Care Bear Cares: Adjusting to your new “home” at Gettysburg
If you’re dealing with a problem with classes, friends or anything else on campus, odds are someone else at Gettysburg is having a similar problem. So rather than confide in your parents or reliable best friend, why not publish your personal problems for all the world to see!? It’s like when you go up to your professor with a question, and he or she insists that you ask so the entire class can hear in case other students have the same...
Care Bear Cares: Dealing with an Honor Code violation
If you’re dealing with a problem with classes, friends or anything else on campus, odds are someone else at Gettysburg is having a similar problem. So rather than confide in your parents or reliable best friend, why not publish your personal problems for all the world to see!? It’s like when you go up to your professor with a question, and he or she insists that you ask so the entire class can hear in case other students have the same...
Care Bear Cares: An Advice Column
If you’re dealing with a problem with classes, friends, or anything else on campus, odds are someone else at Gettysburg is having a similar problem. So rather than confide in your parents or reliable best friend, why not publish your personal problems for all the world to see!? It’s like when you go up to your professor with a question, and he or she insists that you ask so the entire class can hear in case other students have the...
Dear CHEERS: Helping a friend who may have a drinking problem
By Kathryn Slezak Dear CHEERS, I live in an apartment of 7 people, but surprisingly we get along most of the time. We have been friends since the beginning of freshman year, and we do everything together, so we know each other pretty well. Lately, one of my best friends in the apartment has started to drink a lot more than he has since I’ve known him. It started off as a way to celebrate the good weather, but he has steadily been...
Dear CHEERS: Tough decisions
By Kathryn Slezak Dear CHEERS, Last weekend I was out at a frat with a group of my friends. We were getting our frackets upstairs when I saw some guy holding hands with a girl and taking him up to his room. She was extremely drunk, and he seemed relatively sober. All week I felt like I had let her down by not saying anything. What if she had sex with him and regretted it? If I ever see that happening in the future, what do I do? Those...
Dear CHEERS: Some tips for managing stress
By Kathryn Slezak Dear CHEERS, Now that this semester is ending, I am getting really stressed out. The combination of my senior friends graduating, end of the year projects, finals, summer jobs, and internships is really starting to weigh me down. It has gotten to the point where I can’t keep it all out of my mind; I can’t even sleep at night or focus in class. What can I do to keep the stress from affecting me? This time of...
