The Compass
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
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Campus News
HELP YOUR ORGANIZATION AND YOUR STUDENT BODY STVALENTEnJE’SDAY 101
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(COLLE
GIATE PRESSWIRE) Organizations on
thousands of campuses across the
United States are constantly looking for
new ways to raise money. Greek orga
nizations need funding for their events
and philanthropic goals; sports teams
need money for uniforms and tourna
ments; and virtually every other organi
zation needs some type of backing to
help keep it afloat. The fundraising
efforts of many organizations have just
become far easier thanks to an initia
tive by Campuscareercenter.com.
CCC has established an on-
campus presence for itself over the
past two years through the use of a
campus representative program. The
program has displayed signs of tre
mendous potential and CCC is now
prepared to see their resume database
grow exponentially by offering a similar
program to non-profit/charity groups.
The program will allow organiza
tions to raise money by having their
members post their resumes on CCC
and by spreading the word about CCC
on campus. The program works on a
pay-for-referral basis and organizations
with 50 members can raise $750 in a
month if each member puts in about 15
minutes of time! No group is too big or
too small to participate in this program!
With plans for only a limited num
ber of programs available at specific
campuses, organizations are going to
jump at the chance to get involved. To
get your group started in this
fundraising initiative, email
jzweig @ campuscareercenter.com
or call Jay at 1-866-870-9471.
About
Campuscareercenter.com
CampusCareerCenter.com (CCC)
was founded three years ago to pro
vide undergraduate and graduate
students and companies with an
Internet-based solution to streamline
the employment process. With a rapidly
growing database of top students, and
clients (including AT&T, Boeing, Tyco
International, ENSCO, Walmart, Fed
eral Express, and EMC) actively seek
ing to hire new recruits from this pool
via the Internet, CCC has succeeded
in bringing these two groups together
and in the process branded itself as a
top Internet recruitment service pro
vider to both the corporate and aca
demic communities. The company was
founded in September, 1998 and is
based in Cambridge, MA. For more
information, visit
www.campuscareercenter.com or call
(617) 661-2613.
Source:
CampusCareerCenter.com
Contact: Jay Zweig
Co-Director of On-Campus
Marketing
Campuscareercenter.com
866/870-9471
jzweig@campuscareercenter.com
SPIRnmLTHERAPISr PLANSTO VISIT ECSU
DeTra L. Stith
Depot9@hotmail.com
Dr. Regina Rapelyea is a spiritual
therapist and metaphysical counselor
who provides counseling in the areas
of social consciousness, spiritual and
past life regression, and philosophy Dr.
Rapelyea is also a transpersonal
hypnotherapist who has her certifica
tion in Clinical Hypnotherapy With this
hypnotherapy she researches past
lives and in-between life states for the
betterment and empowerment of
people.
One may wonder how Dr.
Rapelyea began a career in this field.
As a child she had a strong interest in
her immortality. When she was six
years old, she said she could pick up
energy and see the dead. There were
incidents that happened that involved
her grandmother and cousin. Her
grandmother had died, but when her
family told her, Rapelyea claimed that
she already knew. Also she watched
her cousin drown in the house where
they grew up in and saw him that night
sitting at the edge of her bed. She was
reluctant to share theses stories with
people because she wanted to blend in
with her peers. She was ultimately
afraid of rejection because her child
hood was filled with struggles of accep
tance.
Other incidents started to take a
toll on her faith in her early 20’s. She
became homeless because she trusted
people to the extent where she lost
everything. Her father also died around
this time. She started questioning her
beliefs of Catholicism and could not
accept them.
“If you are going to preach, tell the
whole truth because one day you are
going to wake up and say what is out
there for me, not necessarily as a
person but as a spirit,” Rapelyea says
of her bad experiences in Catholicism.
This experience made her go back
to school. She had already been to
school for Computer Science and
Engineering at San Jose State Univer
sity and had built equipment for the
navy. Now she was headed in another
direction and'was trying to make sense
of everything. She found direction with
her Ph.D. in Metaphysics, and her M.S.
in Metaphysical Counseling from the
University of International Studies for
Metaphysical Sciences.
Dr. Rapelyea does things for her
flesh as well as her soul and her work
is centered around it. She has trained
at the National Guild of Hypnotists for
basic and advanced certification in
Hypnosis and she holds memberships
with The Association for Research and
Enlightenment, The Association for
Black World Today Businesses and The
National Speakers Bureau. Dr.
Rapelyea is the CEO and founder of
the Rapelyea Foundation for Spiritual
Enlightenment. The foundation is
dedicated to philosophy, mysticism,
and higher self-learning and uses the
tools of hypnosis, meditation, and the
principles of vibration and sound with
several mediums.
