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College students should start considering their long-term health. If they want a better quality of life, in the long run, they need to start taking care of themselves now. 

Students can sometimes take their health for granted, especially with hectic schedules. As a result, they tend to put their health on the back burner and prioritize other things like school and social life. 

This can allow some health issues to go unnoticed only for them to get worse in the future. It’s time for college students to start thinking about their long-term health.

Now that the University has in-person classes again, students should try to have at least one in-person class a week if possible. This will allow them to have a scheduled time to walk around on campus and get their steps in.

For those who prefer exercising in an air-conditioned building, there’s always the Campus Recreation. It has many different amenities, including a wide variety of workout equipment, a basketball court, a swimming pool and a track.

‘You are what you eat is a common expression that has some truth to it. What you eat matters and you have to respect your body as well as what you put into it.

Students should try to have at least one fruit and one vegetable with every meal. This is a great way to slowly introduce healthy eating habits into a diet if someone doesn’t usually eat healthily. The rec center also has nutritionists students can ask for help with dietary needs.

Hydrating properly is equally important as eating the right foods, especially during the hot months in Houston. If you don’t enjoy the taste of plain water, you can add some sea salt and lemon juice. There’s also water flavoring you can buy in stores.

Mental health is important too. Mental health has a way of manifesting itself in people’s bodies. That’s why when someone is stressed or anxious they might see changes in their appetite or appearance.

The best way to combat these issues is by having a reliable support system. That can mean having a heart-to-heart with a friend or calling home. 

In some cases, neither of those options is ideal. In which case, there are Counseling and Psychological Services here at the University if you prefer to talk to a therapist.

One of the most important things that tie mental and physical health together is sleep. 

Having enough sleep can drastically improve your physical health and increase your level of energy exponentially. Studies also show regular sleep can help prevent mental health issues like depression.

The typical hours of sleep per night required for adults is seven or more hours. But, this isn’t always possible for busy college students. In that case, try to rest a little longer on the weekends to make up for lost sleep. 

Don’t consistently pull all-nighters either. All-nighters can have some damaging effects on the immune system and overall health.

Your health is one of the most important things in life. Even with a busy schedule, college students need to take the time to take care of themselves, so they can work towards long-term health. 

Natasha Biswas is a biology sophomore who can be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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Senior pranks and kids stealing stuff from school is not anything new, but how far is too far? Due to a recent trend on TikTok known as “Devious Licks”, also referred to as “Diabolical Licks’’ and “Dastardly Licks,” kids are being encouraged to steal anything from soap dispensers to fire alarms to even full teachers desks from their respective schools to participate in the viral trend.

High school bathrooms have been the worst victims of this trend, with some schools being forced to close their bathrooms entirely due to extreme vandalism.

Dealing with pandemic-related issues in the classroom is already a lot on teachers’ plates, but now schools are trying to figure out ways to address and ultimately stop this trend from getting out of hand, some being more extreme than others — various high schools across the nation are locking the bathrooms during class time, not allowing backpacks inside restrooms or requiring an adult escort to walk them to the bathroom.

On a more serious level, thirteen students are already facing criminal charges for their involvement in the TikTok trend.

But is arresting a student really worth it over a TikTok trend that will most likely go away in a week or two? A lot of kids who are participating in this trend probably are not aware of the consequences and financial repercussions of their actions and are just doing it in an attempt to temporarily go viral or simply because they are bored and think the videos are funny.

They are not thinking of the custodial staff who has to clean up after them or how the money that has to go towards replacing the stolen items could have gone somewhere more useful. Some schools may not even have the funds to replace the stolen items in the first place, which could potentially put pressure on the parents of the students to pay up.

Rather than immediately resorting to police discipline, schools could make efforts towards reforming and educating their students to help them understand why following viral trends like “Devious Licks” are bad.

Additionally, if it were not for the attention that this trend is getting on social media and national news sources, including the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post and other big-name reputable news outlets, it would not even cross a lot of students’ minds to participate in vandalism and theft from their schools. The mass attention from the adult world is merely fueling the fire of the trend that probably would not have gotten as popular as it did without it.

Schools have been shown to be quick to jump to extremes when adults are made aware of trends in their student bodies. Back in many of our elementary school days when Silly Bandz were all the rave, schools often banned them completely for being “distractions in the classroom” despite them being just funny-shaped rubber bracelets.

