anything about it. Lee explains that Demaline's job was eliminated by the reor ganization of the Housing Office. “We promised her another posi tion, but before her work was finished in her old job, she left for health reasons,” says Lee. “He was always lying to me,” Demaline says. “He said he was doing me a favor by keeping me on medical leave for such a long time because the University was paying my bills. Well, I’m paying for everything. I’ve got all the re ceipts. The University hasn’t paid for a thing.” Lee denies saying this to De maline. Housing Office workers are worried that the audit of the de partment by the Secretary of State’s office will overlook their concerns. "The auditors are only in terested in where the department is a nickel short," says one emp loyee, "not our problems.” In refusing to comment on the accusations, Barnhart says, "I’m not interested in replying to blind statements from blind sources. I’ll give you an answer if you tell me who said these things. I’m not in terested in being tried by the press.” He says any employee who has a complaint should go through the established grievance proce dures. Summer camp provided for geology majors The University geology de partment will offer a summer camp to provide geology majors with practical experience June 12-July 22. The geology department re quires all majors to participate in a summer camp experience. The camp is designed primarily for un dergraduate majors, but is open to graduate students. Students will earn nine hours of credit during the six weeks. The camp will locate in South western Oregon and Northern California. Specific study areas will be chosen to provide challen ging problems for field analysis. All field operations will be con ducted from a tent camp. The camp will be offered in con junction with Southern Oregon State College, Ashland. Those interested in attending the 1978 camp should contact Di rector M.A. Kays, Summer Field Camp, Department of Geology. Mallard loves Oregon rain. Oroonn Flail vr ITmAral/1 The changes were suggested by a Portland consulting firm, Haskins and Sells, while perform ing an audit on the projects last summer. The firm recommended a reorganization after tenants cited management problems in opposing a 1977-78 rent increase. Current rates are $80 for the older Amazon apartments and $98 and $115 for one and two bedroom furnished apartments in Westmoreland married student housing projects. Minshall says both projects are now self-sustaining. came to the United States and began teaching the 20,000 year-old — largely secret — tech nique in Los Angeles. In 1971, Khalsa introduced yoga to the University through the Search program. It was popular enough that the physical educa tion department adopted it as a part of the regular activities cur riculum. “A lot of people have been con ditioned to think that feeling good is bad," says Khalsa, addressing one of the other aspects of the course — stress alleviation. In our complex, sophisticated world, he says, “where the technology of machines is greater than the technology of the mind.. .there has to be some way to alleviate stress. The pressures are so great.” Yoga helps a person “relate to that calm, steady place” within, Khalsa says, which helps relieve some of the pressures of society and school. “It’s not worth getting uptight about,” he says. Khalsa looks at the world as a balanced polarity of good and bad. For every bit of heaviness, he says, there is an equal amount of good. Yoga seeks to allow the practicer to handle the world’s polarities "and sit back and watch the whole thing change, but be able to be aside from it," he says. Khalsa sees society in a state of vast transition where values are being upset, leaving a large vac uum to fill. "The potential is wide open for practically anything. The sky’s the limit.” He sees the transition as occuring over the next four or five generations. 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