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Sexual Assault Awareness Month Extravaganza Success for First Year

Daija Joseph 0 comment

Wednesday April 26 was the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Extravaganza hosted by Wilmington Colleges’ It’s On Us and the Sexual Assault Hotline team. The group hosted a day full of events to promote awareness for sexual assault including denim day, the chalk walk, “Take back the night Rally”, and painting of the rock with a group photo. This past Wednesday, students may have seen many people on campus wearing denim to represent sexual assault awareness. The Denim Day campaign originated by a ruling in the Italian Supreme Court where a rape…

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Balancing Mental Health and Your College Education

Aaliyah Compton 0 comment

What is it like balancing mental health and your college education? Answer is, not the easiest thing in the world. You always have that shadow lingering over you. Telling you to give up, or don’t finish that class assignment, or to just sleep your days away. Whether you have depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, etc; you know what it’s like living with life trying to figure out if you want to make it to the next day. College life is rough for us in one way or another. So what…

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How Can Smart People Handle Difficult People

Daija Joseph 0 comment

Difficult people are unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to get satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons. Studies have long shown that stress can have a lasting and negative impact on the brain. “To deal with difficult people effectively, you need an approach that enables you, across the board, to control what you can eliminate what you can’t.  The important thing to remember is that you are in control of far more than you realize” (Bradberry, 2017). “The…

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February: A Month To Take To Heart

Andrea Barga 0 comment

Have you ever taken a minute to listen to that thing inside your chest?  That thump thump thump that keeps you going?  You know, the reason you were able to get up this morning. What if you weren’t able to get up?  What if one day that thumping just stopped? The fact is that heart disease is the number one killer of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year.  That’s approximately one woman every minute! February 3, 2017 was National Wear Red Day, marking 14 years since the founding…

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Why Organ Donation Is Important

Grace Barger 0 comment

120,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant due to illnesses and only 48% of Americans are registered organ donors. Wilmington College freshman and Ohio Organ Donor Ambassador Aryn Copeland said, “Organ donation is so important because I truly believe we are here to help others.” “Organ donation is so important because I truly believe we are here to help others.” – Aryn Copeland, Wilmington College student and Ohio Organ Donor Ambassador 30,970 transplants were performed in 2015, but 22 people die every day waiting for their transplant. Registration for…

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Your Health, Your Future: What college does to your health and why you should care

Megan Canfield 0 comment

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ave you ever heard the adage “a body in motion stays in motion and a body at rest stays at rest?” Based on Newton’s first law of motion, this idea enforces the well-known fact that establishing a routine of taking care of your body is hard to break once established. Well WC students, I’m here to tell you that this routine has never been so important. Maintaining mental and physical health in college is probably one of the most difficult tasks students have to overcome while in school. I think…

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