“Stop the violence, start the love.”This was the chant approximately 300 people marched to Jan. 20. on a day when temperatures fell below 20 degrees. The Polar Peace March lived up to its name.Despite...

The Student Government Association finished its first semester of hosting academic department town hall meetings designed to give the Columbia community an opportunity to discuss departmental and collegewide changes. All departments in the college have conducted town halls this semes...

One form of depression commonly experienced in the colder months is Seasonal Affective Disorder. Arctic temperatures and minimal sunlight can cause people to experience winter dejection.According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, winter-onset symptoms typically appear in late fall and early winter and are gone by summer. The condition is reported to mildly affect between 10 and 20 percent of the American population....

A cloudy day may disappoint some people, but for others, it causes a true biological change in their mood, behavior and cognitive functions.Classified under the umbrella-term seasonal affective disorder, the condition comprises a group of symptoms similar to that of depression. seasonal affective disorder can be medically diagnosed and treated, but research is ongoing to determine what causes it .“We don’t know for sure wh...