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INTERNATIONAL BOMBING IN TURKEY INJURES 100 PEOPLE Early on the morning of Friday, Nov. 4, a car bomb detonated near a police station, killing nine people, including two police officers, and injuring 100 more in southern Turkey. The bomb flattened cars and destroyed building fronts in the popular Baglar district. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack shortly after the bombing, which occurred after members of Parliament who are a part of a Kurdish political party were arrested for failing to come forward after being summoned by prosecutors. The Peoples’ Democratic Party Branch Chief Dogan Erbas said in a press conference that members of his party have started protesting the arrests because it goes against democracy in Turkey, as reported by CNN. The protests and bombing follow other events creating political tension in Turkey.

Presidential election is a signifigant source of stress for Nevada voters By Rachel Spacek From name-calling to FBI investigations, this election cycle has been a roller coaster ride for both candidates and voters. According to studies from The American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” report, just over half the people surveyed said the election “is a very or somewhat significant” source of stress in their daily lives. Nevada, a swing state, has been the target for rallies and surrogates, and Nevada voters have been bombarded with campaign volunteer phone calls and home visits. “We have never seen an election like this and for us to be in Nevada, in a swingstate, it is huge, it has been a lot,” said Megan McKeon, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno. Voter anxiety was at an

NATIONAL MAN STABS 6, KILLS 3 IN REVENGE ATTACK A man broke into a home in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, Nov. 5, and stabbed six people, killing three of them. It is suspected the man was angry after a member of the household named him as a suspect in a shooting and sexual assault on Facebook. Jeremy Arrington, 26, killed two young children and a college student visiting the family. The children’s mother and their 13-year-old twin siblings were also stabbed but are in stable condition. Three people managed to escape untouched. Arrington was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, among other charges on Monday. His bail was set for $5 million. He was out on bail on an unrelated assault charge when he stabbed the victims. Arrington knew the family and where they lived, but authorities did not give more details. He was taken into custody on Sunday after surrendering to a stand off with police.

LOCAL DOJ TO MONITOR POLLING PLACES IN WASHOE, MINERAL COUNTIES The Department of Justice announced on Monday, Nov. 7, it will be sending 500 members of its Civil Rights Division to 67 counties across the country on Election Day to confirm whether or not they are complying with federal voting laws. Some of these members will be sent to Washoe and Mineral counties in Nevada. “We enforce federal statutes related to voting through a range of activities — including filing our own litigation when the facts warrant, submitting statements of interest in private lawsuits to help explain our understanding of these laws, and providing guidance to election officials and the general public about what these laws mean and what they require,” said Attorney General Loretta Lynch, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. It is not stated why the DOJ chose these Nevada counties, but both were involved in a lawsuit with the Pyramid Lake and Walker River Paiute tribes over disenfranchisement due to lack of access to polls in September. “It’s encouraging that the Department of Justice is following up on their statement of interest brief by putting staff on the ground,” said Bret Healy, a consultant with the Native-American advocacy group Four Directions to the RGJ. Madeline Purdue can be reached at mpurdue@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @madelinepurdue.

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all-time high during Trump’s last rally in Reno on Saturday, where the candidate had to be rushed offstage by Secret Service agents. According to a Secret Service spokesperson, there was a commotion in the crowd at the rally and someone shouted “gun.” The spokesperson said there was no weapon found after officials searched the individual and the scene in question. The individual was later identified as Austyn Crites, who told reporters the commotion began after he raised a “Republicans Against Trump” sign at the rally. Crites reported being assaulted by a group of people before anyone shouted “gun.” Crites said he was beaten and grabbed around the neck. “Four years ago, I had no idea what was going on and that is to be expected from someone who doesn’t read See ANXIETY page A2 Photo Illustration by Nicole Skarlatos/Nevada Sagebrush

A frustrated voter tears his Clark County ballot guide `on Monday Nov. 7. With Election Day around the corner, voters must face the source of their anxiety — the presidental election results.

