nevada sagebrush archives 10/19/10

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010 VOLUME CXVII NUMBER 9SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO SINCE 1893nevadasagebrush.comFirst copy free, additional copies 50 each d bdditi l i 50 h

STUDYING ABROADRead about the journey of a student living in southern France for four months. Page A9

LIVING DEAD GIRLTake a behind-the-scenes look at what its like to work in Eli Kerrs Slaughter House.Page A14

INTRAMURAL SPORTSThey may only be playing for T-shirts, but for many students, intramural sports are more than just a game. Page B1

INDEXPodcast: Hear about world leaders visit to campus this weekend.Rally: Watch United States Vice President Joe Bidens speech on campus Wednesday.Newscast: Watch The Nevada Sagebrushs broadcast of this weeks news.

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Technology disparity

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Frank Fanelli, Univeristy of Nevada, Renos Audio-Visual Unit Supervisor, sits at the campus most-advanced classroom, the digital studio classroom on the fi rst fl oor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

Club spends $913 of ASUN money to show fallacy of public goods

By Don Weinland

D ual projectors in the Davidson Math and Sci-ence Buildings lecture hall cast calculus equa-tions across twin screens in a Math 182 class. All fi ve classrooms in the building, which opened this semester, have cutting-edge learning technology. But students cant hear what their instructor is saying.

When hes near the podium, the sound cracks really bad, Mac Higgins, a 19-year-old civil engineering major, said. The volume is so low to begin with. He mutes himself. Everyone comments on it. Its really diffi cult to follow.

The unwanted feedback has left Higgins and his class-mates out on what could be grade-defi ning information.

No one listens, he said. Im just in the back zoning out.

More than 100 of the University of Nevada, Renos 130 centrally-scheduled classrooms boast smart technology. Smart classrooms are equipped with Internet access, computers, document cameras, projectors and sound systems, according to Teaching and Learning Technolo-gies staff.

But university technology and maintenance staff say budget cuts have eaten away at funds for staff and reno-vation and many older buildings were never meant to absorb smart technology.

UNRs Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center represents a change in architectural and technological thinking, Ste-ven Zink, vice president of technology, said. The center, which opened in 2008, will not run into the same technol-ogy deadlocks as its predecessors, he said.

However, new buildings dont always mean a better learning environment, Higgins said. Although it may not be as comfortable as Davidson Math and Science, he said he prefers the Scrugham Engineering and Mines Build-ing, which was built in 1963.

The chairs are falling apart but you can hear just fi ne, Higgins said. It may not look nice, but its functional.

Complaints arent limited to newer buildings, however. Reports of problems with UNRs older buildings are ubiq-uitous among students.

Matt Fleiner, 18, spends six hours per week studying

By Ben Miller

Vice President Joe Biden will speak on campus Wednesday in support of Senator Harry Reids re-election campaign.

Biden and Reid will speak at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the Virginia Street Gym. Entry to the event is free, but tickets for preferred seating will be passed out from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today by the Young Democrats club in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union, according to Jane Tors, director of media relations for the University of Nevada, Reno.

Chuck Liddell, an Ultimate Fighting Championship light

heavyweight champion, will also speak at the event, ac-cording to Zac Petkanas, a spokesperson for the Reid campaign.

The purpose of the event is not only to stir up support

Biden, Palin rally in Reno


Students grab free food from Las Trojes on Thursday during an event put on by the Students for Liberty club.

By Ben Miller

A club dedicated to abolish-ing the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, spent more than $900 of ASUN money Thursday on free food for students. The event was meant to illustrate that public goods will lead to rationing or shortages and that ASUN will fund anything, according to the clubs president.

More than 200 students lined up outside Las Trojes, a Mexican restaurant in the Ansari Business building, at about noon to take advantage of the event.

The activity was orchestrated by the Students for Liberty. Many students brought duffel bags, empty backpacks and grocery bags to fi ll with bur-ritos, candy bars and orange juice. The over-consumption of students led to the money being spent in less than 20 minutes, said club president Mike Fasano.

The event illustrated the idea of the tragedy of the commons, he said.

The tragedy of the commons is the concept that when some-thing is conceived as free, when theres a public good, it either

leads to rationing or massive shortages, Fasano said.

Barry Belmont, one of the founders of the club, estimated that between 30 and 60 people received food out of about 200 people in line. The line stretched from the door of Las Trojes to the end of the hallway on the opposite side of the building and blocked the stairs and doorway.

Benjamin Kaplan, the fi rst per-son in line, said he arrived about an hour early for the event. He walked out of the store with a duffel bag fi lled with about $50 worth of food.

Many followed, grabbing several bottles of drinks, tacos, burritos and more.

Cameron Belt, an ASUN club commissioner, said the funding that has been given to Students

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New plan to alter Greek accounts

By Jay Balagna

Negotiations between uni-versity administrators and the campus Greek organizations are nearing a close and could bring changes to the way money is handled in fraternities and sororities.

The relationship agreement, a contract between the orga-nizations and the University of Nevada, Reno, is renewed every year and has been in a process of renegotiation since April. While many changes in the agreement were made smoothly, a confl ict in the long-standing agreement and an existing university policy created a sticking point, said Sandra Rodriguez, the director of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada.

The new policy is being negotiated with help from members of the ASUN govern-ment, including Director of Legislative Affairs Casey Stiteler and Attorney General Trevor Macaluso.

The policy states that student organizations must keep money in university accounts, the same way other clubs on campus must, Rodriguez said.

The Greek systems relation-ship agreement formerly con-fl icted with this rule. When the idea of changing it by bringing

some of the fraternities and sororities money under the ASUN Accounting Offi ce was brought up, many in the Greek community grew wary.

I can understand that it may cause some apprehension, Rodriguez said. If it were my money, thered absolutely be some apprehension on my part.

Much of the apprehension has been centered on what money will need to be handled through university accounts, said Cam-eron Belt, the president of the Interfraternity Council.

Organizations that have their own houses will be allowed to keep money related to the buildings in separate accounts, but there was little explanation of what exactly that meant in the original proposal, Belt said.

The agreement says (orga-nizations) can have a housing

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Bank accounts for Greek organizations on campus could be moved into the control of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada accounting offi ce.

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ONLINE Check out an interactive map of smart buildings at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Davidson Math and ScienceAll fi ve of the buildings classrooms are smart.

Frandsen Humanities All 11 of the buildings classrooms are smart.

Orvis School of NursingAll four of the buildings classrooms are smart.

Schulich Lecture HallAll three lecture rooms are smart.

William J. Raggio BuildingFourteen of the buildings 18 classrooms are smart.

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Church Fine ArtsTwo of the buildings four classrooms are smart.

Edmund J. Cain HallSeven of the halls 12 classrooms are smart.

Palmer EngineeringThree of the buildings fi ve classrooms are smart.

Mack Social ScienceThree of the buildings nine classrooms are smart.

Knudtsen Resource CenterThe buildings three classrooms are not smart.

Source: The Offi ce of Facilities, Planning and Analysis

The Students for Liberty club spent more than $900 of student government money on food Thursday to illustrate an anti-public goods principle.

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Vice President Joe Biden will visit campus Wednesday.

U. S. Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Harry Reid will speak at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the Virginia Street Gym. The event is free.

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UNR loses points in sex survey

By Ben Miller

The University of Nevada, Reno lost several ranks in a sexual health services survey of colleges this year, in spite of increased education efforts from the student health center.

