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By Marcus Lavergne
INTERNATIONAL
U.S., China take reigns during
Paris climate summit
On Monday, Nov. 30, world
leaders discussed combating the
growing threat of global warming.
President Obama spoke first at
the summit, stating, Our nations
share a sense of urgency about this
challenge and a growing realization
that it is within our power to do
something about it, which he said
should give the 195 countries in
attendance hope.
The World Resources Institute
think tank reported that the U.S.
and China make up around 40
percent of the worlds greenhouse
gas emissions, and after talking
with Chinese President Xi Jinping,
President Obama said it is the
responsibility of both nations to
take action.
The final decision on splitting the
bill remains up in the air.
NATIONAL
21-year-old arrested after social
media death threats
Jabari Dean threatened to kill
students and staff at the University
of Chicago on social media this past
weekend. Nonessential members
of the school were told to stay away
from classes and inside dorms Monday after the post was discovered.
The publicized plans revealed
intentions to kill 16 white male
students and staff in the campus
quad area at 10 a.m. along with any
number of white policemen in the
process. Dean also stated that he
would be armed with fully loaded
firearms, including an assault rifle.
Its been reported that Dean chose
the number 16 in reference to the
16 times that Laquan McDonald, a
black teen, was shot last year by Officer Jason Van Dyke. Dean allegedly
plan to avenge McDonalds death
after video of the shooting surfaced
in mid-November. Van Dyke has
since been charged with murder.
Dean was arrested before carrying
out the threat and was expected to
appear in court on Monday.
VOLUME 122, ISSUE 15
WebCampus set to switch platforms

Change is expected to
come as early as fall 2016
By Marcus Lavergne
Students and faculty can expect an
overhaul of the current WebCampus
learning management system at the
University of Nevada, Reno, as early as
next summer. Blackboard, UNRs current operating software for WebCampus, will become another piece of the
schools academic past in 2016 when
its competitor, Instructure, begins its
tenure with the university.
Canvas, Instructures new software,
is set to become WebCampus new op-
erating platform. Students can expect

the change next fall, while faculty will
learn the ins and outs of the program
in spring.
This past year, UNRs Office of the
Provost approved the transfer to
Canvas after receiving a large amount
of preferential feedback toward the
program. The provost went to Ed
Huffman, the director of teaching and
learning technologies at UNR, to organize a committee of students, faculty
and administration to decide the new
WebCampus operator.
The final decision to change was
made in response to multiple factors, including an expiring five-year
contract with Blackboard as well as
multiple complaints regarding the

software. According to Huffman, a
shift has been overdue.
For the last couple of years weve
had some technical issues with [Blackboard], Huffman said. Weve come to
find out that [the issues] are part of the
software, and there are glitches within
the software.
The provost and committee looked
at several LMSs, but ultimately, conformity among Nevadas learning institutions was a large factor in choosing
Canvas. According to Huffman, UNR
and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are the only campuses within the
Nevada System of Higher Education
that arent using the software.
BATTLE
BREASTS
UNR researchers work
toward a new treatment
for breast cancer
New report from UNLV administrators offers insight into Hey

Reb! controversy
The University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, has seen widespread media
coverage over a controversy involving its Rebel nickname and its
mascot, Hey Reb!
A 60-page report detailing searches through school records, student
conversations and other research
that was requested by UNLV President Len Jessup in June led UNLV
Chief Diversity Officer Rainier Spencer to defend the mascot against the
accusations Monday. He claims that
Hey Reb!s look is that of a Western
frontiersperson, not of a Confederate soldier.
Hey Reb! replaced another
mascot, known as Beauregard, in
the 1980s, who was believed to be
conceptualized from the image of
Confederate Gen. Pierre Gustave
Toutant Beauregard.
Although the debate has happened in the past, the pressure
to replace UNLVs nickname and
mascot was rekindled after protests
involving began at the University
of Missouri, Columbia, in October.
Those protests arose out of several
alleged incidents of racial discrimination and lack of action by Mizzous
administration.
A DREAM COMING TRUE
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Huffman says the later transition is

just a result of being a large institution,
and he doesnt think UNR is playing
catch-up.
The larger the school the more
complicated it is to transfer like this,
Huffman said. Cal States system just
recently switched over to Canvas. The
two major Oregon schools are in the
process of switching right now, so a
lot of schools are in the same position
were in right now.
Huffman isnt positive about when
Nevadas most populous institution,
UNLV, will make the change. Their
contract goes through 2017.
By Marcus Lavergne
DITORS NOTE: This is a

follow-up story to a Nov. 17
article on the $3.8 million the
University of Nevada, Renos
School of Medicine received
for womens health research.
That story can be found at
nevadasagebrush.com
Since nearly $4 million in grant money
became available to the University of Nevada,
Renos School of Medicine, scientists have
made a breakthrough in breast cancer research
that has highlighted why UNRs programs don
a tier-1 ranking and stand among top research
institutions like John Hopkins University.
Dr. Iain Buxton, Pharm.D., is foundation
professor and chair of the department of pharmacology at UNRs School of Medicine. He and
his team of researchers, faculty and graduate
students have been dedicated to improving the
treatment of and curing some of the worlds
most pressing womens health problems.
See MEDICINE page A2
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A sign hangs on the wall of Renos

Planned Parenthood clinic on Monday, Nov. 30. Planned Parenthood
clinics in New York City and Denver
have seen increased police security after a shooting at a Colorado
Springs, Colorado clinic.
Making sense
of the shooting
in Colorado
By Jacob Solis
Editors Note: THE WHOLE STORY
will be an occasional feature where
The Nevada Sagebrush takes a
comprehensive look at a story, be it
local, national or otherwise, that developed quickly often too quickly
causing some details to remain
hazy to those of us not glued to the
newswires. All the facts, from what
we know to how we know it to what
we dont know, will be in one place.
A quiet Friday afternoon in
Colorado Springs, Colorado was
broken by the sound of gunfire as a
lone gunman opened fire on a local
Planned Parenthood. At the end of
the day, the assault left three people
dead and nine wounded.
Some have called it simply a
mass shooting, others have called
it terrorism, but almost universally,
people have called the shooting a
tragedy.
But how did it happen and why?
Here are the facts so far:
WHAT WE KNOW
On Friday afternoon, a shooter
now identified as Robert Lewis
Dear Jr. stormed into a Colorado
Springs Planned Parenthood clinic
with what has been described by
police as a long gun. Wearing a
long coat and hunting-type hat,
according to the Colorado Springs
Gazette, he let off at least 10-20
shots per witness reports.
See COLORADO page A3
Photo courtesy of Anne McMillin, APR
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Buxtons current research has

led him and his colleagues to
the development of a potential
solution to one of the most
deadly and common diseases
among women breast cancer.
He wants to see the cancers
treatment transformed, and hes
making strides towards it.
Recently, Buxtons breast cancer metastasis research on mice
has yielded auspicious results.
With the help of a high-powered,
super-resolution microscope,
theyve seen success in stopping metastasis and decreasing
the size of cancerous tumors.
An accident led his team to a
groundbreaking discovery.
What we have proven so far
is that the [cancer] cells are spitting out these small vesicles,
Buxton said. The small vesicles
contain this [enzyme] kinase in
large abundance, and we think
that these are being put into
circulation by the cancer in the
breast before the cells move.
The discovery of the vesicles,
or exosomes, is opening up
new pathways to treating breast
cancer. A new angle by which
the disease can be combated
may turn the tides on a growing
trend.
A study published earlier this
year by the Journal of the American Medical Association showed
that an increasing number
of women eligible for breastconserving surgery are instead
choosing to receive some form
of mastectomy, which requires
removing a portion or all of
the breast. The study involved
observations and data collected
from over 1 million women who
were receiving treatment from
1998 to 2011.
The National Cancer Institution defines BCS as procedures
where the cancer and normal
tissue around it are removed,
thus saving the remaining tissue.
Buxton wants to give women
the ability to avoid both hasty
removal of the breasts and other
BCS. One such treatment is
nipple-sparing, which involves
removing the underlying breast
tissue by preserving the nipple
areola and skin envelope. According to Buxton, it could be a
Photo courtesy of Anne McMillin , APR
Dr. Iain Buxton, Pharm.D., explains some of the capabilities of the University of Nevada, Renos School of Medicines $500,000 super-high
resolution microscope to Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The powerful device has helped bring about discoveries that are opening the door to less invasive breast cancer treatments.
damaging, costly procedure.

It turns out the nipplesparing therapy is not very
good, Buxton said. Sometimes
theres complete loss of sensation. Sometimes theres partial
loss of sensation. Sometimes
it works. Then its a multi-step
process, so its expensive and
time-consuming and doesnt always work. You cant just lop off
the breast and say weve cured
lung cancer.
According to Buxton, the
vesicles his team has discovered
could be important factors in
how the cancerous cells metastasize, or move from the original
tumor to the brain, liver, bones
and lungs. The contents of the
vesicles create a home in those
areas for the cells. Buxtons most
recent experiment has been
dedicated to stopping the actions of those vesicles, thus leaving the cancerous tumor cells to
sit in the original site for a longer
period of time.
Pretend for a minute that the
cells didnt metastasize, Buxton
said. This would be a disease
completely curable by surgery.

But, no matter when you detect
it, women still succumb to their
disease. So, why not change
this thinking around a little bit
and ask what other approaches
might be more beneficial.
Buxton says that forcing the
larger, slower-moving cells to
stay put longer is not necessarily
a bad thing. According to him,
non-aggressive breast cancer is
a latent disease. Buxton hopes
that once their research begins
to yield changes in the way
scientists and physicians think
about breast cancer treatment,
women will hold off on quickly
removing their breast or receiving other damaging surgeries.
Buxton pointed out that there
is an ongoing study that involves
leaving the cancerous tumor in
the breast. He said that positive
results from the study could alter the way physicians treat their
breast cancer patients.
Thats huge, Buxton said. If
that turns out to be more beneficial in some women, our idea
could come right behind that
and say youve already proven

that its not heresy to leave the
tumor in, now leave it in, and
give our therapy and see what
happens down the line for those
women.
Buxtons team has published
the research that shows their
patented, successful approach
to suppressing the cancer cell
metastasis. They have essentially
figured out the answer to curing
breast cancer in mice, and now,
theyre working on proving that
their research can impact the
world of breast cancer treatment
and publishing their experiments with the vesicles.
For Buxton, simply believing
is not good enough. His team
needs funding, and they need
government
entities,
drug
companies and women to pay
attention.
You cant believe in this business, you have to prove. Buxton
said. It is a step-by-step process.
What we would like to do is establish the homing of the cancer
cell, and when we do that we
think that a drug company will
see that and say, Oh, that can be

good, and then therell be some
opportunity to take those ideas
and put them in the pipeline
towards therapy.
Buxton said that the process
for his teams research to become practice in womens breast
cancer wont happen tomorrow. In fact, he thinks that his
suppressive therapy tactic can
take up to eight years to be recognized by the drug companies
and physicians, but he calls the
current culmination of observations, experiments and trials
revolutionary.
Buxtons research at UNR is
uncovering an innovative path
in breast cancer treatment
one where patients will use new
therapeutic treatments developed around his teams research
and avoid drastic procedures
like mastectomy, while also being relieved of their disease.
Marcus Lavergne can be
reached at mlavergne@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter
@TheSagebrush.
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Canvas
But at UNR, faculty training

programs for mastering the
system will be implemented
in mid-February. Next years
summer courses will be the
first to receive the technologic
makeover, but most students

wont see the program until fall,
according to Huffman.
Aside from the name, everything else will be different about
the system, Huffman said.
The interface, the software
behind it, where its hosted, all
of those things will be different.
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The committees observations
showed an abundance of positive feedback toward changing
systems rather than keeping
Blackboard. But the feedback
wasnt only due to the flawed
software. According to Huffman,
there was a convincing optimistic outlook toward the new
features Canvas has to offer,
including a free mobile app and
greater flexibility in selecting
how to receive notifications for
different courses.
Theres a number of other
small things, Huffman said.
Mainly it was reliability of the
system and ease of navigation.
Those are two things the students and faculty indicate will
likely be better in Canvas. The
stability of the system we can
base on what other schools have
seen on campus and company
reports as well.
According to Instructures
Aimee Hugo, who works in
marketing and development,
Canvas is used at roughly 1,600
schools ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade and into
higher education. That being
said, Instructure was founded
in 2008, making it relatively new
in comparison with competition like Blackboard, founded
in 1991, and Desire2Learn Inc.,
founded in 1999, which brought
eLearning products to the market.
Capterra.com, which lists
and rates numerous business
and educational software, gave
Canvas an overall rating of 3.8
stars the aggregate of just five
reviews so far, which included
mixed responses.
Bob Young, an associate professor of mathematics at East-
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ern Florida State College, was

not fond of UNRs next system,
stating, Its no Blackboard, in
2014.
Darren Mallett, an ICT coordinator at Hillcrest College, called
it a comprehensive new player
on the market to take seriously,
in 2013.
Regardless of the critical opinion of Canvas, Huffman believes
the program is a smart leap from
Blackboard.
Canvas has just risen to the
top as one of the better LMSs
thats available right now, Huffman said. They made a lot of
headway in market share, and
I think thats partly what were
seeing.
Marcus Lavergne can be
reached at mlavergne@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter
@TheSagebrush.
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New senator position set to be added to ASUN

Staff Report
often, and the fact that speakers generally dont write any legislation.
To tackle the hole in representation
left by the speaker, the new amendment
would allow for the runner-up in the
general election to take the speakers
place in the senate once theyre elected.
If there is no runner-up, which happens
most often in smaller schools and colleges, then the senate would appoint
a new senator through the standard
application process.
ASUN president and former speaker
of the senate Caden Fabbi, who presided over the senate when the amendment was passed last spring, agreed
that the speaker is often unable to fully
represent their college.
While they should be both, theyre
not so much serving as a senator as they
are the speaker of the senate, Fabbi
said.
Fabbi added that he thought the
measure is important and a good
thing going forward. He also reiterated
Hoods example of the J-school senator,
saying that ASUN needed to fix the lack
of representation.
While the measure was passed during
the last session and the constitution has
been updated to include the amendment online, both Fabbi and Hood
dont expect the amendment to be official until the senates next session.
The Associated Students of the University of Nevada constitution is getting

some minor tweaks this year, according
to ASUN Attorney General Ryan Hood.
The changes are aimed at adding a new
senator to the 22-member senate in
order to fill the gap left by the speaker,
who often leaves their constituency
unrepresented once they take on the
role of speaker.
At the start of every new session, the
senate elects a speaker from its ranks.
Once elected, however, the speaker
does little in the way of representing
their own college as they now have to
represent the body at large. This poses a
problem for the smaller colleges, like the
Interdisciplinary Programs or School of
Journalism, who only have one or two
representatives in the senate.
Say youre a [journalism] senator,
right, theres only one senator, Hood
said. Say youre elected speaker from
the J-school. Well, you dont really
serve your constituents in the J-school
anymore. Youre really focused on the
duties of the speaker as a whole and
running the senate body.
Hood added that the speaker is limited in their direct participation because
they cant vote on any legislation unless
there is a tie, which does not happen
Colorado
the shooting, the police were largely in

the dark. An hour after they had arrived
on the scene, a police spokeswoman,
Lt. Catherine Buckley, noted that they
did not know how many shooters there
were, whether the shooters were contained, how many victims there were
or whether or not there was an active
hostage situation.
Even after these questions and more
had been answered by police, they
were hesitant to inform the media.
The shooters name was only released
after it had been leaked to several news
outlets.
A police spokesman called the shooter contained at 12:54 p.m. Thirty

minutes later, the police retracted that
statement. The gunman would remain
active until just before 5 p.m., when
he exchanged gunfire with police.
While he was detained shortly after,
the scene remained open for hours as
police checked items Dear had left at
the scene that were thought to be explosives. These items later turned out
to be harmless.
At the end of the day, three people lay
dead, including one police officer. Nine
people left the scene wounded, five of
whom were also police officers. Since
the shooting, vigils have been held
for the victims, who have since been
identified.
WHAT WE DONT KNOW

