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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009 VOLUME CXVI NUMBER 10WSERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO SINCE 1893
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STRESS RELIEFRead columnist Emily Katseanes’ advice for unwinding with friends during midterms. Page A8
A MONSTROUS HITThe fi lm adaptation of “Where the Wild Things Are” brings back good childhood memories. PageA13
BATTLE OF THE BESTIn a battle of the WAC’s best, fi rst-place Idaho will battle second-place NevadaSaturday. Page B1
INDEXBlog: Head to our Web site to read the fi rst entry of The Nevada Sagebrush’s new blog about different types of alcohol. Photo galleries: Check back throughout the week for galleries of homecoming events around campus.Live chat: Join Juan López at 3 p.m. Wednesday to talk about sports.
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Fired UNR police offi cer must be rehired
Learning disabilities, a silent struggle
CASEY DURKIN /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Eric Thornley, a 19-year-old history and international affairs major, is one of about 400 students at the University of Nevada, Reno with a learning disability.
By Danielle Pearson
Joe Biden, vice president of the United States, accompanied U.S. Senator Harry Reid on a visit to Lawlor Events Center to speak in an effort to gain pre-election support from Reno residents and University of Nevada, Reno students.
The speech, which about 500 people attended, according to event staff, was part of Biden’s fundraising trip to Nevada for the majority leader.
To begin the event, Reid gave a rundown of the current recession and its tremendous effect on the hard-working Americans across the country. With the passing of the Recov-ery and Reinvestment Act, Reid expressed his optimism toward
future relief.“I have no doubt that what
we did will save the world of another depression,” Reid said.
Reid also described how Nevada has benefi tted from the Recovery Act. Reid claimed the act saved 400 education jobs, maintained 800 transportation utility jobs, added hundreds of law enforcement offi cers into Nevada and aided in the creation of more green jobs in Nevada.
When the vice president took the stage, he praised Reid for his efforts in the Senate and his strong character.
“We’re in tough times and we need people that are as tough as the times,” Biden said of Reid.
Biden’s speech focused on health care reform, the economy
and Reid’s achievements in the Senate. He also touched on the hard-working, genuine charac-ter of America.
“When the new administra-tion entered offi ce we inherited a great recession,” Biden said.
He stressed the importance of a new health care system that will provide relief for ordinary Americans who are bombarded with rising health insurance premiums. There has been a 40 percent increase in premiums in less than a decade, Biden said. He also described the present economic situation as “more complicated than Roosevelt’s dilemma in the Great Depres-sion.”
“All this economy can do is lay
Joe Biden, Harry Reid speak on campus
Bringing majors together
By Ashley Allen
The College of Liberal Arts is now home to a new pro-gram — the gender, race and identity program, which formed from four previously independent programs within the university.
The program change started when holocaust, genocide and peace studies director Viktoria Hertling retired in the spring. Budget cuts made it impos-sible to hire a new director for the program, forcing the university to fi nd a new way to run the program.
“We decided that the degree should be in gender, race and identity rather than in women’s studies,” Mary White Stewart, women’s studies director, said. “Our program was devoted to developing a more interdisciplinary vision for women’s studies.”
Stewart said that since the master’s degree was named gender, race and identity, it made sense to have similar programs in the university fall under the umbrella of their diverse topic.
When Hertling retired and left holocaust, genocide and peace studies without a director, Stewart saw the opportunity to bring that pro-gram together with women’s studies.
But holocaust, genocide and peace studies wasn’t the only program that women’s studies was interested in.
“Women’s studies was increasingly moving in the direction of identities and the intersections of race, class and gender,” Stewart said. “We thought that our new gender, race and identity program really refl ected the programs that were focused on margin-alized identities. Holocaust, genocide and peace studies has a natural link to religious
➤ A state hearing offi cer ruled Friday that former Uni-versity of Nevada, Reno Police Department Sgt. Lane Grow must be rehired after he was fi red September 2008.➤ Grow must be awarded back pay, according to the decision.➤ Grow is currently involved in a lawsuit against UNR.
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BREAKING IT DOWN
BY THE NUMBERSLearning disabilities at the University of Nevada, Reno
110400is the number of students
with a reading-related learning disability.
is the approximate number of students at UNR with a di-agnosed learning disability.
106is the number of students
with a math-related learning disability.
By Nick Coltrain
The University of Nevada, Reno Police Department must rehire a police sergeant who is seeking a grand jury investigation into corruption at the university and suing multiple offi cials in the police department, a state hear-ing offi cer ruled Friday.
Sgt. Lane Grow was fi red in May after being arrested and charged with four misdemeanor vehicle registration violations.
Grow said the hearing offi cer reinstated him with full back pay and benefi ts in part because those four violations, coupled with a clean personnel fi le, didn’t warrant outright dismissal.
“I was very appreciative,” Grow, a 16-year veteran of UN-RPD, said. “I was receiving a little vindication for all that I’ve been going through.”
Grow insists his fi ring — a year after he and three other former and current UNR employees
submitted a pile of documents half an inch thick detailing al-legations of corruption at UNR — was retaliation.
UNR offi cials said they would not comment because it is a personnel issue.
Grow has not worked since September 2008, when he was placed on administrative leave with pay while he awaited trial on the misdemeanors (He was fi red after a judge found him guilty in May. Grow said he is appealing
the conviction). He said the fi ve-and-a-half months without work since his fi ring caused his house to go into foreclosure. He’s not sure if the ruling came in time to save it.
“I would have rather been working than dealing with all of these headaches,” he said.
He has instead focused his attentions — along with former soccer coach Terri Patraw, former professor Hussein S. Hussein and current professor Richard
Schweickert — on trying to per-suade a Washoe County District Judge to assemble a grand jury to investigate the allegations of corruption at UNR. One of the claims is that UNRPD is used as a “private police force.”
Grow said he forwarded the ruling to the judge tasked with deciding whether to assemble a grand jury or not. Jane Tors, university spokeswoman, said
By Jay Balagna
W hen Eric Thornley was fi ve years old, he was diagnosed with dyscalculia, a specifi c learning disability that inhibits a person’s learning of math. Coupled
with a speech impediment, he quickly fell behind the other children in his class.
The now-19-year-old history and international af-fairs major is forced to spend more time studying and working on assignments than the average student.
“I’m not like the typical college student where I sign up for a fraternity and go out and party,” Thornley said. “I have to spend a lot more time on my school-work to keep up.”
Thornley is one of more than 400 students at the University of Nevada, Reno with a diagnosed learning disability, according to information from the Disabil-
ity Resource Center.Students with learning disabilities make up the sec-
ond-highest portion served by the Disability Resource Center after psychological disabilities, Mary Zabel, the center’s director, said. The psychological disabilities include attention defi cit disorder, accounting for the higher number, Zabel said. UNR’s learning disability rates largely fi t with the national trend.
Specifi c learning disabilities are neurological disor-ders that affect a person’s ability to learn in various ways. “Learning disability” is an umbrella term used to refer to a number of different disorders, said Christine Cheney, a professor of special education at UNR and the chair of the education specialties department.
Included in the list of learning disabilities are dyscalculia; dyslexia, a reading and language-based
JAY BALAGNA /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
United States Vice President Joe Biden poses with a supporter after his speech Friday in Lawlor Events Center. Biden was in Reno as part of a fundraising trip for U.S. Senator Harry Reid.
38is the number of students
with a writing-related learning disability.
See LEARNING Page A5 Source: UNR Disability Resource Center
See GROW Page A5
See MAJOR CHANGE Page A5
See BIDEN Page A5
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VOLUME CXVI • ISSUE 10
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Erik CooperAge: 21Major: PhilosophyWhat he does: Cooper is the president of the United Zombie Defense Front, a club “for discussing strategies and making preparations” for an upcoming zombie attack.
By Madison Jackson
Some would say that the zom-bie apocalypse is inevitable. That it’s only a matter of time before the era of mankind ends and the bloodthirsty undead are roaming the cities, hunting for fresh meat. That survivors will fl ock together in order to survive, creating various strategies to protect themselves from hordes of zombies.
But before that happens, what is humanity doing to prepare it-self against the inevitable? What plans are being made?
Erik Cooper, a 21-year-old philosophy student at the University of Nevada, Reno and president of the United Zombie Defense Front (UZDF), may have a few ideas.
“Nobody wants to be eaten by zombies,” Cooper said. “The UZDF is for discussing strategies and making preparations.”
There was no club for students with like-minded interests in zombies to gather and toy around with the ideas, and so the UZDF was born, Cooper, a founding member of the club, said.
“We not only discuss zombies, but we watch movies about them and play games, too,” Cooper said. “There’s a board game about zombies, and one game we played was based off of the popular game ‘Assassin.’ One group is the zombies, and the survivors are equipped with green tassels. If the zombies get the tassels, then the survivors become one of them.”
The club has not been able to meet on a consistent basis this year, Cooper said. There will be a meeting this Thursday in Sierra Hall, and further meetings will be scheduled from there.
“It’s a really fun club,” Anne Smith, a 20-year-old biochem-istry major and a member of UZDF, said. “It’s also interesting on an intellectual level and it’s something almost anybody could get into. As a biochem-istry major, I like discussing theories for how the outbreak
even starts.”“I think the zombie apocalypse
is inevitable, and people should be just as aware of it as they are with the swine fl u,” Kirby Myers, a 20-year-old chemical engi-neering major and member of the UZDF, said. “We should be especially aware of it in a high-density population. With all the preparation that went into the swine fl u, equal preparation should go into surviving the zombie apocalypse.”
“We as part of the UZDF try to study the beast as much as possible and make plans,” Myers said. “One thing every-body shouldn’t underestimate, though, is the importance of cardio. You’re going to need to be in shape to run away from zombies. That’s why we do zom-bie drills sometimes.”
While the UZDF enjoys its
share of fun with games and movies, they also discuss poten-tial survival techniques.
“Basically, you should get away from the general civilization and out of populated areas,” Smith said. “Make it to shelter, weap-ons, ammunition and formulate a plan from there.”
Cooper said part of the UZDF’s goal is to prepare for all possible zombocolypse — there are fast zombies, slow zombies and viral zombies.
“We want to be prepared for all possible outcomes,” Cooper said.
Madison Jackson can be reached at [email protected].
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SalutatoryWe trust that the appear-
ance of the RECORD will be a glad surprise to the public and especially to the friends and patrons of our State University. No apology is needed for the publication of such a journal, as it enters a fi eld unoccupied by any other of its class. Our primary object is to create in the minds of the young men and women of Nevada, and ad-jacent territory, a conviction of the need of a higher education and inspire them with a deter-mination to obtain it. We will also aim to promote the college spirit among the students of the State University and to elevate athletics in that institution, to the important place that it oc-cupies in the leading colleges of our country. The RECORD will be independent in politics and reserve the right to criticize all parties and measures. It will,
however, advocate the enact-ment of such laws as will restore silver to the place it occupied previous to its demonetization.
The petition presented to the Board of Regents, at its last meeting, by the students of the State University, asking the privilege to publish a college paper, not having been granted has, in some measure, made necessary the publication of the RECORD. While our columns are freely offered to the public they are especially tendered the University students as the medium through which they may voice their sentiments on all matters that affect their interests.
➤ To download a PDF of the entire fi rst issue of The Student Record or to read a blog about Sagebrush staff-ers viewing the 116-year-old paper, go online.
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FROM THE SAGEBRUSH ARCHIVES
By Garrett Estrada
The University of Nevada, Reno Graduate Student Associa-tion will hear a proposal to raise graduate student fees by $10 on Tuesday. The Associated Stu-dents of the University of Nevada proposed the fees to provide extra money for performing arts, tutoring and student activities on campus.
The proposed fees will be used to fund a writing center and on-campus performing arts.
The fee proposal will be
brought to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents at their December meeting as part of ASUN’s Joint Vision 2017 Plan.
The GSA can vote on whether they believe the fees will provide
enough benefi t for graduate students in their meeting on Tuesday. Jillian Murdock, GSA President, said she doubts the council will have enough infor-
mation to vote and expects it to be postponed. As president, Murdock serves as the chair of the GSA Council.
Eli Reilly, ASUN president, called the upcoming vote an equity issue and said that it wouldn’t be fair for the GSA not to help out. Reilly said that if the GSA voted to add the fees, it would dramatically impact the performing arts and tutoring services.
Murdock said that whatever the council decides will be “do-ing what’s best for the students.” One of the problems that the
council faces is whether or not the money gathered from the fees will be used in graduate students’ best interest.
Murdock and Reilly said money to the writing center could help graduate students.
Murdock said the Joint Vision 2017 plan is a good idea but that it is geared more toward under-graduate students and, aside from the fees, lacks much relevancy for most graduate students.
Garrett Estrada can be reached at [email protected].
GSA to hear fee increase proposal➤ For PDFs of the GSA Coun-cil’s agenda and the entire ASUN Joint Vision 2017 plan, visit our Web site.
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Preparing for the zombiesNATASHA VITALE /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Erik Cooper, a 21-year-old philosophy major, is a founding member of the United Zombie Defense Front, a club on campus dedicated to “discussing strategies and making preparations” for a zombie attack.
President of club leads would-be survivors
NATASHA VITALE /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Cooper, the president of the United Zombie Defense Front, points his gun at “zombies” Sarah Torres and Jeremy Rondael.
COURTESY UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Editor’s note: Monday was The Nevada Sagebrush’s 116th birthday. The paper, originally known as The Student Record, was started in the fall of 1893 against the wishes of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents. Below is an introduction the Record ran to its readers in its fi rst issue.
OCT. 19, 1993
Paper grows through controversy and tradition
No doesn’t always mean no — especially when it comes to the Board of Regents.
For a group of rebellious students at the University of Nevada, no meant the begin-ning of a rich history of inde-pendence and the preservation of an immortal voice.
In 1893, young zealots, some members of the Adelphi Literary Society, petitioned the Board of Regents for per-mission to publish a campus newspaper. But after their request was denied, they saw only one alternative. The Sagebrush’s beginnings.
A secret meeting, held Oct. 1, 1893 in the top story of the mining building, fi nalized the plan with a unanimous vote: a newspaper would be published in spite of the Regents’ deci-sion.
Their covert operation
evolved in the basement of the Congregational Church. Under an oath of secrecy, The Nevada State Journal undertook the printing of the 6-by-9 inch paper. The following day, Oct. 19, 1893, The Student Record made its insubordinate debut on campus.
No adverse effects surfaced after the fi rst two issues of the Record. The paper was pub-lished anonymously by Editor Charles Magill and Business Manager Fred C. Frey. When the illicit publication was ignored by the Regents and administra-tors, the third issue contained the names of the staff.
And through the years, that sense of necessity evoked by Magill’s fi rst issue, has been a torch carried on by each editor to the next with an unspoken creed of perseverance.
Changes came with the territory
The paper slowly grew in size from a monthly to a semimonthly publication to a semiweekly college newspaper since 1961.
Read the rest of this story, and others from the Sagebrush’s ar-chives, at nevadasagebrush.com.
FACES OF NEVADA
➤ Graduate students inter-ested in voicing their opinions on the fees can go to the GSA Council meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Rita Laden Senate Chambers in the Joe Crowley Student Union.
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GSA COUNCIL MEETING
UNIVERSITY PROGRAM OFFERS REVIEWS OF MEDICATIONS
Nevada senior citizens curi-ous about the actual effects of prescribed medications can now fi nd out at The Medica-tion Therapy Management program.
The program, offered through the Sanford Center for Aging at the University of Nevada, Reno, reviews a se-nior’s entire drug regimen for safety and effectiveness.
To qualify for the program, applicants need to be 60 years or older and be currently tak-ing fi ve prescription drugs or more. The review is offered statewide and is free to ac-cepted applicants.
The review could pos-sibly reduce the number of hospitalizations of seniors due to medication-related problems.
MBA PROGRAM MAKES PRINCETON REVIEW’S “BEST” LIST
The Princeton Review recognized the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Business for the second year in a row in “The Best 301 Business Schools.” More than 19,000 students from the best AACSB-accredited MBA programs in the world were surveyed for the study.
The survey asked students to assess colleges in 15 different factors, with Nevada students having a lot of positive things to say about the college, ac-cording to a press release from the business school.
One standout feature that was found in the students surveyed was the ethnic diversity within the college, with ethnic minori-ties making up 24 percent of the college and international students another 10 percent.
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Weekly UpdateCampus Events
Annual run to raise money for UNR recreation
JAY BALAGNA/ NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
As part of this year’s homecoming events, members of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada’s homecoming committee hosted a free breakfast for students from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at various locations around campus. Here, members of the committee hand out free food in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union.
HOMECOMING WEEK KICKS OFF WITH EARLY, ON-CAMPUS BREAKFAST
POLICE BLOTTER NEWS BRIEFS
OCTOBER 20, 2009 • A3
By Emily Fodor and Garrett Estrada
The Wolf Trot run, a part of homecoming events since 1927, takes participants all over campus every fall. This year, the race starts and ends at the Joe Crowley Student Union. The traditional fi ve-kilometer run will be held Saturday.
Money raised at the event is used to help fund campus recreation.
“The run was never actu-ally a homecoming event,” said Molly Fronapfel, the Associated Students of the University of Ne-
vada director of homecoming. “It always happened during the parade and we wanted to help get people to register.”
There is a $20 fee for pre-registered students and $25 for students who register at the event Sheena Harvey, the member services coordinator for Campus Recreation and Wellness, said.
“The money (we earn at the event) goes back to the school. It is used for campus recreation scholarships we give out to stu-dents,” Harvey said.
Those scholarships include three $3,000 scholarships given out to students every year.
Harvey said the Wolf Trot is a good way for students to famil-iarize themselves with parts of the campus they don’t see every day. This year’s run will take students down to Ninth Street in front of Jimmy John’s, through the lower Quad and then up past the baseball fi eld to the con-struction site of the new Center for Molecular Medicine.
Arrows will point the way for the participants and staff mem-bers will be on hand to direct in confusing spots. Students have strayed from the path in previ-ous years, Harvey said.
Organizers are taking in-
creased precautions to keep people on the course this year, so students who ran the 5k last year will need to pay attention to the directions, as there have been changes to the course.
Besides the exercise, there are incentives to running the race well. Prizes will be given out to winners from each age group and sex and to the overall winner of the race. The top prize is an ASUN Bookstore gift card.
Sign-ins and registration will take place in front of The Joe on the day of the run starting at 7:30 a.m. The run begins at 8 a.m.
Emily Fodor and Garrett Estrada can be reached at [email protected].
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TUESDAY/20Angels in the DustWhen: 7 to 10 p.m.Where: Joe Crowley Stu-dent Union Theater
The story of Marion Cloete and her family is document-ed in this movie, which fol-lows their sacrifi ce of their privileged lives in Johannes-burg to start an orphanage for more than 550 South African children. The movie is presented with permis-sion by ONEvada and is part of the ONEvada Film Series. For more information, con-tact Justin Sabato at [email protected] or visit www.orphanbracelet.org.
WEDNESDAY/21Comstock ConversationsWhen: 7 to 8 p.m.Where: Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, Fac-ulty and Graduate Reading Room
Local expert on the Com-stock Era Cheryll Glotfelty will discuss classic Com-stock literature and tell sto-ries about the authors, such as Dan De Quille, Sam Davis and Alf Doten. Admission is free. For more information contact Carol Parkhurst at [email protected].
