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Findhorn: an active vision
Founder establishes a community alternative
By Tim Leonard
Ol m« £mmraU
The Findhorn spiritual community in northern
Scotland is, 20 years after its inception, still a
vision transformed into action," says Peter
Caddy, founder and a recent speaker at the EMU
The 64-year-old former Royal Air Force of
ficer showed slides and spoke to about 200
people on the history and development of Find
horn, which he said has taken many forms, a lot of
work and many descriptions
He attributed its growth to a series of "inner
visions" his wife Eileen experienced while they
were staying at a Scottish hotel
In 1962, they followed the visions and moved
a mobile home onto a dump area surrounded by
dry, sandy soil, he said It became the nucleus that
now represents a highly-organized community
representing alternative living throughout the
world. Caddy said
The first garden at Findhorn measured five by
12 feet and provided 65 varieties of vegetables. 21
fruits and various herbs They began gardening
experiments focusing on three main elements —
man the creator, angels or"Devas,” or “beams of
light" and nature spirits, he said
Findhorn founders attribute the garden s
sucess on such poor soil to the Devas' help.
Caddy said Eventually, a visitor showed them
how to make a compost pile
The community grew with help from newly
recruited members and visions inspired by medi
tation, he said The visions instructed members
about growing vegetables to what land to buy "A
place of change" formed, Caddy said
Since then, the highly fertile garden has had
220 permanent members, 60 children and
between 100-150 guests Caddy and his wife are
now separated and have gradually transferred
their original maintenance duties to others, he
said
But the change of hands has not curtailed
Findhorn's growth, Caddy said The garden s
members have published 40 texts, constructed a
performing arts center complete with dance,
drama, music and recording capabilities and
acquired additional property, including caretak
ing responsibility of Iona island, off the Scottish
coast, he said
Findhorn's success brings many visitors —
ranging from those staying for a week, exper
iencing Findhorn," to a three-month "Essence of
Findhorn,” Caddy said
He says he now plans to begin another spiri
tual community in the Pacific Basin near Califor
nia's Mt Shasta where he wants to continue to
"demonstrate how people can live in an Aquarian
consciousness with love, service oneness
cooperation and wholeness "
IFC denies PLUS $1,400,
offers only operating cost
The Physically Limited Union
of Students had its budget
slashed from this year's sum of
more than $1.600 to less than
$200 for next year at Monday s
Incidental Fee Committee bud
get hearing
PLUS'S funding was cut back
after the IFC decided the bulk of
the organizations budget
request — money for a potential
legal battle — should not come
from incidental fees
The funding PLUS requested
was to be used for a possible
lawsuit against the state system
of higher education for not
complying with federal affirma
tive action legislation, said
PLUS director Chester Falter
Despite Faller's arguments
about the importance of a suit,
the IFC was not convinced lit
igation is inevitable or that a
suit by PLUS is worthy of IFC
♦uncling
The IFC, however, elected to
give PLUS what it believed suf
ficient to keep its office open
recommending that the group
work through Legal Services to
fund its lawsuit
"I will explore the possibility
of channeling PLUS'S legal fees
to Legal Services, where it
belongs in the first place,' said
IFC chairer Karsten Rasmus
sen
“Quite frankly, the IFC has
shown its insensitivity to hand
icapped concerns They've
destroyed PLUS That should
be obvious," said Faller Since
its legal battle will not receive
IFC funding, none of PLUS'S 67
members will be interested in
keeping the PLUS office open,
he added
Without the lawsuit, there is
no reason for PLUS to exist —
period." Failer said
The ASUO Executive s latest
recommendation for funding
PLUS was $800 — although its
original recommendation was
no funding — ASUO Pres Rich
Wilkins told the IFC Adding this
figure to the $1,200 the organ
ization spent on its legal strug
gle last year makes a total of
$2,000, the amount Legal Ser
vices allots for lawsuits, he said
However the IFC rejected this
suggestion
The committee also allocated
to the Foreign Student Organ
ization about $8,000 for next
year — $750 more than the
ASUO recommendation — as
the IFC voted to subsidize the
FSO's Cultural Night The FSO
had originally planned to fund
this event through the IFC's
loan committee, said FSO dir
ector Javed Rasool
Panel critiques J-school
By Brian Bubak
Ot die Emerald
The University's journalism school is being
reviewed for accreditation — the examiner is
now the examinee
You could call it a case of role reversal
The journalism program comes up for re-ac
creditation once every six years, says Everette
Dennis, dean of the journalism school
It’s been six years The accreditation team,
from the American Council on Education in
Journalism and Mass Communications, is fin
ishing up its two-day examination today.
During their stay, the team undertook tasks
such as sitting in on classes, interviewing
students and faculty, examining student
records, talking to University administrators,
talking to area professionals and, in general,
trying to get a 'feel' for the journalism school.
The accreditation team represents, “the con
sumer of higher education," explains Dr Doug
Newsom, chairer of the ACEJMC accrediting
committee and member of the team visiting the
University
Their goal, Newsom says, is to make sure
various journalism schools around the country
give the students the education they originally
opt for
The team consists of Newsom, chairer of
Texas Christian University's journalism school:
Pat Cranston, from the University of Washing
ton: Ken Atkin, from California State University
at Fullerton, Dr Richard G Gray, from Indiana
University: and James H Ottaway, publisher of
Ottaway Newspapers
When they finish their investigation here, the
team will make a report and recommendation to
Council itself An official decision regarding
re-accreditation will be made sometime in April,
Newsom says
And in light of this procedure, neither Newsom
nor Dennis are able to make any prediction
regarding the journalism school's chances of
passing
“It seems to me we re in good shape I
think we have a very strong and competent
program," Dennis says
“It's like an exam," Dennis says “We re
extremely well prepared," but one never knows
what the outcome will be, he adds
As well as re-accreditation in news/editorial,
advertising, public relations and broadcast
news, the jounalism department is seeking
accreditation in a new field — magazine jour
nalism