Tag: Illness

Flu season and the savvy student

Overwhelmed lecture halls, communal living spaces and high amounts of social activity make university campuses a perfect breeding ground for the seasonal flu virus. Despite the increased exposure associated with student life, the United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) estimated only about...

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Sleep-deprived students seek help

Tara Russell fell asleep in a Pilates class last July. “I’ll just be doing something and then I’ll fall asleep,” Russell, ArtSci ’13, said. “I’ll be in lecture listening, then fall asleep and miss the entire thing. “I fell asleep during a calculus exam in high school once and missed the whole thing....

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Students stranded by virus

On Tuesday, Justin Fauteux hadn’t left his Victoria, B.C. hotel room. He expected to be back in Waterloo on Sunday, working on the next issue of Wilfrid Laurier’s student newspaper, the Cord. Instead, the Cord’s news director was alternating between vomiting and nibbling plain toast along with 40...

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