Health
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Story by Sophie Brock, Photos by Alexander King, March 10, 2021. College students are burnt out. After nearly a year of asynchronous classes and feeling like they are living the same day over and over, college students have lost motivation to complete their school work. Out of 21 students I talked to, 86 percent of them…
Stressed & Depressed: How College Students’ Mental Health is Affected By Online School
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Story and photos by Beth Dedman, December 21, 2020 NEW YORK CITY—The smell of urine lingered in my mask as I emerged from the filthy subway station onto 42nd street. For all of the promises of sanitized trains, the A Train [B1] [B2] that carried me up from Brooklyn was littered with trash from the…
As the City Slept: Life in quarantine in the epicenter of COVID-19
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Story by Tegan Shockley, December 11, 2020 The cat seems to know when Kati McFarland is emotional. It rubs its head against McFarland, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns and is a wheelchair user, as they contemplate the different ways they could die: starvation, a cardiac episode or dying from exposure if they become homeless again. McFarland…
The Noted Invalid: Medical bills and failing health don’t stop a 29-year-old from advocating for disability rights.
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By Natalie Demaree October 9, 2020 The trees are beginning to change on campus at the University of Arkansas, but significantly less students are able to enjoy the fall colors this year because of remote classes. “I feel we do have good protocols and guidelines in place. With limited face-to-face instruction, socially…
Leaves Fall, UA Leaders Make Calls: Campus Update on Covid-19
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by Katie Wayles “9-1-1, what is your emergency?” “My sister is going to kill herself. Please send an ambulance,” I said with a shaky breath. I reread the text from my sister: I don’t know how to say this, so I’ll keep it short. I don’t think I can continue on like this. You have…
Life Line: Bipolar Disorder and the Positive Effects of the Internet
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by Karen Sue McKenzie In the Bible Belt, abstinence is ideal, but oftentimes people choose to have sex anyways. In turn, rates of sexual infections in the South continue to rise. In July 2017 I worked at an ice cream shop. I was scooping a sample of caramel ice cream for a kid…
Let’s Talk About Sex
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by Rachel Roberts Sept. 6, 2019 Your body killed your pancreas. Well, at least the part of it that provides insulin beta-cells. Whether because of its dysfunction or because your other organs received mixed signals and mistakenly attacked it, now the important cells are gone. Your body went about its kill-job, and now you now…
Big Ticket Drug: The Cost of Staying Alive
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How dementia affects those surrounding the diagnosed. By Katie Serrano
As Memories Fade
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I wanted to experience the health benefits of a vegan diet. Here’s why it didn’t work for me. By Ella Ruth Hill
My Attempt at Veganism
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Despite hashtags and marches, some sexual assault survivors still feel silenced. By Andrea Johnson
Left in the Shadows