Educators change approach to elections By Emily Fisher The 2016 presidential election is making history in more ways than one. This is the first time a woman has claimed a major party nomination for president of the United States, the first time since Dwight D. Eisenhower that a person without experience in a government role or Congress has been nominated and both candidates are the oldest in history. The differences in this year’s election compared to past election make it obvious that educating students on elections is a lot trickier than it used to be. The question of how the elections will affect education today and in the future — both in public and higher-education institutions — is significant. The key to understanding how education is affected is understanding specifically how this year’s election differs from the norm, said Jennifer Ring, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, who specializes in race and gender in American politics.

Race and gender have both played a very large role in this election compared to previous years, Ring said. “Donald Trump has enabled haters in this country to think they’re being real, rather than politically correct, by being racists,” Ring said. According to Ring, there has been an escalation of racial tension in the country that has not been seen in previous elections. Kevin Banda, an assistant professor of political science at UNR, said before the 2008 election, racial attitudes and anxieties in the U.S. didn’t predict votes, but from 2008 to now race plays a powerful role in elections. “People have now been primed to use their racial attitudes to make political assessments in ways that they haven’t been for a long time,” Banda said. Gender and gender attitudes have also played a big role in this election compared to previous elections, Banda said. According to Ring, this is in part because of Hillary Clinton being the first woman

America questions political situation By Madeline Purdue In an election where voters will have to decide between two unfavorable candidates, voter anxiety is at an all-time high as voters ask themselves the question, “how did we get here?” On Nov. 8, America will decide who will become the next president after one of the most intense elections the country has ever seen. “The rest of the world is very concerned with what the results will be of this election,” said Richard Ford, a Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, to a journalism class at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Monday. “These European reporters are being sent over here to America to poll-watch.

These reporters usually aren’t sent here; they’re sent where there are fragile democracies. We have a fragile democracy.” As the world watches, America anticipates the results of the election and looks back at the last year and a half of comic relief amongst name-calling and scandals.

THE REPUBLIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

The Republican National Convention was held in Cleveland July 18 through 21. There, Trump was officially nominated as the GOP’s presidential candidate. Three days before the convention started, Trump announced he had

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nominee. However, the extreme symbolism behind potentially having a female as commander in chief has been lessened because of the antics between the two candidates and the controversy surrounding Clinton. Ring stated Donald Trump’s language involving women and the recent accusations of sexual assault have also brought gender into the limelight, and not in a positive way. The hateful rhetoric and language between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have enhanced the polarization of the country, and this causes teachers and professors to take note. This year many public school teachers are choosing to focus not on the candidates but on the election process and the ideologies of the different parties. In a survey this year conducted by Teaching Tolerance, a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center, from March 31 to April 2, nearly 2,000 teachers were questioned about the impact of this year’s election on students and schools. More

than 40 percent of the teachers surveyed were hesitant to teach about the election at all. Ring argues not teaching the election or attempting to “clean up” the election harms students and avoids important dialogues that simply can’t be ignored. “The tendency of primary and secondary education is to give the least disturbing story,” Ring said. She worries that problems of economic polarization, race and other difficult but important topics aren’t being discussed as much as they should be. Ring teaches a course at UNR called Identity Politics that is dedicated to correcting everything incoming college students learned in primary and secondary schools. Ranging from topics of racial tension within the U.S. to problems revolving around religion, gender and class, Identity Politics often surprises and angers students because they didn’t learn correct information in high school, Ring said.

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Analysts look to bellwether Nevada to predict election By Rachel Spacek It wouldn’t be Election Day without the customary slew of individuals and news organizations, both national and international, using various methods to try to predict the outcome of the presidential race. In China, the Shiyanhu Ecological Tourism Park had its most prized monkey pick the presidential candidate by having him chose between cardboard cutouts of both. In previous election years, people have used the winner of Game 7 of the World Series to predict which candidate will win the election. Bellwether states are one method of predicting the outcome of the election.

