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.
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' 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.
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"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.
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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.
Physiologically, Khalsa says,
yoga affects various glands and
the nervous and circulatory sys
tems through controlled deep
breathing and various postures.
Students in the class list body
conditioning, mental revitalization
and relaxation as main reasons
for enrolling. Said one student, "It
makes my whole day.”
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