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Friday, Movember 2,1984/The Battalion/Page 15 They're here Photo by FRANK IRWIN Alexandra Kelly a marketing major from ring. Students who ordered their rings in Springfield, Mass., shows off her new senior July may pick them up at the Pavilion. Stressed women eat chocolate in college United Press International WASHINGTON — Chocolate is a food of the gods and, researchers have found, of college women under stress. A University of Delaware study found college women in their fresh man and senior years are more likely than their male peers to find com fort in smoking, drinking and food, said Louise Little, an associate pro fessor of human nutrition at the uni versity. “Chocolate was the most preva lent choice among those who used food to cope with stress,” she said in an interview. “Salty snacks was sec ond, and pizza was third.” Little surveyed 470 randomly se lected freshman in their second se mester and seniors at the university to find out about their sources of stress, how much stress they felt, and how they coped with it. She found freshmen seemed to suffer the most stress, presumably because they were on their own for the first time, had to form quantities of new relationships and were sub jected to new levels of academic pressure and pressure from home to do well. Women seemed to feel or express more stress, mainly academic and “everything needing doing at once,” Little said. Among seniors, careers and job prospects were the greatest source of tension, but there appeared to be no difference between men and women in the amount of stress experienced. Little’s findings included the fol lowing: • The most widely used strategy for coping with stress was talking to a supportive person, but females were more likely than males to do this. • Senior women smoked more than freshmen women, but men’s smoking stayed at the same level. • Freshmen men and women pursued athletic activities about equally to cope with tension, but at the senior level, men did more than women. • Men drank more alcohol, but chose it equally as often as women as a way of coping with stress. There fore, Little said, “men must be drinking for some other reason.” • Tranquilizers and drugs were at the bottom of the list for relieving stress. • Those who had taken a stress management course used more posi tive strategies such as talking things over or jogging but did not cut down on use of negative strategies of eat ing, smoking or drinking. Little said the students inter viewed could be divided into two cat egories: those who felt they had con trol over some circumstances and their health, and those who felt things were out of their control. Those who felt more in control were more likely to use positive cop ing strategies, while those less in con trol drank more heavily and were more likely to be overweight, she said. Little said she had hoped to find that seniors had adjusted to the stresses of college. “It was disappointing to see that some of the women were using neg ative strategies more than fresh men,” she said. Honduras FBI says nationals plotted to kill president United Press International WASHINGTON — The FBI an nounced Thursday it had smashed a plot to assassinate the president of Honduras by Honduran nationals who allegedly funded the attempt with money from cocaine sales. FBI Director William Webster said the bureau learned from an in formant last summer that two Hon duran businessmen, a high-ranking Honduran military official and other U.S. citizens were plotting to kill President Roberto Suazo of Hon duras. The FBI said the funds to carry out the plot allegedly came from an illegal narcotics operation. In a complaint filed in U.S. Dis trict Court in Miami, the FBI said the conspirators in the plot planned to carry out a takeover of the Hon duran government following the as sassination between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15. Arrested by the FBI in connection with the plot were Faiz J. Sikaffy, 49, a Honduran citizen and business man who lost more than $7 million when the government nationalized his cement business. The FBI said Sikaffy operates a seafood business in Florida and lives in Miami. A second man arrested by the FBI was identified as Gerard Latchinian, 46, a Honduran and international arms dealer with business interests, who also lives in Miami. An FBI spokesman said the agency expects more arrests. FBI spokesman William Baker said a total of eight persons have al ready been arrested in Miami in con nection with the plot. Webster said tfte FBI was success ful in introducing an undercover special agent into the scheme who was to be paid $300,000 to take part in the assassination, including $100,000 in advance. The plot included plans for the undercover agent and other would- be assassins to make their way into the Central American country where they would get further help from others involved in the plot, accord ing to the FBI. 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