Campus Safety Resource Utilization: Student Perspectives
What night safety resources does UC Berkeley offer for its students, and how can it maximize the resources’ utility and effectiveness?
Category Archives: Campus Health
Shaping College Experiences: Community Spaces
Clubs can help students academically and professionally, but they also serve as transformative spaces where participants have the opportunity to form lasting relationships with their peers.
What Title IX Means for UC Berkeley Students
Title IX is under threat from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. What is Title IX, and how does Title IX currently operate on our campus?
Public Health Career Opportunities
Are you interested in the field of public health but don’t know what to do next? Read on!
Spotting Fake Health Statistics
In our current day and age, it has become almost a norm for people to rely on social media as a source for news, for cooking videos, for shopping and more recently, even for health advice. This widespread circulation of potentially fake articles about health statistics can be misleading at best and extremely dangerous at worst.
Crime Alerts and Safety: What Should We Really Be Warned About?
UC Berkeley’s Clery Timely Warnings warn Berkeley community members through email about crime alerts in the area. The name comes from the Jeanne Clery Act, initially signed in 1990, which mandates that the university collect and maintain reports of criminal activity.
Studying Public Health
So you want to study public health? As a capped major at UC Berkeley, the public health major requires one extra step before declaring: completing the undergraduate major application.
Body Image and Social Media: The College Perspective
Currently popular are “thinspiration” and “fitspiration” Instagram pages, or “thinspo” and “fitspo,” whose messages focus on promoting thinness, health, and wellness. However, the distinction between a healthy relationship with food, dieting, weight loss, and exercise, and anorexia is further and further blurred.
Greek Life and Alcohol: Sorority Alcohol Ban
Greek life on college campuses is often perceived as the headquarters for casual alcohol use. While the risks of binge drinking on college campuses have been well promulgated, one potential solution is often overlooked — the role of women in party culture.
A Pantry of Love and Security
Many of us have experienced what it feels like to have extra meal points. The last few weeks of the semester consist of stopping by Bear Market and picking up all the junk that our hearts desire, then leaving school with piles of forgotten, unfinished