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As students fill out teacher evaluations and rush to study for cumulative finals, the question is begged: What did we learn this year?
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To the 258 professors who turned in their textbook orders on time, thank you.
To the rest of the professors: Get on it.
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It is amazing that the state budget debacle could go downhill from Gov. Jim Gibbons’ original proposal that included a $427 million cut from the state higher education budget.
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Fighting speech – any type of speech – is a tricky game.
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It is a shame that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people of Nevada must accept the term “domestic partnership” as a victory for GLBT rights.
It is a term that, despite any practical benefits it may grant, reeks of second-class citizenship under the false “separate but equal” mantra. But it is also the only option [...]
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It’s happened again: A university employee was faced with a nasty accusation, he suddenly left and university officials immediately became zipper-lipped.
Officials hid behind the phrase “personnel matter” and, as a result, the public remains ignorant of what actually happened.
But ignorance hasn’t quelled interest in the latest “personnel matter,” which revolves around former university police officer [...]
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The turmoil faced by the student government reaches further than the third floor of the student union.
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A handful of University of Nevada, Reno students showed the school’s best side when speaking to the Nevada legislature last week.
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Every year, some University of Nevada, Reno student government candidates make grandiose promises about making change.
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Rhetoric. Dangerous, deceptive rhetoric pours from Gov. Jim Gibbons when he defends forsaking higher education for the next biennium.
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With pressure bearing down from the governor’s office to cut programs, the University of Nevada, Reno must push harder than ever to unload the debt-riddled Fire Science Academy.
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Students, you have started on the right foot to fight this atrocious budget proposal from our governor.
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The student government is blooming in these dark times and leaders are thankfully emerging.
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Gov. Jim Gibbons needs to be impeached.
In his budget proposal last week, he suggested crippling higher education with a $427 million cut while simultaneously condemning even the thought of a tax increase.
Tags: Budget Crisis, Jim Gibbons
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Last week, the student senate voted against tuition increases to support our university while, in the same meeting, voting to support an increase in student fees to support the Counseling Center.
This is the very definition of “knee jerk.”
The Counseling Center undoubtedly gives great services to the students who use it. But the University of Nevada, Reno, all of its students included, is under siege by a deflated budget.
Tags: ASUN, budget cuts, Counseling Center, tuition increases
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It’s easy to think the conclusion to all of last year’s tragedies has arrived.
Mohamed Kamaludeen was sentenced to life without parole for last year’s murder of University of Nevada, Reno professor Judy Calder. Samisoni Taukitoku was given the same sentence for the 2007 Halloween party shooting that left three people dead.
Tags: Campus Escort, crimes, Judy Calder, murder
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We believe that the University of Nevada, Reno Police Department routinely fails to meet federal requirements in reporting crime.
According to the federal Jeanne Clery Act, all university police services need to have a public log of all crimes reported to them “within two business days of the initial report being made to the department or a campus security authority.”
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It is easy for governmental decision makers to ignore the complaints that appear almost weekly in this staff editorial. It is, after all, just the collective opinion of a few university students.
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