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IndexNews..........3-7Opinions..................8-15Living.......................16-18Calendar..................16Sports & Fun............-24

NEWS, 3

OPINIONS, 8

LIVING, 16

SPORTS & FUN, 19

Gonstead Extravaganza

Innate Leadership Retreat

Do the Impossible

Life Rugby Represents the USA

Please Recycle

Life University First to Host the Optimum Life Experience

On Saturday, May 15th, Life had the honor of being the first host

for the Optimum Life Experi-ence. Designed to be an emo-tional and educational pro-gram for the public, students and doctors alike, Dr. David Scheiner, the author of Chiro-practic Revealed, and a group of Life students who lovingly

nicknamed themselves “the Schein-eers,” worked tireless-ly behind the scenes for the last two months. When the day finally dawned, the inau-gural Optimum Life Experi-ence proved to be a success.

Taking it’s 300+ member audience on a three act, 14 hour journey of self discov-ery, inspiration and growth, the show featured more than ten well known leaders in chi-

ropractic and included a trib-ute to the recently deceased Dr. Pasquale Cerasoli—a well known chiropractor in New York City who touched the lives of many young doctors and patients with his CELL-F (pronounced “self”) Center. While seeing such well known chiropractic leaders as CJ Mertz, Terry Rondberg, Ar-mand Rossi, Guy Riekeman,... (Continued on page 7)

SPEAK!

Life University is about to shift our communica-

tion paradigm! Begin-ning summer quarter 2010, Life will commit to the SPEAK Tradi-tion. The basic prem-ise is simple: ANY time you pass ANY person on the Life University campus, you SPEAK! Say hello, hi, salute

or any greeting, no matter if the person you pass is a student, faculty, staff, guest or visitor! With this one effortless act in-dividually, we will create a culture of friendly communica-tion collectively. As a student body, we can create Lasting Purpose right here on campus. When we return in 10, 20,... (Cont. on page 5)

Give Your Child a Bright Start

With the opening of Bright Life,

A Kids’ Campus, have come many ques-tions and comments about the cost and various operations of the center. I knew when it opened that I’d love to have my youngest son, Ja-cob, enrolled, but I

was unsure of how I could afford the cost. At approximately

$750 a month (nearly $2300 per quarter), the cost was mind blowing. Many of my fellow classmates have to find ways to survive on only $4,000-5,000 per quarter as it is and when you take out the m o n t h l y cost of rent, (Continued on page 6)

By Kelly MilanoDC Student

By Alexandra GerdelDC Student

By Robert S. LoveLSC President

How to Make Child Care Affordable

Dr. Scheiner and the “Schein-eers”: From left to right. Back row-Jackie, Dana, Kevin, Justin, Shaun, Rachel. Front row-Dr. Brian Denhoffer, Ricardo, Jenn, Jay, Dr. Schei-

ner, Dan. Photo courtesy of Ricardo Alvarez.

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Life Rugby To Be Webcasted

A recent and exciting addition to Life Rugby was the announcement that they will now be webcasting all home games. The first webcast was of the Super League

quarter final game, with Life hosting the Chicago Griffins. This is a great way for fans, alumni and supporters of Life Rugby to be able to view the games from around the country, bringing even more national support to our team. To view a rugby match online, simply go to www.liferugby.com and click on the Watch Live tab.

- Kelly Milano, DC Student

SOTO-USA and Life SOT Club Present: Chiropractic Manipulative ReflexTechnique (CMRT)

Based on the works of Dr. Major De-Jarnette, Chiropractic Manipulative Reflex Technique (CMRT) is a hands-on soft tis-sue technique that deals with the viscero-somatic reflex arc. It has a specific set of indicators – occipital fibers – that assist the practitioner in uncovering the caus-ative spinal subluxation and, once that is removed, specialized organ reflexes are ap-plied to facilitate the corrective procedure.

On July 17-18, 2010, there will be a two seminar taking place on Life’s Campus.

It runs Saturday July 17th from 10:00 am-6:00 pm and Sunday July 18th from 9:00 am-1:00 pm. The seminar is open to both doctors and students and 12 hours CEU is offered through New York College of Chi-ropractic. The fee for doctors is $350 and for students is $125 before June 18th. After that date the cost will go up to $175. If you are a SOTO-USA member you will receive a

10% discount. The cost includes a seminar workbook. There are three ways to register and reserve your spot for this seminar: visit www.soto-usa.org, email welleseyychiro@verizon.com or call 781-237-6673.

- William Booker, DC Student

Students Give Dr. Feldhaus a Happy Sendoff

Over 100 students gathered at the Tree-house on Friday, May 7, to honor Dr. Ro-berta Feldhaus. Dr. Feldhaus has served as a Faculty Clinician in the C-CHOP (better

known as ‘Student Clinic’) since July 2006. She recently resigned her position there, to move forward into the next phase of her career. Students shared stories and memo-ries, but the overall theme of the night was that she was an amazing teacher in the clinic. Her guidance helped many students succeed in their clinic experience. She will be greatly missed by all her students and we wish her well on the next stage of her journey.

-Kelly Milano, DC Student

Answer to last issue’s Crypto-Gram (Issue 3, Vol.7):

The purpose of Chiropractic care is to help people maximize the expression of their Life Energy in their

bodies.

Kevin Donka, D.C.

Hints for this issue’s Crypto-Gram:

Clue 1. Need some help getting started? Try J = GClue 2. (Don’t look at this clue unless you’re

desperate!) C = L

News 3

On Friday, May 21, at 6:15p.m., eleven Life stu-dents hit the road and travelled the long journey north to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their destina-

tion was the 10th biannual In-nate Enterprise Leadership Re-treat.

This retreat gives participants the chance to come out of their natural element and reflect upon their past, present and future. It allows them the opportunity to

reflect on their lives and provides the tools needed to help them set goals and empower them to begin taking action steps to-wards creating the lives of their dreams! Each retreat focuses on a different theme, with this one focussing on “Igniting Your In-nate,” encouraging participants

to find their passion and follow it.

As Leadership Retreat Coordinator Joe Minnich puts it, “These retreats are all about get-ting people out of their comfort zone, inspiring them, and enabling them to grow in ways they never thought pos-sible. We put them on every six months in order to foster the development and growth of the cur-rent and future lead-

ers walking in our midst around campus.”

This retreat took a slightly dif-ferent form than any of its pre-decessors. Rather than have the participants drive up Saturday morning, the senior executives of Innate Enterprise—Dan Turo, Joe Minnich, Belinda McCullen and Alexandra Gerdel—decided to have them drive up on the Fri-day evening, allowing more time for a bonfire, fun activities, and reflective periods. The number of participants was also kept low this time to keep the weekend more personalized. This retreat also marks the first time stu-dents from another chiropractic college have participated, as two

students from Sherman College of Chiropractic came to join in the fun!

Innate Enterprise has been putting on this retreat for Life students to develop the skills they need to succeed in school, their career, and, most importantly, in life, for over 4 years now. Many participants from past retreats have gone on to join the Stu-dents Ambassadors, lead many of the existing clubs on campus or even start clubs of their own. If you’re interested in attending the upcoming retreat, contact Vital Source at submissions.vs@gmail.com or visit innateenter-prise.com for more information.

By Justin SchaefferDC Student

Innate Leadership Retreat Sets Life Students on Fire!

This retreat gives participants the chance to come out of their natural element and reflect upon their

past, present and future.

Retreat participants sit en-thralled by Belinda McCullen as she discusses goal setting.

Michelle, Sarah (from Sherman College) and Melissa focused during the after-

noon breakout sessions.

Future Innate Enterprise President Kevin Kustarz re-

flecting on the porch.

Participants Lauren, Melissa, Tatum (from Sherman Col-lege), Kevin and Leader Alexandra take a break by the pool.

Vitalistic Nutrition Club Now on Campus

There is a new nutrition club on campus that is ded-icated to working in coordination with Life University’s vitalistic princi-ples. According to the club’s vice president, Dan Moynihan, the

goal of the Vita-Hygiene Club is “to study and discuss the princi-ples of nature and their scientific application in the restoration and

preservation of health. By incor-porating vitalistic, natural hy-gienic, nutritional, and ecologi-cal approaches, we hope to foster discussion and a new awareness of how our choices not only affect our own health, but the health of our planet, as well.” The club promotes healthy living that can only be done when the body is in an environment which enables

the body to heal itself. During the meetings, discus-

sions are held with the club’s advisor Dr. Goldberg where stu-

dents are free to ask questions. This quarter the club showed the movie If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls, narrated by Paul McCartney. The film exposes the truth about the cruel treatment of animals on “factory farms.”

Meetings are held on Tuesday’s at 7 pm at the S o c r a t e s ’ Café. For

additional information, or to join the mailing list, please email dtener@student.life.edu

By Carley EdwardsDC Student

The club promotes a vitalistic, natural hygienic, nutritional and ecological approach to health

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Jason FeltzDC Student

It is hard to believe that it has already been six months since the Chiro-

Games were held in Cocoa Beach, FL. The memories made that weekend are still fresh in my head, and al-ready we have to organize and get the planning under way for the upcoming games to be held this November.

With the help of admin-istrative members, I would like to start organizing clubs around the sports that will be played at the games. These include men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, golf, tennis, beach volleyball, softball, swimming, 5k and 10mi. relays, hockey, and f lag football. By the end of this quarter, we will need to have captains for these teams and we need to start recruiting members for the clubs and teams for the games.

