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VOLUME CXVI NUMBER 13
Working to combat health issues
Denison murder trial delayed

Staff Report
The trial of the man accused of raping college-aged women and murdering Brianna Denison has been postponed until May 2010. James Michael Biela, the defendant, is accused of raping two women and abducting, raping and murdering Denison. He has pleaded not James guilty. Biela On Friday, his public defender requested the delay so she could better prepare for the jury trial, according to the Reno GazetteJournal. Judge Robert H. Perry of the Washoe County Second District Court allowed it. Biela, through his lawyer, also requested Friday to forbid the use of DNA evidence in the trial because he believed it was all used up in crime lab testing, preventing independent review. Perry denied the request. To the extent that the entire sample may have been consumed in the testing, the law recognizes that this may, and can
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Only 11.7 percent of Nevada students get enough exercise, compared to 15.6 percent nationally.
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The Student Health Center is at the center of campus efforts to combat poor health rates at the University of Nevada, Reno.
HEALTH ASSESSMENT: The University of Nevada, Reno has higher rates of most health problems.
22 20 18 16
21.2 18.9
University of Nevada, Reno students National college average

Source: College Health Assessment
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Percentage
14 12 10 8 6 4 2 .6 .3 Chlamydia Gonorrhea 2.1 .9 Depression Substance Abuse 3.6 6.1
The rate of chlamydia and gonorrhea for Nevada students is double the national average. Free Trojan condoms are available at the Student Health Center.
By Jay Balagna
Health issues
BY THE NUMBERS: Exercise and healthy eating statistics are
worse than the national average:
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6 6.4
percent of UNR students get a sufcient amount of exercise.
11.7
percent of UNR students eat the recommended fruits and vegetables.
percent of college students nationally get a sufcient amount of exercise.
15.6
percent of college students nationally eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables.
hen administrators efforts to improve health statistics that put the University of Nevada, Reno at the top of all the bad lists and the bottom of all the good ones began, few were expecting that quote to be completely true. When health ofcials received the results of a 2007 study telling them just that, efforts were already underway to reverse the trend. Now, the center is even more intensely working to develop better educational programs in an attempt to x the campus health problems. The Student Health Center hired Enid Jennings as a health educator and tasked her with improving campus health. With little information available when she began the job, the rst thing Jennings did was bring the National College Health Assessment to UNR, she said. Since then it has been a long road to nding problems and developing ways to start solving them. The assessment, conducted by the
American College Health Association, a national organization that monitors the health of post-secondary students in the United States, showed UNR with aboveaverage rates of almost every health problem, from minor allergy problems to sexually transmitted infections.
Senate tables $75 fee plan

By Jay Balagna
The undergraduate student senate voted last Wednesday to indenitely postpone a vote on a proposed $75 per semester fee. While delayed, the proposal is not dead. Leaders in both the senate and the executive branch said the fee will be proposed again with a slower timeline, allowing for more examination and possibly a student vote. The fee proposal, which is part of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada Joint Vision 2017 Plan, includes funding for on-campus arts, an academic success center and a student activities center that many criticized for providing services that overlap those provided by ASUN. The move came at the urging of ASUN President Eli Reilly early in
When you look at data like that, were worse off than the national average, health educator Enid Jennings said.
Dominic DiPrinzio, a 21-year-old biology major who also works as an emergency medical technician, said he was not surprised by the universitys troubling health statistics. There are a lot of unhealthy people around here. I see that a lot, he said, referring to his work as an EMT. Plus, theres soda machines everywhere, fast food everywhere.
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Soldier family Cuts dont concern UNR ofcials returns to Reno

FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET CUTS
By Jay Balagna
Despite a stafng policy that routinely shuts down the re engine assigned to cover the area, the University of Nevada, Reno is still more protected from re than most of Reno, university and city ofcials said. That claim is based on the emergency sprinklers that ll the buildings and fully staffed districts that surround the campus. The crew of the affected engine is also working to make sure the area around campus is prepared in the event of a fire. The re engine watching over the university, Engine 4, is based out of a station on Ralston Street and is assigned to cover a district that encompasses UNR. To reduce overtime stafng costs, the Reno Fire Department periodically shuts down the engine to free up its crew to staff other stations. When that happens, Engine 4 is replaced with a two-person rescue team that can only respond to medical calls. The change will increase the re departments response times to the university in the event of a re, possibly even doubling them, Brad Jensen, the president of the Reno Fire Fighters Association, said. The unions Web site also describes the situation as a danger not
By Jessica Fryman
A father and son are on their way home to Reno and are expected to arrive later this week after serving a two-month National Guard deployment together in Afghanistan. Its been a good deployment having a piece of home here with me, Lt. Col. Bart OToole said by phone from Afghanistan. As a parent, Ive enjoyed having him around, looking after him and what not. Airman Bartley OToole, a 22-year-old criminal justice major at the University of Nevada, Reno, said hes also appreciated having his dad,
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Engine 4, which responded to a false alarm at Nye Hall Wednesday, is shut down periodically to save money.
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who has had nine previous deployments during his 25 years of service, there to support him for his rst. The duos joint deployment has also been comforting to his mother, who said its worrisome to have her family overseas. I think all of us were glad that my husband was there to look after him on our sons rst deployment, Holly OToole, a UNR alum, said. Then you dont worry as much. That helped a lot. Aside from settling nerves, the pair also helps each other in their daily professional duties. The airmans dad is also his
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STUDENT VETERANS
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SCI-FI MADNESS
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SKI CLOSE TO BEING CUT

Nevadas ski team needs $500,000 to cover its operating budget for the next four years. Page B1
INDEX
TECHNOLOGY ...................................................... A4 CLASSIFIEDS ..............................................................A6 PERSPECTIVES ....................................................... A7 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ...... A12 SPORTS .................................................................................... B1 GAMEDAY........................................................................B6
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Art of Living club holds yoga event

By Kyle Wise
One at a time, the participants began to remove their shoes and grab a mat. Name tags ensured some degree of familiarity, but some of them acted as though they had known each other for years. Then they laid out their mats and prepared for three hours of breathing exercises. The University of Nevada, Reno chapter of the Art of Living began a course on Thursday with the aim to reduce stress through meditation and advanced breathing techniques. The Art of Living Foundation is a U.N.-recognized nonprofit organization that does work all around the world to reduce stress and violence in communities through teachings that stem from yoga. (The club has) been going on for eight years in Reno, Alex Miller, a club member and course participant, said. Ive been doing it for a year and a half. Its a relatively small thing; we have about 300 members. Frances Arnold, a 2008 University of Nevada, Reno graduate and former president of the club, co-leads the course. She has been involved with the Art of Living in some capacity or another for 13 years. It is a life-changing experience; it gives you the tools to deal with the negativity in your mind. The course, however, isnt just for the mind. Taking care of your body and connecting with others can do good things for your life, she added. Our course really builds a solid, caring community of really diverse people. They work to serve and uplift the community. The rst phase ran from 6 to about 10 p.m. in the conference room of the Harry Reid Engineering Laboratory. Most of the about 40 participants were students; some were club members, others werent. There were rst-timers and veterans. The introduction phase took a great deal of time, as everyone introduced themselves, formed groups and began trust exercises such as closing ones eyes and falling backwards while their partners caught them. The rest of the session consisted of breathing exercises to release tension, the most prominent technique being pranayama, which originates from the East. This Art of Living course, however, is a big commitment. At the sessions conclusion, Arnold laid down the rules for the four days: no caffeine, alcohol, smoking, drug use or meat. Though these commitments are daunting, Arnold is optimistic about this group following the course. I think it went well, she said. There are a lot of positive people in this room. Among the rst timers was student Jeanette McGinley, who received a scholarship to take the course. It was really insightful and really inspirational, she said. Every student could benet because everyone has daily stresses. I want to learn how to juggle all of lifes challenges and issues. Her friend, Amanda Beer, was also excited about the rest of the course but was less than enthusiastic about the no caffeine rule. Its going to be a real challenge, she said.
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Student develops food-based charity program

By Anthony Sodenkamp
When Matt Polasko freed up time in his schedule, he could have spent it watching TV or surng the Internet. Instead, he organized a food swipe donation program to support a family shelter. Polasko, a 20-year-old biochemistry major, spends part of his Wednesday evenings asking students in the Downunder Cafe to donate extra meal plan swipes. I wanted to do something more with my time, Polasko said. Even if it means missing game six of the World Series. For each donated swipe, $2.51 is put into an account for Volunteers of Americas Family Shelter in downtown Reno. The shelter can then use the account to purchase food through Chartwells, the DCs foodservice company. Polasko said he worked with DC managers to make the program a reality and to work out the minor details. Polasko admitted that $2.51 didnt sound like much, but said all the swipes add up. The program raised more than $2,600 in seven weeks and donations have averaged 130 swipes in the past few weeks, he said. Id be happy if we averaged about 100 swipes per week, Polasko said. Still, he hopes donations will continue to exceed expectations. He would like to raise $400 per week with about 160 swipe donations. The Family Shelter, which has 21 units and 108 beds, provides families with at least one hot meal per week. I grew up with warm meals, Polasko said. I cant imagine what it would be like without them. The families have a microwave and a small fridge in their room. Families usually eat frozen dinners because that is all they can make in their rooms, he said Ive seen bigger refrigerators in the dorms, Polasko said.
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Age: 20 Major: Biochemistry What he does: Developed and runs aprogram allowing students to donate food swipes to the homeless.
Polasko came up with the idea because of his experiences his freshman year. That year he had the platinum meal plan and did not use all of his swipes. Every Wednesday, he used his extra swipes to get snacks from the DC. You can only get so much candy and water before you dont need any more, he said. Polasko, now a junior, worked alone on the project for the rst few weeks. But he was later joined by six other Honors Program students. Donations are accepted at the entrance of the DC all week, but most are donated on Wednesday. Polasko and the other volunteers
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Mike Polasko, a 20-year-old honors bilochemistry student, developed the Donate a Swipe program.
take shifts asking for donations. I hope to expand to other universities, Polasko said. Right now he is focusing on recruiting freshmen to continue the program after he graduates.
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Polasko said he hopes to raise $4,000 by the end of the semester.

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With issues such as immigration and international relations under constant debate in the United States, Flipside is seeking to add some clarity by bringing experts to campus. During the next two weeks, author and international relations-focused journalist Barbara Crossette will talk about tension between the United States and the United Nations. There will be a forum with experts to discuss immigration issues. Any student could take away something from these events, Casey Stiteler, head of Flipside, said. No topic is geared towards a specic group of people; we want to invite a broad audience to attend. These speakers are high-caliber experts and students are going to get nothing but the most benecial information. Nicholas Blevins, who organizes the Nevada Speaker Series for Flipside, is working with co-sponsor Northern Nevada International Center on the events. Despite the end-of-semester times that the speakers are scheduled for, organizers still
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expect a big turnout for these events, especially for the immigration forum. Stiteler expects about 500 people at the forum and Blevins estimates about 200 people will attend Crossettes event. The goal is to focus on events that students are being affected by or that they care about, Stiteler said. We want to facilitate intelligent discussion and help students learn about the politics that are affecting them now. Throughout the semester, speaker events will cover local, national and international issues, all with a focus on current student interests and concerns, Stiteler said. I think the events would be great to attend, Cecilee Grund, 19-year-old business major said. Theyll be informative and great for students that want to know more about political issues.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES

NOV. 6, 1964
New Budget seen on Nevada Campuses

The 1965-67 budget as approved by the board of regents represents a 42% increase over
the 1963-65 biennial budget of $15.5 million. The budget calls for a state general fund appropriation of $18.3 million, or 45% more than the $12.6 million appropriated from the state during the present biennium. The University of Nevada expects to change an average total enrollment on both campuses of 7,340 for the fall semesters of 1965-66.
Weekly Update
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
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Fall dance festival to feature students Friday Campus Events

By Emily Fodor
University of Nevada, Reno dancers will strut their stuff in pieces choreographed by fellow students, dance faculty and members of 3rd Law Dance/ Theatre and Bell Contemporary Dance Company at the Fall Dance Festival on Friday. Along with student performers, professional dancers from both companies will be performing. One of the dancers from 3rd Law Dance/Theatre, Tara Rynders, is an alumna of UNR. Cari Cunningham, a UNR dance professor and one of the shows choreographers, said student-choreographed pieces were chosen from those presented during a student dance concert. This year, instead of students auditioning pieces as they have done in the past, we chose the ve dances, she said. These works were ones we felt demonstrated a high level of choreographic skill and development and we wanted these student choreographers to continue working on these dances for the festival. Nicole de Roza, one of the student choreographers and performers, said choreographing her own piece was very special to her. I can always dance someone elses piece and hopefully I will connect to it, but having my own choreography on stage is like having my own precious baby, she said. Each piece represents a different form of dance, from modern to classical. Cunninghams modern piece, titled Aureate Debris, is unique because the dancers provide the stage lighting. The piece is lit entirely by headlamps that the dancers wear so the dancers are responsible for both the movement and the lighting cues, Cunningham said. Its a very challenging piece because the dancers have to be aware not only of their bodies moving in space, but also the angles of the light they are emitting. I think people will be really interested in the diversity of dance styles in this particular show, Cunningham said. I think there is truly something for everyone and audiences will be energized, provoked and dazzled. Never have I been more excited to dance in the pieces I am in and to watch my choreography on a huge stage, de Roza said.
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Wh What: t F Fall ll D Dance F Festival ti l Where: Nightingale Hall When: 8 p.m. Friday Cost: $15 for general
admission tickets , $13 for student tickets
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THURSDAY/12
5th Annual Ceramic Society Silent Auction When: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Where: Front Door Lobby, Church Fine Arts building The University of Nevada Ceramic Society will hold a silent auction to raise money for students to travel to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference in Philadelphia. The auction will feature pottery and artwork created by UNR ceramic professors and students. Admission to the event is free and bidding on items is not required. For more information, contact the art department at 784-4278 or www. unrschoolofthearts.org. Digital Media Showcase Opening When: 6 to 8 p.m. Where: McNamara Gallery Audio and video installations by advanced digital media students will be displayed in the McNamara Gallery beginning Thursday and extending through Nov. 20. The exhibit will feature the work of 37 student artists and performers. For more information on the Digital Media Showcase, which kicks off three days of events, visit www.unr.edu/ art/prospectives09.html.
The festival will take place at at 8 p.m. Friday in Nightingale Hall. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $13 for students.
Emily Fodor can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.
FREE SWINE FLU VACCINES GIVEN TO UNR STUDENTS ON CAMPUS
FRIDAY/13
Ski and Board Swap and Sale When: Friday 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: Reno Livestock Events Center Exhibit Hall The University of Nevada Ski Team will hold a ski and snowboard swap to raise money. Adult and childrens alpine, Nordic and snowboard equipment and apparel will be available at the event. Admission to the Ski Swap is $12 on Friday and $7 on Saturday and Sunday for adults. Admission for children 6 to 12 years old is $6 on Friday and $4 on Saturday and Sunday. Children 5 years old or younger are free. For more information on the ski swap, contact Evan Weiss at eweiss@unr.edu.
Kevin Nadsady, a 20-year-old business major, gets a free nasal-spray dose of the swine u vaccine from Beth Ahart, a registered nurse, in the Ballroom of the Joe Crowley Student Union Monday. Nadsady got the vaccine during a u shot clinic put on by the Student Health Center. More vaccination clinics may be scheduled for a l
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POLICE BLOTTER
NOVEMBER 7
Police responded to a report of a sexual assault on Evans Way. Officers arrested a 42-year-old male on a previous charge. Two minors were cited for MIPC at College Drive. A 20-year-old female was cited for MIPC at College Drive. A 19-year-old male was cited for MIPC at College Drive and Ralston Street. Two minors were cited for MIPC at College Drive and Ralston Street. An 18-year-old male was cited for MIPC at College drive and Bon Rea Way.
NEWS BRIEFS NEVADA PROFESSOR WINS NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS

A University of Nevada, Reno employee was recently awarded two national writing awards for articles on water quality. Susan Donaldson, who works as a water quality expert for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension in environmental education, won the awards for articles she wrote in Nevada Home, a monthly home improvement magazine, on how to protect water quality and still control noxious weeds. Davidson will be recognized for the awards from the organization the Association of Natural Recourse Extension Professionals at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in June.
RESEARCH FACULTY MEMBER WINS HISPANIC LEADERSHIP AWARD

Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti, a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno was awarded a prestigious Hispanic leadership award in New Mexico last week. Sepulveda, who was born in Argentina and immigrated to the United States in 1974, was the rst Hispanic woman to become a full professor at UNR and is now the director of the schools Latino Research Center. She works as a foundation professor of foreign languages and foreign literature. Sepulveda is also a UNR alumna. Sepulveda was awarded the Regional Mujer Award from the National Hispana Leadership Institute.
OCTOBER 30
Four minors were cited for MIPC at North Sierra Street and College Drive. Ofcers responded to a report of grand larceny of a laptop in Argenta Hall. Two people were arrested for DUI at Virginia and East Sixth streets. Two minors were cited for MIPC at Nye Hall. A 20-year-old male was arrested for MIPC at Ralston and 11th streets. Three minors were cited for MIPC at North Sierra and West 11th streets.
NOVEMBER 6
Officers responded to a grand larceny call at the Reno Orthopedic Sports Medicine Complex.
NOVEMBER 5
A 20-year-old male was cited for drug offenses at Nye Hall.
OCTOBER 31
Four minors were arrested for MIPC at Buena Vista Avenue and College Drive. An 18-year-old male was arrested for MIPC at North Sierra Street and College Drive. A 19-year-old female was cited for MIPC at Nevada Street and University Terrace.
NOVEMBER 4
A 23-year-old male reported a lost cell phone.
NOVEMBER 3
A 21-year-old male reported petty larceny on North Virginia Street. A 32-year-old male was cited for driving under the influence on Center and Ninth streets.
MONDAY/16
Chakalela When: 7 to 9:30 p.m. Where: Joe Crowley Student Union Theater A pre-screening of the documentary Chakalela, followed by a panel discussion, will be hosted by alumni and high school students who participated in the making of the documentary. The documentary features 25 Algerian high school students, three adults and seven American high school students as they learn about each others cultures. The lm was shot in Algeria and edited and produced in Reno. This event is free and open to the public.
WEATHER FORECAST
Forecast prepared by the Reno-Lake Tahoe student chapter of the American Meteorological Society. For more information visit our Web site at www.ametsoc.org/ chapters/renotahoe/.
TUESDAY Partly sunny, southwest winds 5-15 mph
WEDNESDAY A chance of rain, mostly cloudy, southwest winds 10-15 mph, gusts up to 25 mph
THURSDAY A chance of rain and snow, mostly cloudy
FRIDAY Mostly sunny, northwest winds
NOVEMBER 2
Police arrested a 44-yearold male on an outstanding warrant on Seventh Street. A 19-year-old male reported a petty larceny at Church Fine Arts. Police arrested a 34-yearold female on an outstanding warrant at the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex.
WEEKEND A slight chance of rain Saturday, party sunny Sunday
High campus temperature: Low campus temperature:
58 36
58 33
45 29
47 28
High: 50-55 Low: 30-35
NOVEMBER 1
An 18-year-old male was arrested for minor in possession and consumption of alcohol at Lincoln Hall.
UNR WEEKLY WEATHER DISCUSSION: Clouds will increase Tuesday night into Wednesday as a storm drops south out of the Gulf of Alaska. Moderate precipitation could impact the Truckee Meadows Wednesday/Thursday with several inches of snow in the Sierra. Snow levels will start out 7,000-8,000 feet and could likely drop to 5,000 feet or less. Friday should have some clearing but will stay fairly cold throughout the day. Temperatures are expected to be warmer by the weekend with partly cloudy skies.
Technology
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NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Mini laptop computer craze strikes campus

By Don Weinland
Netbooks, miniature lowpowered computers weighing between two and three pounds, have become a common sight in classrooms around campus. Users said their choice in computing was driven by a need for convenience and simplicity. University representatives said the rising popularity in netbooks is also fueled by a need for low-priced computers. Netbooks cost between $300 and $600 and are manufactured by almost all major electronics companies, with the exception of Macintosh and Sony. According to Tech-on, a Japanese technology analysis Web site, Acer led the market in the first quarter of 2009 with 30.5 percent of netbook market shares. Netbook sales now encompass 20 percent of the world PC market, the Web site said. Kurtis Itskin, a sales representative in the electronics department at the Associated Students of the University of Nevada Bookstore, said the store sold between 12 and 24 netbooks during the back to school rush and another dozen since then. The bookstore began carrying Dell netbooks in mid-June. Although sales have been Mac heavy, sales in netbooks have been impressive, Itskin said. Theyre great for meeting the basic needs of the modern student: getting online, writing a word document but theyre not designed as a media center or gaming platform, he said. Itskin said the versatility of netbooks, combined with their relatively low prices, means many more students could find themselves using them in the future. Alexandria Zugel, a prejournalism major, said the miniature screen is the only drawback to her netbook. The only thing I dont love about it is the size of the screen. You have to keep scrolling to view the whole page, she said. Zugel said she has never had a problem with her netbook since purchasing it in August. Although she spends time on computers at the university, her netbook is her primary computer, she said. Emerald Ladaga, a 20-yearold biology major, said the Hewlett-Packard netbook she bought two months ago is her main computer. I didnt need anything complex. I like the convenience of having a small computer, she said. Steven Zink, the vicepresident of information technologies at UNR, called the netbook a natural evolution of computing and attributed the development to the Atom chip developed by Intel. According to cnet.com, the Atom-powered ASUS Eee opened the netbook market in late 2007. Zink said he could effectively use a netbook as a primary computer and believes a majority of netbook users on campus do just that. Zink sees the netbook only becoming more popular, with the device possibly doubling as a book reader in the future. The convergence of the netbook and the book reader is probably going to be huge, he said.
Don Weinland can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.
A student in the Joe Crowley Student Union uses his netbook.
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Windows 7 released, offered at discount to students

By Aaron Benedetti
Advertising its new operating system as your PC, simplified, Microsoft released Windows 7 recently, complete with an assortment of new features and a revamped look. The Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade is for sale at the Computer Den in the Associated Students of the University of Nevada Bookstore for $119.99. However, Kurt Adams, a Computer Den supervisor, said a $29.99 version is available for students at win741. com until Jan. 3. Only university students can buy the discounted version, and students will be required to verify their university e-mail address when purchasing. Microsoft usually does not offer education-priced deals on its software, so the offer is limited-time only, Adams said. Customer interest in Windows 7 peaked on its release date, though Adams could not specify an exact number of students who have shown interest in acquiring the upgrade. However, he said about one-third the number of students who bought Apples Mac OS X Snow Leopard within its first week of availability have purchased Windows 7 from the Computer Den. Adams said the Snow Leopard release produced massive
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interest among students. Kurtis Itskin, a 20-year-old criminal justice major, works in the Computer Den. Itskin said he uses Windows 7 and worked on its beta versions before the programs commercial release. Microsoft really cut down
on (Windows) Vista, but they did add a lot of new features, Itskin said. Such features include Snap, which allows users to arrange two open windows side-byside on the computer screen, and an improved Live Taskbar Preview, which allows users to view and interact with thumbnail previews of open applications. Though Microsoft touts these features as potential selling points for Windows 7, Itskin said its improved capability to sync with Blackberry and other smart phones is one of its most practical enhancements for students. Itskin also said Windows 7
corrects difficulties with Vistas networking capacity. They needed networking, Itskin said. Its not easy to set up a home network (using Vista). Itskin also noted that Windows 7 generally responds much faster than Vista. He said his total installation time was about 20 minutes, though that time can vary according to whether users update from Vista or Windows XP. With Windows 7, Itskin said launching and using applications is incredibly fast. Though many of Windows 7s new or simplified features attempt to enhance its ease of use, Adams said he thinks Snow
Leopard is slightly more intuitive than Windows 7, at least for inexperienced computer users. For a novice user, Macs are a bit easier to use, Adams said. But Windows is moving in that direction as well. Their user experiences are very close. Itskin said the two operating systems are difficult, or even impossible, to compare. Im not as familiar with Mac OS X, so I find it to be less userfriendly, Itskin said. But a lot of people find it to be easier to use. Its kind of like comparing apples and oranges.
Aaron Benedetti can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.
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Health
boss and sent him on errands when something needed to be done quickly because they can count on each other, the younger OToole said. But when the elder could help his son, he was willing to return the favor. When the duo rst arrived in Afghanistan, the 22-year-old couldnt open his old-fashioned style Coke can. He thought the can was broken, his father said, chuckling, as he remembered teaching his son how to open the soda. For the most part, its no different than when were at home, the lieutenant colonel said about serving with his son on the 152nd Airlift Wing. Hes an airman and Im his boss. We keep it professional at work, but when we go to the gym or grab a bite to eat, we talk as a father and son. The pair agree the deployment has brought them even closer. The college student moved out of his parents house a few years ago, so theyve spent more time together overseas than they might have in Reno. Their bond is also apparent
Lt. Col. Bartley OToole and his son Airman Bartley OToole, both from the Air National Guard, pose in Afghanistan.
in the duos life choices the younger said hes always known he wanted to y after being raised in a military household, and hes also attending the same university as his dad, who graduated from UNR with a degree in agricultural science in 1987.
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Once hes home, the younger OToole plans to start nishing his last 35 credits toward his criminal justice degree at the start of the spring semester.
Jessica Fryman can be reached at jfryman@nevadasagebrush.com.
Low nutrition and high obesity rates were far from the statistics campus health ofcials were spending the most focus on, though. Among the biggest disparities with the national averages were rates of sexually transmitted infections, substance abuse and depression. Although the rates of substance abuse and depression are national problems, the high levels of sexually transmitted infections can be traced to a probable cause: only 66 percent of UNR students reported using a condom the last time they had sex, Dr. Cheryl HugEnglish, director of the Student Health Center, said. Because of that, rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia, two of the most prevalent STIs at UNR, were around double the national averages. The survey also showed that fewer UNR students get the recommended amount of exercise or the recommended servings of fruits and vegetables than the
national average. While some of UNRs health problems, like allergy problems and asthma rates, are unavoidable, others can be easily mitigated with resources already available on campus, Hug-English said. And those resources exist on campus, according to the same survey that said students are not using them. According to the NCHA, the university ranks highly in health services offered to students on campus. Most students know about the services, Lindsey Briare, a 19-year-old physics major, said. I just think people are too lazy to use them, she said. Im not sure if the educational approach would work, but it might. DiPrinzio was more optimistic. If you dont educate (students), I dont see how you can x anything, he said. To change the disparity between adequate services and inadequate use of them, HugEnglish said the Student Health Centers efforts will focus on education and awareness. In addition to what weve
always offered at our clinic, were trying to promote healthy behavior to students, she said. Jennings said that as the campus health education coordinator, that task falls to her. As part of the education program she is designing, Jennings said shes spent much of her time over the past two years developing a marketing campaign. The goal of the campaign, My N Crowd, is to provide UNR students with information on common health issues and how they can be prevented, as well as the availability of services on campus like the Student Health Center, Lombardi Recreation Center, the Counseling Center and others, she said. While the campaign is still in the design phase, Jennings said an early version of a Web site is online and signs and iers should be available soon. She said she hopes to launch the full Web site and the campaign in the next few months.
Jay Balagna can be reached at jbalagna@nevadasagebrush.com.
Fire
$75 Fee
the university affairs committee meeting. The week before, Reilly defended the proposal against a barrage of questions that lasted about three and a half hours. After that meeting, Reilly said the resistance from students that he saw made him realize the plan could not be pushed through as quickly as hed originally hoped. A mistake was made on my
part, he said. The senate needs to have more time to discuss this. Reillys backtracking came as a surprise to many senators, some of whom had come prepared to ask tough questions of him and his proposal. I was not (expecting it), and Im very impressed, Gracie Geremia, the speaker of the senate, said. Giving (the proposal) time will make it truly reect the student voice Its a mature and responsible way to go about this.
Before adjourning, the committee discussed ways the fee package could be split up and resubmitted to the senate to provide for a more thorough discussion on the matter. Reilly said he still hopes to see the fee passed and put on the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents agenda for approval, but at a later meeting than the December one hed originally planned for.
Jay Balagna can be reached at jbalagna@nevadasagebrush.com.
Biela
be, a necessary consequence of the investigatory process, he wrote. Perry also wrote that there might still be enough DNA evidence for independent review. Biela is accused of targeting
university-aged females near the University of Nevada, Reno during fall 2007 and early 2008, when Denison was abducted from a house near campus. Her body was found in a Reno eld Feb. 15, 2008. Two other female students from UNR were also allegedly raped, including a student studying abroad from Japan.
The DNA evidence, the use of which Bielas lawyers requested forbidden, comes from Denisons body and from another alleged victim. If convicted, Biela could face the death penalty.
The Nevada Sagebrush news staff can be reached at news@ nevadasagebrush.com.
only to the public, but also to rescue-team reghters who may be forced into burning buildings without the proper equipment. The university also presents special challenges that replacement engines may not be able to meet as quickly as a crew used to handling them, reghters said. Its almost like a city within a city. We have to bring our A game. Theres a lot of special problems that come along with (UNR), Jon Johnson, a shift captain for Engine 4, said. David Aiazzi, the city council member elected from ward ve, the part of the city that includes the campus, said the decision was made out of necessity. The city, facing a large budget decit, had to rein in the overtime. I dont want anyone to think these cuts are about public safety, Aiazzi, who lives four blocks from Station 4, said. This is more of a political issue than a public safety issue. Aiazzi said with the prevalence of sprinkler systems on campus, the close proximity of other re
engines and the low probability of an incident the rescue team couldnt respond to makes any reduction in public safety a negligible one. Buildings at UNR have sprinkler systems in them, Aiazzi said. Not all buildings downtown and in the rest of the city are sprinkled. While District 4, the district UNR is in, is surrounded by other engines, the nearest one, Engine 1 out of a station on Valley Road, is the busiest engine in Reno. Jane Tors, a UNR spokeswoman, also said the campus sprinkler systems were an important mitigation to any decreased level of protection from the re department. Johnson said Engine 4 is also involved in preventative measures on and around the campus to improve re safety, but as part of their regular duties and not as a result of budget cuts. The best way to ght a re is to make sure it never happens, he said. The crew of Engine 4 is working on tub les or cheat sheets of building layouts with the number of occupants and other statistics. The reghters are fo-
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cused mostly on fraternity and sorority houses around campus for now, Johnson said. I dont want to be guring it out on the y, he said. Engine 4 checked one fraternity Monday to nd the alarm system hadnt been serviced since 1991 and only one smoke alarm was working the one in a storage area few people ever enter. We want to work with the fraternities and sororities to get that compliance squared away, Johnson said.
Nevada Sagebrush reporter Jessica Fryman contributed reporting to this story. Jay Balagna can be reached at jbalagna@ nevadasagebrush.com.
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STAFF EDITORIAL I JOINT VISION PLAN
ASUN steps it up, needs to follow through
tudent leaders finally decided to represent the student body this week when they indefinitely postponed a proposal to implement a $75 university fee. It took several protesting students, but now the government has enough time to do what they should have initially done put the fee proposal to a student vote. Undergraduate President Eli Reillys Joint Vision Plan says the fee would pay for services such as reinstating a tutoring center and creating a
student activities center. But some students were concerned that the activities center would provide services already offered by the Associated Students of the University of Nevada. Some worried that students wouldnt have a say on how the money would be spent because the proposed fee goes to the university, not to ASUN. Others said they felt $75 per semester was simply too expensive. In response to their concerns, Reilly decided to disregard his artificial
timeline, in which he wanted to present the proposal to the Board of Regents in December, so the fee would be implemented sooner rather than later. No matter ASUNs decision, the regents have the final say whether to implement extra fees. Reilly asked the senate to postpone action on the fee proposal, and they agreed, showing that they are starting to step up as leaders and representatives on this campus. Student leaders shouldnt be creating articial timelines or
rushing to push legislation through the ranks when it greatly affects students and their pocketbooks. ASUN senators are elected to represent students in their respective colleges, so asking for student input shouldnt even be a question when voting on proposals such as implementing fees. The student government needs to take advantage of the fact that the timeline is no longer in place and put the fee proposal in the hands of students during the March elections. It would be
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STORY: COMMITTEE POSTPONES VOTE ON $75 FEE INDEFINITELY

On Nov. 05, 1:32 p.m., Shane wrote: Dont ask Alpha Wolf about motivation. Hes a horrible judge of character. Think about it this way. Eli truly believes in this plan (whether you call it legacy building or not). He wants to see it passed. It also understands the only way something like this works is if people buy into it. Therefore, what was hopefully an oversight or over-excitement, can be corrected by engaging the senators and developing a plan that students can contribute to. So the answer to your question is, it was both. But that doesnt make Eli a bad guy, it makes him a politician with a plan that learned a lesson.
Age changes view of Veterans Day
BLOG: BLACK NODDY VERSUS OTHER BLACK LAGERS

