Spending time in the hospital is not always a lot of fun. It can be particularly tough on kids. When they have an extended stay, staffers do their best to keep them comfortable and feeling at home. If your child has to spend time in the hospital, there’s no better place to be than Stead Family Children’s Hospital. The facility’s next-door neighbor is the University of Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium. The fans have an incredibly sweet tradition after the first quarter of home football games geared just to the kids at Stead. Tami Butcher shared a touching video of fans waving at the patients during the game on Instagram. “At the end of the first quarter, the entire football stadium turns to wave at the children watching from the @uiowa Children’s Hospital — a reminder that some of the Biggest fights happen off the field,” she wrote. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tami Butcher (@tamibutcher) Kinnick Stadium Lit Up For The Kids At Stead Family Children’s Hospital Fans turned on their phone lights and waved up at patients standing in the windows at Stead Family Children’s Hospital. It’s an incredible gesture that truly shows the power of kindness, prayer, and solidarity. In Tami’s viral video, we can hear the announcer call the gesture the best tradition in college sports. And he’s not wrong. So many people loved the video. “Hands down…the BEST TRADITION in all of sports,” someone wrote. “You guys won, coolest thing in college football,” another person shared. Seeing the kids at Stead Family Children’s Hospital evoked a mix of emotions. “This gave me chills…thank you for bringing joy to these kids,” a comment reads. “This is the greatest. Makes me cry every time,” a fan agreed. We love this video, which shows how the ripple effect of even the smallest act of kindness can have a huge impact. This story’s featured image can be found here. The post Video Captures University Of Iowa’s Tear-Jerking Football Tradition appeared first on InspireMore.

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This month saw yet another win against DEI in higher education, as a major California university recently dropped a racial scholarship under threat of lawsuit. In July, I wrote about how the University of California at San Diego had been skirting California and federal law against affirmative action via the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, as was reported by The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium. The scholarship was set up to be only available to black students. It was a clever move by the school to dodge Proposition 209—an anti-affirmative action law passed by voters in 1997—by essentially offloading its discrimination on a separate, private organization. Here’s how it worked, according to Sibarium: With help from private donors, UCSD transferred the scholarship to an off-campus nonprofit, the San Diego Foundation, that was not subject to Prop. 209. The move allowed the scholarship to continue operating under the auspices of a private institution, even though the program is only available to UCSD students and uses racial data provided by the university. Several other programs in other states have used similar programs to sidestep the push to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion. But this workaround turned out to be too clever by half. The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation nonprofit group and its legal representative, the Pacific Legal Foundation, sued the school using the Ku Klux Klan Act on behalf of student Kai Peters. Peters said he was denied the scholarship because he wasn’t black. Peters had called the use of the scholarship “institutionalized racism,” a phrase frequently used by the Left with no meaning. But in this case, it seemed quite applicable. The Ku Klux Klan Act was designed, among other things, to ban conspiracies between public and private actors to deprive citizens of their equal rights under the law. That appears to have worked, as UC San Diego changed the name of the program to the Lennon Goins Alumni Scholarship Fund and made it available to students of all races. The school issued a statement after making the change. “We are grateful to all of our community supporters who have generously given to fund scholarships for UC San Diego students, and we are committed to complying with all federal and state anti-discrimination laws,” the statement read. The Pacific Legal Foundation was quick to declare victory. “This victory proves that the Constitution’s promise of equality before the law still has teeth,” said PLF attorney Jack Brown on the legal organization’s website. “The Ku Klux Klan Act was written to stop government actors from conspiring with private parties to discriminate—and that’s exactly what happened here. When faced with the law, UCSD and its affiliates had no choice but to retreat. The action here is exactly what we demanded in our lawsuit.” The story is a big deal beyond UCSD. While the case was never brought to conclusion, it means that the threat of using the Ku Klux Klan Act has teeth in the battle against DEI. And if we’ve learned anything, higher education is extremely resistant to change discriminatory practices unless the threat of lawsuit