Like many other mothers, Lee Woodruff was at Disney World on Jan. 29, 2006 with her four children enjoying the day at the park. Little did she know that later that night she would receive a phone call notifying her that newsman husband, Bob Woodruff, sustained a traumatic brain injury due to an improvised explosive device (IED) which severely injured the left side of his head, while covering a story in Taji, Iraq for ABC News.
Do you know where Hawley Lounge is? A recent survey conducted by student government actually showed that a few students didn't even realize the lounge existed. Students can be confident that everyone on campus will know where Hawley Lounge is located by next year, however, as administration is currently working on a renovation that will begin this summer.
If there were a campus wide emergency at Sacred Heart University would you know what to do? It's Paul Healy's job to make sure you do. On Feb. 11, Healy stepped into the position of executive director for emergency management at the university. A title specially created to ensure the university's readiness to handle and respond to a major emergency, it unifies the Public Safety and Information Technology departments with local police departments and first response teams.
Nestled in the ground floor of Hawley lounge lies the Sacred Heart University student government office. Yes it may be small, and at times cluttered, but inside the university's elected student officials are hard at work. The student government elections for the 2008-2009 school year will take place April 16 and 17.
Did you know that your credit card company can lead you into excess debt? "The Federal Reserve says Americans have accumulated nearly $1 trillion, a record amount, in what it calls 'revolving credit,'[credit cards]" said the New York Times. College students contribute to this statistic as well.
Elisa Broach, children's book author, visited Luis Muñoz Marìn elementary school in Bridgeport on March 10. This was her second time visiting the school. She was invited from the Mi Amigo Program, which is a mentoring program at Marin school for students in grades two through five.
In Part 1 of this series, we concluded that the cornerstone of any healthy diet should be "whole" foods, as opposed to food products. A farmer's market would be the ultimate source of whole foods, but I wouldn't expect an overload of college students to be hitting up the local farmer's market (not to mention they're almost impossible to find for half the year in cold Connecticut).
Everyone at Sacred Heart has seen the large chapel construction, but what about the small one? The "mini chapel" is what it is known for. What is it? Why are they building it? If you have ever asked yourself these questions you are not alone. Students all around the Sacred Heart campus have wondered what that mini chapel is.