Police have not revealed Dears motive, though he reportedly mentioned
baby parts to police. The insinuation
of baby parts has prompted speculation everywhere from social media to
Capitol Hill that the rhetoric used by
anti-abortion activists in the past few
months fueled the shooting.
In July of this year, a group known
as the Center for Medical Progress
released a series of videos that allegedly show Planned Parenthood illegally
selling fetal tissue, often referred to
HOW WE KNOW IT
As is the case in mass shootings,
the details came fast and were often
vague. Police officers gave briefings in
the falling snow that revealed little information, as, especially at the start of
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Associated Students of the University of Nevada President Caden Fabbi (right)

addresses the ASUN senate while Sen. Jacob Boult (left) listens in during a meeting
on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the Rita Laden Senate Chambers. Fabbi presided over
the senate as speaker of the senate when the constitutional amendment aimed at
creating another senator position was passed.
The reason for this is that the process for amending the constitution is,
intentionally, a long one. Much like
the federal and state constitutions,
amending the ASUN constitution is a
far more rigorous process than passing regular legislation. Two-thirds of
the senate has to pass the amendment

before the amendment goes on to the
general election ballot, where again,
two-thirds of students have to agree to
the measure.
At any of these points, amendments
can easily fail. For instance, an effort
as baby parts by activists, obtained

through abortion. Planned Parenthood
was quick to deny these allegations,
but the videos have become a rallying
cry for anti-abortion politicians.
Republican presidential candidates,
notably former Hewlett Packard CEO
Carly Fiorina, seized on the videos,
going so far as to say that Planned
Parenthood was butchering babies
for body parts in October. Fiorina had
previously said that the videos showed
doctors talking about keeping a fetus
alive so that they might harvest its
brain, during the second Republican
primary debate.
These claims have since been refuted
by Planned Parenthood, and independent experts were unable to find the
scene Fiorina described during the
debate.
For Planned Parenthood and activists
who support the group, these claims
are the inherent problem.
I think its important to recognize
that words matter, said Planned
Parenthood President Cecile Richards
in a Monday-morning interview with
NPR. When you use this kind of hateful rhetoric, whether youre a politician
or whether youre in elected office, or

whether youre an opposition group,
this kind of rhetoric towards doctors
and women seeking health care has
real impacts.
In terms of public policy, some
Democrats in Washington were quick
to renew calls for comprehensive gun
control legislation. President Barack
Obama released a statement on Saturday condemning the shooting, saying
that comforting the families of victims
of gun violence was [the] last thing
Americans should have to do.
This is not normal, the statement
read. We cant let it become normal. If
we truly care about this if were going
to offer up our thoughts and prayers
again, for God knows how many times,
with a truly clean conscience then
we have to do something about the
easy accessibility of weapons of war
on our streets to people who have no
business wielding them.
In contrast, some politicians and
advocates attacked the rhetoric being
used by anti-abortion activists in recent months. On Monday, Sen. Barbara
Boxer, D-Calif., called on Republican
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-
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to be elected into ASUN from seven to
12 was defeated at the ballot this spring
and killed again in the senate chambers
last month.
The amendment was first passed
unanimously last session by the ASUN
senate, while Fabbi was still speaker.
From there, it went on to the ballot during the spring election and was soundly
passed by the general undergraduate
student body.
Fabbi explained that in the past, the
final hurdle for amendments was that
they had to be approved by the full
board of regents. However, changes
made earlier this year make it so that
the chancellor is in charge of reviewing
amendments and that the regents no
longer have to vote on the measure.
He went on to explain that the lengthy
approval process was a formality more
than anything, and that once the
amendment makes it up to the chancellors office, it should be approved in
short order.
Both Hood and Fabbi expect the
amendment to be official in time for the
next session of the Associated Students
at the end of the spring semester.
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Wis., to disband a special committee

tasked with investigating Planned
Parenthood.
[We] should not and cannot continue this politically motivated committee
targeting Planned Parenthood, which is
already costing taxpayers and helping
to create a dangerous climate for legal
health care in America, Boxer wrote in
her letter to Ryan.
Ryan has not issued a statement
on the shooting itself, though The
New York Times reported that a Ryan
spokesman said on Sunday that the
shooting will not change the investigating committees plans. The chair
of that committee, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pushed back against
Boxer and the left, accusing Democrats
of playing politics with this tragedy.
Coupled with the recent fervor on the
right to curtail funding for Planned Parenthood and organizations like it, the
fight over Planned Parenthood looks
likely to continue into the future. In any
case, Dears motives remain unknown.
Jacob Solis can be reached at jsolis@
sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter
@TheSagebrush.
Arts&Entertainment
A4
PACK N
THE EVENTS
THINGS TO
WATCH OUT
FOR THIS WEEK
By Samantha Johnson
ANNUAL STUDENT
ART RECEPTION
DATE: Thursday
TIME: 5 p.m.
LOCATION: Jot Travis
Building, Student Galleries

South
INFO: The Student Art Club
is sponsoring its annual
reception for the student
art exhibition. If you love
to support local, student
artists, this is the event for
you. The event is free to
the general public and the
exhibition will run from now
until Dec. 10.
FLO RIDA
PERFORMANCE
BRINGING
OPERA
BACK
DATE: Thursday
TIME: 7:30 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Reno Events
Center
INFO: The artist that
brought you hits like Low,
Right Round and In
the Ayer, Flo Rida will be
making an appearance
in Reno this week. There
will be an after-party at
LEX Nightclub until 4 a.m.
Tickets are limited, so
get yours now at www.
ticketmaster.com.
JAZZ ENSEMBLES
FALL CONCERT
DATE: Thursday
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Church Fine
Arts, Nightingale Concert

Hall
INFO: For the University
of Nevadas annual fall
concert, the Jazz Ensembles
I and II will be performing
music by Thad Jones,
James Miley, Maria
Schneider and student
works. The concert is $5
for students with a valid
student ID.
COMPOSERS
CONCERT
DATE: Sunday
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Church Fine
Arts, Nightingale Concert

Hall
INFO: Do you like electronic
and acoustic music?
Come see student-created
work this weekend to
support local electronic
and acoustic musicians.
The concert is free to the
general public.
Samantha Johnson/Nevada Sagebrush
Julie Quinn Lenz performs for her graduate recital on Wednesday, Nov. 25, in the Nightingale Concert Hall inside Church Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. Lenz
sang in three different languages as a requirement to fulfill her masters degree in vocal
performance.
Julie Lenz paves the way

for future UNR singers
THE NUTCRACKER
DATE: Thursday Friday
TIME: 7 p.m. 9 p.m.
LOCATION: Grand Sierra
Resort and Casino, Grand

Theatre
INFO: The Bay Pointe
Ballet directed by Bruce
Steivels will be putting on
the performance of The
Nutcracker and youll
want to be a part of this
holiday tradition. Tickets
are limited. For more
information visit www.
grandsierraresort.com
and get yours now before
theyre gone.
Samantha Johnson can be
reached at samanthaj@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter
@SamRayJohnson.
Photos by
Samantha
John
Nevada Sag son/
ebrush
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By Samantha Johnson
pera singer Julie Lenz fiddles with her coffee

cup while she sits inside of Homage Bakery,
but shes not nervous. After her graduate
recital on Wednesday, Nov. 25, she has an air
of confidence about her as she explains why
she chose music as her profession, but more
importantly why she sings opera. While the grandiose style
of singing has been around for centuries, its not common to
meet someone who specializes in it. Lenz, whos graduating
with her masters degree in vocal performance, said that she
couldnt picture herself doing anything else.
The thing that really cemented it for me was I was doing
chorus for Nevada Opera That week everyone had gotten
food poisoning and they sang the end of this Mozart opera
a capella and it was just amazing, Lenz said. Its something
youll never hear unless youre doing that sort of profession.
Lenz grew up in a creative family, with her dad being an
artist and her mother playing the flute. She recalled how
she would sing along to Disney movies as a child and how
she once memorized a song from Blazing Saddles at 4
years old. Lenz played the harp for 10 years, but started her
formal voice training in high school as she performed in
various events.
See OPERA page A5
A&E | A5
The rock endures: Teacher still creating music

By Samantha Johnson
Some say that four careers would be too
many. For Brad McClellan, its challenging
but not impossible. As an English teacher at
Reno High School, nutritionist, basketball
coach, band member and a father to top it
all off, McClellan said he still plans on doing
more with his music going into the future.
In April 2015, McClellan released an
album with his band, A Year From Monday,
entitled Yggdrasil after the tree from
Norse mythology. Now that the group has
released its album, McClellan said hes
focused on promoting it through iTunes,
Sonicbids.com and radio stations before
he starts writing new songs. He described
A Year After Monday as mainstream alternative, and a mix of pop, alternative, new
wave and 80s new wave.
Although he said he had been sitting on a
list of songs for a couple of years, he said the
process of songwriting was more natural to
him than other artists. He said his inspirations come to him anywhere at any time,
instead of painstakingly working over lyrics
and melodies in a studio.
Thats the miracle of it. Ill go to a movie
and Ill come out of the movie and all of
a sudden theres this melody in my head,

McClellan said. I dont know, Im channeling some other dimension, it just comes,
but it sure is fun when it comes.
McClellan said he encourages up-andcoming musicians to be open to criticism
and to have groups of people review songs
and critique them before releasing an
album. He explained that thats where he
saw other musicians fail, that they would
take feedback personally instead of learning
from it.
Ultimately youre trying to please a lot of
people, McClellan said. The more open
you are the more you might catch something that will help your song do better than
maybe it would have if you didnt listen to
that and make changes.
McClellan said going into the future,
the band isnt interested in going on tour
or anything of that nature until all the
members have time to meet. Most of the
work done for Yggdrasil was done over
the summer or during periods when McClellan didnt have to teach classes or train
basketball players, but he said that he plans
on working toward another album soon.
When youre in a band, its like being
married but times four, McClellan said.
Opera
Lenz held her graduate recital in the Nightingale

Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts building on
campus as a requirement for her masters degree.
She sang in a dialect called Occitan, which is only
spoken by a few groups in southern France and
other parts of Europe, but also in Russian. Lenz said
she chose the passages she sang because she had
never done them before, but also because she had a
special place in her heart for Russian literature.
That opera, Eugene Onegin, is my favorite
opera, Lenz said. Onegin, the character, is one of
the first antiheroes in Western literature, and I have
a big thing for antiheroes.
After Lenz graduates she hopes to perform in next
semesters opera, but then she will be auditioning
for her artists diploma, which is the highest degree
someone can receive in musical performance. She
dreams of signing a contract and being able to travel
around Europe performing, but wants to return
to her home in Reno one day after she builds her
reputation as an opera singer.
Q&A WITH MCCLELLAN

Q: How would you describe yourself in
three words?
A: Happy, creative and service-oriented
Q: What is your favorite song?
A: Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears
for Fears
The bands that last a long time are very
impressive to me.
He also mentioned that A Year From Monday has had in total around 23 members
over the years, but he wants to continue
as long as he can. Since McClellan has so
many other career paths in his life, he said it
was challenging but that he always seems to
return to music.
Its fun, it keeps life interesting, McClellan said. I feel like Im alive when Im doing
stuff that I care about.
To learn more about A Year From Monday
or listen to the groups album Yggdrasil,
find them on iTunes or like their Facebook
page at www.facebook.com/ayearfrommonday.
Samantha Johnson can be reached at samanthaj@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter
@SamRayJohnson.
I really think that its an art thats worth exploring

and exposing people to. [You have to] find your
passion in music and follow it, Lenz said. You cant
get by on hard work alone or talent alone; it has to
be both together.
Lenz praised the UNR music faculty for its
helpfulness and for its high caliber of teaching. She
believes the vocal program is going to take off in the
future and its already a school worth putting on a
resume.
Her performance with the Fresno Philharmonic
last spring was a defining moment for Lenz. It was
her first professional gig and she remembered how
full the event was. It was one of the first times she
knew that opera was what she wanted to do for the
rest of her career.
I sang really well, I thought, and it just felt like Im
making it, Lenz said. This is going to be my life.
For more information on Lenzs next performances, visit the UNR music program website at
www.unr.edu/cla/music or follow Lenz on Twitter
@JulieQuinnLenz.
Samantha Johnson can be reached at samanthaj@
sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @SamRayJohnson.
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Join the Gentlemen of Phi Beta Sigma at our
6th
annual
All proceeds go to charity
7:00
PM
The Joe Crowley Student Union Ballrooms
Come watch our stroll competition to
benefit Toys for Tots. Teams can register to perform a
3-5 minute stroll with any Phi Beta Sigma member
U.S. Marine Corps guest speaker
Admission:
$5 or a new toy of
equal or greater value
Members of Phi Beta Sigma will be pre-selling tickets outside of the Joe and at the door
Photo courtesy of A Year From Monday
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A6 | CLASS OF 2015
for
All candidates
GRADUATION
Winter Commencement 2015
Candidates presented by the dean of each school and college
Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude, Distinction and High Distinction
Commissioned as an Army second lieutenant
Courtesy of Jeff Dow/University of Nevada, Reno
Doctoral degrees
GRADUATE SCHOOL
David Zeh, Dean
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
December 2015
Laura Vela Austin
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
August 2015
Maryam Alavi
Rameez Ali
Megan Marie Armstrong

Alireza Bayat
Christopher D. Blair
Laura Craig
Laura A. Davidson
Sandra D. Dettmann Aird
Saeedeh Farivar
Jing Feng
Ryan M. Ghan
Ali Gholami
Daniel Gibson
Ann Haynos
Thomas Hertweck
Joshua Peter Jahner
Tami R. Jeffcoat
Tirtha Joshi
Douglas Moore Long
Joan G. Lynam
Alexandros Maragakis
Alexandra Masaitis
Adel Kaari Mburia-Mwalili
Daniel J. McEvoy
Master's degrees
COLLEGE OF
AGRICULTURE,
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND
NATURAL RESOURCES
Dashiell Aiden Hibbard
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE/
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Biotechnology
MASTER OF ACCOUNTANCY
December 2015
Marcella L. Mayfield
Shayne C. Urrutia
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Environmental
Science and Health
December 2015
Drew J. Sheehy
Natural Resource and

Environmental Science
August 2015
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
December 2015
Huibo Bennett
Zachary Stephen Condron
Kelsea Marie Duffrin
Gary E. Duncan
Kachin Sei
MASTER OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
August 2015
Jason Lee Bell

Jack Alexander McCormack
Jamie Schwarzbach
December 2015
Sarah Noel Bartrum

Brian Edward Blair
Brandon G. Bonifacio
Chelsea Alyse Capurro
Anthony J. Cardinalli
N. Channing Christiansen
Christopher Alan Dages
Mo Danyan
Brett Eklund
Javier Farfan
Meredith Bennett Herr
Dylan Hills
Rahul Shriram Hiwale
Stephen Craig Holloman
Donna J. Knotek
Keith Lantz
Brian Darren Markowski
William A. McDonald
Christine J. Mikulich
Robert Henry Moretti Jr.
Connor Francis Morze
Wade Thomas Minahan

