By Alex Mosher

After a controversial tweet in the anonymous publication “Coffi n & Keys” last semester former journalism senator Spenser Blank resigned from his position and is now run-ning for the position of Sena-tor again in October.

After the publication of the tweet, Blank said there was uproar among students. An open forum was made so that students could voice their opinions and concerns. He said that contrary to rumors of being forced to resign, his res-ignation was the responsible action to take.

“I made that choice for my-self,” Blank said. “I could have stayed in the senate, but I felt that resigning was the best way to own up to my actions and to show everyone how apologetic I was and that I shouldn’t have done this.”

After resigning, Blank said he consulted with journalism faculty about the situation, who support his decision to run again. Blank also spoke to groups that had voiced their concerns on record after the ordeal. Blank said he was able to sit down with them and make amends.

Taylor Gadda, a freshman at UNR majoring in journalism, warned about posting on the web, especially while being a public fi gure, because it reaches a much larger audi-ence than we are aware of.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012

FIRST COPY FREE. ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS EACH | SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO SINCE 1893 | VOLUME 119 NUMBER 7

nevadasagebrush.com | @TheSagebrush

THURSDAY

6937

FRIDAY

Information courtesy of Stephen Carr of the University of Nevada, Reno chapter of the American Meteorological Society.

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

PROVOCATIVE ARTS A5

WEATHER FORECAST

SATURDAY SUNDAY

7140

7139

6940

SANS GLUTEN A7 SILVER STATE RIVALRY A14

7342

MONDAY

7544

6739

Voter registration hits record high

By Molly Moser

After a month of volunteers asking students on campus to vote, about 1,500 people living on campus are registered to vote — the highest number ever in the precinct.

Since registration ended on Saturday, the push from cam-paigns will now be to get those students to actually vote, said Eric Herzik, chair of the political science department at the Uni-versity of Nevada, Reno.

“It’s sometimes called in political science the hurdles … thesis,” Herzik said. “Getting

them registered is one hurdle, but it’s another thing to get them to vote.”

There might be several reasons that more people were registered this year, he said. One might be the promotion of online voting from the secretary of state’s of-fi ce. Another might be the high number of voter registration workers on campus, particularly from the Democratic party, he said.

Within the campus there are 583 people registered as Demo-crat, 324 people as Republican and 470 as no party. Herzik said the dominance of Democrats in

a college setting didn’t surprise him. Aside from younger people typically voting toward the left, Barack Obama’s message might resonate more with them, he said.

“When Obama speaks about having to pay off college loans, that’s an issue important to many students, where Mitt Romney’s message was ‘borrow money from your parents,’” Herzik said.

According to the registrar statistics, Washoe County has 234,113 registered voters. Dan Burk, the Washoe County regis-trar of voters, said this upcom-

ing election has more registered voters than the 2008 election.

“The results are skyrocketing,” Burk said. “Right now we’re at the highest of registered voters we ever of Washoe County.”

Students said they are looking forward to voting but for differ-ent reasons, mainly issues that have an impact on their personal lives. Courtney Davis, a 19-year-old majoring in environmental science, said multiple issues have infl uenced her vote this year.

“I’m concerned about obvious women’s issues, social issues, health care and education,”

Davis said. “I’m a student and I think it matters for funding issues.”

Jessika Archuleta, a 24-year-old majoring in business manage-ment, said that issues in educa-tion and health care are the topics that infl uenced her vote this year.

“I am graduating this year and I am worried about the changes in health care because I am unin-sured,” Archuleta said. “I am just learning about it, too. (Health care) affects your employers.”

Lucy Hunt, a 20-year-old

Photo illustration by Juliana Bledsoe /Nevada Sagebrush, fl ag photo courtesy of Stefano Brivio/Flickr.com

ResignedASUN senator to run

Provost fi nalists’ identities released

Staff Report

The University of Nevada, Reno is currently looking for a new provost to become President Marc Johnson’s second in command and has narrowed the search down to three candidates.

Kevin Carman, the fi rst fi nalist, is dean of the college of science at Louisiana State University. Carman held his open forum in the Joe Crowley Student Union on Oct. 1 to promote himself for the UNR chief academic offi cer posi-tion.

Mark Kornbluh, the second fi nalist, visited Monday and will hold an open forum today at 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. in the stu-dent union theatre. Kornbluh is currently the dean of the University of Kentucky’s col-lege of arts and sciences.

Jeanette Roberts, the third fi nalist, will visit Oct. 11 and 12 with an open forum Thursday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the JCSU theatre. She is the dean of the University of Wisconsin’s school of medicine.

The provost position has played a central role

See SENATOR Page A4

See ELECTIONS Page A4

See PROVOST Page A4

First lady encourages students to voteBy Megan Ortiz

With the closing of voter regis-tration in Nevada last Saturday, Michelle Obama’s visit to the University of Nevada, Reno last Wednesday was ended by the fi rst lady’s emphasis on the im-portance of registering to vote.

The fi rst lady visited campus on the day of the fi rst presi-dential debate, encouraging students and public attendees to get to the polls and make their voices known.

“All the hard work and progress we’ve made…it’s all at stake this November,” the fi rst lady said in her speech at UNR. “The only guarantee is that this election will be closer than the last one.”

The UNR media newsroom reported a crowd of about 3,800 attendees, all of whom erupted in cheers as Michelle Obama emphasized the importance of moving “forward,” the adopted slogan for Barack Obama’s cam-paign.

The fi rst lady spoke to the crowd about knowing what the job of president is actually like because she has seen it fi rst hand. She said the decisions her husband makes aren’t just about the bottom line but rather lay-ing the foundation for the next generation.

“As president, you must be

driven by the struggles, hopes and dreams of all those you serve,” Michelle Obama said.

When Barack Obama entered the White House in 2008, the economy was on the brink of collapse and losing an average of $800,000 a month, the fi rst lady said.

“He came into a mess and I think he’s done an outstanding job,” said Mary Randolph, a 56-year-old postal worker who traveled from Sacramento to see Michelle Obama speak. Randolph said that she is one person who can honestly say that President Obama changed her life.

“My daughter has a pre-existing illness and couldn’t get any health insurance,” Randolph said. “Now, she receives treat-ments every six months and is cancer-free.”

President Obama’s recent health reform policy is one of the many topics the fi rst lady addressed during her speech, where she said her husband didn’t care that health reform was the easy thing to do politi-cally, but rather, it was the right thing to do.

Other platforms on the Obama campaign include women’s rights, in which the fi rst lady preached to the women of the audience that “my husband will

always have our backs.” The fi rst lady also stressed the importance of education in their campaign, for not only did she choose to hold the rally on the university

campus rather than elsewhere, but said that President Obama can relate to students on a per-sonal level.

“Neither Barack, nor myself,

could have ever attended college if it weren’t for fi nancial aid and our combined student loan bills

See OBAMA Page A4

Juliana Bledsoe /Nevada Sagebrush

First lady Michelle Obama speaks to students at the University of Nevada, Reno campus, encouraging them to vote in the upcoming national election.

| NEWSA2 @TheSagebrush | nevadasagebrush.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012|

Student voice of the University of Nevada, Reno since 1893.

CONTACT US:Offi ce: 775-784-4033

Fax: 775-327-5334Mail Stop 058 Reno, NV 89557

The Nevada Sagebrush is a newspaper operated by and for the students of the

University of Nevada, Reno. The contents of this newspaper do not necessarily refl ect

those opinions of the university or its students. It is published by the students of the University of Nevada, Reno and printed

by the Sierra Nevada Media Group.

The Nevada Sagebrush and its staff are accredited members of the Nevada Press

Association and Associated Collegiate Press. Photographers subscribe to the National Press Photographers Association code of

ethics. Designers are members of the Society for News Design.

ADVERTISING: For information about display advertising and rates, please call the Advertising Department at 775-784-7773 or

email adnevadasales@gmail.com.

SUBSCRIPTION: The Nevada Sagebrush offers a yearly subscription service for $40 a year. Call The Nevada Sagebrush offi ce at

775-784-4033 for more information. Email subscriptions and downloadable

PDFs are also available for free at nevadasagebrush.com

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Must include a phone number and/or email address. Letters

should be relevant to student life or major campus issues. Letters should be no longer than 200 words. Letters can be submitted

via email at letters@nevadasagebrush.com. Letters are due via e-mail or mail by noon

Saturday before publication.

❑ The Nevada Sagebrush fi xes mistakes. If you fi nd an error, email editor@nevadasagebrush.com.

CORRECTIONS

Contributing Staffers:

Alexa Ard, Leonel Beas, Miles Becker, Chris Boline, Connor Christiansen, Fil Corbitt,

Cameron Dearborn, Anneliese Hucal, Nicole Kowalewski, Katherine Larsen, Alex

Mosher, Nino Pinneri, Stefanie Taylor, Evynn Tyler, Shane Vetter

VOLUME 119 • ISSUE 7

editor@nevadasagebrush.comEditor-in-Chief • Ben Miller

News Editor • Molly Mosermmoser@nevadasagebrush.com

Managing Editor • Now Hiringeditor@nevadasagebrush.com

Sports Editor • Eric Uribeeuribe@nevadasagebrush.com

Opinion Editor • Gianna Cruetgcruet@nevadasagebrush.com

Design Editor • Crystal Williscwillis@nevadasagebrush.com

jbledsoe@nevadasagebrush.comPhoto Editor • Juliana Bledsoe

Copy Editor • Ryan Miyashiro

Offi ce Manager • Beverly Vermillionbvermillion@nevadasagebrush.com

rmiyashiro@nevadasagebrush.com

Copy Editor • Megan Ortiz

Online News Editor • Walanya Vongsvirates

Online Sports Editor • Kyle Hills

Multimedia Editor • Allison Ford

Online Copy Editor • Emma Shaffer

mortiz@nevadasagebrush.com

wvongsvirates@nevadasagebrush.com

khills@nevadasagebrush.com

aford@nevadasagebrush.com

eshaffer@nevadasagebrush.com

Advertising Offi ce • Jordan Gregoryadnevadasales@gmail.com

Illustrator • Karleena Hitchcockkhitchcock@nevadasagebrush.com

A & E Editor • Julian Rhodesjrhodes@nevadasagebrush.com

The University of Nevada, Reno is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action, ADA institution. Photo by Jean Dixon. Produced by Extended Studies Marketing Dept., 11/11.

Questions? Call (775) 784-4652 or 1-800 -233-8928, email istudy@unr.edu or visit

enroll today!

Online C lasses at the University of Nevada, Reno

New residence hall assists learningBy Molly Moser

The Living Learning Commu-nity, the newest residence hall on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, is beginning its fi rst year with new activities and new students, while the residents get used to the differ-ent living and learning environ-ment.

The LLC’s activities so far consist of gathering with stu-dents from the fl oors to discuss topics that revolve around the students’ majors, allowing up-perclassmen of those majors to come and share their experi-ences with the students. The academic mentors also host “survival guide” discussions for students to learn how to survive in their majors and “Professors in Pajamas”, a discussion where professors give students advice and a background on their per-sonal lives. Teri Galvin, assistant director of academic initiatives for Residential Life, said the residence hall is in the process of creating more activities for the LLC and other residence halls to get involved in.

Joey Gonzalez, an 18-year-old pre-nursing major living in the LLC, is enjoying making new connections on his fl oor.

“I like living with people who have the same major as I do,” Gonzalez said. “It gives you the opportunity to take the advan-tage of making new friends.”

Rachel Golden, a 17-year-old business major, fi nds it helpful living with other business ma-jors on her fl oor because they can study for the same classes together.

“It’s really nice that we’re all on the same fl oor,” Golden said. “We all now know each other, we are social with each other and we can hang out together in the common rooms.”

Galvin said although she was receiving positive feedback from the students about the social environment, there have been some minor difficulties with the new building’s func-tions. She said the residence hall is still learning the flow pat-terns of the toilets and shower doors are often reported in for repair. Galvin said the most concerning issue in the build-ing’s the lack of cell phone ser-vice. She said some cell phone providers have a difficult time gaining signal throughout the

building. She is working with the university to improve the cell phone service.

Samantha Piechocinski, the hall director of the LLC, said she and some other students are still trying to get used to the new features.

“Opening a new residence hall is always a unique experi-ence,” Piechocinski said. “We have students living in the building while we are learning the ins and outs of the build-ing. While it is a busy time, it is still our best chance to learn exactly what works and what doesn’t.”

The LLC is full of 308 students and 12 faculty members. Galvin said the new residence hall is specifically made for first-year students to receive additional academic help and to work with other students who are studying the same major within their floor. The LLC has

communities for eight majors, such as pre-nursing, journal-ism, undeclared, Women in Science and Engineering and the Honors Residential Schol-ars program. Galvin said the incoming students are required to pursue the majors offered in the LLC in order to live there. These classes are located on the first floor.

“(Having students) in the same classes together enables the study group more,” Galvin said. “It’s an intensive experi-ence it really is built in be-tween of what happens in the classroom and what happens outside of the classroom.”

What makes the LLC different compared to the other dorms on campus is there are four class-rooms as well as an academic space and faculty offices on the first floor. Galvin said since the faculty and advisers are on the first floor of the building, this

will give students easier access to their instructors. There are 18 – 21 students on each floor with two study lounges, as well as academic mentors on each floor providing the floors tutor-ing for 10 hours a week.

