Cry Rooms For College Students

University of utah students on the brink of tears during finals week have a space to let it all out.

Cry rooms for college students. This space is meant to provide a place for students studying for finals to take a short 10 minute break. A sign hangs on it that reads. Students at the university of utah will have the opportunity to relieve stress during finals week by locking themselves in the school s cry closet for a short period of time. On april 22 the university installed the so called cry closet in its library and it will be up through the rest of the month.

Teddy bears play doh and coloring books are staples of nursery schools but now they are turning up on college campuses to help distraught students cope with the election of a president they don. These crying rooms are set up like preschool cozy places and they offer coloring and play doh for these college students suffering greatly over donald trump taking the helm of the nation. The closet outfitted with black felt stuffed animals and a strict ten minute cry policy is a self described safe space for stressed out students to have a breakdown in the privacy of. Kutv the closet is situated in the middle of a busy passageway inside the j.

University of utah students look at the cry closet at a library on campus in salt lake city. The university s library has a cry closet now available for stressed out students a. Cry ins and primal screams were organized on college campuses following the presidential election.