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TIME MANAGEMENTGet tips on how to balance school, work, exercise and sleep into the busy college exis-tence. Page A3

A FEW FAVORITE THINGSTherese Vrandenburg rhymes her way through the best things college has to offer, like under-age drinkers. Page A8

KANYE VS. 50 CENTThe two rappers released al-bums on the same day. Kanyes winning in sales, but what about most metal? Page A11

RETURN FROM INJURYKyle Sammons missed all of last season with a hurt shoul-der, now hes a big-play threat for Nevada football. Page BI

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President Milton Glick poses for a photo in his offi ce Wednesday. Glick is in his second year at the University of Nevada, Reno. He came from Arizona State University.

Glick discusses hopes and challenges

President plans to change universitys atmosphere

O n a bookshelf in President Milton Glicks offi ce, there rests a plush Dilbert stress toy. Glick said he rarely uses it and colleagues say hes more likely to sing for stress but with a job that affects more than 16,000 students and requires 12-hour workdays, he still tosses it around some-times.

In his fi rst year as UNR president, Glick has had to deal with a budget shortfall of several million dollars and fi t the opening of a new student union into his plans.

A STICKY CAM-PUS AND MORE CLASSES

Glick said his main goal as president of UNR is to increase stu-dent success through a higher four-year gradu-ation rate and better campus life.

I believe it is a good economic plan to graduate in four years, Glick said, adding that students lose on average $28,000

Glicks biggest concerns include student success and graduation rates. To improve both, Glick hopes for:! A plateau system for class costs 15 credits could cost as much as 18! A sticky campus where students want to spend their free time socializing and study-ing, instead of places off campus! A college-town atmo-sphere in the area sur-rounding campus, with bookstores and coffee shops lining the streets

GLICKS GOALS

NICK COLTRAIN | MANAGING EDITOR

The Nevada Sagebrush: We know some students are only taking 12 credit hours a semester or fewer because they need to work to pay rent, pay for tuition, pay for books and admission costs have also been rising. So how are you going to increase credit hours with rising costs of colleges?

Milton Glick: And remem-ber, our tuition is still the lowest in the nation among research universities and if you look at the cost to take four extra credit hours and compare that with the cost of spending an extra year in college, thats a pretty

good economic decision to take the four extra credit hours.

So how can we help them? One, we need to do some

fi nancial advising of them, two, we need to make sure if they really need fi nancial support we have it for them and that can be a combination of loans and grant aid.

Wed like to have more jobs on campus because we know that students who work on campus are more likely to be successful than students who work off campus. And theres no silver bullet here.

Yes, there are all these things,

but we need to learn to work with students and help them plan their future and give them the fi nancial decisions that they may be making short-term deci-sions that may not be in their long-term interests.

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WINTER RECREATION

Prices rise at Alpine resort

Tristin BeckmanStaff Writer

Students wanting to ski at Alpine Meadows this season will be paying double what they paid last year after a San Francisco-based company bought the resort and raised prices.

They are giving themselvesa bad reputation from the get-go, said Yancy Caldwell, a22-year-old communications major. A company comes in, buys the mountain and jacks up the prices. They are going to be looked at as a big corporate company trying to make a ton of money. If I was going to buy a single day-pass anywhere, it would be Squaw. I would never buy a day pass to Alpine.

JMA Ventures, which man-ages over $800 million in proj-ects, bought Alpine Meadows over the summer and cut its $399 young adult season pass for people between 19 and 23 years old. Now everyone from 19 to 61 will pay $849.

According to Rachael Woods, spokeswoman for Alpine Meadows, the resort needed some change.

We want to improve some things both on and off the mountain, Woods said. We hope to have all of the lifts run-ning every day and to get rid of some of the crowds. Having to turn away cars at the bottom of the mountain due to a full parking lot is no way to treat a pass holder.

The versatile terrain gave Ben Gavelda, a 22-year-old international business and

! The Double Whammy College Season Pass at Si-erra at Tahoe and Northstar at Tahoe is $448.! Boreals full season pass is $299, the weekday col-lege season pass is $99, and there are $15 Friday day and night passes.! Sugar Bowls unrestricted season pass is $399.! Alpine Meadows adult pass was $849. Last year the young adult was $399 (19 to 23) and the adult $779

OTHER OPTIONS

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Jessica EstepaNews Editor

A rumor about an admin-istration ban of FUNLV shirts prompted student Sen. Sean McDonald to begin drafting three resolutions Monday morn-ing to be considered at the Sept. 26 senate meeting.

McDonald said he heard at Saturdays tailgate that students would not be allowed to wear FUNLV shirts to the annual football game between the Uni-versity of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

McDonald, Associated Students of the University of Ne-vadas speaker pro tempore, said each resolution addresses the students right to express them-

selves by wearing the t-shirts, which have become a tradition of the Nevada-UNLV rivalry.

This is something that re-ally does resonate among the students, McDonald said.

McDonald said he asked Greg Green, speaker of the student senate, to put the resolutions on the agenda for the Sept. 26 sen-ate meeting.

Green did return phone calls Monday.

Dr. Jerry Marczynski, UNRs associate vice president of stu-dent life services, said university offi cials are considering banning the shirts at the game, but no decisions had been made yet as of Monday.

He said other options are being considered, but did not specify

what those options were.The athletics department could

not be reached for comment as of Monday.

The fact that there are even discussions going on about this raises concern for myself and other senators, McDonald said. Theyre taking drastic measuresfor shirts that dont actually haveany obscenities.

At last weeks senate meeting,ASUN president Sarah Ragsdalesaid the university would bediscouraging students frombuying and wearing FUNLVshirts.

Ragsdale said Monday thatshe hadnt heard any offi cialdecisions about the shirt banand had not seen any ASUNlegislation.

FUNLV stirs controversyCRIMECampus mugger still at largeBrian Duggan

Editor in chief

The two men who mugged a student in front of the University Inn in the early hours of Sept. 10 are still at large, university police said.

University of Nevada, Reno stu-dent Clayton Brown was walking back to his Nye Hall dorm room at 1 a.m. after going to Jacksons Food Mart on the corner of Ninth and Virginia Streets.

Police did not release his age.As he passed the University Inn,

two white men struck him in the back of the head and punched him in the mouth, according to a police report.

The two men held the student

at knifepoint and then stole his credit card, according to the document.

One suspect is described to be in his early twenties with long brown hair. He was wearing a Metallica T-shirt during the rob-bery, the report said.

The other suspect is described to be in his early twenties with skater-type neck-length blond hair. He was wearing tight jeans, the report said.

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A composite image of the mugger as described by victim Clayton Brown, a University of Nevada, Reno student. Hes described as being in his early 20s.

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JOE CROWLEY STUDENT UNION-The fi rst fl oor is done and is awaiting approval from university administration. Workers are installing the wood fl oor for the theater stage and are planting trees and grass for landscaping.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER-Workers are installing windows on the rotunda and fi nishing the outside brickwork. Construc-tion on the stairs and sidewalks leading to the student union has begun.

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Weekly UpdateUniversity receives $700,000 for military defense research

The University of Nevada, Reno will receive $700,000 in federal funding for military projects, according to statement released Monday by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. The money will fund Millimeter Wave-Based Fatigue Countermeasure Technology. The technology is a skeletal suit that will help fi ght fatigue in the battlefi eld. Out of the $93 million the state received for research, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will receive $2.5 million for various projects and the Desert Research Institute will get $2 million.

Fulbright scholarship offers students chance to travel abroad

Campus applications for the Ful-bright Scholarship are due Sept. 24 to Dr. Tamara Valentine, director of the honors program.

The Fulbright Scholar Program, a national fellowship, is providing students with the opportunity to study, research or teach in almost 140 different countries.

The program provides students the chance to travel internationally and receive training and funding.

Annually, the Fulbright program receives between 8,000 to 9,000 applicants. About 1,000 students receive the scholarship.

The University of Nevada, Renohas four students studying in other countries through the Fulbright program this year.

Interested students must haveor be working towards a bachelors degree, be a citizen of the United States, have a proposal for their study or research in their country of choice have letters of recommendation and a good transcript.

Additional details and applica-tions can be found at www.iie.org/fulbright or the Honors Programoffi ce located in Lincoln Hall, Room101.