FRIDAY/23DIWALI-Festival of LightsWhen: 6 to 10 p.m.Where: Joe Crowley Stu-dent Union Ballroom
The Indian Festival put on by the Indian Student Or-ganization features Indian traditions, cultures and authentic Indian cuisine. Admission to the event is free for UNR and TMCC students who present their student ID. Otherwise admission is $5. For more information contact Sridhar Anumandla at [email protected] or visit www.scs.unr.edu/~iso/.
SATURDAY/24International Halloween/Masquerade BallWhen: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.Where: Joe Crowley Stu-dent Union Ballroom C
The International Club invites students to their Masquerade Ball, where they can learn how other cultures celebrate Hallow-een. The event will feature activities such as a dance and costume contest.
SUNDAY/25Night of Jazz When: 7 to 9 p.m.Where: Se7en on West, West Street Market, 148 West Street
Members of the University of Nevada, Reno in Jazz and Improvisational Music are putting on an all-ages con-cert. The event is free and open to all ages. For more information contact Arts In-formation at [email protected] or visit www.unr.edu/arts/.
➤ What: Wolf Trot➤ Where: The Joe Crowley Student Union➤ When: Saturday, registra-tion starts at 7:30 a.m., the run starts at 8 a.m.➤ Why: To raise money for campus recreation and three $3,000 scholarships
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EVENT DETAILS
OCTOBER 18A 20-year-old male was cited for drug offenses in Lincoln Hall.
OCTOBER 17An 18-year-old female reported a hit and run at Canada Hall.
A 21-year-old male was arrested for obstructing justice and resisting arrest at 1665 North Virginia Street.
OCTOBER 16An 18-year-old male reported a bicycle stolen in front of Lincoln Hall.
Two 20-year-old males were stopped for traffi c violations at the corner of Comstock and North Virginia Street.
A 22-year-old male was arrested for an outstanding warrant at the corner of 9th and North Virginia streets.
A 22-year-old male reported a bicycle stolen outside of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
OCTOBER 15Police responded to a possibly suicidal subject at the Thompson Building.
OCTOBER 14Police found missing property at 1600 North Virginia Street.
Police responded to a report of theft at the Lombardi Recreation Center.
OCTOBER 13Police responded to a report of larceny at the Mathews-on-IGT Knowledge Center.
OCTOBER 12A 30-year-old female reported a hit and run at Edmond J. Cain Hall.
OCTOBER 11An 18-year-old male was arrested for a minor in pos-session and consumption of alcohol violation in Nye Hall.
OCTOBER 9A 22-year-old male was taken into civil protective custody at Mackay Stadium.
A 20-year-old male was arrested for MIPC, obstruc-tion of justice and resisting arrest at Mackay Stadium.
Two 19-year-old males were arrested for MIPC at Mackay Stadium.
A bicycle was reported stolen from the Valley Road
Field Research & Green-house Complex.
A welder was reported stolen from the con-struction site on the University of Nevada School of Medicine campus.
OCTOBER 8A bicycle was reported stolen from the Scrugham Engineering Building.
Offi cers responded to a report of trespassing at the Fitzgerald Student Services Building.
OCTOBER 7A 44-year-old male reported a motorcycle helmet stolen from near the Church Fine Arts building.
A 19-year-old male reported a bicycle stolen from Sierra Hall.
Five-kilometer run a homecoming tradition
➤ Head online Sunday to read a blog of Assistant Sports Edi-tor Lukas Eggen’s experience running the fi ve-kilometer Wolf Trot.
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High: 55-65
Low: 35-45
WEATHER FORECAST
High campustemperature:
Low campus tem-perature:
64 66 70 72 40 42 44 41
UNR WEEKLY WEATHER DISCUSSION: After a fast moving storm exits the area on Monday, clear skies and warmer weather returns with some cloudiness beginning again by the weekend. There is a lot of uncertainty with the temperatures for the weekend as a low pressure system brushes by to the north. How far north it stays will determine the temperatures.
WEDNESDAYTUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY WEEKENDForecast prepared by the Reno-Lake Tahoe student chapter of the American Meteorological Society. For more information visit our Web site at www.ametsoc.org/chapters/renotahoe/.
SunnySunnyMostly Sunny, light variable
winds
Mostly Sunny, West winds 5
mph
Cooler, partly sunny weekend with increasing.
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HealthBy Aaron Benedetti
Researchers at the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease claim to have shown a “signifi cant correla-tion” between a particular virus and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a mysterious illness that potentially affects 10 million people worldwide, said Vincent C. Lombardi, a lead researcher on the project.
Lombardi is the primary author of a paper detailing research that will be published this week in the journal, Sci-ence. He and other researchers at the Reno-based Whittemore Peterson Institute say they have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the disease.
“Correlation doesn’t mean causation, but a 67 percent cor-relation is signifi cant,” Lombardi said. “More research needs to be done, but it is more than likely that (this virus) plays a role in the pathology of chronic fatigue syndrome.”
The cause of CFS, which can cause extreme muscle fatigue, joint pain, sleep problems and a host of other symptoms, has been unknown for years, Lom-bardi said. Doctors, researchers and patients have long debated the causes for the disease and some have dismissed the dis-ease as purely psychological.
“So many people who have the disease have been told they don’t know what’s wrong with them,” Lombardi said. “This is potentially the most important discovery for CFS ever. This disease has been ridiculed and dismissed, and we’ve given a lot of these patients hope for the fi rst time.”
The virus in question, XMRV, is a retrovirus related to HIV and certain cancer-causing viral agents. Lombardi said the characteristics of this particular family of viruses might account for “a lot of the things we see
with CFS.”Lombardi specifi ed that
much research must still be conducted to clarify the results of the study, provide conclusive evidence that the virus causes CFS and develop therapeutics.
So far, the research has been received with mixed reviews. The study was published in a prestigious scientifi c journal, but “some people don’t want to admit they’re wrong,” Lom-bardi said. In patients’ circles, Lombardi said the research has been received enthusiastically.
The Whittemore Peterson Institute collaborated with the Nevada Cancer Institute and the University of Nevada School of Medicine on the project. Uni-versity laboratory facilities were used for some research.
“I think this discovery has emphasized that the university has been a good partner in the project,” Lombardi said.
University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick called the Institute’s fi ndings “very important,” and said the break-through ends the argument over
whether CFS is indeed a physi-ological illness.
“It really enforces the value of scientifi c partnerships,” Glick said. “We know that good scien-tists working together will lead to more discoveries and more collaborative research.”
Glick noted that the Whitte-more Peterson Institute, which funded the research and “made it possible,” deserves full credit for the discovery.
Aaron Benedetti can be reached at [email protected].
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Judy A. Mikovits and Vincent C. Lombardi work in the Whittemore Peterson Institute lab.
Link to virus found
By Garrett Estrada
A search committee to fi nd a new vice president of health sciences who will also serve as the dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine will have its fi rst meeting Tuesday. The positions will be consolidated under the title of vice president of Health Sci-ences and dean of the School of Medicine.
Marsha Read, the chair of the search committee, said that the consolidation is not for economic purposes but instead to better manage the two in unison. Since the School of Medicine is the main school within the division of health sciences, the aim is to have the person in charge oversee the rest of the units within the division.
The position of vice
president of Heath Sciences requires a “broad look” with responsibility over all the units of health services, including the schools of nursing and social work.
The position will face some tough challenges, as the state currently ranks low among other states in treating health care needs of residents, Read said.
The committee is putting together an institutional profi le, which will explain to applicants what the job entails and will serve to help fi nd people with skill sets that are applicable to the position. The whole process is still in the early stages. Read says that the profi le won’t go out to a search fi rm until late November.
Once the profile is out to the applicants, the process of whittling down begins. By
late January, the remaining applicants will go through a phone interview. The top qualified candidates that make it through the interview will be brought on campus for in-person interviews and possibly to meet the faculty. The committee will make a recommendation to university President Milton Glick, but he has the final authority on who gets the job.
University of Nevada, Reno Provost Marc Johnson and President Glick appointed the committee members.
Whoever does fi ll the position by next year, Read says students may notice some differences in the school.
“Things will change, but it won’t be overnight,” Read said.
Garrett Estrada can be reached at [email protected].
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she did not see a connection between the corruption al-legations and Grow’s fi ring and
rehiring.Grow’s complaints against
UNRPD are longstanding. He fi rst went public with a lawsuit in the spring of 2007. In it, he alleged UNRPD Director Adam Garcia protected alcoholics at
the department and wanted DUIs ignored.
In the lawsuit, Grow cited the 2004 case of former UNRPD Lt. Kevin Youngfl esh, then a sergeant, being arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in an
unmarked police car. Youngfl esh was demoted to offi cer but then rocketed through the ranks to lieutenant by 2007.
UNR officials would not comment on the disparity of Youngflesh’s and Grow’s pun-
ishments but to say that a new president, Milton Glick, has since taken charge at the university.
Nick Coltrain can be reached at [email protected].
and ethnic studies.”Stewart said the College of
Liberal Arts was interested in diversifying its list of pro-grams. By bringing ethnic studies, religious studies and holocaust, genocide and peace studies together with women’s studies to form gender, race and identity, they were able to do that.
Under the gender, race and identity program, students can now minor in any of the four areas and also major in women’s studies. A 12-credit certifi cate program is also available for master’s and Ph.D. level students.
The program has about 50 faculty members who teach courses, work with students on theses, do research or give speeches. Faculty members are drawn from other depart-ments all over campus: every-thing from geology to English.
“It was really good to take four smaller programs in and bring them together under a broader umbrella with more students and a broader curriculum,” Provost Marc Johnson said.
Before the move, ethnic studies was a small minor overseen by a committee of faculty and two co-chairs, Stewart said. When it came into the college, it kept its as-sets, but also gained a person to help the program grow by adding more courses and building academic diversity.
Religious studies was previ-ously run by an advisory board of faculty and community members. Now, the board is just faculty and they’re much more focused on program development. The program is even adding new courses.
“Now that religious studies is part of the gender, race and identity program and the College of Liberal Arts, it’s supported like an academic program,” Religious Studies Committee Chair Deborah Achtenberg said.
Achtenberg, who is also the philosophy department chair, said that with the support religious studies now has, they are able to promote the minor program available to students by attending religious events held on campus and distribut-ing literature about the minor to get more students aware that it is available.
“The gender, race and iden-tity program is great because there is now one program to help other programs that were unrelated,” Achtenberg said.
With academic support, Stewart plans to add new cur-riculum and develop program-ming to get the community involved in issues concerning marginalized identities. She also would like to add new courses.
The program also has a com-mittee that is looking at the expansion of the program into the areas of a disability program and a sexualities program.
“It was a real creative re-sponse to an economic prob-lem,” Stewart said. “I don’t think we could have done it with any more creativity or with any more enthusiasm than we did. It’s going to be a lot happier place.”
Ashley Allen can be reached at [email protected].
the foundation blocks for what their new economy will be … (and) all this means the begin-ning for restoration and saving for middle class families,” Biden said.
Foreign oil dependency in the United States was another key point in Biden’s address.
“Our dependency is crip-pling us in terms of economy and foreign policy,” Biden
said.Biden acknowledged that
although the current admin-istration has made progress toward a full recovery, there is still much to do.
“We are laying a foundation to build on and create a new economy. We (as a govern-ment) have an overwhelming obligation,” Biden said.
There were few students in the mostly democratic crowd. Most of the students in at-tendance largely expressed
support for Reid, Biden and their policies.
After speaking for almost an hour, the two spent time in the Silver and Blue Room at Lawlor shaking hands with supporters before leaving the university in a black motorcade.
Annie Evans, a 17-year-old student at Truckee Meadows Community College, said she attended the event with an open mind to be informed.
“I think it is really important for young people to know
what is going on in the world, and not just leave it to their parents to know what’s going on,” Evans said.
Misha Ray, 20-year-old jour-nalism major, attended the event with Michael Stannard, a 20-year-old political science major, after seeing a sign for free tickets at the Joe Crowley Student Union the week prior.
“We’re supporters of pretty much whatever they decide to do,” Ray said.
Casey Stiteler, Flipside’s
director of programming, thought the speakers delivered a strong message.
“I think it makes a lot of sense for them to be in Nevada considering our economic state. Biden made a lot of re-ally great points regarding the recovery plan,” Stiteler said.
Nevada Sagebrush reporter Jay Balagna contributed reporting to this story. Danielle Pearson and Jay Balagna can be reached [email protected].
disorder and dysgraphia, a writing-based disorder, as well as other, less-common handicaps.
Most people with learning disabilities are given a general diagnosis and not told which disorder they have, Cheney said.
“Generally, in the school system, we don’t tend to break it down and just say people are learning disabled,” she said.
That approach has the advan-tage of preventing decreased expectations for a student in any specific area, Cheney said. It sometimes expands those decreased expectations to all subjects, though.
“For the most part, people see this as something that can be overcome,” Cheney said. “There is the risk some people will just give up, though.”
Thornley said his learning disability affected him through grade school and into college.
“When I was younger, my first year of grade school was in a special education program which was a little dishearten-ing,” he said.
The next year, Thornley was assigned to a regular classroom but still had to work to succeed in school with his disability.
As the years went by, he be-gan to find himself wondering why he couldn’t achieve the high grades his older sister had earned in the same subjects. As he slowly came to terms with his dyscalculia, he began to
realize he would have to start taking more responsibility for his education if he wanted to succeed later in life.
“Lowered expectations can often be a problem (for students with learning dis-abilities),” Cheney said. “Sometimes families and teachers can help too much and students can kind of get a learned helplessness.”
Those feelings of helpless-ness keep many students with learning disabilities from col-lege educations, she said.
“There are a lot of capable students out there and the message is getting to them more and more that college is an option,” Cheney, whose son has a learning disability and is a UNR graduate, said.
While Thornley tries to do
as much as he can on his own, he still needs help in some areas. His freshman year, he took a year-long Math 120 class offered through the Dis-ability Resource Center. Now that his math requirement is completed, he uses only the alternative testing and note-taking services offered through the center.
The alternative testing is the same test given in the classes, but in a longer allotted time period and in the Disabil-ity Resource Center, Thornley said.
Another student in the same class provides the note-taking service by agreeing to take his own notes on carbon-copy paper in exchange for a $100 stipend toward the next semester’s tuition, Zabel said.
Note-takers are screened by the Disability Resource Center to make sure their handwrit-ing is legible and they are not on academic probation, she said. The money automatically is reduced from the following semester’s tuition.
Jay Balagna can be reached at [email protected].
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YOUR BRAIN ON EVOLUTION
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I n exactly a month, the Christian ministry Living Waters will publish and distribute more than
100,000 copies of its creationist-inspired version of Charles Darwin’s seminal work “On the Origin of Species” to the top 100 universities in the nation, just in time for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s work.
Living Waters claims its goal is that “future doctors, lawyers
and politi-cians will freely get informa-tion about Intelligent Design (and the gospel) placed directly into their hands.”
For years, people have been trying to get creationism into public school curriculums. Creation-ism is the belief that God created the universe and/or humankind, and the evidence for this amounts to disproving evolution and offering inter-pretations of “scientifi c data” to “prove” the creation account in Genesis.
Clearly that shouldn’t be allowed in public classrooms, what with separation of church and state and all. In fact, the Supreme Court ruled in Edwards v. Aguillard that allowing creationism in public schools would be unconstitu-tional. However, many, mostly religious fundamentalists, were unsatisfi ed with this. And thus was born the idea of intelligent design.
Intelligent design is the theory of an intelligent designer’s role in the creation of the universe/humankind. Intelligent design argues that the world’s complex-ity and organization makes a designer’s intervention the only reasonable explanation.
Sound familiar? The basis for almost all of the evidence for this theory is the Christian Bible and misinterpretations of scientifi c theories. Suffi ce to say this is less than convincing evidence, scientifi cally speaking.
Evolution by natural selection can explain the existence of oddities such as the human appendix and tailbone and the vast genetic similarities between diverse organisms, show the reason for body symmetry, the prevalence of fi ve fi ngers, four limbs, two eyes and why beetles account for 25 percent of all
known living organisms.Natural selection, the process
by which inheritable traits that aid in an organism’s survival and reproduction become more common throughout a popula-tion over generations, working with only the genetic materials available can easily account for such diverse aspects of nature.
A harder question is why an intelligent designer would make such arbitrary decisions.
God, according to standard Christian theology, is the Supreme Creator of the universe, outside of time, not bound by laws and thus, supernatural. That’s OK. If God is supernatural, there is not a single thing science can say on the issue. Science deals with the observable, quantifi able and natural.
By making God a scientifi c hypothesis, religious funda-mentalists are simultaneously pissing on the very idea of the God they glorify and scien-tifi c authority. This upcoming creationist version of “On the Origin of Species” is everything that is wrong with the confl ict between science and religion.
Barry Belmont is proud of his evolutionary heritage. Reach him at [email protected].
I t’s that awful point in the semester when all the work’s piled up, the motivation’s drained and, somehow, time is not stopping so everyone can catch up on sleep.
And, whenever I have a bad day at school or work (or both), I can always count on the external world chiming in and making things worse. Some politician is pissing everybody off, some celebrity is getting more spoiled and some jerk is cutting me off in traffic.
But when all the extra work, stolen sleep and positive thinking will no longer cut it, there’s still one more thing that will prevent me from moving to an underground bunker in rural Idaho.
It’s knocking back a drink with my buddies.I’m all for stress reduction
through exercise, eating right and sleeping, but sometimes you just need some brain inhibition and laughter with your friends. Whether it’s a glass of wine on the phone with my best friend in Wisconsin, a beer with my boyfriend and his roommate or margaritas in a room of squealing girls, there’s something deeply relaxing about pouring a cup of alcoholic goodness and preparing to bullshit.
Besides, I don’t see a mini-vacay as getting so tanked you can’t remember anything. One glass of wine can make me forget I haven’t done dishes in two weeks for a few minutes. And, as long as you stop at one or two, some things, such as red wine, can actually be healthy for you.
But I still don’t feel bad when I have a few too many and find myself almost peeing my pants from irreverent laughter. Laughter can do everything from release pain-killing and stress-reducing endorphins to aid digestion, increase oxygen intake and boost the immune system.
Besides, how much does it bond you to someone if they’re holding you up while you both laugh your guts out? Or, for that matter, if they hold your hair while you puke or keep a lookout while you pee in public?
In the future, I’ll probably be a gnarled old person hunched over a bar, complaining about how, in my day, things were cheaper and children were better behaved. I’m OK with that. Because after all the other grizzly old people and I have gotten all our whining out of the way, we’ll knock a few more back and then cry with laughter over those hazy memories of our younger, stupider, drunker selves.
Emily Katseanes is perspectives editor. If you see her at a bar, buy her a drink (gin and tonics are a favorite). Reach her at [email protected].
U niversity officials are tight-lipped about recent disparities in reprimanding
police personnel, making the already interesting questions surrounding the firings more suspicious.
Lt. Kevin Youngflesh was merely demoted after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in an unmarked police car in 2004. Three years later, he has moved through the ranks from officer to lieutenant.
But when Sgt. Lane Grow was convicted on four
misdemeanors of registration violation in May (he is ap-pealing the convictions), he was fired. He was reinstated at UNRPD only after a state hearing officer forced the university to do so Friday.
