Archive for October, 2008
| Oct. 31, 2008
Nevada men’s basketball coach Mark Fox announced Thursday that his three cited basketball players will remain indefinitely suspended even with the recent rulings from the Sparks Municipal Court.
| Oct. 29, 2008
Nevada basketball player Brandon Fields’ petty larceny misdemeanor charge has been dismissed two weeks after he was cited at the Scheels sports store in Sparks.
| Oct. 28, 2008
Sean O’Callaghan, a 21-year-old economics and political science major, Mike McLoughlin, a 21-year-old criminal justice major, and Jacob Tipp, a 21-year-old biology major when ti Buckland’s Station a few miles away from Silver Springs, Nev. to find ghosts on Oct. 16.
| Oct. 28, 2008
| Oct. 28, 2008
| Oct. 28, 2008
It’s midnight, the lights are out and creaks and thumps are echoing through the century-old Pony Express station. Three men sit in the old, dark place with a single goal: to document the paranormal.
| Oct. 28, 2008
“But they were running the spread offense!”
| Oct. 28, 2008
Outside of the Joe Crowley Student Union, Brian Parcon is one of the volunteers repeating one question:
“Have you voted yet?”
The 18-year-old political science major knows historically, young voters don’t turn out to vote. He knows the pundits predict apathy from his age group.
But he thinks they’re wrong.
| Oct. 28, 2008
As he drags his legs, crooked and bent inward at the knees, Jeremiah Frank slowly pounds his canes into the sidewalk for support. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Frank struggles to walk to his University of Nevada, Reno classes. At “the campus on the hill,” Frank battles stairs, narrow walkways and lengthy routes to accessible entrances.
| Oct. 28, 2008
The Guide, Halloween edition. From pies to seeds to carved works of art, master these tips for the perfect holiday squash.
| Oct. 28, 2008
Nevada’s cornerbacks played in a grand total of zero Division-I college football games coming into the 2008 season.
| Oct. 28, 2008
Collegiate recruiting is an inconsistent art that often relies more on luck than pragmatism.
| Oct. 28, 2008
Barry Belmont, John Russell and Alyssa Cowan, members of the University of Nevada, Reno Students for Liberty, began setting up their campaign table while Barack Obama supporters shot glared at them while manning their own table a few feet away.
| Oct. 28, 2008
For about 30 years, celebrity opinion has taken off, especially when voiced in the political arena.
The opinion becomes highly visible and occasionally divisive, but rarely makes-or-breaks an election, Stacy Gordon, a University of Nevada, Reno political science professor, said.
She said they help to get people excited for an event but do little else.
| Oct. 28, 2008
Nevada’s defense took a big hit this weekend when the team lost linebackers Joshua Mauga and Mike Bethea to injury.
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