UNRs sexual health resources were ranked 83rd in a 2010 sur-vey by Trojan Condoms, down from 64th last year. The survey considered factors such as the accessibility of contraceptives, testing for sexually transmitted infections and the usability of the website of the student health center, an offi cial of the survey company said.

Despite the outcome of the survey, the health center has in-creased education and outreach efforts, said UNR Health Educa-tor Enid Jennings.

The center launched a mar-keting campaign called The N Crowd to increase awareness of health issues on campus,

Jennings said. Health center representatives also talked to freshmen during orientation and visited residence halls to talk about sexual health.

Students are more savvy because of it, Jennings said.

Even though UNR may have become more sexually healthy, the Trojan survey is still accurate because of its relativity to other universities, said Bert Sperling, the president of Sperlings BestPlaces, the company hired by Trojan to conduct the survey.

Looking at the scoring from one year to the next, its like a marathon, he said. Every run-ner is moving forward, but the positions change.

The survey didnt look at sexual activity, rates of sexually transmit-ted diseases or condom use on campus because such informa-tion cant be accurately gauged, according to Sperling. Instead, the survey focused on dissemination of information and accessibility.

One of the two categories UNR received an F in was Anonymous advice via e-mail/column. Sperling said the ideal system for a campus newspaper would be to offer a column for students to submit questions anonymously and have them answered by health center staff. Not many universities currently use such a system, he said.

Emily Katseanes, former opinion editor of The Nevada Sagebrush, said student Caitlin Thomas sex column last year had a different goal.

Every sex columnist has their own platform they write from, Katseanes said. Hers was about empowerment and owning your own sexuality.

Sex columns that answer ques-tions from readers can easily be-come dry and lose their ability to get through to people, she said.

UNR also received an F for condom availability despite the health center ordering about

30,000 condoms to give to students last year, according to Jennings.

The bad grade was because of a lack of promotion on the health centers website, Sperling said.

If (students) cant fi nd any-thing and they dont know its available, its close to not being available at all, he said.

Nevada Sagebrush reporter Don Weinland contributed to this story. Ben Miller can be reached at [email protected].


The University of Nevada, Reno received an F on a recent survey of college sexual health services. The student health center ordered more than 30,000 condoms to give to students last year, according to a health center offi cial.

Ranking drops despite increased sex health education

Senator up for second censure

By Don Weinland

The Associated Students of the University of Nevada Committee on Oversight recommended the censuring of Sen. Adam Khan for the sec-ond time after an unexcused absence from a committee meeting.

Khan, who represents the College of Engineering, missed a Committee on Academ-ics meeting Oct. 11, Senate Speaker Brandon Bishop said.

The unex-cused absence pushed his number of missed meet-ings to six this session, which qualifi ed him for censure under ASUN rules.

The Com-mittee on Oversight will review Khans case Oct. 27, Bishop said. The original Wednesday hearing was extended to the following week in order to allow Khan to prepare a defense.

Khan said he was never offi -cially informed of the censure by ASUN.

Basically, as Marvin Gaye says, I heard it through the grapevine, he said.

Khan said he will comment further only after getting more information on the situation.

ASUN rules dictate that the oversight committee make a decision on punishment if senators are censured. The punishment which could be impeachment but is usually a slap on the wrist is then ad-opted or rejected by the senate.

Sen. Corey Jokerst, who sits on the oversight committee, said censuring is meant to help senators better perform their job and ensure the representa-tion of college constituencies.

Khan and two fellow sena-tors were reviewed for censure Sept. 15 but proved the absences in question were in-valid. Sens. Brandon Jung and Lauren Riley resigned earlier in the semester while under review for censure.

The frequency of censures this semester demonstrates the senates commitment to carry-ing out rules that went largely ignored during the previous school year, Bishop said.

Don Weinland can be reached at [email protected].

Financial aid increase encourages enrollmentBy Ricardo Lopez

A record number of students this semester qualifi ed for Pell Grants, or federal awards for low-income college students, according to a University of Nevada, Reno fi nan-cial aid offi cial.

The grants were included in more than 3,200 UNR students fi nancial aid packages this year. About 2,600 UNR students quali-fi ed for the grants last year.

Part of the increase is because of the Student Aid and Fiscal Re-sponsibility Act, a piece of federal legislation that was tucked into the health care reform bill Congress passed in March.

The law meant sweeping chang-es for higher education, including removing banks as lenders of student loans, and increasing the

maximum Pell grant award from $4,730 to $5,550.

This has translated to more grant money being funneled into higher education and more people be-ing awarded the federal money.

(The fi nancial aid numbers) have gone up, which is a good thing, said Tom Wolfe, UNRs fi nancial aid and scholarships director.

Wolfe said several factors aside from the legislation have also contributed to the rise in the number of Pell Grant recipients.

Among them, the U.S. Depart-ment of Education has changed how it calculates a students eligi-bility. The new formula has helped more qualify.

Wolfe also said the ongoing economic recession has played a large role in the trend.

With Nevadas unemployment rate hovering at 14.4 percent the highest in the nation more university and colleges have seen an infl ux of people returning to school.

Enrollment has also skyrocketed

at Nevada universities. UNRs en-rollment passed 17,000 students this fall for the fi rst time in its 136-year history.

The economy is tight, Wolfe said. To get further ahead, you have to have a college education.

Those returning for degrees often qualify for aid because they might be unemployed, said John Gottardy, director of fi nancial aid, scholarships and student employment at Truckee Meadows Community College.

At TMCC, the jump in the

number of recipients is even more immense.

In 2008, 2,600 TMCC students qualifi ed for the grant. Last year, that fi gure grew to 4,700. Offi cials expect that fi gure to jump again this year, Gottardy said.

He credits part of that trend to his departments recent marketing campaign and workshops that helped students fi ll out federal aid applications.

Ricardo Lopez can be reached at [email protected].

The University of Nevada, Reno dropped 19 ranks on Trojan Condoms annual sexual health services report card. The survey judged colleges based on accessibility to the student health center.

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OCT. 21, 1960Apathy rides high as only 800 sign Death Corner petition

Apathy on campus was seen again this week as signatures on the death corner petition numbered only approximately 800.

ASUN President Ben Echev-erria states that many more signatures were expected and a great deal more will be needed,

before the petition is taken out of circulation.

Echeverria added that he will send three copies of the petition to the Reno city council, the state highway engineer, and to Governor Grant Sawyer early next week.

The majority of signatures now on the petitions were signed during ASUN elections last Friday.

Although more students signed the petition than those who voted Echeverria explained that the petitions do not have enough signatures

to warrant sending to the au-thorities.

One of the death corner pe-tition copies will be in the ASUN offi ce at all times, and students may sign between 3 and 5 p.m. daily.

Last week, state highway engineer Otis Wright announced to the ASUN offi ce that approval of a signal light on the corner of night and North Virginia streets had come from both the city and state levels. As Virginia street is also US Highway 395, approval is also needed from the federal level.

Mr. Wright further reported that 1 1956 state highway survey showed that a signal light was needed on the Ninth and Vir-ginia street crossing.

In past years, petitions and appeals for a signal light at the corner have been refused. The main argument against a light has been that trucks might not be able to make complete stops at the crossing, especially when the streets are icy during winter months.

Following a traffic death on the crossing Sept. 29, the ASUN began another appeal

for either a stop or warning light. When this was refused, legal advice was obtained and the present petitions began to circulate.

Echeverria stated last week that when a light is put on the death crossing, it will be a warning signal, mainly to allevi-ate the truck problem. He added that a warning light would pre-vent more accidents than a stop light would.

Read the rest of this story and other stories from the Sagebrush archives at nevadasagebrush.com.

