However, Columbia students still had to venture out into the snowy depths to make it to class. This is not uncommon, according to Columbia s executive vice president Bert Gall. In the 30 years I ve been here, Columbia has closed four times, he said. It was closed twice for snow the blizzard of 1967, and a fluke storm in April that happened one year after all the plows had been put away for the season. The only other times it has closed were because of the Chicago flood in 1992, and once when the Pope was speaking in Grant Park and people had been asked not to congest the streets unless it was absolutely necessary.
Many students enter college in excellent health but that can disappear faster than many can imagine.
In general, students don t spend too much time thinking about the risk of STDs. Unfortunately the facts tell a different story. One of every five Americans carries a sexually transmitted disease. According to Family Planning, if you are female or male under the age of 25 you are at the highest risk of being infected with a sexually transmitted disease. The three most common STDs among young people are Chlamydia Trachomatis, Herpes and Genital Warts.