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D9cemb9r 18,1987 Page 3 As Pressure Rises, Stress Surprises by Frank Wrenn "Help!! I'm stressed out!" Stress seems to be a com mon affliction at NCSSM. It is no wonder considering the pressures, we are under to succeed in life and in school, as v/ell as the pres sures of being away from home, growing up, finding "yourself", and finding some one else. All this stress, however. can be dangerous to both our mental and physical health. It can cause and ag gravate ulcers and is often involved with cardiovascular disease. It can also deaease urinary flow, and it can prevent proper digestion of food. Stress is often involved In suicide, v/hlch Is the lead ing cause of death among college age people. How do we deal with stress at NCSSM? According to some students, such as Eliza Johnson, "1 don’t [cope with stress]." Zerrlck Bynum sometimes does the same. "[I] take a nap, chill out, or sometimes I just don’t deal with It." Often stress epresses students such as Karen Reid, who "mopes," Some students, however, conduct their stress through more constructive channels. Greg Sutton often goes for Santa Ponders Early Retirement This Year by Jon Carson It seems as if Santa may be getting some tall or ders this year, according to a special CIA report just released. Entitled "On Cor respondence with Santa," the review contains the letters of prominent Americans to Father Christmas, "The phenomenon of adults writing to Santa started only recently and Is still unexplainable," asserts the CIA, "We can only hypothesize that Increased world tension has triggered the syndrome in people with mentalities just above the eight-year-old level..." Was It interesting? Perhaps. Revealing? You beti! Here are a few exerpts: Santa, Well, I would very much like a new pillow for my of fice. Please don't forget to find a super-deluxe teflon suit. (My old one doesn't work.) Ronnie Reagan So come on, man. Just get me a haircut so I won’t look like a sunbleach- ed mop from LA Sammy Hagar Would you mind terrib ly changing locafions to AN TARCTICA? Our great na tion has a vital strategic interest on the North Pole Cappie Weinberger If you could do this, I would finally feel at home with my body and would be up there among the best with Madonna, my sister. Tif fany, and Sheena E Michael Jackson Hey old man, like when are you going t’ drop by with that magic dust that makes you fly so well?.,. Cheech & Cheng ..GIRLS!!!... The Beastie Boys Working conditions and salary are the pits! On behalf of all the elves, I demand a better deal Dwizelrond Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship; my senses have been stripped Bob Dylan Well yo homeslice-- Whutssup with you? I We got a funky rap for you and your crew! / Yeah we know you’re chillin' way up at your place I but we're just illin’ and starin' into space / So please have us come and we'll celebrate / all night Christmas Eve if its not too late Run-DMC If I know Santa. I’d guess he’s giving serious thought to early retirement! 'kir'kieiric'k-kir'k'k^ a walk to relieve his stress. Theresa Cannon is even more efficient----"! just do my work and put the stress to good use." Some students (probably a large percentage) adjust to stress by becoming extremely "weird". This is clearly evi dent during exam week. It is also evident if one is a friend of Jane Wang; she deals .with stress by "sing ing 'LiAle Rabbit Fuu-Fuu’." Athletics also provide an outlet to utilize stressful energy. One just has to Im agine that the soccer ball is a certain sixth period tea cher (who just gave 5 hours of homework) and kick away! Last year’s snow in the middle of exam week also provided this outlet. A school- wide snowball fight ensued. and a fev/ teachers were seen being hit by snowballs as well as throwing them. Exam week is a par- ticurely stressful time of year. Fortunately, Branson Brown and Roger Messier will be conducting seminars on relaxation techniques during exam week. These will provide excellent methods of dealing with stress. The next time you have college applications, an ICM take home, an English pa per, and a Physics Take Home all due the next day, as well as two tests and bas ketball practice, just remem ber: 1. Cope with your stress. 2. Ket'p a good attitude. 3. Know lli.at you ate not alone. I (K M'Jv\g ovtv WS 1+ W9S ms SOVv, tre\wh h«tNve. ■Fr^wv NCSSIA WT-Wv CA \tO^ Will Snow Flow? Students Predict by Danene Groenke "Oh! The snow; the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below," ----John Whittaker Watson from "Beautiful Snow" 1869 Thl5 quote from Wat son’s poem "Beautiful Snow" sums up how most of us feel about snow. Of Course, those feelings lead us to make predictions. Most people agree (hope) that we will get lots and lots of snow this winter. One senior feels that "we won’t have a white Christ mas, but we will get lots of snow in January." "We will get loads of snow when ever it comes," responds one very hopeful junior. Some students remain realistic, even a little pes-. slmlstlc, and say that we will "only get a little or none." A senior stated "We will have a resonably warm winter, with little snow." A junior feels that "a little snow is good, but only a lit tle." If the majority of stu dents get their wish, we will get lots of snow this winter. But only the future knows if that v/111 happen. 21st Century Mars: The Next Century Awaits T-.— t It ___l _t A .J.._ . I_ 1 1 by Jon Carson Fourth Planet, Second Earth; A view of our future on the Red Planet. A hun dred years ago, no one would have guessed that peo ple would be soaring high above the oceans on trans continental flights, walking on the Moon, or fighting wars that would kill over forty mil lion people. The next century may be just as suprislng...or WILL It? Only time will tell, but if we look at history, some reasonable assumptions can be made. Pessimists always tell me that humanity will blow Itself up "with Its thousands of megatons of nuclear wea pons. I’m not going to rule that as impossible, but I think It’s highly unlikely. Our uniquely human gifts of creativity, curiosity, and Insight could very well save us from Doomsday. Our minds have always been at work to make our world’s living space more liv able. And our historical pat terns have shown that when such a world is no longer bearable, many will set off to find"or make--a new one. Perhaps it is again time for a small number of dar ing dreamers and Utopians to separate themselves from an Earth, in their eyes, stag nant and corrupt. It could be done in the name of evolu tion, in the same way that a few Devonian fish grew tired of their underwater surround ings and took to the land to become amphibians and rep tiles and mammals. Instead of looking west ward across an ocean, they will gaze Into a third dimen sion: at a small, rusty point of light called Mars. Someday they will get there. And the Old World will watch In amazement as It sees a New World revive from an age-old slumber. Though very extensive In practice, the techniques to warm Mars will be simple in concept. An Induced runaway greenhouse effect will thaw the ice, thicken the air, and produce additional warming, until all the volatiles have been evolved. Mars will also green. Life will grab hold of it and subdue the regolith and sterile seas, until no niche or cranny will be devoid of things that metabolize and photosynthesize. It may be cen turies, but the new Martians will one day breathe the air themselves. And one day, the In habitants nray no longer be human. Although Mars may fit the requirements for sup porting Earthllfe, its conditions could still be very different than Terra’s. Life (and Homo Sapiens Is no exception) will have no choice but to evolve and fit into these new ecologi cal frontiers. Thus, In latter years of the twenty-first century, the next step In human evolution could already be underway ■ millions of miles across space. One hundred years from now, our growth will con tinue. One hundred years from now, our grand adven ture will just be commencing.
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