nevada sagebrush archives 04/05/11
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By Don Weinland
As class registration begins, a wave of guidance-seeking students hits University of Ne-vada, Reno advisers. But some students say university advising has not sent them in the right direction.
While some students rated the quality of advising in their department as satisfactory, others reported frustration with the organization and accuracy of their department or college’s advising.
Changes in degree require-ments are not always reported to the Academic Advising Cen-ter, Director Nancy Markee said. The disconnect can lead to mis-information and wasted time, students said. Some students have even disregarded advising completely because they found it unhelpful.
Alyssa Bland, a 20-year-old accounting and information systems major, has mixed feelings about advising in the College of Business Administra-tion. Her experience with an ac-counting adviser was great, she
said. But general business and information systems advisers were pushy and disorganized, she said.
“She basically handed me a piece of paper and said, ‘This is what you have to do.’” Bland said of her information systems adviser.
The information systems adviser, a teaching faculty mem-ber, couldn’t help Bland choose electives, she said. Correspond-ing between this adviser and a general business adviser was a waste of time.
“They just didn’t seem to know where I needed to go for something as simple as a piece of paper I needed signed,” she said.
At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, each college has its own advising center, said Alison Chandler, director of advising at UNLV’s College of Business. Advisers share electronic notes between colleges, reducing confusion when dealing with students who change majors or have dual majors, she said.
Opinion concerning the quality of advising varies widely
within colleges. Caleb Wolz, a 19-year-old biochemistry major at UNR, called his advising ses-sion insightful and accurate.
“She really didn’t hold anything back,” he said. “She gave me all the ins and outs for scheduling this semester.”
Janell Mahoney, a 20-year-old chemistry major, had a less satis-factory experience with advising in the College of Science early in her college career. A mistake her adviser made put her behind the rest of her classmates.
“She told me not to take phys-ics my freshman year,” Mahoney said of her adviser. “But she was wrong and I had to take a couple of summer classes to catch up.”
Informing students on what classes are available and making sure students get the classes they need is one of advising’s biggest challenges, said Bill Cathey,
vice provost of instruction and undergraduate programs. Data shows how many students graduate late but it does not tell administrators why, he said.
Student-to-adviser ratios can add to the confusion students experience during advising sessions. The College of Liberal Arts has two advisers for 3,000
Editor’s Note: This is one story in a series that takes an in-depth look at programs or positions on the chopping block at the University of Nevada, Reno. Look for the “Cost of Cutting” label in the newspaper each week to learn more about each entity at risk for closure or severe reductions during the state’s budget shortfall.
By Don Weinland
In white linen gloves, Jacque Sundstrand cups a 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet in the palm of her hand. The jagged, arrow-like engravings, or cuneiform, on the taupe clay deliver an unexpected message.
“It turns out to be a receipt for a boat,” said Sundstrand,
a manuscripts and archives librarian at the University of Ne-vada, Reno’s Special Collections Department. “We had someone translate it a while ago.”
The tablet is about the shape and size of a iPod Nano.
It and thousands of other rare books, photographs and manuscripts are available to UNR students and faculty as a source of original research.
But the department, lo-cated on the second fl oor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, could close by June 2012 if the Nevada Legislature passes Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed 29 percent cut to higher educa-tion. UNR administrators an-nounced a proposal March 7 to
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UNR reveals budget plans, college mergersBy Jessica Fryman
The College of Education and the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources could be dissolved into departments within other schools if the state Legislature passes the proposed $59 million in cuts to the university.
The University of Nevada, Reno announced yesterday the consolidation as part of its full plan to meet the governor’s
proposed budget cuts. Faculty salary reductions and increas-ing tuition and fees account for about $20 million, while programs will be cut to meet the rest of the proposal. If enacted, the reductions would happen during the next year and a half.
For students, the cuts mean fewer and larger classes, longer processing times for admissions and fi nancial and potential loss of degree programs, UNR Presi-dent Milton Glick said.
An estimated 1,600 students will be affected by the closure of majors and minors in: edu-cational leadership; educational psychology, counseling and hu-man development; educational specialties; nutrition; philoso-phy; French; theater and dance. Those program cuts would save about $6 million, according to a university budget draft. More than 300 positions would be eliminated as well.
“The difference between
these cuts and the previous cuts, is that most of the previous cuts we’ve announced — not all — will likely happen,” Glick said. “Whereas we really hope — we think there is a substantial chance that this last set of cuts will not happen.”
The governor’s proposal to cut 29.1 percent from higher educa-tion’s state funding comes after UNR has already reduced $44 million from its budget through-out the last three years.
For this biennium, UNR fi rst announced about $25 million in cuts last month, with the inten-tion of withholding the rest of its proposal until the Legislature passes the state budget in June. But after requests from legisla-tors to see the full impact of potential cuts, UNR evaluated other programs for possible clo-sure, Glick said.
The fi rst set of cuts, announced
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By Ben Miller
Mary Zabel walked into the Disability Resource Center one day last semester to a chaotic scene — holes in the ceiling, drenched computers and bumps protruding from the fl oor.
“I couldn’t believe it,” said Zabel, director of the DRC. “I was shocked and a bit over-whelmed. Where do you start when it looks like your whole department is destroyed?”
The offi ce fl ooded when a pipe in an antiquated heating system froze and burst during Thanksgiving weekend, said John Walsh, interim associate
vice president for Facilities Services. The offi ce scrambled to provide materials and space for about 200 students with dis-abilities in time for fi nal exams with the help of professors and administrators, DRC Counselor Allison Bussa said.
Problems like the one that caused the Thompson Building fl ooding may start piling up if state leaders pass a $59 million budget cut to the University of Nevada, Reno, said Ron Zurek, vice president of administration and fi nance. UNR President Milton Glick revealed a plan
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Jacque Sundstrand, a librarian for the University of Nevada, Reno’s Special Collections, shows a 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.
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Students are tasked with selecting appropriate classes every semester. Some students say university advising is not always helpful. Facilities cuts may delay vital repairs
Students: Advising lacks
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Students say procedures can be misleading
➤ University administrators have targeted the Facilities Operations department for about $3 million in budget reductions.➤ The department performs preventative maintenance on the campus’ buildings.
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MAINTENANCE CUTS“(Advisers) just didn’t seem to know where I
needed to go for something as simple as a piece of paper I needed signed.” — Alyssa Bland, accounting
and information systems major
➤ The University of Nevada, Reno has a decentralized advising system in which advising between different colleges varies widely.➤ The Academic Advising Center, located in Edmund J. Cain Hall, advises undecided and general studies students.
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ADVISING AT UNR
By Don Weinland
Yuki Takahashi points at the YouTube video box on his com-puter screen; street after street of indiscriminate destruction captured from the window of an SUV.
Overturned cars, leveled homes and a spectrum of color-ful debris churned in mud rolls across the screen as the vehicle passes through Ishinomaki. A tsunami and magnitude 9.0 earthquake almost destroyed the city March 11.
Breaking out of the tunnel-like wreckage, a clearing appears. Takahashi, a Truckee Meadows Community College student, points again to the screen.
“It’s my middle school,” he says. “It’s the only thing I can recognize in my city.”
More than three weeks after the disaster, Takahashi and other Reno college students have raised about $7,000, which they will donate to the Red Cross. The Pacifi c Friends Fund, which Takahashi founded the day after the tsunami, gathers daily in the University of Nevada, Reno’s Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. They solicit donations from students and faculty mem-bers and give paper cranes to passersby.
By June 1, the group hopes to donate $50,000 to cities hit by the disaster, Takahashi said.
Takahashi, 21, spent most of his life in Ishinomaki before moving to Reno about two years ago. A city of about 160,000, Ishi-nomaki was quaint and relied primarily on fi shing.
His home was destroyed.“The tsunami took everything,”
he said. “My family couldn’t rec-ognize which one was my home.”
The number of missing people
in Japan, more than 15,000 as of Monday, is an ever-decreasing fi gure, Takahashi said, and the number of dead ever-increasing. As of Monday, the tsunami has claimed the lives of 12,259 people, according to the Tokyo Broadcasting System.
A facility in Ishinomaki has been designated to house the bodies. Takahashi’s parents go in search daily of his aunt who is among the missing. But she is almost certainly dead, he said.
Takahashi’s immediate family survived because they weren’t in the house when the tsunami hit.
“Unfortunately, my aunt was at my home at the time,” Taka-hashi said solemnly. “She could not escape.”
Some of Takahashi’s friends have yet to be found, he said.
The roof of Shiori Hatakeya-ma’s grandparents’ home col-lapsed when the tsunami hit the city of Kesennuma. Hatakeyama, a 22-year-old international af-fairs major at TMCC, said her grandparents have relocated to her hometown of Natori. But the shock has left a scarring impres-sion.
“My grandmother was terribly shocked about the earthquake, so she gets weak mentally and physically,” she said.
In Natori, Hatakeyama’s parents are struggling to eat. Prices have infl ated and they must queue for hours to buy gas. Hatakeyama’s brother spent
the past three weeks recovering bodies from the rubble.
Austin Bachman, a 22-year-old UNR international affairs major, was reading news in Japanese at the Knowledge Center when Japan was struck by the earth-quake. At fi rst, the severity of the disaster was not evident, he said.
“My reading is not very good,” said Bachman, who studied Japanese for a year in Hiroshima. “I didn’t realize the gravity of it. This wasn’t just an earthquake. This was the earthquake.”
Although Nozomi Yanai, a UNR journalism student, has experienced many earthquakes in Japan, she said the March 11 temblor was unprecedented.
“My mother said it was the biggest shake in her entire life,” Yani said.
Food and gasoline shortages
plague Yanai’s home in Saitama Prefecture. Electricity shortages have incapacitated her city’s electric tram system, she said.
UNR’s Offi ce of International Students and Scholars contacted the Japanese consulate and distributed information to the campus’ 68 Japanese students, said Ayako Kurihara, the offi ce’s admissions assistant. It also informed students of scholar-ships from the Institute of International Education, which is offering grants of up to $5,000 to students from the hardest hit
regions, such as Ishinomaki.While many people on campus
have been generous in their dona-tions to the Pacifi c Friends Fund, Takahashi said some students are oblivious to problems abroad.
But Takahashi said he under-stands why some people don’t donate to charities.
“Before, I wouldn’t donate,” he said. “I was suspicious. But this disaster has really changed my mind setting.”
Don Weinland can be reached at [email protected].
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“The tsunami took everything. My family couldn’t recognize which one was my home.” — Yuki Takahashi, Japanese student at Truckee Meadows Community College.
NSHE may hear merger plans
By Ben Miller
Education leaders will con-sider re-opening discussions about consolidating or closing campuses on Friday.
The Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents voted not to discuss such mea-sures March 11 after hearing two hours of public comment, much of which argued against mergers or closures.
“The students who were go-ing to go to (Western Nevada College) were saying, ‘Should I even enroll?’” said Anne Han-sen, director of information and marketing services at WNC.
Desert Research Institute President Stephen Wells said the discussion has directly impacted DRI. He has received notice from 23 faculty members that they will leave the institute by the end of June, Wells said.
“For a group that has about 150 research faculty, that’s a big deal,” he said. “I’ve been presi-dent for about 12 years and I’ve never seen anything like it.”
But taking options off the table isn’t conducive to an open discussion with students, faculty and state leaders, said James Dean Leavitt, chair of the Board of Regents.
NSHE Chancellor Dan Klaich said the state Legislature asked him on March 22 to provide information about the impacts campus consolidation and clo-sures would have on the system. He will answer the question to the best of his ability, even if the Board doesn’t retract the previ-ous motion, Klaich said.
The Board will also discuss specifi c impacts of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed cuts to the system at the meeting, said Crystal Abba, NSHE’s vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. The discussion will focus mostly on specifi c contingency plans should the Legislature approve Sandoval’s cuts, she said.
“(A state revenue increase) is not looking very likely,” Abba said.
Ben Miller can be reached at [email protected].
➤ What: Meeting of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents➤ When: 9 a.m. Friday➤ Where: Online at system.nevada.edu
➤ Wh t M ti f th
HIGHER ED MEETING
ASUN
Senate passes book swap, pantry and employment acts
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The undergraduate student senate is close to the end of its session.
➤ Full title: S.B. 78-58, ASUN-GSA Food Pantry Transfer Agreement➤ The bill transfers ownership of the Graduate Student Association’s food pantry to the Associated Students of the University of Nevada.➤ The food pantry was created to provide food to students in need of fi nancial support.➤ The bill transferred $3,417.62 from GSA to ASUN.
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FOOD PANTRY
➤ Full title: S.B. 78-45, An Act Making Appropriations to Maintain the ASUN Textbook Swap, in Accordance With SAS Title XXI, Chapter 2101➤ The bill requires ASUN to create a website to facilitate students selling their textbooks to one another.➤ The program will cost ASUN $15 each session for the domain, according to the bill.
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TEXTBOOK SWAP
➤ Full title: S.B. 78-55, Expressing the Sense of the Senate in Regards to the Expansion of On-Campus Student Employment Through Third-Party Vendors and the Amount of Hours Students are Able to Work on Campus➤ The legislation suggests university administrators rewrite contracts with food vendors such as Panda Express on campus to hire more students.
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EMPLOYMENT
The Associated Students of the University of Nevada Senate passed three pieces of legislation last Wednesday at its weekly meeting. The meeting was the second-to-last regular senate meeting of the session.
nevadasagebrush.com APRIL 5, 2011 • A3
Weekly UpdateCampus Events
CAMPUS RAIL JAM SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING COMPETITION VISITS UNR
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THURSDAY/7UNIVERSITY AUTHOR LECTUREWhen: 7-8:30 p.m.Where: Faculty and Gradu-ate Reading Room on the fourth fl oor of the Mathews-on-IGT Knowledge Center
Political science professor Leonard Weinberg will discuss terrorism.For more information, con-tact Angela Bakker at 775-784-4636.
THURSDAY/7DISCOVER SCIENCE LECTURE SERIESWhen: 7-9 p.m.Where: Redfi eld Auditorium, Davidson Mathematics and Science Center
Archaeologist Anna Roosevelt will give her presentation, “Eleven Thousand Years of Long-Term Human Environment Interaction in Amazonia.”For more information, con-tact Melissa Bell at 775-682-8796.
RENO JAZZ FESTIVALWhen: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.Where: locations on campus
The festival will run through Saturday and will feature activities from concerts to educational clinics. Ticket prices vary for each event.For more information, contact CJ Walters at 775-784-5278. For a full schedule of events, go to unr.edu/rjf.
WEATHER FORECAST
Hightemperature:
Lowtemperature:
65 60 44 42 40 35 25 27
Highs: 48-53
Lows: 30-35
Forecast prepared by the Reno-Lake Tahoe student chapter of the American Meteorological Society. For more information visit their Web site at http://www.ametsoc.org/chapters/renotahoe/
Cloudy and windy
Cloudy and windy
Partly cloudy, chance of snow
UNR WEEKLY WEATHER DISCUSSION: A ridge bringing us Monday’s warm temperatures will begin to weaken Tuesday and Wednesday, allowing a frigid trough to dig into the area toward the end of the week. Clouds and wind will increase steadily Tuesday and Wednesday, as a cold front approaches the area. Snow will reach the valley fl oor, but precipitation will be light. Cold air will begin departing by the weekend, with high temperatures back into the 50s by Sunday afternoon.
