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Democrat Incumbents Win Montana House and Senate Seats Chandra Hacker Well, Election Day (Nov 5th) has come and gone and for those of you who don’t knew what the outcome was here is a brief recap for, you. Running for, a seat in the United States Senate for Mon tana this year were Incumbent Max Baucus (Democrat), Bob Kelleher (Green), Stan Jones (Libertarian). and Mike Taylor (Republican). There were also two write-ins that received sev eral votes, John Driscoll (Independant from Butte) and Mary Charboneau (Democrat from Billings). The outcome of that race in for the state declared Incumbent Max Baucus the win ner with 204,279 votes and 63% of the votes. Since many of us voted in Beaverhead County I thought that it would be interesting to see those statistics as well. It was a pretty close race here in the County. Max Baucus had 51% of the county's votes while Taylor had only 44% of the votes. Running for* a seat in the United States House of Repre sentatives were Incumbent Denny Rehberg (Republican), Steve Kelly (Démocrate) and Mike Fellows (Libertarian). Once again the Incumbent, Denny Rehberg, was the winner, securing that win with 212,993 votes and 64% of the votes. Other important issues that were voted on this year were Constitutional Ammendment 36 Constitutional Amendment 36 which would give the government the right to invest up to 25% of state funds into private corporate capital stocks. This ammendment was shot down when 60% of voters voted against it. 1-145, which would have created a public power commission to buy and/or shut down hydroelectric dams, was also shot down when only 32% of voter voted for it. The only initiative that was on the ballot this year that did pass was 1-146, which will dedi cate .49% of the state’s yearly tobacco settlement money into tobacco disease prevention and health insurance access expan sion. It passed with a 65% vote for it. This information was found at these sites, the CNN Elec tion 2002 homepage at: www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2QQ2/pages/ states/MT/S/Ql/countv.000.html and the Montana Conservation Voters homepage at: www.mtvoters.org/2002results.html Please check these sites if you would like more information on not only the races I’ve listed, but on others that took place this year in Montana and in your own home state. Perrenial Distress Disorder: Finals Week Approaches If you’re new to the idea of Finals Week, or if you’ve simply forgotten since the last time you endured it what a miser able time it can be, you should probably learn how you can survive Finals, and even succeed at them. Many an unwary or un wise student falls prey to the idea of merely getting through Finals Week with whatever pain or failure it takes, believ ing that it has to be a horrible experience or that the point of it is just to make it go- away as fast as possible. I know from past experience that rushing through an exam as fast as I could was a highly desirable thing to do at the time, given the enor mous feeling of relief that always followed once I walked away from yet another test. Of course, later on I would think back and almost always feel like I could have done better if I’d just prepared a little better (that is, not have crammed from three to seven a.m. immediately prior to the exam) and had taken a bit more time during the exam itself to think things through a little better. If that sounds familiar to you, maybe you should read on and take my advice about what I finally discovered made it possible to both survive and suc ceed at Finals Week. First, look ahead. Get yourself a good- sized calendar or desk blotter on which you can plan your exams in easily seen blocs. Just knowing what your schedule is - going to be like can remove a lot of anxi ety about what you’re facing. As part of this pre-planning stage, talk to each of your Profs about what the exam is going to be like. Is it going to be about terminol ogy or problem-solving or what? Is it go ing to be fill-in-the-blank or short answer- type stuff, or is it going to be essay-type answers? Ask as well about how the exam will be graded. Will certain things be weighted more heavily than others? You might even ask what the purpose of the exam is. I know that might sound funny, but really, Profs typically have specific things they’re looking to find out from an exam. Because of this, you might be able to focus your studying on something fairly specific instead of trying to re view an entire semester worth of infor mation. Next, put together a plan of attack for how to study for each one of your exams. Write this in on your calendar too. If you’re like most people, you prob ably won’t do too well if you try studying a little of this and then a little of that and then a bit of another thing. My advice is to study one thing thoroughly until you’re satisfied that you’ve got it down as best you can, and then move on to studying for the next thing. As you do this, make notes of the things you’re studying. Don’t try to keep it all in your head. Hopefully, you’ve done the smart thing and taken good notes during class all along and can study from them instead of a huge text book. If you take down some good notes as you’re studying, then you can simply review from them before the exam to refresh yourself on what you studied so thoroughly earlier on. Again, look ahead. Study for your first exam first and then move on to studying for the next one. Plan to do so well in advance of the exam itself. Don’t wait until the night before to start studying. Don’t worry about for getting things in the intervening time: you’ll have those study, notes to go back to. As you map out your exam and study times on your calendar, also put in spe cific times when you don’t plan to study. This is just as important as mapping out your study time. If you don’t make some scheduled break time and stick to it, then the first time you get tired, bored or frustrated you’re going to dump every thing and head out with your friends to cut loose for a bit. When that happens, then you can kiss your study schedule goodbye. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with relieving the tension of study- (continued on page 8)
