5 free and easy ways to improve hair health

Emily Bi/Senior Staff

Most of us aspire to have healthy looking, luscious locks, but not all of us want to shell out money for products with hefty price tags. As someone with very fine hair who has traumatized it with hair dye, bleach and the hot wrath of a curling iron, my journey toward improving the health of my hair has been a long one. Here are a few simple changes I’ve learned along the way that you can easily implement into your daily routine to show your hair some love. Best of all, these changes don’t require you to pull out your wallet!

Don’t sleep with your hair wet

As someone who prefers to shower at night, I used to commit the grave sin of going to bed with my hair wet all the time. Sleeping with wet hair leaves it more prone to breakage and damage since hair is at its weakest point when wet. Throughout the night, as you toss and turn in your sleep, the friction of your wet hair against the fabric of the pillow case will cause it to snap more easily, thereby exacerbating the problem of split ends. To prevent this from happening, try washing your hair earlier in the evening to allow it time to air dry, or use a blow dryer on low heat and a strengthening heat protectant to dry your hair before bed.

Don’t overwash your hair

There’s this misconception that it’s necessary to wash your hair every day to maintain good hygiene and not turn into a ball of grease, but washing your hair every day can actually be pretty taxing to the scalp. Shampoos are designed to strip out all the oils, dirt and grit that accumulate in your hair, but when used too frequently, they can overly deplete its natural oils. Without these natural oils, your hair loses its lustrous shine and will look more dull and lifeless. By excessively washing your hair, you also overdry your scalp, leading to dandruff. This sets the course for a viscous feedback loop: The more you strip your scalp of oils, the more oil it will produce to compensate. Try prolonging the length of time between each hair wash and retraining your scalp to produce a normal level of oil if you suffer from this problem.

Let your hair down!

Though it’s usually more convenient to have our hair tied back in a tight ponytail or bun, hairstyles that pull on our scalp too hard for long periods of time can be hard for our hair to bear. Such stress on our strands may even lead to traction alopecia, which is balding around the forehead area. Be more gentle with your hair by letting it down as often as you can, or opting for loose braids or a loose low ponytail whenever you need your hair out of the way. Even better, try using claw clips as a gentler alternative to elastic hair ties, which involve less tugging at the hair follicles.

Brush your hair, but not too often

Brushing your hair on a regular basis can be helpful in distributing the natural oils from your roots all the way down to the ends of your hair, keeping your whole mane nourished and strengthened and preventing the appearance of a greasy scalp. It also helps with the process of natural shedding, thereby reducing the buildup of dead hair follicles. However, as the saying goes, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Overbrushing can weaken the hair and lead to hair loss if you’re constantly tugging through your hair with a comb. Try to brush your hair two times a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. When you brush your hair, be slow and gentle to avoid traumatizing your hair follicles.

Move your hair out of the way of your backpack

As college students, most of us carry around some type of backpack or bag pretty often. If you have shoulder-length hair or longer, chances are your hair gets caught underneath your backpack. The friction of your hair against the strap of the bag as it’s being pulled when you walk damages the hair cuticle, thereby leading to thinner hair and more split ends. So next time you proceed to sling on your bag, be mindful to move your hair out of the way!

We at the Clog hope these simple hair care tips will get you on your way to happier and healthier hair without having to break the bank!

Contact Madeleine Lorie at mlorie@dailycal.org.

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New Head Coach Lindsay Gottlieb will make her USC debut Thursday against Hawaii in the season opener. Gottlieb worked as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers for two years following eight seasons as the head coach at UC Berkeley.

After spending time at the professional level, Gottlieb has a fresh outlook on the role she plays as a college basketball team’s head coach.

“In college, I’m like the CEO of a small company,” said Gottlieb said in an interview with the Daily Trojan. “I have so much [to do] that I have to make sure to carve out the time to do all the basketball that I want to do to make us as good as we can be.”

One of the things that Gottlieb wants the team to embody early in the season is toughness.

“This is definitely a team that doesn’t lack talent but, in past years, maybe hasn’t been able to persevere through every tough time as well as you need to be an NCAA Tournament team,” Gottlieb said. “I’m just looking to see our ability to be tough and gritty.”

USC has an opportunity to settle into the new system that Gottlieb has implemented. Hawaii went 9-8 last season and suffered a blowout 83-56 loss in its opening game against San Diego this season.

