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Related Posts:UNR Mackay Mining Team wins world championshipAfghanistan and Iraq veterans return to campusInterview with new UNR President Marc JohnsonSigma Omega Nu hosts second annual Mr. Greek contestMay 9: Nevada sports wrap-up
Tags: graduates, healthcare, wolf pack week
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Maribel Ramirez had just finished enrolling for classes at the University of Nevada, Reno in January 2008. She had filled out her scholarship applications and her FAFSA. She was even getting an early start with summer classes.
Then she found out she was pregnant. And suddenly the prospects of higher education began to disappear for a teenager who had never considered college an option.
Tags: brandon, calhoun, dean, dean's, future, high, hug, loans, maribel, pregnant, ramirez, rodriguez, sander, scholars, Scholarships, school, steve, temple, trio
Posted in Faces of Nevada, Inside Campus, News, News CP, Student Life
For many University of Nevada, Reno graduates, walking across the stage on the historic Quad is the symbolic end of an era. But for some students, smaller celebrations are better suited for acknowledging the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. From breakfasts to unique ceremonies, graduates have many choices as to whom to celebrate their achievement with.
Tags: ceremonies, ceremony, chaves, daniel, ellen, graduation, Houston, iris, perez, sindy, West
Posted in Homepage Features, Inside Campus, News, Student Life
Ah, “spring fever” is back — watery eyes, scratchy throat and a runny nose. Because of the early release of pollen, students are making frequent visits to the Health Center as the campus environment contributes to one of the worst allergy seasons yet, according to health reports.
Tags: allergies, Allergy, center, cheryl, English, health, hug, leonard, pollen, shapiro, spring, student
Posted in Inside Campus, News, Student Life
Poised on a healthy balance of solid talking points and a sturdy step stool, President Barack Obama joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots last Tuesday to address the financial concerns facing students across the country.
Tags: barack, blevins, boehner, debt, Fallon, jimmy, john, loans, Nicholas, Obama, president, student
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#Wolfstock, a daylong music festival set to kick off Saturday, has Flipside Productions’ programmers shelling out thousands of dollars to bring 15 musical acts to the University of Nevada, Reno. Flipside is battling tight time constraints as the event approaches, causing programmers to fret over the event’s effectiveness.
Tags: #Wolfstock, comba, connor, festival, Flipside, huili, jeremy, melissa, Murs, Music, o, oconnor, Rebelution, stock, weinstock, Wolf
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The University of Nevada, Reno Humans vs. Zombies club moved a game off campus last week amid concerns from students, faculty and administrators that they were interfering with the institution’s daily workings.
Tags: andrew, club, delloro, derek, gerald, grenades, Guns, humans, hvz, kaiser, katherine, marczynski, michael, mundy, nance, nerf, sock, socks, vs, zombies
Posted in Administration, Inside Campus, News, Student Life
A former current Nevada student winter olympian had an important piece of property returned to her in a unique way last week. A ring commemorating Tristan Gale Geisler's 2002 Olympic gold medal in skeleton sledding was turned in to the police department by a faculty member after being found in a University of Nevada, Reno campus bathroom, Todd Renwick, a commander at the UNR Police Department, said.
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Invisible Children’s “Cover The Night” was a worldwide event to encourage communities to hang posters to spread awareness of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Previously, three college students organized a plan for the event to be held in Reno’s city plaza but was canceled due to the complications of financial issues and lack of support by the public. Some supporters planned to hang posters regardless of the status of Reno’s participation, but Hannah Aguirre, a junior at Hug, wished that more of the public would help spread the word.
Tags: 2012, aguirre, briare, caffery, Children, cover, first, foley, hannah, high, hug, invisible, katie, kony, kony2012, lindsey, lori, maren, nathan, night, pablo, Reno, school, sparks, thomas, uganda, Wilson, yourh
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“Recycling is bullshit, in my opinion,” said Sagebiel, environmental affairs manager for the University of Nevada, Reno. “What we should be doing is reducing.”
Tags: bottle, day, earth, geddes, jason, john, pike, plastic, recycle, recycling, sagebiel, tara, week
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Suicide affects many students at UNR. More than 110 students approach counselors on campus after thinking about killing themselves every semester, according to numbers from counseling services. In a survey from the student health center, 2.5 percent of respondents said they had seriously considered taking their own lives in the past year. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students.
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Adam Khan is an ambitious student ambassador for the University of Nevada, Reno. When he’s not devoting himself to the institution, he’s interning for the Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign. He is a devout Los Angeles Lakers fan, listens to Coldplay and is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
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According to reports from GasBuddy.com, the average price of gas in Nevada increased from $3.44 in December to $3.86 Monday.
Tags: buddy, candace, drive, driving, elliott, gas, gasbuddy, gasoline, high, increase, increased, increasing, oil, parker, prices, rise, rising, rose, roseville, taylor
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I used to hate you. To me, you were a big, corrupt place full of people who have bottomless wallets. You got the national spotlight simply because of your enormous population. I thought you drew in dreamers and ate them alive.
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When I was handed a set of poi (tethered weights), I felt like a deer in headlights — I had no clue how to use them. But then I felt determined; I was just given two artistic objects that were desperate to be used for a performance. I must learn how to operate these contraptions, I thought.
Tags: beekun, brianne, club, fire, isa, issa, kasum, leslie, lisa, poi, rodriguez, rope, spinning
Posted in Clubs and Organizations, Inside Campus, News, Student Life
Students might see a flock of classmates exit the room Thursday to protest shriveling departments and inflating tuition on campus.
“The tactic of the walkout is to remind not necessarily the staff but the university administration that they depend on the students to keep this whole thing going,” said Occupy Reno student group member Benjamin Castro, who said he has been preparing for the event for about a month. “It’s a protest against higher tuition and lower quality of education. It’s kind of to remind the administration that they work for the students — not the other way around.”
Tags: ben, castro, daniel, demonstration, derek, erika, judd, kauneckis, mcdonald, occupy, Protest, Rally, Reno, student, walkout
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Brad Sappington, a student at Goucher College in Maryland, turned to his friends one day in 2005 and told them he had always wanted to see 50 people chasing one student across campus.
The small group made it happen. They created a game involving Nerf guns, socks and bandanas, based the game loosely on tag and tied it to the zombie mythos. An empire was born — the Humans vs. Zombies empire. Latching onto Facebook, which was just beginning to open up to students at non-Ivy League schools at the time, Humans vs. Zombies spread like wildfire, leaping from city to city and drawing in tens of thousands.
Tags: andrew, bandana, bandanas, college, delloro, goucher, humans, hvz, kaiser, max, michael, nerf, nicholson, nolan, purdue, socks, tag, temkin, university, vs, zombies
Posted in Inside Campus, News, Student Life
