Displaced, confined, lost, bored, lonely. Today’s student-athletes have felt the pressures and emotional loss of the seasons that were postponed or canceled because of COVID-19. When students were…
The year 2020 promised to be gangbusters for the Historic Boone Tavern Hotel and Restaurant of Berea College. Patrick Huston, director of sales and marketing, was booking a…
Berenice Davila ’21 Political Science major Berenice Davila ’21 had certain expectations for her senior year at Berea, but the COVID-19 pandemic had other plans. Despite receiving an…
Imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear,” said Nadine Burke-Harris, a Canadian-American pediatrician, during a 2014 TEDMed talk. “Your heart starts to pound, your…
Obinna Ilochonwu ’22 Growing up in Nnewi in the south of Nigeria, Obinna Ilochonwu ’22 says his life was relatively normal. His mother, father and three brothers didn’t…
Willow Rodriguez ’21 Senior Willow Rodriguez had a rough time as a teen, and she brought those challenges with her when she came to college. “I knew about…
Berea College Counseling Services Over the past decade, rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts among college students have risen significantly, leading more students to seek help at…
As the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, our nation once again collided with injustice as deaths of Black men and women at…
Veronica Mauratic Veronica Mauratic ’22 spent her childhood constantly moving—never feeling settled, never feeling like she belonged. She homeschooled herself through middle school and finally landed in Somerset,…
Toni McNaron Toni McNaron is an educator, memoirist and lesbian feminist critic now living in Minnesota. But her memories and motivations will always be rooted in Alabama. “I grew up…