Stress Management

Article By Ilyse Goldberg, Assistant Director of the University Counseling Center

The end of the semester can be a very stressful time for students. Finals, securing summer employment, graduation, and transitioning to living back at home with parents are some of the issues that college students face at the close of the spring semester. During times such as this, the word “stress” gets thrown around often and tends to have a negative connotation. It is important to remember that stress is a natural reaction to life experience, and that we need a little stress to stay alert and to motivate us.
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End of the Year Recycling Drive

Article By Erik Kjosness, Area Director of Residential Life

What does 5,000 pounds of care look like? How much concern for others fits into 850 cubic feet? That’s what a 17-foot moving truck holds, and that is what Loyola students filled to the brim last May, with items from the first organized End of the Year Recycling Drive. Shortly after finals last year the fruits of the drive, which included shirts, pants, shorts, shoes, roller blades, futons, desks, toasters, lamps, food and more, were delivered to the Bywater Church of Christ in our own 9th Ward. The items were immediately put to good use among parishioners still struggling after Hurricane Katrina.
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