To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Observercast

Freshman Stress

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Every year, UCLA’s Higher Education Research Center does a national study of college freshmen, some 200,000 in all. This year, the big news is emotional health – or lack thereof. Nearly half of the students surveyed – and more than half of the young women – ranked their emotional health as “below average,” the highest numbers since the survey began 25 years ago. What gives? You don’t have to be a college […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.