Articles: Health

7/1/2009

Recent events have understandably triggered a flurry of crisis preparedness efforts at colleges and universities across the country. Many of these institutions are today breathing easier now that they have incident response plans the size of phone books resting in drawers or populating intranets. They feel confident that in an emergency they can evacuate parties at risk in a timely organized manner — perhaps.

6/1/2009
 

THERE IS A NEW "SIN" INDUSTRY on college campuses. It’s not beer, fast food, or tobacco. It’s water!

3/1/2009
 

ALL YEAR LONG, BUT THROUGHOUT the colder months in particular, health care needs inevitably arise.

12/1/2008
 

I HAVE LEARNED THAT THIS COLUMN CAN touch a few nerves. Two examples of this are editorials I wrote about guns and alcohol, both of which continue to draw reader response long after they were published.

10/1/2008
 

A strange and inspiring thing happened this summer. Higher education grew a backbone.

10/1/2008
 

AS AN ENTHUSIASTIC signatory to the Amethyst Initiative, a joint statement issued by college and university presidents and chancellors urging public debate on the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, I am pleased to say the discussio

7/1/2008
 

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE secretary who fell asleep at work, facedown on her computer keyboard?

7/1/2008
 

MEET THE MILLENNIAL STUDENT. SHE is busy, goal oriented, and perhaps stressed. She might be depressed too.

7/1/2008
 

<b>Lenovo</b>'s <em>ThinkCentre M57</em> and <em>M57P</em> "Eco" ultra small desktop PCs are quite environmentall

7/1/2008
 

AMERICA'S COLLEGE HEALTH systems are gravely ill. Unless faculty and campus administrators address these coverage issues, students could be one disease or accident away from losing the education for which they are paying.

7/1/2008
 

LONG BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT OF <b>Frostburg State University</b> (Md.), Jonathan C. Gibralter was teaching elsewhere.

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