Grow claims he was fired out of retaliation — he was terminated one year after he made public allegations of vast corruption at the University of Nevada, Reno. University officials won’t comment on why he was fired because they say it’s a personnel issue.
University officials should
have a standard policy with guidelines detailing when it’s appropriate to fire person-nel. Without a standard procedure, the university’s recent firing practices have raised unanswered suspi-cions.
UNR President Milton Glick said the disparity stems from two different adminis-trations handling the issues (former UNR President John Lilley demoted Youngflesh and Glick fired Grow). However, Adam Garcia, chief of UNRPD, was head of the department in both
instances, as was Ron Zurek, the vice president who oversees UNRPD.
Conflict within the police department under Garcia’s direction is not uncommon. Grow has several lawsuits against UNR, including one claiming that Garcia protects the force’s alcoholics. An employee was fired last spring after reports of alleged abuse of his service dog, with some claiming Garcia knew about the abuse, and there have been two votes of no confidence against the chief.
There is too much history
with Grow and UNRPD for the university to fire him without raising eyebrows — the hearing officer didn’t think it was proper.
UNR needs to establish a tighter firing policy and follow it — otherwise, allegations of retaliation will appear every time and, regardless of the truth of such allegations, people will become more suspicious of this university.
The Nevada Sagebrush can be reached at [email protected].
“My old house is built over an old Indian grave-yard. Me and my parents once saw a women walking in a white dress.”
Michael Richards18, computer science
“We were at my friend’s house in the living room. We looked at the hallway and when we did, the door to his mother’s room, closed shut.”
Christabell Sotell18, biology
“I haven’t had any, but I be-lieve in ghosts.“
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“When my grandmother died, I thought I saw her right after she died. I was about 7 years old.”Kristin Polzin
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LETTER TO THE EDITOROct. 13, by e-mail:
Concerning the elimination of rollover swipes.
This is really disappointing. Usually I read about the bi-zarre things the University is doing in order to help cut costs and see some sort of sense in them. I accept them even if I don’t like them. But when I saw that they plan to cut rollover swipes, I found myself angry. This year I moved off campus, mostly be-cause of the outrageous meal plan prices. To see that they are raising prices to fi x a sys-tem that, to me, doesn’t seem broken is ridiculous. Rollover swipes were SO helpful to me when I dined on campus. And to the limiting of swipes in the DC Store, I am enraged! 16 times per semester? One of the greatest things about being a college student is hav-ing the ability to go down to the DC Store at midnight to get a grilled cheese whenever you’re up late studying for a test. I weep for the incoming freshman that won’t have this privilege.
Thanks,Rachel Clayson
WEB NOTESSTORY: ASUN BILLBOARDS REACH OUT TO RENO
On Oct. 13, 1:15 p.m., Ronald Dregan wrote:
I’m actually proud of the Ne-vada Sagebrush because of the accuracy of this article. Al-though a few of the senators that serve ASUN had mixed emotions about the expedi-tious manner in which this money was taken out of the offi ce account, the majority of us were in agreement about outreach to the community being a necessity for the As-sociated Students. The above statement of community knowledge about the Univer-sity of Nevada is completely false and outreach to our community in order to stimu-late academic and athletic involvement, heightened rev-enues, and overall pride in the Wolf Pack is imperative. There is legislation being drafted at the present to promote com-munication between the Ex-ecutive Branch and Legislative Branch to avoid nondisclosure in the future, but Whitney Lee should be commended on the daunting amount of work she put into this project in order to market the University of Ne-vada. My issue is the Dr. Seuss theme…umm a childrens book theme for the homecoming of our football team? Maybe next year we could choose The Poky Little Puppy since we are the Wolf Pack.
On Oct. 13, 10:57 a.m., Chris wrote:
To be perfectly honest, this is a huge friken waste of money, and the fact it was done without approval should be investigated and punished by whatever means needed. The reno community knows we are here and that campus is open to everyone and the people who see theses ads will not just randomly think let’s go to unr.
Launch an investigation, change loopholes that al-lowed this to happen, and save our money.
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MEMO ON YOUR HEALTH
Prostate works out rivalry issues with cancer research favoritismD ear Breasts,
It’s me, Prostate. Look, I don’t know how to say this, so I’m just going to say it.
You see, I had an epiphany the other day, and I’ve been dying to share it with you.
I used to think I was jealous of the attention you’re receiving, and I’m not talking about your sex appeal. I have become accustomed to that; men like breasts and women have a pair, I get it.
I’m referring to Breast Cancer Aware-ness month. For 25 years now, you have
had your cause glorified amidst a sea of unremittingly supportive fans.
Just this last season I was aghast to see so many businesses piggybacking on your cause, trumpeting it ostentatiously across America in an all-out crusade to save the
boobs. All that I have seen lately is breast cancer this and pink ribbon that.
Whether or not your cause comes before their profi ts is questionable at best, but maybe that’s just me being bitter.
I know I have my Prostate Cancer Awareness month during September, but year after year, the blue ribbon signifying my cause is smothered by a tsunami of illustrious pink in October. All the while, I’m cast aside like that worthless Appendix, left hanging alongside Bladder, feeling as blue as my ribbons.
Don’t get me wrong, Bladder’s an ami-able companion, especially when Kidney comes down to hang out. But it really isn’t until Testes shows up that we have a ball.
But I digress.I know we’re different glands in differ-
ent bodies, but we face the same enemy: uncontrolled cell growth.
With great difficulty, I was able to log on to the Center for Disease Control Web site (keyboards aren’t what you would call prostate-friendly these days) and found some alarming statistics for the both of us. In the United States in 2005 alone,
there were roughly 186,000 new cases apiece of both breast cancer and prostate cancer.
When we get sick with cancer we endanger Lungs, Lymph, Kidneys, Heart and the rest of the gang. This is the cold reality that unites people behind your pink ribbon and I understand that now.
Whether it’s you, me or any of the other organs, I’ve come to realize that we’re all in this together. Your cancer is my cancer.
That being said, I want you to know I whole-heartedly support you and your crusade against cancer. Although I know some of the other organs and I may seem green with envy during times like Breast Cancer Awareness month, we’ve come to realize we’re all fighting the same battle.
Plus, I’ll be the first to admit there’s nothing sexy about a prostate (sigh).
Yours,Prostate
Memo Sanchez would like to remind ev-eryone that a Memo a day keeps the doctor away. Reach him at [email protected].
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT
P resident Barack Obama again became the focus of many on Oct. 9, when he was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between
peoples,” according to Irish political party leader Mark Durkan. Some people are criticizing this because he hasn’t shown any results yet, particularly the ending of the war in Afghanistan.
However, although people criticize him, I believe President Obama deserves the prize for his bravery.
As one of the holders of nuclear weapons, it was an historic event when the United States stepped forward to abolish them. As the fi rst U.S. president to chair the United Nations Security Council, President Obama raised the resolution of nuclear nonprolif-eration and disarmament. Leaders from 15 countries approved his vision of a “world without nuclear weapons.”
After the U.N. Security Council met on Oct. 17, the government of Japan proposed a resolution of nuclear disarmament to the United Nations
General Assembly with the United States and 39 other countries. It was the fi rst time the U.S. government addressed concretely that it would reduce its nuclear weapons to half their power.
In these recent growing movements of nuclear disarmament, Japan and the United States should work together to abolish nuclear weapons from the world as only an atom-bombed country and a holder of an atom bomb can. I didn’t expect that the US would reduce their nuclear arms of its own accord while commanding other nuclear powers to do so.
It’s not only President Obama who is taking action to change the world. Paul R. Shepherd at the University of Southern California made a short documentary movie called “Trace of a City.” In the movie, he interviews Masaaki Tanabe, who is trying to recreate a visual of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima using computer graphics and memories of survivors. Shepherd uses his fi lm to show Americans the importance of peace.
The movie does not try to blame the U.S. or to show hatred of Japanese people, but tries to help people to imagine what life would be like under the bomb.
Everyone can look back to the past and apologize for what they did, but until President Obama, I didn’t think that change would actually happen.
We new generations are responsible for the future; therefore, what we need to do now is not carry on the hatred from the past, but instead raise children to care about others regardless of their backgrounds.
The future is in our hands.
Seiko Kamikariya is from Japan and studies marketing. She enjoys drinking beer and eating pizza, not sushi, in the United States. Reach her at [email protected].
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THE GREEN LIFE
Fieldwork available for undergradsT he earth needs saving and un-
dergraduate students can make a difference. We can make the effort to use recycle bins, attend lectures,
educate ourselves about greener energy options, write to congressional and state representatives and volunteer. We can even do undergraduate research.
There are grants and awards offered at the University of Nevada, Reno for
undergraduate green research, such as the General Undergradu-ate Research Award (GURA) and the NSF EPSCOR Under-graduate Research Award. Both of these awards are given to students from mul-tiple disciplines, from engineering to social sciences. Moreover, many professors at
UNR employ and mentor students in undergraduate research.
Chemical engineering professor Chuck Coronella is one of these professors. Coronella’s research team is working with
Professor Victor Vasquez, the City of Reno and the Truckee Meadows Wastewater Reclamation Facility.
Their research is trying to develop a process to convert wastewater sludge into a renewable power. Coronella, Vasquez and their team are taking wastewater sludge, which is the residual, semi-solid material remaining after the wastewater has been treated, then drying it. Then it is further treated by several processes to chemically augment and maximize potential energy output.
The processed sludge can then be used as a renewable energy source in power plants, buses, cars and homes via processes such as combustion or in conjunction with biofuels, thus offering an environmentally friendly and nonfi nite energy source.
Coronella, Vasquez and their team also work with a UNR undergraduate, Schinthia Islam, who studies chemical engineering student and is a recipient of the GURA Award.
Coronella believes the research can be signifi cant.
“It has the potential to transform a waste product into renewable energy,” he said. “The waste product is usually disposed of
by land fi lling, obviously not a sustainable practice. The renewable energy is then very sustainable.”
And Islam is an important part of that process.
“Currently I am working with wastewater sludge to assess its energy and chemical composition,” she said. “I am determining the energy content of each kind of sludge we have obtained. My research also deals with torrefaction—a method for pre-treating biomass in a way to increase its energy density. This method can be applied to biomass other than sludge, such as scrap wood and agricultural byproducts.”
If Islam’s research comes to fruition, biofuels could replace fossil fuel cars and our country would be one step closer to less pollution, fewer landfi lls and fi nancial and national independence. Her research, along with so many other undergraduate students, is a powerful witness to how an individual, regardless of age or station in life, can make a difference.
Susannah Lee is the president of the Sustain-able Energy Forum. Contact her at [email protected] or visit the Web site at sef.unr.tripod.com/index.html.
VETERINARY ASSISTANT
First day on job with ambulatory equine vet packs kickI am a vet assistant. To be specifi c,
for about two and a half years, I have been an ambulatory equine veterinary assistant.
I absolutely love it. I thrive off every stitch, every life
saved and especially every lesson learned from lives lost. Working with animals often means that things don’t go as planned, making my job absolutely unpredictable.
Some days consist of 200 or more routine vaccines, other days consist of neurectomy surgery, deep wounds on alpacas, chemotherapy, a hematoma on a dog or even pulling a baby horse from her mother who cannot lay down to deliver.
These are the types of days I thrive on. However, I have not always been this comfortable on the job. I learned some key lessons for the fi rst day at a new job: relax, listen well, ask ques-tions, show you deserve this job and be confi dent. My fi rst day was another story altogether.
When working for an ambulatory practice, my job takes me and my coworkers to the client and patient. We headed up U.S. 395 North into Califor-nia for our fi rst stop at a very old, worn ranch with little dogs running around yapping, chickens pecking the ground, a couple horses and a mule, which was who we were there to treat.
A mule is the offspring of a female horse and a male donkey. They take the stubbornness and intelligence of the donkey and add it to the size and independence of the horse.
This particular mule was chronically lame in his front right leg and was not responding to any medical treatments or corrective shoeing (“lame” is a general term for a horse that limps due to pain for one reason or another).
I was nervous. I didn’t really know what to do, so I
followed my boss like a shadow. She asked me to lead the mule in a trot away from her, then turn back at the same speed so she could note the
grade of lameness and see if anything had improved since the last time she saw the mule.
After my boss outlined some options, the owner decided on a simple
neurectomy, which is surgical removal of a section of a nerve to eliminate pain, for the mule’s long-term comfort.
Wait — surgery on my fi rst day?My boss collected different sized
needles, syringes, drugs and surgery prep materials, such as betadine and sterile gauze. She explained what drugs she was using and what the procedure would be like.
Next, she said, “Hayley,
you’re the anesthesiologist today.”What was going on here? My job was
supposed to be watching the IV drip once the mule was down, listening to vitals and checking the mule’s reaction rate to make sure he wasn’t coming out of anesthesia early.
But this was fi eld surgery. We didn’t have sterile surgery tables, climate control or 10 extra hands. We set up our portable table at the back corner of the pen and sedated the mule so he relaxed. The next step was the anesthetic. The expected effect of the drug was that he should fall quietly on his side.
However, a very quick fi ve seconds later, the mule was backing rapidly across the pen, about to fall. My boss was hollering, the owner was going the opposite direction and the mule was
rapidly approaching our sterile surgery table.
Then it happened. He sat on the table, broke two table
legs and completely ruined the sterile set-up. All I heard was, “Shit! Goddam-mit!”
After we all calmed down, assessed the situation and started breathing at a normal pace, we realized the mule was not in a good place. So, the three of us each grabbed a leg or tail and pulled the thousand-pound mule into a safer spot. We reset the whole surgery prep (good practice for me in the long run) and continued with the surgery.
Everything went smoothly from there on out and I learned the proper placing of a stethoscope on a horse to listen to respiration and heart rate and how the IV drip system works.
Hayley Rasmussen is a pre-veterinary major and rides big, pretty horses in her spare time. Reach her at [email protected].
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Next, she said, “Hayley, you’re the anesthesiologist today.” What was going on here?
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Not since the ethics club declared you’re not a person until you’re 12.
Hey, man … What’s with the head?
Well, the ethics club declared that bowling is inhumane to the ball. So the bowling team has had to make some adjustments to the game.
Isn’t it hard to knock the pins down with that head?
Yeah, that is why we replaced the pins with a group of easily frightened children. Man, does this puppy scare the hell out of those kids.
Wait, then isn’t that inhumane to the children?
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nation, and organic through its subtle soundtrack and visu-ally realistic manner. Ultimately, it creates overwhelming feelings of nostalgia.
Exceeding expectations of the stereotypical kid movie, “Wild Things” carries adult themes such as loneliness and the hun-ger to belong. Is it a happy fi lm? No. Portraying this dark theme allows director Spike Jonze (“Ad-aptation”) to embrace realistic imagery and drive the camera to the most scenic dwellings. Jonze captures the monsters in a most real state with the help of CGI, resulting in a fearful yet captivat-ing experience.
Among strong visuals and art-
ful attributes, the music vibrates on high ground. Jonze, a past music video director, knows just when to press play.
Max Records (“The Brothers Bloom”) unleashes everything in the central role with an emotional range that stretches well above his age. Records, at only 12, is on his way to becoming a well-seasoned actor. The addition of gruff voice talents of James Gandolfi ni (“The Taking of Pelham 123”) and Forest Whitaker (“Powder Blue”) adds to the gloomy mood of the fi lm.
This movie is a positive exten-sion of a piece of our childhood history. It leaves no room for imitations and creates the genu-ine feeling of being a kid again.
Caitlin Thomas can be reached at [email protected].
Set in the fall of 2006 in a subur-ban area of San Diego, the fi lm follows Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat (playing modifi ed versions of themselves), a young couple “engaged to be engaged,” as Micah puts it. Ever since child-hood, Katie has been followed by a sort of demonic/ghostly pres-ence that haunts her in her sleep. In order to understand this intan-gible presence, Micah purchases a high-tech video camera to re-cord the nightly events that occur while the couple sleeps. Over the course of nearly three weeks, the presence’s appearances intensify, tearing the couple and their lives apart.
What happens when you sleep? It is a question no one can truth-fully answer and it is disturbing just to think about. This idea of the unknown has provided some of the best psychological horror/thrillers of all time in such fi lms as “Jaws” and its question of what lurks below the surface and Hitchcock’s “Psycho” with its idea of vulnerability while in the shower. Taking this focal theme to an even more personal level, the bedroom, fi rst-time director Oren Peli crafts a fi lm that de-mands viewers to question how sure they really are that ghosts and demons do not exist.
You can tell yourself it is not real. You can say that it is just a fi lm and all events are staged. You could consult the Univer-sity of Nevada, Reno’s top fi lm professor to have him explain the realities of the fi lmmaking process. But when you see a girl violently torn from her bed by an invisible force, and you hear her shrill screams for help as she is dragged into the menacing dark-ness, a memory is burned into your head that is hard to shake.
Shot for an unheard of, in today’s fi lming world, $15,000, “Paranormal Activity” relies not on special effects or an intricate plot to carry the fi lm, but its ac-tors’ abilities to emote the rarely felt emotions that create that unique and truly horrifying at-mosphere. And it is often that Peli relies on Katie and Micah to react to the effects that were obviously added in post production.
Acting as the everyday girl whose love for her boyfriend is topped only by her fear of her curse, Featherston creates a genuine character. She is the most relatable character in the fi lm and her memorable mental breakdown toward the end of the fi lm only makes viewers more sympathetic to her experience.
As the testosterone-driven boyfriend, many will undoubtedly
fi nd Micah to be the fi lm’s antago-nist. Constantly ignoring his girl-friend’s requests by continually trying to interact with the being, his actions come off as stubborn. This stubbornness is understand-able though. A man will go to any lengths to protect his girl, even if those lengths are excessive.
Starting off slow, “Paranor-mal Activity” understandably drags throughout its fi rst half
by setting up its characters and events. It doesn’t take long before the soon-to-be iconic nighttime bedroom shots begin to become more prominent and terrifying. Through the use of fading to black and the growing boom of the eerie sound that accompanies the presence, Peli lets audiences know when they should hold on to their viewing partner for dear life.
In summary, “Paranormal Activity” is an instant classic in the psychological horror genre. It is a movie that should be expe-rienced in a theater by hundreds of others just as willing to get the crap scared out of them. It is one of the memorable and haunting fi lms of our generation.
Jay Brissenden can be reached at [email protected].
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Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat star as a couple that are haunted by a ghostly/demonic spirit over the course of a month in Paramount Vantage’s “Paranormal Activity.”
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even a part of the fi rst team to successfully make a girl wet herself in the house (and subsequently win the bet that we had going behind the scenes). Particularly being a woman, knowing that I have the power to scare even grown men is very revitalizing. As we say in the house, we feed off of the screams.
Haunted house work is rather challenging. Timing is of the utmost importance, and if you mess up your scare, you are met with laughs rather than screams, which really puts a damper on the whole affair.
I also suffered a few injuries from crouching down to spring out at customers with a meat cleaver and from slamming my fi st against the wall for dramatic effect, and customers certainly trample right on top of us on numerous occasions. While hiding in a darkened hallway for a scare, a group of girls came running around the corner in fear and ran directly onto me, so I did the only thing I could think of — I let out my very best bloodcurdling haunted house scream, which did the trick and scared them right off.