Galvin said costs of the classes provided in the LLC are not any different than credited class. She said the LLC is one of the most expensive residence halls on campus, with students having to pay $6,100 for an academic year. However, Gal-vin said in order for students to live in the LLC, they have to make some sacrifices in their preferred social and private lives.

“The students have to give up some things – they get a lot of benefits but they can’t choose their roommate unless they are the same major as them,” Gal-vin said. “Once (the students) are accepted (to the LLC), they

have to give up some control of their schedule during that first semester and move their class schedules so it can be desig-nated with the LLC classes.”

Though the building has only been open for one month, Galvin said students living in a community center together would increase their retention and academic skills. Galvin said seeing these increases will be the test to see if the LLC is really working for students or not.

“It’s a different population of students – they are more focused on their studies and they want that additional boost for that,” Galvin said. “There’s somebody who’s going to have a little struggle in college so we want to give them that extra support.”

Molly Moser can be reached at mmoser@nevadasagebrush.com.

Juliana Bledsoe/Nevada Sagebrush

Jasmine Alicea studies in the second fl oor library lounge of her pod on Monday. There are more than 300 students in the new Living Learning Community residence hall, which houses students of like majors together and features study areas like this one on every fl oor .

“Gleeks” inspired by TV showBy Nicole Kowalewski

Inspired by the hit TV series “Glee”, the newly established Glee Club at the University of Nevada, Reno is looking to attract as many followers as pos-sible in the student body.

Roland Castro, the president of the Glee Club, said the club is similar to the show because it shares each character’s per-sonality and views. The group’s goal is to uplift a person’s day by performing popular songs and giving joy and laughter to the community.

“We picked the name Glee Club because we started the club because of the show,” Castro said. “The same concept of the

show (goes for the club), anyone is welcome and it doesn’t matter what you believe in life, you will always fi t in the glee club.”

Since the club was established last spring semester, Castro said it’s still beginning to make its footprints in the sand. Castro said they are not only looking for people who can sing, but also for dancers, choreographers and designers. He said everyone has something to contribute to the club. Sophomore member Joanna Lingad said that she wants the club members to be involved with helping out the local and campus communi-ties.

“I look forward to participat-ing in community service events

in which we sing for the com-munity and to performing and showing people what we’re all about,” Lingad said. “I love the idea of sharing our talents and making people’s days a little brighter.”

As the club is in the process of being assembled, the members are preparing for events such as a birthday celebration for children in a local shelter and social events around campus.

Jhenna Halili, a freshman and member of the Glee Club, was ecstatic to fi nd out about the sclub’s performance schedule and about meeting new people who share similar interests. Halili said she enjoys that the idea of the club is not judgmen-

tal and the people involved have positive attitudes.

“I look forward to performing for little kids next week,” Halili said. “The theme for this event is Disney, which means I get to both sing my favorite child-hood songs and bring smiles to young children.”

Glee Club has only had one meeting so far to inform the students about their organiza-tion and gain new members. The club has 16 members, but Castro said they are always open to whoever would like to join and share their talents.

“I suggest students come to see the club if they want a reason to sing, dance, perform and help others have that much

of a better day by (listening to) nothing more than a song,” Castro said.

Nicole Kowalewski can be reached at news@nevadasage-brush.com.

❒ Glee Club meets on Tues-days from 8-10 p.m. at vari-ous locations. ❒ For more information about the club and where the weekly meeting will be held, join its Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/unrgleeclub.

GLEE CLUB

NEWS A3TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 |@TheSagebrush | nevadasagebrush.com

Students celebrate Homecoming weekendPhotos clockwise from top left

Wolf Trot participants run a 5-kilometer course on campus.

Students line up to grab a free bite from BoDawgs who gave

out hundreds of hotdogs on Monday Oct. 1 for the beginning

of Homecoming week.

Three of today’s most popular superheros visit the homecoming

bonfi re.

Fireworks and fl ames fi ll up the night sky at the homecoming

bonfi re.

A student shows off his fi re staff spinning skills at the bonfi re.

Katherine Larsen/Nevada Sagebrush

Cameron Dearborn/Nevada Sagebrush

Katherine Larsen/Nevada Sagebrush

Juliana Bledsoe/Nevada Sagebrush

Katherine Larsen/Nevada Sagebrush

NEWSA4 @TheSagebrush | nevadasagebrush.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012|

Discover where you’ll study abroad at usac.unr.edu

learnwithout borders

liwithout regrets

were higher than our mort-gage,” Michelle Obama said. “Barack and I, we’ve been there … this is not a hypothetical.”

Former Nevada Attorney General and UNR alumna Frankie Sue Del Papa also spoke on behalf of the Obama cam-paign, endorsing education and health care as key strate-gies in ensuring that President

Obama gets four more years in the White House.

With Election Day approach-ing on Nov. 6, the first lady stressed the importance of how every vote matters, particularly in Nevada, a state whose dem-ocratic bid for Barack Obama was won by 121,000 votes in 2008, which breaks down to 69 per precinct, according to Michelle Obama.

Urging people to take ad-vantage of early voting, which begins Oct. 20 in Nevada, she

then encouraged people to spend Election Day helping others get to the polls and reminded the audience that change takes time, patience and tenacity.

“My husband is nowhere near satisfied,” the first lady said. “He knows there are too many people struggling still. We’ve come so far but we have so much more work to do.”

Megan can be reached at mor-tiz@nevadasagebrush.com.

ObamaCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1

ProvostCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1

“We can’t even fathom the consequences when we use media,” Gadda said. “I’ve done it, Miley Cyrus did it, Michael Phelps did it. Blank feels bad about it, he’s not defending himself.”

Blank and his opponent, Ri-ley Snyder, have already been interviewed by the Committee on Oversight to determine if the candidates were qualified to appear before senate on Wednesday, Reba Suri, a sena-tor for the College of Science, said it’s the job of senators to improve the quality of the student body’s experience on campus. A recent update sen-ate has made is the opening of a division for a health science’s seat. Suri said some key as-pects the senate is looking for on Wednesday are motivation to improve student life and original ideas for the student body.

“We just want to make sure that everyone has the dedica-tion and motivation to actually commit themselves to senate and actually try to get their goals implemented for either this ses-sion or the sessions to come,” Suri said.

Blank said he decided to continue pursuing the senator position after the situation in order to complete his goals. He said that in the future he would like to continue working on improving food options around campus, a project he had been working on in his spring term. Blank said a goal of his is to be-gin “real time talks” on campus which will be an open forum where set topics are discussed collectively, such as race in the media. He hopes that it would further diversify the school. Blank said he also plans to work on a document called “Joint Vision 2017”, which outlines where the school should be in fi ve years.

“Within the ASUN there hasn’t been a lot of initiative towards

it,” Blank said. “I’ve read the document front and back and I think someone needs to step up and take initiative and start doing polls for our students to see what they would like to see in our future.”

After the senators meets with each candidate individually on Wednesday, they will discuss and decide on that day who is going to take the Reynolds School of Journalism Senator position. Suri said the senate is not going to consider Spenser’s previous situation when they make their decision.

“We are going to equally evaluate all the candidates,” Suri said. “We are not going to be biased towards Spenser because we have already sat with him. We are going to do ev-erything based on their answers to our interviews. That’s what the whole decision is based on. We’re trying not to let that affect the current decision.”

Alex Mosher can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.

SenatorCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1

ElectionsCONTINUED FROM PAGE A1

in determining how the university cut its budget dur-ing the past several years. Johnson, who began at UNR as its provost in 2008, faced the atypical situation of both proposing a budget cut plan and approving it because he became the interim president in the middle of the decision-making process.

The UNR provost website describes this position as being responsible for administration of academic programs and related sup-port services.

This includes faculty de-velopment, promotion and tenure, faculty development leaves, academic budgeting, personnel issues in the aca-demic affairs area, curricular planning and assessment.

Interim Provost Heather Hardy is not on the candidate list for the new position.

The news desk can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.

journalism student, is also concerned about education and health care but the issues of foreign aid and the economy infl uenced her vote.

“Economic growth, foreign aid, and policies with Israel are the issues I’m concerned about,” Hunt said. “I am very involved with foreign activism and I want to be able to (get a job) with some security.”

Herzik said the issues students care about aren’t necessarily dif-ferent from those the rest of the country cares about.

“They may look at (the issues) differently,” he said. “So for the economy, for example, taxes might be more important to me because I’m paying more of them, where having a job could be important for a younger voter. We’re both talking about the economy, but different aspects of it.”

The Nevada Sagebrush asked

students through a Facebook post to discuss their reasons why they are choosing to vote this year. John Russell, who responded to the post, said that he chooses not to vote in this year’s general election.

“I’m joining the majority of Americans who don’t vote by recognizing that it’s immoral to impose my viewpoints on to other people through a coercive leviathan like the state,” Russell said.

Nathan Robert Hale, who also provided his input on the post, said students that are not participating in voting for the general election are disappoint-ing.

“I’m voting because too many people throughout history fought and died on battle fi elds, both in America and overseas,” Hale said. “Too many people faced oppression in America while working to ensure future generations had the right to vote. Not voting is disrespectful of history and socially irrespon-sible.”

Burk said in previous years of voting, some students would register to vote but not show up on the day of the election to vote. Burk said that in the 2008 election, Washoe County’s turn-out was 8 percent. Burk said it would be interesting seeing the student turnout in this upcom-ing election.

“Young people need to decide for themselves,” Burk said. “(They need to think of) what will help them to have the kind of life that they dreamed for themselves and the kind of career they hope they will get.”

Ben Miller contributed to this re-port. Molly Moser can be reached at mmoser@nevadasagebrush.com.

❒ Early voting in Nevada begins on Oct. 20 until Nov. 2. ❒ Students can vote in the Joe Crowley Student Union.

EARLY VOTING

Juliana Bledsoe/Nevada SagebrushMichelle Obama speaks in front her audience and encourages them to vote in the elections on Wednesday.

Juliana Bledsoe /Nevada Sagebrush

About 3,800 people watch the fi rst lady’s speech at the University of Nevada, Reno on Wednesday.

ArtArtss && EntertainmentEntertainmentA5 nevadasagebrush.com | @TheSagebrushTUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012

By Julian Rhodes

As the information generation is consistently engaged with technology in all its

forms, it is no wonder that video games have perme-

ated pop culture to the pointed of infi ltrating

bars, pubs and tav-erns, spawning a new cultural environment: The Barcade.

1up Barcade, which opened on Commer-cial Row in September,

is the newest addition to Reno’s nightlife and has been a weekend hot spot ever since, said Jered Caudle.

“The attendance has been well from the start

and gains every week,” the 1up bartender and

graphic designer said. “We’ve had ads on 102.9 and

they’ve been down at 1up the past three Saturdays.”He said that people seem to

love the bar because it brings something new to Reno. The bar

offers all sorts of console games and is continuing to grow their collection,

while also providing a number of old school arcade machines such as Pac-Man, Mortal Kom-bat, and Air Hockey. In addition, Caudle said live DJs play every night starting at 10 p.m. and the bar offers a variety of drink specials.

While 1up has created a center for gamers and partiers to collide, another venue has also re-cently branched out into the gaming community. The Waterfall began holding their Tuesday Night Tourneys in September, giving fi ghting game fans and players an outlet for their tournament play.

“Video games have become more acceptable for the older crowd,” Waterfall bartender Brandon

Lenner said. “The numbers at our tournaments have been growing each week and they’re more for fun than competition.”

Each week, the top player wins a cash pot with second place getting hookah service on the house and a well shot going to last place. Lenner said the casual nature of the event keeps the night fun. Unfortunately, said Lenner, attendance has been predominantly male.

“If I could get girls into video games,” Lenner said, “I wouldn’t need to be a bartender.”

So far, both bars have mainly used social networking sites and word of mouth in terms of advertising, with 1up’s advertising getting them some more exposure. Yet many student gamers are still hesitant to visit these establishments.

“People who play video games just don’t tend to be social,” James Allen, a computer science major and president of the UNR Gaming Club, said. “I think venues need to offer a socially comfortable environment for playing and streaming live gam-ing events.”

Allen said many gamers enjoy socializing about games, not just socializing in general. The UGC meet every Thursday at the Knowledge Center for their weekly Frag Fests. One of the newer members of the UGC is senior David Gregg, a 21-year-old political science major. He said many student gamers don’t go to these bars because of a lingering skill gap.

“Many of these games have different levels of play and so it can keep a lot of gamers out,” Gregg said. “There’s a lot of gamers I’ve met, we’ve just got to get them all to come out and play.”

Gregg said there is an intimidation factor keeping players from gaming publicly, especially female gamers. The community is open to ev-eryone, but with so many males it can be a little awkward, he said.

1up is trying to capture that audience specifi -cally, Caudle said.

“We want to tell the students life is too short,” he said. “Play more.”

Julian Rhodes can be reached at jrhodes@neva-dasagebrush.com.

