<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/magazine/summer-2006/surviving-wilderness-helps-students-succeed-westmont.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Surviving the Wilderness Helps Students Succeed at Westmont</title><excerpt>A handful of new Westmont students experienced a unique orientation program in August backpacking through the North Yosemite wilderness. Inoculum offers academic and physical education units with students doing assigned readings, leading discussions and writing a paper.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2006/11/Inoculum.jpg" alt="Philosophy professor David Vander Laan and Inoculum students"/>
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