Overall, the most fun part of working in the haunted house is standing there in costume, thoroughly surrounded by
the Halloween spirit and listening to the sounds in the house. Customers shout things that range from favorites like, “Hold my hand, bro. Dude, hold my hand!” and “I’m about done with this. I’m scared to death,” to whimpered pleas like, “Please … don’t hurt me!” and “Someone, please let us out!” I was even fortunate enough to witness someone sink down and cower on the floor from fear and announce to their friends, “I’m about to crawl my ass back out of here!”
Of course, it’s all in a day’s work.
Casey O’Lear can be reached at [email protected].
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The hotel’s resident spirits, nicknamed Rosie and William, are said to haunt rooms four and fi ve and frequently make themselves known.
“We don’t really know [where the ghosts come from],” Reyn-olds said. “I’ve been here for 13 years and these stories have been
going on much longer than that. All these years down the road, they’ve just been given names. In Rosie’s room, she puts off a rose petal smell. In William’s room, it’s a smell of cherry pipe tobacco. The spirits move objects — they love our keys, they love to shake the bed in the middle of the night to say, ‘Wake up. I’m here.’ They’re not evil spirits; they’re not poltergeists. All they’re trying to do is tell them that they’re there.”
The hotel has been featured in a number of television shows and paranormal investigations, which draw visitors from all over the globe to search for the spirits.
“Most of the time, if they come equipped, they defi nitely pick up things,” Reynolds said of the ho-tel guests searching for a ghostly encounter. “Sometimes people don’t know we’re a haunted hotel and they’ll come ask me all these questions in the morning and
they’ve been visited by a spirit.”
NEVADAN GHOST TOWNS ARE UNIQUELY FRIGHTFUL
Other options for those look-ing for an authentic Halloween adventure are the myriad of ghost towns that exist in Ne-vada. For those not opposed to long drives, abandoned towns such as Rhyolite, located in the Bullfrog Hills about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, offer a unique and unforgettable Hal-loween experience. Goldfi eld, the most populated town in Nevada during the early 20th century, now remains largely a ghost town, with a small popu-lation residing about 170 miles southeast of Carson City.
Casey O’Lear can be reached at [email protected].
By Tara Verderosa
Thirty-fi ve dollars for unlim-ited beer, chocolate, cheese and ice cream: the things college students’ prayers are made of. Luckily for us, Buckbean Brew-ing Company is playing the role of God, planning to grant our wishes with Canfest.
The Buckbean Brewing Company will host Canfest, the fi rst international beer judging and tasting for canned beers, on Oct. 23 in the Grand Theatre of the Grand Sierra Resort Casino. More than 25 different brewer-ies, both local and international, will be represented at the event, featuring about 50 different beers. Attending brewers include Guinness (Ireland), Sapporo (Japan), 21st Amend-ment (California), Maui Brewing (Hawaii) and many others.
Brewers will be judged privately that morning before the event is opened to the public at 6:30 p.m. For a $35 fl at rate, patrons 21 and older can taste unlimited beers, participate in open forums and hear from beer experts. Pairings with cheese, ice cream (from Tahoe Creamery) and chocolate (from local Dorado Chocolates) will also be available.
Director of the Brew-ers Association Paul Gatza will speak about the histo-ry of American beer, craft beer and trends in canned beer. Founder of Wo m e n e n -j oy i n g b e e r.com, Ginger Johnson will also give a pre-sentation about the relationship between beer,
women and the arts. Brewers will also participate in an open forum where patrons can ask questions.
“Buckbean wanted to do a local beer festival, something unique,” Doug Booth, president of Buckbean Brewing Company, said. “We invited only breweries who can their beer. We want to let people know that great beer also comes in a can.”
Booth, who ran beer events in Las Vegas at Montelago Village, said his past beer events have attracted about 1,500 guests, a number he hopes to see at Canfest.
“Some are people who just turned 21 and some are retired and just love to investigate the different styles of beers,” Booth said. “This attracts quality beer fans of all ages. It’s a wide range of people.”
“I would attend this event,” Mercedes Olivares, a 20-year-old neuroscience major, said. “Thirty-fi ve dollars is a lot (of money) to any college student, but if the event is long, tasting different beers, of course I would attend.”
Among Buckbean Brewing
Company’s many missions, promoting canned beer is high on the list. Their advertisements and Web site proudly boast that canned beer is best because it keeps the beer from light and oxygen (two things that ruin the alcohol), cans cool faster than bottles, cans are allowed places glass containers are not and cans are environmentally friendly.
Booth, a former U.S. Forest Service biologist, said proceeds from the event will be donated to the Great Basic Bird Observa-tory and The Nature Conser-vancy.
“We want to raise money for something important,” Booth said. “Plus the can is such an en-vironmentally friendly package. There is no fear of breakage, no
paper used and it’s mostly a recycled product.”
Josh Hope, a 19-year-old undecided major, said he
would go to the event if he were old enough.
“I’d go because to develop your taste for beer you need to have tasted a variety
of different brews,” he said.
Tara Verderosa can be reached at [email protected].
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A free art show and musical performance is now available to students at lunchtime every Wednesday. In a combined ef-fort, the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Music and Dance, the Department of Art and the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center are hosting the L-Cubed series.
“It brings in cultural events and people into our facility,” Carol Parkherst, senior director of libraries at UNR, said. “It is the opportunity to see things (students) wouldn’t see other-wise.”
L-Cubed, which stands for Look, Lunch and Listen, is a double whammy of free art showcasings and concerts pre-sented by students and faculty in the Frank and Joan Randall Rotunda at noon on Wednesdays throughout the semester.
Each exhibition of the L-Cubed series includes two to three music performances and an art display. The Oct. 21 installment will include a solo guitar player, the Nightingale String Quartet and a pianist.
Director of L-Cubed and assis-tant professor of violin and viola Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio said the series is important and ben-efi cial to the everyday student.
“It provides increased aware-ness of the rich offerings that we have here on campus,” she said. “We want to give beautiful music to the community.”
Art and music vary at each ex-hibition. Musical performances range from early music to modern jazz, and artists provide anything from sculptures to wall art.
“It’s nice to have a variety,” Sant’Ambrogio said. “If you come for the whole hour, you are guar-anteed to love something.”
Unlike a formal setting, the L-Cubed series prides itself on providing a relaxing atmosphere for students to digest their lunch and experience expres-sive music. There are no rules, although cell phones are asked to be silenced.
“We want to encourage people to come and go as they please,” Emily Cox, a 25-year-old gradu-ate student and violinist for the university’s Nightingale String Quartet, said. “We would like to
have more people who will sit down for lunch.”
Out of the concert hall, the performers aren’t on a stage but in the same space as the audi-ence. Deanna Said, a 23-year-old viola player for the Nightingale String Quartet, believes part of the value of L-Cubed is the con-nection made between the audi-ence members and performers.
“You feel people responding to what you do,” she said. “The music can touch a very broad range of emotion.”
Sant’Ambrogio encourages audience interaction. A section included on the audition form asks the performer how they will introduce their performance. Artist and musicians are also expected to stay ten minutes after the performance to answer any audience questions.
“It is an opportunity for stu-dents to learn,” Sant’Ambrogio said. “It’s breaking down the barrier between the audience and performer.”
The series is the brainchild of Sant’Ambrogio and spawned from a concern about lack of awareness in the community.
“I love classical music and I can’t understand why most of America doesn’t like it,” she said. “People just haven’t been exposed to it.”
For artists and performers, L-Cubed is an opportunity to get a name out in the community and practice performing for a live audience. Cox said L-Cubed is good exposure for the music department as well as an oppor-tunity for graduate students who don’t have many performance options.
“It’s a good thing for students’ continued growth and the uni-versity as a whole,” she said.
Auditions for L-Cubed are held in Nightingale Concert Hall. Audition information forms can be found outside Sant’Ambrogio’s office and on the UNR Department of Music and Dance Web site. Sant’Ambrogio said accepted musicians present quality mu-sic and have good stage pres-ence.
Jennie Lindquist can be reached at [email protected].
“You can take Thanksgiving and Christmas, just give me my Halloween!” I could hear one of my coworkers declaring from inside the depths of the
Darkness Maze, a sentiment shared by most of us volunteers at Fright Fest this season.
I started working at the
haunted house in Meadowood Mall, on Oct. 9, opening night. Each Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening, the actors ar-rive prior to opening to fi nish last-minute tasks—probably
the same odd jobs that go along with any job: scattering bones and severed hands around on the fl oor, hanging up rubber spiders and stuffi ng bodies into bags.
Volunteering at a haunted house is oddly invigorating. Despite the long hours of standing around in the dark, walking into walls and crouch-ing in uncomfortable positions to jump out at someone, I always leave the house feeling on top of the world.
Every time I jump out and get a scream, and every time someone is afraid to walk past me, I feel quite accomplished. It is a great feeling to scare away a grown man. I was
L-Cubed features music and art shows
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L-Cubed features the art work and sculptures from university students, faculty and staff at noon every Wednesday in the Frank & Joan Randall Rotunda room in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
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WEDNESDAY/21Tech N9ne at New OasisTech N9ne will perform an all ages show featuring songs from his 10 hip-hop albums released during the past decade. The show will begin at 8 p.m. Bands Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun and Big Scoob will also perform. Tickets are $25.2100 Victorian Ave.
FRIDAY/23Enzyme Dynamite at VixenVixen will host a free pre-Halloween party, featuring a costume contest and performances by Enzyme Dynamite, DJ Tru Justice, XienHow, Black Rock City Allstars, Wordplay and an art show by Stök One. 906 Victorian Ave.
SATURDAY/24Rodney Carrington at Grande Exposition Hall in the Silver Legacy Resort CasinoStand-up country comedian Rodney Carrington will per-form shows for audiences 18 and older at the Silver Lega-cy Resort Casino; The fi rst is Saturday beginning 7 p.m., and the second on Sunday, beginning at 9:30 p.m. Tickets range from $45.50 to $55.50407 N. Virginia St.
Weston Buck at The UndergroundLocal pop/electronica group Weston Buck will perform alongside We Are The Arse-nal, From Jupiter Wayward and Verbatym. The all ages show will provide a variety of music including pop, rock and electronica. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.555 E. Fourth St.
MONDAY/26MC Chris at Tonic LoungeMC Chris will perform his “nerdcore” rap at Tonic Lounge beginning at 9 p.m. for a crowd 21 and older. MC Chris has released nine studio albums.Tickets are $15.231 W. Second St.
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By Tara Verderosa
They’re unapologetically crude, artful masters of musical comedy. Bowling for Soup’s new album, “Sorry for Partyin’”, is an infusion of everything from polka to grunge, ‘90s pop to al-ternative rock and even includes Spanish lyrics. Unsurprisingly, their off-beat sense of humor gives the album a unique sense and fun not easily attained in the music industry.
Bowling for Soup, which has penned eight albums since its 1994 creation, fi rst hit the spotlight with its 2002 single “Girl All the Bad Guys Want.” Since then, they’ve released hits such as “1985,” “High School
Never Ends” and “Almost,” which have kept them afl oat as the most consistent alternative rock band of the decade. Unlike most bands who fade in and out of stardom, changing key band members, Bowling for Soup has maintained the same musicians since 1998 and has released major studio records every three years. The key to their success is the playful manner in which they deliver their music and unforgivable, obscene lyrics that have come to defi ne who they are.
“My Wena,” the fi rst single from the album, is everything the title implies. Packed with sexual innuendos and enough erection metaphors to fuel a
Viagra sermon, “My Wena” is both hilarious and undeniably well-written. OK, so the music video features a pretty blonde in a penis suit. And yeah, there are a few shots of her spitting milk into Jaret Reddick’s face (hahaha, get it?). But despite the overly cheesy video, the song is packed with tons of clever lines that make listening a continuous discovery of new knee-slappers.
“My wena is lonely tonight / She cries when I turn out the light / She’s only happy when I’m holding her tight / Oh, my wena,” Reddick croons.
Sure to be a fan favorite, “I Gotchoo” is catchy in a ‘90s pop kind of way. So much, that it actually bears frighteningly similar beats and lyrical struc-ture to the LFO hit “Summer Girls.” Near-copyright infringe-ment aside, the stream of con-sciousness lyrics are quirky and
memorable.“Waves hit rocks and folks get
wet / I was gonna say somethin’ but now I forget / Chocolate covered cherries with the milk on the side / I’ll meet you at the party if I fi nd a ride,” Reddick nearly raps.
Unlike their usual crass lines, “I Gotchoo” is playful with silly lyrics and a “summer-lovey” feel. Though the ending of the song breaks down with grungy guitar riffs, the lyrics are kept sweet and delivered in an ‘80s rock shriek.
One of the goofi est in their arse-nal, “No Hablo Inglés” is a hilari-ous tune that offers “I don’t speak English” as the ultimate excuse to get out of anything. Though this is not Bowling for Soup’s fi rst track laden with Spanish lyrics (see “On and On About You” from their 2002 album “Drunk Enough to Dance”), it is undeniably their best. Infused with mariachi-like sounds, the track uses the line “No Hablo Inglés” in almost any situation.
“My nephew asked me if I’d take him to the Jonas Brothers movie / No hablo Inglés / Walk-ing my dog I saw a sign that says to please pick up the doodie /No hablo Inglés,” the band jokes.
Similar to their previous releases, all of the songs are memorable and catchy, making a second listen feel like a long-time favorite. Though “Sorry for Partyin’” may not win any awards for the “best relationship album” or most beautiful lyrics, it is sure to render gut-wrenching laughter and a smile.
Tara Verderosa can be reached at [email protected].
By Jay Brissenden
Attention all horror junkies — a new drug, “Paranormal Activ-ity,” has just been released and is guaranteed to sustain your unruly urges. Recommended by industry professionals and users alike, this drug is the best available on the market today. Warning — side effects may include: spontaneous loud screaming, high blood pres-sure, the urge to leave bright lights on and, in extreme cases, the uncontrollable release of bodily fl uids. This is the real deal, my friends.
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ONLINE‘WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE’Release Date: Oct. 16Director: Spike JonzeStarring: Forest Whitaker, James Gandolfi ni, Catherine Keener and Max RecordsGenre: Adventure, Family , FantasyRating: PG for mild thematic elements and brief languageGrade: A-
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TUESDAY/20ELECTRIC SIXKILLGenre:Alternative Rock, New WaveDescription:For their sixth studio album, “Kill,” the alternative New Wave group Electric Six will present another batch of upbeat dance-ready songs. The album will feature the song “Body Shot,” whose music video has been released online and has sparked controversy due to nudity.
SUFJAN STEVENSTHE BQEGenre:Indie, FolkDescription:The renowned indie rock artist Sufjan Stevens will re-lease his multimedia project, “The BQE,” an exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, including a CD, DVD, booklet with photos, liner notes and a 3D View-Master reel.
‘TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN’ - DVD RELEASEStarring:Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Josh DuhamelDescription:In this sequel to the 2007 live action adaptation of the popular cartoon series, a man must again join the war between Autobots and Decepticons in order to keep the Earth from being destroyed.Genre: Action, AdventureRating: PG-13
FRIDAY/23‘AMELIA’Starring:Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia MadsenDescription:This biopic follows the story of Amelia Earhart, the fi rst woman to fl y across the Atlantic Ocean, as she pre-pares to embark on a solo fl ight around the world, des-tined to go down in history no matter the outcome.Genre: DramaRating: PG
‘SAW VI’Starring:Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell and Betsey RussellDescription:In this latest installment of the “Saw” franchise, the next heir to Jigsaw’s legacy prepares to reveal Jigsaw’s horrible grand scheme as the FBI begins to close in on him.Genre: HorrorRating: R
‘ASTRO BOY’Starring:Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage and Kristen BellDescription:In this animated feature set in a futuristic city, a young robot named Astro Boy with numerous super pow-ers embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, meeting several colorful characters along the way, learning to embrace his destiny and learning what it means to be a hero.Genre: Science FictionRating: PG
October 16“Paranormal Activity”= 86% Fresh“Where the Wild Things Are” = 68% Fresh
“Law Abiding Citizen”= 24% Rotten“The Stepfather” = 11% Rotten
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October 13The Flaming Lips: “Embryonic” = 80Fanfarlo: “Reservoir” =71
KISS: “Sonic Boom” = 63Massive Attack: “Splitting the Atom” = 55
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‘PARANORMALACTIVITY’Release Date: Oct. 16Director: Oren PeliStarring: Katie Featherston and Micah SloatGenre: Horror, ThrillerRating: R for languageGrade: A
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By Caitlin Thomas
When one looks back on the beloved childhood books that have been adapted into fi lm, memories such as Mike Meyers’ scarring image in “The Cat in the Hat” or the missing essential details in “Eragon” arise. In each of those adaptations, the trans-formation resulted in turning the memorable into mindless moments of clichés and a dis-turbance of original illustration.
“Where the Wild Things Are” defi es expectations and dif-ferentiates itself from the pack by exploring the nature of isola-tion with enticing emotion and whimsical sounds that will echo in your mind long after the fi lm’s closing.
Based on the short 10-sen-tence children’s book of the same name, this 110-minute
fi lm adaptation expands upon the basic premise composed by Maurice Sendak. The fi lm follows Max as he struggles with the feeling of neglect. This ne-glect has been triggered by his mother, played with dramatic perfection by Catherine Keener (“The Soloist”), and sister who are engaged in self-involved matters. Then one night every-thing changes.
After an intense fi ght with his mother, Max runs away in his signature “wild” wolf costume to a fantasy island illuminated with seven mutated creatures with freakishly large heads. This is where Max meets the infa-mous “wild things.” From that point on, unbeliev-able adventures ensue as the movie takes an impressive look into the tumul-tuous and confusing time called
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THEATRICAL HAUNTED HOUSES PROVIDE SCARES FOR CUSTOMERS
The Avenue of Screams haunted house, located within Roller Kingdom, hopes to share the curse of Dr. Carnage with visitors.
“There is not an inch of wasted space,” said Matt Patrovsky, a 20-year haunted house veteran and house manager — or “haunt manager,” as it were — of the Avenue of Screams. “There are special effects you’re not going to see anywhere else. You really have to come down and play. It’s a scare house — not a gore house. It’s more like a theater show that’ll scare the pants off you.”
The house focuses on the story of Dr. Thane Demiko, whose work with genetics and transplantation lead him to conduct gruesome experiments on creatures and children in his man-sion.
“There’s defi nitely lots of opportunity for lore and legend with Nevada’s history,” Patrovsky said. “Our character is actually based on a real doctor and surgeon who worked in the fi eld of transplantation. It’s good to take a theme and run with it. People’s worst fears come alive.”
In another corner of town, Reno Fright Fest will be pre-senting its Slaughter House. Local magician and illusionist Eli Kerr, the mastermind behind the award-winning Reno Fright Fest, plays host to the Slaughter House this year. The haunted house is located within Meadowood Mall.
In Carson City, local entrepreneur Michael Grimes runs two haunts at separate locations — at Grimes Castle dungeon and labyrinth, both based on an elaborate story about Grimes, the descendent of a mad scientist known for experimenting on clowns.
“It’s truly a stage production,” Grimes said. “It’s no different from going to a play.”
Grimes, who is not a fan of haunted houses or frightening attractions himself, has been running the house since 2006.