Constitution Day activities bring democratic discussionto university campus

As part of Constitution Day events, the Associated Students of the University of Nevada will host Rights and Responsibilities: The People, the Press and the Constitution with guest lecturer Jay T. Harris. The event will be an inaugural Cole C. Campbell Dialogue on Democracy event and will take place today at 7 p.m. in the Jot Travis Student Union ASUN Auditorium.

Other events include:-A movie showing of Mr. Smith

Goes to Washington in the JTSU Pine Lounge today at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

-A movie showing of Soul of Justice in the Pine Lounge at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday

-Our Wonderfully Contested Con-stitution with John White, dean of the University of Nevada, Las Vegass Boyd Law School, in the Pine Lounge at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

Sorority holds rubber duck race for charity

The Pi Beta Phi will host the Racing for Reading event Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Nikki Beach in the Grand Sierra Hotel.

Plastic ducks are on sale untilThursday on the Jot Travis StudentUnion lawn. Prices are $5 for oneduck, $40 for 10 ducks and $100for 30 ducks. Proceeds benefit thePi Beta Phi Foundation and theArrowmont School of Arts andCrafts.

For more information, contact Sa-mantha at: S_sweeney_1986@yahoo.com.

Applications for open ASUN senate seats due Friday afternoon

Two Associated Students of the University of Nevada Senate seats areopen in the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Medicine.

Students can apply by submittingan application to the Jot Travis Stu-dent Union Information Desk by 5p.m. Friday. For more information,contact Speaker Gregory Greenat speaker@asun.unr.edu or 682-5557.

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THE GUIDE

Forget the typical advice get-ting eight hours of sleep every night is not for everyone. The number of hours of sleep one should get varies from person to person and they depend on many factors: inherited genetic need, drinking coffee or alco-

hol, exercise and the quality of sleep.

To see how much sleep you should be getting, try this on a Friday night, dont set an alarm. Take note of the time you went to bed and then wake up natu-rally. Count the number of hours you slept. Thats how many hours of sleep you should be getting daily.

If you still feel tired during the day, try power-nap-ping. Studies show that power-napping can rein-vigorate you for up to four hours. A power nap is a short nap, no longer than 20-30 minutes.

If you are a full-time student who is striving for the best grade point average possible, dont work more than 20 hours a week. Consider the time

needed for studying and completing homework. Try getting a job on campus because those employers will be considerate of school responsibilities. To them, students are students fi rst and employees second.

Developing good study habits requires a little experimen-tation. Study alone or with friends? Study in the library, outside or in your room? Study at night or in the morning? Study with music or not? See which method yields more

productivity.

Also, avoid distractions like MySpace, Facebook and AIM, and turn off your cell phone. Studying does not work well with multitasking.

If you have morning classes, try and wake up early enough to eat breakfast. Your stom-ach wont growl during class. Youre less likely to overeat at lunch, which can lead to the fabled freshman 15. Youll

concentrate more on your class instead of counting down the minutes before you can grab a coffee and a pastry. Sticking to a schedule will ensure you will have more energy throughout the day. Eat some fruit and carbohydrates in the morning, such as whole-grain cereal or toast, to keep you going after the sugar rush begins to wear off.

Working out at the gym is great. Sign up for a class at Lombardi they offer a variety of classes such as volleyball, swimming, basketball, yoga and kickboxing. Because you are earning credit for class, you are more likely to actually keep

up with the routine. After a couple of weeks, instead of feeling drained from a tough class, youll begin to feel more energized. Itll help you get through your day and your homework.

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The student judicial council plans to use the constitutional transition to create a step-by-step process for fi ling complaints.

However, students may not see the change until judicial bylaws are approved by the senate.

Thomas Gennaro, Associ-ated Students of the University of Nevada chief justice, said the judicial council will make a few adjustments to the old bylaws as the student government con-tinues its transition to operating under the new constitution, which students voted for in March and the Board of Regents approved in August.

But when judicial council mem-bers presented their bylaws at last weeks senate meeting, senators voted down the bill, saying it violated the ASUN constitution.

The judicial statutes had alter-nates for the judicial council, but senators said the constitution does not allow for alternates.

Council members said they have already started to research and rework the bylaws to make sure they do not violate the constitution.

Justice Ashley Nikkel said the

senate voting down the statutes was part of the transition process.

Its one of those things you dont want to rush, Nikkel said. Nothings created immediately.

Gennaro said the judicial council will present another set of statutes to the senate in the next few weeks.

Also at the meeting, the jus-tices were reconfi rmed into their offi ces.

They each said that no one had told them they would need to be reappointed under the amended constitution.

Nikkel said she found out when she read it on the senate agenda, while fellow justice Cynthia Esparza said she read it in The Nevada Sagebrush.

ASUN Director Sandy Rodriguez said the lack of communication was most likely because the ap-proach was simple since they were confi rming the same people.

Senators said the number of justices on the judicial council requested was unconstitutional. The bill had a chief justice, an associate chief justice, three jus-tices and two alternates to fi ll in for meetings, a setup that was in place under the old constitution.

The amended constitution reads that there is a chief justice and four justices. Because alter-

nates are not mentioned in the document, senators decided, in-cluding alternates in the bylaws was unconstitutional.

Sen. Sean McDonald, who raised concerns about the bylaws having alternates, was in direct confl ict of the constitution because the document only allows for a chief justice and four justices.

The justices said having alter-nates would allow the council to make decisions in case there were confl icts of interest or one justice could not hear a case.

The senate and the judicial council agreed to take a step back and examine the issue more closely, McDonald said.

Part of the new bylaws creates a petition for students to fi ll out, making it easier for justices to decide if a case falls into their jurisdiction, Gennaro said.

He said when he was sitting on the council last year, he and Nikkel felt there was confusion in what the cases the judicial council could hear.

It was a mess, he said. We felt there was no procedure.

The new process requires students to fi ll out a petition where they present the question and specify which part of the constitution it confl icts with.

Justices look at bylawsASUN CONSTITUTION

Brian DugganEditor in chief

Wildlife offi cials caught two black bears one on Sunday and the other on Monday after they were seen separately roam-ing about a mile away from the University of Nevada, Reno.

The captures come less than a week after university employees reported two separate bear sight-ings on campus on Wednesday.

Wildlife offi cials cannot determine if the captured bears were the ones that were seen on campus, said Chris Healy, spokesman for the Nevada Wild-life Department.

A male bear, which offi cials said is about 15 years old and 300 pounds, was tranquilized Monday morning after it was seen lounging in a tree near the Wendys on Fifth Street and Key-stone Avenue, Healy said.

A black bear cub, weighing about 65 pounds, was captured on 12th Street near Rancho San Rafael Park Sunday evening, Healy said.

Six bears have been captured within Reno city limits since August, Healy said.

Both bears will be released in the foothills of Mt. Rose by Tuesday, Healy said.

Theyll get them up to a spot where they will run up a hill to a good habitat, Healy said. Its not a guaranteed success, but theyll at least point them in the right direction.

UNR custodian Silvia Guerrero fi rst spotted a bear in the bushes next to the Reynolds School of Journalism on Wednesday morning.

He was so cute, she said. It was a baby and he got scared when he heard me.

University employees reported another bear sighting near the Orvis School of Nursing later that morning, university police said. It was not determined if it was the same bear seen near the journalism school.

Buildings and grounds em-ployees were given whistles a day after the bear sightings as a safety precaution, said Tom Lean, as-sistant director of operations for UNR facilities.

Theyve been instructed to blow the hell out of that whistle, Lean said.

Bears have been wandering into the Reno-Sparks area in search of food because of the on-going drought in the Lake Tahoe area, Healy said.

The animals usually make the trek at night in search of a meal.

Most of their natural foods, like nuts and berries, did not develop this year because of the dry weather, Healy said.

They come down the river corridor from the western part of town, he said. And suddenly the sun comes up and theyre in the middle of town.

The wildlife department has received about 800 bear com-plaints in the Reno-Tahoe area this summer, Healy said.

Its been a crazy year, he said.

Bears captured near campusIf you see a bear, keep this ad-vice in mind:! Dont try to get a closer look.! Do not corner one of these bears.! If there are two or more of you, stand close together to appear more imposing.! Make loud noises, such as shouting.! Try to avoid eye contact, as some bears consider it threat-ening behavior.! Dont turn your back or run.! Call 911. Source: University of Nevada, Reno police

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Minister Tom Griner visits the university campus every semester since Spring 2006 with various partners and preaches Christian doctrine from the Bible. This semester, after repeated suggestions from students, Griner took down a sign many called infl ammatory and adversarial because they said the sign preached hate and intolerance. After the heckling crowd thinned, Griner continued discussing the Bible and his preaching methods with other students in front of Getchell Library Thursday.

