Around 150 students took a seat in Pollak Theatre to see Boom Roasted Productions perform the 10th annual “Vagina Monologues” on Monday, Feb. 10 from 7:30 – 9 pm. The $1,025 in proceeds went to the local charity 180 Turning Lives Around and the national charity One Billion Rising, both of which focus on domestic violence awareness and prevention.
Active Minds, a national organization that seeks to promote mental health awareness, is in the process of becoming a University campus chapter. The initiative began as part of Promoting Wellness and Resiliency, a campus-specific mental health awareness and suicide prevention endeavor that started just over a year ago as the result of a federal grant for $300,000.
The Social Work Society and the School of Social Work hosted their 9th Annual Teach-In on Oct. 29 for the one year anniversary date of Superstorm Sandy. The event started nine years ago as a response to Hurricane Katrina and other disasters that had happened around the same time both in our nation and around the world.
According to the Center for Disease Control, someone commits suicide every 14 minutes in the US. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, the center also found.