This past week, the director of campus relations created a new set of media policies for everyone involved in the executive branch: the vice president, campus clubs, campus programming, homecoming and the attorney general.

For those lucky enough to go to college, and for the luckier ones who go to the University of Nevada, no comma or Reno, the college years are the time between the “real world” and childhood.

Silver State Schools Credit Union opens. ASUN recruits appointed officials. Learn to use WebCampus. Welcome Week kicks off school year.

It’s changed.
This university. This city.

Some puddles, when stomped in, never clear up. The silt mingles with the water and nothing is clear until the water disappears.

Student newspapers have a knack for the offensive.

Out of the millions of students graduating from American high schools this year, about 65,000 of those graduates are in this country illegally.

This Saturday will mark the first time in nearly a century the student government will not select the next editor-in-chief of The Nevada Sagebrush.

Run for the hills. Hide the children. Nothing is safe. The Pack Patriot is back – and we couldn’t be happier.

We hear a lot about flawed elections nowadays. Hanging chads. Diebold machines. The state of Florida. You might as well add the Associated Students of the University of Nevada to that list now.

The problem with Associated Students of the University of Nevada insiders is that they tend to isolate themselves from the general student body.

Text messages won’t stop someone from attacking campus.

But a program of sending them out en masse can dull the blade in a Virginia Tech or Northern Illinois University-style strike. And not just shootings – a mass warning system would help in any emergency or crisis situation at the University of Nevada, Reno.

More than 3,000 people attended the memorial service for Brianna Denison on Saturday.

Unfortunately several members of the hate-mongering, media-hungry Westboro Baptist Church were also at the service. They came to praise Brianna’s death as a just act of punishment by God. The church is also known for protesting funerals of American soldiers who died in the Iraq War.

The University of Nevada, Reno decided earlier this month to no longer recognize the Alpha Tau Omega house, suspending one of the oldest fraternities at UNR for two years after finding that members had been branded.

But little else is known about ATO’s fate. And while ATO members have spoken with The Nevada Sagebrush about their situation, much of it is still secret. It’s been difficult to learn the whole story from members of the house or the national organization.

It’s been one after another.

Kidnappings. Sexual assaults. Break-ins.

We’re still grappling with the thought of such terrible things happening to our neighbors. Those random, senseless crimes have overshadowed this semester at the University of Nevada, Reno.