A bellwether state is a state that can be used as a tool to predict the results of the election based on state demographics, voter registration and history that often mimics national trends. It is a state that has, throughout history, given its electoral votes to the nominee who goes on to win the presidential election. Nevada is one of the more reliable bellwether states and has chosen the winner of the presidential election 26 of 30 elections since it became a state. Since 1912, Nevada has only failed to choose one election winner. In the presidential election of 1976, the state voted for incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford, while

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By Rachel Spacek Last Friday, the last day of early voting, Nevada voters saw huge lines at the polls as over half the state’s registered voters cast their ballots early this election. Clark County, Nevada’s largest county, home to Las Vegas, Henderson and over two-thirds of the state’s registered voters, saw a record-breaking singleday turnout of 57,174 early voters, according to the Nevada secretary of state’s office. At the close of early voting in Clark County, Democrats had established a lead of over 72,000 votes, putting them 13.7 points ahead of Republicans, according to CNN. Republican officials say they expect to carry Washoe County, Nevada’s second-largest county, which includes Reno. If Trump can win in Washoe County, officials say he could still carry the state without winning Clark County. In Washoe County, however, Democrats have cast more ballots in the early voting cycle than Republicans. According to the Washoe County Registrar’s Office, a record-breaking 129,727 people voted early. In the 2012 election, Washoe County set the previous record of 111,189 early voters. The Associated Press reported 51 percent of early voters were Democrats while 33 percent were Republicans. The caveat here is that early voting historically favors Democrats, as Republicans usually wait until Election Day to vote. Even so, this year’s data has shown an outsized lead for Democrats above what’s been observed in previous elections. In Clark County, a large crowd of voters waited in line at a polling place in Cardenas

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chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. Besides anti-Hillary rhetoric, the highlight of the convention was Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump for president. Many condemned the Texas senator for not supporting his party’s candidate. Other members of the Republican Party, such as Newt Gingrich and members of Trump’s family, spoke about his competency to be the new leader of the country. “He draws out the talent and drive in people so that they can achieve their full potential,” said Tiffany Trump of her father at the RNC. “That’s a great quality to have in a father, and better yet in the president of the United States.”

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The Democratic National Convention was held July 25 through 28 in Philadelphia. Clinton accepted her party’s nomination to be the candidate for the presidency. Clinton had announced Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine immediately after the RNC, and they appeared onstage together to start their campaign. She had many heavy-hitters endorse her during the convention. The most notable include President Obama, Michelle Obama, Vice President Biden,

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Democratic Senate hopeful Catherine Cortez Masto held a rally for Hillary Clinton at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The politicians encouraged Nevada voters to head to the polls before the close of early voting last Friday.

Market three hours after the polls were scheduled to close. The voters in line were allowed to vote if they were a part of the line before the polls closed at 8 p.m. Yvanna Cancela, the political director of Culinary Union Local 226, a union that represents housekeepers, cooks and dealers in Las Vegas casinos, tweeted about the long line of voters, saying, “Looks like Trump got his wall after all. A wall of beautiful voters.” Despite the legal time extension, the chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, Michael McDonald, raised suspicion of fraud and favoritism in the time extension and voiced his suspicions and concerns to a group of Trump supporters at the rally in Reno on Saturday. “Last night in Clark County, they kept a poll open till 10 so that a certain group could Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Sanders. “There were plenty of moments when Hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the price of public service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looks or how she talks or even how she laughs,” said Michelle Obama at the DNC. “But here’s the thing: What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.”

THE DEBATES

The first debate was held at Hofstra University in New York on Monday, Sept. 26. Lester Holt of “NBC Nightly News” was the moderator. The discussion centered around Trump’s tax returns that he refused to release at that point in his campaign, the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s emails on a private server while she was secretary of state and racial issues in America. The debate broke the records for the most-viewed presidential debate in history, with more than 84 million people tuning in, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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vote,” McDonald said. “The polls are supposed to close at 7. This was kept open until 10. Yeah, you feel free right now? You think this is a free and easy election? That’s why it’s important.” McDonald continued with Trump’s rigged-election rhetoric and brought attention to the Republican Party’s concern for the high turnout of Hispanic voters in this election. Clark County, far and away the largest county in Nevada, has a population that’s over 30 percent Hispanic. Along with Clark County polling places’ long lines, several polling places in Washoe County saw huge lines with high voter turnout. Students waited in line for hours last Friday at the polling place on campus at the University of Nevada, Reno, inside the Joe Crowley Student Union. “I haven’t seen it this long all

