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illuStration By harriSon lingo | Staff
Excessive use of energy drinks can lead to increased heart rate, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other painful side effects.
Opinion Page 3 students at universities shouldn’t be forced to pay increased tuition every year while workers make as little as $7.25 an hour. Such cuts are shortsighted too—well-educated citizens pay more in taxes and are more likely to be unemployed. Dr Delavega believes that “education is not spending money—it’s investing in the future.” We heard invocations of the labor and civil rights struggles in Tennessee at the rally and throughout the day. Representative Towns reminded my team that it was in Memphis that those two struggles merged and came to a head with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When I spoke with Dr. Delavega, she remarked how “Dr. King was in Memphis because of the sanitation strike” and how we all have a similar responsibility to stand with workers. The same politicians making cuts to public services also like to invoke the imagery of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Governor Haslam spent Martin Luther King Day in Memphis this year, where he visited the Civil Rights Museum and attended a celebration at Monumental Baptist Church. But the truth is, if King were alive today, he would have been lobbying with us, inspiring us with a speech at our rally on the south capitol steps, likely urging us to take more action by sitting-in and marching. It’s painfully ironic to hear his words used by politicians who stand in such stark contrast to his legacy. Our organizing work won’t end with lobby day. It took decades of struggle to end segregation and Jim Crow in the South. Workers have always faced poverty wages. Our lobby day was just one more step in that struggle. While voters today
may appear to reward the behavior of politicians like Governor Haslam, with his shameful blaming of poor people and workers for the ills of our country, I am confident that history will judge him differently. By 3 p.m., we had all finished our meetings with legislators and crowded back into the bus or our cars to head back to Memphis. We’ll see in the coming weeks what impact our Lobby Day had on the state legislature. But, in the meantime, the impact it had on all of us was clear. We all left the capitol more excited than ever to organize and keep working together to make our university work for everyone. As Ms. Holder told me, “the union allows everybody to have a voice: faculty, staff and students.”
or three donuts afterwards rather than eating a bowl of cereal with milk. The caffeine in energy drinks can also cause physical problems because being a central nervous system and metabolic stimulant, and sugar metabolizing quickly, blood sugar is increased and then dropped just as quickly. This is dangerous because it causes confusion to the body, resulting in fainting and dizziness. According to Terezie Mosby, part-time instructor in health sport sciences, energy drinks, like many things, are okay in moderation. While they are not the healthiest option, their short-term benefits could help keep someone awake on a long drive, or in some circumstances, replenish an exhausted athlete. “Energy drinks should only be drank if you are active and sweating a lot,” Mosby said. “They are mainly made for those who are in sports, especially since they help replace electrolytes.”
A Double Obligation
Every human being has an obligation to be obedient to God, because He created us. We would have no existence without Him. In Him we each “live, move, and have our being.” Each of His rational creatures will eventually give an account to Him for how they have lived their lives. This is true of each and every human being regardless of what religious beliefs they espouse. However, those who are Christians have a double obligation to serve and obey God. Not only is God their Creator, He is their Redeemer. Jesus Christ has paid the debt owed to God’s justice for all His spiritual children. This exempts them from the eternal wrath that He will ultimately inflict on those who are His enemies. This exemption, which is freely given to them, was purchased at great price. This price is defined in 1 Peter 1:18, 19, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold… But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot…” Christian, the next time you are tempted to do that which is contrary to the Word of God, remember these words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
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