Author Archives: Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
Heavy Drinking Increases Risk for Sexual Assault, Health Officials Say
With spring break right around the corner, startling facts about sexual assault take on increased significance. College students traditionally drink excessively during this time, health officials said. “Alcohol is the number 1 date rape drug,” said Mary Wyandt-Hiebert, director of …
Pat Walker Officials Change Appointment Policy
In keeping with the trend toward walk-in medical care, the Pat Walker Health Center now offers services for students on a first-come, first-serve basis through the RazorCARE clinic, the director of medical services said. Although appointments are not needed, students …
Oral Health Linked to Overall Health, Officials Say
Medical research has confirmed the connection between oral health and overall health, yet many people, including students, lack proper dental care. “The mouth is the window to the body,” said Connie White, professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School …
The Danger of Headphones
It was October in Cherryville, N.C., when a car struck a headphone-wearing pedestrian who was crossing a busy street. A similar event occurred in Australia, where a train ran over a 15-year-old girl who couldn’t hear the warning signals because …
Social Media Changing The Way We Live
I wonder if after you’re run over in the street, bleeding profusely but still grasping the iPhone that occupied so much of your attention that you didn’t see the speeding motorist heading your way, if you then change your Facebook …
Non-Traditional Classes Can Help Growing Pain
Through its exuberance to increase enrollment, and therefore its income, administrators created many problems that amount to growing pains. Figuring out where students should park, take classes and reside has been problematic this semester and likely for years to come. …
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Monday Column Response
Apparently, my last column regarding school spirit hit a nerve with some people. The headline might as well have been “UA student hates the UA.” If my prior experience had been at one of the other 1,598 colleges, I do …
When Students School Spirit Goes Too Far
Football season seems to increase the testosterone level on campus. Perhaps it raises the blood alcohol level, too. Whatever the reason, during the time I have been a student here I have noticed a pattern: my University of Texas hat …
Student Veterans: From Boots to Books
For most students, stress arises from events such as final exams, bad break-ups, unforgiving professors or a flat tire on the interstate. We’re so dramatic. For other students, stress means courage under fire, living for your buddies rather than yourself …
Solutions For Students With Math Anxiety
“Math makes me wanna break stuff,” said Crystal Kieffer, senior art major. Many students will understand such intense feelings, and many will not. Students who are fundamentally frustrated with math will be glad to know there is a name for …
Students With Children Face Many Challenges
Childhood and college may seem like incompatible subjects at first. However, many nontraditional students face the daily challenge of raising children while working toward a college degree. These hard-working students are pulled in many directions as they confront economic challenges, …
How We Handle Road Rage in the Plastic Age
“Everybody’s in such a dang hurry,” my grandmother drawled, as she clenched the steering wheel with a white-knuckled grip. (She believed that hurrying was undignified; and further, incompatible with her stubborn conception of the lazy South.) Introduce the modern age …
Despite Differences, Students Can Help Each Other
The fever and frenzy of midterms last semester prompted a baby-faced, stressed-out student to lament, “I can’t wait to finish college. I’m so sick of this place.” I thought to myself, “Spend ten years in the work force and then …
