![Alexander Oki ‘28 picks up trash in the lower parking lot Feb. 20. According to Keep America Beautiful, the majority of the trash found on both roads and waterways consists of fast food wrappers and packaging, receipts and plastic beverage bottles. Clubs like the National Honor Society (NHS) offer students the opportunity to earn service hours by cleaning up the trash in the parking lots. “[The trash] makes us look very unhygienic and unmotivated to be a proper school,” Emberlyse Vidal ‘28 said. “It makes us look like we just don't care about our students' environments.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260220_1355020-2-1200x904.jpg)
One Good Thing: Cancer Mortality Rates are Going Down
Learn about this century’s declining cancer rates.
media by Andi Mack
A graphic reads, “one good thing: cancer rates are going down” to introduce the article.
March 7, 2023
Everything is always happening everywhere, sometimes good and sometimes bad. It’s up to us to decide what we want to highlight in our world, so why not choose the positive?
Did you know that globally, mortality rates for all forms of cancer have been consistently plunging since the 90s? According to Cancer.org, the cancer death rate for men and women fell 32% from 1991 to 2019. One reason why it has been falling is because of the decreasingly earlier diagnosis of cancer, leading to a longer lifespan for those with cancer.
Rachelle MacColl ‘24 didn’t know that cancer mortality rates were declining, but she has a personal connection to it.
“My grandma had [cancer] and she got cured,” MacColl said.
Previously in the early 2000s and late 90s, that wouldn’t have been as common to hear as it is today.