But the thing about trends is that they are called “trends” for a reason in that they do not last forever — while this is easier said than done, the best thing schools can do is address students directly or ride out the “Devious Licks” trend because it will just fade away like most fads do.

The 51st senate of the Associated Students of Colorado State University convened Sept. 22 to swear in new senators and associated senators and ratify executive members of the Legislative Strategy Advisory Board. ASCSU also heard Resolution #5103, Bill #5103 and Resolution #1504. Genova Mumford was sworn in as a senator of the College of Veterinary […]

“The temperatures are rising and so are we,” six-year-old Arlo Dominguez sang from the steps of the Utah State Capitol Building. His song was a part of the Salt Lake City march organized by Fridays for Future, as part of the Global Climate Strike.  

Beginning at Washington Square Park at 11 a.m. on Sept. 24, the group of preschool-aged kids to retired adults marched to the Utah State Capitol.  

Among marchers was University of Utah junior, Sydney Crismon. 

“I think it’s really important that people kind of just become aware of what’s going on,” Crismon said. “I think by each individual person coming out, it broadens the horizon of everyone that knows about it.”

Natalie Roberts, an organizer with Fridays for Future Utah who has been protesting at the Capitol for the past 60 weeks, said this year’s theme, “Uproot the System,” was about calling for drastic systemic change. 

“We are trying to reorganize all those political, economic and social systems that are causing so much harm to this planet and the people that live on it,” Roberts said. 

Raquel Juarez, the founder of Fridays for Future Utah, said this systemic change needs to occur in a way that takes into account the disproportionate effects of climate change on people of color. 

“It has to be done in a just way so that it doesn’t continue that cycle,” she said. 

Melanie Van Hook, another organizer, agreed with Juarez, saying climate justice means nothing without social justice. 

“We need to put energy into the climate crisis but we also need to put energy into social causes,” she said. “Because what’s the point of having a healthy planet if there are people who aren’t happy and are suffering on it?”

Roberts said this global strike is especially important in a place like Utah, where the state remains in extreme drought conditions. 

“The Great Salt Lake is drying up and that is going to cause many problems for our state,” she said. “We’re losing our winters. [Also,] Utah has a very large tie to the oil and gas industry.”

She also said everyone, no matter their age, needs to show up for the climate. 

“We hope to see you there, because it’s all of our worlds,” she said. “Even though this younger generation will be affected the most, it’s important for parents and grandparents to support their children because they have really screwed up the planet and they’re handing their children basically a death certificate.”

After marching to the Capitol, Carl Moore, co-founder of SLC Air Protectors, a Native American-led nonprofit organization focused on environmental protection, started the speeches off with a land acknowledgement. 

The zero emissions rally was powered by bike, with volunteer protesters coming up to pedal and power the microphone. 

Gabe Dominguez performed an original song about the hypothetical breaking down of the Glen Canyon Dam. 

“It’s a bit of a sing-along, because in order to break through the dam, literal and metaphorical, we all gotta do it together,” he said. “There’s no way we can do it by ourselves.”

To symbolize the dam, attendees wrote their answer to the fill-in-the-blank question, “We are smashing through ___ for Ecojustice.”  The responses included: racism, fossil fuels, systemic oppression, capitalism, homophobia, etc. 

As Gabe Dominguez sang, the crowd ran through the paper, symbolizing breaking down the systems written on it. 

“Even though I might not be able to actually remove the Glen Canyon Dam or any of the other massive aggregate problems that are blocking us from Ecotopia in real life, in my imagination, I can live in Ecotopia immediately,” he said. 

He has been providing the bike-powered speaker system for Fridays for Future for the past few events they have held and said he feels honored to create an event with people from “doctors to three year olds in their ballerina dresses, who want a livable future.” Another youth, Stella Greenberg, spoke about the ongoing drought in Utah. 

“We are living in one of the top 10 hottest years on record, and it is not like our governor is helping either,” Greenberg said. “I don’t think asking a higher power, while maybe comforting for some, is going to stop the devastation this state is in. Gov. [Spencer] Cox needs to recognize that we see the effects of climate change every single day, but I doubt that he sees any of it.” 

She said lawmakers need to take action against climate change and encouraged others to write letters and start petitions to call for systemic change. 

“I dream for a future where I can live without the fear that I will not have enough water to drink, or never see another snow day, but together we can push for a more livable future for all of us,” she said. 

Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and former faculty member of the U’s Honors program, said his organization is joining Our Children’s Trust in their lawsuit against the climate crisis. 

