Active Minds ‘Speaks Out’ About Mental Illness
One in every four college students has a diagnosable mental illness. College life is a huge change from everything students have previously experienced. The freedom and ensuing stress can adversely affect one’s mental health. However, mental illnesses are viewed as a taboo, and those suffering from them often feel the need to hide what they are going through. Active Minds, a national organization founded in 2003, strives to change the conversation about and reduce the stigma around mental illness. With more than 400 chapters on college campuses across the country, it is the only organization which uses student voices to…
Emory Secrets Professor Revealed
“This will be my last secret. For several months I’ve shared with you my thoughts about professor-student relations, college and life challenges and even some burning social issues. When I first posted on Emory Secrets (#171 on Dec. 19) I did not know [I’d] keep going for 50+ secrets, and I definitely did not imagine that hundreds of people would read my posts… that I would learn so much about student life from reading each and every of the 2,000+ secrets. Over these past few months I was fortunate to meet some of you, and each such meeting filled me…
A.J.’s Rejected Commencement Speech
This is my rejected commencement speech. It is about what it means to be an Emory student. It is called, “Bulldozing the Past: A Swan Song for the DUC.” Too often seniors attempt to classify Emory students in generalization — all of which fail. Emory is too diverse for broad, sweeping generalizations. If I were naive enough to offer my own generalization, one that is not explicitly racial, religious or classist, I would say that Emory students are resume builders and fanatically studious, but we have fun parties. But even this is wrong. It ignores the international students. It ignores…
The Insighter 4/26/13
I spent a lot of time dreaming up Insighters for the final weeks of my final year of academia, forever. I didn’t realize how few weeks were left. I waver between terrible excitement for the ceremony of graduation — the culmination of four years worth of what I have to acknowledge as accomplishments — and the terrible impatience of enough is enough! Time to go! Emory is beautiful now. Finally settled between the cold too long and the summer too soon. We have a few weeks of pollen-free (pollen-low) blossoms and blooms. Breezes on the patios and Cox bridge, the…
Horoscopes 4/26/13
Aries Opinionated Aries, you may catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but why are you trying to catch flies anyway? Flies are gross and nobody likes them. Instead, try to catch butterflies, with … flowers and stuff. Taurus You’re feeling overwhelmed, driven Taurus. You can only give your energy to so many things. Relax and treat yourself to something you know you will find satisfying. Provided this thing doesn’t hurt yourself, anyone else or damage property. Not that you needed to be reminded of that. Gemini Gemini, you’re so fierce that Beyoncé herself has to avert her eyes…
BurgerFi Brings Natural, Fresh Flavors to Emory Point
“Welcome to BurgerFi!” That’s the shout customers hear at Emory Point’s latest addition from a restaurant employee every couple of minutes upon entering the fast-food joint of any environmentalist’s dreams. BurgerFi, which opened its 17th location at Emory Point on Tuesday, just left of Fresh to Order, boasts strictly sustainable and all-natural standards for its burgers, hotdogs, fries, shakes and even sodas. “Everything is made from scratch,” Rachel Miller, an employee trainer at BurgerFi, said of the menu. “The fries and onions are hand-cut, we make the veggie patties in-house, we squeeze the lemonade in-house. We try to source as locally…
Dooley Noted Places in National Tourament
First Friday, Barenaked Voices, Best in Show — anyone familiar with Emory’s a cappella scene is sure to have seen the 13 members of Dooley Noted perform a song from their repertoire, complete with accompanying choreography. In addition to regularly appearing at Emory’s various a cappella events, the group recently competed outside the Emory community at the International Championships of A Cappella (ICCA) semifinals on March 23, placing in the top 20 a cappella groups in the nation. After taking first in the ICCA quarterfinals at Clemson University (S.C.) on March 2, Dooley Noted placed third in the semifinals at…
How To Diversify Your DUC Salad
Down about dining at the DUC? Looking to add healthy variety to your diet? Student Life asked Emory Dining’s Clinial Dietician Cristina Caro for her best tips on how to avoid monotony at the DUC salad bar. Q. I know I should eat salads to be healthier, but I get bored of always eating the same ingredients at the salad bar at the DUC. What can I do to add variety to my salads? A. Salads are healthy because they provide fiber, minerals, phytochemicals and vitamins. Salads offer the opportunity to eat a variety of colors, flavors and textures. The…
Dadpunk Releases Summer Catalog
I hope you all remember Christopher Rhett Henry, the man who brought you the wonders of Dadpunk. If you were unable to read my previous article about the beginnings of Dadpunk, I suggest you don’t finish reading this article before doing so because we’re about to dive (~wavvy~) into the intricacies that have sustained and solidified Dadpunk’s Summer Catalog. For those of you who have read the other article, you’ll remember that he goes by Rhett, so let’s call him that. Rhett informed me that it is hot outside, or it’s hotter than it was before. It turns out that…
Horoscopes 4/19/13
Aries They (“they” being a lady named Jessica Hische) say, “The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” I have seen your destiny, Aries, and you should not be blankly scrolling through the Internet for the rest of your life. Taurus Wouldn’t it be nice to receive an Emory Compliment? How about a Horoscope Compliment? You are smart, funny, kind, talented and amazing, Taurus reader. Refer back to this horoscope as needed. Gemini Other horoscopes may call you two-faced, Gemini, but I have more faith…