Reno nightlife, video gamers converge at downtown bars

RAW artists bring big turn out, creativity

Muse’s “The 2nd Law” intrigues, intimidates fans

By Julian Rhodes

On October 4th, Cargo became a business casual, cultural bazaar, displaying vibrant art from all around Reno. In one corner, stunning models receiving Lady Gaga-esque make-up and hair-dos. The other, a wall covered in a rainbow of creation, littered in mesmerizing paintings, each more unique than the last. In the center of the room, artists and on-lookers mingled to the sounds of local musicians and fi lm documentaries. An oasis from the casinos and construc-tion, Cargo was alive with Provocations, the fi fth RAW: natural born artists event to be held in Reno.

RAW Reno director Kelly Peyton, a UNR alumna who graduated in 2011, said nearly 400 tickets were sold to Thurs-day night’s event. Provocations, which takes place nationwide throughout 54 cities and even in Australia, is an excellent outlet for Reno artists, said Peyton.

“I think [RAW] has had a very positive impact, putting Reno on the map in a way that hasn’t been done yet,” she said. “These events are some of the

biggest events for local artists and musicians.”

Among the artists showcasing their work was Jillian Stenzel, a photographer and journalism major at UNR. In addition to being a fi rst-time featured art-ist at a RAW event, Stenzel is also the production assistant for RAW Reno. Stenzel said that RAW gave her and other artists the opportunity to gain exposure outside of campus.

“Displaying your art in a University setting limits your audience, almost like you’re barking up the wrong tree by just showing to your peers,” the 22-year-old senior said. “[RAW] is an amazing networking tool, bringing your art to other pro-fessional artists and art fans.”

Three bands played during the night, beginning with Smiley Mikey, a sing-songy country trio lead by singer/songwriter Michael Sion. The band played a relatively quick set with catchy lyrics and a fun rendition of Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit.”

“We tried to pick some of our more provocative songs to keep with the theme,” Zach-ary Rees, a UNR Alumnus and multi-instrumentalist in Smiley Mikey said.

Last to Leave followed with a country-folk twang and pop-punk vocals, setting the mood for experimental artistry. Lead vocalist and strings musician Skye Evans said he enjoyed the professionalism of the event.

“It’s nice to see all these peo-ple dressed up and not having a bunch of shithead kids running around,” he said. “It shows how professional these events can be–it sets the standard.”

Around 10 o’clock, headlin-ers and Reno favorites The Mark Sexton Band hit the stage. Grooving to funky basslines, frontman Mark Sexton chan-neled a little John Mayer with his emotions as visible in his face as they were audible in his voice. The crowd burst into applause after each song.

The fi nal event of the RAW season will be November 15th. Fans can visit RAWartists.org to learn more about upcom-ing RAW events and vote for their favorite artists. The local winners will get a chance to showcase at November’s show and will have the chance to go to Los Angeles for the RAW Awards showcase.

Julian Rhodes can be reached at jrhodes@nevadasagebrush.com.

Shane Vetter /Nevada Sagebrush

Folky pop-punk group Last to Leave jams on stage during Provocations, the fi fth RAW event to hit Reno this year. The next RAW: Natural Born Artists event will be Nov. 15 at Cargo in CommRow.

By Nino Pinneri

The Holland Project, located at 140 Vesta Street, hosted noise-experimental/garage-rock heavyweight Ty Segall on Friday night. The venue itself was small, but spacious with little furniture crowding the room, allowing for an almost “one on one” experience with any artist who took the stage.

Opening bands Cathedral Ghost and Rigorous Proof set the mood and excitement for Ty Segall to melt our faces. He did just that. Opening with pure noise and starting with his song “Death”, Segall grabbed everyone by the throat and didn’t let go for the hour-long set.

Diving into song after song, each piece was full of heavy, distorted and wailing guitar leads, with tough-as-nails riffs paired with a forceful energy

as close to “metal” as you’re going to get with a garage rock band. As hard-hitting and abrasive as he can be at times, it was almost impossible to not dance during Segall’s performance.

Segall managed to go over the top, with Black Sabbath covers to guitar solos behind the head and even killing a circuit breaker in the venue. The crowd had no hesitation to follow him wherever he went.

Closing with his song “Wave Goodbye”, the crowd’s energy instantly turned frenzied and mental, with almost every person moving. Segall knows how to mix pop, punk, noise, some shoe-gaze and raw blues rock into a fi nal product that absolutely crushes your skull.

Nino Pinneri can be reached at news@nevadasage-brush.com.

Rocker wilds out at Holland Project

By Megan Ortiz

I’m a Muse fan the same way I am a Led Zeppelin fan (almost). My erratic obses-sions for the two differ mainly in my birth date, with it being physically impossible for me to tell you I have been worship-ping Zeppelin since 1969. But with Muse, it’s all there. Since their debut album “Showbiz” released in 1999, I knew then, as a measly 11-year-old, that I’d found a love for life, listening to the title track progress in a swarm of intrigue and intimi-dation – two feelings truly good music should make you feel.

That being said, Muse’s sixth LP “The 2nd Law” was good – but not great. Muse never holds back intensifying the organized chaos sound Muse has been trademarking for over a de-cade. They recognize, and pay tribute to, the “concept album” every time they step up to the plate. Concept albums tell a story the songs aren’t meant to stand alone. The album should be played from beginning to end, allowing the pieces of each song to string the story together and bring it to life. Think of it as a musical novel.

There is no such thing as a typical Muse song. They are

all over the place, making the songs distinctly Muse. The three-piece band is composed of heavy guitar, drawing in-spiration from rock, blues and alternative music, with power-ful bass and unpredictable drum patterns. This classic form of Muse can be heard on tracks like “Supremacy” and “Animals,” two songs that give depth to the album, taking them from high to low, infus-ing them with enough bass to complement lead singer Matt Bellamy’s astounding vocal range and 80s-esque guitar riffs.

A fan of highs and lows throughout, Muse likes insert-ing bits of sweetness in their albums. This holds true with “The 2nd Law,” exemplifi ed through songs like “Madness,” “Explorers” or “Prelude,” a 58-second piano heavy interlude, reminiscent of clas-sical pianists, like Tchaikovsky. “Prelude” rides the coat-tails of the funky, Red Hot Chili Peppers-esque song “Panic Sta-tion” and leads into “Survival,” starting out small, building to an operatic climax with heavy handed, rock inspired guitar slides.

The most noticeable change on this album over previous

M u s e albums are influences drawn from electronic m u s i c . Tracks like “ F o l l o w Me” have a trance like feel and dubstep-ish drums, while in “The 2nd Law: Unsustainable” the inspiration for the name-sake of their album can be felt, drawing on the 2nd law of ther-modynamics and culminating in a story of an unstable world via a frenzied news report as rock infused techno takes over.

Overall, it maintains the distinctively Muse, chaotic song nature, still fi nding com-mon ground enough to piece together the puzzle of the “musical novel,” but not in as bold a way as expected. While there are many great tracks on “The 2nd Law,” its choppiness at parts and lack of a certain je ne sais quoi leave the listener feeling like they want more Muse … both a good and bad thing.

Megan Ortiz can be reached at mortiz@nevadasage-brush.com.

MUSETHE 2ND LAWRelease Date: Oct. 2Genre: Alternative RockGrade: B

Editor’s note: This column is the fi rst part of a three-part series on hitchhiking.

It was the fall semester of 2009 and I skipped my third semester at the University of Nevada, Reno to hitch-

hike across America.There was a lot leading to this

decision. But mainly, I hated school. I was an unde-cided major drowning in useless credits and without any direction whatsoever. So, I thought

a good old-fashioned adventure would shake up my life.

Now, when people hear you are going to hitchhike across the U.S., there are two typical response groups: The fi rst group (the overwhelming minority) thinks it sounds interesting and romantic and exciting. The other group, and I’m talking 95 percent of people, thinks it’s a death wish. They say you’ll be kidnapped, run over, gutted or killed in some roadside murder shack. At the very least, you’ll be robbed.

I, of course, fell into the former of these groups and expected a romantic trek across the heartland of America, Creedence Clearwater Revival playing from every car, long walks along the banks of the Mississippi and being picked up by professional baseball teams and invited to sit in the dugout at their next game.

Well, maybe I didn’t expect that, but I hoped for it, even though MLB teams typically fl y nowadays. What surprised me most was that both expecta-tions were pretty damn wrong.

I started in September at a truck stop in Fernley. My ultimate goal was Vermont to visit friends. I fi gured I’d take I-80 most of the way.

My fi rst ride showed up after about an hour of waiting. He was a burner headed to Wells, Nev. before driving north to Jackson Hole, Wyo. It was a good start and I was feeling right. He was friendly. He had hitchhiked in the ‘90s and had a bunch of advice.

My next ride was just as nice — a couple of kids headed to Colorado, listening to nu-metal. They had a puppy.

I’ll try to avoid a chronologi-cal rundown of the trip and I’ll get straight to my point — most rides were like this. The people were generally friendly, helpful,

interested and just the right amount of distrusting (a reasonable level — not treating me like a criminal, but not necessarily letting me hold their wallet while they went into a gas station). A couple of college girls in Boulder even let me sleep on their couch.

But I did have my fair share of weird rides, like a business man yelling on the phone about “them Jews” who later ditched me in some random town in Colorado, a guy in Iowa who played no music and didn’t say one word for eight hours straight and a hell of a lot of people trying to convert me to the sects of Christianity that encourage that sort of pushi-ness.

What I seemed to gloss over in my pre-trip romanticism, though, was the in-between parts: the hours and hours walking on the I-80 shoulder, the desperate fi ve-hour waits at on-ramps and sleeping on the side of the road or behind rest stops, constantly worrying about getting kicked out and/or ticketed for trespassing.

But I never got killed. I never got robbed. And I never got asked for sex.

The most interesting thing about that point is that at least half of the people who picked me up said something like,

“Hitchhiking’s really dangerous. Real nut jobs pick up hitchhik-ers.” The irony of this statement never seemed to fail.

Very conservative rural folks frequently warned me of the dangers of left-wing hippie serial killers and the younger urban folks cautioned me against taking rides from the uneducated backwoods rednecks.

I was some sort of weird symbol, unintentionally bind-ing these people together and simultaneously proving them all wrong. This trip provided a lens. It was a fi rst-hand view of a country increasingly divided and insanely afraid of everybody else.

I spent a few idyllic nights camped on the side of the road, feeling like a self-righteous, renegade road warrior. But those were only a handful of the days of the two months I was out in the wilderness of America.

I hitchhiked from Fernley to Vermont, from Vermont to Cheyenne (Wyo.) and from there, south to New Mexico. And the only thing I had to show for it was a bunch of shattered expectations.

Fil Corbitt studies broadcast journalism. He can be reached at opinion@nevadasagebrush.com.

At last, I am reaching the age when a lot of people I know are getting engaged. Because many of them are friends or acquaintances, I try — and fail — to reserve my judgment

when it comes to a huge thing like marriage. I don’t know their lives or relationships and take into account

that my mindset may be different than theirs.

But I am not 25 (or older) and watching some friends get married. I am 21. Since more than half of American marriages fail nowadays, it scares me to see others commit themselves when they may have 70 more years to live. What’s the point of rushing? No matter how fair I attempt to be, I usually believe it’s crazy to get married at this young age.

The idea of a perfect and long-lasting marriage, the one we all desire, isn’t a reality anymore. According to The New York Times, more people are buying into the “marriage contract” (a fancy word for prenup) idea. The story reports that the average age for men to get married is 28.7 and for women it’s 26.5. The Times asked whether people should get a 20-year contract or not, considering the abysmal divorce statistics.

It’s pathetic to think that some might be willing to be married for only 20 years and then duck out like it never happened, with few consequences. Unless you are extremely wealthy and you married a gold-digger, then what’s the need for a prenup? It’s cheesy to quote “’til death do us part,” but I’m doing it anyway because that’s the attitude I always expected people should have when they marry.

These harsh truths don’t seem to affect some of my 800-something friends on Facebook. I’m seeing some engaged as young as 19. Sometimes they marry right away and other times they wait a few years. Either way, I just don’t understand the motivation to tie the knot right away.

I always thought I would marry when I was in my mid-to-late 20s. The idea of getting “hitched” now freaks me out, but I’m observing college students who are already married. Since I’m a creep, I even check out people’s left hands at times, and yes, if there’s a ring on it, sometimes I judge.

Are people just ignoring divorce statistics? I person-ally never want to get divorced, except in cases like adultery, abuse or maybe just a complete emotional disconnect. Nowadays, people seem to get divorced after one little fi ght, and I can see that happening more frequently with 20-year-old newlyweds than with 30-year-olds.

I won’t claim that every time college students marry, they will divorce because of something dumb. It could last forever. But it probably won’t. I wonder how many rush into it because of pregnancy or outside infl uences, like family. I understand that some people have their religious beliefs dictating when it’s appropriate to get married. In this modern day, though, the numbers speak louder than scripture.

I sound like a jerk making assumptions about every-one, but it disappoints me to see my peers marry young and then divorce some time later. Does everyone really go in with the attitude that they’re happy now and, if they aren’t later, they can get divorced without serious attempts to reconcile? What happened to working out problems?

As The New York Times article indicated, many Americans aren’t interested in that anymore. It seems like a lot of us are OK with waiting for a contract to expire. I’m not some sappy romantic who believes true love lasts forever and that all problems are surmountable. I just think the idea of contracts violates what marriage is really all about. Marrying young and getting divorced later is what makes some think prenups are a good idea.

