Health
March 18, 2010
GC Supports Healthy Bodies in GSWA Events
Have you noticed an unusual amount of happy, healthy students on campus this week? This is probably because of Healthy Bodies Week, a yearly week-long event sponsored by Goshen Student Women’s Association, kicked off on Monday. Many events happen daily. Some highlights so far have been Monday’s convocation on creating a healthy community, a belly dancing class led by local instructor Melanie Wade, women’s body casting and yoga led by Kara Schmidt of Sacred Heart Yoga. The week was planned by a committee of GSWA with the help of other members and friends. Ingrid Derstine, a member of this committee,...
March 11, 2010
Healthy Bodies Week
Goshen Student Women's Association (GSWA) has planned a full week of activities promoting healthy lifestyles and loving one's body during their annual Healthy Bodies Week. The week includes yoga and belly dancing workshops, as well as discussions on sexuality and information on alternative menstrual products. A performance of The Michiana Monologues ends the week of activities on Friday at 7 p.m. in Sauder Music Hall. Hannah K. Miller is on GSWA's steering committee and said that they are able to do more activities this year because of an enthusiastic and larger group of women involved. "The overall purpose of the...
February 18, 2010
“Culture for Service” bringing new life to kidney failure patient
When the Goshen College administration came up with the motto “Culture for Service” I bet they didn’t think it would lead to any life-giving surgical procedures. For Dan Coyne, an elementary school social worker who graduated from Goshen College in 1980, that GC motto is something that he lives by and as a result, he is donating one of his kidneys to Myra dela Vega, a cashier at his neighborhood grocery store. Coyne’s relationship with dela Vega started out as a typical customer/clerk relationship. “I try to make an effort to connect with the people who work in service at...
February 3, 2010
Chapel on porn brings issue to surface
“This morning we’re going to be talking about a topic that isn’t always talked about openly: we’re going to be talking about pornography.” This is how Campus Counselor Char Hochstetler opened Monday’s convocation on the subject of pornography use. Over the next 45 minutes students heard a personal reflection from an anonymous male student, an analysis of pornography used by a Goshen therapist and ways they could learn more. This convocation was first imagined two years ago when the Campus Health and Wholeness committee identified it as a leading issue for student education. Last semester, Hochstetler and other faculty members...
November 19, 2009
Nursing students make history administering H1N1 vaccines
The last time it happened, it was smallpox and polio in the 1960s and 70s. Now, decades later, the public health system is back--the schools are giving mass inoculations—this time because of the H1N1. Six Goshen College students in the Community Health nursing course have had the opportunity to be a part of this history-in-the-making, as they do their clinicals with the local health department, schools and with agencies that work with vulnerable populations. As a part of the course, these nursing students are required to spend some time at the Elkhart County Health Department. This fall, the health department...
November 11, 2009
An Alternative Health Method: Using Touch to Balance Energy
The presentation began with what appeared to be a ping pong ball. Steve Woodward, the speaker for the evening, held it with two fingers and it began buzzing. The device used the person holding it to complete the electronic circuit between the power source and the noisemaker. With this simple machine, Woodward demonstrated a point that he would build upon for the next two hours. The human body carries an electrical charge. The Goshen College Nursing Student Association hosted Woodward on Tuesday, Nov. 10 to speak about energy kinesiology. This is a treatment related to massage therapy and acupuncture that...
November 11, 2009
Behind the Scene of Goshen Athletics: Linda Kaminskis
Around four in the afternoon Monday through Friday you will usually find the training room full of athletes preparing for practices, whether that means getting their ankle taped, heating, physical therapy or something like that. With 256 athletes coming in and out of the training room throughout the year, Linda Kaminskis is always there doing everything possible to help Goshen athletes be successful in their sport. In the process of becoming the Goshen College athletic trainer, Kaminskis got the chance to be an athletic trainer in various events that include the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship, Indiana State games,...
October 28, 2009
Stressed? You aren’t the only one
Anna Pasquarello had hoped to go home for midterm break, relax and let her mind rest a little, but that’s not what happened. Pasquarello spent her break on campus, trying to work at her on-campus job as much as possible to fix her car, finish up her book to be published by Pinchpenny Press and do all the other homework due after the three-day break. By the time classes were in session again, Pasquarello hadn’t been able to complete most of the items on her to-do list. It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried, but that stress had prevented her from...
September 30, 2009
The rise of the vaccines
Goshen College is continuing precautions against the H1N1 virus by offering the H1N1 vaccine. The vaccine will be available at the Wellness and Health Center in mid-October for students, faculty, and staff. “In terms of getting the [H1N1] shot, the sooner the better,” said Diane White, director of the Wellness and Health Center. The amount of vaccines that will be available on campus is still unknown, although first priority will be offered to children and young people through the age of 24. The FDA will be distributing the H1N1 vaccine to each state, and the states will divide the vaccines...