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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009 VOLUME CXVI NUMBER 11SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO SINCE 1893
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LIVING IN THE DARK AGES Columnist Emily Katseanes loses her computer and with it, connections to the modern world. Page A7
GORY SERIES CONTINUESCheck out why “Saw VI” is better than its repetitious, cliff-hanging predecessors. Page A11
KAEP IS BACKNevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick scored six times against Idaho. Find out how he’s progressed. Page B1
INDEXVideo: Get a look at two Reno Philharmonic orchestra perfor-mances at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts. Live chat: Join Juan López for a sports chat at 3 p.m. WednesdayPhoto Gallery: Check the Web site Saturday after the football game against Hawaii for photos from the game.
Video: Get a look at two Reno Philharmonic orchestra perfor-
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*Source: The Environmental Affairs Offi ce. The drop in recycling poundage in 2008 could be attributed to the way materials were accounted for, according to the offi ce’s manager, John Sagebiel.
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RECYCLING ON CAMPUSAfter rising quickly, the amount of material recycled at the University of Nevada, Reno dropped slightly last year.
POSSIBLE FIXTURE
POSSIBLE FIXTURE
➤ 150-watt metal halide = $82,124.02 per year (uses about 825,290 kilowatts per year)
➤ Fluorescent T8s = $22,217.16 per year (uses about 298,509 kilowatts per year, which saves about 526,781 kilowatts per year)
➤ 120-watt induction = $29,265.04 per year (uses about 528, 590 kilowatts per year, which saves about 296,700 kilowatts per year)
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LIGHTING EXAMPLE: WEST STADIUM PARKING COMPLEX
*This data is an estimate from GreenPro Systems, and one of the proposals the university has to consider when retrofi tting a parking garage. UNR is looking to upgrade to lighting fi xtures that save the most energy for the best value (most likely a fl uorescent fi xture). LED lighting is a very new technology, which could create more problems to fi x, since it hasn’t been fully proven effective yet.
By Neal Morton
In an effort to develop better research and academic cohesion, university offi cials plan to hire a new administrator to combine the positions of vice president of Health Sciences and dean of the
University of Nevada School of Medicine (UNSOM).
“New opportunities for growth of the medical and nursing stu-dent body, new opportunities for space expansion in Las Vegas, new opportunities for fundrais-ing and clinical opportunities
for students are what we need to address,” University of Nevada, Reno Provost Marc Johnson said.
A university search committee for the position will meet this week to outline the qualifi ca-tions and agenda for possible
candidates, Johnson said via e-mail.
“We will talk about character-istics of a successful applicant, discuss the process, encourage affi rmative action in develop-ing the candidate list to include women and ethnic minorities
and establish a meeting and activity schedule,” Johnson said.
The meeting with the search fi rm Isaacson, Miller initiates what offi cials said would be a lengthy process to fi nd a suitable replacement for outgoing Dean of UNSOM Dr. Ole Thienhaus.
Thienhaus served as interim dean of the medical school for an agreed two years, Johnson said, after taking over the dean position when UNR President Milton Glick separated then-
Senate to hear $75 fee proposal
Search begins to fi ll combined administration positions
UNR PUSHES FOR SUSTAINABILITYRENEWABLE ENERGYThe solar panel system on top of the Joe Crowley Student Union powers 30,000 watts of energy. It would take 1,000 systems of that size to power the campus.
By Jessica Fryman
A s the university moves toward improving energy effi ciency on campus, one thing has always stood in the way: the budget. Earlier this month, the uni-versity received a $950,000 grant, making it possible
to focus on three projects in lighting, renewable energy and recycling.
“The efforts are going to be smaller,” John Sagebiel, man-ager of environmental affairs, said. “But as I always like to point out, that’s what adds up to be big things.”
LIGHTINGWith a plan that’s been in the works since 2007, the univer-
sity is fi nally closer to the fi nal stages of retrofi tting a lighting system in one of the parking garages. So far, administrators have completed several surveys and cost vs. energy analyses of the garages in an attempt to decide which lighting fi xtures would best suit the university’s needs.
“The goal is truly energy savings,” Mike Bennett, assistant director of facilities services, said.
Bennett said he assumes the university will upgrade one of the parking garages to fl uorescent lighting because it is the
UNR leaders look at ways to conserve energy, recycle
➤ Paper (offi ce paper) runs about 240 tons/year (480,000 lb)➤ Cardboard is around 60 tons/year (120,000 lb)➤ Special requests for pick up: 775-784-8020
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OTHER RECYCLING DATA
By Nick Coltrain
Students’ hands aren’t tied when it comes to making the University of Nevada, Reno more energy effi cient and sustainable.
The student clubs advocating for greener practices prove that.
The Environmental Action Team (EnAct) and the Sustainable Energy Forum are two of many clubs on campus that seek to educate and fi ght for a change in student practices. And it’s the little things that matter, the club leaders say.
For instance, EnAct is in the middle of
coordinating “energy wars” among the dif-ferent residence halls, a competition that rewards whichever hall reduces its energy usage by the most.
Delia Martinez, the club’s president, said the energy wars are a great example of how an entire aspect of campus might lower its energy costs by individual initiative.
“Instill good habits early — that’s exactly our goal,” she said. “If we can get them to change their habits for just one month a year, we can hopefully have a domino effect.”
Student organizations aim to help green push
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See ORGANIZATIONS Page A5 See PLANS Page A5
See HEALTH VP Page A5
By Jay Balagna
An Associated Students of the University of Nevada Senate committee will hear a proposal for a new $75 per se-mester fee for undergraduate students Wednesday evening. If passed by the general sen-ate, the fee will be placed on the agenda for the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents’ December meeting. The Regents have the fi nal say on if the fee will be implemented.
The proposal also includes a $30 per semester fee for graduate students that would be implemented next fall if the Regents pass it. Their De-cember agenda has not been published leaving the fi nal decision date open.
The fee is part of the ASUN Joint Vision 2017 plan and will be used to pay for a free tutoring center, performing arts on campus and a student activities center. The changes are meant to free up money and people in the undergradu-ate government and add more campus events and services.
Some in the senate said they feel the process of proposing a new fee is happening too fast and should be brought to a student vote through a ballot question fi rst.
“It’s not that I’m necessarily against (the proposal),” Sen. Lea Moser, a member of the university affairs committee, said. “I just think we need to
BY THE NUMBERSThe proposed $75 fee is made up of three parts:
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dollars paid by only under-graduates will go to a new student activities center
dollars paid by both gradu-ates and undergraduates will go to performing arts.
25dollars paid by both gradu-ates and undergraduates
will go to a tutoring center.
See FEE PROPOSAL Page A5
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VOLUME CXVI • ISSUE 11
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Cesar GaribaldoPostition: 21-year-old ac-counting and information systems majorWhat he does: Member of Nu Alpha Kappa fraternity, has a cumulative 3.8 grade point average.
FACES OF NEVADA
OCT. 25, 1940
Cars registered at ASUN building
Blue Key’s long-heralded park-ing control plan at last became an actuality today when car owners of the campus registered their vehicles in ASUN President Ray Garamendi’s offi ce.
One hundred and thirty-fi ve upperclassmen, 115 lower classmen and 30 faculty mem-bers had registered at 2 p.m. today.
Despite that, both leaders said, the plan will go into effect Monday morning in full force.
OCT. 26, 1956
Copying device here in library
A machine capable of copying printed pages, pictures, and maps within minutes is avail-able to students and faculty members at the campus library.
James J. Hill, director of librar-ies, states that copies can be made for only 11 cents a page and they are particularly useful in research work.
The photo machine is also of value when several copies of material are needed, as it saves to time necessary to proof-read type-written material.
OCT 28, 1983
Lawlor Pavilion to hold party next Friday
A party will mark the opening of the Lawlor Events Center on UNR’s campus Friday, Nov. 4 at 6:30 p.m.
Center director Bob Dagitz said most of the public area will be ready for inspection.
By Gabrielle Irvin
Earlier this month, Cesar Garibaldo was the only student in Nevada selected as a scholar for the Hispanic College Fund.
Garibaldo, a 21-year-old ac-counting and information sys-tems major at the University of Nevada, Reno, was named one of the Top 35 Hispanic business scholars in the nation by the Hispanic College Fund.
“Thirty-eight thousand stu-dents applied for this award,” Garibaldo said. “Six hundred received scholarships, but only 35 were selected to receive the award.”
Today, Garibaldo arrives in Washington D.C. to attend the Karen Marquéz Institute, a fi ve-day professional develop-ment program that provides Hispanic students the oppor-tunity to learn skills to success-fully transition from college to the workforce. Garibaldo will participate in workshops on interviewing skills, public speaking and résumé writing, all delivered by the personnel of national corporations.
“It is a huge networking pro-gram,” Garibaldo said. “Fifty percent of students walk out with a job.”
The workshop mentors in-clude chief executives of com-panies such as Constellation Energy, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Zeta Associates Inc., Lockheed Martin, MVM, MasterCard, Averrett, Ernst & Young, Fannie Mae and General Dynamics. Garibaldo
will receive $4,000 also from Lockheed Martin, his scholar-ship provider.
In order to apply for the award, students must be nominated. Garibaldo has been nominated and applied every year since he was a freshman, making the top 600 each time. This year, Garibaldo was nomi-nated, and with his experience, fi nally made the top 35.
“Awardees are chosen on a variety of metrics,” Garib-aldo said. “Community service, work experience, internships, academics and essays are a huge part of the application process.”
Garibaldo, carrying a cu-mulative 3.8 GPA, has been on the dean’s list since he was a freshman and has had numer-ous internships. He interned at JPMorgan Chase in New York, the Business Environmental Program, the Reno Housing Au-thority and Chase Card Services in Wilmington, Del.
“I gave up a lot of my child-hood,” Garibaldo said. “Some-times I would work 35 hours a week, but now I am getting awards and internships, the work is worth it. School is get-ting easier with the experience I have gained.”
Now, Garibaldo is in the ap-plication process for an intern-ship with Google.
“All students have to do is apply,” Garibaldo said. “There are lots of opportunities on the East Coast that people should take advantage of.”
Although Garibaldo was
offered a full-time job at JP-Morgan Chase, his main goal is to attend graduate school and receive his Ph.D. in informa-tion systems or information technology.
“I want to apply to Harvard or (University of California, Berkeley),” Garibaldo said. “My goal is to get a Ph.D.”
Garibaldo said that UNR provides students with the nec-essary resources and support to succeed. He said that Michael Ekedahl, lecturer for the Col-lege of Business, has taught and helped motivate him to pursue his goals.
“Cesar is really committed to stepping up to the plate,” Ekedahl said. “He is one of those exemplary ‘A’ students and I have had the opportunity to watch him evolve. He has found his mission and is pursu-ing it happily. It really makes me happy as an educator.”
“I am honored to represent my school, my family and myself,” Garibaldo said. “I feel great, ready to graduate and move on to the next phase of my life.”
Gabrielle Irvin can be reached at [email protected].
By Aaron Benedetti
Last week a group identify-ing itself as “UNR Corruption” sent an e-mail message titled “The Evidence Against UNR Offi cials is Staggering” to more than 3,500 members of the Reno-Sparks community.
The e-mail quotes Ron Cuzze, president of the Ne-vada State Law Enforcement Offi cers Association, as saying he believes “the public should accept nothing less than a full examination and criminal prosecution” regarding claims of extensive corruption at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Former Nevada women’s soccer coach Terri Patraw, geological sciences profes-sor Richard Schweickert and reinstated UNR Police Department Sgt. Lane Grow, along with other activists, are responsible for the e-mail messages. At an evidentiary hearing last month petitioners Patraw, Schweickert and Grow presented support for their claims of extensive corrup-tion and racketeering at UNR before Washoe District Court Judge Connie Steinheimer.
The accusations against the university range from embezzlement of university funds, extortion and abuse of power to intimidation by UNR offi cials and use of UNRPD as a private police force. The petitioners allege that of-fi cials ranging from UNRPD Chief Adam Garcia to General Counsel Mary Dugan to UNR President Milton Glick are involved in the wrongdoings.
Steinheimer has yet to issue a decision on whether the claims will be investigated by a grand jury.
Patraw and others have undertaken a publicity cam-paign to bring attention to the petitioners’ claims of cor-ruption within the university administration. In addition to issuing a slew of e-mails, Patraw said the petitioners — at the suggestion of several “con-cerned citizens”— have helped organize a peaceful demonstra-tion at noon on Friday outside the Second Judicial District Court in Reno.
“One of the reasons we want to do the demonstration is that we know Steinheimer is under a lot of political pressure to throw this case out,” Patraw said. “She needs to know that the people who elected her are tired of the corruption.”
The petitioners hope to increase awareness of their claims throughout the com-munity because, as Patraw said, “everybody has a dog in this fi ght.”
“Students, taxpayers (and) employees are paying for this corruption,” Patraw said. “These outside law fi rms are using state taxpayer and stu-dent tuition money to engage in illegal activity.”
Cuzze said the NSLEOA and its parent organization, the Nevada Association of Public Safety Offi cers, became publicly involved in the corruption issue to show that they stand behind a “citizens’ commission” to investigate the allegations. He said nearly every police depart-ment in the state supports NSLEOA’s position.
“I don’t have any fi rst-hand knowledge of these allegations other than what’s been going on at the UNRPD,” Cuzze said, “but we support a grand jury to investigate these claims. We are tired of the intimidation and corruption by Chief Garcia.”
Cuzze said a special pros-ecutor and grand jury are the “proper venue” to investigate the claims against the universi-ty. He said that the Offi ce of the Attorney General investigates all allegations against state institutions, but state attorneys are obliged to represent all state employees in legal matters.
Since Nevada has no inspec-tor general to investigate allega-tions such as the petitioners’, Cuzze said he believes “there’s a natural confl ict of interests” in Nevada’s state-level legal system.
“We feel that the students should know about it,” Cuzze said. “Not only are they paying tuition, they’re paying taxes, sales tax, too.”
Kent Robison, a private at-torney representing UNR, said the efforts at publicity that the
petitioners and others have un-dertaken are an attempt to un-fairly manipulate Steinheimer’s decision.
“They’re obviously trying to infl uence a judicial offi cer, which is highly improper in my business,” Robison said.
He also said Cuzze and the petitioners acted “prematurely and irresponsibly” in issuing a public statement on the allega-tions against the university be-fore consulting with university representatives.
“They don’t know the truth, they know the false statements that have been expressed,” Ro-bison said. “I’m sure they raised their eyebrows when they heard it. What they should do is come to us and let us respond to the accusations.”
Guy Felton, a Web publisher and local activist, created the Web site unrgrandjury.com on Oct. 12 after receiving an un-solicited e-mail from the UNR Corruption group. Felton, who has published several other Web sites alleging corrupt or unfair practices in state and lo-cal government, is not affi liated with the case against UNR.
“Civilization can never achieve its highest aspirations without serving justice to the max,” Felton said. “Web sites can make individuals aware of problems that insult justice and encourage them to get involved in forcing solutions.”
Felton fully supports a grand jury investigation into the peti-tioners’ claims of corruption at the university. He said he fi nds the evidence of wrongdoing presented by the petitioners as well as by Hussein S. Hussein, a former UNR professor who was fi red by Glick in 2008, to be deserving of public concern.
“For bottom-feeding bastards holding responsible posts at UNR to dump on these good people (Patraw, Schweickert, Grow and Hussein) is totally unacceptable,” Felton said.
Patraw said she and the other petitioners will appeal the case to the Nevada Supreme Court if Steinheimer dismisses it.
Though he refused to specu-late on Steinheimer’s decision, Robison said “we are optimistic, and we hope justice will take its course” when the matter is eventually resolved. Jane Tors, UNR spokeswoman, said the university remains “confi dent that these allegations will again be found to be without merit.”
Aaron Benedetti can be reached at [email protected].
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Cesar Garibaldo, a 21-year-old accounting major at the University of Nevada, Reno, was named one of the top 35 Hispanic business students in the United States by the Hispanic College Fund.
Student earns top spot
Plaintiffs create Web site alleging ‘UNR Corruption’
➤ What: A peaceful rally in support of summoning a grand jury to investigate claims of corruption at UNR➤ When: Noon Friday➤ Where: Second Judicial District Court, 75 Court St., Reno➤ Event organizers, including grand jury petitioners Terri Patraw, Richard Schweickert and Lane Grow invite all con-cerned individuals.
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DEMONSTRATION
➤ For details of the claims of corruption and racketeering at UNR, visit unrgrandjury.com.*To see a PDF of the condensed claims fi led in Washoe Dis-trict Court, go to
NEVADASAGEBRUSH.COM* unrgrandjury.com was published on Oct. 12 by Guy Felton, a local resident who is not one of the petitioners, to broadcast his support for the investigation.
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“One of the reasons we want to do the demonstration is that we know Steinheimer is under a lot of political pressure to throw this case out,” Patraw said. “She needs to know that the people who elected her are tired of the corruption.”
UNR RESEARCHERS AWARDED $890,000 GRANT FROM NSF
Researchers from the Uni-versity of Nevada, Reno were awarded an $890,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs.
The center, which will be run as a collaborative effort be-tween UNR and Oregon State University, will make fi ber optic and laser thermometers available to other researchers around the country. The ther-mometers were developed by Scott Tyler, a UNR geological sciences researcher and were fi rst used to measure the temperature of Walker River and the soil surrounding it. They have since been used to measure temperatures in caves, mines, avalanches and
other parts of nature.With the founding of the
center, UNR will become a testing and training site for the new thermometers and their use in research.
UNRPD SENDS SAFETY ALERT TO STUDENTS OVER BICYCLE THEFTS
The University of Nevada, Reno Police Department sent an e-mail to students Thurs-day to warn them of a string of recent bicycle thefts on campus and offering advice on how to protect their bikes.
Some of the advice the e-mail offers includes pur-chasing a quality lock, locking bicycles to racks by both the front wheel and the frame, and registering bikes with parking services.
To see the e-mail sent to stu-dents, go to nevadasagebrush.com.
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Weekly UpdateCampus Events
University to hold symposium on dying lakes
CASEY DURKIN NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Wyatt Aping of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Calli Brennan of Delta Gamma stand in Mackay Stadium after being crowned homecoming king and queen at halftime of the Wolf Pack’s 70-45 win over Idaho Saturday. The game against the Vandals and halftime’s crowning of the homecoming royalty brought an end to a week of events. For more photos from homecoming, see page A4 and check out the photo galleries at www.nevadasagebrush.com.
