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The Wayne Stater

The student news site of Wayne State College

The Wayne Stater

The student news site of Wayne State College

The Wayne Stater

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Haven House is a local resource for survivors of sexual assault.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Aubreanna Miller, News Editor April 13, 2022

Wayne State College groups and those in the Wayne community have come together to bring awareness this April for the twenty-first anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.   Some of those campus...

Counseling helps Wayne students fight SAD

Elijah Herrington, Staff Writer November 13, 2019

Short days and long nights mark the beginning for many students’ struggles with the psychological and physical symptoms of seasonal depression, or what is medically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. Throughout...

2019 homecoming court announced

Emma Gardner, Staff Writer October 2, 2019

The Wayne State College 2019 homecoming court was announced by email Friday, Sept. 27. This year’s homecoming court consists of Jonathon Laner and Morgan Sudbeck representing Lambda Pi Eta, Montana...

Active Minds held a mental health forum on Wednesday to raise awareness and attempt to remove the stigma that surrounds mental health issues.

Active Minds hosts mental health forum

Morgan Cardenas, Staff Writer October 10, 2018

Active Minds held a mental health forum in an attempt to combat the societal stigma that surrounds mental health on Oct. 3 in Gardner Hall. The forum kicked off with Amanda Murphy, the emcee and grant...

Active Minds put out shoes representing the 1,100 students
that commit suicide each year. This annual event helps raise
awareness for suicide prevention.

A walk in their shoes

Brianna Parsons, Staff Writer October 3, 2018

Outside Pile Hall, the “A Walk in Their Shoes” event took place Sept. 21 through 24, with 1,100 shoes laying in the grass representing each college student that died by suicide each year. They were...

Active Minds hosts mental health forum

Active Minds hosts mental health forum

Libby Dunn, Staff Writer April 4, 2018

Wayne State College’s Active Minds club partnered with the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Rural Futures Institute to present a mental health forum described as “remarkable” last Wednesday...

The Roaring ‘20s Drag Show

Kadra Sommersted March 21, 2018

Drag kings and drag queens will be performing tonight in Frey Conference Suite at 8 p.m. and will end around 10:45 p.m. If you would like to watch, be sure that you come a good two to three hours ahead...

There are 1,100 pairs of shoes in the display on WSC's campus. These shoes represent the number of college students that commit suicide each year. Active Minds is trying to lower that number by spreading the message to seek help when it is needed.

Take a walk in their shoes

Julia Baxter, Staff Writer October 11, 2017

“These are 1,100 pairs of shoes to represent the number of college students lost to suicide each year. Take a walk in their shoes. Start talking. Spread hope. Let’s lower that number.” Active Minds...

Active Minds needs your shoes

Julia Baxter, Staff Writer August 30, 2017

Donate your shoes! Active Minds, a group on campus, is creating a “Walk In Their Shoes” display and they need students’ help. “The shoes will be placed all over campus as a visual of the 1,100...

Taking care of mental health

Janet Grado, Staff Writer December 7, 2016

The Wayne State College Counseling Center and the student-led group Active Minds are working on destigmatizing mental health. And in the process, both groups are educating people on these sensitive topics. Destigmatizing...

A walk in their shoes

A walk in their shoes

Adrian Eggers, Staff Writer October 5, 2016

Last week, over 1,000 pairs of shoes were scattered all over the lawns of Pile, Bowen and the Kanter Student Center to represent the number of college students who have committed suicide in the last year...

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