He called upon the protesters to sign up to be youth plaintiffs in the lawsuit and spoke about the heightened rates of anxiety and depression in young kids who are worried about their futures in a dying world. 

“In fact, kids your age are wondering, is it safe for you to ever have your own kids?” Moench said. “What an absolute condemnation of our public policy directors that our own children are afraid to have any children of their own because of the climate crisis.”

Holding signs that read “Defend Our Future” and “If You Won’t Act Like Adults, We Will,” the youth of the movement expressed their concerns about not having a livable future. 

“I am involved with the climate strike movement because I want to live in a sustainable, just future where we won’t die,” 14-year-old Roberts said. “Like is that too difficult of a thing to ask, not to die?”

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September marks the start of football season. Not only for the NFL and NCAA, but for intramural leagues on campus too. 

With football being such a popular sport in Georgia for young athletes. The rosters that are put together by the students can be quite talented.

The field is eighty yards long and first downs are gained by traveling every twenty yards, forcing a more up tempo style of play.

Players feel that participating gives them dedicated time to fit in some added exercise into their busy schedules.

Even if the games get serious, those who play remember that everyone is out there to have fun and compete with their friends.

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On Aug. 15, 2021, Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban. This came after the United States announced their troop withdrawal. I believe that we must recognize this event as a global disaster and that we must come together regardless of party affiliation to condemn the President’s response to it.

Determined to end the war, newly elected President Joe Biden declared that the U.S. would fully withdraw our troops by Sept. 11, 2021. Although this decision was well-intentioned, the Biden administration’s execution of it later proved to be a disaster.

Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said “the chaos which was caused by the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from the region is an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.” I agree with his assertion.

President Biden’s decision left American citizens stranded in Afghanistan. Although the evacuation effort led to the successful escape of most Americans, the administration estimates that 100 to 200 Americans are still stranded in the country because U.S. forces were unable to evacuate all Americans by the withdrawal deadline. Rep. McCaul accused the Taliban of keeping six planes with the U.S. citizens hostage. This administration’s actions rejected the sacred military commitment to leave no one behind.

After the Taliban shocked the world with its swift takeover, Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman for the organization, called for the creation of an “open, inclusive Islamic government.”

President Biden’s decision allowed an authoritarian government to seize control in Afghanistan, resulting in a humanitarian crisis. The lives of minority groups, women and LGBTQ+ Afghans are at risk as the Taliban could reinstate their strict rules. Members of the group have even already raped and killed gay men, according to Business Insider. 

The Taliban, meaning students in Pashto, is an Islamist group, which led Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 as the Islamic emirate.

During their reign, the Taliban committed multiple human rights violations such as public executions and amputations. The group also attacked minorities, outlawed the education and employment of women, supported the global terrorist organization Al Qaeda and required women to be fully covered and in the presence of a man in order to be outside.

When the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush declared Operation Enduring Freedom, a global war on terrorism to find Osama bin Laden. 

Although the Taliban government collapsed as a result of the war, President Bush announced that U.S. troops would remain in the region to fight against Taliban insurgents while assisting in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

On May 1, 2011, U.S. forces found and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, thereby achieving the initial objective of the operation. Nonetheless, the war continued until Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops. 

In order to evacuate Americans, the U.S. the military seized control of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. However, chaos ensued and 13 U.S. service members were killed in a bomb attack by ISIS-K.

Biden’s handling of the troop withdrawal process represented a significant failure in U.S. foreign policy because it rejected the principles of leaving no one behind and the spread of our values around the world. Although most Americans opposed the war in Afghanistan, a Marist National poll shows 61 percent of Americans disapprove how Biden handled the withdrawal. This significant statistic in itself demonstrates how the event is a devastating disaster.

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Pac-12 hopefuls: Cal football begins conference play against Washington

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Any sports fan knows it’s not uncommon for individuals or teams to have hot streaks when performing at an elite level. What is far less common and ultimately defines the best in any given sport is the ability to maintain that level throughout multiple competitions or seasons.

The Cal men’s tennis team had a successful showing at the Battle in the Bay Classic last week, which included a run to the singles’ semifinal by senior Philip Hjorth and a doubles title courtesy of senior Yuta Kikuchi and freshman Carl Emil Overbeck. These victories made it clear that the Bears are certainly capable of competing with the best teams in the country. Now, the blue and gold will seek to show they can produce this high level of tennis consistently at the Chowder Fest tournament at Harvard’s Beren Tennis Center starting Friday.