Rain/snow showers likely
Partly cloudy150”
ALPINEMEADOWS
192”SIERRA-AT-
TAHOE
275”BOREAL
134”MOUNT ROSE
100”HEAVENLY
95”NORTHSTAR
POWDER REPORT
DISCUSSION: Wind gusts could reach up to 40 miles per hour in the region this afternoon. A cold low-pressure front will bring down tem-peratures from Wednesday through the end of the week. Snow showers are likely to come Thursday and Friday.
Sierra-at-Tahoe: Purchase a three-day lift ticket for any three days of the season for $153.
Boreal: Sign up for an iRide card, buy two all-day lift tickets and receive a third day free.
Mt. Rose: Bring in a valid college ID card to purchase an all-day lift ticket for $35 any Wednesday.
Northstar: Bring in a free voucher from a Northstar partner shop to get a $61 lift ticket. For a list of partner shops, go to www.northstarattahoe.com.
RESORT SPECIALS
APRIL 3Police responded to a report of weapons offenses at North McCarran Boulevard and North Virginia Street.
Offi cers responded to traffi c violations including failing to stop, not having a license and not having head lamps at 2800 Enterprise Road.
Offi cers arrested an individual for an outstanding warrant at North Center and Maple streets.
Police cited an individual for being a minor in possession and consumption at North Virginia and 15th streets.
APRIL 2Offi cers responded to a report of destruction of property at Lincoln Hall.
Police responded to a report of petit larceny at Lombardi Recreation Center.
Offi cers responded to a traffi c accident at the Mack Social Science building.
Police arrested an indi-vidual for an outstanding warrant at West Ninth and North Sierra streets.
Offi cers cited three suspects for being minors in pos-session and consumption at University Terrace.
POLICE BLOTTER NEWS BRIEFS
UNR’S VICE PRESIDENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEAVES UNIVERSITY
A University of Nevada, Reno administrator left campus Friday to work for the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Steven Zink, UNR’s vice president of information technology, worked at the university for more than 30 years before NSHE’s Board of Regents appointed him to the position of vice chancellor of information technology March 11, Zink said.
UNR Provost Marc Johnson said the university will most likely go without a replacement for his position until 2013. But a replacement for Zink’s duties
as dean of libraries has been chosen on an interim basis.
Kathy Ray, the replacement for the position, has been the senior director of libraries since August 2010. Before she was at UNR, Ray served as the univer-sity librarian for the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates for about six years, she said.
Ray said she hopes to con-tinue emphasizing technology integration in UNR’s libraries.
ASUN PROVIDES PRAYER ROOM FOR CHRISTIANS THROUGH APRIL
The undergraduate student government will host an open prayer room in the student union for Christians through
the end of April.The Associated Students of
The University of Nevada has booked different rooms at dif-ferent times in the Joe Crowley Student Union, said ASUN Unity Commissioner Shirley Diaz. The rooms will be avail-able for one hour every day.
The Unity Commission set up the agreement when Christian students contacted her after hearing about a similar service for Muslim students during the month of Ramadan last semes-ter, she said.
The rooms are open to any-body, but campus Christian organizations have already reserved time on many of the days to hold worship groups and bring in pastors, Diaz said.
TONY CONTINI /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
A snowboarder grinds down a rail set up in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union on Friday. The Campus Rail Jam tour dumped snow on the rig for the fourth year in a row and invited students and locals to ski and snowboard in various competitions.
TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY WEEKEND
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By Stephen Ward
Students partnered with peta2 amassed more than 1,200 signa-tures March 24-25 in support of bringing more animal-friendly food to the university.
During their two-day visit to campus, peta2 members garbed in chicken costumes asked stu-dents to sign a petition in favor of increasing the vegetarian and vegan options on campus.
Ryan Huiling, assistant man-ager of college campaigns for peta2, was excited about the number of people who signed.
“(Peta2) wants to show (The University of Nevada, Reno) the overwhelming demand for vegan-friendly, cruelty-free din-ing options from its students,” Huiling said.
The group’s stop at UNR is one of 50 planned visits to schools across the U.S. Huiling said he hoped the university sees success similar to that of the University of Miami, where the school is revamping its menus to include items such as vegan tacos and meatless ribs.
Amaia Oiz, a 32-year-old graduate student studying educational leadership, worked closely with peta2 to assemble the petition.
Oiz said she never eats on campus because the restaurants use animal products to prepare their meatless dishes. She cited rice made with chicken stock and beans made with animal lard as examples, emphasizing how she checks the fi ne print before dining somewhere.
“I’m more conscious about how food is processed and gets to my plate,” Oiz said.
Although the petition received
ample support, Barbara Hanke, director of Resident Dining at UNR, said she works hard to accommodate for students with particular diets. Hanke referred to a trip to Whole Foods Market two weekends ago where she bought vegan tofu turkey and vegan sloppy Joes for a student.
“For vegan students that come into my offi ce, I generally have no problem going shopping for them,” Hanke said.
According to Hanke, com-plaints that prompt trips to the grocery market are few and far between. She recalled only six students in the past year that required special service.
Chartwells District Manager Chris von Glahn added that the Downunder Cafe in Argenta Hall always has at least one entrée per meal, a vegan soup and garden burgers available for vegetarian and vegan students.
However, Glahn also said
the food is tailored to demand. Glahn gave the example of stu-dents waiting in long lines for chicken tenders and fries rather than the salad bar and other areas in the Downunder Cafe.
“We’re here to serve what the students want,” Glahn said. “It’s really about demand, and we react to that.”
Russ Meyer, associate director for Housing Operations and Dining Services, has yet to see the petition. Students in posses-sion of the petition were unable to be reached.
Stephen Ward can be reached at [email protected].
By Riley Snyder
A student-led charity group is fi nding innovative ways to create interest for local charities during a 30-day community shoe drive that ends April 15.
University of Nevada, Reno student club The Reno Saints, which was founded this semes-ter, is dedicated to assisting local charities and nonprofi t organizations, said founder Justin Rashidi. The group has partnered with nonprofi t or-ganization Think Kindness in attempting to collect 100,000 shoes in 30 days, of which about 20,000 will go to underprivileged youth in Washoe County, said Think Kindness founder Brian Williams.
“I think that it’s important for students to get involved on two aspects: It bridges connections with people in community and it provides a unique learning opportunity,” Williams said.
The Reno Saints have set up containers at residence halls, several fraternity and sorority houses, and other locations on campus. The group has collected about 500 shoes so far, said Reno Saints treasurer Mohammad Reza Saba. The group would like to have more donations, but traditional advertising is often ineffective at infl uencing par-ticipation in charity programs, Saba said.
Many students are only drawn
to charity events if they require little input, like the Tau Kappa Epsilon Sausagefest and the ability to donate to Haiti via text message, TKE member Jarron Audette said.
“People respond to incentives a lot better than the idea of help-ing people,” Audette said.
Because many students are apathetic to traditional charity events, The Reno Saints will be holding a “Shots for Shoes” event at the Brew Brothers bar in the Eldorado Hotel and Casino on April 14. At the event, students can trade in a pair of shoes for a free shot of alcohol.
However, attracting students to charity events can be diffi cult because of a lack of advertising, Saba said. Shoe collections at the residence halls have remained low, despite the high number of residents, Rashidi said.
If students are unaware of charity and volunteer
opportunities, they can appear to be apathetic toward many issues, Saba said.
“We want to promote that UNR
cares about the community, and cares about what’s going on in the world right now,” Saba said.
On April 15, Think Kindness
will host a two-mile barefoot walk-a-thon at the Sparks Marina, which will culminate in the group sending off all the
donated shoes.
Riley Snyder can be reached at [email protected].
newsA4 • APRIL 5, 2011 nevadasagebrush.com
I love pizza! You know cheese has an ingredient in it called casien.
You could be craving that. I think it’s just my inner karate-reptile speaking.
Students work to donate shoes to charity➤ Who: Local nonprofi t charity organization The Reno Saints.➤ What: The group will host an event where students get a free shot of liquor for a pair of shoes.➤ When: 10 p.m.-midnight April 14➤ Where: Brew Brothers at Eldorado Hotel and Casino
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The Reno Saints, a local nonprofi t charity group, are trying to collect 100,000 shoes in 30 days to donate to people affected by disasters.
Vegans press for more food options
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Students recently petitioned to have more animal-friendly food options on campus. Cantina del Lobo cooks beans and rice with animal products.
➤ Peta2 representatives were on campus from March 24-25 to conduct a petition for more vegan- and vegetarian-friendly options on campus. More than 1,200 students signed the petition.➤ Dining services offi cials said there are numerous animal-friendly food options on campus, including one vegan entree per night, a salad bar and garden burgers at the Downunder Cafe in Argenta Hall.
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“(Peta2) wants to show (The University of Nevada, Reno) the overwhelming demand for vegan-friendly, cruelty-free dining options from its students.” — Ryan Huiling, peta2 member
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March 7, are already underway in the curricular review process in which programs submit a defense against possible closure. Those reductions include the elimination of French, dance, theater and signifi cant cuts to student services, library services and facilities services. The pro-grams announced today for po-tential closure will not undergo curricular review unless the fi nal budget passed in June indicates it is necessary, Glick said.
Many of the programs an-nounced for potential closure today come in the wake of the university’s attempt to protect the School of Medicine, Glick said. Sandoval proposed a 30 percent cut, or $10 million, to the medical school, but the university decided it would cut other programs to lessen that reduction to $3 million.
“The university as a whole is giving up dollars because we think the health care of the people of Nevada is such a high priority,” Glick said. “But even then, $3 million is still a lot of money to cut your budget by.”
If all the cuts are passed, one of the biggest changes could be the elimination of administrative overhead in COE and CABNR as they would be consolidated into the College of Liberal Arts and College of Science, respectively. The move would save about $1 million from the COE and about $830,000 from CABNR.
“We aren’t talking about
people who sit in their offi ces and order people around, we’re talking about people who really make the academic programs work,” Glick said. “I think if students can’t get their fi nancial aid, their admissions documents processed, I think that has a sub-stantial impact on them.”
With most of the cuts to the College of Education coming from graduate programs, Glick said the intention is for the school to focus on undergradu-ate students and educating primary and secondary teach-ers as well as counselors and principals.
For education pre-major Stephanie Nowicki, the consoli-dation proposal is better than a complete elimination of the col-lege. She said she understands
the state is in a budget defi cit but doesn’t think its priorities are in order.
“I think it’s a bad idea to cut from the College of Education because it produces the state’s teachers,” the 20-year-old sophomore said. “I think teachers will always be needed. Having less teachers means class sizes will be increased and achievement levels will drop. The state will go even further down the academic scale.”
Jessica Kim, an 18-year-old biotechnology student, said a consolidation of CABNR would also detract from the quality of education.
“I’ve grown really attached to the college,” she said. “They pro-vide individual attention to their students. Moving to the College of Science, I feel like students
will just get lost.”Aside from the possible merg-
ers, other departments will see all of their state funding pulled if the governor’s budget is passed. For those programs, including Basque Studies, the Center for Justice Studies and the Child and Family Research Center, Glick said he hopes they will fi nd other ways of raising revenue or cutting back, so they will not have to close completely.
In addition to academics, the athletics department will also see a signifi cant reduction. Be-cause men’s sports can’t be cut due to NCAA policies of Division I A schools and women’s sports can’t be reduced in order to stay compliant with Title IX, the department will have to raise revenue through donations and
ticket prices, Glick said. He said the goal is to remain
in Division I because revenues drop rapidly with lower status.
Glick emphasized that the cuts are more about people and less about programs.
“I think these are very serious cuts that have real serious, nega-tive impact on the students, on the university community and on the state’s future,” he said.
Nowicki said she came to UNR from California because of the state and university’s promising outlook, but now feels like she left her home “for no reason.”
Kim also chose UNR over other options, such as University of California, Berkeley and the Uni-versity of California, Los Angeles. She said while she plans to fi nish her degree in Nevada, she will
likely leave upon graduation. “These cuts tell me that the
state doesn’t value education and I wouldn’t want to raise my kids in a state like this,” she said.
Glick said the university worries how the cuts and rising cost of tuition effect enrollment because it could damage the state’s ability to produce gradu-ates who contribute to Nevada’s economic growth.
“We are really cutting right into bone, and I don’t believe it’s in the best of interest of the state, the states economic future,” Glick said. “I think we are doing things that have high potential of damaging the economic pros-perity of the state.”
Jessica Fryman can be reached at [email protected].
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eliminate Special Collections along with degrees in French, theater and dance.
Although the department is important to the university’s mission, it doesn’t produce graduates, Provost Marc John-son said.
“By closing them, we’re not going to stop students from graduating,” he said.
The university’s proposal would keep Special Collections materials available on an “as-needed basis.” But Special Col-lections Director Donnie Curtis said any use of the department’s items requires supervision and the professional care of trained staff.
Cutting Special Collections would eliminate three tenured positions and $436,138 from UNR’s annual budget. The items, some of which are considered university and state treasures, would sit dormant.
In defense of the Special Col-lections, Curtis has focused on the quality of the department, not the quantity of students who use it. The number of un-dergraduate visitors is low, she said. Most users are graduates and visiting scholars.
One of the department’s greatest strengths is in its con-tribution to other departments, Curtis said. Students of history, geology, anthropology and art use the collections as original sources for research otherwise unobtainable.
Special Collections’ connec-tion to the university is broad but not as integral as instruc-tional departments, Johnson said. While Special Collections enhances other departments, it doesn’t offer requirement-fulfi lling classes.
Bob Blesse, director of Special Collections from 1981 to 2006, said he takes students in his book art class every semester to look at and turn the pages of The Nuremburg Chronicles, an illustrated history of the world produced in 1493.
“I tell them, ‘You’ll never be able to handle a book like this again,’” he said.
Keeping the department open is also a commitment to
the donors that have provided it materials since it opened in 1965, Blesse said. State senators such as Paul Laxalt and Harry Reid donated their senatorial collections to the department with the promise of keeping them available to the public, Blesse said.
Local author and artist Wil-liam Fox said he is dismayed that his donations to Special Collections could be locked away. If the proposal passes, Fox said he would be forced to send future donations to other universities.
The disuse of such a wealth of original information is hard for Curtis to consider. In accepting donation, the university has a commitment to its donors, she said.
“They gave us their family papers, their research papers, with the thought that people would use them,” Curtis said. “I think we have really be-trayed the public trust by even suggesting to close Special Collections.”
Curtis submitted the depart-ment’s defense to the provost’s offi ce April 1 and said she is optimistic about keeping the department alive. Through decreases in staff and hours of operation, as well as possible new sources of funding, she believes the resource could remain available to students and faculty.
Don Weinland can be reached at [email protected].
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March 7 to meet part of the cuts that included taking about $3 million out of Facilities Services.