HOMECOMING ROYALTY PRESENTATION MARKS END TO WEEK’S EVENTS
POLICE BLOTTER NEWS BRIEFS
OCTOBER 27, 2009 • A3
By Tiana Ross
If left untended, the ecosystem of Walker Lake might cease to exist.
The alkaline levels are rising at Walker Lake, which was deemed a terminus lake because water sources fl ow into it but not out, which threatens parts of its eco-system, according to experts.
Numerous lakes in Nevada and around the world are classi-fi ed as terminus.
To address solutions to ter-minus lakes, the first Interna-tional Symposium on Terminus Lakes will be at the Joe Crowley Student Union Tuesday and Wednesday. During this event, many scientists will showcase
their latest research techniques for closed basin/terminus lakes and the implications of this research. The event will be composed of four major sessions.
Wallace S. Broecker, a geo-chemist at Columbia University and father of the term “global warming,” will give the keynote address at 9 a.m. Tuesday to kick off the Walker Basin ses-sion. Several other scientists will also reveal their fi ndings from the Walker Basin Project at the session.
The University of Nevada, Reno and the Desert Research Institute have been running the Walker Basin Project for two years and have grabbed the at-
tention of scientists throughout Northern Nevada and abroad, said Mike Collopy, assistant vice president for research and director of the Academy for the Environment.
“The primary focus was to bet-ter understand the ecosystem in general,” he said.
Scientists running the pro-gram hope to fi nd an effi cient way of adding water to Walker Lake to help improve prospects for endangered fi sh and to en-hance crop growth in the basin, Collopy said.
Aside from Walker Lake presen-tations, scientists will be sharing research on closed-basin lakes in Antarctica, Uzbekistan and other areas around the globe.
There will also be a session on the Dead Sea.
Mike Wolterbeek, a UNR spokesman, said that registra-tion is open to anyone up until the day of the event. Fees are $25 for students and $150 for general admission. The fees will cover admission to the event and the cost of conti-nental breakfast and morning and afternoon refreshments. Students are strongly encour-aged to participate in the symposium.
“We are (hosting) the event on campus because we want students to be involved,” Wolter-beek said.
The symposium will fi nish with a fi eld trip on Thursday.
Participants in this daylong adventure will go to Lake Tahoe and then follow the Truckee River to Pyramid Lake, a desert terminus lake. Registration for the fi eld trip costs $35 per person and seating is limited.
Tiana Ross can be reached at [email protected].
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TUESDAY/27Wallace S. Broecker Keynote AddressWhen: 9 to 10 a.m.Where: Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
Wallace S. Broecker was the scientist who coined the term “global warming” and has been an advocate of environmental awareness. In this symposium, he joins other scientists to discuss closed-basin lakes, which in-clude Pyramid Lake, and their importance in the climate change discussion. For more information, contact Kathie Taylor at 775-684-9247,[email protected] or visit www.nevada.edu/sympo-sium.
WEDNESDAY/28The Psychoscope: a sensa-tional drama in fi ve actsWhen: 7 to 8:30 p.m.Where: Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Readers in costume will recite this futuristic play, written by two of Mark Twain’s friends, in honor of Nevada Day and the Comstock Lode’s 150th anniversary. Admission is free. For more information contact Carol Parkhurst at [email protected].
THURSDAY/29University Wind Ensemble presents ‘Lord of the Rings’ When: 7:30 to 10 p.m.Where: Nightingale Concert Hall
The University Wind Ensemble will open its season with performances of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1 “The Lord of the Rings,” along with other selections from Carolyn Bremer and J.C. Reed. Admission is free. For more information contact Arts Information at 775-784-4278 or [email protected].
Safe Trick-or-Treat & CarnivalWhen: 6 to 9 p.m.Where: Canada Hall and Downunder Cafe Private Dining Room
This is the 14th year Canada Hall has hosted safe trick-or-treating for the community. The entrance will be on the corner of Artemesia & N. Virginia streets. For more information contact Brandon Knox at 775-784-4538 or [email protected].
MONDAY/2Program in Jazz and Improvi-sational Music presents BugWhen: 7 to 9 p.m.Where: Nightingale Concert Hall
This Fresno, Calif., impro-visational jazz band blends modern and traditional jazz styles. Admission is $10 general admission; $5 stu-dents, at the door. For more information contact Arts Information at [email protected] or visit www.unr.edu/arts/.
➤ What: Terminus Lake Sym-posium➤ Where: The Joe Crowley Student Union➤ When: Tuesday at 9 a.m.➤ Cost: The seminar costs $25 for students.
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EVENT DETAILS
OCTOBER 26Offi cers responded to the destruction of property in the Fitzgerald Student Services Building.
OCTOBER 25The wheels of a car were reported stolen from the northern blue on-campus parking lot.
OCTOBER 24A 20-year-old male was cited for the possession of a con-trolled substance in Nye Hall.
Five people were taken into civil protective custody at Mackay Stadium.
An 18-year-old female was cited for minor in possession and consumption of alcohol at Mackay Stadium.
OCTOBER 23A 30-year-old male was taken into civil protective custody at the corner of Second and Center streets.
Offi cers responded to a re-port of grand larceny in the Ansari Business Building.
OCTOBER 22A 26-year-old male was arrested for trespassing on Evans Avenue.
Offi cers responded to a re-port of a stolen bicycle at the William J. Raggio Building.
OCTOBER 21A 16-year-old female reported a hit and run in the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex.
Offi cers responded to a
report of grand larceny in the Leifson Physics building.
Offi cers responded to the destruction of property in Lincoln Hall.
A 19-year-old male was cited for the possession of a controlled substance in White Pine Hall.
Offi cers responded to a report of grand lar-ceny in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
A 30-year-old male reported annoying phone calls from the Clark Administration building.
OCTOBER 20Offi cers responded to the destruction of property in the Sierra Street Parking Complex.
A 20-year-old male reported his wallet stolen.
A 24-year-old female reported her bicycle tire stolen from White Pine Hall.
A 28-year-old female reported a hit and run on University Terrace.
Offi cers responded to a report of petty larceny in Lincoln Hall.
A bicycle was reported stolen from the Virginia Street Gym.
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.
High: 55-65
Low: 35-45
WEATHER FORECAST
High campustemperature:
Low campus tem-perature:
44 44 47 56 28 29 30 37
UNR WEEKLY WEATHER DISCUSSION: A strong cold winter storm will bring a drastic change in the temperatures for the entire week. Along with cold temperatures, the storm will likely bring snow to all valley fl oors on Tuesday. After the storm clears out, breezy, cold days follow. There is a slight chance of rain on Saturday, but the temperature should rebound back to normal or a few degrees above.
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/.
Mostly sunny, becoming mostly
cloudy
Partly sunny, northeast winds
5-10 mph
A slight chance of rain Saturday,
party sunny Sunday.
A slight chance of rain, mostly
cloudy.
Signifi cant cool-ing, snow likely,
north wind 15-25 mph
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Inside CampusWeek of homecoming events hits campus
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Clockwise from above:
! Students watch as a fi re blazes at the annual homecoming bonfi re late Friday night. The event ended the second year the undergraduate student government has organized homecoming with a dedicated department and increased funding in an effort to boost student attendance.
! The Associated Students of the University of Nevada Bookstore was just one of many participants showcasing clothes during this year’s The Pack Gives Back — Charity Auction and Fashion Show. The event was a part of this year’s homecoming festivities.
! Hungry students patiently wait while members of the ASUN Homecoming Committee serve up some lunch during Wednesday's homecoming event, RMX Livfast motocross show and barbecue.
! University of Nevada, Reno students portray “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” during the And To Think I Saw It On Virginia Street. Homecoming Parade. The theme of this year’s homecoming, “Blue Pack, Silver Pack, Our Pack, Wolf Pack,” was based on popular Dr. Suess children’s books.
! Delta Delta Delta sorority members wait for sisters to fi nish pancakes before taking them out to the server as part of the annual DHOP charity fundraiser. For the event, the sorority organizes a pancake meal and sells tickets to students.
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EnAct also hosted the “trashion” shows last semes-ter, which participants made elaborate garments by reusing what would otherwise be trash. The club is now working with the Residential Life, Housing and Food Services to reduce waste in the Downunder Café by turning it into compost.
The club, along with a class taught by Academy for the En-vironment Associate Director Jen Huntley-Smith, composts about 450 pounds of the DC’s pre-consumer waste per week, Martinez said.
It’s only about 5 percent of the DC’s 8,000 pounds of weekly pre-consumer waste, but Mar-tinez said the club can handle more composting as the worms used in the process multiply.
“Recycling is not the best thing we can do,” Martinez, a 29-year-old environmental studies and biology major, said. “Reducing our consump-tion and reusing what we do consume is being much more environmental.”
Russell Meyer, head of ResLife’s dining branch, said the students are doing the brunt of the work and it’s far better than the other option ResLife was considering: trucking the waste to Douglas County for a third-party com-posting company to handle.
“It makes a lot of sense for us to be doing this and working with the students and working toward a more sustainable campus,” he said.
Meyer said the composters and ResLife are looking to sell the eventual compost to make the operation self-funding.
On the educational front, the Sustainable Energy Forum has been bringing a variety of speakers to campus to open interested eyes to topics as varied as the political battles surrounding sustainability and religious ties to sustain-ability to more standard topics such as nuclear energy and electric cars.
The club aims to educate students on the nuances to the sustainability and energy de-bates while enabling students to take sustainability into their own hands, club vice president Jonathan Martinez said.
“It’s just exciting to see people start to think on an-other level,” he said. “I think it’s one of the hallmarks of our generation, that we think in this way that we want to sustain ourselves.”
The speakers have been drawing substantially larger crowds each week, forcing the club to book the senate cham-bers in the student union to ensure sitting room, Martinez, a 25-year-old general studies major, said.
The club wants to go bigger from there, such as planning a sustainability fair in the coming weeks — plans similar to EnAct’s — and generally “open a whole can of worms” on sustainability issues on campus, he said.
The SEF recently received a donation of teaching modules so club members can give semi-nars to K-12 classes on energy use, he said — another small step toward making the campus and its surrounding community a little more sustainable.
“All of us are spreading aware-ness in our own way,” Martinez said.
Nick Coltrain can be reached at [email protected].
most energy effi cient for the cost. For example, if the West Stadium Parking Complex were to change from metal halide lights to fl uorescent, it would save 526,781 kilowatts and more than $59,000 per year. The initial installment would cost about $150,000, Sagebiel said.
Elements that factor into the upgrade include high start-up costs, evaluating new technolo-gies and long-term maintenance savings.
LED lights, which have been installed in exit signs in newer buildings, raise concerns among administrators for a parking garage upgrade because they aren’t a proven technology, Ben-nett said.
LED lights last up to 10 to 15 times longer than other lights, but because they are still untested over long periods of time, they could burn out quicker than expected, said Ste-ven Rothschild, chief executive offi cer of Applied Interactive, a company that sells commercial lighting.
“You are talking new technol-ogy that’s not always effectively proven before being installed,” Rothschild said. “That’s prob-ably the biggest issue.”
Despite the initial expense and concerns with new technology not running properly, Rothschild said LED lights are the future.
“They will replace a substantial amount of existing fi xtures,” he said. “There’s no question about that. It’s just a question of when is the technology signifi cantly established and the cost low enough that it is worthwhile to change technology. This isn’t an if. This is when.”
For now, UNR administrators say the cost of installing LED lights with the risks make fl uo-rescent lighting a more probable option right now.
“LED technology is still in its infancy,” Bennett said. “I’m always reluctant to spend state taxpayer money on items that are truly cutting edge that don’t
have at least fi ve years of known technology and applications be-hind them. If we make a mistake, we have to go back and ask the taxpayers to fi x that mistake.”
SOLAR ENERGYFirst on the list for the renew-
able energy project is installing a solar panel system on the greenhouses on Valley Road. The main non-glass structure was designed to support the weight of a solar panel system.
“We don’t want to be going around messing with roofs of buildings that are 100-and-something years old,” Sagebiel said. “The engineering was done to support the system. It’s already basically set to go so it would be an ideal opportunity.”
Although the money is not always readily available with the opening of new buildings, Sagebiel said it sends a powerful message to construct buildings with the ability to house solar panels, so the opportunity is there when the money comes.
But even installation projects like the one in preliminary stages for the greenhouse are just a small start. For example, the campus would need 1,000 solar panel systems like the one on top of the Joe Crowley Stu-dent Union to power the entire campus. The Joe’s system holds 112 panels and cost $300,000 (mostly money from donors) to install.
RECYCLINGThe amount of glass, plastic
and aluminum recycled on cam-pus increased by almost 54,000 pounds between 2005 and 2007. Now, statistics show that levels of recycled materials are leveling out a bit, so the university hopes to start hiking up the effort once again.
About half of the university’s recycled materials come from the residence halls, which consistently push recycling initiatives by providing bins and marketing.
“It’s a matter of increasing capacity,” Sagebiel said. “We think we have an opportunity to capture more material.”
In addition to the residence hall bins, the university has 139 recycling bins spread out among 48 buildings. There are no plans
on buying more bins because money hasn’t been budgeted to do so. However, special requests to pick up recycling will continue
to be fulfi lled.
Jessica Fryman can be reached at [email protected].
dean of UNSOM and vice presi-dent of Health Sciences John McDonald’s position.
Due to a reorganization of the College of Health and Human Sciences in 2008, Mc-Donald’s position was split in two to ensure a smooth shift, said Marsha Read, interim vice president for research and head
of the search committee.“I think it was really just try-
ing to look at how to be sure that in a transition like that, the health sciences didn’t get forgotten or fall through the cracks,” Read said. “You don’t want to leave those things without direction.”
Read said the need for a leader back then carried over into the recombining of the dean and vice president positions.
As the upcoming William N.
Pennington Health Sciences Education Building refl ects a physical restructuring of the university’s medical studies, the combination of the positions would provide what Read said was much-needed cohesion for the university’s medical schools.
“We can physically bring them together, so we ought to bring whoever’s going to lead this charge to lead us philosophically back together too,” Read said.
Johnson echoed Read and said the synergy of academic mis-sions under one administrator would benefi t students.
“Since the strategic plan for the health sciences in 2005, the objective of the university has been to integrate all of the health sciences together for teaching, research, outreach education and clinical services,” he said.
Johnson promised under-graduates more opportunities
for research programs. He also said graduate students will see better interaction between clini-cal practice and research with an emphasis in physician and nurse practitioners.
Johnson and Read could not say what future role McDonald would have after the position is fi lled. McDonald declined to comment on the issue.
Neal Morton can be reached at [email protected].
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LED lights were installed in exit signs in newer buildings, such as the Joe Crowley Student Union. Other sustainable initiatives include upgrading lighting fi xtures to save energy in one of the parking garages.
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know students’ opinion on it fi rst.”
Moser said in talking with students about the Joint Vision, few knew what the plan was, and even fewer were in favor of the new fee.
Moser said she plans to look into writing legislation to send the fee to a student vote in the next ASUN election, delaying its presentation to the Regents.
ASUN President Eli Reilly said bringing the proposal to a student vote would push the timeline back too far and is not needed.
“If that’s what the senate decides,
so be it and I will support it because they are the voice of the students, but this is something that needs to be decided now,” he said.
The fee is urgent, Reilly said, because it will bring back tutor-ing services needed by students on campus and “keep (ASUN) relevant to students.”
The senate is elected to serve as the voice of the undergraduate student body and bringing the proposal to them is suffi cient, Reilly said.
“Even when the new student union was built, we didn’t bring that to a student vote,” he said.
The fee, if passed, would be broken into three parts. Both graduate and undergraduate students would pay two parts of the fee and only undergraduates
would pay the third part.The tutoring center, called
the Academic Success Center by the proposal submitted to the senate’s university affairs committee, would receive $25 of the new fee, generating about $680,000 per year, according to the proposal. Both graduates and undergraduates would pay this part of the fee.
The Academic Success Center would include a math center, a writing center and a tutoring center, all three of which would be open to students for free.
Both undergraduate and graduate students would pay another $5, generating about $160,000 per year, which would go to existing arts programs like the Nevada Repertory Company
and the Sheppard Gallery.Only undergraduates would
pay the remaining $45 according to the proposal, which would bring in almost $1.2 million for a student activities center. The proposal describes the center as necessary because “the organi-zation has grown to a size where (the combination of student government and student activi-ties) is no longer feasible.”
With the money freed up by creating the student activities center, ASUN can take on issues facing students like the building of a south campus lounge or expanding student publications with greater ease, Reilly said when the Joint Vision plan was released.
“That south side lounge idea
the senate’s been working on? That would’ve happened in a semester because the senate would have had the money to just do it,” he said.
Jay Balagna can be reached at [email protected].
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Perspectives
EDITORIAL CARTOON
“I thought college was where you learned to think for yourself.”
Bookstore advertising laws need revisionSTAFF EDITORIAL I ASUN
Computer trouble leads to life of Luddite
CHEESE AND WHINE
What is your favorite winter fashion staple?CAMPUSCHAT
VETERINARY ASSISTANT
Take every opportunity that comes along in college
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A s college students, we often crash into new opportunities in life, work and pleasure.
These opportunities can be scary or exciting, look like a mountain or just a short path and open many doors or close a few. When you hear people say, “College should be the best time of your life,” you should listen and do your best to make this come true. Taking on new
challenges, opportuni-ties and hobbies is what college is all about and the best thing you can do right now is fi nd yourself.
When I received a very scary, yet exciting, opportunity to do a weeklong externship at one of the most renowned equine medical centers in the United States, I didn’t know what to think. I thrive off of the ambulatory practice of vet med, so the huge hospital surgery aspect isn’t quite my forte.
My boss told me it would
do wonders for my vet school application. I could get to know more doctors and widen my veterinary medicine experi-ence. But I was comfortable with fi eld surgery and jeans. I didn’t need scrubs and a huge, expensive surgery room. As much as I wanted to jump on the opportunity, I was intimidated. I would not know anyone, the other externs would most likely be in vet school already and I was just a pre-vet student from Reno.
Then, the two words that should run your life popped into my head: “carpe diem.” Seize the day. Each and every exciting new opportunity that comes your way should be taken. We’re not getting any younger and today is the prime time to try something new. In a few years or even this year, you are going to graduate, fi nd a job and not have as much time to explore new opportunities. Today is the time to broaden your horizons and try something new, make sure you are in the right major and ask yourself, “Is this really what I want?”