The Trojans’ main concern in Thursday’s game will be Hawaii’s freshman guard Daejah Phillips, who had a solid performance in the season opener with 20 of the team’s 53 points and 4 rebounds. 

The home game against Hawaii will mark the first time since the 2019-2020 season that fans will be in attendance. Many Trojans have not played in front of a crowd at Galen Center, including graduate student forward Jordan Sanders who transferred from UC Irvine ahead of last season.

“It’s going to be really exciting,” Sanders said. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about since I got here last year.”

USC’s first road game will come against Virginia, which is coached by former USC player Tina Thompson. After only five games, Virginia canceled its 2020-2021 season due to an increase in coronavirus within the program and various injuries that left the team with few players available.

Virginia and USC met two seasons ago when the Trojans defeated the Cavaliers 59-49. Two of the Trojans’ three leading scorers from that game are no longer with the program.

One of those three players was guard Endyia Rogers, who led USC in points per game last season and transferred to Oregon this offseason. Sanders is next in line as she returns to USC’s squad this season as a graduate student and candidate to lead the team in scoring. 

“We just seem a lot more together this year,” Sanders said. “We’re ready to go right off the bat.”

Junior forward Alissa Pili, who had a limited sophomore season due to injury, is set to be a key scoring option for USC as well. She averaged 11 points and 3.8 rebounds per game last season, but her freshman-season averages of 16.3 points and 8 rebounds per game represent what she can produce when fully healthy.

USC faces Hawaii at 7 p.m. at the Galen Center in the team’s first regular season game Nov. 11.

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The Associated Students of Colorado State University convened Nov. 10 for their 11th meeting of the semester. ASCSU swore in a new senator and Residence Hall Association liaison and heard presentations on two new pieces of legislation. Charlie Williamson was sworn in as a senator for the Pride Resource Center, and Adam Harkins was sworn […]

It’s been 252 days since the University of Utah women’s basketball team completed a disappointing 2020-21 season with a 57-48 loss to Washington State in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament: 252 days for head coach Lynne Roberts to prepare her team for the rigors of another season. 

Roberts used the offseason to take a long, hard look at the program and devise a style of play that matched the personnel at her disposal and put them in the best position to succeed. After months of hard work behind the scenes, they now have a chance to get back on the floor as the regular season began in earnest last night with the Lipscomb Bison, from the ASUN conference, traveling west for the first ever matchup between the two programs.

Championships are never won in November, but they can be lost; which is exactly why it’s so critical for the Utes to start the season off fast with their 11-game non-conference schedule. 

The Pac-12 is a relentless conference where the Utes will face some of the nation’s best, night in and night out. Building confidence and chemistry now will benefit them once conference play begins on New Year’s Eve.

Lipscomb Bison: 56, Utah Utes: 105

The Utes hit a school-record 19 threes on their way to the third most points in a single game in program history, the most since 1984. Even more impressive than their shooting was a dynamic defensive performance, especially on the perimeter as Utah forced 16 Bison turnovers, including 10 steals.

Coming off of a 23-point loss to that team down south, the Bison started hot; hitting five of their first ten shots and forcing four Ute turnovers in the process of taking a 12-8 lead. From there, Utah leaned on their defense by forcing three turnovers and perimeter shooting by hitting four triples in the opening quarter.

In the second, an extended and suffocating perimeter defense stymied Lipscomb after a 17-point first quarter. Limiting the Bison to a single field goal allowed Utah to build a 51-19 advantage at halftime. Utah outscored Lipscomb 31-2 in the second. 

Inês Vieira came off the bench to lead the effort, finishing the quarter a perfect 3-3 from the field including two threes.

“[Vieira] was a little jumpy in that first quarter, but she’s a difference-maker,” Roberts said.

The Utes kept the pressure on in the second half as they built a 47-point lead by the end of the third quarter. 

After an 11-point first half, Brynna Maxwell stayed hot as she connected on 3-4 shots, scoring eight points in just four minutes. Isabel Palmer added six points of her own, including 1-2 from deep. 

“We just want to take what the defense gives you,” Maxwell said. “Lipscomb was sagging in and the three point shot was there. It’s really fun to be part of a program where everyone is genuinely excited for everyone else to do well. I think that’s going to carry over on the court as well.”

