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Keeping her eyes on the ball

Astrid DeGruchy used to watch baseball games from the cheap seats — now she is paving the way for diversity in the male-dominated sport.

ADD and ADHD: the invisible disabilities

Your heart begins to race, your hands are clammy and shaky, your head is spinning and your breathing is slow and inconsistent. You look over and see all the stacks of books and mounds of homework you need to complete, but you can’t bring yourself to do it. Instead, you go for a run, play some video games, you even clean your room. You do anything to avoid buckling down and starting your assignments.

Digitizing friendships

Opening Instagram right as I roll over to my bedside table, eyelids barely able to lift their own weight, has become an integral part of my every day. There isn’t a single day since I published my first photo on the hit application on May 19, 2013 where I didn’t look at the application at least twice.

Internet Friends

Making friends with people online is more common than ever. In 2015, the Pew Research Center reported that 57 percent of teens made friends online. The odds of finding someone – anyone – in the world with the same interests seems to be higher than ever thanks to the never-ending list of popular social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr to name a few.

Lawn Gnome celebrates its fifth year while looking to the future

This month marked the fifth anniversary of Lawn Gnome Publishing and Bookstore, a staple of grassroots culture for many in the downtown area.

Living off-campus can pose social issues for students

Look around you for a second when you are in class or walking to the gym or somewhere on campus. Chances are you will see students carrying around a lunch bag, with a meal packed from home, or students carrying their backpacks with their books and laptops into the gym while most people around them are dressed in workout clothes and carrying just their phones and ID cards. 

ASU student meets idol whose club changed her life

There’s a picture of a crying woman on the Facebook page of a female empowerment organization, I Am That Girl (IATG). She stands tall, unashamed of her tears, as she meets her longtime mentor.

Behind the bars: ASU prison education

For 40 or so ASU students and professors, going to prison is a regular occurrence. Lesson plans in hand, they make weekly drives to Florence, Arizona, where they pass through security checkpoints and spend a couple of hours in front of classrooms of incarcerated students.

ASU student ascends the odds

It’s the start of a new year and that means gyms are going to see an influx of customers trying to burn off holiday weight. For a lot of college students, the need to have the right attire is almost as important as the need to get back to a fighting weight. People walk around in Nike, Adidas and Lululemon which can be intimidating for those on a budget. Seeing people wearing high end clothes that a lot of people — especially college students — can’t afford is a major blow to confidence for some.

Man meets machine: Poly professor works to make robots smarter

Surrounded by his robots, Dr. Wenlong Zhang poses for a picture. He laughs looking down at the camera screen through rectangular wire-rimmed lenses and asks to be sent the good ones.

Coffee guru brings cafe downtown

The aroma of cinnamon, espresso and homemade cookies fills the air as the elevator doors open to the sixth floor of the Beus Center for Law and Society on the Downtown Phoenix Campus .

From Binge-drinking to Innovative Thinking

For what seemed like ages Arizona State University was synonymous with “party school” with media often portraying the school as one big frat party and the students as if they were all too drunk to care about grades or degrees.

Alone away from home

College is a time for finding yourself, meeting new people, making memories and, of course, getting an education. But sometimes, between finding yourself and making all those memories, a strong feeling of homesickness overcomes you.

Internet trolls target young women

After writing an article for Teen Vogue entitled “Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America,” journalist Lauren Duca received a disturbing backlash.

My reaction to the election of Donald Trump

A tall old woman stood at the front of my classroom in a frumpy, ankle-length dress and crooked, fragile-looking glasses as I quietly surveyed her from my chair several rows back.

LGBTQASU: Queer life and visibility at Arizona State University

Sounds of laughter fill the air like the jingle of little bells at Christmas time. Loud and vivacious students celebrate the homecoming of a new year and semester at ASU. Underneath this rancor, there is a culture of students who are celebrating something larger than themselves as loudly as they can: LGBTQ equality, visibility and representation.

ASU's "Car Dogs" races into theaters this March

Photos by  Stella Atzenweiler & Celisse Jones

Economic development program provides what banks can not

The Prestamos lending program offers the same thing that banks do: a sum of money with an interest rate -- but their appeal is their partnership with their borrowers.

ADP will relocate to Tempe and hire 1,500 people this spring. 

ASU gymnasts support gymnastics center in low-income area

Children run and laugh as they start to warm up for gymnastics class. A few minutes later, the coach begins to lead stretch while the parents watch their children with proud smiles. This is the atmosphere at Phoenix Athletic Center Gymnastics and Wrestling, the first gymnastics center in Laveen.