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SPOKE, September
Second-year police foundations student Steve
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2003
29,
Gill (left to right),
20, first-year journalism student Kurtis Nelson, 19,
year engineering student Kyle Dezort, 20, show crates of beer cans they have collected.
and second-
off
the three
(Photo by Jennifer Howden)
TEST ANXIETY WORKSHOP
DO YOU DO THE FOLLOWING? E I 1
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Complete your work, are successful on assignments, but your test marks
pull
you down.
Get so nervous that you feel sick to your stomach. Experience panicky sensations and find that your mind goes blank before or during a test.
Beer can bonanza By JENNIFER
HOWDEN
The money
be donated to a
will
different charity every
The
chosen by the
Conestoga's in Residence & Conference Centre finally have a good excuse to drink
get
beer.
favourite charities as well.
Residents
The Beer Store and redeemed
suggest
their
passionate about,” said Bahen.
and teach-
ing.
Although Sick Kids meets the basic health needs of children who live in
get involved in something they are
Toronto, more than half
patients
come from
SIGN UP FOR A TEST ANXIETY WORKSHOP! To register bring a copy of your timetable and sign up STUDENT SERVICES (2B04) before Tuesday, October 21
Common hours
will
in
st .
be selected from submitted student timetables.
its
outside the city,
from other parts of Canada and from around the world. Bahen said most people have had including
This “four session" group
October 27
a positive response to the can col-
is
available beginning the
week of
th .
Facilitator -
Workshop
Joan Magazine
lecting.
“Most people think it’s a great idea and everyone is enthusiastic about it.”
Kathleen Bahen. “We wanted to do something about it so we started to collect them.” The empty cans will be returned to
to
they want to help out so they can
adviser
resident
said
chance
the
residents will
“We’ll ask people which charities
About twice a week the residence (RAs) go door to door collecting empty beer cans and redeem them for charity. “We noticed a lot of people were just leaving their empty cans in the advisers
hallway,”
charities are
RAs and sometimes
national reputation for excellence in health care, research
month.
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“Most people think it’s a great and everyone’s enthusiastic
idea
about
it,”
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Kathleen Bahen,
for
resident adviser
10 cents each.
Glass bottles are not allowed on residence property and if they are found they are confiscated. Those
For the month of September the charity of choice is The Hospital
confiscated bottles are also being returned to
The Beer
for Sick Children. Affectionately called Sick Kids,
Store.
When the RAs brought back the 23 they first batch of cans on Sept.
the hospital pediatric
had collected 400 of them, which
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Test Anxiety
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Do any of these thoughts sound
tests. In fact,
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familiar?
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stupid. I’m going to mess up and look
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to
know
this stuff but
one else looks like such a Everyone’s finished but me
•
me.
wreck—what
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I
never get the job
I’ll
never be able to handle college studies.
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have to ace everything else
in the
•
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feel
sick—
never get through
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