On Nov. 05, 1:52 a.m., Drunk Wolf (aka another dude who isnt retarded) wrote: Jen and others who made this point, This is a review. It is inherently an opinion piece. It is not news. It reects the opinion of the writer alone. There is no requirement to be objective in opinion. Period. If youre going to criticize the review, try offering some substantive points about why you think the beer is good. I drank this beer, and the reviewer is right. Did the brewers seriously use Truckee River water? If they did, one mistake (besides using river water) was to use water downstream from the water treatment plant. We found our mouths asking for an apology after drinking this beer, writes the reviewer. I agree. In fact, it was so bad Im thinking I might have an action for intentional iniction of severe emotional distress. Anyone who would sell this beer is just asking for it. But I guess there are a lot of people who like to drink crap. We should ship this beer to the CIA. It would make an effective tool for enhanced interrogations. If the brewers goal was to make a worser beer, congratulations, theyve succeeded. And even more congratulations to getting so many tools to believe your beer is the shit. Maybe these folks would appreciate a review of some very ne beer, like Bud Light, Miller Lite, Coors Light. Of course, they probably wouldnt get the irony of such a review. Shane may be right, he may be wrong, but thats the beauty of opinion: you dont have to agree with it.
hen I was a kid, Veterans Day was a dusty, obscure holiday. Mostly, it was just exciting to sleep in. If we talked about anything regarding it in school or at home, wars and the people returning from them seemed too far off to be tangible, like they had jumped out of books or movies wearing strange hats and olden-day clothes. Part of this probably came from the fact that the only person in my family who has been in the military was my grandpa and I didnt even know that until I was in high school. But something else happened when I was in high school. When I was 14, terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center and my transition from being a kid to an adult was marked with terrorists, anthrax scares, bombs over Baghdad, increased airport security and paranoia. When I went to concerts in 2004, the bands begged 18-year-olds not to re-elect Bush. Then I graduated high school and some of my friends joined the Armed Forces. Veterans Day suddenly became Emily about my peers. People I knew Katseanes would be going overseas in a few years. They would be shot at. They could die. Meanwhile, I went off to college. My early years there were marked with increased activity in the Middle East, Walter Reed, more security and more paranoia. My friend was flying from Chicago to visit me the day terrorists were arrested in London and liquids were banned from airplanes. I worried all day her flight would get delayed or cancelled (it didnt). What really started worrying me, though, is that kids around my brothers age were only eight when the Twin Towers fell. Their shadowy little-kid memories started with adults being worried about something they didnt understand. They dont know anything except an ongoing war overseas that moves in and out of the public eye. They grew up under that cloud of terror. But something else happened, too. When my brother was 15, the United States elected its first black president. Politicians began debating health care and exit strategies, not more spending and more war expansion. When I was a teenager, the band Anti-Flag released a CD called For Blood and Empire. When my brother was a teenager, Regina Spektor released a CD called Begin to Hope. So maybe things are changing again. Maybe my brother will write about growing up in terror and becoming an adult while the world started becoming optimistic and human again. I hope my brother will have a mental image of veterans as people older than him, not peers. I hope hell be able to say, My sister knows people who fought in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but I dont. Hopefully, Veterans Day gets a little dusty again. Just a little, not too much. Emily Katseanes is perspectives editor. She apologizes to her brother if writing about him is embarrassing. Reach her at ekatseanes@nevadasagebrush.com.
I dont think we really need these anymore.
STUDENT VETERANS
Veterans experiences parallel Reno escapades
saw this column as an opportunity to be a voice for the veterans on campus. Not to rant and rave about how everyone just doesnt understand but to walk down to Jacksons, grab a tall can and kill an hour. So, here we go. Only a few years ago I graduated from Spanish Springs High School and decided that shooting big guns and jumping out of airplanes was the best thing for my health. So I enlisted in the Army and found myself in the middle Seth of Iraq six Glass months later, doing exactly that. You might ask, What the hell does this have to do with college? Well, during this time I found myself thinking of home, but not the mamas-cooking-whiledad-watches-the-game kind of home. Instead, I thought of
the home where my friends and I cruised from Ralston to University on Friday night, the one where rush week meant free beers for 18-year-olds that walked into any frat. Yep, this campus was home. While writing this column, I reached back into my brain where the way to disassemble an MK-19 automatic grenade launcher and my call sign have been replaced with the denition of aggregate demand and the writings of Machiavelli. Ive been thinking of my experiences in the military that parallel those of college. Upon parachuting from an airplane one night with 80 pounds of equipment strapped to me, I knocked myself out. This happened again two years later, only this time I was falling down the stairs in a drunken escapade at the former OG house on 11th Street. The only difference was instead of waking up in a hospital, I woke up on a couch with two other dudes and no pants. Dont ask, dont tell, right? I can also say that if you ever wonder how cold it is on the highest mountain of Afghanistan, you should just do the zombie crawl in a caveman
COLUMN SERIES
S Seth th Glass Gl column l is i the th rst of a three-part series of columns written by student veterans.
costume. If theres one thing to take away from this its that the veterans of your campus are just like you. Youll see us everywhere and not know it. We arent the ones with the camo backpacks; were the ones walking around with the equally bad hangover from those damn 50 cent Breakaway drinks. Were the same students that hate midterms and love smashing University of Nevada, Las Vegas. If you ever strike up a conversation with a student veteran, you dont have to ask how we feel about Obama. Were ne with a drink and your sorority sisters number instead.
Seth Glass is a former sergeant with the 82nd Airborne Division. He currently studies political science. Reach him at perspectives@ nevadasagebrush.com.
CAMPUSCHAT
Where would you like to see our campus in 2017?
Id like to see more 24-hour facilities because even though 12 is pretty late for campus to be open, some of us like to study later.
Winning the WAC.
Alisa Singratanakul 22, biology
Joseph Maier 20, criminal justice
Abigail Pastrell 20, elementary ed. and French
Books online, so we dont have to pay for them, and more of a language department with more languages without them being cut.
Stephen Owens 22, biology
Id like to see activities expand, like expanding Lombardi and having more intramural sports and clubs.
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MEMO ON YOUR HEALTH
Scene in emergency waiting room When things reminds onlookers to be thankful go wrong, focus on positives to O power through
nce upon a time, there was a woman who had been discharged from the ER. She was in the waiting room, shrieking and yelling hysterically on her phone at her signicant other. She was so loud security had bolted to the scene immediately to monitor the cacophony that had been resonating all the way down to radiology. I was sitting behind the counter in my hospital uniform, listening intently. He was a drug user. He Memo had no job, no ambiSanchez tions and no means to even support himself, let alone enough to provide for this woman, her son or his addictions. He had just spent all of their money on his drugs, leaving her with close to nothing to feed her family or to take the bus home from the hospital. She wore a mask of painful urgency on her precociously aged face, the expression of a sick mother anxious to get home to her children. I immediately began to wonder how she was going to pay for her hospital bill. Even the most routine procedures in the emergency room cost an arm and a leg (so to speak), and she didnt have insurance. No one seemed to mind her noise in the least. Everyone just feigned carrying on their usual business as if they werent surreptitiously listening just like I was, as if the scene wasnt actually happening, as if she were some sort of ghost whose shouting couldnt be heard. Everyone in the waiting room who had been eavesdropping knew her situation was precarious. The thought of intruding on her for the sake of ones own tranquility seemed too minuscule and insensitive to justify doing it, so she went on with her shrieking and ranting, on the verge of tears. Theres always a certain suspense to each patients situation; a discomforting and untold story that tugs at your sympathy. Sometimes it even breaks your heart as you witness people who trudge through their difficult lives day in and day out. The complaints about wait times always cease when such incidents happen. Everyone is compelled into remaining content with what they thought was a dramatic and ungodly inconvenience in their life, which, in comparison to what this woman was facing, is nothing at all. Their wait time becomes just a blip on the radar compared to the apocalyptic doomsday they made it seem like before she started shouting. Its like everyone all of a sudden realizes just how good they have it, as if the dark and portentous clouds part, and the waiting room silently rejoices in the renaissance of their kismet. At the end of each 12-hour shift at the emergency room, I go home with the realization of how fortunate I am to have the life that I do. As the stress of fall semester weighs on all of our shoulders, the adversity of being a student begins to rear its ugly head. However, let us not forget that no matter what challenges we face in life, someone else out there always has it worse. A short time later, security had to intervene. The woman hung up her phone, ceased her shrieking, and reluctantly stormed out of the hospital and into the icy Reno night.
Memo Sanchez would like to remind everyone that a Memo a day keeps the doctor away. Reach him at perspectives@nevadasagebrush.com.
THE LAST HONEST REPORTER
Found professor knows nothing

fter three weeks of examination, it has been found that a University of Nevada, Reno teacher doesnt know anything. Dr. Sunny Funny Day, an American history teacher at the university for the past 30 years, was deemed by a council of school psychologists to be mentally unt not only to teach, but to take care of herself as well. This news came after city police found Day wandering around on the highway dressed in nothing but a shower curtain, launching her Casey own feces at passing Durkin cars. Dr. Day is one of the most serious cases I have seen in quite some time, said Dr. Po Chang, one of the psychologists on the council. After one hour we were able to nd out that she did
not know where she was or who she was, and that she lacked the cognitive skills to even form sentences. By the time she soiled herself in the middle of the examination it kind of sealed the deal for us that she was a very disturbed individual. Day has had a long track record of being accused of not knowing anything by former students. Previous reports describe Day as being not cool, giving out bogus homework and going off on tangents in class that made students totally pass out. News of Days mental handicap came as no surprise to some current students. She was totally lame, Michelle Wright, a 20-year-old history major, said. She would always make us get into these stupid discussion groups and act out moments in history for participation credit. She also graded everything with this check mark system, which was stupid because no one ever knew what grade they had in her class. University ofcials have also come
under criticism for allowing a person with such a skewed mental capacity to be a teacher for so long. Joe Crowley, former university president who originally hired Day, was shocked by the news. I am still trying to grasp how this could happen, Crowley said. I hired her because of her impressive credentials, earning her doctorate degree at Cloud City State University on the planet of Bespin alongside Lando Calrissian. She told me CCSU was known for their American history studies, but I suppose we should have looked into it a bit more. As for the whole soiling herself thing, we all thought that was just a clever party trick. UNR ofcials sent out a press release earlier today voiding the degrees of 17,843 students who took her class during her time at the university.
Casey Durkin hopes people get the Star Wars references. Reach him at cdurkin@ nevadasagebrush.com.
veryone has difcult days at work. Its inevitable. If life were perfect, we wouldnt be able to appreciate it fully. But what about those days when it seems nothing will go right? Youre late, you dont get breakfast, you make mistakes and arent given any room for fixing them. Last spring, I had one of those days. I work as an ambulatory veterinary assistant. On this particular day, we had a full schedule of visits to houses full of horses to vaccinate in Rancho Haven. North Reno was snow-covered and beautiful, but freezing. My job was lling syringes with vaccines (three different types in the spring), getting dewormer for horses ready, taking any necessary notes, occasionally catching the horses, writing bills and making sure we got the money or bill to the client. Hayley Spring vaccination clinics are tedious, Rasmussen but usually easy to get through. This day, however, was different. My alarm clock didnt go off, my brothers dog ate my breakfast and I was late. This was my fourth season of clinics since Id landed my dream job, but I was making mistakes when I should have known better and I was slow when we were on a strict time schedule. My boss was sure to let me know. After being told to straighten up a bit because I was slacking, I felt annoyed. But I realized this was completely my fault and trudged on. I wanted to admit defeat. However, I realized the inevitable happened and it was time to straighten up and put my game face on. This job is my life; it means just as much as school does to me. A few obstacles jumped out at me, but it was time to conquer them. I learned from that difficult day, so if another comes along, I can face it head on and stay strong. Just the other night at my second job refereeing soccer I felt completely defeated. After four hours of outdoor soccer in the cold with snow coming down on me as I reviewed sign-ups to make sure everyone had signed the papers correctly, I couldnt feel my hands. I worked until 11 p.m., had an impossible physics exam at eight the next morning, and was emotionally strung out. I wanted to run inside and be done. But I knew I need this job, and days like that will only come on rare occasion. I thought of that one bad day last spring and realized I cannot be defeated. I focused on the positives. This job is fun, I enjoy my coworkers and it keeps me with enough money to support my needs. The least I could do was work my hardest through the snow. Things go wrong. Life and work will never be perfect. But when the going gets tough, you need to toughen up. In this economy if you have a job, hold on to it. If something is not exactly right, fix it. Work to the best of your ability, even if its just a normal pay-the-bills job. And if your alarm doesnt go off and you dont get breakfast, suck it up and call in to let your boss know youre running late.
Hayley Rasmussen is a pre-veterinary major and rides big, pretty horses in her spare time. Reach her at perspectives@nevadasagebrush.com.
SEX ED 101
Sex topics romp from premature ejaculation to porn
should probably be honest about why I am doing this column. Am I a mindless nymph? Perhaps. Do I have the sex drive of a 14-year-old boy going through puberty? Probably. But really, I just want to make my mother proud, and writing for a college-level publication isnt the worst way to do so. She always thought Id be an author when I grew into adulthood, though I leaned toward glowing starlet or tabloid queen. Mother knows best, but something tells me she wont be putting these articles on her fridge like she does my lm reviews. Just a reminder, if you dont want to read about the clitoris or nonbreakfast table subjects, dont worry, the Sagebrush offers many different options for you. Dont want to read about me buying the morning-after pill? There is a fabulous music section in the Arts and Entertainment section.
Dont like blowjobs? Go check out how the Wolf Pack is doing in Sports. But really if you like sports, I think you might be partial to a good BJ as well. Allow me to introduce myself: Im a 21-year-old female who is currently single (Holler!). And though I am currently going through a dry-spell, sexfree existence (thats another column all together), I feel I can still write freely about love and lust. Im one of those chicks who is always wearing leggings instead of jeans with the oversized sunglasses, like a true indie cover girl. I enjoy stretching my vocal chords, picking the guitar and allowing my ngers to grace the keys. My best friend is a gay man and Im pretty much obsessed with my pussy cat. Gosh, perverts! Hes a black cat and I absolutely adore him. Yes, I am that future crazy cat lady. Ive been in serious relationships, as well as participated in meaningless sex. I enjoy porn. I also enjoy empowerment.
Just a reminder, if you dont want to read about the clitoris or non-breakfast table subjects, dont worry, the Sagebrush offers many different options for you.
This column will cover a wide range of topics from stories of premature Caitlin ejaculation to Thomas pornographic analysis for all you horny observers. I plan to thrust (yes, I went there) into each topic with as much originality and comical air as possible, combining both information and exploration. I plan to reach out to campus kids and distinguish what makes you all love, bitch and orgasm. Also on the agenda is unveiling the inner-most secrets from my personal life, much to the dismay of my ex-boyfriends and past lovers. Ah, yet another reason to delete me off your Facebook friends list. It is my belief that if one writes a sex column, one should be open to mostly everything. Im not going to censor or sugar-coat. Be aware though, disclaimers will be in action: Im not advocating anything. Im just some chick you dont know, informing you of current pop culture obsessions and alluring sexcapades. No half-baked notions; I promise to keep it raw, real and arousing. Basically, I want you to read this column then go masturbate. OK, not really, but if you want to, its totally healthy and normal.
And if you have questions or anything youd like to discuss, Id be glad to take them into consideration and get back with answers (or just come to The Wal on Thursday night). In fact, I want the future to be lled with campus interaction, so if your hungry eyes catch mine, come say Hi and we will rejoice in the alwaysawkward I think I know you from the Internet run-in. As a psychology major, I thrive on meeting and analyzing new people, so impress me with your wit and sex life. My promise: Ill make you look anonymous and bad-ass. Ill dish out what I think as well. Im no expert, but I am experienced. OK, that sounded slutty.
Caitlin Thomas is a psychology major and loves listening to metal while knitting. Follow her on twitter at twitter. com/catplaysmusic or reach her at perspectives@nevadasagebrush.com.
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youth, they are a sad wish that he could be a 20-something club scenester. Cuomo will go so far as to call friends homies, and providing such out-of-place lyrics as, I cant stop partying, partying / I gotta have Patron / I gotta have the E / I gotta have a lot of pretty girls around me. Rivers, you need to put down the Patron and die with whatever honor you still have left. As far as good parts, you really cant nd any that would be considered good in the realm of the traditional Weezer sound. If you were just thinking of music as a whole, then I would recommend the rst single (If Youre Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To, which is a pretty good, catchy mega pop-rock song. Also the song Let It All Hang Out would make a good unreleased Maladroit B-side. I feel betrayed. This felt like a spit in hardcore fans faces for their midlife music crisis. This album earns a F+, with (If Youre Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To giving them the +. This very well may be the last Weezer CD I ever pick up.
Casey Durkin can be reached at cdurkin@nevadasagebrush.com.
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Weezer
Glee
Aliens
Cant Stop Partying. Oh, did I mention Lil Wayne is in Cant Stop Partying? That is right, people, whatever god you believe in, he hates you. Dont get me wrong, I like Lil Wayne in a ridiculous college party environment like anyone, but denitely not in any Weezer song, ever. Even worse, the lyrics are shallower than ever. The general subject matter in most of the songs on the album is about out-of-reach hot girls, school problems and various things that plague the life of a preteen. This has always been general subject matter for Weezer songs, but now it is at its most stupid, creepy and weird. Let me also state that Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer and mastermind behind Weezer, is 39, making these adolescent songs sad. Its almost like Weezers lyrical content reverted to this weird fascination with subjects left untouched back in the band members childhoods. If the lyrics arent about an old man reminiscing about his
throughout the CD, the rst half of the album contains more of the upbeat and recognizable tunes, whereas the closing numbers are the slower, more obscure ones. Dancing with Myself, originally performed by Generation X, showed that perhaps it is possible for the Glee cast to do a less-thanfantastic cover of a song. The melancholy rendition by Kevin McHale, who plays Archie, is less like the upbeat original and more reminiscent of the woe-is-me song, Mr. Cellophane, from the musical Chicago. All in all, Glee: The Music delivers exactly what it promises in the form of audience favorites from the show, along with a fresh new take on loved songs, both old and new. Glee can be seen on Fox at 9 p.m. Wednesdays.
Jerri Cuerden can be reached at arts-entertainment@nevadasagebrush.com.
idea of who is skeptical of aliens intentions, who will be worshiping them and who may even be an alien themselves or not. One other thing about the show that has been discussed is some of the undertones alluding to the Obamamania. Elements such as a pretty person coming into town promising all of these great things, including universal health care, which was even stated word-forword in the first episode, does make you wonder
about the producers actual intentions. Personally, I think it is intriguing, but not particularly important and bit a overanalyzed. Ill let conservative conspiracy theorists cry over it for the both of us. For the most part, the pilot of V left me satisfied and eager for more. Despite the plot holes and the fast-paced nature of the show, I think this is a very nice change for ABC sci-fi dramas unlike the slow-as-molasses shows such as Lost and FlashForward.
Casey Durkin can be reached at cdurkin@nevadasagebrush.com.
Goats
Alright, Im done slamming the movie. Lets look at the pros: Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. Their characters had more complexity than the two leads and were far more entertaining. In one scene, Bridges frolics in a large eld with hippies. Genius. Ultimately, it was entertaining, even if there wasnt a conclusion to the lm. All the acid dropping is enough reason to rent it.
Caitlin Thomas can be reached at arts-entertainment@nevadasagebrush.com.
Out-of-the-box lm surprises
James Mardsen and Cameron Diaz costar in The Box, which questions whether a strangers life or a million dollars is more important to them. By Caitlin Thomas
When audiences last saw director Richard Kelly, he showed an unimpressive piece entitled Southland Tales that nearly imploded instantly, struggling with an illogical plotline not even justied in its science ction genre. Before that, Donnie Darko, Kellys rst big lm, broke indie barriers, becoming a cult classic and even dragging up an unnecessary sequel, Samantha Darko, which Kelly didnt take a major part of. At this point, it was unclear what path Kelly would choose for his next project. Luckily, his latest effort is rife with overwhelming nostalgia that reeks more of Donnie and less of the Southland stench. Based on the short story Button, Button by Richard Matheson, as well as an old Twilight Zone episode, The Box follows a couple who have been presented with a mysterious box and an even more mysterious scheme. If one pushes the button on the box, he or she wins a million dollars. Of course, an amount like that must come with consequences. When the button is pushed, one person will die, which presents the ultimate moral dilemma. Whats a family to do? Push it, of course! What comes next is a ride through the world of creepy and cruel escapades leading to even more horrid decisions and equally sadistic results. The lm is a great example of how to build suspense properly in cinema. From the evolution of the psychology of each character to the theatrical score and mood, it displays how a story should be told and how tragic the human form can be. Of course, the lm has shortcomings, like any other project. But its important to shed light on why this lm was solid and why other thrillers pale in comparison. The acting in this lm was very important, as it revolved around each characters psyche and how they listen to their conscience. James Mardsen (Sex Drive) and Cameron Diaz (My Sisters Keeper) co-star as the married couple presented with the ultimate deal of the devil. The always brilliant Frank Langella (Frost/ Nixon) plays the villain, if you could call him that. Thats the beauty of this lm; the bad guy is very difcult to pinpoint. Mardsen is always enjoyable in any movie. Other than his swoon factor, he also possesses the dramatic edge, making him smart enough to pull off both Hairspray and a multi-dimensional tale, such as the one in question. His role is very well acted. Langella is a veteran in lm for good reason, as he has the charm of an old man but can hold a terrifying grip on the dark side. And yes, Langella played the world famous Dracula, so, of course, a classical performance in this genre is expected and met. This leaves us with Diaz. Audiences know Diaz from countless romantic comedies. She is an Americas sweetheart type of actress, so what is she doing in this movie? Diaz holds her own with a clumsy North Carolina accent, and there is something to be said for her emotional scenes, but ultimately its hard to picture her in this role. Its a solid attempt from her side, though, and it does not stain the movie as a whole. Along with a mostly-believable cast, the lm mounts its suspense with a most essential tool: music. The score is quite intimate and plays on cue
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THE BOX
Release Date: Nov. 6 Director: Richard Kelly Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Mardsen and Frank Langella Genre: Suspense Rating: PG-13 for some violence and disturbing images Grade: B+
with each epiphany, but not in a spoofy way. This is always a difcult achievement but a richly rewarding one when done correctly. Yet, not all viewers will understand this concept. In all honesty, this lm shouldnt be presented on such a mass scale. A mainstream audience will not react to pieces like this; instead, it will be labeled as phony or melodramatic. Its just not for everyone, as it vibrates on independent levels. Most of Kellys work remains intense in the feeling of unknown sci- and deeper symbolism. Of course, you could just call me a pretentious hipster looking to scold the blockbuster army of Michael Bay lovers. Just know this before your next movie ticket purchase: If you dont want to see a colorful and open-minded piece of cinema, there is always Transformers 2, which just hit the DVD market. And I hear there are explosions!
Caitlin Thomas can be reached at arts-entertainment@nevadasagebrush.com.
InsideLook
A10
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
ALBUM REVIEW
Weezer insults fans with shallow lyrics

