![Minutes before the Activities Fair in the gym, president Abhi Gowda ‘26 prepares the stall for his club Helping Hands, Sept. 4. A relatively new club, Helping Hands was co-started by Gowda and focuses on assisting the homeless, and just last year they succeeded in raising a couple hundred donations to send to shelters. This year, they have goals to expand, with hopes to increase volunteer opportunities and take in-person trips to shelters, as well as extend their help beyond just homeless people. “The Activities Fair gives a lot of underclassmen the opportunity to really get to know the Canyon culture, and it gives them many opportunities for service and volunteering,” Gowda said. “[Through the Activities Fair,] I hope to find a bunch of new and passionate members about our club and just get our name out there and spread awareness to the cause that we’re fighting for.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2-1200x885.jpg)
![The winter guard team makes fifth place at the state championship finals in the Denver Coliseum, March 30. The team performed to Barnes Country's “Glitter and Gold,” lead by coaches Margo Sanford, Blair Bickerton and Anna Orgren. In their class there were a total of nine groups participating, and the top five who made it to finals received a plaque. “[Walking onto the stage] is very nerve-wracking, but also very exciting as well. When you first start color guard there's a lot of anxiety and uncertainty when you first perform in front of an audience, but once you've done it for a while, it starts to become the best part of the season,” Ella West ‘25 said. “It's very fulfilling to see an audience react to something you've put your heart and soul into.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Both-socal-media-nd-website-main-1-1200x846.jpg)
![April marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, created by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). This month is to spread awareness of the harassment, assault and abuse that happens around the world. The symbol that represented the month was a teal ribbon; however, some survivors of assault create different symbols and movements like the TikTok trend in 2022, where survivors would tattoo Medusa on their body, in honor of her backstory in Greek Mythology. “I don't think [this month is known] at all. I rarely see anybody talk about it. I rarely see much of an emphasis on posting it online, or much discussion about it, and I feel like there needs to be way more discussion,” an anonymous source said. “I think just validating every experience that a person has gone through, regardless of the degree of it, the severity, is an essential step into making sure that people are aware that this is a very real problem in a society and that we need to do better in addressing it.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_0011-1200x900.jpg)
During World War I, Germany created daylight saving time as an energy saving measure in 1916 and it was later adopted by the United States in 1918.
Many see daylight savings time as an hour of sleep lost during the “spring forward” when clocks are set an hour forward and the “Fall back” where clocks are set back an hour during non-daylight savings. But with the world not needing to save energy, it causes the question: why continue it?
In 1966, the Uniform Time Act was passed and made daylight savings time a permanent fixture, minus Hawaii and Arizona, which opted to stay year-round in standard time, This act was passed right before the energy crisis of 1974. According to the Coloradan, the year after the crisis, the U.S. adopted permanent daylight savings time (DST), but after the first winter, the support was not.
Students awoke on Sunday, March 8, with an hour lost after the clocks were set an hour forward, giving everybody one less hour of sleep. Many students were left waking up feeling more tired than usual.
“[Daylight savings] sucks. I get less sleep and it doesn’t make me feel good,” Samuel Burkhart ‘27 said. “I would want to go back to standard time permanently because it would be cool, and I don’t like the time changing.”
However, unlike Burkhart, other students believe that daylight savings provides a nice change of schedule, which they are able to adapt to easily.
“[Daylight savings] isn’t my favorite since you get less sleep, so I do like winter more,” Nithika NamBriar ‘27 said. “I don’t think anything should be done about [daylight savings]. I kind of like how it is because it allows a change of sleep schedule.”
According to the National Library of Medicine, students should try to avoid staying up too late and start their bedtime routines earlier to avoid the drowsiness that follows the morning after.
“I really like daylight savings,” Sophie Jelniker ‘27 said. “It provides a nice change, and I like waking up early because it is refreshing and gets me ready to start my day”.
Whether or not people want daylight savings to stay, it will be present for the next couple of years ahead. According to the Hill, many states are attempting to pass bills to set a permanent daylight savings time in place. However, these bills wouldn’t be ratified until the next decade due to congressional bills going back and forth in the Senate and the House of Representatives.