Word: stress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to stress Pinafore's music is certainly sensible, and could hardly be construed negatively were it not for the fact that the Agassiz Theater is a great big sucking black hole for sound. The harmonies (always in fourths or fifths) are sweet and solid when it comes to larger chorus numbers, but in the counterpoint lines where soloists sing against the current of larger groups, individual lines get lost in the shuffle of choral lines. Of little help was the orchestra which, while exceptionally strong throughout, could have restrained themselves a little just to give their struggling vocalists...
...Although stress is a constant in our lives, student teaching UTEP-ers deal with a different type of time constraint. Imagine combining high school hours (7 a.m. until 3 p.m.) with college responsibilities. The greatest challenge to UTEP-ers is making time for their friends, who follow drastically different schedules...
According to UTEP Director Lissa Hodder, the Harvard undergraduates currently student teaching--in schools ranging from Martin Luther King Open Middle School to Watertown High School--handle their dual roles of student and teacher with ease. They write theses, apply for fellowships and manage the normal senior year stress...
...people behind the scenes are showing more stress...
...thing, we only have one body with which to work. This body has been subjected to systematic sleep deprivation, high levels of stress and, in the latest weeks, dramatic fluctuations in temperature and pressure. The increased desire for sleep may be reflective of nothing more than normal exhaustion...