I am sure many meet their soulmate, or at least someone compatible, in college. Why jump into something that’s supposed to be permanent so early in life? At least take the time to consider being with that signifi cant other several more decades. If you can, great. I’m happy for you. If not, then delay hiring the wedding planner for a while. It’s worth it — and it makes sense — to wait.

Gianna Cruet studies journalism and Spanish. She can be reached at gcruet@nevadasagebrush.com.

Opinion

“‘Lol’ makes everything better.”

Stay cool, collected for rivalry game STAFF EDITORIAL I NEVADA VS. UNLV GAME

Waiting for marriage is more logical than to rush

CAMPUS CONTEMPLATION

Expectations of hitchhiking untrue, most people are obliging and kind

Keep it classy, Wolf Pack.

That’s all The Nevada Sagebrush staff is asking of fans as the university’s football

team heads south to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for its annual rivalry game for the Fremont Cannon.

Unfortunately, Nevada fans and students don’t have a good history when it comes to representing their university to the rest of the state, rival schools and the nation as a whole. While success in football brings atten-tion to the campus, it’s at least partially up to the people in the stands to make

sure the attention is positive.Not like in 2002, when a fi ght in the

tailgate area near Sam Boyd stadium left a Las Vegas man with part of his nose bitten off. Not like in 2010, when photographers snapped a picture of Nevada fans mocking then-Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore right after the historic win.

Not like every year, when it seems like multiple fi ghts break out in and around the home team’s stadium be-tween Nevada and UNLV fans. Whose fault is that? It’s hard to say for sure. But it’s obvious that UNR students have

to shoulder some of the responsibility for that kind of behavior.

We’re not saying Wolf Pack faithful should sit quietly in their section, cheering only when their team scores and avoiding eye contact with people wearing red. We’re not even saying everybody should give up their beloved “FUNLV” and “FUNR” shirts. Football is meant to inspire passion and excite-ment among its fans, and the game is a lot more enjoyable that way.

But let’s not bite off any noses this year, all right?

Nevada football is 5-1 (soon to be

6-1) this season and the program is much stronger than it has been histori-cally. Why be a sore winner? It makes the university, which is the reason the football team exists in the fi rst place, look like a campus full of immature, ill-tempered kids.

But that’s not the case, is it? UNR wins national awards and rankings for professors, students and programs that achieve great things. It’s produced important politicians, talented artists and Pulitzer Prize winners. While the country is turning an eye toward Reno, let’s show everybody that side of

the Wolf Pack instead of the side that throws beer cans at Las Vegans.

It might help that the game is start-ing at noon, which hopefully means people won’t be quite as tipsy.

We can prove our worth on the gridiron and in the classroom as well. So for those students going to Sin City to watch the beatdown this year, just remember — let the scoreboard speak for itself.

The Nevada Sagebrush editorial staff can be reached at editor@nevadasage-brush.com.

FilCorbitt

A6 @TheSagebrush | nevadasagebrush.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012

GiannaCruet

HITCHIN’ ACROSS THE USA

OPINION A7TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 |@TheSagebrush | nevadasagebrush.com

Labeling could help offset allergiesT

he campus’ 16 eating locations offer food options for a range of appetites, including

the health conscious. Browse the aisles of the Wolf Shop in

the student union for an afternoon snack and eventu-ally you will pass the back section with Gluten Free labels fl ashing like a disco ball. GF foods cost

more and they don’t necessarily look more appetizing, so why buy them? They could be a healthier choice for someone with a food allergy and too few snack options.

There’s also a good chance it is a labeling gimmick to market a niche product to the trendy consumer.

A food allergy, not to be confused with a sensitivity or intolerance, is an overreaction by your immune system to a specifi c chemical compound. People with wheat allergies, for example, produce antibodies in response to consumption of one of four proteins.

Of those, gluten gets the most attention. It’s found in wheat, barley and rye. It gives breads the doughy, stretchy texture that’s so delectable when breaking open a crusty baguette or biting into a drooping slice of pizza. It can also give some people diarrhea, nausea and eye irritation.

In some ways, a typically small allergic reaction triggered

by eating wheat seems tolerable compared to going into anaphy-lactic shock from a peanut. But continuous exposure to what your body considers a threat can lead to substantial health problems, like a burst spleen or cancer. Food allergies can be a serious health concern — and they are becoming a bigger problem than ever before.

The National Institutes of Health reports that food allergies in the United States increased by 18 percent over a 10-year period ending in 2007.

One explanation for the large rise is the hygiene hypothesis, which is the belief that more Americans are raised in a sterilized urban environment that prevents development of the immune system.

It could also be that certain foods have always been problematic and our awareness of the problem is increasing through more education and testing. The simplest explana-tion is that the food we eat is becoming more toxic.

Genetically modifi ed crops, also referred to as genetically modifi ed organisms, were fi rst introduced to the market in 1996. They were mainly designed to reduce the frequency of chemical applications needed by farmers. Herbicide and pesticide residue on conventional crops tends to break down before reaching the table. GMO crops differ in that the foreign com-pounds contained in their cells is permanent and transferred directly into the consumer.

People may not have histori-cally ingested the introduced compounds, so it’s not surpris-ing that food allergies could increase in response. There is no commercially-grown GMO

wheat, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in 2012, 88 percent of the corn and 93 percent of the soybean grown in the U.S. were genetically engineered. Corn and soybean products are ubiquitous in other foods, including breads, pastas and baked goods. Allergies to wheat and other foods could be from reactions to combinations with GMO crops, though there

is no research to fully support this claim.

Labels declaring GMO would certainly target more people than GF foods. But for the estimated 4-8 percent of the population with food allergies, the recent fl ood of GF foods is a welcome relief. Sales of GF pastas, crackers, baking mixes and other dry goods now make up 5-10 percent of sales at some

grocery stores, like Whole Foods in south Reno. GF product sales are expected to rise from $2.6 billion in 2010 to $5 billion by 2015, according to Packaged Facts, a consumer market researcher.

That is far faster than the 18 percent rise in the number of people with allergies, indicating non-allergy eaters are also recognizing the health benefi ts

of diversifying their diet — or just buying the hype. Regard-less of who makes the purchase, labeling can be an effective way to raise food safety awareness and industry responsibility.

Miles Becker is a Ph.D. student studying ecology, evolution and conservation biology. He can be reached at opinion@nevadasage-brush.com.

MilesBecker

Aim to obtain new kinds of relationshipsW

hat do you know about the relationships in your life?

You may know that they make you feel good or bad.

You might even fi nd yourself aware of the precise minutiae of your daily interac-tions. Have you ever wondered, as you go through your

everyday motions, just what these relationships mean within the context of your life?

This week, in one of my classes, I was introduced to the writings of Ruby Payne via a presentation given by staff members of the Volunteers of Northern Nevada. The content of Payne’s work largely included research on the dynamics of poverty as well as management instruction for those in a position to interact with, or administer service to, the impoverished. Though there were certain elements of Payne’s philosophy that I questioned, one aspect really got me thinking.

The presentation introduced the concept of bonding relationships vs. bridging rela-tionships. The phrase “bonding relationships” refers to those social interactions in our lives that are deeply personal in nature; those relationships we have that are primarily sentimental and cause us to feel good — or bad. “Bridging relationships” refers to those social contacts who offer bridges to further opportunity. People in this category help pave the way to potential success by providing access to opportunities that enrich skills, offer career advancement or otherwise guide you to greater prosperity.

Those in a state of pov-erty tended to have numerous bonding relationships but few, if any, bridging relationships. On the other hand, Payne’s philosophy suggested those of a prosperous socioeconomic

status tended to have numer-ous bridging relationships of which they regularly take advantage. Never before had I seen social activities so clearly. Networking, I realized, was an important key to success.

This gave me cause to exam-ine my own social network. Did I have an overabundance of either type of relationship?

I found that I enjoy a broad range of bridging relationships in my life. On a campus ripe with academic peers, experi-enced and well-traveled profes-sors and various opportunities for student employment available, the university is a gold mine of possibility for bridging relationships. Being a college student is the jackpot.

The Reynolds School of Journalism maintains a requirement that students in pursuit of the journalism major seek out and compete for internships at organizations related to the concentration of the student. Many schools on campus do this — I believe all of them should — to encourage realistic career development strategies and get our graduates out with their best feet forward. Imagine what the English major could benefi t from if only he worked as a copy editor in the second semester of his junior year. What might be learned after spending some time in the employ of a publishing company? What connections he could develop, what skills!

This week, I challenge you to take a look at the relationships in your life. If you fi nd you’re lacking in bridging relation-ships, I encourage you to seek out respected individuals in your fi eld, excelling peers or trusted professors and begin developing a rapport with them. Seek out a mentor or get some experience by opening the line of communication with those businesses that can provide you with an internship. Begin networking. And once you fi nd yourself just a step closer to where you want to be in life, you’ll be glad you did.

Evynn Tyler studies journal-ism and English. He can be reached at opinion@neva-dasagebrush.com.

EvynnTyler

UNR superior to UNLV in all ways, not just football T

his column was suggested by Brian Kehoe, who looked like he was going to

eat my soul when I said I wasn’t able to make the Homecoming

game. Now, whether you’re way into being peaceful and loving to our rivals, or a hardcore runs-around-al-most-naked at the game covered-

in-paint fan like I am (and probably Brian, too), you cannot dispute the fact that we should all feel a bit bad for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Don’t like listening to aggressively rude statements about our rival school? Then I suggest you not read any further because it’s time for me to bitch slap a few of you crazies back into reality. Being a student at the University of Nevada, Reno is the greatest thing to happen to most of you

since the invention of the Hot Pocket.

If it isn’t, then you are clearly a hermit who only takes online classes, wears tiny round sunglasses indoors and probably smells a lot like Hot Pockets.

CAMPUSThe fi rst thing you notice

when comparing UNR to UNLV is the campus. UNLV has a nice campus, if you like concrete. I, on the other hand, like trees — and lots of them. Put it this way: where there are trees, there are real birds who sing love songs above you in the spring. With only concrete, there are pigeons who shit all over your car.

WEATHER Despite the fact that UNLV is

constant swimsuit weather — I am the well-established queen of short shorts — I would never want to lose the lovely days of watching the Vegas freshmen wear ski goggles and boots to class during one of our Febru-ary freezers.

We not only have hot and sticky summers at Lake Tahoe, but we can cuddle up in the

chilly air on a ski trip to Mount Rose. For those of you, like myself, who can’t afford to ski, you can get toasty at home with someone sexy — and you don’t have to wear pants! UNLV doesn’t have that luxury.

GIRLS AND NIGHTLIFEAll the hot girls leave Vegas

to come to Reno, which is why at games, even if we’re proudly wearing blue, we get catcalled. The truth is, ladies, the Rebel boys have trained their minds to resist the she-wolves in the same way that John Travolta learned to resist the penis — barely.

When I moved to Reno, I learned quite quickly that I don’t have to worry about getting carded to go have fun. I spent countless nights dancing my straight ass off at a local gay club with my friends. In Vegas, there are way more fun bars and clubs, but when you’re not 21, you usually have to stay home soaking in your own underage angst.

Even a fake ID and a nice set of tits won’t work on their scary bouncers. Poor baby Rebels.

SMARTS Our SAT and ACT scores are

higher overall and so is our national rank. We have amazing professors who blow our minds like Howard Rosenberg and Denise Lackamp. We also have hot professors like David Ake and Dean Hinitz.

We have a great medical school and our journalism department is one of the best in the nation. They do have The Harrah College of Hotel Administration, though, so kudos to them. I hope they know that I like lots of pillows on my bed and I may, at some point, break their headboard.

All jokes aside, in a school full of people who proudly display their superiority in all areas of life, football game days are our shining moment, especially when it’s against our ugly little half-brother UNLV. I send good vibes to our boys this weekend and I probably won’t have a voice on Monday, but it will be worth it! Go Pack!

Anneliese Hucal studies pre-law and public relations. She can be reached at opinion@neva-dasagebrush.com.

AnnelieseHucal

Katherine Larsen /Nevada Sagebrush

Gluten free labels in the student union’s Wolf Shop help to raise food safety awareness and offer options to those suffering from food allergies.

ADVICE RIVALRY

Do you think Spenser Blank should run for the journalism seat in ASUN?WORDS WITH FRIENDS

Looks like he’s on a bright path to a high government offi ce. You can’t fi x stupid but you apparently can promote it to congress.

Anthony Mendoza

absolutely not, people like that should not be representing our school

Chris Dugan

He’s a turd. Do you want a turd as your senator? No.

Tati Mesfi n

Why not? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. He has the right to run again and the students have a right to vote him in or not. It’s called Democracy

WilliamMullen

ADVERTISEMENTA8 @TheSagebrush | nevadasagebrush.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012|

Guy Hoelzer & Elliott ParkerFaculty Senate's Award for Outstanding Service

Faramarz GordaninejadRegents' Researcher Award

Susan ErvinF. Donald Tibbitts Distinguished Teacher Award

The deadline for Spring 2013 textbook order is

October 15th. Please contact the Nevada Wolf Shop

textbook division at (775)784-6597 to place

your order for textbooks.

We are asking the faculty to help us reduce the cost of education by keeping textbook costs down.

