Gretchen Miller: "It’s planning and preparation time again for this year’s Buckeye Art Therapy Association’s Annual Symposium to be held September 24-25, 2010 in Dublin, Ohio...BATA’s Symposium keynote will be Michael Franklin, Ph.D., ATR-BC, who directed the undergraduate art therapy program at Bowling Green State University from 1986 to 1997 and introduced the field to me as my first art therapy professor. Dr. Franklin is currently a core faculty for Naropa University’s Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Department and Director of Naropa’s Graduate Art Therapy Program in Boulder, Colorado."

Westword: "The recent Naropa University graduate wandered her way from Boulder to Denver less than a year ago, where the aspiring doula and midwife began a career as one half of the DJ duo Screensavers. Along with partner Isaac Linder, Zwicky utilizes digital deejaying software to give the Miley Cyrus crowd a taste of deep house, with a little drum-and-bass in between. The two are currently spinning at Real Is a Feeling every other weekend at the Meadowlark."

"The son of a preacher man, who recently came out of a new closet as Atheist, has been inundated with questions about my calling...I do not believe in that God, or in God as an abstract. But Atheist does not mean against the religious, or against community, or even against that which binds many followers of a God induced faith."

Welcome back to the new fall semester!

The Allen Ginsberg Library on the Arapahoe Campus has slightly reduced weekend hours starting this semester. Our new open hours are:

MONDAY 8-9

TUESDAY 8-9

WEDNESDAY 8-9

THURSDAY 8-9

FRIDAY 8-5

**SATURDAY 1-5**

**SUNDAY 1-5**

We are still determining the exact schedule for the Paramita Library Services Desk this semester. It should be in place for next week. This week it has been open inconsistent hours.

Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to meeting your library needs!

"Because the Denver Zine Library has such a small budget, we are not able to pay for zines and rely on generous donations. We receive most of our zines as unsolicited donations in the mail. Most people find out about the DZL on the internet. Often when doing a search for their name or zine name online, zinesters are surprised to find a listing in the DZL catalog."

NPR: "Among the towering fire sculptures, elaborate neo-Victorian costumes and LED displays, a few performance artists will also showcase pieces of their new rock opera about Burning Man. It's called How to Survive the Apocalypse, and it's designed for the 'burner curious' — people who have never been to Burning Man, but are thinking about it."

"Perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of Boulder has created perfumes...in conjunction with the 'Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs' exhibit at the Denver Art Museum...Hurwitz researched those ancient scents through books at The British Museum in London, works from Egyptian archaeologists and some amateur Egyptologists."

"Half of the homeless and poor people who use the Carriage House day shelter in downtown Boulder reported Boulder County as their last 'fixed' place of residence, according to a new survey."

"And these are the people I want to talk about, because I worry about them, archivists. It is amazing the things that people will tell you when you have no power to hire anyone, and now I’m angry. Really angry. It almost makes me want to...howl?"

"In recognition that schools need to provide professional and personal counselling services, as part of the Bhutanese education curriculum, the education ministry will begin placing full time counsellors in major schools starting September...the challenge to provide solid professional counselling will receive help with the royal university of Bhutan (RUB) introducing a post graduate counselling course this winter...three Naropa professors and four Bhutanese counsellors will team-teach the course."

"The ancient practice of contemplation is being explored by many institutions of higher education as a new means of enhancing liberal education...contemplative pedagogy increasingly is considered a vital complement to critical reasoning, rebalancing liberal education to include head and heart, mind and body. Students have experienced it as an aid in focusing attention, improving concentration and accessing self-knowledge. Teachers have found that it fosters their connection to students and rejuvenates their creative engagement with teaching and research. Accordingly, the Center for Teaching is exploring the benefits of contemplative pedagogy, and other holistic means of teaching and learning, in a 'Contemplative Pedagogy Working Group' that meets monthly."

One evangelical Christian's detailed answer.

"GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more."

"After chronicling my thoughts, feelings, ideas, and experiences throughout the thesis process on this blog (formerly entitled Rites of a Thesis), it seemed odd to me to simply let the blog go just because I had turned in my thesis and graduated. I don't want to merely 'shelve' my thesis nor do I want all that I got from my time at Naropa to lie dormant. I want my thesis to continue to live and breathe and become, and I would like all the teachings and experiences I had during my time at Naropa to do the same. So I am keeping the blog (changing the title), and am commiting to myself to (w)rite on as I journey forward."

"Naropa University" at Voobys.

"Terreform ONE announced the winners of an ideas competition focused on creating productive green spaces in cities. 'Mowing to Growing: Reinventing the American Lawn' called for new strategies for urban food production that can leverage existing infrastructure and work well within local conditions...In Sydney, the Australia Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) announced the winners of Sea Change 2030+, an international ideas competition designed to showcase ideas for planning, designing and managing for adaptation to urban sea level rise."