Cal’s lineup at the annual Cambridge tournament will include Hjorth, Kikuchi, Overbeck and Lucas Magnaudet, who all competed at the Battle in the Bay, as well as sophomore Noah Gampel and freshman Michael Wright, who will make their collegiate tennis debuts for the Bears at the event. Hailing from Malibu, Gampel was a five-star recruit ranked as high as 49th in his graduating class, according to TennisRecruiting.net. Meanwhile, Wright is a local who attended Berkeley High School.

Over the three-day span of the tournament, Cal could potentially face Florida, Arizona State and Harvard. Notably, the Gators defeated Baylor to claim the national championship last season and enter this season as one of the, if not the, biggest powerhouses in men’s collegiate tennis. Their roster sports six players in the top 90 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, or ITA, preseason singles ranking, including defending individual national champion Sam Riffice at No. 2. Further, the duo of Riffice and Ben Shelton is one of three Gator doubles pairings included in the top 60 of the ITA preseason doubles ranking.

While the Gators appear to be the favorites in the tournament on paper, both the Sun Devils and the Crimson are certainly forces to be reckoned with. The Crimson are on the heels of an impressive showing at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic last weekend, where sophomore Henry von der Schulenburg took home the singles title and senior Brian Shi scored an upset over LSU’s first-seeded Ronald Hohmann, who was 24th in the ITA preseason rankings.

The Sun Devils, on the other hand, opened their fall season simultaneously at the Battle in the Bay and the Larry Easley Memorial Classic at UNLV. Arizona State saw limited success from the two players it sent to the Battle in the Bay, with 51st-ranked Louisville transfer Fabien Salle and freshman Nicola Cigna falling in the first round of the singles main draw and the singles qualifying draw, respectively.

Additionally, the duo of Cigna and Salle fell to the Cal pairing of Hjorth and Magnaudet in the first round of the doubles qualifying event. In Las Vegas, however, the Sun Devils nearly struck jackpot, with sophomore Spencer Brachman falling a single match short of capturing the top singles flight trophy at the Larry Easley Memorial Classic. Led by head coach Matt Hill, Arizona State will look to find the level of tennis that saw it upset Stanford en route to an appearance in the finals of the Pac-12 tournament last year.

For a blue and gold squad that has undergone relatively significant coaching and roster changes during the pandemic, the looming question is whether or not it can maintain the elite caliber of tennis the program has historically been accustomed to. Nevertheless, the team is confident in its ability to succeed.

“Obviously, there’s been a lot of change,” Hjorth said. “But I feel like the team has really just come together. You can feel the team’s camaraderie and energy has never gone away.”

Maria Khan covers men’s soccer and football. Contact her at mariakhan@dailycal.org.

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Gov. Greg Abbot signed into law House Bill 20 that is meant to stop social media platforms from taking action against users like a ban or suspension based on political grounds. Despite the bill having some good ideas, its purpose is based on the false idea that social media regularly bans conservatives. 

In addition to protection from censorship, the legislation also means that social media platforms with more than 50 million monthly users in the U.S. must create an appeals system for users. The platforms must also be open about how they regulate content.

Social media platforms have now been around for more than 20 years, increasing in popularity with each passing year as more and more get invested into their online lives and interactions. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have become all the rage, however, there are some people out there who hold quite a bit of frustration towards these online platforms. 

This frustration exists because of supposed censorship, particularly with a bias towards conservative and right leaning posts and accounts. 

This bill and the recent push in discussion around censorship were originally born from former President Donald Trump being banned on Twitter. Many right-leaning individuals, like Abbot himself, believed it was Trump’s conservative politics that were the result of his ban, but in reality it was that he violated Twitter’s policies.

 Twitter’s safety policies, which are the policies for which content is removed from their site, include “violence”, “Terrorism/violent extremism”, “child sexual exploitation” and more. 

Trump’s tweets that got him banned were related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Given the context of the whole situation it comes off as if he’s inciting violence, which is against Twitter policy and also just very dangerous for a person in his position of power to do so.

There isn’t some unified plan by social media companies to take down conservative politics. Facebook in particular has allowed a variety of conservative based content on their site despite a certain number of those posts and users breaking policy and spreading misinformation on COVID-19.

This bill does contain some good parts that could potentially help users appeal actions made against their accounts. However, the reason for its existence is primarily built on falsehoods and dysfunctional perspectives.

In the end, the law is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

Drew Spiller is an English sophomore who can be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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