The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1991 Page: 9 of 14
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Dr. Jim Walls
realize you're doing it/' he said.
To reach a goal, one should estab-
lishing priorities, organize time, ex-
ercise self-discipline and defer im-
mediate gratification.
"People who set goals are likely
to be happy," he said.
Another step was believing that
people are rewarded in proportion
to the effort they put forth and in-
tending to put forth effort sufficient
to earn the rewards one desires.
"Be the best you can be," he said.
Another suggestion was leaving
unpleasant experiences in the past,
enjoying pleasant memories; and
reminding oneself frequently that
one is a good person and what one
will be is even better.
"Get on with life," he said.
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John Skinner
the handout.
By Dilan Burnette
Staff Writer
Studies concluded that most
people who listened to the debate
on the radio believed Nixon won,
ance are all parts of kinesics.
Paralinguistics or vocal cues is
Another division of non-verbal
communication is kinesics, which
move-
ments in communication, Skinner
said.
Facial expression, eye contact,
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Non-verbal communication is a
set of subtle rules recognized only
when they are broken, theater and
communication Professor John Skin-
ner said Friday in a seminar.
For example, if one were sitting
in an empty movie theater waiting
for a movie and a stranger walks in
and sits next to the individual, how
would the person react, Skinner
asked the crowd of about 20 in
Moody Learning Center.
If the person is like most others,
the person would move, Skinner
said.
Skinner gave four categories of
distance between people in Ameri-
can culture.
A handout credited the catego-
ries to Edward Hall, father of prox-
emics, the study of spatial clues.
The distances are intimate dis-
tance, 0-18 inches, personal distance,
11/2-4 feet, social distance,4-12 feet,
and public distance, 12 feet or more.
Skinner brought home the power
of non-verbal communication with
the documentary "The Making of
the Great Debate."
The film illustrated the differ-
ence between radio and television
by analyzing the nation's reaction to
the 1960 debate between presiden-
tial candidates John F. Kennedy and
Richard Nixon.
Non-verbals important, professor says
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intimate space, he said.
Skinner also touched on how stu-
dents cla im terri tory by si tting in the
same class seat day after day.
He said pupils in the eyes expand
when people see something they
like.
Touching is important in human
development, he said.
"It is important to make skin-to-
skin contact with infants," Skinner
said.
Failure to be touched can lead to
physical and mental problems or
even death.
"A child's IQ can be raised by
holding it (a baby)," Skinner said.
He gave other examples of non-
verbal communication other than
proxemics.
"Chronemics is the study of how
people communicate through their
use of time," Skinner's handout
reads.
When people show up for par-
ties, class or work can reveal much
and most of those who watched the about a person,
debate on television believed
Kennedy won.
Skinner showed the influence of refers to the study of body
television visuals with these find-
ings.
In a more recent example, Skin-
ner spoke of problems American hand gestures and physical appear-
business executives have with Ara- ance are all parts of kinesics.
bic business men.
Arabs poke their face directly in to the study of how people say what
the face of their Western associates, they want to express, according to
which invades the Western ideal of the handout.
By Oswald Flores
Staff Writer
Sel£*acceptance key part
of happiness, Walls thinks
said.
"Its important that you feel good
about you," he said.
Accepting and admitting that
everyone makes mistakes is another
step.
"We make mistakes," he said.
"Nobody is perfect. Everyone makes
mistakes."
Walls illustrated this step with a
story about a man who feared dat-
ing because of mistakes he had made
on earlier dates.
On an almost perfect date with a
woman he met, the man went to the
restroom and returned with his zip-
per undone.
When he zipped up his pants, he
caught the tablecloth with the zip-
per. When he stood, everything on
the table toppled over.
Walls said the man was so embar-
rassed he never went out again.
Walls said the man should have
been able to laugh at his mistake and
continue with the date.
Another step toward happiness
was considering failure to be a learn-
ing experience on which to build
success.
"We all fail sometimes. Make it a
learning experience," he said.
Periodically examining and ad-
justing one's value system and phi-
losophy of life was another step.
"You get in a rut sometimes if
you're not careful. You don't even
Living happily can be the result
of accepting the negative and posi-
tive in life and confronting prob-
lems, the director of human devel-
opment said Monday in a seminar.
The director, Dr. Jimmy Walls,
distributed a sheet to the packed
classroom that outlined 20 steps a
person can take to live happily.
One step was accepting life as "a
mixed bag of joy and sadness, laugh-
ter and tears,pain and growth." This
idea was taken from Dennis Wholey,
^author of "Are You Happy?"