Last year, all the attend-ees to the games I spoke with had the time of their student-life! This year will be no different, especially with some administrative assistance in both plan-ning and financing. We ran into a couple problems last year, one being the fact that there were no excused ab-sences for students from the administration, how-ever, a recommendation to teachers to accommodate

students was distributed. While I hadn’t heard of any participants having any ma-jor problems with exams

last year, it would be conve-nient if faculty was aware of the upcoming Chiro-Games much sooner.

Another problem we faced was our length of stay. Many of us, having tests the fol-lowing Monday, had to drive back from Florida late Sun-day to make it home for the next day. Thus we missed the closing ceremonies and mingling with students of the other Chiropractic schools. Hotel rooms will be

better accommodated this time around and transpor-tation will be more conve-nient and accounted for.

I have no doubt that, with the amount of interest these past games generated, this time around there will be even more interest. Chiro-Games is a great student-life experience! We’ve noticed some changes on this cam-pus that have raised student morale, but no event has brought students together

like the Chiro-Games. I look forward to work-ing with the adminis-tration and all of you students. Start practic-ing your sport, look for f lyers, and express your interest. This year, we can’t bring home any-thing less than gold! Go Eagles!

Chiro-Games Preparation

“Chiro-games is the optimum student-life experience!”

Speak!(Continued from cover)

...50 years and are greeted by that generation of students, we will be reminded of what we started this year.

If you walk this campus daily, you’ve undoubtedly had the same experience I’ve had. As you walk through the courtyard, you see someone coming that you don’t know.

They see you, but you make no eye contact and pass by one another without so much as a head-nod, while both of you check your peripheral vision to see what the other might do. Why? Because we have a culture right now that allows it and accepts it. It is time to re-establish who we are and what is acceptable and we will start with salutations! Just

imagine what it will be like to come to a place where every-one says hello, where every-one acknowledges your place in this community, ‘where everybody knows your name’ (excuse the Cheers reference, just couldn’t help myself ), each and every day. Imagine

what it would have felt like to approach and experience such an environment when you first came to Life. Imag-ine what it will be like for ev-ery student and visitor who has the chance to walk these grounds henceforth. Imagine the world we are creating. As BJ Palmer once said, “We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.” How far might your greeting reach?

Life University’s Stu-dent Council has partnered with Student Services, the Alumni Association, the Faculty-Senate Executive Committee, Marketing & Communications, and Dr. Riekeman to develop and promote this new initiative. The SPEAK Tradition will be formally introduced in just a few weeks, at the first as-sembly of summer quarter (but there’s no reason you can’t get a head-start on it now)! The first Tuesday t-

shirt will feature a student-designed logo built upon the SPEAK Tradition theme. Life’s Student Council will also be purchasing lapel pins for those in student clinic to wear on their clinic jackets. New students will be intro-duced to the SPEAK Tradi-

tion as they go through orientation each quarter. Everything is in place, now all we need is you! So remember, from now on, anytime you pass anyone, SPEAK and we’ll see if we can’t reach mil-lions!

University is about to shift our commu-nication paradigm!

With this one effortless act individu-ally, we will create a culture of friendly

communication collectively.

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Bright Start(Continued from cover)

...it leaves little to live on, let alone to pay such a large amount for childcare. Many of us with children and a family of our own receive very little financial support from our parents. Many have

resorted to in-home day-care or having friends watch our children while we are in school. For many, it appears that the COST of childcare is more important than the QUALITY of care provided. Most of us, myself included, feel we just need a safe place for our child to be during the day, while we are in school. We need a place where we know they won’t get hurt and will be fed and loved. Pro-grams and posh facilities are a luxury, not a necessity.

A fellow classmate told me about a great program called Temporary Child Care As-sistance (TCCA) that is cur-rently offered through the government. TCCA, is part of President Obama’s Stimu-lus Plan and allows for child care assistance while parents are having to retrain for new jobs, especially after being laid off. When I looked into

TCCA, it seemed like a great program, so we applied and were accepted. Unlike CAPS (Childcare And Parents Ser-vices), which is only for those obtaining an undergrad de-gree, TCCA allows graduate students to apply for help. Within a few hours of receiv-ing our information, we got notification that we had been approved! TCCA is now pay-

ing $114 a week of our child-care, making our cost for Bright Life only $55 a week! This is a price that is beyond what even the cheapest home daycare can offer. Suddenly, the posh setting that seemed like a luxury became a real-ity.

The first day of taking Ja-cob to the center, we could already tell he was going to excel far beyond what he ever did in the home daycare he was in. By day three, he was literally pushing us to leave so he could go and play with his friends. In his home day-care, he would stand in the corner and pout for about five minutes, every day for nearly six months! The Bright Life staff has been amazing dur-ing the process from apply-ing to the center, applying for TCCA and the transition of getting Jacob started.

A great thing about Bright Life is that it is very fam-ily friendly. They not only allow par-ents to stop by dur-ing the day, they even encourage it. They take each fam-ily’s individual situ-ation and personal beliefs and convic-tions into account with each child. One family doesn’t drink tap water and so the family provides the water they want and that is what the child

drinks. For Jacob, he doesn’t drink cow’s milk due to ear infections so we provide rice milk for him and that is what he is served. No matter what your convictions or dietary needs, the staff at Bright Life is very accommodating to it.

However, there are a cou-ple of drawbacks to the TCCA program and Bright Life. The first one is that TCCA is only

a temporary program, slated to end in September. Rumor has it that it may be extend-ed or made a more perma-nent program, but it will take many of us parents writing to both Governor Purdue and President Obama, expressing our concerns and the needs we face. The second problem is that from what we have heard, TCCA only pays when your child is present, thus meaning that over a three week break, such as the one coming up, they won’t be paying for any of that. The biggest issue with that is that we, the students, still have to

pay for those weeks. Bright Life runs on a 52 week cal-endar. They don’t take time off when we are on break and so we are expected to pay

for those weeks, whether we are there or not. Ac-cording to Michele Zierten, direc-tor of Bright Life, we can un-enroll and then re-enroll (paying a $75 re-enrollment fee) but we risk losing our spot. For those in the infant room

at Bright Life, this is not an option, as there is currently a waiting list for that room.

While there are other op-tions on the table, the ad-ministration at Life has yet to embrace any of them. Many students have talked about the need for scholar-ships, but Life has been very low in endowments since its return from the ashes of its

past. We have been told that the money for these scholar-ships simply isn’t available at this time. Another option presented by students has been to charge every student at Life a fee, much like our activities fee (which now en-compasses athletic fees, com-puter fees, lab fees, etc., all in one lump sum.). By each student paying a small sum, it could make the childcare at Bright Life affordable for all the students who want to use it and need it, but can’t.

In the meantime, until we can convince the adminis-tration to make a change, I

highly recommend looking into the TCCA and CAPS pro-grams. Bright Life, A Kid’s Campus, is definitely a great investment in your child’s ed-

ucation and care. Bright Ho-rizons (the company that op-erates Bright Life) currently manages child care facilities for many of the world’s lead-ing corporations, hospitals, universities, and government agencies, as well as quite a few Fortune 500 companies. They offer more than just child care and a safe haven; they create an environment, from the very beginning, that nurtures the love of learning and gets your child started on the path to a great future. We all chose Life because of its high quality education, why would we not want the same thing for our children?

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The posh setting that seemed like a luxury

became a reality

TCCA allows graduate students to apply for childcare help.

X-ray wall in the Preschool room

Infant room

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Optimum Life Experience(Continued from cover)

...Arno Burnier and Reg-gie Gold all together on one

stage inspires a sense of awe and amazement, there were two individuals who really stole the show.

Speaking with members of the audience after the event, the consensus on who was the favorite speaker of the day was almost unanimous. Taking the stage in the sec-ond act as the only featured female speaker of the day, Dr. Mary Flannery managed to

not only perk up a sleepy au-dience, but to also win over their hearts with her discus-sion on Optimum Energy. Speaking from her soul, her talk took the audience on a roller coaster ride, encourag-ing the audience to find their mojo, f ly their freak f lag, fig-ure out their f lavor of juice and challenge themselves to face their fears. Drawing on her recent divorce and the joys of watching her children grow, Flannery explained that optimum energy is some-thing completely individual to a person (their juice). It’s the energy we used to have as children that allowed us to be completely ourselves and put 100% into something until we had completely used up the gas in our tank and were left in a sound sleep. She ended by challenging the audience to shed the inhibi-tions and barriers we’ve put up as adults, and to live life free of fear, in the moment, and full of energy.

The other star of the Opti-mum Life Experience was a man who has been well known in chiropractic and at Life’s campus for a long time. Dr. Reggie Gold closed out the

night in the final act prior to receiving a Lifetime Achieve-ment Award presented by Dr. Scheiner and the speakers at Optimum Life. However, Reggie took the stage long before he got up to speak. It seemed each of the speakers had their own story about the man with huge white side burns down his cheeks who has done so much for chiro-practic over the years. Dr. Terry Rondberg played an old video from the 1970’s of Reggie debating two medi-cal doctors on a local cable show. At the end of the clip, the audience gave the notori-ous man, who was seated in the back row, a standing ova-tion. Dr. Arno Burnier told the hilarious story of how he came to the United States for chiropractic school wear-ing a velour suit, speaking

no English and having only a phone number that was sup-posedly going to get him in touch with Reggie. He then described a man in cowboy boots and an obscene amount of turquoise jewelry strolling into the Spartanburg airport

at 2:00a.m. to take him to a hotel.