University of Nevada, Reno Outstanding FacultyCongratulations!

Order your class textbooks early.

SPORTS A9TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 |

Cutting-edge TV, Internet, and Phone for

penny-pinching budgets.

*$29.99/mo each for 12 mos when bundled©2012 Charter Communications, Inc. Offer good through 10/31/12; valid to qualified residential customers who have not subscribed to any services within the previous 30 days and have no outstanding obligation to Charter. *Bundle price is $89.97/mo. yr 1 & $109.97/mo. yr 2; standard rates apply after 2 years; qualifying bundle includes Charter TV Select service, Internet Plus with speeds up to 30 Mbps and Phone Unlimited. Offer includes lease of one Internet modem, Charter Cloud Drive, wire maintenance and EPIX online. TV equipment required and is extra; Install, taxes, fees, surcharges and other equipment extra. TV: Charter HD receiver may be required to receive all HD programming; TV must be HD capable; HD programming may vary. On Demand programming varies by level of service; pricing, ratings and scheduling are subject to change. 3D viewing requires 3D TV, glasses and compatible set top box; programming varies by level of service. INTERNET: Available Internet speeds may vary by address; small percent of customers will receive lower than advertised speeds. Speeds compared to 3 Mbps DSL. Charter Cloud Drive implies industry and standard security measures to protect your data, but Charter does not warrant that such data is completely secure. PHONE: Unlimited calling to U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam and Virgin Islands. Services are subject to all applicable service terms and conditions, which are subject to change. Services not available in all areas. Restrictions apply.

Get the fastest way to research papers and cram for exams. With speeds up to 30 Mbps, it’s 10X faster than DSL and has the bandwidth to support all your roommates’ devices.

Ask mom and dad for more money with unlimited local and long distance calling. Plus, no extra taxes or fees like the phone company charges.

With 100+ available FREE HD channels, 10,000+ On Demand choices, 1,500+ in HD–including movies in 3D, Charter TV is always a good distraction from studying.

@SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com

By Eric Uribe

A backup quarterback, a nonexistent run game and big defensive stops haven’t been Nevada’s winning formula all season.

Until Saturday night’s 35-28 overtime victory against Wyo-ming (1-4, 0-1 MWC), at least. Behind quarterback Devin Combs and a stout defense, the Wolf Pack gave 24,025 scream-ing fans something to cheer as it capped off the Homecoming festivities.

“I’ve always believed I can play,” Combs said. “There’s defi nitely a difference between believing and achieving, so it means a lot being able to ex-ecute and do my job.”

In a seven-point hole and 78 ticks left on the game clock, the 6-foot-2, 215-pound Combs connected with wide receiver Richy Turner for a 44-yard score to send the game into overtime.

On the second play of over-time, the sophomore signal caller fi red a 24-yard touchdown to sophomore Aaron Bradley. The throw proved to be the game winner after Nevada stopped the Cowboys attack on the ensuing possession.

Combs was thrust in the start-ing role after Cody Fajardo suf-fered an injury in the middle of the second quarter. Fajardo was dinged up on an interception throw, aggravating back spasms he’d been nursing for the past 10 days.

“It’s not a good sight to try to make a tackle and look back and see your quarterback down,” tight end Zach Sudfeld said. “It was defi nitely a scary thought.”

Wyoming stacked the front box throughout the game, forcing the run-fi rst Combs to beat them with his arm. The Cowboys suffocated the na-tion’s leading rusher, Stefphon Jefferson, who had 78 yards off 23 carries. Nevada’s streak of 14 straight 100-yard rushers came to a screeching halt. Before Sat-urday, opponents were gobbling up Wyoming’s run defense for 253 yards a game.

After struggling out of the gate, Combs answered the Cowboys’

challenge. In the middle of the fourth quarter, the sophomore quarterback launched a 71-yard rocket to Turner. Combs fi nished the game 11-of-19 for 217 yards and a pair of touchdowns. About 200 of his yards came in the fourth quarter and overtime.

“It took Devin some time to fi nd himself,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault said. “But he did, and I’m proud of him. To bring this team back in the fourth quarter and then win this thing — that was pretty special.”

The game was poised be a duel between sophomore signal callers Fajardo and Wyoming’s Brett Smith. Both dual-threat quarterbacks won Freshman of the Year honors in their respec-tive conference a season ago.

Instead, the game pitted back-up quarterbacks after Fajardo’s injury and Smith’s ejection from the game in the fourth quarter because of his second unsports-manlike conduct penalty. Smith took his helmet off and barked at offi cials after the referees waved off a holding penalty on Nevada, leading to his second penalty. Per NCAA rules, Smith was tossed for the remainder of the game.

“(Smith’s) running off the fi eld, three yards from the sideline, takes his helmet off and you’re going to throw a fl ag on him,” Wyoming head coach Dave Christensen said. “Kick him out of the game? That’s unbelievable.”

Freshman Jason Thomas took the reins for the Cowboys of-fense, who didn’t convert a fi rst down after Smith’s ejection.

Combs got the upper hand on

Thomas, who completed just one-of-six throws for 10 yards. Turner and Bradley came up big for Combs. The speed demon Turner had the biggest game of his career with seven grabs for 150 yards and the game-tying score. Bradley had his breakout game of the 2012 season, reeling in eight catches for 111 yards.

Former Nevada standout and current Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Nate Burleson was honored during the fi rst quarter. Burleson received his Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame plaque and served as an honorary captain. His presence may have rubbed off on Turner and Bradley, who came up with monster performances.

As big as the Wolf Pack’s offense came up, its defense packed its own punch. It contained the Missouri spread offense architected by Smith for much of the game. Smith com-pleted a meager 21-of-34 passes for 197 yards.

After Nevada turned the ball over on downs with two minutes and 43 seconds left in the game, the Wolf Pack forced a three-and-out on the ensuing drive, giving the Combs-led offense one fi nal shot.

Nevada’s defense put the nail in the coffi n in overtime, forcing three consecutive in-complete passes to lock up the victory. Fans rushed the fi eld in a frenzy after the game-ending stop.

“It was a close game,” safety Duke Williams said. “It was a scare. I think it showed great character throughout with our defense and our offense. It was a rollercoaster game, and I be-lieve we showed great fortitude. Every win can’t be a blowout or a shutout, so I believe we showed great character.”

Fajardo’s status next week against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is uncer-tain. Whether Fajardo suits up against the arch-nemesis UNLV, at least the Wolf Pack know it has a viable option in Combs.

Eric Uribe can be reached at euribe@nevadasagebrush.com.

Nevada survives scare, tops Wyoming

Juliana Bledsoe/Nevada Sagebrush

Quarterback Cody Fajardo grimaces in pain after a back injury during Saturday’s game against Wyoming,

Volleyball drops pair of conference home games

Wolf Pack trumps Hornets in home dual

Staff Report

Coming off a rough road trip, the Wolf Pack volleyball squad returned to Reno only to lose two more key conference matchups to UNLV and Fresno State.

The fi rst loss came from a 3-2 heartbreaker to the UNLV Running Rebels on Thursday night. Despite beginning the match down two sets to one, the Pack battled back to force a fi fth set. But it was unable to pull out the win.

The Pack had four players recording double-digit kills. Tessa Lea’ea led the team with 16, followed by Janelle Batista with 14, Bonnie Paul with 12 and Grace Anxo with 11.

Two players, Grace Anxo and Dana Holt, also recorded double-doubles on the night. To go with her 11 kills, Anxo also put up 11 digs and Holt had 48 assists with 13 digs for her team high fi fth double-double of the season.

Nevada failed to keep its mo-mentum going when it took on

Fresno State on Oct. 6, falling three sets to none.

The Pack started off slow, but in the third set put up much more of a fi ght, tying it up 11 times before losing the set 25-22.

The volleyball team will be going on the road this week to take on Mountain West op-ponents Air Force on Thursday and Boise State on Oct. 16.

The sports desk can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.

By Chris Boline

The women’s cross country squad needed an extra some-thing after a promising, but disappointing, showing in Oregon. A fi rst place fi nish and a much needed confi dence booster is exactly what the doc-tor ordered.

The Wolf Pack cross country team defeated Sacramento State with a fi nal total of 23 to 32 in a dual meet last Friday morning at Rancho San Rafael Park to wrap up their home meet schedule for the season. The organizers used a four-mile race to calcu-late the score and fi nal times but also used a relay type of run for the runners to simulate dif-ferent parts of a race after they fi nished the initial race.

For coaches and athletes there will be some similarities to take away from this learning experience. It was a much-needed one, even for a veteran like senior Christy Works.

“It was a different type of race, going faster with higher turnover, and having someone else to train with will help us down the stretch by being more familiar with a race setting,” Works said.

Coach Kirk Elias echoed some similar sentiments about the race but mentioned his idea of keeping his runners on their

toes.“Obviously, it was a workout

with higher intensity and I wanted the girls to experience the ‘burn’ of running fast more,” Elias said, “It was also some-thing fun and that’s something we’ve tried to do all season with our other home meets.”

The differences between the meet in Oregon and the one last Friday go beyond the fi nal score. Instead it refl ects the women trying to correct some of their mistakes they made in their fi rst big race of the year by running a much smarter race, kicking when they need to and coming out harder at the start.

“Besides a solid work-out, it was a learning experience with how to run a race,” sophomore Demerey Kirsch said. “For me, it was applying miscues from last week’s race to the one now.”

Nevada captured three of the top fi ve times from the meet, with junior Sam Diaz in fi rst place with a time of 22:52, Kirsch in second with a time of 23:12, and freshman EmKay Myers in fourth with a time of 23:30.

Cross Country was not the only sport participating in the meet. Athletes from the Nevada track and fi eld team ran both the four mile and relay portions of the meet. It seems Head Coach Shantel Twiggs has her

runners prepping very early for the spring season.

While the meet is almost a transitional one for the runners, it has served its purpose.

The team will be racing in their biggest non-champi-onship meet of the year next week in Fayetteville, Arkansas at the Chile Pepper Invitational and it will be the team’s fi rst 6,000-meter race of the season. The meet will feature more than 300 runners in the women’s collegiate division and will be a homecoming for Cabot, Arkan-sas native, Myers.

The freshman isn’t the only runner excited to participate in this race. Junior stalwart Sam Diaz’s enthusiasm was apparent when asked how she felt to race against schools the Pack rarely encounters.

“We don’t get to participate in big races very often so it’ll be interesting, most are with only 100 girls but this one is sup-posed to have over 300 plus,” Diaz said. “It’ll be fun to see how confi dent we are to move up in the race and not let the ‘swarm’ of the other runners swallow us whole.”

The women will see for sure next meet how much difference one week can make.

Chris Boline can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.

Shane Vetter /Nevada Sagebrush

Nevada volleyball starters hold hands before facing rival UNLV on Thursday.

“It was a roll-ercoaster game and I believe we showed great fortitude” — Duke Williams

SPORTSA10 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012|

TWO MOUNTAINSONE BIG ADVENTURE

Tahoe’s Only Dual Mountain College Pass Valid Daily 6,000 acres, 270 trails, 43 lifts, 8 mountain peaks

6 terrain parks ( with Tahoe’s only mile long terrain park ) 1 pass

College Students Just $389No Blackout Dates!

Must be a full-time college student (12 credits or more) during the 2012-13 winter season.Must bring current school photo ID, copy of course registration, and an offi cial signed letter from school

registrar stating full-time status at an accredited college to pick up pass.

Purchase at: TahoeSuperPass.com

@SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com

New coach ready to return Pack to rootsBy Alexa Ard

Nevada’s swimming and div-ing team has added a new face and her name is Abby Steketee. Steketee, the new head coach since the summer, was in action at the Lombardi Pool on Oct. 5 when the team kicked off its 2012-2013 season with the an-nual Silver and Blue Intersquad meet.

The swimming and diving team appeared evenly split in competition, but the silver team came out on top 139 to 101. Silver team standouts include rookies Erika Twenge and Kaelie Reviglio as well as returners Jojo Mi and Luiza Vieira. Twenge won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.78, and Reviglio came in fi rst in the 100-yard in 1:00.51. Mi was victorious in the 200 and 500-yard freestyle and Vieira won the 100 and 200 backstroke events.

For the blue team, Chavisa Thaveesupsoonthorn won both the 200-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley.

Looking at both blue and silver sides of the team, Steketee was impressed with the energy that they all brought and maintained throughout the race. She said the swimmers’ backstrokes and breaststrokes were especially solid, but in order to advance, the team must work on the little things.

“During this season there is going to be an on-going focus on details,” Steketee said.

Nevada was picked to fi nish eighth by the conference’s head coaches in its inaugural season in the Mountain West Confer-

ence. Steketee said it will take a lot of hard work for the squad to be conference champions.

“The team must consistently train with purpose, race with passion,” she said.

Prior to coming to Nevada, Steketee was an assistant coach for the swimming and diving team at the University of South Carolina. She has coached coed teams, but Nevada is the fi rst time she has coached an all women’s team. What dif-ferentiates the Wolf Pack from past teams she has coached is that Nevada has bought into her vision quickly.

“My expectation for the 2012-2013 season is that we do everything we can to do the best we can,” Steketee said. “No one is going to outdo us in determi-nation and spirit.”

