COLUMN: Check on us: We’re not OK
Logan Raschke, Columnist
June 5, 2020
Check on the college students in your life during this pandemic and economic recession. We’re not OK. In fact, (at least) half of the country isn’t doing OK. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 45 percent of adults have been “negatively impacted” by the virus. The KFF also says th...
This hot weather must confuse trees
Adam Tumino, Staff Reporter
October 1, 2019
If I were a tree, I would be very befuddled. There are a number of reasons I would be befuddled. First of all, why have I become sentient? I am a tree and should not have thoughts. Also, why is someone writing what they assume my thoughts to be? I am a tree who has become sentient for some reason and...
Semicolon project teaches suicide awareness
Logan Raschke, Managing Editor
September 18, 2019
The general rate of suicide in the U.S. hit a peak of 14 out of 100,000 standard population from the years 1999 to 2017, which is why organizations like the Semicolon Project exist. The Semicolon Project is a suicide awareness nonprofit which uses the semicolon punctuation mark as a symbol for preventi...
Do yourself a favor; just go to sleep
Logan Raschke, News Editor
April 18, 2019
Go to bed. I understand that you probably have a lot on your plate, but just go to bed. Adults aged 18-25 are supposed to get between 7-9 hours of sleep a night. I want you now to think about the last time you had a good 7-9 hours of sleep. Well, seeing how we’ve only got one more week of school l...
Link between memory loss and mood disorders
Megan Keane, Columnist
November 29, 2018
Within the last decade or so, lots of research has come out drawing a correlation between depression, anxiety, and short-term memory loss. Of course, this isn’t the case with everyone’s depression. Everyone experiences everything differently, etcetera, etcetera. Not to worry that you’re not depress...
End the stigma with mental illnesses
Kate Rehwinkel, Staff Reporter
September 3, 2018
I was recently told by someone that my mental illnesses are “all in my head” and that if I tried hard enough they would go away. First, I would like to say that that comment is completely false, but it is still believed by many people who are uneducated about the topic. The person who said that...
Speaker discusses mental health, how to find ‘PEACE of Mind’
Olivia Swenson-Hultz , Associate News Editor
February 12, 2018
After years of struggling with mental illness herself, Tilly-Ana Ceriser wanted to return to her alma mater, Eastern, to help others who might be experiencing the same challenges. Ceriser talked about the issue during an African-American Heritage Month presentation, “I Gotta Find A PEACE of Mind:...
You can overcome your depression
Andrew Paisley, Columnist
January 29, 2018
Depression is an illness that hits people really hard sometimes. Some people are more affected than others, and it can be very serious. I have suffered from clinical depression since I was 13 years old. At first, I had no idea what it was, but I went to my doctor, got diagnosed and got prescribed m...