“Back in 2005, my niece and nephew wanted to go to a haunted house,” he said. “Coming out, they had these big smiles on their faces and I was thinking, ‘How cool was that?’ I thought it would be kind of fun watching people have fun. I’m not big into ghosts and goblins, but I love building things, decorating and working with the actors. I like to see people
with a smile on their face.”Since his fi rst year of running the house, Grimes has dedi-
cated lots of his time and energy to improving the project.“I have yet to show a profi t because I like it to be fun and
not take the cheap way out, so I constantly overspend,” he said. “This year, it’s much longer than last year and 50 or 70 percent larger. We have two great locations, so we’re expecting a powerful season. We’re not in a warehouse, where you can look up and go, ‘Oh, I’m in a warehouse. There’s the exit sign.’ Now people look up and go, ‘Oh, shit.’”
Grimes relies upon the theatrical displays for his castle’s big scares, and attests that he has seen many satisfi ed customers.
“We had four large guys in their late 20s go in, pay their money, get 10 feet in and come fl ying back out the front door,” he said. “It was some fun surveillance footage.”
In addition to these haunted houses, there will also be many opportunities for visitors to delve into some of Nevada’s most historically haunted spots this Halloween.
GHOST TOURS OFFER OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE HISTORI-CAL HAUNTS
Ghost tours of the National Automobile Museum will be offered on Saturdays during the month of October from 1 to 4 p.m. and are included in the regular price of admission.
“Different people in costume will play the characters and talk about the specifi c cars and the era,” Esther Isaac, head of sales and marketing at the museum, said. “The characters vary from Saturday to Saturday. Some people will dress up as old fi remen, so there will be some talk about that local connection.”
For an even creepier ghost tour, ghost tours of Carson City will be offered on Oct. 24 starting at 10 a.m. and depart-ing every half hour until 3 p.m. The tours will take visitors to some of the city’s historical houses including Ferris Man-
sion, the home of George Ferris Jr., the inventor of the Ferris wheel. Actors will portray historical characters such as Kit Carson, an American frontiersman who was a notable guide in the early days of the American West, to share stories about the town’s ghostly past.
For those who want to take their Halloween adventure a step beyond, there are some opportunities to tread real ghost-hunting territory this Halloween. Virginia City, notably one of Nevada’s most haunted towns, will have a Halloween Spectacular on Oct. 31 featuring a costume parade at 5 p.m., and All Hallows Eve, an event which offers a buffet dinner, a panel on paranormal investigation and four hours of ghost hunting in some of the city’s haunted hot spots for $60. There will also be walking tours of the city available by reservation every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until Halloween for $20, which will highlight all of the most haunted spots in town and launch from the historic Silver Queen Casino Hotel at the center of town.
One such haunted location is the Gold Hill Hotel, Nevada’s oldest operational hotel, established in 1859.
“There are defi nitely spirits in the original part of the hotel and the miner’s lodge out back is defi nitely haunted,” hotel manager Melody Reynolds said. “They’re in the original part of the hotel, but I feel that the spirits wander all over.”
Spend Halloween among the truly hauntedWith its potential for historically accurate scares as well as grand theatrical displays, Northern Nevada has plenty to offer when it comes to Halloween adventures. From haunted houses full of local actors waiting around every corner to antique hotels boasting their own resident spirits, it is not hard to plan a perfectly frightful excursion this Halloween season.
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An actor works at the Grimes Castle in Carson City. Grimes Castle is open from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Fridays through Sundays.
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In the Silver Queen Casino Hotel, one of the most haunted sites in Virginia City, ghosts are said to roam the halls.
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In the bathroom of the Slaughter House at Reno Fright Fest, a skeleton waits for unsuspecting victims to scare into the next room of danger and gore.
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Reno Fright FestMeadowood Mall5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, RenoOpen: Oct. 23-25, 29-Nov. 17-11 p.m.877-SoScary / 887-767-2279www.renofrightfest.comTicket price: $12 per person
Avenue of ScreamsRoller Kingdom515 E. Seventh St., RenoOpen: Oct. 22-25, 28-317-11 p.m. (6 p.m.-midnight on Halloween)775-329-3472www.hauntedhousereno.comTicket price: $12 per person, $10 with a canned food donation
Carson City Ghost WalkTour begins at Third and Carson streets, Carson CityOct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.775-687-7410
www.visitcarsoncity.comTicket price: $20 for adults
Grimes CastleDungeon—1809 N. Carson St., Carson CityOpen: Oct. 23-25, 29-Nov. 16:30-10 p.m.Ticket price: $13 per personLabyrinth—1443 S. Carson St., Carson CityOpen: Oct. 23-25, 29-Nov. 16-9 p.m.Ticket price: $9 per person775-220-5031www.grimescastle.com
All Hallows Eve in Virginia CityTour begins at the Silver Queen Casino Hotel on C Street, Virginia CityOct. 31, from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.775-815-1050www.virginiacityghosttours.comTicket price: $60
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There is no doubt Nevada’s game on Saturday against Idaho is the Wolf Pack’s biggest game of the season.
For those of you who im-mediately think about Nevada’s date with Boise State on Nov. 27 when talk
of the biggest game of the year comes up, just hear me out.
The Vandals will come into Mackay Stadium with a 6-1 record and a Western Athletic Conference-leading 3-0 mark. Not many expected Idaho to be in this position right now, and if you say you did, you’re lying.
But regardless of the preseason expectations, the Vandals look to be for real. I was able to catch some of their game last week against Hawaii on ESPN360.com.
Idaho powered their way through Hawaii’s defense while its own defense put the clamps on the Warrior offense. The Vandals’ of-fensive line is made up of aggressive behemoths whose run blocking is one of the top in the WAC.
By Juan López
The Wolf Pack’s celebration of its win over Utah State last Saturday was very short-lived.
Nevada eked out a 35-32 win over the Aggies and will now get ready to take on the Idaho Vandals, the best team, record-wise, in the Western Athletic Conference.
The Vandals come in at a surprising 6-1 and sport a 3-0 league mark.
Although Nevada has won three games in a row and is also undefeated in WAC play (2-0), the team knows Satur-day’s game against Idaho will not be like those of years past (the Wolf Pack is 4-0 against Idaho since 2005, outscoring them at a pace of 48-14 per game).
“Their record says it all,” Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick said. “They’re 6-1
By Lukas Eggen
A fter going through one of its worst seasons in recent memory, which saw
the Wolf Pack win only three games, Nevada’s soccer team is finally improving. Despite having to adapt to a new coach and pull through early-season injuries, the Wolf Pack is start-ing to show its true potential. However, the road to recovery wasn’t always easy.
BAD BEGINNINGSHeading in to the 2008
season, expectations were up. Although in 2007 the Wolf Pack went 6-11-1, new head coach Jaime Frias represented a new beginning and the team was loaded with talent.
Frias increased the fi tness training and had players believ-ing that a positive change was coming.
“We had a hard spring,” junior Alyx Sacks, said. “There was a lot of conditioning, but we were returning some seniors who had won the (Western
Athletic Conference) a few years before.”
While players were excited for the season, Frias knew it wouldn’t be clear sailing for the team.
“I didn’t have many expecta-tions because I was still trying to get to know the team,” Frias said. “I wanted to see how much I could push the team and how they were in terms of mentality and how they dealt with the de-mands of a competitive training schedule and that takes about a year.”
However, things didn’t quite go as planned. Nevada would not pick up its fi rst win until the 12th game of the season and the team struggled to fi nd its offense, scoring more than one goal only three times. Injuries began to mount and the Wolf Pack found itself looking for answers.
“Things just started to snowball,” Sacks said. “You lose a couple of games and you’re already behind.”
As the losses kept coming, it began to take a toll on the team.
“It was really tough,” Sacks said. “The girls were mentally fatigued.”
Even Frias acknowledged that, at times, it was tough to stay positive about the season.
“It’s easy to get down on oneself, especially when we’re losing 4-0, 3-0,” Frias said
While Nevada struggled, the team began to take heat from fans and the media. Some fans began to call for Frias’ fi ring, despite only being in his fi rst season with the team. Frias, however, was prepared for it.
“We knew what we were get-ting into as college coaches,” Frias said. “We’re open to criti-cism.”
The team learned to deal with the press as well and tried to use it to their advantage.
“Everyone’s a critic,” Sacks said. “You have to keep your head high and turn it into a positive.”
The team would make jokes to try and lighten the blows from the media. Frias said he
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The Nevada men’s basketball team will appear on TV at least 15 times this season.
The Wolf Pack recently announced its TV schedule, which features a total of eight televised road games this year by the University of Nevada Sports Network and Nevada’s broadcast partner, My 21 KAME-TV.
Nevada’s fi rst televised road game will be Dec. 5 at Pacifi c.
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Although the Wolf Pack soccer team lost two games this past weekend, it has already surpassed its win total from last season (three). With a 5-11 overall record this year and a 2-3 mark in Western Athletic Conference play, Nevada has put itself in good position to make a run at the WAC Tournament championship.
Team headed in right direction
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Nevada midfi elder Jill Erickson leads the team with four goals.
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Nevada running back Luke Lippincott carries the ball against Louisiana Tech. He also ran for 104 yards and a touchdown on Saturday against Utah State, helping the Wolf Pack to its third consecutive win.
Nevada will face top WAC team
Huge game looms for Pack
TV schedule released
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BY THE NUMBERSNevada will face an Idaho Vandals team that has made a major turnaround from last season on Saturday at Mackay Stadium.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
“We are a lot grittier,” junior Nevada midfi elder Alyx Sacks said. “We fi nd ways to win. It may not be pretty and it may not be perfect, but we fi nd ways to win.”
➤ Last season, Nevada’s top point scorer had eight points.➤ This year, midfi elder Jill Erickson has passed that mark with nine points.➤ Last year, only three players scored more than one goal.➤ This season, fi ve players have already scored more than two goals. ➤ Last year, Nevada’s defense recorded only four shutouts in its 20-game season.➤ This season, the Wolf Pack defense has already notched three through 16 games.
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PACK’S PROGRESSION FROM LAST SEASONBY THE NUMBERSThe Wolf Pack has greatly improved from its horrendous sea-son last year.
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this year, eclipsing last season’s mark of two.
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MARGARET DOOLITTLESWIMMING AND DIVING
In Nevada’s dual meet against UC Davis on Friday, senior Margaret Doolittle had two fi rst-place fi nishes to help Nevada defeat the Aggies 161-139. Doolittle won both the 100- and 200-yard breastroke and was part of the 200-yard medley and the 200-yard freestyle relay teams, both of which fi nished in fi rst place.
KYLIE HARRINGTONVOLLEYBALL
Outside hitter Kylie Harrington struggled as Nevada split its matches last week, beating Boise State 3-1 and losing to Idaho 3-0. Harrington averaged 2.57 kills per set in the matches, down from her season average of 3.24. Nevada continues to struggle to gain any momentum in conference play. Harrington needs to step up and rally the team if it is to be competitive at the conference tournament.
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Footballvs. Idaho 1:05 p.m. Saturday.
THE SKINNY: Few would have predicted that a Nevada-Idaho match up would have major WAC implications. Yet, when the 6-1 Vandals travel to Reno, it will pit two teams that are undefeated in WAC play. The Vandals will have to stop the nation’s No. 1 rushing attack if it wants to win, but the Wolf Pack will be facing its most diffi cult test of the season since Missouri.
Soccerat Hawaii 5 p.m. Friday
THE SKINNY: After dropping two games at home over the weekend, the Wolf Pack fell to 2-3 in conference play. Nevada needs to get back on track with the WAC Tournament less than a month away. A game against Hawaii, who is 5-8-1 on the season, provides Nevada with an opportunity to get a victory.
Volleyballat Idaho 7 p.m. Thursdayvs. Boise State 12 p.m. Saturday
THE SKINNY: The Wolf Pack split the weekend, beating Boise State before losing to Idaho. Now, Nevada faces the same two opponents this week, this time on the road. The Wolf Pack could use a pair of victories, not only for confi dences sake, but for seeding in the WAC Tournament.
Rifl eat UTEP TBA Saturday.
THE SKINNY: After edging out UTEP in its fi rst two matches of the season, Nevada travels to UTEP for its third of seven NCAA qualifying matches. The Wolf Pack will need Dempster Christenson, freshman Cliff Little and Jessica Klatt to step up once again order to beat UTEP for a third time this season.
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Junior Janet Martinez has proven that she is one of the Wolf Pack’s top runners.
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Nevada’s cross country team is fi nding success this season, fi nishingin fi fth at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational on Saturday. As the team prepares for the WAC Championships, it will be a two-team battle with New Mexico State.
O ut of all the sports that are in season, there is one sport that I love to follow the most by far.
It’s a sport where the players are stepping up, the team is showing it will be competitive and is a marvel to watch. That sport is cross country.
I know many people think running is one of the lamer sports to watch, but if you think about it, running is sport at its purest form.
There is no extra equip-ment. There are no balls, nets,
hoops or pads. Athletes do not gain advantage because they are short or tall, strong or agile. There are no skills that have to be learned like how to shoot a basketball or carry a football.
It is simply a group of athletes running. The only thing that decides the order of fi nish is how hard they’ve trained and who has the mental toughness to dig deep at the end of the race to outlast the other runners.
There are no halves and no timeouts. Once runners step onto the course, they are on their own. For a short period of time, the only thing that matters is outrunning the other athletes.
Running involves much more mental toughness than people give
it credit for. In the middle of a race, when runners are getting tired, they can’t stop or slow down.
It’s not like football where they are sitting on the sidelines for part of the game, or basketball where a substitution can be sent in. A runner has to keep going or risk losing a place.
And yet, despite running being an individual sport, cross country can be more of a team sport than most others.
While a basketball or football team may have one or two stars that carry the team, cross country runners are truly dependent on each other.
The saying, “A team is only as strong as its weakest link,” takes on a whole new meaning for a cross country team.
At a race, the top fi ve runners score points for the team based on what place they fi nish in. The lowest scoring team wins the meet.
This means one slow runner can bring the whole team down. Each runner has to do her part and one weakness can be the difference between the team winning the Western Athletic Conference and fi nishing in second.
Cross country is the epitome of sports. It is truly amazing to watch a group of athletes lay it all on the line every race with nothing but pure will and desire to keep them going.
I’ve heard someone say that runners are crazy. I’m not sure that’s true. To say they march to the beat of a different drum would be more accurate.
Runners have a competitive-ness to them that is quenched by outworking and defeating other runners. They have a desire to improve and fi nd a new challenge to overcome.
One look at Nevada’s cross country team and it becomes clear why they deserve more support and attention. At the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational on Saturday, seven of Nevada’s 10 runners set personal records.
With the WAC Championships coming up in two weeks, it’s clear that the runners are peaking at the right time.
Also, the Bronco Invitational saw a total of six teams from the WAC compete. Nevada took second, fi nishing behind New Mexico State, who won the team championship.
The Wolf Pack and the Aggies were the only two teams from the WAC to fi nish in the top fi ve in the 17-team invitational. Hawaii was the next closest in ninth place.
It’s clear that it will likely be a two-team battle for the top spot at the WAC Championships and with the Wolf Pack being one of those two teams, they deserve fans to support them.
If nothing else, go see the future of the cross country program. Nevada has only one senior and eight freshmen on the roster. This means the Wolf Pack will only get better in the coming years and will be competitive for a while.
Lukas Eggen can be reached at [email protected].
Cross country is sport in its purest and simplest form
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JORDAN BURKEBurke has emerged as Nevada’s top runner. She has been the Wolf Pack’s top fi nisher in three of its fi rst four races, including a second place fi nish at the team’s
fi rst race. However, at the WAC Preview Open, Burke showed her stuff, fi nishing in second place behind overall winner Kristina Holtz from Sacramento State. Nevada will be looking for a strong performance from Burke at the WAC Championships.
MANDY RUSSThe redshirt senior was eager to jump back into racing after not competing the season before. At the team’s second race of the season, the Stanford Invitational,
Russ fi nished 80th out of 179 runners and was the top fi nisher for the Wolf Pack. Her 6K time of 23:11 also broke her previous personal record by over two minutes. Any doubts as to whether Russ could jump back into the sport were erased.
JANET MARTINEZIn just her second race of the season, Martinez ran a 18:08 5K at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational. She was the second fi nisher for Nevada and helped
the Wolf Pack to a fi fth-place team fi nish. Martinez battled early season injuries that kept her sidelined until the third meet of the season. Since then, she has made up for lost time, showing that she can be one of Ne-vada’s go-to runners when the WAC Cham-pionships roll around.
TARA DINESDines may not be one of Ne-vada’s fastest runners yet, but, in her fi rst season of running ever, she has already cut her 5K time to under 20 minutes. Her 30th
place fi nish in the 5K open race at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational, which had 135 runners total, showed her potential.
NATALIA JARWAKAOne of seven Nevada runners who set personal records at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational, Jarwaka solidified her spot as one of Nevada’s top runners.
Her time of 18:29 was good for fourth on the team and 50th overall. She and fellow runner Katrina Ratkowiak could decide how Nevada finishes at the WAC Champi-onships.
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08 SEASON. 7 IS THE NUMBER OF CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERS THAT SET PERSONAL RECORDS AT THE SANTA CLARA BRONCO
INVITATIONAL ON SATURDAY. SIX IS THE NUMBER OF WINS IDAHO’S FOOTBALL TEAM HAS. THE VANDALS HAD A TOTAL OF
THREE WINS THE PREVIOUS TWO SEASONS. 479.5 IS THE NUMBER OF YARDS THAT THE FOOTBALL TEAM
IS AVERAGING PER GAME. THE AVERAGE RANKS FOURTH IN THE NATION. TEN IS THE NUMBER OF EVENTS NEVADA’S
SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM WON IN ITS MEET AGAINST UC DAVIS. THE WOLF PACK DEFEATED UC DAVIS 161-139. 3 IS THE NUM-
BER OF WINS THE FOOTBALL TEAM NEEDS TO BECOME BOWL ELIGIBLE THIS SEASON. THE WOLF PACK HAS SIX GAMES REMAINING.
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Defender Nikki McEachern
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CELL PHONES AND SPORTSBOOKSFor years, it was a gaming violation to operate a cell phone in a
sportsbook. If you were in view of the lines, technically you could be transferring numbers across a state line, which is a violation of Nevada gaming law.
Thankfully, the policy was rescinded in summer of 2008. To me, it seemed like kind of a senseless law since pay phones are still in most casinos, oftentimes around the corner from the sportsbook.
In 2007, an elderly lady was walking through the vicinity of the Bellagio sportsbook in Las Vegas when her phone rang. When she answered it, she was tackled by two security guards. The lady didn’t know the rule and subsequently pressed assault charges against the Bellagio.
NFL FOOTBALL PROPSMONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009
ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC TV LINE TOTAL MONEY LINE HALFTIME FINAL
5:35 P.M. 235 BRONCOS236 CHARGERS ESPN -3
+15544-175
TOTAL RECEIVING YARDS BY B. MARSHALL (DEN)
3679 OVERUNDER
76K -110-110
TOTAL FINAL
WILL L. TOMLINSON (SD) SCORE A TD?
3685 YESNO
EVEN-120
TOTAL FINAL
3686
PRO FOOTBALL WEEK #7SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC TIMES TV LINE TOTAL MONEY LINE 2NDHALF FINAL
10 A.M.
10 A.M.
1:15 P.M.
