Monday, April 28, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 ■ State and Local orkshops will help students cope with stress of finals HI FI 11(1, By Anthony S. Casper Reporter leginning Tuesday, Texas A&M’s Stu ll Counseling Service will be holding rkshops on how to lessen and even elimi- f stress and anxiets din ing f inals, a se- stalTpsychologist at the Student Coun- |ig Service says. . Terry VV. Mason says students can up for the workshops by calling the lent Counseling Service or by going to third floor of the YMCA Building. The kshops will he limited to 10 people per lion. It (the workshop) is going to blend some techniques of how to handle the anxieties that come up with finals, with how to pre pare f or them and w r ays of taking f inals bet- let," Mason says. “These include different strategies of how to improve your chances of getting a high score on your finals.” The first session will deal wuth how to prepare for finals and how to set up a time budget, he says. “We’ll also do some relaxation techniques and take a look at ways to keep anxieties down to a minimum,” he says. “The second session will be a continuation of the first ses sion and w ill be more specific.” Mason also says that anxiety can affect memory, even though the student max be well prepared for the test. “One thing that happens is that often times students prepare well for finals but thev get real anxious when they go into the final situation,” he says. “It’s hard to recall the material because the anxiety affects the recall process. “When anxiety is in what is called the ’level of distress,’ then students can freeze up and not produce the kind of stuf f that’s already in there, in the mind. You can’t really work up to your potential when vou’re anxious like that." Mason sax s not exeryone knows how to relax in stressful situations. “One of the things we teach students is how to relax," he says. “A lot of folks think thex max know that, but there are some reallx good techniques and they include some things like deep breathing and pro gressive muscle reaction. “Another type of technique, which tends to work real well with some folks, is the use of mental imagery. This is imagining in your mind various scenes to get yourself re laxed.” If those techniques don’t work for the student, Mason says there is another that has a high success rate. “Along the mental imagery lines there is another technique that seems to be real ef- lectix e," Mason says. “T his is called guided rehearsal. T his allows the student to pre- pate for the exam by taking it, but we can't do that—it xvould be impractical. “What you do is practice going through the whole procedure from when you first study to when you take the test and af- terxvards in your mind. This is done over and oxer again. This reduces the level of anxiety when the time comes to take the test lor real.” pedal Olympics lets area children ‘shine’ s, i an at on at Malta: oristit- ot evn that die pro- against ;, thost exhiliii ing.did nbs hit >k plan otn tltt nofiht ic maii- ear le East will It ou cat ,ere fit had nbinp, nt pita repeat Tticalk ; of tilt :an na- By Melanie Perkins Reporter unique competition occurred weekend: All the competitors liandsodid the fans. T he 198b lias Area b Special Olympics, ped for the third year by Texas ft, was held Friday and Saturday lifrvan High School, ue Calhoun, whose daughter I nth was a competitor, said Spe- Olvmpics is the time not only for athlete to shine, but for the I lie lamilv to be proud. No matter how serious the haml- iped condition, this is a time for I special child to shine — the atti- fteoui there is that you are a xvin- and this attitude affects the kids not only now, but in everything they do,” she said. T he Olympics began at b p.m. Fri day with the opening ceremony and relay races, which were followed by a barbecue and dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall. Saturday began with the pentath lon and continued xvith held events, wheelchair races, soccer, gymnastics, a sof tball throw and running events. A new attraction this year was “O- lympic Town.” It included a fruit walk, a dunking booth, a sponge throw and clowns. Children also were gixen the chance to ride horses and pet animals at a petting zoo. Re veille V made a guest appearance. Anne McGowan, director of Area b and lecturer in health and physical education at A&M, said the competi tion was developed for the mentally retarded child or citizen. She said she likes working with Special Olympics because she enjoys getting to see the children compete just as other children do. McGowan said there are no “lo sers” in Special Olympics — if there are six people in a heat, ribbons are given out all six places. More than 700 athletes from local communities participated in the Area b Special Olympics this year. Each athlete had a coach to help him throughout the day. Many A&M students and faculty members volunteered to be coaches. Donald Calhoun of Hearne, Wen dy’s father, said he thinks Special Olympics gives the children a chance to try new experiences. “A lot of these kids have no social life at all — to come to Bryan and have a barbecue and a dance and . stay in a hotel is a big deal to them,” he said. He expressed concern with the way most parents put their kids on the bus and pick them up when they get back. T hey don’t even partici pate in what is probably one of the most important events of die year for t heir children, he said. “If you look up in the stands, you’ll see a bunch of Aggies and vol unteers— not parents,” he said. Ih Advance Photos of Earth from shuttle to be shown at A&M tonight Dr. Michael Hejfert, an envi ronmental investigator for NA SA’s Space Shuttle Earth Obser vation Project, will speak at Texas A&M Monday night at 7:30 in 301 Rudder Tower. Helfert’s presentation, spon sored by the Mathematics/Science Teaching Scholars, will feature slides showing oceanographic, meterological and environmental phenomena of specific locations and how these phenomena have changed over time. Helfert will show some of the more than 70,000 photos of Earth taken by shuttle crews and by rocket crews during the initial stages of the space program. These photos provide a cap sule report of the Earth’s changes over the past txvo decades. Helfert’s slide presentation and discussion are open to the public as well as to students, fac ulty and staff at A&M. \>*< (Problem Pregnancy? we listen, we care, we help Free pregnancy tests concerned counselors kazos Valley >isis Pregnancy Service We re local! 1301 Memorial Dr. 24 hr. 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