1st October 2012 - The Glasgow Guardian



The problem with ‘Positivity Week’

1st October 2012

Liam Hainey The recent controversy over the SRC’s decision to rebrand the all encompassing Health Week to the more narrow Positivity Week reminded me of a ditty by indie art crooner Amber Rubarth called “Chrysanthemum Song”. The song’s second verse goes thusly: I read about a boy, who suffered depression, his parents hung a mirror, ...


Student anger at SRC Positivity Week

1st October 2012

Students have taken to the SRC’s facebook page to voice their displeasure at the decision to change the name of the council’s Health Week to Positivity Week. The critics argue that the planned week – the aims of which the SRC describe in an email as “primarily to raise mental health awareness, specifically feeling positive ...