I manned up. I took on the scary opportunity and drove eight and a half hours to Solvang, Calif., to the Alamo
Pintado Equine Medical Center.Despite my uncertainties,
surgery turned out to be fun. Sterile prep was a lot different for major surgery than in the fi elds of Reno and arthroscopic surgeries completely sparked my curiosity. I spent at least 10 hours a day soaking in every-thing I could. I was at APEMC two more times that summer and now have the opportunity to do a two-week externship with them this winter. Had I not taken myself outside my comfort zone, I would never have fi gured out if I actually liked surgery and big veterinary hospitals until my third year of vet school.
Don’t wait to experience life. Take life on as it comes to you. Face up, stand strong and really open up your mind to learn more about yourself. Tomorrow is never guaranteed, and the scariest opportunity may turn out to be the best thing that has ever happened to you. Seize the day, seize the opportunity and live your college dreams. Carpe diem.
Hayley Rasmussen is a pre-veter-inary major and rides big, pretty horses in her spare time. Reach her at [email protected].
M y computer broke. On the downside, I can no longer
listen to music, watch DVDs or do homework in bed. On the upside, I did
gain a $2,000 doorstop.The other relative upside of this debacle is that my
5-year-old Dell, which survived the wars of my early college years, lost three keys (C, K and L) and took five minutes to open a Web browser, is going to be replaced by an early graduation gift from my parents.
But until that new shiny laptop shows up, I’m living in my 1930s-era apartment very much like people in the 1930s.
I live alone, so there’s no other computer. I do own a TV, but since I’m unwilling to pay for cable and
don’t own a working DVD player, it’s pretty much a nightstand. Ever since moving out of my parents’ house, I haven’t owned a CD player or radio and my apartment lacks a dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer or, really, much insulation.
The first evening of being stranded from modern life was the most productive evening of my life.
Everything was quiet and serene. It’s just like being in a
cottage, I thought.I took a nap, which was wonderful. Then I washed
about 4,000 dirty dishes, which was necessary. I did homework. I swept and washed the kitchen floor. I drank a glass of wine. I made my bed. I ate a piece of toast. I cleaned up my toast mess.
And then, I got bored. After about four hours of quietly focusing on one
thing at a time, I ran to the Knowledge Center to multitask my rotten little brains out. I almost felt dirty sprinting back to the wired life so soon, but man, it was like a homecoming to be Facebooking, e-mailing (on two accounts!), typing a paper, writing a column, shopping for new computers and chatting all at the same time.
Technology changing the way people work and socialize is nothing new. Before color televisions, people dreamt in black and white. Now, virtually no one does.
I’ve been brought up with computers and the multitasking magic that comes with them.
This probably isn’t good or bad, as long as we remember to focus singularly when it’s really important.
It’s hard to do only two things at once when you can have endless Web browsers open, but when pa-pers, e-mails and Facebook are all pressing, stressful matters, it can help to pare down and do things step by step. Similarly, when I’m used to texting all the time, it feels unnatural to turn it off, but whomever I’m talking with face-to-face appreciates it.
Still, I am looking forward to the day my shiny, new laptop shows up. I miss checking my e-mail while I drink coffee in the morning, watching DVDs while I do homework and sending work e-mails in my slippers.
Besides, what’s the point of playing hooky from class if I can’t use that time to surf YouTube?
Emily Katseanes is the Perspectives editor. She jumped ship and ordered a Mac laptop. Reach her at [email protected].
A fter a Wolf Pack victory on the football fi eld, the student-owned bookstore offers 5
percent off per touchdown — but that’s practically a secret.
That’s because the Associ-ated Students of the Univer-sity of Nevada Bookstore is only allowed to advertise its products in this newspaper, making its outreach to alumni and the surrounding area much more limited than what it could be.
Before ASUN starts think-ing up extra fees to charge students, it should tap into
increasing revenue at the bookstore, where all the profi ts, minus operating costs, go back to ASUN and the Graduate Student Association. In past years, bookstore revenue has helped pay for the climbing wall at Lombardi Recreation Center and several scholarships.
The advertising restriction is part of an agreement with the university to ensure the bookstore’s non-profi t status. However, the rules of govern-ing a non-profi t organization do not restrict advertising. Student senators should make
changing this agreement a priority, as it would benefi t all of their constituents.
It is ridiculous that ASUN leaders have had to use trickery to promote the bookstore because of the current agreement. For example, the new billboards simply advertise ASUN, in hopes that will remind people about the bookstore because “ASUN Bookstore” advertising is illegal.
While The Nevada Sagebrush appreciates the ad revenue from the bookstore, it is inappropriate that there
is a ban on further marketing opportunities, which would bring more profi t to the bookstore.
Changing the agreement would change more than just advertising policies for
the on-campus bookstore; it would bring more people to campus and potentially increase profi ts at on-campus eateries. If people knew that the bookstore sold more than just books and that all the revenue went back to student government, several com-munity members and alumni would stop robbing students of money by purchasing Nevada gear from outside venues.
The Nevada Sagebrush staff can be reached at [email protected].
“Defi nitely my favorite winter fashion statement is outrageous Cosby sweaters. It’s warm, comfort-able and charming: Everything I aspire to be.“
Jeff Fiddler22, computer engineering
“It’s a cross between scarves and boots for me. I’m knit-ting a scarf right now. It’s a Gryffi ndor scarf.”
Rhonda Mittenzwei19, biology
“I don’t have one yet, but I really want a peacoat. A good, thick, navy pea-coat.”
Wes Mosley19, forest and rangeland management
“Moccasins and a snowboard-ing jacket. It’s comfortable and keeps your toes warm.”
Austin Rollins21, business
EmilyKatseanes
HayleyRasmussen
LETTER TO THE EDITOROct. 22, 9:33 a.m. by e-mail: Dear Eli Reilly (president of the ASUN),
Absolutely pathetic, unex-cusable, and unbelievable failure; these are just some of the words that I would use to describe what happened this morning when I woke up, left my house early (skipping breakfast) in order to get the wolf pack breakfast. After aimlessly wandering around campus for a solid 30 min-utes, I found one of the many information kiosks littered around campus and called the number for the ASUN event activities. I was appalled to fi nd out that for some inex-plicable reason, they decided (the morning of) to cancel the event, without telling anyone other than the person answer-ing the phone. Now the only “breakfast” I get before a mid-term test, is a simple piece of gum that I conveniently had in my pocket. If there was some “act of God” that caused this unfortunate event, why did the ASUN lack the moral and ethical responsibility to have someone out there letting people know? Congratula-tions Eli, in under an hour you have successfully taken any faith I had left in the ASUN and tore it apart.I hope you fail all your mid-terms,Leonard Williams
WEB NOTESCOLUMN: INTELLIGENT DESIGN THEORY INSULTS SCIENCE, RELIGIONOn Oct. 20, 6:25 a.m., Curt Cameron wrote:In your sentence “The basis for almost all of the evidence for this theory is the Christian Bible and misinterpretations of scientifi c theories,” I dis-agree with most of this.First, I wouldn’t grant ID the term “theory.” Call it an idea, but it’s not a scientifi c theory.Next, ID doesn’t depend on the Bible (especially not the Christian Bible, because some of its advocates are Jewish), but strains to avoid the G-word in public. They always refer to some unnamed de-signer.Finally, although many of its advocates misunderstand the Theory of Evolution, that’s not what it’s based on. I follow the ID movement pretty closely, and it’s based on two things: the argument from incredulity (that just looks so compli-cated that I don’t see how it could have evolved naturally) and a misunderstanding of in-formation theory. They seem to be hung up on the idea that natural evolution (random mutation plus natural selec-tion) couldn’t increase the information content of DNA, but they’re clearly wrong and no one who understands com-plexity and information theory has any doubt about that. Bill Dembski has come up with the idea of Specifi ed Com-plexity as something different from what everyone else in the fi eld refers to as complex-ity, but he can’t even defi ne what it is exactly.But the rest of your article was spot-on. ID is based on a pre-commitment to religious ideas and they use logical fallacies and their own unde-fi ned measures to say natural evolution couldn’t happen. But ID doesn’t even say what DID happen – just ask an IDer whether the Earth is 4.5 bil-lion years old or 10,000 years old and watch them get real uncomfortable – they won’t even clearly take a position on THAT.
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THE LAST HONEST REPORTER
“Boston Molassacre” recreation leaves 21 frat members deadA failed recreation of the Boston
Molasses Disaster, also known as the Boston Molassacre, left 21 members of the Alpha Gamma
Rho fraternity dead on Saturday. The tragedy came when a molasses holding silo was fi lled past its limit, causing the vat
to burst and fl ood the small garage in which it was housed.
“It was truly one of the most horrifying and delicious jobs I have been called on,” said Jim Draper, the fi rst offi cer to arrive on the scene. “It was hard trying to balance the emotions of seeing 21 dead, caramelized men with the happy childhood memories of
my grandmother that the smell of molasses brought me.”
The Boston Molassacre was a mishap at a Boston molasses distillery in 1919, in which a vat of molasses burst and fl ooded the surrounding neighborhood in the sticky substance. The original Molassacre killed 21 people as well, giving the sad event a coincidental twist.
The newly formed Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity was created last August by 22
men, known to most as “molassochists,” who had a common interest in studying odd, manmade disasters and the wildly perverse niche of the sexual use of molas-ses.
According to the president and only sur-vivor of the fraternity, Chad “Molysses” S. Grant, the new fraternity was in the process of building their fl oat for the homecoming parade when the disaster struck. The fl oat, themed “How the Molasses Flooded Christmas,” a spoof of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” was supposed to not only adhere to the Dr. Seuss homecoming theme, but also be an ironically tasteless tribute to the Boston Molassacre.
The molasses silo was to be placed on the fl oat and let out a small, steady fl ow of molasses onto a rough papier-mâché rendering of Boston, circa 1919, under the close supervision of molasses engineers, also known as “molmen.”
“This brings an all new meaning to the word ‘bittersweet,’” Grant said. “I am quite devastated every single one of my molas-sochists died, but I take great solace in the fact that this is how they would want to have been fructosed (a molassochist death).”
Police reports stated that six hours before the homecoming parade, the 21 members were locked naked in the small garage where the silo was kept in order to take part in the traditional molassochist sweat lodge. In this
baffl ing tradition, participants sit in a small, unventilated room where they pour molasses over hot rocks, which then evaporates, and settles on their skin. Once the settled molasses dries, the participants develop a thin candy coating that they believed gives them spiritual enlightenment and sexual gratifi cation.
Police believed that the intense heat caused the overloaded silo to burst and fl ood the room, drowning 20 members and killing one from molasses intoxication. Local police and fi refi ghters did try to free the encased molassochists, even at one point having neighborhood children try to eat away the quickly drying substance, only to be stopped because of horrible “tummy aches.”
“I tried my bestest,” said 9-year-old Timmy Slovak. “But after eating a bunch of the sweet goo and melted skin I got too full to go on.”
Molysses S. Grant is currently working with the city of Reno to make October 24 a state holiday in remembrance of the great tragedy. If the legislation passes, that day will become “The Great Reno Boston Molassacre Molassacre Remembrance Day”.
Casey Durkin is locked in what appears to be a dark room ... Oh my God ... What was that? Oh sweet Jesus, get away! Ahhhh! Reach what’s left of Casey at [email protected].
CaseyDurkin
CONSERVATIVE POINT OF VIEW
J ust when I think confl ict in the political arena is starting to die down and lie in dormancy, I am gifted with an epic battle between Washington, D.C. and Fox News.
This was really just a story with building tension that was waiting for a tipping point. Fox News has traditionally been more critical of liberal or Democratic leaders than their conservative
counterparts. My liberal friends would occasionally criticize how Fox News was conservative, and I would reply with similar statements about MSNBC’s liberal bias. The opposing sides worked in harmony, until now.
The liberal/progressive movement has been gaining steam across the country. Its latest victory was Obama’s election to the White House.
Now with a liberal Congress and president and therefore a liberal administration, these activists can fi nally begin their crusade to push through the goals they have dreamed about for years. In their minds, nothing stands in the way. Nothing, that is, except Fox News.
The pieces were perfectly set for a media war, and most likely the last straw that pushed us over the tipping point was health care reform. Liberals fi nally felt like they had a shot at achieving real health care reform, unimpeded by a fi ssured Congress. With the power in their hands, the time to act was at hand, but they severely underestimated the drive of the American public.
Citizens came out in droves with a level of zeal only occasionally seen in such large numbers. Many Americans were furious by much of what was in the initial health care bill. Others were re-lieved and hopeful that such a bill might pass. Whichever side you took, you had numbers on your side. This started as the epitome of what a representative democracy should be: Lawmakers taking their proposal to the people and the people giving their reply.
But things quickly turned nasty, especially for the Democrats. Those who opposed this health care reform were sometimes better informed and more, shall we say, enthusiastic than the Democratic leaders predicted. This unpleasant surprise started the downward spiral in this nationwide battle. Things got progressively nastier, with Fox News reporting with its conserva-tive leaning. Eventually it got to the point that the Obama administration was getting sick of the town hall meetings, sick of the Republicans and, most of all, sick of Fox News.
This bitter war is really nothing more than an extension of the childish bickering we see every day in American politics. Republi-cans and Democrats seem to hate each other and that won’t change anytime soon. Politicians are more concerned with consolidating their power base and remaining in offi ce than with actually helping the American people. This latest spat is, in part, a ploy by the Left to do all they can to associate Fox News with the Republican Party, suggesting they are one and the same. It is all marketing aimed at defaming the opposition in order to get their goals passed.
What can we do about this? According to this oft-pessimistic journalist, not a whole lot. So, in the meantime, sit tight, wait for the storm to settle and for things to return to a general state of equilibrium. And above all else, take EVERY bit of news you get with a grain of salt, no matter which agency it comes from.
Nic Dunn is a senior studying journalism and political science. He hosts a talk show on Wolf Pack Radio every Monday from 3 to 4 p.m. Listen at www.wolfpackradio.org or reach him at [email protected].
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MEMO ON YOUR HEALTH
Health care report deserves to failI ’m usually not one to indulge in
Schadenfreude. When I feel pleasure in the misfortunes of others, I normally suppress such feelings, acquiescing to
the pang of shame that normally follows.One of the exceptions
to this is when I go to a University of Nevada, Reno basketball game and see a Boise State player get his shot stuffed back down his throat. This is usually followed by a thunder of Wolf Pack fans chant-ing, “you-got-swat-ted” and the subsequent sound of fi ve melodious claps. One can’t help but bask gloriously in
the shame of his defeat.Similarly, when I saw the health care
insurance industry — in particular America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) — fall fl at on their faces following the October release of a report performed by Pricewa-terhouseCoopers (PWC), I was unabashedly
beaming with satisfaction.This report analyzed four features of
the health care bill that was in the Senate Finance Committee using a worst-case scenario model and completely disregarded any of the price-reducing provisions that were a part of the legislation.
It offered only a cursory sentence or two on page one confessing that there are cost-lowering “provisions that (they) have not included in this analysis ... that would offset some of the impacts (they) have estimated.”
PWC simply cherry-picked what they wanted from the legislation in an effort to mislead people about the impact of this bill. It is a one-dimensional and, quite honestly, half-assed attempt by the health care insurance companies to scare politicians and Americans into opposing the health care legislation in Congress right now.
I’m not upset at insurance companies for presenting their viewpoint, but I am angry that they are trying to present an entirely fl awed study as fact.
I’m angry that while CEOs of health
insurance companies enjoy their annual salaries of 10 million dollars or more, mil-lions of Americans lack even the most basic forms of health care.
I’m angry they’re doing everything they can to keep things the way they are. This includes a health care status quo of denying health insurance to those who need it most and fi ghting their customers tooth and nail so they can deny care and maximize profi ts.
I’m angry that if the health insurance companies have their way, health care in our country will continue to evolve around the dollar sign and not the well-being of Americans.
When I see Karen Ignagni (current CEO of AHIP) and her army of lobbyists fl ounder desperately in an attempt to regain their footing in Washington D.C., I am candidly celebrating, grinning from ear to ear.
And for this I have no shame and offer no apologies.
Memo Sanchez would like to remind ev-eryone that a Memo a day keeps the doctor away. Reach him at [email protected].
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YOUR BRAIN ON RELIGION
Religion passes down societal values through storiesT he origin of religions, like all
aspects of the natural world, can be explained scientifi cally.
They have developed over millennia to help explain humankind’s place within the universe and serve as a social adhesive, tightening com-munities and strengthening the bonds fostered by human interaction.
The evolutionary roots of religious sentiments do not in any way diminish the signifi cance of those feelings in the lives of those who experience them. Rather its basis can help explain religion’s purpose within the realm of human knowledge.
People are, above all else, pattern-seeking animals. Human beings with their giant brains have an incredible talent for fi nding order in the world. Whether tracking animals or navigating the stock market, fi nding and exploiting patterns is a great way to get ahead.
Getting ahead means a better life,
which means more offspring, which means those traits will become more common throughout the population through successive generations. Pattern-seeking is an incredibly important, evolved trait.
But people do something much more interesting than just establishing logical connections: They tell stories about those connections. The story of the boy who cried wolf is a much more effective way of conveying its message (tell the truth or people won’t believe you) than a logical dissertation full of modus ponens and hypothetical syllogisms.
It is more effective because people didn’t grow up (in the evolutionary sense) to understand cold, hard logic. Rather, our brains were developed in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the actions and motives of our friends and family. Detecting fairness, greed and benevolence were all more important to our ancestors than being able to
solve a Rubik’s Cube or program a TiVo, even though similar amounts of logical induction and deduction are involved.
The ascertaining and maintaining of social contracts conferred survivability to individuals and their offspring; thus people created stories. While stories worked for small tribes, as populations grew, the stories that conveyed the most potent and meaningful messages became myths to express the truths of these stories to more people. Myths
can be as simple as the hook hanging from the car door of the couple on lover’s lane to as grand as the fl ooding of the Earth, but each is a strong story, grounded in plausibility and containing a cream fi lling of wisdom.
In addition to countless historical, anthropological, political and theologi-cal reasons for the existence of religion, one thing that all religions do quite well is promote myths.
This social function of religion is that it creates bonds, validates altruism and fosters community for those who partake, all of which are evolutionarily preferred. Religion is therefore nothing
short of the sum total of hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated human wisdom.
What is science if not another version of humankind’s pattern-seeking behav-ior writ large? Science has succeeded because it can explain the truth logically and precisely.
But we sense, intuitively, that there is more to life than logic and facts. Religions, myths and stories all tell us something more than just the truth; ultimately, they tell us the way our successful ancestors related to and solved their moral dilemmas.
We should never be afraid to follow their example.
Barry Belmont studies biology and mechanical engineering. He thinks the only confl ict between science and religion is that there should be no confl ict. Reach him at [email protected].
