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Show THE THUNDERBIRD Stress season is nigh COMMENTARY BY JULIE SACOS If you're not sitting down right now, you might consider it because guess what, we've only got one week until finals! Gasp, (insert look of complete horror here) just can't fathom the fact that the end is so near. immediately envision the coffee cups strewn about around my eyes, and a thousand the house, my nails bitten past the point God intended, and some serious hair loss. (I don't remember playing with anything radioactive lately). Say folks, we've got stress, right here in Cedar MONDAY DECEMBER 8, 1986 PAGE 5 (Rood times six for $1. 29 I I perma-circl- 7-- City, with a capital S, 1 es 1 Special prices on quality Colorwatch reprints of your favorite negatives. that rhymes with test, that stands for finals. Oh boy! But wait. What if you're all caught up on your school work and ready for finals? Well, tljen you are probably either a weirdo with no social life or television, or one of those deep, intellectual, pick your brain 'til it bleeds types, who insists on dissecting and deciphering the most perplexing questions of the universe such as: the meaning of life, genetic cell splicing, and, do grasshoppers think before they jump? For you folks, my article is over, because from here on this is an all out attack on, the many way we students handle, or don't handle our stress. College stress is actually a very serious problem that we all will confront at sometime during our scholastic career. A little stress is healthy. This stress is what excites you, pushes you to achieve and get things done. It's when this stress comes too often or is too intense that it becomes distress. This is when it becomes harmful. So my intention then is to seek out some of the various ways fellow students contend with their stress and maybe give you a few helpful hints on dealing with your own. decided to set off across campus and do a little investigative reporting. My first stop was the Science Center. Now this is a stressful place. From the minute walked in there was a dead Siamese cow staring me in the face. was so busy hiding my eyes and balancing my books that trying to walk a straight line was almost an impossiblity, and by the time got to class, my mind was everywhere but on my class. The Science Center was too much so darted outside and there, under the pines, was a student with his nose pressed in his organic chemistry book. He was sound asleep. This student looked to be completely at ease. Ah ha, think I've figured it out. If you don't understand it, sleep on it. This works on other things too. then went over to the theatre department. only saw one person in the whole place. It was early and theatre people aren't known for being early risers, so asked this person, "What do you do to relieve your stress?" He looked at me as if he were considering lying. "I don't have stress," he said hastily. He then hurried off toward wherever it was he was going. "Hum," thought, "suppressed anxiety." OK, there must be no stress at the theatre department. It's not to late to change my major. Naw, can't act. decided to go hang out in the Student Center, maybe could get a few ideas there. sat at a table with a bunch of my friends, and tossed the question out. It was ignored for a while, but then someone picked it up and started to bounce it around. One said that he liked to take his dog and ride his bike up to Woods Ranch. Another liked to soak in a hot tub with Mr. Bubble and a bottle of cheap champagne until her fingers pruned. And still another liked to get her favorite food and pig out hardcore. Then there's always the smartypants who just has to tell me about his passion to get drunk and pass out. Boy is that I I I I I I Offer applies to standard size reprints from 1 10, 126, Disc and 35mm full frame negatives. Offer expires 121386 SUSC BOOKSTORE FIDDLERS FITNESS CENTER 288 Fiddlers Canyon Drive Cedar City, Utah. 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