WEEZER RADITUDE
Release Date: Nov. 3 Genre: Indie, Rock Grade: F+
By Casey Durkin
Alright, I am going to put this on the table before my pent-up feelings cause all the blood vessels in my eyes to burst, leaving me blind and you articleless. I cannot look Weezer in the face anymore assuming you can look a whole band in the face. Raditude is the most atrocious thing that Weezer has ever put out. Ever. I thank the lord that my 8-year-old self never had to listen to this piece of crap, in turn ruining the band that probably single-handedly recorded the soundtrack of my adolescence. This album made me sick, literally. Now that we are past that, we can get down to brass tacks. For any die-hard Weezer zealot like myself, there is no question that it has all been going downhill. Though The Blue Album and Pinkerton can both be debated as being the best album (personally, I am in favor of The Blue Album and think nothing compares), the point is that ever since those two albums, each release has gotten progressively worse. I remember when the bands
UPCOMING RELEASES
TUESDAY/10
FLYLEAF MEMENTO MORI
Genre: Hard Rock Description: For the follow-up to the 2005 self-titled, platinum debut album, alternative/ hard rockers Flyleaf will release Memento Mori, named after a Latin phrase meaning be mindful of death or remember that you will die. The album will feature singles Again and Beautiful Bride, which were released earlier this year.
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL ALTER THE ENDING
Weezers seventh studio release Raditude features a collaboration with Lil Wayne and a conformed pop-hit feel.
fth album, Make Believe, came out and everyone thought that was the scourge of the earth as far as Weezer albums go, with shallow songs such as Beverly Hills. Raditude makes Make Believe look like The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. For the most part, Raditude solidied Weezers genre change into poppy randomness that we found traces of in the alsohorrible The Red Album, but nowhere in comparison to now. Every song is totally different, with a fading line of album cohesion within a certain sound. Raditude has so many different sounds that you will go from the obnoxiously poppy
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Genre: Acoustic Rock Description: The sixth studio album from acoustic rockers Dashboard Confessional, Alter the Ending, will be released in two versions, a single CD and a deluxe, two-CD edition that includes the acoustic editions of several songs from the album.
(If Youre Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To to the sitar-lled, Bollywood-sounding Love is the Answer, to the clubthumping rock fusion song,
UP - DVD RELEASE
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ALBUM REVIEW
MOVIE REVIEW
Glee cast covers new and old hits with style

By Jerri Cuerden
After catching onto the popularity of the hit TV show, Glee, Fox and Columbia Records released the rst installment of Glee: The Music last week, which features favorite songs from the show, performed entirely by the cast. It makes it hard to not jump out of your seat and sing along while listening. The show itself takes viewers back to high school with the social struggles and worries of ctional William McKinley Highs Glee Club, along with those of their instructor, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison, Hairspray). Glee follows the members of the Glee Club as they battle to t in and make friends, and Schuester ghts to bring the club out of the dumps and back into the limelight. Difculties arise when cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch, Julie & Julia) ghts to keep the Glee Club down and her Cheerios on top. Though the plot is entertaining and the characters are lovable and hilarious, the show is successful due to its collection of stellar voices and the musical numbers by the cast. The track list of Glee: The Music includes covers of songs that span numerous genres, from the hip-hop hit
Big names equal big failure

By Caitlin Thomas
What happens when you put some of Hollywoods biggest male actors in an off-beat comedy about paranormal powers and goats? The Men Who Stare at Goats is a comedy about the journey of fate and those quirky moments of feeling like an outsider. The lm is a look at the adventure that journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor, Angels & Demons) embarks on when he decides he wants to stop being a pansy, win his wife back and become somebody in this crazy world. His rst action: Go to Iraq. While not the wisest decision, he meets some pretty enthusiastic characters on his mission, like Lyn Cassidy (George Clooney, Burn After Reading), a veteran from a new-age army (think Inglourious Basterds, only with hippies) that includes the peaceful leader (Jeff Bridges, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People) and the spoon-bender (Kevin Spacey, 21). Believe it or not, this is based on a true story, although Im sure the real story was a hell of a lot more awesome than this wannabe mess. The cast simply didnt t in this movie. Telling the story of soldiers who think they have superhuman powers and practice on goats in an effort for peace, these men cant handle the comedic timing of the script. The dialogue should have been taken in a different direction. When dealing with such controversial and interesting material, you need the right players. Hollywoods biggest hitters were not the right players. This is not to say this movie wasnt entertaining. In fact, some parts were especially laugh-worthy, but there are just too many misses instead of hits. Take, for example, scenes where Cassidy tries to throw enemies off by simply giving them the sparkly eyes technique. Not only do the laughs just not deliver as often as they should, the movie cant move at a swift pace. It just drags with each scene, making each last longer than it should with the absence of giggles and long monologues boasting about being an outcast. We get it youre different, but dont lecture about it for the whole lm. While its understood this is a buddy movie with few female roles, it wouldnt have hurt to have some female interactions and maybe a little real action. Nothing really happens in this movie. Its only glimpses of funny scenes that are supposed to hold us over. This piece has absolutely no point, no big climax just ashbacks.
GLEE: THE MUSIC GLEE
Release Date: Nov. 3 Genre: Musical, Cover Songs Grade: BGold Digger, originally by Kanye West, to a stylish rendition of Neil Diamonds Sweet Caroline. The album starts out strong with one of my personal favorite songs from the show, Dont Stop Believin, which was featured in the rst episode. Although it seems unlikely that anyone could improve on the classic Journey song, I nd myself loving this cover almost as much as the original. The mix of the familiar guitar solos and great background harmonies add a very Glee touch to the song, and the leading vocals of Lea Michele as Rachel Berry and Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson denitely dont disappoint. Another favorite from the list is easily Hearts 80s ballad Alone. This song was the rst in the series to showcase the lead vocals of Morrison and also features Kristen Chenoweth (Wicked). The duet is one of the few songs on the album not done by the whole chorus; however, the two-part harmonies and nearly glassshattering high notes show the Broadway training of the two and leave nothing to be desired. The last half of the album, I feel, falls a bit short. Although the vocals continue to amaze
Starring: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer and John Ratzenberger Description: An elderly man, a young boy scout, a large bird named Kevin and a talking dog set off on a heart-warming adventure in a ying house propelled by colorful helium balloons to South America. In pursuit of nally achieving his lifelong dream, the man discovers more meaningful aspects of life. Genre: Comedy Rating: PG
THE UGLY TRUTH DVD RELEASE
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Starring: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler and Eric Winter Description: A man and woman join forces to teach each other about the ugly truth behind what the opposite sex is really thinking while dating. Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: R
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2012
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Chiwetel Ejiofor Description: This adventure follows the struggle of several people to survive the apocalyptic events that go along with the end of the world that will occur, as determined by many different cultures and religions, during the year 2012. Genre: Action, Sci-Fi Rating: PG-13
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS

Release Date: Nov. 6 Director: Grant Heslov Starring: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges Genre: Comedy, War Rating: R for language, drug content and brief nudity Grade: C-
PIRATE RADIO
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episode of Glee on Fox every Wednesday night starting at 9 p.m. The series is in its rst season and has premiered 8 of its 13 nished episodes already.
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OVERTURE FILMS
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branagh Description: During the 1960s, a group of rougue disc jockeys illegally broadcasted rock n roll music from a boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, outraging the British government, who did everything possible to shut the radio station down. Genre: Comedy, Music Rating: R
ROTTEN TOMATOES WEEKLY GRADES
METACRITIC WEEKLY GRADES
November 6 The Men Who Stare at Goats = 58% Rotten Disneys A Christmas Carol = 55% Rotten
The Box = 46% Rotten The Fourth Kind = 15% Rotten
November 3 Slayer: World Painted Blood = 80
Amerie: In Love & War =77 Rufus Wainwright: Milwaukee At Last!!! = 76
source: rottentomatoes.com (rating system: 100-60% = fresh; 58-0% = rotten)
source: metacritic.com (rating system: 100-61 = high; 60-40 =medium; 39-0 = low)
TheScene
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
A11
Star-crossed lovers to grace university

By Casey OLear
Calendar
TUESDAY/10
Widespread Panic at The Grand Sierra Resort and Casino Widespread Panic, often compared to bands such as the Grateful Dead and Phish, will begin performing at 7:30 p.m. for an all-ages audience. Tickets are $45. 2500 E. Second St.
ROMEO & JULIET