413 CHARGERS414 CHIEFS
415 COLTS416 RAMS
417 BEARS418 BENGALS
10 A.M. 419 PACKERS420 BROWNS
10 A.M. 421 VIKINGS422 STEELERS
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-13K 46
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As Nevada students turn 21, they begin to bask in the privileges that go along with offi cially being an adult. Obviously, the thrill of being able to purchase liquor and go into nightclubs and bars remains at the top of the list, but legally gambling in casinos is another bonus.
Though slot machines and table games exist in other states, Nevada is unique in that it is the only state in the United States that has legalized sportsbooks. Though some long-time bettors may try to convince you that they have a sure-fi re system for counting cards or
handicapping keno balls, sports-betting is the best way to make money in a casino. With a little sports know-how and the ability to conduct a little pre-game research, you too can be a “sharpie,” and I’m not talking about the
marking pen here. A “sharpie” is a bettor who cashes more tickets than he throws away and makes a signifi cant amount of disposable income through a little luck combined with sports-betting knowledge.
How to hit the sportsbooks
THE MONEY LINEA common misconception
is that the point line is the only way to bet football.
In last year’s Super Bowl, Pittsburgh was favored by seven points over the Arizona Cardinals, but won by only four points. However, if you had taken Pittsburgh to win on the money line, you would have won your bet.
A favorite like Pittsburgh would have been about a minus-300 money line. So that would mean that you would have to lay down $30 to win $10. Obviously, that’s a lot of money to lay down, but Pittsburgh could have won by any score and you would have won your bet.
The real benefi t to betting money lines is for betting on the underdog.
Let’s say you wanted to bet the Cardinals in that Super Bowl. Since they were a seven-point underdog, their money line would have been plus-280. That means $10 laid down would have won $28.
PROPOSITION BETSThese are specialty bets that
are offered by casinos on foot-ball games. Most casinos will offer “prop” bets for the Super Bowl, NFL conference cham-pionship games and the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.
Club Cal Neva offers “prop” bets for every NFL Monday Night Football game. Here are some examples they had for Monday night’s Denver Broncos/San Diego Chargers matchup:
Total receiving yards by Brandon Marshall (Denver) and Vincent Jackson (San Diego).
Casinos can be very creative with their “prop” bets on Super Bowl Sunday and the scenarios vary from place to place. The bets are laid out in various money line amounts.
TOTALSAnother way to bet that is available for all four major
sports (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) is bet-ting totals.
You are using your research to fi nd out whether you think the game will be high-scoring or low-scoring. You can either bet over the total or under the total.
When Nevada football played the University of Nevada, Las Vegas two weeks ago, the total of the game was set at 56 by the Peppermill. Nevada dismantled UNLV 63-28.
If you add up scores for both teams you get 91 total points. This game went way over.
If you bet the under in this game, you were out of luck early in the third quarter. If you bet over in the game, you would have already been a winner when Nevada took a 42-21 lead as the total points equaled 63 at that point.
FUTURES BETSThese are available in all sports. The bets are for a team
to win it all and are put up before each season starts and updated throughout the season.
For example, at the beginning of July, the Peppermill had the Denver Broncos at 50 to 1 to win the Super Bowl when they were not expected to have a good season. A $10 bet would win $500.
Going into Monday’s game, the Broncos were 5-0 and had dropped to 7 to 1 at the Peppermill. The Tennessee Titans, who were expected by many experts to contend for the Super Bowl, were 5 to 1 in mid-July at the Pep-permill. With a brutal 0-6 record, the Titans are now 999 to 1 at Peppermill.
PARLAYSThough straight betting has the best odds (11 to 10), parlays are probably the most common way to
bet. A parlay is a bet of two or more teams and totals. You can lay down as little as $3 and make hundreds or even thousands of dollars if all of the legs of
your parlay come in. Parlays of up to eight legs are available off the board and parlays up to 20 legs are available off cards. Foot-
ball parlay cards are available at Reno area casinos on Wednesdays. The main difference between betting off the board and betting with the parlay cards is that the spreads are set on the cards. They do not change. The spreads on the board can change constantly depending on how much money goes a certain way.
In 2003, I hit a six-leg parlay that I spent $21 on. The ticket cashed for $1,576 and had a college football game, a total from a baseball game, a basketball game and three hockey games on it. The fewer legs, the better your odds are for a payoff, but your payoff will be less.
THE POINT SPREADThe most common form of
sports-betting is betting with or against the points.
This is especially popular now that we are well into col-lege and pro football seasons. When you look at the board or at a parlay card, there are two teams listed. The team that has a minus sign with points after is the favorite. The underdog is the other team.
If you bet on the favorite, the team must win by one more point than they are favored by in order for you to win your bet. If you bet on the under-dog, that team can lose by less than the point spread or win outright and you will win.
Here’s a local example: On Saturday, Nevada was a nine-point favorite against Utah State at kickoff at the Pep-permill Resort Spa Casino. The sportsbook managers who set the lines expected Utah State to lose by at least 10 points. Nevada won the game but only by three points (35-32).
If you had bet on Nevada with the point spread you would have lost, but if you took Utah State you would have won easily. If Nevada had won the game by exactly nine points, you would have gotten a refund. This is known as a push. Depending on which Northern Nevada casino you were in, Nevada was anywhere from an eight-and a-half-point favorite to a 10-point favorite. The half point prevents you from pushing.
TIPS ON HOW TO BETRead a sports page or look at sports Web sites like espn.com or covers.com every day. It is important
to keep up with player injuries or suspensions. You don’t want to be surprised on game days. Read all the in-house casino rules. Since baseball has many weather-related delays and postpone-
ments, casinos have rules on how long a game can go. Even if you think you may have lost, a weather-shortened game can give you a refund.
Betting with your heart can be dangerous. I know we’re close to San Francisco and there are lots of dedicated Golden State Warriors and Oakland Raiders fans around, but those teams have been brutal for years. Betting on them to cover spreads or win outright constantly is not intelligent.
Don’t get discouraged if you are on a bit of a losing skid. There are games every day so you can always start a fresh winning streak.
Try to fi nd the hot teams. The University of Idaho football team is having an awesome season and has covered every game this year. The Denver Broncos were not expected to win more than four games this year by many so-called experts. They have been a bettor’s dream, covering each week and winning money line bets four times as underdogs already.
And, most importantly, don’t bet more than you can afford to lose! Sports betting is supposed to be fun. But don’t spend your rent money, because there is no such thing as a sure lock.
OTHER TYPES OF BETSTEASERS — Available in
six, six-and-a-half and seven points, teasers give you a lower payoff but give you more points to play with. This means the bettor has six or more points added to the total he or she has to beat in order for his or her bet to be successful.
If you had teased Nevada Saturday by seven points, the Wolf Pack would have only had to win by two. Since the Wolf Pack won by three, you would have won that part of the teaser. Teasers must be at least two legs off of the board or three legs off of cards.
HALF BETS — In football and basketball (in some ca-sinos), you are able to bet on either the fi rst half line and total or the second half line and total.
In Saturday’s University of Colorado/University of Kansas football game, CU led the game at halftime 24-10. Kansas, who was a nine-and-a-half-point favorite for the game, was a fi ve-point favorite to win the second half.
Though CU hung on to win 34-30, Kansas outscored CU 20-10 in the second half, easily covering the halftime line.
RUN LINES — Available in baseball, run lines offer a higher payoff than money lines if a baseball favorite wins by more than one run.
You can also bet on the underdog to lose by one run and it will pay if they lose or win outright.
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By Damon Harker
After winning a season-high two games in a row, the volley-ball team failed to secure their third-straight win, despite a valiant effort.
On Thursday the Wolf Pack (7-13, 3-4 WAC) hosted Boise State (2-17, 2-5 WAC). After dropping the fi rst set 21-25, the team rallied and won the next three sets to give Nevada a 3-1 victory. Elissa Ji and Lindsay Baldwin both played well, recording 14 and 12 kills respectively.
The Wolf Pack then moved on to its next home game against Idaho (8-11, 4-3 WAC). The crowd, usually in blue, was spot-ted with pink in honor of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Aware-ness Night.
“I’d say we were very confi dent coming into this game, but unfortunately that didn’t come through,” junior Kylie Har-rington said.
The Wolf Pack quickly fell behind, losing a close fi rst set 25-23 and the second set 25-22. After falling behind two sets, the Wolf Pack tried its best to recov-
er, but couldn’t come through when Idaho won the third and fi nal set 25-22. Erin Garvey had a team high of 10 kills while Harrington added nine. Tatiana Santiago also led the team with 21 assists in the loss.
“We have to play them again on Thursday,” Baldwin said. “We know how they play so this practice this week we are going to focus and hopefully come out and beat them.”
Fighting for a spot in the
WAC Tournament, Nevada will face off against Idaho next Thursday in Moscow, Idaho. On the road this season, Ne-vada has not won a game but hopes to bring home a victory. Idaho is one of the top teams
in blocks this season so win-ning in foreign territory will be difficult.
“We play Idaho again next,” head coach Devin Scruggs said. “They know us and we know them; I think they played pretty
well but I know we didn’t, so if we can play better than we did tonight it will be a better match on Thursday.”
Damon Harker can be reached at [email protected].
Nevada wins two in a row for fi rst time
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With a win against Boise State on Thursday, the Nevada won consecutive games for the fi rst time this season. The Wolf Pack, however, lost its next game against Idaho. The loss dropped Nevada’s record to 7-13. The Wolf Pack has 10 matches left before the Western Athletic Conference Tournament begins Nov. 23-25 in Las Vegas.
➤ Freshman Elissa Ji led Ne-vada to a four-set win against Boise State on Thursday. She picked up 14 kills and added seven digs. ➤ Setter Tatiana Santiago led the Wolf Pack with 21 sets against the Broncos. ➤ In Saturday’s three-set loss to Idaho, Erin Garvey led the team with 10 kills.➤ Santiago was the leading setter, once again. She had 21 sets against the Vandals.
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VOLLEYBALL
By Damian Tromherhauser
The Wolf Pack women’s tennis team continued to improve on its fall season with a solid showing at the Wilson/ITA Division I Moun-tain Regional Championships held in Las Vegas last week.
“I think the team did extremely well overall,” head coach Sylvain Malroux said. “We had only 14 girls playing and two doubles teams and one of the doubles teams reached the quarterfi nals, so the doubles teams did great and the singles players did really good as well. This tournament is going to help (us) in the future and especially for the spring.”
One of the top performers for the team was once again freshman Emma Verberne, who reached the quarterfi nals of the championships.
“She’ll be probably ranked in the top 10 or top eight in our
region, which is really good for a freshman,” Malroux said. “She upset a lot of really good players throughout the week.”
Aside from Verberne, the team also had impressive performances from juniors Lais Ogata and Florence De Vrye, with Ogata winning fi ve matches and De Vrye battling for two match victories.
As for areas of improvement, Malroux said that one of the key things the team needs to focus on is fi nishing matches better.
“We put ourselves in the situation to win matches and sometimes we just have a little bit of a tough time closing out our matches,” he said. “That’s one thing that we are going to have to do better in the future. We put ourselves in the situation where we can be very successful and I think it is more mental than anything else, and real-
izing when we need to be on top and make sure we understand the momentum of the matches. Once we understand this and once we can play aggressively in those big points, we are going to be really good next spring.”
Damian Tromerhauser can be reached at [email protected].
Pack continues improvement
Alright, here’s why this is the biggest game of the season:
First, these are the two top teams in the WAC, record-wise. Boise State supporters, hold your horses. I’m well aware your team is head and shoulders above anyone else in the confer-ence, but for now, those Vandals and your neighbors to the north are the best in the WAC.
Second, after this game, the Wolf Pack plays Hawaii, San Jose State and New Mexico State in a span of four weeks. The three aforementioned
teams, other than Nevada, are the worst teams in the confer-ence. They have a combined record of 6-13. If the Wolf Pack is fortunate enough to beat Idaho on Saturday, this would set the team up nicely for a great run down the stretch of the conference season.
Third, Nevada hasn’t lost to Idaho since 1999 and coming into this season, the Vandals had nine-straight losing seasons. I say this because at the end of the day, 6-1 or not, it’s still Idaho.
Finally, when Nevada does play Boise State in its last game of the season, the Broncos will likely have already wrapped up
the conference. Should the Wolf Pack go undefeated through the rest of the WAC season, then that game will be enormous. But Nevada has to get by Idaho fi rst to make that dream matchup happen.
The Wolf Pack’s coaching staff should have no trouble hammering it home to their players that this is the biggest game of the season so far. In the end, this game will be one of the biggest determining factors of the rest of Nevada’s year.
MIDSEASON REPORTHard to believe, but the Wolf
Pack is already halfway through its schedule.
With six games in the books, we can fully gauge what Nevada does well and what it needs to improve on. Here are my grades:
RUN OFFENSE: A+The Wolf Pack’s rushing
game has been near-pristine, as proved by its No. 1 rushing attack. Nevada is the only team in the nation to have three players who average more than 75 rushing yards per game.
PASS OFFENSE: C+Nevada quarterback Colin
Kaepernick has done a good job with a relatively inexperienced group of wide receivers, but there are still too many dropped balls and bad passes from this unit.
Wide receiver Brandon Wimberly has been a bright spot in the unit, leading the team with 433 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
RUN DEFENSE: B-The Wolf Pack’s front seven
have played well this year, but they’ve been too inconsistent. Nevada allows 117.7 rush yards per game, but only 3.4 yards per carry. If they can cut back on giving up long plays, the unit will be one of the best in the WAC.
PASS DEFENSE: FIt’s better than last year, but
only by a little bit. Nevada has allowed 282.3 passing yards per
game this year (116th in the nation).
The defensive backs are getting better at making plays on the ball but are nowhere near where they should be.
KICKING: DPunter Brad Langley is hold-
ing this unit up with his solid 40.7 yards per punt average but his kicking mate is lagging.
Nevada kicker Ricky Drake is just 1 for 3 on fi eld goals this year and has missed two point after touchdown attempts.
RETURNS: CRunning back Mike Ball has
been outstanding in returning kickoffs. He leads the confer-ence with a 30.4 yards per return average — fl at out great.
But the punt returning has been terrible. Nevada is averag-ing just 5.9 yards per return and has yet to fi nd a reliable player to put at this position.
COACHING: C+
Ask me this question after Nevada lost to Missouri on Sept. 25 and I would have given the staff an F.
But the coaching, along with the team’s execution, has vastly improved in the last three games. Overall, head coach Chris Ault and his crew have done an OK job of preparing their guys, in my opinion.
The Wolf Pack looked drastically unprepared when it played Notre Dame and Colorado State to open the season. Remember, this was the time when many fans were calling for Ault to be fi red.
Since then, the play-calling has become more diverse (there’s been a few trick plays in the last couple of games) and the players are in position to make plays.
The players looked more mentally focused and that’s a direct result of the improve-ment in the coaching.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
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➤ Freshmen Emma Verberne continued her strong play by reaching the quarterfi nals of the Wilson/ITA Division I Mountain Regional Champi-onships.➤ Junior Lais Ogata won fi ve matches at the tournament.➤ Florence De Vrye also had a solid showing, winning two matches.
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BRIEFS
BASKETBALLWolf Pack to hold Halloween event
The men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams will hold “Hoops and Treats” on Oct. 30 at Lawlor Events Center.
Doors will open at 12:45 p.m. and the event runs from 1 to 2 p.m. Children are encouraged to wear costumes and trick or treat with the players. They can also get autographs and take photos with players.
The teams will hold practice after the event, which will be open to the public to watch.
Both teams will play an exhi-bition game that is free to the public. The women play CSU East Bay on Nov. 1 and the men play Chico State on Nov. 10.
The women’s team opens its 2009-10 season on Nov. 13, when the Wolf Pack hosts CSU Monterey Bay.
The men’s team opens its sea-son a day later on Nov. 14, when the Wolf Pack plays Montana State.
BASKETBALLCoach Albright honored with award
Women’s basketball coach Jane Albright was awarded the Distinguished Service in Sports Award at the Ninth Annual Sports Appreciation Banquet and Awards Program in Albright’s home state of North Carolina.
Albright is the only the third female to receive the award. The last female to receive the award was Kay Yow in 2004.
Albright is entering her second year as head coach at Nevada. Last season, she led the Wolf Pack to a 18-14 record and
an appearance in the Western Athletic Conference Champion-ship game for the fi rst time in the team’s history. Nevada lost to Fresno State 56-49.
CROSS COUNTRYNevada takes fi fth at California meet
Nevada’s cross country team took fi fth place at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational on Saturday. The meet featured 17 teams and six teams from the Western Ath-letic Conference.
Sophomore Jordan Burke was the top fi nisher for the Wolf Pack. She fi nished in 25th place out of 156 runners with a time of 17:57.
Janet Martinez took 32nd with a time of 18:08 and senior Mandy Russ set a personal record of 18:18 and fi nished in 43rd place.
The Wolf Pack’s lineup was rounded out by Natalia Jarawka, Katarina Ratkowiak and Gloria Sosa, all of whom set new per-sonal records at the race. Jarawka fi nished in 50th, Ratkowiak took 67th and Sosa fi nished in 80th place.
The Wolf Pack will host the WAC Championships at Rancho San Rafael Park on Oct. 31.
FOOTBALLBoise State ranked 4th in fi rst BCS
Boise State has been ranked fourth in the fi rst BCS Standings, its highest BCS ranking in school history. TCU, which is a part of the Mountain West Conference, was the only other non-BCS conference team to be ranked in the top 10 at number eight.
Florida was ranked number one, followed by Alabama and Texas. Cincinnati rounded out the top fi ve.
In total, there were four teams from non-BCS conferences in the rankings. Brigham Young Univer-sity and Houston, the other two teams, are ranked 16th and 17th respectively.
Nevada plays Boise State on Nov. 27 in Boise.
FOOTBALLDontay Moch leads nation in TFL
Defensive end Dontay Moch recorded 3.5 tackles for loss against Utah State on Saturday.
That brought his season total to 15.5. Moch leads the nation in tackles for loss per game with 2.58. O’Brien Schofi eld from Wisconsin is second, with 2.36 tackles for loss per game.
As a team, Nevada leads the Western Athletic Conference in tackles for loss per game and is tied fourth in the nation with Oklahoma. The Wolf Pack trails Cincinnati, North Carolina and USC.
SWIMMINGDoolittle shines at Pacifi c Invitational
At the Pacifi c Invitational in Stockton, Calif., senior Margaret Doolittle had three top-10 fi nishes as the Wolf Pack competed in 10 individual events on the second day of competition.
Doolittle’s day was highlighted by a fourth-place fi nish in the 200-yard Individual Medley and a seventh-place fi nish in the 100-yard butterfl y.
The Wolf Pack defeated UC Davis in a dual meet 161-139 on Friday and only competed in individual events on Saturday.
Nevada’s next meet is Oct. 30, when it hosts Fresno State at Lombardi Recreation Center.