BY THE NUMBERSThe Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act has increased the number of students at the University of Nevada, Reno who re-ceive Pell Grants. The amount received by students has increased as well.

$8203,200is the amount by which the grant has increased since

last year.

is the number of UNR students who are receiving

the Pell Grant in 2010-11.

2,600was the number who

received the grant during the previous school year.

ASUN

Adam Khan

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Weekly UpdateCampus Events

Scares in store for students at Monster Mash BallBy Riley Snyder

For students itching to dress like Lady Gaga or Snooki this Halloween, the Associated Students of the University of Nevadas Flipside department is hosting the first-ever Mon-ster Mash Ball this Friday at the Joe Crowley Student Union.

The free event will include a haunted house, three costume contests with prizes, and free food, Flipside Late Night and Weekend Programming Chair Geoffrey Green said. Green said he thinks students at the university should have an out-

let to relax after midterms.Part of the reason is to help

students break out of mid-terms week after theyve been studying in the library, Green said.

Providing a safe alterna-tive to potentially dangerous Halloween parties is another one of Flipsides goals, said Christina Gunn, the director of programming for Flipside Productions.

Students typically go out to drink (on Halloween), she said. So its important to have an alternative event and for students to have the opportu-

nity to participate and enjoy things like costume contests.

At least 300 students are ex-pected to attend the Monster Mash Ball, Green said. The success of Greens previous event, Sumo Sushi Night which more than 400 students attended helped prompt the high expectations, Gunn said.

We were not expecting that many students to show up at 9 on a Friday night, Gunn said about Sumo Sushi Night.

The Monster Mash Ball will cost about $2,000 and is being completely financed by Flip-side Productions, Green said.

Green expects about 40 vol-unteers to help at the event. Megan Rodgers, a 20-year-old English major, has volunteered for Flipside for the past three years. She feels on-campus events like the Monster Mash Ball are important for all stu-dents.

Its a fun late night event. It keeps people away from drinking and driving, and on-campus events are always fun, Rodgers said.

The event is being held a week before Halloween for fear of lower attendance expecta-tions if the event were to be

held on Oct. 31, Green said.

Riley Snyder can be reached at [email protected].

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Sean Aguon, the president of Lambda Psi Rho, and Christine Lemon, a member of Lambda Phi Xi, play water pong Friday in the rotunda of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. Mothers Against Drunk Driving hosted the event to spread awareness of drunk driving. Six teams of two competed in a tournament while several other teams played non-competitively.

MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING RAISES MONEY WITH WATER PONG

OCTOBER 17An offi cer responded to a report of a suspect trying to tamper with a motor vehicle at Sierra Street Parking Complex.

OCTOBER 16Police responded to a report of public intoxication at West Ninth and Virginia streets.

OCTOBER 15An offi cer responded to a re-port of found property involv-ing a backpack at Valley Road.

Police responded to a traffi c accident at Wil-liam Peccole Park.

A suspect was arrested for a probation violation at Fifteenth and North Virginia streets.

OCTOBER 14An offi cer responded to a report of petit larceny involving a bicycle at the William J. Raggio Building.

OCTOBER 13A suspect was cited for posses-sion of marijuana at Nye Hall.

Police responded to a report of grand larceny involving a bicycle at Scrugham Engineering/Mines.

An offi cer responded to a report of grand larceny involving a motorized scooter at the Valley Road Greenhouse Complex.

An offi cer responded to a report of petit larceny involving a wallet at Lombardi Recreation Center.

Police responded to a report of petit larceny involving a wallet at the Paul Laxalt Mineral Research building.

OCTOBER 11Police responded to a report of destruction of property at West Stadium Parking Complex.

An offi cer responded to a report of public intoxica-tion at White Pine Hall.

Police responded to a report of burglary of a vehicle. A radio, television and CDs were reported stolen at Sierra Hall.

A suspect was cited for minor in possession and consump-tion at Manzanita Hall.

OCTOBER 10A suspect was cited for MIPC at West Eleventh at Angel streets.

Two suspects were arrested for MIPC at West Eleventh Street.

Five suspects were cited for MIPC at Artemesia Way and North Sierra Street.

OCTOBER 9An offi cer responded to a report of a grand larceny of a motor vehicle at Mackay Stadium.

Six suspects were cited for MIPC at Mackay Stadium.

Two suspects were cited for public intoxication at Mackay Stadium.

Two suspects were cited for public intoxication and MIPC at Fifteenth Street.

Two suspects were cited for MIPC and public intoxica-tion at Argenta Hall.

OCTOBER 8Police responded to a report of auto burglary at Argenta Hall.

POLICE BLOTTER NEWS BRIEFS

WEATHER FORECAST

FRIDAY WEEKEND

DEMAND MIGHT ADD ANOTHER HOME SWEET HOME BUS

Tickets for seating on the Home Sweet Home bus, a program that offered students an affordable ride to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving, has sold out, according to Christina Gunn, director of programming for Flipside Productions.

Gunn said ordering a second bus for the program has been considered because tickets for seating on the fi rst bus sold out so quickly.

Flipside Productions will order a second bus for the Home Sweet Home program if 50 students apply for seating. So far, one student applied for seating on the second bus, Gunn said.

The bus, which offers seating for 50 students, leaves Nov. 24 and returns Nov. 28. The cost is $30 for a round-trip.

USAC TO USE $25,000 DONATION FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

The University Studies Abroad Consortium, The Uni-versity of Nevada, Renos over-seas study program, received $25,000 from the Frances C. & William P. Smallwood Founda-tion.

The donation will be used to provide 25 students with $1,000 scholarships, according to Michelle Cobb, USACs director of student information.

The main goal of the schol-arships is to enable students to study abroad who would otherwise lack the funds to do so, Cobb said.

Its a great opportunity for students, she said. We have scholarships and there are always options. We want to help students fi nd the funds to study abroad.

Students must be residents of

Washoe, Douglas or Carson City counties and have a grade point average of at least a 3.0 in order to qualify for the scholarship.

The scholarships can be used for upcoming spring and sum-mer study programs.

$7 MILLION WORTH OF MARIJUANA SEIZED

The Washoe County Sheriffs Offi ces All Threats All Crimes Unit (ATAC) seized 2,000 mari-juana plants that were hidden in the mountains in Verdi on Oct. 7, according to Deputy Armando Avina.

The marijuana was found by ATAC after a couple hunters re-ported seeing suspects cutting down large plants.

Avina said the marijuanas street value is worth approxi-mately $7 million.

There are currently no sus-pects connected to the case, Avina said.

nevadasagebrush.com/calendar for a full listing of events

WEDNESDAY/20Music In and Around New Orleans Before and After Hurricane KatrinaWhen: 4 to 5 p.m.Where: Room 112 of the Church Fine Arts Building

University of California, Santa Cruzs Chair of the American Studies, Eric Porter, will discuss the results of his current research on music in New Orleans now and how it was prior to Hurricane Katrina. This event is free. For more information, contact CJ Walters at 775-784-4278 or at [email protected].

Talk: Nuclear Non- ProliferationWhen: 4 to 6 p.m.Where: The Knowledge Center Rotunda

General Robert Gard, Jr., Chair of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, will speak on the matter of nuclear threat reduction and how policies of the Obama Administration that work to prevent nuclear threats at this free event. For more information, contact Christina Gunn at 775-784-6589 or at [email protected].

FRIDAY/22Ruth Lenz In ConcertWhen: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.Where: Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Building

University alumna Ruth Lenz and Professor of Music James Winn will perform in a concert open to the public that will double as a benefi t to raise funds for local orchestras.Tickets are $40. $10 student rush tickets will be available. For more information, contact Scott Faulkner at 775-348-9413 or at [email protected].

