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As We See It

When will women catch a break?

Being a woman, I have always heard and heeded the stories about how dangerous it can be to go out. I’m not even old enough to drink legally and I know the rules.

Number one: never leave your drink unattended and make sure you are paying attention to it at all times.

Number two: don’t accept drinks from anyone.

Number three: if you leave your drink unattended, you don’t drink it when you come back, you pour it out.

And possibly most important is number four: never leave your friend behind or leave them in any type of potentially dangerous situation.

These are the rules that women have to worry about whenever they go out. We can’t just decide to actually take it easy and not worry because if we aren’t worried about those things we might be told that we should have been more careful when something goes wrong.

Women don’t get to have a fun night out with no worries because even when we take care of ourselves and follow all of these rules there’s always something else.

Women have thought of all these rules to keep ourselves and our friends safe, but it turns out no matter how hard we try to be safe people are trying just as hard to make it dangerous. If you aren’t a woman, you may not have heard but there is a new way that people have been getting roofied.

Instead of trying to get women to drink something that has been tampered with, people are now being roofied by injections.

An increasing amount of women have been reporting not remembering their nights after not drinking much at all and then finding a puncture mark somewhere on their body in the morning.

Now, I would like to know what the people who say that women are just too careless and that’s how they get roofied, have to say about injections.

Is the next rule for women that we can’t get too close to anyone in a crowd just in case someone uses that closeness to give a quick injection and pass it off as bumping them? The people giving roofies to women aren’t obvious when they put it in drinks and they aren’t going to be any more obvious when they give an injection.

They aren’t going to chase down a woman, arm in the air with the needle like some horror movie. The way that these things happen isn’t obvious and that is what makes it so terrifying.

Someone’s free will or consciousness can be taken from them so easily and we’re told to just be careful.

How about instead of pinning the whole situation on the people

who are at risk we start to do something about keeping it from happening? Awareness isn’t enough anymore. We can be aware of all these awful things but that hasn’t helped anything. The numbers of people who choose Velvet Jessen to do these awful things haven’t gotten any smaller. Even while we try to be as vigilant as possible, the number of people who get roofied hasn’t gone down that much and now that we’ve tried so hard to keep ourselves and others safe and aware, bad people just found another way to hurt people. When will we stop only bringing awareness and start bringing about some change or consequences? It’s time to stop expecting women to be hyper vigilant when we want to relax and start teaching men to act like men, not perverted little boys.

As You Said It!

We asked: What is your favorite part of home football games?

Kevin Campbell Freshman, Bradenton, Florida Wyatt Ellis Freshman, Hot Springs, South Dakota Devyn Volz Junior, Parker, Colorado

“The after parties.” “Playing in the pep band and cheering them on.” “The atmosphere of all the people.” Emily Evans Junior, North Platte

“When the game is over.” Jaden Earle Freshman, Gillette, Wyoming

“The crowd and the student section is really fun.”

As We See It

Opinion Land of the free and the scared

u By Kamryn Kozisek

Staff Editor

Columbine, Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech, national tragedies, resulting in a total of 71 deaths. These incidents are still making headlines as the memories of the victims are honored.

But that’s only three of 1,857 school shootings since 1970 and 71 of 621 deaths caused by the use of guns on a school campuses.

So far in 2021 there have been 205 incidents involving guns on school campuses, that is the most ever recorded in one year and there are still two months of school left this year.

But no one is talking about it.

Despite the growing rates of school violence on both college campuses and k-12 schools, I haven’t seen much in the news about it, most of the shootings barely made local news.

Threats of shootings and bombings are happening to schools in the U.S. everyday even some close to home.

But no one is talking about it.

South Dakota School of Mines evacuated Friday after threat was made that there were bombs placed in several of the buildings.

But no one is talking about it.

Almost everyone I know has had a threat of a shooter or bomb or had an incident occur while in high school or college. As a student the thought of being killed by a shooter or having a friend or sibling killed is always in the back of my mind.