“I felt I had to step outside of what
I knew to learn something different to
enhance what I knew and I look for
ways as to how it fits into a religious
dogma,” states Rapelyea.
Dr. Rapelyea has written a book
called “Wings of the Dove” and will be
making a visit to Elizabeth City on
February 16, 2002, from 9AM to 1PM.
She will be at the K.E. White Graduate
Center in Room 107 and her lecture
will be entitled “Reincarnation and The
Wheels and Cycles of Life.”
Dr. Rapelyea also does work
shops, and spiritual counseling based
on the concept of oneness and phi
losophies centered on reincarnation,
karma, and universal law. She is dedi
cated to the discovery of self and self-
realization, which is found in search for
oneness, consciousness, and empow- .
erment.
“If you don’t examine your beliefs,
then how do you know who you are?”
states Rapelyea.
Dr. Regina Rapelyea lives in
Fredericksburg, Virginia with her hus
band, David; two sons, David and
James; and daughter Davina Michelle.
Information is courtesy of
www.rapelyeafoundationforspiritual
enlightenment.com . For more informa
tion, you may e-mail her at
reginarphd@aol.com
Heather Malone
nmalone@adelDhia.net
February 14 marks the most
romantic day of the year. That is the
day we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day.
We all know that we are supposed to
give our sweethearts cards, candy,
and flowers. But what is St.
Valentine’s Day? Why do we cel
ebrate it?
Believe it or not, this day was not
started by women to beguile gifts
from their men. February 15 was
already traditionally a day for love.
Romans celebrated the first day of
the pagan Lupercalia festival. To
begin the festival, priests would
gather in a sacred cave and sacrifice
a goat for fertility and a dog for purifi
cation. The men would then slice the
goat hide into strips, dip them in the
sacrificial blood, and take to the
streets gently slapping the women
with the goat hides. Roman women
welcomed being touched by the
hides, because it was believed to
make them more fertile. Later that
same day, all of the women in the city
would place her name in a big pot
and the available men would draw a
name. Whomever he chose would be
his ‘girlfriend’ for the next year. Many
of these couplings ended in marriage.
During the third century in
Rome, Emperor Claudius II was
having trouble recruiting men into the
army to fight the many bloody battles
he was involved in. Deducing that the
reason was because the men didn’t
want to leave their loved ones, the
Emperor outlawed marriages for
young men. A priest by the name of
St. Valentine disagreed with the law
and continued to marry couples in
secret. Eventually he was caught and
sentenced to death.
While St. Valentine was in prison
awaiting his sentence, he fell in love
with the jailer’s daughter, who would
visit frequently. On the day of his
execution-February 14-he wrote her a
love letter and signed it “From Your
Valentine”.
During the Middle Ages, the
Roman ‘lottery’ system was deemed
un-Christian and insulting to God,
and so was banned. However, the
church saw nothing wrong with cel
ebrating love, so Pope Gelasius
declared February 14"' the day for
love-St. Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine
was made the patron saint of pas
sion.
To celebrate St. Valentine’s Day,
people began to write letters inspired
by St. Valentine’s letter to the jailer’s
daughter. They were signed, ‘From
Your Valentine.’ Eventually, letters
were replaced by cards due to im
provements in printing technology.
Flowers are given to sweethearts
on this day because it was said that
the children whom St. Valentine used
to visit before his incarceration, would
throw flowers up to him through his
prison window. Here is a tip for
would-be givers: Red roses are for
passion, white roses for true love,
and yellow roses for friendship. If you
are a secret admirer, give Gardenias,
and if you want to make up, give Lily
of the Valleys.
Giving candy on St. Valentine’s
Day started in Britain in the 17'^
century Children received candy and
money for singing Valentine carols.
This is similar to the Christmas carol
ing children practice today.
Cupid is a common symbol used
on this day of romance. He was the
Roman god of love. His arrows would
pierce the hearts of his victims,
causing them to fall deeply in love.
Have you ever wondered why the
letter ‘X’ is used as the symbol for
kiss? This practice grew out of Medi
eval times when the illiterate were
permitted to sign documents using an
‘X’ to represent their name. This was
done in the presence of a witness
and a kiss was given on the ‘X’ to
show sincerity. Soon ‘X’ became
synonymous with the kiss, which was
reserved for showing affection to a
loved one. Thus, the ‘X’ became a
symbol for St. Valentine’s Day
So thanks to the influence of one
man’s belief in unconditional love, a
day is reserved for celebrating our
love for that special someone in our
lives.
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Photo Courtesy of Dr. Regina Rapelyea
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Rapelyea will be coming Elizabeth
State University. She will be at the K. E.
White Graduate Center in Room 107 on Feb
ruary 16*^, 2002, from 9am to 1pm.