By Megan Parker and Caitlin Heintz
February 20, 2020
The Counseling and Testing Center is sponsoring Taking Care Week 2020 with a variety of events across campus to help students engage in positive physical and mental health activities. Dr. Juanita Martin, the Executive Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, said the idea of Taking Care Week started a little over 10 years ago after positive response to an interactive event during Eating Disorders Awareness Week. “We therefore decided that we would hold an event the next year that would be expanded to include more of the campus community and one that focused not just on eating concerns but overall mental health and wellness,” Dr. Martin said. This year, the series will begin with two events focused on “Taking Care of Yourself Emotionally”...
By Megan Parker, Editor-in-Chief
February 19, 2020
Both undergraduate and graduate students from all majors are invited to submit their research for the second-annual University of Akron Interdisciplinary Symposium (UA-IS) through Feb. 21. According to the UA-IS website, the symposium gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to submit their “scholarly and creative works as poster presentations.” This year’s UA-IS theme, “Nurturing the Seeds of Innovation,” was created by Dr. Carolyn Behrman, co-director of the Experiential Learning (EXL) Center, to tie in with campus initiatives from President Gary Miller. Within this theme, Symposium Chair Matt Williamson, a sociology doctoral candidate, hopes to see research and scholarship highlighting innovation and also sustainability. “We...
By Kaitee Horstmann, Copy Editor
February 18, 2020
The Eta Gamma Chapter of Alpha Phi at The University of Akron will be hosting its annual Red Dress Gala on Feb. 29 to benefit the Alpha Phi Foundation in support of women’s heart health and cardiac care. Alpha Phi was originally established at Syracuse University in 1872 and was one of the first Greek societies strictly for women, according to the Eta Gamma chapter website. The Eta Gamma Chapter was then founded at UA in 1986 and strives to uphold their core values of scholarship, sisterhood, service, leadership, loyalty and character development through philanthropic endeavors like the gala. Diamond Johnson-Hannan, Eta Gamma Chapter’s vice president of community relations, said heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in women,...
By Alyssa Alexsonshk, News Contributor
February 18, 2020
Continuing their 7:17 and 9:09 series, the Residence Hall Program Board and Residence Hall Council had comedian Sammy Obeid perform on Jan. 29 in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union. According to his website, Obeid is best known for his streak of 1,001 days of consecutive comedy performances that started on Dec. 26, 2010 and ended on Sept. 21, 2013. In addition to this streak, Obeid has appeared on television shows such as “Conan,” “America’s Got Talent” and “Throwdown with Bobby Flay.” Obeid also plans on running for President in 2036. When Obeid stepped on stage in the student union, audience members knew he researched his audience after his first joke relating to running over a deer on his way to Akron, but the deer was already...
By Kaitee Horstmann, Copy Editor
February 19, 2020
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February 18, 2020
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