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State and Local
orkshops will help students cope with stress of finals
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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.”
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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.
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