With a day long in-troduction, the ap-plause Reggie received when he finally took the stage was nothing short of thunderous. While his speech at times showed signs of his aging, the Reggie seen on video earlier in the day still came through as he got into his speech on Opti-mum Performance. This event was possi-bly the last time Reg-gie will be speaking at Life University. He

announced not long into his talk that he has a pulmonary embolism that threatens to take his life at any moment. However, he gives every in-tention of continuing strong, and hopefully will be with us for some time to come.

A few days after the show, Vital Source was invited to a dinner with Dr. Scheiner and the Schein-eers to hang out and discuss the event and it’s future. Ultimately, everyone agreed the event was a great success. The opportunity to mingle with the masters changing the chiropractic profession was phenomenal. Audience members had the opportunity to get various of the speakers’ books signed, and even get adjusted by some of the worlds most well known hands. Harry’s Whole Foods provided catering, al-lowing attendees to stay on campus and not miss any of the jam packed day, and the organization behind the scenes was like a well oiled

machine.However, as with any

first time events there is al-ways room for improvement. Scheiner and the students who assisted with the event spent a portion of their din-ner discussing what could be done differently. This first show was built around Dr. Scheiner’s book Chiroprac-tic Revealed. Next time, it will simply be focused on educating and inspiring the world on chiropractic and self growth. The next venue and date have yet to be set, but sights are on California. There will be fewer speakers, but even more chutzpah, to remove the few lulls experi-enced during this initial pro-duction. Overall, the second time around will be every-thing the first was and more. Dr. Scheiner also expressed the hope of returning to Life University for future events.

If you missed this first Optimum Life Experience, there are DVD’s of the event available on the website www.optimumlife.com. Look for more details of the tour and upcoming shows as Dr. Scheiner takes the kickoff experience at Life University worldwide.

Life had the honor of being the first host for the Optimum

Life Experience.

Look for more details of the tour and up-coming shows as Dr. Scheiner takes the kickoff experience at Life University and

takes it worldwide.

Dr. Scheiner and the Optimum Life speakers present Reggie with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Reggie pictured with Dr. Koch and DC students

Dr. Arno Burnier speaking with passion about Chiropractic

Opinions 8Gonstead Extravaganza

“Adventure is the game of the bold and knowledge is a quest for the wise, but what is boldness without wisdom and what is knowl-edge without a world to un-derstand it?”

-Anonymous

It is 4:00a.m. on Friday, the 16th of April, when twelve students pack themselves

into a van and head out into the quiet night. All who are of a cu-rious nature would immediately wonder what reward awaits these adventurers. What lies out of sight at the end of their path that they should endure the torments of stagnant odors, cramped limbs, and twisted spines? I’d like to say it was a pure desire for greater knowledge that drew us from the mental relaxation of a normal weekend in Marietta and landed us in the crisp air of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Re-

gardless of our reasons, I know now, if I didn’t then, that it was love that brought us there.

Several of us who made this memorable and exciting journey are third quarter students. The

feeling of being in the presence of over thirty masters of the chi-ropractic profession was over-powering and humbling for all of us. Despite our limited knowl-edge, the Gonstead doctors treated us with respect and were there to guide us through each intricate step of setting up an ad-justment, analyzing x-rays and understanding basic Gonstead concepts. One session speaker reminded us all that even the greats, like Doctor Gonstead, began as students. All it takes is an eager mind and a steadfast spirit to rise to the same level of the experts who founded the arts taught today.

I felt that I could spend a life-time beneath the wings of those gracious teachers, who dedicated a whole weekend of their time for our benefit. Surging with end-less energy and desire, my fellow students and I scrambled about from room to room to absorb ev-ery word. I remember wishing that the weekend would never end and that time would freeze until I was able to master each session. For the first time in my life, I caught a glimpse of what it truly means to be a chiroprac-tor. To see and understand the detail and thought contained within each specific technique and thrust. Of all I learned, I feel that passion was one of the most important tools that I took home with me. I feel now the fervor and burning ache that all health practitioners should feel for the distressed and broken. Chiro-

practic should be about love—love for the art, for our bodies, and care for the health of all who we meet.

Learning took place but it was passion that filled our veins, and give us the never-ceasing itch to reach out to our dazed world and shake them from their slum-ber. Those who interact with me know I’m one of the most somber and reserved people to ever con-sider a career of physically reach-ing out and touching others’ lives with my frail hands. Some would even suggest they see me locking myself into a dim, solitary room and spending the rest of my days engrossed in fantasy novels rath-er than believe I could become a chiropractor. Sadly, this chaos around us is not fiction. The cry of the helpless is great—so great that it could awaken even my soul and open my eyes to the wasteland America has become.

Chiropractic college is an omi-nous mountain for any student who approaches its base. After each cliff that we strain to climb, we only discover there’s even more to this journey than initial-ly perceived. There are so many looming obstacles that they seem to part the clouds. The leaders of the Gonstead Club are a godsend to those in younger quarters. The helping hands they provided at the extravaganza and the guid-ance they continue to extend each week at club has begun to create a pathway where once there were only towering heights of stone. All the Life students that

attended the Gonstead extrava-ganza have been provided a vital and tangible grip on what chiro-practic truly is. I hope everyone who made the long trip feels the same reward of energy and con-fidence that I do. The more we

as students absorb and take in now, the more we can give back to fellow peers, chiropractic as a whole, and even the world.

The Gonstead Extravaganza, within a mere fourteen hours, showed our dedicated band that we had the ability to change lives and it gave us the confidence to strive for excellence. On our journey home, as I sat with my head resting against the window, staring at the endless fields that we passed by, I reflected on the path that lay before me. While those in the cluttered van around me palpated cervicals, I gazed in wonder at the empty land, knowing that deep within that rich soil rests so much potential. There’s ground to be tilled and seeds to be planted. The call for ready hands resounds for all ears that are willing to hear the truth. There’s much to be done, but one day harvest will come and our weary earth will see the end of this famine, the dark winter of our health.

By Nathanael KleinDC Student

All it takes is an eager mind and a steadfast spirit to rise to the same

level of the experts.

There’s much to be done, but one day harvest will

come.

9June 2010 Opinions

Recently, on essentially a blind whim, I picked up a copy of Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand. I had no idea what I was getting into. I just knew it was a famous book and that I was curious. The book’s title is a reference to the Greek god Atlas, who is cursed to hold the world up for eternity on his shoulders. Published in 1957, it is almost prophetic in that many of the events in the book bear strik-ing resemblance to the direction our society has gone in recent decades. Although a captivating novel in its own right, Rand elo-quently employs the characters and plot as vessels to demon-strate the power of philosophy in our own lives and in society.

The plot revolves around the “movers and shakers” of society, the capitalists and industrialists, the pioneers of hard industry. These characters are the heroes, the people who literally hold the world on their shoulders, pro-ducing the raw materials to fuel modern civilization. Their inter-actionsdrive a free market econ-omy that is adaptive and prosper-ous, though from the first page, it is clear that something is not quite right. A certain philosophy, which Rand calls Altruism, has become pervasive in society, and over the course of the book we see how this philosophy causes antagonistic problems for the he-roes and for the survival of man-kind. Society comes to demon-ize the industrialists as greedy,

cold people, who care only about profit. This progresses to actions that force them to “share” their wealth and to “level the playing field” for their incompetent com-petitors. They watch as the cor-rupt competitors, who have sid-ed with the altruist politicians, unjustly grow rich on the skewed marketplace created. Eventually, the heroes begin, one by one, to go on strike, no longer having any inspiration to continue pro-ducing, This is not only because they are losing potential profits, but more importantly, because they no longer have the freedom to bring their tremendous vision into reality.

The story is incredibly inspi-rational, as a testament to the potential of man‘s mind, but also tragic, when we see the result of a mind operating under poor philosophy. We see, through the heroes of the story, the po-tential for people to accomplish great tasks, when they are free. Rand contrasts the industrialist to primitive man, who must fend for his own life, day to day, scrap-ing by on whatever resources he may come across. The industri-alist, however, is the person who learns to use the tools of mind and matter to work smarter, in order to find better ways to achieve an end. These are the people who imagine technologi-cal advancements, great ma-chines and systems capable of producing with ever-increasing efficiency in order to generate profit, but only as a natural con-sequence of serving.

It is impossible to talk about Atlas Shrugged without delving into the philosophical issues it raises. Rand raises serious objec-tion to the philosophy of Altru-ism, which declares self-sacrifice as its highest virtue. The stan-dard of value of altruism is “the good of society.” Since “society” does not exist in reality, only in-dividuals, what it truly means is that most men must sacrifice for the desires of a few (the few being whatever group decides to position themselves as spokes-persons for society), usually with the threat or use of government force to ensure their “sacrifice”.

Rand proposes a very differ-ent standard of value: man’s life. She proposes that every life is an end in itself, that a person should never have to sacrifice himself to others or others to himself, and that his life is more than sim-ply the means to the welfare of others. The keystone of this phi-losophy is rational self-interest. Self-interest sounds a lot like selfishness, which is a term that has come to take on a very nega-

tive connotation. However, in a free society, where individual rights are protected, self-interest can only ever be to the benefit of others. Selfish behavior at the expense of others is only made possible by violence and coer-cion. In a free society, a person may only obtain wealth from another through voluntary, con-tractual interactions. Therefore, those who offer the greatest ser-vice (judged by the market value of that service) are in a position to become the most wealthy.