Lynn Ellen Pikero
Jenna Grace Renqvist
Giancarlo Sadoti
Emily Desiree Scarbrough
Matthew Todd Sewell
Pei Wang
Lisha Yang
Andrew D. Yoxsimer
Yue Zhao
December 2015
Arjun Acharya
Devendar Anumandla
Stacey Marie Cherup-Leslie
Caroline B.M. Coffey
Camila B. Coria
Keri L. Noack
Salman Parsinejad
Nicole Rae Pescitelli
Kellen Jerome Quinlan
Matthew Philip Satre
Tyler D. Smith
Rachel Lok-Kwan Tam
Jessica Thai
Aaron Kyle Wike
Jeffrey Wilbrecht
EXECUTIVE MASTER
OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
August 2015
Fariba Aminalroayae
Lynice M. Anderson
Majed Mazen Badra
Austin Rakesh Bharadwaja
Robert Dalrymple
Dean F. Dietrich
Janelle Carmen Dorangricchia
Jeremy Adam Draper
Robert Turner Easley II
Vivek Galla
Toufigh Gordi
Scott Helle
Matthew G. Fearon
Atmospheric Science
Ruchi Gakhar
Marie J. Gibson
Filiz Gozenman
Ashley Greenwald
Karla Hernandez
Leonardo Hernandez
Andrew C. Hickey
Isaac Humpherys
Satyaki Kanjilal
Michael D. Koontz
Heidi La Bash
Jerry Lanorio
Alan G. Leach
Thomas E. Lockard
Valerie Lykes
Islam Mohamed Mantawy

Augustus D. Merwin
Zachary H. Morford
Thivanka Muthumalage
Seyyed M. Nasimifar
Nicholas J. Nauslar
Trang Nguyen
Yelena K. Oren
Joshua Padilla
Jessica A. Rafferty
Esmaeel Rahmanishamsi
Maryam Rahmati Ishka
Supakan Rattanakon
Likhitha Ravi
Sandra T. Rayne
Macario Rocha-Rocha
Apurva Sarathy
Reihaneh Sarraf Shirazi

Jennifer C. Schmitt
Sauntheri B. Spoering
Maria Stevenson
Chenin Treftz
John W. Umek
Vahid Mohammadreza Vandadi
Sandra M. Week
Chengyi Wu
Kevin C. Yates
Mohammad Yazdani
Matthew Hinesley
John Paul Kitchen
Daniel Marshall
Laurel Susan Martin
Mitsuyo Nora Maser
Petar Planinic
Huston T. Pullen
Christian L. Quintero
Thaddeus Segura
Zachariah D. Shore
James Daniel Thorall
Katherina Elizabeth Sunderland
Educational Psychology
August 2015
December 2015
Stacey Basallo Buck

Dohwan Jung
Adela S. Martinez
Jenna Noelle Yered
Miaomiao Zou
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Amaia Maite Oiz
Educational Leadership
August 2015
Matthew John Barber

Wes R. Evans
Kyle A. Johnson
Carolina Martinez
Jacob Dennis Peppard
August 2015
December 2015
William Shinichi Dorough
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Economics
August 2015
Osasohan Agbonlahor
December 2015
Lisa A. Anderson
Pouneh Rousta
December 2015
Sophia Jane Aaron

Jason T. Albright
Thomas A. Esquivel
Daniel N. Gugich
John Fulton Rollins
Isaac Humpherys
Finance
August 2015
Ruoya Fang
Drew Hauser
December 2015
Priya Ahlawat
Patrick M. Denecke
Olga N. Martinez
Edgar Julio Roberts
MASTER OF EDUCATION
Educational Leadership
December 2015
Kellie Lynn Jonas
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Elementary Education
MASTER OF ARTS
Counseling and
Storm Buxton
December 2015
Literacy Studies
August 2015
December 2015
December 2015
Georjan Gerrard
Secondary Education
August 2015
Ninad J. Bhatt
Gary Mark Collier
Matthew M. Cope
December 2015
Timothy Lee Baird

Dustin L. Coli
Mary L. Dazey
Benjamin Winston Ho
Troy Tyler Melin
Brendan Tyler Palomo
Amy Frances Peterson
Jandyra Gabriela Pond
Joseph M. Zuccarini
Special Education
August 2015
Emily Husted
Jaimee Nicole Phipps
Victoria Gail Smith
December 2015
Sarah Katherine Anderson

Jessie J. Campbell
Linnea Noelle Daker
Brittny Rae Harris
Sarah Horsman
Brandie Lee Lee
Rosie Montalvo
Mandy Jean Moore
Annette Ramos
Nicole Marie Roufs
Elizabeth Anne Sikes
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Counseling and
Educational Psychology
December 2015
Kristen A. VanCitters
Equity and Diversity

in Education
December 2015
Nicole M. Cummings
Jason Ryan McGill
Arthur Pascual
Leila Rakban
Equity and Diversity in

Educational Settings
December 2015
Summer Jenae Sprenger
Human Development
and Family Studies
August 2015
Courtney J. Goodballet
Ashley E. Loghry
Tamara D. Steinmann
Catherine S. Wade
Lingyue Zheng
Kara Kristine Spracklin
Kristin Jennifer Wee Stevens
December 2015
COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Biomedical Engineering
December 2015
Siqi Chen
Chemical Engineering
August 2015
Marcus G. Sacchetti
Civil and Environmental

Engineering
August 2015
Rukesh Maharjan
Peter A. Nabhan
Saroj Thapa
December 2015
Nripendra Mani Bastola

Jhony Habbouche
Anabel Hernandez
Andrew V. Jayankura
Craig K. Jenkins
Hilda Lovasz
Dian Mao
Justin Michael McDougal
Mireille Nsompo Mungedi
Arunan Premakumaran
Paul A. Waite
Nicholas D. Weitzel
Robert R. Zellers
Cheng Zhu
Computer Science
August 2015
Joshua Hegie
Computer Science
and Engineering
August 2015
Erin S. Keith
Banafsheh Rekabdar
Mohammad Taghi Saffar
Rachel L. Cao
Travis D. Goldade
Ernesto Triton Manzo
Bhaumik K. Parekh
Alexander C. Woods
William Payne, Dean

Agricultural Science
August 2015
Ashley C. Kasinger
December 2015
Chad A. Kleidosty
Hannah Reid Lindner
Animal Science
August 2015
Chad C. Arberg
Aurelia Houston
Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
August 2015
Joseph Michael Bernardo

Rajaie Michael Dabaie
Taylor Paul Gurnea
Matthew Robert Kaminski
Jason H. Phan
December 2015
Creacy Box Bearfield

Kristina Jung
Zachary J. Kirkwood
Ecohydrology
December 2015
Joel Aaron Hupp

Mitchell Dean Krieger
Megan Elizabeth Ludwig
Matthew Adams Peckham
Environmental Science
August 2015
Jessica D. Moline
December 2015
Jennifer V. Callahan
Rebecca Margaret Hutchison
Leanne Louise Morrow
Matthew Connor Reider
Taniel Rose Tobey
Forest Management
and Ecology
December 2015
Carson Reed Standifer
Nutrition
August 2015
Joshua M. Glantz-Hucks
Mekayla Rae MacPherson
December 2015
Tara Marie Franco

Lauren Miller
Trudy R. Myers
Britni Jane Reed
Alexa LeAnn Wethern
History
August 2015
Laura Elizabeth Rocke
DIVISION OF
HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Cellular and
Molecular Biology
August 2015
Robyn M. Berent
Speech Pathology
and Audiology
August 2015
Lynda Rose McIntosh

Lisamarie C. Wynne
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN NURSING
December 2015
Marco Daniel Brito

Patricia Anne Crepps
Ryan Joseph Glazier
Tracy K. Kaltenbacher
Amy Sue McCombs
Haley Schwade
Jennifer Michelle Walker
DONALD W.
REYNOLDS
SCHOOL OF
JOURNALISM
MASTER OF ARTS
Journalism
December 2015
Alexandra Gurevich
Alexandra Kelsey Hoeft
Courtney A. Laubacher
Lei Wu
December 2015
David C. Harrell
Holly Clarine Smith
Philosophy
December 2015
Jonathan Kanzelmeyer
Lisa M. Madura
Political Science
December 2015
Geri Rose Griffin
Psychology
August 2015
Natalie Marie Bennett

Sara L. Stratz
John E. Vanston
Sociology
August 2015
Emily L. Berry
David A. Richards
MASTER OF
JUDICIAL STUDIES
August 2015
August 2015
Darrell Steinhauer
Hannah Sullivan Pence
Mechanical Engineering
Kristin Elisabeth Holland
August 2015
William S. Nagel
Andrew J. Smith
December 2015
Foreign Language
and Literature
Rangeland Ecology
and Management
August 2015
Riley M. Anderson
Wildlife Ecology
and Conservation
December 2015
Kiele Shannon Noalani Braun

Victoria Cernoch
Emily Rose Kaminski
Paul Yoshio Kanow
Kathryn L. McGlamery
Christine Rose Seliga
Roslyn Villa
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
December 2015
Megan Monet Lake

Adriana Elizabeth Shaw Scala
Samantha Marie Strege
Anne Marie Underwood
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Gregory Mosier, Dean
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Economics
August 2015
Daniel Alexander
Matthew G. Johnson Bryce
Newcomb
Aubrey Kathleen Powell
Elizabeth G. Cheng
Reisa Adelle Dingel
Katherine Marie Duncan
Afton Leigh Faillers
Theron Benjamin Flavin
Jacob W. Flynn
Lola M. Hane
Nathaniel Jamal Hughes
Tyson Jake Pontes
Barbara J. Ramirez
Kyle Vincent Rodriguez
Roosevelt J. Schultz-Cooks
Alyssa M. Sharp
Luke H. Tanaka
Kaitlin E. Tyrer
Karina Valdez-Chaidez
Ryan Daniel Vallese
Bryce Daniel Veronda
Xiaofei Wang
Brittany Marie Wilcox
Cheryl Worsnop
Allison Young
Yu Zheng
Accounting /
Information Systems
December 2015
Nikita Michael Antonaros

Lauren Ashley Barrett
Kris L. Basallo
Vlademir Ignacio
Boyuan Wang
Economics
August 2015
December 2015
Clarisa Rani Depari

Min Yan Ding
Mark Robert Farthing
Joseph Wolfgang Hinds
Clayton Thomas Markin
John Stacy
Brett Robert Styles
Felipe Luis Ugalde
BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE IN BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
Accounting
August 2015
Ryan J. Burks
Rebecca Clarice Clark-Bennett
Aren Joseph Del Chiaro
Dana S. Khair
Clinton James Kleeb
Gabriel Martinez Millan
John Austin Miller
Cassidy Parker
Robin Forest Pellicciarini
Shelby Nicole Schelling
Yuen Yiu Yeung
December 2015
Christopher Philippe Arnulf

Andrae Bandoo
Jacqueline Dale Bolles
Valerie J. Burnett
Mitchell Ryan Barboza

Gretchen Maria Baumann
Summer J. Benavidez
Zachary A. Blankfeld
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Brian Joel Duran
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Clint Joshua Fogleman
Dominic Joseph Gill
Qiaozhi Huang
Kylene Lia Keily
Ryan D. Lee
Brent McMinn
Joseph William Ross
Yuki Sakurai
Christopher Paul Salemme
Kami Rose Schaefer
Garek J. Tauchen
Rachel Del Wagner
December 2015
Martin Lawrence Barman V

Austin James Bayless
Taylor James Burkett
Ralph Chaker
Shawn A. Choo-Murphy
Trevor Lawrence Christensen
Ivan Kyle Farnworth
Kenneth D. Flores
Jordan E. Kingsley
Sonny D. Licata
Errek J. McClellan
August 2015
December 2015
Scott M. Appleby
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Lindsay Dimitri
Linda Mohammad Filimban
Jade E. Keehn
Jennifer Ann Lightfoot
Pornsawan Poopat
Chemistry
December 2015
August 2015
Chelsea Ross Canon

Natasha Majewski
December 2015
Allison Renea Dansby

Jon Earl Lopey
Matthew David Richardson
Wayne Thomas Woo
Jueliang Huang
Julie Q. Lenz
Jamie Lavonne Wenner
Sarah Yoda Thomas

English
Biology
Geography
Criminal Justice
Jose Guadalupe Cordero

Kriti Dawadi
Chenxi Qiao
December 2015
Kerwyn Cleave Texeira
MASTER OF JUSTICE
MANAGEMENT
Electrical Engineering
August 2015
August 2015
Gustavo Mazza Riggio

Benjamin J. Sumlin
Samantha Suzanne Tabor
Ya-Chun Tai
Geeta Chaudhary
Jennifer L. Day
December 2015
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Atmospheric Science
David Lee Shakes
Raimundo J. Alcalde-Sorolla
Lynn E. Wagener
August 2015
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
December 2015
Georgia Dalto
Janie Ann Funk
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL
ARTS
MASTER OF ARTS
Anthropology
December 2015
Mario Alberto Avila

Chai Glenn-Cook
Courtney R. Kiley
Brenda A. Kolling
Elliot M. Malin
Lauren Michelle Morris
Sariah H. Tillotson
Jill Nicole Valdez
Erica Lauren Ward
Rebecca J. Uppal
Vamsi Krishna Raju Alluri

Ibrahim Ethem Coskun
Md Moinul Hossain
Mohammad Jafari
Christine M. Johnson
Sandeep Mathew
Manoj Kumar Popuri
Rui Wu
Bachelor's degrees
COLLEGE OF
AGRICULTURE,
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND
NATURAL RESOURCES
December 2015
Erin Grey Ghan

Catalina P. Goralski
Andrew James Rasor
Adolfo Anguiano Saldana
December 2015
December 2015
CLASS OF 2015 | A7
MASTER OF MUSIC
August 2015
December 2015
MASTER OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
Public Administration
and Policy
August 2015
Alyssa Michelle Parks
Beatriz Mena-Ortiz
Daniel Clifford Pratt
Heidi M. Riekenberg
Daniel Jake Schenker
Maryjo Elizabeth Smart
Mallory Katie Wilson
Finance
August 2015
Brian Lee Babigian

Zachary A. Blankfeld
Dominic Joseph Gill
Qiaozhi Huang
Rachel Del Wagner
December 2015
Austin James Bayless

Rob William Bradford
Ralph Chaker
Tess Mariah Chalker
Trevor Lawrence Christensen
Ivan Kyle Farnworth
Kenneth D. Flores
Michael Timothy Fuetsch
Jose Guadalupe Garcia Jr.
Gabriela Garcia-Ramirez
Kiran Deep Kaur
Brennan G.W. Lee
Scott William Lewis
Robert Nicholas Martin
Errek J. McClellan
Nicolas Riley Mitchell
Paul Vincent Moresi
Carolina Navarrete
Ziad Salem Rashdan
Michael Paul Rea
Kyle Vincent Rodriguez
Jaclyn Sanchez
Daniel Jake Schenker
Katherine Maritza Segovia
Jack Thomas Tucker
Sarah Ann Vampola
Jazmine Torres Vasallo
Boyuan Wang
General Business
August 2015
Ryan D. Bayfield
Sarah Elizabeth Davis
Jeremy Dillon Hagan
Jasmin Marie Melancon
Derek M. Ream
Joseph William Ross
December 2015
Alexandra Kealani Alvarado

