Technician
tuesday february
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2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Kenneth Lam, a sophomore in business, Candace Jones, a sophmore in public relations, and Bruna Tazza, a sophomore in business and International studies, shovel dirt around a freshly planted tree Saturday morning. “Today was really special because I knew with every stroke of my shovel, our community would be one step closer to a more beautiful, thriving environment,” Jones said.
Registration opens for Service Raleigh Students can now sign up to participate in this year’s Raleigh service event Arth Pandya Staff Writer
Service Raleigh, an annual citywide day of service conducted by students,
began registration Monday. The event was started in 1998 by members of Student Government and the Park Scholars program. The 13th Annual Service Raleigh will take place March 27th. According to Corinne Dumonceau, co-shair of Service Raleigh, Service Raleigh is the largest student-run service
organization in the Triangle area. “The whole event is completely student-led,” she said. Service Raleigh links volunteers with local service organizations in the area and incorporates projects ranging from painting nursing homes to distributing f liers for societies helping those with multiple sclerosis.
Carrie Chase, the head of Service Raleigh’s public relations committee, said the event is unique from other service events because it spans the entire city. “[Service Raleigh] isn’t focused on just one organization or one area,” she said.
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Counselors help prevent suicides Counseling center available to assist students through rough times, seasonal depression
sion. She said the Counseling Center has many resources which can help people who are depressed deal with those feelings. More importantly, she said the Caroline Barfield counselors can help people try to figStaff Writer ure out the problems stimulating deStatistically the winter season sees pression and then provide the correct the most cases of seasonal depression. treatment and prevention. “Suicidal thoughts are not uncomAccording to medicinenet.com, the colder weather and decreasing hours mon with depression,” Jackson said. of daylight cause a severely adverse “We have people come in fairly regularly reporting they have thought reaction in many people. Winter not only brings snow, but in about suicide.” Jackson said there are many issues a many cases depression too. Symptoms such as anxiety, anxiousness, confu- college student must deal with which sion, loneliness or the feeling of being could be a cause of depression. “Multiple factors cause these feellost tend to be indicators of depression, which in the long run might even ings, but typically when someone is lead some to have thoughts of suicide. distressed their stress gradually inAccording to Suicide.org, suicide creases which ultimately lead to those is the second leading cause of death sorts of thoughts. We want to help students cope with for college students their stress and are and the number able to help aid one cause of suithrough psychiacide for college stutry, medication or dents is untreated whatever is necesdepression. sary to help them,” With everything Jackson said. a student juggles She also said if it can be very easy people are feelto fall into a state ing that bad, the of depression. door is open and The Universit y, t he Counseling however, is fully Center encourcapable of aidages them to walk ing students in in any time if they combatting these Lari Jackson, Councelor at the UCC are having bad or uneasy thoughts suicidal thoughts. and feelings. All a If the center is student has to do is walk into the counseling center, re- not open, students can contact Camquest assistance and the counselors pus Police (without revealing need of a counselor) and leave their contact will be more than eager to help. According to Dr. Lari Jackson, a information so they can contact the counselor at the University Counsel- counselor on-call for help. Students cannot set up an appointing Center, when people have suicidal feelings, it is usually related to depres- ment online for counseling.
“Typically when someone is distressed their stress gradually increases which ultimately lead to [suicidal] thoughts.”
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Counseling available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
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Walk-in urgent care available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays except 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday
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The Counseling Center prefers students to show up in person to initiate services. Appointments can be made at 919-515-2423. Source: University Counseling Center
Jackson said that she urges people who are feeling distressed to pay a visit to the Counseling Center because they want to help students however they can. According to the Counseling Center Web site, counseling is an interaction between a person who is “stuck” in some way and in need of help from another person who is trained in helping them get “unstuck.” The Counseling Center is on campus to provide students with a safe environment and professionals are available to talk to students about their problems, no matter how minor or serious. Counselors at the Counseling Center are trained to take approaches tailored to fit each student’s individual needs and provide assistance and stabilization for a student’s unique problems.
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Erica Ogburn, senior in zoology, looks for history class books. Ogburn searches through various books to “see if the books are different. They’re all either skinnier or thicker,” Ogburn said. Students were also given the choice to to do Get Booked Early if they didn’t want to go in and pick out their books.
Ebooks sales underwhelming Students prefer printed textbooks compared to their electronic variants Caroline Barfield Staff Writer
In the past five years, the bookstore has started offering electronic books along with print versions. Many third party vendors have also begun offering ebooks for rent through online storefronts. Ebooks are usually cheaper than
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printed books and are more efficient in terms of saving paper and transmitting the material. Students, however, continue to show favoritism towards the printed versions of the books. Anthony Sanders, the support services supervisor for the campus bookstore, said the amount of ebooks sold at the bookstore has doubled since last year, but the total number of ebooks sold is still very small. According to Sanders, the University
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