MONDAY/25Pumpkin PatchWhen: Noon to 4 p.m.Where: Front lawn of the Joe Crowley Student Union

Students wanting to get in the holiday spirit can pur-chase pumpkins for $1.

Morning campustemperature:

Afternoon campustemperature:

41 42 40 40 66 69 67 60

Lows: 40-45

Highs: 55-60

Forecast prepared by the Reno-Lake Tahoe student chapter of the American Meteorological Society. For more information visit their website at http://www.ametsoc.org/chapters/renotahoe/

Sunny, east winds 5-10 mph

Sunny, light winds Partly cloudy

UNR WEEKLY WEATHER DISCUSSION: The cut-off low that brought rain over the weekend begins to dip south of the area Tuesday, leaving clear skies and warming temperatures. Expect some lingering clouds during the day with some light winds. The next disturbance makes its way into the Truckee Meadows starting Friday. Cooler temperatures and a chance of rain is expected late Sunday evening.

Mostly cloudy, light south west winds

Mostly cloudy with a chance of

rain

LOOKING FORWARD

The Monster Mash Ball will be held this Friday at the Joe Crowley Student Union. The event will run from 10 p.m. - 1 a.m. To volunteer, or for more information, e-mail Geoffrey Green at [email protected]

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Quran giveaway captivates studentsBy Don Weinland

Students grabbed free Qurans Thursday during the Muslim Student Associations response to a recent call to burn the text.

A banner draped from the associations table in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union read Dont Burn it, Read it. By 4 p.m., few of the original 96 gold and black Islamic holy texts remained on the table.

The giveaway was inspired by Rev. Terry Jones International Burn a Koran Day, Tamana Mobalign, president of the Uni-versity of Nevada, Renos Muslim Student Association, said. The Gainesville, Fla., pastor planned to burn the book en masse on Sept. 11, but cancelled the demonstration under increased national and international pres-sure.

The university association distributed the books in the hopes of spreading awareness of Islam, Mobalign said. Islam and Christianity are more closely related than many Christians might think, she said.

It was basically our way of spreading awareness, she said. A lot of people dont know that Jesus was mentioned in the Quran. I dont think people who are Christian realize that we believe in Jesus too.

The Gideons International, a Christian organization, also handed the New Testament to passing students Wednesday and Thursday in front of the Wil-liam J. Raggio Building.

Fifty of the 96 Qurans were donated by an area Muslim, Mobalign said. The remain-ing 46 were donated by the mosque.

Ahmad Saad, president of the Graduate Muslim Student Association, said giving the book to students will avoid intrusive solicitation and offer an opportunity for a direct understanding of the religion. Reading the Quran can dispel Islams xenophobic reputation, he said.

Were not going to tell you whats in the Quran, he said. Here it is. Read it for yourself We have a great respect for the

Bible. We have a great respect for the Torah.

Saad said they werent forcing the book, valued at $15, onto students as they passed.

We dont hand it, he said. Its sitting on the table. People can pick it up if theyre interested.

Along with Qurans, the as-sociation provided a number of pamphlets with information on Jesus, Malcom X and hijab, the headscarf commonly donned by Muslim women. The supply of Spanish translations of the Quran were the fi rst to run out,

association members said.Jehren Boehm, a 20-year-old

geography major, picked up a copy on his way to The Joe. He said he wanted a clearer idea of the religion, as opposed to the fragmented picture of Islam presented in the U.S. media.

Im picking it up because, just like any book, it should be read, he said. Most people are satu-rated with the itty-bitty tidbits that dont describe (Islam) as a whole.

A recent ABC news special titled Holy War: Should America fear Islam? caught

Boehms attention when it aired in early October. He said the program pitted extreme personalities against each other, failing to give Americans

a moderate perspective on the religion.


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Muslim Student Association member Aminul Mojumder discusses Islam and the Quran with a University of Nevada, Reno student. The association gave away Qurans Thursday, telling students Dont burn it, read it.

Success seminars attract few

By Don Weinland

A series of seminars planned by the New Student Initia-tives department drew dismal numbers of freshmen Sept. 29 through Oct. 8, with some of the events going completely unat-tended.

The two-week series, which offered 13 seminars on topics such as note taking, test strate-gies and class selection, was attended by a total of about 40 students, Cairn Lindloff, director of New Student Initiatives, said.

Each seminar was equipped to accommodate 40 students. Some seminars were cancelled after 10 minutes because no students came. Some say poor advertising could have been a factor.

Others claim poor timing contributed greatly to low attendance at the seminars, Lindloff said. The two-week workshop series corresponded with Beat UNLV and Home-coming weeks.

Ellen Houston, director of the Center for Student Cultural Diversity, didnt deliver the time management workshop she planned to give on Sept. 29.

Nobody came, she said. If youre struggling with time management, it may be hard to get to a workshop on it.

Competition with the non-educational events de-tracted from the appeal of the learning-oriented seminars, Houston said.

If youre choosing between a homecoming event and a time-management seminar, what are you going to do? she said.

Advertising costs were about $100, Lindloff said. Faculty who presented at the work-shops donated their time.

Advertisement for the work-shops was suffi cient, Lindloff said. Her department posted handouts, distributed fl iers and had ads on info-monitors throughout the university.

Tiffany Gibbs, a 19-year-old biochemistry major, volun-teered during the seminars. She said low awareness among freshmen resulted in an average of one student at the events she attended.

It wasnt advertised prop-erly, she said. We just waited for 10 minutes and if people didnt show up, we left.

Lindloff said the poor turnout will not stop New Student Initiatives from offering similar workshops in the future. Letting students know how the semi-nars will positively affect their studies was a key factor missing from the advertising, she said.

I think many students didnt know about it, but I also think students didnt know how this would directly benefi t them, she said. We still think its a great idea, we just need to fi gure out how to better implement it.


The seminars, marketed toward freshmen, failed to draw the interest of students during Beat UNLV and Homecoming weeks.

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UNR to fl y photographers to New York for exhibitBy Kayla Johnson

The University of Nevada, Renos Honors Program will select two student photograph and essay submissions by Mon-day for an all-expenses paid trip to New York City in December.

The students will represent UNR at the fi fth annual Snap-shot Photo Gallery at Macaulay Honors College.

Macaulay Honors College partnered with the University of Indianapolis, Finger Lakes Com-munity College and UNR to ask participants to take photographs on Oct. 11 for Snapshot Day 2010, said Tamara Valentine, director of the UNR Honors Program.

The photographs were meant to represent where the students were at that time as well as what it meant to be in that place on

that particular day. Students also wrote one-page essays about representing their uni-versities.

Students had until Oct. 18 to upload pictures to an online gallery.

Tim Sweet, an 18-year-old computer science and engineer-ing major, said he liked the overall project and went back to his high school roots to take photos.

I went to Wooster High School and took a series of photos of the leadership class because I was the former president there, Sweet said. I took about 20 shots and stitched them into one large picture, highlighting emphasis on the people in the photos.

Sweet said he is excited by the idea of possibly being selected for the trip.

I feel like I can represent the Honors Program and be able to interact with other Honors Program students and share thoughts about (the honors programs), he said.

Joseph Ugoretz, director of technology and learning at Macaulay Honors College, hopes next years exhibit will expand to include more colleges and universities.

The history is that our former associate dean decided that it would just include Honors Pro-grams, Ugoretz said. Next year, we are looking into opening it up to more students and schools.

