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health happenings Best Dressed Breast: A Breast Cancer Awareness Fashion Show Monday, October 25, 7:30pm EMU Ballroom. Free and open to the public. Call 346-2843 for more information. Boiling Water 101: A Vegetarian Cooking Workshop: Learn to prepare quick,easy and nutritious meals. Workshop fee of $15 includes mixing bowls, skillet,and other helpful kitchen tools. PLUS you get two weeks of hands-on cooking and great meals. Mondays, November 8,15, 4:00-5:30pm. Call Kristen Olmos at Cal! 346-2794 to register. CPR Certification Class: Two-year certification from the American Heart Association costs $30. Monday November 1 and December 6 from 5pm-9pm Call 346-2770 to register. CHAT-Campus Health Action on Tobacco: Students and staff are invited to join a campus advisory board which will help design programs and policies to reduce tobacco use on campus. Call Paula Staight at 346-2728 for more info. NOT: Free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patch and gum) is available at the Health Center for students who are trying to quit tobacco. Come to the Peer Health Education Office for information or to pick up NRT. FPEP: The federal grant providing free contraception and family planning services for qualified students has been extended at the Health Center until October 2006. Call 346-2770 or fill out the on line application at http:// healthcenter.uoregon. edu to see if you qualify. Relax and Renew Meditation Series: Develop and strengthen your meditation practice for relaxation and mental clarity. Join Jude Kehoe for this free six week series. Wednesdays, 4:45-5:45, October 13-November 17 Call 346-4456 to register. Straight Talk About Suicide CAMPUS RESOURCES University Counseling and Testing Center 346-3227 (http://counseling.uoregon.edu) University Health Center 346-2770 (http://healthcenter.uoregon.edu 24-hour Student Crisis-Line 346-4488 UO Emergency Line 346-6666 RESOURCES IN THE EUGENE COMMUNITY: White Bird Clinic 683-1641 (http://whitebirdclinic.org) Center for Community Counseling 344-0620 By Matt Rose sk around, and I wager it won’t take you long to find someone who knows a person who has committed suicide. It may be a family member, a neighbor, a friend or friend of a friend. We are often reluctant to discuss this cause of death, but I believe it’s important that we do so. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. In the year 2000 suicide took the lives of 29,350 Americans, which is 1.7 times greater than that of homicide deaths. Males are four times more likely to commit suicide than females, but females are more likely to attempt suicide than males. People are at higher risk of committing suicide if they have tried to attempt suicide in the past. Suicide is not typically a decision that someone makes on the spur of the moment. There are common warning signs present when someone is considering taking their own life. • Verbal warning signs consist of talking about dying, “I can’t go on anymore, ” “Nothing matters, ” and even 7 am thinking of ending it all. ” • Behavioral warning signs are a change in eating and sleeping patterns, becoming depressed or withdrawn, behaving recklessly, being unable to concentrate on school or work, displaying a low selfesteem, diminished sexual interest, giving away valuable possessions, and/or abusing drugs including alcohol. If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide you can find help on campus or in the Eugene community as listed above. Learning Disabilities On Campus By Dahvi Fischer ou might think that by the time we hit college, individuals with a learning disability (LD) are rare. There are actually several hundred students at the University of Oregon with documented learning disabilities and others who may not have yet been diagnosed. Because students with an LD may have a more difficult time managing their stress with school, 1 want to dispel some myths,encourage empathy and provide some resources. Common m iscon ceptions Many people think that students who have difficulty with reading, writing or math just don’t spend enough time working at those skills or didn’t have good teachers throughout their earlier years of schooling. For students with learning disabilities, that is not the case. A learning disability is a neurological disorder that affects one or more of the cognitive processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language. A learning disability may slightly or significantly impair a student’s ability to listen, think, speak, read, write,spell or to do mathematical calculations. Learning difficulties that result from physical disabilities (i.e. visual, hearing, motor), psychological disorders or environmental, economic or cultural factors do not constitute learning disabilities. Signs of a learning disability Some academic characteristics of a person with an LD are spending excessive time on coursework while only producing marginal grades or consistently performing poorly on exams though having a good understanding of the material. In general, LDs do not suddenly appear. A non diagnosed person who thinks they have an LD typically has a history of difficulty with reading, writing, or processing information. Campus resources Students with a learning disability can make an appointment at the Disabilities Services Office (346-1155) located in Oregon Hall. Along with Academic Learning Services (346-3226),they provide various ways of helping students process information and succeed in school.The Testing Center (346-3230),located in the UO Counseling Center, can accommodate students who have a LD during their course test taking. Fall 2004 Contributing Writers and Peer Health Educators Urva Kusma, Alaine Gee, Dahvi Fischer, Diana Monroe, Matt Rose, Carin berg, Anna Ngo, Erin Baldwin, Nathalie Hernandez, Becky Leung.