In our society (which has not truly been a “free society” for over a century), provided you know the right politicians to gain the right advantages, you may actually become quite wealthy to the detriment of others, and this is what causes so much confusion. These characters are present in abundance in Atlas Shrugged, and are fairly dubbed “looters” and “moochers”. These looters and moochers, the altru-ist politicians, the corrupt busi-ness people that side with them, and the masses who take wealth for granted, all imagine that the economy is a big pie, which can be divided equally among the people, and they are willing to use force (legitimized, govern-ment force) to do so. They want those who produce the wealth to sacrifice it to those who have produced nothing, the person with ability and motivation to sacrifice to the person with none,

all for the “good of society.” They have no understanding or re-spect for how wealth is actually created. In Atlas Shrugged, we see that when the producers of wealth begin to disappear, the looters eventually run out of people to loot. They turn on each other and literally loot each other to death, unable to understand why the markets suddenly don’t have enough food, why the trains have ceased to run, and why the lights have gone out in the cities. Turn on the TV in the present

day with a trained eye and you can watch as the real life looters literally flock to Washington.

Rand was an ardent defender of the non-aggression principle, which says that no human being may initiate force against anoth-er. This means that no one, not even governments, may initiate force. For this reason, this book may be the greatest defense of free market capitalism ever writ-ten. Sadly, we quickly deviated from the vision of a free society. Rights are no longer rights when we need permission from the government to exercise them. Every day on the news we hear about the latest government pol-icy, and the talking heads argue about whether the government should do this or that but the one question we never hear is: By what right? Atlas Shrugged offers hope that these questions are still alive in many minds and may return some day. ASC

By Steve GoeddekeDC Student

This book may be the greatest defense of free market capitalism ever

written.

The story is incredibly inspirational, as a testament to the potential of man‘s mind.

Atlas Shrugged: A Commentary

My PEAK Experience in China10 June 2010Opinions

I ’ve heard people say that Life University is easy. That wasn’t the case for me. In

fact, my time at Life has been similar to how I hear some peo-ple describe the United States Army. I have been dismantled, torn apart, broken down and fi-nally rebuilt. What I didn’t real-ize fully before going to China was that every hoop and hurdle I went through served its pur-pose.

If going to China is something you’ve considered, I highly rec-ommend you consider it now.

There were six of us in China last quarter, and I can say with confidence that we all loved it, and, yes, we would all do it again. Let me first summarize the common conversations I’ve been having since I returned to campus. First, it is very afford-able. It was dirt cheap for us to live in Zi Gong. I got a round trip ticket for just over $1100. From what I hear I lucked out and, in my opinion, Continental is the best airline. You get your own TV with hundreds of movies and the full spectrum of Showtime series in case you care to share the adventure across the world with Dexter Morgan or Hank Moody. Don’t forget to look out the window; it was pretty awe-some crossing over Russia.

When you get to Zi Gong, you will pay the cook (“Nana”) $25 every two weeks for lunch and dinner daily. The rent comes out to about $600 for the quarter and the apartments are great. They include a flat screen TV and a computer with a camera set up for Skype. Across the street is a gym and a grocery store (Ren

Ren Lo, which I think means ‘happy people’). There are plenty of spa’s in the city that offer $7 shiatsu massages. To get to work, you take the number eight bus three stops to the hospital.

It may seem like there is a lot of red tape to go through when you are preparing to go to China, but

after going through it, I would simply suggest you just trust the system. They seem to have ev-erything under control. Caroline Anderson will help you on this end, and Dr. Eaton and his wife Pam are in Zi Gong, with the full support of the US Consulate and the (Continued on page 11)

By Suzanne McBrideDC Student

I pushed myself past the physical limitations I was so sure I had.

Dr Jim Eaton, DC with Life Students and Chinese Interpret-eurs after a dinner out in Zigong, China

Several Life Students enjoy-ing each others company in

China

Alexandra GerdelDC Student

At this quarter’s Optimum Life Weekend, both Dr. Mary Flannery and Dr.

Arno Burnier mentioned the importance of living in the pres-ent. What exactly do they mean by that? As mentioned in both of their presentations, Dr. Mary speaking on Optimum Energy and Dr. Arno speaking on Op-timum Joy, being fully present is the only time you can really experience joy and happiness in your life. As Dr. Mary put it, “you can’t experience happiness

or meaning in the past or fu-ture. It can only be experienced in the now.”

Living in the now. As a stu-dent, I find this is something with which we often struggle, especially when it comes to school. I constantly hear class-mates and peers looking towards the future or focused on regrets of past mistakes and decisions. I admit I am frequently guilty of this myself. There’s nothing wrong with looking forward to the end of a boring lecture, the end of a week, the end of a quar-ter, getting through Part One of the Boards, getting into clinic, finally graduating, etc. How-ever, when we throw our entire focus into the next step, or that one mistake we made along our journey so far, we get trapped in a time that already happened or hasn’t yet occurred and miss out on what is happening right now.

The best definition I have found of what it means to live in the present is from an email sent out by David Mjoen, a clinic doc-tor in the Center for Optimum Health and Performance. “Pres-ent Time Consciousness means you are functioning in present time. You are in the moment. Your thoughts are laser sharp regarding what you are doing.

You are 100% concentrating on what you are doing. You are with the person you are inter-acting with, completely. Pure focus. Intention. At that mo-ment in time, nothing in the universe other than the task at hand is your focus.”

How many of us can claim to actually approach each day and each interaction with pure focus and intention. Can you imagine how your grades might be affected if you were 100% focused in every class? How much less you would have to study for exams? How your relationships with friends, significant others and family might change if they had your full attention when you came home at the end of the day? While it’s true that the course load and hours we spend at school make it difficult for us to think about much else, and everyday issues clutter our minds and keep us from pro-ductivity while we’re at school, I challenge everyone reading this to make a commitment to living in the present.

The process can start small. Take one aspect of your life and commit to being 100% present and conscious in that part of your life each day. Whether it’s paying attention in class, being entirely present with your fam-ily for a few hours at the end of the day, or staying completely focused on your patients every time you see them in the clin-ic, start challenging yourself to

embrace and truly live in every moment of your day. Our time here at Life, while at times te-dious, is short in the grand scheme of our lives. Let’s en-joy our time together and the moments that will become our past almost as quickly as they are our here and now.

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Living In The Now

My PEAK Experience(Continued from page 10)

...hospital. No, I did not need the consulate, and yes I did sing karaoke with a number of the staff.

The interpreters are great CA’s, great tour guides, and last,

but certainly not least, they be-come amazing friends. They will guide you through patient care during the week and take you on some unbelievable weekend ad-ventures. They love chiropractic and they are literally the nicest, funniest people I have ever met. The drivers out there are pretty

insane, so the interpreters think it is their job to help you cross the street safely. Having a 45 kilo itty bitty interpreter think she can block you from oncoming traffic is at least good for comic relief. Chinese people as a whole seem to love animation. In fact, there is a prevalent rumor that Alice, the lead interpreter, used to be a cartoon character.

Let me describe my favorite weekend to you. It started with a three-hour bus ride (every bus ride is three hours) to see the big-gest Buddha statue in the world. It was carved into a mountain that took us about five hours to fully hike and explore. It was in-credible. That night, after travel-ing all day, we treated ourselves to a few hours at our hotel’s hot springs. Natural Jacuzzi’s, steam rooms, saunas and mas-sages are my new definition of a Friday night. The next morn-ing, we set off to conquer what I later found out was a 14,000 foot high mountain (Mount Emei). We hiked 2.5 hours to see the wild monkeys. Yes, they will jump on you, yes, the babies are cute and yes, the big ones are scary! Then we hiked a few more hours until we reached the

gondola that would take us up through the clouds into the sky. Talk about “Break on through to the other side!” It was on top of that mountain that I had a personal break through. It was one of those “life changing” mo-ments. I pushed myself past the physical limitations that I was so sure I had, climbed a 14,000 foot mountain and watched the sunrise from above the clouds!

All the traveling was beauti-ful and fun, but the real magic happened in Zi Gong. Showing up to a clinic with patients wait-ing outside the door, suffering through the interpreters ver-sion of “I’m a Barbie girl” every day at closing time, playing dice games at Brother 68, singing along to Michael Jackson ev-ery spinning class, bringing the hospitals acupuncturists to eat

their first cheeseburger and cel-ebrating our “relationship” with the hospital at multiple ban-quets. That was the magic.

Like I said in the beginning of this article, before I went to China, I didn’t fully understand why the program at Life was set up the way it is. Now I can say thank you to the radiology track

for helping me recognize condi-tions on films that were deemed a negative study by the radiology department in Zi Gong, thank you to the CLET faculty who prepared me to figure out that my very first patient in Zi Gong had cauda equinae syndrome; and thank you to my technique teachers who prepared me to work with patients with spon-dylolisthesis, disc protrusions and osteoporosis. China is an amazing personal and profes-sional experience. In closing, China 2010 is the year of the Tiger which symbolizes passion and integrity. I’d go back in a heartbeat.

being fully present is the only time you can really experience joy and hap-

piness in your life.