At South Carolina, Steketee coached All-Americans and NCAA, U.S. National and 2012 Olympic Trials qualifi ers, among others.

Steketee loves the role as a head coach, and is excited to implement her vision. Part of her vision is the desire to have a swimming community, which is why she contacted several Nevada swimming alumnae to practice with the team after the meet on Friday.

Swimmers have noted what they consider to be Steketee’s dedicated and multi-faceted coaching style.

“She’s relatable and funny, and she learns your personal-ity and works with it,” senior swimmer Misha Fotoohi said.

The differences from this season and last’s are appar-

ent, according to junior Leslie Foley.

“We’re changing conferences this year, but I see we’ve made big improvements compared to last year,” Foley said. “I think

we’re ready and capable to take on the tougher competition.”

Steketee is confi dent that Nevada has what it takes to be successful.

“This is going to be a jour-

ney, and (Nevada has to) stay dedicated and keep pushing our standards,” she said. “With this attitude and work ethic, we can succeed.”

The Wolf Pack will travel to

Stockton, Calif. on Oct. 26 to battle the Pacifi c Tigers in its season opener.

Alexa Ard can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.

Alexa Ard /Nevada Sagebrush

A swimmer on Nevada’s blue team swims during Saturdays Silver and Blue Intersquad meet.

Nevada soccer woes continue in 1-0 lossN

evada senior goalkeeper Dana Moreno watched New Mexico’s assist

leader Natalie Jenks from the sideline score her second

goal of the season within the fi rst three minutes of the game, which brought a frustrated expression to her face. Since this is her fi nal homecom-

ing game and the second conference game, it begged the question as to why head coach Melissa Price decided to bench her star player.

“Our last three games we have given up three goals in each of those games and we were just looking at a different look see-ing what options we had as far as another goalkeeper,” Price said.

Even though Moreno has given up nine goals in the past three games, the change at goal-keeper baffl ed me — Moreno had entered the second half excited and pumped to push her Wolf Pack to a victory. If Price really wanted to look for a change, why did she summon Moreno in the second half after a solid fi rst half from sopho-more Melanie Bertrand?

This speculation should roam around this week during Ne-vada’s preparation for the next two conference road games. These should be played with a must-win mentality, after the team fell to 4-8-1, 0-2 in the Mountain West.

After 25 minutes of the fi rst half and trailing 1-0 with More-no observing from the bench, a young girl watching from the stands seemed dismayed at the idea of her team losing. She began screaming her lungs out, chanting, “Let’s go Wolf Pack! Let’s go!” numerous times. Her squeaky, innocent voice seemed to inject life into the Wolf Pack.

Nevada regained its compo-sure and began to howl back at the Lobos by outshooting the team fi ve to three in the opening half. But it could not capitalize as the team entered halftime scoreless.

Seconds before the half ended, Nevada forward Kori Disarufi no kicked a Lobo defender from behind, causing Lobos Assistant Coach Jorge Vela to go bananas. He started

screaming at the referee, want-ing a red card for the late foul and nearly got ejected. But his wife, head coach Kit Vela, came to his rescue and calmed him down.

“This is a dirty team and I will not let my players get hurt,” Jorge Vela said during halftime.

With emotions running high on both sides of the fi eld, we were in for a nail-biter in the second half.

Nevada made the switch to Moreno to defend the net. It paid off, as she made two huge saves that bounced off the cross bar during the fi nal stages of the game. The Nevada team was aggressive on the offensive end by creating multiple shots. Wolf Pack junior Chelsea Fricke’s header in the 67th minute nearly tied the match, but it sailed just wide of the net.

The second half was nothing different, as the Pack seemed to be in control but did not fi nd a way to fi nish its multiple opportunities on goal. This has been the team’s weakness the entire season and it still has not found a way to fi x it.

“I think, overall, we out-worked the team — eye for eye, we had them every step of the way,” forward Chrisalyn Fonte

said. “We just fell short again in fi nishing and, unfortunately, in this game that is what makes the difference.”

After the whistles blew, Price and her coaching staff looked at each other, knowing they let one slip away.

“Our possessions were poorly executed in the opening half,” Price said. “We made some changes at halftime that resulted in us creating more opportunities, which was a positive to move forward, but the fi nal product in not scoring is not what we were looking for.”

With the victory, New Mexico improves to 8-4-1, 2-0 MWC. The win was the Lobos’ fi fth in a row, all by shutout and its eighth win in the last nine matches.

“We were very excited to be one of the teams in a three-way tie at the top,” Kit Vela said in a press release. “It goes to show how tight the conference is and what a battle it is every time out there.”

The Wolf Pack will look to rebound as they travel to Lara-mie, Wyo., to face the Cowgirls on Friday at 2 p.m.

Leonel Beas can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.

LeonelBeas

Juliana Bledsoe/Nevada Sagebrush

Nevada forward Chrisalyn Fonte battles a New Mexico defender for ball control during Sunday’s 1-0 loss. Fonte has been held scoreless since Sept. 8 against San Jose State.

Saturday’s victory against Wyoming was the most confusing experience I have ever had at Mackay Stadium

since when I used to climb around in empty boxes above the north end

zone when I was two years old.

With almost losing a sure victory (the Pack was favored by 16 points) and Cody Fajardo being knocked out of the game, it was not a good time to be a Pack fan for the last fi ve minutes of the fourth quarter.

In the end, however, it was probably the most proud I have been of my university and its fans since enrolling.

Which brings us to my fi rst takeaway from the recent win — the fans were the most enthused I have seen yet this season. In a recent column, I bashed our team’s fan

support for being disengaged during the game against Northwestern State. I will now eat my own words to say that during the last 10 minutes of regulation and overtime of last Saturday’s game, Mackay Stadium was the most electric it has been all year.

Fans who left their seats for home came back to watch from the fences as soon as they heard the Fremont Cannon shoot off. Also, there were fewer audible offensive chants, but mostly the sheer jubilation of winning a hard-fought game. Finally, during what would be the Cowboys’ fi nal possession, there was a scent of blood in the water for the Wolf Pack faithful. The game was ours.

My second and fi nal takeaway is that I don’t have any idea of what the Wolf Pack really is, whether it was an evisceration against a school it had not beaten on its home turf since World War II ended, an upset against a team in its brand-new stadium or a loss that should have never happened. Nevada is more

perplexing than the cute coed in your accounting class who recognizes you at the game but doesn’t notice you in your actual class.

After being turned back inside the 10 yard line twice, there was a sense the Pack was just lying down and letting the fans soak their sorrows away with some Sierra Nevada after the ball game. But then it happened.

Quarterback Devin Combs was reminiscent of his hero, Tim Tebow, during his time with the Denver Broncos, culminating with two touchdown passes. The fans were so stunned by this outcome that they could not contain their excitement in the stands.

After turning chicken salad into chicken crap and back into chicken salad again, Nevada turned a near-debacle into one of the most awkward fi eld rushes in recent memory. But a win is a win, and who can be mad about that?

Chris Boline can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.

NEVADASOCCERFor a second consecutive week, Wolf Pack soccer fi nds themselves with the “Who’s Not” distinction. Nevada hasn’t gotten in the win or goal column in 25 days. Nevada is fading fast and is in desperate need of a spark before they fi nd themselves as MWC bottom feeders.

Top 5 football moments of 2012

END OF TIKI CURSEStefphon Jefferson exploded on Hawaii for a NCAA-tying and program-shattering single game record of seven scores on Sept.

22. The junior running back’s android-perfect performance propelled the Wolf Pack above the conference foe, snapping a Honolulu los-ing streak which spanned 74 years.

MEMORIAL STADIUM SHOCKERNevada kicked off its 2012 campaign with a bang. Facing BCS contender California in its

freshly-renovated stadium, the Wolf Pack pulled out a shocking last-second win. A two-yard plunge from Stefphon Jefferson with 36 ticks in the game iced a 31-24 win against the Golden Bears.

OVERTIME THRILLERThis past Tuesday, behind the back of second-string quar-terback Devin Combs, Nevada topped Wyoming 35-28 in over-

time. On the second play of overtime, Combs bulleted a 24-yard pass to Aaron Bradley for the go-ahead score.

CLUTCH STRIPClinging to a 17-13 advantage against FCS foe Northwest-ern State, the Demons were threatening at the goal line.

Quarterback Brad Henderson went in for a go-ahead touchdown on a sneak play, only for Duke Williams to rip out the ball. On the next play, Nevada scored a touchdown. The 14-point swing sealed a 45-34 win for the

Wolf Pack. VICIOUS HITDuring a 34-21 win against Texas State, Duke Williams layed some serious wood on the Bobcats

Marcus Curry. The hit was a “you got jacked up” moment.

Inside Scoop

RICHY TURNERFOOTBALLThe sophomore wide receiver had a career day, reeling in seven catches for 150 yards and a touchdown. Turner’s efforts spearheaded a 35-28 come-from-behind win for Nevada.

FOOTBALLat UNLV 12 p.m. Saturday

THE SKINNY: The Silver State rivalry between UNLV and Nevada reaches new heights on Saturday. The two intrastate schools are now in the same conference, making the game for more than just bragging rights. The big question going into the matchup is whether quarterback Cody Fajardo will suit up for the Wolf Pack. The sophomore is nursing a back injury which could mean Devin Combs will line up under center. Combs and Nevada will look to carry the momentum of a late rally against Wyoming. Taking the snaps for the Rebels will be redshirt freshman Nick Sherry. With Sherry at the helm of the offense, UNLV has scored 25 points a game.

VOLLEYBALL at Air Force 6 p.m. Thursdayat Boise State 6 p.m. Saturday

THE SKINNY: After pushing arch-nemesis UNLV to the limit, the Wolf Pack returned to its old ways, being upended 3-0 by Fresno State. The pair of losses dropped Nevada to 1-4 in conference play, last in the Mountain West. The good news for the Wolf Pack is they face two teams in the MWC basement. Both Wyoming and Boise have won one game in the conference.

SOCCERat Wyoming 2 p.m. Friday

at Air Force 10 a.m. Sunday

THE SKINNY: Nevada has almost gone a month without a victory, last notching a win on Sept. 14, 3-2 against Weber State. Moreover, the Wolf Pack have not put a ball in the net in the same stretch. Nevada has been outscored 10-0 in four straight losses. Playmaker Chrisalyn Fonte has disappeared after a quick start. On the fl ip side, goalkeeper Dana Moreno has been all but invisible, too.

WEEKLY TOP 5...

Nevada shows inconsistency and resilience in OT win

ON TAP

WHO’S HOT

WHO’S NOT

ChrisBoline

WEEKLY TOP 5…

1

3

4

2

5

SPORTS A11@SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 |

FREAKY FAST DELIVERY!©2011 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

SUBS SO FAST YOU’LLFREAK!

Juliana Bledsoe /Nevada Sagebrush

Sophomore quarterback Devin Combs scans the fi eld against Wyoming during Saturday’s 35-28 overtime win.

Juliana Bledsoe /Nevada Sagebrush

Richy Turner’s 44-yard touchdown sent Nevada into overtime against Wyominh, but the catch-and-run didn’t crack the top 5 plays of Nevada’s season midway through 2012.

SPORTSA12 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012| @SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com

UNLVLVLLVVVNLLUNLVUN

WEEKMONDAY, OCT 8 TO THRURSDAY, OCT 11

For more information about events go to facebook.com/nevadaASUN

By Stefanie Taylor

When the Nevada and Univer-sity of Nevada, Las Vegas football teams clash on Saturday, the Fremont Cannon will hang in the balance.

The cannon is the trophy awarded to the winner of The Battle for Nevada, an annual football showdown between the Nevada Wolf Pack and the UNLV Rebels. The trophy, constructed in 1970, is a replica of a 19th century Howitzer cannon that accompanied American explorer and politician John C. Fremont on his expedition through Ne-vada in the mid-19th century.

As explained by Phillip Earl, former curator of history at the Nevada Historical Society, the original cannon is said to have been relinquished somewhere in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

“The actual cannon was lost in the Sierras in 1844 somewhere along the Walker (River) while on expedition,” Earl said. “They abandoned the cannon in winter with the intention to come back for it.”

According to Earl, many can-nons have been recovered from the Sierras, including one that was destroyed for scrap metal in Virginia City. This cannon is claimed to be the authentic Fre-mont cannon. None have been successfully proven to be so. The replica itself is also steeped in Nevada history.

“It was built by the Nevada Mining Association,” Earl said. “After its construction, a decision was made that it should be the

revolving trophy between Las Vegas (UNLV) and Reno (UNR)”.

According to an article from The Nevadan published in Janu-ary 1971 titled “Fremont’s How-itzer Lives Again,” the replica weighs about 500 pounds and cost about $10,000 to construct, making it the heaviest and most expensive trophy in college foot-ball today. The fi rst battle for the cannon was in 1970, when the Rebels defeated the Wolf Pack 42-30 in Las Vegas.

Originally, the cannon was fully functional and was fi red following a touchdown by the team in possession of the trophy. However, it has been inoperable since 1999 due to damages sustained after the cannon was either dropped or misfi red. Nevada has held the cannon for seven years straight, following a fi ve-year Rebel reign. Out of a total of 37 games played between the teams Nevada has won 22 times. The upcoming Oct. 13 game at UNLV’s Sam Boyd stadium is going to be the 38 game played for the cannon.

