In spite of the current blood shortage nationwide, it's easy to be turned down when trying to donate blood. For example, donors with a tattoo or an infection must wait before becoming eligible to give. But, under the 25-year-old rules set by the Food and Drug Administration [FDA], gay male volunteers are banned for life from giving blood. Post the First Comment
Don't be fooled by the rising temperatures and spring-like weather. College students are still susceptible to the flu virus, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the vaccine doesn't protect against most of this year's spreading flu bugs. Fairfield's Heath Center has reported 75 cases of students with the flu or flu-like symptoms this academic year, which is actually down from last year. Post the First Comment
Music and the smell of freshly baked cookies welcomed students to the kitchen of Regis Hall Friday afternoon, where rows of deodorant, shampoo and toothpaste were linined up. Gabriel Rojas '09, an RA in Regis, organized the quad-wide drive as an RA program for March in which he and residents collected items for care packages that will be sent to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Post the First Comment
FAIRFIELD Fifty-three students elected into prestigious honor society Fairfield recently announced this year's Phi Beta Kappa inductees, the nation's oldest and most prestigious academic honor society. The students - nine juniors and 44 seniors - must rank in the top 10 percent of their class, have a major within the liberal arts and sciences, and prove to be leaders in their fields in order to be considered for membership. Post the First Comment
Many college students can agree that the all-too-popular Facebook often takes precedence over much-needed study time. It would be too hard to count the number of hours a week wasted scrolling through newly updated photo albums, finding out how the ex-boyfriends and girlfriends are doing with their new significant others, and of course, checking profile walls for any new posts. 2 Comments
Despite a decline in the past several years in the number of high school aged smokers nationwide, college students continue to smoke cigarettes and other tobacco products at roughly the same rate, as before a recent study suggests. According to that study, performed by the federal government's 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the most readily available data, 31 percent of full-time college students smoke, compared to 25 percent of the overall population, leaving young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 at the highest rate of tobacco users. 1 Comment
In 1997, Macintosh users were encouraged to "think different," in television advertisements. But in 2008 they don't just think differently, but potentially believe they are better than PC users. In an online survey of 7,500 computer users conducted by Mindset Media, those with Apple computers believed they are more open-minded, precise and socially and politically liberal than the general population. Post the First Comment
Find out what the big stories this week look like when you just look at the numbers involved. Post the First Comment
Parties were broken up and a lot of underclassmen were caught with alcohol in this week's edition of 'Campus crime beat.' Post the First Comment
Ashley Steele, a freshman at Iowa State University, said her drinking habits can disguise her eating disorder. "I've always had a problem with anorexia, but I like to drink," she said. "I figure most people will see me drinking and not realize that I have a problem with my eating. 1 Comment
The circulation and readership of daily newspapers has declined for decades. As professionals ride the downward spiral, however, college newspapers continue to thrive. Rick Wilber, an assistant professor of mass communications at the University of South Florida who has extensive background in newspaper writing and editing, said the great characteristic that college newspapers share is hyper-locality - the ability to report on what matters to a narrow readership. Post the First Comment