Take one aspect of your life and commit to be-ing 100% present and conscious in that part of

your life each day

China is an amazing personal and profes-

sional experience

On top of that mountain, I had a personal break-

through

Andrea Czop and Suzanne McBride with one of the Interpreters

12 June 2010Opinions

Reggie Gold and the Optimum Life Experience

The Opti-mum Life E x p e r i -

ence this weekend ended its power-house lineup with one of the greatest names in chiropractic to date, Dr. Reggie Gold, chiropractor, philosopher and pioneer. It was clear that ev-eryone had their own legendary story of him, From Terry Rond-

berg regaling the audience with Reggie and Terry’s infamous bout with the medical profession on live television, to Arno Burnier’s pickup from the airport on his first trip to America. His friends and colleagues beautifully por-trayed the image of his younger self and securely implanted it in our hearts. By the end of the day, it felt like we were in the room

with an old friend, ready to clink beers over the good ‘ole times with him and his large graying mutt chops, his enormous dis-play of gold and turquoise jew-elry, cowboy boots, fast cars and radical behavior. He was and IS the epitome of old school chiro-practic. From balls to bones, he loves and protects this profes-sion, and it is in his conviction that you can find the greatest chiropractically philosophical mind of his time.

He talked about his start up as a box on the wall practice and why he did it. He pointed out that putting a dollar figure on an ad-justment puts a barrier between you and the patient. The average adjustment runs about $50.00, you have a family of four, that’s $200.00 a pop. It’s not gonna work doctor. Give the people a fee system they can live with. At

the time, people called Reggie crazy. Then the people who were calling him crazy were bringing their friends in to see him. The

point is, don’t worry about the money. Take down the barriers. The power is in the message and in what you are trying to give, not in what you are trying to get.

Don’t forget that. For me, inte-grating the philosophy into my chiropractic vision while trying to become a good ‘doctor’ has been a huge challenge over the last few months. Because there is nothing I could say in Reggie’s words better than he said them, here is his ten minute soliloquy about us as students and as chi-ropractors.

“Understand this, the school has dual responsibilities. It has a responsibility to make you the best chiropractor that you can be. But it also has a responsibil-ity to make you a licensed chiro-practor, which means that they train you to pass the Boards. And your job is to sit down and learn that stupid stuff and pass

the boards. And students think, ‘I have to learn this stuff. I can’t be a good doctor unless I know how to diagnose.’

“Chiropractors do not ever di-agnose! We do not diagnose, we do not treat, we do not cure, we do not fix. Why? Because that’s

the medical profession. That’s what medical doctors do. They diagnose, treat and cure dis-ease. They prevent disease. Un-less you’re practicing medicine, you should never be diagnosing, curing, treating or preventing disease. That’s not what a chi-ropractor does. Well then, what does a chiropractor do? A chiro-practor does one thing and one thing only and does it extremely well. He analyzes the spine for vertebral subluxation, identi-fies the subluxation, and sets about introducing the technique to bring about correction of the subluxation. That’s the only thing he does. Corrects subluxations. Whether people get well or not is (Continued on page 15)

By Jacqueline ManfreDC Student

By the end of the day, it felt like we were in the room with an old friend

He was and IS the epitome of old school chiropractic

Where is Our March for Health?With love, for Erin and Joanne

On May 7, 2010, a h a n d f u l

of Life students joined up with members of St. Thomas the Apostle church to participate in Cobb County’s Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society. The event is put on as a celebra-tion for survivors of cancer, to honor those who are still fight-ing and to remember those who are no longer with us due to of cancer. I was one of the Life stu-

dents who participated. My par-ticipation stirred up a whole mix of emotions within me. At first, I signed up purely out of love and support for a great friend of mine who lost her mom to breast cancer. But with my health-ori-ented philosophy of life, I started thinking about where my dona-tions would go, namely to the American Cancer Society, what I would ultimately be supporting, mainly the pharmaceutical com-panies.

Just a few weeks prior to the

event, something changed my world, and I now see cancer in a whole new light. I will admit that I have been able to create this sort of delusional bubble around myself, regarding cancer. Yes, I have had relatives and friends fight cancer. Some relatives have unfortunately lost the fight. But I had never truly gotten up-close and personal with the C word. It wasn’t until April that I had to stop being so naive about can-cer. Joanne, a woman as near and dear to me as my own amaz-

ing mother, started undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

I thought a lot about Joanne as I walked the venue at Jim Miller Park. I also wondered who was offering real hope at such (Con-tinued on pg. 13)

By Melissa BettessDC Student

Rather than fight against something, we need to fight FOR something.

I had lunch with Dr. Arno Burni-

er and asked him a few ques-tions that had been on my mind since I attend-

ed one of his Make Love to the Spine (MLS) chiropractic semi-nars a few months before. This article focuses on Arno’s history in technique and how to improve yours.

The MLS seminar was started by Arno in the early 1980’s, about three years after he graduated. He states, “The primary purpose of the MLS approach to adjust-ing is to set the system to a peace or ease position, not bringing anything to tension, then feed-ing in gently and becoming one with the bone.” Combined with high specificity and high veloc-ity, these factors make for a new experience on the chiropractic table. I’ve been adjusted by Arno and the speed, relaxation and surety of those adjustments set them far apart. How did he get

so fast and rock solid with his chiropractic interactions? He graduated in the 1970s and the rest is history.

Early on, Arno’s knowledge and experience was mostly upper cer v ical. His alma m a t - e r ,

Sher-m a n C o l l e g e of Straight C h i r o p r a c -tic, emphasized maximal output by the person being adjusted and minimal input by the chiropractor. Sherman advocates primarily upper cervical adjusting because upper cervical is philosophically based on the vitalistic nature of chiropractic, (the adjustment is more than bones and nerves and the result is more than just phys-iological changes.) Throughout

his education, Dr. Reggie Gold taught Arno full spine adjusting. But even after learning the intri-cacies therein, he still felt limited by what he describes as, “a static understanding of the spine.” He believes that mo-tion is life

a n d to be-

c o m e fully con-

gruent with this belief,

he began a new course of study.

On a mission to develop a gentler, more

non-traditional way of ad-justing the spine, Arno started

digging through the science. In-strumental to this new education were papers written by the likes of biomechanist ManoharM. Panjabi, Henri Jille of motion palpation fame, and other sourc-es that highlight the intricate in-

teractions between all parts of the human frame. After reading up on the latest science of move-ment, Arno, with a background in judo, karate, and Brazilian ju-jitsu, applied many of their prin-ciples. Core stability, speed, and visualization are centered upon biomechanics, which he began integrating into his approach to adjusting. These things are all taught and practiced at MLS seminars and indeed, Arno be-lieves that martial arts should be a part of chiropractic education in the schools.

I attended my first MLS semi-nar a few quarters ago and it was two full days of palpation, ad-justing, and connection with my peers as we worked to integrate Arno’s approach into our tech-nique. Students ranged from 1st quarter all the way through 14th quarter. There were even some alumni in attendance, commit-ted to bettering their skills even after graduation.

Picture this: You are in a spa-cious room filled with 50 chiro-practic (Continued on page 15)

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March for Health(Continued from page 12)

...an event. Where was the light among all the darkness? Is the hope found simply in the fact that more money is being raised to support even more research and the pharmaceutical compa-nies (who certainly are not lack-ing in funds)?

As I heard the survivors’ sto-

ries, my heart saddened. Though the stories were supposed to be encouraging and inspirational, I kept hearing the same story over and over, surgery, drugs, more surgery, and more drugs. These precious human beings are be-ing cut, radiated, and filled with poison to fight the chaos inside their bodies. I wanted to scream out, “Where are the chiroprac-tors? Where are the organic food vendors? Where are the nutra-ceutical companies? There must be a different way.”

Thankfully, I did manage to see one chiropractic office pres-ent. Even though I had to strain my eyes to actually read the word ‘chiropractic’ on their big, flashy signs, at least someone was will-ing to stand up and offer hope. Another Life student proudly wore his t-shirt that read, “I’m bringing health back – chiro-practic.”

I understand the arguments for why chiropractors and Life University would not support this event. In order to be at an event like this, you have to donate or raise money for a philosophy opposite chiropractic. Dr. Rieke-man even addressed this issue in his talk during the Optimum Life Experience, May 15, in Life Uni-versity’s Upper Gym. Dr. Rieke-man brought up a story about Mother Theresa. When Mother Theresa was asked to participate in a march against war, she de-clined. When asked why, Mother Theresa said that she would not march against war. Rather, when there was a march for peace, then she would happily march. Dr. Riekeman clearly has made his point on where he stands in the fight against cancer. Rather than

fight against something, we need to fight FOR something. In this case, that something is health.

So dear chiropractors, where

is our March for Health? Instead of perpetuating the cycle of rais-ing money for each individual disease, where is our March for

Freedom from All Diseases (or whatever better title you can think up)? I want to hear back from the student body on this discussion. I am not intend-ing to bash the medical model. I truly still do have a conflict in my head that I would appreciate your feedback on. Should chiro-practors not even step foot near walks against fill-in-the-blank disease? If not, what do we need to be doing instead? Please visit our Facebook page to comment.

The Team of St. Thomas the Apostle at Relay for Life with Life students Dan Turo (with wife Erin Turo) and Melissa Bettess

By Shaun M GallagherDC Student

“…the MLS approach to adjusting is to set the

system at peace…”

…a two day meditation…

…this is where the ad-justment will happen…

Become One with the Bone

Where is our March for Freedom from

All Disease?

I wanted to scream out, “Where are the chiro-

practors?

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Become One with the Bone(Continued from page 13)

...tables set in a wide circle. There are 50 people lying face down on the tables and 50 others stand-ing at their feet. You’re standing so it’s your turn to adjust. Close your eyes and start by grounding yourself in this moment. Become present and think of an experi-ence that opens your heart: your kids, your greatest achievement, true happiness with your friends, or even the death of a loved one. When you reach that place of openness, stay with it because this is where the adjustment will happen.

