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Show CI - . 7' Vt 't1;J ;I I! -7-- Fe". 'q,!1 , s 3 '3 0 a L''LGA-1110- lege students involved , , e iia A tAtA DOMAN BY ABBY abbydomanDSN The average college student can typically be found doing schoolwork, eating or sleeping. While campuses do an adequate job taking care of the first two basic needs, the last one is often overlooked. Universities should take more initiative to create a peaceful, affordable, location for sleeping for students. Students who are involved in activities or athletics are on campus for multiple hours of the day. However, not all of their time is filled with activities. There are often large gaps in their schedules with classes in the morning, classes in the evening and events throughout the day. According to an American Academy of Sleep Medicine article: "Col us extra-curricul- ar us a cam trl: LI LIJS - Fra have sleep deprivation... Insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness were frequent complaints among these students." For students who live on campus, this is not such a big issue. They have the freedom to go back to their apart- ments and take care of their physical and mental health. For those stuck on campus for the day, options to take care of themselves are minimal, especially when it comes to sleep. Since gas is costly, the option to drive home for these breaks is usually not optimal. Therefore, students need a space to sleep that is on campus and readily available for students. Having nap pods on campus would have multiple benefits on the student body. Since students would be rested, there would be a happier and more energetic vibe on campus. This would also increase attendance since there are no temptations for students to stay at home after their breaks from classes are over. Lawrence Epstein, a doctor quoted in an American Academy of Sleep Medicine article, said: "After two weeks of off-camp- us n - in extracurricular activities are more likely to , el 4 1... 3 IJI OPINION - , men, , - -- f --- ---- - - j , - --- -- r Z---- I 1 , ,---------- -- , i ' ' - i f --- , ,, , . ..t ti, , - , - ,'. V.',,,,'1 ,,, ,. ," 0. , , '1 ,, - i --, ! i c..);,- k - --- - 4, 4' ,, '' 1 i '', , i 1 .., k .' , ) , ' ' , , 7, - 1 ,, , ,....1 ,f 4- , L - ' ,, i i , , ,,,,- -- .....,,1 ,,,,,,,,, n ,e,! , , ' . i pr-A.,,- -- ! - ' ,.11 0 Y 1 ! ; , , ,, i ...,IH , .,1J iii,-,' . , - . . t , i , i , t , I , E , . . 1 1 I, , L, i ,,,, ... - ,4 , 1 1 ro.,... , , ,t 1 I t b ) t t 1' I ' r ., ,: , ; -, -, I . , 4 t , - -- ' 11 ' ::: 11 ' ,.,,.....,..,.,-)11 j i -- - , ,. - 1 . . - t' ''' - , 1 1 i I , f- i , . t i I i t i 1 t 1 : ..i s , ,. ' , , Z v, Framery offers the "NapC1," a work station that folds down into a sofa set, seen at NeoCon in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago on 11. Nap pods like the "NapC1" can help students catch up on lost sleep while saving time and money, Abby Doman said. June sleeping six hours or less a night, students feel as bad and perform as poorly as someone who has gone without sleep for 48 hours. New research also highlights the importance of sleep in learning and memory. Students getting adequate amounts of sleep performed better on memory and ,motor tasks than did students deprived of sleep." Universities are responsible for the mental health of students. Having a safe place for students to get rest is a vital progressive step all colleges should take. show your support, email Dean of Students Del Beatty at beatty dixie.edu or Student Body President Cajun Syrett To at dsusapresidentdixie. , i 10 ;I r 0 1 1.--- ,t, lilt ilslogepf i . Send letters to the editor to DixieSundixie. edu. Letters to the editor are accepted and may be published in the newspaper andor dixiesunnews. .corn. The guidelines for letters are as follows: Submissions should be no longer than 250 words and must be Writers must include name, phone number and email address. Students should also include year in school, hometown and major. Letters are subject to editing for length, style and grammar. Letters consisting of inaccurate, libelous or highly offensive content will not be published. Letters should be submitted to dixiesundixiaedu in the body of the email, not an attachment. Letters become property of Dixie Sun News and may be published in any format. Dixie Sun News en- Ulle u - LT) well-writte- courages a lively discussion on its website among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous or vulgar. , f, BY STEPHEN