and huge monetary losses hang over them. California has been the locus of innovation regarding skirting laws that stop affirmative action. That the lawsuit worked there is a good sign elsewhere. “The outcome is proof of concept for a creative legal strategy that could spell the end of similar programs across the country,” Sibarium wrote Monday. “Several public universities, including the University of California [at] Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin, have outsourced race-based scholarships to private foundations in an effort to insulate themselves from legal risk. While such foundations can dole out money based on race, they cannot do so at the direction of the state.” It’s a rare situation these days where it’s good that something happening in California will reach the rest of the country. Unlike corporate America, which has been scrambling to remove and erase various likely illegal DEI programs since President Joe Biden left office, elite universities have been putting up a fight to keep things as they are. What’s clear is that there is now a huge amount of popular and legal pressure against racial discrimination, even in the name of correcting alleged historical injustices. Perhaps we will finally have institutions that respect the ideal of equal rights under the law as most Americans want. The post California University Drops Race-Based Scholarship in Big Blow to DEI appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Aaron Roesch opened his new ice cream shop in south St. Louis a month ago — and it's quickly become a favorite gathering place for kids in the neighborhood.Roesch told KTVI-TV in its video report that youngsters often will come into his shop — Aunt Jamie's Frozen Custard and Waffles, named after his aunt and godmother — and "just hang out and do their homework and draw."'Help people. Be nice to all your adults and peers. Be nice to your elders, and be respectful to your elders.'Of course, there's always the prospect of sweet treats as well."Like, he give us everything," 9-year-old Adonis Pickens told KSDK-TV. "He give us free stuff."Pickens' cousin, 11-year-old Jayceon Cooper, added to KSDK that he and Adonis are regulars and come to Aunt Jamie's "almost every day, if he open."But Roesch also noted to KSDK that the boys "immediately were trying to help me ... and they would work for ice cream and snow cones.""These fellows have become my friends," the shop owner told KTVI, with Jayceon adding, "We're like his little buddies."Well, the camaraderie the trio share deepened last week when Jayceon and Adonis noticed something disturbing as they approached their favorite ice cream shop on South Broadway and Krauss Street.RELATED: Blaze News original: 10 inspiring examples of Good Samaritans who ran toward danger to help others, often defeating bad guys "We came out here to try to buy some ice cream, and his window was just shattered," Adonis told KTVI. "So we just started hearing noise, so I just said, 'Who's in here?'"A male inside the shop told them he was bleeding, KSDK reported — but it turned out to be red syrup on his clothes.The boys said the alleged burglar was stuck in the shop, KTVI added, and Adonis called Roesch's number — but when he didn’t answer, Adonis called police.The cousins kept the guy in the shop talking until officers arrived, KSDK said.The 42-year-old male suspect told police he broke into the ice cream shop because he thought people were following him, KSDK reported, adding that the suspect was taken into custody. Ephraim Hayes. Image source: St. Louis PoliceSt. Louis Police told Blaze News that the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office charged Ephraim Hayes with second-degree burglary and first-degree property damage. Police added to Blaze News that court documents appear to indicate that a judge released Hayes on personal recognizance."If I didn't have a friendship with these kids, that guy would have walked away scot-free," Roesch later remarked to KTVI.Jayceon added to KTVI that his friend Roesch doesn't deserve what happened to his shop after all he does for him and Adonis and the whole neighborhood: "I don't know why people do this to him. Like, he's a nice guy. He shouldn't be treated how people treat him."RELATED: Lone man who stepped up and stopped brutal beating of elderly worker at rap concert tells why he intervened: 'Had to be done' "I want this to be a lasting experience guiding their future in a positive direction," Roesch told Blaze News in regard to Jayceon and Adonis.The good news is ramping up, as Roesch added to Blaze News that St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer is coming to Aunt Jamie's on Nov. 8 to present an award — and, of course, to "have an ice cream party."Roesch told KSDK that the community also is growing: "The properties are coming back. The values increased over the past year, and the businesses are coming back."But he added to KSDK that Jayceon and Adonis are the real story — and that their actions represent valuable lessons for everybody: "Help people. Be nice to all your adults and peers. Be nice to your elders, and be respectful to your elders."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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