Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lecture: "Stress and Anxiety in a Pre-Professional Environment." Alumnae Hall...
Officials at the agencies stress the need for students to show a lot of initiative, and to "make contacts" with anyone that might be offering, or have information...
Some thorny problems lie ahead. The oil companies stress that even if they were to hit oil on the first drilling, it would still take five years to get a well into production. Moreover, the U.S. Geological Survey is wrestling with the problem of approving pipelines to move the oil and gas safely to shore. Oil from the Atlantic is a long way off, but at least a start has been made...
...esteem by showing youngsters they can cope with fear. Says Former Phys Ed Teacher Kenneth Musko, who developed the program: "Some of them do panic, but you'd be surprised how most of them cope with new situations that normally would terrify them." A few of the 52 stress activities seem particularly dangerous: riding through rapids on a rubber raft, rock climbing and "parasailing" (hanging from a parachute while being towed by a truck). One prosaic activity-incarceration at a nearby jail or detention center-is supposed to show the students the life they can expect if they flunk...
...last-ditch effort run by people who care. Says he: "These kids have passed the 'please' point; they are tough. We have to make them feel that someone cares. And we will use any method to do this." So far, he says, the reform by stress seems to be working. More than half of the 90 students who have passed through the course have remained in school and shaped...