Archive for December, 2007
| Dec. 22, 2007
The Nevada football team was shutout for the first time since 1980 when the New Mexico Lobos beat the Wolf Pack, 23-0 in Albuquerque in the New Mexico Bowl.
| Dec. 16, 2007
A University of Nevada, Reno student was kidnapped and sexually assaulted after she was attacked on the 1400 block of N. Virginia Street Saturday morning about 3 a.m., university police said in a statement Sunday.
The student was attacked from behind, chocked until she was unconscious and then taken to an unknown location where she was sexually assaulted.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Expect the 11 days between New Hampshire’s Jan. 8 primary and Nevada’s Jan. 19 caucus to make the difference in Nevada’s political climate, political experts said.
Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucus and New Hampshire will no longer distract presidential candidates, leaving Nevada and South Carolina, which has a Jan. 19 Republican primary, to split the limelight, they said.
“This could potentially be a huge January for Nevada,” said Kenneth Fernandez, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Barack Obama’s 200 versus Hillary Clinton’s 26.
Ron Paul’s 62 versus Rudy Giuliani’s zero.
These numbers, representing members of official University of Nevada, Reno student clubs, fall out of line with national polls, where Clinton is ahead of Obama by nearly 20 percent and Giuliani is ahead of Mike Huckabee by about 8 percent.
Club organizers said candidate diversity is also a reason students are attracted to the nonleading candidates.
| Dec. 11, 2007
A potential $32.7 million cut to the University of Nevada, Reno’s operating budget could come as soon as Jan. 1, Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers said in a letter to Gov. Jim Gibbons Monday.
Rogers met with Gibbons last week to discuss the potential statewide cuts, which are currently estimated to be about $285 million. NSHE would absorb about $102 million of the cut as of Monday, Rogers said.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Luke Lippincott sits in the film room, eyes closed, and visualizes the attack. His muscle memory takes over as he repeatedly concentrates on the play, carving the precise reaction time into his brain.
Days later, out on the football field, he practices taking the handoff, breaks tackles and crosses the goal line.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Jerry Ceppos said although he spent decades living in San Jose, he and his family already feel at home in Reno.
After seven months of searching for a dean, the Reynolds School of Journalism appointed Ceppos to the position Friday, University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick said. The decision came nearly a year after journalism dean Cole Campbell died in a car accident.
| Dec. 11, 2007
After losing its last three games, the Wolf Pack men’s basketball team did everything it had to in beating Montana State, 82-76 Saturday.The Wolf Pack showed strength rebounding and scoring late in the game but also showed similar characteristics that made up the losing streak like defensive lapses and turnovers.
“We’ve improved as a team this week, but we’re still not consistent enough to be where I want us to be,” Nevada coach Mark Fox said. “We played better periods of basketball than we have in the past.”
| Dec. 11, 2007
The stories that mattered to the University of Nevada, Reno during the fall semester. News Editor Jessica Estepa recaps.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Blades of artificial grass turned into icy knives in Nevada’s rugby win Friday against rival Chico State.
“It felt like we were playing on glass,” hooker Greg John said.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Cyborgs exist among us.
They could be family members or fellow classmates.
What makes people cyborgs is the mechanical or electronic devices that help them lead a normal life.
The question Craig Klugman asked last week is what we are going to do as a society when these devices surpass normal human performance.
Klugman, assistant professor in the School of Public Health, was the last speaker for the Nevada Speaker Series this fall. His presentation, “Is Resistance Futile: the Ethics of Human-Cyborg Relations,” dealt with the issues of using mechanical devices in conjunction with the human body.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Last Tuesday featured one of Nevada’s most anticipated prep basketball games in recent memory.
In a matchup between the last two Nevada 4A champions, fans packed Reno High’s gym to watch an experienced, athletic Huskies squad take on defending champ Galena High.
The Galena fans sitting around me seemed pretty excited when the Grizzlies held on for a 73-69 win.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Olusegun Akinwale, 28, master’s in computer engineering. Olusegun Akinwale never thought his father taking a business trip would change his life. C. Dove Zugarramurdi serves as a reminder that age is no barrier when it comes to accomplishing goals. Zugarramurdi graduated with a bachelors at age 61, making her the oldest graduate this semester. When Jenelle Henkle was 12 years old, most of her friends were playing with dolls while she was dreaming of attending nursing school. Henkle said she knew from a young age she wanted to be a nurse. Dominic Lopez is the first in his immediate family to graduate college, and the second in his entire family. Lopez graduated at age 24, receiving his bachelor’s in theater.
| Dec. 11, 2007
After finishing the season at 6-6 overall and 4-4 in conference play, Nevada will take on New Mexico (8-4, 5-3) in the New Mexico Bowl on Dec. 22.The teams have some remarkable similarities.
Both have played two of the same opponents: New Mexico State and UNLV.
Like Nevada, New Mexico beat both teams, but by a larger margin than the Wolf Pack.
The Lobos beat New Mexico State 44-34 and crushed UNLV 27-6, while Nevada beat New Mexico State 40-38 and UNLV 27-20, winning both games on last minute touchdowns.
| Dec. 11, 2007
The next two weeks could be the most crucial of the season for the Nevada men’s basketball team from a developmental standpoint. The Wolf Pack has been crippled by mistakes and inconsistencies so far this season while playing mostly on the road with an inexperienced lineup. Saturday’s 82-76 win against Montana State marked the beginning of four straight games at home, which should give the Wolf Pack more practice time and a chance to settle into a rhythm before taking off for Northern Iowa and North Carolina later this month.
The Wolf Pack plays San Diego on Wednesday and Central Florida on Saturday. The biggest game is against the Knights, who beat the Wolf Pack 63-60 in the first game of the season. Now the Wolf Pack has a chance to return the favor.
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