Evidence that the coronavirus shifted the overarching scope of academic delivery has been well documented through research and policy. However, it’s unclear how the pivot from in-person course delivery to fully online, flex, merged, and hybrid courses shaped student experience as we move forward to post-pandemic world. This experimental report attempts to examine the post-pandemic impacts on the psychosocial and academic experiences of university students through qualitative interviewing and thematic analysis. Results indicated a series of themes on reflection of COVID-19 student life. As it pertains to student and faculty responsibility, thematic analysis suggests mid-pandemic literature reflects an exacerbation of pre-existing academic and psychosocial issues. However, creative efforts to find homeostasis within the turbulence is unique to an on-campus environment. Some themes reflect previous data collected, but idiosyncrasies lay within this data that proves significant for both students and faculty.

Throughout historical and criminological study, women have often been viewed as the “milder” sex, and less likely to commit crimes such as theft. However, as Beattie stated, women stole just the same as men, and stole “for the same reason men stole [during the Revolution] – largely as a means of survival, as a way of supplementing inadequate wages or of supplying the most basic wants.”1. It can be inferred that women, who were driven to crime by their needs, would have been greatly impacted by the Revolutionary War and attracted to theft as a support. In a time where women were unable to own property or work in occupations that were traditionally male dominated, there were few options to support oneself or one’s family with many “heads of the household” at war. There is also a factor to be examined in the seasonal frequency of crime. In a temporal context that is highly dependent upon a quality summer and fall harvest, individuals struggled more during the winter months to survive. Through this understanding, we can begin to question the impact of two variables: gender roles and seasonal impact. The goal of this essay is to examine the impact of gender roles on female theft during the time of the Revolutionary War, along with the impact of seasons and the progression of war on crime. To do so, we will examine cases of theft offences with guilty verdicts archived in the Old Bailey On-Line database for 6 periods: January to March 1776, June to August 1776, January to March 1780, June to August 1780, January to March 1783, and Jun to August 1783.

This paper aims to highlight the global trend of corporate social responsibility, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promulgated by the United Nations. As companies become transnational, there will be increasing pressure on the human resource management function in those organizations to respond to the changing environment. Existing methods for encouraging companies to be accountable for implementing the international labor standards in the United States are inadequate. After rejecting the concept of mandatory compliance. The focus directed in this document will discuss findings on supply chain management and the impact it has on economics pertaining to multinational enterprise (MNE) labor standards.

The interconnectedness of history and social science disciplines has always allowed for the collision of personal and political issues, particularly for those fighting for justice. Volume 8 of the SOAR Journal will dive into the intersections of identity, injustice, and resilience. This journal volume will take you through a rollercoaster, from the realities of racialized policing to the psychological tolls overwork has. In the article by Boyd, “Evolution of Women’s Issues,” we dive into historical texts written by women, highlighting issues they have dealt with over periods of time. In the article written by O’Connor and Plaisted “Implementing International Labor Standards (ILO) - The Impact of Supply Chain: Management and Economics,” we learn about the findings on supply chain management and their impact on economics. As for the article by Lettich, “Hours Spent Decreasing Mental Health,” we learn about the effects social media has on mental health.

PLACES Student Paper Award Winner (2023) (long paper winner). Baseball games draw tens of thousands of fans to a single stadium on game days. These individuals have different means of getting to the venue, but one of the most popular methods is using personal vehicles. These vehicles are known to produce many pollutants, including nitrogen oxides and certain volatile organic compounds that create ozone if they react in the air. This paper studies the impacts of Major League Baseball attendances on ozone Air Quality Index values between 2010 and 2019 in 27 American cities that host MLB teams. I follow Locke (2019), who found a statistically significant but negligible link between MLB attendance and ozone. I assess the robustness of this result by including three additional years’ worth of data as well as control variables for attendances at NBA and NHL games occurring in the same city, which could account for some of the additional ozone observed. The study finds that MLB game attendances have a significant but small impact on local ozone air quality values, with each additional thousand fans leading to an increase in ozone AQI of 0.013.