But Facilities Services already receives only a fraction of its re-quested budget, Walsh said. The department usually requests more than $30 million in state money and receives about $5 million. Because of this, main-tenance often piles up, leaving facilities like Thompson, which is more than 90 years old, with outdated systems, Zurek said.
Because the program contains no tenured faculty, no protocol requires UNR administrators to hear a defense from Facilities Services, said Provost Marc Johnson. If the state Legislature passes about $24 million in reductions to the university — less than half of the governor’s proposal — the department will sustain the cuts.
Glick’s plan details cuts to workers, operations funding, staff cell phones and the depart-ment’s vehicle fl eet. The combi-nation would increase the time it takes for the department to service more than 130 buildings across 270 acres on the univer-sity’s main campus, Zurek said.
“I think it’s important that
people understand we’re talking about a small city here,” Zurek said.
Delays could worsen during the winter, when much of the department’s time would be taken up in making sure the campus was safe for its students and employees, he said. Routine work orders, such as replacing light bulbs, could also take lon-ger to complete.
The plan also suggests elimi-nating 36 custodial positions in the department. The decrease could result in an overall de-cline in the campus’ aesthetic quality, which is one of UNR’s recruitment tools, Zurek said. Custodial workers constantly grooming the campus, picking up garbage and taking care of the university’s lawns, trees and garden space Walsh said.
Little problems such as those, as well as the larger emergency-type problems will begin to add up over time, Zurek said.
“It’s kind of one of those, ‘Pay me now or pay me later’ situa-tions,” he said. “Because you will have to pay eventually to keep your buildings functional.”
Ben Miller can be reached at [email protected].
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➤ If the Legislature passes Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget as-is, UNR’s plan to cut $58.8 million includes the following: Permanent elimination of 318 positions, 1,600 students directly impacted by reductions in degree areas ➤ Consolidation of four colleges into two: College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources into College of Science, College of Education into College of Liberal Arts➤ Elimination of majors/minors: Educational Leadership, Educational Psychology, Counseling and Human Development, Educational Specialties, Nutrition, Philosophy, French, Theater, Dance➤ Elimination of: Center for Research Design and Analysis, University Assessment Offi ce, Special Collections library staff➤ Elimination of all state funding for: Basque Studies, International Students and Scholars, Center for Justice Studies, Child and Family Research Center, Lombardi Wellness Center, Center for Substance Abuse Technology, New Student Initiatives Program, Latino Research Center, Black Rock Press
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students, said Danielle Young, an adviser in the college. While each department has its own advisers, the majority of whom are teaching faculty, liberal arts students looking for general advising could wait up to three weeks for an appointment, she said.
Darren Griswold, a Spanish instructor and faculty adviser, advises about 200 students per semester while teaching three to four classes. He said he meets with many of his students more than once per semester.
“For me, (advising) is signifi -cant,” Griswold said. “I even try
to make myself available during the summer, even though I’m not teaching.”
Advising in the School of Com-munity Health Sciences was a pleasant experience for Carlee Spangler. She said her advisers were friendly and helpful in in-troducing degree requirements.
“As a new student, you don’t really know what classes are good,” Spangler, 18, said. “They helped me with that.”
Jin Gweon, an 18-year-old pre-nursing student, said she was dissatisfi ed with the lack of engagement during a group advising session at the Orvis School of Nursing. She said the session was rushed and allowed few opportunities for questions.
Gweon said she would like
advisers to check up on how classes are going, offer advice on what classes should be taken outside of her major and give students a few options.
Pat Wilson, the College of Sci-ence’s professional adviser, said group advising could become more prevalent if university resources continue to decline because of budget cuts.
Budget cuts will ultimately lead to fewer academic op-portunities for students, Cathey said. The university will need to learn to use group advising more effi ciently, he said.
Group advising runs contrary to some of the goals of advising. Wilson, who has been at UNR for 19 years, said advisers should see each student as an individual
and consider the work and fam-ily obligation many students have.
UNR also lacks professional advising resources for students preparing for law or medical school, Wilson said. Her position as a campuswide professional resource was eliminated during last year’s budget cuts. Because not all advisers are trained in professional advising, students will have to be more assertive in getting information.
“Students are just going to have to talk to their advisers or look things up on the internet,” Wilson said.
Lauren Bernstein, a 22-year-old Spanish major, said she has taken advising into her own hands. She said she hasn’t
met with an adviser in her department for a year and a half because advisers have been dis-organized and the information has not been benefi cial.
Bernstein said she is interested in graduate school but pertinent information has never been ac-cessible to her.
Markee in the Academic Ad-vising Center said she is aware of the shortfalls of UNR’s advising. The university does not have campuswide training for advis-ers, nor does it have a method of assessing student satisfaction with advising, she said. Budget woes may be holding some of these developments back, she said.
“We know that we need these things but with budget cuts there
are other things the university is paying attention to,” Markee said.
The National Survey of Stu-dent Engagement is a vague indicator of student satisfaction with advising, Markee said. UNR scored a B- in advising, but the survey gave no indication of what students were satisfi ed or dissatisfi ed with.
UNR is in the process of getting a Complete College America grant from the Gates Foundation, Cathey said. The $1 million grant will help collect information needed to improve the university’s advising, he said.
Don Weinland can be reached at [email protected].
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Budget cuts to Facilities Operations would mean less routine maintenance and groundskeeping at the University of Nevada, Reno, resulting in an aesthetic decline, administrators said.
The Department of Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno is home to many items available nowhere else in the state:➤ About 200,000 photographs from around Nevada.➤ A signed copy of “Life among the Paiutes” by Sarah Winnenucca Hopkins printed in 1884.➤ An illustrated book by Petrarca. The book was printed in 1478, before the printing press.➤ An original copy of Shakespear’s “The Merchant of Venice,” dated 1623.
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Students from across the state rallied against budget cuts March 21 in Carson City.
Opinion
EDITORIAL CARTOON
“UNR cut facilities’ jobs, but now, I luckily work in advising. It’s even better ... I just tell students to look at their DARS.”
Vegan activists need worthwhile causeSTAFF EDITORIAL I CAMPUS VEGAN OPTIONS
Three sleepless days, one wonky eye
SNARK ATTACK
What is the longest you have ever gone without sleep and why?
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GENERATIONAL GAP
Handwritten letters great way to reach out to older generation
nevadasagebrush.comA6 • APRIL 5, 2011
R ecently on Skype, I received a call request from what I thought was a random user. I
was surprised to learn the user was my 89-year-old grandfa-ther. I was completely shocked. While it was nice to chat with my grandfather via Skype, I began to feel sad and homesick
after my short contact with him. I realized it was because I had not visited my grandpar-ents in more than a year.
This feeling of sadness and regret made me become conscious of the fact that communication efforts should come equally from all different generations. Grandparents shouldn’t have to create a Skype account in order to speak to their loved ones. The younger generation needs to put forth an effort as well.
It is diffi cult for the older generation to catch up on this generation’s hot topics in pop culture, lingo and
technology. Such disconnect and generational gap can leave less tech-savvy elders feeling lonely and isolated from their grandchildren and younger loved ones.
My grandmother once said to me, “Our children are grown up and their kids are also grown up. It’s now time for me and my husband to be all alone at our house.”
She said this with an accept-ing smile, but I could see the pain in her eyes. I wondered how she felt when she didn’t hear from me in a long while.
In Japan, people say, “No letter means they are doing well.” But that’s no excuse for me not to have contacted my grandparents for so long.
My grandmother is not keen on the idea of the Internet and I cannot talk to her on the phone because her ears no longer pick up sound from telephones.So, I decided to reach out to my grandparents and contact them in the way they are most familiar with — handwritten letters.
Sending out a handwritten letter to your grandparents or other members of an older generation is a great way to communicate. Compared to the instant gratifi cation that telephone or Internet-based
contact provides, it might seem like snail mail is a waste of time. However, I think a handwritten letter is the sweetest form of communication.
Your personality and warmth are easily detected in a handwritten letter, compared to the almost sterile quality of an email. Little things like your distinctive handwriting can be comfort to loved ones.
I still remember how excited I was the fi rst time I went to an American grocery store and saw the aisles full of card options. There is such a wide array of cards to choose from.
While it’s nice to send your loved ones Christmas and birthday cards, why not send out surprise cards throughout the year just to let people know how much you love and appreciate them?
Another plus to physical letters is that they will exist for years to come and will act as a reminder of your love for those you cherish. It warms my heart to know that my grandparents tape my cards on their wall to admire them.
Kayoko Watanabe studies international affairs. She can be reached at [email protected].
I t was nearing 2:30 a.m. Saturday and I was shaking and crying while watching “Mean Girls” between intervals of sticking my face in the freezer and drinking nausea-inducing energy shots that tasted
like baby aspirin. It was hour 68 of not sleeping. I may not be on the Dean’s list, but if there is one
thing I do well academically, it’s pulling all-nighters.So when my antagonistic
co-workers challenged me to stay awake for as long as possible, I didn’t hesitate. I fi gured I could last fi ve days without collapsing and get stuff done during the process.
Clearly, I was trippin’.The fi rst 24 hours weren’t too
bad. I actually did my assigned class reading for once and felt semi-productive.
But by hour 44, I felt like I was entering a catatonic state, so I decided to go outside and take
a walk downtown at 2 a.m., hoping the cold air and bright lights would invigorate my nearly dead mind.
While wandering around Reno’s strip like an escaped Alzheimer’s patient, an Ol’ Dirty Bastard look-a-like who was as tweeked out as I felt asked me if I was OK.
I explained my experiment to the concerned citizen and he simply said, “Girl, you done lost your damn mind.” Indeed I had, ODB.
After being lectured by a druggie, I enlisted other torturous tactics to keep myself awake, including several subzero showers, popping caffeine pills like Tic Tacs and breathing in dangerous amounts of Vick’s vapor rub.
I not only felt awful physically, I looked awful as well.I’d like to think that normally my looks can be ranked
as a four out of ten on a good day. But by the end of day two, what little stock I had completely dropped, the Great Depression-style.
Between the dark rings around my bloodshot eyes and constant drooling, I looked like a rabid raccoon lurching on campus. I’m surprised no one tried to shoot me like Old Yeller. The Paris Hilton-like lazy eye I developed didn’t help matters.
I heard fear stimulates the brain, so I decided to go on a horror fi lm binge. After watching some highly renowned scary fl icks, such as the Oscar-worthy “Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood,” I didn’t feel any less exhausted, just more terrifi ed of petite gingers.
Finally, after three agonizing days and countless stupid gambits tried in attempt to prevent exhaustion, I passed out at the 70 hour mark.
It wasn’t until hours later when I woke with my head nestled on my laptop that I realized my body gave in. The “command” key got so submerged in drool, it doesn’t even work anymore.
While I may have aged 10 years and shaved 13 off my life span, it was not all in vain, for I leave you with this deeply insightful advice — do not rely on skipping sleep when it comes time for fi nals. Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming a train wreck like me. Can you think of anything worse?
Enjolie Esteve studies journalism and philosophy. She can be reached at [email protected].
S uccessful activism works toward ac-tual needs, rather than focusing on superficial
complaints. peta2, a group petitioning for more vegan food options on campus, should instead focus its efforts on something more productive and necessary — such as increasing health awareness to lower obesity rates.
It is unnecessary for peta2 to petition for more food choices because the Univer-sity of Nevada, Reno already has sufficiently catered its food options for several
types of eaters — the healthy, not-so health conscious, vegetarians and even vegans.
The Downunder Café has a full salad bar along with veggie burgers and alternating vegan entrees, The Overlook and Panda Express offer vegetable and tofu stirfrys and both Port of Subs and Einstein Bagels offer vegetarian-friendly sandwiches.
The new Pathways Café, located in the Center for Molecular Medicine, is organic and almost exclu-sively vegetarian and vegan in
its menu.With few vegan students
and faculty on campus, ask-ing for much else is impracti-cal. University vendors must consider serving the greater good, rather than focusing on a small population that chooses such a limiting culinary lifestyle.
In a time when slashing budgets is becoming the norm, the university can’t be asked to make special food options available to such few customers that should be able to help themselves.
It would be simpler for
vegans to make their own lunches to bring to school, which is both cheaper and healthier than eating out.
It’s easy to carry a piece of fruit, a bag of sunflower seeds and nuts or a Tupperware of salad in a backpack.
If eating out is the desire, there are also several specifi-cally vegan-friendly restau-rants near campus, such as Pneumatic Diner, the Great Basin Food Co-Op, various Pho venues and Dandelion Deli.
With so many options already available to vegans
at UNR, peta2 is petty in fighting for needs that are already being met. Having so many other worthy causes that need support such as health awareness diminishes the group’s efforts to whiny complaints rather than worthwhile ventures.
The group should continue spending its time standing up for a cause, but instead choose a focus that actually needs support.
The Nevada Sagebrush can be reached at [email protected].
“I stayed up for 24 hours to work on a project for my history class. “
Brandy Reynolds19, biology
“I was up for 26 hours at a leadership convention. I was preparing my outfi t. “
David Perez19, music
“I went 27 hours without sleep to study for a fi nal. “
Emerson Acevedo20, criminal justice
“Thirty-eight hours. I had to study for a neurobio fi nal. “
America Acevedo21, neuro science
EnjolieEsteve
KayokoWatanabe
WEB NOTESSTORY: OPINION:STRIPPING GETS BAD REP, IS ACTUALLY LIBERATING AND POWERFUL
On March, 31 11:14 a.m., Beth wrote:
So “all we do is objectify women”? Two wrongs don’t make a right. You are using that as an excuse to do what you want. Why exacerbate the issue by participating in the activity? Don’t attempt to defend deviant behavior by saying everyone does it. If everyone jumped of a bridge, well you know the rest. And trust me, customers are judged plenty, sweetheart. Don’t be fooled. Nobody reputable brags about paying for female attention.
STORY: OPINION: U.S. SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF CLASSY JAPANESE CONDUCT
On March, 29 8:33 a.m., Hailey Stephens wrote:
Becca, just when I thought I might actually really enjoy and actually agree with, you threw it all out the window with a) “victims of the hurricane were lazy and entitled,” and b) “but Americans throw a temper tantrum the minute our government proposes a reduction in union benefi ts.”While the stories your parents share may be true about some of the residents, these hurricane survivors were already in impoverished conditions before the hurricane hit. They went weeks without any assistance to clean water, food and shelter – common necessities the most powerful country in the world should afford its citizens especially in times of despair. For every story your parents shared about an “entitled person” who lost their home, family members, pets, every worldly possession… I guarantee you there is a story of a victim who rose above the travesty to help their fellow citizens.Also, open your conservative mind to see that these budget cuts toward unions are more than about the “budget.” This is the republican base trying to take away one of the greatest sources of funding for democrats. With elections, most importantly the presidential election next year, republicans are doing everything in their power to kick President Obama out of offi ce. I respect your opinion and ideology but you aren’t looking at this in the way that politics works, just sticking to your guns with no room for empathy. Also, these cuts will drastically affect people like you – women. Professions that aren’t vulnerable such as fi refi ghters and police offi cers are male dominated leaving most female dominated fi elds such as teaching and nursing open to these cuts and hurting women.You’re a brilliant girl, albeit we don’t agree on many issues, I wish you would be a little more compassionate and try to see the other side to some situations every once in a while. Just because you’re a conservative opinion writer doesn’t mean that you can’t fi nd a middle ground with the other side (same applies to liberals). The problem with our country is the disparity between our two parties and the hostility taking place inside legislative buildings across the country and even between college peers.Respectfully,Hailey
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A funny thing happened to me last week.
