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Monday, November 10, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Students delve into dreams
Speaker says awareness of subconscious is vital
By SHANE A. HILLS
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." — Henry David Thoreau.
Barbara Rothermel, who calls herself a doctor of metaphysics, said she saw her dad's head and it was a goner.
A student said he had a dream and the man at the Las Vegas roulette table was everything that he, the dreamer, was not.
In a dream, food stands for knowledge. In a dream, the people of the same sex as the dreamer represent the anxieties of the dreamer himself.
About 50 people visited the subconscious Saturday night at Templin Hall. They listened to Rothermel tell them they could become more aware of the subconscious mind.
"Your concussive mind doesn't lie to you," she said. "It doesn't have the same limits as your conscious mind. You don't have to be a victim of anything anymore. You can truly get what you want."
"I asked my mother what it meant," Rothermil said. "She said it was just the garbage in your mind from the day, that you were getting rid of. I thought then that was probably true.
"But later in life, after I asked teachers, ministers and college professors about dreams — and they didn't have any answers — I began to get a little cynical. I almost gave up my research and interest in dreams."
But then she said she visited a class on metaphyssis with a friend from the University of Missouri-
Columbia, where she received a journalism degree in 1973.
Her friend went to the class, presented by the School of Metaphysics, whose headquarters is in Windyville, Mo., to get a "past life reading."
"The information in that reading could not be proved," she said. "I mean especially the stuff about her having been a nun in Austria in the 1600s. But the stuff about her life in the present was very convincing. They had no way of knowing some of the information they revealed to her in the reading — they didn't know her before she came to the class. But somehow they knew it."
Eventually, the School of Metaphysics awarded Rothmerel a doctorate in metaphysics.
Since then, Rothermel has written six books about the subconscious mind as it pertains to relationships, charisma, dream interpretation and depression. The School of Metaphysics published the books. She travels and gives paid lectures and workshops to business groups and schools.
The School of Metaphysics has 30 branches in 16 states throughout the Midwest. Students are asked to pay $8 per lesson, but the school is non-profit.
pay or be permitted to attend. Rothermel, president emeritus of the School of Metaphysics, said the school hoped to build a four-year liberal arts college in Windyville.
Albert Clark, Cullowhee, N.C., senior, attends classes at the Kansas City, Kan., branch of the School of Metaphysics. He arranged for Rothermel's visit.
"I've become more aware that I'm not the only person who wonders what his dreams mean." Clark said.
Rothermel said the world had become more intuitive and ready to accept and explore the possibility of telepathic communication.
Wheelchair races for benefit
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
The sun still hadn't come up Saturday morning when about 15 men, dressed in everything from Bermuda shorts and sweats to long johns and stocking caps, began a wheelchair ride from Lawrence to Shawnee.
Eventually, all the members of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, 1100 Indiana St., alternately pushed and rode a wheelchair to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
But they finished sooner than they expected. The men jogged instead of walked and finished the route in five hours instead of 10.
Larry Murrow, house vice president, said Friday that the men expected to finish the route from the eastern edge of Lawrence to Shawnee, a suburb of Kansas City, Kan., in about 10 hours. The trip was about 35 miles.
Some fraternity members were up by 5 a.m., getting ready and eating Wheaties before the big race. By 6:15 a.m., Murrow and Steve Klim, Olathe junior, were pushing the wheelchair down Kansas Highway 10, with Clinton Burnetne, Topeka sophomore, riding the chair.
By 11:25 a.m., the men were in Shawnee
In fact, the early arrival time threw off the welcoming-reception plans of the American Cancer Society representatives at the society's headquarters in Shawnee.
Linda Wiley, Lawrence district executive director, said the early arrival of the men really "messed things up." Several board members and television crews who were expected to show up didn't make it.
However, she and the other representatives who gave the fraternity a scaled-down reception were
satisfied with the results of the race.
"They did tremendously well." said Pam Atwell, Kansas Division Board member and volunteer at the headquarters.
The fraternity gave the representatives a check for $400 and told them that they would receive more after other KU sororites and fraternities turned in their donations. Lawrence residents, businesses and alumni contributed to the drive.
Atwell, Overland Park graduate student, said that the fraternity intended to make the wheelchair race an annual event.
