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By: Sema’Jae tate

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Game 6 was honestly a tough but impressive showing from the Timberwolves. Even though the final score was 110–98, you can tell Denver didn’t just roll over—they competed the whole way. Jaden McDaniels really stepped up big time with 32 points on 13-25 shooting, carrying a lot of the offensive load and showing he can be that guy when needed (Anthony Edwards, the Wolves’s star player, was out). Julius Randle added 18, and Terrence Shannon Jr. chipped in 24, which gave the team some solid scoring balance. Naz Reid also gave a strong 15 off the bench.

It wasn’t perfect—some guys struggled with efficiency, because they weren’t used to playing with each other, and we didn’t get a ton from the bench overall—but there was still effort and fight all game.

What makes it even more real is that we weren’t even at full strength. Not having our star players out there definitely hurt (aside from Ant, they were also missing DiVincenzo), especially when it came to closing the gap and controlling momentum. You could feel that missing presence late in the game when we needed a bucket or a leader to take over. Still, the way the team battled without them says a lot.

My overall feedback about the game is that I feel like our back-up players came out and showed out carrying us to the victory with guys like Naz Reid coming off the bench and dropping 15 strong, Jaden McDaniels dropping 32 points and being the lead scorer (this being one of his best games so far in the playoffs), and Terrence Shannon Jr. dropping 24 points. It was kind of rocky the first quarter but we came back strong in the 2nd half.

If we keep it up, we should be ready for the Spurs because they are coming off some hot wins. They have Victor Wembanyama, the Defensive Player of the Year, coming off of scoring 17 point/14 rebounds, De’Aaron Fox scoring 21 points, Julian Champagnie scoring 19 and etc. They knocked the Trailblazers out of the playoffs so these are going to be some tough and competitive match ups, but we’re going to see who takes it all home.

*Update: Anthony Edwards came back from his injury and scored 18pts in a game 1 win for the Wolves.

By: Janessa Castro Cruz

All over the world, but mostly in the schools of the United States, children under 18 use e-cigarettes, vapes and carts more than any other tobacco product. The smoking begins to start as early as 6th grade. Teachers around the world claim to see it more in middle schoolers and in older students, it’s harder to tell as they get better at hiding it.

Smoking has a huge impact on students’ mental health and they either depend on nicotine or cannabis during the school day. School smoking policies can be difficult to apply to students, and many require proof of possession which has made students more capable at hiding their products. Tobacco and nicotine products are daily issues in schools and in children, and educators report that “it’s everywhere”.

The World Health Organization released 2 statements: to “free schools from tobacco and vapes” and a “nicotine and tobacco free school toolkit”.

The toolkit is a guide for schools to create nicotine and tobacco free environments, and it also contains topics on how to support students to quit and implement policies and how to enforce them.

Some of the guides for schools to implement a nicotine and tobacco free environment are:

Banning nicotine and tobacco products on school campuses
Refusing sponsorship or engagement with tobacco and nicotine industries
Banning direct and indirect ads and promotion of nicotine and tobacco products near schools
Prohibiting the sale of nicotine and tobacco products near schools

School-wide policies are difficult to enforce when it comes to tobacco use; some schools all over the world have requested for stronger policies and some educators only use the school resources while others demand a social wide shift. A lot of schools worldwide were successful at implementing those policies after the WHO’s statements were released, and were also successful in implementing policies that support tobacco and nicotine free environments. Even though the tobacco use in schools is still big, schools try their hardest to apply those rules.