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Science has succeeded because it can explain the truth logically and precisely. But we sense, intuitively, that there is more to life than logic and facts.
Biased news coverage reaches boiling point
“However, there were a few unintended consequences. Unfortunately, in the future we are still plagued by the “Swine Flew.” SPACE!
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Written by: Clint Demeritt
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In the future, we have eradicat-ed all disease; thus we no longer fear your petty pandemics.
Take the West Street Market, for example – I wouldn’t have known of its somewhat recent makeover without the booze to tempt me. Instead, I would have remained ignorant of the bright paint and clean patio in favor of not leaving the backyard of Pub N’ Sub.
And, by leaving my normal spot, I was support-ing the aforementioned Derby Demons; the event was a fundraiser for Ginger Snatch and the rest of the girls.
But enough of that talk. Now it’s time for the whiskey.
It was everything I had hoped
it would be: there were new whiskeys, old whiskeys, good whiskeys and bad whiskeys. There was so much whiskey that I felt like I was trapped in a Pogues song.
Hell, there was so much whiskey that even my liquor-shy roommate found a few he dug, another benefi t of Reno’s drink-accepting culture.
There were no worries in the downtown alcove. Just lines of the likeminded, all in a friendly stupor and ready to share advice on whiskeys to try or to avoid.
Overall, it was a great event that showed off the best parts of Reno and alcohol — good people getting together for a good time in a unique way.
While it won’t be returning for probably another year, the over-21s can still look forward to the Beer Crawl and Wine Walk next month.
You owe it to yourself to go to each at least once. We all (I hope) have graduation looming somewhere on the horizon, along with all the uncertainties that may bring. A Saturday afternoon while in college is a sad thing to waste, especially when there are good drinks, good people and good events to carry it away.
Nick Coltrain enjoyed the Woodford Reserve the most and encourages donations of it. He can be reached at [email protected].
while you’re killing me!” Again, this is a “Saw” movie, so viewers should know to expect no differ-ent.
Continuing with its trademark twist ending, “Saw VI” does not disappoint. While nothing can beat the original fi lm’s last moments, this is a sure step up from the last few fi lms, which felt a bit like a broken record.
While it seemed like the series’
downfall was inevitable, Jigsaw has found the right pieces and they fi t terrifyingly well, espe-cially for a sixth serving.
Caitlin Thomas can be reached at [email protected].
-ties professor John Smihula, who starred in a handful of low-budget ‘80s horror films. For an echoing effect, shoot footage in a garage, bathroom or high-walled alleyway. Also be sure you are filming in an authorized area, or you may be kicked out.
“Once we were shooting on the side of the highway,” Smi-hula said. “We had pillows over our heads, Japanese samurai swords and were surrounded by bones and blood. A cop eventually came and told us if we weren’t gone in five minutes, we were going to the station.”
Filming at a shooting range is also a great idea to stay realis-tic. By filming from the ground or a low angle, the camera will capture the shooter, gun and the sky but not the actual range.
GUTS AND GOREFake blood recipe:1 cup Karo syrup1 tablespoon water2 tablespoons red food coloring.Mix thoroughly. Add extra red or blue food coloring to change shades. Blood should be crimson in color, not bright red or scarlet. Water may be necessary to thin blood to desired consistency.
Bleeding scenes can be difficult, but it’s important to remember that almost anything can be an aide or prop for a scene, Smihula said. When trying to imitate
a bleeding wound, using raw meat creates a realistic effect.“In one scene I had my leg sliced open by the end of a spade shovel,” Smihula said.
“We had a raw piece of steak under my pants, a plastic tube and a blood bag. When I’d squeeze my leg to look like I was in pain, the blood would squirt out of the tube and the bag.”
A skull-smashing effect can also be made with the right angles and a few everyday groceries.
“We took the yolk and stuff out of an egg through a small hole and filled it with blood,” Smihula said. “If the egg is strapped or held on the front of the face, and you smash the face into a wall, the egg will crack and the blood will go ev-erywhere. The crunching sound of the eggshell helps with the skull-cracking noise too.”
DIY MAKEUPMaterials available online or at Spirit Halloween Superstore and Spencer’s Gifts.
Barbasol Shaving Cream for easy removal of blood
Spirit Gum adhesiveBen Nye Nose and Scar WaxTelesis Super Solv adhesive
removerMakeup spongesColored Halloween makeupPaintbrushesFace powderBlood gelLiquid blood
MAKE A SCAR/CUTPaint Spirit Gum over the area
on which you want to create a scar. Allow to dry until tacky.
Soften some wax in hands, using adhesive remover to keep from sticking to fi ngers.
Place wax on face in the shape of the scar.
Smooth and blend edges of wax into skin.
Brush adhesive remover on top of wax to smooth out wrinkles and bumps.
Sponge adhesive over wax and avoid getting on eyebrows or in hair.
Find a makeup color that matches skin tone; sponge this foundation over the wax.
Indent a thin line into center of wax to create indentation of the cut.
Go over cut with fl esh-colored liquid latex.
Darken center of cut with black makeup.
Paint red makeup on outer sides of the black on the inside of the cut.
Use a round sponge to create bruising around the cut with red, purple and yellow makeup. Dab on darker spots and blend outwards into other colors and into skin.
Use stipple sponge to blend red, yellow and purple makeup around the wound to break up the colors.
Use a brush to powder trans-lucent face powder over makeup to dull colors and absorb oil.
Dab blood gel onto center of cut.
Use bottled liquid blood to stipple around the wound.
Stipple black on top of every-thing to further break up the prosthetics.
MAKE SCRATCHESUse black makeup to create
outlines of cuts and scratches on the skin.
Use eyebrow brush to apply a small amount of black and red makeup in the pattern of scratches.
Powder translucent face pow-der over the makeup.
Create bruising or black eye around the deeper cuts with purple, yellow and green makeup. Blend into skin.
Use blood gel to trace over black lines. Create thin lines/scratches of blood.
Use liquid blood to stipple on top of existing scratches and scrape sponge downwards to thicken gel and create scratched look.
MAKE A BULLET WOUNDPlace a round ball of wax on
skin and smooth/blend out edges.
Indent center of the wax with the end of a brush and blend sides of indentation into the skin.
Use stipple sponge to go over wax to create the illusion of tear-ing.
Sponge liquid latex around the wound.
Use a round sponge to place black, green and purple makeup around the outer edges, on top of latex.
Blacken center of the hole and blend to darken wax.
Stipple red makeup on the outer sides of the hole and on top of the black makeup.
Place blood gel in the center of the hole.
Stipple liquid blood in center of hole and around the edges of the wound.
Place a large drop of liquid
blood in the center of the hole and allow it to drip down the skin.
FILMING AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
Naturally, the more time spent shooting the video in a variety of different ways, the better it will turn out. Try set-ting up more than one camera on a single set. The cameras will capture different angles which can be great for close-ups and distant shots, as well
as showing things from the attacker’s and victim’s points of view, Smihula said.
Most computers come with basic video editing software such as Mac’s iMovie and Windows’ Movie Maker. Add-ing in background music can also enhance the spookiness or suspense of a film.
Tara Verderosa and Casey O’Lear can be reached at [email protected].
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showdown at the end, there’s just not enough action. Then there’s the fact that the weasel looks like a giant squid covered in cow manure. As for the acting, Smihula’s cool, authoritative fi g-ure is the most believable, while Fred Borges as the main scien-tist goes over the top of the top. Undoubtedly, this is the lesser of all the Schiff horror fl icks.
“THE LONG ISLAND CANNIBAL MASSACRE”
Plot: In order to feed his can-nibalistic father, a son works with a pair of serial killers, who murder and dismember teen couples who go to make out in the forest. When a frustrated cop learns about the murders, he quits the force to take justice into his own hands.
The lowdown: In his sopho-more outing Schiff actually tries to make a respectable horror fl ick. With the longest runtime of all three fi lms at 92 minutes,
viewers are treated to a twisting plot, an engaging score and a plethora of violence including the use of lawnmowers, chain-saws and slamming car doors to terrorize the killer’s helpless victims. While Smihula has the lead role as the cop, it’s actually Fred Borges who steals the show this time around with his insane tendency to have lengthy conver-sations with garbage bags fi lled with human remains. Overall, it is the least exciting of the Schiff fl icks, but defi nitely his best piece of work as a fi lmmaker.
“THEY DON’T CUT THE GRASS ANYMORE”
Plot: Hillbilly Billy Buck (Smihula) and his deformed friend Jacob (Adam Berke) are a couple of gardeners who are sick of today’s high-class society, and even more sick of the fact that they have to tend to rich people’s lawns. To release some anger, the two go on a de-mented killing spree, mutilating anyone they darn well please.The lowdown: Bingo! Schiff has fi nally found the true spirit of
the B-grade horror fl ick in his third outing. By far the most gruesome and downright repul-sive, “They Don’t Cut the Grass Anymore” forgets about the plot and repeatedly shoots for the most outrageous kills ever seen in any horror fi lm. For example, after Jacob cuts open the stom-ach of a young girl, he proceeds to tear the fl esh, muscle and even calcium off of her skull.
Playing the spiteful redneck in overalls, Smihula is a blast to watch and listen to. His shining moment is when he shoots a girl in her privates, tears the dangling pieces from her body and feeds it to his pooch. In my book, this is the epitome of great B-rate horror.
On one fi nal note, after watching Smihula propel a sharp metal prod down a col-lege male’s arse, I have decided that it is in my best interest to be the most studious and attentive core humanities student I can possibly be.
Jay Brissenden can be reached at [email protected].
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“Nobody was a trained ac-tor,” Smihula said. “They were our brothers, and our brother’s girlfriends and their girlfriend’s friends. There were numbers of people who volunteered and then didn’t show up so we had to remove characters or alter the script. The original conception of all the fi lms based on our lack of personnel and equipment.”
Lack of money and training, however, didn’t stop Smihula and his friends from doing what they love. Through using every-day props, the trio was able to bring their fi lms together.
“When we didn’t know how to make blood we came up with
hideous concoctions,” Smihula said. “We would use ketchup, cranberry juice, Jell-O and al-most anything that was red. We even used cow blood once. We bought it from the butcher. But don’t use real blood; it smells.”
Smihula’s students had no idea he was an actor but said it fi ts his personality well.
“He’s very animated in class all the time,” Ashley Cray, a core humanities student, said. “I can see him being in horror fi lms, especially as the person being killed.”
“He has that middle-class serial-killer look,” Jeff Creedon, a 28-year-old psychology major, said. “He’s like that guy no one would expect.”
Tara Verderosa can be reached at [email protected].
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University of Nevada, Reno professor John Smihula starred in three horror fi lms that were later released on DVD.
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the quality of synthesiz-ers and overall recording. Everything is so cleanly put together in this album that I would not be surprised if it could be brought from the underground and actu-ally get some legitimate club play. The mixing is so precise and intentional that it can make you think an Ecstasy-induced orchestra created it rather than two awkward British guys. The synthesiz-ers are definitely the product of this new system providing more depth, clarity and progression with multiple verses at times instead of the three-note progression synonymous with earlier Fuck Buttons music. Virtu-ally the only thing that was kept from their earlier style was the distorted-past-understanding vocal effects, another thing that makes the Fuck Buttons unique.
Overall, the Fuck Buttons sound like they have found their groove. For being as edgy and experimental as they are, it is a great surprise to see things cleaned up in their new album. Though they have made a significant creative leap, I do think that there is a way to go in order to reach their full potential.
Though the genre of music the Fuck Buttons are apart of calls for lots of repetition and obscurity, I still think some more dynamic factors would help their case and make them a better band.
Casey Durkin can be reached at [email protected].
M y biggest graduation-related fear is that I’ll end up somewhere
without the healthy drinking culture of Reno.
Saturday, for example, hosted the Beer Crawl, Canfest and whiskey tasting, presenting an inverse So-phie’s Choice
of booze. Having a penchant for bourbon, however, the choice was fairly clear for me.
I wasn’t alone in my choice. Hundreds of people surrounded me with no unifying trait, aside from following the siren’s wail of clanking whiskey bottles. There were pirates, hipsters and Derby Demons marking off each of the 50 whiskeys as they took their taste.
The mix of folks is no surprise: 9.4 percent of adults are “heavy drinkers” (averaging two drinks a day for males and one drink a day for females) in Washoe
County, according to the Washoe County Health District. Compare that with 7.1 percent for the state and 5.2 percent for the U.S.
But, “heavy drinking” defi ni-tions aside, the whiskey tasting, like the other booze-related events, wasn’t so much centered on getting shit-hammered. It was about getting out into the town, helping the com-munity and then falling into the embrace of vice somewhere other than your living room or local bar.
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KEVÁ JUICE’S RAGIN’ BULL SMOOTHIE
Ingredients:➤ 2 ounces guava juice➤ 1/2 can Red Bull➤ 2.5 ounces frozen strawberries➤ 2.5 ounces frozen peaches➤ 3 ounces orange sherbet➤ 2 ounces ice
Directions:Blend together on high for about 17 seconds. Add more juice and Red Bull to thin the smoothie, if desired.
KEVÁ JUICE’S STRAWBERRY SQUEEZER SMOOTHIE
Ingredients:➤ 2.5 ounces apple juice➤ 2.5 ounces guava juice➤ 1/6 of a banana, peeled➤ 2.5 ounces frozen strawberries➤ 1 ounce frozen yogurt➤ 2 ounces raspberry sherbet➤ 2 ounces ice
Directions:Blend together on high for about 17 seconds. Add more juice to thin, if desired.
Recipes from Kevá Juice. For a step-by-step video, go to nevadasage-brush.com.
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T he workplace can be a funny thing with all the silly mishaps, water cooler gossip
and the annoying yet lovable boss that spends more time goofi ng around than actually getting work done. Such is the
successful setup of “The Of-fi ce,” NBC’s darling comedy that has spawned a few imitators (I’m looking at you, “Parks and Recre-
ation”). But how do you keep this simple premise interesting and funny for the sixth straight
season?That’s a question that I
thought would plague this new season, with the show already losing a little steam at the end of last season and the writers turning to side stories to try and keep things fresh. Yes, the Michael Scott Paper Company was fresh, but it also seemed like a crutch to keep the show going until the fi nale. Now with season six already seven weeks in, the writers have bombarded the audience with several big events, including an unex-pected promotion, a wedding and a possible encounter with the mafi a, and somehow it all works.
“The Office” was originally a British TV show that ran for only two seasons, and was based more on the small hu-mor that can be found in the
dull and often harsh realities of working in a cubicle. The show won two Golden Globes and when it was re-imagined for the United States, it lost a little of the seriousness and has progressively grown more slapstick. Since that time the Michael Scott-driven show has made Steve Carell a comedic star and boosted Rainn Wilson (Dwight) and John Krasinski (Jim) into starring roles in their own movies.
With the show nearing its 100th episode, fans, let us hope that the writers are able to keep things fresh for just long enough to fi nd the right place to say goodbye.
Garrett Estrada can be reached at [email protected].
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Faculty to perform Comstock-era play
COURTESTY OF TYLER KECK
The cast of “The Psychoscope” is made of university faculty and members of the Reno community. A reader’s theater production of the play will be performed this week.
NBC’s ‘The Offi ce’ losing steam
THURSDAY/29Debbie Reynolds at Grande Exposition Hall in the Silver Legacy Resort CasinoDebbie Reynolds, who has starred in more than 30 fi lms, two Broadway shows and recorded award-winning albums, will perform begin-ning at 7 p.m.407 N. Virginia St.RenoTickets range from $25 to $55.
FRIDAY/30Blood Lust at Grande Ex-position Hall in the Silver Legacy Resort CasinoThe ninth annual Wild Erotic Ball, presented by 102.9, will begin at 9 p.m. for crowds 21 and older. Guests are encour-aged to wear their hottest costumes and dance the night away to a live disc jockey.407 N. Virginia St.RenoTickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door.
Fantasies in Chocolate - Vampires Ball at the Grand Theatre in the Grand Sierra Resort and CasinoThe 25th annnual Fantasies in Chocolate will begin at 8 p.m., featuring some of the most delicious chocolate treats, live music and a cos-tume competition awarding $1,000 to the winner.Fantasies in Chocolate is a benefi t for the Reno Gazette-Journal Foundation, which donates to charitable organizations in Northern Nevada.2500 E. Second St.RenoTickets are $65.
Keyser Soze at The UndergroundLocal artists Del Mar and The Humans will perform a rock/ska show alongside Keyser Soze for audiences 18 and older.555 E. Fourth St.RenoTickets are $10.
By Casey O’Lear
In honor of the 150th anniver-sary of the discovery of the Com-stock Lode, the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center will play host to a reader’s theater-style pro-duction of “The Psychoscope,” a play written in 1871 by two col-leagues of Mark Twain in Virginia City, at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
“The play was written in 1871 by a couple of newspaper guys in Virginia City, so we thought this would be fun to do,” David Fenimore, who adapted the play for the performance, said. “I took it and chopped it down so it only lasts for 45 minutes. Judging by the rehearsals, I think it’s going to go really well. It’s a semi-staged reader’s theater with some costumes and props. We found this really ingenious way to do the sets using a projector, so we’re using actual historical photos for the sets.”
The play was originally writ-ten by Rollin Daggett and Joseph Goodman, two employees of the Territorial Enterprise, the news-paper in Virginia City. The play was only performed a couple of times during the 1870s before it became buried in archives and was not performed again until a University of Nevada, Reno pro-fessor acquired a script and put on the play as a part of Mackay Week in the 1940s.
“Virginia City was the big-gest town in Nevada during the Comstock,” Fenimore said.
“It was certainly the biggest town between Chicago and San Francisco, so it was a pretty lively place. There were four or fi ve theaters. It was a major cul-tural center and there were no movies yet, so stage plays were the thing. (“The Psychoscope”) was kind of controversial. A lot of people liked it, and a lot of people were shocked by it. It was only performed two different times when it was written and it’s been 60 years since it’s last been seen.”
Fenimore compares “The
Psychoscope” to the 1935 Gene Autry fi lm “The Phantom Em-pire,” which follows the story of a cowboy who stumbles upon a lost, underground civilization that possesses technology such as robots and ray guns.
“This play is so weird,” he said. “It’s a really bizarre combination of genres. The play is like a melodrama with the heroic good guy who has a romance with the cute young woman and there’s a sneering villain, so there are all these stock-type characters. It also includes a realistic brothel scene — the first realistic description of a whorehouse onstage ever. There are also science fiction elements. The main character is an inventor who breaks out of jail by build-ing a disintegration ray. He also makes the psychoscope, which is a projector of people’s thoughts. There are a lot of
improbable plot twists.”Lawrence Berkove, an expert
in Comstock-era literature, including “The Sagebrush School” of writers, as the Virginia City group has been called, will introduce the play and host a seminar on Thursday about recovering lost classic literature. At the performance of “The Psychoscope,” Berkove will also accept an award on be-half of “The Sagebrush School” from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.
