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  Hiding Heritage:   The Fading Asian American Identity By Audrey Sears JRN 100 News Reporter   When Filipina American Kristine Din attended an all-girls’ Catholic high school in Connecticut, she bore the brunt of comments and jokes from her peers for years.     Bringing a traditional Filipino dish for lunch one day, Din faced judgement for her heritage in the white-dominated school.   “There was this one time I was eating pancit, and this girl said it looked like I was eating worms. At 15 years old, I didn’t even get angry, just confused. I kept thinking, ‘Well, what do your noodles look like?’” said Din.     Din’s experience is not uncommon. Many Asian Americans report facing hostility and anti-racial comments on a daily basis, according to a 2016 article in the Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Journal .     To cope with or mitigate confrontations about their heritage, many have turned to hiding their culture and tradi...

                         Kavanaugh's experience with how often she sees the same people in counseling services.

  Being actively fit: benefits you in multiple ways. By Hayden Hegarty JRN 100 Staff Writer According to a study from the National Library of Medicine in 2011, Toni M Burkhalter and Charles H Tillman touched upon the topic of exercise. The study summarized that staying active and eating healthy is beneficial for the brain and for your grades no matter what age you are. Exercise is beneficial for the cognitive state of your well-being, resulting in better focus and better physical health. In recent years, there has been a rise in working out. Gyms are flooded more now than before the pandemic, and that has to do with the positive effect that exercising not only has on your physical body, but also the mental state of yourself along with your academics. “I would definitely say that yeah, if I was working out 5-6 times a day and studying, I felt as if I was more focused when studying,” said Lomastro. “As long as you have your timing structured, it is going to be both benefic...

The struggle of the current t rans r eality   By Ari Lloyd   Jrn 100 N ews R eporter   Trans individuals have become a m ore targeted minority as they have become increasingly visible a s they have become center of the spotlight.   Tate Duffy said that visibility of trans people has been increasing o ver the years with p eople such as famous celebrities and music artists, coming out as trans, non- binary or something else potentially related to the group community. While a larger spotlight can lead to more acceptance, it also can lead t o more discrimination . T rans people like Ray Powell could be under more threat, leading to this development being more of a double-edged sword.    The study called , The experiences and challenges and hopes of transgender people in America it was made by Anna Brown, Juliana Menasce Horowitz , Kim parker, and Racheal Minkin , and It was published June 7, 2022. This study said U.S. State Department ...