B. ARMSTRONG Guest Columnist My mother used to work the occasional weeknight when my sister and I were she taught art to kids adult students in Washington, D.C. My dad, always would take us to McDonald's for dinner when Mom was gone, then over to the mall to get books at B. Dalton. I remember riding home one night from one of these school-nigoutings, squished up on the backseat of my father's Ford Escort, listening to the Ramones' first album. A neighborhood friend, Adam, had loaned me his copy. To hear the songs over the noise of the car's manual transmission, I had to press the portable stereo's well-meanin- g, ht foam-wrappe- d A:L'TLiTA speakers roigE7 to my ears. The tracks all sounded the same to me back then, with Johnny Ramone's jackhammering guitar riffs and Joey Ramone's wet shower curtain of a voice. I liked the music a lot. As we got back and my dad rolled up our driveway, I told him I'd come in the house soon. Then over the next five minutes or so, I finished listening to the album's second side, which ends with a track in which Joey declares, "Today your love Tomorrow the world! I Today your love Tomorrow the world!" The song's yearnings for romance and global domination to this day strike me as even psychotic--bu- t paranoid there's great art in Joey's delivery as he manages to swathe the madness with melancholy and hope. Ever since that night, honestly, there's never been a period in my life when I wasn't listening to the Ramones. The musical output of their run, I can tell you, is made up for the most part of charming but resolutely goofy takes on topics like lobotomies, worm men, dancing cretins, pet cemeteries and UFOs. The corny kitsch that distinguishes so much of the Ramones catalog left me 20-ye- ar fiL- E early on suspicioning that the guys in the band, despite their ability to come up with great hooks, were probably all nitwits or at least pretended to be. Joey cries out on "Pinhead." This willingness of mine to regard the Ramones as a lowbrow put-o- n made it possible to ignore several songs that should have bothered me at a moral level, I'll admit, ones like "Pinhead" and "Weasel Face" that make light of disabilities and physical shortcomings. But I've always allowed myself to ignore their cruelty. Tracks about Nazis recorded during the band's early years never struck me as anything other than bad taste gags, especially since two of the band's founding members, Joey and Tommy, were Jewish. As Johnny Ramone !" explained in his autobiograNazis phy: "We thought were funny. We thought sniffing glue was funny, too." So I've never experienced much in terms of worry or remorse, either, when I've praised the Ramones to for others, my found or when I've example, my foot tapping along to a track like "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World," the , ztii-Joq7D- re song I mentioned previously, even though it has lines like "I'm a shock trooper in a stuporYes I am I'm a Nazi schatze I Y'know I fight for the fatherland." and My perception of the Ramones affection for has undergone some painful changes recently. Clownish songs about brownshirt wannabes no longer seem as goofy and harmless as they did, not now, that is, as autocratic and racist ideologies exert an increasingly dangerous influence over our country. Just this past week, vandals knocked over headstones marking Jewish graves in a Massachusetts cemetery. Last October, an goaded by intemet conspiracy theories, shot up a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people. A yearand-a-half ago, white power revolutionaries, wearing khaIds and polo shirts, marched across the campus of the University of Virginia, one of the intellectual capitals of the South, aping Nazi rhetoric as they'shouted "Jews will not replace us! We will not be anti-Semit- e, replaced!" I'm too much of a supporter of the First Amendment to argue for censorship in popular music, nor have I ever cottoned to the idea presented long ago by Tipper Gore that music can make good people do bad things. I refuse to believe that a track as silly as "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World" could lead someone to embrace Nazism and violence. I find it not at all hard these days to summon in my head the image of a fledgling fascist, a burnished Wehrmacht helmet on his head and Apple Air Pods pressed into his ears, listening to this song as he daydreams of rallies, and flags, white ethno-states murder. 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