CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, August 31, 1984
Page 7
Initial optimism can lead to stress
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
As the first week of classes ends, most students still have deep tans and high hopes for the coming school year.
But local counselors say that stress and depression among KU students often follow on the heels of the semester's initial optimism.
A local crisis intervention service expects an increase of calls from troubled students as the progresses, a spokesman there said.
Larry Carter, assistant director of Headquarters, 1419 Massachusetts St., said many calls came from freshmen whose expectations of college life had been dashed.
CARTER SAID THAT new students often arrived at KU with inflated notions of how enjoyable college life would be. Many likely discover that class work is hard and friends not easy to find.
"There's a lot of stress involved in freedom," he said.
For such students, Headquarters offers a 24-hour batline with volunteers ready to "just talk." The volunteers receive 60 hours of training before they start
work as a counselor, Carter said.
"I expect it takes a month or so for things to come to a head," he said.
work as a counselor, Carter's Raymond Higgins, a psychologist in the Clinic, 307 Fraser Hall, said that the number of students seeking help traditionally increased a few weeks after classes had begun.
HIGGINS SAID THAT many freshmen grappled with special problems, especially with separation from family members. He also said that many freshmen met with unexpected work loads.
"They've gone to their first day of classes and all of a sudden the work hits," he said.
Richard Rundquist, director of the Counseling Center, 116 Bailey Hall, said that the center saw only a few more freshmen and sophomores than it did older students. The center, which specializes in career counseling, sees about 1,000 students a year, Rundquist said.
"Career concern produces a beck of a lot of anxiety," he said, "particularly among new students."
Dean Kerkman, a psychologist at Watkins Memorial Hospital, said that the stress many freshmen felt after the first weeks of school was not unique to those who sought counseling.
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Brian Commons, 11, (right), pulls Jason Klinknett, 12, into Lawrence Municipal Pool, Eighth and Kentucky streets, earlier this week. The two boys were among dozens of Lawrence residents who escaped the heat this week by going to the pool.
Cool front helps hold heat down
A cool front that breezed through Lawrence late Wednesday brought relief yesterday to residents who had swelled during two days of record-breaking temperatures.
The KU Weather Service reported that yesterday's high temperature in Lawrence was 93, well below Tuesday's 106 and Wednesday's high of 107.
Only a trace of rain accompanied the cool front on its sweep through northwestern Kansas, and officials at the National Weather Service in Topeka said most of the state would be hot and dry throughout the weekend.
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
Because of the dry conditions, the Douglas County Commission's ban on open fires will remain in effect as long as the chosen wiseman for the Commission said.
Commissioners will review conditions on Monday and decide whether to extend the ban.
For today and tomorrow, the National Weather Service said high temperatures in the northeast part of town should be near 100 with lowes near 70.
The overnight lows on Sunday and Monday night will be in the 60s.
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