PREACHER RETURNS TO CAMPUSVaried pool for future head of RSJ

Ashley ReidStaff Writer

A talking Bush doll, high-tech electronic equipment and free food are just some of the things University of Nevada, Reno students will see at Thursdays club fair.

The event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. About 50 clubs are expected to attend, said Maria Urbina, interim director of clubs and organizations.

The clubs participating in the club fair cover a variety of interests from awareness groups, such as Relay for Life and the Queer Student Union, to major-specific groups Broad-cast Club and Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity, according to the Associated Students of the University of Nevada Web site.

Getting involved on campus helps students to have more of a social life and helps to enhance

the whole college experience, said Rachel Miller, president of the Young Democrats. Its im-portant if you want to keep your sanity.

Urbina said students will be helping themselves greatly if they get involved on campus.

Being involved helps enhance the college experience and it has been statistically proven that students who are involved usually do better and graduate on time, Urbina said. By going, how could they (students) go wrong?

For those with political inter-ests, the Young Democrats, the Republican Youth Majority and the College Libertarians will be at the fair, along with the Ron Paul Pack and Students for Obama. The Young Democrats will have a talking Bush doll at their booth.

Nevada Cycling, Nevada La-crosse and Tennis Appreciation Club will be in attendance for

students interested in sports.There will also be clubs for spe-

cifi c ethnic or racial backgrounds such as the Asian American Stu-dent Association and the Black Student Organization.

Each club will have its own table with representatives avail-able to answer students ques-tions, Urbina said.

Leaders of new clubs said they enjoy the opportunity to inform the UNR community about their organizations.

We are a brand-new club on campus, said Ellen Webb, club leader of Delta Epsilon Iota, one of the academic honor societies on campus. We want the stu-dents to be aware of the club so when they get the invite to join, they have some basic knowledge about what we do.

Older clubs welcome the opportunity to bring in new students and try to come up with new things each year to catch their attention.

Heather LaraAssistant News Editor

With more than 40 applicants for the journalism dean position, search committee members said they have a large, diverse pool to choose from.

The Reynolds School of Jour-nalism began the dean search in the summer and hopes to have the position fi lled by January, search committee members said.

Were moving forward with that assumption in place, said David Ryfe, a committee mem-ber and associate professor for the journalism school.

William Sparkman, College of Education dean and chair of the search committee, said the com-mittee extended the deadline so they could have more diverse and qualifi ed people come forward.

The committee is really committed to fi nding the best candidate for dean to build on the success of the (journalism) school, Sparkman said.Some search committee

members said they are pleased with the number of qualifi ed applicants that applied for the position.

We have a great pool of candidates and were very excited about bringing some of these people in and hearing more about how they would lead us forward, said Ryfe, a

journalism professor. The fact that we were able to attract so many applicants speaks well for us.

Journalism faculty members said they have high expectations for the incoming dean and con-sider that in the fi nal selection.

The perfect candidate for us, for dean, would have a vision for the future and appreciate the need for fl exibility in a changing media world, said Rosemary McCarthy, interim journalism dean.

The new dean would have ex-perience in the journalism fi eld and in the academic setting, she said.

Ryfe said the committee is looking for a candidate who is innovative and will build on the foundation former dean Cole Campbell established. Campbell died in a car accident in January.

Sparkman said the committee is interested in someone who is diverse, enthusiastic and has a passion for journalism educa-tion.

According to the Journalism Web site, the new dean will have the responsibility to fi nd three new faculty members for the journalism school. Other responsibilities include revising the undergraduate curriculum to embrace the challenges of a changing media world and expand the masters program.

University officials have not sent out formal letters nar-rowing down the candidate pool and hope to have final recommendations finalized by mid-October, Sparkman said. The recommendations will be sent to the provost and President Milton Glick for final

Club fair coming Thursday

Howl at the Moon treats students to movies and games

Becky ChaseStaff Writer

Flipside Productions hopes to start a new tradition at the University of Nevada, Reno this month with Howl at the Moon, a late-night programming event.

Howl at the Moon will take place in the Lombardi Recreation Center starting at 9 p.m. Friday and ending at 3 a.m. Saturday.

Students can watch a movie while swimming or relaxing on provided fl oaties and rafts. As-sociated Students of University of Nevada will provide Popcorn and refreshments in this area.

Other activities include rock climbing, dodgeball, Guitar Hero and table tennis.

Free food and drinks will be served throughout the night, said

Lindsey Kerns, Flipside diver-sions and mini-course chair.

Howl at the Moon was in-spired by the success of other colleges late-night activities, said Eli Reilly, interim director of programming. He said Flipside and university offi cials decided to try late-night programming after researching the success it had on other campuses.

Were changing the culture of the campus, Reilly said.

He said the concept behind the event is to give students something to do on a Friday night instead of going to bars and drinking.

Theres very little for students to do late on weekend nights, so ASUN is providing students a safe alternative, he said.

Kelsey Davidson, an 18-year-old interior design major, said she is excited about the alcohol-free aspect of the program.

I dont want to go out and drink, so this event is a way for me to have fun, Davidson said.

Another Howl at the Moon

event is planned for November, Reilly said.

The event may become a monthly tradition if the fi rst two nights are successful, he said.

Kerns said this event is planned to unite the university and bring everybody from UNR together.

Admission is free to those who show a WolfCard. The event is sponsored by a variety of campus clubs and organizations, includ-ing Flipside, Student Orientation Staff, Asian American Student Organization, Residence Hall Association and Lambda Phi Xi.

Flipside starts late-night programs

! What to expect: A movie, swimming, rock climbing, dodgeball, Guitar Hero, table tennis and free food and drinks.! When: 9 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday! Where: Lombardi Recre-ation Center

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a year in potential earnings when theyre in college.

To help this, Glick said the Nevada State of Higher Education Board of Regents will be discuss-ing a plateau system for class costs under his idea, 15 credit hours would cost the same as 18.

Glick said this would add incentive to taking more classes and remove fi nancial roadblocks to taking an extra class.

Its not rocket science if youre only taking 12 credit hours, then youre not going to graduate in eight semesters, Glick said.

While taking more credits helps a student graduate fast, Glick hopes creating a sticky campus will keep students focused on their academics. Glick said studies showing the more time students spend on campus, the quicker and more likely they are to graduate.

His sticky campus will be a place students want to spend time at and hell use the Joe

Crowley Student Union, set to open Nov. 15, to his advantage.

A sticky campus to me is one that causes students to be here and be engaged and embrace the whole spectrum of learning experience that we have here, Glick said. Glick said The Joe should

help keep students at UNR dur-ing their free time if they social-ize in the restaurants and study in the lounges, theyll be closer to other students and professors and keep school on their minds.

Glick said he also wants to promote more of a college-town atmosphere in the area sur-rounding UNR.

CONTRASTING THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION

In one year, Glick seems to have improved faculty relations between central administration and faculty members. A sour

Faculty Morale Report and dozens of animal abuse charges from the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture marred the prior administration, which was headed by John Lilley.

Guy Hoelzer, last years faculty senate chair, said some faculty thought the Lilley administration, which ended two years ago this November, would make decisions and then have token discussions with faculty representatives about what will happen.

Some faculty resented the Lilley administration for its perceived authoritative nature -- even until last year, vandalized pictures of Lilley could be seen hanging outside some faculty offi ces.

From my own point of view, faculty are more involved in policy making in the university and less the recipients of deci-sions made by central adminis-tration, Hoelzer said.

He said during Glicks first year, the president would con-sult and value the opinions of the faculty senate. Hoelzer said even if Glick made decisions everyone didnt agree with, the

president argued it in such away that his decision was stillrespected.

DEALING WITH BUDGET CUTS

Aside from the day-to-day deci-sions made by a president, Glickhad to cut several million dollars he said the number depends on whom you talk to from the universitys budget.

He said no major cuts were made to academics. He said the biggest cuts came from restructuring the Marketing and Communications offi ce, now University Communications, and cutting positions and the entireeconomic development offi ce.

The state-level cuts came fromthe UNRs enrollment beinglower than hoped for, the Boardof Regents changing how tuitionwas split between the stateand the university and otherreasons.