Casey O’Lear can be reached at [email protected].
➤ What: The Psychoscope➤ When: 7 p.m. Wednesday➤ Where: Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center➤ Cost: Free
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“This play is so weird,” Director David Fenimore said. “It’s a really bizarre combination of genres. The play is like a melodrama with the heroic good guy who has a romance with the cute young woman and there’s a sneering villain, so there are all these stock-type characters.
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By Caitlin Thomas
America’s favorite torture-porn franchise is back. With Halloween on the horizon, it’s only natural for the money-hungry Hollywood producers to offer us yet another installment from the “Saw” series. Was there any point in continuing the madness? Believe it or not,
there was. “Saw VI” delivers ex-
treme gore, mesmerizing twists and turns and those oh-so-clever contraptions. The movie forces viewers to look at the characters as they are dissected, both psychologically and physi-cally. What makes this fi lm worth watching is that it
commits to something the others rarely achieved – giving answers.
Picking up where “Saw V” left off, Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor, “Saw V”), continues his mission of keeping Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell, “Saw V”) brutal legacy in full motion. Meanwhile, another vicious game has
begun for an executive at
a health insurance com-pany. Director Greutert throws in some political undertones by diving into today’s health care issues, digging deeper into social commentary. Somewhere, Michael Moore is smiling.
If this chapter proves anything, it’s that this franchise is not sinking. It boasts everything fans worship about the series and more. While not as satisfying as the very fi rst “Saw” fi lm, it still holds as a solid entry, complete with fi rst-class gore. A perfect example comes during a scene where the two competitors must fi ll
up scales with their own fl esh. Watching the two try and outweigh each other proves both compelling and espe-cially sadistic, making this “Saw” the rawest yet.
Like other “Saw” fi lms, the duration of the movie is dominat-ed by fl ashbacks and back story, providing each villain (past and present) with a
solid amount of screen time. It succeeds in that
it offers explanations, something “Saw” fans will
value this time around. The last addition tended to confuse more than terrify, leaving viewers with ques-tions and not wanting to wait another year for them.
Finally, the wait is over. This fi lm drives full force
from kill to kill and doesn’t stop for anything. The camera throws viewers into Jigsaw’s savage world with that killer (pun intended) cinematography, which keeps the pace of the fi lm swift and scary.
Surprisingly, the fi lm’s shortcomings aren’t over-whelming, although some scenes were just begging for trouble. In particular, the poor delivery of the already horrible dialogue is distracting and often giggle-worthy.
While “Wedding Crash-ers” made the line, “You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me!” famous, “Saw VI” will un-doubtedly be remembered for its silly and ridiculous one-liner, “You look at me
UPCOMING RELEASES
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TUESDAY/27DEVENDRA BANHARTWHAT WILL WE BEGenre:Alternative, FolkDescription:For his seventh studio album, alternative folk artist Devendra Banhart will work with many of the same mu-sicians that worked on his 2007 release, “Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.”
TEGAN AND SARASAINTHOODGenre:Indie, RockDescription:Twin sisters and indie rock-ers Tegan and Sara will release their sixth studio album, “Sainthood.” This is the fi rst album that features a song co-written by the sisters, who usually opt to write separately. The album also features bonus songs “Wrists” and “Light Up,” both written by Sara Quin, and a number of songs co-written with Hunter Burgan of AFI.
WINGERKARMAGenre:Hard RockDescription:“Karma” is the fi fth studio album from hard rock group Winger, which became known in the 1980s for hit songs like “Seventeen.” Lead vocalist Kip Winger hoped to use “Karma” to combine the commercial elements of the band’s fi rst two albums with the more thoughtful approach of its more recent releases.
‘ORPHAN’ - DVD RELEASEStarring:Vera Farmiga, Peter Sars-gaard and Isabelle FuhrmanDescription:A young couple decides to adopt a child after the loss of their unborn baby begins to take a toll on their mar-riage. However, shortly after they bring home a young girl, a series of dis-turbing events leads them to believe that there may be something wrong with their new daughter.Genre: HorrorRating: R
‘ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS’ - DVD RELEASEStarring:Ray Romano, John Leguiza-mo and Denis LearyDescription:In this animated feature, the characters from “Ice Age” and its sequel “Ice Age: The Meltdown” return to discover a world of dino-saurs living underground.Genre: Comedy, AnimationRating: PG
WEDNESDAY/28‘THIS IS IT’Starring:Michael JacksonDescription:This fi lm will feature a com-pilation of footage from Mi-chael Jackson’s rehearsals for the “This Is It” concert series he was planning to perform in London. The fi lm also includes behind-the-scenes footage of the pop star prior to his death ear-lier this year.Genre: MusicRating: PG
October 23“The Wedding Song”= 100% Fresh“Night and Day” = 89% Fresh
“The Vampire’s Assistant” = 36% Rotten“Amelia”= 17% Rotten
ROTTEN TOMATOES WEEKLY GRADES
March 13Little Dragon: “Machine Dreams” = 71 Lyle Lovett: “Natural Forces” =71
Converge: “Axe to Fall” = 70Spiral Stairs: “The Real Feel” = 59
METACRITIC WEEKLY GRADES
source: rottentomatoes.com (rating system: 100-60% = fresh; 58-0% = rotten) source: metacritic.com (rating system: 100-61 = high; 60-40 =medium; 39-0 = low)
MOVIE REVIEW
‘Saw VI’ succeeds in giving answers‘SAW VI’Release Date: Oct. 23Director: Kevin GreutertStarring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor andShawnee SmithGenre: Horror, ThrillerRating: R for grisly, bloody violence, torture and languageGrade: B
LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
“Saw VI,” which resurrects the
story of Jigasaw with a slew of new
characters and offers answers to
many of the previous fi lms’ questions.
By Casey Durkin
With a name as awesome and perplexing as Fuck Buttons, you can be sure that the band’s music adheres to the same adjectives.
The Fuck Buttons’ “Tarot Sport” is an insane orgy of elec-tronic beats, sounds, distortion and just plain noise that some-how come together to birth an epically well-put-together album.
If you have listened to their fi rst CD, “Street Horrrsing,” which debuted in 2008, you would know that this is a big step. The previous album en-veloped the exact classifi cation the band was given: noise and drone. Though it also came to-gether to make some solid, com-prehensible music, there were a lot more pointless sounds and elements to the songs. It made one wonder at times if the Fuck Buttons is just an elaborate joke on its listeners, or if the band actually has serious debilitating mental problems.
Fuck Buttons defi nitely has matured. What was a gross exaggeration of experimental music now has so much rhyme and rhythm that the notori-ous Fuck Buttons repetition seems much more deliberate and thoughtful. There is now a pretty distinct electronic and dance feel to the album while keeping their ominous tone and long build ups, which defi nitely is a plus. This is a large help to fans with more traditional music tastes.
The instruments are now clearer and more in sync than ever. Though the drum and bass in “Street Horrrsing” were earth-shaking, in “Tarot Sport” they
are much crisper, throbbing in a deliberate cadence that feels like you are getting water-boarded during a New Years Eve fi rework show. The rhythm of the beat also takes on somewhat of a tribal tone, which adds more depth and mystery to possibly the best element that the Fuck Buttons are good at.
Another notable factor was
Fuck Buttons create harmony
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Fuck Buttons’ second album, “Tarot Sport,” brings together its electronic beats and distorted sounds in a new way.
Student passes professor’s horrifying work in fi lms
By Jay Brissenden
Oh, the B-grade horror movie genre … It is the only genre in which fi lms are not made with the intent to acquire profi ts, but merely for the craft of showing clever and often gruesome human mutilation. Produced on pathetic budgets and rarely starring any recognizable cast members, these movies are made for two reasons: 1. Some-one has an interest in fi lmmak-ing and some extra money to waste, so why the hell not? And 2. There is a dark urge to see those willing to act in the movie violated in ways only seen in Rob Zombie’s nightmares.
While no sane critic can call a B-rate horror fl ick a “good movie,” it’s not hard to say that they are insanely entertaining in their own sick and twisted way. And when this critic realized that his core humanities profes-sor was the former lead actor in a few B-rate horror fi lms in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, I knew I had possibly stumbled upon one of the greatest discoveries of my college career. I mean, honestly, how many students can say they saw their profes-sor tear the intestines out of the cute girl he just brutally murdered?
It was three decades ago when aspiring director Nathan Schiff decided to make his fi rst movie, titled “Weasels Rip My Flesh” (1979), starring his good friend and my humble now-CH teacher John Smihula. Even though little to no profi t was to be found in the weasel fl esh-ripping business, the duo decided to make another three
fi lms, “Long Island Cannibal Massacre” (1980), “They Don’t Cut the Grass Anymore” (1985) and “Vermillion Eyes” (1991).
After viewing all the fi lms mentioned above except “Vermillion Eyes,” which is currently not available to rent or own on any video format, I honestly no longer view Mr. Smihula as the innocent CH teacher next door. So without further ado, I present you with my short, but not so sweet re-views of my CH professor’s cu-rious former career in cinema.
“WEASELS RIP MY FLESH”
Plot: When a NASA shuttle makes a crash landing in the ocean near Long Island, New York, radioactive material aboard the craft spills onto the surrounding area. When a harmless weasel is accidentally exposed to the material, it is transformed into a homicidal mutant. But when a mad scien-tist captures the beast, he tries to duplicate the monster’s DNA in order to create an army of mutant weasels to take over the world.
The lowdown: It’s painfully obvious this is Schiff’s fi rst at-tempt at fi lmmaking. Almost nothing seems to make sense, due to random editing and an overly intricate plot crammed into a 60-minute feature. The biggest problem, though, is that there’s just not enough fl esh-ripping or weasels. Besides the attack of a couple foul-mouthed kids at the beginning of the fi lm and the big weasel/human
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FUCK BUTTONSTAROT SPORTRelease Date:Oct. 20Genre: Drone, ElectronicGrade: B
ALBUM REVIEW
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By Tara Verderosa
Described by his students as an every-day guy with a lot of charisma, few would guess that core humanities professor John Smihula spent the ’80s wielding guns, knives and Samurai swords. Smihula stabbed, shot and massacred unsuspect-ing victims – all on tape, for the world to see in his soon-to-become cult classic, low-budget horror fi lms.
Although his fi lms were never released in theaters, they can now be purchased on Amazon.com and are also available to rent through Netfl ix. Among the fi lms later released on DVD in 2005 were “Weasels Rip My Flesh” (1979), “The Long Island Can-nibal Massacre” (1982) and “They Don’t Cut The Grass Anymore” (1985). In each fi lm, Smihula plays multiple roles, usually including the main murderers and victims.
“It was a great experience for a man like myself to kill people and not get in trouble
for any of it,” Smihula said jokingly. The CH professor’s interest in shooting
horror fi lms began during his senior year of high school. After throwing out his arm and being unable to pitch for his baseball team, Smihula turned his interest to the arts and began fi lming movies with his friends Nate and Fred.
Their fi rst fi lm, “Weasels Rip My Flesh,” featured Smihula as “Inspector Cameron,” who works to stop a mutant weasel that is murdering the town. Finished in 1980, Smihula’s Long Island high school was the fi rst to show “Weasels Rip My Flesh.” Played in the auditorium, it attracted nearly 2,000 students, Smihula said.
Put together by three friends with the
volunteer work of other students, their productions were essentially no-budget fi lms. To imitate fl esh, they would steal steaks and chicken meat from their freez-ers at home, Smihula said. Actors couldn’t be paid, which often resulted in drop outs and diffi culties while shooting.
This year, toss the digital camera and say goodbye to your still, 2D Halloween photos. It’s time to serve your costume justice and put it in action. Shoot your very own low-budget horror fi lm with tips on how to realistically gush blood, crack skulls and turn anything into a prop.PLOT/ACTING TIPS
Anyone can write or act in a horror fi lm. It doesn’t have to be Hollywood-ready, but it should be entertaining and make people want to keep watching. There are a few tips, how-ever, that can enhance anyone’s performance. It’s always best to play what’s most realistic, Lynn Lombardi, a theater major, said.
“If you’re not able to make yourself cry, then act like you are trying to hold back tears. It’s more real that way. Or if you cut the scene, you can put glycerin or menthol drops in your
eyes. Then you only have to play the action.”The most important part of acting, however,
is to stay in character and feel the emotions both inside and out, theater lecturer and director Sue Klemp said.
“You need to live like the characters are, in the moment and the present tense,” Klemp said. “The actor knows the ending, but the character doesn’t. So you need to make sure you are portraying that character in the mo-ment only.”
This can be done through emotional recall,
the ability to remember an event that brought you the same emotion in real life and relive it, Seth Love, who will play Tybalt in The Nevada Repertory Company’s Romeo and Juliet, said. When trying to evoke an emotion such as fear, the actor should think of a situation that frightened him and let that emotion consume him on stage.
“People can really just jump right into acting,” Patrick Laffoon, president of Alpha Xi Omega, an acting fraternity, said. “We are just being other people. And since we are
all human, we can do it. We are just playing pretend.”
SETTINGSEverywhere and anywhere can be a setting.
Lone areas in the desert, the Truckee river, the marshes and dilapidated houses between Nevada and California are great because it’s unlikely you will be interrupted or get back-ground noise and talking, said core humani-
“Nobody was a trained actor,” John Smihula, a core humanities professor, said. “They were our brothers, and our brother’s girlfriends and their girlfriend’s friends. “
TIPS & TRICKS TO MAKE A SCARY FLICK
CASEY DURKIN /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
By using household items as props and mastering the most basic acting skills, anyone can make their own low-budget horror fi lm.
Professor remembers his starring roles in ’80s cult classics
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John Smihula demonstrates his best horrifi ed face.
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INSIDE
SportsSECTION BTUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009
Fall season sees Pack’s best only once
A team that has won the last three West-ern Athletic Conference Champion-ships is competing in its only home match of the fall semester on Friday.
Nevada’s senior class, who has won a WAC title every year since joining the team in 2006, will compete at home just once this year.
With the Wolf Pack swimming and diving team’s meet coming up in four days (2 p.m. Fri-day against Fresno State), the team’s members are being proactive in trying to get people to show up and support them.
“We’re creating posters to post around cam-pus,” junior swimmer Marichi Gandionco said. “We’re trying to advertise as much as we can. We’re inviting all the people we know, trying to invite kids from club teams to come watch us swim.”
HAVING HOME WATER ADVANTAGEIn three years at the helm of the swimming
and diving team, Nevada swimming and diving head coach Mike Richmond has only led his team in four home swim meets.
He and his team are more excited for Friday’s
Swim and dive team has home meet Friday, last until next year
BY THE NUMBERSNevada’s swimming and diving team has experienced success.
6
24
is the number of Nevada seniors who have won three
straight championships.
is the number of individual WAC Champions the team
has in its history.
3is the number of consecutive
WAC Championships the team has won.
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Nevada swimming and diving coach Mike Richmond, top, will lead his team in its only home meet of the fall season 2 p.m. Friday against Fresno State. Swimmers from left to right: senior Margaret Doolittle, senior Danielle Maddock and junior Kimberly Medina.
Kaep guides onslaught By Juan López
In the third quarter of Nevada’s game against Idaho, Wolf Pack quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a snap from center with his heels on his own goal line.
On the third-and-10 play, Kaepernick shuffl ed to his right while in his own end zone, side-stepped an Idaho defender and
ran right for about six yards be-fore coming to a jumpstop. The 6-foot-6, 220-pound junior then cut back across to the left side of the fi eld, stiff-arming and evad-ing a few more Vandal defenders on his way to a 13-yard gain and a fi rst down.
“That’s just Kaep in a nut-shell,” said running back Luke Lippincott, Kaepernick’s team-
mate. “He can escape anyone at anytime, so we always know even though we don’t see him escape, hold your blocks as long as you can because he might make it out. He does some ridiculous stuff.”
Later on that drive, Kaeper-nick ran left, juked a defender and sprinted 61 yards for a touchdown. Those were just 74 of the 230 rushing yards he ac-cumulated on just 15 carries in Nevada’s 70-45 win.
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Wolf Pack quarterback Colin Kaepernick rushed for 230 yards and four touchdowns against Idaho. He was named the Western Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his play.
Wolf Pack quarterback scores six touchdowns in rout of Vandals
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Doolittle doesn’t plan on swimming after this season
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Senior Margaret Doolittle, one of the top swimmers in Nevada history, said she doesn’t plan on pursuing competitive swimming after this season.
By Juan López
Margaret Doolittle was named the Western Ath-letic Conference Freshman of the Year in 2007. In 2008, she was proclaimed the WAC Swimmer of the Year.
After this season, she plans to give up her athletic career to focus solely on her education.
Doolittle plans to attend graduate school after receiving her undergraduate degree in May 2011.
The senior from Sacramento, Calif., said her decision to drop competitive swimming wasn’t too diffi cult when she considered the circumstances.
“Swimming is a pretty diffi cult sport for people to continue after college,” said Doolittle who wants to get a master’s degree in education and Masters of Business Administration. “The only way to go further is if you’re one of the top swimmers in the world and if you’re getting swimming sponsored by companies like Speedo or Nike. I’m not at that level athletically to go on.”
Doolittle, who holds multiple Wolf Pack breast-stroke records, is one of the main reasons why Nevada won the last three WAC Championships. And despite posting Olympic Trials cut times in the breaststroke during her fi rst three years at Nevada, Doolittle said trying out for the Olympic team was likely not in her future.
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FOOTBALL
Forget defense, let’s see some more points
S eventy points is going to get you a lot of wins. What the Nevada football team did to Idaho last
Saturday was almost too painful to watch.It looked too easy.
The Vandals came in to the game with the best rush defense in the Western Athletic Conference, a 6-1 record and tons of confi dence.
The Wolf Pack made them look like a Division III team.
Nevada scored 10 touchdowns, aver-aged 9.1 yards per carry, did not turn the ball over and held Idaho to just 3.6 yards per carry in its 70-45 win.
In the Wolf Pack’s 14 offensive drives, I didn’t see a single one when the 11 guys on offense struggled or looked out of sync.
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NATALIE RATNAVIRASOCCER
Ratnavira has emerged as an offensive leader for Nevada, scoring two goals in the Wolf Pack’s last three games. Her four goals on the season are tied with Jill Erickson’s for the team-high and she leads the team in shots. With the conference tournament a few weeks away, Ratnavira will be called on to lead Nevada.