Zachary Michael Behl
Megan N. Jackson
Heejoon Lee
Angelika Christina Leide
Cindy N. Mejorado
Richard Andrew Merrigan
Jake Lee Pereira
Samuele Thomas Sabini
Sarah Kaylene Stevens
Haley Brittany-Shae Stewart
Information Systems
August 2015
Brice E. Berman
Eduardo Caro
Dominic S. Eliot
Photo courtesy of the University of Nevada, Reno
Luke Tanaka
The University of Nevada, Reno has named Luke
Tanaka the recipient of the Fall 2015 Herz Gold
Medal for having earned the highest grade-point
average. The Herz Gold Medal will be presented to
Tanaka for his outstanding scholarship during the
Universitys Winter Commencement ceremony.
Tanaka, a native Nevadan and graduate from
Clark High School in Las Vegas, graduates from
the University at 8 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 5, with a
bachelors of science degree in accounting and a
minor in computer science and engineering.
Matthew Bromley
Stephanie M. Freund
Geology
December 2015
Steven T. Howell
Andrew Sadowski
Erik Cadaret
Gwendolyn Davies
Keith Heidecorn
Jamie R. Myers
Nicholas W. Paasche
Susan C. Rybarski
Bruce Towner Warden
Geophysics
Hydrology
August 2015
Danielle Dawn Molisee

December 2015
December 2015
Robin Joseph Chacko

Neil C. Pearson
Hydrogeology
August 2015
August 2015
Susan Burak
Angela Dawn Tabirao Stevens
Karly Beth Wagner
Katherine Marie Clancey
Benjamin D. Trustman
Nicholas Grant Elliston

Alan David Flores-Limon
Lillis May French
Brontee Marie Gable
Perry R. Higginbotham
Stephanie Renee Josefowicz
Catherine A. Woodward
Reginald Ira Watson-Griggs
December 2015
International Business
August 2015
Jonathan J. Barnes
Lyndsey M. Bohall
Christine E. Cardona-Cisterna
Austin Daniel Eskola
Shaquita Monique Hill
Ryan D. Lee
Christopher Paul Salemme
Ryan Edward Ward
December 2015
Jackson Alexander Aycock

Martin Lawrence Barman V
Aspen Anne Daley
Gabriela Garcia-Ramirez
Carmen Jiamin Hu
Jack A. Martinez
Derek Satoru Oshita
H Miwako Schlageter
Maryjo Elizabeth Smart
Management
August 2015
David Franklin Achey

William J. Van Maren Anderson
Scott Philip Atchian
Summer J. Benavidez
Christopher Douglas Boline
Gustavo Chuang
Michelle Colleen Foster
Casey Robert Frasca
Colton Christopher Hampson
Terena D. Koontzy
Tayler Julianne McClellan
William Fitzgerald Morris
Madalaine Joan Mullen
Cami Anne Palludan
Holly Danielle Porter
Rickie Lee Ritchie
Katie Norine Silverman
Dana Dorothy Vasko
Eric Dominic Verrelli
December 2015
Ryan M. Liebert
Metallurgical Engineering
August 2015
Irawan Pramudya
Mining Engineering
August 2015
Virginia Ibarra
December 2015
Brandon G. Bonifacio
Ivan G. Vazquez Rubio
December 2015
Karen Margaret Gastineau

Sunny Grunloh
Luke Hunter Pickman
Robert L. Aker
Nicole Chelsea Arevalo
Robert Grant Buergin
Elizabeth G. Cheng
Michael Anthony Deweerd
Nicholas Joseph Finney
Jeffrey Allan Hinxman
Alexander Jey Hussein
Alexis Joseph King
Daniel Indalecio King
Tanner John Kowalczik
Jonathan Michael Lay
Alan Ortiz
Brandon E. Peck
Toby John Schwartz
Michael Trek Soule
William Blaine Tew
Jessica Lynn Treece
Malcolm Lloyd Uhl
Mathematics
December 2015
Jann Miguel Apostol

Martell Brandon
Jacquelyn Renea Britton
Ariana Recanzone Caruso
Andrea V. Cordova-Gonzalez
Erynne R. Cushing
Abel Del Real-Nava
Kevin P. Donovan
Kyle Andrew Foster
Flora Pauline Gallegos
Travis Ryan Gullickson
Matthew L. Hack
Briana R. Hansen
Max Ford Hecker
Mason Tyler Hendricks
Carmen Jiamin Hu
Tammy J. Johnson
Joseph Labuda
Jered Roy Lehman
Bryan A. Lepage
Lawton Brett Lesueur
Rick A. Lopez
Kevin Machuca
Raymond Mansi
Zachariah Lee McFarlane
Christina Moore
Skye Elizabeth Moreland
Anthony J. Morrey
Stephanie Sara Mosqueda
Meghan ONeill
Nicholas Joseph Revaz
Cameryn Mary Jean Rowe
Connor Adam Rugaard
Austin David Scates
Sadie Jae Staub
Skyler Nahas Turner
Charles Mason Ulm
Marketing
August 2015
Justin Matthew Bolter

Stephanie Joanne Bononi
Leslie Marie Hernandez
Shaquita Monique Hill
Brian P. Jacobsen
Krista Nicole Kelly
Jerrad Taylor Kenney
Rachel Marie McCracken
Victor Togilau Mokulehua Jr.
Rickie Lee Ritchie
Leslee Alexandria Smith
Nicolle Linn Stewart
Tomoya Tsukada
Dana Dorothy Vasko
Vanessa E. Walker
Ryan Edward Ward
December 2015
Jackson Alexander Aycock

Kevin James Berry
Natalie Christine Betts
Brittany L. Bill
Amanda Leigh Burri
Marques Casarez
Kelly Rose Cass
Simranjit Singh Dhillon
Chelsea Ann Harris
Tara Michele Jacobs
Robert Tanner Gregory Keese
Maria G. Martinez
Darian J. McCauley
Daniela Bianey Medina
Stephanie Sara Mosqueda
Annamae Elizebeth Mullen
Ryutaro Nagaiwa
Michael Hendrick Reinders
Connor Adam Rugaard
Angelly Santos
Miwako Schlageter
Rashelle Nicole Sevillano
Benjamin A. Thom
Marc Anthony Trotter
Tyler John Wells
Jackson T. Wilson
Zachary R. Nathan Zolowicz
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Kenneth Coll, Dean
BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN EDUCATION
Secondary Education
December 2015
Rena T. Alastuey
Charlotte Jane Bell
Andrea Nicole Davis
Zachary Peabody Duncan
Leslie Ashley Foley
Mariah Lynn Gramolini
Ashley M. Hansen
Courtney Janice Hansen
Crystal M. Jackson
Daniel Joseph Johnson
Kiana Elena Kosturos
Tiffany Renee Lucia
Katrina Marie Morgan
Fauna May Pettit
Caleb Sterner
Alexander Scott Trussell
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Early Childhood Education
December 2015
Rachel Dawn Mendonca

Taylor Elizabeth Omura
Human Development
and Family Studies
August 2015
Adilene Agustin
Michelle Cruz
Kanako Endo
Iyanna Kree Evans
Andrew Travis Garner
Joell Marie Jex
Kinsey Marie Minter
Velsabet Mojica
Yui Orihara
Danika Denise Sharp
Rochelle C. Solonia
Zachary James Sylvester
December 2015
Daisy E. Alcala-Marquez
Alexandra Atkinson
Matthew Scott Baker
Susan Lynn Barnett
Sally Kathryn Bowden
Amy C. Brandenburg
Kaylene Ellen Burns
A8 | CLASS OF 2015
Bianca Shamari Carthen
Brandon Michael Cassinelli
Jennifer Nicole Churton
Nichelle E. Cieri
Shanice Renae Coleman
Kelsey Lynn Combs
Alexandra Mariah Corona
Curtis E. Ellis
Carlos Escobar Jr.
Taylor Russell Evans
Melissa Ann Ferrari
Kayla Marie Franklin
Hanna Rae Goodwin
Milagro D. Guardado
Jenna Marie Gundersen
Jillian Dawn Killen
Michael-Ann Lazzarino
Cynthia Lou Valentine Lensing
Ana Alicia Lomeli
Humberto Lopez
Jerrie Lynn Manning
Rachel Dawn Mendonca
Ayla Mariah Marissa Miller
Ariana N. Mueller
Jamie Mulligan
Cheyenne Myers
Natasha B. Nielsen
Natalie Marie Power
Aqeela Kathaleen Rhodes
Lauren Elizabeth Richards
Maria E. Rodarte
Shaelby Denise Ruben
Larissa Rose Garcia Silcox
Stephanie Smith
Jessica Mackay Spyrow
Lindsay Marie Stecher
Shelby Shan Triantos
Tyler Stuart Trout
Kellie R. Wojcik
Rykeem Yates
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN EDUCATION
Integrated Elementary
Teaching
August 2015
Yerania Alvarez-Padilla
Jordan Christine Baird
Kathleen M. Erlendson
Sandra Herrera
December 2015
Megan Atkinson
Brittany Noelle Brisson
Kylie Jae Brown
Taylor Lee Ehrhart
Lisa Marie Ellison
Sydney E. Flint
Jessica Haley Gannon
Destiny Kathryn Garrett
Malia Mae Goade
Jessica Nicole Grant
Thomas Joshua Green
Michele L. Haugen
Tyler Rivers Ingstad
Emily M. Jenkins
Angela Haley Kluska
Kelly Maria Maguire
Andrew Zachary Marks
Katy Colleen McGuire
Katelyn Rose Miller
Rachel Lauren ONeill
Crosbey Brooke Proffitt
Hayley Kathryn Thaning
Melissa Anita Joy Vecchione
Jazmyn Lacreasia Ward
Courtney Elizabeth Woods
Chandler Michele Wright
Secondary Education
August 2015
Dominic Thomas Mariani

December 2015
Nicholas C. Coughlin
Joy Davidson
Tyler Jake Eaton
Trevor Keoni Freitas
Nadeen Sami Khair
Ashley Jean McKechnie
COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING
Manos Maragakis, Dean

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
August 2015
Gabrielle Marie Bachand

Ryan David Boles
Joel Lopez Reynoso
Alexander Michael York
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
August 2015
Jordan Akira Hayashi

Jonathan S. Head
Xiang Wang
December 2015
Joseph Edward Barragan

Joe Allan Barreres
Nicole Elizabeth Date
Devon Kae Eckberg
Waqar Ehsan
Justin Michael Farley
Lauren Allyson Graham
Michelle Ann Griffin
Tsunami Tomlin Harder
Jacob Dale Harkness
Bryan Daryl Hutchins
Caleb Inskeep
Adam Gerard Mancuso
Spenser Gregory Olson
Robert Danford Otis
Luke Perkins Pazdernik
Elizabeth H. Pierson
Colton Brandt Schaefer
Scott Daniel Somers
Travis Tidd
Tyler Thomas Trojan
Samuel Aaron Wise
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING
August 2015
Zachary Ty Carlson
Megan Holly NyBlom
Malleli Agustin-Jacinto
George Gustave Anderus
Kayla E. Baker
Kristine Ann Bernaldo
Clinton J. Bottoset
Kimberly Ann Bringolf
Jennifer Sue Cadiz
Marlee Patricia Chase
Andre W. City
Starla G. Donaldson-Knapp
Nicole Marie Donato
Amanda Lynne Ferraro
Kyle Derek Flores
Makana James Garrigan
Tarryn Nicole Gordon
Samantha A. Hix
Amanda Marie Goodwill
Chandler Macy Isaac
Kelsey Chiemi Koyanagi
Marisa Lee
Ciera Austin Lindsay
Jayson Richard Lum
Jaaron Edmond Morris
Joshua David Murphy
Brieauna Nesmith
Kathryn Jeanette Newman
Allison Elaine Palmer
Joseph Alexander Rico
Anthony Charles Rydell
Victoria M. Torres-Macias
Ashley Marie Ulibarri
Mikaela Marie Vincent-Lipkin
Nicholas Martin Walker
Danielle M. Watson
Kelli Marie Wotring
December 2015
Chad Evan Brown

Jesus Flores-Padilla
Christopher N. Forkner
Matthew George Fredrickson
Eli Gabay
Eric Anthony Gilchrist
Taylor James Ice
Sarah Koh
Salah Majadly
Jesus C. Sanchez
Rayhan Uddin Shihab
Gregory S. Stayner
J.D. Anthony Thom
Jonathan S. Towle
Evan Aaron West
Ryan Andrew Wilmington
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
December 2015
Imee P. Defiesta
Steven Matthew Flores
Chilong Xiong
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
December 2015
Aaron Matthew Mangione

Kaitlyn Judith Panos
Matthew Wade Schulenberg
Aaron Forrest Smith
Mauricio H. Urias
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN MATERIAL SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING
August 2015
Matthew H. Bain
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
August 2015
Thomas Bouthillier Jr.

Sean Bradford Ferneyhough
Paul R. Fischer
Christopher N. Mack
Matthew Mark Schulze
December 2015
Kevin Alan Bader

David Alexander Bart
Joe Rodriguez Betancourt
Devan Lee LeBlanc
Russell Leonard May
David Ramirez Dominguez
Christopher Paul Sietsema
Justin Sipe
Timothy D. Smith
Connor J. Vankalmthout
DIVISION OF
HEALTH SCIENCES
Thomas Schwenk, Dean
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Community Health
Sciences
August 2015
December 2015
Kellen Kupono Takeo Abe

Elizabeth Lara Aguilar
Anthony Leonard Alexander
Chenay Cherry Arberry
Jessica N. Barker
Alexandria Dorothy Best
Karrah Ellis Bissett
Danielle Rae Bock
Farrah Rose Carlson
Elizabeth Castillo
Celestina Mariah Cubio-Torres
Mikaela Karin Dold
Amanda Marie Decker
April Earl
Faigofie Troy Faaituala
Kathleen Christina Ferguson
Courtney N. Fields
Jasmine Marilyn Giles
Chantel Reye Good
Delaney Danelle Gooderham
Kyli Michelle Grover
Donavin S. Michael Hannon
Casey Ann Harges
Devin Alexander Hernandez
Megan Christine Higgins
Miranda M. Hoover
Troy C. Jorgensen
Elizabeth Noelle Kessler
Sophia Mukenyi Kiiti
Zane August Korth
Na Eun Lee
Tiffany Lyn Leonard
Daniel William Liddicoat
Marissa J. Brenay Lockwood
Alexandria D. Luckadoo
Carlee Dawn Maloy
Molly Elizabeth McWilliams
Natasha F. Mwakapumba
Miranda Mahealani Naone
Meagan Lynn Nuckolls
Sandra I. Ocegueda-Anguiano
Aundrea Maria Ogushi
Chinedum Reginald Okonkwo
Caitlin Elizabeth OLeary
Josh Clay Oueilhe
Makenzie A. Pomi
Taylor Anne Powers
Lauren Amber Raitz
Kyla Bailey Rotton
Kimberly Caroline Sarandos
Margaret Rose Schoemann
Joseph Edward Steele
Emma Ellis Steinzeig
Michael Aaron Stern
Jordan Lans Thomas
Miriah Tompkins
Vanessa L. Van Muyden
Chanel Villalobos
Jordyn Tyler Vincelet
Andrew Warren
Stephanie Michelle Wolf
Speech Pathology
August 2015
Carissa Jenel Berner

Devon Aundrea Dodd
Juliet Marie Grider
December 2015
Bryce Altus
Ivonne Amador-Diaz
Erica Ann Ingle
Amrit Kaur
Amanda Nicole Romine
Sydney Joanna Szillinsky
Genna P. Tonneslan
Adriana Esperanza Vazquez
Kathy Perez
Ileana Marie Tomich
Devan Ann Underwood
Jennie Villalba
Annette Lorraine Williams
December 2015
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN NURSING
December 2015
Hailey Alexis Albert