Fifth-year senior Dru Gylten had an excellent all-around performance, finishing with eight points, six assists as she tied her career high with nine rebounds, leading the team. 

“We made some changes in how guards rebound this year,” Gylten said. “If I’m able to rebound and run, it saves time. I think it’s just more effective.”

Gylten also passed Monica Starrett for 9th on the Utes’ all-time assists list and sits just four behind 8th place Reggie White.

“It was a great game for us,” Roberts said. “In the second quarter you saw our depth and the ability to shoot the three. I’m proud of our team. Just an overall great game and good start to the year.”

Coming Up

The Utes face the Xavier Musketeers in a Saturday afternoon matinee on Nov. 13 with tipoff scheduled for 12 p.m. This is the second of four consecutive home games to begin the season for Utah. The game can be streamed here and can also be found on ESPN 700.

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A seven-figure grant from The MirYam Institute will help establish Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) new program named the MirYam Project in International Ethics & Leadership: Law, Religion, Health & Security.

This endeavor entails a four-year partnership between the CSLR’s Jewish Legal Studies Program and The MirYam Institute. The MirYam Institute is a forum for premier authorities to engage in dialogue about the state of Israel and its affairs. Ira Bedzow, director of The MirYam Institute Project in International Ethics & Leadership, and Professor of Law Michael J. Broyde will lead the project.

Ira Bedzow (left) and Michael J. Broyde (right). Photos Courtesy of Emory University

Through mentorship opportunities, travel to Israel and encounters with leading American and Israeli specialists in their fields, the program aims to create future leaders across a variety of sectors, including industry, healthcare, politics, public service and community.

CSLR Director John Witte welcomed the program in an Oct. 21 University press release. He stated that the program will “provide pathbreaking new scholarship and campus-wide leadership on fundamental questions of law, religion ethics, health care, security, and the human condition.”

Broyde described these issues as unified in terms of applying ethics and leadership. 

“The topics that we wish to address all weave a tapestry of ethical leadership,” Broyde said. “Together [they] present a model of how ethics and leadership work in a variety of fields.”

This collaboration was born in part out of Bedzow’s close connections to Emory. He obtained his PhD in religion from Emory under the direction of Broyde, who described Bedzow as “the best graduate student” he has ever had. 

“Sometimes you encounter students and you say to yourself ‘Oh, what I really want to do is spend my whole life working with them,’” Broyde said. “Luckily enough, we procured a grant on ethical leadership that was designed to bring him back to Emory University.”

Bedzow was similarly excited to work with his former mentor. When he was offered the chance to work with Broyde, Bedzow said he “realized very quickly that it was an opportunity that doesn’t come every day.”

He also expressed delight at the prospect of returning to work with the University. 

“Personally, I jumped in with both feet because I love Emory,” Bedzow said. “The culture’s amazing, the people are wonderful and I just enjoy being here every day.”

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StudentUniverse, the world’s leading travel booking site for students and youth, prepares to launch their biggest flight discounts of the year, coming on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

StudentUniverse, the world’s leading travel booking site for students and youth, has announced today that Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021 will offer their best flight and travel deals of the year.

Black Friday (November 26, 2021) and Cyber Monday (November 29, 2021) are traditionally StudentUniverse’s biggest discount days of the year. This year, StudentUniverse has announced they’re partnering with United Airlines, American Airlines, British Airlines, Finnair, Iberia Airlines, Dubai Tourism, Korea Tourism and Qatar Airways to offer steep discounts and deals for student travelers.

StudentUniverse offers year-round discounts on flights, hotels and more, with most flights on StudentUniverse discounted up to 30% off for students. Travelers can take advantage of student-exclusive discounts by signing up with an .edu email address.

This year on Black Friday, students will be able to find extra steep discounts on all United Airlines flights, including last-minute holiday flights. Both domestic and international flights will be on sale. On Cyber Monday, students can expect to find extra discounts on ALL domestic flights and flights to or from the US. There will also be additional discounts on flights to featured destinations, such as India, Dubai, Korea and more. Cyber Monday partners American Airlines, British Airlines, Finnair and Iberia Airlines will also have additional discounts on their routes.