He warned that if sources of money for the university arentdiversifi ed, students could start feeling budget cuts as fewer classes are offered.

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geography student, a reason to go to Alpine about three times a week last season.

Alpine has really good steeps and big jumps, Gavelda said. But it is still below the level of Squaw. I think they are going to lose a lot

of college support by not allowing students a way to buy a pass. A college pass would be a good investment for the mountain.

Woods said the resort wanted to simplify the season pass prod-uct, but is still looking at other pass options. Though the options were not specifi ed, they do not include a college pass.

Because we are on forest ser-

vice land we are not allowed to differentiate between anything except age when selling season passes, Woods said.

Boreal, operated on U.S. Forest Service land, has offered a college discount pass for the past fi ve years, Boreal spokesman Jason Tross said.

We know its a challenge for students to pay tuition and still have enough money left over for

a pass, Tross said. There are colleges all around us and people come to these schools from all over the country wanting to ride. If they get out here and cant af-ford a pass, what was the point?

The college pass brings the age demographic Boreal wants to see at the resort, Tross said.

Its not going away anytime soon, he said.

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Mexican authorities have de-tained the man suspected in the murder of University of Nevada, Reno associate professor Judy Calder, Sparks police said Sept. 11.

Mohamed Kalam Kamaleu-deen, also known as Rickey Barge, was found in Mexico City a week after a warrant for his arrest was issued Sept. 4, Sparks police Sgt. Charlie Ault said.

He said U.S. federal authorities spotted Kamaleudeen in Mexico City.

We wouldnt have found him without the help of the federal agencies, Ault said.

Ault said authorities are work-ing to extradite Kamaleudeen

back into the United States, a process that could take up to six months.

Local authorities lost track of Kamaleudeen Aug. 24 when he rented a car from Reno-Tahoe Airport and fl ed the state. San Antonio police found the car, ac-cording to Kamaleudeens arrest warrant.

He is wanted for the Aug. 18 murder of Calder whom he allegedly stabbed to death at his Reno business, Imaging Technologies.

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Go Forth All Ye Faithful And Learn Of The Pop. For The Pop Shall Cleanse, Shall Teach And Shall Fulfi ll The Prophet Ezekiel, Deuteronomous 33:41

Think Robin Hood. Think Fight Club. Think anarchy.

Youve probably met us, but you dont know us. We are the Apple Poppers and this is your wakeup call.

Our aim is simple: to help the hungry, fi ght authority and

discomfort the comfort-able.

Think this is melodra-matic? Think again. We hit fruit with golf clubs and we are goddamn serious about it.

Dont think what we do is stupid or pointless. Every time youve felt stressed from school or work, know there is a pop for you.

Were a student govern-ment-sanctioned club, but

dont feel formally signing up is necessary. We dont need you to sign in. We need you to go into the world and hit things with golf clubs.

Its already happening. Independent poppers are springing up on campus. According to reports, theyre not just limiting themselves to apples. Theyre hitting plums and other fruit as well. (May we also suggest Diet Coke cans when you experiment just remember to drink the remainder in case of a perfect slice).

While you shouldnt need lessons unless you wear a helmet everywhere you go, ask around a bit if you do. Look for the people with bags under their eyes and sticky golf clubs they dont care to explain.

After a wary glance and a possible test via our secret break dance youll be in. Then the popping begins and youll be a part of something bigger than yourself, bigger than the University of Nevada, Reno, and bigger than the state

itself.Soon, well be traveling far

and wide to share techniques and compete for the title of best poppers.

When we reach that point, youll no longer have to worry about the naysayers and youll know you were among the fi rst.

If you need justifi cation, remember why youre doing it because its fun as hell. Were not wasting food, were merely trying alternative methods of feeding wildlife and shipping nourishment to Ethiopia.

Still not convinced? Come to the club fair Thursday on the Hilliard Plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

One whack into our patented apple catcher and your life will be different: fulfi lled with a longing to share what you have learned.

Nick Coltrain is Managing Edi-tor for The Nevada Sagebrush and he can be reached at ncoltrain@nevadasagebrush.com. He takes no responsibility for any popping-related mishaps.

A fter 20 years in this quaint, yet angry town, I feel I have become somewhat of an expert on Reno life. The sad fact is that Reno is the fi ght club. Actually, Reno brings new insight to the meaning of the fi ght club.

In addition to my prolonged residence in this city, I have traveled as much as possible. This is why I can give an opinion on the attitudes of Reno/Sparks individuals as opposed to normal people.

I am positive that what I have grown accustomed to in Reno does not exist at least not on the same level anywhere else in the world.

Nowhere else will you be able to generalize the entire population of a city as butt-hurt. While

Renos traffic problem is not comparable to bigger cities, we definitely have a rage problem. In fact, most of the traffic problems we face are because people overcompensate for their poor standing in life by being the big guy on the highway. We should have traffic signs displaying a middle finger as a warning to people alerting nonresidents of the unique ambiance of our streets.

After arriving at your destination, that being in any one of our neighborhoods, you will most likely be greeted with astoundingly horrific customer ser-vice. I am sure there are a few exceptions, but I am also sure those people must not have been raised in Reno. Even high-end places like The Chocolate Bar will haggle with you over three dollars on the check. You would think that common sense would tell the man in charge that taking care of the three dollars would probably result in a $10 tip, but I remind you again: this is Reno.

If we continue with this scenario and you later wander downtown to a club, you are in for an even greater spectacle of Renos enraged. Almost 90 percent of the people in our bars are looking to fight someone.

If you commit the innocent crime of spilling your drink on the tip of someones shoe or drunk-enly bumping someones shoulder, it is in your best interests to take cover. If you are in Sparks and look at someone the wrong way, you probably should have worn a bulletproof vest. On the other hand, if someone spills their drink on you or bumps into you knocking you to the ground, an apology is the last thing you are going to get. You were probably in their way.

I am convinced that it comes down to a lack of class and culture. In my opinion, most of the people in Reno have led sheltered, insecure lives. And what else can you expect? If the best thing that ever happened to the citizens of San Francisco was an In-N-Out Burger, they would probably form a fight club as well.

Shivani Dhingra is a columnist for The Nevada Sage-brush. She can be reached at editor@nevadasagebrush.com.

A t last weeks senate meeting, senators took nearly two hours to debate the new oaths that elected and appointed offi cers will take when assum-ing offi ce for the Associated Students of the University of Nevada.

On the other hand, sena-tors spent a mere 20 minutes discussing the statutes under the new constitution that will govern the five justices that make up the ASUN judicial board the panel tasked with issuing rulings on student misconduct as

well as determining the constitutionality of senate actions.

Such strange priorities our leaders have sometimes.

The senate ultimately deemed the statutes the justices fi led unconstitutional and told them to return within the next few weeks with a revised set of laws.

So while this constitu-tion transition continues, students can only hope the senate spends more time in the near future ironing out the judicial branch not to mention the rest of the

government.Its a confusing time for

ASUN. Some executive offi cers

are wondering if they are still elected offi cials.

Senators are attending committee meetings, but are unable to accomplish much because their committees technically still do not exist.

And the judicial board is essentially useless because it still lacks a set of statutes to govern the way it handles cases and issues rulings.

ASUN leaders have told the students that the move to

the new constitution will be a long and diffi cult process that will require patience. And no student should expect a revamped government to appear overnight.

But students should be able to reasonably expect that their government is running to its fullest potential, and right now, thats just not happening.

The lack of foresight, and progress, with developing this new document is beginning to hinder the governments ability to do its job.

And lets not forget about the summer months that ASUN of-

fi cials failed to use to develop a more effi cient transition plan.

So until this governments statutes are back in place, what are students to do if they want to fi le a complaint against the senate? Go to a judicial board that cannot do its job?

Blame it on a lack of communication among the three branches of government throughout this transition.

Blame it on the lack of preparation that has plagued this transition to the new constitution.

And blame it on a lack of priorities.

Their price was too high so I applied for a job there so I could ride for free.

Chris HawaiiSr, nutrional dietics

$300, because thats what it has always been.

Steve MakrisJr, civil engineering

$250, I know people that get passes dirt cheap there be-cause they know people.

Milad OliaeeJr, civil engineering

Nowhere near $800. College students cant afford that.

Falon FosterSr, human development and family studies

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California artist Deborah Aschheims On Memory piece illuminated the Sheppard Gallery in the Church Fine Arts Building through sculpture and bebop Thursday night during the Orions Belt opening.

