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Coping Through COVID-19

May 9, 2021

Coping Through COVID-19

The pandemic has amplified feelings of stress, anxiety and worry for college students who’ve had to take classes online due to campus closures.. But they ave also found healthy ways to cope with the difficulties that come with virtual education. Ethos multimedia producer Natalie Schechtel took a look at the emotions that college students are feeling during online school, and the many coping strategies they have incorporated into their lives. To watch more, please visit our website or subscribe to our YouTube channel.
May 9, 2021
Abby Sourwine and Chloe Miller practice breaking free of an attacker’s grasp or hold. Practicing these moves with classmates felt a little weird at first to Miller, but eventually she became more comfortable. “It was always very helpful and always an encouraging atmosphere,” Miller says. “You didn’t feel like someone was yelling, ‘Ah! You did that wrong.’”

Training to Empower

Lauren Yang Brown
March 28, 2021
Second-grade teacher at Irving Elementary, Nicole Butler-Hooten takes the time each year to learn about the cultures and backgrounds of all the students in her class. “What I hope to do is to teach our students that culture is important,” Butler-Hooten says. “It's important to be respectful, and it's important to learn and know and grow.”

Righting the Curriculum

Shannon Golden
March 28, 2021
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Taking Back Our Stories

Jozie Donaghey
March 28, 2021
Mercedes Ruby, a barber at Anomaly Hair Collective, says she loves the confidence a haircut can give people. “As soon as I take the cape off, they see themself in their normal clothes and they get kind of peacock-like,” she says. “It makes me happy to make other people happy.”

Snipping Off Gender Norms

Chelsea Pitarresi
March 28, 2021
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Taking Back Our Stories (Online Exclusive)

Jozie Donaghey
March 28, 2021
Gabe Sheoships fishes for smelt in February of 2019, using a dip net with his son, Maynard Kane, on the Cowlitz River, a tributary of the Columbia River. “On the Umatilla, they haven’t had a season in a few years because there hasn’t been enough fish, so you lose the ability to teach younger folks how to do that,” Sheoships says. “Not only are you losing your ability to fish and to harvest fish, you can’t teach people how to do it.”

Swimming Upstream

Clayton Franke
March 28, 2021
Evy and Baldo Hernandez, owners of La Granada, a small Latin restaurant in the PublicHouse in downtown Springfield, kept their restaurant doors open all year during the pandemic. “We love it here, we did not want to close our doors if we did not have to,” Evy Hernandez says. “It is nice to see everyone coming back in and enjoying our food again."

Latinx, Sin Ayuda

Mariah Botkin
March 28, 2021
Rory Sweeney looks to her next ticket order during her shift at Hamilton Dining Hall’s Gastro Kitchen at the University of Oregon, where she works 25 hours a week. As a Student Service Leader, Sweeney not only prepares food orders but also makes sure other student workers get their breaks during shifts.

Dependents Pay the Price

Ella Hutcherson
March 28, 2021
“My journal has been such an outlet for me. It doesn’t talk back and there is so much self reflection that takes place when writing,” says Maddy Niese. “I am able to hear my healthy voice better when journaling, I feel that I can better discern between ED thoughts and my soul self.... I journal the good times when I want to remember the joys of recovery. I also journal the times when I’m struggling and it is very cathartic.”

Fighting with Food

Anna Mattson
March 28, 2021
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