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A student sleeps 0 on his ‘bus tide to school before the sun has risen. Students often use their commute to catch up on their sleep. KRISTEN HOLLIDAY PHOTO

Stop changing the time!

Expert says Daylight Saving Time harms students health

By KRISTEN HOLLIDAY

hanging the clocks for
Daylight Saving Time
affects students’ health
and wellbeing, yet moving
to permanent Daylight Saving
Time will have more serious impli-

cations, according to SFU psychol-

ogy professor and sleep specialist
Ralph Mistlberger.

Clocks will turn back an hour to
Standard Time on Nov. 3, but the
B.C. government is reconsidering
the bi-annual practice.

Each March the clocks are moved
forward to Daylight Saving Time

to gain more evening light in the

A student walks home in the dark by T Building at Langara College. ka/sTEn
HOLLIDAY PHOTO

spring and summer months; it also
means shorter mornings. Clocks are
then turned back to Standard Time
in autumn.

Daylight is a powerful regulator
for the internal clock, which controls
hormone
levels and
affects many
other aspects
of our lives,

“You will see negative
health and safety

many students who would like to
see a permanent switch Daylight
Saving Time.

“You're more up to enjoy 9 p.m.
in the summer when the sun is out
for longer,” Paulyn said. “You have
more fun in the
summer and
partially spring
and fall, so I’d
rather keep it

says Mistl- consequences ifwe go to that.”
berger. * Results
“You will to permanent Daylight of a recent
see negative 1 1 ” government
health and Saving Time. survey showed
safety conse- RALPH MISTLBERGER— SFU PROFESSOR AND that 93 per
if SLEEP SPECIALIST f Brit-
quences if we cent of Brit
go to perma- ish Colum-

nent Daylight Saving Time, and
we're actually going to see it more
in young people,” said Mistlberger.

“The earlier you wake students up
relative to their internal clock, the
worse off they're going to be. Their
ability to pay attention, to process
information, working memory, all

those things are going to be worse,”

But, Michael Paulyn, a fourth-
year business and marketing student
at Langara College, is one of the

bia residents, and 86.6 per cent of
students, support a move to perma-
nent Daylight Saving Time.

Gabriella Carvallo, a first-year
marketing management student at
Langara, likes the current system
where the clocks move forward in
the Spring.

“We have one extra hour of sun
to enjoy after work,” Carvallo said.
“T could use that hour. J would like
that to stay.

VOL. 52 NO. 03 > VANCOUVER, B.C.

Women,
reading
matters

New StatCan study
shows impact that
reading skill levels at
age 15 have on women
several years later

By LAUREN GARGIULO

oung women with higher

y levels of reading proficiency

at the age of 15 earn more

than those with lower levels —

mainly because they acquire more

educational credentials, leading to
higher earnings.

‘Ihe StatCan study, titled “Does
reading proficiency at age 15 affect
employment earnings in young
adulthood?” was released Oct. 17.

This study used data from another
StatCan study “Programme for
International Student Assessment/
Youth in Transition Survey (PISA/
YITS)” released in 2000, found
that high scores in the PISA test
in both men and woman accounted
for higher earnings.

Laura Gibson, co-author of the
new study, said that the wage gap
between men was largely explained
by other factors such as parental
income, the wage-gap for women
was explained by something else.

“Education explains much of the
gap in earnings between high-skill
and low-skill woman.”

Sandra Enns, a sociology profes-
sor at Langara College, believes
that factors other than educa-
tion also account for the wage gap
difference between the sexes.

“Men and women go in
completely different fields and
those fields are paid differently.”

The study does note that higher
literacy proficency levels at the age
15 does make a significant impact
several years later.

“Skills and educational attain-
ment are closely related. For
example, Canadian students with
higher literacy skills at age 15 are
often more likely to complete high
school by age 21 and pursue post-
secondary education than their
peers with lower literacy skills,”
the authors said.

Gibson added that the study
continues to help us try and under-
stand the wage gap.

“This study helps to shed light
on the complex roll of skills and
education in outcomes such as
earnings,” Gibson said. “

There may be other factors not
measured in this study such as
skills acquired later in life.”