Wh When: 7:30 7 30 p.m. on Nov. N 13, 14 and 18 to 21. 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 15, 21 and 22. Where: The Redeld Studio Theatre. Cost: $13 on opening weekend, $15 on Wednesday and Thursday, $17 general admission and $15 for seniors, children and students.
Starting on Friday and running until Nov. 22, the Nevada Repertory Company will be putting on its version of William Shakespeares classic play Romeo & Juliet with a modern twist at the Redeld Studio Theatre. Its not a traditional adaptation, Jim Bernardi, the plays director, said. There is a combination of modern and period elements. I think that the charm for modern audiences is that it speaks to issues that are still relevant today. To me, what makes the play valuable is its relevance. The performers will take Shakespeares original material and incorporate contemporary elements into the costumes and sets in order to emphasize its modern aspects, such as dressing the plays soldiers in modern-day military attire. Its sort of a hodgepodge of Elizabethan style and modern conventions, Patrick Laffoon, a 22-year-old theater major who plays Romeo, said. We still have sword ghts and still use the Elizabethan language, but we try to make it relatable to the modern world without losing its roots. We wear modern costumes the guys wear jeans
WEDNESDAY/11
Hed PE and Insane Clown Posse at New Oasis Rock/hip-hop band Insane Clown Posse will perform with Hed PE in support of the album Bang! Pow! Boom! released in September beginning at 8 p.m. for an all-ages audience. Tickets are $28.50. 2100 Victorian Ave.
SATURDAY/14
Students and faculty members practice at a dress rehearsal for Romeo & Juliet, which actors will perform Nov. 13 to Nov. 22.
with knee-high boots, and at the party, they drink beer out of cans. Its mostly visual things to make it look like teenagers really havent changed over time. The cast has been rehearsing for the play for about ve weeks. Laffoon is involved in other plays at UNR and enjoys the challenge of Shakespearean acting. A lot of people shy away from Shakespeare or even look down on it, he said. I really enjoy it and am trying to get better. Its hard to do, not just saying the words but learning the lines to say in the proper beat. We do a lot of line work, where we go over and try to understand what each line means so we can relate the words. Although the play, telling the classic story of star-crossed lovers from two feuding families, is one of Shakespeares best-known, the company does not feel any more pressure than usual to perform to the best of its ability. I keep telling the students that he is still a playwright, Bernardi
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said. They have to approach it the same way as they would Tennessee Williams or Ibsen. Its interesting to watch them develop the characters and give them personalities, so theyre not just famous lines.
Casey OLear can be reached at colear@nevadasagebrush.com.
B.B. King at Grande Exposition Hall in the Silver Legacy Resort Casino King of blues B.B. King, who has been called one of the greatest guitarists of all time, will perform his famous hits beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $65 to $85. 407 N. Virginia St. Beats Antique at The Underground Oakland natives Beats Antique will perform alongside Coop Da Loop, The Bing Bong Twins and D6 in a dance, burlesque and belly dancing show for crowds 21 and older. The show begins at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $14 in advance and $17 at the door. 555 E. Fourth St.
New sci- series follows invasions
Modern Warfare sequel stirring
n recent years, a new genre of doomsday, worldwide, life-changing phenomena-themed movies and TV shows has become prevalent. My guess is all this Mayan calendar crap that has been a big fad recently has something Casey to do with Durkin it, but the point is that people just love the thought of horrible, terrifying things happening to us. ABC apparently is humanitys dominatrix of sorts by pushing two of these shows on us one is FlashForward, a show about everyone in the world fainting and mysteriously becoming psychic for a couple minutes. The other is the incredibly hyped remake of the 1983 miniseries V. The general premise of V is virtually an alien invasion of Earth, but without explosions so far. All of the visitors look human and y around in these big WALL-E-type spaceship cities and offer to cure all diseases in exchange for water and other easily obtainable resources. Never has cheap labor been so awesome. One of the great things that the show offers, which you will find out quickly, is that the pacing of the story line is so fast that cliffhangers last about three minutes. Ultimately, one episode of V covers what other shows would need a season to do. But sometimes this can be a little silly. Literally three minutes into the show, the ground starts to shake violently and everyone curiously walks outside to see whats going on, only to nd spaceships the size of Reno hovering above New York City and other major cities around
V AIR TIMES
V airs i at t 5 p.m. Paci P ic time every Tuesday on ABC. V is a science-ction television show that documents aliens invasion of Earth.
the world. Naturally, humanity is catapulted into utter chaos, running around screaming and most likely trying to recount how Tom Cruise dealt with the situation in War of the Worlds. But all of a sudden, this pretty lady appears on a giant screen on the underbelly of the ship telling humanity that they are really thirsty, but rule at curing AIDS. And what does everyone do? They think about it for a minute, clap and get on with their lives. And by 20 minutes (three weeks) into the show, the people of Earth are ying around in alien spaceships, getting alien internships and nding interspecies love interests. Let me reiterate that it has been 20 minutes into a 45-minute long show and people are zipping around New York City in odd spaceships, chilling with creatures that humanity has never seen. I dont know about you, but I am pretty sure, regardless of what they say, I would still have a pair of pants full of poop scared out of me. But I digress. Much like other shows of this genre, the characters are all of these different-yet-typical groups of people you know will all have something to do with each other by the end of the episode: a single mom/FBI ofcer and her hoodlum teenage son, a hot shot TV reporter, a priest and so on, giving you the impression that they will soon get on a plane and get stranded on an island creating Lost: The Next Generation. As the show goes on, like the plot, the characters are eshed out quickly, giving an
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the latest rst-person shooter game to come from Innity Ward the sixth addition to the Call of Duty series and sequel to 2007s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
mong online petitions and record breaking pre-order numbers, the juggernaut that is Modern Warfare 2 is now officially on store shelves. The sequel to the critically acclaimed Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has stirred the Garrett hardcore Estrada gaming audience into a frenzy. But what makes this shooter different from all the others, and why are some gamers so mad? It starts with the games developer, Infinity Ward. The founders of the Call of Duty franchise have yet to produce a less than stellar product. Their track record goes all the way back to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (then under the name of 2015) and has gone on to produce Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. According to Activision, the studios publisher, the first Call of Duty received more than 70 Game of the Year
INFINITY WARD
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nominations from various gaming publications. It is this successful past that often generates a lot of hype toward any new Infinity Ward game. This has had a noticeable effect at GameStops around the country, as they have reported that Modern Warfare 2 has set a new record for pre-orders, passing previous champ Halo 3. However, that number is slightly misleading since Modern Warfare 2 is for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC instead of just the Xbox 360, as Halo was. Not all news has been good news though for the Infinity Ward team, as many PC gamers have voiced their disapproval toward some of the new changes to the game, mainly the removal of dedicated servers in favor of a new matchmaking system. While this is general practice for console games, PC gamers have often used dedicated servers to create custom experiences with the game, such as mods or clan matches. Online petitions and boycotts of the game have sprung up in the PC community. Infinity Ward released a statement saying that the changes were made to make the game more accessible and that the unhappy gamers only represent a vocal
minority. As a sequel to the fourth Call of Duty, the game has many new additions. Cooperative missions mark a first for the Modern Warfare series, as well as third-person perspective battles for online multiplayer. Coupled with the wildly popular competitive multiplayer of the last Modern Warfare and cinematic single-player campaign, some gamers expect the newest iteration to be another Game of the Year contender. Game industry analyst Michael Pachter said in an episode of the Web podcast The Bonus Round that he expects Modern Warfare 2 to be the best selling game of the year, and has a possibility of setting sales records worldwide. Whether or not that happens will be determined by how effective the online boycotts really are, but Pachter doesnt believe they will make much of a dent. Modern Warfare 2 is a first-person shooter and sells for $59.99 on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The game is rated M for mature for blood, drug reference, intense violence and language.
Garrett Estrada can be reached at arts-entertainment@nevadasagebrush.com.
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Arts&Entertainment
A12
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Instant cameras lend old-time feel to new photos
Megan Matthers, a 21-year-old photography major, collects antique cameras and lms that she nds online and at local thrift stores.
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Students continue their love for Polaroid photography despite high costs
TARA VERDEROSA | TVERDEROSA@NEVADASAGEBRUSH.COM
A budding garden, friends giggling on roller skates and a plane passing through the sky during a beautiful sunrise are among some of Megan Matthers favorite photographs. Unlike many of her friends who also take photos, Matthers memories are not saved on a digital camera or stored on a ash drive; they are printed on old fashioned Polaroid lm. I really like Polaroids because when you take a photo, it becomes more of a group interaction with the photograph, Matthers, a 21-year-old photography major, said. Knowing what the picture looks like in the end makes it kind of like a science experiment. Its an awesome sense of instant gratication. Matthers, like many other students in the University of Nevada, Reno photography department, prefers to shoot photos with a Polaroid camera because of the instant results and unaltered sense of reality that a Polaroid offers. Making it easier and cheaper for Matthers and other aspiring photographers to take photographs, a group called The Impossible Project will start selling a new style of the cameras instant lm, licensed by Polaroid, in February 2010. The Impossible Project, based in Vienna, will cater to the niche of photographers who enjoy shooting with antique cameras. Since Polaroid discontinued its lm, Matthers said the price and demand for lm has skyrocketed, something that The Impossible Project aims to x. PolaPreminum, a company that caters to instant photography enthusiasts, charges anywhere from $15 for a 10-pack of photos, to $20 per eight photos, depending on the quality and style of camera a price that many students say is too expensive. Despite its rarity and increased cost, many students said they still shoot with a Polaroid camera because it helps achieve differently styled photos and offers an entirely different experience. The quality of the lm also lends to a specic style of nostalgic photography, Matthers said. Older lm often has a yellow tint which can create an old-time feel to the photo. Improperly stored lm (such as in the wrong temperature) and other ways to handle lm can also modify its outcome. Outkast started the worst rumor ever, Matthers said jokingly, referring to the Outkast song Hey Ya which tells listeners to shake it like a Polaroid picture. Shaking the photo mixes the ink, which causes the photo and colors to come out distorted, Matthers said. Also different from digital photos, a Polaroid captures the moment simply how it appears and uses chemical reactions in the lm to create the image, rather than digital photos, which often have their lighting and quality doctored. They are just fun and so much different, Kelci McIntosh, a 22-year-old photography major, said. They arent color corrected and its instant that specic candid moment. Catering to students who specialize in natural and antique photography, The Impossible Project worked out a deal with Polaroid, renting their former factory and using the old machinery to create new lm and mate-
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rial for the vintage cameras, Marlene Kelnreiter, a spokesperson for The Impossible Project, said by e-mail. The Impossible Project will release its black and white lm in February 2010, followed by color lm later in the year, both available in shops and online around the world. The Impossible Project t will also release a special edition lm for a new Polaroid camera aimed to launch in the middle of 2010. The Impossible Project was founded because cause of too much love for Polaroid photography, y, Kelnreiter said. We didnt want to watch this s unique invention dying without doing anything, letting etting the world become purely digitalized and awless. ess. We love the characteristics and the sensuality of Polaroids. olaroids. The new lm, which is being developed oped from scratch, will have a unique printing style le but will still maintain the iconic characteristics of a Polaroid including the frame and smell, Kelnreiter iter said. Although The Impossible Project has yet et to list prices for its new lm, the goal is to keep the he price at a low average, Kelnreiter said. Polaroid was once so amenable and affordable that the photography professor Peter Goin worked out a ve-year deal with Polaroid laroid where the art department donated ne e art photographic prints for lm that students dents could use, Goin said. Although students benetted from the prints, the chemistry-driven ven photographs required certain temperature ure management the department did not have, ve, which resulted in a huge loss of material, al, Goin said. Though Polaroid no longer sponsors s the photography department at the university, many students still use their lm and cameras for specialty projects and effects. Its the nostalgia, Matthers said. The lm is very expensive, but I save it for special things.
Matthers likes to take photos with her antique cameras rather than digital ones. Her favorite is a shot of the sunrise.
THE HISTORY OF POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHY

1937: Polaroid Corporation is founded. 1948: Instant photography is available to the public for the 1974: Polaroid produces more than one billion prints. 1976: Polaroid sues Kodak for copyright infringement about t
rst time. The Polaroid Model 95 camera is invented with Type 40 lm. The camera is named because of its $95 selling price, which is equivalent to $850 today. 1950: Polaroids millionth roll of lm is produced. Type 41 lm is introduced. 1956: Polaroid produces its millionth camera. 1960: Polaroid releases its rst automatic exposure camera. 1963: Polaroid releases its rst color lm.
Kodaks instant cameras and lm. 1985: Polaroid wins the lawsuit against Kodak. 1998: The platinum 500 and 600 lms are released. 2008: Polaroid announces they will discontinue and cease printing of all lm in December. 0ct. 13, 2009: Polaroid begins working with The Impossible e Project to release new instant lms and cameras.
Source: Savepolaroid.com
Soccer team drops WAC Championship

By Chris Muller
The Cinderella run of the Nevada womens soccer team nally ended Sunday afternoon with a 1-0 loss to Boise State in the Western Athletic Conference championship game in Boise. The loss snapped a season-high ve-game winning streak for the Wolf Pack. Nevada nished its season at 10-12 with a 5-6 record in WAC play. The Wolf Pack improved tremendously since soccer head coach Jaime Frias debut season in 2008, when it nished 3-14-3 with a 2-4-1 WAC record. Nevada made it to Sundays
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championship game by knocking off the New Mexico State Aggies 1-0 on Thursday and the San Jose State Spartans 2-1 in overtime on Friday. Fridays win exacted a bit of revenge for the Wolf Pack, which lost to San Jose State 3-1 in Reno on Oct. 16. Frias was very upbeat about the improvement his team showed this year. (Im) extremely proud of the group, he said. Weve had to
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Three Pack players named to all-tournament team

work really, really hard to turn this (program) around. When I say we, its the players, the coaching staff, the trainers: everyone that was involved. Nevada goalkeeper Marie Cove, forward Natalie Ratnavira and midelder Anabelle Allen made the All-WAC Tournament team. Frias called the postseason selections a real testament to all their hard work.
Jaime Frias
In his second year with the program, Nevada soccer head coach Jaime Frias led his team to the conference championship.
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N Nevadas d soccer team t lost l t to t B Boise i State St t 1 1-0 0S Sunday d in i the th Western Athletic Conference championship game. The Wolf Pack ended the 2009 season with a 10-12 record, more than triple its win total from last season. Goalkeeper Marie Cove, forward Natalie Ratnavira and midelder Anabelle Allen were named to the All-WAC Tournament team. Nevada will lose three seniors this year: Nikki McEachern, Whitney Gilson and Devin Noe. Forward Natalie Ratnavira led the Wolf Pack in goals with ve and was second on the team in assists with two. Nevada won ve conference games during the regular season. The mark is the highest in school history. Head coach Jaime Frias now has a cumulative record of 13-26-1 in two seasons with the Wolf Pack. Nevada was 0-2 against Boise State during the 2009 season.
Theyve all matured tremendously as players throughout the course of the season, he said. I think they peaked right at the right time.
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SKIING ON SLIPPERY SLOPE
Illustrious history backs long-lasting university team

By Lukas Eggen
Nevadas ski team has one of the most storied histories of any team at the school. The team was created in 1936 with the help of Wayne Poulsen, the founder of Squaw Valley USA resort and ski area. Since its inception, the ski team has hosted the NCAAs rst downhill skiing champion (Pat Meyers), won a national championship and had numerous All-Americans. This long history has not been lost on current coaches. This teams been around for over 70 years, head alpine coach Evan Weiss said. This teams a lot bigger than the athletes we have out here and bigger than the administration. Its had a long tradition. Since 1994, the ski team has finished in the top-10 at the NCAA Championships seven times, had 35 All-American athletes and has four individual titles. One of those All-Americans was Chelsea Holmes, who competed for Nevada from 2006-09. Holmes said the ski team gave him some of the best times of her collegiate life. It was the best experience I
SKIS HISTORY
Th The ski ki t team b began i in 1936 and was founded by Wayne Poulsen. Since 1994, the Wolf Pack has seven top-10 nishes at the NCAA Championships. Chelsea Holmes competed for Nevada from 2006-09. She received All-American honors in 2008 and is one of 35 All-Americans since 1994.
had in college, Holmes said. I wouldnt have traded it for anything. Warren Lerude, a journalism professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism, also has fond memories of competing for the ski team in 1956. For me, it was very thrilling to be on the University of Nevada ski team which had been a ranked team, Lerude said. And although they enjoyed their time, alumni are also impressed with the way the team has developed since theyve been gone. Cliff Whiteley, who was on the ski team from 1983-87, is pleased with the advancements
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Despite a history of success, Nevadas ski team is in danger of being cut. The team needs to raise $500,000 in order to stay operational over the next four years.
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Nevada needs 125K per year to cover operating budget

By Lukas Eggen
evadas ski team has experienced success in recent years that other sports teams only dream of. Along with alpine head coach Evan Weiss, Nordic head coach August Teague has helped the ski team develop into one of the schools most successful programs year after year. The team has nished in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships three times since Coach Teague arrived in 2005. Despite the success, the ski team is in danger of being cut. The team lost its oper-
ating budget, meaning the team must raise $500,000 (enough money for the next four years) this season if it wants to continue. But the team is not ready to go quietly. With a fundraiser set for this Friday through Sunday, the skiers hope to save the team they love.
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When freshman Nicole Poleschuck joined the Wolf Pack, she knew she was making the right choice.
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Th The ski ki t team will ill b be sponsoring i th the ski swap Nov. 13-15. Event will be at the Livestock Events Center at the Washoe Country Fairgrounds.
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Nevadas ski team, which began in 1936, is one of the schools oldest and most successful sports programs at the university.
Four Pack runners go over 100 yards, tie NCAA record

