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Show AggieUH Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007 Page II DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH For more information please contact: USU Women Center at 797-1728, TSC 315 Or check out our web site at www.usu.edu/womencenter CLOTHESLINE PROJECT The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts designed by survivors, friends, and families of domestic abuse. The USU Women's Center has been sponsoring this event for the last 14 years. Please join us on October 1 - 3 , 2007 in the USU TSC International Lounge Mon. & Tues. 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Wed. 10 a.m. - 3p.m. DESIGN A SHIRT FOR THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT Shirt designing may be arranged by contacting: The Women's Center at 797-1728 Confidentiality will be respected FINDING VOICE FINDING VOICE VIGNETTES October 1 - 3, 2007, 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sunburst Lounge FINDING VOICE (FULL PERFORMANCE) October 4, 2007, 7:00 p.m. Eccles Conference Center Auditorium DONATE YOUR CELL PHONES T H E R E ARE A N U M B E R OF T H I N G S students can do to deal with stress. Today at a free screening, the USU Counseling Center will discuss anxiety in the International Student Lounge. NOELUL BERLAGE photo Please bring your discarded cell phones to USU TSC Room 315 Phones will be donated to CAPSA and reprogrammed to dial 911 only. Students can learn about stress at free screening can either cope with it, or put up defenses to it. Defenses aren't staff writer really healthy." Healthy ways of dealing with It's normal for students to get stress include exercising, getting stressed out, but many of them plenty of sleep, eating right, takmay not know is there help. ing time for yourself and spendWednesday the Counseling ing time with good friends and Center will provide a free family, Poulsen said. stress anxiety screening in the Dave Hess, junior in psycholInternational Lounge of the ogy, said he swing dances to cope Taggart Student Center. with stress. The screening is for all stu"Sometimes I send myself dents who are feeling anxious, emails telling myself to stop proworried or confused. Students can come anytime from 11 a.m,_ crastinating," said Emilee King, senior in international studies. to 4 p.m. to fill out a questionShe said it works for about five naire, watch a movie and talk to minutes, and then she keeps proone of the Counseling Center's crastinating. professional therapists said senior Wade Poulsen, who orgaSophomore in special educanized this year's screening. tion, Sara Green, said, "I usually just kind of push it away and go Poulsen, psychology major, get ice cream or something with said that there are a lot of things my sister, Linda. She really is my that cause stress for college stustress-breaker." dents, such as being away from home for the first time, dating Poulsen usually deals with relationships and trying to decide stress by exercising or escaping what to do with their lives. into the mountains, he said. He also said that simply breathing "There's a lot of peace that deeply for 15 minutes really helps comes from sitting down with a lot. someone and realizing that a lot of other people are going through Poulsen said that breathing the same thing, and finding deeply increases the amount ways to deal with it," he said. of oxygen in the bloodstream, "Everybody faces stress, and we which increases the amount of By KATE ROUSE oxygen going to the brain, particularly the cortex, which controls executive functioning, higher judgment and processes information. That means that activities which increase the amount of oxygen going to the brain, like breathing deeply and running, help people to think more clearly and rationally, he said. Poulsen is a Reach Peer for the counseling center. Reach Peers are students hired to help other students with the counseling process. He teaches muscle relaxation and breathing techniques, and helps students to physically deal with stress. Although stress is a normal part of life, Poulsen said that sometimes it's nice to be able to talk to someone about it. That's how the counseling center can help. "When you're looking at your [own] life from the inside out, it's hard to see things clearly through your emotions," Poulsen said. "It's nice to have someone to look at you from the outside in, and reflect back to you what it is you're really saying, thinking, or feeling." •kate.r@aggiemail.usu.edu 'V \ 'V Guaranteed Aviation 'No Obligation »Tuition Assistance For more info contact: Capt. Brandon Knotts Officer Selection Officer United States Marine Corps toll free: (866) 607-5567 knottsbs@marines.usmc.mil •Starting Salaries from $40,000-$50,000 Marines www.marineofficer.com Uninsured: Students say they'll face risks \3 continuedfrom pwge9 i sive tomorrow when you get ' hurt." : Part of not anticipating risk, according to Davis, is assuming that the students with whom I one associates are healthy, an assumption which may often be ! wrong, Davis tells of a student who was coughing for eight months before going in to the • health center and being diagnosed with tuberculosis. For 1 eight months this student was 1 unwittingly coughing out tuber| culosis germs all over campus. "It's not like people who have insurance are at higher risk than people without insurance; the risk is there whether you have insurance or not," Davis said. James Porter, senior in secondary education, hasn't had insurance since he got married •/, in March. His wife Anne is insured. v 7 "1 don't think (insurance) is necessary for me," said Porter. "But I think it's good that Anne is covered just in case we have a little tomato on the way." Porter said he and his wife were looking forward to graduating and getting insurance with work. fJ "We're just hoping to hold on 'till I get a job with benefits," he said. "Try and keep the major injuries to a minimum until then ... It adds a bit of extra worry in life." Some students feel that insurance is not the best protection against risk. Jared said that one drawback of insurance is that most insurance plans don't cover alternative forms of medicine or even quasi-medical , presents practices like massage therapy, midwifery, or even chiropractics. When the Hardman's were expecting their third baby, they qualified for Medicaid but largely employed the services of medical midwives, who, though not covered by insurance, were cheaper than the co-pays for doctors' visits. v:. According to Davis, the main need for insurance is access to the medical services one may need. What's True in Mormon Folklore? . "Just make sure that you keep your home inventory list someplace besides your personal home," Reeves said." It will not do much good if it burns down with the house." -courtnie.packer@aggiemail.usu. edu THE CONTRIBUTION OF FOLKLORE TO MORMON STUDIES 7 p.m. Logan LDS Tabernacle pijard J. Arlington Students who attend can win up to $1,000 with a written essay related to the lecture! 1st Place: $1,000 Place: IJ continued from page 10 book to record all your personal belongings." Other suggestions include taking pictures, recording a list on personal computers and making an audio tape, according to the Insurance Information Institute Web site. * Thursday, September 27 Homeowners: Insurance may help students would suggest a fast and easy way to take your inventory would be to videotape around your home," Reeves said. "Open each of the closets, cupboards, under the beds, etc. By doing this frequently, it will help you when they do hand you the note- The Few. The Proad. Dr. William A. (Bert) Wilson ' . "If you're injured or ill, you need to pay for services," he said. "Just like if you re hungry, you need to pay for food. The amount of medical care you get and the ease with which you get it depend on your ability to pay." -N.h(irdman@aggiemail.usu. cdu v t ^ Details at the lecture, or call 797-2663 UNIVERSITY •A ••£ |