Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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IFhi hile working at Leach Center, Tom Capello catches up on some homework. Most students who had a part-time job found it difficult to keep up with their studies. Photo by John Caw ley. orking out gives Kingsley Sorge a break from his daily hassles. Physical training gave many students a chance to relax and to get away from their busy schedules. Photo by John Cau ' Uy. e eremy Frumkin, kicks back at the Down Under between classes. Students found many different ways to relieve stress whether it was reading for pleasure or walking across campus. Photo by John Cawiey. 24 Student Life

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Destruction (Continued from page 21) I don ' t know if we could have done it without Joe. He was an integral part of our operation. Without his leadership, things may not have gone so well, Belin said. Pianese said that when he saw the destruction in the Miami area he knew something had to be done. I was talking to the Marriott folks about Miami and Florida International and what we could do, and that same day I saw that Jeanne was urging people to give canned goods to the effort. I figured we should get together and see what we could do. We veren ' t sure vhat they needed but we figured they would need the basic items for survival like water, nonperishable food and clothing, Pianese said. Pianese, along with food services manager Bob Gibson, gathered supplies such as tar paper and other roofing tools and drove down to Miami the Wednesday following the hurricane. Originally, the University of Miami didn t want to become a relief site, but after the damage was surveyed, it became apparent that the use of the facility, along with Florida International University, would be necessary to aid in the effort, Pianese said. Miami mostly needed tar paper to help patch ceilings and replace roofs and Florida International needed clothes, water and canned goods, Pianese said. Pianese and Gibson left Wednesday for Miami and noted that the turnpike reserved two areas at each toll so those helping out in the relief effort could avoid the burden of paying to get to their destination. Everyone was helpful going down there and once we arrived. Bob and I both had friends that lived in Fort Lauderdale so we also had a place to stay. That made things a lot easier, Pianese said, we even made it back to Tallahassee Thursday evening. Although the effort went well, south Florida still required more help. We ' re now working on a project to get supplies to the Indians in the Everglades, everyone seems to have forgotten about them. We ' re going to use all of our resources to help as many people as we can, Belin said. ' This project will be going on for a long time. It involves all of us regardless of vhere we live. There ' s still a lot that needs to be done, Pollock said. K, olunteers fill a storage truck with many needed goods for the south Florida survivors. Shortages in everything from clothing to bottled brought generous donations from a caring and con- cerned Tallahassee and university community. Photo by Bob Gib wn. Hurricane 23

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S TRESSIN G kJ the point V« 7:49 A.M. You rolled over and glared at your alarm clock. You had an 8 a.m. class in the Diffenbaugh Building which was 20 minutes away. You grabbed a hat, brushed your teeth and rushed away on your bike only to find yourself locked out of the classroom becauseyou were late. You had to meet with your professor but he did not return any of your 12 messages. Your advisor did call, however, something about a grad check. You hadn ' t bought groceries in four days, unlessyou counted spaghetti noodles and Froot Loops, and your electricity would have been turned off Wednesday ifyou had not rolled change to pay the bill. To top it off, you had three finals Friday and you worked until closing every night this week. And this was just Monday. Many students were excited to finally be on their own, oblivious to all of the responsibilities that came along with being a college student. Finally, their own apartment, their own life, their own set of rules. Class? What? Only 12 hours aAveek? I went to high school seven hours a day, five days a week. This should be a breeze, right? Wrong. Nationwide, campus psychologists said they were seeing a generation sick with anxiety. Dr. Robert Gallagher of the University of Pittsburgh ran an annual survey of college counseling service directors. He reported that the number of students who were coming into counseling centers with severe psychological problems increased by 31 percent since 1988. Students are coming in more stressed, with more serious concerns, Gallagher said. Students often found themselves overwhelmed with the responsibilities that accompanied adulthood. That growing up equals stress was soon found to be as universally understood as one plus one equals two. How ever, it was up to the individual student to find creative ways to deal with this stress and alleviate the problem as much as possible. I like to w atch football because I can yell and scream and get out all of my frustrations, Kerry Gordon, a junior in international affairs, said. I like to mdulge myself A ' hen I ' m stressed. It ' s nice to plop in front of the television with some homemade cookies or go buy myself a new outfit, junior Melanie Leaman said. Although being involved in the many campus organizations often proved to be more stressful than stress relieving, there were certain exceptions to this rule. When I feel like I ' m starting to stress, I find that doing banners with Garnet and Gold Girls on Wednesday nights helps. It relaxes my mind and it ' s so nice to not have to do anything right or give the right answers. It ' s okay ifyou go out of the lines, chemical engineering major Stephanie Pullmgs said. Many students lound themselves depending on personal employment in order to make ends meet each month. This, coupled with the usual stress of school, could truly weigh a person down. According to Elizabeth Nuss, executive director of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, public university students across the country were working more, having a harder time getting into classes, taking longer to graduate and, in some cases, leaving school. Being a senior, I have all of this added pressure to decide what I ' m going to do with the rest of my life. My job, telemarketing, tends to put a strain on my time more than anything else. It not only limits me in the time that I have to study but also in the time I have for myself, speech pathology major Gina Drago said. When stressed, one should always keep things in perspective and not overreact to the situation, junior Will Lesnick said. After all, 10 years from now, will it really matter that you bombed your first calculus test or that your VISA bill was occasionally late? Probably not. BY NANCY FLOYD Stress 25