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Featured Issue

Depression

Clinical depression is an illness that can affect anyone, including teenagers. Depression affects your thoughts, emotions, actions, and even bodily health. Depression can be treated and with the right help, you can live better lives. There is a possibility of getting worse if you don’t get help. Treating depression is especially important because it affects you, your family, and your work. Some people with depression try to harm themselves in the mistaken belief that how they are feeling will never change. Depression is an uphill climb, but treatable if you take the right steps...

One Genpulser's Story

A Survivor's Story

At the age of eighteen, I was raped. By definition, it would be considered a “date” rape, but I would rather think of it as an “acquaintance” rape. After all, I wasn’t on a date. I was at a party with a friend… a guy I knew, a guy I mistakenly trusted. He was a couple years older than me, and lived in a college house with a few of my friends that had graduated before me. They always threw amazing parties, and this one was no exception. At the end of the night, the crowd cleared out, but I decided to stay. I had slept there a number of times before without any problems. I always felt like it was a safe place. After all, these were my friends...