Sophomore Lyndsey Wajert, the Hatchet’s contributing opinions editor, examines the practices of UCC in light of increasing depression on college campuses

According to a report featured in an October National Public Radio broadcast, an increasing number of college students are dealing with not only homesickness, seasonal depression or work-related stress, but severe clinical depression, anxiety and eating disorders. The article reports, “In 2007, around 15 percent of students reported having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives; that’s up from 10 percent in 2000.”