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Show WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 OPINION DIXIESUNNEWS.COM -- 5- CiULTALil Apps soiald solve Skating helps educate sleeping poblGms BY HAYLIE ANDERSON liayande According to a study done at the University of Georgia, college students only get six hours of sleep; they should be getting nine or more. The lack of sleep starts a chain reaction for many other problems such as stress and anxiety. With the pressure of all the school work, being involved and trying to work a job, most students dont save enough time for sleep. Studies show that if students dont get enough sleep, they are actually more prone to stress and illnesses. There are many new apps for smartphones that help people fall asleep and stay asleep. There are also some to help with stress, anxiety and depression. Some of these apps include Operation Reach iSlee-pEas- y, Out, Optimism, BellyBio and many more. These apps were created to help people overcome certain health issues such as stress, anxiety, depression and sleeping problems. I tried out an app called Sleep Well. I have used it the last four nights. The app is supposed to help you fall asleep quickly and stay asleep. It uses a type of hypnotizing to keep your body relaxed while you are falling asleep. There is also calming music on the app that is supposed to help keep you asleep. The app has not helped me at all; although, I have only used it for four days. I have never been one to get much sleep. 1 usually get about five hours of sleep, and never do I wake up feeling refreshed. There is another app called Meditation that I want to try. This one helps you to calm your body so that it can drift into a sleep state. In this day and age technology is a huge part of our lives. It shouldnt be too hard to find an app that can help you. If you dont have a smartphone, you can always search on a computer, and find written tips. Technology is all around, so there is always some way for you to find what you need. Most of these apps are available for both iPhone and Android phones. Get one and try it out for yourself. You never know if it ' will help with the stresses of college life if you dont try one. Though the goal of Skateistan is to educate the future of Afghanistan in a way not yet seen by most, a big focus is on the girls. Even into my later years of adolescence I didnt quite realize that learning at an institution is a privilege, not a right, even though it should be the complete worldwide On a basis, the power of learning and opposite. The children of Afghanistan deserve the educating youth is a power indeed the youth of today right to feel safe and to learn, and Skateistan gives will be tomorrows rulers. them a place to do that. The importance of educaWhen the kids go to school, tion is important everylike a in but they are free and encourwhere, country aged to be creative with Afghanistan, where females were allowed to go to school their minds and their boards. The students, especially the again within the last few decades when theyd previgirls, are limited by culture and law to what they can ously been banned by law, become involved with in educating their youth can be their country. world. the whole for crucial According to the The thing about bright Skateistan Facebook page, sides is that there always Komail, who is a skateis one, and the kids at Afboarding instructor that Skateistan in Kabul, started out as a student, said, ghanistan, see and know the When I come to Skateistan bright side, as it is reflected I am away from everything, when in their faces they away from violence, and I skate. can concentrate on sports In 2007, Australian skateand growing up here. Percovich Oliver boarder I think ideas and organishared his skateboards with zations like this need to be some kids on the streets spread, which is actually alof Kabul. They shared the boards with their friends and ready happening. Skateistan has expanded to another the sport of skateboarding school in Afghanistan, Camspread like wild fire. bodia and most recently to Percovich founded South Africa. Skateistan in 2009, a nonSkateistan is teaching profit organization and children that they can do school for kids to learn and great things in their future to skate. - girls in Afghanistan in order to change it, not just settle for the commonly unsettling surroundings they are growing up in. Students go to what we would consider basic general studies classes like Americans do in public schools, while also getting opportunities to get involved in outside organizations like THIMUN Quatar and even the U.N. In a Future of Afghanistan blog post from Skateistan, Basina, a student from Kabul, said: My favorite lesson was because if we learn a lot about this short word we will improve very much in our life, because to trust yourself is victory. Once we say we can do everything then we can put it into action. Seeing what these children accomplish in their lives at such early ages sometimes brings me to tears. Tears of happiness though, because Im a lover of simple things, like kids being happy. The essence of skateboarding, if you strip everything else away, is that its about fun and friendship, Percovich said, according to the Skateistan Facebook page. I hope that we can be inspired by the youth of today in other cultures, including our own. I hope that we can be inspired to teach our youth and help each other learn that education is the key to success, and those who hold the education in the future hold the power. I hope that the power falls into happy and good hands. If youd like to learn more about Skateistan and the good work theyre doing visit Skateistan.org. Skateistan is an organization that focuses on education through skateboarding, which is a unique opportunity for girls in Afghanistan. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Smoking shouldnt be in newspaper articles in last week s d I am writing this letter, because I mean, whats with all the article about marijuana in the same opinion paper? I mean, theres an article about vaping and an and I section. The very same section! I almost feel like the Dixie Sun News is saying, Do drugs, a school sanctioned paper should be approvdisagree with that. I do not like drugs and I do not think that use vapes around campus are very annoying ing the use of vapes and marijuana. The people on campus and I would like to see an article asking for them to be banned. Tobacco is already banned and I dont see why vapes shouldnt be banned too. all the time. In I just think it makes Dixie look like uneducated scum that just sit around and smoke be in shouldnt and are no laughing matter, my personal, humble opinion, vapes and marijuana school. the school paper unless its talking about how scummy they are to our drug-theme- Josh Sorenson Sophomore business major Santa Clara Editor Response: Newspaper encourages dialogue love to see people disagree. Disagreement starts a discussion, and that is the only around us. This is why I am way we begin to understand the perspectives of those thrilled to see the participation of students and staff on campus with the newspaper. I put many hours into the opinion section, as do the other staff writers. Any amount of feedback I receive, good or bad, shows me that people are reading. I use this as to each issue better than my last. my primary motivation to make my contribution the with praise. You have to take the criticism along Free speech needs to be exercised and opinions and ideas need to be scrutinized, on this thoughtfully considered and challenged by those who disagree. Every person and particularly the opinion campus is entitled to his or her opinion. This newspaper, I not silence the voice of any will is section, is here to facilitate a dialogue. This why be student or staff writer who has a sincere opinion to share that fits the criteria to I printed. You will You will see things printed in this section that you might disagree with. to be. If you is it how is supposed see opinions that might clash with your own. This feel inclined, you can write a letter addressing your disagreement. this publication for giving students However, if you choose to criticize or demonize for doing so. Choosa platform for their opinion, you better have substantial reasons I would like to highlight the overall In regards to the article Vulgarity Hurts DSUs Image; or her opinion is his student to. express ing to take away the opportunity for another article. As an academic who has researched the neural the made connotations throughout to hear anything but negative a disservice to everyone who reads the newspaper. If you refuse I read. what troubled I by was associations , deeply of words. underpinnings of memory what you agree with then you end any chance of a beneficial exchange with sensory stimuli. 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They a lot of opinions, which I appreciate, but fails to words more our choose presses to a as opportunity this learning take we interact with them. My hope is that by showing a real knowledge of the us to interact with our complex his opinions have merit. Validating your opinion allows brain our which in research. Josh could carefully Generalizations are a simple way issue at hand is essential. Demonstrate that you have done your interactions and perceptions of othei. our to guide concerns about vapes his loaded of a few generalizations world. Let us not allow have read the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act and had on neural circuits. We bombardment their to their stop not by emotional ability Our words do impact others without resolved. Your argument is strengthened by careful word choice, about the words we think to time more take to have a responsibility as an academic community appeals and name calling. their opinions, it will only be choose to explain our thoughts. When we engage other students in discussion about from each other. Just bebeneficial if we make it. I hope we can all continue to learn mean they are incapable Palwasha Ahad cause someone expresses a sincere opinion one day doesnt to their attention. Psychology assistant professor of changing their perspective when new information is brought Lets prepare ourselves to learn from each other. Word choice impacts others . Some misunderstood the letter to the editor that some people have as t0 the repetitive use of the DSUs image. I assure you t s is no the one was that the Black Student Union etc. It has scummy, room was full of Molly If playing it, I have absolutely no pr the article I understand written wouid have , Mormons, football players or college profes some people un- a o mU afew that it was an accident, but I did not know drat DSlJ,s It seems rd low-cla- ss . image, not misunderstood the article. 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