"college-life" Articles & Blogs:
Lessons, some victories, and fresh worry: Is there life after college sports?
| Odell (in blue)
By Sarah Odell
The other day, the Wellesley College Squash Team — my team — opened the 2009 season at home against Smith College. This is my last home opener. As a senior, who has spent four years holding the number one spot ...[Read on] |
Female athletes head to college and beyond
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Photo credit: ThePioneer.com
What’s it like to head to college as a female athlete? I guess it all depends upon your sport and division.
Right now, millions of young women are packing up their cars and heading to campus (some have actually started c...[Read on] |
Potentially life-saving personal safety app designed by a mom for her kids
| Silent Bodyguard iPhone App Sends SOS and GPS Location Without Alerting Onlookers or an Attacker...[Read on] |
First fruits of a beautiful labor: Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy graduates inaugural class
| Andre Agassi and one of the first graduates from the Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy on Saturday, June 13, during the graduation ceremony.(All Photos by Wireimage)by Kyle Hansen for the Las Vegas SuncontactLas Vegas, Saturday, June 13 -- The first ...[Read on] |
Fun Without Drinks: A Chick’s Guide to Saying No
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Another stressful week is finally winding down. Between studying, writing papers, working out, going to club meetings, and catching up with friends, by the time the weekend rolls around, its time for a well deserved break.
For many of us chicks, you mi...[Read on] |
Yeardley Love and Abusive Relationships
| For the past few weeks the media has covered every aspect of Yeardley Love's untimely death. And, I've searched for why this case struck such a deep cord within me. Is it because it involves college athletes? Athletes who grew up in the same state I did, ...[Read on] |
Give Back: A Chick’s Guide to Community Service
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College is the time in your life when you’re allowed to be selfish in a sense. It’s your time to figure out who you are, what you want, and to start paving the way to make your future goals a reality. Because of that mentality, it’s easy to become w...[Read on] |
Title IX: Celebrating opportunity for all
| It was a particularly lackluster practice and in typical fashion our basketball coach threw a bit of a fit. He went on a verbal rampage trying desperately to explain to this group of high school girls the possibilities that existed for them in sport.
He ...[Read on] |
Why it is important to find time to exercise
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I don’t know about you chicks but college life is pretty stressful and hectic for me. My week seems to be work, school, work, school, work, work, sleep, repeat and it’s so hard to fit much else into my schedule.
The problem is, because there is so...[Read on] |
Why Can’t DIII Football Be Co-Ed?
| Lebanon Valley College photo
By Laura Pappano
The phrase “college football” evokes testosterone-charged pre-U.S. Marine-style intensity and mammoth bodies colliding at ridiculously odd angles and high speeds.
That may accurately describe DI teams o...[Read on] |
The trainwreck that has become Lindsay Lohan’s life
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I take no pleasure in the fact that Lindsay Lohan is going to jail for 90 days and then will complete another 90 days at an in-patient rehab.
But maybe, just maybe this will save her life.
Cause the track this young woman is on is killing her. She...[Read on] |
On the Continuum: Women’s Sports
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I went to a lunch earlier this week where Donna Orender, the President of the WNBA was the speaker. It was a small group of women from a diversity of professions. She talked about her life and how she has gotten to where she is now.
A little backgrou...[Read on] |
Take a Knee: Teen Girls Talk B-Ball, Leadership, Life
| By Laura Pappano
Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadership & Edu...[Read on] |
Title IX: 38 Years Later
| by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in all federally funded educational programs. It has op...[Read on] |
What does your taste in music say about you?
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Ah, college, wellspring of questionable habits and decisions. I might not eat as much pizza or stay out as late as I did back in the day - that is, six months ago - but if there’s one habit I can’t quite kick, it’s my tendency to judge people based ...[Read on] |
Five great movies for your next Girls Night In
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Every now and then it’s necessary to take some time out and put away the stilettos and short skirt and replace it with some PJs and a glass of wine. On nights like these it’s the perfect opportunity to call up the girls and get together for a girl’s...[Read on] |
As school starts, a reminder about violence against women and girls
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From HuffingtonPost: Back to School, Back to Rape.
An informative read about the prevalence of violence against women and young girls.
Quick hits from the article:
1 in 4 college women are a victim of rape .
One in three teens report dating violenc...[Read on] |
Is Hallmark the new Lifetime but for older women?
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I never used to watch anything on the Hallmark Channel. But lately it seems that they are doing some interesting movies of the week like the kind that used to be on network TV. I’m not saying that these are high drama or always even that good, but m...[Read on] |
Yes! (Or, Oh No): Time's The State of the American Woman
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A comprehensive report shows that women have made their way to the top in several aspects of career and life — but with that has come an additional burden that our mothers never felt … Share with us an anecdote in your life that helped carry u...[Read on] |
Julia Reed, Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama: A Lesson We Should All Learn
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He was right. It is a tough gig …Julia Reed | 05/18/2009 3:15 pmI did not attend my college graduation. Instead, I spent the morning working at Newsweek’s Washington bureau (where I toiled during the six years it took me to get through college –...[Read on] |
Overcoming college health obstacles
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We all know the difficulty in establishing any routine in college, much less maintain a consistently healthy diet and fitness schedule. When you are suffering the effects of the ten too beers you had the night before or your friends are getting ready ...[Read on] |
Nia Vardalos Gets It Done … and Then Some
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From adoption to moviemaking to fashion, the star of ‘My Life in Ruins’ knows that sometimes you just have to do it yourselfQ & A | Today 12:00 am
Editor’s Note: Nia Vardalos became a household name when she wrote and starred in 20...[Read on] |
A Chick’s Guide to Studying Abroad
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If there is a single person whom absolutely no one would ever suspect to study abroad, that person is definitely… me.
But come September, I will be boarding a plane to London, where I will be learning to navigate the Tube (the transportation system, th...[Read on] |
A Chick’s Guide to Studying Abroad
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If there is a single person whom absolutely no one would ever suspect to study abroad, that person is definitely… me.
But come September, I will be boarding a plane to London, where I will be learning to navigate the Tube (the transportation system, th...[Read on] |
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