By Juan Lpez
All season Nevada players and coaches have been telling anyone who will listen that they have one of the deepest and most talented running back groups, not only in the Western Athletic Conference, but in the nation. Sundays nationally televised game against San Jose State went a long way in proving their point. The Wolf Pack (6-3, 5-0 WAC) had four players (quarterback Colin Kaepernick and running backs Luke Lippincott, Lampford Mark and Vai Taua) rush for more than 100 yards, making it only the sixth team in NCAA history to achieve this feat. It just reinforces the fact that weve been saying all year that we have such good depth at the running back position, said Lippincott who rushed for 112 yards. We expect that much from Lampford Mark. We expect him to do as well as Vai does, we expect me to do as well as Vai does that just proves how good our running game is. Even Nevada football head coach Chris Ault, who is usually reserved about individual statistics, was in awe of his teams performance. Somebody told me that was a record, Ault said after being asked about his teams accomplishment. Well, thats pretty special. That says an awful lot about your (offensive line and tight ends). The Wolf Pack had little trouble moving the ball on the ground, averaging 8.8 yards per carry (517 yards on 59 attempts). In all, eight players carried the ball for Nevada and ve scored a rushing touchdown. Lippincott said that rotating ball carriers never lets opposing defenses rest. Whats cool is that we have a
BY THE NUMBERS
Breaking down the Wolf Packs performance.
is the number of Nevada players who rushed for more than 100 yards.
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is the number of games in a row that Nevada has won this season.
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is the number of rushing touchdowns Nevada scored against the Spartans.
Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick reaches for the end zone during his teams 62-7 victory against San Jose State. Kaepernick nished the game with 118 rushing yards and three touchdowns.
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Football
vs. Fresno State 1:05 p.m. Saturday
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THE SKINNY: The Wolf Pack absolutely dominated San Jose State. But, with a short week to prepare, Nevada faces the red-hot Bulldogs, who are on a ve-game winning streak. This game has major implications for the Wolf Packs conference title hopes and features two of the best rushing attacks in the nation.
Mens basketball
vs. Chico State 7:05 p.m. Tuesday vs. Montana State 7:05 p.m. Saturday
THE SKINNY: Nevada kicks off its season when it hosts Montana State for the teams rst regular season game. The Wolf Pack will begin its era under new head coach David Carter. Sophomore Luke Babbitt and junior Armon Johnson will lead Nevada once again this season as the Wolf Pack tries to improve on last season, when the team advanced to the WAC Championship game before losing to Utah State.
The mens basketball team opens its regular season Nov. 14 when it hosts Montana State.
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Volleyball
vs. New Mexico State 7 p.m. Thursday vs. Louisiana Tech 5 p.m. Saturday
Games to watch before break
THE SKINNY: Its ofcially crunch time for the Wolf Pack. With three matches remaining until the Western Athletic Conference Tournament and the Pack ghting for the last spot in the tournament, the team needs a strong performance at home.
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Despite starting the season 0-5, Nevadas soccer team nished the season 10-11 and made it to the Western Athletic Conference Tournament Championship game. The Wolf Pack more than tripled its win total from last season.
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Womens basketball
vs. CSU Monterey Bay 7 p.m. Friday vs. UC Santa Barbara 7 p.m. Monday
THE SKINNY: After winning its preaseason game, the womens basketball team begins its regular season against CSU Monterey Bay and UC Santa Barbara. Head coach Jane Albright will be looking for more players to step up, as Nevada lost three starters from last seasons team. Guard Johnna Ward should be one of the leaders of the team.
My four words to all who doubted me: I told you so.
The Wolf Packs last regular season football game is a visit to Boise to take on the Broncos. Nevada has not beaten Boise State in over a decade, but the Broncos have shown signs of weakness over the last few games. Nevada could potentially be heading into the game with an eight game winning streak, meaning it could be Nevadas best chance to beat Boise State in a while.
FOOTBALL: BOISE STATE
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WHOS HOT
KYLIE HARRINGTON VOLLEYBALL Junior Kylie Harrington recorded a team-high 14 kills and the Wolf Pack recorded its rst road victory of the season against San Jose State on Saturday. In addition, Harrington added seven digs and one ace as Nevada picked up a much needed victory to snap a two-match losing streak.
WHOS NOT
SPECIAL TEAMS FOOTBALL While its true Nevada ran all over San Jose State on Saturday, the special teams once again failed to look special. Nevada placekicker Ricky Drake missed a eld goal and an extra point, something that a placekicker should not be missing at this point in the season. With games against Fresno State and Boise State looming, the Wolf Packs special teams play must improve if it wants to win.
have a confession to make: Since the moment the soccer teams season ended, I looked forward to writing this column. I couldnt help but feel just a little satisfaction. As the soccer team advanced to the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament, one thought crossed my mind: I knew it. After all the questions and teasing for backing the Wolf Pack soccer team, I couldnt resist the chance Lukas to nally say, I Eggen told you so. Although the Wolf Pack lost in the championship game to Boise State 1-0, it doesnt take away from the fact that the team had an amazing season that almost no one thought was possible this year. At the beginning of the season, how many people predicted Nevadas soccer team would nish the season with a winning record in conference play and make it all the way to the WAC Championship game? And, after the team started the season 0-5, how many people predicted the Wolf Pack would become a major force in the WAC and come within a game of qualifying for the NCAA Tournament? Thats what I thought. There was, however, one person
who kept the faith. One person who said the soccer team needed more time to get better. One person who refused to condemn head coach Jaime Frias to be red. That person would be yours truly. On Sept. 8, I wrote that Coach Frias deserved more time to revive the soccer program. Mind you, this is when the Wolf Pack was winless on the season, had a grand total of one goal, and the Wolf Pack was coming off a season where the team won only three games total. In addition, the Wolf Pack lost two of its top scorers from the previous season. Coupled with the 0-5 start, it seemed like it was possible that the Wolf Pack could nish the season without a single victory. To many people, it looked like I had completely lost my mind. Not that I could blame them. I mean, there really wasnt too much, if any, evidence that the Wolf Pack was about to turn the corner and get better. But, I believed this team was not nearly as bad as its record indicated. The team was still getting used to a new coach and system and an early season injury to Cristen Drummond meant the Wolf Pack had to play without one of its biggest weapons for part of the year. But as Nevada slowly got healthier and gained condence, it became clear this team was a lot better than people thought. And after all the teasing I received from friends who, shall I say, disagreed strongly with me, I would just like to tell them all that I was right.
After the 0-5 start, the Wolf Pack nished the regular season 10-6. Included in that record was a 5-3 conference mark, which set the record for the most conference wins in school history. This isnt to say I wasnt shocked by the amount of success the soccer team had. I did not think a trip to the WAC Tournament Championship game was in the cards for this team. But, I did say the team would eventually get better. And, I think more than tripling its win total from a year ago counts as a step in the right direction. Besides the wins, this years team improved from last year in almost every category imaginable. Whether you look at wins, shut outs, goals, saves or conference victories, you name it and more than likely, this years team improved from where it was at the end of last season. Whatever struggles haunted the team last season were exorcised and the soccer team began to experience success that, at the beginning of the season, seemed highly improbable at best. So, even though the Wolf Pack fell just short of the NCAA Tournament, the team has made huge strides since last season. And for those people who said I was crazy for backing the soccer team, that Coach Frias should be red and said the soccer team was going nowhere, I have one message: I told you so.
Lukas Eggen can be reached at leggen@ nevadasagebrush.com.
Nevadas womens basketball team has won two-straight games against UNLV. However, the Wolf Pack will still be adjusting to life after Dellena Criner. Although the Wolf Pack will have seven games under its belt by the time it plays the Lady Rebels on Dec. 6, UNLV will be licking its chops at a chance for revenge on the road against Nevada. When the volleyball team hosts Louisiana Tech Nov. 14, it will be the teams last home match of the season. However, the match may mean more than just a tuneup for the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. With the Wolf Pack clinging to the sixth and nal qualifying spot, the match could have huge implications towards seeding or determining if Nevada even qualies for the WAC Tournament.
BASKETBALL: UNLV
VOLLEYBALL: LA TECH
While most of the focus will be on Nevadas looming game against Boise State, the Wolf Packs game against Fresno State could mean even more. The Bulldogs have won ve games in a row and are still clinging to a chance at winning the WAC. Nevada must defeat a dangerous and potent Fresno State team to keep its WAC title hopes alive.
FOOTBALL: FRESNO ST.
The mens basketball team kicks off its regular season Saturday against Montana State. While it may not seem like a marquee matchup, it will be the first meaningful game under first-year head coach David Carter. Fans will get a chance to see how forward Luke Babbitt has progressed as a player and if the nsition to coach Carter ha teams transition has gone smoothly.
BASKETBALL: MONTANA ST.
BY THE NUMBERS
IS THE NUMBER OF 100-YARD RUSHERS THE FOOTBALL TEAM HAD AGAINST SAN JOSE STATE.
ONE IS THE NUMBER OF ROAD MATCHES THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM HAS WON THIS SEASON. THE VICTORY CAME AGAINST SAN JOSE STATE ON SATURDAY. 2 IS THE NUMBER OF VOTES FRESNO STATES FOOTBALL TEAM RECEIVED FOR THE AP TOP 25 POLL. NEVADA HOSTS THE BULLDOGS ON SATURDAY. SIX IS THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN A ROW THAT THE FOOTBALL TEAM HAS WON, THE TEAMS LONGEST STREAK SINCE JOINING THE WAC. 279.2 IS THE NUMBER OF TOTAL YARDS QUARTERBACK
COLIN KAEPERNICK IS AVERAGING PER GAME THIS SEASON. THE TOTAL RANKS SECOND IN THE CONFERENCE. TWO IS THE NUMBER OF MENS TENNIS PLAYERS THAT QUALIFIED FOR THE QUARTERFINALS ROUND AT THE GAEL CLASSIC NOV. 6-8 AT MORAGA, CALIF. 3 IS THE NUMBER OF GAMES IN A ROW THAT RUNNING BACK VAI TAUA AND QUARTERBACK COLIN KAEPERNICK HAVE RUSHED FOR 100 YARDS IN THE SAME GAME.
Nevada evada running back Luke Lipp Lippincott
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Mens and womens tennis teams share coaches

By Kara LaPoint
Tennis coaches Sylvain Malroux and Guillaume Tonelli already had their hands full last year in coaching the womens team to a top-60 national ranking. But this year, their task doubled. Malroux said on Tuesdays and Thursdays, he and Tonelli head out to the courts at 9 a.m. for their rst practice and usually dont leave until 4:30 or 5 p.m. A few weeks into the school year, following the resignation of former mens tennis coach Chad Stoloff, the womens coaches, Malroux and Tonelli, were put in charge of the mens team. Malroux said that the mens and womens teams still practice separately, meaning two different practices for him and Tonelli, who is also trying to balance a full graduate course load and compete as well. Its tough to be a coach/ player/student, Tonelli said. I have a lot to do on the side. By next spring, given the large number of upperclassmen on the squads facing schedule conicts due to mandatory classes, Malroux said the team might need three separate practices during the day. Beyond the time constraints with practice, Malroux and Tonelli said many other elements of doubling up their coaching efforts have presented signicant challenges. One of those is travel to competitions. Between the two squads, Malroux and Tonelli are already juggling travel schedule and the teams havent even entered their regular-season schedule. To reduce the number of challenges the teams are facing, Malroux said that he and Tonelli are hoping to get a third coach for the teams by January. Its a challenge right now, but its possible (to make it easier) if we have someone else, Malroux said. Malroux cited several other challenges he and Tonelli are now facing, which he said would also be eased by the presence of a third coach.
TENNIS TEAM
T Tennis i coaches h S Sylvain l i Malroux and Guillaume Tonelli are in charge of both the mens and womens tennis teams. Tonelli is also balancing a full graduate course load in addition to coaching. Former mens tennis coach Chad Stoloff resigned after the 2008-09 season.
One of those is not only divvying up attention between the two squads, but balancing the differences between coaching a mens and womens team. It is so challenging to go from one team to another, Malroux said, especially because to be good you need to do a lot of individual work. Malroux said that the women have been through a difcult time adjusting to the division of attention from their coaches. They were used to having two coaches full attention and now they have gone to the attention of two coaches over two different programs, Malroux said. But when Malroux is away with the mens squad, for example, the women go from two coaches whose attention is divided to just CASEY DURKIN /NEVADA SAGEBRUSH one another reason it would Tennis player Florence De Vrye, left, coach Sylvain Malroux, middle, and player Augustin Myard, right, sit at the University of Nevadas tennis be helpful to the squad to have courts. Both the mens and womens teams have dealt with the departure of former mens tennis coach Chad Stoloff. another coach coming in. teams together in many ways. Then they can be with different Of the women, he said, They They were not used to doing really now believe they can people at different times, he said. much together, Malroux said. be successful and win a lot of They may not have three coaches But now they always say good matches and beat just about all the time, but they will have luck when they leave and always anyone. three different options that way ask us how the other team did, it suits everybodys needs. And of his mens squad, which so that is nice. Although the women have he said is brimming with potenUltimately, Malroux said that tial: Its a matter of condence; faced a difcult adjustment in Another challenge Garcin to them too, especially since we losing the full attention of their said he and his teammates are picked them up so far into the as long as he and Tonelli can get thats the only thing they need to the help they need, he thinks change. coaches, the men have gone facing is getting used to a new semester. through major adjustments of style of coaching and training, But Malroux said that although the changes are a good thing for But regardless of the outcome, their own, including a period of especially since ve of them are the transition from coaching both programs, for which he still Malroux emphasized that its the limbo when they were coachless seniors this year. women to coaching men is vast, has high goals this year. players who make the challenges He said he hopes to have both worth overcoming. at the beginning of the year. Its very different training it is also complementary in teams ranked by the end of the Laurent Garcin, a senior on everything is different, he said. many ways. We are doing this for the the team, said that period was Malroux and Tonelli agreed Its actually a fun situation, season (inside the top-64 nation- players more than anything. extremely difcult. that introducing a new coaching he said. Its tough right now, but ally), and for the men to qualify Especially the seniors, he said. For the rst three weeks, we style has been a tough adjust- once its all in place in the spring, for the International Tennis To send them out on top would just didnt know anything about ment not only for the team, but I think it could be extremely Association Indoor Tournament, be the best gift to give them. a feat the women accomplished what was going on, he said. We for themselves as well. rewarding. had no practice and we didnt Its a big transition, Tonelli Malroux and Tonelli said the last year for the rst time in Kara LaPoint can be reached at know if we would be able to play. said. We are still getting used new structure has brought the school history. sports@nevadasagebrush.com.
We are doing this for the players more than anything. Especially the seniors. To send them out on top would be the best gift to them. Nevada mens and womens tennis coach Sylvain Malroux
MENS RUGBY
Rugby player racks up several injuries

RUGBYS ROUGHNESS
R Rugby b President P id t Mike Mik McBroom has suffered numerous injuries since joining the rugby team last season. His injuries include a broken ankle, a fractured tibia and several dislocated shoulders. The rugby team begins playing matches in the beginning of spring semeseter. Rugby players believe injuries are caused because of a lack of tness of the players.
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Mike McBroom has suffered numerous injuries since joining the rugby team last seaon, including dislocating his shoulders. By Lukas Eggen
Out of all the club sports offered at the University of Nevada, rugby has quickly gained the reputation of being one of the most brutal sports on campus. And, one look at the list of injuries rugby player Mike McBroom has suffered while playing since joining the team last season makes it is easy to see why. I have broken my ankle, fractured my tibia and dislocated my shoulder a few times, McBroom said. The injuries, however, havent deterred McBroom or any of the other rugby players from playing. In fact, it provides part of the draw to the sport. There are some more
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I have broken my ankle, fractured my tibia and dislocated my shoulder a few times. University of Nevada, Reno rugby club president Mike McBroom.
only kept him out a couple of weeks. And teammate Dave
Velez said it came as no surprise that he was able to recover from his injuries so quickly. He is very mentally tough, Velez said. Rugby is a rough sport, we dont have any players that would quit and let a little injury stop them from coming out. Despite the seemingly brutal injuries, team captain Ahron Osheroff, who has separated both his shoulders once, said the injuries have a simple explanation. After a summer of laying aroundyour bodys not ready for it, its going to hurt, Osheroff said. You just have to get used to it. Head coach Bruce Anderson, who has been with Nevada for 13 years, also attributes most of the injuries to a lack of training. In every sport you can get injured, Anderson said. If you go into a tackle wrong, youre going to get hurt. The way to avoid it is to be t, because youre always thinking. Once you are tired, you start doing things the lazy way and thats when you get hurt. Despite this, McBroom believes rugby, which is played without pads or helmets, requires a different breed of athlete. It is the ultimate test of speed, cardio and endurance, McBroom said. Only the strong can make it in this sport.
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injuries due to the fact that we dont wear any pads and it is full contact hitting but thats to me what really tests someone, McBroom said. A rugby match will separate the strong from the weak. McBroom said his injuries
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Team Nevada San Jose State Q1 6 0 Q2 28 0 Q3 14 0 Q4 14 7 T 62 7
Soccer
FRIDAY, NOV. 6
Team San Jose State Nevada 1 1 1 2 0 0 OT 0 1 T 1 2
UNLV
K Teo, N 0 Keeler, K 11 Richard, S 3 Noland, S 1 Jackson, C 18 Greenwood, E 7 Lau Hee, K 0 Makaiwi, J 0 Hef, S 16 Maurer, L 1
Nevada
Garvey, E Sei, S Harrington, K Baldwin, L Ji, E Yates, B Chang, K Vance, K Kelly, L Link, N Staker, J
San Jose State Rushing

No. Perry, P 5 Wright-Jackson, L 3 Moniz, B 2 Yds 15 13 11 TD 1 0 0
Nevada Rushing
Taua, V Kaepernick, C Lippincott, L No. 12 11 12 Yds 144 115 112 TD 1 3 2
San Jose State