“Travel has been so difficult for much of the last two years,” Steven de Blois, Manager Director of StudentUniverse says, “especially for students—the pandemic has halted their college experiences, cancelled study abroad programs and eliminated many opportunities for work or internships abroad. Now that the world is opening up again, we are working hard to provide discounts to make sure as many students as possible can take advantage of the benefits and lessons international travel has to offer.”

Students can get early access to Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales by signing up on StudentUniverse.com. In addition, all students who sign up for early access will also be automatically entered to win a $500 promo code off their flights.

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In February 2021, when Utah had extra revenue, 34% of Utahns wanted it to be spent on education and another 28% said all wage earners should receive a tax cut. But we should have considered using this surplus to better fund our legislative session.

Utah’s session is uniquely short as it runs only 45 days. Our legislators spend the rest of the year living not as politicians, but regular Utahns who don’t serve their constituents. And the session’s supporting legislative staff mostly consists of undergraduate college interns rather than professionals or policy experts.

We need well-resourced legislators to develop more effective policy solutions — and we can do this through more funding. To better serve Utahns, we need a more funded legislature that would be less reliant on lobbyists and an effective check on the executive.

The Job of a Legislator

Our representatives do a lot more work than simply show up and vote on bills. They attend committee meetings, write and amend legislation, and, most importantly, they learn about the bills they’ll vote on throughout the session.

Utah legislators must do most of that work during Utah’s short 45-day session with a staff made up of undergraduate interns, most of whom have minimal policy experience. Josh McCrain, assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah, said in an interview how time and resource constraints make it difficult for legislators to do their job. “That’s even true in Congress, which is one of the most professionalized legislatures in the world.” In states like Utah, with a much less professional legislature, our representatives are essentially tasked with the impossible.

Interning with the legislature allows college students to gain policy-making experience and gives legislators staff to help them meet their obligations. Still, it doesn’t adequately substitute what a professional legislative staff would give our representatives.

Student interns don’t always have the knowledge to perform all the staffing needs of legislators. In an interview, Dallas Blackburn, a former intern for Utah’s legislature, talked about his experience bill tracking and not always understanding the legislation he needed to report back on. He said, “[The Utah Legislature] wouldn’t function without the interns.” But those interns don’t have half the knowledge a more professional staff and better resources could offer.

Lack of Resources Leads to Lobbying

A better-funded legislature could also help policy makers rely less on lobbyists. Sixty-six percent of Utahns believe lobbyists have “a great amount” of influence on the legislature, an accurate assessment. When states such as Utah have less professional legislatures, they rely on legislation provided by outside groups. Conversely, when legislators have a better policy foundation, lobbying techniques must be better researched to persuade the legislators.

Professor McCrain said, “Usually lobbyists fill in the expertise gap that’s created by under-resourced legislators.” This holds true to the experience of Blackburn, as he said “If [my legislator] didn’t know what a bill was, but an interest group [that he aligned with] supported it, he was more inclined to support it.”

McCrain further explained that states with “less professional legislatures introduce more model bills, so bills written specifically by outside interests.” This presents a problem, as many lobbyists have special interests. Some even make six-figure salaries representing client interests which do not always align with constituent policy priorities.

Checking the Executive

A more powerful legislature has the potential to more effectively check and balance in government. Evidence shows that a more powerful legislature creates a stronger democracy by constraining the executive more effectively.

Constitutionally granted powers support legislatures through institutional means. While it isn’t feasible to change institutional features of legislatures, we can grant them more funding so they have more policy-making resources. Empowering the legislature becomes more critical in Utah, which demonstrates one-party dominance in government.

Research states that with less ideological diversity between branches of government, checks and balances are less effective. Utahns overwhelmingly believe in small government. A more powerful legislature can help ensure our executive leaders do not reach outside the scope of their office, maintaining the small government that matters to us.

This may be an unpopular idea, as Utahns don’t want to give their money to funding the government. But, the surest way to increase governmental efficacy is through funding the legislature. We must make having a well-resourced legislature a policy priority.