Emily Rosa Barker
Jesse Jose Barney
Cassidy Alana Baxter
Jamie Lynn Beck
Emily Marie Becker
Jessica Leigh Bresnahan
Yuri L. Caceres
Leanne M. Cannon
Antoinette Carlos
Laura Kay Carmona
Kaitlyn Marie Clark
Shawn Douglas Cole
Britni Kaitlyn Combs
Lexa Elias Davee
Abigail Leigh Dinkelacker
Janae Elise Edelen
Lindsey Rae Elliott
Amanda Elizabeth Folsom
Julia Nicole Fox
Andrea Elise Garrison
Casey Ann Harges
Natalie Hinojosa
Susana Huerta
Carly Michelle Huntsinger
Kelly Ann Rika Ikehara
Roarke Guillaume Inda
Heather Marie Johnston
Rosalee Ann Kozar
Michele Joy-Marie Laporte
Brittany Rachelle Lesperance
Cristin Alicia Lundstrom
Mia Dominique Manipud
Zia Olivia Mars
Alexa R. Martindale
Mary Therese Marvel
Nicholas James Mavrogianis
Frances Glen Meyer
Rachel Anne Miller
Morgan Rachel Mitchell
Stephanie Leigh Mitchell
Abigail Rose Mitzel
Jessica Deanna Moiseyev
Veronica Marie Morrison
Jennifer Jeanette Mortlock
Sarah Lousie Noble
Tyler David Park
Leah Ellen Paukert
Courtney Eliza Platt
Lucas P. Rachal
Alyssa Nicole Roberge
Cavan John Rogers
Elaine Morgan Sall
H Marin Sauer
Breon Marie Schneyder
Mackenzie Leigh Smith
Jennifer Diane Stice
Kelsey Laine Swanson
Aryan Vincent Taabodi
Shelley Marie Taoipu
Noelle Ashley Tetrick
Jamie Peter Ucci
Haley N. Val
Jessica Lee Vega
Mia Pamela Borja Velasco
Alex Michael Vogt
Vanessa Catherine White
Kristy Lynn Williams
Mackenzie Rose Wolfe
Andrew Steven Youngker
BACHELOR OF
SOCIAL WORK
August 2015
Jacoby Earl Covington

Brando Heras
Velsabet Mojica
Bryan Anthony Akerley

Jacoby R. Bancroft
Elizabeth M. Bennett-Doran
James Dayton Christison
Nicholas Kyle Coleman
Graham R. Collins
Andrew Reed Cormier
Natalie Elizabeth Gray
Brooke N. Haberstroh
Kyle Andrew Hills
Manila Ngoc Hoang
Trenna Marie Hopson
Jacquelyne Rae Joiner
Emily Elizabeth Lopez
Kara Lee Marken
Annalise Mishler
Maddison Melissa Moffitt
Tysilian Shaquille Pimienta
Crystal Anne Powell
Joshua David Putney
Shani Yamileth Ramirez
Brianne Lynn Ruddy
Bradford Adams Scribner
Ashley Jordan Speaks
Jacqueline Anne Stoesser
Ryan Matthew Teel
Athalia B. Torres-Manzano
Christopher Shawn Vega
Shane Robert Vetter
Luiza Padovan Vieira
Whip Julian Villarreal
Allyson Elizabeth Vogl
Shelbi Carr Whitehead
Austin M. Wright
COLLEGE OF
LIBERAL ARTS
Heather Hardy, Dean

BACHELOR OF ARTS
Anthropology
August 2015
Chantel Rose Dominguez

December 2015
Hannah Andrews
Reiko Arakaki
Angela Lynn Cannon
Delaney Grace Childs
Jennifer Lynn Heath
Synneva Hegge
Randi Renee Holtzclaw
Emilio A. Lozada
Savannah Emily Newman
Emily Renee Schmith
Kaylyn Renee Sims
Art
August 2015
Helena Ann Bigelow

Lian Guo
Chinta Rohini McCollum
Jenie Peralta Villanueva
December 2015
Alana-Lynn Berglund
Fantasia Marie Bolden
Bridget Grace Butler
Lisa Michelle Cassidy
Stephanie Danielle De Barros
Brittany Elizabeth Fowell
Sydney Renee Harvey
Courtney Joelle Hemovich
Nicole Rose La Maina
Katherine Rose Leathley
Yolanda R. Martinez
Jacob B. Peck
Rebecca Rose Shuey
Angelica C. Terrell
Vicki Lynn Vallis
Christopher Shawn Vega
DONALD W.
REYNOLDS
SCHOOL OF
JOURNALISM
Art (Art History)
Alan Stavitsky, Dean
Communication Studies
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Journalism
Arianna Emily Blasi

Leila M. Cryer
Brandon Joseph Eddleman
Amber Nicole Gillenwater
Megan Lindsey Karsok
Casandra Lynn Robertson
Bryan Keith Lane
Chastity Quispe-Austin
Michaela Kathleen Reilly
Alyssa Marie Rilea
Takami Shiba
December 2015
Alexandra Fleur Wallace

August 2015
August 2015
Luiza May Benisano

Rayna Marie Charnley
Kelley Morgan Crane
Zachary A. Harris
Jeffrey A. Hutcherson
Carolina Noemi Lopez
Mai-Son McCurtis
Raquel Lynn Monserrat

Aaron Scott Weitzman
Philosophy
December 2015
Noe H. Jacinto
August 2015
Samantha C. Aghazarian
Carlos Aguerrebere
Jay Wesley Anderson
Melissa Anee Bailey
Jacoby R. Bancroft
Haley Britt Blonsley
Kelly S. Bozman
Sarah Nicole Citra
Ethan Michael Gray
Kendra E. Hess
Jerick Ibo Image
Justin Jay Killgore
Marc William McClincy
Amanda Brittney McHenry
Ian Iwalani Seau
Tyler James Stewart
Whitney Danielle Teague
Jessica Sue Woods
Harold Gerard Woomer III
English
August 2015
Victoria Horseman
Shannon Marie Johnson
Jennifer Ann Marbley
Brennah Aileen McCormack
Scott Harmon McFadden
Zachary J. Mollhagen
Taylor Kristine Poole
Christopher Sean Romine
Julia Anne Wymer
December 2015
Corinne Joyce Arnold

Matthew B. Buccambuso
Erica N. Decker
Gregory Edmondson
Elizabeth R. Fakkema
Alexander Joseph King
Anna Jean McFarlane
Siobhain McGuinness
Richard Anthony McIver
Sean Michael McLean
Courtney Layne Morse
Megan M. Ortiz
Jerrica Anne Price
Matthew A. Proulx
Logan Seidl
Alyssa Cherie Smith
Robben Charles Williams
Liberty Elli Zikos
French
August 2015
Adreana Dorothy Polimeni

December 2015
Thomas A. Roush
History
August 2015
Somerset Gable Bassett

James Everett Cornell
Cameron Matthew Hansen
Tyler Fredrick Mahannah
Taylor Brooke Melcher
December 2015
Tyler S. Baize
Jesse Lee Buskirk Cassidy
Alia Ellen Dzick
Matthew Ryan McDonough
Kimberly Anne Pamplin
Jennifer J. Reynolds-Strange
International Affairs
August 2015
Manuel Garcia-Garrido
Warren J. Kao
Brynn Alexandra Vucekovich
December 2015
Maria Juana Flores

Nataliya A. Gainey
Deanna Elena Martinez
Brady Dean Myers
Emily Katherine Myers
Judy Marie OBrien
Todd Joseph Rooker
Sidney Root
Leo Takahashi
Jade Wright
Music
August 2015
Kirsten Fay Crom

Ashley P. Melendez
Sarah Lauren Melia
December 2015
Luke Andrew Drymalski

Skye Liam Evans
Elizabeth R. White
December 2015
Adam Michael Ainsley

Rachel Ann Bonderson
Maria Juana Flores
Siobhain McGuinness
Alec R. Joseph Reiplinger
Aaron Daniel Van Sickle
Political Science
August 2015
Marvin-Anthony Raheem Bell

Mary Corr-Barberis
Samantha Tyler Cunningham
Warren J. Kao
Georgina Rose Miller
Hagop N. Ohanian
Zachary Tyler Thompson
Alicia Ann Timoff
December 2015
Adam Michael Ainsley

Gillian Leslie Block
Kelly Rae Brill
Christopher Curtis Carson
Zachary Shane Cole
Charla Marilyn George
Dane Paul Hedlund
Chandler Lindsey
Emilio A. Lozada
Clayton Thomas Markin
Tayler Leigh Morian
Elizabeth Ann Morrissey
Colby Thomas Nichols
Valerie Francesca Padovani
Brooke Marie Precourt
Alec R. Joseph Reiplinger
Jason Aaron Sims
Samuel Aaron Solace
Victor Joseph Ty Stefan
Caleb Sterner
Jade Wright
Rachel Marie Yelverton
Andrew Perry Zaninovich
Psychology
August 2015
Brooke Paige Adams

Mary H. Austin
Megan Baker
H Laura Joanne Blauenstein
Julia M. Conte
Shahla Fadaie
Jennifer Joyce Geddes
Kelsey Jane Hansen
Lisa Marie Hardin
Fatima Jacinto
Christopher Brian Kirkpatrick
Rachel M. Kuch
Alexandra Moore Lalli
Dalton D. Malone
Staheli L. Meyer
Laura Palacios
Sophia Panich
Grace Ravenelle
Anna L. Richter
Rosalee Sauer
Tiffany Cherri Sparrow
Shelby Jean Ward
December 2015
Amanda Abbie-Hall
Sarah Coralie Ainsworth
Ircia M. Alonzo
Brittany-Tiana C.P. Amoroso
Jahaziel Armas
Scott Calvin Arn
Emilie Elizabeth Babyak
Garrett Jay Banks
Heather Ann Beesmer
Matthew J. Dela Bernarda
Cheri Danyale Bowen
Jeremiah Daniel Brant
Vanessa Caitlin Cross
Mikaila Marie Culverson
Tawnya Natasha Davis
Richard Arguelles De Leon
Amber Marie Eddy
Mark Friedlander
Mitchell James Gale
Rachel Lynn Gentry
Elliot M. Goodrich
Laura Christine Heinemann
Nicholas Joseph Henderson
ARiane P. Holliday
Joseph Gregory Johnson
Taylor J. Keema
Kaytlyn Brett Kennedy
Michele Joy-Marie Laporte
Morgan Diane Lott
Taylor J. Martinez
Siobhain McGuinness
Jason Robert McLemore
Joanna Mercado
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Victoria Ellianna Rangel
Casey Skylark Rollins
Natalia Andrea Roman
Haley Patrica Schuveiller
Elisha Matthias Sears
Rachel Marie Shead
Anthony J. Shugar
Marleny A. Soriano
Melanie Sara Stites
Daisy S. Torres
Randolph J. Velasco
Jeanette Verdin
Catherine Vieyra
Kelsey Ann Wallace
Stephanie Lynn Watkins
Valeri Jean Wilson
Sociology
August 2015
Shahla Fadaie
Kelsey Jane Hansen
Hagop N. Ohanian
Adreana Dorothy Polimeni
Chastity Quispe-Austin
Rosalee Sauer
Julia Anne Wymer
December 2015
Taylor J. Martinez
Jessica Lynn Merritt
Ward Perdue
Casey Skylark Rollins
Randolph J. Velasco
Valeri Jean Wilson
Spanish
August 2015
Malia Taylor Elliott

Manuel Garcia-Garrido
Megan Lindsey Karsok
Bailey Jean Leilani Polifka
Hannah Marie Seibel
Timothy J. Yu
December 2015
Samuel Moore Broadhead

Mark Robert Farthing
Andrea Lucia Ibaibarriaga
Matthew King
Yolanda R. Martinez
Jessica A. Mendoza-Ramirez
Crystal Anne Powell
Julie Marie Pozun
Marin Sauer
Rachel Marie Shead
Athalia B. Torres-Manzano
John Kyle Trousdale
Nathan Eli Van Felix
Theatre
August 2015
Nicole Marie Durante

Kathryn Megan Kosmides
Charles Canaan Peterson
Theresa Marie Whittle

December 2015
Richard Anthony McIver

Ben Axel Samuels
BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
August 2015
Jasmine Marie Arreola

Ryan Garrett Bishop
Cody Jared Dills
Russell Steven Magnani
Collette Rae Martin
Ty Tatsuo Nakatani
Morgan Hardy Tucker
Ashley Christine Walker
December 2015
Stephen S. Akacsos
Christopher Julian Allen
Daniel Isaias Arias
Samuel Diaz Barragan
Afshin S. Bhimani
Michelle Lynn Bolander
Emma En Hua Bretz
Megan Kathleen Crossland
Scott Cole Delgado
Griselda Diaz
Megan Elizabeth Donnelly
Ashley Renee Estes
Jesika Elizabeth Frybarger
Elliot M. Goodrich
Jennifer Leigh Greenwell
Taylor DNae Grimmett
Eleanor Jane Harvison
Ashley Lorraine Herzberg
John Francis Hinsberg
Gerald Lee Hunter
David Robert Jamieson
Arrabia M. Jones
Skyler Genelle Jones
Maria B. Kennedy
Michael Aaron Klinger
Tyler Jordan Kobold
Samuel Hart Larsen
Suzanne Lee
Geneva Mae Lewis
Cindy Lopez
Yolanda Nicole Malone
Jeffrey Stephen Martin
Brittany Rae Miller
Zachary Steven Moore
Matthias John Mourelatos
Nicholas Dean Murray
Tiandra Perris Nguyen
Riley Daniel Niehaus
Dana Rachael Nott
Blake Gregory Overby
Modestas Petraitis
Whitney B. Philbrook
Samantha Anne Phillips
Adam David Powning
Anacaren Maria Salazar
Hans N. Schobert
Jillian E. Spach
Christopher Aaron Strong
Rodrigo Tello-Tamayo
Anthony Michael Terrell
Clint Allen Veil
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Homogeneity in the name of capital gains

Dont let MidTown
Gentrification drive
community members away
ixteen new businesses

are preparing to call the
Reno Midtown/Downtown
area home. This may be a
salubrious boost to the local economy,
making the area more desirable, but it
may also be the polar opposite to the
people living in the community.
These may be exceptional businesses, but how do they cater to
college students or people who are less
economically stable? The new businesses are another step in what has
been the increasing gentrification of
the Midtown area. While revitalization
of the local economy and the opportunity for locally-owned businesses to
grow is an admirable goal, this progress
can come at the price of alienating the
community members who lack the
financial means to patronize the area.
Gentrification sometimes comes

attached with a negative stigma, but in
some instances is more than necessary.
Theres no reason that new businesses
shouldnt move into the area, but its
the overall price increase that is the
true problem. Most single-occupancy
apartments cost anywhere between
$600 - $800 a month, yet in some
places you can find yourself spending
almost $25 for a cocktail and an
appetizer.
If these price points become the
norm, individuals living off of low or
fixed incomes will be pushed out of the
area, both as residents and patrons.
Current and prospective residents
are not the only groups affected by the
Midtowns rising costs. As evidenced by
the fate of Lost City Farm, commercial
establishments are not immune to the
rising property costs of the area. The
farm published a farewell address of
sorts on its website shortly after it lost
its lease, stating that Times are changing and land values are on the rise.
Our local economy is on an upswing
which is great for many reasons, but

unfortunately has forced us to turn a
new page on Lost City Farm.
The trend is one of sacrificing the
diverse community of the area in
hopes of making it more profitable.
Luckily, another staple of the
Midtown area and the Reno arts
community was able to avoid a similar
fate. The Holland Project, the citys only
all-ages music and art space, was able
to raise enough money to buy its current space and remain safe from future
rent increases that could jeopardize its
existence. In an interview with KUNR,
Hollands Executive Director Britt
Curtis summarized the situation now
facing startups in the area.
That artists move into spaces
because they can afford them and
nobody else wants them and landlords
are happy at that moment in time to
have somebody pay something
and then people start coming to the
neighborhood, and they see how cool
their buildings actually are, Curtis
said. And then all of sudden their
value is up and they see dollar signs

and it doesnt make sense to keep those
people that made the neighborhood
what it was.
Establishments like Lost City Farm
and the Holland Project are more
than spaces they are hubs of
creativity and interaction that give
Midtown its sense of community and
invite residents to participate in the
betterment of their city. Without these
spaces, we lose not only the valuable
work of individuals seeking to lend
their efforts to Renos revitalization, but
we also lose the potential for others
with big ideas but little capital to make
an impact.
In no way should all of the services
offered in Midtown cater to solely
university students or low-income
individuals, but they should not cater
solely to the citys top earners either. In
order to have a cohesive relationship,
retaining the neighborhoods diversity
needs to be of the utmost importance.
With recent efforts by our own
student government to promote the
collision of the Reno downtown area

and the university population, the
topic of affordability has failed to come
up in discussion. There is more talk
about development than there is of
how students are actually supposed to
afford to utilize the area after development.
The eclectic mix of high and low,
trendy and divey, is a large part of what
makes Midtown such a gem in our
community. It is an area that, because
of its diversity, can attract a wide
variety of patrons and offer something
for everyone to enjoy. But if certain
groups are alienated because they can
no longer afford to shop at retailers, or
because their favorite business could
no longer pay its rent, then the unique
personality that originally made
the area what it was will have been
sacrificed for homogeneity in the name
of capital gains.
The Nevada Sagebrush editorial staff
can be reached at tbynum@sagbrush.
unr.edu and on Twitter @TheSagebrush.
Come on, its

imperitive to
immunize Nevada
ollege can be fast-paced and hectic.

