Healthcare
How NYU Wellness Sees Itself — and Why That Image Is Wrong
After recently promoting a questionably-sourced article on the Student Health Center, NPR has misrepresented NYU’s wellness resources, failing to recognize student voices.
Medical Professionals Need to Be Educated on Eating Disorders
Medical professionals have a responsibility to educate themselves on eating disorders so they can help and validate struggling students.
How NYU Can Really Support Mental Health
Mental health at NYU can’t improve until we realize that the people who need help are actually the ones least likely to ask for it.
Will NYU Improve the SHC Now?
NYU’s department of Counseling and Wellness Services has officially fallen below the national standard. Will this finally be the impetus for NYU to improve its mental health facilities?
Food Injustice, or Food Ignorance?
Recently, there has been a push to promote gardening and cooking as methods to overcome food inequality in the United States. But these methods overlook systemic injustices.
New Wellness Resource Indicates Lack of Accountability by NYU
Though While You Wait seems like a step toward NYU improving its mental health facilities, a closer look reveals multiple problems with the ways that the university resolves student issues.
NYU Should Give Students Days Off for Mental Health
New York State has the chance to sign student mental health days off into law for public schools. NYU should follow suit.
NYU Is Neglecting Students’ Health With Dining Hall Failures
By choosing to not tell its students about health code violations at Palladium Food Court, NYU has put the health of its community at risk.
Regulation, Not Prohibition
With e-cigarette flavor bans on both the national and state level, it is important to recognize why prohibition would not work.
NYU Isn’t Taking Care of Its Students
Analyzing the Wellness Center’s track record — and crunching some numbers — doesn’t inspire much optimism.
The Measles Outbreak Is a Failure on Multiple Fronts
Brooklyn's Jewish community has fallen victim not only to a measles outbreak, but also to the resulting media coverage.
Dismantling the Stigma Surrounding Alcoholics Anonymous
AA can be an asset for students, who should recognize the value it can have despite the unfounded stigma it possesses.
