“I seat myself on the bed, scissors and tissue at the ready. This time it is not because I am sad. It is only because I am frustrated…I see old, raised scars on my right shoulder. I press the scissors into my skin about an inch below the lowest scar. Quickly, I drag the blade [...]
Although it is often times kept covered up eating disorders are a problem among college students all over the nation and Franklin Pierce University barely addresses the issue or provides students with these diseases a place to go in comfort.
Outstretched in the back seat of his friend’s Honda Accord on the way to Revere Beach, he felt the vibrations of the techno on the stereo pulsating through his back. “I ate seven ecstasy pills that night, and it was the first time I’d ever tried it,” he said nonchalantly. “It felt like I was [...]
Steve is sleeping on the couch downstairs yet again. The pitter-patter of the rain beating against the skylight in his upstairs bedroom is too much for his restless mind to handle. The rain is a constant reminder of the flooding that has caused him tremendous grief for the last four years.
Steve used to love everything [...]
It wasn’t something that was supposed to happen to an 18-year-old.
“I still can’t find the words. Nothing will do that moment justice. Nothing can describe exactly what a crying city sounds like. A resounding wail of heartbreak and agony. It murmured that way for a long time,” wrote Brittany Gilbert on January 13, the day after a 7.0 earthquake had shook Haiti.
Brittany, 21 years old, [...]
This week’s featured student is Andrea Garcia, a junior Mass Communications major.
by Alyssa Dandrea
She was thrown backwards and within seconds her legs trapped beneath the riding lawnmower her mother was driving. Four year old Bianca LaPointe had tripped on the third step leading into her home. At the precise moment of the lawnmower’s approach, her feet had slid out from under her.
That hot spring afternoon Bianca [...]
His right arm is in a sling, along with nine screws and a metal plate to go with it. He sits back, watches television and thinks to himself, “There goes the rest of my snowboard season and more importantly my job.”
On January 14th, 2010 Ryan Spittle broke his right collarbone. The one thing he truly [...]
Living in a 30 by 30 foot tent with 17 different personalities can be stressful. But Melissa Koszer didn’t sweat it, because belting out the song “Why Can’t We be Friends?” could usually always put a smile on her tent-mates faces.
Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y, Melissa prides herself on being bona fide city girl- so she [...]