! "It's abnormal to always be
thappy. People who are always
chappy usually wind up in an insti-
tution," Walls said.
Another step was facing prob-
lems by trying to solve them or ad-
justing to problems which appar-
ently cannot be solved."
! "That is the formula for good
tnental health," he said. "People who
won't face up to their problems are
never going to be happy."
Asking for help when it is needed
is another step.
"Nobody is self-sufficient to-
tally," he said.
People must feel good about
themselves to achieve harmonious
relationships and true happiness, he
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By Oswald Flores
Staff Writer
age," Chalkley said. "They've been told by their parents
that none of these are bad for you."
Chalkley showed a 45-minu te slide presen tation ti tied
"The Role of Advertising in Drug Abuse."
The slide show contained examples of how advertis-
ing sells products such as alcohol.
Chalkley said as women gain in economic power,
advertising aimed at them will increase.
"Women will be targeted in the next 10 to 15 years/
Chalkley said.
She also distributed a five-page booklet from the
organization on advertising. The ad booklet contained
statistics on alcohol such as:
•31.2 percent of all 14 to 17 year olds has an alcohol
problem.
‘gateways’
Examplesof familiarity withalcohol from the survey
included in the booklet were:
• A 10-year-old girl could name only four presidents
but could name 15 alcoholic products.
•An 11-year-old boy listed eight brands of beer and
wine, but in response to another question on the survey,
thought there were 16 inches in a foot.
•An 11-year-old boy spelled Matilda Bay, King Co-
bra and Bud Light correctly, but the best spellings of
She also distributed a booklet including information
on health risks posed by drug abuse and the character-
by the organization.
The booklet on drugs also included information on
inhalants.
Recognizing and avoiding tobacco, alcohol and mari-
juana are the keys to preventing drug abuse, the re-
gional coordinator for the Texans' War on Drugs orga-
nization said.
Arlene Chalkley listed the three as "gateway" drugs
which can lead to drug abuse. She talked to 30 faculty
members Oct. 31 in the 1 1/2 hour seminar in Moody
.< Learning Center.
I Chalkley said inhalants can be considered "gate-
I way" drugs in Texas.
"They're the drugs the children start using at an early
Drug fighter proclaims abuse avoided through recognition, prevention of
• One person dies every 23 minu tes in alcohol-rela ted
deaths.
•75 million Americans drank beer last year consum-
ing more than 185 million barrels.
The ad booklet also included the number of drinking
scenes in 10 recent movies available on videotape.
Four movies listed were: "Fire Birds" with 27 drink-
ing scenes,"Dick Tracy" with 27, "Miami Blues" with 18
and "Pretty Woman" with 18. z _
Results of a survey originally published in the spring presidents' names were "Nickson" and "Roselvelt".
1991 newsletter of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving f
were included in the ad booklet. on health risks posed by drug abuse and The character-
The results were from a survey of 180 children living istics of a drug abuser. The 25-page booklet is produced
in suburban Maryland that was conducted by the Cen-
ter for Science in the Public Interest.
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By Alan Matherly
Staff Writer
By Leslie Mixson
Staff Writer
By Danielle Teeples
Staff Writer
Holiday
depression
Students get blues
after holidays,
professor believes
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Herbert Chambers speaks to Phi Theta Kappa members at a District 3 conference.
NRA official defends
‘right to bear arms’
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Dilan Burnette
Students are more likely to suffer depres-
sion after the Holidays than during holi-
days, a psychology professor here believes.
The professor, Douglas McKenzie, said
the traditional thinking of depression oc-
curring during holidays has never been
proved.
McKenzie talked in an interview about
holiday depression as Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays approach.
Classes will be dismissed Thursday
through Nov. 30 for Thanksgiving, and stu-
dents will finish exams Dec. 16 and observe
Christmas holidays between semesters.
Studies show an increase in depression
after the holiday season, most often in Janu-
ary and February, McKenzie said, because
of the feeling of "winding down."
"Even depressives look forward to the
holidays," he said.
Students are susceptible to depression
because of pressure from final exams,
McKenzie said. Exams start Dec. 10.
Other students suffer because of being
away from home and family.
However, "anybody is susceptible,"
McKenzie said.
Classic signs of depression are difficulty
in sleeping and concentrating, low energy,
change in appetite, change in sexual inter-
est, general feelings of guilt and, on the
extreme side, suicidal thinking.
The depression generally goes away by
itself, McKenzie said, but it can be avoided.
He suggests holiday-oriented activities
to drive away the blues.
Some of these are making a Christmas
list, mailing cards, shopping, attending par-
ties and calling or seeing friends as much as
possible.