Between working, studying, going
to classes, participating in extracurricular activities and building your
resume, you simply dont have time to spare.
You especially dont have time to be sick.
According to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, each year, an estimated 20
percent of the U.S. population gets the flu, with more
than 200,000 people finding
themselves hospitalized,
missing work or school, and
unable to recover quickly.
The CDC estimates that the
flu kills between 5,300 and
39,000 people each year,
including many young,
Jamal
perfectly healthy people. It is
Barghouti
important to recognize the
flu is more than just a bad
cold. In fact, its the leading cause of death and
illness from a vaccine-preventable disease in
the United States.
At Immunize Nevada, the flu is a big deal. Immunize Nevada is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) coalition
of individuals, businesses and organizations
committed to improving and protecting the
health of northern Nevadans.
Seasonal flu vaccines are your best
protection against getting flu, said Heidi
Parker, executive director of Immunize Nevada.
Everyone six months and older should get a flu
vaccine every year. The flu vaccine can literally
save your life or the life of someone you love.
Getting vaccinated not only protects you, but
also those in our community who are vulnerable like children and seniors.
Many Wolf Pack coaches ensure their athletes
are in top condition so they can have the best
performance on the field and off. I think a flu
shot for our athletes is a wise choice, said head
coach Neil Harper of the Nevada swim team.
Our swimmers are up at 5 a.m., practice twice
a day, stay up late studying, get tired, fatigued,
run-down and are therefore more susceptible to
getting sick. Building immunity to the multiple
flu strains is extremely helpful in preventing
serious sickness and lost practice.
Nevada football coach Brian Polian agrees. I
can assure you Im going to make all of the guys
take the flu shot this year, he said in a recent
interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Despite the available information, some are
convinced only through experience.
Rhonda Baskins, a nurse who serves as
Immunize Nevadas adult immunization
coordinator, remembers a woman who declined
the vaccination, but later returned to get it for
her whole family.
What changed? Her husbands friend had just
died from the flu, and she wanted to make sure
her family was protected.
In the event that you do get sick, its important
to stay home, especially if you might have the
flu. Here are some symptoms that are associated with the flu rather than a cold.
-A 100 F or higher fever
-A cough and/or sore throat
-A runny or stuffy nose
-Headaches and/or body aches
-Chills
-Fatigue
-Nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea
If you have any of these symptoms, do the
whole Pack a favor and stay home.
Getting the flu can cost you more than a few
missed assignments; it can cost you your life.
Get your flu vaccine as soon as possible.
The Student Health Clinic on campus offers
flu shots to students with no appointment
necessary. Another option for University of
Nevada students is the Community Health
Alliance (formerly HAWC), or the Walgreens
located just south of campus.
Find the flu vaccine location nearest you at
www.inFLUenceNevada.org.
Jamal Barghouti studies journalism. He can be
reached at alexandraschultz@unr.edu and on
Twitter @TheSagebrush.
Photo illustration by Breanna Denney/Nevada Sagebrush
DystopiUS fictional future fixations
s I have been scrolling through my

Facebook news feed, I have noticed a
theme among the aggregate of statuses
and memes. Since the resurgence of
the zombie apocalypse starting around 2010,
it seems the general population has once again
become fascinated with the idea of dystopian
futuristic societies. This trend isnt new, however;
in fact, we have been at this trying to predict
the dark forthcoming of our
society thing for a long time.
Novels like 1984, Brave New
World and Fahrenheit 451
are popular, older examples
of us trying to analyze the
potential consequences of our
lifestyles and political systems.
The Purge, The Walking
Dead and The Hunger
Lauren
Games are more recent
Gray
portrayals of such analyses.
But why are we so fascinated
with the idea of a future where everything is dark
and awful and full of struggle? Which of the most
popular depictions of desolation have the highest
prospects of coming true and what aspects of
them are already prevalent in society today?
How do we stop these stories from becoming
reality? In my attempt to answer these questions,
I will break down commonalities throughout
the dystopias into three categories and compare
them to todays Western culture.
CATEGORY ONE: MASS DISTRACTION

This is the major thread between almost all
of the most popular dystopia, because it is the
indispensable tool for controlling society at large.
To be completely controlled, citizens must be
rendered incapable of free thought while remaining
ignorant of the fact that they are being distracted.
In other words, the distractions are normalized.
The Brave New World political system pushed sex
and drugs on its people to keep them malleable. In
Fahrenheit 451, everyone had giant TVs in their
homes which only displayed government-approved
content. The Purge and The Hunger Games
had, well, the Purge and the Hunger Games to keep
everyone obsessed over one, terrifying, extremely
propagandized event all year long. And the government in 1984 used a totalitarian system and large
workload to dominate the comrades.
SOCIETY TODAY
Sports are commonly criticized as a systematic
means of mass distraction. Sports are, in essence,
scheduled entertainment. People divide themselves based on teams that represent their country
or territories/states they feel represent them.
Through marketing and brand management,
fans attain strong obligations to be loyal to their
organizations, organizations that provide little
practical educational value and little real-world
news. Fans spend money on sports memorabilia
and argue about player and team statistics. There
is a strong tie between American sports programming and military propaganda. In America and
around the world, riots will even break out over
the outcome of games, sometimes in a similar
fashion to political protests.
CATEGORY TWO: STUNTED

OR DISMANTLED SOCIETAL
PROGRESSION
This one is obvious because the whole idea of a
dystopia is that somehow, somewhere, society as
a whole failed and either regressed in some major
way or fell apart completely. In the TV show The
Walking Dead, society is dismantled entirely due
to everyone being eaten by or becoming zombies.
In 1984, any forms of societal advancement are
restricted to government spyware or war technology. Dont worry about health care, education or
the economy because Big Brother is watching
you! There was also a whole department in 1984
called The Ministry of Truth where language was
being minimized in an attempt to limit the ways
citizens expressed themselves. A more disturbing
example of regression is how The Purges
perpetuates classism with violence. Instead of
offering progressive solutions for the lower-class
citizens, the government decides to do away
with them systematically by making them sitting
ducks for the upper echelon who have bountiful
resources and a manufactured desire to kill
people. InFahrenheit 451 books were incinerated
and citizens were legally prevented from reading
based on the very idea that literature would induce
progressive thinking.
SOCIETY TODAY
A recent uproar over the rise in tuition increases
for universities can definitely be labeled as an
obstacle for societal progression. As education
becomes more expensive, fewer citizens will
be able to attend. America then becomes less
educated and therefore less progressive as well as
easier to manipulate.
CATEGORY THREE: HOPE

Spread across the dystopia, hope is what keeps
the characters and plot proceeding. Every society mentioned exhibits hope for change, for a
better world. Katniss Everdeen is the champion
rebel who symbolizes hope for the people in
The Hunger Games. In Fahrenheit 451, Guy
Montag begins to realize he can find meaning
in his life through literature and questions the
perpetuation of ignorance by the oppressive
government he lives under. Winston in 1984
gets very close to free thinking and personally
breaking away from Big Brothers oppressive
brainwashing regime. A rebellious militia starts
to show promise in the society of The Purge.
All of The Walking Dead is based on hope
that somehow the ragtag group of survivors will
cure the zombie virus and society can rebuild
itself. And in Brave New World we meet John,
who grew up outside of the World State and
protests its dehumanizing policies. Regardless if
rebellion is successful or not, the idea of a moral
uprising is essential for dystopian conflict.
SOCIETY TODAY
Across all forms of media, in classrooms, in
workplaces, political rallies or at the family
dinner table, the invigorating sense of hope
is felt everywhere. We all hope that the ideas
and beliefs we hold will make life better, and
that is the biggest driving force behind almost
everything we do. The movements for marriage
equality, gun control, world peace, education, health care, animal rights, civil rights,
womens rights, global warming and more are all
examples of people hoping that the society they
live in will implement their ideas for a better
world.
I could go on forever and ever about the elements in each dystopia and how they relate to
us. This is why dystopian futuristic societies are
so appealing; we can draw a plethora of parallels
between the fiction and reality. Its fascinating
and terrifying to think that the consequences
portrayed in the dystopias could come to
fruition. Luckily there are takeaways from the
nightmarish tales of tomorrow: dont let yourself
be distracted, in other words, stay aware; dont
let fear or apathy stunt progress on a personal
or systemic level; and, above all, remain hopeful
and never stop fighting for the changes you want
to see in the world. May the odds be ever in your
favor, comrades.
Lauren Gray studies journalism. She can be
reached at alexandraschultz@unr.edu and on
Twitter @TheSagebrush.
Negative rhetoric breeds violence
bortion only accounts for 3 percent

of Planned Parenthoods services.
That means the remaining 97 percent
of the health care providers services
account for cancer screenings and cancer
prevention, STI testing and treatments, forms
of contraception, and other health services
offered to women. Whether people choose to
accept it or not, Planned Parenthood is a vital,
accessible tool for womens
health care at a nationwide
level. According to its website,
one in five women will utilize
Planned Parenthoods services
at least once in their lives. That
means roughly 32.2 million
women will turn to Planned
Parenthood.
So why is it still so difficult
Ali
for Planned Parenthood
Schultz
opposers to cease their
Schultz Happens negative rhetoric surrounding
the institution?
On Friday, Nov. 27, Robert Dear entered
a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, and opened fire, killing three and
injuring nine. This act should be deemed as
nothing less than an act of domestic terrorism.
Three people lost their lives that day. We can
search for countless sources to blame. We can
choose to take political sides. We could band together with the left, who could use this tragedy
as an advancement in its political campaign,
or we could choose to commend the right for
acknowledging this tragedy as an abominable
terrorist attack despite being carried out by a
Christian man.
Or we could choose to acknowledge this as
exactly what it is: a senseless act carried out by
a Christian extremist in response to the adverse
stigma surrounding the organization. It is no
secret that religious entities, especially, choose
to harp on abortion services offered by the clinic
versus bringing attention to the many other
services offered. Many media sources choose
to cover controversial matters versus shedding
light on the 865,721 pap tests and breast exams
in 2015 or the almost 5 million STI tests and
treatments administered by Planned Parenthood
in 2014-15, according to its annual report. It is
a recurring trend in the media to consistently
broadcast controversy surrounding this health
care center, which leads to a shadow being cast
over all of the positive services Planned Parenthood offers women and men.
Earlier this year, a video surfaced in which
Dr. Deborah Nucatola, who was unknowingly
being filmed, discusses how Planned Parenthood
donates fetal tissue for research purposes. Antiabortion activists jumped on this opportunity
to strike against the research center and make
accusations against Planned Parenthood for
selling fetal body parts. However, the video failed
success?
So why is it that in todays society, the concept
of enhancing the American Dream and the
expansion of diversity seem to be discussed
so little? There are days that
students have to explain the
reasoning behind who they are.
They have to describe the way
they think, the way they act and
the way they talk because of
their ethnicity. Why do we have
to state we are a race-hyphenAmerican? What wrong are we
doing?
Yezenia
As a Latina, the struggles
Olivera
can be tough. If I dont speak
Latino Voices
proper English its because
I struggle with the concept
of being bilingual. Because of the color of my
skin, it is implied that I will have an accent, I am
undocumented or that I have not attained a high
level of education.
And yet I do speak fluent English, I have an
American accent, I am an American citizen, I
attend the University of Nevada, Reno, and I am
on-track to obtain my degree.
This is the problem: the fact that we, as minorities, have to continue to explain ourselves when
clearly we are just as worthy as the average Joe. We
come to the university to get a better education
Ages 19 and
20 the years
of the dreaded
dark ages
board is unaware of the qualifications the class of

2015 had to meet in order to graduate or it could
be we were lambasted because of other biases.
As a student who attended Hug High as well
as graduated with an honors diploma, this is not
only insulting but disgraceful to my peers and
myself. I believe that each one of us worked to
get where we are. Each of us standing tall at the
University of Nevada or any other college should
not be shamed by a local newspaper. Whether
we are light-skinned or dark-skinned, we can be
involved in more than one culture, and there is
nothing wrong with that. We grow up learning
more than one language and more than one
culture, yet we are told to live by a standard
culture and a standard language.
As students we cannot encourage this behavior,
because all of our struggles are meant to be
strengths. We cannot tell someone they are less
than others or that they are better than others.
As students we need to encourage ourselves to
live lives inspired by all of our cultures, because
if we dont, these stereotypes and judgments will
continue. We will continue to be pushed down.
If we, as minorities, do not assert ourselves as
equals, we will continue to be seen as inadequate.
We cannot have that. As a Latina who has
experienced her fair share of discrimination, I will
not let this continue. I am worth just as much as
anyone else.
hink about the year you turned

