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Students encouraged to less screen time in April wellness challenge

This is a picture of a black smartphone lying face-up on a light-colored table, with the screen turned off and slightly reflecting light. (Freja Hansen/QUMedia)

Quincy University launches an April Wellness Challenge to promote digital detox among students, encouraging them to engage in seven self-selected activities aimed at reducing screen time. This initiative aims to improve mental health, focus, and social interaction, addressing concerns about technology’s overwhelming presence in students’ lives. Participation also rewards students with gifts.

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Finding faith in the season: Lent at Quincy University

A picture of a cross with a purple cloth draped over it. Purple is the color that is associated with Lent.

At Quincy University, the season of Lent invites students into a time of quiet reflection and meaningful change. Marked by prayer, fasting, and acts of service, Lent challenges students to step back from their busy routines and focus on what truly matters. Whether through moments of silence in the chapel or small daily sacrifices, this season becomes an opportunity not just to observe a tradition, but to grow in faith, purpose, and community.

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From campus to coast: Quincy University student Cole Wagy connects with alumni in Florida

A picture of a chapel Wagy visited when he was in Florida.

Cole Wagy, a student at Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois, traveled to Florida with the university’s advancement team to meet alumni and share how their support continues to shape the student experience. By telling his own story about life on campus and the opportunities made possible through alumni generosity, Cole helped strengthen the connection between past graduates and current students.

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Adams County Health Department staff discuss STI increase in the community

Adams County Health Department provides free condoms and lube to those who need them.

There has been an increase in recent years on STI cases in Adams County. ACHD has made an effort to bring these numbers down by providing affordable testing, free contraceptives such as condoms, lubrication, and other products that may help individuals experience safe-sex if they do choose to participate.

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Communicable disease risk shows a rise in Adams County

Adams County has shown an increase in communicable diseases, which seem to have no rhyme or reason. Adams County health workers sit down to talk about communicable diseases and what they feel connects to the reason to infection spreading and ways to prevent.

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Hometown Hawks: Why Quincy “townies” are choosing Quincy University

At Quincy University, the townies move differently. They are the ones who grew up ten minutes away in Quincy. They went to summer camps in the gym. College didn’t take them somewhere new—it layered something new on top of what was already theirs.

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