Students suffering from holiday depres-
sion can receive help through the student
employee assistance program in Room 116
of Moody Learning Center.
Counseling from the program director,
Nancy Rice, is available through appoint-
ment.
Peer counseling and handouts on de-
pression are also available.
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College students can improve the lives of night at a cost of $5 per perso
the homeless by volunteering at the San "A.SAMM
Antonio Metropolitan Ministry center, a staff our hands up?' Loper said?
member of the shelter said Nov. 6 at the ” ’
Methodist Student Center.
Terri Loper, speaking to 14 people at the
weekly hot potato lecture series, said col-
lege students can help the homeless by work-
ing as volunteers at the center at 910 W.
Commerce St.
"We need three to five people to stay up
every night at the shelter to monitor the
floors, and college students are often the
only ones who can do this," Loper said.
The San Antonio Metropolitan Ministry
is a a non-profit corporation formed by area
on a first come, first served basis.
They receive a hot meal and must leave
always middle-agedTalcoholic males, physi- by 6 a-m-
. Under its priority guest program, resi-
San Antonio Spurs forward and gospel dents stay for six to eight weeks while look-
the shelter ing for housing and working with city social
workers.
In the spring of 1992, SAMM will open its
Dwyer Street transitional living center where
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income in exchange for their own rooms.
"What we have to do is stick behind the
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percent families, 35 percent single-parent member the homeless when they're no
families and 11 percent single women.
SAMM leases its Commerce Street facil-
ity from the city of San Antonio for $1 a year
and operates two programs there.
Under its emergency shelter program,
guests are admitted to the 250-bed facility
People pose a bigger threat to society
than guns, the National Rifle
Association's regional director for Texas
and Puerto Rico told members of Phi
Theta Kappa Saturday.
Herbert-Chambers III, a 15-year em-
ployee of the NRA, defended Americans'
right to bear arms.
He spoke to more than 65 Phi Theta
Kappa members from seven Texas chap-
ters at a District 3 conference in the audi-
torium of McCreless Hall.
He addressed the group as part of
their national honors study topic "The
Paradox of Freedom: A Global Dilemma."
"Take the gun away from him and
he'll never have another crazy thought,"
the perpetrator of the recent Killeen trag-
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man in Michigan says, "I'm going to take H
care of these people," Chambers said.
He quoted Thomas Mcllvane, a dis- ■
gruntled postal employee, who killed three H
people and wounded six Nov. 14 in a Royal 9
Oaks, Mich., post office.
Shouldn'tsomeonehaveinvestigated this I
man, Chambers suggested.
"The man who opened fire in a Michigan
post office had an obvious problem and MM
needed counseling," Chambers said.
"All the signs were there, and he might H|
have been stopped had someone investi-
gated him.' ■
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those who demonstrate anti-social behavior L^/1
until they actually commit a crime , Cham- j’ ■
bers said. k
People in this country are not afraid of | ,
killing someone and television further com-
plicates matters by glorifying the criminal,
Chambers said sarcastically, referring to he said.
The only way to control this is harsher
laws and crime enforcement, Chambers be- M I
He spoke of George Hennard, who lieves. I
----"Fifteen percent of the adult population
in a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen. The inci- is committing 80 percent to 90 percent of the
dent was the worst mass murder in U.S. crime ^United States ■
Ma^be people should worry when a thing " cLmber^Sid "
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congregations to provide shelter and other
necessities to the homeless.
The center is open every night of the year
and shelters an average of 200 people each
m.
"At SAMM we don't believe in throwing
Volunteers are important, but they are
not an alternative to government help.
"Right now we can't cut government
funding without regressing," Loper said.
The SAMM Center receives much of its
$384,000 annual budget from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
Loper encourages people to resist nega-
tive attitudes toward the homeless.
"We have to work together to keep an
open mind," she said.
Fortunately, people are rejecting the tra-
ditional stereotypes they used to apply to
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Help homeless via volunteering, SAMM worker requests
the homeless, she said.
They are learning the homeless are not
cally able but unwilling to work.
singer Terry Cummings gave I
greater visibility and financial support re-
cently when he donated $10,000 from sales
of one of his records.
Statistics show a different picture of who guests will pay a small percentage of thei
makes up the ranks of the homeless, Loper income in exchange for their own rooms,
said.
Of the homeless 9 percent are youths, 44 programs, stick behind the issues and
longer a hot topic," Loper said.
The SAMM shelter is accepting dona-
tions to its $75,000 fund drive.
Contributions may be sent to: SAMM
Shelter, 910 W. Commerce St., San Antonio,
Texas 78207.
Nov. 22,1991
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