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Guest Post: Iowa Students Ask Lawmakers To Protect Kids, Not Guns – Iowa Starting Line
Each day, folks throughout america wake to information of one other mass capturing.
In 2021, an individual was shot and injured or killed of their automotive each 20 hours. This yr, 120 People are killed with weapons every single day. There have been 146 mass shootings of four-or-more People shot or killed with weapons, as of April 10, 2023. That’s a couple of mass capturing per day. Weapons are the main reason for loss of life for kids in America. Simply over per week after we misplaced six lives to a faculty capturing in Nashville, there was information of one other mass capturing in Louisville. America doesn’t have time to mourn the casualties from one capturing earlier than the following one occurs. It’s a fixed, vicious, and lethal cycle. Sadly, we will not be stunned when one other record of names crosses our information channels. Kids, dad and mom, grandparents, nieces, nephews, associates, and cherished particular person lives misplaced to rounds of numerous bullets.
These shootings, these deaths, are simply preventable. As a nation, we personal extra firearms per capita than every other nation and are the one developed nation on this planet that grapples with this stage of gun violence. Our legislators ignore this reality and blame gun violence on the folks behind the weapons — not the weapons themselves. This hypocrisy is putting, as they refuse to move crimson flag legal guidelines or common background checks; efficient methods which were confirmed to make it tougher for people searching for to hurt others to entry weapons within the first place.
Right here, in Iowa, our legislators declare to be pro-life, but flip a blind eye to the 1000’s of kids who’re killed by weapons yearly. Our legislators declare to be involved about defending the innocence of our youngsters by banning gender-affirming healthcare, however ignore pupil activists throughout the state after we are screaming, pleading with them, to guard us from gun violence. As a company, the innocence of March For Our Lives Iowa was stolen as we recited the names of all 21 individuals who have been killed in Uvalde, Texas, most of them below the age of 11. Our compassion was cripped as we posed for images amongst the numerous victims, most youthful than us, as a photograph op is far more digestible than a Home File. Our hope for humanity was questioned as we have been inspired to combat towards payments, as a substitute of encouraging protecting literature.
We have now determined sufficient is sufficient. We’re sick of the hypocrisy. We’re sick of strolling into faculty every single day fearing for our lives, and the lives of these we love. Individuals who oppose widespread sense gun laws are the people who declare their proper to personal an assault rifle, a weapon whose harm would have been unimaginable to the Founding Fathers, is protected by the Second Modification. We ask them- when did your proper to personal a gun turn into extra essential than youngsters’s proper to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Why do our lives maintain much less worth to you than a gun? Our legislators have an obligation to guard children, not weapons — but their actions hardly observe go well with.
Our leaders are selecting to prioritize the rights of a loaded, dangerous, inanimate object over our rights to a future free from violence. At present, the Iowa legislature is proposing a invoice that may strip property homeowners’ proper to ban firearms from being in vehicles on their property. This invoice, referred to as HF 654, would carry weapons onto faculty and church grounds the place they may be stolen, or worse, used to homicide dozens of individuals.
Remind your legislators that the lives of youngsters and the rights of property homeowners are extra essential to you than wielding firearms. Electronic mail and name your representatives, and demand they oppose HF 654 as a result of sufficient is sufficient. The time is now, and we won’t look forward to the following capturing to take motion — change is lengthy overdue.
Observe March For Our Lives Iowa on Instagram @mfoliowa to remain updated on methods to get entangled within the combat towards gun violence.
by Hannah Hayes, a junior at Roosevelt Excessive Faculty in Des Moines, and Keiana James, a senior at Cedar Falls Excessive Faculty.
04/12/2023
Iowa State women’s basketball star Emily Ryan released a video Thursday in which she discusses her battle with an eating disorder.
Ryan, a senior from Claflin, Kansas, has been one of the Big 12 Conference’s best point guards for the past few seasons. She was a first-team all-conference pick in 2022, and a second-team selection in 2023.
“By sharing my story, I hope to build awareness and provide hope to everyone else fighting an invisible battle,” Ryan said in the video.
Ryan said her sense of self-worth was dependent on Iowa State’s success and her individual performance. That led to increased time spent in the weight room in an effort to get stronger and faster. When Ryan didn’t see the results that she desired, she began to focus on her diet.
Ryan said the Iowa State medical staff expressed their concern about Ryan’s eating habits and what it was doing to her body. Ryan said she was in “complete denial” about having an eating disorder, but her health continued to worsen.
Ryan missed the first nine games of the 2023-24 season due to the eating disorder. When she returned, she said, “off the court I was really struggling. By the end of the season, I was physically and mentally hanging on by a thread.”
During the offseason, Ryan spent 88 days at a treatment center in Denver.
“It took a long time but I finally came to the understanding that being sick wasn’t my fault, and eating disorders are real, complex illnesses,” she said.
How to get help
For resources on disordered eating, call the National Eating Disorders Helpline at 800-931-2237 or text NEDA to 741741.
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
- FAQ: SBLive High School Football Computer Rankings
Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
CLASS 8 MAN
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