Some fraternity members said after the race that their legs were a little tired. Many of them jokingly said they would be ready to race the wheelchair back.
Fraternity members said some of the men jogged beside the wheelchair.
Reardon qualifies for transplant
Staff writer
By COLLEEN SIEBES
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Mayor Jack Reardon has passed all medical requirements to qualify him as a heart transplant candidate at the University of Kansas Medical Center, but is waiting for his insurance to be officially approved, his brother, William Reardon, said yesterday.
Three weeks ago, Jack Reardon, 43, began bleeding from the lungs. Last week, doctors at the Med Center told him that his heart was not adequately pumping blood and that he might not live one year if he didn't
undergo surgery, William Reardon said.
Marvin Dunn, chief of the department of cardiovascular disease at the Med Center and Reardon's cardiologist, said failure to have surgery could result in a condition called arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat which could cause sudden cardiac death.
At a news conference Saturday at the Med Center, Jack Reardon announced that he agreed with doctors that he should undergo surgery.
"It's with a great deal of seriousness that we have made this decision. But it promises for me a
considerable longevity of life... a full life," Reardon said.
Three and a half years ago, doctors diagnosed cardiomyopathy in Reardon. Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle that prevents the heart from pumping properly, thereby restricting the flow of blood.
"We feel confident," William Reardon said. "All of his other organs are in good shape, which is a criterion for approving a transplant, and his blood type is such that almost any heart would be compatible."
United Press International supplied some information for this story.
Professors plan book with story of school
Two professors in the School of Social Welfare are editing a book about how the school grew from a small department at the University of Kansas to the only accredited social welfare school in the state.
Staff writer
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Shirley Patterson, associate professor of social welfare, and Ben Zimmerman, professor emeritus of social welfare, are telling the story of the development of the school since Ester Twente started the social welfare department in 1946.
Patterson, who came up with the idea of the book, said she thought the professors and students should remember how the school began. Because 1986 is the school's 40th anniversary the timing is good, she said
"I've thought for a long time we were losing a sense of our roots — our history" she said.
The book, "Transitions: The Emergence, Growth, and Development of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare," will be an informal history with many anecdotes, she said.
The book will cost $12.95. Patterson said they hoped to have it for sale by Social Work Day, May 1.
"We want to put the history in the context of the times." Patterson said. "We want to show what was going on at the national, state, local and university levels at the time."
The book also will show contributions by Lawrence and the University to the social welfare school and by school to both communities, she said.
Patterson and Zimmerman are collecting material for the book from past and present faculty and alumni. They plan to write about 200 pages
Students and professors should look back now, Zimmerman said, because the school is at a mature stage of development.
"A lot of people felt it was time for stock-taking in the school," he said, adding that he and Patterson wanted to draw from the memories of those who had been in the department when it began.
For instance, Patterson said, the book will include a story of a 94 year-old woman who helped start the Kansas Mental Health centers.
On the Record
Stereo equipment and a computer valued together at $5,000 were taken between 8 and 9:30 p.m. Friday from a residence in the 1200 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police reported.
A 1969 Chevrolet pickup valued at $1,200 was taken between 11 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday from the Lawrence Valley Lane, Lawrence police reported.
and a table lamp valued together at $1,035 were taken about 11:30 p.m. Thursday from an apartment in the 600 block of Maine Street, Lawrence police reported.
A bicycle, couch, clothing,
locker, painting, kitchen appliances
A safe and cash valued together at $14.20 were taken between 2 and 4 a.m. Friday from a restaurant in the 600 block of 12th Street, Lawrence police reported.
A silver and turquoise bracelet valued at $700 was taken Oct. 26 in a park in the 200 block of Maine Street.
On Campus
dav in the Walnut Room
The KU Kempo Karate and Self- Defense Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. in today in 130 Robinson Center.
The Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction will meet at 8 p.m. to-
■ Surendra Bhana, Langston Hughes visiting professor of history, will speak on "South Africa Today" at 7 p.m. today in the lobby of McCullum Hall.
■ The department of history will present the film "Witness to Aparheid" at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in 4034 Bayside and 9:30 p.m. tomorrow in 303, Bailey Hall.
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