SECONDARYFOOTBALL
Nevada’s secondary must shape up and quickly. Against Idaho, the secondary gave up fi ve passing touchdowns, including two 73-yard passes against Nevada’s starting cornerbacks. Nevada is ranked 119th in the nation in terms of pass defense. While the Wolf Pack has been able to pour on the points, there will be a game when the defense will have to step up and hold an opponent to under 30 points.
NATALIE RATNAVIRA
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OVERTIME WITH DARIO HUNT
Footballvs. Hawaii 1:05 p.m. Saturday.
THE SKINNY: Nevada’s offense seemed unstoppable against Idaho on Saturday. Hawaii has suffered some major injuries, most notably to quarterback Greg Alexander. Hawaii’s defense will have to play the game of its life to stop Nevada and the Wolf Pack will have to avoid thinking ahead and overlooking a very potent Hawaii offense.
Soccerat New Mexico State 8 p.m. Fridayvs. Louisiana Tech 1 p.m. Sunday
THE SKINNY: This weekend marks the fi nal regular season games for the Wolf Pack. The two games will provide the Wolf Pack with its last chances to fi ne tune the team before the WAC Tournament in Boise. Nevada will be looking to build on its 2-1 win over Hawaii and gain some momentum heading into the tournament.
Volleyballvs. San Jose State 7 p.m. Thursdayvs. Louisiana Tech 7 p.m. Saturday
THE SKINNY: Nevada is struggling, getting swept in its last three matches. The Wolf Pack will look to get back on track at home this weekend. Although Kylie Harrington and Nicole Link have played well, if another player does not step up, the losses will continue to pile up for Nevada.
Cross CountryWAC Championships 10 a.m. Saturday.
THE SKINNY: Nevada’s cross country team will get a chance to take the Western Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday. Sophomore Jordan Burke fi gures to be a major factor at the race. The question will be if Nevada’s other runners can step up enough for Nevada to overtake the New Mexico State Aggies.
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Guard Johnna Ward averaged 7.9 points per game last season for the Wolf Pack.
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Midfi elder Jill Erickson will lead Nevada as the team prepares for the Western Athletic Conference Tournament in Boise. The soccer, cross country and volleyball teams all have their conference championships this month.
T hree teams. Three chances. Three conference champi-onships on the line. When Nevada’s cross country
team hosts the Western Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday, it will kick off the confer-ence championships season for fall sports.
Within the next month, the soccer and volleyball teams will also compete for WAC Champi-onships.
The big question is: Do any of these teams have a realistic shot at winning?
CROSS COUNTRYThe cross country team appears
to have the best chance of the three teams to win. As I stated last week, this team is peaking at exactly the right time.
The Santa Clara Bronco Invita-tional proved Nevada will be a threat come conference championship time after it fi nished second out of the fi ve teams from the WAC.
After seven runners recorded a personal record, the Wolf Pack is loaded in terms of runners who appear ready to step up even more.
The one team standing in the way of Nevada and the conference title will likely be New Mexico State. The Aggies won the team championship at the Santa Clara Bronco Invita-tional and had two runners who
fi nished in the top fi ve.The main problem Nevada must
deal with is inexperience. The Wolf Pack has only one senior and eight freshmen. Sophomore Jordan Burke will try and lead; however, it is hard to predict how young runners will react to the pressures of competing for conference championships. If nerves get to the runners, they will run less than stellar races.
SOCCERLast season, Nevada made a
surprise run to the semifi nals round of the WAC Tournament.
This season, the Wolf Pack won’t catch anyone by surprise as the team has made huge improvements.
The team battled injuries all season long and appears to be healthier than it was at any point throughout the season. Goalkeeper Marie Cove provides Nevada with veteran leadership as one of the best goalies in the conference and the emergence of Natalie Ratnavira gives the Wolf Pack a second scoring option along with Jill Erickson.
In order to compete, however, Nevada must start its matches bet-ter. Many times, the Wolf Pack gave up early goals and was forced to play from behind. Nevada has out-shot its opponents numerous times only to fi nd itself facing defi cits early in the match. This will not work in the WAC Tournament.
Nevada’s ability to take the early lead will determine how far this team will go. The Wolf Pack plays well with the lead, but if it is forced to play from behind, the team will have to press and force shots.
The Wolf Pack knows it has the
talent to play with anyone in the conference. Now it’s time to see whether or not they’ve come far enough to play the full 90 minutes and challenge for the title.
VOLLEYBALLThe volleyball team has the hard-
est road to a conference title. Any path will likely have to go through nationally ranked Hawaii, which swept the Wolf Pack in the team’s fi rst meeting. Hawaii is the clear favorite and Nevada needs to have the match of its season to beat them.
However, the Wolf Pack must fi rst fi x some problems.
Nevada’s struggled this season and with a conference record of 3-6, the team will have to defeat Idaho and New Mexico State before even thinking about Hawaii.
The Wolf Pack will depend heavily on juniors Kylie Harrington and Nicole Link to lead. Harrington is averaging 3.30 kills per set and Link leads the team with 4.05 digs per set.
Although they have played well, Nevada needs the rest of the team to step up. Harrington is the only player on the roster averaging over three kills per set, meaning she is Nevada’s only offensive threat.
However, the team’s Achilles heel is its inconsistency.
In a span of a little over a week, Nevada defeated Boise State 3-1 and then lost to it 3-0. The Wolf Pack cannot afford this kind of sporadic play. The team must be at its best, or its trip to the tournament will be a short one.
Lukas Eggen can be reached at [email protected].
Teams must fi x problems in order to win the WAC
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LUKE BABBITTOnly a sophomore, Babbitt has been named the Western Ath-letic Conference Preseason Play-er of the Year and the Wolf Pack
is expecting big things from the 6-foot-9 forward. Last season, he was second in the nation among freshmen in scoring, averag-ing 16.9 points per game. Nevada will be looking for Babbitt to grow and become a truly dominant inside force this season as it tries for a WAC Championship.
JOHNNA WARDWith Nevada’s top three scorers from last season all gone, the women’s team will be looking to Johnna Ward to help pick up
the slack. The junior guard is Nevada’s top returning scorer from last season, averaging 7.9 points per game. Largely overshadowed last season by Dellena Criner, Ward will get an opportunity to have an expanded role in the offense and help the team move forward.
ARMON JOHNSONThe junior guard from Reno, Armon Johnson will look to con-tinue his strong play from last season. He started 33 games at
point guard for the Wolf Pack and was sec-ond on the team in scoring with 15.5 points per game and also averaged 4.3 assists per game. Johnson will be the one setting up the offense and Nevada will need another solid season from the guard in order to win the WAC and get back to the NCAA Tourna-ment.
SHAVON MOOREThe women’s basketball team will be looking for junior Shavon Moore to help fi ll the shoes of forward Cherlanda Franklin, who
graduated. Moore started 28 games for the Wolf Pack and was second on the team in rebounds with 6.6 rebounds per game. Moore will be called on to be both an offen-sive and defensive force in the middle.
BRANDON FIELDSFields was Nevada’s most valuable asset off the bench, averaging 9.4 points per game. He played an essential role in
providing a boost off the bench and allow-ing starters to rest without worrying about a drop off in terms of level of play. After starting his first two seasons with Nevada, look for Fields to be a part of the starting five, again.
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Q: What would be your last meal?A: Probably some soul food from my grandma.
Q: Do you have a guilty pleasure?A: I play a lot of video games.
Q: What is one of your major pet peeves?A: People that don’t laugh. I don’t like being around too many serious people.
Q: It’s still early, but who is your pick to win the Super Bowl?A: Got to go with the defending champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Q: What are you listening to a lot on your iPod right now?A: The new Jay-Z album, The Blueprint 3.
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Nevada fi rst baseman Shaun Kort watches as a pickoff attempt skips past the runner on fi rst, Chris Garcia. Garcia later scored, helping the Silver team to a 4-2 win in the fi rst game of the Silver vs. Blue World Series. The Silver and Blue teams tied Monday’s game 2-2.
SILVER SQUAD WINS, TIES GAMES WITH BLUE
Junior Nevada student doubles as hockey star
By Chris Muller
On the surface, junior Bryan Goldstein appears to be an aver-age University of Nevada, Reno student. The journalism major from Las Vegas keeps himself busy, taking 18 credit hours.
But away from the classroom, every Sunday, Goldstein makes a three-hour, 124-mile round-trip commute to the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., to play adult league ice hockey.
“(Hockey) is my love, my passion,” Goldstein, who plays for the Hot Shots said. “I would much rather commute an hour and a half and play hockey than go to a party. That’s always been my personality type.”
The Hot Shots are a Reno-based team that used to play at the Spice Island Sports Complex in Sparks before the rink was closed in 2005. The closure left the Hot Shots without a home rink.
The Hot Shots are not your ordinary team and Goldstein, 20, is not your everyday player. Over the summer, the Hot Shots went 9-1 and won the league championship for the “C” division. Goldstein, who plays center, led the entire league in points and goals and tied for the league in assists.
“I made (the scoring champi-onship) a thing,” he said. “I had to go for that.”
In 10 games, Goldstein notched 23 goals and eight assists. So far this fall season,
Goldstein has six goals and fi ve assists for the 4-2 Hot Shots.
Goldstein, the youngest player on the Hot Shots, is considered a “late bloomer.”
“Unfortunately, I didn’t learn how to skate until I was 13, which is kind of late,” he said.
Most hockey players begin skating around age fi ve or six and have developed their puck handling skills and hockey sense well before their teenage years.
Though Goldstein is a die-hard Los Angeles Kings fan, he models his game after NHL superstar center Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins. But Goldstein considers his mother, Judy, his biggest role model in life.
Judy remembered some times when she drove Bryan to games before the sun rose.
“Some of the championship games for Bryan’s travel team were as early as 6 a.m.,” Judy said.
She added that Bryan is one who never likes to be late.
“He always wants to be two hours early to the rink to get in game mode,” she said.
While he’s used to skating through defenders on the ice, Goldstein’s college life isn’t so fl uid.
He said that taking Ryan Brock’s Education 201 class this semester has gotten him think-ing about becoming a teacher and changing his major.
“In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to teach,” Gold-stein said.
Judy is supportive of her son’s decision to continue his hockey career while plugging away at his large amount of class work. Whether Goldstein stays in journalism or transfers to edu-cation, she said she will support him to the end.
“He needs to do what makes him happy,” she said. “That’s what college is for.”
Chris Muller can be reached at [email protected] LÓPEZ /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
University of Nevada, Reno junior Bryan Goldstein is a journalism major with a minor in education. Each Sunday, Goldstein travels to South Lake Tahoe, Calif., to play in an adult hockey league.
Bryan GoldsteinWho he is: 20-year-old journalism major with a minor in edu-cation.What he does: Goldstein is the leading scorer for an adult league ice hockey team. In 10 games last year, he scored 23 goals and had eight assists.
Team gets 1st win MEN’S SOCCER With Saturday
night’s men’s soccer match between the University of Nevada and the University of California, Santa Cruz tied 2-2 late in the game, Nevada’s Abel Johnson tried a penalty kick to try and give his team the edge. Johnson’s powerful kick found the back of the net, giving Nevada a 3-2 lead, which would end up being the fi nal score. The win was the fi rst of the year for the second-year Nevada men’s soccer club. JUAN LÓPEZ /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
By Damon Harker
The Nevada men’s soccer club has worked hard all season and it has paid off. The club got its fi rst win of the year Friday against the University of California, Santa Cruz.
“This is our fi rst win in club history so it meant everything, and it’s a step forward for the team. It’s something to build on,” Stephen Chavez, one of the team’s members, said after the 3-2 victory.
Nevada hosted Santa Cruz at the John Sala Intramural Fields for its last game of the fall sea-son. Nevada went down 1-0 to Santa Cruz in the fi rst half until scoring on a penalty kick with six minutes left in the half.
Santa Cruz quickly came out of the gates in the second half with a goal, giving the team a 2-1 lead. Nevada then returned the favor by scoring with 33 minutes left in the game. With the end of the
game drawing near, Nevada was awarded a penalty kick with nine minutes left. The kick from Abel Johnson sailed over the goal-keeper’s head and the Nevada soccer club earned its fi rst win.
“The team has progressed im-mensely, and what we have done in a year is a huge difference,” said Brandon Berry, one of the club’s members.
Nevada had many challenges this season which made its fi rst win that much more special. Club President Nicholas Rhea
said organizing a club was not an easy task, but he and various other players did a great job get-ting the team together.
“This game means all the time and energy we put in setting this
up has been for something, and hopefully they can progress,” Rhea said.
The team started out as just 20 guys but after a semester, they have become a team.
After the game was over, everyone left with a smile. It was the team’s fi rst offi cial club win, and the team hopes to build on that in the future.
“It was a good fi nish to the sea-
son tonight, and the purpose of this season was to set a founda-tion,” head coach Tim Kuhn said.
Damon Harker can be reached at [email protected].
By Kara LaPoint
Jon Wilson already had one collegiate cycling title under his belt from 2000, but last weekend he wanted another and he got it.
Wilson, who returned to the University of Nevada, Reno to earn a second major in elemen-tary education, was the UNR bike team’s lone champion. He was one of just two athletes at the event who earned top-three fi nishes at the USA Cycling Col-legiate Mountain Bike National Championships held at the Northstar Resort Oct.16-18.
Wilson won the men’s 4X event and took second in the downhill.
Teammate Lizzy English, in her fi rst year of bike racing, placed second in the women’s cross country race.
UNR co-hosted the event with University of California, Berkeley. Eddie McDonald, president of the UNR bike club and primary coordinator for the championship, said planning the event was a big undertak-ing.
“The whole process took about a year,” he said. “Things were not totally fi nalized until the week before the event.”
McDonald, a senior English major, fi rst pitched the idea of
hosting the championships to a friend from UC Berkeley, Rob Dahl. Once the bid was accept-ed, McDonald and Dahl wrote formal proposals, mapped out courses and planned backup courses in Reno in case of snow.
McDonald said the prepara-tion paid off.
“It was a huge turnout,” he said. “There were probably over 350 riders out there from all over.”
Wilson, the man who con-quered the course in the fastest time, said the event he won, the 4X, is like a skier cross, where four riders go out at the same time and the last two from each round are eliminated.
After recording the fastest qualifying time, Wilson said he barely squeaked by in his fi rst two elimination rounds, but by the end it was clear sailing.
Wilson also took second place in the downhill event, his specialty. He was beaten only by University of Colorado, Boulder’s Joey Schuster, whom he said has competed in a full world cup season.
“I wanted to win, especially with home-court advantage,” Wilson said. “But I can’t really complain about getting second to (Schuster).”
Wilson said most of the top
collegiate riders are also racing professionally, himself included. He rides a full professional season for Northstar and Giant bikes.
For English, who is also a world-class kayaker, bike racing is a new sport and a second love. But she has rapidly accelerated through the ranks, to no surprise of her teammates.
“She’s obviously an amazing athlete,” McDonald said. “She just destroyed those races.”
English said Wilson encour-aged her to join the team.
“I am always alone for kayak-ing,” she said. “It is so nice to have an awesome group of people to travel and train with now.”
Though English graduates in December, Wilson will be back competing with the team next semester.
English said she will continue to pursue biking, which she hopes to make a professional career this year.
Wilson, whose ultimate goal is to race world cup, said he will bike long after his collegiate career ends.
“I’ll be riding the rest of my life,” he said.
Kara LaPoint can be reached at [email protected].
UNR student wins bike title
➤ In the fi rst game of the series Friday at Peccole Park, the Silver team scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning to win 4-2.➤ Nevada right fi elder Brett Hart drove in the game-winning run with a sacrifi ce fl y.➤ In game two of the series on Monday, the game went nine innings before being suspended. ➤ In the 2-2 tie, outfi elder Nick Melino, catcher Carlos Escobar, third baseman Ray McIntire and infi elder Nick Lied all drove in a run.➤ The series will continue with games Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, all at 8:45 a.m. at Peccole Park.
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➤ The team’s 3-2 win over the University of California, Santa Cruz was the fi rst-ever in the history of the second-year men’s soccer club.➤ Nevada’s Abel Johnson scored the game-winning goal with less than 10 min-utes left in the game.
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By Lukas Eggen
Despite facing a defense that allowed only 95.6 rushing yards per game coming in, Nevada had its way against the Vandals. The Wolf Pack rushed for 484 yards, including 230 yards by quarterback Colin Kaepernick and 146 yards by running back Vai Taua.
“We never expect to reach 400 to 500 rushing yards,” head coach Chris Ault said. “It’s above and beyond.”
The performance raised Ne-vada’s average to 320.1 rushing yards per game, which ranks fi rst in the nation. Players know that this year, something has changed for the offense.
“The difference is we have a lot more weapons — Luke (Lip-pincott), Kaep, me,” Taua said. “And the line is amazing.”
The game marked the fourth-straight game that Nevada rushed for at least 300 yards.
“Our goal was 300 yards rushing,” Taua said. “For some reason we might have to raise that bar because we have been going over it lately.”
DEFENSE STRUGGLESThe Wolf Pack’s defense start-
ed the game off hot. The team recorded four sacks in the fi rst
quarter alone and held Idaho to 62 total yards and no points.
However, Nevada gave up 432 yards and 45 points the rest of the game, a breakdown that is unacceptable to players.
“Going out there and (allow-ing) one big play, that’s all right,” senior linebacker Mike Bethea said after the game. “That’s going to happen in a game. But when you come back out and the second one happens and then the third one happens (it’s frustrating). Guys start getting comfortable with shutting them out in the fi rst quarter, but there’s four quarters. You got to play all four, not just one.”
CORNERBACKS REPLACEDAlthough Nevada won the
game, the Wolf Pack’s starting cornerbacks had a rough day. Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle threw for two 73-yard touchdowns to wide receiver Maurice Shaw in the second quarter against Nevada’s start-ing cornerbacks Isaiah Frey and Antoine Thompson.
Enderle, who threw for 342 yards in the game, had 167 yards at halftime.
The move prompted Nevada to replace the cornerbacks in the second half in an attempt to slow down the passing game.
The Wolf Pack used cornerbacks Doyle Miller and Khalid Wooten for the majority of the second half.
In the second half, Enderle passed for 175 yards and two more touchdowns before being taken out of the game in the fourth quarter.
TIDBITSNevada place kicker Ricky
Drake recorded 10 extra points during the game. The mark set a new school record, breaking the old mark of nine, which was recorded on three separate occasions.
