Flooding in Central Michigan
Nihal Manjila, Staff Reporter
June 25, 2020
For the past three months, the Case Western Reserve University community has had to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak. For residents of central Michigan, however, the pandemic was not the end of 2020’s troubles. At the end of May, a record-breaking flood hit the cities of Sanford and Midland, causing...
Opioids: The silent crisis during a global pandemic
Collin Wong, Web Editor
April 24, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its peak, Ohioans suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) face a crisis of their own. Allegra Schorr, president of the Coalition of Medication-Assisted Treatment Providers and Advocates of New York State, says that the opioid epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic have “c...
My life as an essential worker: a photo essay
Jackson Rudoff, Staff Reporter
April 21, 2020
Being deemed essential wasn’t nearly as validating as I anticipated it would be. In all honesty, I thought it was a joke that I was considered essential at all. The only reason I still had my job was because they furloughed the less-experienced part-timers, and then everyone else took time off out...
Celebrate Earth Day #50 with these environmentally-oriented organizations
April 21, 2020
Alongside the civil rights, anti-war, women’s rights and gay rights movements flooding streets throughout the 1960s was the environmental movement. In 1962, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” started raising environmental awareness in over 24 countries by clearly explaining the link between pol...
CWRU’s belonging removal policy leaves students frustrated
April 13, 2020
After initial reassurances from the Office of University Housing that March 17 would not be the final day to collect belongings from residential halls, Vice President for Student Affairs Lou Stark and Vice President for Campus Services Richard Jamieson asserted in a March 26 email, to students who had n...
Ohio students are stepping up in the face of dwindling supplies
Collin Wong, Web Editor
April 6, 2020
Amidst falling medical supply levels and rising concerns, college and medical students around Northeast Ohio are helping fight COVID-19. Those on the frontline of the pandemic are beginning to feel the effects of a nationwide personal protective equipment (PPE) shortage. With the coronavirus’ peak st...
Emergency Fund set up by students, for students affected by CWRU’s closure
Yvonne Pan and Shreyas Banerjee
March 31, 2020
For all Case Western Reserve University students, the cancellation of in-person classes and many spring semester events, suddenly having to reevaluate their living situation and the move to remote learning was hectic and stressful. However, for some, the process proved more burdensome than for others...
Cleveland hospitals develop new COVID-19–testing procedures amid limited resources
Collin Wong, Web Editor
March 22, 2020
Just one day after the World Health Organization's urgent declaration of a global pandemic, Dr. Amy Acton, Director of the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), estimated that over 100,000 Ohioans were carrying the virus; however, the official number of cases in the state is only 169, as of March 20. If Ac...
Coronavirus cancels CWRU
March 15, 2020
At around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, the Case Western Reserve University community received the news that many were waiting for: In the face of COVID-19’s spread to Cuyahoga County, CWRU was moving to remote learning. Originally intended to last from March 18 to April 6, the university has now exten...
CWRU implements spring break travel regulations in response to COVID-19
March 8, 2020
This midterm season, students weren’t the only members of the Case Western Reserve University community that were stressed out. As the death toll of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise in the U.S., with 19 recorded fatalities at press time, CWRU’s administration has become increasingly concern...