Curated by Marjorie Vecchio, the exhibition brought together several artists whose work in-volved health, technology and mythology.

We wanted a really broad subject that affected everyone, so we picked health, Vecchio said. When you add mythology and technology to it, it makes it more contemporary.

One of the other works in the exhibit was Brian Kneps Healing #2, a fl oor mat based on com-

puterized versions of patterns in nature. The design on the mat changed in response to both shadow and weight.

Also featured were the works of Virgil Wong, who created a Web site for the fake RYT Hospital showcasing possible future devel-opments in the medical fi eld such as genetically engineered children and male pregnancy.

Im pretty impressed, Takashi Maser, a 24-year-old transfer student, said. It feels more pro-fessional than past exhibitions here.

On Memory is a piece that uses sculpture and sound to rep-resent Aschheims memory. The work features a blue light fi xture resembling neural pathways with wires attaching to pictures and movies from her past. They use speakers throughout the piece to

broadcast songs meant to stimu-late memory.

Some neurologists believe language and music are encoded through different neural path-ways, Aschheim said.

Her family has a long history of Alzheimers disease and she wanted to be able to cope with the disease if she were to get it.

I was trying to explore how it is that your memories make you real, she said.

Aschheim recruited Bay Area jazz bassist Lisa Mezzacappa to write and record a collection of songs entitled Earworms, a German term for songs that easily get stuck in ones head. The songs are based on 25 words Aschheim chose.

I wanted to use words I would need to communicate if I ever lost the ability to do so, she said.

Mezzacappa said her back-ground was mostly in improvisa-tional bass playing and had never written songs before.

Prior to the opening the songs had never been performed live.

Mezzacappa was joined by multi-instrumentalists Michelle Amador, Katy Stephan, Jason Le-vis and Mitch Marcus for two sets during the event. The majority of Earworms is rooted deeply in traditional bebop jazz with both spoken and sung elements cen-tered around the specifi c words.

Various other genres were rep-resented, from a surf rock song concerning the word like and its many uses to a country-tinged ballad about redundancy. In between songs while setting up, the band would do tiny riffs on the word handjob.

The music was great and it made the actual piece inside make more sense, Emily Guillen, a 21-year-old art history major, said at the exhibit.

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Sheppard shines with memories

I ts bizarre to think about. In the time Ive been at the University of Nevada, Reno, Ive gone from playing shows at places like the Reno Jazz Club, Tonic and even one terrible,

terrible show at the El Cortez, to playing guitar at the Vans Warped Tour this summer.

Sure, it was only the Ernie Ball Stage, and it was only one day, but it was still the Warped

Tour. THE WARPED TOUR. The drummer of Lagwagon watched our set.

My mind is still slightly blown.

While I love all bands Ive be-friended and played with in Reno Im looking your way, Beercan and Fingerprints Lie theres noth-ing quite like getting to say that my band, Red Hot Radio, got to play on the same bill as The Start-ing Line, Coheed and Cambria and, oh yeah, one of my all-time favorites, Hot Rod Circuit.

I was even fortunate enough to give out some Red Hot Radio shirts and CDs to some of these bands. Who knows if theyll ever wear the shirts or listen to the CDs, but I like to imagine theyre all big fans.

Between my bass player, CJ, and me we probably handed out another 200 CDs and 500 to 600 stickers to any kid who would give us a second of his time. Though, to be honest, we did hand out a lot more to attractive girls than any

other demographic. They tend to like our music more, thats all.

While I did promote the hell out of us at Warped, I cant really take too much credit for the show itself. I can barely take any credit. I didnt write the songs. That was my brother/guitarist/singer, Kevin. I didnt enter us into the competition to play. That was my lovely drummer, Emily.

Then what did you do? you may ask.

I stuck with it. Which, in the eight or so years Ive been playing in bands, Ive found is the most important thing. Hundreds of bands probably more like thou-sands have come and gone since my entrance into music. Some of my favorite albums are by bands that made only that one and quit. But no one except Panic! At the Disco ever got anywhere in music without putting in years of effort and bunches of money.

Which makes sticking with it the hardest thing to do right now.

My band has relocated, though I have not. With degrees in hand, everyone has headed home to be adults and get jobs. The band is still together, just now as a three-piece in Las Vegas. But no matter what jobs they do or more likely dont get, the fact remains that they are in Vegas, and I am the lone Renoan. Renoite? I just called the City of Reno, and ap-parently its Renoite.

So here I remain, a senior work-ing toward a degree in journal-ism. Ill wait for a call to return to Vegas for something important, wishing I could be there for every show that is being played as a trio. And Ill continue playing shows up here as keyboardist for My Messenger and under my solo

name, Battling Maxo, to pass the time until I, too, graduate and head home to get Red Hot Radio in its full form.

But dont worry, I plan on keeping you well-informed and up-to-date about everything that goes on in my pursuit of musical happiness.

One Renoites band takes on the Vans Warped TourLinks to Aidans bands!Red Hot Radiowww.myspace.com/redhotradio! Battling Maxowww.myspace.com/battling-maxo! My Messengerwww.myspace.com/mymes-senger

ONLINEWith degrees in hand, everyone has headed home to be adults and get jobs... But no matter what jobs they do - or more likely dont - get, the fact remains that they are in Vegas, and I am the lone Renoan, said Aidan OConnel.

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Sabrina Raafs art, as seen through a piece done by Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa, hangs on the wall Thursday in the Sheppard Gallery i n the Church Fine Arts building during the Orions Belt exhibition going on through Oct. 5.

Cant get enough of the art gallery? Check it out online.!Virgil Wongs RYT Hospitalwww.rythospital.com! Wongs fake-advertising genetically engineered children and male pregnancywww.genochoice.comwww.malepregnancy.com! On Memory artist Deborah Aschheimdeborahaschheim.com! Musician Lisa Mezzacappawww.lisamezzacappa.com

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One piece of Deborah Aschheims and Lisa Mezzacappas interpetation of modern art. The piece is one of many being displayed in the Sheppard Gallery in the Church Fine Arts building.

vironment, by providing atent and giving out free non-alcoholic beverages and freefood.

But not everyone agrees that a dry tailgate is the right environment.

Beer is a part of college, said Josh Greenbaum, a 22-year-old history major. Greenbaum played a game

during the tailgate Saturdaybefore the Nicholls Stategame, but did not drink alongwith it.

All around the southeast Intramural Field parking lot, there were other people play-ing non-drinking games. Butstill, they had beers in hand. Apparently, you can game and you can drink, but you cant play a drinking game.

Legislation passed Oct. 22, 2006, forbade all games directly involving drinking.

Even though drinking games are not explicitly banned in the University Code of Conduct, it does fall under the ban on excessive drinking.

This change of policy hap-pened after an increase inviolence and disobedienceduring the game due to exces-sive drinking while tailgating,according to an email SallyMorgan, director of studentjudicial affairs, had sent touniversity officials Sept.2006.

ASUN has set up policies to help provide a safe tailgating atmosphere.

If you do decide to drink at the tailgate, make sure the rules are followed.

The southeast parking lot near the intramural fi eld is the only approved place for student tailgating on campus.

For an alcohol-free tailgate, Flipside and ASUN provide entertainment and several fraternities and sororities have games such as water pong and cornhole.

Drinking may be a rather important part of college life and tailgating, but there are ways to enjoy oneself without the booze.

TailgateCONTINUED FROM PAGE A12

STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINE

Kanye vs.50 Cent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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TUESDAY/18JAMES BLUNTALL THE LOST SOULSGenre: Soft rock

CHAMILLIONAIREULTIMATE VICTORYGenre: Rap

DROPKICK MURPHYSTHE MEANEST OF TIMESGenre: Irish punk

THE DONNASBITCHINGenre: Rock

MINISTRYTHE LAST SUCKERGenre: Metal

NELLYBRASS KNUCKLESGenre: Hip-hop

NEW FOUND GLORYFROM THE SCREEN TO YOUR STEREO PART 2Genre: Pop-Punk

Valient Thor and Riverboat Gamblers are playing at Club Underground at 7 p.m. All ageswww.clubunderground-reno.com555 East 4th Street

Against Me!, Matt & Kim and David Dondero are playing at Stoneys at 8 p.m.All ages

Doors open at 7 p.m.Price: $16www.myspace.com/stoneysbar71 South Wells Ave.