Nevada has won four games in a row, its longest winning streak since the 2006-07 season, when it won fi ve straight.
Nevada defensive end Kevin Basped left the game against Idaho with an apparent knee in-jury. Basped was not at Monday’s practice, but was said to be a probable player for the Wolf Pack’s game Saturday against Hawaii.
Nevada running back Mike Ball, who had back problems during the Idaho game, said he was a full go for this week and should be ready to play against Hawaii.
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Clockwise from top left:
! Nevada defensive end Kevin Basped sacks Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle during the fi rst quarter. The Wolf Pack recorded four sacks in the fi rst quarter and fi ve sacks for the game. The mark tied the season-high set against Utah State on Oct. 17. With the sack, Basped has a team-high six sacks on the season.
! Nevada running back Vai Taua dives forward for a one-yard touchdown during Saturday’s game. Taua carried the ball 17 times for 146 yards and two touchdowns. Taua’s performance was the 12th time in his career that he rushed for at least 100 yards.
! The Wolf Pack cheerleaders get the crowd fi red up before the start of the Homecoming game on Saturday. The cheerleaders had their work cut out for them as Nevada scored 10 touchdowns and gained 662 yards of total offense against Idaho.
! Nevada fans celebrate during the Wolf Pack’s 70-45 victory over the Vandals. The fans, many of whom wore blue and white for homecoming, left the game pleased after the Wolf Pack took fi rst place in the Western Athletic Conference away from Idaho. Nevada has a perfect 3-0 conference record and is 4-3 overall.
Wolf Pack jumps to fi rst in WAC
KaepernickCONTINUED FROM PAGE B1
For his outstanding perfor-mance, Kaepernick was named the Western Athletic Confer-ence Offensive Player of the Week and the College Football Performance Awards National Performer of the Week.
While the awards mean little to Kaepernick individually, he’s fast to credit his teammates.
“It’s a great honor, but I couldn’t do it without my team,” he said at Monday’s practice.
Lippincott wasn’t as modest when describing Kaepernick.
“When he’s out here just running around, doing what he does, he’s unstoppable,” Lippincott, a senior, said. “He’s
just totally comfortable out there. He knows he’s faster than people and he knows he can score anytime he wants.”
Kaepernick’s recent perfor-mances have come on the heels of a poor start to the season.
In the Wolf Pack’s fi rst three games (all losses), Kaepernick threw just two touchdowns and four interceptions while averag-ing just 4.7 yards per carry. In the last four games (all wins), he’s thrown for nine touchdowns, just one interception and is averaging 10 yards per carry.
“Kaep is just playing within himself,” Lippincott said. “In the beginning of the season, he caught himself trying to do too much. He just kind of relaxed and now, like I say, he’s playing PE football.”
Kaepernick’s favorite target, wide receiver Brandon Wim-berly, said his quarterback’s improvement has been a result of his feel for the offense.
“He knows the offense, it’s just a comfort level you have to have with it,” said Wimberly who leads the team in receptions (32), yards (495) and touchdowns (four). “Receivers, running backs, line-men: We’re on the same page all the time now.”
This week, Kaepernick and Ne-vada will take on one of the worst defenses in the WAC: Hawaii. The Warriors allow 199.4 rush yards per game (eighth in the WAC) and have given up a conference-worst 18 rushing touchdowns.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
FOOTBALL
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BRIEFS
VOLLEYBALLWolf Pack drops two matches on the road
Facing the same two teams
it played last week, Nevada’s volleyball team played at Idaho and Boise State, losing both matches 3-0.
The losses dropped Nevada’s record to 7-15 overall and 3-7
in the conference. The losses also marked the second and third straight matches in which Nevada has not won a set.
Against Idaho, the Wolf Pack was led by outside hitter Kylie
Harrington, who recorded a team-high 15 kills. Nevada, however, struggled as a team, recording a hitting percent-age of zero for the match and never seriously threatening the Vandals.
Nevada never led in sets one or two as Idaho built a 7-1 lead in each set.
In the third set, Nevada and Idaho were tied at 7-7 before a 5-0 run by the Vandals put them in front for good at 12-7.
On Saturday, Nevada faced Boise State, whom the Wolf Pack defeated 3-1 last week.
After the Broncos cruised to a 25-13 victory in the fi rst set, Nevada played Boise State close, losing the fi nal two sets by a total of four points.
Despite a combined 34 assists from setters Tatiana Santiago and Sonnie Sei, the Wolf Pack had only one player (Harrington) who recorded 10 or more kills for the match.
Nevada returns home this weekend to play San Jose State on Thursday and Hawaii on Saturday.
SOCCERNevada gets fi rst win in Hawaii
Natalie Ratnavira and An-nabelle Allen each scored one goal for the Wolf Pack and Nevada defeated Hawaii 2-1 on Friday to pick up the team’s
fi rst ever victory at Hawaii.The Rainbow Wahine struck
fi rst, scoring a goal in the 11th minute of the fi rst half.
Hawaii forward Ambree Ako scored on Nevada goalkeeper Marie Cove after receiving a header from teammate Britta Bourne.
Nevada responded quickly, as Anabelle Allen tied the game 25 seconds later. Allen’s shot went in after ricocheting off a defender into the goal.
Ratnavira scored the game winner in the 30th minute, when she hit a low shot past Hawaii goalkeeper Kanani Taaca. The goal was Ratnavira’s fourth goal of the season.
Nevada recorded six shots on goal in the match, while Hawaii had nine.
Cove recorded eight saves during the game, increasing her season total to a team-high 63.
The win improved Nevada’s record to 6-11 overall and 3-3 in the conference. Nevada is in fi fth place in the Western Athletic Conference.
The Wolf Pack will play its fi -nal two regular season matches this week.
Nevada plays at New Mexico State on Friday before hosting Louisiana Tech on Sunday for the team’s fi nal home match of the season.
The 2009 WAC Tournament will be held Nov. 5-8 in Boise, Idaho.
BASKETBALLMen’s and women’s teams to host event
The men’s and women’s basketball teams will hold “Hoops and Treats” on Friday in celebration of Halloween.
The free event will be held at Lawlor Events Center. Doors will open at 12:45 p.m. and the event is scheduled from 1-2 p.m.
Kids are encouraged to wear their costumes and will have the chance to trick or treat with players from both teams. They will also be able to get autographs and photos with players.
Those who are in attendance are invited to stay and watch the women’s team practice after the completion of the event.
“Hoops and Treats” will also help kick off Nevada’s 2009-10 men’s and women’s basketball seasons.
Both teams will play a exhibi-tion game as a fi nal tune-up for the season. The women’s team plays CSU East Bay on Sunday and the men’s team plays Chico State on Nov. 10.
Attendance to the women’s game is free, while men’s tickets cost fi ve dollars.
Season tickets are on sale now and single game tickets will go on sale on Nov. 2.
Season tickets can be pur-chased at the Link Piazzo Ticket Offi ce in Legacy Hall.
RESULTS
SATURDAY, OCT. 24Team G1 G2 G3 TBoise State 25 25 26 - 3Nevada 13 23 24 - 0
Boise State Nevada K Set Dig BA K Set Dig BA Nesselhuf, B 3 41 5 5 Garvey, E 8 1 1 2 Hamm, L 0 0 10 0 Batista, J 3 0 2 2Maughan, S 11 0 1 4 Harrington, K 10 0 7 2Remy, A 7 2 10 0 Baldwin, L 4 0 2 3Whitney, K 0 0 12 0 Santiago, T 1 18 7 0King, A 17 0 1 4 Ji, E 7 0 5 0Rose, J 0 3 13 0 Chang, K 0 0 2 0Harden, L 1 0 1 3 Sei, S 0 16 3 0Fellows, C 8 0 1 0 Kelly, L 0 1 1 0Duren, K 0 0 0 0 Link, N 0 0 14 0 Staker, J 4 1 0 1
Totals 47 46 51 16 37 37 44 10
FRIDAY, OCT. 23Team 1 2 T Hawaii 1 0 - 1Nevada 2 0 - 2
Hawaii Nevada Sh SOG G A Saves Sh SOG G A Saves
Taaca, K 0 0 0 0 4 Cove, M 0 0 0 0 8Lum, B 4 2 0 0 0 Smith, E 0 0 0 0 0Ako, A 6 3 1 0 0 Voss, S 1 1 0 0 0Deptula, C 5 1 0 0 0 Allen, A 1 1 1 0 0 Musser, S 0 0 0 0 0 Noe, D 1 1 0 0 0 Punzal, M 2 1 0 0 0 Erickson, J 0 0 0 0 0 Bailey, V 1 0 0 0 0 Larot, R 0 0 0 0 0 Ikeda-Simao, T 0 0 0 0 0 Drummond, C 1 1 0 0 0Look, K 1 1 0 0 0 Ratnavira, N 1 1 1 0 0 Bourne, B 2 0 0 1 0 Stott, E 1 1 0 0 0Shapka, K 2 0 0 0 0 Braman, L 0 0 0 0 0Marote, J 1 1 0 0 0 McEachern, N 0 0 0 0 0 Shimabukuro, S 1 0 0 0 0 Mann, V 0 0 0 0 0 Kihara, K 0 0 0 0 0 Gilson, W 0 0 0 0 0Goo, C 0 0 0 0 0 Broome, K 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 25 9 1 1 4 13 6 1 0 8
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 W 2-1at New Mexico State Friday 7 p.m.LA Tech Nov. 1 1 p.m.
WAC Tournament Boise Nov. 5-8 TBA
NCAA Championships Nov. 13-Dec. 6 TBA
2009 WAC STANDINGSTeam Conference Standings OverallSan Jose State 4-0-2 9-4-3New Mexico State 4-1-1 9-6-1Utah State 3-1-1 8-7-2Boise State 3-3 8-6-4Nevada 3-3 6-11Fresno State 3-3 5-11Idaho 2-4 9-8Idaho 1-4 5-10-1Louisiana Tech 1-5 12-5-1
2009 WAC STANDINGSTeam Conference Standings OverallHawaii 8-0 18-2New Mexico State 8-2 13-7Idaho 7 -3 11-11Fresno State 4-5 11-10Louisiana Tech 4-6 14-12Boise State 4-6 4-18Nevada 3-6 7-15Utah State 3-7 12-11San Jose State 1-7 1-18
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name StatisticShots on Goal Natalie Ratnavira 21
Goals Natalie Ratnavira 4 Saves Marie Cove 63
Points Jill Erickson 9
Assists Kesia Broome 3
SATURDAY, OCT. 24
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 TNevada 14 14 21 21 70Idaho 0 24 14 7 45
Idaho Nevada
Rushing Rushing No. Yds TD No. Yds TDJackson, D 7 88 1 Kaepernick, C 15 230 4 McCarty, P 4 14 0 Taua, V 17 146 2Woolridge, D 6 13 0 Mark, L 7 40 1 Passing Passing Att-Cmp-Int Yds TD Att-Cmp-Int Yds TDEnderle, N 15-26-1 342 4 Kaepernick, C 13-21-0 178 2
Receiving Receiving No. Yds TD No. Yds TDKomar, M 10 136 3 Wimberly, B 5 62 0Shaw, M 5 183 2 Wellington, C 2 18 0Davis, P 3 43 0 Green, V 1 44 1Hardy, D 2 37 0 Taua, V 1 16 0Jackson, D 1 5 0 Puloka Jr., T 1 13 0 Defense Tackles Sacks Int Tackles Sacks IntKeo, S 11 0 0 Marshall, B 8 0 0Jones, J 10 0 0 Bethea, M 6 0 1 Robinson, T 7 0 0 Amaya, J 6 0 0Sataraka, J 5 0 0 Johnson, J.M. 5 1 0Patten, K 4 0 0 Wooten, K 3 0 0Siavii, R 4 0 0 Harvey, M 2 0 0Dickson, J 4 0 0 Miller, D 2 0 0Faumui, O 3 0 0 Basped, K 2 1 0
Kickoff Returns No. Yds Long No. Yds LongVeltung, J 2 47 28 Ball, M 2 52 27
2009 WAC STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name School StatisticRushing Ryan Mathews FSU 161.6 yds/gameReceiving Greg Salas UH 125.9 yds/gameTotal Offense Colin Kaepernick UNR 282.6 yds/gamePunt returns Marcus Anderson NMSU 11.4 yds/return
Football
2009 WAC STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name School StatisticAssists Dani Maufa Hawaii 11.54 /setDigs Christine Morrill Utah State 4.48 /setBlocks Debbie Pederson Idaho 1.46 /setKills Sarah Conwell Idaho 3.86 /set
THURSDAY, OCT. 22Team G1 G2 G3 TIdaho 25 25 25 - 3Nevada 21 16 17 - 0
Idaho Nevada K Set Dig BA K Set Dig BA Tribley, K 1 27 6 4 Chang, K 0 1 4 0 Pederson, D 4 0 2 6 Batista, J 1 0 1 0Conwell, S 13 0 11 3 Sei, S 0 12 3 0McKinney, A 2 0 9 0 Harrington, K 15 0 8 0Chow, J 5 0 0 5 Baldwin, L 5 0 0 1Taylor, K 0 0 11 0 Staker, J 3 0 2 1Milo, A 7 0 1 2 Garvey, E 4 3 1 0Sele, A 1 0 1 2 Kelly, L 0 0 1 0Feicht, J 0 0 0 0 Link, N 0 0 17 0Rice, M 0 3 2 0 Santiago, T 0 11 9 0Duren, K 0 1 15 0 Ji, E 3 0 1 0 Totals 33 31 58 22 31 27 47 2
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERSCategory Name StatisticRushing Vai Taua 101.5 yds/gameReceiving Brandon Wimberly 70.7 yds/gameTotal Offense Colin Kaepernick 282.6 yds/gamePunt returns Burnett, K 24.0 yds/return
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dual meet than any other so far this season.
“We don’t get a lot of opportuni-ties to be able to compete here at home, so anytime we do it’s very special,” he said. “Just like every other sports team, we always want to protect our house.”
Sophomore diver Aniesa De-baji, who was named the WAC Diver of the Week last week, said the team was ready not to hit the road for a change.
“We’re really excited for this meet,” she said. “No traveling,
we get to stay here for the week-end, see our own surroundings, compete in front of our crowd. It’s good on all ends.”
EXPECTING A WAC CHAMPAfter winning three consecu-
tive WAC Championships, the Wolf Pack expects nothing less than another banner hanging at the Lombardi Pool.
But the team’s members know
that after a three-peat, No. 4 will not go unnoticed.
“If we can do it, it would be amazing, but it’s going to be es-pecially hard this year,” Doolittle said. “We have a big target on our backs and it gets harder every single year.”
Richmond, who has won a WAC title in both of his two years as head coach, said winning four in a row has defi nitely entered the minds of his athletes, but he wants it downplayed.
“I don’t want to give you coach speak, but we just take it one day at a time,” he said. “It’s not like we go into it every year with the goal of winning WAC, but we want to do that for our seniors every single year. Especially with this senior class, they’ve been such an integral part of the program for three years and nothing would be better for us.”
SWIMMING FOR THE PACK SENIORS
The match will be the second-to-last home meet (Nevada has a home meet Jan. 30) in the careers of the Wolf Pack seniors, who are the most successful class in program history.
All but one of the six-member class of seniors this year has won the Western Athletic Conference title each year since they came to Nevada in 2006.
“For us seniors, we’re only going to be home a couple times this year,” senior swim-mer Margaret Doolittle said. “We’re going to try to make it as special as we can. It’ll be tough with us only having a couple home meets, but we’ll get through it.”
Gandionco said she was “super attached” to the seniors and used them as motivation to swim harder.
“Every time I go to the blocks, I just think about every senior we have and that just pumps me up to go faster,” she said.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
“It’s a really big step,” she said about the possibility of going to the Olympics. “That next step is huge and there’s not a whole lot of opportunity. Especially with school, it’s hard to keep up with training. As far as right now, I’d say this is my last season.”
Saying goodbye is going to be hard for Doolittle, but her time with the Wolf Pack will not just be measured by the marks she has set in the water.
“Margaret has been a very special person because not only has she improved as a per-son and grown as a person (in her time here), but she’s given back so much,” Richmond said. “She’s such a charismatic and real loving person for her teammates. That’s been irreplaceable. She’s a special athlete. Ones like her don’t come around too often.”
She’s even more special to her teammates. Junior Marichi Gandionco said Doolittle has greatly impacted her attitude over the years she’s known her.
“Since her freshman year, she’s been winning her races while still being a great stu-dent,” Gandionco said. “Out of everyone on the team, she has the greatest balance of school and swimming. She just inspires me to do better. Some of the incoming swimmers, they’re all inspired by her. She acts like she doesn’t know, but she knows.”
When asked about herself, Doolittle defers to talking about the team. And while being softspoken most of the time, at her team’s swim meets, Doolittle is the loudest in leading the cheers to motivate teammates.
“She’s a great role model for all of us,” Gandionco said. “I
can’t think of anything she can’t do.”
The 21-year-old supply chain management major said life without the water will be un-comfortable at fi rst.
“It’ll be weird,” she said. “I’ve been swimming for 16 years. It’ll be a big life change. I won’t know what to do with my time.”
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
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The players were on full blast as soon as the opening kickoff took fl ight and they kept that intensity long after the game got out of hand.
But the thing is, I wasn’t surprised.
Since fall camp, we’ve been hearing so much about how this offense should be one of the top in the nation, how the weapons here are almost unparalleled and how Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick should play more like a com-puter-generated robot than a human.
Well, all that’s coming to frui-tion.
In the last four games (all wins), the Wolf Pack has scored 205 points and rushed for 1,701 yards. That averages out to 51.3 points per game and 425.3 yards on the ground per game. I can’t even put up those types of stats in a Madden game.
As for the weapons, they’re starting to solidify themselves. Taua has proven he is not a one-year wonder. This year, he’s racking up 101.5 rushing yards per game (23rd in the nation) and has shown glimpses of surprising speed. On his fi rst carry of the game against Idaho, he busted up the middle, broke free into the secondary and scored on an 89-yard touch-down. If you watched that play, you’d be lying if you said you thought he wasn’t going to get caught. But he’s faster than we give him credit for.
The other weapons are some familiar faces and some new ones. Running back Luke Lip-pincott is back to his old self again and has become a solid receiver. Wide receiver Brandon Wimberly looks like he’s going to evolve into a star someday. So far, the redshirt freshman has 495 receiving yards (fourth in the Western Athletic Con-ference) and four receiving touchdowns. And Virgil Green has come out of the woodwork to become one of the top tight ends in the WAC. Green has had a touchdown catch in four straight games.
