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Prioritizing Mental Health of Student Athletes Across The Globe By Will Bradley Throughout recent years, student-athletes across the globe have begun speaking out over the causes of their declining mental health and how it has formed the person they are today. Interviews with former and current athletes reveal the clear issues that are in need of attention and action. The National Collegiate Athletic Association , also known as the NCAA, conducted research on varying athletes. These surveys were performed on a wide and randomized scale from over 9,000 athletes. Not only did these surveys conduct the effects of mental health on athletes at a broader aspect, but also dove deeper into understanding the root causes. For example, it was shown that as pressure to win increases, training becomes much more extreme and anxiety-ridden. When surveyed on this matter, 30% of athletes said they felt extremely overwhelmed, as well as 25% felt a sense of mental exhaustion. It was revealed that many of...

By Grace McLoughlin Stonehill College Journalist When Sophia Scalisi returned to the movie theater, in the fall of 2022, after staying away for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she found that the movie theater was nearly empty. Hit hard by the pandemic, theaters are struggling to motivate occasional movie-goers, like Scalisi, to return. The industry has fared well as die-hard movie fans fell back into their old habits of frequently attending theaters. However, a recent survey shows that most occasional movie-goers haven't returned due to a new competitor being introduced to the industry. Scalisi bought a ticket to “Don’t Worry Darling”, a film released this past September, because her favorite performer, Harry Styles, was one of the featured roles in the film. Scalisi, a student at Stonehill College, has considered herself to be someone who occasionally takes a trip to the movie theater. “I would much rather relax at home with my family or friends than spend over $30 at th...

  By Logan McCann  Stonehill JRN100 Staff Writer Students in grades K-12 have been suffering mentally, emotionally, and socially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts and parents fear that these effects may last for years to come.  “Some of the necessary skills I began to acquire in middle school were lost because of the pandemic,” Tyesha Ferraro, a junior in high school in Brooklyn, said.  The online schooling system that was set up during the pandemic posed a problem for students across the nation. Most students went online in March of 2020, and some students did not fully return to school until the start of the 2021-2022 school year. Researchers are saying that this time spent at home has been one of the main factors in the problems that children are currently facing.  A study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 61% of parents with children in grades K-12 believe that the first year of the pandemic had a negative effect on the edu...

By Ciara P. O’Connell   Stonehill News Staff Writer   Parents say parenting is becoming more difficult as social media and technology increasingly saturate the lives of young children and families.   A recently released  survey  found that more than 66% of parents feel it is harder to raise children  (ages 12 and under ) today than two decades ago because of the fast-moving changes in technology.   The study, entitled “Parenting Kids in the Age of Screens”, was conducted by Brooke Auxier, Monica Anderson, Andrew Perrin, and Erica Turner in July of 2020.    The findings exhibited that parents are more anxious about the screen time their children engage in, the content they consume, and how it affects their lives in the long term.    Some of these main concerns include the way children behave, learn, socialize, and engage with the content presented to them, as well as the increased presence of bullying.    Dr. Mike Darmstadt...

By Cian Hamell-Kelleher  Stonehill News Staff Writer The once glory-filled days of old are no more, and America’s pastime is shortly becoming just that. A new analytic and technology driven strategy has overtaken the once praised fundamental-based strategy shifting the way baseball is learned and played. This strategical evolution has cost Major League Baseball engagement, as viewership of each season’s biggest games has dropped by nearly two-thirds over the last 50 years. A study from Baseball Almanac done in 2022 called “ World Series Television Ratings (1968-2022)” found the last three World Series have produced the lowest per-game viewership numbers since the data was first recorded in 1973. The study uses information gathered by Nielsen Media Research , an American information, data, and market measurement firm. The same organization estimates there to be 121 million American homes with a television, as opposed to 65.6 million homes in 1973. Despite there being nearly ...

By Mekonnen Eon   Stonehill News Staff Writer     Student athletes set a precedent for over 19.7 million students in universities across the United States every single day- and the pressure of being a “precedent setter,” leads to studen t athletes having a much higher rate of anxiety than their non-athlete counterparts , a recent s tudy by the NCAA suggests.     The NCAA states that student athletes are, “Pillars of their community, and must set an example for those around them. Student at hletes are leaders on their campus who identify key values and build character not just for themselves, but for their teammates and the institution .”     H owever , these student-leaders have shown an exponentially higher rate of anxiety than their peers who do not participate in collegiate a thletics- according to a study conducted by the NCAA in 2021, 25% of male and 45% of female collegiate athletes feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities , and 12% of ma le a...