Residential colleges work to foster community during pandemic
By Sally Stouffer | November 19, 2020Although it has been a challenging year for everyone, residential colleges have still found creative ways to maintain a sense of community.
Although it has been a challenging year for everyone, residential colleges have still found creative ways to maintain a sense of community.
The organization tends to alternate between serious topics and more casual ones, hoping that everyone will be able to find something they relate to.
It is this type of mutual support and flexibility that students and faculty alike hope carries forward as online classes continue.
Amidst the changes, student workers have faced challenges in adjusting to the University’s new safety regulations.
As the school year progresses and workloads begin to pile up, students are starting to feel the toll of virtual learning, especially that of Zoom fatigue — the impediment of information processing due to an overuse of virtual conferencing technology that diminishes non-verbal communication learning
Often described as a staple of the University’s Corner, Littlejohn’s Delicatessen on University Avenue has a base of dedicated, long-time patrons who are rallying behind the efforts to keep it alive.
While the return to Grounds is, for many students, a long-awaited escape from home and a hopeful promise that things will soon return to normal, the reality is less exciting for those who are confronted with personal health challenges.
Cancel culture focuses on cancellation as a consequence of how students portray their opinions and themselves on social media, but finds difficulty in how one can un-cancel themselves — if there even is such an option.
Many of the University’s CIOs are working harder than ever to not only establish unity among current members, but to also aid in the socially-limited transition to Grounds that most first-year students will experience in the coming weeks.
With no promise of certainty in these next couple of months, returning to Grounds can hold many doubts and frustrations for families, friends and apartment mates.
Although students are lacking many of the traditional cultural components of the SLI, professors and tutors are working focusing on ensuring students still experience and understand the values of other countries through a multitude of activities.
Although the members of the University's LGBTQ+ community may be physically distanced from one another, they are still finding virtual ways to uplift one another remotely.
Now more than ever, the Black voices of our communities and the University demand and deserve to be heard and acknowledged.
Rising third-year Nursing student Phillip Phan pursued nursing to give back to the medical community that had treated his father with compassion and respect.
Throughout their teaching careers, professors often experience incredibly fulfilling moments, ones they can look back upon with nostalgia. For some, those proud moments are moments spent with you — the students.
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