And then there’s Kaep. Al-though pretty much everything has been said about this guy, it’s
still not enough. Take a look at the immedi-
ate turnaround he made this season: In his fi rst three games, he was 54-of-98 passing for 546 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions. His rushing was dismal. Just 150 yards on 32 carries.
In the last four games, Kaep-ernick is 53-for-84 passing for 741 yards, nine touchdowns and just one pick. And the rushing? How’s 57 carries for 569 and six touchdowns sound?
His turnaround has been un-believable. And to think earlier this season I questioned if Kaep still had it.
Forgive me, God, for I have sinned.
The entire offense is playing out of its mind right now.
Honestly, the Wolf Pack de-fense played like crap against Idaho and Nevada still won by 25. I’m going to stop hoping for the defense to turn it around and keep looking for the of-fense to put up 70. At the end of the day, a win’s a win. If the Wolf Pack wins 70-69, so be it.
I’m not going to fault this team for not being a complete squad. Obviously, one unit is on a completely different planet than the other, but as long as the notches in the win column keep accumulating, there should be no problem.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
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MARCUS SACCHETTI /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
The Nevada swimming & diving team’s only home meet of the fall semester is 2 p.m. Friday against Fresno State. The Wolf Pack’s next home meet will not be until Jan. 30, when it will take on Seattle University.
➤ The Nevada offense has scored 205 points and rushed for 1,701 yards in its last four games.➤ The Wolf Pack is averag-ing 51 points and 425 rushing yards in its last four games.➤ Nevada averages 35.14 points per game, 10th in the nation.
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➤ After her expected gradu-ation date of May 2011, Mar-garet Doolittle plans on at-tending graduate school and getting her master’s degree in education and Masters of Business Administration.➤ Doolittle also said she might continue swimming in Masters swimming.➤ Masters swimming is described as adult swim-ming for health, fi tness and recreation.
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DOOLITTLE’S PLANS
“Swimming is a pretty diffi cult sport for
people to continue after college. The only
way to go further is if you’re one of the
top swimmers in the world and if you’re
getting sponsored by companies like Speedo
or Nike. “ — Senior Nevada swimmer
Margaret Doolittle on the prospects of
swimming after college
“Every time I go to the blocks, I just think about every senior we have and that just pumps me up to go faster.” — Junior swimmer Marichi Gandionco
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*National ranking in parentheses
Nevada Category HawaiiOFFENSE
320.14 (1) Rushing 74.86 (114)
185.43 (92) Passing 348.86 (3)
137.62 (38) Pass Effi ciency 135.32 (45)
405.57 (2) Total 423.71 (26)
25.14 (10) Scoring 21.57 (99)
DEFENSE
113.71 (31) Rushing 199.43 (110)
299.71 (119) Passing 215.71 (60)
165.45 (118) Pass Effi ciency 142.72 (101)
413.43 (100) Total 415.14 (103)
31.43 (100) Scoring 33.14 (106)
SPECIAL TEAMS/MISC.
35.65 (66) Net Punting 34.48 (86)
5.92(97) Punt Returns 8.53 (70)
24.21 (27) Kickoff Returns 21.89 (60)
-1.43 (114 t) Turnover Margin -1.43 (114 t)
MAKING THE CALL
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GamedayPack looks to keep rolling vs. WarriorsAfter 3-0 WAC start, Nevada will battle lowly Hawaii
STAFF PICKSPESSIMIST SAYS: After proving itself as a team to watch against Idaho, Nevada is al-ready thinking ahead. The Warriors have lost their last fi ve games and held an opponent to fewer than 30 points only once during that span. But, the Warriors are still capable of scoring, thanks to wide receiver Greg Salas. He will have a big day with Nevada’s second-ary and the Warriors shock the Wolf Pack and deal a major blow to Nevada’s season.
PESSIMIST SAYS: Hawaii wins 45-37.
*National ranking in parentheses
TALE OF THE TAPE
LEADERS
HawaiiPlayer Category Avg./Game
Leon Wright-Jackson Rushing 22.4
Greg Salas Receiving 125.9
Blaze Soares Tackles 8.0
Kiesel-Kahaune Tackles for loss 0.64
NevadaPlayer Category Avg./GameVai Taua Rushing 101.5
Brandon Wimberly Receiving 70.7
Jonathon Amaya Tackles 7.0
Dontay Moch Tackles for loss 2.35
WAC STANDINGS
Standings Conference OverallNevada 3-0 4-3
Idaho 3-1 6-2
Fresno State 3-1 4-3
Boise State 2-0 7-0
Louisiana Tech 2-2 3-4
Utah State 1-2 2-5
New Mexico State 1-3 3-5
San Jose State 0-2 1-5
Hawaii 0-4 2-5
Date Opponent Time/ResultSept. 4 Central Arkansas W 25-20
Sept. 12 at Washington State W 38-20
Sept. 19 at UNLV L 34-33
Sept. 30 at Louisiana Tech L 27-6
Oct. 10 Fresno State L 42-17
Oct. 17 at Idaho L 35-23
Oct. 24 Boise State L 54-9
Saturday at Nevada 1:05 p.m.
Nov. 7 Utah State 5:05 p.m.
Nov. 14 New Mexico State 5:05 p.m.
Nov. 21 at San Jose State 5 p.m.
Nov. 28 Navy 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 5 Wisconsin TBA
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HAWAII’S SCHEDULE
DIFFERENCE MAKER GREG SALAS
OPTIMIST SAYS: Nevada’s offense has developed into one of the most potent offenses in the nation. Hawaii’s defense is 110th in the nation in rush defense and the Wolf Pack will have a field day. Vai Taua, Luke Lippincott and Colin Kaepernick will all approach the 100-yard rushing mark. Without quarterback Greg Alexander, Hawaii’s offense won’t be able to keep pace.
OPTIMIST SAYS: Nevada wins 77-28.
Wide receiver Greg Salas is one of the most dangerous players in the nation. Despite an injury to starting quarterback Greg Alexander, Salas still ranks second in the nation in receiving yards per game with 125.9. Nevada’s defense gave up more than 340 yards and four passing touchdowns against Idaho on Saturday and it’s no secret that the passing game is the main focus of Hawaii’s offense. The Warriors average 348.9 pass-ing yards per game (third in the nation) and Salas could leave Nevada’s already fragile secondary in shambles. Neither team boasts an impressive defense right now and the biggest factor will be which team limits the other’s playmakers.
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
OCT. 24
IdahoW 70-45
Saturday
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
Hawaii at Nevada
When: 1:05 p.m. Saturday
Where: Mackay Stadium (29,993; FieldTurf)
Radio: ESPN Radio 630
TV: None
Meet the coaches: Head coach Greg McMackin is 9-11 in his second year at Hawaii. Nevada head coach Chris Ault is in his 25th season as Nevada’s coach and has a 202-94-1 record.
Hawaii at NevadaTHIS WEEK’S GAME
BRIAN BOLTON/NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
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JAY METZGER/HAWAII ATHLETICS
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Hawaii wide
receiver Greg Salas
By Juan López
If this game were two years ago, it would be one of the marquee games in the nation.
The Wolf Pack comes into Saturday’s game against Hawaii undefeated in the Western Athletic Conference (3-0) and fi ring on all offensive cylinders.
Hawaii, on the other hand, is two years removed from a trip to the Sugar Bowl and has fallen off of the face of the earth this season. The Warriors have been anything but the fi ghting type this year, coming in with a 2-5 record, 0-4 in the WAC and being outscored by an average of 40-14 in their four losses this year.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Nevada favored by 21 points when game time comes, but Nevada has to play this game as if it were Boise State lining up against them.
TAKING THE NEXT STEPThe Wolf Pack has done enough to prove it
is the second-best team in the WAC. In its last four games, Nevada has rushed for 1,701 yards and scored 205 points. Let’s put that in perspective: So far in the football season, 69 teams have not scored 205 points and 109 teams have not rushed for 1,701 yards.
The Wolf Pack has done more in the last four games than most teams do all season.
The offense has been nothing less than spectacular.
Nevada cannot lose Saturday’s game. The offense has to keep rolling and pound Hawaii into the ground early.
The Wolf Pack has a bad tendency of losing to shoddy teams. Last year it was New Mexico State.
That cannot happen this weekend. This is Nevada’s chance to show it is truly a solid football team.
Good football teams win games they are supposed to win and they win them by a lot.
Prove yourself worthy, Wolf Pack.
HAWAII HAS A CHANCE IF…There aren’t many ways I can end this sentence, save
“the entire Wolf Pack football team comes down with swine fl u” or “the Warriors have been playing possum the entire season in preparation for this game.”
Throw those two out the window and Hawaii only has a realistic shot if its passing offense continues to be stellar.
The Warriors average 348.9 passing yards per game, third-best in the country.
But those numbers are a bit misleading. Hawaii lost star quarterback Greg Alexander for the rest of the sea-son on Sept. 30 to a left knee injury. Prior to the incident, Alexander averaged 358 passing yards per game.
Since Alexander’s departure, the Warriors have averaged 288 passing yards per game.
There is no doubt he is greatly missed, but if Hawaii can pass well on the Wolf Pack (who can’t?), it should be able to keep this game respectable and maybe even close down the stretch.
BATTLE OF THE CHRISESFor those not familiar with Chris Tormey, he served as
Nevada’s head coach from 2000-03. During his woeful ten-ure with the Wolf Pack, he rolled up a 16-31 record.
At this time, current Nevada football head coach Chris Ault also served as the school’s athletic director.
Ault rightly fi red Tormey after the ’03 season and hired himself as head coach.
The two will meet again on Saturday.Hawaii hired Tormey as its special teams coach this past
offseason. This story line will almost have nothing to do with the outcome of the game but it’ll be fun to see if they interact.
Another tidbit: The last time Tormey and the Nevada football team were on the same fi eld was Nov. 29, 2003 when the Wolf Pack lost 56-3 to Boise State.
Juan López can be reached at [email protected].
1. Florida 7-0 2. Alabama 8-0 3. Texas 7-0 4. Iowa 8-0 5. USC 6-1 6. TCU 7-0 7. Boise State 7-0 8. Cincinnati 7-0 9. LSU 6-110. Oregon 6-111. Georgia Tech 7-112. Penn State 7-113. Virginia Tech 5-214. Oklahoma State 6-115. Pittsburgh 7-1 16. Utah 6-117. Ohio State 6-218. Houston 6-119. Miami (FL) 5-220. Arizona 5-221. West Virginia 6-122. South Carolina 6-223. Notre Dame 5-224. California 5-225. Mississippi 5-2
*Bold indicates school Nevada has played or will play this season.
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1. Florida (30) 7-0 2. Alabama (23) 8-0 3. Texas (7) 7-0 4. USC 6-1 5. Cincinnati 7-0 6. Boise State 7-0 7. Iowa 8-0 8. TCU 7-0 9. LSU 6-110. Oregon 6-111. Georgia Tech 7-112. Penn State 7-113. Oklahoma State 6-114. Virginia Tech 5-215. Houston 6-116. Pittsburgh 7-117. Ohio State 6-218. Miami (FL) 5-219. Utah 6-120. West Virginia 6-121. South Carolina 6-222. Oklahoma 4-323. Arizona 5-224. Mississippi 5-225. Notre Dame 5-2
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Bryant Moniz vs. Nevada’s secondaryHawaii quarterback Bryan Moniz leads a passing offense that averages almost 350 yards per game. His ability to fi nd his receivers against one of the nation’s worst pass defenses will determine whether Hawaii is competitive or blown out.
Bryant Moniz vsKEY MATCHUP
All-time series record: Hawaii leads 7-6.
Last meeting: Hawaii won 38-31 (2008).
Current streak: Hawaii won last three.
Nevada’s last win: 2005: 38-28 (Reno)
All-time series record: Hawaii leads 7-6HISTORY
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OCTOBER 27, 2009 • C1www.nevadasagebrush.com/fashion
Fall & Winter Fashion Preview
PHOTOS BY SCOTT BARNETTDESIGN BY EMILY STOTTSTYLES BY RICARDO LOPEZ & EMILY STOTT
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Mixing colors and textures for fall
Clockwise from top:
On Alecsey: Gap straight jeans, $88; Forever 21 T-shirt, $6.90; Forever 21 striped jacket, $32.90; Urban Outfi tters shoes, model’s own. On Andreas: Forever 21 black denim, $34.90; Forever 21 graphic T-shirt, $15.90; Forever 21 zip-up sweater, $23.90; Alfani shoes, model’s own.
On Heidi: Forever 21 ruffl ed sweater, $19.80; Forever 21 military jacket, $22.80; Forever 21 pants, $22.80, Charlotte Russe stilettos, model’s own.
On Susy: Gap plaid dress, $59.50; Forever 21 purple peacoat, $49.80; red belt, white scarf, Target tights and shoes, model’s own.
On Andreas: Gap green striped shirt, $24.50; Gap grey sweater, $88; Gap khaki cords: $49.50; Gap scarf, $24.50, Alfani shoes, model’s own. On Heidi: Gap orange v-neck sweater, $24.99; Gap tweed jacket, $98; Gap skinny jeans, $69.50; Gap scarf, $29.50; Target boots, model’s own.
On Alecsey: Gap denim button-up shirt, $44.50; Gap black jacket, $78; Gap scarf, $24.50.
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Knits, layers & plaid for winterClockwise from top left:
On Roland: Levi’s skinny jeans from Dillard’s, $36.99; Dillard’s orange sweatshirt, $40; Dillard’s green coat, $89; blue Converse shoes, model’s own.
On Heidi: Buckle short-sleeved sweater, $29.50; Buckle houndstooth peacoat, $89.50; Buckle necklace, $12; Urban Outfi tters knit hat, model’s own.
On Roland: Dillard’s plaid button-up shirt, $52; Buckle black T-shirt, $12; Dillard’s grey jacket, $64; Levi’s skinny jeans from Dillard’s, $36.99; blue Converse shoes, model’s own. On Mica: Dillard’s white button-up shirt, $49; Dillard’s striped cardigan, $88; Dillard’s purple peacoat, $99; Dillard’s boyfriend jeans, $119; Dillard’s knit scarf, $38; Steve Madden booties, model’s own. On Alecsey: Dillard’s long-sleeve shirt, $35; Dillard’s plaid button-up shirt, $53.40; Buckle navy jacket, $89.95; Levi’s slim straight jeans from Dillard’s, $36.99; Urban Outiffters shoes, model’s own. On Heidi: Forever 21 plaid dress, $26.90; Forever 21 cropped sweater, $22.80; Forever 21 skinny jeans, $9.50; Forever 21 black coat, $29.80; Forever 21 knit hat, $7.80; Target boots, model’s own.
On Mica: Dillard’s burn-out T-shirt, $34; Dillard’s boyfriend blazer, $108; Forever 21 necklace, $6.80.
Front cover details:
On Susy: Forever 21 fl oral top, $24.90; Forever 21 brown jacket, $38.90; Forever 21 grey skinny jeans, $22.90; Forever 21 necklaces, $4.80 & $6.80; Target boots, model’s own. On Alecsey: Gap denim button-up shirt, $44.50; Gap black jacket, $78; Gap scarf, $24.50; Gap straight jeans, $88; Urban Outfi tters shoes, model’s own. On Heidi: Gap orange v-neck sweater, $24.99; Gap tweed jacket, $98; Gap skinny jeans, $69.50; Gap scarf, $29.50; Target boots, model’s own. On Andreas: Gap green striped shirt, $24.50; Gap grey sweater, $88; Gap khaki cords, $49.50; Gap scarf, $24.50; Alfani shoes, model’s own.
Back cover details:
On Roland: Dillard’s plaid button-up shirt $52; Buckle black T-shirt, $12; Dillard’s grey jacket, $64; skinny Levi’s from Dillard’s, $36.99; blue Converse shoes, model’s own. On Mica: Dillard’s burn-out T-shirt, $34; Dillard’s boyfriend blazer, $108; black legging jeans, $69; Forever 21 necklace, $6.80; Steve Madden heels, model’s own.
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Four looks, one dress
Fall weather in Reno is too sketchy to play by normal fashion rules. Here’s how to take a staple summer dress and transition it from warm fall days to chilly winter days.Clockwise from top left:
Forever 21 plaid dress, $26.90; Target boots, model’s own. Charlotte Ruse necklace and earrings, model’s own.
Forever 21 cape, $34.80; Target boots: model’s own.
Forever 21 zipper dress, $22.80; Forever 21 maroon jacket, $39.80.
Forever 21 cropped sweater, $22.80; Forever 21 skinny jeans, $9.50; Forever 21 black coat, $29.80. Forever 21 knit hat, $7.80.
Total cost for four outfi ts (minus boots and jewelry): $195.
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ROLAND CASTRO-BOULWARE, 20 | BIOLOGY HEIDI COL, 20 | PSYCHOLOGY
On his personal style: “Clothes that stand out and make people notice you.”Likes to shop at: Express, JCPenney and sometimes Kohl’sOn the outfit: “The colors stood out behind the jacket. Everything fit together but still stood out. If someone was wearing it, I would notice them.”
On her personal style: “I have different styles depending on my mood.”Likes to shop at: Forever 21. “It’s my main store I shop at now. I like Charlotte Russe, Buckle and American Eagle.”On the outfit: “I thought it was chic and I like the military jacket because I like that era of the ‘40s and ‘50s.”
ANDREAS MOURELATOS, 23 | SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MICA LIM, 20 | SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
On his personal style: “Clean cut, solid colors and more dressed up.”Likes to shop at: “Express, because I like their dressier stuff.” Also shops at Scheels and Old Navy and likes the brands Billabong and Hurley.On the outfit: “I liked this outfit the best. I’ve been reluctant to wear this type of fashion. I feel like now I would go purchase a graphic T-shirt and some black denim.”
On her personal style: “Unique and different. I like to take trends and put a twist on it and make it my own.”Likes to shop at: “Anywhere really; I try not to shop at same places.”On the outfit: “I liked the fit of everything because it was comfortable and still cute. It could be dressed up and dressed down.”
ALECSEY SISK, 19 | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SUSY MARISCAL, 19 | BIOLOGY
On his personal style: “I don’t know. Fitted? I’m not really sure.”Likes to shop at: Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, occasionally Dillard’s or Marshalls.On the outfit: “I liked the way it flowed—the material and how it fit.”
On her personal style: “It’s a little bit more laid back. I always like to wear cute jeans and a cute little T-shirt.”Likes to shop at: “I like Charlotte Russe. I also like Tilly’s and Wet Seal.”On the outfit: “I really liked the earth colors, especially for fall. It’s comfortable and cute.”
More than a pretty face: Meet the models
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