In the middle of conducting a grueling chain of interviews
for another one of my captivating stories, the courtesy title of a university adminis-trator escaped my memory. It wasn’t a big deal, just the associate dean of a college.
As the dean’s secretary answered the phone, my mind was still drawing a blank. All air had fl ed my
lungs once the second “hello” pricked
my ear. But I had to say something. The war going on in my head was
whether to address the person as “professor,” “dean” or “Ms.” I went with “Ms.” to play it safe.
This resulted in my learning that I have a graceless perception of what “playing it safe” is.
I ended up getting cut off with a loud grunt, followed by the assistant informing me the proper title for this person was “doctor.” Of course, I was told the source was unavailable after making such a blunder.
Once I got over my initial irritation about this seemingly overbearing cor-rection, I began to think about how titles work in society — especially academia.
This led me to two conclusions.First, knowing the proper way to
address someone is a perfect example
of cultural capital. By this, I mean putting yourself at an advantage in the intellectual world by appearing suave, coy and precise just from using discreet language.
It’s hitting that triple-word, triple-letter combo on Words With Friends by playing that stupid word no one knows.
Sure, you can go on Wikipedia and learn all about Pierre Bourdieu’s invention of “cultural capital,” but I’ll generalize and spare you the trip. Basically, being conscious of proper etiquette is empowering. It’ll get you further than if you relied solely on your ability to perform various tasks. I know it’s diffi cult to believe, but something as little as getting someone’s title right can get you ahead.
However, the other thing I learned requires me to drop my shrewd writing
voice to explain.I realized that some people’s titles
were earned, not simply requested. What I perceived as narcissism was actually a demand for respect after being undermined for years.
Although I never had the opportunity to speak directly with the person I tried to reach earlier, I learned from a few professors about the reasoning behind the pet peeve.
Many instructors on campus received their degrees at times when the odds were not in their favor. Some fi nished school when segregation was still in effect.
It’s easy for younger people to overlook the hardships that past generations faced in order to create the world as it is today.
My generation has it easy compared
with the social prejudices that occurred in year’s past. We take certain norms as a given rather than the result of others’ protest.
Many students neglect to understand how inconsiderate it is to strip the title from the front of someone’s name, especially when that title took years of hard work and determination to achieve.
Before you head into your professor or dean’s offi ce to complain about a grade or attempt to establish rapport, be sure to check whether there’s a “Ph.D.” before their name. It’ll save you from an afternoon of angst and refl ection.
Stephen Ward studies journalism and English. He can be reached at [email protected].
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BUDGET CUTS: PROFESSOR PERSPECTIVE
T hese are hard times for publicly funded higher education. A severe recession has led to declining tax revenues in most states, along with an increased need for public spending. While some states took this moment to invest
in the future and increase their commitment to higher education funding, others have pushed it to the back of the line.
No state is experiencing a recession more severe than Nevada’s, and no state proposed cuts to higher education that are more drastic.
Nevada budgets have been getting cut since 2008 and higher education has been taking much deeper cuts than the rest of state government.
At fi rst, it wasn’t so hard. Enrollment grew and this increased our budgets accordingly, so we cut budgets we hadn’t yet spent.
Then, we cut into administration, special-ized centers and functions that we thought we could live without.
Next, we cut more deeply into our staff posi-tions and student support, and started closing
departments and academic programs, terminating tenured faculty. We have already cut $44 million out of our annual operating
budget and Gov. Brian Sandoval now wants $59 million more to be cut within two years. We are far beyond cutting fat.
It’s not like we were ever bloated. Even before the cuts, Nevada spent the smallest portion of our state income on higher educa-tion of any state, and had the fewest professors per capita.
There are many studies on which we can cite the importance of public support for higher education and how this benefi ts the economy. The most important evidence is my own experience.
I was a disenchanted high school student going nowhere, and an inexpensive education at a public university in Texas turned my life around. It opened my eyes and it gave me opportunities for a good job and a better life. I loved the university and what it gave me. I left the private sector to come back for a Ph.D. and a job teaching my own students.
I have never been prouder of my students. On the academic side, I have seen the quality of both students and faculty at UNR improve considerably over the last two decades.
Some people my age always see a decline in each succeeding generation, but I think most of you are better students than those I went to school with, and I think many of you are better people too.
We are not yet Harvard or Princeton, and few of your parents could afford to send you there. Many of you are fi rst-generation students who believe in the value of an education. Most of you will eventually graduate, though not all quickly enough to make our offi cial graduation rates impressive.
And yet, in spite of all your other commitments, so many of you are fi nding the time to stand up for your public university and what it means to you.
Many of you attended the rally in Carson City two weeks ago. You attended the legislative hearing in Lawlor Events Center on Thursday. You contact your legislators and you conduct yourself in a professional and articulate manner that makes you very effective.
You are making a difference, and in time, you can turn around this opposition to the public university. Keep up the good work. Go Pack!
Elliott Parker is a professor and chairman of the economics depart-ment. He can be reached at [email protected].
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BUDGET CUTS: GRAD STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
T he past few months have been both inspiring and incredibly frightening as Nevada faces Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed budget
cuts to education.I’m proud to
stand with the many students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends who show tremendous passion, courage and grace in the fi ght against further cuts.
Whether by chanting at the largest rally in the history of the State Capitol, or by writing individual letters to legislators, we continue to show that education
is valued and vital to Nevada’s future. To all of you: simply saying “thank you”
does not come close to being adequate. For those who are not yet involved in the
opposition of the cuts either by attending an event or contacting your legislators, my question is simple: Why not?
If you aren’t involved because you say you don’t have the time, ask yourself how much
time you spend on Facebook, watching TV or doing anything else that will not have much lasting value or meaning. It only takes a few minutes to call or write your Nevada legislators.
If you aren’t involved because you say you can’t miss class, will you miss your classes when they, your major or your college no longer exists? This could happen as soon as the fall 2011 semester.
If you aren’t involved because you “have to work,” consider that if the cuts go through, tuition and fees will be raised signifi cantly, making your paycheck worth less. This will force you to pay more for fewer courses, majors and services.
If you aren’t involved because you think your major isn’t on the chopping block, or because you’re graduating, remember that your degree’s value depends in part on the reputation of the University of Nevada, Reno.
When UNR takes cuts, the perception of your worth to potential employers may also take a hit. If your program is cut or closed, even if you’ve already graduated, your degree’s value may be threatened even further.
If you aren’t involved because you don’t understand how serious these proposed cuts
are, consider that we have already absorbed $44 million in cuts at UNR alone and are preparing for another proposed $59 million cut. The state budget for the College of Liberal Arts, our largest undergraduate college, is only $26 million — you do the math.
Many UNR faculty members have gone above and beyond the call of duty to advocate for higher education in Nevada. Yet incredibly, some have actively discour-aged their students from getting involved, either out of fear or ego, or perhaps due to apathy, denial or despair.
To those faculty members: Shame on you. We are fi ghting for your future as much as we are for our own. We look to you for leadership and guidance and expect you to rise to such challenges.
Today is a new day — a new opportunity to fi ght for a worthy cause, and to learn what it means to truly be a part of a democracy, rather than just to live in one.
Encourage your friends, family and colleagues to do their part — we can make a difference.
Matt Smith is the president of the Graduate Student Association. He can be reached at [email protected].
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FROM THE RIGHT
Congressional District 2 will remain blue if Sharron Angle runs for seat
W hen Sen. John Ensign announced he would not run for re-election in 2012, the decision didn’t
come as much of a surprise. We all knew an election cycle would be diffi cult for Ensign with those ethics charges (what eth-ics charges?) still haunting him. And it was no secret that Congressman Dean Heller had been eyeing the senator’s seat.
Congressman Heller’s announcement to run for Ensign’s seat also came as no surprise. What did shock me, even though in hindsight it really shouldn’t have, was
Sharron Angle’s announcement to run for Heller’s seat in Congressional District 2.
Angle is a stubborn weed. She has either served in an offi ce or ran in an election cycle for the past ten years.
District 2 has not been occupied by a democrat since its creation after the 1980 Census. Northern Nevada is known for being republican and, it would be a blow to the party if District 2 went to the left, since District 1 is currently held by a democrat.
This is not Angle’s fi rst time vying for CD2. She ran for it in 2006, but lost to Heller by 421 votes in the primary. She also served in the Nevada Assembly from 1998 to 2006, where she earned a reputation as a staunch conservative.
Angle couldn’t even defeat Nevada’s most vulnerable candidate, Harry Reid. She couldn’t defeat a man whose approval rating was 32 percent in the
month before the 2010 election. Why in the world does she think she can gain a seat in Congress?
Angle is banking her election on the fact that in the 2010 election, she beat Sen. Reid by more than 19,000 votes in Congressional District 2. Angle may have beaten Reid in Northern Nevada, which generally leans right, but really, what option did republicans have?
Angle made it as far as she did because she campaigned at the height of Tea Party fervor.
Most right-wingers were under the infl uence of extremism. We hated the direction the country was headed, so instead of slowly changing lanes, we made a sharp U-turn.
Angle’s extreme views appealed to most of the right who viewed ousting Sen. Reid as the fi rst step to getting rid of President Barack Obama.
Now that the high has worn off, it is unlikely Angle will receive the Grand Old Party nomination. Plus, this cycle holds a presidential election. The majority of voters’ attentions will be focused on whether Obama will receive a second term.
So far, two other candidates have announced their intention to run for CD2. Republicans Mark Amodei and Kirk Lippold will challenge Angle in the primary. It is also rumored that Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki will enter the race.
Unfortunately, the more republicans that enter the race, the higher chance Angle has at winning the primary. Out
of all the candidates offi cially running for CD2, Angle is the most likely to lose a general election.
But there still may be a chance the outraged, extremist right-wingers will give Angle the nomination, which is why it is imperative for republicans to fi nd one strong representative to support. Otherwise, CD2 could be held by a democrat for the fi rst time.
Sharron Angle needs to sit this round out and let the GOP keep CD2 red.
Becca Kitchen studies journalism and English. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Sharron Angle couldn’t even defeat Nevada’s most vulnerable candidate, Harry Reid. Why in the world does she think she can gain a seat in Congress?
Students’ passionate opposition to proposal inspiring
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More than 1,300 Nevada university and high school students rallied against proposed budget cuts at the Nevada Legislature on March 21. Graduatuate Student Association president Matt Smith was one of several speakers to decry the proposal.
Apathetic students, staff should take action against cuts
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suicide set to acoustic guitar. Acoustic guitar! And it ends with a little kid singing out the chorus. It’s not actually that terrible, but none of this sounds anything like Hollywood Undead. This band was once able to produce many different songs that had a lot of variation but were cohesive. “American Tragedy” instead sounds like the band lacked direction and guidance.
Charlie Scene and Funny Man of the group are still standout rappers, and some of their
verses are still quite good. There just aren’t any songs that are worth listening to the entire way through.
Instead of picking up this al-bum, check out the masterpiece that is “Swan Songs.” And if you already have, I recommend watching what Deuce will do in the future. He was apparently the driving force behind Hol-lywood Undead’s former great-ness and has already released some new music with the group 9Lives that is not altogether amazing, but much better than what Hollywood Undead is do-ing without him.
He even angrily chronicles his split from the group on songs
such as “Story of a Snitch,” in which he sings, “Look at all these fake-ass emcees claiming they rap, / Trying to spit just like me, / But they don’t have it… I was helping you maggots. / Now I’mma show the world that you whack, bitch.” Very passionately, by the way. You tell ‘em, Deuce.
It pains me to speak ill of Hol-lywood Undead because “Swan Songs” is such a phenomenal album. But “American Tragedy” is such a huge disappointment that I feel Hollywood Undead personally let me down.
Casey O’Lear can be reached at [email protected].
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it over the top. But what really makes a horror movie poor is when it can’t make the viewer at least a little uncomfortable. For-tunately, “Insidious” achieves the fear factor, but barely gets by with a mediocre storyline.
Although it has some original qualities, there was always a sense of familiarity as the fi lm progressed from when Renai hears strange voices through a baby monitor to when Renai and Josh’s relationship is at risk because of these traumatic events. And the fact that the
friend with whom I saw “Insidi-ous” was able to predict the rest of the movie at the halfway mark was rather discouraging.
“Insidious” will not be a memorable fi lm for audiences. “Saw” and “Paranormal Activ-ity” will remain as the classics for the director, writer and producer (for now). It achieves scares and manages to get un-der the skin of viewers, but the uninspired plot and predict-ability won’t make it one of the better movies that this horror dream team has made.
Stephanie Self can be reached at [email protected].
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BOOK REVIEW
Snooki provides idle summer reading
GALLERY
“Jersey Shore” star Snooki released a summer romance novel.
By Stephanie Self
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi wrote a book titled, “A Shore Thing.” I’ll let that marinate for a moment. Yes, she wrote a book. At least that’s what it says on the cover. Whether the words on the pages were 100 percent written by her is completely debatable, but an acknowledgement to Snooki’s “collaborator” gives us an idea of how much help she had, espe-cially with words such as, “rhap-sodizing” and “cumulative.”
Regardless, Snooki’s fi rst attempt at literature was an ab-solute yawn-fest and a complete waste of trees.
Although this book came out in January, it is much better suited to the summer months, during which students have a lot of free time to sit around and kill the brain cells they worked so hard to nurture during the school year.
Everyone who has already caught up on “Jersey Shore” for the season but is dying to have more of Snooki’s antics in their lives, “A Shore Thing” might be just what they’re looking for to provide poolside entertainment this summer.
For those of you who have not seen the show that introduced the world to Snooki, “Jersey Shore,” congratulations. You made a wise decision. For those of you who have, and enjoy it,
then you will probably love this “fi ctitious” book.
Although it is categorized as fi ction, so much of the book is based on Snooki and “Jersey Shore” that it could be equiva-lent to a memoir.
“A Shore Thing” tells the story of Giovanna “Gia” Spumanti and her cousin Isabella “Bella” Rizzoli spending a summer to remember on the Jersey shore. Gia is looking for a super hot Guido who’s jacked up on ‘roids to spend the rest of her life with, while Bella is looking for a meaningless hookup after just getting out of a bad relationship that lasted way too long. What these girls encounter on the Jersey shore may change them forever.
Gia is essentially a less-tangi-ble version of Snooki. From her physical description to her love affair with pickles to her charm-ing quotes (“I’m a gold mind!”), Gia has Snooki written all over her. Bella is more diffi cult to place among the original cast of “Jersey Shore,” but she is still very much a cliché, despite her having slightly more depth than Gia.
