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At 8 a.m. Saturday, April 16 students have the chance to walk for suicide prevention awareness. The walk will begin at Doc Bryan. Register at http://www.afsp.org/ out-of-the-darknesswalks or in person the day of the walk.
C a m p u s Recreation- Enjoy the spring weather during a hike at Lost Valley from 9-4 p.m. Saturday, April 16 at Tucker Coliseum. It is a two and a half hour round trip hike.
Sports- Cheer on the
Wonder Boys baseball team as they bat against Southwest Oklahoma from 1-4 p.m. at the baseball field. The Golden Suns tennis team will serve against Henderson State from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 17 at the Chartwells Athletic Complex.
M u s i c Depar tment- The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform from 8-10 p.m. Saturday, April 16 in Witherspoon Auditorium. The Symphonic Band and Concert Band will perform 2:30-4 p.m. Sunday, April 17 in Witherspoon Auditorium.
SAB- Say good-bye
to the school year by attending Summer Send-off from 6-11 p.m. Thursday, April 21 in the Witherspoon parking lots. There will be free food.
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Wellness center launches “Dear Survivor” project SIERRA MURPHY News Writer
In recognition of sexual assault awareness month, the Health and Wellness Center has launched the “Dear Survivor” project, an initiative where students can write open letters to victims of sexual assault, offering themselves as an ally to the victim. The project is a spinoff of national initiatives that the wellness center “tailored to the Tech campus.” Letters are placed around campus with contact information to Public Safety, the wellness center, Tech’s Title XI coordinator, as well as the National Sexual Assault Hotline. “The main purpose behind it is to let survivors on our campus know that other students support them and they’re not alone,” said Stacy Galbo, a graduate assistant of student wellness outreach. “A lot of the letters we have aren’t just from allies; they’re from other survivors.”
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center in 2015 reported that two-thirds of college students “experience sexual harassment, and less than 10 percent of these students tell a college or university employee.”
surveyed 522 Tech students about sexual assault and intimate partner violence; fifty nine of her respondents reported victimization of some kind. Forty one of the fifty nine were sexual assault victims at Tech.
The New York Times also reported in 2015 that in four years of college, “more than one-fourth of undergraduate women at a large group of leading universities said they had been sexually assaulted.” The New York Times referenced the “Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct,” prepared by the Associate of American Universities. The study reported 27.2 percent of female college seniors reported experiencing some form of unwanted sexual contact since they entered college.
Sexual assault also extends into Galbo’s personal life.
At Tech, Galbo said the 20 to 25 percent national average is reflected, but on a smaller scale.
“More than half of the women I know have been victimized in some way.” The Tech 2015 Security Acts book outlines sexual assault as, “any sexual act which violated the criminal laws of the state of Arkansas or the laws of the United States.” This includes non-consensual intercourse, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. However, women aren’t the only ones subject to sexual assault.
For her graduate research, Galbo
“From what we know, it is primarily
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Test anxiety, there is a solution CHRISTINE ESPENDEZ
Contributing Writer
Many students prepare to ace their exams by studying the anticipated material. For many of those students however, when the test finally arrives they are met with test anxiety, a common form of performance anxiety, according to Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
maintaining a positive attitude, a healthy diet, getting quality sleep and also mentions relaxation techniques like “proactive mindful breathing”.
“Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to what is happening to you moment to
moment,” according to mental health literature available in the counseling services office. “To be mindful you must slow down and bring awareness to your thoughts, feelings and actions.”
There are many reasons why students face test and academic
Craig Witcher, a counseling services counselor, gave his tips on how to manage test anxiety. “Repetition is the mother of all skills,” said Witcher.
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Students may feel the need to keep a particular grade point average to be able to keep a scholarship, or to please their parents, and sometimes students set a level of expectations for themselves and for these reasons may feel added pressure to perform well on tests. Talking it out with friends and professors could help, but counseling is available at Tech.
He also suggests students rehearse what they had learned that day to get into healthy study habits. Students should review their notes and recall what they had learned that day in effort to store it in their long-term memory so it’s easier to remember during test time. Witcher
anxiety, and it cannot be eased or solved with these suggestions. Witcher says students usually have underlying pressures and that is why they are not performing well on tests that may go beyond this general advice.
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Any student, who would like help with their test anxiety, can make an appointment to speak with a counselor. To schedule an appointment, students can call (479) 968-0329 or visit Dean Hall 126 Monday- Friday, 8:00 a.m.5:00 p.m.