campus resources
EARS Returns, Providing Mentoring Instead of Counseling
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Cornell EARS is coming back with a new one-on-one mentoring service instead of peer counseling.
Student Assembly
In Last S.A. Meeting of Semester, Community Clashes Over Israel-Palestine, Votes on Mental Health Measures
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The focus was both local and international at Thursday’s S.A. meeting, as representatives wrapped up end-of-year business, like reallocating funding and swearing in new members, and confronted escalating violence in Israel as conversations have rippled across campus.
Featured in Category
Student Assembly Tackles Saudi Arabian Ties, Slip Days
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Representatives at last week’s Student Assembly meeting sponsored resolutions that condemned University ties to the war in Yemen and that would provide students with ‘slip days’, giving them extra breathing room on assignment deadlines.
academic calendar
Citing Widespread Stressors, Cornell Extends Drop Deadline To Last Day of Classes
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For the spring 2021 semester, Cornell students will be able to drop any class by May 14, the last day of instruction, without receiving a “Withdrawn” on their transcript.
fashion
Cornell Fashion Collective and Thread Magazine Campaign Tackles Mental Health in Fashion Industry
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The Cornell Fashion Collective and Thread Magazine have created a collaboration titled “Debunking the Tortured Artist Myth” with the goal of tackling mental health in the fashion industry.
Columns
LORENZEN | Beware of LinkedIn Brain
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At its best, LinkedIn succeeds in its mission of, well, linking us in with professional contacts who can prove to be valuable sources of information or mentorship. At its worst, LinkedIn is a kind of professional cult composed of one part autofill inspirational stories, one part humble bragging, and one part career FOMO.
Columns
EPSTEIN |Get Your Daily Sun
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While often associated with the transition from fall to winter, seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder or SAD, can occur at any point of seasonal change with a significant amount those affected showing symptoms during the transition from winter to spring.
burn out
Students Are Coming Down With a Bad Case of Burnout Without Breaks to Remedy it
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Following March Wellness Days, Cornellians are still facing high levels of burnout with no extended breaks in sight.
Counseling and Psychological Services
Hundreds Sign Petition To Support Return of EARS Counseling
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Over 600 people have signed a petition to reinstate EARS peer counseling after the University found that its insurance does not cover the service.
laziness
TAARIQ-SIDIBE | You Are Not Lazy, You Are In A Pandemic
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Some tasks that I once considered simple have now become taunting, such as starting an assignment, sending an email or eating three meals a day. Though the tasks themselves did not change, my perception of them and the conditions in which they were completed, have. Since the start of the pandemic, many students and workers have been forced to adjust to new, functional environments. But our “new normal” has presented itself with its own set of challenges including potential harm to our physical and mental health. According to a study by the CDC, “Three out of four Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 report poor mental health tied to the pandemic.” Moreover, the same study reports that “80 percent of students around the country say that COVID has negatively impacted their mental health, their spiritual health, and career aspirations”.