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The Arrow Mailbag |
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Excellent job to the Arrow staff My name is Bill Yelenak. I currently live in Southington, Connecticut, and I am on the staff of The Emblem, our student run publication. It is only four pages and with a lackadaisical staff and a huge town, there’s not much we can really do. I read The Arrow, though, and I’d have to say this is one of the best school papers I’ve ever read. I’ve read almost every school newspaper. I’ve seen some from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, etc … and now Montana. And yours is definitely in the top three if not higher. I’d just like to compliment some of your great staff members on articles I feel I’ve just gotta mention because they were amazing. 1) To Krista Benson, Class of 1998 — thank you for your wonderful articles about the total disgusting display of people screwing around in the halls. People have a very similar problem at my school and I’m totally against it (don’t think I’m saying this because I’m angry I don’t have a girlfriend, because I do). It is just totally disgusting and how do you think the people without someone feel? Would you have Thanksgiving in front of the homeless? 2) To Krista Benson, Class of 1998 Another great editorial about the censorship of books. Here in Connecticut they tried to censor the book Deliverance because of its graphic descriptions. However, the motion was overruled and the book, thank God, did remain in the school system. Without this, future generations would be cheated out of the story portrayed within this book. As you said, it would hurt the education of our children. 3) To the staff: Great job with this outstanding paper. Keep up the good work and keep the articles coming along. Don’t stop now cause you guys are one of the best. If our school paper ever got this good, I’d probably be dreaming.
Bill R. Yelenak Exhaustion signs similar to narcolepsy I picked up one of your recent school papers and was very interested in the article about the students pushing themselves and also the teachers to complete their busy schedules to the point of depriving themselves of necessary sleep thus experiencing REM sleep immediately upon going to sleep, and also their vivid dreams and perhaps other symptoms that are closely associated with narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a fairly well known condition in this day and age but wasn’t when I was young. Cataplexy is a continuation of narcolepsy and is experienced by perhaps 8 to 10 percent of those who have narcolepsy. Cataplexy symptoms include sleep paralysis, loss of muscle control, and hallucinations. Loss of muscle control is triggered by emotions such as laughter, anger, seeing someone you are especially fond of, etc. Excessive intake of sugar such as pop, ice cream, etc. aggravates cataplexy attacks. I feel that these experiences are alarming and that the people should take into consideration that they are perhaps aggrevating the situation to the point whereby it will cause narcolepsy and perhaps cataplexy.
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