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Technology, fashion, and transportation. These are just some of the numerous components of everyday life that have evolved over decades, ever changing to meet the current needs of the population. Yet, there is one essential part of almost everyone’s life that has been stuck in place for far too long: the educational system.
According to information from Psychology Today, the origins of the modern structure of the educational system is rooted in industrialization and the need for efficient workers. These workers were essentially forced to comply with social standards, stripping them of the opportunity to be independent thinkers.
For decades, the U.S. government has advocated for education reform, yet this reform has been nothing more than a push for the evaluation of students’ worth by utilizing standardized tests that do not depict the academic abilities of students, but rather their ability to regurgitate indoctrinated information crammed into 180-day curriculums.
The Undergraduate Council endorsed a statement calling on all Ivy League institutions to divest from fossil fuels at a Sunday meeting.
Sponsored by all eight Ivy League student body presidents, the statement calls on the universities to commit to “climate-conscious investments” and cease their investment in fossil fuel companies by 2025.
The statement said the Ivy League universities are among the “most powerful and privileged institutions in the world,” citing their collective endowment of $135 billion and their control of roughly 25 percent of all American university endowment funds.
Their collective endowments grant them both “social influence” and a “responsibility” to combat the climate crisis, according to the statement.
The Mental Health Load is Heavy for Rhode Island’s Public-Facing Restaurant Staff
How front of house servers, bartenders and managers are faring and surviving in COVID-19 times in an ever-evolving restaurant environment.
February 17, 2021
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Trigger warning: This story contains sensitive content about mental health and suicide, which might be difficult for some.
In late January, after a party of guests leaves
Julians restaurant in Providence, bar manager and server Kendra Plumley clears dirty dishes and collects a billfold left at one of only five indoor tables the staff still seats. At the end of the shift, when the black plastic credit card sleeve is finally opened, a glaring handwritten message appears in pen on the receipt in the tip section: the word Tip is capitalized and underlined and the words, “Stop making patrons wear masks at the table” are scrawled in the space where guests should normally leave eighteen to twenty percent gratuity. It�
About a fifth of students visiting Mercer’s Office of Counseling and Psychological Services have sought counseling specifically because of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on their life, data kept by CAPS shows, underscoring the additional mental health challenges COVID-19 has caused at colleges across the nation.
“The anxiety that is associated with COVID whether they are a student or not has put us at a different baseline,” said Emily Piassick, director of CAPS. Piassick holds a doctoral degree in counseling psychology. “I’m not sure we have ever experienced anything like what we are experiencing right now within most of our lifetimes.”