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LETTERS Shinerama folks thank residents Saturday, Sept. 6, Wilfrid Laurier University held their most successful Shinerama campaign in its 25â€"year histoâ€" ry. Close to 500 enthusiastic Frosh Shiners were located throughout the city shining shoes, car windows, etc. to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. Due to their great effort, the Shinâ€" erama Committee and Wilfrid Laurier University Students‘ Union president Brian Thompson, are pleased to anâ€" nounce 1986‘s target of $25,000 was reached. This year‘s total climbed over Though the event is already a week and a half old, I‘d like to make mention of the Kâ€"W Corporate Challenge held in Waterloo Park on Sept. 7. Even the best athletes had trouble pulling on huge rubber boots and charging through rubber tires while holding a hat on their head against the wind. Any landlubber athlete fared as well, (or as poorly?) as their competiâ€" tors in the innertube event held in the pool. The outdoor pool. The unheated outdoor pool. In fact one poor fellow, though muscular and well built, had a real chore trying to paddle his way across the pool balanced in the middle of the upright innertube. It doesn‘t sound too difficult, but unfortunately the ball he was trying to squeeze or balance between his ankles behind him kept popping out. After what seemed an eternity (most of the other teams had by this time left the pool entirely) the poor guy climbed out. His lips were either frozen (if you can remember how cool it was that day â€" add a lakeside breeze and remnants of the previous evening‘s rain and I‘m sure you can appreciate why I mean frozen) or he had himself set with determination to lick that event next year‘ As a spectator to most of the events between the 50â€"o0dd businesses in the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo area, I not only got wet, cold feet and chilled bones, but a sense of good competitive fun. All of the events were designed so no participant could rely solely on strength or speed. fFeedback ‘"You‘ve provided a great deal of entertainment and not to worry, you can‘t expect to win all the time â€" just keep up the good work." Question asked at Waterloo Town Square *A ;i‘tv f | N Dh 9 [Â¥ \ U & *A CC OG â€" I ias "J> \ Te & "r, ; 4 &# Fitness Forum Clayton Scott Kitchener Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor Not only did I get a chance to watch and cheer on my husband‘s team, I had a chance to speak to many people in the community directly involved with fitâ€" ness. (Not to say my husband‘s team was not directly involved with fitness, though watching them skip was a definite deciding factor for my deparâ€" ture at that time.) As newly appointed director of fitness at the YWCA, downtown Kitchener, I was also at the Challenge on a profesâ€" sional basis. Mingling with other fitness professionals made me aware of the changes in our community with regards to fitness. There is more of a sense of sharing of ideas between otherwise competitive groups. These people are excited about new information which comes their way and I feel good that this same information is then freely passed on. 1984‘s and 1985‘s totals which were $21,943 and $16,321 respectively. â€" Rather than compete with each other, we seem resigned to offer the best in updated fitness trends and information to our members. We will continue to offer this in our own specialized way, but now more than ever we have the benefit of a handful of people experiencing the same fitness troubles and discoveries. Once again, University of Waterloo‘s Frosh ran car washes to raise funds and this year contributed $12,916. This year‘s grand total for the two universities was $37,916 surpassing last year‘s total of * One word of caution for next year‘s competition â€" please make sure water is available at different points around the field. Any competitor experiencing trouâ€" ble after overexertion was unable to get water quickly. There was no water booth at all. The competitors had to drink pop. Need I say more?! Wilfrid Laurier University Students‘ Union and the University of Waterloo‘s Federation of Students would like to thank Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo residents for their generosity in the Shinerama camâ€" paign and hope they will continue to support this worthy cause. ‘"You guys have played some pretty exciting baseball, and secâ€" ond place is still pretty good." Peter Dibble Waterioo WLU Student Union Waterloo, Ont. What message do you have for the Toronto Blue Jays? The shopping carts will be extraâ€"full this month for our six lucky Voluntary Paid Circulation subscribers who each have won a $50 gift certificate from Jim Morris‘ Mr. Grocer in Westmount Place. The six winners are B. Plummer of Erb St. E., B. Heldman of Albert St., Lloyd In her book You Are Not The Target, Laura Huxley, the widow of the late Aldous Huxley, tells how you can use unpleasant emotions to tone up your body. Caught you by surprise? When your spouse complains, your boss is impossible, your friends are neglectful, your business partner is difficult or your child is unmanageable â€" stop a moment. Stop and realize that their irritability, irrationality, lack of consideration, coolâ€" ness, disagreeable and wounding behaâ€" viour is not really aimed at you. You may feel as though it were but in the majority of cases it is not. You are not the target. You just happen to be there. It is human to be irritable or unreaâ€" sonable sometimes. It is also human for those of us within the radius of that explosion to feel that it is directed at us. Sometimes it is. Sometimes we are used as the targets for the negative emotions of those closest to us. A wife, a husband, a child, coâ€"worker or even a stranger in a crowd may throw off a charge of anger or hostility which can be contained no longer and must be discharged even at the risk of harming This is a part of living, a part of the interrelatedness of human beings. We cannot live in a world of people and avoid the storms of their disagreeable and painful emotions any more than we can avoid the weather. But we can avoid the feeling of being the target of them. We can even turn the unpleasant enâ€" counters to our own good use. According to this book, when a charge of negative emotion explodes in our direction, whether or not it is aimed at us specifically, we have an automatic response. The primitive self within us August Voluntary Paid lucky draw winners "Better luck next year." WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1986 â€" PAGE 7 Oscar Buset Waterioo Geoffrey Fellows responds immediately and without our direction. It is part of our heritage of selfâ€"protective devices to rise to the challenge of antagonistic behaviour even when it is po more aimed at us, than a gust of wind or a wave in the Also, our automatic response to the negative emotions of others results in a discharge of adrenaline into our systems which can only be dissipated through physical exertion. The "fight or flight" reaction. So when you are the innocent victim of someone‘s emotional storm, Huxley suggests you turn your own emotional response to a positive use. First, remind yourself that you are not the target. You just happened to be there. You have the immediate emotional response, so utiâ€" lize it to tone up your muscles and beautify your body. You do this by contracting and relaxâ€" ing the muscles of your body in a rhythmical way. Choose those muscles you want especially to tone up and strengthen, perhaps the abdominal musâ€" cles or the thighs. Then contract them as hard as you can, and then relax them, repeating this in a rhythmical way. As you do so, relive the moment of unpleasantness in your mind and as you feel the bolt of emotion flying in your direction, convert it into that rhythmic exercise. As Huxley points out you can turn your unpleasant emotional experiences into positive, â€" healthful, bodyâ€"building. It beats fanning the flames of the probâ€" lem. Lacombe of Hickory St. W., W. Dick of University Ave. E., Luann Wallace of Central St. and Patsy Jack of Westvale Dr. Chronicle readers are reminded that carriers will begin their September collections next week. (Mr. Fellows is the founder of the Human Resource Development Instiâ€" tute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NR 5W1) ‘"‘Take your time, and remember where you were â€" if you were there once, you can get there again.‘‘ Ray Proctor Waterioo