As tradition goes, the wooden carriage that hoists the cannon is painted in the color of the team that possesses it, Pack blue for Nevada and Rebel red for UNLV. With the 2012 battle for Nevada approaching, current Nevada football players, such as senior middle linebacker Albert Rosette, want to make sure the cannon remains blue.

“We’ve had the cannon ever since I’ve been here,” Rosette said. “The cannon blue is all that I know and it’s all that I ever want

to know.” To members of the current

Nevada football team, it’s not the unique history or monetary value of the trophy that is most respected and honored about the cannon. For veteran players like senior tight end Zach Sudfeld and offensive guard Christian

Barker, the Fremont cannon has a much deeper signifi cance.

“It means a lot to me to be a part of a team that has never seen (the cannon) red,” Barker said. “It’s a great feeling to be a part of the cannon rivalry. It’s a big deal. It’s a big thing for the community as well.”

Sudfeld explained that the tradition of the rivalry and the revolving trophy also serves as an enticing feature for future potential Wolf Pack athletes.

“When (the football recruit-ment staff) bring recruits to the university they show them the cannon,” Sudfeld said. “It’s a

special thing. It’s a tradition that sets us apart and it’s something that you want to be a part of.”

The Fremont cannon sits atop its navy blue carriage inside the Cashell Fieldhouse patiently awaiting its next chapter in Nevada history.

The rich history of the Fremont Cannon

Stefanie Taylor/Nevada Sagebrush

The Fremont Cannon sits inside Cashell Fieldhouse displaying the score of last season’s game between UNLV and Nevada.

By Eric Uribe

Nothing could stop Denver Miller from producing his fi rst FUNLV T-shirt back in 2008. Not blistering heat. Not his inexperi-ence in printing shirts. Not even endless days and nights of work.

At the height of the FUNLV frenzy in 2008, Miller, a University of Nevada, Reno student at the time, wanted to put his own spin on the FUNLV mania. Miller noticed most FUNLV shirts were bland and only featured the fi ve letters.

“I was like, ‘That’s cool, but I feel there should be more on it,’” the 26-year-old Miller said.

Miller, a graphic designer, gave the slogan a facelift, slapping designs on the shirts. Besides the classic FUNLV text on the front, Miller’s fi rst shirt read, “making the Rebels our bitch since 1969” on the back.

Miller’s redesign was met with positive reactions from students, going on to sell roughly 30 T-shirts. But creating the shirts was a struggle for Miller that year.

In his air conditioner-less basement, Miller fought off blazing heat printing the shirt with a screen printing press he purchased online. The thick air coupled with sweat-drenching work earned the basement the nickname of “sweatshop.”

To make matters worse, it was Miller’s fi rst time crafting a shirt. Mistakes were frequent as black ink splattered across the concrete fl oor.

“I was so new at it that it wasn’t fun – it always seemed like work,” Miller said.

Miller labored from sunup to sundown getting the shirts ready. In between classes, Miller would keep working on them. Sleepless nights followed suit.

Working for Red Bull as a student brand manager at the time, cases of the energy drink were at Miller’s disposal. He guzzled can after can of the caffeine-riddled drink to get him through the night.

After hours upon hours in the sweatshop, Miller sold the shirts on campus. Fearing the Associ-ated Students of the University of Nevada wouldn’t allow him to sell his designs, Miller propped

up his own table and distributed the shirts.

“It was 24/7 for two weeks before the game, between making the shirts or being on campus and selling them,” Miller said.

The labor-intensive process was worth every drip of sweat when Miller saw students wearing his creation.

“Seeing people wearing these shirts, it would just make me laugh,” Miller said. “I got so much enjoyment out of it.”

Since then, Miller’s business has moved out of the basement and Reno. After graduating with a degree in journalism in 2010, the Reno native headed south to Las Vegas after landing a job.

Miller launched his own website — funlvstore.com — to sell his T-shirt, tank top and hoodie designs three weeks ago. Using his web and graphic design background, Miller started the site from the ground up on his own.

“Even though I’m away, I still wanted to be able to create shirts for people and give them out to everyone,” Miller said. “I wanted to keep the FUNLV tradition go-ing.”

The days of printing his own shirts in a sweat-soaking base-ment are long behind Miller. A third-party company handles the printing duties nowadays.

“Going through the years, I realized how much work goes into screen printing so I’ve steered clear of that,” Miller said.

Miller will be the fi rst to ac-

knowledge the irony of his busi-ness and living in Las Vegas.

“It’s kind of funny that I’m living in Vegas, producing shirts against their school,” Miller said. “It’s like, ‘I hope no one fi nds out my address.’”

The FUNLV tradition has cre-ated a rift between many around the university. An abundance of students and administrators have frowned on the fi ve letters, citing lack of sportsmanship and class.

Senior Associate Athletic Direc-tor Rory Hickok said the FUNLV apparel lacks sportsmanship.

“I always hate to see that type of display,” he said. “I don’t think it’s really good sportsmanship and doesn’t lends itself to a fun, posi-tive rivalry.

“Both schools need to do a better job in promoting sports-manship. We can certainly have a fun and heated rivalry without it going too far.”

Hickok says there are more cre-ative alternatives to root against UNLV. For instance, he would like to see students wear “Battle Born” shirts instead.

On the other hand, Miller feels FUNLV is all in good fun and adds fuel to the fi ery intrastate rivalry.

“I’m not trying to be malicious and angry at these Rebel fans,” he said. “It’s just part of the rivalry. Whether someone is booing or someone is saying ‘FUNLV’ it’s the same thing.”

Eric Uribe can be reached at euribe@nevadasagebrush.com.

FUNLV store hits web

7:00pm, Roast the Rebels, JCSU Gateway Plaza

Free food from Men Wielding Fire

12:00pm - 3:00pm, Smash the Rebels Car Smash, JCSU Gateway

Plaza

12:00pm - 2:00pm, Free Bo Dawgs Lunch, JCSU Gateway Plaza

11:00pm, Moonoff, Quad

12:00pm, Nevada vs. UNLV game, Las Vegas

12:00pm, Nevada vs. UNLV viewing party, JCSU Cantina del Lobo

File photo/Nevada Sagebrush

A fan fl aunts an FUNLV shirt in 2007, before Miller started making his own.

My girl Taylor Swift’s song “Red” is sweeping through the country. Like

the Rebels color, the songs hook goes, “losing him was blue like

I’d never known.” Then Swift’s soothing voice fi nishes with, “but loving him was red. Oh red, burning red.”

Taylor, I’m really happy

for you, and Imma let you fi nish, but if you switched the blue and red in the song, you’d have one of the best songs of all time. All time.

By the end of Nevada and UNLV’s 38th meeting on Saturday, Swift will be singing, “losing to the Wolf Pack was red like I’d never known.” Nevada beating UNLV has been sure as the sunrise as of late and it’s not changing the eighth time around.

In the seven years the Fremont Cannon has been painted blue, the Wolf Pack have outscored the Rebels 273-118. UNLV hasn’t stood a chance in the Silver State battle-to-end-all-battles. Nevada’s average win margin in the seven-game stretch has been a jaw-dropping 22 points.

I’ll be the fi rst to admit it: The 1-5 Rebels of 2012 are a better team than previous squads. But the improvements aren’t nearly enough for a 22-point swing.

The oddsmakers at Las Vegas seem to agree with me, slotting

UNLV as 10-point underdogs against the 5-1 Wolf Pack.

In the words of the great Bill Parcels, “you are what your record says you are.” Notice how the digits in the win and loss column are fl ipped between both teams?

The glaring difference between this season’s Rebels and the ones who received a 37-0 shellacking at Mackay Stadium a year ago is redshirt freshman Nick Sherry. The 6-foot-5, 235-pounder is built like a linebacker, who just happens to have a rocket for an arm.

While Sherry is miles better than the not-so-accurate Caleb Herring, Sherry is still a pup. Facing an experienced Nevada secondary which features three seniors won’t be an easy task. Moreover, for the fi rst time all season, the Wolf Pack’s corner-backs and safeties are injury-free.

The secondary’s difference was apparent last Saturday in a 35-28 overtime win over Wyoming. Against Brett Smith and the Cowboys’ potent Missouri spread attack, the Wolf Pack held up for a meager 191 yards throwing.

If Nevada can hold down the fort against the only sophomore quarterback in the nation named to this year’s Manning Award Preseason Watch List, then Sherry doesn’t exactly have me shaking in my boots.

UNLV’s other play maker on offense is Tim “The Texas Slugger” Cornett. The junior has a unique blend of power and speed that makes him almost video game-like on the fi eld. Cornett will get his yards; however, anything the Rebels can do on the gridiron, the Wolf Pack

can do better.Respect to Cornett and his

638 rushing yards of production, but in the same breath, Nevada’s Stefphon Jefferson has chewed up an NCAA-high 955 yards on the ground. The 317-yard difference can be attributed to the Wolf Pack’s offensive line, dubbed “The Union.”

The fi ve linemen and their 101 combined starts are a force to be reckoned with in the trenches. Averaging 6-foot-4, 300-pound frames between the fi ve of them, the Union has bullied around opposing offensive lineman at will. Jefferson has had beacon-like running lanes to run through all season and his stats back it up.

Of course, the biggest ques-tion mark is if Cody Fajardo will line up under center for Nevada. In all honestly, I’m not concerned if he suits up or not.

Against Washington State, the Rebels let a second-string signal caller Connor Halliday torch them for four touch-downs and 378 yards in a 35-27 defeat.

UNLV’s porous secondary has proved to be the squad’s Achilles heel this season, failing to stop a nosebleed. With or without Fajardo engineering the Pistol offense, I see Nevada piling onto the Rebels’ secondary woes.

Final prediction: Wolf Pack cruises to a 35-21 victory. #8InARow

Swift’s auto-tuned voice will be singing, “burning blue. Darling it was blue...” by the end of this game.

Eric Uribe can be reached at euribe@nevadasagebrush.com.

SPORTS A13TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 |@SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com

The University of Nevada, Reno is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action, ADA institution. Photo by Jean Dixon. Produced by Extended Studies Marketing Dept., 9/12.

❄ ❅

❆

✳ Wintermester

Dec. 27, 2010 - Jan. 14, 2011at the University of Nevada, Reno

your short-term solution!

❄❅

❆

✳Wintermester

January 3-20, 2012at the University of Nevada, Reno

your short-term solution!

❄❅

❆

✳Wintermester

Dec. 31, 2012- Jan.18, 2013at the University of Nevada, Reno

your short-term solution!Why hibernate when you can use part of winter break to get ahead in your studies? The University of Nevada, Reno offers Wintermester in a condensed, three-week format, offering more than 90 classes in 25 subjects that fulfill degree requirements in a variety of colleges.

Most classes run three hours a day, five days a week, or four hours a day, four days a week. Enroll and pay tuition on MyNEVADA (by January 2, 2013) and buy textbooks at the Nevada Wolf Shop.

Registration via MyNEVADA: November 1, 2012-January 2, 2013 Students can search Winter Session in MyNEVADA and classes are also noted as having 5801 or 5802 sections.

Tuition is due by January 2, 2013; classes are limited, so enroll early!

Visit www.wintermester.unr.edu for class list and syllabi. Questions? (775) 784-4652 or 1-800-233-8928

Don’t let your brain hibernate... Take classes in !

Registration begins Nov. 1, 2012Go to MyNEVADA and register under Spring 2013.

EricUribe

Hello, my friends up North.

Well, for the next week at least, we’re

not friends, we’re not buddy-buddy, nor are we “tight.”

After six weeks of non-stop questions and bold statements, we’ve made it to the game that everyone’s been waiting for.

It’s fi nally going to be

UNR vs. UNLV for the Fremont Cannon.

I’m sure most of you are feeling confi dent about your Wolf Pack going into Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday and taking the cannon home for the eighth straight year, and why not?

UNR always presents a dangerous threat to not only the Rebels, but to most teams in the country. If it wasn’t for that loss to South Florida, your team could be 6-0 and sitting pretty.

But it’s my duty as the Rebels football beat writer to inform you that this game won’t be a cakewalk like years past.

Yes, UNLV is 1-5. By record, it would look like another typical UNLV season where, simply put, they’re not that good. Especially with back-to-back blowout losses against Utah State and Louisiana Tech, no one would think any less of believing that the Wolf Pack will

destroy the Rebels on Saturday.However, UNR is going

against a new aspect of the UNLV offense that they haven’t seen before: a quarterback that can throw the football.

Don’t mistake Nick Sherry for just a redshirt freshman quarterback. He’s been playing like a true veteran through these fi rst six games. Last year, the UNR defense had a fi eld day against Caleb Herring, making the converted wide receiver look like a fool.

But if the defense knocks Sherry down, it better hope he stays down. He’s a tough quarterback who will stand in the pocket and take big hits if that means getting the ball to his receivers. At times, you can’t stop him: you can only hope to contain him.

Same goes for the two run-ning backs in Tim Cornett and Bradley Randle. With Sherry throwing the ball so effectively, it has opened up the running game and taken the pressure off of him.

Like UNR has with Stefphon Jefferson, Cornett is UNLV’s rushing leader, averaging 4.9 yards per carry. And when Cornett goes to the sidelines, the Wolf Pack defense must attempt to stop the 5-foot-7 junior running back that never stops running.