But no one is talking about it.

Schools have evacuation plans, trainings for faculty and staff, even resident advisors (RA’s) have to go through mass shooting trainings.

When you’re in a building or classroom discussions come up of what you would do if a shooting would happen right now.

But no one is talking about it.

Parents, grandparents, sibling and friends of over 600 students have grieved over those lost in school gun violence.

So, let’s talk about it.

Let’s make every school shooting, every threat a national issue.

Let’s talk about when, where and how school shootings are happening.

Let’s talk about how 43% of the shooters were students attending the school and 19.9% are done by people who have no relation to the school.

Let’s change how we handle fighting and bullying. With 38% of school gun issues classified as an escalation of disputes, they could have been prevented. Let’s talk more about children’s access to weapons. Even if this just decreases the amount of accidents in elementary schools, when young children bring a gun

Kamryn Kozisek to show and tell.

Let’s talk about how 36.9% of gunmen fled and then were apprehended and 26% of them fled and escaped.

As students, sibling and future parents of children, we need to talk about school violence and not just when the death toll is high and not only when its young children.

We should be demanding change, so that future generations don’t have to worry about being shot while getting an education. So that school days don’t have to be spent on training students on how to run, hide and defend themselves.

And just in case you haven’t heard them, here are just a few of the names of victims of school gun violence in 2021, Daylon Burnett, 15, Kayden Bauswell, 15, William Belamy, 18 and Aarron Wiggins, 26.

Children need breaks and a little understanding

u By Anjaelique Cole

Columnist

When we are little, we got naps and recess during school. We get snacks and laughs. Lots of games and toys.

As we get older the laughs grow shorter, the naps become secret, and the recess disappears.

Even though it is scientifically proven older kids and teenagers due better with brain food, a quick nap, or even a brain break schools don’t implement any of these ideas to help their students learn.

I think it is very important that schools start learning that the body and brain is growing so they need a little break from eight hours in a desk.

Because schools do not understand this need, most young adults cannot wait to get to college, so they do not have to sit for so long and they get a break between classes.

A kid’s brain cannot process so much information at once.

According to many neuroscientists kids use selective attention when they are getting a lot of attention at once. Selective attention is when their attention focuses on what they think is important and their brain ignores what it thinks is unimportant.

They do this by picking out many of the ‘important’ words in the flow of sentences and the things that stand out to their senses. Then they protect them from being overrun from other thing.

Students can try to avoid interferences like text messages, but this is hard as a younger adult especially in a school system.

Especially because when you are a young adult everything can be an interference. A rumbling tummy, a bad mood, or even something like being too cold.

After sitting in a desk for so long you start getting bored and your brain starts looking for a distraction to keep you entertained. Something like doodling, playing on your phone, or annoying your teacher.

These usually result in an interference with whatever a student needs to do in class.

This problem could be solved if there were not long periods of time with kids sitting in a desks being bored.

I know that teachers work hard on their plans and they try to plan every minute with as much learning as possible, but how much learning can they do if you have a child who is tired and bored in your class.

Teachers have the most important job in the world.

They touch the hearts of children and inspire them to be better and become the future. However, teachers can not do that if the child is too tired, bored, or hungry to pay any attention.

Without teachers we would not have anyone else. No doctors, lawyers, or welders. This is not the teacher’s fault.

The school system wants eight hours in a desk with words spit at the kids hoping the kids absorb it, but kids do not absorb it like they want them to.

It is so easy to do snacks during class, or a 20-minute nap break I mean how many minutes are wasted in school trying to get a child to focus anyways, so instead spend those minutes taking a nap.

I mean you can walk into any high school or middle school class and say hey let’s go have a recess and they would all be stoked.

Then when they get back into to class, they just ran out all their jitters, so they are ready to focus. It is a win-win.

Anjaelique Cole