It’s here that “A Shore Thing” becomes problematic. Not only is reading it like watching a few episodes of “Jersey Shore,” minus the other Shore cast members, but it’s also like reading a teenager’s diary in
which most of the events, if not all, are completely meaningless and trivial. Even the snappy dialogue fails to impress: “Bella said, ‘Tequila shot.’ The bartender asked, ‘Lime?’ ‘Do I look like I want fruit?’” ZING!
Truth be told, I could not fi nish this book. I really gave it a fair shot, but the feeling of my brain beginning to atrophy while reading it gave me the idea that I should stop. Maybe I expected too much from Snooki, but it wouldn’t be fair to hold her to low standards. After all, she drinks just as much as any good writer should.
If you like “Jersey Shore” or Snooki, then I recommend this book to you. But if you’re at all annoyed by the show, or have little interest, then this will probably have the same effect on you as it did me.
Stephanie Self can be reached at [email protected].
NICOLE “SNOOKI” POLIZZIA SHORE THINGRelease Date:Jan. 4Genre: Drama, RomancePages: 304Grade: D
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with gang-related graffi ti that she feels has little artistic merit.
“Why not get a canvas or cardboard?” she asked. “At the back of any store, they have boxes that you can break up, lay fl at and paint on that so you’re not destroying a build-ing. The damage to buildings is huge all over town. Some places can’t afford to keep it clean, and it looks like a patchwork quilt. If it gets really bad, you have to paint the whole building, and it’s expensive.”
Jacoby said that it is more harmful to discourage artists from creating graffi ti art.
“There are lots of people who are decorating the com-munity without permission,” she said. “There is ongoing public friction. There is some public art that is not politically correct — statues of soldiers that are celebrating oppres-sors. Billboards have permis-sion because they’ve bought public space, but who’s to say what’s destructive and what’s enhancing? We try to negotiate that. There are many solutions beyond criminalizing graffi ti artists.”
However, Stremmel feels that not all graffi ti art is harm-ful.
“If they go through the proper process and procedure, I’m all for that,” Stremmel said. “If it’s a collaboration between the store owner and the artist, that’s a win-win because they both want to have it done.”
Some street art that the City of Reno does embrace includes pre-approved mu-rals, sculptures and art sales during select special events. However, many feel that the city could stand to follow in the footsteps of some more progressive cities and support more street art.
“There are a lot of outlets that people could use that are more tasteful and less destructive,” Stremmel said. “There is room for artists out there who are serious about their art who will channel it so it can be seen in a better light. I don’t consider a graffi ti artist the same as a tagger.”
Casey O’Lear can be reached at [email protected].
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THURSDAY/7DANCE GAVIN DANCE WITH IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, IN FEAR AND FAITH, CLOSE TO HOME, JUST LIKE VINYL AND BIG CHOCOLATE AT THE KNITTING FACTORYSacramento-based experimental post-hardcore group Dance Gavin Dance will perform with several opening acts, including a DJ set from Big Chocolate. The show is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets range from $13-$30.211 N. Virginia St.Reno
FRIDAY/8ASTRONAUTALIS WITH KILLOLA AT TONIC LOUNGEInide hip-hop artist Astronautalis will perform songs from his three-album repertoire. Alternative rock group Killola will open. This performance is for an audience of those 21 and older. The show is set to begin at 10 p.m. No ticket price has been announced.231 W. Second St.Reno
SATURDAY/11BURLESQUE SHOW AT THE ALLEYThe Desert Rose Revue will put on its burlesque performance for an audience of those 21 and older. The show is set to begin at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10.906 Victorian Ave.Sparks
Upcoming ReleasesTUESDAY/5HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD AMERICAN TRAGEDYGenre:Rap Rock, Alternative RockDescription:Los Angeles-based rap/rock group Hollywood Undead will release its sophomore album, “American Tragedy.” This is the band’s fi rst release since 2008’s “Swan Songs,” and the fi rst without vocalist and producer Deuce.
THE KILLSBLOOD PRESSURESGenre:Indie RockDescription:The Kills, fronted by Dead Weather vocalist Alison Mosshart, will release its fourth studio album, “Blood Pressures.” The album will be streamed on the band’s website for free, and the song “DNA” is available for download.
FRIDAY/10‘ARTHUR’Starring:Russell Brand, Helen Mirren and Jennifer GarnerDescription:A likeable millionaire who relies upon his trustworthy nanny to keep him out of trouble must choose between an arranged marriage that would guarantee his fortune for life or an uncertain future with the only woman he has ever truly loved.Genre: ComedyRating: PG-13
ALBUM REVIEW
A&M/OCTONE RECORDS
Hollywood Undead, a six-piece rap/rock group, released its sophomore album, “American Tragedy,” today. The band replaced vocalist Deuce with Danny Murillo (far left).
By Casey O’Lear
Hollywood Undead’s 2008 release, “Swan Songs,” is an amazing album. The unique vocals, interesting lyrics and catchy beats combine beauti-fully to create an album that is equal parts awesome to blast at parties or to play while you drink away your sorrows. The band took the rap-rock genre to an unusual height with music that was really innovative.
The band’s second album, “American Tragedy,” is nothing like that. Where “Swan Songs” was passionate, emotional and unconventional, “American Tragedy” is boring, uninspired and disappointing.
In between the release of the two albums, the band voted out one of its primary vocalists,
Deuce, and replaced him with former “American Idol” contes-tant, Daniel “Danny” Murillo. Deuce’s unusual vocals, attitude and production techniques were some of the most notable high-lights of Hollywood Undead’s music, and his departure from the band was signifi cant in changing the band’s entire dynamic.
Danny’s vocals sound ex-tremely old. On the album’s fi rst two singles, “Hear Me Now” and “Been to Hell,” the listener catches a glimpse of Danny’s at-tempt at fi lling the void left with-out Deuce. It does not go well. Danny sounds like the singer of a generic hardcore band circa 2006, and his choruses detract from what might be likable about the rest of the song. His whiny intro on bonus track “S.C.A.V.A.” is so unbearable, it’s
hard to make it past those fi rst 30 seconds.
Additionally, “Been to Hell” seems to have a strange, pseudo-deep vibe about it.
“Swan Songs” contained sev-eral great love songs to the city of Los Angeles, and nearly every song included some point about how wonderful Hollywood is. “Been to Hell,” however, is about how corruptive moving to Hollywood can be. It’s not a new concept for anyone, but it’s bizarre to hear it coming from Hollywood Undead. These guys adored Hollywood. What hap-pened?
It is really jarring that so few of the songs on “American Tragedy” are about partying, having sex and general debauchery, as that appeared to be the main point of the band. Even songs that are
supposed to stay true to these themes, such as “Apologize,” in which J-Dog raps, “Still drunk, and we’re doing it again,” it’s hard to believe him. The song also repeats, “We don’t apologize, / And that’s just the way it is. / But we can harmonize, / Even if we sound like shit,” which I ap-preciate because, at least, they acknowledge how their music has degraded.
None of the passion and raw emotion that was present on “Swan Songs” remains on “American Tragedy.” When the group rapped about liking to drink and having lots of sex, I used to believe them. When they sang about suicide, mental health and rough breakups, I was right there with them. Now, it just seems insincere.
As if the fi rst half of “American
Tragedy” wasn’t disappointing enough, the album hits a rough patch in the middle where all the music slows down and sounds like 12 different genres thrown together arbitrarily. “Coming Back Down” kicks this set off with a boy band-esque power ballad with rap interludes.
It gets thoroughly bizarre on “Bullet,” which is an upbeat indie song about committing
HOLLYWOOD UNDEADAMERICAN TRAGEDYRelease Date:April 5Genre: Rap RockGrade: D-
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Undead does not deliver a second time
FILM REVIEW
Film lacks horrifi c impactALLIANCE FILMS
Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson star as parents trying to save their child from evil spirits while he is in a coma in “Insidious.”
By Stephanie Self
If “Insidious” were a night club, it would be where all of the hottest celebrities would hang out. It’s made by some of the best horror fi lmmakers in recent years: James Wan (direc-tor of “Saw”), Leigh Whannell (writer of “Saw”) and Oren Peli (writer of “Paranormal Activity” and producer of “Paranormal Activity 2”). Because of these collaborators, “Insidious” is rightly held to high standards, but it does not live up to the legacy that “Saw” and “Paranor-mal Activity” left.
“Insidious” is the story of Renai (Rose Byrne, “Get Him to the Greek”) and Josh (Patrick Wilson, “Watchmen”) who have just moved into a new house with their three children, and
after living there for only a short time, their son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), inexplicably goes into a coma. After Renai begins to see fi gures and hear voices, the family takes everything (including their comatose son) and moves to a new house. When the shadowy fi gures and voices don’t stop, and continue to reappear, Josh’s mother (Bar-bara Hershey, “Black Swan”)
calls upon help from a medium (Lin Shaye, “There’s Something About Mary”) to put a stop to this mobile haunting. But soon the medium realizes that there are evil forces following Dalton.
At their core, horror fi lms are meant to scare people. If they have a great storyline on top of good scares, then that just puts
‘INSIDIOUS’Release Date: April 1Director: James WanStarring: Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson and Barbara HersheyGenre: Horror/SuspenseRating: Rated PG-13 for thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language.Grade: B-
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ALBUM REVIEW
Bibio combines old style with new infl uences
By Tim Randall
On his sixth studio album, “Mind Bokeh,” electronic musician Bibio maintains the essence of his previous releases while revealing a new post-rock sound.
Focusing on the music at hand rather than the band’s background is crucial to ap-preciating an album. Having said that, this is no implication to throw any nostalgia Bibio may be portraying out the win-dow, as “Mind Bokeh” reveals a heavy infl uence from earlier eras.
The album starts off with a totally different feel from previous Bibio releases, as if brought from the ‘80s and given more of an avant-garde appeal. Soon enough, he seems to revert to his funky self with “Light Sleep” and adds a more rock influence in “Take Off Your Shirt.”
Though the songs are all different, an old-school vibe still remains. The album seems to go back and forth from electronic-based grooves to raw instrumental tracks toward the middle of the album. The pattern continues with the title song “Mind Bokeh,” possessing only a short interlude before “More Excuses.”
I’ve always been appreciative when artists indeed have the title of their album as one of their songs and do not place too great of an emphasis on that song. When this happens, it seems as though the band might subconsciously value other songs less. They may also be implying how beauty can be found in the most minimal of contexts.
The last stretch of the al-bum, beginning with “More Excuses,” appears to be remi-niscent of a theme from one of his last albums, “Ambivalence Avenue.” This section recog-nizes a similar melody as well as a reference to “the fl owers,” which has been quite a mys-tifying lyrical theme in Bibio’s music up to this point. The next half of the song, however, introduces a fresh breakdown, acting almost as an extension of these themes.
The next song, “Feminine Eye,” reverts back to a slow, funky feel, adding a smooth jazz tone with the sound of a saxophone setting the mood for the very last song. I am one who appreciates good post-rock music, and “Saint Christopher” clearly showed us a new side of this with a tempo diffi cult to pull off for such a genre.
Bibio, a.k.a. Stephen Wilkin-son, has a great ability to reminisce of a past time but sound like nothing else in rela-tion to that time. “Mind Bokeh” combines the best of Bibio’s previous music with some new twists. I was awed once again with this album.
Tim Randall can be reached at [email protected].
BIBIOMIND BOKEHRelease Date:March 29Genre: Experimental, Electronic, Indie PopGrade: B+
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The genre of street art includes graffi ti, traditional murals, wheat paste, woodcut stencils and other unconventional forms used to decorate the community with or without permission. Some consider Reno’s sparse collection of street art artistic and interesting, while others see the unauthorized painting destructive to buildings and private property.
Unorthodox art gains in popularity, acceptanceBy Casey O’Lear
In major cities around the world, public spaces are be-coming fi lled with increasingly thought-provoking and some-times politically charged street art. In Berlin, artists create wild murals to paint onto building walls. In Los Angeles, artists develop stencils with images and phrases to post on sidewalks and fences. In San Francisco, artists set up shop on street corners to sell sculptures, jewelry and other pieces in front of local businesses.
The international media, art galleries and a multitude of talented artists have noticed the abundance of street art in recent years. Though the movement has not taken over the Reno art scene, the city has been decorated with a smatter-ing of murals, a few pieces of politically-charged graffiti and some special events that allow artists to create and sell their work on the streets.
“There could be more of that in Reno,” said Jack Hursh, a local artist and president of the Artist’s Co-op Gallery Reno. “It’s a good place for street art. Other cities have more, but maybe there hasn’t been enough active programming. There need to be more artists being active and more allowance for people to fi nd spaces.”
Annice Jacoby wrote the 2009 book “Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo,” which chronicles the unique street art that thrives in an area of San Francisco. She said that, while street art has been growing for decades, it has only recently joined the mainstream speech.
“The fact that it’s become embraced by the art world is somewhere between irony and a joke,” she said. “It’s not curated, safe or controlled by a gallery. It’s free from constraint and anti-social in style and practice.”
Jacoby said that street art is nothing new, but it has recently gained media attention, as well as the attention of world-renown galleries such as the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, which had one of its outside walls white-washed and painted during
a recent street art exhibition.Some of the most popular
forms of street art include tra-ditional murals, graffi ti art and paste, which consists of artists mass-producing an image and putting it up on walls in repeti-tion, Jacoby said.
Along with any kind of street art comes the argument regard-ing what is considered art and what is simply vandalism. The City of Reno has a no-tolerance policy toward “graffi ti-vandal-ism,” which includes a reporting system, investigation and follow-up. “Graffi ti vandals” caught in the act face fi nes and potential felony charges, which could lead to one to three years in Nevada State Prison.
Turkey Stremmel, co-owner of Stremmel Gallery, said she regularly deals with vandalism on her property and sees a strong distinction between graffi ti art and destructive tagging.
“There are some good graf-fi ti artists,” she said. “I’ve seen some great ones in the (Los An-geles) area, but they’re not here. Tagging is not only offensive, it’s expensive. It costs thousands of dollars to try to get it off the wall, and if you don’t, somebody else will tag it and it goes on and on.”
Hursh said that, while street art can be visually pleasing, some artists neglect to take into consideration the possible de-structive nature of the art form.
“There is some great graffi ti, and there is some that is random, destructive and vandalistic,” he said. “Even if it’s visually or artis-tically interesting, it’s probably placed out of context in places it shouldn’t be, which is unfortu-nate. It would be nice if there was more space to do graffi ti where it was OK.”
Stremmel, whose gallery is located on South Virginia Street, said the area is plagued
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FILE PHOTOS /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
By Lukas Eggen
Nevada pitcher Mallary Darby left the softball fi eld with her head down. Tears fi lled her eyes. The Wolf Pack lost two of three games to Louisiana Tech — a team that was 0-3 in conference play — last Friday and Saturday.
At 1-5 in Western Athletic Conference play, the Wolf Pack is in danger of being eliminated from contention before WAC play really gets going.
Though the team still has a long chunk of its season ahead, in order to turn the year around, head coach Matt Meuchel said the team needs to take a long look at itself.
“I think we have to be hon-est with ourselves right now,” Meuchel said. “And right now, we’re not where we need to be. Is it possible (to turn the season around)? Sure, it’s possible. But at this point, that’s probably a
little bit optimistic.”The problem is that Nevada is
struggling in every department of the game. From pitching, where the Wolf Pack gives up seven runs per game, to its hitting, where the team has 79 fewer hits than its opponents, Nevada is being dominated in every aspect of the game.