Ugoretz said they invite schools to send students to be represented. The faculty at the college will host the UNR stu-dents during their visit to New York.

About 100 of the universitys 500 honors students submit-ted photos. A majority of the submissions came from the freshman class, Valentine said. She added that the photographs express the meaning of serving the community to each indi-vidual student.

We are encouraging honors students to give to and service their community and beyond. It is important that they give their individual and collective talents, skills and hearts, Val-entine said.

The experience will also help honors students to realize theyre part of a larger commu-nity, she said.

Participating in such projects brings Honors students across the country together to share in one experience. Its pretty

powerful to realize that a UNR Honors student is one of many Honors students across a com-munity of scholars in other states, Valentine said.

Kayla Johnson can be reached at [email protected].

The University of Nevada, Renos Honors Program will send two students to New York City in December to represent UNR at the fi fth annual Snapshot Photo Gallery. The winning students will be decided by Oct. 25 and will be sent to Macaulay Honors College in December.

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The Muslim Student Association gave away 80 Qurans, Is-lams holy text, to University of Nevada, Reno students in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union on Thursday. The giveaway was a reaction to the recent call to burn the Quran made by Rev. Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla. For more information on Islam, the association meets at 4:30 p.m. Mondays in Room 404 of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

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Freshmen create multimedia art for book competition By Kayla Johnson

Freshmen received their fi rst college reading assignment while attending the University of Ne-vada, Reno freshman orientation during the summer. Now, they have a chance to enter a writing contest based on the book.

In concordance with the Sum-mer Scholars Project, students received a copy of the book Out-casts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team and One Womans Quest to Make a Difference, by Warren St. John. After reading the book during the summer, freshmen discussed it with other students and faculty members at Wolf Pack Welcome Day on Aug. 20.

The 2010 Summer Scholars Outcasts United Essay and Art

Contest is open to all incom-ing freshmen, organizers said. The contest, which ends Nov. 1, requires submissions from a wide range of art and writing, including posters, multimedia presentations and written papers based on the themes of the book. These will be judged by a committee of university faculty. The winner will receive $500, donated by Friends of the University Library, a group of donors and supporters.

This is the fi rst year the contest has been offered, said Paul Neill, the universitys core curriculum director and professor of physics.

Its a challenge, Neill said. It is a fun and positive way to ex-plore their creativity. In addition, students will have interesting interpretations of, and comments

about, the challenging themes de-veloped in Outcasts United. We incorporated multimedia to allow students to follow their creativity to the fullest extent.

More than 2,000 freshmen participated in this summers program, Neill said. Outcasts United was nominated by faculty to be the title for this years incoming class to read. The programs purpose was to provide an academic experience for fi rst-year students to create a sense of community through dialogue between faculty, staff and students, Neill said.

Patrice Wells, a 19-year-old secondary education major, said she eventually enjoyed the book but thinks participation in the contest will be low among fellow freshmen.

I was a little upset when we got the book because I didnt want to read it at all, she said. But after I ended up reading it, I realized it wasnt so bad after all. It was a good read The contest seems like a good idea, but everybody didnt read the book so I dont expect that many people in my freshman class will participate.

To help students prepare en-tries for the contest, workshops were held to aid students with their entries. The staff at @One is also ready and waiting to help students with multimedia tools, according to Donnelyn Curtis, director of research colleges and services and head of special col-lections at Universitys Libraries.

Curtis said it is important for stu-dents to participate in the Summer Scholars Program and Contest.

The book is always interesting, Curtis said. To come together to talk about it before school starts is a good way to begin the semester and a chance to experience a good discussion outside of rigid courses with a faculty member and other students. But it wont be a good discussion if nobody has read the book.

Entries will be on display when the author of the book visits the campus in Novem-ber. More information regard-ing the contest can be found online at www.unr.edu/book/contest/.

Kayla Johnson can be reached at [email protected].

A contest for freshmen is accepting entries ranging from posters to videos on the book Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team and One Womans Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John. The book was given to more than 2,000 freshmen during summer orientation. More than fi ve percent of the freshman class is expected to submit entries. The contest ends Nov. 1. The winner will receive $500.

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MULTIMEDIA COMPETITION FOR FRESHMEN

Early voting opens on campus

Staff Report

Early voting on campus began Saturday on the second fl oor of the Joe Crowley Student Union.

Voting booths are behind the food court area and are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, according to the Washoe County Registrar of Voters website.

Jordan Butler, an organizer for voter registration group ReEn-ergize the Vote, said voting early has advantages for students.

You can do it on your own schedule because you can do it for the next two weeks, so between your classes (or) on your lunch break, he said.

Butler said early voting also doesnt usually see long lines, unlike election day voting.

The general election will hap-pen Nov. 2. Voting booths will not be available on campus. Visit www.co.washoe.nv.us/voters to fi nd your precinct.

The news desk can be reached at [email protected].

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physics and chemistry in the Schulich Lecture Hall, which is fully equipped with smart technology. While hearing his in-structors isnt a problem, he said the hall is cramped and stuffy.

The seats are really close together and you can never get comfortable, the chemical engineering major said. There are too many people and it gets really hot.

Many of the campus older buildings have outdated heating systems, John Walsh, director of Facility Services, said. The an-tique heaters in the Fleischmann Agriculture Building, built in 1957, make the building notice-ably cold during winter months, he said. Budget shortfalls account for a lack of facility renovation.

The UNR campus is in need of $300 million in renovations, Walsh said. Yet state funds for Facilities Services have been waning since 2008. Average yearly maintenance funding was $15 million prior to 2008. In 2009, the department originally received $12.5 million, but that fi gure was later reduced by $500,000. A fi gure for this years funding has yet to be released.

A decreasing maintenance budget puts into use buildings and classrooms that are overdue for renovation or replacement, Walsh said.

We have over 100 buildings on campus, he said. A lot of them have exceeded their an-ticipated lifespan.

Tonalli Juarez, a 18-year-old psychology major, is taking psychology 101 on the fi rst fl oor of Edmund J. Cain Hall. The halls dark, cavernous structure makes fi nding her way around diffi cult, she said. Her small, windowless classroom has faulty air conditioning.

Its like a maze in there, she said. The air conditioner in the classroom works sometimes. And sometimes it doesnt Its really stuffy.

The windowless architecture of Cain Hall was once considered to improve student focus, Walsh said, a school of thought that has long-since been abandoned.

Its design may have been forward-thinking at the time, he said. But as technology improved, it got more of a cave-like reputa-tion without any windows.

Built in 1972, Cain Hall is more a refuge from nuclear fallout than a setting in which to study the human psyche. Greg Gardella, UNRs instruction technologies manager, said the odd-ball con-fi guration of facilities like Cain Hall can make them unpopular.

Part of it is the building itself, he said. Cain Hall was built bunker-style. My offi ce has always been in Cain Hall. I have a lead-lined door.

Budget cuts have made the continuous need for technology updates a struggle for Gardella and Teaching and Learning Technologies. The department lost its director and a third of its staff in 2008. Since then, the replacement cycle for dated technology has fallen behind.

My responsibilities and the responsibilities of my staff have all gone up, while staffi ng has gone down, Gardella said. People dont understand you can only spread people so thin.

Gardella and his staff use stu-dent fees to purchase new pieces of technology and replace old ones. While the funds are used to buy computers and projectors, they cant be used for technol-ogy renovations needed to install conduits and networks.

The lack of money for renova-tions makes installing networks in technology-resistant buildings a challenge, Gardella said.