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the news in high school, but looking back it is crazy how much I was missing and how important it is for us to care now versus four years ago,” McKeon said. Though election rhetoric has historically been negative and rallies have been intense, this election has been overly stressful for both Republicans and Democrats. According to the APA’s “Stress in America” report, stress levels are equal among Democrats and Republicans. Among Republicans surveyed, 59 percent reported the election to be “a very or somewhat significant” source of stress in their lives. Fifty-five percent of Democrats surveyed reported the election to be a significant source of stress in their lives. “It has been an unpredictable election. We all knew that Hillary came with certain baggage, and Trump is always unpredictable,” said Nancy Lutchfield, a Nevada resident and Hillary Clinton supporter. “Even after the election I think there is going to be a backlash should Hillary win, and we are all very fearful of what that might look like.” Trump has said he would not accept the results of the election unless he is pronounced the winner. If Clinton wins he said he would be convinced

week,” said UNR student Austin Augusto. “I was planning on voting today, but I might just have to wait till Election Day because I don’t have this kind of time.” Across historic battleground states, early voting numbers have increased since the 2012 presidential election. In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections reported over 45 percent of the state’s 7 million voters have cast their ballots early. In Florida, over 6.4 million people cast their early ballots, a record high that accounts for around two-thirds of the state’s registered voters. Several states have reported record-high early voter turnout, but a number of states remain toss-ups that could go either way come Election Day.

Dr. Scott Mensing of the Office of Undergraduate Research spoke to the senators about the success of the fledgling International Undergraduate Research Experience and other undergraduate research proposals. Last session, ASUN provided $10,000 in scholarships for the program, which connected undergraduates at UNR with mentors in foreign countries to do research. This past summer was the first year for the program and focused on providing opportunities for STEM fields, which are often under-represented in many study-abroad programs, said Mensing. After the success of the first year of the program, Mensing and the Undergraduate Research Board are hoping to increase awareness of the opportunity and raise the number of applicants and awards. Mensing is currently working with the City of Reno to set up Community Based Undergraduate Research. This new program would fund students to research a problem that is currently affecting the Reno community. This spring, Mensing is launching a pilot project with two $1,500 awards available and asked the senate to consider allocating $7,500 in next year’s budget, matched by the research center, to fund 10 community-based research positions.

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the election was rigged against him. Despite a number of Republican Party leaders’ claims that the election is a crucial part of American democracy and it could never be successfully rigged, Trump continues with the “rigged election” rhetoric. “The only anxiety I would have about the election ending is if Donald Trump won the presidency and then I would be worried and scared,” said Alison More, a Nevada resident. In Nevada, both campaigns have ramped up their efforts to target voters to be sure they will vote and support their candidate on Election Day. “I am asked every day at least three times a day if I am registered to vote,” said Michelle Perkins, a UNR student. “I get a million calls a day, and I get that they are trying to get us to vote and support their candidate, but it gets to be a lot sometimes. Even when you leave the commotion on campus, when you get home and turn on the television all you see are negative ads and the candidates on the news.” From threats of imprisonment to sexual assault accusations, this election has voters more anxious than ever to see the results. Rachel Spacek can be reached at rspacek@sagebrush. unr.edu and on Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush.

LEGISLATION COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SENATE SEAT FILLED The senate debated extensively over an act to amend the club support funding policies involving the 24-hour proxy rule as well as the ability of ASUN officials to act as a proxy in a funding hearing. The 24hour proxy rule is currently written to require a club to provide the names of a proxy to attend a funding hearing in the case that the president, vice president or treasurer of a club is not available. In the first part of this act, the 24- hour rule would be removed, allowing clubs to submit a proxy up until the end of the funding hearing meeting. The majority of the senate was in approval of the first part of this amendment to retract the 24-hour rule. The second part of this act would bar ASUN officials from presenting or acting as a proxy at a club funding hearing. This change to the manual is in an effort to enhance the visibility of all interactions between the ASUN government and clubs on campus, eliminate potential bias, and enhance public perception of ASUN as a whole. After a lengthy discussion, the act was tabled indefinitely after the senate realized no amendments could legally be made because they were only looking at individual sections of the club manual. Emily Fisher can be reached at efisher@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

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The Nevada Sagebrush went around campus and asked students who they would write in for president if they could choose anyone they wanted to run the country. These are the people students wrote down.