RESULTS
SATURDAYDAY, OCT. 17Team G1 G2 G3 TIdaho 25 25 25 - 3Nevada 23 22 22 - 0
Idaho Nevada K Set Dig BA K Set Dig BA Tribley, K 4 37 3 3 Garvey, E 10 1 1 1 Pederson, D 3 0 1 3 Batista, J 4 0 0 2Conwell, S 17 1 7 1 Harrington, K 9 1 5 0Hamilton, C 2 0 7 0 Baldwin, L 7 0 2 0McKinney, A 3 0 0 5 Santiago, T 0 21 5 0Chow, J 0 1 5 0 Ji, E 2 0 2 0Taylor, K 6 0 1 2 Chang, K 0 0 5 0Milo, A 7 1 0 3 Vance, K 0 0 0 0Rice, M 0 1 8 0 Sei, S 0 9 4 0 Kelly, L 0 0 0 0 Link, N 0 1 6 0 Staker, J 3 1 1 1
Totals 42 41 32 17 35 34 31 4
FRIDAY, OCT. 16Team 1 2 T San Jose State 1 2 - 3Nevada 0 1 - 1
San Jose State Nevada Sh SOG G A Saves Sh SOG G A Saves
Butera, N 0 0 0 0 5 Cove, M 0 0 0 0 1Boehm, B 0 0 0 0 0 Smith, E 1 1 0 0 0Holm, K 1 1 0 0 0 Voss, S 0 0 0 0 0Santoro, A 0 0 0 1 0 McEachern 1 1 0 0 0 Sanchez, L 0 0 0 0 0 Allen, A 1 1 0 0 0 Belding, E 0 0 0 0 0 Noe, D 0 0 0 0 0 Kamal, R 1 1 1 0 0 Erickson, J 0 0 0 0 0 Furner, S 0 0 0 0 0 Drummond, C 1 1 0 0 0Lord, K 1 1 1 0 0 Ratnavira, N 4 1 1 0 0 Ingram, J 0 0 0 0 0 Stott, E 2 0 0 0 0Haughey, M 0 0 0 0 0 Braman, L 0 0 0 0 0Pacheco, H 1 1 1 1 0 Mann, V 1 0 0 0 0 Bonadies, K 1 0 0 0 0 Larot, R 1 0 0 0 0 Johnston, K 0 0 0 0 0 Broome, K 1 0 0 0 0Knopp, K 0 0 0 0 0 Martin, A 0 0 0 0 0 Pinkerton, L 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 5 4 3 2 5 13 6 1 0 1
SoccerVolleyball
SOCCER TEAM SCHEDULE
at Cal Aug. 21 L 4-1 UC Santa Barbara Aug. 28 L 1-0UC Irvine Aug. 30 L 3-0at Oregon State Sept. 4 L 4-0at Portland State Sept. 6 L 3-0Fordham Sept. 11 W 1-0Sacramento State Sept. 13 W 2-0at Minnesota Sept. 18 L 4-1at North Dakota Sept. 20 W 3-1at Saint Mary’s Sept. 24 L 4-2at UC Davis Sept. 27 L 2-1Utah State Oct. 4 W 1-0at Idaho Oct. 9 W 2-1at Boise State Oct. 11 L 2-0San Jose State Oct. 16 L 3-1Fresno State Oct. 18 L 3-1at Hawaii Oct. 23 5 p.m.at New Mexico State Oct. 30 7 p.m.LA Tech Nov. 1 1 p.m.
WAC Tournament Boise Nov. 5-7 TBA
2009 WAC STANDINGSTeam Conference Standings OverallSan Jose State 3-0-1 8-4-2New Mexico State 3-0-1 8-5-1Utah State 3-1 8-7-1Boise State 2-2 7-5-4Fresno State 2-2 4-10Nevada 2-3 5-11Hawaii 1-2 5-8-1Idaho 1-3 8-7Louisiana Tech 0-5 11-5-1
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name StatisticAssists Tatiana Santiago 5.08 /setDigs Nicole Link 3.96 /setBlocks Lindsay Baldwin 1.03 /setKills Kylie Harrington 3.24 /setAces Kylie Harrington 0.21 /set
2009 WAC STANDINGSTeam Conference Standings OverallHawaii 6-0 15-2New Mexico State 6-1 11-6Fresno State 4-3 11-8Idaho 4-3 8-11Utah State 3-4 12-8Nevada 3-4 7-13Louisiana Tech 2-5 12-11Boise State 2-6 2-18San Jose State 1-5 1-16
SUNDAY, OCT. 11Team 1 2 T Nevada 1 0 - 1Fresno State 3 0 - 3
Nevada Fresno State Sh SOG G A Saves Sh SOG G A Saves
Cove, M 0 0 0 0 5 Revel, K 0 0 0 0 1Voss, S 0 0 0 0 0 Nizzoli, M 2 2 0 1 0McEachern, N 0 0 0 0 0 VanDine, K 1 1 0 1 0Allen, A 1 1 0 0 0 Sadowitz, J 3 3 1 0 0 Noe, D 0 0 0 0 0 Dodd, L 0 0 0 1 0 Erickson, J 1 0 0 0 0 Cardenas, C 1 1 1 0 0 Larot, R 0 0 0 0 0 Gonzalez, V 0 0 0 1 0 Drummond, C 2 0 0 0 0 Deshane, B 2 1 1 0 0Ratnavira, N 3 0 0 0 0 Lee, K 0 0 0 0 0 Stott, E 2 1 1 0 0 Jensen, A 0 0 0 0 0Braman, L 0 0 0 0 0 Lopez, B 0 0 0 0 0Smith, E 0 0 0 0 0 Pickett, R 0 0 0 0 0 Sacks, A 0 0 0 0 0 Solich, D 0 0 0 0 0Mann, V 0 0 0 0 0 Duff, N 0 0 0 0 0Broome K 0 0 0 0 0 Hancock, C 0 0 0 0 0Mann, V 0 0 0 0 0 Looney, K 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9 2 1 0 5 9 8 3 4 1
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name StatisticShots on Goal Kesia Brome 17
Goals Jill Erickson 4 Saves Marie Cove 55
Points Jill Erickson 9
SATURDAY, OCT. 17
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 TNevada 0 14 7 14 35Utah State 7 14 3 8 32
Utah State Nevada
Rushing Rushing No. Yds TD No. Yds TDBorel, D 21 48 0 Taua, V 21 147 1 Turbin, R 7 36 1 Lippincott, L 8 104 1Smith, M 1 3 0 Kaepernick, C 13 77 0 Passing Passing Att-Cmp-Int Yds TD Att-Cmp-Int Yds TDBorel, D 25-42-0 353 3 Kaepernick, C 10-24-1 189 3
Receiving Receiving No. Yds TD No. Yds TDSawyer, O 6 38 0 Wimberly, B 2 73 1Morrison, S 5 51 0 Wellington, C 2 26 0Gwacham, N 4 140 1 Session, T 2 21 0Turbin, R 3 35 1 Green, V 1 44 1Xavier, B 2 41 0 Lippincott, L 1 11 1 Defense Tackles Sacks Int Tackles Sacks IntBrindley, J 9 0 1 Harvey, M 7 0 0Gallagher, K 8 0 0 Basped, K 7 2.5 0 Wagner, B 8 0 0 Amaya, J 6 1 0Enesi, S 6 0 0 Avaiava, N 5 0 0Murphy, K 5 0 0 Johnson, J..M. 5 1.5 0Coleman, R 5 0 0 Moch, D 5 0 0Randle, C 4 0 0 Marshall, B 3 0 0Igboeli, P 3 0 0 Grimes, K 3 0 0
Kickoff Returns No. Yds Long No. Yds LongWilliams, K 6 95 53 Fragger, B 1 13 13
2009 WAC STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name School StatisticRushing Ryan Mathews FSU 162.33 yds/gameReceiving Greg Salas UH 131.83 yds/gamePassing Greg Alexander UH 307.20 yds/gameTotal Offense Alexander UH 384.0 yds/gamePunt returns Marcus Anderson NMSU 11.39 yds/returnKickoff returns Mike Ball Nevada 30.4 yds/returnPunting Phillip Zavala SJSU 42.8 yds/kickTackles Bobby Wagner USU 63 Sacks Kevin Basped Nevada 5.0 Tackles for loss Dontay Moch Nevada 15.5 Interceptions Deon Young La. Tech 3.0
2009 NATIONAL STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name School StatisticRushing Ryan Matthews FSU 162.33 yds/gameReceiving Dezmon Briscoe Kansas 134.20 yds/gameTackles Carmen Messina NM 13.33 tackles/gameTotal Offense Case Keenum Houston 423.33 yds/game
Football
VOLLEYBALLTEAM SCHEDULE
Connecticut Aug.28 W 3-2UC Irvine Aug. 29 L 3-1Saint Mary’s Aug. 30 L 3-0at Arizona Sept. 4 L 3-0vs Eastern Wash. at Ariz. Sept. 4 L 3-1 vs.Houston at Ariz. Sept. 5 W 3-2 UC Davis Sept. 11 L 3-1Sam Houston State Sept. 12 W 3-2Portland State Sept. 12 L 3-1at Pacifi c (Stockton, CA) Sept. 18 L 3-0at Loyola Marymount Sept. 18 L 3-0at CSU Bakersfi eld Sept. 19 W 3-2 at Sacramento State Sept. 22 L 0-3Fresno State Sept. 26 W 3-1at New Mexico State Oct. 1 L 3-0at Louisiana Tech Oct. 3 L 3-0at Hawaii Oct. 8 L 3-0Utah State Oct. 10 W 3-2Boise State Oct. 15 W 3-1Idaho Oct. 17 L 3-0at Idaho Thursday 7 p.m.at Boise State Saturday 12 p.m. San Jose State Oct. 29 7 p.m.Hawaii Oct. 31 7 p.m.UNLV Nov. 5 7 p.m. at San Jose State Nov. 7 7 p.m. at Fresno State Nov. 9 6 p.m.New Mexico State Nov. 12 7 p.m.Louisiana Tech Nov. 14 7 p.m.at Utah State Nov. 19 6 p.m.
at Las Vegas for WAC Tournament Nov. 23-25 TBA
NCAA Championships Dec. 3-19 TBA
2009 WAC STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name School StatisticAssists Dani Maufa Hawaii 11.52 /setDigs Christine Morrill Utah State 4.42 /setBlocks Brittany Hewitt Hawaii 1.54 /setKills Kanani Danielson Hawaii 3.86 /set
WAC FOOTBALL SCORES FROM OCT. 17
Fresno State (W) vs. SJSU 41-21at Las Cruces, NM
Louisiana Tech (W) vs.NMSU 42-17at Ruston, LA
Idaho (W ) vs. Hawaii 35-23at Moscow, Idaho
Bye week: None
THURSDAY, OCT. 15Team G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 TUtah State 25 19 19 11 - - 1Nevada 21 25 25 25 - - 3
Boise State Nevada K Set Dig BA K Set Dig BA Nesselhuf, B 1 35 11 3 Chang, K 0 0 5 0 Harden, L 8 0 1 3 Batista, J 6 2 1 1Maughan, S 13 0 0 8 Sei, S 0 18 4 0Remy, A 4 1 12 2 Harrington, K 9 1 10 1Whitney, K 0 1 6 0 Baldwin, L 12 0 0 5King, A 8 0 3 0 Staker, J 4 3 3 1Rose, J 0 1 8 0 Garvey, E 7 1 2 3Lewis, K 0 0 0 0 Kelly, L 0 0 1 0Griffi n, E 3 0 1 0 Link, N 0 2 22 0Fellows, C 4 0 0 0 Santiago, T 1 21 7 0Duren, K 1 0 0 0 Ji, E 14 0 2 1Gannm L 0 1 14 0
Totals 42 39 56 16 53 48 57 12
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name StatisticRushing Vai Taua 92.6 yds/gameReceiving Brandon Wimberly 72.2 yds/gameTotal Offense Colin Kaepernick 261.7 yds/gamePunt returns Burnett, K 24.0 yds/returnKickoff returns Mike Ball 30.4 yds/returnPunting Brad Langley 40.7 yds/kickTackles Jonathon Amaya 43 Sacks Dontay Moch 3.0 Tackles for loss Moch 15.5 Interceptions Isaiah Frey 1
INTRAMURAL RESULTS
Flag FootballWomen’s/SororityTri Delta 2-0Delta Gamma 1-1Sigma Kappa 1-1Kappa Alpha Theta 0-1Lock It Up 0-1
Co-EdPuppy Kickers 3-0Circle K 2-1Lobos United 0-1Catastrophic Cyclones 0-1Walk of Shame 0-1Gardnervillains 0-1
Men’s B LeagueViscious and Delicious 4-0BCE 3-1
Swiss Cheese 2-1Cupcakes 2-1Vick’s Dogpound 1-1The Gentlemen 1-1Necessary Roughness 1-1Team Awesome 1-1Chiefs 1-1Black Mambas 1-1Like A Boss 0-1Boss Hogs 0-1Funfetti 0-1Still In School 0-1The Shaguars 0-1NAK 0-1Death Rho 0-1Le Tigra 0-1
Men’s A LeagueBattleborn 2-0
Corn Dogs 2-1Child Please 1-1Matadores 0-1808 0-1Six Pack 0-1
Indoor Soccer
Co-EdSomething Random 3-0Shiverpool 2-1The Alias 2-1Elko 1-1Muffi ntops 1-1Nevada Lobos 1-1Jungle Juice 0-1Raging Ligers 0-1Sonic Soul Force 0-1Team Sassy 0-1Team Trot 0-1
Women’s/SororitySWAT 2-0Nutmegs 1-1Team Mazza 0-1Tri Delta 0-1
Men’sBromigos 3-0Whistle Tips 2-1Shiverpool 0-1Elko 0-1Chiefer Stars 0-1Free Agent 0-1
SoftballIndependentDefending Champs 3-0Doo Doo Paypahs 3-2BCE 2-2The Pacifi c 1-2Viscious and Delicious 1-2Off Constantly 0-2
sports www.nevadasagebrush.comB6 • OCTOBER 20, 2009
T he dual meet against the University of California, Davis started out like any
other.Our team piled into two
15-passenger vans which had “ N e v a d a swim and dive” writ-ten across them.
As we rolled out of town, music was playing on the radio and we were excited for the meet
later in the day.The drive to Davis was fun
and exciting. We sang at the top of our lungs, so much so that we irritated our coach (Mike Richmond). Some of our favorites on the trip were songs from The Lonely Island (a “Saturday Night Live” group) and hits from ’ 90s bands like the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC and Aqua.
It was a short drive but it helped us to get pumped for the meet ahead.
When we got to Davis, we were surprised by the heat, but it was nice to be in shorts again instead of sweats and boots.
We were ready to race!Before the meet, our assistant
coach, Eric Skelly, gathered us together for a pre-meet talk. He told us to race hard at the beginning and to fi nish strong.
The looks on the faces around the huddle changed from joking and laughing to determined.
We were going to win.The meet went by quickly.
Before we knew it we were at the fi rst break. Coach Eric called us to meet again.
We were winning the meet by 10 points!
Thrilled, we fi nished the meet with our continued determina-tion.
I had actually brought along an underwater camera and in between events some of the girls and I relaxed by taking some fun photos.
For some reason, the camera brought out a lot of smiles in the girls, even when they had bad races.
We fi nished the meet strong, winning 161-139, and in celebra-tion, the entire team struck their best poses for the underwater camera.
It turned out to be a different meet than we expected. All the girls were more excited during the meet than nervous. It was just a lot of fun.
We left Davis for the University of Pacifi c Invitational in Stock-ton, Calif., excited for another day of racing.
Another hour-long van ride and we arrived at our hotel. On
this drive, we blasted Afroman’s “Colt 45.” We know the lyrics by heart. There’s no way the Pack can drive without song and dance. From the front seat to the last row, we all tried to bust a move.
We arrived in Stockton and went straight to dinner. After a long day and with full stomachs, we all fell asleep almost as soon as we got into our hotel rooms.
The next day, we awoke re-freshed and ready for the UOP swim meet.
The girls were in awe at all the teams at the meet this year, especially at all the men’s swim teams. It really is different hav-ing both men’s and women’s swim teams at a meet after be-ing used to only seeing women.
We did well at the meet, sun-burned and all.
The meet was over soon and that meant one thing: food.
The team got the opportunity to get dessert. Most of the girls split their desserts, but some of the freshmen didn’t feel like sharing. With huge bites of chocolate cake and ice cream loaded onto their forks, they devoured entire plates within minutes. The rest of the team just stared and laughed.
Although it was late, our vans were not quiet with sleep on
the drive home. We still talked, joked and laughed the whole drive home, occasionally tortur-ing our coach again with some annoying music.
We arrived back in Reno a little sunburned and a little tired, but that’s just how it is after long swim meets.
Kimberly Medina can be reached at [email protected].
Weekend trip to California
KimberlyMedina You don’t have to be an ath-
lete like Kimberly to write for the Sagebrush.➤ Do you have an inside look at Nevada sports that you want to share?➤ Would you like to tell people what’s on your mind as you compete?➤ Contact the sports desk at [email protected] and you could become a guest columnist.
GUEST COLUMNIST
➤ Nevada’s swimming and diving team defeated UC Davis 161-139 on Friday.➤ The Wolf Pack won 10 of 16 events against the Aggies.➤ The win improved Nevada’s record in dual meets to 3-4 while UC Davis fell to 0-4.➤ Kimberly Medina recorded three top-fi ve fi nishes at the meet.
➤ N d ’ i i d
SWIMMER’S DELIGHT“(While driving), we blasted Afroman’s “Colt 45.” We know the lyrics by heart. There’s no way the Pack can drive without song and dance. From the front seat to the last row, we all try to bust a move.”
Vs. IdahoCONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
right now, they’re bowl eligible, they’re fi rst in the conference — nothing more needs to be said.”
A major part of the Wolf Pack’s recent success has been its running game, but shutting down the run is something Idaho excels at. The Vandals are fi rst in the WAC and 14th in the nation, allowing just 95.6 yards on the ground per game.
A key to Nevada’s rush of-fense will be the play of its line, which will have to do without junior tackle Mike Gallett for the second week in a row.
Gallett, who has played in 29 games in his career, was suspended for the season last week by head coach Chris Ault for violating an unspecifi ed team rule.
At the other tackle position, senior Alonzo Durham did not play against Utah State because of recurring back problems.
In their places against the Aggies were two inexperi-enced linemen: sophomore Steve Haley and junior col-lege transfer Jose Acuna. Ault said his pair of replacements played great.
“I thought Haley and Acuna both were outstanding,” he said at Monday’s practice. “In that fourth quarter, both of those guys did a great job on our read plays. They were really, really consistent all game. They really matured quickly and did a nice
job.” The Wolf Pack’s rushing of-
fense and now-young offensive line will be challenged by Idaho’s front seven, but Nevada defen-sive ends coach Barry Sacks is more worried about the rushing offense his unit will face.
Idaho averages 160.9 rushing yards per game and its best running back, DeMaundray Woolridge, has already scored 12 touchdowns and averages 5.8 yards per carry.
Couple that with an explosive Idaho offensive line and Sacks knows his group will be in for a major battle.
“Their (running) backs run so hard,” he said. “Woolridge is hard and tough. This is going to be the greatest challenge we face, running the ball-wise. It’s the best run-oriented offensive line we’ve faced to date.”
Sacks will be dependent on his pair of stud defensive ends, Dontay Moch and Kevin Basped, to wreak havoc on the Vandals offense. Moch and Basped have combined for 9.5 sacks this season and 23.5 tack-les for loss, but Sacks isn’t ready to crown them kings just yet. He knows Saturday’s game against Idaho will be a good measure of where his ends are at.
“The thing that I’m looking for before I give it my seal of approval is they got to rise when the chips are down in the fourth quarter,” Sacks said. “That’s what is the next part of the progression.”
