Backpacks cover SBCC, bringing awareness to student suicide
Students, faculty, club members and volunteers all gathered around a display of 1,100 backpacks, each representing the life of a college student lost to suicide every year. City College’s Wellness...
View ArticleSBCC hosts open workshop, focuses on gender and identity
Nearly 100 City College employees and students gathered on Friday for a workshop on gender identity and expression in education in the Administration Building Room 211. Rachel Gloger, 38, who is the...
View ArticleSBCC new-hire brings strategies of improving student health
After several years of having only one mental health counselor available to over 30,000 students, City College’s Health Services Department has a new addition. Lacey Peters, 36, was recently hired as...
View ArticleA golden girl in a pink world; Living through childhood cancer
In 2011 I began third quarter at a new school. Within a month my dad and stepmom had divorced. Within three, I was diagnosed with cancer. I was 15. “You have Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Disease,” said Dr. Chao....
View ArticleWellness Connection gives SBCC safe partying tips for Halloween
Students dressed in mouse ears and funky hats stood in front of Luria Library and passed out Halloween decorated condoms to promote the Wellness Connection’s annual “Party Smart/Safe Halloween Event.”...
View ArticleNew healthy aging program to aid students to working world
City College is rolling out a brand new joint program with Antioch University aimed at educating students in caring for the elderly population, a growing field with the aging of the baby boomer...
View ArticleKidney warrior lives by phrase “awareness creates change”
With the bar at full capacity; all eyes were on me as I belted out Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” I live for karaoke, but this time I was hosting a kidney health awareness fundraiser I...
View Article‘Kick Butts Day’ lights up on new trends in smoking industry
Students were unable to look away at the array of 130 oversized cigarettes scattered around Friendship Plaza Wednesday. The oversized cigarettes were part of City College’s first annual “Kick Butts...
View ArticleLessons from the Lab discusses vaccinations and public health
City College students presented science-related questions to a panel of local doctors and professors Thursday night at a forum on disease and medicine. The forum, titled “Lessons from the Lab: A Path...
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