WEDNESDAY/19Bone Thugs N Harmony are play-ing at Stoneys at 8 p.m.All agesDoors open at 7:30Price: $28

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SATURDAY/22Korn, Hell Yeah, Five Finger Death Punch and Droid are play-ing at Lawlor Events Center at 8:00 p.m.All agesDoors open at 6:30 p.m.Price: $45www.lawloreventscenter.org

W hen Kanye West moved the release date of his new album, Graduation, up a week to come out the same day as 50 Cents Curtis, a rap feud was born.

It was fed by media muckraking and the artists themselves.The shit-talking escalated onto the cover of Rolling Stone.The feud matured into a full-on rap battle.So far, Kanye has outsold 50 by about 180,000 copies. 50,

who originally said hed quit solo work if Kanye outsold him, is not giving in to the numbers yet, and instead has said hed take on every release from Kanyes label with one of his own.

In a head-to-head away from the charts, the collar-popper from Chi-town and the gangster from New York could square up on a few more arenas to determine the real winner.

EMILY KATSEANES | A&E EDITOR

ILLUSTRATION BY WINTER CARRERA

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Music, butnot lyrics save 50 Cent

Nick HaasAssistant A&E Editor

Modern rap nowadays takes two paths either preaching violence and targeting a single audi-ence, or trying to change its musical style and be more accessible.

50 Cents new album, Curtis, is an example of the fi rst path. The saving grace of the album isntits lyrics, but the instrumentation.

The musics brilliance is most likely due to the guest producers, from Dr. Dre to Timbaland, whose background in music stopped the album from going down in a tailspin.

The lyrics are nothing more than a rehash of every single gangster rap album ever made. Bitches, money, guns and violence are the centerpiece of many songs on the album.

Its time 50 Cent realized that yes, his past is one of bitches, money, guns and violence, but now hes worth a fortune and lives in an $18

million house in Connecticut. You should lose your gangsta cred when you move from Queens, N.Y., to Connecticut.

A few of the guests on the album are a nice reprieve using sex as the driving force behind the song. Justin Timberlake sings on Ayo Techonol-ogy. The song is nothing more than just asking a girl to sit down on top of me.

This song, along with Follow My Lead, featur-ing Robin Thicke, and All of Me with Mary J. Blige, are more songs driven by sex.

Curtis is an album that fans will love and instrumentation-obsessed people should prob-ably check out, but everyone else should just buy Kanye Wests Graduation.

50 CENTCURTISRelease Date: Sept. 11Genre: RapGrade: C

Kanye graduates ahead of 50

Emily KatseanesA&E editor

Kanye West revisits familiar CD stomping grounds on his new album, Graduation; except this time, hes cut out the campy skits and made his as-always masterfully produced tracks even better.

All the things critics love about Kanye is there politically aware vocals, layered sounds and avoidance of the scandal most rappers seem to exude like air. Similarly, its got everything that will probably produce another hit like Gold Digger catchy choruses, dance beats and even a little tongue-in-cheek humor.

The CD opens with Good Morning. Not only is he spinning an introspective yarn on his own college dropout experience, but the songs got a strong bass line backed by a keyboard, melodic backup vocals and sampling from Elton Johns

Someone Saved My Life Tonight.

Stronger has a side-step-ping, steady beat with Kanyes voice as the centerpiece instrument that could easily put it in heavy club rotation. It also features sampling from Daft Punks Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

On Barry Bonds, a more laid-back track, he forgoes keyboards and focuses on the lyrics knitting the Barry Bonds home-run controversy with his own experiences being an underdog in the fi eld.

Lil Wayne putting in a verse appearance on Bonds isnt the best collaboration, though its Coldplays lead lady-swooner, Chris Martin, crooning the hook on Homecoming. The sur-prisingly cohesive song is Kanyes ode to his fi rst love his hometown, Chicago.

Kanye brings his famous ego, samples from his elders and all the lyrical fi repower he can muster to put out an album that should easily continue to outsell 50 Cent.

KANYE WESTGRADUATIONRelease Date: Sept. 11Genre: Hip-hopGrade: A

ALBUM REVIEWS

MOST METAL IN HIS BODYKanye Has a metal plate in his jaw

from a car accident (win)50 was shot 9 times, but the bullets were removed

APPEARANCES ON THE SIMPSONSKanye 050 1 (win)

ALBUMS SOLD OPENING DAY FOR GRADUATION AND CURTISKanyes Graduation 431,000 (win)50s Curtis 310, 000

SAMPLES ON THE NEW ALBUMSKanye 7 (win)50 0

MOST GRAMMIESKanye 5 (win)50 0

HEIGHTKanye 5850 6 (win)

MOST SURPRISING COLLABORATIONKanye Chris Martin of Coldplay (win)50 Justin Timberlake

WINNERWith fi ve points to 50s measly two, Kanye West is the winner.50 wins ... because were afraid of him.

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A12 SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

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AT RIGHTJunior Allison

Brown, a 20-year-old journalism major, and her partner, senior

Blake Krek, left, a 21-year-old biology major, play a game

of cornhole during a tailgate

party near the intramural parking lot Saturday night.

SEQUENCEKrek tosses a bean bag during a game

of cornhole.

PHOTOS BY DAVID CALVERT /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH

Nevada fans near the entrance to Wolf Pack Alley, during pre-game festivities at Mackay Stadium before the Wolf Packs home opener Saturday night. Wolf Pack Alley is made up of food and merchandise vendors and live entertainment.

CROCK-POT CHILI Ingredients:! Chili Brick (You can get this in the frozen food section of any store)! 2 pounds of hamburger! 4 cans of pinto beans! Season to taste, with salt and pepper! 2 packages chili seasoning! 6 cans tomato sauce! One cup Ketchup

Optional:! 1 onion ! Tabasco Sauce! Salsa! Cheese! Any other vegetables and seasonings

Directions:! Brown hamburger in greased pan on medium to high heat. ! Thaw Chili Brick in micro-wave. ! Put hamburger, Chili Brick, pinto beans, and sauces in a Crock-Pot and let cook on high for six hours. ! At the four-hour mark, taste and season ! Reheat on high heat for one hour for next-day use. ! Add cheese, cracker or bread as desired.

Ryanne Walther, third-year medical student, 24

GAME DAY GUACAMOLE Ingredients:! 4 medium-sized avocados! 6 tablespoons lime juice! 2 garlic cloves (crushed)! 4 tomatoes, skinned and fi nely chopped! 2 green chilis, fi nely chopped! 6 green onions, fi nely chopped! 2 tablespoons of chopped fresh coriander! Salt and pepper

Directions:! Cut avocados in half. ! Remove seeds and scoop fl esh into a medium-sized bowl. ! Mash together with lime juice using a wooden spoon. ! Add remaining ingredients a stir together. ! This dip is best made just before serving.! Serve with favorite brand of tortilla chips.

Aschley Humphrey, 19-year-old English lit major

Reported by Hailee Vance

TAILGATE RECIPES

TAILGATING RULES! Tailgating starts three hours prior to kickoff and ends 30 minutes before kickoff.! Underaged students are not allowed to drink alcoholic beverages, and all students drinking alcohol must pres-ent a valid ID and get a wrist-band from the security staff.! Glass containers, beer bongs and kegs are not al-lowed. For more rules, check out www.unr.edu/sjmas/Al-coholpolicy1.htm

More to tailgating than beer

MICHAEL HIGDON /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH

According to university policy, tailgating is only allowed in the intramural fi eld parking lot.

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T here are certain things one learns in college how to drink, what to drink, how much to drink, different mixtures to drink and what drinks to avoid.Tailgating is one of the many traditions in

college where someone could learn these direly important lessons. But is alcohol really necessary for tailgating?

Eli Reilly, interim director of programming, believes theres more to tailgating than just booze.

The thing about tailgating is the environment youre in, Reilly said. You can go to a tailgate and not drink and still have a good time.

The Associated Students of the University of Nevada have given the students just that en-

Kelly Cavinis, 38, grills beef during a tailgate party before the Wolf Packs home opener

Booze might be the driving force but students have other options

See TAILGATE Page A10

KYLE SAMMONS

! Class: Senior! Number: 5! Position: Wide Reciever! Height: 5 11! Weight: 195 lbs! Origin: Novato, Calif. (Santa Rosa

Community Col-lege)! Junior college:

Set 2004 single-season record with 85 catches for 1,263 yards! Career: 20 touch-downs (18 in JC, 2 in D-1)

SportsSECTION BTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

www.nevadasagebrush.com

Bishop makes catches count

Colby BalkenbushStaff Writer

With Nevada down 10-0 at the end of the fi rst quarter Saturday against Nicholls State of the Football Championship Sub-division (formerly Division I-AA) and fans starting to seriously contemplate what an 0-3 start to the season would mean, senior tight end Adam Bishop stepped up to help ensure a Wolf Pack victory.