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Banda agrees with Ring that politics cannot be ignored in our primary and secondary schools, but he argues instead of focusing on the messiest parts of the campaigns, educating students on the basics of politics and governments in both the U.S. and other countries is important. “There are holes in secondary and primary [education]. Even if they aren’t taught poorly, they aren’t taught very broadly,” Banda said. “I think that the civics class that is taught in most places is pretty useless … it would be useful, I think, for high schoolers to have at least a semesterlong course on how government actually works, both in terms of how it should work and how it does work.” However, Banda said he does not have a lot of trust in our public

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voted for Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter. “Does Nevada matter? Yes,” Jim Denton, Nevada political consultant, told the RenoGazette Journal. “Does Washoe matter? Absolutely. Washoe County will be crucial in who wins this election. This state has become really a diverse picture of what this country is. In particular, in Washoe County. It will make the difference in this election.” According to National Public Radio, Washoe County, a bellwether county within Nevada, has voted for the statewide winner in every presidential election since 2000. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have dedicated crucial time to heavily campaigning in the county during the last two weeks leading up to Election Day. Clinton and Trump, tied in the polls in Nevada, both made campaign stops last week in Reno. Trump made a stop in Reno on Saturday for one last rally to push voters to the polls. Clinton surrogate and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren rallied voters alongside Democratic nominee for Nevada Senate Catherine Cortez Masto last Wednesday. NPR categorized Washoe County as a toss-up. In Nevada, Clark County, which includes Las

Vegas and Henderson, has historically driven up the numbers for the Democratic candidate. In 2012, three in four votes for President Barack Obama came from Clark County. Historically, the rural parts of Nevada that include Churchill County, Lyon County and Lander County have voted for the Republican nominee. With Clark and the rural Nevada counties both on opposite sides, that leaves Washoe County’s 263,554 registered voters to decide how the state will vote. Washoe County has 98,146 registered Republicans, a number just above the 94,614 registered Democrats, leaving 51,905 nonpartisan voters in the bellwether county. “It will decide the Senate race and it will decide the presidential race,” Greg Ferraro, a political consultant, told the RGJ. “And the reason why is because you have an almost equal number of Republicans and Democrats and a slightly smaller but growing nonpartisan segment. Who wins those nonpartisans is really important in Washoe.” Washoe County is the county to watch Tuesday night for news stations, surrogates, candidates and voters as the bellwether county may be the deciding factor in who will become the next president of the United States. Rachel Spacek can be reached at rspacek@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrsuh.

schools to give the students the students by barring name-calling information they need without and setting ground rules, staying American-centric language, such narrow in teaching objectives and as “America is the greatest and encouraging media literacy by can’t be beat.” helping students fact-check what Higher-education institutions they hear. are where most students get corThe 2016 presidential elections rect, meaningful information that are far from the normal demostems from free-flowing discus- cratic process we all know and sions and few topic boundaries, have learned about, Banda said. but unfortunately the people who In terms of higher education, this don’t get the chance to attend a is the first election a lot of Banda’s college or university are left with students have really paid attention the very basic — and mostly false to. — information public schools give “This is such a weird time to them, Banda said. come of age politically,” Banda While it may be difficult to said. determine how this year’s election Whichever way the election should be covered in schools, edu- ends, our country’s education on cators like Banda and Ring agree it politics, now and in the future, is can’t be ignored. forever changed because of the Teaching Tolerance, shortly tumultuous journey that is the after its survey of educators, 2016 presidential election. developed tips for teachers on how to educate students about Rachel Spacek can be reached at this year’s election. The tips rspacek@sagebrush.unr.edu and include protecting marginalized on Twitter @NevadaSagebrsuh.

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PACK N THE EVENTS THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS WEEK By Blake Nelson

ARGENTA CONCERT SERIES: DOVER QUARTET DATE: Tuesday TIME: 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Nightingale Concert Hall INFO: The Dover Quartet

will be making its debut appearance in Reno with the works of Mozart and Beethoven. Enjoy these classics on a breezy Tuesday as fall begins to settle on your heart. Instead of casting yourself into the sea of despondency, spend $5 and enjoy some culture.