“Everyone’s going up there thinking that ‘I’m going to hit a home run’ and you can’t do that,” shortstop Danielle Patrick said.
Outside of a three-game home win streak, the team has failed to string together more than one win in a row. The Wolf Pack’s two losses came on the heels of what Meuchel called the team’s best week of practice.
“I think we have to fi nd a way to trust the preparation that we’re putting in right now,” Meuchel said. “(We need to be) able to translate our ability to compete every day with our
ability to compete when the pressure’s on.”
The team has struggled in both keeping leads and playing from behind — things Meuchel said he attributes to the team not trusting the preparation they put in during the week.
“We have to be able to be a little bit tougher,” Meuchel said. “Tougher isn’t always about playing harder. It’s about playing
smarter. We took ourselves out of a lot of situations. We get into competitive situations and let our frustration get the better of us.”
With its season in danger of spi-raling out of control, the team has tried everything, including bring-ing an old ritual back — playing
hacky sack before each game.“We were talking, and one
SportsSECTION BTUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
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Here’s how to attract fans W ith the football
and basketball seasons long gone, the
Nevada athletics department is enter-ing a dry spell in terms of revenue-making sports.
Sure, baseball and softball are great to watch to relax
on a sunny weekend, but they don’t bring in much revenue. The baseball team is attract-ing just 465 fans through 10 home games this year, and with both teams playing poorly (baseball is 8-16 while softball is 10-22), it’s time for the athletics department to come up with new promo-tional ideas to draw more fans and money.
To somewhat quote Forrest Gump: “I may be stupid, but I know what fans want.”
Here are three crazy and three not-so-crazy ideas on how to draw more people to sporting events. So as to not scare anyone off too quickly, the not-so-crazy:
CHEERLEADERSThis is self-explanatory in
the sense that cheerleaders provide good eye candy and can boost everyone’s atten-tion to the game. The only problem I see with this are the safety hazards involved with baseball and softball.
Maybe we could just have them on top of the dugouts behind a hockey-style Plexiglass?
MAKE IT REQUIREDLike most Nevada students,
I’ve had to sit in on some pretty boring lectures on campus, but I happily did it. Anything for extra credit.
Professors should give extra credit to students who attend sporting events. In return, the athletics department will give that professor free hot dogs and drinks of their choice for that entire sports-mester.
CALL IN THE CELEBRITIESNevada may not be a
University of Southern California or Ohio State, but it’s had its share of star athletes. Use them.
The Wolf Pack should set up dates with former Nevada athletes like JaVale McGee and Colin Kaepernick where
JuanLópez
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Softball left searching for answers as losses continue
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Nevada lost two of three games to Louisiana Tech. The losses dropped the Wolf Pack’s record to 1-5 in Western Athletic Conference play.
See SOFTBALL Page B4
A troublesome childhood. A one-year-old daughter. A boxing dream.
Fighting the odds
TONY CONTINI /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Nevada boxer Andrew Morales has a chance to become Nevada’s sixth freshman national champion ever. He will fi ght in the 125-pound weight class.
After convincingly winning the regional title for the 125-pound weight class, Andrew Morales
is on his way to New York to compete for a national title. But life hasn’t always been so grand for the 18-year-old freshman boxer.
He’s fought a lot more than just inside the ring.
E xhausted, Andrew Morales wakes up at 4:30 a.m., runs eight to 10 miles, returns home, feeds his baby daughter, showers, then heads to
class at 8 a.m.He somehow musters the energy to make
it through boxing practice in the afternoon, then goes to work at Subway. After spending time with his family, he does his homework and fi nally gets to bed around midnight.
At 4:30 a.m. the next day, he does the same thing.
The birth of Zaida Abcde (born on Nov. 15, 2009) fl ipped Morales’ world. He was only a junior at Reed High School when his girlfriend got pregnant.
“Once she was born, life was brutal,” said the now-18-year-old freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno. “When she was born, I couldn’t sleep at all. The fi rst two months of her being born were the hardest days of my life because I was running on two to three hours of sleep every day.”
But even before Zaida was born, Andrew was facing the repercussions of a high school pregnancy.
IT’S A GIRLWhen Andrew told his father, Alfonso, the
40-year-old Los Angeles native didn’t speak
to him for two weeks. Andrew’s mother, who then worked at Planned Parenthood, was dis-heartened. Andrew thought his life was over.
TONY CONTINI /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Nevada junior Jeremy Catalano will fi ght at the 156-pound weight class at the national championships.
Junior leader eager to take on nation’s best
By Juan López
A t his fi rst collegiate fi ght for Nevada in 2009, Jeremy Catalano expected no more than 200 people in the crowd. To his surprise, more than 1,000 fans surrounded the boxing ring.
He felt knots in his stomach.“I’d never been in front of that many people where
every eye is on you,” Catalano recalled, smiling as he
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“Not a lot of people can do what (Andrew Morales) is doing. I don’t think I could have as a young man. He’s a hero to me.” — Nevada boxing head coach Mike Martino
➤ Nevada boxers Jeremy Catalano (156 pounds) and Andrew Morales (125 pounds) will fi ght at the National Collegiate Boxing Association National Championships, held Thursday through Saturday at West Point, N.Y.
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➤ The Wolf Pack lost two of three games to Louisiana Tech last weekend.➤ Nevada is 1-5 in Western Athletic Conference play.➤ The Wolf Pack gave up 12 runs in the fi rst game of the series, a 12-4 loss.➤ Nevada plays at Hawaii for a three-game series.
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SOFTBALL
PITCHINGSOFTBALLAs Nevada fell to 1-5 in conference play, the Wolf Pack pitching has been terrible. It has given up eight or more runs in four of its last six games, including 12 runs against Louisiana Tech last Friday as the Wolf Pack fell 12-4 in six innings.
The school year is winding down. While this may seem like a down time, here are my three bold predictions
for the home stretch of spring:
SOFTBALL The softball
team hasn’t been good. It’s 1-5 in conference play, the team has one winning streak to its name and head coach Matt Meuchel has been struggling to fi gure out just what exactly has
been holding the team back. Everyone, including myself, has
written the team off and with good reason. Yet, by the end of the season, Nevada will prove everyone wrong and assert itself as a legitimate contender and make a deep run in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. Against all logic, the team will make a run because, at this point in the season, they have
nothing to lose. Pitcher Mallary Darby is too good to remain in the funk she’s been in as of late. She’s already thrown a no-hitter earlier this season. She’ll return to form, giving Nevada a dangerous ace.
Multiple times, Nevada has had the lead or been in close games, only to see the game slip away. The Wolf Pack has fi ve players batting better than .300 and has too much talent to continue playing this badly. It will fi gure it out and end with a run to the semifi nals of the conference tournament.
BASEBALLThe baseball team has quietly
won three of its last four games. The bats fi nally appear to be getting big hits in close games. But don’t get your hopes up.
Utah Valley wasn’t exactly a top-notch opponent and the pitching staff struggled to keep the Wolverines at bay. Once Nevada faces some tough opponents like Fresno State, it will be exposed. Teams will score run after run against a sub-par pitching staff. And as long as designated hit-
ter/pitcher Brock Stassi and infi elder Brian Barnett continue to lag behind last year’s pace, Nevada’s lineup will lack punch. That means the Wolf Pack’s trip to the Western Athletic Conference Tournament, if it quali-fi es for it, will be very short.
TENNISIt may be easy to write the
men’s tennis team off. But, mark my words, the men’s tennis team will play for a WAC title. The team knocked off No. 72 San Francisco 4-3. And, it has been playing three freshmen, two of who picked up singles victories during the match.
The team already has two of the conference’s best players in junior Wessim Derbel and senior Kristian Kuharszky leading the team in the No. 1 and 2 singles spots.
As the freshmen continue to develop, Nevada will have one of the deepest teams in the WAC. They are peaking at the right time and will win the conference championship.
Lukas Eggen can be reached at [email protected].
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SAMANTHA DIAZTRACK AND FIELDThe sophomore distance runner won the 1,500- meter event with a time of 4:28.22 at the University of Southern California Quad Meet while facing two ranked teams in USC and Brigham Young University.
BASEBALLvs. Seattle 6 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday
THE SKINNY: The Wolf Pack continues its attempt to end its non-conference season on a high note against Seattle University. The Redhawks have struggled, but the Wolf Pack has just one winning streak this season. Nevada is hoping its offensive production is fi nally kicking into gear after scoring fi ve, six and eight runs against Utah Valley University last weekend. The series is the team’s last three-game series before the start of conference play against Fresno State next week.
SOFTBALLat Hawaii 8 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturday
THE SKINNY: It may only be the softball team’s third conference series of the season, but Nevada is at a critical stretch in the year. At 1-5 in Western Athletic Conference play, Nevada needs to win at least two of three in order to stay competitive in league play. Pitcher Mallary Darby is fi nding her groove and playing well, but needs run support in order to keep Nevada competitive. Hawaii, one of the conference’s top teams is looking to exert its dominance.
WOMEN’S TENNISvs Boise State 2 p.m. Fridayvs. Sonoma State 10 a.m. Saturdayvs. Seattle 4 p.m. Saturdayvs. New Mexico State 12 p.m. Sunday
THE SKINNY: The women’s tennis team will be busy this weekend, hosting four home matches. Nevada is looking to get its fi rst win against a ranked opponent this season when it hosts No. 38 Boise State on Friday. The team is looking for Michelle Okhremchuk and Emma Verberne to lead the team as it prepares for the WAC championships.
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Louisiana Tech’s Adrienne Johnson received an honorable mention into the Associated Press All-American team. Johnson helped lead the team to a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
AROUND THE WAC
Softball will rise, baseball will fall and tennis will win
CASEY DURKIN/NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Nevada’s softball team has struggled, but will make a surprising turn around to end the season.
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AROUND THE WAC
WOMEN’S BASKETBALLJohnson and Olorunnife receive honorable mentions
Louisiana Tech’s Adrienne Johnson and Idaho’s Yinka Olorunnife received honorable mentions to the Associated Press All-American team last Tuesday.
Johnson helped the Lady Techsters to 24 wins, the Western Athletic Conference regular-season title and a berth to the NCAA Tournament. Johnson averaged 21.9 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.21 steals per game during the season and shot 51 percent from the fi eld.
For her career, Johnson had 14 double-doubles during the season and scored 20 or more points 21 times. Johnson was also one of 34 players to be named to the Wade Trophy Watch List and was named the WAC Player of the Year by the league coaches. She is one of 40 fi nalists for the State Farm All-American Team, which will be announced this month.
Olorunnife played a major role in Idaho get-ting its fi rst postseason appearance in 25 years. She recorded a conference-best 17 double-doubles this season, averaging 14.7 points and 10.6 rebounds per game.
Olorunnife was a second team All-WAC selection and was named to the WAC Tourna-ment All-Tournament team.
Olorunnife fi nished her career as the WAC’s all-time leading rebounder, grabbing 1,070 boards during her time with the Vandals.
MEN’S BASKETBALLLouisiana Tech announces new head coach
Louisiana Tech announced Michael White as its new men’s basketball head coach Wednes-day.
White spent the last seven seasons at the University of Mississippi. He was a fi nalist for the 2009 Coaches Award, which honored the nation’s top assistant coaches. He helped the Rebels to four postseason appearances and two Southeastern Conference titles in the last fi ve seasons. Ole Miss also won at least 20 games in four of its last fi ve seasons.
Prior to his time at Ole Miss, White spent time at Jacksonville State.
Louisiana Tech went 12-20 overall and 2-14 in Western Athletic Conference play last year. The Bulldogs fi nished last place in the conference standings and failed to qualify for the Western Athletic Conference Tournament.
By Art Miner
The Wolf Pack baseball team and the Reno Aces will renew their annual exhibition game at Aces Stadium today to raise money for the Nevada Dugout Club.
The Dugout Club received $15,000 from the game last season.
But for Nevada, the game provides a chance to face players who have reached the next level.
“It gets them on the fi eld with guys that are getting paid to play at the highest level, next to the major leagues,” Nevada head coach Gary Powers said. “It gives them a measuring stick, and it gives them something to shoot for. It’s a great experience to have.”
For the Aces, the game is two days before its fi rst game of the season.
For the Wolf Pack, players said the game gives them a chance to forget about its conference
record for a game and just play the game they love without wor-rying about its season.
“It’s right in the middle of the season,” senior outfi elder Waylen Sing Chow said. “So it’s a good break for us to just to enjoy baseball without us having to concentrate on us always having to win.”
The game also helps get the community excited for the baseball season.
“It gets people pumped up for baseball,” Nevada pitcher/des-ignated hitter Brock Stassi said. “There are a lot of baseball fans, and people love the Aces, and we have good support here, so it’s really cool to see the people come out to the game.”
Even though the game is against a Triple-A team, the Wolf Pack isn’t doing anything differ-ently to prepare.
“In baseball, the truth is your playing against the game,” Stassi said. “You put the ball in play and the rest is up to them. You can’t
prepare for a team’s defense.”Nevada Director of Sales and
Fan Relations Jerry Cail, who helped set up the game, said he saw an opportunity to raise money for the baseball team, re-sulting in a good experience and give the Aces good publicity.
“Thirty-eight hundred fans showed up to the fi rst game,” Cail said. “They wrote a check for about $15,000 for the baseball team, which helps in recruiting and the little things they really
don’t have budgets for, and their budgets are cut even more. We decided to talk with them again to see if we could make it an annual event and they were agreeable because it’s kind of a win-win for them.”
Students are also looking for-ward to the game as a marker for the start of baseball fever.
“I am really excited for the
exhibition,” journalism major Robert Bennett said. “I had fun last year. It really gets me excited for baseball season, and it’s for a great cause.”
The pitchers and catchers for both teams will be Aces players. The game will last seven to nine innings and each pitcher has a limited pitch count.
Once the pitcher reaches his
pitch count, that half of the in-ning is over.
The game begins at 6:05 p.m. Tickets are $13 for general admission, $7 for kids between the ages of 3 and 12, and $10 for university students with a student ID.
Art Miner can be reached at [email protected].
By James DeHaven
For the fi rst time this season, the Wolf Pack’s bats showed signs of life in close games. Nevada earned two wins against Utah Valley as it took what it hoped was a step toward getting its hit-ting on track. The Wolf Pack won two come-from-behind games during the weekend.
Nevada lost six of seven games heading into its non-conference series against the Wolverines, but head coach Gary Powers was optimistic after the series.
“I think the way we played today showed a lot more focus,” Powers said after Sunday’s game. “Today is something to learn from…it gives us a reason to believe with conference games coming up.”
However pitching problems plagued the team during the series. Sophomore pitcher Tom Jameson gave up four runs on seven hits in fi ve innings of work Friday.
“Tom had no focus,” Powers said. “We were fortunate to get fi ve innings of out him.”