Bishop had only three receptions Saturday night, but all of them went for touchdowns to help Nevada beat the Colonels 52-17 in front of 15,233 fans at Mackay Stadium.

I havent done that ever, not even in high school, so thats pretty cool, Bishop said of his career game.

At 6 feet 4 inches and 245 pounds, Bishop doesnt have the speed of a re-ceiver, but he seemed to be everywhere Saturday night.

His fi rst and most critical touchdown came with 6:47 to play in the second quar-ter on a 25-yard pass from Nick Graziano.

Bishop caught the ball around the two-yard-line and skated by the defensive back to even the score at 10.

Bishops next touchdown also came at an important time.

Nevadas second-half performances, especially against Northwestern, had been lackluster recently, but less than fi ve minutes into the second half Bishop made it clear that would not be the case against the Colonels.

He scored on a 17-yard touchdown pass, stiff-arming a Nicholls State defender and leaping into the end zone to make it 38-10.

Those two plays worked just as they were supposed to, Graziano said of his passes to Bishop.

Bishops fi nal touchdown came on a four-yard pass at the end of the third quarter, which Bishop had to lay down to catch.

We need Adam to do great because hes a really fi ne football player and just a quality person, Wolf Pack coach Chris Ault said. I was really pleased with him. He made some nice plays for us. I think he did an excellent job.

Bishop also was a big part of Nevadas success running the ball, repeatedly mak-

Tight ends three scores key Nevada win

PHOTOS BY DAVID CALVERT /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH

Nicholls State quarterback Vincent Montgomery, No. 9, is brought down by a slew of Nevada defenders during the Wolf Packs home opener Saturday. See NICHOLLS Page B6

Reserve backs pile up yards in victory over Nicholls StateColby Balkenbush

Staff Writer

Nevada rushed for 333 yards against Nicholls State Saturday night, and more than half of those came from its backup running backs.

Redshirt freshman Vai Taua led the backups with nine carries for 74 yards.

The 5-foot-10 inch, 225 pound Taua averaged 7.9 yards per carry and gave real trouble to Nicholls States defensive line, often breaking multiple tackles before going down.

Taua would have had a 50-plus yard touchdown run in the third quarter, but it

was called back on a holding penalty.The starter, junior Luke Lippincott,

led all rushers with 127 yards and one touchdown.

Those other backs, theyre keeping their foot right on his (Lippincotts) butt, head coach Chris Ault said. They can run. I think we got some pretty good tal-ent. Theyre young kids, so were excited about that.

Sophomore Brandon Fragger, the usual backup to Lippincott, had 25 yards on seven carries and redshirt freshman Courtney Randall had 24 yards on six car-ries, including a one-yard touchdown run to put Nevada up 52-17.

We played a lot of guys, Ault said. Were gonna get some good tape on some guys and we need that. We need to develop our depth.

BIG NIGHTSThe victory over Nicholls State was a ca-

reer-high night for four Nevada players.Quarterback Nick Graziano threw

a career-high fi ve touchdown passes, three more than his previous career-high against Northwestern.

It makes it pretty easy for me when they (the offensive line) start dominating Nevada back-up quarterback Colin Kaepernick congratulates

running back Courtney Randall after his 1-yard fourth quarter touchdown run, to put Nevada up 52-17 in the home opener.See CAREER Page B6

Seniorback after

injury

O ne year ago, Kyle Sammons was in a great position. The junior col-lege transfer was coming off an impressive fi rst year at Nevada where he tied for third on the team with 27 receptions for 375 receiving yards, including two touchdowns.

Fall camp was just wrapping up, and Sammons, then a senior, was expected to be one of Nevadas go-to receivers.

His body didnt comply.After catching a pass in prac-

tice, Sammons was tackled hard and broke his collarbone.

It was just in a scrimmage right before the season started and I just landed on it awkward and it just snapped, Sammons said. Someone tackled me, grabbed me up and just dropped me on my shoulder and broke it.

The break was so bad Sammons had to have surgery, getting eight screws and a metal plate put in his collarbone to hold it together.

Since then, Sammons has recovered and is one of Nick Grazianos deep targets. He is currently the second leading receiver on the team with 152 yards in three games, just behind

Marko Mitchells 180 yards.While sitting out last season

wasnt ideal, the timing of the injury allowed Sammons to come back this season.

Fortunately, his injury hap-pened a week before the 2006-07 season started, so Sammons was allowed to redshirt, saving his fi nal year of eligibility for this season.

Nevada receivers coach Scott Baumgartner said the loss of

Sammons hurt.He defi nitely would

have been a big con-tributor, Baumgartner said.

While his team started focusing on the season, Sammons had to go through a lengthy reha-bilitation.

I tried to lay off it for

See SAMMONS Page B6

Someone tackled me, grabbed me up and just dropped me on my shoulder and broke

it, Kyle Sammons said.

COLBY BALKENBUSH | STAFF WRITER

NEVADA MEDIA SERVICES

ADVERTISEMENTSwww.nevadasagebrush.comB2 SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

L ast season the Nevada football student section was an abomination an assault on decency, morality and any fi ne human being who has ever taken off their shirt to paint their chest in the name of team spirit.

Last season, there were as many kids in the student section wearing

Hollister as Ne-vada Blue, there usually werent enough people to entice even the hungriest of zombies, and some students urinated off the back of the bleachers with regularity. Classy.

So with that precedent, and after an 0-2 start this season leading into the home opener against a hopelessly outclassed Football Championship Subdivision team, Mackay Stadium fi gured to be about as jumping on Saturday as a PETA party at the Vick residence.

Instead of continuing the pre-eminent battle to set new lows in the world of fandom, however, the Nevada student section showed it has taken a step forward by making an impact on the Wolf Packs 52-10 romp against Nicholls State.

While most of the greater No-Towns general population was doing other things the overall attendance barely topped 15,000 the students were numerous, excited and, for the most part, loud.

The section defi nitely thinned out after halftime, but its hard to fault people for tiring of watching the Wolf Pack paste a bunch of patsies from some town called Thibodaux.

Still, when the Wolf Pack trailed 10-0 after the fi rst quarter, the crowds intensity helped pick up Nevada.

The impact was noticeable in the players.

When the Wolf Pack went to the locker room at halftime after scoring 31 points in what seemed like about 45 seconds to take control of the game, the players made a loop to the north end of the stadium to salute the students.

Those kinds of gestures would have fallen on empty benches last year.

The football turnout seems to show the progress of a mid-major university fi nally starting to understand its place and potential in the college sports world. This isnt Nebraska, but what mid-major can boast the same kind of success Nevadas had in both football and basketball over the last handful of years?

Lawlor Events Center transformed into a special place last February and March during the basketball teams run to the NCAA Tournament, largely because the student section fi nally fi gured out how to color-coordinate and yell for two straight hours.

After Saturday, it looks like Mackay Stadium might fi nally share the same electricity.

Garrett Hylton is the Senior Editor of the Nevada Sage-brush. He can be reached at ghylton@nevadasagebrush.com

The Wolf Pack claimed its fi rst team title of the 2007 season as it won the Sacramento State Hornet Jamboree Saturday morning.

Nevada fi nished with 27 points in the fi ve team race as its top fi ve runners each placed in the top ten.

Senior Christa Avena took second place in the race with a time of 18:33, beating her personal best 5K time by 69 seconds.

Janet Martinez fi nished third for Nevada, while Natalia Jarawka fi nished sixth. Amanda Gramly and Chelsea Chauvet-Moore fi nished ninth and tenth respectively.

Nevadas last win was at the inaugural Sacra-mento State Hornet Jamboree in 2005.

Inside Scoopwww.nevadasagebrush.com B3SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Cross country wins 1st meet of season

CHRISTA AVENACROSS COUNTRYThe junior took second place in this weekends Sacramento State Hornet Jamboree and took seventh in Nevadas season opener. Avena led the team with a personal best time of 18:33, 69 seconds less than her previous, as the Wolf Pack won its fi rst meet since October of 2005.