The purpose of that exercise is to allow you to give the same quality of care to each individual you see today whether it’s one client or one hundred. All inhibi-tions are thrown aside and your pure intentions are bared in preparation for the adjustment.

Back at the seminar, the group drilled relentlessly. We per-formed loads of exercises that target specific adjusting muscles. We practiced visualization of the adjustment happening before

laying hands on a person. When there was no one to setup on we practiced our thrusts, calculated specifically for what was pal-pated. And both days were done without talking, but for neces-sary questions. When I walked out at the end of the seminar, I felt like I’d emerged from a two day meditation - because when you live in that focused place, nothing else crosses your mind.

The adjusting approach itself is logical and specific. Working in conjunction with physics and biomechanics you’re taught to adjust effortlessly, learning lots of cool moves and tips. Even the smallest women at the semi-nar were successfully adjusting some of the biggest men. That level of finesse is not possible when one tries to overpower and force the body to move against itself.

I hope you’re interested in ex-panding your skill set because there’s always room to learn more. Free yourself of doubt when you adjust. Give quality adjustments all day long. Be-come the chiropractor you want to be.

If you’re not already signed up for the next MLS, (Saturday & Sunday November 13-14,) con-tact me for more information (smgallagher03@yahoo.com). Visit www.zeechi.com and de-part with this quote from Arno:

“You must turn on the light. You cannot fight disease. You must turn on life. Humanity has been fighting sickness and disease for thousands of years, and what do we get more of?

That was a stepping stone. We’re moving out of the age of dark-ness into the age of life. We are moving from an outside-in mod-el to an inside-out model. We are moving out of fighting sickness and disease into turning on the life. We are moving out of being reactive and crisis oriented into being proactive and aware of our potential. We are moving out of a fear model into a trust model. Truth is simple.”

Arno Burnier (center) with Life students Jordan Wolff (Left) and Nicholas Barlow

Reggie Gold(Continued from page 12)

...not your problem. Sometimes you correct the subluxation and the people still don’t get well. In fact, sometimes you correct the subluxation and the people con-tinue to get worse. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be correct-

ing subluxations. Just be a good chiropractor. You don’t have to cure anybody. The one thing you must do, you must be competent at locating and identifying verte-bral subluxations.”

“Think about your future. Practice today as if you have to live tomorrow. Learn philosophy, learn technique, learn practice

management. And I don’t care what technique you use. As long as when you’re done, you check to see if the subluxation is gone. If you don’t know if the sublux-ation is gone, what were you do-ing adjusting it in the first place? Locate and identify subluxations. When you learn how to do that, you’re ready to be a chiropractor. Until you learn how to do that,

you’ll never be a chiropractor. Because chiropractors locate, analyze and adjust to remove the interference of the subluxation. That’s your job.”

That’s our job ladies and gen-tleman. That’s our job.

June 2010 Opinions

16Living Doing the Impossible

Birthing a baby the natural way

Wa l t Disney o n c e

said, “It’s kinda fun doing the impossible.” As homebirthers, so often the comment others throw at us about our choice is that it’s impossible. “It’s impos-sible to deliver a baby without drugs.” “It’s impossible to do it without assistance from any-one.” “It’s impossible that in that moment of pulling the baby out, you can actually have the energy and desire to do it yourself.” “It’s impossible to have a 100% prob-lem free delivery.” But you know what? It’s kind of fun to do the

‘impossible.’It’s been fun to prove people

wrong and educate them at the same time. There is NOTHING impossible when you let your body work the way it was de-signed to work. There is NOTH-ING impossible about delivering a baby. While there are always complications that COULD arise, the truth is they’re rare and don’t make for the impossible.

Knowing that everyone viewed my choices as ‘impossible’ made me more excited to accept the challenge and trust my body. There is an old Spanish proverb that says “To tell a woman what she can’t do is to tell her what she can do”. In other words, when rules and regulations are created

to try to force women to all birth the same,

the rise inside of women’s

s o u l s will

result in them doing exactly what it is you are telling them they can’t do. To tell a woman she can’t home-birth is certain-ly a challenge to many who will purposely birth at home just to prove a point that a baby will come whenever and wherever it wants; whether a doctor is pres-ent or not. Doc-tors don’t deliv-er babies - MOMS deliver babies. Doctors just assist a mom in her delivery. A midwife, husband or

best friend can assist just the same. And if no one is there, the mom will still deliver the baby, for SHE is the one who

does all the work.No male doctor has ever de-

livered a baby. EVER. He has never had a baby pass through his open cervix and out into the world. He has never felt the sen-sations of needing and wanting to push or of having that new

baby put to his bare breast. And a male doctor never WILL deliv-er a baby. Pizzas are delivered by

outsiders, babies are delivered by moms. Next time you are asked by a well-wisher “Who will be delivering your baby?” Proudly say with a smile “I will be.”

Whether you have a doctor or a midwife present, or go com-pletely unassisted, take pride in the fact that YOU will deliver the baby that is growing inside you. More than likely, your doctor will just be getting in the way!

By Kelly MilanoDC Student

Doctors don’t deliver babies. MOMS deliver babies.

Events Calendar Get Your Events on Next Issues Calendar - Contact Our Events Informant at calendar.vs@life.edu

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Memorial DayNo school

1War of 1812: U.S.

President James Madison asks the Congress to

declare war on the U.K.

2Innate Enterprise,

11-noon, B119

3Vital Source Open

Meeting, Noon-1, Left of Treehouse

4780 -BC- first total solar

eclipse reliably recorded in China

5Golf Club

Marietta Golf Center 9am-noon

61942 Japanese forces

retreat, ending Battle of Midway

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71775 - The United

Colonies change their name to the United

States

81786 First commercially-

made ice cream sold (NY)

9Innate Enterprise,

11-noon, B119

10Vital Source Open

Meeting, Noon-1, Left of Treehouse

111977 Seattle Slew wins Belmont Stakes & Triple

Crown

12Golf Club

Marietta Golf Center 9am-noon

131935 - 10 to 1 underdog

James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer and became the

heavyweight champion of the world

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Flag DayFinals Week

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Finals Week

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Finals Week

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Summer Break Begins

191862 U.S. Congress prohibits

slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred

Scott Case

20Father’s Day

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1939 - Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has A.L.S.

221847 - Doughnut created

231916 - TF Ratledge DC writes to BJ Palmer from Los Angeles County Jail

241914 - Archduke Franz

Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs

initiating World War I

252009 - Michael Jackson dies

at the age of 50 & Farrah Faucet dies at age 62

261819 - The bicycle is patented

271981 - First Paintball Match

Was Held

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1965 - The first US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by

Pres Johnson

291964 - Civil Rights Act of

1964 passed

301936 - "Gone With the Wind"

by Margaret Mitchell, published

11966 - Medicare goes into

effect

21962 - The first Wal-Mart

store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas

31971 - Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure

in France

4Independence Day

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17June 2010 Living

By Carley EdwardsDC Student

Is Your Sunscreen Safe?

Every sum-mer, many of us inno-

cently lather on a bottle of sunscreen, paying no attention to the ex-tensive list of ingredients on the back. We hide in the shade while telling ourselves that we are do-ing what we can to prevent skin cancer. When did we start fearing the sun and become so submis-sive to companies like Banana

Boat and Coppertone? It’s time to investigate your sunscreen and look at all the benefits the sun has to offer.

Most sunscreens prevent UVB absorption, which are the rays responsible for vitamin D pro-duction. If you’re repeatedly cov-ering yourself in sunscreen, you can’t absorb vitamin D. Lack of vitamin D accounts for 50,000 cancer-related deaths annual-ly. Research done at Creighton University School of Medicine has suggested that vitamin D and calcium can cut cancer risk by 77%. Vitamin D has also been shown to help with diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depres-sion, arthritis and more. Vitamin D also decreases your risk of get-ting breast, colon, and prostate cancers.

When you apply sunscreen you are not only blocking essen-tial vitamin D production, but you are also lathering yourself in carcinogenic chemicals. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) did a study revealing that 84% of sunscreens are harmful to

consumers. Nine out of ten sun-screens contain the ingredient octinoxate (octyl methoxycin-namate or OMC). According to the EWG’s website “Skin Deep,” OMC has been shown to cause allergies, endocrine disruption, organ toxicity, birth defects, and infertility. OMC is not the only ingredient to be concerned about. Another main ingredient to steer clear of is oxybenzone (benzophenone-3). Oxybenzone causes allergies and cancer and is an endocrine disruptor and

neurotoxin. It received a haz-ard score of nine out of ten on Skin Deep. Many sunscreens also contain parabens, PEG’s, phthalates (a neurotoxin hidden

under the name fragrance) and several other ingredients that have a medium to high hazard score on the Skin Deep website. If you think sunscreen for babies and children is safe, think again. OMC is found in Banana Boat’s Kids Sunscreen Lotion and Cop-pertone’s Kids Pure and Simple Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50.

Don’t forget to protect your lips! Use a natural lip balm and stay away from conventional brands. Chapstick Lip Balm, SPF 4, Spearmint contains parabens, nitrosamines (carcinogen), fra-grance (neurotoxin), yellow #5 (a known carcinogen banned in Europe and linked to ADHD) and several other potentially harmful ingredients. Something

as small as a container of lip balm can have a huge effect on your health later on. Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm’s and Alba Botanica Hawaiian Lip Balms are better alternatives.

