Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Liberal.” Perhaps ironically, Senator Kerry wound up being branded a “Lib’ral Bow Wow” by Bush in the general election. No doubt the haters are going try to use the “liberal” stigma to bring Dean down in his bid to replace Terry McAuliffe as party chairman. But this time around, instead of frontin’ and pretending to be Republicans, Democrats better represent for the progressive cause. It’s time to drop this pandering to the right like it?...
...make efforts to connect with various groups on campus and have dialogue about ways we can simplify health care and reduce the stigma so students will access care,” he writes in an e-mail. This past week, MHS met with the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy group to work on reducing the stigma. In the fall, MHS explained to incoming international students how to access health care and discussed the possible differences with other countries. In addition, MHS holds workshops with community health initiative members in the houses and receives feedback from peer counseling groups, Kadison writes...
Many students are uncomfortable with the stigma of being the one person who isn’t drinking, feeling it leaves them isolated and out of the loop. Jennie feels differently, “I think you have to realize that you can come out of your shell just as much as a sober person around drunk people as you can as the drunk person around sober people,” she told me. However, the former is much safer. Victoria also let me know that, contrary to what many of us feel, being sober makes her feel more confident...
While it is necessary to inform the public on the health hazards that increase in proportion with that number on the scale, it is just as valuable to emphasize the health benefits of maintaining a healthy weight. This shift from disapproval to encouragement would help blunt the stigma of obesity and reshape the distorted lens through which the general public often views fat and food in general. CDC will soon release the true rate of mortality, but no matter its order of magnitude, we must remember that a healthy lifestyle begins with a healthy attitude. It isn?...
...sympathetic to Yalies, who have the unenviable task of starting out college as a disappointment to friends, to family and to themselves. There are probably even a few Harvard students who would find it difficult to thrive after such an inauspicious beginning to their college career. And while the stigma is lifelong, Thin Envelope Syndrome is just that: the beginning...