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Lending a heart

Over 30 times in the past two years, Elizabeth Vasquez, president of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, has traveled to Mexico to volunteer in orphanages. 

Introvert's Advocate: Growing Up

Growing up is tough. Adolescence can be a weird and confusing time, especially if you tend to be more introverted.

Band of Brothers: ASU student and veteran creates dive program to help soldiers in need

Post-traumatic stress disorder and mental health issues confront our nation's military every day. Sometimes, the residual effects of combat can overcome veterans, leading them to commit suicide. 

History of ASU Health Services

In the span of almost six years, I have been to ASU Health Services only four times. Three times were for a doctor’s note (I was sick and I needed a proper form of an excuse last minute), the other was for a routine Pap smear and sexual health exam. 

ASU football's defensive backfield reshaping in time for Saturday

With the ASU football team sitting at an unimpressive 2-2, an overlooked aspect of the team's early struggles is the lack of health and depth in the defensive backfield. With the injuries to team members, the players have had to make adjustments.

Meet the first ASU women's hockey recruit: KC McGinley

There were no distractions. KC McGinley had just entered an airplane that she would have no escape from for six hours, as it hurdled through the air across the country. Six hours alone with her thoughts. Cramped with people but nobody to talk to.

Local supporters rally around teen charged with murder

As one Arizona teen faces years in prison, a network of supporters gathers to speak out in her favor. The group also protests her treatment by the legal system.

New Jonathan Franzen book 'Purity' takes on feminism through traditional book format

An anecdote: Jonathan Franzen was at a party one night for the release of his novel "Freedom" and was enjoying himself. When two men approached him, one snatched his glasses off of his face and the other handed him a ransom note then disappeared into the night, the author was shocked. 

Student returns to eating disorder clinic a fourth time — to support other patients

Counseling graduate student Winter Groeschl  began her struggle with anorexia and self-harm between the ages of 12 and 14. Her mother was also anorexic, making her a “role-model” that Groescho picked up the eating disorder from, she said.

15 ways to stay healthy and avoid the 'Freshman 15'

Welcome to college, freshmen. Enjoy this freedom from your parents and begin taking the first steps to becoming an independent, healthy adult. You are now able to choose what you eat and when you eat it. Classes will get tough and you will be introduced to new experiences and new people. Take a look at this list and use it to help you stress out less and make better lifestyle choices. 

Hush Baby Collective, a multimedia zine publisher, releases its fourth issue on mental health awareness this Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, and will be featuring local bands. 

Hush Baby Collective to release feminist zine on mental health awareness

Hush Baby Collective is an Arizona-based, multimedia zine publisher with a focus on feminism. This Friday, the zine is celebrating the release of its fourth issue on mental health awareness with a show featuring local bands such as Draa, Nova Joven, The Ricardos, Language Barrier and Molly & the Molluscs. I had the opportunity to catch up with Hush Baby founder Ryan Mellor and ask her a few questions.  

Transgender Muslim woman restricted from prayer at Tempe mosque after clashing with officials over gender expression

Officials at a Tempe mosque have come under fire after deciding one of its members, a transgender woman, could not pray in her facility of choice, barring her from a prayer space where she felt most comfortable. 

A World Away: From ASU to Madagascar

When most students come to college, they have no idea what they want to do with their lives. But a very select few already have a 10-year plan set before them. 

Now the time to fight tooth and nail for stronger, more intelligent U.S. gun control

The prognosis on America’s obsession with guns has never looked bleaker. This year has produced an astounding statistic regarding gun violence: we have had more than one mass shooting per day, on average, over the course of the year. This applies when a “mass shooting” means that four or more people were shot during the incident. Of course, this glosses over the multitudinous singular homicides, crimes and suicides committed with guns this and every other year.

ASU psychologists innovate ways to combat negative effects of divorce

A program developed by ASU psychology professors is taking a new approach to mental health treatment by preventing it before it happens rather than treating it afterwards.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visits Tempe

Line winding along the side of Tempe’s Changing Hands bookstore and around the corner, hundreds gathered Friday to catch a glimpse of the 39th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott: 'I do believe the best is yet to come'

BURBANK, Calif. -- Even after another successful year, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said at Pac-12 Media Days Thursday that the best is yet to come for the conference. 

Student plans for life on Mars

Colonies of humans living on Mars sounds like something out of a collection of Ray Bradbury short stories, but for ASU student Sean Mayall, it's a dream job.

United Nations group stresses right to life at MU event

Members of the World Youth Alliance spoke Tuesday night about reevaluating the way society views people in developing countries to a crowd of about 40 students and community members at the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.