Month: October 2018

Jessica Gunn Contributor We’ve all seen post-apocalyptic shows like “The Walking Dead,” but imagine living that in real life.  While driving down Highway 22 in Callaway, Florida, this past weekend, I felt like I had walked onto the set of a television show.   The devastation is hard to describe in words; there are cellphone towers made with “unbendable steel” that look like corkscrews on a rollercoaster.  Entire roads are covered so deeply in sand that if you didn’t know it was a road, you’d think you were at a…

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Abby Taylor Assistant News Editor  Teresa Johnson, a professor of kinesiology and health promotion, has submitted for review research on the safety of blended tube feeding. Blended tube feeding (BTF) is a process in which whole foods are liquefied in a blender to be delivered to medical patients through a feeding tube, according to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Johnson said she made it her mission early in her career to get rid of BTF. “Blended food would clog tubes; we didn’t really know what was in there from…

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Asem Abdelfattah Staff Writer Ora Nelson Staff Writer The Student Government Association (SGA) held a Night Walk event where students walked in groups around campus looking for safety concerns. According to Alex Reynolds, a junior nursing major from Dothan and vice president of legislative affairs, SGA spotted a few problem areas: the main concerns were outside Wallace Hall near where a robbery recently happened and in front of McCartha Hall. While SGA members were  looking for lighting issues, they also kept an eye out for other safety concerns, such as…

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