The MFJS Reporter — Winter 2020 T-R

Mental health is an issue that does not discriminate based on age, gender, or sexual orientation. It is a weight that many people all over the world struggle with but one group that demonstrates the intense effect it can have on all aspects of one’s life is college students. 

Evan Burley, a Staff Reporter, writes in his article that eighty percent of college students feel overwhelmed as a student, fifty percent rated their mental health as poor or below average, and fifty percent have struggled greatly from anxiety and therefore school. Even though certain mental health issues like anxiety and depression are some of the most common it can also take the form of addiction and eating disorders, but even with all of these forms forty percent of students still do not seek help.

As social media grows in our society, so does the use of social media. With 95 million pictures posted a day on Instagram, and 350 million pictures posted a day on Facebook, people tend to compare themselves to their peers and celebrities. This has caused an issue among many women in terms of how they perceive themselves and how they feel about how they look.

In recent years, environmental concerns have risen in importance internationally. In fact, 64% of people polled in 2020 say that the environment should be of top priority which is a large increase from 44% as of 2002. 

This has brought many questions. What is our current environmental situation? What are we doing in response? Are we doing enough? Are we doing too much? These questions can be applied on not only a global scale, but also on a much smaller local scale when examining sustainability opinions and practices here at the University of Denver. 

Before 2007, people had to wait for DVDs to come in the mail or go to a video store to buy or rent new movies or would have to wait and sit through ad after ad to watch the weekly episode of Gray’s Anatomy. That is until Netflix introduced the world to online, subscription-based, ad free, unlimited, television streaming in 2007, and it flipped the media industry on its head.

As a matter of fact, subscription-based media streaming outlets have taken the industry by storm. According to multiple experts and studies that examine the impact of the rise of streaming, these services already have had a profound effect on Americans, especially young American adults.