MFA REVIEW EXHIBITION RECEPTION DATE: Thursday TIME: 6 p.m. LOCATION: Jot Travis

Building, Student Galleries South INFO: The reception for the master of fine arts students' exhibition is happening this week. These are the most advanced student artists on campus, constantly crafting their technique and style. If you can't make it to the reception, be sure to see the exhibit before it comes down.

'CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE' DATE: Thursday TIME: 8 p.m. LOCATION: Joe Crowley

Student Union, Theatre INFO: This little gem is coming to you for the low, low price of free. Get your bottom to the theater, get some popcorn and begin the long process of healing from the election. Go for the cheesiness of the movie and stay for Dwayne Johnson.

KARAOKE NIGHT DATE: Thursday TIME: 8 p.m. LOCATION: Joe Crowley

Student Union, Blind Onion INFO: It's number two for the Blind Onion's Karaoke Night. You know what it means; make sure to get your DMX songs down, stay hydrated and sing your heart out. Free pizza too!

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Mathew and the Hope perform at Chapel Tavern on Saturday, Nov. 5. The concert was part of the Off Beat Alley: Art & Music Walk in the morning.

Off Beat Festival takes over Reno By Joey Thyne The Off Beat Arts & Music Festival took place Nov. 3 through 6. Sprawling over 14 venues, nearly 100 artists performed. This is the second annual Off Beat Arts & Music Festival. When asked how this year differs from last, founder Baldo Bobadilla said, “We got a lot of more outof-town bands. We had about 20 percent of out-of-town musicians last year, and this year we’re up to like 60 to 70 percent.” “One of our ambitions is to change the culture of music here,” said Off Beat partner Thomas Lloyd Qualls, “to introduce Reno to other music and to introduce other music to Reno.” The festival kicked off Thursday at Cargo. The show opened with the soul pop of singer-songwriter LOLO. She was followed by the bluesy The Soft White Sixties and the grungy The Last Internationale. Friday opened the floodgates for a plethora of other concerts as well as several new artistic facets. Brüka Theatre had two shows — “Myths & Icons: Stories That Inspire” and “U on U Poetry Slam.” “Myths & Icons” mixed the pragmatic and the superstitious, showcasing interviews with real Reno personalities while the interviewer related their life stories

to tarot cards. Beth Macmillan told revelatory stories about her upbringing in South Africa, her journey leading her to perform in “Hello Hollywood, Hello!” in Reno in the 1980s and finally her work as executive director of Artown. A dazzling performance was delivered Friday night by San Francisco funk band Con Brio, which Qualls dubbed “one of the best live bands in America right now.” It’s true, Con Brio is a band that demands to be experienced live, and the group did not disappoint. A tight rhythm section and celebratory brass players along with skillfully played keyboards and guitar create something truly special. Frontman Ziek McCarter was so provocatively animated that the entire venue, intoxicated and electric, couldn’t help but groove along. The family-friendly Off Beat Alley: Art & Music Walk took place outside of Craft in Midtown Saturday afternoon. It featured paintings and food trucks from local vendors. Several live acts took stage in the lovely weather, a lot of which had members in their teens or younger. Street performer Mommy Long Legs, who has been stilt-walking for 10 years, commented on the appeal of the walk: “I went out last night and I saw people I

PROTOMARTYR CONCERT DATE: Friday TIME: 8:30 p.m. LOCATION: The Holland

Project INFO: If you don't know what Protomartyr is, go home and play the group's most recent album, "The Agent Intellect." The band's sound is that of rhythmic post-punk mixed with an intellectual cynicism not regularly found in music. The show is $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Be there or be square. Blake Nelson can be reached at bnelson@nevadasagebrush. unr.edu or on Twitter @b_e_nelson.

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Crystal Desert perfoms at Recycled Records on Saturday, Nov. 5. The band performed in Midtown as part of the Art & Walk.