18, a year filled with change and
excitement for most of us from
all the perks of senior year, to
graduation, to college acceptance letters, to
the last summer spent with the best friends
you knew you would eventually go separate
ways with once in college, to finally moving
out and embracing the independence that
comes with dorm life.
Eighteen was a great
year for most of us.
Milestones were hit, and
no doubt individuality was
discovered accompanied
by a whole year of little to
no responsibilities. Easy
classes, free food and the
discovery of frat parties
Summer
were among some of the
Cabrera
privileges freshman year of
college.
Now think about the day you turned 19.
What excited you?
Ill tell you what excited me on my 19th
birthday nothing.
By sophomore year in college classes got
a little bit harder and I felt a little bit older,
but for the most part nothing was really
different. The freshman-year hype is over
and youve mostly figured out the gist of
what college has to offer. Other than that its
just another awkward age in life between
childhood and adulthood. You dont really
feel like a teenager anymore, and certainly
dont want to accept that adulthood is
around the corner.
At 19 in college, you basically already feel
21. You feel empowered to show off and use
the fake ID that you so proudly purchased
in hopes of finally being able to join the
crowd every Wednesday and Thursday. You,
along with majority of campus adolescents,
hold your breath while handing security the
fake ID you pray looks legitimate enough to
pass at Imperial, El Cortez and hopefully the
Wal if youre lucky enough to have your ID
actually scan.
Then comes 20. Reality hits and its brutal.
Twenty is an age in which I definitely felt
older. The big 2-0, halfway to the big 4-0,
over the hill. Congratulations, you are now
halfway up the hill, except this next half is all
downhill (yay!). It is now easy to decipher the
freshmen from the juniors at parties. You feel
old and outdated; you are no longer willing
to sacrifice frostbite to look cute for a party.
There is no longer the convenience of free
food or the ability to live directly on campus.
Frat parties are old news, but the obstacle to
get into bars and clubs can be the ultimate
struggle at this point in life.
When 20 hits you, the realization that you
are no longer a teenager and have to grow
up, handle responsibilities, and try and build
yourself/a career can be overwhelming.
Classes are actually difficult and almost
impossible to ditch, and on top of everything
your parents now feel you are ready to start
contributing to your bills because everything
has to be a lesson.
To all of my fellow readers that can relate
to the dark ages of 19 and 20, have hope,
my friends, because weve almost made it to
one of the most exciting years of our lives.
TWENTY-FUN is around the corner, a year
of revitalization is near and the excitement
felt during the age of 18 is soon returning.
Say hello to buying your own alcohol with
no fear; bye-bye, Venmo. Say hello to clubs,
bars, 21+ pools and the ability to basically
do whatever you want except rent a car
(because that obviously makes sense)! Say
hello to senior year and a bigger and better
graduation, the chance to finally prove
yourself and your new degree to employers,
and the chance to finally reinvent yourself
apart from who you were in college. A
new dawn is beginning and it couldnt be
anymore anticipated.
Yezenia Olivera studies marketing. She can be

reached at alexandraschultz@unr.edu and on Twitter @TheSagebrush.
Summer Cabrera studies journalism. She can

be reached at alexandraschultz@unr.edu and
on Twitter @TheNevadaSagebrush.
Flickr Courtesy of American Life League
Protesters gather in Washington DC for the annual March for Life anti-abortion protest held in Jan.
2013. This march held a special significance because it marked the 40 year anniversary of Supreme
Court decision Roe v. Wade.
to include the closing clip in which Nucatola

clarifies any misconceptions by saying, Nobody
should be selling tissue. Thats just not the goal
here.
Following the video surge in the media,
Republican presidential candidates began using
the video as a talking point in their platforms.
Carly Fiorina, in the debate held at the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library on Sept. 16, urges
the public to watch a fully formed fetus on
the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking,
while someone says, We have to keep it alive to
harvest its brain. As far as Fiorinas response to
the domestic terrorist attack on Friday, which
targeted the research center, Fiorina called it a
tragedy, but followed up quickly by saying, Any
protesters should always be peaceful, whether its
Black Lives Matter or pro-life protesters.
It is comments such as these that inevitably
lead to tragedies like the one that transpired
last Friday. The negative images anti-abortion
activists choose to portray in the media front
lines lead to a disposition of distaste in regard
to Planned Parenthood. Religious groups and
politicians alike depict this facility that helps
millions of women each year as something
monstrous. It would be nothing short of
ignorant to reject the idea that public comments
such as Fiorinas and the picketing efforts of

anti-abortion activists breed hate and animosity
toward the organization.
As Americans we must be conscious that fellow citizens will not be quick to look further into
organizations such as Planned Parenthood as
a whole and all that they offer, especially those
who get their news via Facebook pages such
as The Conservative Hammer and Pro-Life
Rocks!!!
Instead of politicians and religious groups,
whether left or right, devoting time focusing on
spreading hate campaigns and negative rhetoric
toward Planned Parenthood, maybe they should
dig deeper than the sensationalism posted in
the media. We should all remind ourselves it is
this exact hateful mentality that breeds tragic
violent events such as the one that took place on
that somber Nov. 27. Just hours after Thanksgiving, three people senselessly lost their lives. If
the shadow casted upon Planned Parenthood
were unveiled and light were shed on all of their
beneficial services, maybe acts of hate such as
these would eventually cease as we know them.
Ali Schultz studies journalism. She can be reached
at alexandraschultz@unr.edu and on Twitter
@AliSchultzzz.
Dont hesitate to live a life inspired by your culture

ehind every man there is a struggle,
right? Shouldnt the concept of the
American Dream portray the individuality and the struggles that fall behind
OPINION | A11
and to better ourselves, yet we still seem to get

pushed down. What do we have to do to prove
ourselves?
Recently, the Reno Gazette-Journal, released
information about a local high school, Procter R.
Hug High School, which not only has the most
minority students, but also the lowest income
students in the Reno area. This newspaper
claimed that these high school students did not
put in effort to graduate but were handed their
graduation, basically stating that each student
from this high school were passed just to be
passed. The RGJs editorial board states, Hugs
graduation rate soared from 47 percent in 2011 to
73 percent for the class that graduated in May
and yet only 1 percent (yes, 1 percent) of students
this year scored high enough on the ACTs to be
considered college-ready. The board continued
to state, Another possible conclusion this one
more sinister is that schools are graduating
students that they should not be in an effort to
artificially inflate graduation rates. Could this
insult be because the students at Hug High are of
mixed cultures or a minority-based population?
Mrs. Janet Roberts, a social studies teacher at
Hug High, sent an upsetting response in which
she asked students and friends to respond to the
Gazette-Journals claims. She wrote, The Reno
Gazette-Journal said that I and my fellow staff
members are liars and cheaters. In their opinion
article, they singled out Hugs graduation rate and
stated unnecessary ideas like that we cheated
the system and my students are not worthy of a
73 percent grad rate. It could be the RGJ editorial
Gameday
@SagebrushSports | nevadasagebrush.com
A12
vs. UC Davis
vs. Arizona
W 31-17
9/03
L 44-20
9/12
at Texas
A&M
L 44-27
9/19
WEEKLY TOP 5
Top 5 Female
Athletes Ever
at Buffalo
vs. UNLV
W 24-21
9/26
L 23-17
10/03
vs. New
Mexico
W 35-17
10/10
at Wyoming
vs. Hawaii
L 28-21
10/17
W 30-20
10/24
at Fresno
State
W 30-16
11/05
vs. San Jose

State
W 37-34
11/14
hawaii
hires
rolovich
Nick Rolovich is new Hawaii head coach
SERENA WILLIAMS
You could make a legitimate

argument Serena Williams
is the most dominant athlete of all
time. She has 21 singles grand-slams
titles, 13 doubles grand-slam titles
and consistently screams louder than
Adele after every shot. She still has
to win three more grand slams before
catching Margaret Court, but Serena
is the greatest female athlete ever.
MIA HAMM
LISA LESLIE
ROUNDA ROUSEY
At 65, shes the first female

to ever dunk in a game. Leslie
played center for the Los Angeles
Sparks for 11 seasons and won two
WNBA championships as well as two
MVPs. In middle school she played on
the boys team and averaged over 30
points a game. At 43 years old, Leslie
could absolutely still lace em up and
average 18 points a game.
Until her loss against Holly

Holm, people were praising
Rousey like she cured diabetes.
After being knocked out, Rouseys
professional record is 12-1 and shes
still the biggest name in the UFC, but
who knows if shell ever be the same
after being knocked out via a kick to the
jugular.
THIS WEEKS GAME

Bowl Game is TBD
When: TBD
Where: TBD
TV: TBD
2014 season records: Nevada (7-6
overall, 4-4 MWC)
Quote of the Week: You build on failure.
You use it as a stepping stone. Close the
door on the past. You dont try to forget
the mistakes, but you dont dwell on it. You
dont let it have any of your energy, or any
of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
2015 MOUNTAIN STANDINGS

Standings
Conference
Overall
Air Force
6-2
8-4
New Mexico
5-3
7-5
Utah State
5-3
6-6
Boise State
5-3
8-4
Colorado State
5-3
7-5
Wyoming
2-6
2-10
Standings
Conference
Overall
San Diego State
8-0
9-3
Nevada
4-4
6-6
San Jose State
4-4
5-7
Fresno State
2-6
3-9
UNLV
2-6
3-9
Hawaii
0-8
3-10
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

MENS BASKETBALL
On Wednesday, Nov. 25, the Nevada
basketball team went head-to-head
with Portland State. In a riveting game
between the two, Nevada was able to
edge out their foe, ending with a final
score of 76-73. The team was led by
Marqueze Coleman, who had a stellar
game, going seven of 15 from the floor,
garnering 21 points. Not only did he
score consistently, but he also found
his teammates six times for assists and
recorded 2 steals. This recent win puts
the Pack at 4-1 overall.
STEFFI GRAF
Although shes better known

for marrying meth using Andre
Agassi, Graf was a more dominant
athlete than people remember. 22
singles titles, and shes the only player
to win a grand slam and an Olympic
gold in the same calendar year. She
is the only tennis player ever to win
each grand slam event at least four
times.
L 31-27
11/21
at San Diego
State
L 14-31
11/28
2015 WEST STANDINGS
Womens soccer owes its

growing popularity to the
greatest female player ever, Mia
Hamm. Hamm will forever be known
for gloriously ripping her shirt off in the
Rose Bowl after burying a penalty kick
against China in the 1999 World Cup.
She has the second most international
goals ever with 158.
at Utah State
By Jack Rieger
Nevadas offensive coordinator Nick Rolovich was named the
new head coach of Hawaii on Friday, Nov. 27.
Rolovich was the starting quarterback for Hawaii from 200001, and then joined their coaching staff from 2008-11. Rolovich
began his coaching stint as the quarterbacks coach, but quickly
was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2010. In Rolovichs first
year as offensive coordinator, the Hawaii offense improved from
90th to 10th in the country in points per game.
Under Chris Ault in 2012, Nevada hired Rolovich as its offensive
coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and he was one of the three
assistant coaches retained by Brian Polian following Aults retirement. Rolovich coached quarterback Cody Farjardo for his first
three seasons, who accumulated over 9,000 yards passing and
3,000 yards rushing, something only accomplished by one other
college player: Colin Kaepernick. Fajardo tweeted his appreciation for Rolovich on Friday night.
Extremely happy for Nick Rolovich, Hands down my favorite
coach of all time. Im looking forward to seeing his success as a
head coach, tweeted Fajardo.
Hawaiis athletic director David Matlin also expressed his
excitement regarding Rolovichs hiring.
Im pleased to welcome back Nick Rolovich to the UH ohana, Matlin said in a statement posted on the teams website.
Nick is a Warrior at heart and someone I know our fans will
support. He understands what it means to be a Warrior having
played and coached here and what effect a winning program
has with this community. I have no doubt we picked the right
man for this job. The future is bright for Hawaii football.
Rolovich is tasked with rebuilding a program that won
just three games this season and went 0-8 in conference.
The Rainbow Warriors havent had a winning season since
Rolovich was their offensive coordinator in 2011, and they
averaged just 17.6 points per game this season. Rolovich will have
an immediate impact on their offense, which was the teams calling card five years ago. Rolovich conveyed his excitement for his
return to Hawaii.
Being raised a Warrior, there is a great sense of excitement
and responsibility about bringing back a winning tradition to
Hawaii football, Rolovich said in a news release. I cant wait
to get started. Im honored to be selected to run this program
which has made me into the man I am today.
Coach Polian also expressed his appreciation for Rolovich
on Friday.
We were thrilled to learn today that Nick Rolovich has been
named head football coach at the University of HawaiÌ, Polian said in a news release. [] Both Nick and UH have been
transparent throughout the whole process and I appreciated
that very much. I am confident that his candidacy did not affect our preparation for SDSU. We will handle any decisions
regarding the staff internally and make those decisions
known when the time is appropriate.
Rolovichs last game for Nevada was a 14-31 loss to San
Diego State on Saturday, as he will not coach for Nevadas
bowl game. Nevada has yet to name its play-caller for the
bowl game, or the offensive coordinator for next season.
WOMENS BASKETBALL
Bad news continues to plague Nevadas
womens basketball team. The list of
season-ending injuries has increased
to three, as Ashlee Jones must
undergo surgery on her right knee.
These three injuries to key players
on the team have truly made winning
difficult. The team came home winless
from the Nugget Classic, receiving its
first loss from Utah Valley and second
loss from Middle Tennessee. The
team will continue its season at Lawlor
Events Center Tuesday night against
San Francisco.
VOLLEYBALL
Nevadas womens volleyball team
ended its season on a low note, losing
in three sets to Mountain West rival
San Diego State. While this may not
have been the ending to the season
theyd hoped for, this was the Packs
best season since 2010. Luckily the
Wolf Pack will have a few returning
starters who will be the catalyst for
wins next season. In her junior season
with the Pack, right side hitter Madison
Morell was named to the 2015 AllMountain West team. Morell was
second in the conference with 3.88
kills and 4.50 points per set. Her best
performance of the season was against
No. 25 Wyoming on Oct. 3, where she
tallied 31 kills and led the Pack to its
first win over a ranked opponent in
nine years. Morell is the first member
of the Pack to be named to the AllMountain West team since Tessa
Leaea in 2012.
Jack Rieger can be reached at jrieger@sagebrush.unr.

edu and on Twitter @JackRieger.
John Byrne/Nevada Athletics
Nevada offensive coordinator Nick Rolovich yells instructions from the sideline during a football game in 2015.
Brandon Cruz can be reached at neil@

sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter
@SagebrushSports.
WHO IS THE GOOFIEST-LOOKING ATHLETE?

