Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper Newspapers 11-20-2008 The Grizzly, November 20, 2008 Kristin O'Brassill Gabrielle Poretta Eva Bramesco Elizabeth MacDonald Lisa Jobe See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Authors Kristin O'Brassill, Gabrielle Poretta, Eva Bramesco, Elizabeth MacDonald, Lisa Jobe, Christopher Schaeffer, Liz Kilmer, Gianna Paone, Nathan Humphrey, Spencer Jones, Daniel Tomblin, Salia Zouande, Shaun Frank, Julie Tran, Josh Krigman, Zach Shamberg, Laurel Salvo, Emily McCloskey, and Jameson Cooper Thursday, November 20, 2008 Over four days at the end oflast week, Ursinus Theatre 'presented Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine to three sold out houses in . the blackbox. scene in which a group of tourists visits Zero in jail to For those watch him like an animal in a zoo, Zero is put to death. The second act follows Zero through the afterlife, in which he finds freedom from his wife and happiness with the object of his affection, worked at incorporating realistic, old timey "Noo Yawk" Daisy. He begins to truly understand his life, accents to give their characters authenticity. and where he fits into the universal scheme. This production of The Adding Machine was evaluated Not to drag ~ in the ever popular eIE by a respondent from the American College Theatre Festival. themes, but this work deals directly with In this festival, colleges compete by presenting their shows, the famous "Why am I here?" and and are able to win awards~ The Adding Machine was not "Where a011 going?" queries. entered in the festival, but it was entered to be evaluated The set design for the production and for two students to win the right to attend the Irene emphasized Mr. Zero's lot in life. Ryan Acting Festival. The two students chosen for this Designed to look like a box closing in on honor were leads Nadine Burt as Mrs. Zero, and Josh him, the angles of the room created a Aungst as Mr. Zero. HelenAnn Coin as Daisy was chosen claustrophobic effect which clearly as an alternate. The respondent was effusive with praise echoed how Zero was trapped in his "Adding lvlachine makes explosive debut on UC marriage,job, and unhappiness. Scenery and costuming alike dealt mostly with campus" is continued on page 5. Photo by Abigail Raymond Active Minds encourages students to relax: Stop stressing! "get[s] to the point where it is not fun anymore" and that is important to "direct [stress] to something you enjoy and when one's "fight or flight" mechanism kicks in, causing [that is] maybe even productive." He suggests meditation stress. Additionally, Doghramji explains that long term or yoga, but in order for those methods to be effective, Have you ever experienced that lump in your throat or stress results in serious problems such as heart attacks or they must be practiced regularly. One last piece of advice nervous feeling studying for a test? How were you feeling strokes. For us college students, "too much stress can which Doghramji stressed was to "make your life live within at the end of this week? Stressed? Worn out? Sleep cause medical and psychiatric problems via bad sleep." your means," meaning that in order to de-stress ourselves, deprived? I think that we all have felt that stress creeping (Sleep, remember that word?) Doghramji states that when we should all redirect stress into activities which we enjoy. up, especially as the end of the semester quickly we are stressed out we "have to break the cycle to get If we attempt to address problems with stress, not only wi II approaches. The real question is how do we cope with the healthy again." He believes in "making something into a we feel better, but our patience, sleep, concentration, and consequences of stress so that it does not interfere with good stress." One means of eliminating stress is eating would improve as well. our lives academically, socially, and emotionally? "redirection." By redirecting stress, the brain no longer The Daily Grind ev~nt was a success. Many people On Nov. 1.1, the advocacy group for mental health on focuses on a certain issue. For example, the doctor states came out to learn more about how to manage their stress campus, Active Minds, provided some helpful suggestions that if a certain course is causing a student stress, after and Doghramji laid out some crucial information in how to during their first session of the Daily Grind. Dr. Doghramji careful consideration, if that student still experiences large maintain a healthy lifestyle in spite of stressful situations supplied valuable information concerning stress and how amounts of distress, the course should be dropped. Now, which we encounter on a daily basis. to cope with its