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Multiple pieces of art are placed outside of Craft Reno on Saturday, Nov. 5. The art was part of Off Beat Alley: Art & Music Walk, an event held during the morning hours around town.

had never seen before that were amazing, students and raving burners, resorted to but I can come here today and watch this chatting and drinking. family jam and I can bring my kids down The Polish Ambassador didn’t end up and we can all just be a part of it.” coming out until after 11 p.m. His signaSISTERS was one of the bands to per- ture euphoric energy managed to regain form inside of Craft. The Seattle electro- the crowd’s attention, however. The party indie pop duo, composed of musicians raged on until 1 in the morning. Andrew Vait and Emily Westman, is The final night of the festival, Sunday, releasing its debut album, "Drink Cham- Nov. 6, had two bands. Reno’s very own pagne," on Valentine’s Day 2017. Moondog Matinee, self-described on its Vait spoke on Reno’s “music vibes,” say- website as "pseudo-sexual anarchy with ing, “It seems like there are a lot of bands an inkling of lustful innocence," rocked here doing cool stuff.” He went on to the house at 8 p.m. The Veils were a crowd commend the up-and-coming Midtown favorite at 10 p.m. area. In a short newspaper article, it is Also on Saturday afternoon was Recy- impossible to relate every element incorcled Record’s Fisherman’s Village Music porated into Off Beat. Each night, from Festival Showcase. Gothic punk band the Third Street Bar to Shea’s Tavern to Crystal Desert had a spirited set despite the Holland Project to EDGE Nightclub, the confines of the shop. there were fantastic shows all over Reno, Lead singer and guitarist Ryan Alexan- presenting artists young and hungry on der said, “It was really hot and cramped the cusp of making it big. in there, but we’ve kind of discovered that As far as the future of Off Beat, the sky's when we’re in uncomfortable positions the limit. Qualls is interested in adding a or get pissed off when we’re onstage, film aspect into the mix. it kind of makes it better and we try to “We’re still a new festival, so we’re embrace it.” working out some kinks here and there,” A festival highlight was Jub Jub’s on said Off Beat partner Loren Condron. Saturday night, bookended by WEEED’s “Being a discovery music festival, you stoner metal and LSD and the Search for don’t have those big names that may God’s psychedelic dream pop. bring everybody out. Every year is going Saturday night brought Off Beat’s main to be turning new people on to this.” headliner to Cargo, electronic DJ The Going into Off Beat, one may be intimiPolish Ambassador. Opener DubCOliNG dated by the sheer number of performers scratched some upbeat dance tracks as and their obscurity. But Off Beat is all about patrons trickled in. embracing the obscurity: taking a chance Next was trip-hop DJ Scott Nice who played chillstep beats, which the crowd Joey Thyne can be reached at bnelwas ultimately indifferent toward. The son@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter audience, a mixture of starry-eyed college @b_e_nelson.

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Mel Gibson returns with ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ proving antiSemitism won’t hold him back By Blake Nelson It’s taken 10 years for MelGibson to come back from his anti-semitic, assault-filled, homicidal-threatening, DUIreceiving spell that tarnished not only his image but also his character. Besides purchasing a Christian compound in Malibu and a few unremarkable movies, unless of course you count “Expendables 3” as remarkable, Mel has kept a pretty low profile after his meltdown was caught on tape by his girlfriend at the time. Mel made his return at the Golden Globes this year. Ricky Gervais introduced him in his patent ironic fashion, and Mel awkwardly tried to dodge criticism. So here is his return; whether it was expected, hoped for or not hoped for, here it is. For better or worse, Mel has returned with the WWII film “Hacksaw Ridge.” It seems that he decided to take it back to the beginning, at least for him. Way back when, old Mel was in a film about WWI called “Galipoli” that had a very similar setting to “Hacksaw.” This is a return to form that is only highlighted by the incredibly heavy-handed Christian overtones. The film runs the rote path of a war film, especially a WWII film from the perspective of America. We have the jolly boys off to war, the bonding scenes prior to the battle, the battle and subsequent loss of innocence, and finally, the American raising of the flag. The only variance from the form this film boasts is the main character, Desmond Dross, a real historical figure who joined the military as a conscientious objector, or a soldier who won’t carry a gun or kill. Dross, played by Andrew Garfield, refuses to kill but still