Center of Social Science Research Student Paper Award Winner (2022), (long paper winner). Psychopathy has been a widely discussed topic throughout movies and pop culture, especially in recent years, which portray psychopathy through the lens of a vindictive, cruel, and charismatic protagonist. Examples that come to mind may be well-known television media such as Dexter, Hannibal, or American Psycho (Berryessa & Goodspeed, 2019). Audiences' interests are piqued when watching a character so strangely and perplexingly emotionally detached, often committing a heinous crime that goes overlooked due to their sharp ability to hide their crime by tricking others into believing a superficial but charming front. Psychopathic individuals are often unrealistically idolized and idealized as endearing super-villains consumers feel themselves rooting for (Keesler & DeMatteo, 2017). Within the criminal justice system, individuals that score high on psychopathy are not always superhuman criminals with distinguished intelligence, able to evade all detection by the law. It is imperative to study the realistic components of crimes perpetrated by psychopathic offenders to discern between fiction and reality. Psychopathy has been related to violence and criminal tendencies, specifically homicide. Within the corrections system, psychopathy also operates differently during and after incarceration than fellow offenders scoring low on psychopathic tendencies. In order to define the association between psychopathic traits and the perpetration of homicide, it is important to discuss models and theories of psychopathy as a concept alongside the motivations and characteristics of psychopath-perpetrated homicide.

The American Alt-Right is a 21st-century phenomenon and growing movement that originated on the internet. The movement is often expressed through the use of symbols and ideas. In the past few years, the Alt-Right has immersed themselves in an alternate reality as they create their own truths inconsistent with actuality. Our nation is engulfed in political tension, extremism, and even violence amid an epistemic crisis. The Alt-Right has developed explanations for various social and political events, even claiming that members are "Red-Pilled" into another reality. This is increasingly evident in recent events such as the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Insurrection. Even though Far-Right and white supremacist groups attended the event, most attendees arrested at the insurrection were not members of Far-Right organizations. In this study, I attempt to reveal what compelled these members to participate in an alternative reality. I also seek to make sense of the event and explain how this alternate reality sustains itself through borrowing ideas from American culture and creating symbols and ideas that are unique to the movement. I will achieve this by evaluating the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Insurrection through a series of Parler videos documenting the event. I will then use my findings to conclude how the Alt-Right has become enveloped in a self-sustaining alternate reality.

Rehabilitation programs with animals in prisons have become more popular across the United States Furst, (2006). Rehabilitation programs have been recognized for helping reduce recidivism and increase mental health (Furst, 2015; Furst, 2006; Smith, 2019; Jasperson, 2010; Cooke et al., 2014; Cushing et al.,1995; Bachi, 2013; Loeffler, 2016; Mercer et al., 2015; Ormerod, 2008) In addition, to all the mental benefits, the inmate's outlooks on life changed and gave them meaning to their lives (Ormerod, 2008; Hauge et al., 2014; Bachi, 2013; Jasperson, 2010; Furst 2006). Studies have been conducted to see how and why these programs are successful in their rehabilitation programs. In this review, the effect of the companionship of animals and inmates' wellbeing. Those inmates who participated in the rehabilitation programs will be less likely to recidivate and have a better mental mindset.

The intersection between one's path in life and the educational experience they are allocated is dependent on the race of the child and their class level. The school-to-prison pipeline is "a disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems" ("School-to-Prison Pipeline"). In America, students from disadvantaged backgrounds are hindered and even forced into a pathway leading to incarceration due to failing public schools, zero-tolerance policies, and policing school hallways.

For the past five semesters I have had the privilege to be a part of the creation, hard work and continuation of SUNY Oneonta Academic Research Journal. As the last founding member and creator of SOAR Journal, I have served on the editorial board as the marketing and communications editor for two semesters, and I am graduating as the coordinating editor of three semesters. It is my honor to have been a part of the SOAR Journal editorial board, and to work so hard on something that offers many opportunities to my peers and future undergraduate students. My role on the editorial board has been rewarding in many ways and has given me an inside look to appreciate and understand scholarly publication. I have developed many skills and have applied my experience from SOAR Journal to all of my academic endeavors. As I graduate, and depart from SUNY Oneonta, I know SOAR Journal will prosper and continue to expand in the hands of the next editorial board