consequences. that is not to say that every course which is stressful tuned for the next Dai Grind event! According to Doghramji, there are two kinds of stress: should not be followed through, but if it reaches a point good stress and bad stress. A student who experiences where the stress becomes unmanageable, something stress can enter into a mode which is productive and definitely should be done about that situation. Another beneficial to various tasks which need to be completed; common problem concerned rooming situations. He however, bad stress can also have negative ramifications. suggested that in the event that rooming si~uations cause It all depends upon the individual and how he or she problems, one person should attempt to remove him or responds to the pressures that accompany stress. Stress herself from the situation by leaving the room or taking a occurs when the ,activity which a person is involved in walk. "The best thing is to get it off your plate." It is News grizzlY@l!fsiUJJs edll News in Brief: Schoolgirls attacked, planets discovered Lisa Jobe the initial months of its missions weren't a problem, as the Taliban insurgents were responsible. Under the rule of the sun doesn't set on the arctic region during the Martian Taliban, which lasted from 1996 to 2001, girls were forbidden Gri:;:;/v Slaf[Wriler summer months. But recent dust storms blocked out the to go to school. General David McKiernan, the top U.S. sun, and soon the sun will set for the duration of the Martian official in Afghanistan, condemned the attack, calJing the winter. Furthermore, Phoenix will likely be covered in ice insurgents "dishonorable." "No one can honestly say over the duration of the winter. The Phoenix team will they are fighting for the people, then purposefully attack attempt to reactivate the craft once the arctic region thaws innocent women and children." in the spring, but they doubt Phoenix will respond. Friday, November 14, 2008 Thesday, November 11, 2008 (CNN) - In other space news, four planets outside of our SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) - Archeoiogists have discovered solar system have recently been discovered. Using the remains of a pyramid in Saqqara, an ancient Egyptian advanced direct-imaging techniques, astronomers at NASA burial ground located south of modern day Cairo. Saqqara and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory took served as the burial ground for rulers in Memphis, which pictures of these planets, which orbit stars that lie outside was the capital city of ancient Egypt during the Old our solar system. None of these planets are habitable by Kingdom period. So far, only about one- third of the area any means. as they're mostly gaseous. However, the studies has been explored. The pyramid is 4,300 years old and suggest that direct-imaging will aid astronomers in the Photo courtesy of Fox News. com most likely belonged to Queen Sesheshet, the mother of search for another Earth. Three of the four new planets Nasa's Phoenix Mars lander in action. the founding pharaoh of Egypt's 61h dynasty. All that orbit around the star HR8799, which is 1.5 times larger than Thesday, November 11, 2008 remains of the pyramid is a 16-foot tall structure that had the sun, 130 light years from Earth, and a star in the (CNN) - On Monday, NASA announced that the Phoenix been buried under 65 feet of sand. Archeologists are close constellation of Pegasus. The star is believed to be Mars Lander has given up the ghost, thanks to recent to actually entering the base of the pyramid, where they undete~table by the naked eye, but a pair of binoculars or dust storms and the onset of winter on Mars. The Phoenix hope to find proof of the owner. They doubt they'll find an amateur telescope would probably do the trick. These team knew that the craft likely wouldn't survive the Martian much more than that, due to a gaping hole in the top of the three planets, known as HR8799b, HR8799c and HR8799d, winter if it landed on the planet's arctic plain, but they structure that indicates extensive looting. were discovered by British, Canadian, and American picked that spot anyway because the team figured it would specialists using telescopes atop the Mauna Kea in Hawaii. be a good area to search for organic chemicals that might Wednesday, November 12, 2008 At about the same time, NASA astronomers discovered signal a habitable environment. Phoenix landed on the KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) - A group of teenage girls Fomalhaut b, a planet orbiting around the star Fomalhaut, planet on May 25, and spent five months collecting soil walking to school were attacked by a group of men wielding using the Hubble space telescope.