Junior outfi elder Nick Melino, who is hitting a team-leading .391 on the year, helped bail out Jameson. Melino hit a two-run home run in the fi fth inning to give the Wolf Pack a 5-4 lead and Matt Gardner combined with Troy Marks to preserve the win. The pair gave up one hit and two walks in four innings.
“(Marks) did a nice job of throwing strikes and keeping the ball down,” Powers said. “That‘s the key to success. This team needs that type of effort now.”
Gardner also collected his fourth and fi fth saves over the weekend. He has yet to concede an earned run, posting 16 strike-outs in just 10 appearances.
Utah Valley earned its lone win of the series after it recorded 26 hits en route to a 19-6 shellack-ing Saturday. Brock Stassi took the loss, giving up seven hits and seven runs in less than three full innings Saturday.
“It’s just disappointing to see a team that was hitting .257 get 19 runs and 26 hits,” Powers said. “When you look at the number of hits they got on 0-2, 1-2 pitches,
that’s just inexcusable.” Nevada’s pitching troubles
continued as senior pitcher Mark Joukoff took the hill and endured his worst start of the season on Sunday, surrendering four runs on fi ve hits in three innings.
“Obviously, it was a struggle out there today,” Joukoff said. “I’m just glad our offense was able to bail me out.”
Nevada was able to rally from four runs down to pick up the win. Powers said he hoped the timely hitting was a sign that Ne-vada’s bats are able to perform under pressure.
“We fi nally got that hit that we needed.” Powers said. “(Nevada infi elder) Joe (Kohan) got a good hit and (Melino) got three
chances with runners on and I kept telling him ‘You’re going to get another chance,’ and it worked out that way.”
For Melino, who delivered the game-ending single with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the tenth, the difference was not over think-ing the situation.
“I just tried to slow everything down and not lose sight of my approach.” Melino said, “I had some other chances today and left some runners on base so I was just happy to come through with that last one.”
After pulling through in clutch situations, Powers said he hoped the series was what the Wolf Pack needed to break its recent
losing streak. “This team needed a win like
this,” Powers said. “Hopefully this gives them some confi dence.”
Nevada will host a three-game series against Seattle University beginning 6 p.m. Friday.
James DeHaven can be reached at [email protected].
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TRACK AND FIELD
WOLF PACK HAS FOUR FIRST-PLACE FINISHES
The Wolf Pack track and fi eld team took fourth place at the University of Southern California Quad Meet last Saturday.
USC took the team cham-pionship with Brigham Young University coming in second and Cal-State Northridge taking third.
Individually, Nevada had four fi rst-place fi nishes at the meet. Thrower Sabine Kopplin took fi rst place in the javelin with a distance of 51.59 meters.
Thrower Constance McAlman won the discus with a mark of 46.95 meters while Deborah Amoah won the triple jump at 12.42 meters.
The team’s fi nal fi rst-place fi nish came in the 1,500 meters, where sophomore distance run-ner Samantha Diaz won with a time of 4:28.22.
Senior Marissa Hammond placed third in the javelin with a distance of 44.50 meters.
Hammond also played forward for the women’s basketball team this season.
Deidra Pettigrue led the sprint-ers with a fourth-place fi nish in the 400-meters with a time of 57.23 seconds while distance run-ner Jennifer McEntire took second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:25.59.
Nevada’s next meet is at the Mondo Invitational Thursday through Saturday.
FOOTBALL
OFFENSE SHINES IN FIRST SPRING SCRIMMAGE
In the football team’s fi rst spring scrimmage, Nevada’s offense was on full display.
Wide receiver Rishard Matthews caught fi ve passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns during the scrimmage, including a 65-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Tyler Lantrip.
Lantrip fi nished the scrimmage 5-for-14 for 128 yards and one touchdown.
Sophomore quarterback Mason Magleby went 8-for-16 for 153 yards and a touchdown while freshman quarterback Cody Fajardo was 5-for-9 for 76 yards as Nevada begins looking for a quar-terback to replace former player Colin Kaepernick.
Magleby led all rushers with 51 yards while running back Nick Hale had 50 yards.
Defensively, freshman cor-nerback Charles Garrett had an interception. Jeremiah Green and Brandon Marshall each recorded a sack for the defense.
The Wolf Pack will hold a sec-ond scrimmage Saturday before playing in the annual Silver and Blue Spring Game scheduled for April 16.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
NEVADA DROPS TWO MATCHES IN A ROW
The women’s tennis team hit a rough patch last week, dropping a match to the University of Califor-nia, Davis 6-1.
The Wolf Pack’s lone point came when Lais Ogata defeated Ellie Edles.
UC Davis took two of the three doubles matches to earn the doubles point for the Aggies.
Michelle Okhremchuk and Emma Verberne lost to Megan Heneghan and Dahra Zamudio in the top two singles spots.
Sophie Steevens and Gabriela Eufrasio also lost playing in the fi fth and sixth singles spots.
Nevada also lost to Wichita State 6-1 on Sunday.
The Shockers took the double point and only senior Florence De Vrye picked up Nevada’s lone point in singles play, defeating Raphaela Zotter in the No. 2 singles position. Nevada returns to the court this weekend when the team hosts four home matches.
The Wolf Pack faces Boise State, Sonoma State, Seattle University and New Mexico State. The team has eight matches remaining be-fore the Western Athletic Confer-ence Tournament, which begins April 28.
SOFTBALL
FRESNO STATE SWEEPS NO. 20 HAWAII
In a battle of two of the Western Athletic Conference’s top teams, the Fresno State Bulldogs swept Hawaii.
The Bulldogs won the fi rst game of the series 5-0 as Fresno State pitcher Michelle Moses threw a no-hitter.
During the game, Moses threw 11 strikeouts and had two walks. Moses became the fi rst pitcher to no-hit Hawaii since the 2007 season.
The fi nal two games of the series became pitchers’ duels. The Bulldogs took the second game of the series 2-1 and the fi nale 2-0.
The wins improved Fresno State’s record to 6-0 in conference while the Rainbow-Wahine fell to 3-3.
Hawaii hosts Nevada for a three-game series this weekend while Fresno State plays Pacifi c today before playing at New Mexico State this weekend.
New Mexico State also swept Utah State while Boise State took two of three games against San Jose State.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
WESLEY COMPETES IN NABC ALL-STAR GAME
Utah State forward Tai Wesley scored 12 points and had eight rebounds in the National As-sociation of Basketball Coaches All-Star game Friday night as the West All-Stars defeated the East All-Stars 113-108.
Wesley was one of six players who scored in double-fi gures for the West All-Stars. He shot 5-of-7 from the fi eld and played a game-high 27 minutes.
Wesley, a 6-foot-7 forward, helped lead the Aggies to the Western Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles.
He also helped Utah State to a berth in the NCAA Tournament, where the Aggies lost to Kansas State 73-68 in the Round of 64.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Wolf Pack bats pull through under pressure
TONY CONTINI/NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Nevada pitcher Jayson McClaren helped the baseball team win two of three games against Utah Valley. The Wolf Pack came from behind in both of its victories.
TONY CONTINI /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Nevada plays the Reno Aces in an exhibition game tonight. This is the second year the teams have met. The Wolf Pack baseball program receives money from the game.
Game with Aces raises money for baseball team
➤ Nevada’s baseball team will face the Reno Aces in an exhibition game at 6:05 p.m. today.➤ Last season the UNR baseball program received $15,000 from the game. ➤ Students can purchase tickets for $10 with a valid student ID. The game drew 3,800 fans last season.
➤ N d ’ b b ll t
ACES GAME
➤ Nevada won two of three games against Utah Valley last weekend.➤ The Wolf Pack defeated the University of California, Davis on Monday to improve to 8-16 on the season.
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BASEBALL BY THE NUMBERSA breakdown on how the Wolf Pack baseball team has fared so far this season.
1is the number of wins the
baseball team has in games decided by one run.
19is the number of runs the
team gave up during its 19-6 loss to Utah Valley.
2is the number of winning streaks the Wolf Pack has had (four and two games).
3is the number of wins Ne-
vada has had in its last four games.
“When I fi rst found out (my girlfriend) was pregnant, my life went down from there,” Andrew said. “My relationship with my dad went downhill, I started arguing with a lot of people at school and my childhood was gone. I didn’t expect to have to grow up that quick.”
Alfonso Morales couldn’t believe his son was expecting a child. He thought between box-ing, school and work, having a child was the last thing Andrew should have been doing.
He said his son was jeopardiz-ing his future.
“(Andrew) was trying to go to college. He had a big future and he was still doing boxing,” said Alfonso, who posted a 5-2-1 boxing record as a flyweight and junior bantamweight in his heyday. “I don’t mean it in a bad way, but (the pregnancy) was a distraction because it gave him more things to worry about. I was disappointed. I was hurt.”
Andrew felt alone. His father alienated him, his peers teased him and it was only getting worse. He was going to have to fi ght his way through.
But Andrew was used to fi ght-ing.
He had fought all of his life — and not just with heavy gloves on his hands. He was born in Reno and raised on Neil Road. The area is infamous around town for being gang-infested, violent and poor.
“The people around us were all druggies and gangs really af-fected us,” Andrew said. “I tried to stay away from them, but how can you when you’re surrounded by them?”
He recalls times when he would fi ght people at school just to get food to eat because he couldn’t afford it. He said he didn’t want to fi ght, but felt compelled to in order to survive.
He didn’t have friends, his par-ents were always working and he
was always getting into trouble. This survival mode made him a loner.
“From when I met Andrew, he was a quiet guy,” said Heidi Zazaleta, Andrew’s girlfriend. “People always said hi to him in school, but they weren’t re-ally his friends. He’s just really focused on what he needed to do and didn’t fi t time for much else.”
The loner mentality shaped Morales’ life.
LEARNING THE ROPESThe quiet, peaceful teenager
loved boxing since he was three, but his father didn’t want to train him. Alfonso had lived through the pains and sacrifi ces a boxer had to make and didn’t want to put Andrew through that.
But after “two years of Andrew asking me to train him,” Alfonso fi nally gave in. The father trained the son, military-style. The strict workout regimen included countless hours in the gym, mile after mile worn on the sole of his shoes and a stern eating schedule.
To Alfonso’s surprise, Andrew didn’t budge one bit.
“I was shocked at how hard he was working,” Alfonso recalled. “He trained so damn hard. That’s what I wanted him to realize, that if he’s not working hard, the guy he’s fi ghting will be.”
But the hard work wasn’t all that diffi cult for Andrew. It was in his blood.
“My dad’s always worked hard to support our family because we used to be poor,” he said. “In the past, he actually had to run 12 miles just to get to work every day.”
Through his father’s training, at 14, Andrew had his fi rst fi ght. He began reaping the results of his hard labor. Eventually, he picked up multiple fi ghts on his record and showed much promise. He focused solely on boxing and was content with his progression.
Finally, after a rough childhood and years of being “different,” Andrew was fi nding his place.
MEETING A MATEThen came Heidi.Andrew remembers meeting
her like it was yesterday.“I asked her out on the third
day of us talking,” he said with a sheepish smile.
But soon after that came the pregnancy.
Andrew’s world, once serene and simple, was now shaken and swaying.
The future he once envisioned at UNR was in doubt and it was all because of the tiny baby liv-ing inside his girlfriend.
But like he had done all of his life, Andrew didn’t run.
He fought.He continued to work at
Subway, had to wake up a little earlier to fi t in his running and enrolled at UNR with the help of the Millennium Scholarship. He worked harder than ever and his dedication only grew after Zaida was born.
“Most dads his age wouldn’t want to be there,” Zazaleta said. “He’s always there and wants to do everything with (his daugh-ter). I’ve never seen someone so dedicated to taking care of all of their responsibilities.”
By the time Zaida was born, Alfonso had gotten over the pregnancy. He accepted his son’s situation, allowed him and his girlfriend to move into his house, and offered help wher-ever needed.
Since then, Andrew’s life has only improved.
More than a year ago, Andrew and Zazaleta got engaged. They plan to get married after Mo-rales gets his degree in criminal justice.
He posted a 5-0 record with the Nevada boxing club this year and has a chance to be-come Nevada’s sixth freshman national champion. And his
lightning quick movements in the ring have made him a silent leader on the team and someone his teammates look up to.
“I never see him screwing off or taking a break,” said team-mate Jeremy Catalano, who is also fi ghting at the national championships. “He has a lot of dedication and a lot of heart. It sucks that he’s lighter than me because I would love to spar him just to see how he works inside the ring.”
ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES
Andrew has matured quicker than most, but he’s taken it in stride. His devotion to school, his family and the sweet science has inspired many.
“Not a lot of people can do what he’s doing,” Nevada head boxing coach Mike Martino said. “I don’t think I could have as a young man. He’s a hero to me. Being able to balance all of this and do it well, I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
But most of all, he’s happy with himself. He’s thankful for his daughter because she gives him extra motivation. He’s working harder than ever in preparation for this weekend’s bouts. And the day after he gets back from West Point, N.Y., and the National Collegiate Boxing Association Boxing Champion-ships, Andrew and Zazaleta are moving into their own apart-ment. He said it’ll be “like a good welcome home gift for me. Like a fresh start.”
“Waking up at 4:30 a.m. every day to run doesn’t seem so bad when you get results like this,” he said with a wide smile.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
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they would come on campus for a day and simply walk on campus among the students.
They would happily give students an autograph in exchange for their promise to attend that night’s sporting event.
All right, now for the crazy.
FREE BEER AND FOODA massage at a local casino?
OK. A free set of tires? Thanks.These are all good giveaway
prizes from the athletics department, but people at sporting events are likely more concerned with what you can do for them now, not later.
Answer: Give away beer and food. Not only will you increase sales (because who can stop at just one beer?), but you will be nourishing your fans’ minds and bodies.
Instead of balled up T-shirts, shoot beer cans out of that tiny bazooka.
SILVER AND BLUE FIELDFor those who read about the
University of Central Arkansas’ plan for a purple and gray football fi eld, my condolences — I almost vomited when I saw it, too.
But after rinsing my mouth, I realized it was a great idea. How many other times is UCA going to make headline news
on SportsCenter or Yahoo!?Nevada should do the same,
but instead of just a silver and blue fi eld, put a live wolf (caged, of course) at every other 20-yard line — you know, for fun.
MORE REAL WOLVESI know I’m still on the
“live wolf” train, but how crazy would it be if every time Nevada won a sporting event, a wolf ran on the fi eld and pretended to maul the opposing teams’ mascot?
The wolf would be trained to just playfully toss around the other mascot. It would provide great entertainment for fans as well as making them want a win even more, just because of the anticipation of this sight.
I know what you’re thinking, “How would we train a wolf to playfully maul someone?” Well, I say that if I can hold 2,000 songs in my palm, video call my brother who’s 500 miles away and turn on my car from inside my bathroom, I should sure as hell be able to control a wild animal’s movements.
I’m looking at you, Apple.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
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jokingly regretted inviting “every-one he knew.”
On March 19, Catalano won the regional title and a berth into the national championships — but not without more stomach issues.
“I threw up before all my fi ghts because I was so nervous. I’ve never done that before. I might do the same thing at nationals to see if it works,” the 21-year-old criminal justice major joked.
