Coping with stress
Environment, nutrition, exercise help
By Steve Knight
Of Im Emerald
About exam time, most students have no
doubt experienced those tense feelings that
take hold of the body: dry throat, nervous
stomach, rapid heart beat and excessive
sweating
These are symptoms of stress, and too
much stress in a student's life can often lead
to unbearable mental anguish
Candy Reynolds, Crisis Center director,
says 80 percent of the 100 to 150 distress
calls she and her staff receive each month are
from students And the bulk of the calls are
directly or indirectly related to academic
stress, she says
Does this mean most students are
destined to go into a traumatized state every
time a final or term paper deadline rolls
around?
Health counselor Lisa Wilson maintains
stress can be controlled She teaches a
workshop at the University on how students
can be more relaxed as they pursue a degree
"Students are particularly susceptible to
stress because of time demands and pressure
to make good grades,” she says, adding that
the inability of students to cope with stress
can eventually lead to heart attacks, arthritis
and ulcers
Wilson says there are three key factors in
a person's life that help reduce stress
Environment — A pleasent environment
helps a person's mental outlook "If your
surroundings are run down, it changes the
way you look at things and the way you look at
yourself,” she says, noting that due to budget
cuts by the Legislature the upkeep of many
buildings on campus is being neglected
Nutrition — The body needs a high blood
sugar level to create energy Most refined
foods — such as chocolate donuts — quickly
raise the blood sugar level and then rapidly
reduce it, causing stress in the process.
Exercise — As a person exercises, the
body produces endorphin, an anti-depressant
chemical that helps fight stress, Wilson says
Wilson defines stress as simply "the
response of the body to any demand placed
on it,” which means stress isn't necessarily
good or bad
"A passionate kiss can be as stressful as
a test," she says, explaining that the body
reacts to kissing and test taking in the same
fashion: by releasing hormones that stimulate
the heartbeat and respiration rate and cause
muscles to tense
The best way a student can reduce his
stress level is to learn how to relax, Wilson
says
"But most people believe the University is
structured to be stressful, and that if you’re
relaxed you'll never make it in school," she
says
In her class, Wilson shows students how
to relax by incorporating stretching exerices,
Kundalina and Hatha yoga techniques,
self-massaging and visualization, a type of
meditation.
In addition, she teaches how postive self
statements can help a student perform better
on exams
"Before going into a test, I'll repeat I am
capable and intelligent,' 10 times — and it
helps It really makes a difference,” Wilson
says
Wilson's stress reduction workshop
meets every Thursday afternoon between 4:30
and 5:30 in the Stafford Hall lounge
Prof defends dead firs
Cutting of old growth debated
Eugene (AP) — The question
of whether to cut or preserve the
Pacific Northwest's valuable
old-growth Douglas fir forests
creates a clash of polar oppo
sites, University sociology prof
Richard Gale says
He summarized the mood at
a weekend conference on
the region's old-growth stands
at which widely divergent views
of forest management were
aired
"How much wildlife, how
much beauty, how much diver
sity, how much fiber production
and how many jobs do we
want?" said Jeff Sirmon, the
new US Forest Service
regional forester for the Pacific
Northwest
Those questions will have to
be faced after researching the
forests' ecological systems,
economic value and esthetic
worth, he said
On those national forests
west of the Cascade summit
there are 2 4 million acres of
forest which are over 250 years
old and have less than 10 per
cent of their timber removed
This is 25 percent of the area of
those national forests,” Sirmon
said
He said although he has no
mandate to increase harvesting
the old-growth trees, it is com
mon knowledge that the
Reagan administration wants to
increase revenue from federal
lands
Others at the conference said
they were concerned such
economic pressure would
endanger the trees' ecological
contributions to watersheds,
forest growth and as habitats for
birds such as the spotted owl
and the bald eagle
“As a sociologist, I am not
convinced that one can easily
define old-growth preservation
in primarily economic terms,”
Gale said.
The trees’ existence “re
sponds to our increasing need
for a greater sense of place and
stability within a rapidly
changing society," he said
Wildlife consultant Robert
Vincent, however, called the
stands "communities of the
dead" that contribute little
Experts attending the confer
ence in Eugene did agree that at
least some portions of the
valuable old-growth stands
should be preserved and that
more research needs to be done
on the issue of harvesting ver
sus preservation.
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