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sometimes bakes cakes or breads. She said she began baking last year during finals week. Since then, she said, she has resorted to baking to relieve her stress.
"I just like being able to start a process like baking and complete it in two hours," Cunningham said. "It's something that can take my mind off things. I'm sure as it gets closer to graduation, I'll be baking a lot more."
Cunningham said she felt more stressed this year than in years past because she was a senior. She said her stress stemmed not only from school but also from graduation and finding a job.
"Sometimes it's stressful because it feels like everything can pile up at once." Cunningham said. "But if you take a minute to organize it and figure out what you can do, it becomes manageable."
The KU Art of Living Club,
a student organization, offers
a de-stressing session called
"Body, Breath and Mind." Manas
Bhatnagar, Bhopal, India, sophomore, and president of the organization, said the session consisted of learning breathing exercises and processes that relaxed the body and calmed the mind. He said the goal of the session was to show how the mind and body were connected through breath.
"The nature of the breath is always in the present moment," Bhatnagar said. "By observing our breath, our mind, which is stressed, will come back to the present moment. Once the mind is calm, you can apply it to solving whatever problems you are facing."
Bhatnagar said there was a correlation between emotions and breathing.
He said that when angry, a person's breath was heavy. When sad, people take deeper, longer breaths, and when they were happy, their breathing is more stable.
"We use the connectives between the breath and the mind to destress," Bhatnagar said.
He said the techniques were prac
tical and anyone could use them.
"If you are traveling on a bus and you have five minutes and you want to calm yourself before an interview, you can just pay attention to your breath," Bhatnagar said.
Wade said being able to put things in perspective and having balance in life was crucial to adequately managing stress.
"A good question to ask yourself is, 'Will this matter in five years?' Wade said. "Certainly, some things will be important five years from now, but much of what we can spend a lot of mental energy on, we realize this is not as important as it seems right now."
Gibbs said it was important to have an outlet for stress.
"Your emotional and mental well-being goes hand-in-hand with your physical well being" Gibbs said. "If you are not taking care of yourself, eventually everything else will suffer."
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Abby Cunningham, Topeka senior, takes joy in baking cupcakes during final week to relieve stress. Cunningham owns a variety of baking accessories and loves sharing her baked goods with friends and family.
If the budget continues to decrease, the number of students admitted to graduate programs will also decrease. Teel said.
Teel said students preparing to enter the school would still receive the educational benefits the school had been known for.
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"It's not the highest-paid nursing, of course, but it's what I want to do." Treadwell said.
"We have the faculty we need in order to continue to provide quality programming." Teel said.
After earning her nursing degree, Treadwell plans to practice for about eight years, and then teach nursing classes.
neonatal nurse before looking at salary figures.
then you're helping out the whole shortage on teaching?
Although Treadwell won't apply for the school until next school year, she said she was worried because enrollment was competitive.
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"Why not teach if you know the material and how to do things?" Treadwell said. "Just go ahead and take a few more years of school and
Nursing schools around the country have to be selective because they do not have enough faculty to allow everyone to be admitted. Teel said. Last year, more than 40,000 applicants were turned away.
As a truck parade drives by and revelers walk past, New Orleans police officers stand guard at a crime scene where five people were shot and two suspects were taken into custody in an incident along the Mardi Gras parade route in New Orleans on Tuesday.
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Infant, at least five others shot during Mardi Gras celebrations
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NEW ORLEANS — An infant and at least five other people were shot Tuesday along a parade route packed with Mardi Gras revelers, police said. Two suspects were in custody and the victims were recovering.
BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. Hundreds of truck floats that follow the parade were passing when gunfire broke out.
"It sounded like a string of fireworks, so I knew it was more than one shooter," said Toni Labat, 29, a window company manager. She was with her two children, a 2-year-old
boy and a 10 year-old girl. "Everybody was petrified. They
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hit the ground, the floats stopped,
everybody on the floats ducked,".
Labat said.
Labat said one man dragged himself on the ground screaming for help after being wounded and another man was gasping for air and bleeding from his mouth.
Police spokesman Bob Young said the victims were taken to local hospitals. The infant was grazed by a bullet and not seriously hurt, Young said.
Dr. Jim Parry, 41, a surgeon who was with a gathering of doctors near the shooting site, ran over to tend to one man who he said had been shot in the abdomen. "He kept asking me, 'Was I shot? Was I shot?'"
Paramedics arrived and took over for the Air Force reservist.
"I'm off to Afghanistan this summer. Damn, this is more dangerous than Afghanistan." Parry said.
Two male suspects, ages 18 and 20, were in custody and three weapons believed used in the shooting had been recovered. Young said.
The violence along the oaklined Uptown streetcar line marred what had been a generally peaceful day of revelry in which hundreds of thousands of people partied in the streets on the final day of Carnival.
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