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Editor’s Note: Read the Spanish version of this article here. Glassblowers are essential to the cannabis industry. Without their carefully crafted art, smoking cannabis would just be dull. Glassblowing is an intense but rewarding craft, and each artist has their own unique story. I talked to three Fort Collins glassblowers to learn more about how they […]

On October 15, Joe Biden stated in an interview with CNN that anyone who defies a subpoena from the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol should be prosecuted. Despite Biden’s relative silence on the issue so far, his statement came as former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon refused to comply with his Sept. 23 subpoena on dubious claims related to executive privilege. The Biden Administration’s brusque approach is likely to avoid accusations of over-politicizing a legal process, an accusation that has been levelled on numerous occasions against the Jan. 6 committee itself. The same hesitance has been evident at the Department of Justice (DOJ) throughout the process; comments have been reserved and pragmatic, offering little to no room for accusations of partisanship.

On Oct. 22, the House of Representatives voted 229-209 to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the subpoena, landing the issue on the desk of Merrick Garland and the DOJ. With this move and the other three simultaneously issued subpoenas of former Trump aides, the Committee appears to be circling the former president.

Trump, for his part, filed a lawsuit on Oct. 18 against Rep. Bennie Thompson and the Jan. 6 Committee (which he chairs) for “Sending an illegal, overbroad, and unfounded records request to the Archivist of the United States.” The lawsuit was more accurately in response to the fact that Biden refused to assert executive privilege over the documents requested, which Trump’s complaint calls a “political ploy.”

It is clear from Trump’s lawsuit and Bannon’s evasiveness that they each have incentives to block the committee’s investigation. Whether this is because the records contain damning evidence of misbehavior, or because he believes the committee will misinterpret and misconstrue them to get him in legal trouble, is unclear. The legal community has begun to discuss routes to prosecuting Trump himself for his actions on Jan. 6, some recommending multiple charges like conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding and extortion. Others suggest that his laid-back approach to stopping the insurrection in light of his official duty to “Take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” as outlined in Article II Section 3 of the Constitution qualifies as aiding and abetting. If this is a valid argument, then Trump is an accomplice, meaning that the former president is subject to the same crimes as the rioters, according to University of Chicago Law School professor Albert Alschuler.

That is a lot. I am no constitutional scholar, nor are most of the people who will read this column. But as the Jan. 6 Committee closes in on Trump and his inner circle to investigate what caused the insurrection, the general public needs to come to grips with the possible outcomes of the investigation. This investigation is unprecedented, and has the potential to go deep into the events of Jan. 6. We have to begin to ask ourselves, seriously and soberly, what we want from this.

The day was horrendous. We as a country need to figure out how to heal from it and how to best move forward. There are a few things to emphasize as we do so. For one, we need to figure out the truth of the matter. The American people need to know what happened for our own sake and for the sake of future Americans. Timothy Snyder, a Yale History professor, emphasized this point in an interview, saying “The January putsch is the day in infamy that we have to get right for historical purposes. If this becomes a myth of victimhood … then the country is in trouble”.

Inevitably, following the establishment of a narrative are the legal proceedings that are at the heart of the whole issue. Trump, should we find out that he committed crimes relating to Jan. 6, can be prosecuted. What should we think about this? How should we react if we find out that he did conspire to overthrow the election in this specific way? I am no fan of Trump’s, but prosecuting and potentially indicting a former president is nothing to be celebrated. At the very least, it would paint a grim picture of the state of our country; at most, it could be the impetus for more violence and unrest. Throwing former heads of state into prison (whether they deserve it or not) is reminiscent of countries heading into or out of autocracies. On the other hand, impunity for inciting the violence that caused multiple deaths and sought to uproot our democratic process surely cannot be the solution either. Alschuler offered that Trump should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting but then pardoned by Biden, noting that “The time to forgive Trump is not now, and the way to forgive him is not for the Justice Department to rule out prosecution from the outset.”

The laypeople (all of us) need to keep our eyes on the prize here. The rah rah of our own partisanship cannot take the spotlight. Given the plethora of potential approaches to prosecuting Trump in light of whatever evidence arises, we must try to remember what the point of investigating him is. Our first priority needs to be healing, not redemption. That said, if we are going to heal, we need to know the truth about that day, and consequences for actions must be handed out. As the investigation edges into murkier waters, as the Biden White House and DOJ potentially get more involved, and as legal action against top aides and the former president himself become more imminent, tensions are bound to flare up. If we want to maintain any sort of civility, the law must be creatively used in a way that both strongly disavows any violations on or leading up to that day and allows for some form of unity, all while promoting the establishment of law over politics.