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The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated awareness of the importance of mental health. In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week Sept. 5-11, support your peers both in and out of the classroom by becoming a Suspenders4Hope mental health advocate. You can also spread the message of mental health support in several ways.

• Join us at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 in front of the Rhatigan Student Center for the inaugural Suspenders4Hope Run for Hope and 1-mile Walk in Honor to benefit StopSuicideICT. Find more information about registering a team and donating at supenders4hope.stopsuicideict.com.
• Go to suspenders4hope.com and complete the Preventing Suicide Training to help give you more tools for supporting those who may be struggling.
• Follow, like and share @suspenders4hope to help the message of hope reach our community.
• Wear a suspenders shirt as a visual display of your support for mental health and to help decrease mental health stigma. Shirts are available at the Shocker Store. Wear them often, especially on Fridays.
• Be sure to tag @suspenders4Hope and use the use #WeSupportU in your suspender shirt selfies.

If you or anyone you know is in crisis, and you need to speak with a crisis counselor, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 24 hours a day. Asking for help is a sign of strength.

Wichita State University is committed to preserving and supporting freedom of thought, speech and expression on our campuses.

Read about our values and work around this, as well as a statement by the Kansas Board of Regents on our website.

Congratulations to Wichita State’s College of Fine Arts for winning the 2021 Clash of the Colleges! Another competition award, the Spirit Award, was claimed by the Barton School of Business and the College of Engineering.

Wichita State’s First-Year Programs in Student Success and Campus Recreation hosted the seventh annual Clash of the Colleges Aug.20-27. More than 500 students and guests represented seven academic colleges.

The eighth annual Clash of the Colleges will take place on the first Friday of the fall 2022 semester, Aug. 26.

The massage studio at the Heskett Center is back with a new studio, new therapists and new hours. Whether you’re nursing sore muscles, rehabbing an injury or just needing to relieve some stress, our massage therapists can provide the healing touch you need to get back to feeling like yourself again.

The new hours are as follows:

• 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday
• 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

For more information or to make an appointment contact 316-978-3082.

Calling all creatives! Student designs are requested for the Wayne and Kay Woolsey Hall interior wall graphics of three study spaces. Students interested must enter their design portfolio by Sept. 24 for a chance to win $1,000.

Woolsey Hall is an academic building under construction on Wichita State University’s Innovation Campus slated to open in late spring 2022. When complete, it will be the new home of the W. Frank Barton School of Business.

To qualify for the $1,000 prize, submit a digital PDF smaller than 20 MB of three to six projects to joshua.Smith1@wichita.edu.

Winners will be announced Oct. 8. Selected artists will submit their final designs Dec. 8. The artist will not be responsible for the installation and the selected designs will be printed and installed with vinyl application.

Would you like to share your ideas, questions or feedback for the planning of the 2022 orientation program? If so, you can attend one of the orientation feedback sessions virtually or at the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC) on the following dates:

• 2-3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24 virtual session
• 2-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 at the RSC (room 319)
• 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.30 at the RSC (room 319)

A feedback form will be made available later in September for those who are unable to attend or for those who prefer to keep their comments anonymous.

Space is limited for the in-person sessions, so please RSVP.

The Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic at Wichita State is offering free hearing evaluations to faculty and staff.

During the evaluations, the staff will test the patient’s hearing to determine if there is hearing loss and the type and severity of the loss. Hearing evaluations will last approximately one to two hours; however, if a patient does have hearing loss, the appointment may last longer.

To schedule an appointment, call 316-978-3289. The clinic is located at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex at the intersection of 29th and Oliver streets.

The Student Health Services will close temporarily Monday, Sept. 6, in observance of Labor Day.

For more information, contact 316-978-4792 or student.health@wichita.edu.

GoCreate is currently offering free memberships to Wichita State students. GoCreate, a Koch collaborative, is part of WSU’s Innovation campus. The 18,000-square foot of space is filled with a variety of machines and tools including laser-cutters, water jets, a quilt-maker, and 3D printers.

The facility is open during the following hours:

• Closed Monday
• 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
• 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday
  
  For more information, contact 316-978-2738 or info@gocreate.com.