Sh Butera, N Bohem, B Holm, K Santoro, A Belding, E Kamal, R Furner, S Lord, K Ingram, J Haughey, M Pacheco, H Bonadies, K Johnston, K Knopp, K Martin, A Pinkerton, L Phan, H Sanchez, L Totals 0 0 2 0 1 3 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 SOG 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 G 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Saves 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Nevada
Sh SOG G Cove, M 0 Smith, E 1 Voss, S 0 Allen, A 2 Noe, D 1 Erickson, J 0 Larot, R 1 Drummond, C 2 Ratnavira, N 2 Stott, E 7 Braman, L 0 McEachern, N 0 Mann, V 0 Broome, K 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 A Saves 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Passing
Att-Cmp-Int La Secla, J 19-28-1
Yds 226
TD 0
Att-Cmp-Int Kaepernick, C 9-14-0
Passing
Yds 122
TD 1
Totals
57
56
41
Receiving
SATURDAY, NOV. 7
Team San Jose State Nevada G1 18 25 K 11 5 7 0 6 1 0 0 5 Set 0 0 0 0 0 29 4 0 0 G2 22 25 Dig 1 9 3 4 1 8 10 6 6 G3 21 25 BA 0 3 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 T 0 3 K 1 2 14 9 1 5 0 4 0 0 0 1 37 Set 0 31 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 33 Dig 0 3 7 2 0 0 5 3 2 13 2 3 40 BA 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 10
Jurovich, K Harrison, J Beauchman, J Reyes, A Rutley, B
No. 6 5 4 1 1
Yds 110 59 49 9 8 Sacks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Yds 94
TD 0 0 0 0 0 Int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Long 32
Receiving
Washington, L.J. Puloka, T Wimberly, B Kelly, J Green, V
No. 3 3 2 1 2
Yds 71 32 25 17 14 Sacks 0.5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Yds 46
TD 1 0 0 0 0 Int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Long 46
San Jose State

Japhet, T McAtee, S Miraldi, K Zellmer, C Akana, A Andrade, C Tsukano, K Turner, K Miller, K
Nevada
Garvey, E Sei, S Harrington, K Baldwin, L Ji, E Yates, B Chang, K Vance, K Kelly, L Link, N Santiago, T Staker, J
17
Defense
Jones, T Ngatikaura, M Burns, T Tuipulotu, T Ihenacho, D Rodriguez, R Cole J Festejo, P
Tackles 13 9 9 7 5 4 3 3 No. 5
Bethea, M Frey, I Williams, D Miller, D Moch, D Brown, T Amaya, J Johnson, J.M.
Tackles 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 No. 1
SUNDAY, NOV. 8
Team Nevada Boise State 1 0 1 2 0 0 T 0 1
Nevada
Sh Cove, M Emith, E Allen, A Mann, V Noe, D Erickson, J Drummond, C Ratnavira, N Stott, E Broome, K Braman, L Voss, S McEachern, N Larot, R 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 SOG 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 G 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Saves 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boise State
Sh Ruiz, L 0 Roberts, L 0 Fitzgerald, M 2 Hickcox, B 2 Kickok, L 1 Jones, C 2 Saxton, S 6 Lommasson, A 0 Hill, M 1 Hendrix, M 0 Perenon, K 3 Walsh, A 0 Leewaye, C 0 Murray, J 1 Parks, E 3 Montoya, S 0 Robinson, C 1 22 SOG G 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 A Saves 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Kickoff Returns
Rutley, B
Washington, LJ
Totals
35
33
48
10
2009 WAC STANDINGS
Team Conference Standings Overall Hawaii 12-0 22-2 New Mexico State 11-3 16-8 Idaho 9-4 13-13 Boise State 6-7 6-19 Fresno State 5-7 12-12 Nevada 5-7 9-17 Utah State 5-8 14-12 Louisiana Tech 4-10 14-16 San Jose State 1-12 1-23
2009 WAC STATISTICAL LEADERS
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERS

Category Rushing Name Vai Taua
Category Name School Statistic Assists Dani Maufa Hawaii 11.50 /set Digs Christine Morrill Utah State 4.68 /set Blocks Anna McKinney Idaho 1.45 /set Kills Kanani Danielson Hawaii 4.06 /set
Statistic 105.1 yds/game Receiving Brandon Wimberly 67.5 yds/game Total Offense Colin Kaepernick 279.2 yds/game Punt returns Kaelin Burnett 24.0 yds/return

Category Name School Statistic Rushing Ryan Mathews FSU 162.11 yds/game Receiving Greg Salas UH 129.33 yds/game Total Offense Diondre Borel USU 291.7 yds/game Punt returns Chris Potter BSU 13.9 yds/return
WAC FOOTBALL SCORES FROM NOV. 7

Boise State (W) vs. Louisiana Tech at Ruston, LA Fresno State (W) vs. Idaho at Moscow, Idaho Utah State vs. Hawaii (W) at Honolulu, Hawaii 45-35 31-21 49-36
2009 WAC STANDINGS
Totals
Team Conference Standings Overall Nevada 5-0 6-3 Boise State 4-0 9-0 Fresno State 5-1 6-3 Idaho 4-2 7-2 Louisiana Tech 2-4 3-6 New Mexico State 1-3 3-6 Utah State 1-4 2-7 Hawaii 1-5 3-6 San Jose State 0-3 1-6
2009 NEVADA STATISTICAL LEADERS

Category Name Shots on Goal Natalie Ratnavira Goals Saves Natalie Ratnavira Marie Cove
Statistic 17 5 91

Category Shots on Goal Goals Saves Name Chelsea Small Rachel King Katie Graul
Statistic 101 12 115
BRIEFS
FOOTBALL
Boise State moves up in BCS ranking

Despite a scare from Louisiana Tech Saturday, Boise States football team moved up one spot in the Bowl Championship Series Rankings this week from No. 7 to No. 6. The Broncos defeated Louisiana Tech 45-35 on Friday; however, the game was much closer than expected. Boise State is ranked behind Florida, Alabama, Texas, TCU and Cincinnati. The ranking is the Broncos second-highest ranking in the BCS this season. The teams highest ranking came when the team was ranked No. 4 in the seasons rst BCS rankings. Boise State is also ranked No. 6 in the AP Top 25 Poll. Fresno State received two votes for the AP Top 25 as well after the Bulldogs defeated Idaho 31-21 on Saturday. This is the rst time Fresno State has received votes this season. The Bulldogs are the third team from the Western Athletic Conference to receive votes for the AP Top 25. Boise State and Idaho are the other two teams to receive votes. The Wolf Pack hosts Fresno State on Saturday and plays at Boise State Nov. 27.
meeting with the Bulldogs is Jan. 21. Nevada will follow up that game ve days later when it hosts Louisiana Tech.
MENS TENNIS
Two qualify for quarternals

Nevada tennis players Wessim Derbel and Kristian Kuharszky fell in the quarternals round of the Gael Classic on Nov. 6-8. In the Red A singles ight, Derbel received a rst round bye and then defeated Cals Tommie Murphy 3-6, 6-1, 1-0 (10-5) in the second round to qualify for the quarternals. Derbel lost to USFs Thai Tu 7-5; 6-3. Competing in the White A ight, Kuharszky defeated Connor Olson 6-4; 6-3 and St. Marys Yousef Bouzkouri 3-6; 6-2; 1-0 (10-5) to move into the quarternals. Kuharszky fell in the round to Santa Claras Tom Pham 6-1; 6-0. Also competing were Gabe Kanzelmeyer, Tony Bulich and Alex Daruty. Kanzelmeyer and Bulich were eliminated in the rst round, while Daruty fell in the second round. The tournament was Nevadas last of the fall season. The Wolf Packs next match will be Jan. 11 when the team travels to Hawaii to compete at the Training Camp Invitational. The Wolf Pack opens its conference season on Jan. 16 when the Wolf Pack takes on Hawaii.
State Aggies 72-62. Sophomore Luke Babbitt and junior Armon Johnson were named to the preseason all-WAC team. Utah State, which won the WAC regular season and tournament championships, was picked rst and received eight of the nine rst place votes. On the womens side, Fresno State was picked to win the WAC, receiving ve rst place votes. The Wolf Pack, which nished 18-14 last season, was picked to nish sixth out of nine teams. The womens team will play its rst regular season game Friday when the Wolf Pack hosts CSU Monterey Bay. The mens team starts its regular season a day later when the team plays Montana State.
in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL Draft.
FOOTBALL
WAC suspends replay ofcial

Western Athletic Conference Commissioner Karl Benson announced on Thursday that football replay ofcial Michael Goshima was suspended. Goshima was the replay ofcial during the San Jose State vs. Boise State football game Oct. 31. The suspension is the result of a play when a runner was called short of a rst down. Goshima conrmed the call after play went under review, however, after closer inspection, the runner clearly made the rst down. Boise State won the game 45-7. Goshima was given a onegame suspension which went into effect last weekend.
NFL
Burleson shines again for Seahawks

Former Nevada wide receiver Nate Burleson had another solid game for the Seattle Seahawks. Burleson had seven receptions for 75 yards as the Seahawks defeated the Detroit Lions 32-20 Sunday. The 75 yards was second on the team behind running back Julius Jones, who had 78 receiving yards. Burleson competed for the Wolf Pack from 2000-03. During his career with Nevada, he had 248 receptions for 3,293 yards. Burleson was originally drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the 2003 National Football League Draft. Former wide receiver Marko Mitchell recorded his rst two catches in the NFL as the Washington Redskins lost to the Atlanta Falcons 31-17. Mitchell had two receptions for 22 yards in the loss as the Redskins fell to 2-6 on the season. Mitchell played for the Wolf Pack from 2006-08 where he became one of the Wolf Packs leading receivers. He had 153 receptions for 2,763 yards and 22 touchdowns. He was drafted by the Redskins
WOMENS TENNIS
Team ready for nal tourney til January

The womens tennis team will compete at the Fresno Invitational this Friday through Sunday in Fresno, Calif. The invitational will be Nevadas last tournament of fall season. The Wolf Pack begin conference play against Hawaii on Jan. 11 at the Training Camp Invitational. Freshman Emma Verberne will be looking to continue her strong fall season after reaching the quarternals of the Wilson/ ITA Regional Championships at Las Vegas. Sophomore Florence De Vyre, will be looking to improve. Last season, De Vyre was named the Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year after going 12-14 in singles play. Last season, the womens tennis team nished 13-9 overall and lost to Boise State in the seminals of the WAC Championships.
BASKETBALL
Fresno, Louisiana Tech receieve votes

Louisiana Techs and Fresno States womens basketball teams received votes in the AP preseason poll. The Lady Techsters received 11 votes while the Bulldogs received three. Last season, Louisiana Tech and Fresno State shared the Western Athletic Conference regular-season title. The Bulldogs won the WAC Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Nevada will face both Louisiana Tech and Fresno State twice this season. The Wolf Packs rst
BASKETBALL
WAC preseason coaches polls

The Wolf Packs mens basketball team was picked second in the 2009-10 preseason mens basketball coaches poll. Nevada received one rst place vote and 53 points overall. The Wolf Pack nished the 2008-09 season with a 21-13 record overall and made it to the Western Athletic Conference Tournament Championship game before losing to the Utah
sports
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FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
Defense quietly stars for Pack
Ski
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Nevada running back Vai Taua said 30 to 35 of his family members showed up to watch the Wolf Pack play San Jose State on Sunday at San Jose, Calif. Taua did not disappoint, rushing for a game-high 144 yards on just 12 carries. By Juan Lpez
While much of the attention after Nevadas 62-7 bombing of San Jose State on Sunday was given to the Wolf Pack offense, the Nevada defense quietly played its best game of the season. Nevada held the Spartans offense to just one yard in the rst quarter and didnt allow them to gain a rst down until 11:19 in the second quarter. Overall, the Wolf Pack held San Jose State to 30 rushing yards on 22 carries (1.4 yards per carry). I was really pleased with (the defense) tonight, said Nevada football head coach Chris Ault after his teams win in San Jose, Calif. Were making progress right now and its coming at the right time. The Wolf Pack racked up three sacks and two turnovers in the game, but failed to reach its ultimate goal: a shutout. Im disappointed (we didnt get the shutout), but at the same time we still had a great game, said Nevada defensive end Dontay Moch, who had one sack and two tackles for loss in the game.
I heard that Nevada had the best skiing around the university and that the addition of Coach Weiss meant Nevada probably had the best coaches in the NCAA, she said. The ski program, which is one of the schools most successful programs, has attracted athletes locally, nationally and internationally, including junior Gustavo Johnson, who transferred from the University of Utah a year ago. I decided that skiing was important enough to me that Id try to nd a place to do it, Johnson said. August was kind enough to give me a spot on his team. He said I dont have a scholarship for you but join the team and see how it goes. Johnson is now on scholarship. Im really glad I made the decision to come here, Johnson said. Junior Amy Harris came to the team after taking a year off to try and make the U.S. National Ski team. Ive had a better time skiing here than my entire career, Harris said. Im so happy I came here. Its been the most positive experience and its good to have a balance between skiing and racing.
AVENGING THE LOSS

Toward the latter end of the 2007 season, Nevada traveled to San Jose State and came away with a bitter 27-24 loss. The win for the Spartans was their first over the Wolf Pack in six years. All throughout practice last week, chatter about revenge and payback could be heard from some Nevada players and coaches. Wolf Pack players who participated in the game had that loss in mind during Sundays game. We denitely had that loss in our head; it was in our head all week, Wolf Pack running back Vai Taua said. But we knew we just needed to come out hot and wed be good.
I need to apologize, because that was the worst football game weve played in the ve years that Ive been here. San Jose State football head coach Dick Tomey
Cabrillo High School in Lompoc, Calif. (about 250 miles south of San Jose). Taua did not disappoint, as he had a game-high 144 yards on just 12 carries. These numbers came on top of a dazzling 54-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, which was called back because of a holding penalty on offensive lineman Kenneth Ackerman. A lot of (my family) traveled far to get here so it was good to give them a little show, said Taua after the game, as a couple of his younger relatives watched from a few feet away. make the trip to San Jose. He didnt practice real well and were going to take care of some business with him, Nevada football head coach Chris Ault said about Ball after the game. After his teams 55-point loss to Nevada, San Jose State football head coach Dick Tomey was understandably angry. He said he did a terrible job of getting our team ready to play. I need to apologize, because that was the worst football game weve played in the ve years that Ive been here, he said. Thats a terrible reection of me as a head coach, the rest of the coaching staff and our players. Ive never witnessed an effort like that.
Juan Lpez can be reached at jlopez@nevadasagebrush.com.
CUTS WERE COMING

When the nal cuts to the University of Nevadas budget were released in June, Weiss knew the team had a rough road ahead. (Nevada Athletics Director) Cary (Groth) has explained it to us that because were not a WAC sport and because of the depleted participation numbers, our funding was getting cut, Teague said. The team no longer was going to receive any funding for travel, equipment or T-shirts. A plan was made for the team to raise $125,000 each year for four years in order to stay operational. We need to raise enough money to cover all our costs for this team to continue, Teague said. Once the news was conrmed, the team felt as though it was losing something more than just a team. I was pretty upset, Harris said. It kind of denes you and you lose a part of yourself when you lose something youve done your whole life.
FAMILY MATTERS
Aside from playing with revenge on his mind, Taua had more motivation to do well against the Spartans. Taua, who said 30 to 35 members of his family were at the game to support him, went to
NOTES
For Wolf Pack fans wondering why Nevada running back Mike Ball did not get a carry in the game or even see the eld, the answer is simple: He didnt
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

