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WCSD board elections begin By Joey Lovato The Washoe County School District hasn’t been without its share of turmoil in the past few years, be it the controversial ouster of former superintendent Pedro Martinez or ongoing budget woes. This election cycle, the school board has three open seats being vied for by eight candidates. Here is a breakdown of where they stand.
DISTRICT F
District F has three people running for one seat, and the district itself represents the Eastern half of WCSD. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, current representative Veronica Frenkel will not be seeking reelection. Jacqueline Calvert works as a food server and volunteers with the WCSD Read to Succeed program. She has never held office before. Calvert wants to see parents taking a larger role in their children’s education. Politically, she is aligned with Democrats. Jeffrey Church is a law enforcement consultant and a retired Reno Police sergeant. He has no previous affiliation with WCSD. He wants to follow the values of the United States Air Force, in which he was a reserve member of, those values being: Integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do. He is politically a Republican but takes a nonpartisan stance on the position. Ryan Gonda is a trust officer and has served on the board before in District C in 2016. Gonda seeks to make sure the district maintains a level of accountability. Gonda aligns himself with the Republican party.
DISTRICT C
District C covers the Spanish Springs and Cold Springs area, North of Reno. There are two candidates running for the open seat there. Andrew Caudill is an assistant athletic director at the University of Nevada, Reno. Caudill wants to take a
bottom-up approach which focuses on allocating tax dollars more wisely. Caudill has no previous experience with WCSD but works for the Nevada System of Higher Education. He politically aligns himself with Republicans. Debra Feemster is an education consultant and was formerly a principal at three different WCSD schools. She was also first Director of Equity and Diversity for WCSD. She wants to support students who need extra help on an individual level. She aligns herself with the Democrats.
DISTRICT B
District B covers the Sparks area and has three candidates running for office. The previous representative, John Mayer, will not be seeking re-election. David Morlet is a wastewater operator for Sparks. His goals include being a voice for parents of children currently in WCSD. He has not worked for WCSD before and is nonpartisan. Dian Vanderwell works for the Northern Nevada Apprenticeship Coordinators Association. She serves as the chair of the Sparks Planning Commission and the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Commission. Vanderwell wants to represent students that don’t seek a path to a four-year degree after high school, advocating for apprenticeship programs. She is nonpartisan in political affiliation. Ellen Minetto is a music teacher with WCSD. She has no prior political experience but has taught with WCSD for 29 years. She wants to represent the students and parents that she has taught over her career with WCSD. She is politically aligned with the Republican party. All summaries of candidates were based on a questionnaire sent out by The Reno Gazette-Journal that the candidates filled out themselves.
Joey Lovato can be reached at karolinar@sagebrush. unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.
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Students walking into Great Basin Hall on Wednesday, April 11. Construction is expected to be completed this July.
sinks, and certain rooms don’t, and it can make picking the rooms very confusing.” Maese says that the completion of the hall will reopen the footbridge over N. Virginia Street and will serve as a “corridor” into the heart of campus. For the first time since White Pine Hall was demolished in 2016, students will be able to walk
to classes without having to wait at a street light. Great Basin Hall is projected to finish construction in July and will be ready for students before the fall semester. Austin Daly can be reached at karolinar@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.
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extension of the Nevada Wolf Shop on the first floor. Students will be able to return textbooks, buy snacks and purchase university merchandise. “I like that there is multiple study lounges on each floor,” said Kestra Higby, a biology major at UNR who went on the tour. “A lot of the other halls only have one or two, and Great Basin will have like four or five. So there will be more options, especially during finals week when everywhere is packed.” Great Basin Hall has the greatest variety of rooms, with seven different sizes on each floor. The rooms and suites can host student accommodations anywhere from single bedrooms to rooms up to five people. Depending on the different styles, this can affect the size of the living space, food prep area and bathrooms. “I don’t know if I like the different styles,” said Jillian Luthy, a biology major at UNR who also went on the tour. “Certain rooms have kitchen
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The Nevada Sagebrush staff works to produce a newspaper in their newsroom on Monday, April 22. The Save Student Newsrooms movement was created to save student-run publications.
Student journalists plan day of action to save independent newsrooms By Olivia Ali As news nationwide is transitioning to digital platforms, student newsrooms are taking a hit. To fight the struggles student newsrooms nationwide are facing, student newsrooms are planning a day of action on Wednesday, April 25. In a movement spearheaded by editors at the University of Florida’s The Alligator, student newsrooms are sharing editorials and videos of their newsrooms to display their dedication to student journalism. “On April 25, we’re calling on student-run news organizations to publish editorials highlighting the need for student media and the importance of supporting it,” student activists wrote on the Saving Student Newsrooms website. “As part of this, we’re starting a social media campaign to #SaveStudentNewsrooms as part of (the unofficial) Support Student Journalism Day. Ahead of April 25, we’ll be challenging student-run publications to show off their newsrooms in videos on Twitter. We hope you flood Facebook and Twitter with editorials, threads of your best work of this year, current student and alumni testimonials and links to your donate button.” The Save Student Newsrooms movement and the unofficial Support Student Journalism Day were created as a response to the increasing financial instability of student-run publications. Across the nation, student news publications are being put out of business due to lack of funding and support from their universities. Student newsrooms across the nation are finding difficulties in securing stable funding as many are not funded by their universities. To combat this, many newsrooms are asking for donations but are finding the process difficult due to the limited funds students are already faced with. “The truth is, all student organizations need help from
outside orgs to find stable funding,” Melissa Gomez from The Alligator wrote in a Facebook post in the Save Student Newsrooms group. “Donations, I think, will be a start. Ideally, it will catch the attention of bigger non-profits, like the Knight Foundation, to consider grants to give to student publications.” Another major obstacle student newsrooms are met with is the lack of support from their university’s faculty. As many publications are not funded by their universities and are releasing articles on inside issues the university is facing, faculty support is not widespread. “One major thing we have to deal with is the faculty,” Kienan O’Doherty, editor-in-chief of The Transcript at Ohio Wesleyan University, said. “Not exactly sure what the faculty is like at other colleges/universities, but they really don’t like us. It’s gone so far that they even kicked us reporters out of their faculty meetings.” Student journalists feel that the shutdowns of student newsrooms are an injustice to journalism students as it closes off an opportunity for growth and hands-on learning. According to Mariana Alfaro of the New York Times, her college newspaper, The Daily Northwestern of Northwestern University, made her the reporter she is today. “The Daily Northwestern has made me who I am as a journalist,” Alfaro said. “I took my first serious steps as a reporter there, met some of my best friends in the world, made errors, learned how to fix them, and had the opportunity to write stories that opened doors in my career.” To learn more information on the day of action on April 25 and the Save Student Newsrooms movement, go to savestudentnewsrooms.com. Olivia Ali can be reached at karolinar@ sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush.
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