Many people believe that using sunscreen helps to prevent skin cancer and is safe, just because their doctor says so, but keep in mind that doctors also used to recommend smoking cigarettes. Even the American Cancer Soci-ety is used to disseminate propa-ganda and brainwash people to

use sunscreen on a regu-lar basis. For example, some of the profits from sunscreen companies are donated to the American Cancer Society, who then promotes the use of sun-screen!

Just remember that overexposure to any-

thing, including the sun, can cause damage. So limiting exposure is im-portant, but if wearing sunscreen is hazard-ous, how do you prevent yourself from getting burned? Using a natural

sunscreen that doesn’t contain toxic chemicals is a good place to start. According to Skin Deep, Badger Sunscreen for Face and Body SPF 30 has a hazard score of 0 and only one ingredient has minor health implications. An-other way to prevent burning is to include microalgae like spir-ulina in your diet and to con-sume raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. Consume anti-oxidants and you can build your own internal sunscreen. Also, steer clear of corn and soybean oils that contain Omega 6 fatty-acids, which have been shown to increase the risk of skin cancer.

To find out how your sunscreen

rates, go to www.cosmeticsdata-base.com. If you have any other questions or have other informa-tion you would like to share on this topic, please email submis-sions.vs@gmail.com. Also feel free to post a comment on our Facebook page at Vital Source Newspaper. We look forward to hearing from you!

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c o m /s i t e s/ v i t a l v o t e s/a r -chive/2007/06/19/The-Sun-screen-Myth-How-Sunscreen-Products-Actually-Promote-Cancer.aspx

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84% of sunscreens are harmful to consumers

Antioxidants can help build your own internal sunscreen

Mike Adams www.naturalnews.com

www.safecosmetics.org

18June 2010Living

Making pizza at home may seem like a daunting prospect, but if you are looking for the best pizza, you may just have to make it for your-self. And as they say about good barbeque, as well, “the secret’s in the sauce!” This recipe is so simple that it is nearly as easy as open-ing a jar, but the flavor is so, so, so much better. Not only is the taste great, but it goes very well with a huge variety of pizza toppings.

Ingredients Required for the Pizza Sauce:2 tablespoons virgin olive oil• ¼ cup freshly chopped onions• 1 tablespoon freshly minced garlic• 3 Italian plum tomatoes, peeled and minced• 3 oz. canned tomato paste• 2 ½ tablespoons Italian Seasoning• ½ teaspoon salt• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper• ½ stick unsalted butter, sliced in medium pieces•

You can choose to use either fresh or canned tomatoes for this deli-cious, easy pizza sauce. When using fresh tomatoes, peel the skin by placing the tomatoes in boiling water for 15 seconds. Remove the seeds, as well (optional).

Note: Never use an aluminum cooking pot when cooking tomatoes, because the highly acidic tomatoes will react with the aluminum, which may not be so good for your brain (Aluminum toxicity has been implicated as a possible contributory cause in Alzheimer’s disease).

Pizza Sauce - Step by Step:Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over high heat• Sauté the onions in the olive oil for 1 minute• Stir in the garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste and Italian Seasoning• Salt and pepper to taste• Bring to a boil and simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 5 • minutesReduce heat to low and stir in the butter pieces• When butter is half melted, remove the skillet from heat and • continue stirring until thoroughly incorporated Spread sauce over homemade pizza crust •

Pizza Crust and Toppings:You can get a good pizza crust recipe at the following site: http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/Quick-and-Easy-Pizza-Crust/Detail.aspx

Choose from the following toppings: Diced tomatoes, sliced red onions, chopped green onions, chopped artichoke hearts, diced green peppers, sliced fresh mushrooms, spinach leaves, feta, mozzarella, cheddar, parmesan cheese.

Cooking Instructions:Prepare the pizza on a pizza stone (if you happen to have one) or • on a big cookie sheet dusted with a little corn meal.Bake in a 450 degree oven for 25 minutes, or until the crust is • golden brown.Remove from the oven and let set for 5 minutes (if you can stand • to wait!!!)

Now Eat and Enjoy!

Great, Easy Recipe for Pizza That Tastes Fabulous!

By Dr. DemetriusNutrition Department Professor

19Sports & Fun

On Sat-u r d a y , June 5,

two of Life’s rug-by players will be facing off on the USA Eagles Rugby team playing against Russia in the Churchill Cup. Phil Theil and Pat Danahy have been chosen to be a part of the USA Eagles. According to USA coach Eddie O’Sullivan (reporting to

ChurchillCu-pRugby.com) “This has been a tough selection pro-cess.” Theil and Danahy, along with their 28 team mates, were chosen from a field of players from across the Super League, Division 1 col-lege teams, training camps, and international teams. This type

of selection of Life play-ers shows the caliber of ath-lete that Life produces!

T h e C h u r c h i l l Cup is a vi-tal part of

rugby’s international season and offers top international competi-tion including teams from Can-ada, England, France, Russia

and Uruguay. During the spring season, Russia qualified for their first ever Rugby Cup and is now competing in their first Churchill Cup. This should lead to a very hard fought match up.

Games will be played in Glen-dale, Colorado on June 5th, 9th & 13th and will move to New Jer-sey and the Red Bull Arena for the finals on June 19th.

THIS JUST IN....USA beat Russia 39-22. Pat Dahany from Life scored a try.

More details to follow in the next edition of Vital Source.

Life Rugby Players Represent the USAFace Off Against Russia

Life’s Super League Team Loses in San FranciscoFear not, the Division 1 team is destined for the Final Four

By Kelly MilanoDC Student

By Kelly MilanoDC Student

Two of Life’s rugby players will be facing off on the USA Eagles Rugby team playing against Russia in the Churchill Cup

Calling All Life University RunnersJoin team NPCO at the 2010 Chicago Marathon

Last October a group of Life Uni-

versity students committed them-selves to run the Chicago Mar-athon. Their reasons were far from being just personal. They took things to the next level by signing on as members of an 82

person marathon team. Their goal was not only to get in shape to complete a 26.2 mile run through the streets of Chicago, but also to raise money for the Non-Profit Chiropractic Organi-zation (NPCO).

NPCO is an official 501(c)3 charity started by a current

Palmer College chiro-practic student. The organization is dedi-cated to raising aware-ness about the ben-efits of chiropractic to communities and countries around the world. All of the mon-ey raised from events they hold goes towards (Cont. on page 23)

Alexandra GerdelDC Student

NPCO is still able to of-fer places on their team

Life University student and 2009 NPCO Team Member Jeaninne Rum-

mel stays fired up through the streets of Chicago.

On Satur-day, May 15th, Life

University Super League Rugby team faced the Chicago Griffins in the Quarter Final. Life came out strong from the very begin-ning and dominated during the game, allowing only 10 points to Chicago, all of which came in the first half of the game. According to an interview with Premier-Rugby.com, team captain Bren-dan Thomsom (better known

as “Thomo”) stated “The team is very happy. Weeks of train-ing came together for us today.” He continued “There were some

moments where play was a lit-tle scrappy, but we stuck to the game plan and pulled out a ma-jor win.”

In the first play of the game, Life left one of Chicago’s play-ers walking away limping. The game just escalated from there. Life was first on the scoreboard with a penalty kick (3 points) by Tui Osborne. After a Try by Chi-cago Griffins, Life’s former coach turned player Scott Lawrence re-sponded with a Try of his own. Life kept this lead for the rest of the game, ending in a 53-10 vic-tory.

As winner Life advanced to the Semifinals against San Fran-cisco Golden Gate (SFGG), held in San Francisco on May 22nd.

Life came out strong and domi-nated the pitch in the first half of the game, but in the second half, SFGG came back fighting. Life ended up losing to SFGG with a final score of 14-10, end-ing the hopes of going to the fi-nals this year. SFGG is the same team that beat Life in the Finals in Glendale, CO last season.

Only hours after this startling loss to SFGG, the Men’s Divi-sion1 team took the field to face off against Mystic River. The team pulled together and played an outstanding game winning the match 59-3. This win gave the team a position in the Final Four in Glendale on June 5th & 6th, facing off first against the Las Vegas Blackjacks.

Ever since BJ Palmer brought rugby to the campus of Palmer College, it has been said that rugby is a chiropractic sport. Life perpetuated that statement when Dr. Sid brought rugby to

Life, and today Dr. Riekeman continues to embrace the sport and its value to chiropractic. However, this year marks a spe-cial year for rugby’s relationship with chiropractic as both Life University and Palmer College of Chiropractic will be compet-ing in the Division 1 Final Four. If both teams beat their competi-tion, Life and Palmer would face off in the championship game! Be on the lookout for the rekindling of a Life and Palmer rivalry!

BREAKING NEWS.....Life beats Palmer 61-17 to rank 3rd in the nation! Details and game recap coming in the next Vital Source!

Life came out strong and dominated the pitch in the first half of the game, but in the second half,

SFGG came back fighting.

If both teams beat their competition, Life and Palmer would face off in the championship

game!

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Jamie Adams and her daughter Logan who is 4 months old

Matt Talley and his daughter Chapel who is almost a month old

≈ Your Horoscope ≈ Pisces: Feb19 – Mar 20

Excitement is likely to revolve around finances and possessions for you this

month. There might be a sudden change in financial position, a sudden urge to spend

or invest money, a new money-making idea or project that seems to come out of

nowhere, or new insights into money-making ability, or self-worth. Home and family life is busy, and love relationships especially stimulating. “I wanna have

the same last dream, again. The one where I wake up and I’m alive. Just

as the four walls close within me, my eyes open up with pure sunlight!”