In my opinion, new construc-tion is much easier than renova-tion, he said. When youre going into an older building, youre fac-ing classrooms that were never meant to support technology.

Zink said renovation costs in buildings such as Mack Social Sciences hold facilities far be-hind the technology curve. With concrete fl oors and asbestos

embedded in the walls, renova-tion costs in Mack Social Sci-ence would be high, Zink said. The buildings concrete frame even prevents wireless networks from being used within.

Mack Social Science, which was built in the late 1960s, has proven to be the building most resistant to smart technologies, Zink said. Only three of its nine classrooms are equipped with computers and projectors. All 11 of the classrooms in Frandsen Hall, built in 1917, are smart. The Mackay Science building, which was built in 1930, has just as many tech-loaded classrooms as Mack Social Science.

We had trouble putting new phones in there, Zink said. If you would have told them we needed to put conduit in the walls for networking when they were building Mack Social Sci-ences, they would have put you in a rubber room.

In stark contrast with UNRs older facilities is the Mathews-on-IGT Knowledge Center. The buildings fl exibility in absorbing new technologies is unmatched on campus, Zink said.

The buildings entire fi rst fl oor is what Zink called a false fl oor. The fl oor is easily removed, pro-viding the room for technology installations never dreamed of during the construction of Mack Social Science.

In 2009 the Knowledge Center won Pro AV Magazines award for best education audio-visual project in the nation, beating Cambridge University, Frank Fanelli, audio-video unit super-visor, said.

The digital studio classroom, on the fi rst fl oor of the Knowledge is the most advanced instruction setting on campus, Fanelli said. The classroom is equipped with multiple cameras and infrared sensors that follow instructors as they lecture. The room is used weekly and is mainly used to record lectures for use at a later date, Fanelli said.


for Reid, but to encourage students to vote early as well, Petkanas said.

Dont vote next week. Dont vote on Election Day. Vote to-day, because Nevada has early voting, he said.

Campus shuttle services wont be available until mid-day Wednesday and pedestrian traffi c in the area of the gym will be diverted during the event, Tors said. Free parking will be offered in the West Stadium Parking Complex and disability parking will be designated by signs at the 15th Street entrance

to the campus.Bidens visit comes one day

after the visit of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whose Tea Party Express IV made its fi rst stop Monday at the Reno Republican headquar-ters. Palin drew a crowd of more than 1,000 people, according to Heidi Smith, a volunteer for the Republican party.

Palin called for conservatives to get out and vote for local conservative candidates like Assembly candidates Kathy Martin and Monte Johnson and Sharron Angle, the Republican challenger to Reid, Smith said.

Ben Miller can be reached at [email protected].

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account and a programming account, but those werent suffi ciently defi ned, Belt said. We dont think there will be a huge problem or anyone is try-ing to do anything maliciously, but we want safeguards for down the road.

Belt also said the national chapters of the Greek orga-nizations may take issue with the new plans. To alleviate this concern, Rodriguez said the agreement was sent to the national chapters of all of UNRs fraternities and so-rorities and the deadline for a new relationship agreement extended until Oct. 31 to give them time to respond.

Jay Balagna can be reached at [email protected].

for Liberty including more than $3,000 last semester to put on a carnival with ponies, pizza and bounce houses was put to good use.

The (carnival) that they put on last semester was one of the only events I saw (from any club) that wasnt just for the members of the club. It was for the rest of the students, he said.

Belt said they wouldnt have been eligible to receive as much funding as they have for events like the carnival and the free food event if they hadnt been open to the public.

He agreed that the funding practices of ASUN should be changed, but didnt agree that the whole system should be abolished.

Without ASUN, we wouldnt have a bookstore, Belt said. There are a lot of good things that ASUN does.

The government needs to listen to all students, including the Students for Liberty, he said.

A possible compromise to abolishing the student govern-ment could be making the mandatory per-credit ASUN fee an opt-in fee, he said.

Ben Miller can be reached at [email protected].

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Edmund J. Cain Hall has a reputation for being cavernous and gloomy. Students call it maze-like and say the windowless rooms are stuffy.


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Computers cost $1,500 and need to be replaced every 3-4 years.

Document cameras run about $1,500 - $1,700 when purchased in bulk and have a lifespan of 6-8 years.

Smart classroom podiums include DVD/VCR combos and stereo components. They cost about $1,000.

Projectors cost $1,600 and need to be replaced every 3-4 years.

Speakers cost about $100 each. Some classrooms have more than 30 speakers, which need to be replaced every 7-12 years.

Central control systems are built by the university staff. They cost about $500 to build. The retail price is about $4,000.

Whats in a smart classroom?

Early voting will be open on the second fl oor of the Joe Crowley Student Union from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Mondays - Saturdays until Nov. 2. The Nevada Sagebrush will publish a voters guide next Tuesday.

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Create time to relax while stressing out

A DAY AT THE SPA

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SEX AND ROMANCE

Self-indulgent behavior alleviates anxiety, fatigue

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T heres nothing healthier than a fl ick of the bean or taking hold and choking the crap out of that chicken. What about stroking the salami, or playing DJ Diddles? Not so savvy with these mentioned sobriquets?

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MASTURBATION. Oh yes, the one word no one wants to say, and yet an action which most everyone loves to partake in. And rightly so! A study con-ducted by the Kinsey Institute asserts that 82 percent of males and 62 percent of females in the typical college age group

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Hear that ladies? No more faking. That just gave about 70 percent of sexually-active women a huge rush of opti-mism.

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O K, this is awkward, I thought to myself. I was standing completely nude in a dimly-lit room about to get my naked body rubbed down by a woman.

To make it even more interesting, I was paying her to touch me. It was at that moment when I thought, I wonder if this is what straight guys feel like when theyre about to have sex with a prostitute?

I pushed my thoughts aside, got my booty under-neath the sheets and awaited my fi rst massage on Friday.

The last couple of weeks had been crazy with moving into a new apartment (twice), working two jobs, study-ing for midterms and trying to bury myself in whatever

other kind of work I could fi nd.Because of all this craziness, I

decided it was time to treat myself to a relaxing, tranquil afternoon at the spa something I suggest we all do during periods of high stress.

While I rested underneath the sheet, I listened to soothing music that is best described as what would happen if Enya and the composer from the Lord of the Rings movies made a music baby.

Regardless of how bizarre the music selection was, it defi nitely did the

trick. In a matter of minutes, I felt the tension in my muscles slowly disappearing.

I can only describe the next hour of my life as unexpected paradise. It was mostly due to my mas-seuse probably weighing no more than 100 pounds and having a voice softer than air.

But her size was in no way a representation of the strength resting in her hands. She worked gently on my feet to remove the tension from my arches but then the true force came out when she was twisting and pressing against my shoulders in an effort to release my stress.

As a gay man, it was interesting to have a woman that close to me while I was naked. I have to say she defi nitely got farther with me than any other woman ever has.

While lying on my stomach, I felt her oiled-up hands travel up to the top of my quadriceps muscles, nearly grazing the lower parts of my manhood.

I managed to relax and just let the rest of the massage go as she planned. After the hour ended, I redressed myself and stumbled out of the massage parlor, trying very hard to stay awake. I walked up to the counter, paid my bill, tipped generously and went about my day.

And for those dirty birdies out there that might be wondering, the massage fi nished without a happy ending.

The most amazing effect of this massage was not how it managed to relax and calm me down, but how it managed to energize and empower my body to do the multitude of tasks that awaited me the rest of the day.

It was incredibly uncomfortable and disconcerting going somewhere Id never heard of before, undressing myself and allowing some total stranger to rub my body from head to toe, but after the amazing experi-ence I had relaxing and reenergizing myself for the next couple of weeks, its safe to say that Ill be going back again soon.