Both backs average over 12 yards per carry, and if the offense gets into manageable 3rd down situations like they’ve been doing, they will more than likely pick up those needed yards.

This game will be decided by which defense can come

up with the most stops, and right now, that advantage would go to UNR. The Rebels secondary has been mediocre at best this season, and if Cody Fajardo and/or Devin Combs get time to throw, more times than none, they’ll fi nd an open receiver.

Not to mention that the Rebels have defi nitely struggled against high-octane offenses during this year.

UNR’s offense shouldn’t get too complacent. UNLV brings an athletic and fast front seven to the table that always makes big plays. With linebackers Tim Hasson, John Lotulelei and Tani Maka running around, someone better be ready to get hit hard.

However, the biggest reason why UNLV might win this game is simple: They’re just that much more comfortable playing at home.

The fi rst four home games have been decided by a combined 17 points. This will be a close game. The only way this becomes a blowout is if one teams pulls away late in the fourth quarter. Don’t be surprised if that happens.

I expect a large majority of you to make the trip to Vegas. In fact, I’d expect the crowd to be 50-50 with a sea of blue and red surrounding Sam Boyd Stadium.

But I ask of you, don’t get too cocky. If things go wrong, the Wolf Pack might just get bit.

Go Rebels.

Danny Webster is the UNLV football beat writer at The Rebel Yell and can be reached at sports@unlvrebelyell.com.

DannyWebster

Improved Rebels seek to snap losing skidBy Eric Uribe

At fi rst sight, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ 1-5 mark might indicate this year’s team is no different from the Rebels squads of the last decade, who haven’t played in a bowl game since 2000.

However, UNLV looks like polar opposite squads when playing at home and on the road. The Rebels haven’t won a game away from Sam Boyd Stadium since trumping New Mexico 34-17 back on Oct 24, 2009. Cody Fajardo was a senior at Servite High School the last time UNLV won a road game.

The bad news for Nevada? The game is being played at Sam Boyd Stadium, where the Rebels have been far more competitive. UNLV has lost three home games by a combined 14 points.

“They’ve realized home atmo-sphere is where they belong and that’s where they play their best,” UNLV football beat writer for The Rebel Yell Danny Webster said.

The biggest difference between the Rebels of old and 2012 is quarterback play. At the helm of the UNLV attack is redshirt fresh-man Nick Sherry, who beat out last year’s starting signal caller, Caleb Herring, for the starting gig. The 6-foot-5, 235-pound Sherry has re-energized the UNLV’s offense.

The poised, rocket-armed fi eld general has tossed for 1,528 yards, 10 touchdowns and 7 intercep-tions through fi ve games. By comparison, Rebels quarterbacks

combined to throw for an abysmal 1,315 yards and 10 touchdowns last year in 12 games to rank 118th out of 120 Division I teams in pass-ing yards.

“As a redshirt freshman quar-terback, you can’t expect much, but Sherry has done a magnifi cent job,” Webster said. “He’s already leaps and bounds ahead where the quarterback play was last year and years before.”

Sherry has done a top-notch job distributing the wealth as 16 differ-ent Rebels have recorded a catch. However, the squad’s inability to fi nd a clear-cut No. 1 wide receiver may be limiting their offense, ac-cording to Webster.

“I think in this game Sherry has to fi nd his No. 1 guy,” Webster said. “Who Sherry can attack more times than none. Sherry being able to fi nd his favorite target will go a long way.”

Sherry’s assurgence has trans-formed UNLV head coach Bobby Hauck’s run-fi rst offense into a balanced dual-threat.

Accompanying Sherry in the backfi eld is junior tailback Tim Cornett. The speed-burner has gashed opposing defenses for 618 yards. Cornett’s rushing total ranks 13th in the nation.

“(Cornett) basically makes the offense go,” Webster said. “He’s the guy that you go to in short-run situations and he gets you a fi rst down almost every time. When you give him open space, he can take it the distance.”

While Cornett hogs the spot-light, backup running back Brad-ley Randle has left his imprint on the Rebels running game. Randle’s 5-foot-7 frame isn’t nearly indica-tive of the bruising power back he is. The junior has racked up 296 yards on the ground this season.

“He plays like he’s 6-foot-2,” Webster said. “He is a really small guy, but he literally runs over everyone like it’s no big deal. “

Saturdays Silver State battle will pit two of the country’s top rushing threats against each other in Cor-nett and the Wolf Pack’s Stefphon Jefferson, whose 955 yards ranks No. 1 in the nation.

Jefferson may have the weight of Nevada’s offense if Fajardo is sidelined for the contest. Then again, a pair of backup quarter-backs burned UNLV earlier in the season.

In a 17-14 upset loss on Sept. 8 to Division I-AA foe Northern Arizona, the Lumberjacks thrusted sophomore Chase Cartwright in the starting role after senior Cary Grossart was sidelined in the previous game. Making his fi rst career start, Cartwright led the Lumberjacks to a game-winning score with 33 seconds left.

The following week against Washington State, the Cougars were playing without starting quarterback Jeff Tuel. It didn’t make much of a difference, as sophomore Connor Halliday torched the Rebels secondary for 378 yards and four scores in his

second career start.The second-stringers have fared

well in large part due to the Rebels’ sieve-like secondary. Opposing quarterbacks are shredding UNLV’s secondary for 8.2 yards per attempt.

“The biggest weakling of this defense is the secondary, without question,” Webster said. “If Reno gets a wide receiver one-on-one in coverage, nine times out of ten, UNLV won’t cover them.”

Their struggles have been under a microscope in the fourth quarter.

UNLV has been outscored 59-24 in the fi nal quarter this season.

“When the defense looks like it’s going to make a stop and it looks like they’re ready to make a play, opponents go to the air and easily attack the corners,” Webster said.

A season ago, Fajardo was mak-ing his fi rst career start against the Rebels. This time around, sophomore Devin Combs may be thrust into the starting job if Fajardo’s back isn’t healed by Saturday. The Fajardo-led Wolf Pack trounced UNLV 37-0 last

year.Nevada holds a 22-15 lead in

the series against the Rebels. The Fremont Cannon hasn’t been painted red since 2005.

“UNLV has not had a close game with Reno in a bit,” Rebels head coach Bobby Hauck said in a press conference. “We’re doing our best to change that, and hopefully we can come out of here with a win.”

Eric Uribe can be reached at eu-ribe@nevadasagebrush.com

File Photo/Nevada Sagebrush

Quarterback Caleb Herring walks out the tunnel before facing Nevada two years ago. Herring has since been benched in favor of redshirt freshman Nick Sherry.

FROM THE NORTH | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER WOLF PACK VICTORY

OUR TAKE: SILVER STATE CIVIL WAR REACHES STUDENT PUBLICATIONSFROM THE SOUTH | IMPROVED REBELS POISED FOR UPSET

By Eric Uribe

Nevada head coach Chris Ault was once quoted saying, “three things are associated with the color red, and none of them are good: communism, the devil and the rebels.”

In a nutshell, the 20-word quote sums up the bitter feud between the University of Ne-vada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The heated intrastate rivalry has spanned more than 50 years and has all the makings of a great college rivalry: proxim-ity, history, trophy and good ol’ fashioned hate.

When people sling around greatest college rivalries, hear-ing Ohio State vs. Michigan,

Oklahoma vs. Texas and Army vs. Navy is the norm. But the civil war duel

between the

northern and southern universi-ties of Nevada has staked its own claim in the history book.

THE BIRTHIn 1951, the line in the war was

drawn. Nevada Southern Uni-versity (now, UNLV) opened its doors down south in Las Vegas. A classroom in Las Vegas High School served as an extension of the University of Nevada campus. It remained this way for six more years.

The seed in the rivalry was planted in 1957 when $200,000 of funding paved the way for the school to build its first building, Frazier Hall. That same year, the Board of Re-gents recognized the campus as a branch of the University of Nevada. The battle brewed for eight more years.

Then in 1965, the first shot in the battle was fired. In a shot heard ‘round the world-esque moment, the southern campus emancipated itself from University of Nevada. The school offi cially took the Nevada South-ern University name. A second four-year academic institution in the Silver State was born.

The turning point in the rivalry came in 1969. The Nevada Southern Univer-sity title was dropped in

favor of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Later that year, on Thanksgiving day, the

schools collided in their fi rst ever football game. Nevada

pulled out a 30-28 victory over UNLV in the contest.

More than 40 years later, the rivalry is more alive

than ever.

THE COMPETI-TION

Not only a r e

state bragging rights up for grabs during the annual UNLV and Nevada game, but also one of the heaviest and priciest trophies in all of college football — the Fremont Cannon.

Beyond a traveling trophy, the cannon is a weapon in its own right. Weighing in at 545 pounds and featuring a 2.2 inch long barrel, the big gun’s price tag is estimated at $10,000. On top of being college football’s loudest trophy, the gun arguably ranks as one of the top trophies in all of sports.

“Whether from Nevada or UNLV, there’s something about that cannon that draws an emo-tional tie to it,” Nevada senior associate athletic director Rory Hickok said.

The prize is a replica used by the trailblazing military man, explorer and the Republican Party’s fi rst candidate for presi-dent John C. Fremont back in the 1840s. Rumors swirl that Fremont hijacked the cannon, violating U.S. War Department rules, before abandoning the weapon in the Sierra-Nevada snowdrift.

A replica cannon was as-sembled by the Kennecott Copper Corp. in 1969 when the two Nevada universities collided on the gridiron. The tradition of awarding the replica cannon to the winner of the battle was pitched by the Rebels fi rst foot-ball coach and Nevada alum, Bill Ireland. Since then, the victor of the Silver State clash has painted the weapon its school color and housed the cannon until the next game.

The big gun has been painted blue 22 times since its creation. Red has highlighted the cannon 15 times.

However, a new twist to the rivalry will be added in 2013 — the Governor’s Series

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and NV Energy CEO Michael Yackira, alongside uni-versity presidents Marc Johnson and Neal Smatresk, unveiled a new trophy between the intra-state schools yesterday.

Akin to the Fremont Cannon, the trophy will be passed to the winner year to year.

The Governor’s Series will be won by a point system. Points are tallied from head-to-head competition across every men’s and girl’s sport.

“It elevates the prominence of the overall rivalry series,” Hickok said. “It’s not just about football and men’s basketball. It gives the rivalry series a platform to really talk about how we can enhance the civility of the rivalry.”

If the UNLV vs. Nevada stakes weren’t already high, the ceiling was raised again.

THE MOMENTSA rivalry isn’t complete with-

out lore, something UNLV vs. Nevada has been nothing short of.

At the center of that lore is Ault. Lost in his 28-year coach-ing gig with the Wolf Pack and 41 years at the university, UNLV was the launching pad of Ault’s storied career.

Ault began his coaching career at UNLV as a defensive backs and wide receivers coach from 1973-74.

In 1974, the Rebels went on a 12-0 regular season run with Ault serving as an assistant coach. His efforts on the ‘74 squad earned Ault a spot in the Rebels’ Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.

“I have a tremendous respect for UNLV, but I have a tre-mendous and compassionate competitive attitude towards the game,” he told The Nevada Sagebrush in 2009.

Since then, Ault has become the face of Wolf Pack athletics and has spearheaded the bitter feud. With Ault at the helm of Nevada in 1978, the Wolf Pack trumped UNLV 23-14. After the victory, Ault talked McCarran International Airport offi cials into allowing his players to deconstruct the Fremont Cannon into pieces and take it onboard with them.

Ault was also at

the center of one of the rivalry’s most heated moments. In 1995, Nevada claimed a 55-32 victory over the Rebels. But after the game, UNLV defensive back Quincy Sanders poured fuel into the rivalry.

Sanders, a Reed High School graduate, threw his helmet toward Ault — the man who unsuccessfully recruited him out of high school — as Nevada players coveted the Fremont Cannon. The helmet missed.

“I was coming home to what I thought was a homecoming, with people there to show their support no matter who won,” Sanders said in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun two years ago. “It turned into totally something else.

“I still have a lot love for Reno. It helped raise me. They just can’t get over the fact I chose to bleed Rebel red.”

The helmet’s whereabouts are unknown and have never been recovered.

While Ault lucked out, the same can’t be said about Rebels head coach John Robinson in 2003. As Robinson headed for the tunnel during halftime of 16-12 UNLV win, Nevada fan Kevan Old hit Robinson in the eye with an empty alumi-num beer can.

Old was charged with misdemeanor battery charge. He denied the hit.

“I don’t even know whether it was me (that hit Robinson),” Old said in an inter-view with the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2003. ”I d o n ’ t t h i n k i t

was. I was among hundreds.“They make it sound like I

was taking aim at him. I just went along with the crowd. Ev-eryone was booing. There was no intention at all. I just wasn’t thinking. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Saturday, the Silver State civil war takes the next step. For the fi rst time since 1995, when both schools were a part of Big West Conference, the game will pit them as conference foes. Nei-ther squad has lost a Mountain West Conference matchup this season. One of those undefeat-ed streaks will come to a halt on Saturday.

Eric Uribe can be reached at euribe@nevadasage-brush.com.

SportsA14 @SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012

Origins of the heated Silver State rivalry