While the 5-foot-11, 156-pound boxer may not be able to control his stomach on his way to the ring, he’s controlled his oppo-nents inside of the ring during his entire boxing career.
With a 10-1 collegiate record (he’s defeated the boxer he lost to), Catalano will head into Thursday’s National Collegiate Boxing Association National Championships as the team’s second-most experienced fi ghter (behind only Andrew Morales).
And despite his queasy ap-proach to bouts, Catalano’s con-fi dence never sways — mainly because most of the crowd is there to see him.
“Because of his dad, when we box, there are no less than 20 Reno Police (Department) offi -cers in the stands,” Nevada head boxing coach Mike Martino said. “He had a ready-made fan base as soon as he came here.”
Jon, Catalano’s father, who recently retired from the RPD after 24 years of service, said that because of his tenure with
the department, many offi cers watched Jeremy grow up. They don’t hesitate to support the box-ing team.
While Jeremy’s fan club was ce-mented before he stepped in the ring, the roots for his relationship with Martino began long before he fi rst walked into the Nevada boxing gym in 2008.
Martino worked in the juvenile justice system in Washoe County for 31 years.
Many times, he worked along-side Jon Catalano. The two built a rapport and have known each other since the early 2000s. Un-surprisingly, Martino was excited when Jeremy showed interest in the team.
“Our practices aren’t manda-tory, but he showed the dedica-tion early,” Martino said. “(He) never missed practice and the kid
was just a natural. We knew we had a young man who was going to excel if he stayed in the gym.”
But because of Martino’s re-lationship with Jon, Jeremy was pushed harder in practices.
“He doesn’t beat around the bush with me,” said Jeremy, who graduated from Spanish Springs High School. “It’s great, though, because he just wants you to learn.”
Martino isn’t shy about calling Catalano out if he sees him slack-ing on his technique. Without hesitation, he’ll jump inside the ring when Catalano is shadow boxing and yell, “That’s not a jab! This is a jab!” as the young boxer quietly observes.
“I know he’s in good hands with (Martino) because Mike knows how to handle people his age and get the most from them,” Jon
said. “Mike and the other coaches there have gotten him to where he is now and he has a chance to do something special.”
For Jon it may be special, but for Jeremy it’s surreal.
He has a chance to be known as one of the best fi ghters in the school’s rich boxing history, as well as make those who support him even prouder.
“I remember my senior year in high school, reading the paper and seeing that (former Nevada boxer) Thomas Gennaro won the national title,” Catalano said. “To be able to put myself in that position of the people I saw then is amazing. It’s an honor to repre-sent what I’ve always wanted to be a part of.”
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
thing we do kind of lack is we lack the fun out here,” Patrick said. “Softball is supposed to be a fun sport and relaxing. So, we played hacky (sack) before the game to get that competitive edge.”
GLIMMERS OF HOPE?One of the few bright spots
on the team has been freshman infi elder Karley Hopkins.
The freshman leads the team in batting average (.365), runs scored (25), doubles (13) and hits (42) and has given Wolf Pack fans something to cheer about this season.
“She’s made the adjustment (to college) well,” Meuchel said. “She has some gifts both physi-cally and mentally and she’s as mature as anyone we’ve had come in here.”
Nevada is also hoping that the weekend saw the start of its pitching improving as well.
After getting roughed up in a 12-4 loss to the Lady Techsters on Friday, pitcher Mallary Darby had two solid outings on Saturday, pitching 12 innings and giving up just four earned runs.
“It just proves you have to take it one day at a time,” Darby said. “Friday was terrible for me and (Saturday) I had a better day and the team had a better day.”
Though Darby’s performance on the mound was far from per-fect, if Nevada is to make any sort of a late season run, it will likely be on the arm of Darby.
“She’s certainly been strug-gling lately and she’d be the fi rst to tell you that,” Meuchel said. “She’s searching, the staff’s searching and the team’s
searching. In that competitive and emotional situation, you’re not going to go from that spot to where you’re completely in command in one day. But, to see her take some steps, that’s a start in that direction.”
With a series at Hawaii next week, where Nevada will face the WAC preseason favorites, the Wolf Pack is hoping the series can ignite a run for the team and get the team back into contention.
“At this point, we’re trying to build to be better every game,” Meuchel said. “Sometimes when you play well, your op-ponent plays better. We can’t control how well Hawaii plays, but we can certainly control how well we play.”
Lukas Eggen can be reached at [email protected].
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Nevada pitcher Mallary Darby started all three games for the Wolf Pack last weekend. Nevada went 1-2 against Louisiana Tech.
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Freshman Andrew Morales begins training at 4:30 a.m., when he runs eight to 10 miles before his classes.
“I don’t mean it in a bad way, but (the pregnancy) was a distraction because it gave him more things to worry about. I was disappointed. I was hurt.” — Alfonso Morales, Andrew Morales’ father
BY THE NUMBERSBreaking down Nevada’s season.
3
1
is the number of games of the Wolf Pack’s only win-
ning streak this season. Ne-vada is 10-22 overall.
is the number of conference wins the Wolf Pack has this
season.
12is the number of runs Ne-vada gave up in the fi rst
game of the series.
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Jeremy Catalano is one of two Nevada boxers who will fi ght at the national championships.
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April 11
Nevada, Seattle look for key wins
STAFF PICKS
PESSIMIST SAYS: If there’s one thing that will plague the Wolf Pack, it is inconsistency. It strikes again as Nevada fails to get hits at critical moments. Seattle gets the early leads, forcing the Wolf Pack to play from behind in all three games. Nevada’s bats, which have struggled in late-game situations, fail to bring Nevada back.
OUTCOME: Seattle takes two of three
DIFFERENCE MAKER DOUG KINCAID
OPTIMIST SAYS: The Wolf Pack batters become comfortable and begin to perform under pressure. Nevada’s pitchers shut down Seattle and hold the Redhawks to fewer than four runs in all three games. With the Wolf Pack not having to deal with traveling, Nevada overwhelms Seattle as the Redhawks lack the run scoring ability to keep pace.
OUTCOME: Nevada sweeps
The junior outfi elder is the Redhawks’ most complete offensive threat. Fourth on the team in hits, Kincaid leads the team in runs batted in and is tied for the team lead in home runs. Kincaid also leads the team in stolen bases, making him just as much of a threat once he gets on base as he is at the plate. Defensively, he has a perfect fi elding percentage and has yet to commit an error this season. In short, Kincaid is the backbone of the Redhawks’ team and must play well for Seattle to have success.
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On Deck
MAKING THE CALL
Both teams enter series struggling to fi nd victories
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Nevada pitcher Mark Joukoff
By Lukas Eggen
After winning two of three games against Utah Valley University, the Nevada baseball team is hoping to continue to build momentum during its series against Seattle Uni-versity. The Redhawks, coming off an abysmal series against Sacramento State in which the team lost three of four (and has lost six of its last seven overall), are also looking for a key series win to try to correct its season.
With both teams’ seasons not going quite as planned, this weekend’s series is a chance to try to get back on track.
PITCHERS DELIGHTWith Nevada’s bats still plagued by inconsistencies,
Seattle’s pitching staff could be in for a solid series. The team’s starting rotation of Seafth Howe, Brandon Kizer and Max Whieldon has a combined earned run average of 3.30 and have given up just three home runs in a combined 102 innings pitched between the three of them.
Howe is establishing himself as the team’s top pitcher, with an ERA of 2.05 while holding opponents to a .198 batting average.
Nevada’s bats are still struggling, averaging less than four runs per game and with a team batting average of .256. With just 88 runs batted in, the Wolf Pack’s lineup must fi nd a way to advance runners once they get into scoring position.
Infi elder Nick Melino continues to be the Wolf Pack’s most dangerous bat, hitting .391 with 34 hits and three home runs.
For the Wolf Pack, the key may be whether Seattle scores early. Nevada is 0-11 when trailing after the fi rst inning and is just 2-14 when trailing after the third inning. If the Redhawks score early, chances are the Wolf Pack will try to force the issue at the plate.
BATTER UP?The problem for the Redhawks is the lack of run support
to back their pitchers. Seattle has lost six games by three or fewer runs, showing that while its pitching can keep games close, the team’s hitting has been spotty. The team has been held to three or fewer runs eight times this season.
Even with Nevada’s second game against Utah Valley, in which the team gave up 19 runs, the Wolf Pack has given up more than fi ve runs just three times in its last 13 games. Nevada’s starting staff has been steadily improving during the season.
The series will likely come down to which team can muster up enough offense to strike fi rst. In that regard, Wolf Pack designated hitter Brock Stassi has been steadily improving, batting .267 and is third on the team in hits. But the team still lacks consistent bats to support Melino. The team has scored six or more runs just four times this season, meaning Nevada’s unlikely to win any high-scoring affair.
The difference maker for Nevada could be Joe Kohan, who is second on the team in batting average, hits and runs bat-ted in. A big series from Kohan could provide just enough lift to Nevada’s lineup to overpower the Redhawks.
Lukas Eggen can be reached at [email protected].
Wolf Pack looks to build confi denceAfter winning three of its last four games, the Wolf Pack faces Seattle University. Nevada is hoping its series against Utah Valley serves as a way for the team to gain momentum as it inches closer to Western Athletic Conference play which begins next week. Pitcher Brock Stassi’s development will play a big role into this. When Stassi returns to full strength, Nevada’s pitching staff may be one of the most feared in the conference as the staff is allowing just 4.4 runs per game this year.
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Wolf Pack looks to build
WEEKLY GLANCE
SEATTLE 30, RHP, Seafth HoweJunior, 6-foot-2, 160 pounds;3-1, 1.91 ERA, 5 APP, 5 GS, 37.2 INP, 8 SO, 7 BB55, RHP, Max WhieldonSenior, 6-foot-10, 200 pounds; 0-3, 4.19 ERA, 7 APP, 6 GS, 38.2 INP, 15 SO, 9 BB23, RHP, Brandon KizerJunior, 6-foot-2, 200 pounds; 4-2, 3.86 ERA, 6 APP, 6 GS, 32.2 INP, 18 SO, 5 BB
NEVADA36, RHP, Tom Jameson Sophomore, 6-foot-7, 210 pounds; 2-4, 6.55 ERA, 7 APP, 7 GS, 33.0 INP, 21 SO, 14 BB 15, RHP, Jeremy ColeSenior, 6-foot, 190 pounds; 1-2, 3.81 ERA, 7 APP, 4 GS, 28.1 INP, 7 SO, 7 BB30, RHP, Mark JoukoffJunior, 6-foot-1, 205 pounds; 1-5, 6.06 ERA, 7 APP, 7 GS, 35.2 INP, 16 SO, 20 BB
1. Vanderbilt (18) 18-22. Virginia (13) 19-23. South Carolina 19-24. Florida 14-45. Texas A&M 16-4 6. Arizona State 15-57. North Carolina 17-5 8. Texas 15-49. Oklahoma 15-510. Florida State 16-411. Georgia Tech 14-212. Fresno State 18-3 13. CS-Fullerton 15-414. TCU 12-715. LSU 17-4 16. UC-Irvine 15-5 17. Southern Miss. 14-218. California 11-719. Oregon State 10-720. Stanford 14-6 21. Arizona 8-622. Arkansas 15-423. UCLA 6-524. Alabama 16-425. Rice 12-5
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTESOklahoma State 68; Louisville 54; Troy 50; East Carolina 33; Charlotte 24; Clemson 23; Stetson 18; Miami (Fla.) 10; Texas State 10; CalState-Bakersfi eld 6; Creighton 6; Missis-sippi 5; San Jose State 5; Baylor 3; Nebraska 2; New Mexico State 2; Alabama -Birming-ham 1; James Madison 1; Mercer 1; Michigan State 1; Tulane 1.
Seattle at Nevada
When: 6 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday
Where: Peccole Park
Radio: N/A
Seattle at Nevada
THIS WEEK’S SERIES
Nevada Category Seattle OFFENSE
.261 Batting Average .224
3.95 Runs Scored Per Game 3.77
.380 Slugging Percentage .315
.358 On-Base Percentage .312
PITCHING
6.05 Earned Run Average 3.68
.325 Opposing Batting Average .240
11.33 Hits Allowed Per Game 7.54
FIELDING
.965 Fielding Percentage .973
33 Errors 23
TALE OF THE TAPE
WAC STANDINGS
Standings Conference OverallFresno State 0-0 20-3
New Mexico State 0-0 22-6
San Jose State 0-0 19-8
Louisiana Tech 0-0 15-12
Hawaii 0-0 14-14
Nevada 0-0 8-16
Sacramento State 0-0 9-20
Date Opponent ResultFeb. 18 at UC Irvine L 17-4
Feb. 19 at UC Irvine L 15-3
Feb. 20 at UC Irvine L 7-1
Feb. 25 at Loyola Marymount L 8-5
Feb. 26 at Loyola Marymount L 7-3
Feb. 27 at Loyola Marymount L 8-3
March 1 San Francisco State Postponed
March 4 UNLV L 9-0
March 5 UNLV L 10-6
March 6 UNLV L 5-0
March 8 at UC Davis W 3-2
March 11 Pacifi c W 10-6
March 12 Pacifi c W 6-5
March 13 Pacifi c W 9-4
March 15 at Saint Mary’s Canceled
March 19 at UC Santa Barbara L 5-3
March 19 at UC Santa Barbara L 2-1
March 20 at UC Santa Barbara Canceled
March 21 at California L 2-0
March 22 Saint Mary’s L 9-3
March 25 at Washington W 2-1
March 26 at Washington L 4-3
March 27 at Washington L 5-4
March 28 at Seattle Canceled
April 1 Utah Valley W 5-4
April 2 Utah Valley L 19-6
April 3 Utah Valley W 8-7
April 4 UC Davis W 7-4
Tuesday Reno Aces 2 p.m.
Friday Seattle 6 p.m.
Saturday Seattle 1 p.m.
Sunday Seattle 11 a.m.
April 12 San Francisco State 2 p.m.
April 15 at Fresno State 6:05 p.m.
April 16 at Fresno State 2 p.m.
April 16 at Fresno State 5 p.m.
April 17 at Fresno State 1:05 p.m.
April 21 New Mexico State 6 p.m.
April 22 New Mexico State 1 p.m.
April 22 New Mexico State 4 p.m.
April 23 New Mexico State 11 a.m.
April 29 at Louisiana Tech 6 p.m.
April 30 at Louisiana Tech 1 p.m.
April 30 at Louisiana Tech 4 p.m.
May 1 at Louisiana Tech 1 p.m.
May 5 Hawaii 6 p.m.
May 6 Hawaii 6 p.m.
May 7 Hawaii 1 p.m.
May 7 Hawaii 4 p.m.
May 13 Sacramento State 6 p.m.
May 14 Sacramento State 1 p.m.
May 14 Sacramento State 4 p.m.
May 15 Sacramento State 1 p.m.
May 20 at San Jose State 6 p.m.
May 21 at San Jose State 1 p.m.
May 21 at San Jose State 4 p.m.
May 22 at San Jose State 1 p.m.
Date Opponent ResultNEVADA SCHEDULE
*All statistics thru games 4/4/2011
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