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Anxious Times

Posted in Feature, Winter 2009, tagged anxiety, parent relationships, student performance on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Across the country, students at colleges and universities are increasingly anxious, depressed and grappling with other mental health issues. Psychologists at Saint Michael’s consider the issue, and offer insights into both the possible causes of this mood shift, and some potential solutions. By Caroline Crawford

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Resourceful (addition to Anxious Times)

Posted in Feature, Winter 2009, tagged anxiety, stress, student performance, student resources on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

by Mark Tarnacki As a personal counselor at the Student Resource Center (SRC) for the past 28 years, co-director Linda Hollingdale has helped Saint Michael’s students through issues that might stand in their way of having their best possible college experiences.

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Take a Closer Look

Posted in Campus News, Feature, Online Extras, Winter 2009, tagged campus, photographs, scavenger hunt on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

How well do you know Saint Michael’s? We took an up-close tour of some of the most familiar places on campus and found some interesting and surprising images to test your knowledge of the places and things that are part of Saint Michael’s College.

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In The Margins: Picturing Anxiety

Posted in Editor's Note, Winter 2009, tagged anxiety, Feature, scavenger hunt, writing on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

By Caroline Crawford, Editor Some stories that I work on for the magazine affect me more than others. When I started to research the cover story “Anxious Times” and explore the issue of increasing anxiety and depression in college students, I was surprised and troubled to learn how widespread the problem is and how it [...]

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Class Notes

Posted in Alumni News, Class Notes, Winter 2009, tagged alumni, Class Notes, news on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

1948 A group of Golden Knights from western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut regularly get together for lunch on the third Thursday of every month. Jack Griffin, Lou Bourbeau, Walter Liss ’52, Fran Maloney ’53, Jim Quinn ’51, Dan Berry ’50, Ben Walker ’50, Mike Borselle ’50, Sam Foley ’53, John O’Brien ’51, and Joe Briganti [...]

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Weathering the Storm

Posted in Campus News, Winter 2009, tagged college, economy, financial crisis, stability on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Staying strong in difficult times By Mark Tarnacki Communities in northern Vermont have good instincts about weathering storms: be prepared, be flexible, look after one another, and don’t try anything too dramatic until the storm passes.

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Ethical Engagement with “The Other”

Posted in Campus News, Faculty News, Winter 2009, tagged philosophy, service work on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

By Buff Lindau Students in Professor Katherine Kirby’s course on “Otherness and Marignalization: Levinas and the Alienated” grappled with a very thorny philosophy text, Emmanuel Levinas’ Totality and Infinity. But they brought the text to life through enacting its precepts in service work. “The service learning component of this course is an experiential way of [...]

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Visions of Peace

Posted in Campus News, Winter 2009, tagged archbishop chacour, Mar Elias Education Institute, peace on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Archbishop Elias Chacour shares a prophetic vision of peace By Mark Tarnacki “We men of Galilee, we never make appointments. We make appearances,” said Elias Chacour, the prominent author, peace activist and archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from Galilee, who used his appearance at McCarthy Arts Center November 3 to share a prophetic [...]

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All-Time Leader

Posted in Alumni News, Campus News, Sports News, Student News, Winter 2009, tagged Andrea Slaven, Carla Hesler, field hockey, Seanna Poelaert on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Andrea Slaven ’09 moves past new Hall-of-Famer Balfe as all-time field hockey points leader By Mark Tarnacki When Seanna Poelaert Balfe ’00 was inducted into the Saint Michael’s Athletic Hall of Fame this past fall, the young woman who poised to break her field hockey records for goals and points, Andrea Slaven ’09, was at [...]

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Making News

Posted in Campus News, Student News, Winter 2009, tagged National College Reporter of the Year on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Award-winning journalism student Erik Wells ’09 makes and breaks news in Kansas City By Buff Lindau It was a memorable birthday for Erik Wells ’09. One of four finalists for National College Reporter of the Year, Wells, a journalism major, flew to Kansas City on his 22nd birthday, October 29, for the National College Media [...]

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