With the teams fate still unclear, athletes and coaches
are left to decide what they will do next if the team doesnt raise enough money. Weiss said he believes that athletes are faced with two options. They view it as an opportunity to prove themselves if they want to transfer or possibly their last opportunity to ski race so this will be the culminating experience, Weiss said. Poleschuck, who found out about the teams situation only a couple of weeks after committing to Nevada, had no idea what she was going to do. Im just taking it day by day, Poleschuck said. I really like Reno, but well see what happens. Johnson, who has already transferred once, said his skiing career would be hard to continue. Im far enough along with school that Id lose credits by transferring and Ive built a good group of friends here, Johnson said. I would try to train on my own as much as possible, but its pretty tough to continue to progress if you dont have the support of a team. For coaches Teague and Weiss, their future with the school and the sport of skiing is unclear. They were unsure of whether they would continue coaching elsewhere. Possibly, if the opportunity arose, Weiss said. But the opportunities are limited so well have to see. While athletes and coaches are left to worry about their future, the ski team as a whole has plans to try and keep the team alive. With the ski team needing to raise $500,000 total, or enough money to operate for four years, the importance of fundraisers has sky rocketed. The teams annual ski swap takes place Friday through Sunday at the Livestock Events Center Exhibition Hall. New and used gear and equipment will be for sale at discounted prices. The ski swap is the teams biggest fundraiser of the year and Weiss hopes people will show their support. The ski swap usually covers 30 to 50 percent of our operating budget, Weiss said. Were hoping people will come out to support us, not only to get new or used equipment, but because it could be a make-or-break with how much money we have to travel with. The ski team will receive 20 percent of the selling price of each item that is sold.
End of year
Junior midelder Alyx Sacks said the improvement from last season was unbelievable. We knew we were a competitive team all along and we were better than our record indicated, she said. Everyone else got to see it, especially after this weekend. With three seniors leaving and 10 of its top 11 leading scorers returning, the Wolf Pack already has high expectations for 2010. (Yesterdays loss) denitely leaves you hungry, Sacks said. Were going to get after it more next year. Were going to come back with a lot of re, thats for sure. Frias agreed with Sacks and is extremely excited for next season to begin. You salivate at the mouth, he said. You cant wait for August to roll around.
Nevada begins its spring training immediately after its return from winter break. Winter break is like their summer vacation, Frias said. Theyll get about four to six weeks off of little to no work, which lets their bodies rejuvenate and recoup. Once January hits and they report back, we hit the ground running with preseason training. Sacks said she actually trains for the season the hardest in the summer months. The summertime is our most aggressive training time, she said. We train on our own with a really strict regimen and package that (the coaching staff ) gives us. We have really tough tness tests that we have to complete (in August). As an individual, you need to make sure that you are completely t and ready to play next year.
Chris Muller can be reached at sports@nevadasagebrush.com.
Boise State players celebrate after winning the conference against Nevada.
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History
made by the team. In the last 10 years, the teams made big improvements, Whiteley said. Those improvements include ve-straight top-10 team nishes at the NCAA Championships. However, as news of the ski teams situation was released, former athletes and coaches said they were surprised by the news. I was kind of shocked, former Nevada coach Jeff Schloss said. Nevadas had a ski team since the late 1930s. The team seemed to get a little short sided. If the team is cut, Cameron Barnes, who raced for Nevada from 2005-08, thinks it will affect more than just the athletes involved. The ski team is a huge part of the community in the mountains, Barnes said. Part of the teams involvement is the ski swap, which is being held this Friday, Saturday
and Sunday. But if the ski team is lost, the ski swaps future is unclear. Thousands of Reno families rely on the ski swap to buy equipment on a reasonable economic basis, Lerude said. Unfortunately, according to Whiteley, the ski teams struggles to get funding are nothing new. In fact, the team operated as a club during the 1980s and early 90s. Historically, its always been very difcult to get support, Whiteley said. I dont know why its that way when so much of the community is involved in skiing. But with the ski team in danger of being cut, Lerude is quick to warn that Nevada would be losing much more than just a team. If the University of Nevada lost skiing, it would give up the heritage it has developed, Lerude said. Sixty-three years of heritage would go away.
Six in a row
lot of different styles of running backs, he said. We have Kaep, who runs the long ones, Vais a little shifty, and I like to get in there and beat them up a little bit. Its just overwhelming for the defense. If I was on defense, Id be like, Sheesh, these guys are 100 percent the whole game. Because were constantly switching in and out, theyre constantly seeing a new back. Taua said its been a pickyour-poison type of deal for defenses all season. We got four guys that can run and we got an o-line that can block like no other, said Taua who, along with Kaepernick, has rushed for more than 100 yards in three-straight games. We never let up. Kaepernick was quick to
point out how dominating the Nevada offensive line was. When they play like that, its going to be hard for us not to rush like we did, he said. There were many points in the game where a Wolf Pack ball carrier would march 10 yards and not have a hand laid on him. Nevada had 18 rushing plays that went for 10 or more yards. The holes (the offensive line made) were almost like truck sizes, Taua said. We could have got a couple trucks through there. Still with the best rushing attack in the nation (341.1 yards per game), the Wolf Pack will next face Fresno State (6-3, 5-1 WAC) at 1:05 p.m. Saturday at Mackay Stadium. Both teams come with long winning streaks (Fresno State, ve and Nevada, six).
Juan Lpez can be reached at jlopez@nevadasagebrush.com.
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at Notre Dame at Colorado St. L 35-0 L 35-20 Missouri L 31-21 UNLV W 63-28 La. Tech W 37-14 at Utah St. W 35-32 Idaho W 70-45 Hawaii W 31-21 BCS RANKINGS
1. 1 Florida Fl id 2. Alabama 3. Texas 4. TCU 5. Cincinnati 6. Boise State 7. Georgia Tech 8. LSU 9. USC 10. Iowa 11. Ohio State 12. Pittsburgh 13. Oregon 14. Miami (FL) 15. Houston 16. Utah 17. Arizona 18. Penn State 19. Oklahoma State 20. Wisconsin 21. Virginia Tech 22. BYU 23. Oregon State 24. South Florida 25. West Virginia 9 9-0 0 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-1 7-2 7-2 9-1 8-2 8-1 7-2 7-2 8-1 8-1 6-2 8-2 7-2 7-2 6-3 7-2 6-3 6-2 7-2
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Ground and pound will decide Fresno matchup

No. 1 rushing team will face No. 1 rusher in the country
By Juan Lpez
Lets be honest, Nevada hasnt played anybody worth mentioning (save Idaho) so far in the Western Athletic Conference season. Thats going to change this week. The Wolf Pack will host Fresno State Saturday at Mackay Stadium in a matchup of the two best teams in the conference, other than Boise State. The Bulldogs (6-3, 5-1 WAC) have won ve games in a row and have the best running back in the nation, statistically speaking. But Nevada (6-3, 5-0 WAC) is the hottest team in the WAC right now and has an offense that would scare the 84 Chicago Bears.
TALE OF THE TAPE

*National ranking in parentheses
Nevada
319.13 (1) 185.25 (96) 140.14 (32) 504.38 (2) 34.63 (15) 114.25 (31) 309.00 (119) 423.25 (100) 30.13 (97) 35.61 (64) 5.15 (108) 24.64 (20) -1.13 (114)
Category Fresno State

OFFENSE Rushing Passing Pass Efciency Total Scoring DEFENSE Rushing Passing Total Scoring Net Punting Punt Returns Kickoff Returns 169.67 (92) 213.67 (52) 126.02 (59) 383.33 (77) 22.44(43) 41.03 (3) 11.64 (32) 20.50 (87) 250.89 (5) 191.67 (92) 147.37(19) 442.56 (17) 35.00 (11)
159.99 (118) Pass Efciency
SPECIAL TEAMS/MISC.
*Bold indicates a school Nevada has played or will play this season.
Turnover Margin -1.00 (108)
AP TOP 25
1. Florida (39) 2. Texas (10) 3. Alabama (11) 4. TCU 5. Cincinnati 6. Boise State 7. Georgia Tech 8. Pittsburgh 9. LSU 10. Ohio State 11. USC 12. Miami (FL) 13. Houston 14. Oregon 15. Iowa 16. Utah 17. Oklahoma State 18. Arizona 19. Penn State 20. Virginia Tech 21. Wisconsin 22. BYU 23. South Florida 24. Clemson 25. Stanford 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-0 9-1 8-1 7-2 8-2 7-2 7-2 8-1 7-2 9-1 8-1 7-2 6-2 8-2 6-3 7-2 7-2 6-2 6-3 6-3
LEADERS
BEST INDIVIDUAL VS. BEST TEAM

Fresno State running back Ryan Mathews is the best ball carrier in the nation by far. He averages 162.1 yards on the ground per game, 27 more yards than the second-best players total. The junior back showcased his skills nationally earlier this year when the Bulldogs played Boise State on ESPN. Mathews didnt disappoint. He ran for 234 yards on 19 carries and scored three touchdowns. His three scores were of 69, 60 and 68 yards. He lit up the Broncos. Saturday, the best runner in the country will be taking on the best running team. Nevada averages 341.1 rushing yards per game and 7.3 yards per attempt, both of which rank best in the nation. The Wolf Pack has two players who average more than 100 rushing yards per game (quarterback Colin Kaepernick and running back Vai Taua) and has six players who have rushed for two or more scores this year. Their divvying up of the rushing responsibility means one sole stand so ole guy guy will no not t stan a d out, but Kaepernick made it clear that this take anything away teamthis fact fac fact t does does n not ot t tak ake e an anyt ythi hing ng a way wa y fr from om him him and and his his tea t eamm mates. ma Our is more spread out, said. Last night, O offense off ffen ense ei s mo re s spr prea ead d ou out t, he s sai aid. d. Last La st n ight ig ht, , we had (running) had four four people peo p eopl ple e go f for o 100 yards. You keep p one (ru running) back in there time, back t ere the whole t th ime me, , it might be one ba b ck k for for 350 50 (yards) something like that. (y yards ds) or s omet thi hing l lik ike e th that at. Whether theyre Mathews or th the Wolf Whet the her r th they yre from m Mat the hews ws o t e Wo W lf Pack backs, s, this promises yards. this game g gam me pr prom omis ises t to see e about 800 rushing yard ds.
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Ryan Mathews Seyi Ajirotutu Ben Jacobs Chris Carter
Category Avg./Game
Rushing Receiving Tackles Tackles for loss 162.1 58.3 7.0 1.17
Nevada Player
Vai Taua Jonathon Amaya Dontay Moch
Category Avg./Game
Rushing Tackles Tackles for loss 110.0 62.8 6.56 2.05
Brandon Wimberly Receiving
WAC STANDINGS
Standings Conference
Nevada Boise State Fresno State Idaho Louisiana Tech Utah State Hawaii San Jose State 5-0 4-0 5-1 4-2 2-4 1-4 1-5 0-4
Overall
6-3 9-0 6-3 7-3 3-6 3-6 2-7 3-6 1-7
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Oregon State 95, West Virginia 54, Auburn 54, Texas Tech 24, Navy 19, Tennessee 12, Rutgers 11, Nebraska 9, Temple 7, Kansas State 5, Notre Dame 3 , Mississippi 2, Fresno State 2 , Troy 1.
YOU KNOW WHATS COMING

With two monster running attacks taking the eld on Satu Sa turd rday ay, , the the defenses defe de fens nses es know what ats c comin ing g at the h m. Saturday, whats coming them. Combined, Comb Co mbin ined ed, th the e tw t two o te teams eams averag average ge 90 rushi rushing h ng attempts per game. You can almost guarantee that the rst and last offensive plays fo for will or both teams ms w ill il l be runs. defense, other team wants So as as a de defe fens nse, e, i if f yo you u kn know ow all l the eo ther th er t eam ea m wa want nts s to d do o is run, load run un, then th hen n you you have hav ave e to l loa oad d th the e bo box x wi with t either eight or nine nin ne defenders try combat this. defe de fend nder ers to to t ry to o co c mbat mb at t thi h s. This will be a tough task for Fresno State. Every team Nevada played knows Wolf wants Neva vada da has has pla layed d so f far k nows no ws a all ll t the he W olf ol f Pa Pack ck w a ts t an to o do throat, but so no team o is run the ball ll d down your t hroa hr oat, t b u s ut o far, r, n o WA WAC C te eam has able anything about it. has be been en a abl ble e to d do an anyt y hi ing a abo bout i t. In ve conference games, Ne Nevada averaged 394.2 rushing ve co N vada da a ave vera rage ged d 39 394 4.2 2 ru rush shin ing g yards yard ds and and has has scored scor sc ored ed 22 22 touchdowns touchd to hdow owns ns o on n th the e ground. grou gr ound nd. The Wolf Packs unstoppable. Pa ack c s ground ground game has has a been un nstop oppable. Fresno to Fres Fr sno State Sta t te will wil ll have ve t o rely ly on it its s front front seven, led by y linebacker b cker ba e Ben en Jacobs, Jac J cob obs s, who who leads l lea eads ds the team team with 63 tackles. Since Sin S ince ce Jacobs Jacob bs rst played pla laye yed d as a freshman in 2007, he h has h s started ha star st arte ted d every ev game for Bulldogs. game f or the he B Bulld ldogs. will For the Wolf Wo olf Pack, Pac ack, k its rushing rushi hing n defense wil ill l rely on the the play play of Wolf the second-best rushing f its its front fro ron nt four. fou o r. r T The W olf ol f Pa Pack ck has as t he s econ ec ndd-be best st r rus u hing defense (104.9 yards game), it prone defe de fens nse e in t the he W WAC AC ( (10 04. 4 9 ya yard rds s pe per r ga g me), but me ut i t is p r ne to ro giving big plays on t the ground. givi gi ving ng up p bi he g gro roun u d. times year, running the Too ma many tim imes this ye ear, ru unn nning ba backs have ve run nu up p th t e middle Nevada, broke through few and m ddle against N mi evad a a, b roke ro ke thr hrou ough g a f ew w tackles a nd sprinted touchdown spri sp rint nted ed for for a t ouch ou chdo down wn dont be surprised s rprised if Mathews su Mat athe hews follows suit. foll fo llow ows s su s it. both teams gang It will wil ill be b essential es ssen enti tial for or b bot oth ht eam ams s to ow ow to t the he b ball and ga g ng Thats something defenses emphasize every week, tackle. Th hats s s om methi h ng g both de d fe ens nses es e emp m ha hasize ze e very ry w ee ek, but itll especially important weekend with bu ut it i ll be ee esp pec cially im impo p rtan nt th this w wee eeke kend nd w ith so some me o of f th the best the nation either side. be est running backs ks in th he na n tion on on eith her sid de. .
Juan Ju nL Lpez ez can an b be re reac reached ache h d at j jlope jlopez@nevadasagebrush.com. ez@ @ne neva vadasa sage gebr brus ush. h com. m
New Mexico State 1-3
THIS WEEKS GAME

Fresno State at Nevada
When: 1 p.m. Saturday Where: Mackay Stadium

(29,993)
FRESNO STATES SCHEDULE
Date D t
Sept. 5 Sept. 12 Sept. 18 Sept. 26 Oct. 10 Oct. 17 Oct. 24 Oct. 31 Nov. 7 Saturday Nov. 21 Dec. 5
Opponent O t Time/Result Ti /R lt
vs UC Davis at Wisconsin vs Boise State at Cincinnati at Hawaii vs San Jose State at New Mexico State vs Utah State at Idaho at Nevada Louisiana Tech at Illinois W 51-0 L 34-31 L 51-34 L 28-20 W 42-17 W 41-21 W 34-3 W 31-27 W 31-21 1:05 p.m. 2 p.m. 9: 30 a.m.
Radio: ESPN Radio 630 TV: N/A Meet the coaches: Fresno
State head coach Pat Hill is 98-64 in his 13th year at Fresno State. Nevada head coach Chris Ault is in his 25th season as Nevadas coach and has a 204-94-1
KEY MATCHUP
Fresnos o-line vs. vs Nevadas d-line

Fresno States offense line will be looking to pave the way for the nations top running back, Ryan Mathews. If Nevadas defensive line cant contain the rush offense, the Bulldogs will make their trip to Reno a very enjoyable one.
HISTORY
Nevada safety Jonathon Amaya
CASEY DURKIN/NEVADA SAGEBRUSH
Series record: Fresno State leads 24-15-1. 24 24-15-1 15 1. Last meeting: Nevada won 41-28 (2008). Current streak: Nevada has won one. Nevadas last win: 2008: 41-28 (Reno)
MAKING THE CALL
STAFF PICKS
OPTIMIST SAYS: With only two games to go until Boise State, the Bulldogs provide a good measuring stick for the Wolf Pack. Nevadas defense steps up and shuts down Fresno State running back Ryan Mathews, and quarterback Colin Kaepernick is sharp, leaving the Bulldogs defense in shambles. The game is close, but Nevada pulls away in the fourth quarter after wearing down Fresno State. OPTIMIST SAYS: Nevada wins 56-34. PESSIMIST SAYS: Nevada may be hot, but Fresno State has been on re. The Bulldogs have won ve-straight games and scored at least 31 points in all of them. Fresno State ranks 19th in the nation in total offense and will be able to keep up step for step with the Wolf Pack. The game will come down to the wire. The difference will be special teams, where Nevada has struggled this season. The Bulldogs pull out a tough road win. PESSIMIST SAYS: Fresno wins 41-38.
DIFFERENCE MAKER
RYAN MATHEWS
Nevada may have the No. 1 team rushing attack in the nation, but Fresno State has the nations top running back. Ryan g Mathews has averaged 162.1 yards per game and has 14 rushing touchdowns on the season. The Wolf Packs defense will have its hands full trying to contain one of the most explosive players in the nation. Fresno State provides Nevada with a formidable challenge before Boise State and Mathews will be the best running back Nevada faces all season. The Bulldogs will be giving Nevada a heavy dose of Mathews in an attempt to control the clock, keep Nevada off the eld and wear the defense down.
FRESNO STATE MEDIA SERVICES
Fresno State running back Ryan Mathews

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TUESDAY, NOVEMEBR 10, 2009

VOLUME CXVI NUMBER 13

Working to combat health issues

Denison murder trial delayed

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University of Nevada, Reno students National college average

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14 12 10 8 6 4 2 .6 .3 Chlamydia Gonorrhea 2.1 .9 Depression Substance Abuse 3.6 6.1

percent of UNR students get a sufcient amount of exercise.

percent of UNR students eat the recommended fruits and vegetables.

percent of college students nationally get a sufcient amount of exercise.

Senate tables $75 fee plan

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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