NOVEMBER 19, 2008 | THE MEREDITH HERALD • Educating Women to Excel \ VOL XXVI • ISSUE 9
CORNHUSKIN’
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Green Tip for
the Week of
November 17
Save energy by
turning off your
computer monitor
every night.
During the 2008-09 academic
year, Meredith College’s cam
pus theme is “Sustaining our
Environment: Developing
our Greenprint.” To help the
Meredith community make
daily choices that are ben
eficial to the environment,
Angels for the Environment
have compiled a year’s worth
of tips for greener living.
To view green tips from
previous weeks, visit vmw.
meredith.edu/campus-theme/
environmental-tips.htm.
EXAM STRESSES
By Morgan Ericson
Staff Writer
In October of2003, WRAL reported
a surprise suicide in Lenoir County.
Seventh-grade student Jonathan
Ward became so upset after receiv
ing his report card and a request for
a parent-teacher conference that he
took his brother’s gun and ended
his life. His case represents a seri
ous increase in youth suicides; from
1980-1977 rates increased 104% for
children ages 10-14. Suicide rates
for 15-19-year-olds increased at a
lower rate of 11%. Stress seems to
be eating away children and adults
alike, a phenomena wittily captured
by the American Academy of Fam
ily Physicians (AAFP) with an arti
cle entitled, “Teens and stress: Who
has time for it?”
Meredith students are experienc
ing their own battles with stress as
Wednesday, Dec. 3, approaches,
marking the last day of classes
and final exams that run from Fri
day, Dec. 5, to Thursday, Dec. 11.
Papers, projects, tests, evalua
tions. Midnight runs to Cook Out,
an endless amount of cheap cof
fee, lack of sleep, hair loss, and
weight fluctuation. Who knew that
all these things—and more—were
included in your college enroll
ment? The good news is that you
are not alone and that helpftil cop
ing mechanisms exist for those
suffering stress.
Many people believe all stress to be
negative but a quick Google search
indicates otherwise. Consider a mu
sician and her stringed instrument;
she must produce some type of ten
sion on the strings in order to pro
duce a note or song. Too much ten
sion results in shrill, cacophonous
noise that can make your ears bleed,
but the right amount produces vari
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ance and a beautiful piece. Another
myth pertains to the idea that stress
is the same for everyone, when in
fact all Meredith students respond
in a different manner to their cir
cumstances; some can handle more
tension than others.
So how do you cope with Decem
ber Madness, especially if you are
a freshman and find yourself com
pletely overwhelmed? Senior Tori
Keels advises students to “stop, take
a minute and walk away from [your]
work for 30 minutes or less and then
come back to it,” stating that she
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