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For more than 85 years the American College Health Association (ACHA) has been an advocate and leadership organization for college and university health. Trinity Western University joined the ACHA in the fall of 2006 in order to better understand and serve the health needs of our students. The National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey is one tool that the ACHA uses to accomplish this task.
The NCHA is a nationally recognized research survey that assists in collecting precise data about our students’ habits, behaviors, and perceptions on a wide range of health issues. In spring 2007 TWU participated in the NCHA survey by conducting a randomized survey of 1500 students. Both married and single students were included.
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November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In 1948, biology professor Alfred Kinsey released his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male—a lengthy study on the sexual practices of men. Kinsey’s book caused an uproar in American society. A professor at the Indiana University, Kinsey was the subject of several objections as to the quality of his research, the results of his findings and, most significantly, the moral grounds of what became known as the Kinsey Reports. However, regardless of the grounds on which Kinsey did his research, he achieved something revolutionary: bringing the issue of sexuality to the surface of a society that largely ignored it.
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October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I never really thought about the sacredness of language until I worked at a camp this summer at the University of Michigan. Eight of my thirteen campers were from Mumbai, India, several of whom practiced Jainism—an ancient faith from the 6th century BCE. One day, a few of them came into my dorm room to find my runners, discarded from an afternoon jog, thrown on a few papers near my bed. They looked at me, wide-eyed, and moved the shoes and the papers apart, with mutters of, “This is not good, not good.” When I inquired of them why, they explained that paper is the medium for words, sacred entities in themselves, and should not be contacted with the dirtiness of our feet.
