This is Part 1 in a five-part series. Read: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5This Friday will mark the six-year anniversary of the Feb. 14, 2008, shooting, which left five students and the shooter dead.Every day this week, the Northern Star Editorial...
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. This is the message that some are finally getting. On March 12, state officials put aside $20 million to revamp Colorado’s mental-health system as part of a plan introduced by Gov. John Hickenlooper in January,...
Students, staff and faculty are invited to participate in a series of programs this week meant to give them a safe space to discuss mental health issues, according to a NIU Counseling, Adult and Higher Education press release. NIU will host a campus-wide...
Mental health has been considered a taboo in some societies, but the Say It Out Loud campaign hopes to change that in Illinois. The Say It Out Loud campaign was created to shine a light to mental health. The goal of the campaign is to enable people to...
Thank God it's spring and the weather is getting nicer. I'm like a little kid that constantly wants to play outside. What constitutes "playing" is a broad range of activities, but if I can't play, I pout. It wasn't until I saw a doctor two years ago during...
It is time we accept the fact that people kill people. They do so for various biological, psychological and sociocultural reasons. I do not mean to belittle the loss of life that allegedly took place at the hands of Jared Loughner in Arizona, but we have...
The story of Jared Loughner reminded me of Steven Kazmierczak. After reports came out that the man charged with the Tucson shooting had been kicked out of Pima Community College until he could provide documents from a mental health specialist indicating...