Angels and Airwaves

Aries: Mar 21 – Apr 19

Your love life is certainly exciting this month and you’re feeling especially affectionate and ready to go out on

a limb for love. Your confidence runs high in general, You can use this to break free from restrictions or limi-tations. Don’t let struggles of family and home bring you down. “Why

must they tear down my house when they know it’s made from

love, We made a vow to love through it all. We are one and no one has the right to tear my

love down.” Anthony Hamilton

Taurus: Apr 20 – May 20

Your romantic life picks up the pace this month, dear Taurus, although it’s

not without its fair share of drama. It’s a good time for financial plan-ning, but the impulse to gamble or splurge might also be strong, and probably should be resisted. Your

dreaming world is vivid and intuition exceptionally active. Listen to your in-ner voice! “You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em. Know when to walk away,

know when to run.” Kenny Rogers

Gemini: May 21 – Jun 20

Socially, June brings excitement and opportunity for you twins. Stepping

out of your comfort zone is especially important to you, as you are feeling adventurous and courageous. You also have a lot on your mind and

are itching to share it. Share away. Everyone will pick up on your spunky

energy and will benefit from your thoughts and ideas. “Oh yes, I am a traveling man. Hobo to the bone.

I travel on the wind and blow home. Sing you a song for a cup

of warm wine.” Blue Cheer

Cancer: Jun 21 – Jul 22

Finances are strong for you this month, dear Cancer. And it’s around

this time you’ll be more introspec-tive than usual. Many of you are

putting a lot of energy into studies and projects, which pay off because you are approaching a professional peak of sorts, leading some of you to discover your “true calling” this

summer. “Such is the way of the world. You can never know just where to put all your faith and

how it will grow. Gonna rise up, burning black holes in dark memories. Gonna rise up, turn-

ing mistakes into gold.” Eddie Vedder

Leo: Jul 23 – Aug 22

Love is exciting and perhaps a little exotic for you this month, dear Leo.

Certainly, you are experiencing inner stirrings that prompt you to explore

on a romantic level, whether that means spicing up an existing rela-tionship, taking it to a whole new

level, or meeting a romantic partner for singles. You may be dealing with some power struggles that now come

to a head. “Open up your mind and let me step inside. Rest

your weary head and let your heart decide. It’s so easy when you know the rules. It’s so easy

when all you have to do is fall in love.” Queen

Virgo: Aug 23 – Sep 22

Hang in there, Virgo. I know you’re really busy right now, and it’s a good idea to seek the advice of trusted friends and colleagues to help you out. The hectic mind flurry you have go-ing on may present a problem with energy, confidence, and courage. Don’t become impatient with your cir-cumstances though. There are a few breaks headed your way. Your long term goals are going to benefit the most from you keeping a clear head. “Rain pouring down, I swing my hammer. My hands are rough from working on a dream. I’m

working on a dream.” Bruce Springsteen

Libra: Sep 23 – Oct 22

A surprising circumstance or sud-den change presents itself now, and if you’re open to it, it can jolt you out of your usual routine when it comes to relationships. Some of you might enter into a new partnership quickly, or meet a special someone with whom you have strong intellectual vibes, and the desire to take it to the next level is strong. “Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time. His is the force that lies within. Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find. He is a feather in the wind.”

Led Zeppelin

Scorpio: Oct 23 – Nov 21

If you’re tuned in, new insights break open in work and health this month. Opportunities in your career come out of the blue, boosting your confidence and improving your attitude towards your work. This is good, because the temptation to break out of monotony on the job is strong. Just remember, it’s the follow through, not just ideas them-selves, that bring about change. Finish something. “Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails across the sea of years. With no provision but an open face along the straits of

fear.” Robert Plant

Sagittarius:Nov22–Dec21

An exciting and uplifting month is in store for you, dear Sagittarius. Your creative juices are flowing, and you are feeling especially confident and

adventurous. Romantic partner-ships are strong, and your personal magnetism gets a nice boost. Taking creativity to the next level in every-thing you do, including romance,

implementing new skills, writing or speaking will be important for you

this month. “In time, you will find, many things found in the

ordinary. Could it be, what you see, many things are

extraordinary.” Wolfmother

Capricorn: Dec 22 –Jan 1

A busy month for work is in store, dear Capricorn, but your social life is not suffering. New and exciting

energy is brought to your home life this month. There may be a scurry of activity in your home and with

your family in June, or opportuni-ties to move or expand that seem to come out of the blue. “Stars when

you shine, you know how I feel. Scent of the pine, you know how I feel. Oh, freedom is mine and I know how I feel. It’s a new day!”

Michael Buble

Aquarius: Jan 20 –Feb18

A feel-good month is in your fore-cast, dear Aquarius. You are feeling especially enthusiastic and gener-

ous. A new friend may be part of the picture. Inspiration can be found

now, and it’s likely to come through your conversations or communica-tions with others. Wonderful energy for love relationships is with you this month. “Mr. Sun came out today

and he smiled at me. Said it’s gonna be a good one, wait and

see! Jumped out of bed and I ran outside feeling so satisfied. It’s

the best day ever!” SpongeBob SquarePants

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21June 2010 Sports & Fun

Above: Nathaniel Jones (2 months) and Below: Nathaniel and Andrew Jones

(2 years old). These cuties are the sons of 8th DC student Mark Jones and his wife Lindsay.

Nathaniel was due during National Boards weekend last quarter. Luckily for his dad, he held off until Thursday of finals week to

make his entrance.

Below: Lora Emilia Cohen, born March 18, 2010 in Hamburg Germany. My fiance and her mother’s

name is Lena Enderlein and we will all be living in the Life Village Retreat! The Life Community and I

look forward to their arrival on June 4th!

Above: Jackson was born on March 31, 2010 @ 10:27am. He weighed 9 lb 7 oz and 21 inches in length. His full name is Jack-

son Thomas Harrison, but his brothers call him Jack.

Below: Ari Rubinstein was born january 11, 2010. He is the son of 5th quarter DC student Melissa Rubin-

stein and 2nd quarter DC student Shimon Rubinstein. Ari loves long walks in his stroller, the ladies, his dog, Toggle, his parents and of course being a chiropractic

baby.

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Faces of LifeQuestion

Photos and Story: Nick Barlow

What is your current wellness goal?

Jordan Wolff, DC Student“To stop biting my nails, cold turkey,

after getting a severe infectionin my thumb.”

Haasseem Mohammed, DC Student

“To Make a concious effort to focus on adifferent aspect of health every two weeks.”

Vidya Chenji, UG Student

“To continue mixing cardio and strength training four times a week.”

Gaby Mesidor, DC Student“To Lose ten pounds by continuing cardio workouts including; stairs, spinning and

walking my dog.”

Caylin Caruso, Enrollment Specialist

“To continue meditating, practicing Tai Chi, and increasing fruit and vegetable intake.”

Christina Alba, DC Student“To continue Salsa dancing two times a

week.”

Russell Wright, UG Student“To continue working toward becoming a well-ness coach in a medical facility to help others

improve mental and physical health.”

Tecia Pitts, UG Student

“To maintain an overall healthy mind-set free from negative thoughts and

energy.”

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Life University Runners(Continued from page 19)

...opening up non-profit clinics that provide chiropractic health-care to those living in poverty around the world.

Have you been thinking about running a marathon but lack the motivation to really com-mit to the idea? Joining an or-ganization is a great way to stay inspired during training. Life student and 2009 NPCO team member Melissa Hergert says, “I ran with NPCO because they represent what Chiropractic is all about! Health, happiness, sharing and giving, and most of all educating the world about Chiropractic. These causes are so important because as a future chiropractor I have a desire to educate the world about healthy living and natural healing.”

Another Life student and 2009 NPCO team member, Jeannine Rummel, echoed Herget’s words about running for a great cause as well as for yourself, “I would encourage people to run for team NPCO. It is a great organization that will actually use the money that you raise to promote Chiro-practic and educate the world. As a student, there is no better time to train and run a race and you can help share your love and show your pride for our Chiro-practic profession.”

Their goal is to reach 100

runners at both the Chicago Half Marathon on September 12th and the Chicago Marathon on October 10th. Registration for the mara-thon is currently closed, but as an organization NPCO is still able to offer places on their team. If a marathon is among your list of

goals for this year, support Chiro-practic! Represent Life University by running with other chiroprac-tic students and doctors from around the country! Visit NPCO’s website www.npco.org for more information, or speak with one of last year’s Life runners: Carl Moe, Jeannine Rummel, Joel Maloof, Mark Luongo, Melissa Hergert and Ryan Cedermark. Run with a vision. Run for Life. Run for Chi-ropractic.

Represent Life University by running with other chiropractic students and doctors from around the

country

Joel Maloof, Life University student and 2009 NPCO Team Member, displays his Finisher

Medal after the race.

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This Month’s Crypto-GramEpigrams in code for you to solve and contemplate.

How it works: One letter is simply substituted for another.

E.g. G m e l a s l u g w e g = C h i r o p r a c t i c

Each time, the code is different. Look for single letter words (a, I), words with apostrophes (isn’t, it’s, I’ve), double letters (good, -ness), and very common short words (the, and, is) as

clues.

The answer to last issue’s Crypto-gram, along with two clues to help you solve this one (don’t look unless you really need them) are located elsewhere in this issue.

“EW EM HGWWGK WI KGVYEA MECGAW YAL HG WDIPJDW Y UIIC

WDYA WI IZGA IAG’M MIPWD YAL KGVING YCC LIPHW.”

YHKYDYV CEARICA

Y RCIMGL VIPWD JYWDGKM AI UIIW.

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