SOCCER

Rebel Classic

*Friday vs. Iowa 11 a.m.*Sunday vs. Washington State 1:30 p.m.

*at UNLV

THE SKINNY: The Wolf Pack is now 1-3-1 after it tied 3-3 in its game against Sacramento State and won 2-0 in its game against San Francisco. Nevada will head down to Las Vegas to play in the Rebel Classic hosted by UNLV. Iowa and Wahshington State will both be tough tests as they are 3-1-1 and 4-0-1, respectively, on the season.

VOLLEYBALL

Thursday vs. Idaho 7 p.m. @ Moscow, Idaho

Saturday vs Boise State 7 p.m. @ Boise, Idaho

THE SKINNY: Nevada is 1-1 after its fi rst week of conference play, and 4-5 overall, as it beat Louisiana Tech Thursday and fell to New Mexico State Saturday. The Wolf Pack should be able to easily take care of Idaho and Boise State as they are 3-7 and 3-6 on the season.

MENS GOLF

Shoal Creek Invitational

*Monday, Sept. 24 All Day *Tuesday, Sept. 25 All Day

*at Birmingham, Ala.

THE SKINNY: After fi nishing last weeks season opening tournament in a three-way tie for sixth place, Nevada will travel to Alabama for the Shoal Creek Invitational hosted by the University of Alabama Birmingham. Senior Chase Cooper will be leading the Wolf Pack as he fi nished in a tie for sixth place at the Saint Marys Invitational.

FIELDING CATHCART/NEVADA SAGEBRUSH

Mandy Russ competed earlier this season in the Nevada Twilight Cross Country Meet.

AROUND THE WAC

Student section starting to bring magic back into Mackay

THE TRUTH

DAVID CALVERT/NEVADA SAGEBRUSHLuke Lippincott hurdles offensive lineman John Bender during one of his 14 carries in the Wolf Packs game against Nicholls State Saturday night. Nevada had 32 rush attemps for 263 yards as it rolled over the Colonels 52-17.

MENS GOLF

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Nevada jumps fi ve spots to fi nish 6th at Saint Marys

Nevada climbed from 11th place to a tie for sixth place at the Saint Marys College Invita-tional in Pebble Beach, Calif, Tuesday.

The Wolf Pack tied for the best round of the day as it shot two-over 290 in the fi nal round of the tournament.

Senior Chase Cooper led Nevada as he fought back from 25th place to tie for sixth in the individual competition. He shot a three-round total of one-over 217.

Other notable performance included sopho-mores Taylor Coffmann and Ryan Hallisey who tied for 15th and 22nd respectively.

Baylor won the 18-team tournament and Baylors Wesley Williams won the individual honors.

Joey Gilbert to defend title Friday night at Grand Sierra

Renos own Middleweight Champion Joey Gilbert (15-1) will defend his WBC-USNBC title against Charles Howe (17-3) of Grelton, OH liveat the Grand Sierra Resort on Friday, Sept. 21. RUMBLE at the Grand Sierra is an offi cialevent of Street Vibrations and Gilberts third fi ght this year.

Gilbert has gone back to his roots and is cur-rently training for his upcoming title defense down in the old University of Nevadas 4th Street gym, where he put in hours of work each day during his collegiate reign. Gilbert has been training with current members and champions Thomas Gennaro, David Schacter, Ryan Kotey, and Francisco Pepe Torres to prepare for his title defense.

Doors open at 6 p.m., fi rst bout at 7 p.m. and the main event at 9 p.m. Tickets start at $20 for students, police, fi re and military; $35 for general admission, with great seats at $75, $100 and $200 and ringside seats at $250 and $275. To purchase tickets through Ticketmaster phone 787-8497 or through the Grand SierraResort at 1-800-648-3568.

ARE THE YEARS IT HAS BEEN SINCE ANYONE HAS HAD FIVE OR MORE TOUCHDOWN PASSES IN A GAME.FIVE ARE THE AMOUNT OF CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERS THAT PLACED IN THE TOP 10 AT THE SACRAMENTO STATE HORNET JAM-

BOREE. 15 IS THE SECOND LOWEST PLACE THE WOMENS GOLF TEAM HAS EARNED SINCE 2005. ITS LOWEST PLACE WAS 16TH ON

FEBRUARY 26, 2007 AT THE FRESNO STATE INVITATIONAL. TEN ARE THE POINTS BRETT JAEKLE SCORED FOR NEVADA ON SATUR-

DAY. SEVEN WERE FROM EXTRA POINTS AND THE OTHER THREE WERE FROM A FIELD GOAL. 1,060 ARE THE ASSISTS THAT VOL-

LEYBALL PLAYER ASHLEY MILLER HAS FOR HER CAREER. SHE IS CURRENTLY EIGTH IN THE RECORD BOOKS. ONE IS THE ASSIST SOCCER PLAYER JES-

SICA THOMPSON NEEDED TO TIE THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR CAREER ASSISTS. SHE IS NOW TIED WITH LAUREN KINNEMAN, WHO PLAYED FOR THE

WOLF PACK FROM 2003-06, AT 11. 6 IS THE AMOUNT OF HOME OPENERS THAT HAVE BEEN WON BY THE FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE LAST 10 YEARS.

WOMENS GOLFIn the 20-team Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic, Nevada tied for 15th after carding its best round of the tournament. Junior Melanie De Leon was the Wolf Packs highest individual fi nisher as she earned a 21st place tie, but no other player fi nished in the top 50.

ON TAP

WHOS HOT

WHOS NOT

GarrettHylton

SPORTSwww.nevadasagebrush.comB4 SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Increased pressure leads to one tie, one win

C.W. WilkinsonStaff Writer

Heading into this weekend, the Wolf Pack soccer teams reign as Western Athletic Conference champions was off to an auspicious start with three straight losses.

The Wolf Pack improved its record to 1-3-1 over the weekend, splitting Fridays game with Sacramento State 3-3 and coming out ahead of San Francisco 2-0.

The win against the Dons was the fi rst shutout of the season for the Pack.

Nevada, which had struggled at the beginning of matches so far this year, started attacking the Dons early.

Freshman forward Cristen Drummond created a scoring chance less than fi ve minutes into the game and junior forward Karen Zmirak fi red off a shot on goal less than two minutes later.

Junior midfielder Miranda Montejo took a shot from the left side of the field in the 17th minute. The shot flew across the front of the net, and Zmirak almost headed the ball in.

The Wolf Packs attacking style paid off in the 22nd minute when sophomore defender Devin Noe found the back of the net to give the Pack a 1-0 lead.

Noes shot came from about 30 yards out and looked like it was going to go over the net, but sailed in over the outstretched hands of Dons junior keeper Anika Steig.

Noe said that the team had been working on long-range shots and encouraging her to shoot more.

I took my chance, she said.

Steady pressure from the Wolf Pack kept the Dons to only one shot the entire period.

Overall, it was a great team performance, said interim head coach Antoinette Mar-janovic.

At the end of the fi rst period, the Wolf Pack held a steady lead. It kept the pres-sure turned on for the second half.

Junior forward Samantha Miller sealed the game on a breakaway when she kicked a goal between Stiegs legs to give Nevada a 2-0 lead less than a minute into the second game.

The Pack had several more near misses, racking up fi ve shots in the second half (four on goal), and held the Dons to two (one on goal).

Getting a shutout today was our No. 1 goal, Marja-novic said.

Weve just been working hard, waiting, hoping it would come, Noe said. And today it did.

The upswing in the Packs fortunes started Friday against the Hornets.

The Hornets stung the Pack early, driving them to a 2-0 defi cit just 35 minutes into play. But the Pack refused to be outdone.

We played with a lot of heart, Marjanovic said. We could easily have given up when we were down 2-0.

With three minutes re-maining in the first period, Montejo, assisted by Zmirak and freshman midfielder/forward Jill Erickson, kicked a slow bouncing goal down the center of the net.

The counterattack contin-ued into the second period.

Zmirak headed in the Packs second goal of the day off a corner kick by Drummond.

With four minutes left in the game, Hornets fresh-man forward Leah Larot seemingly put the Wolf Pack away when she scored an unassisted goal, putting the Hornets back up 3-2.

But with the last two minutes ticking away, Zmirak came

through for the Pack with her second goal, sending the game to overtime tied 3-3.

Despite efforts from both teams, neither side was able to fi nd the elusive game