Former professional golfer John Daley looks like that bachelor
uncle who was a former surfer that your mom doesnt want
you to hang out with too much because she thinks he is a bad
influence. Apart from buying you beer and telling inappropriate
stories at Christmas dinner, he sometimes smells like weed
and is banned from more than one bar in town. With the bright
orange spray tan and bleach-blonde hair, Daley has that look
of a former beach bum 20 years and 50 pounds later. Not to
mention the golf pants designs like the $100 bills, tiger stripes,
shamrocks and Spongebob. At best he teaches gym.
VS
Neil Patrick
Healy
THE WEEKLY DEBATE
Jack
Rieger
Not only is Chris Bosh the goofiest-looking athlete in America,

but he also happens to be one of the most talented. Because he
looks like a velociraptor (he actually played for the Raptors for
seven years), people forget Bosh has averaged over 19 points
and 9 rebounds per game for his career. Boshs best year came in
2009 when he averaged 24 points per game and 11 rebounds per
game. Not bad for a guy who looks like a librarian; in fact Bosh
has a foundation where he regularly speaks to young kids about
the importance of reading.
A13 | SPORTS
DICKS PICKS
Season Review
Chris Dick Blake sets your

fantasy lineup for week 13
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
STUD
QB Jay Cutler: Cutler has been
known to have dual personalities. Sometimes the turnoverprevalent Cutler shows up and
sometimes his
gun-slinging
self does. As
of late, hes
been the
good Cutler,
making tough
throws and
taking care of
the ball. This
Chris Dick
week he plays
Blake
a Niners team
Dicks Picks
that is 0-5 on
the road giving up a total of 176
points in those five games. Look
for Cutler to be his elite self in
week 13.
Projected stats: 26-39, 373 yards
3 TDs, 15 rush yards
DUD
RB Thomas Rawls: If you

grabbed Rawls off the
waivers as a week streamer
due to Marshawn Lynch
going down with an injury,
you have been pretty happy
the last couple weeks as
Lynch has missed extended
time and Rawls has filled
in nicely. However, that
happiness may come to an
end this week as Rawls goes
up against a good Vikings
front seven.
Projected stats: 19 car, 44
yards, 4 rec, 37 yards
GOT GUTS?
TE Scott Chandler: Did you

know Chandler was on the
Patriots? Me neither. Though
as Tom Bradys supporting
cast keeps dropping with
injuries, it has opened up an
opportunity for Chandler
to perform. With Rob
Gronkowski exiting with
what looked like a semiserious knee injury, I could
see Brady leaning on his
other tight end heavily.
Projected stats: 7 rec, 87 yards
1 TD
Chris Dick Blake can be
reached at neil@sagebrush.
unr.edu and on Twitter
@SagebrushSports.
The hype coming into the season was

that the front seven of the Packs defense
was the best in the conference. Whether
is was too high of expectations or just a
flat miss, the front seven didnt live up
to the hype. The unit showed flashes of
potential, but got exposed far too many
times for the team to win games. Nevada
finished 93rd in the nation in total run
defense, gave up an average 188.8 yards
a game on the ground and had seven
players run for over 100 yards against
them. With NFL caliber talent like Ian
Seau and Rykeem Yates on the defensive
line and standouts like Matthew Lyons
and Jordan Dobrich as your linebackers,

the unit should yield better results.
BIGGEST SURPRISE
The pass defense was surprisingly
better this season than in the past. For
a program that is historically known
for having struggles in the defensive
backfield, the unit in 2015 performed
above expectations by finishing 44th
in the nation in pass defense. Yes, there
were games where the unit was exposed
(Wyoming comes to mind), but there is
reason for optimism. With young players
like Baber to build around, the trend of a
bad secondary may eventually come to
an end.
STOCK ON THE RISE

Running back James Butler looks
to be the next great Nevada running

back. Butler has compiled 1,156 yards
rushing, 6.3 yards per carry, eight
touchdowns and seven games with
over 100 yards rushing with a bowl
game remaining in his sophomore
season. With Don Jackson gone next
season, Butler will be looked to as the
main workhorse in the backfield.
LINGERING QUESTIONS
Despite not being quite as dominant
as many had hoped, Nevadas front
seven still remained a solid unit. The
problem now is that all seven starters
are seniors. How is the coaching staff
going to replace seven starters on
defense? Is it a reload situation with
standout freshman defensive linemen
Korey Rush and Malik Reed or does
Underdog
Prep Stars
Similar to college basketball, college

football has been dominated by a handful
of schools for the past 20 years. Alabama,
Southern California, Louisiana State,
Ohio State and Florida have combined
for 11 of the last 16 national championships. For seven out of the last nine years,
the national champion has resided in Alabama or Florida, where the best athletes
in the country play their high school and
college football. A mid-major school
hasnt won a national championship
since 1984, when BYU went undefeated
and finished the season as the consensus
No. 1 team. If you dont play in Alabama,
Florida, California or Ohio, your university has a better chance of discovering the
cure for cancer than they do of winning
the national championship.
Sports fans dont like to admit it, but
underdogs are almost irrelevant in major
sports. Occasionally, an overlooked team
will make a Cinderella run and flirt with
a championship like Butler basketball in
2010 and 2011, only to lose to a team like
Duke. And by the way, theres no shame in
not winning a national championship; its
incredibly difficult to accomplish. Charles
Barkley never won an NBA finals and hes
considered a top-20 player of all time.
Leonardo DiCaprio has never won an
Oscar, but that doesnt define his ability
as an actor. Championships are not the
only metric for success; you can achieve
greatness without hoisting a trophy.
Underdogs will always hold a special
place in American hearts because they
personify the rags-to-riches narrative;
with hard work and the occasional stroke
of luck, every Goliath is vulnerable. But in
the world of sports, David hasnt won in a
very long time.
Ravens, Vikings, Chargers and Saints

and was in the NFL for nine seasons.
Jack Rieger can be reached at jrieger@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @JackRieger.

the unit take a step back?
Is Tyler Stewarts starting job secure?
He is the favorite, but I dont think he
has the position locked in. Coming
into the season the job was dead
even between Stewart and redshirt
freshman Hunter Fralick. Yes, Stewart
had his moments against San Jos
State and New Mexico, but he is a
quarterback that completed less than
60 percent of his passes in seven
games. If Fralick comes out during
spring practice and continues to show
the potential he did in the offseason,
Polian will have to give him a good
look.
Neil Patrick Healy can be reached at
neil@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter
@NeilTheJuiceMan.
DAVID WYMAN LINEBACKER

STANFORD (1982-1986)
Wyman was a part of the once-great
Wooster High School powerhouse
teams of the 80s under legendary
coach Joe Sellers. After making
All-Pac-10 his senior year with 169
tackles, Wyman was selected in the
second round of the 1987 NFL draft by
the Seattle Seahawks. He played nine
seasons in the NFL (six in Seattle and
three with the Denver Broncos).
GLENN CARANO QUARTERBACK
UNLV (1973-1976)
Another Wooster High graduate,
Carano is arguably the best football
player to come out of Reno. He was a
star quarterback coming out of high
school and was getting interest from
Pac-10 schools and even visited Notre
Dame. Former Nevada head coach,
then Rebel assistant, Chris Ault pulled
off a recruitment miracle by meeting
him in the Reno airport after his visit
to Notre Dame and convinced him
to visit UNLV where Carano gave his
commitment. Carano was selected
in the second round of the 1977 NFL
draft by the Dallas Cowboys, where
he played from 1977-1983 and won
Super Bowl XII as the backup of future
Hall of Fame quarterback Roger Staubach.
How would Nevadas football future
have been shaped if these recruits
played out their career for the Wolf
Pack? Well, imagine former Nevada
quarterbacks Colin Kaepernick and
Cody Fajardo throwing to Gardner
along with wide receivers Brandon
Wimberly and Rishard Matthews.
Photo courtesy of Mark A. Philbrick/BYU
BYU linebacker Kyle Van Noy (3) leaps over SJSU quarterback Matt Faulkner
(7) as he returns an interception 30 yards. Van Noy was a member of the 2009
McQueen High School Nevada state championship team and was a second-roud
pick by the Detroit Lions.
Carr certainly could have helped the

struggling Pack in the early 2000s
when Nevada went 19-28 in the four
years Carr was at Boise State. Guys like
Vassallo and Van Noy no doubt would
have made an impact on Nevadas
90th-ranked defense in 2010 and guys
like Carano and Wyman could have
been program changers. Its hard to
blame Wyman for going to Stanford,
but Carano was snatched by Nevadas
biggest rival. It is yet to be determined

if Houston and McKenzie will be stars
like some of the names listed here,
but Nevada cant let Mountain West
schools pillage talent from their own
back yard if they wish to establish
themselves as a MWC contender.
Neil Patrick Healy can be reached at
neil@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NeilTheJuiceMan.
Sports
A14
Pack sits at 6-6

The good, the bad and the ugly of the 2015 season
hat if? We should have! We shouldnt

have! These phrases encapsulate the 2015
football season. The up-and-down regular
season has come to a much-needed end for
the Wolf Pack after a demoralizing 31-14 loss to the San
Diego State Aztecs last Saturday. The game was embarrassing offensively, especially in the running game. An
offense that has two 1,000-yard rushers managed to eke
out 35 total rushing yards and three
turnovers. On defense it wasnt much
better, as Aztec running back Donnel
Pumphrey spearheaded the ground
game with 154 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries. Despite having
two quarterbacks throw a combined
12 passes for 88 yards, SDSU tallied
408 yards on offense and made the
Nevada run defense look pedestrian at
Neil Patrick
best. Standing at 6-6, Nevada still has
Healy
the opportunity to appear in a bowl
game for the 10th time in 11 seasons
and have a chance to finish with a winning record. Lets
reflect on some of the highs and lows of the season and
what weve learned.
HIGH POINT
Winning in overtime against San Jos State 37-34 on
senior day and clinching a bowl berth tops the list of
feel-good moments. Quarterback Tyler Stewart led a
game-tying drive toward the end of the fourth quarter
and threw the game-winning touchdown pass to tight
end Jarred Gipson.
LOW POINT
The obvious answer is losing to UNLV and relinquishing the cannon. The running back combo Don Jackson
and James Butler combined for 80 yards, Stewart
completed 46 percent of his passes, and the Pack will
have to wait until next season to win back the cannon.
Other options were losing to Wyoming 28-21 and
giving the Cowboys their first win of the season or
you can pick giving up a 27-7 lead against Utah State
to lose 31-27. You could even pick head coach Brian
Polian getting flagged for two unsportsmanlike
conduct penalties against Arizona and getting fined
$10,000. In a 6-6 season, there are many options to
choose from.
BREAKOUT PLAYER
It is obviously safety Dameon Baber.
A fat duh should come after this pick
because the true freshman was outstanding in his first season with the Pack. In
his debut for Nevada in the fourth game
against Buffalo, Baber totaled 10 tackles
with two interceptions and he continued
his stellar play to the very end of the season.
His season totals are 58 tackles with six
interceptions and he will be look to lead a
young defense in 2016.
Photos by Marcus
Lavergne and
Nathan Brown
Silva/Nevada
Sagebrush
See SEASON REVIEW page A11
Photo courtesy of Arizona Athletics
Linebacker Paul Vassallo (41) celebrates forcing a

turnover against The Citadel on Sept. 11, 2010 at
Arizona Stadium. Vassallo was a standout athlete at
Bishop Manogue High School in Reno.
Local prep
football
stars that
got away
By Neil Patrick Healy
In college football, recruiting is what separates average programs from year-in-year-out title contenders.
One key step for a program to recruit efficiently is to
secure the commitments from prospects that are in
its area. Nevada has had mixed results in this regard
and has watched some of the best recruits leave their
own backyard to get snatched by rival schools. In the
2015 class alone, two of the best prospects in the area
are committed to rival Mountain West programs. Reed
High School tight end Parker Houston is committed
to San Diego State and Reno High School safety Lukas
McKenzie, a former Nevada commit, committed to
Fresno State via Twitter last Friday. Here are some
noteworthy prospects that got away.
PAUL VASSALLO LINEBACKER

ARIZONA (2010-2011)
A standout linebacker from Bishop Manogue High
School, Vassallo actually started at Nevada as a walkon in 2007 and redshirted his freshman year. After
transferring to Sierra College for two years he transferred to the University of Arizona, where he earned
All-Pac-10 honorable mention in 2010. He tallied 172
total tackles in his two years for the Wildcats.
BOBBY LEPORI LEFT TACKLE

FRESNO STATE (2005-2008)
Another Bishop Manogue graduate, Lepori was
also a Nevada verbal commit, but switched his commitment to Fresno State. Lepori was All-WAC First
Team in 2008 and signed a free agent contract with
the Minnesota Vikings.
COURTNEY GARDNER WIDE RECEIVER

SIERRA COLLEGE (2010-2011)
America loves David, but history loves Goliath
mericans are addicted to three things:

football, alcohol and underdogs.
Our fascination with the underdog
role is sort of predictable; they embody
the American Dream idealogy that claims with
hard work and an optimistic attitude, every
opponent is beatable and every goal is attainable.
Sports fans are especially consumed by the
idea of an underdog, which
has become the theme of
nearly every sports movie
in the past 30 years. We are
Marshall, Rudy, Hoosiers,
The Bad News Bears,
Miracle, Rocky and
Cinderella Man all share
the same basic storyline: A
team or individual faced with
Jack
seemingly insurmountable
Rieger
odds somehow defeats their
opponent (probably played by
Willem Dafoe) and leaves the audience feeling
inspired and satisfied. The problem is this
almost never happens in the actual sports world.
All you need is access to Wikipedia to realize
that most sports leagues are dominated by a
few powerhouses and that underdogs are more

fantasy than reality.
Lets take college basketball, for example,
which glorifies the underdog more than any
other American sport. Every year, college
basketball networks sell fans on the idea that
there is a sleeper team in the field with a realistic
chance of winning the NCAA tournament, but
nothing could be further from the truth. Four
teams have dominated college basketball for
the past quarter century: Duke, North Carolina,
Kentucky and Connecticut. In the past 25
seasons, those four teams alone have combined
for 15 championships. Only one mid-major
school has won a championship in the last 38
years UNLV in 1990. Underdogs are essentially
irrelevant in college hoops.
Despite having fewer teams and a more level
playing field, the NBA is even less accommodating to underdogs than college basketball. In the
past 32 NBA seasons, only nine teams have won
an NBA title, with the Bulls and Lakers combining for 18 of those 32 championships. Even more
interesting since 1999, either LeBron James,
Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan or Dwyane Wade has
played in every finals series, meaning the NBA
has been dominated by four players for the past

16 years. Yes, there are occasional upsets. In
2011, the Dallas Mavericks upset James and the
Miami Heat, and in 2004, the Detroit Pistons
surprised the Lakers, but those instances are few
and far between.
College football has historically never been
kind to underdogs either, although one of the
most celebrated sports movies of all time,
Rudy, tells the story of a short, chunky kid who
lobbies his way onto the Notre Dame football
team and eventually gets to play a few snaps in
a meaningless game against Georgia Tech. Joe
Montana, a freshman quarterback for Notre
Dame during Rudys senior year, claims that
much of the movie was either fabricated or
completely made up, including the scene where
members of the team laid their jerseys on the
coachs desk in support of Rudy. If a young Rudy
Ruettiger tried to walk onto the team today,
Brian Kelly would laugh Ruettiger all the way to
the parking lot, and might offer him a position as
the teams water boy, although he may be a little
undersized for that.
See UNDERDOG page A11
What could have been the biggest steal in program

history never came to fruition. In terms of pure
athletic ability, Gardner is arguably the best northern
Nevada has ever seen. The 6-foot-3, 225-pound receiver was a standout basketball player and track star,
but was best known for leading the Hug Hawks on
the football field with his cousin and former Nevada
safety, Duke Williams. Gardner was committed to
the Wolf Pack in the 2009 class, but due to academic
issues he was forced to enroll in Sierra College for two
years. In his second season at Sierra, Gardner compiled 61 catches for 1099 yards and 13 touchdowns.
He was garnering attention from some of the biggest
programs in the country, with offers from Florida
State, Florida, Auburn, Cal, LSU, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Virginia Tech and Washington.
After originally committing to Oklahoma, he was
deemed ineligible due to more academic issues and
he eventually waited until he was eligible to declare
for the NFL. After being cut by the Chargers and the
Dolphins, he signed with the Orlando Predators of
the Arena Football League.
KYLE VAN NOY LINEBACKER

BYU (2010-2013)
In 2008, the McQueen High School state championship team was riddled with Division I prospects,
but the star of the show was outside linebacker Kyle
Van Noy. Van Noy held offers from Arizona, Arizona
State, Boise State, Cal, Colorado, UCLA and Nevada,
but ended up committing to BYU. After earning third
team All-American honors in 2012 and 2013, Van
Noy was rated as the fourth best outside linebacker
prospect and selected in the second round of the
2014 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions.
CHRIS CARR CORNERBACK

& KICK RETURNER
BOISE STATE (2001-2004)
Another McQueen Lancer, Carr made a name for
himself as a lethal kick returner with the Broncos.
Going undrafted in 2005, Carr signed a free agent
contract with the Oakland Raiders, where he became
their all-time leader in kick return yardage with 142
returns for 3,514 yards. He also played for the Titans,
See PREP STARS page A11

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