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
SWIMMING & DIVING
BRIAN BOLTON /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Nevada’s offensive line played with two new starters on Saturday against Utah State. The Wolf Pack rushed for 313 yards in its 35-32 win.
Men’s ballCONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
KAME-TV (My 21) is the My Network TV affi liate in Reno and can been seen locally on Channel 21. Comcast Sports-Net California will also carry Nevada’s games on a live or tape-delayed basis throughout the year.
After Nevada’s game against the Tigers, fans can catch the Wolf Pack game against Brigham Young University on Dec. 22 and against either Ne-braska or Tulsa on Dec. 23.
In addition to Nevada’s eight locally broadcast games this year, the team is lined up to appear on national TV at least seven times. With the way the
schedule works out, Nevada fans will be able to see all but one of the Wolf Pack’s road games this season.
The Mtn. will show Nevada’s Nov. 18 game at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas while Fox Sports Net will televise the Nov. 29 game at North Carolina.
The Wolf Pack will play Utah State twice on ESPN2 (Jan. 13 at Nevada and Feb. 10 at Utah State). Finally, ESPNU will carry the Wolf Pack’s Jan. 4 matchup at New Mexico State, the Jan. 30 home game against Hawaii and the Feb. 6 battle at Utah State.
The sports staff can be reached at [email protected].
Opponent Date TimeMontana State Nov. 14 7:05 p.m.at UNLV Nov. 18 7:30 p.m.Houston Nov. 21 8:05 p.m.at VCU Nov. 27 4:30 p.m. at North Carolina Nov. 29 4:45 p.m.at Pacifi c Dec. 5 7:00 p.m.Fresno Pacifi c Dec. 8 7:05 p.m.South Dakota State Dec. 12 7:05 p.m.Eastern Washington Dec. 17 7:05 p.m.Wagner Dec. 19 7:05 p.m.at BYU Dec. 22 7:30 p.m.at Nebraska or Tulsa Dec. 23 TBAPortland Dec. 28 7:05 p.m.at Louisiana Tech Jan. 2 5:00 p.m.at New Mexico State Jan. 4 8:00 p.m.San Jose State Jan. 9 7:05 p.m.Utah State Jan. 13 8:00 p.m.Idaho Jan. 16 7:05 p.m.at Boise State Jan. 20 7:05 p.m.at Fresno State Jan. 23 7:00 p.m.Hawaii Jan. 30 7:05 p.m.at Utah State Feb. 6 7:00 p.m.at Idaho Feb. 10 8:00 p.m.Boise State Feb. 13 7:05 p.m.Fresno State Feb. 17 7:05 p.m.ESPNU Bracketbuster Feb. 20 TBAat San Jose State Feb. 25 7:00 p.m.at Hawaii Feb. 27 9:00 p.m.New Mexico State Mar. 4 7:05 p.m.Louisiana Tech Mar. 6 7:05 p.m.
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Nevada midfi elder Raylene Larot charges for possession during the game against Fresno State on Sunday. The Wolf Pack lost to San Jose State and Fresno State, despite holding a 22-12 shot advantage in the two matches. Nevada is 5-11 for the season.
By Chris Gabriel and Chris Muller
The Wolf Pack soccer team fell to the San Jose State Spartans and the Fresno State Bulldogs by a score of 3-1 in both games. The losses drop Nevada to 2-3 in Western Athletic Conference play and 5-11 overall.
Head coach Jaime Frias de-vised a system of breaking down the game into four time ranges throughout any given match: the fi rst fi ve minutes in each half, as well as the last fi ve minutes in each half.
“For us to get scored upon in the big fi ve moments or close to them is just unacceptable,” he said after Friday’s game. “Now we’re digging ourselves out so now we’re chasing the game instead of keeping possession. When you chase the game, more things open up against you and you’re exploited.”
Nevada almost tripled San Jose’s shot total Friday night as they recorded 13 shots compared to San Jose’s 5. The penalties called against the Wolf Pack were what inevitably killed them —
penalties even led to one of San Jose’s goals.
“It’s a lot of inconsistency within the offi ciating,” Frias said. “We’re playing aggressively and we’re being over-aggressive; we’re trying to win those balls and we’re playing fairly so I don’t want to discourage them from playing aggressively but (unfortunate calls) are going to happen. It’s a contact sport.”
On Sunday, the Pack and the Bulldogs each had nine shots, but the Bulldogs were able to capitalize on their shots more effectively. Ellie Stott, who scored the only goal for Nevada, hit two crossbars on penalty kicks. A little bit of luck and the Pack may have been going to overtime for the fi rst time this season. Coach Frias was more pleased with the effort on Sunday than on Friday.
“Luck defi nitely plays a part of it,” he said. “(Today’s) score was not indicative of the way we were playing. That being said, we need to start getting some wins, espe-cially in conference. We want a shot of making the tournament.”
Stott agreed with Frias. “Obviously we need to tighten
up our (defense),” she said. “We don’t want to be giving away such soft goals.”
A couple of early defensive lapses put the Pack in an 2-0 hole on Sunday. Nevada defend-ers Nikki McEachern and Devin Noe were beaten by Bulldog forwards Janna Sadowitz and Claudia Cardenas, who basi-cally came through the defense untouched.
“If we work hard in practice this week on some of the things that we are having issues with, we’re going to be fi ne,” Stott said.
A team-wide sickness that hindered the ladies in practice last week seems to have sub-sided slightly this week.
“It went through the whole team,” she said. “But we’re kind of at the end stage of it.”
The Wolf Pack has only three regular season games left, their next being Friday in Hawaii. The WAC Tournament is in Boise, Idaho beginning Nov. 5. Winners of the WAC Tournament get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
“That is one of our goals,” Nevada forward Cristen Drum-
mond said. “We want to go to the NCAA’s and we’re gonna work hard for it; we have the heart, we have the desire and we’re gonna work hard for it every inch. We’re gonna do it.”
Chris Gabriel and Chris Muller can be reached at [email protected].
➤ Nevada lost to San Jose State and Fresno State, drop-ping its record to 5-11.➤ Against Fresno State, the Wolf Pack missed two penal-ty kicks that hit the cross bar.➤ Nevada has three regular season games remaining before the Western Athletic Conference Tournament on Nov. 5 in Boise, Idaho.➤ Since starting conference play 2-0, the Wolf Pack has lost three straight games.➤ Despite losing, Nevada held a 13 to 5 shot advantage against the San Jose State Spartans on Friday.
➤ N d l t t S J
SLUMPING SOCCER
SoccerCONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
was impressed with the way the team handled the adversity.
“Dealing with the media is something we can’t control,” Frias said. “We know the effort it took to get better. We knew it was a lot of hard work. It was really tough for the kids and it was hard to get through. They did a really good job, regardless of the record.”
CHANGES ARE COMINGAt the beginning of this season,
the Wolf Pack was at a crossroads. The team lost fi ve seniors who ac-counted for one third of Nevada’s total goals. Frias was ready to make some big changes to help the team improve.
“We really changed the culture of the program,” Frias said. “We believe in a year-round training program and we wanted to change their mentality.”
Coach Frias left the team with a fi tness packet for the team to work on during the offseason. And the team responded posi-tively.
“Most of us didn’t go home this summer,” sophomore Sarah Voss said. “We did fi tness workouts like weight lifting and ball workouts. We had very intense workouts.”
DÉJÀ VUAfter the summer, Nevada
was ready to show everyone just how much it improved.
However, for a time it seemed as though a repeat of last season was shaping up. The team began the season 0-5 and managed only one goal during that span. An injury to Cristen Drummond meant one of the Wolf Pack’s main weapons was out for at least a couple of weeks.
“It kind of put us on our heels,” Sacks said. “To play great teams like Cal and get your butts stomped is hard.”
Despite the start, players believed they were close to turning the corner.
“I think all it took was one moment in a game that showed we are a great team,” Sacks said. “We had to build confi dence and go from there.
That moment would come at home in September. Playing against Fordham and Pacifi c University on Sept. 11 and 13, the Wolf Pack got its fi rst two victories of the season and gave the team new life.
Since the 0-5 start, Nevada
has improved drastically. After managing only 15 goals all of last season, the Wolf Pack has already matched the mark. The fi ve wins is almost double the win total of last season and this coming with losing players responsible for one third of the team’s goals last season.
“We are a lot grittier,” Sacks said. “We fi nd ways to win. It may not be pretty and it may not be perfect, but we fi nd a way to win.”
Frias believes fi nally having a healthier team is beginning to pay big dividends.
“Just showed us once we started getting healthier, we were a very good team,” Frias said.
And after a summer fi lled with conditioning, the results are fi nally beginning to come to fruitition.
“We practice so hard every single day,” Voss said. “We’ve become such a team and our work ethic at practice is helping us fi nish games.”
WORK IN PROGRESSWhile Nevada’s improvement
is undeniable, it still has a ways to go before it reaches the level that players and coaches want.
“We were expecting to be bet-ter as far as results,” Frias said. “Had we had the players who got injured from the start of the season we would have better results, probably around .500.”
With a record of 5-10, the Wolf Pack is currently in fi fth place in the WAC and has areas that must get better for the team to compete, including playing for 90 minutes.
“We’ll put pieces together and play well for 20 or 30 minutes, but we need to play well for the full 90 minutes and fi nish games,” Voss said.
Frias believes the team is close to showing its true potential to the rest of the conference.
“We want to start a game and not give up early goals and play from behind,” Frias said. “We are dominating statistically, now it’s just a matter of putting them away.”
Although the Wolf Pack sit at 5-11, Frias sees a very bright future for the team.
“Our goal is to win the WAC and to qualify for the NCAA Tournament,” Frias said. “There’s still plenty of room to accomplish some of their goals. There’s still a lot of soccer to be played.”
Lukas Eggen can be reached at [email protected].
*National ranking in parentheses
Nevada Category Idaho
OFFENSE
292.83 (1) Rushing 161.57 (44)
186.67 (93) Passing 259.43 (26)
134.04 (53) Pass Effi ciency 150.42 (18)
479.50 (4) Total 421.00 (28)
29.33 (45) Scoring 29.57 (42)
DEFENSE
117.67 (41) Rushing 95.57 (14)
282.33 (116) Passing 268.43(113)
157.06 (114) Pass Effi ciency 143.35 (103)
400.00 (98) Total 364.00 (67)
29.17 (95) Scoring 25.14 (69)
SPECIAL TEAMS/MISC.
36.67(48) Net Punting 31.00 (116)
5.92(91) Punt Returns 15.00 (16)
24.00 (34) Kickoff Returns 21.07 (72)
-2.00 (119) Turnover Margin 0.57 (30)
MAKING THE CALL
www.nevadasagebrush.comB8 • OCTOBER 20, 2009
GamedayFirst-place Vandals rush homecomingNevada will try to derail Idaho’s unforeseen success
STAFF PICKSPESSIMIST SAYS: Idaho is ready to prove it is for real. The Vandals and the Wolf Pack av-erage almost the same amount of points and both offenses are very prolifi c. The difference will be Idaho’s energy and determination to show that they belong atop the WAC stand-ings. The Vandals, who boast the 14th best rushing defense in the nation, will limit the running game and force quarterback Colin Kaepernick to try and beat them in the air.
PESSIMIST SAYS: Idaho wins 28-20.
*National ranking in parentheses
TALE OF THE TAPE
LEADERS
IdahoPlayer Category Avg./GameD. Woolridge Rushing 75.7
Max Komar Receiving 76.9
Shiloh Keo Tackles 9.14
Tre’Shawn Robinson Tackles for loss 0.86
NevadaPlayer Category Avg./GameVai Taua Rushing 92.6
Brandon Wimberly Receiving 72.2
Jonathon Amaya Tackles 7.17
Dontay Moch Tackles for loss 2.58
WAC STANDINGS
Standings Conference OverallIdaho 3-0 6-1
Nevada 2-0 3-3
Boise State 1-0 6-0
Fresno State 2-1 3-3
Louisiana Tech 2-1 3-3
New Mexico State 1-2 3-4
San Jose State 0-2 1-5
Utah State 0-2 1-5
Hawaii 0-3 2-4
Date Opponent Time/ResultSept. 5 at NMSU W 21-6
Sept. 12 at Washington L 42-23
Sept. 19 San Diego State W 34-20
Sept. 26 at Northern Illinois W 34-31
Oct. 3 Colorado State W 31-29
Oct. 10 at San Jose State W 29-25
Oct. 17 Hawaii W 35-23
Saturday at Nevada 1:05 p.m.
Oct. 31 Louisiana Tech 2 p.m.
Nov. 7 Fresno State 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 14 at Boise State 12 p.m.
Nov. 28 Utah State 2 p.m.
D t O t Ti /R lt
IDAHO’S SCHEDULE
DIFFERENCE MAKER DEMAUNDRAY WOOLRIDGE
OPTIMIST SAYS: The Wolf Pack is ready for its first big test of the Western Athletic Conference season. Coach Ault will have the team ready to shut down a very potent Idaho offense and Nevada’s rushing attack will continue its strong play and keep the Vandals’ defense on the field. Special teams will step up and have a big day and the Wolf Pack will make the Vandals’ trip to Reno one they’ll want to forget.
OPTIMIST SAYS: Nevada wins 34-17.
Running back DeMaundray Woolridge appears ready to show that he is among the nation’s elite backs. Against Hawaii, he carried the ball 17 times for 81 yards and four touchdowns. He has played a huge role in Idaho’s offense, rushing for 530 yards and 12 touchdowns, both team highs. While Nevada gave up only 74 rushing yards against Utah State, Woolridge presents a much greater chal-lenge for the defense. He is able to pound the the ball and has the speed to break a big play. The Vandals will likely give the Wolf Pack a heavy dose of the run game and the Wolf Pack will have to limit the yards and touchdowns Woolridge amasses. If he has another game like Hawaii, Nevada will fi nd itself another victim to Idaho.
SEPT. 25
MissouriL 31-21
SEPT. 19
at Colorado St.L 35-20
SEPT. 5
at Notre Dame L 35-0
OCT. 3
UNLVW 63-28
OCT. 9
La. TechW 37-14
OCT. 17
at Utah St.W 35-32
Saturday
IdahoTIME: 1:05 p.m.
OCT. 31
HawaiiTIME: 1:05 p.m.
NOV. 8
at San Jose St.TIME: 5:30 p.m.
NOV. 14
Fresno St.TIME: 1:05 p.m.
NOV. 21
at New Mexico St.TIME: 5 p.m.
NOV. 27
at Boise St.TIME: TBA
AP TOP 25
Idaho at Nevada
When: 1:05 p.m. Saturday
Where: Mackay Stadium (29,993; FieldTurf)
Radio: ESPN Radio 630
TV: Nevada Sports Network
Meet the coaches: Head coach Derek Dooley is 6-1 in his fi rst year at Idaho. Nevada head coach Chris Ault is in his 25th season as Nevada’s coach and has a 201-94-1 record.
Idaho at NevadaTHIS WEEK’S GAME
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Wolf Pack wide receiver Chris Wellington
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Vandals running back DeMaundray Woolridge
By Juan López
Has there been a bigger surprise in the college football season so far than the Idaho Vandals?
This season, Idaho is 6-1, on a fi ve-game winning streak and leads the Western Athletic Conference with a 3-0 league mark. But what makes the Vandals’ season so special is that they had nine straight losing seasons before this year.
The turnaround Idaho has made is remarkable. The team has started opening eyes nationally. Idaho, who became bowl-eligible last week, has received votes in the AP Poll the last two weeks and is ranked 38th in the country by the USA Today Poll.
But enough about the feel-good story. By now, everyone who has any vested interest in the Idaho vs. Nevada game knows it won’t be a cakewalk for the Wolf Pack (3-3, 2-0 WAC) as it has been in past years. In the time that both teams have been in the WAC, Nevada is 4-0 against the Vandals, outscoring them 193-56.
WHERE ARE THE BIG NAMES?Looking through the Vandals’ season
statistics and roster for reasons as to why they’re 6-1 won’t do you much good.
They’re outscoring opponents by about four points per game, their pass defense is 113th in the nation and their defense has just 10 sacks this season.
Even the individual stats aren’t eye-popping. Quarterback Nathan Enderle has thrown six interceptions to go along with nine touchdowns this year and their leading tackle-for-loss guy has just six.
But looking closer reveals more. Idaho is second in the nation in third down conversion percentage at 57.5 (50-for-88). Its defense holds teams to just 96 rushing yards per game (14th in nation) and the team has a plus-four turnover margin.
The Vandals play great as a team and don’t have many big names, which is a good thing. There aren’t any specifi c players Nevada can key in on which will make it tougher to stop Idaho’s offense.
RUNNING GAMES WILL SHINENevada’s running game is nationally known. The Wolf Pack leads the country in rushing
with 292.8 yards per game, averages 6.8 yards per carry (fi rst in the country) and is the only team in the country that has three players who average more than 75 rushing yards per game (only two other teams in the country have even two players who do this).
But Nevada’s running backs will have some seri-ous competition for the game’s best back.
Idaho running back DeMaundray Woolridge has rushed for 530 yards this year (more than any Nevada player) and 12 touchdowns (tied for third in the nation).
Woolridge is a stout runner (5-foot-9, 241 pounds) who stays low to the ground and fi nishes off runs with authority. On his 92 carries this year, he’s only rushed for negative yards twice.
Aiding Woolridge will be fellow back Princeton McCarty (420 rushing yards this season). McCarty is “Dash” to Woolridge’s “Smash.”
The sophomore running back (5-foot-8, 190 pounds) averages six yards per carry.
Both teams will be going up against some sturdy run defenses. Idaho allows just 96 rush yards per game (14th in nation) while the Wolf Pack gives up 118 yards per contest (41st in nation). The ability of the teams to establish the ground game could decide who comes out on top.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
1. Florida 6-0 2. Alabama 7-0 3. Texas 6-0 4. Boise State 6-0 5. Cincinnati 6-0 6. Iowa 7-0 7. USC 5-1 8. TCU 6-0 9. LSU 5-110. Miami (FL) 5-111. Oregon 5-112. Georgia Tech 6-113. Penn State 6-114. Virginia Tech 5-215. Oklahoma State 5-1 16. BYU 6-117. Houston 5-118. Utah 5-119.Ohio State 5-220. Pittsburgh 6-121. Wisconsin 5-222. Arizona 4-223. West Virginia 5-124. South Carolina 5-225. Kansas 5-1
*Bold indicates school Nevada has played or will play this season.
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BCS RANKINGS
1. Alabama (39) 7-0 2. Florida (20) 6-0 3. Texas 6-0 4. USC 5-1 5. Cincinnati 6-0 6. Boise State 6-0 7. Iowa 7-0 8. Miami (FL) 5-1 9. LSU 5-110. TCU 6-011. Georgia Tech 6-112. Oregon 5-113. Penn State 6-114. Oklahoma State 5-115. Virginia Tech 5-216. BYU 6-117. Houston 5-118. Ohio State 5-219. Utah 5-120. Pittsburgh 6-121. Texas Tech 5-222. West Virginia 5-1 23. South Carolina 5-224. Kansas 5-125. Oklahoma 3-3
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTESNotre Dame 61 , Mississippi 59, South F lor ida 57, Nebraska 52 , Michigan 41, Central Michigan 39, Arizona 25, California 9, Arkansas 8, Oregon State 5, Missouri 4, Navy 4, Wisconsin 4, Idaho 4, Auburn 3, Boston College 3
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