Patrick Connolly is the opinion editor of the Nevada Sagebrush. He studies journalism and French. He can be reached at [email protected].

A lthough the campus club Students For Liberty suggests worthwhile opinions in that student government spends frivolously, the club itself is perhaps the most wasteful of all.

In its attempts to make a point that the Associated Students of the University of Nevada will spend money on just about anything like pizza, ponies or balloons Students For Liberty does just that, making its point void of any meaning in its hypocritical

approach in delivering the message.

If the clubs events do anything, they highlight the fact that ASUN is open to any and all ideas, which promotes a diverse campus. Instead of denying the club funding, the student government allows it to publicize its opinions, while fostering a free exchange of thought and ideas in the public sphere.

Since the club has the opportunity to voice its complaints against the student government, it should be more

productive in its protest. Last week, the club spent

$913 of student funds on food from Las Trojes, the Mexican eatery in the Ansari Business Building.

Members told students to bring duffel bags to the restaurant and take all the food they could carry and they did. So while students lined up for free grub, only few were able to capitalize on the event that was paid for with their student fees. The club was trying to prove the point that when free service or products

are given away, people will inherently abuse it. This message disappears when the club directly tells students how to behave when receiving the free product.

Last semester, the club hosted an Abolish ASUN party that cost about $3,000, featuring ponies, bounce houses and 191 boxes of pizza. But in order for students to get the free food, they had to sign their support to abolish the student government, making any support measured at the event entirely inaccurate.

The only statement that the Students For Liberty has made is that it is hypocritical and manipulative.

Instead of downgrading its worthwhile opinions and voice to immature propaganda, the club should give ASUN suggestions to improve so the government has a basis of how to better represent the constituents that are so unhappy with its existence.

The Nevada Sagebrush can be reached at [email protected].

I prefer bas-ketball. A lot of my friends play it, and its good to get out there and support them.Francein James

21, HDFS major

I blew out my ACL for soccer. I wanted to show my dedication to the team.

Anthony Dionisi 20, Information Systems major

I play volley-ball. Ive always played and its nice that its competitive even though its just intramu-rals.

Kaila Turner20, community health major

Its nice to be able to play soc-cer on campus since theres no actual university team.

Justin Grimm22, biochemistry major

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LETTER TO THE EDITORDINING GUIDE CONCERNSOn Sept. 28, via mail:Dear Ms. Fryman,I am writing to address the insert in the September 14, 2010 edition of The Nevada Sagebrush titled, A Balanced Diet A Guide to Propor-tional eating-the Sinless Treats and Guilty Pleasures of College Dining. It appears this special section of the Sagebrush was an attempt to educate our student body on the importance of good nutrition?

As a graduate of UNR now working as a Registered Di-etitian in the Student Health Center providing nutrition counseling here on campus, I was very disappointed to see our University newspaper publish such a piece as this, which is essentially providing misleading nutrition informa-tion and promoting unhealthy eating. This section was especially unsettling because in this modern American cul-ture, our students are already consistently saturated with messages to eat unhealthy foods; University-sponsored publications should not be promoting poor food choices and providing misinformation on nutrition. For example, the item listed as a sinless treat (under the meats section) Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo from Olive Garden has 1440 calories, 82 grams of fat, 42 grams of saturated fat and 2070 milligrams of sodium. Eating this entree would es-sentially be equivalent to consuming two 12 pepperoni pizzas from Pizza Hut!

In a time of dramatic in-creases in chronic disease as-sociated with overweight and obesity, I cannot see how the information conveyed in this insert is anything but negative for our student body and for a campus-wide goal of helping them to be healthy.As a nutrition professional on campus working hard to help our students achieve good health and eating habits, I hope publications such as these will no longer be a part of University distributed infor-mation.

In the future, it would also be encouraging to see our news-paper practicing good journal-ism and providing accurate, credible information regard-ing food and nutrition there are many high quality resourc-es on campus with which the Sagebrush staff could confer on these topics.

Sincerely,Maureen Molini-Blandford, MPH, RDClinical Dietitian, UNR Stu-dent Health Center.

AMY BALAGNA /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH

It was a good race while it lasted.

ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES DISCUSS HIGHER EDUCATION, SIGN ED PLEDGEOn Oct. 15, 5:21 a.m., sarce Nevada Voter wrote:I feel that Teresa Benitez-Thompson is not a candidate of substance. The purpose of education to educate the people. Social programs that put people off the street is very problematic thing which also needs more attention. A lot of people may be out of the street but still fi nances may hinder them to go to school therefore there should always be a better program for them. It should be equal everybody has an equal rights on the different programs that the government will start.

WEB NOTES

F or the last year, I lived in a one bedroom apart-ment. One thing about this living arrangement that beat anything was that I knew when I would be alone. If

I wanted to play Call of Duty without clothes on and drink milk out of a carton, I just did it.

I now live in a house with my two best friends and one of their girlfriends. This living arrangement

is much less welcoming to pantless Jay.

Unlike many other students my age, Ive never lived with friends before. Ive lived with a stranger in the dorms, my girlfriend and alone.

Now that I live with my friends, I am developing pet peeves of my roommates subtle habits.

DISHESI am nowhere near the

cleanest person in the world. And, for the most part, I dont care how messy things get. That said, sometimes I do like to use the sink. When every dish we own besides the one cup and plate I use and rewash are in it, it can be a little diffi cult.

Im not saying roommates need to be all Mr. Clean about this, but can I please have a four- to fi ve-inch gap below the faucet to fi ll up my Nalgene?

NOISESI live in the basement of my

new home, which is surprisingly cozy. It is, however, immediately below the bedroom of one of my roommates. Not only below, but also apparently connected

by about one million vents and the slimmest ceiling-fl oor gap in Reno. That means I hear everything that goes on in his room. Yes, everything.

He likes to listen to music when he wakes up, which he does frequently at 5 a.m. for work. Pair that with creaking fl oors, and I am often awake for him to go to work!

I keep up with the movies he watches and the conversations he has with his girlfriend, but not because I want to. Its not enough to really make me freak out, but defi nitely enough to make me feel awkward sometimes.

PETSDont get me wrong I like

animals. I had cats and dogs growing up. I even like the two dogs that live in my house. What I dont like is the mess they create. The black Labrador seems to forget he has a tail the size of my arm and likes to knock over my glasses of water, freshly-made sandwiches and expensive beers. Youd think the little wiener dog would be less destructive, but that could not be more wrong. The basement often has stuffi ng from the couch strewn about, and there tends to be an odd smell since she cant be left alone outside.

So keep these small things in mind the next time youre home. You never know when something you do is creating a nervous tick for your house-mate. Talk about confl icts with your roommates to keep the living environment ideal for all parties.

Oh, and to my roommates: I love you. Please dont kick me out. Or lock me in the base-ment.

Jay Balagna studies art and journalism. He can be reached at [email protected].

opinion A9 OCTOBER 19, 2010nevadasagebrush.com

L ifting the moratorium on coastal drilling in the Gulf of Mexico means many of the oil workers can now go back to work as soon as the newly-mandated

safety regulations have been imple-mented.

It also sends a strong message that serious healing has taken place in the Gulf. Problems still exist,

but the storm is subsiding.The ban was lifted six

weeks early, which can be taken as an indicator that the Obama Administration has been on top of all the issues in regard to passing new drilling regulations, overseeing implementation, working hand-in-hand with the industry to solve problems and keeping the probability of another petroleum oil spill low.

