The Michigan Daily- Wednesday, November 1, 1989- Page 5 Students who suffer from stress seek means to cope by Shara Smiley Stressed? Well, you're not alone. According to Newsweek, stress is running higher than usual at col- leges this fall. Students must deal with stress caused by academic, so- cial and personal pressures. A good way for students to "keep perspective" and avoid stress is to balance their lives with other activi- ties, said Gwen Awi, a counselor and member of the Board for the Michi- gan Union Counselling Services. That means taking time to read a magazine, excercise, talk with friends, or get involved with an ex- tracurricular activity. Students should allot private time for themselves each day, she said. Awi said that students do not get the opportunity to leave their work at the end of the day, and this induces stress. "It is natural for students to want to take a vacation once in a while from their work, though one should not stray from their responsibilities consistently," said Awi. Healthy ways to reduce the effects of stress include eating and sleeping well and avoiding caffeine and nicotine, natu- ral stress inducers. Different students handle stress in different ways, including exercising, excessive eating, crying, and drink- ing alcohol. "When things get intense, and I'm walking into an exam situation where I know I need to perform well, I become apathetic; I just don't care about it," said Derek Dale, an LSA senior. "I involuntarily rationalize my stress by using reverse psychol- ogy." 1989 LSA graduate Mo O'Hara, visiting from Chicago where she studies psychology, said she man- ages stress with "obsessive jog- ging." She jogs from 20 minutes to an hour in the morning, and again at night if she anticipates a bad day. LSA sophmore Julie Logan, has a different way to cope with stress: "We love getting crazy at the soror- ity house late nights. The energy level gets so intense we spend half the night just making each other crack up." "If I was living in an apartment and studying by myself, I think I'd completelely stress out. Having my sorority sisters around to talk to re- ally helps a lot," said Logan. Awi said isolation worsens stress. "One of the things that stu- dents experience here at Michigan is a feeling that there is usually at least one other student to relate to. Stress- ful situations become intensified when some students become isolated from being able to find people who share their concerns, thoughts, feel- ings, and frustrations," she said. "Stress is really not all that bad; in fact, if managed correctly, it can be a positive motivation," she said. A stress management work- shop will be offered in the Michigan Union next semester. For more in- formation, contact Counselling Ser- vices at 764-8312. The University provides several resources to help students deal with stress: -Counselling Services provides free, short-term counselling for stu- dents. -76-GUIDE (764-8433) is a stu- dent service designed for those who want want to speak to a peer coun- selor by phone. Hours are 5 p.m. to, 9 a.m. on weeknights and 24 hours during the weekend. -The Psychological Clinic on East Huron Drive also offers private counselling for students. Palestinian town, Israelis claim victory in showdown over taxes Light at the end of the tunnel Kevin Cronin, an LSA junior, and Art School sophomore Anne-Marie Regalado emerge from the nightmarish gloom of the West Engineering arch and discover the bright, bustling Shang ri-La that is South U. BEIT SAHOUR, OCCUPIED WEST BANK (AP) - The army took down the barricades around this Palestinian town yesterday, ending 42 days of seizing cars, furniture and other goods to crush a tax boycott. ,Legislators expect prison overcrowding to worsen Jubilant residents took to the streets to shout victory. But as hundreds of the townspeo- ple waved "V" signs and sang, mili- tary authorities said they had suc- ceeded in breaking the revolt, seizing the equivalent of more than $1.5 million to make up for unpaid taxes. "We are always collecting taxes. We have always collected taxes. We are the authorities," said Brig. Gen. Shaike Erez, head of the West Bank military government. Hanan Banura, a mother of two whose husband is in jail for refusing to pay taxes, said the town's defiance strengthened the 22-month-old Pales- tinian uprising against occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "We won something here," she said. "We did what we wanted to do, not what they wanted." The bulldozers that pushed away the earthen mound blocking off the Christian Arab town of 10,000 peo- ple ended Beit Sahour's unlikely role as a symbol of the revolt against oc- cupation. It is a town of large, prQsperous- looking homes of sun-bleached stone located down steep, winding roads from Bethlehem. until recently its middle-class residents were derided as "rich revolutionaries" by poor Pales- tinians in refugee camps who fought Israelis with stones and firebombs. Of the more than 600 Palestini- ans killed in clashes with soldiers or civilians in the uprising, only one died in Beit Sahour. But Beit Sahour, known mostly for the fields where shepherds first learned of Christ's birth, kept up the boycott of Israeli taxes ordered by the PLO-backed leaders of the uprise ing long after most other Palestifli- ans gave in to Israeli pressure. Much to Israel's consternation; the tax revolt has gotten as much publicity as the uprising's persistent violence. Journalists who sneaked into Beit Sahour described refrigera- tors, rugs, cars, televisions and all manner of goods being hauled away. On one side, townspeople com- plained against "taxation without representation." On the other, Israel claimed it was seizing goods only to collect taxes to support schools, roads and other services. LANSING (AP) - There is no quick fix to the prison overcrowding that threatens to swamp Michigan's corrections system in three years, de- spite a $900 million expansion pro- ject, legislative leaders said yester- day. The Department of Corrections predicted five months ago that the system would have a 7,400-bed shortage by 1991. Now, the depart- ment says that shortage will be 11,530 and will grow to 15,911 by the end of 1992. The June{ report didn't project for 1992. State prisons currently are 3,853 beds short. Officials said the higher figures released Monday reflect a change from earlier assumptions that the number of convicts sent to prison each year would level off during the 1990's. Now prison planners believe the number of inmates will continue to soar in the next decade as it has throughout the 1980's. "Something's got to be done and it's got to be done now," said correc- tions Director Robert Brown Jr. "I personally don't think building more beds is an alternative because we can't afford it. We cant keep pouring money into prisons." Brown added that it will be im- possible for the system to function with so many inmates and measures must be taken now to divert crimi- nals from prison. Senate Majority Leader John En- gler (R-Mount Pleasant) agreed. "We've proven the futility of building our way out of the prob- lem," he said, adding that the state should launch a legal offensive to gain permission from the courts to start putting two prisoners in a cell again. Sen. Jack Welborn, chair of the Senate Criminal Justice and Urban Affairs Committee, said the state is about done building traditional pris- ons and now the focus must shift to alternate sentencing, including the use of more boot camps, county work camps, and two-year county jails. Meanwhile, Gov. James Blan- chard outlined for his ad hoc crime committee a new state-local partner- ship under which the state would provide money for new jails as a way to ease prison overcrowding. "The fastest growing segment of the prison population is the short- term offender, a person who should be kept at the county level," he said. Hey, guess the what? Tbkl ifV B0 the University of Michigan's humor magazine, Goes on sale Wednesday! Or maybe Thursday. It's still.at the printers, actually. So let's just say it goes on sale some time this week, on the Diag and in the Fishbowl, and maybe in some dorms; we don't know. Definitely on the Diag. 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