Student Life Archive
Students petted ponies and jumped merrily in bounce houses; they scarfed down free pizza and took turns on a mechanical bull Monday – all in an act of protest.
As students enjoyed the festivities, they were given one thing to think about. It was their money that paid for the 191 boxes of pizza, the hours [...]
Posted in ASUN, News, Student Life
Facebook groups, petitions, angry letters and plans for meetings and rallies sprung up on campus last week as students in more than a dozen programs prepared to fight to keep their majors from being cut.
The online groups, with names like “Save CABNR,” gained thousands of members within days, the online petitions already have hundreds of [...]
Posted in Academics, Administration, Budget Crisis, News, Student Life
Members of Sigma Kappa raised more than $8,000 for Alzheimer’s disease at their annual SKetti Night on Saturday. The event included all-you-can-eat spaghetti and breadsticks for the price of $5 and served more than 1,500 students.
In addition to unlimited spaghetti, the event had music provided by a live DJ and a raffle.
Laurel Cooney, an 18-year-old [...]
Posted in News, Student Life
Team Aerial, composed of six University of Nevada, Reno business students, tied for first place in the international GLO-BUS competition, an online business strategy competition. Aerial ranked first out of 1,402 teams from 94 different colleges around the world.
Tags: business, competition GLO-BUS, marketing
Posted in Academics, News, Student Life
CARSON CITY – Nevada’s high school students may not have access to Millennium Scholarship funds for four years of undergraduate study if a budget proposal from Gov. Jim Gibbons’ office makes it past the Legislature.
The move, which is part of Gibbons’ proposal to fill the nearly $900 million hole in the state’s budget, is part [...]
Tags: higher ed, K-12 education, Millennium Scholarship, Nevada government, Nevada State Legislature, Special Session
Posted in Academics, Breaking News, Budget Crisis, News, News CP, Student Life
About 55 students from southern Nevada universities and colleges rallied Tuesday morning outside of the Nevada State Legislature to protest cuts to higher education. Students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College held signs and wore T-shirts reading “Save Our Schools” as they aimed to gain attention from legislators before the special session began at 9 a.m.
Tags: budget, cuts, NSHE, protests, Rally, Special Session
Posted in Breaking News, Budget CP, Budget Crisis, News, News CP, Student Life
On Friday the Alliance of Racial Minorities (ARM) held a luncheon honoring the organization and new minority faculty staff and members of the University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College.
Posted in News, Student Life
The Student United Way club, a student affiliate of the international United Way Organization, is planning to send seven students to New Orleans to volunteer with the Saint Bernard Project, a group dedicated to rebuilding homes destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
Tags: New Orleans, spring break, United Way, Volunteer
Posted in Inside Campus, News, Student Life
When Sean Tory arrived at the University of Nevada, Reno, he wanted to be a part of a club or organization to become more involved in campus life. He could not find a fraternity that interested him, so he and his friend decided to form their own organization.
Posted in News, Student Life
The UNR Students for Liberty will host an Abolish ASUN Festival in order to raise awareness about the way student money is used on campus. The nearly $3,000 event, entirely paid for by the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, will aim to draw attention to frivolous spending of student money, Mary Hunton, UNR Students for Liberty president, said.
Posted in ASUN, News, Student Life
Singing telegrams don’t just appear in the movies. Seven years ago University of Nevada, Reno students devised a plan to improve the lives of young musicians in Reno. These students were members of the fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and their idea was to deliver singing telegrams to couples on Valentine’s Day.
Tags: singing telegrams, valentine, Valentines Day
Posted in News, Student Life
The Starbucks at the Joe Crowley Student Union will extend its hours to midnight Friday and Saturday in an effort to give underage students options that don’t involve drinking alcohol on the weekends.
Posted in Inside Campus, News, Student Life
Tuesday/26
Four-Dimensional Interrogation: Science Artfully Deployed
When: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Room 103 of Edmund J. Cain Hall
Colonel Steven M. Kleinman, recognized as one of the most prolific interrogators in the armed forces during the first Gulf War, will speak on campus about human intelligence, strategic interrogation methods and special operations. During his military career, he [...]
Tags: Campus Events
Posted in News, Student Life
The Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery will hold the 10th Biennial Valentine Invitational Exhibition and Auction from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Feb. 12 with bidding in the first hour. The preview of the exhibition will be held Feb. 1 to 12.
Tags: Art, auction, Love Lost & Found, recession
Posted in News, Student Life