Surprisingly, this happened

due to expediency and cooperation on behalf of both the public and private sectors working together.

However, the controversy doesnt regard lifting the mora-torium, but rather its existence. When implemented on May 30, Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior gave his reasoning.

He said necessary investiga-tions and safety reviews were still under way, new regulations needed to be employed and oversight needed to be established.

This is common sense.Millions of gallons of oil were

fl oating in the Gulf of Mexico because of fl awed regulations on the drilling equipment, which allowed British Petroleum to install faulty equipment with unreliable mechanisms.

Some say the moratorium, while environmentally-con-scious, was not worth putting 58,000 Louisiana jobs on hold.

Before gawking at that number, consider this the moratorium only affected 24 oil platforms, which is less than one percent of platforms in the Gulf.

Most of these employees were not fi red and will continue to work again when companies implement more responsible policies.

And to clarify, deep-sea con-struction and other activities were not halted, just watched closely only the drilling itself was halted.

Was it the moratorium that put people out of work, or BP causing the largest oil-spill in human history, requiring government intervention?

Was it better to continue drill-ing or install new equipment to prevent further disasters and death?

In both cases, I support safety.

Irresponsible business practices caused this mess, and Congress lack of substantial regulations should be called into question as well.

The moratorium was a necessary step toward cleaner and more productive drilling in the Gulf.

Jacob Neely studies political science and Spanish. He can be reached at [email protected]

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LIFE ABROAD

Studying abroad creates infl uential memories, learning opportunities

O ne of my goals since I began attending the University of Nevada, Reno was to study abroad with University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC).

But it wasnt until my French adviser insisted I go to Pau, France, that I actu-ally started fi lling out the paperwork.

Landing in the airport in another country was exciting, and I was eager to

get into Paris. I was happy up until the moment I realized I sounded as if I were a 2-year-old trying to scrap together a complete sentence. That was when the culture shock hit me.

What do you mean, I cant take my leftover food in a box from the restaurant? Most restaurants close after 14:00 and dont re-open until 19:00? Why was the older waiter at the caf whispering in my ear and giving me kisses on my cheek? How can the castle of Versaille be on strike? I never thought that I would experience a strike, but now I come to fear the word le greve.

These are aspects of French life I had to get familiar with as it is embedded in the culture.

Although the fi rst month of my stay in Pau, France, had been more challenging than I had anticipated, it had also been the most educational. The other American students I met in the USAC program were immediately my friends for life because we were all enduring the same experiences together.

Learning how to live in another culture has a lot to do with learning the language

of that country. It wasnt only through my mistakes that I learned and retained certain French phrases, but through my friend Amelia as well.

While dancing in a disco-theque called Esprit, with a handsome French student named Roman, Amelia realized that it was rather hot. In her well-mannered, innocent nature, she decided to tell Roman how she felt about the temperature. Je suis chaud, she whispered unknowingly in his ear. He was taken aback and decided there must be some mistake. He corrected her saying, non, non. Il fait chaud. Amelia did not get the hint and insisted that she was hot.

The direct translation meant she was horny. Needless to say, Roman called her for the next week trying to hang out even when she wasnt interested. Lesson learned for all of us. Thanks, Amelia!

Another part of the French culture that I am still falling in love with is the food more notably the cheese section in the supermarket. I have never seen so many delicious choices for cheese: Brie, Camembert, Chevre, Blue, Roquefort, Brebis, etc. The many cheeses in the supermarket mostly come from the sheep in that French region. Brebis, for example, is the female name for that species of sheep.

My host family invited me to help the shepherd lead his sheep back to his pasture. We met him at the base of the Pyrenees Mountains and walked through three mountain villages, through traffi c and roundabouts, and in the deep woods. The day ended up lasting about 10 hours. There were around eight adults and four small children who were guiding the sheep away from the grass with sticks, shouting

allez, allez! The day was fi nished with a delicious meal in the shepherds humble cottage with his wife and three children. It was the most ideal experience I could have ever hoped for.

Thankfully, my experience here is not over yet. I still have time to enjoy the food rich in quality that was produced by a

culture that celebrates the tradi-tion of the country. This is the aspect about French life that I will miss. But I am now curious to discover other countries and the little hidden treasures that each of them hold.

Calli Brennan studies French. She can be reached at [email protected].

LIVING SITUATIONS

Notice your annoying habits to make peace with roommates

P resident Barack Obama and his team are the masters of the political stunt. While I am thrilled that our

president decided to lift the drilling moratorium early, I cant help but see it as a political tactic to help the Democrats win more seats in this election.

From the surface, Obama

deserves applause for lifting this ban.

But lifting the moratorium only eliminates one legal aspect. Obamas administra-tion still has the final say on who gets the permits needed to drill offshore.

Lifting this ban was merely a ploy to try to fool the Ameri-can people into believing that Obama actually cares about private businesses.

We use to have a concept

called American capitalism. It was the idea that business succeeded because people worked hard and the govern-ment didnt get involved. Any new business venture could be tried. But now there are so many rules and regulations that instead of doing every-thing, we can do nothing.

This moratorium was a horrible idea to begin with. It is just one more example of how detrimental government involvement is to American accomplishments in the private sector. It put a stop to a successful business during a time when our economy could use some sort of accomplish-ments.

Why would anyone slow down a working enterprise, eliminating profits and keeping money from entering our economy? Oh, thats right, because oil and big businesses are the root of all evil and must be stopped.

Congratulations, Obama, you just passed Destroying A Nation 101. You can pick up your diploma in the unemployment line. You put thousands of people out of

jobs with this ban, but thats OK.

I understand that drilling is not the most helpful thing for the environment, but dont expect to find me hugging a tree anytime soon. If deep sea drilling is such a bad idea, why not drill on land in areas that we purchased specifically for drilling?

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is full of oil just waiting to be used, but the environmentalists freak out because drilling would destroy the wildlife. Lifting this ban was a giant step toward freeing businesses from the governments grasp. But, Mr. President, let us return to the concept of trying everything once more. We can drill in Alaska while still developing methods of clean energy.

Set American business free from governmental control, and you will see just how capable we are at succeeding on our own.

Becca Kitchen studies journal-ism and literature. She can be reached at [email protected]

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JayBalagna

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FROM THE LEFT | SPEEDY PROGRESS REPRESENTS OBAMAS HARD WORK

POLITICS: LIFTING THE DRILLING MORATORIUM IN THE OCEANFROM THE RIGHT | GOVERNMENT MUST LET PRIVATE BUSINESS WORK

ROOMMATES | AMY BALAGNA

PHOTO COURTESY OF CALLI BRENNAN

University of Nevada, Reno student Calli Brennan stands in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

scolding them for mishandling fake blood and training them on the intricacies of performing scares.

Some people have never scared before, and they go, Boo! Ha ha! and think thats how you scare, he said. Thats not how you scare.

Though last year was his first working the haunt, Alfonso became the go-to actor for the Feeder, in which several actors lie in wait while another catches groups of customers in the middle of the room.

Last year, I was crawling on the fl oor, and we had a big group of these tough guys with their girlfriends, he said. I got up, and the guys started running out and left their girlfriends. The girl on the end peed in her pants, and one ran straight into a wall and busted her nose.

The best customers that come through are screamers. The actors are able to discern groups of screamers by the time they hit the fi rst room, where our Granny resides (by resides, I mean thats where her entrails are strewn in a bloody pile on the fl oor).

If people dont scream in the first room, the chance of them screaming in the rest of the house is not very high, said Kyle Crawford, an actor who

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