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April 30, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 85 No. 150
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David CreamerDaily Nebraskan
Eir-sttudentt starts 'Peace Pals'
Group hopes letter-writing will improve relations
By K. Edward Endacott
Senior Reporter
Former UNL student Doug Kas
parek has a straightforward goal:
bring peace and understanding to
the peoples of the world.
To accomplish his goal, Kasparek
has found Peace Pals, a volunteer
group that will try to promote peace
and understanding between nations
through correspondence. The 30
member group will formally begin
letter-writing this fall. Fund raising
for the Peace Pals is already under
way, Kasparek said.
"Peace Pals proposes, on a very
large scale, to make communication
(between nations) easier and more
accessible," he said. "To this end,
we want to encourage anything that
promotes contact between peoples."
Kasparek, who has been active in
community work for most of his life,
said Peace Pals a take-off on Pen
Pals first began as a pipe dream
in 1981. Now, he says, his dream is
close to reality.
"This is an idea that has been on
the back of my mind for a long
time," Kasparek said. "I think it's
feasible, and it's cute enough to go
big. But even if it doesn't go big, it
has the potential to do good."
Big sponsors, whom he declined
to reveal, have started showing an
interest in the group, he said. Peace
Pals already has received money
from various foundations and will
use churches and peace groups to
help make contacts with citizens
and groups in other communities,
he said.
Peace Pals has no political ties
like other groups and is open to
people of all ideologies who want to
promote peace.
"A few things about the organiza
tion that need to be stressed are
that we are non-profit, non-political,"
he said. "We take no religious stance
and we are working with a single
issue, which is improving relations.
"We don't adhere to a nuclear
build-up or build-down. What we
intend to be is a peacemaking
organization and a fun organization."
The group already has received
responses from Canada, the Ivory
Coast and India to a mailing it sent
out earlier this year.
"We're a simple organization with
a simple idea, and that's to increase
the amount of knowledge we have
about each other around the world,"
Kasparek said.
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By Christine Graves
Staff Reporter
They're here . . . almost. Finals.
Stress.
It seems, for most students, that
finals and stress go hand-in-hand.
During an especially high stress
period like finals, students need to
learn positive coping skills, said Mar
garet Eager, psychiatric social worker
at the University Health Center.
"People are always looking for some
magic answer there is none," Eager
said.
Rather, she said, students need to
use common sense, maintain good
health and take care of their bodies,
a healthy attitude is the first step to
long range coping, lie said.
Several "quick fix band aids" can be
used in emergency situations, Sime
said. But people then should seek help
in coping with future high-stress situa
tions, he said.
Coping skills include:
O Rejuvenate your syst em with high
ly exhaustive exercise. When time
allows, go out and run or do something
that uses great amounts of energy.
Working up a metabolic steam clears
your head, Sime said. Often thoughts
come more easily when you get away
from a stressful situation, he said.
O An action-oriented solution is to
get in and do what has to be done, Sime
'People know their own limit . . . It's like a
checking account: You only have so much
to use, and you chose either to expend it
slowly or quickly. But it's important not to
overdraw.' -Eager
especially during high stress times.
Also, it's important for students to
realize they can't do it all, Eager said.
"People know their own limit . . . It's
like a checking account: You only have
so much to use, and you choose either
to expend it slowly or quickly. But it's
important not to overdraw," Eager said.
Dr. Wes Sime, director of UNL's
stress physiology lab, said identifying
the origin of stress is important.
Stress responses are like fingerprints,
he said. People have individualized
responses.
A feeling of inadequacy or having
low self-esteem only complicates stress
ful situations, Sime said. So, developing
said. Procrastination only increases
stress, he said.
O Use the reality test. Ask yourself:
"What is the worst thing that can
happen?" Reality will cast off anxiety
and enable you to do better, Sime said.
O Use good physical coping. Realize
what is happening to your body physi
cally, Sime said, and then manipulate
it. If your breathing increases a
normal physical stress response
take slow deep breaths and let thc-m
out slowly, he said.
Concentrate on the positive side of
life, Sime said. Replace negative "self
talk" with positive "self-talk." Change
"I'll never be able to get all this done'"
to "I can feasibly do these three things. '
Band nearfountain
causes complaints
from employees
By Eric Gregory
Police Reporter
A noise complaint from Admini
stration Building employees Tuesday
sent the three-man band called the.
Lampshades packing about 20
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Nebraska Union Director Driryl
Swanson said he received a com- -plaint
about the band at noon.
The caller wanted to know if
the Lampshades, who were playing
near Teachers College, were a
registered event at UNL But, since
the group wasn't using an amplifica
tion system, Swanson said the Lamp
shades didn't have to be registered
with the Campus Activities and
Programs Office to perform on the
plaza.
i see this as an exercise of free
speech," Swanson said,
Nonetheless, the Lampshades,
made up of UNL students Dave P.
Sullivan, Craig Anton and Jeff W
agreed to move to the plaza, where
they played for about another hour.
Swanson said the plaza, over
which the union has jurisdiction, is
the width of the union building
itself and extends from the north
wall of the building to Parking Area
16 north of the union.
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"The Lsmpshados" (from lefi) SuHivsn, Anton, and Wesks, perform before a crowd near
Broyhin Fountain Tuesday.