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serves on the grounds of his Beyond the borderline racism religious convictions. involving Native Americans, Old Mel must have gotten which, sadly can be considered the biggest religious high when inline with the 1940s era, Mel he first heard the story, and doesn’t bust out his characafter he planned his comeback teristic racism he came into to Hollywood, a better story infamy with. Mel is also keepcouldn’t have been written. ing out of the limelight in HolOnly history could write a lywood, lurking in the shadows story about a man so tied to his one could say. convictions that he goes into It’s not like the man makes war without a weapon. Mel terrible movies, rather he must feel this way all the time, makes horrible life decisions. a devout Christian in a heathen If Mel can put his life back on world. track in the coming years then Mel plays it cool, though, maybe he can make another never overdoing the religious movie in the caliber of “The realm. Even though the conflict Passion of the Christ” or in the film revolves around one “Apocalypto.” man’s beliefs being challenged, So there it is, Mel has reit can almost act a metaphor turned, for better or for worse. for anyone whose beliefs are If better, then hopefully he rechallenged and the eventual covers his image and if worse, triumph of those beliefs in the well, at least Gervais will have face of impossible odds. something to make jokes about This film can also claim the for some time. place of Garfield’s best film to date. Proving that he can not only pull off an accent, Garfield shows his acting chops go beyond a wisecracking youngster, exhibiting not only light hearted comedy but also a somber side not really seen in his previous high-profile films. Another notable appearance is Vince Vaughn as Dross’ hardass sergeant. You can’t really name a movie that Vaughn has truly acted in, but he definitely gave an effort in this film, albeit sort of an awkward one. The film climaxes with the harrowing scene of Dross dragging wounded after wounded off the battlefield all on his own. The film ends with some truly emotional archival foot‘HACKSAW RIDGE’ age of Dross receiving the Medal of Honor and explaining his actions over 50 years later. Release Date: Nov. 4 So he didn’t recreate cinema Genre: Drama, Action with “Hacksaw Ridge,” but he also didn’t fail terribly. The movie hits all the notes with Blake Nelson can be reached at as much vigor as the next one, bnelson@sagebrush.unr.edu or and all the actors gave a valiant on Twitter @b_e_nelson. effort as well.

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Photo Courtesy of BodyVox Performers with the BodyVox dance company interact with a cellist of the Amphion String Quartet. BodyVox and Amphion collaborated to create “Cosmosis.”

‘Cosmosis’: a Feast for the Senses By Stephanie Rosauri This past Thursday night, Nov. 3, BodyVox and Amphion String Quartet presented “Cosmosis” at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the Nightingale Concert Hall. BodyVox is a dance company based in Portland, Oregon. It is are known for its use of mixed media and athleticism in its dances. BodyVox is led by husband and wife choreographers Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland who both started BodyVox after they joined MOMIX and cofounded ISO Dance. Roland studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. They are critically acclaimed Emmy Award-winners who dazzle audiences around the world with their choreography. Amphion String Quartet has performed worldwide to audiences who appreciate and adore the group’s intense energy. The quartet consists of three violinists and a cellist who expertly produce sounds that stimulate audiences. In “Cosmosis” the quartet performed onstage with the dancers. During the performance, they would move their seats to different parts of the stage, sometimes interacting with the dancers. The program started with the piece “Incoming.” Music was performed by John Adams and

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Travelers and danced by Alicia Cutaia, Daniel Kirk, Brent Luebbert, Anna Marra, Emily Shultz and Scott Stampone. The quartet was sitting onstage, spread out across the stage in a half-circle so that the dancers could dance between them. The dancers were costumed in workout gear, the female dancers in bright yellow sports bras and black pants and the male dancers in bright yellow shirts and black pants. The workout costuming helped to further iterate how athletic the dance was. The piece really showcased how much the dancers could accomplish with their bodies. They did not stop moving the entire piece; in many instances they would run around the stage weaving in and around the quartet while they were playing. The dancers mostly danced in unison, performing a myriad of leaps, spins and flips. This athleticism continued throughout the entire program. Throughout the entire program, there was a handgestural motif. The dancers would showcase their hands to express meaning to the audience. Hands played the biggest part in the piece “Garden of Synaesthesia.” The music was Maurice Ravel’s “String Quartet in F Major III” and “Tres Lent.” The instrumentalists were sitting upstage right and a camera facing the audience was placed

upstage left. The camera captured the dancers and projected the image onto the back wall of the stage; however, the projection was distorted. There was a filter on the projection that flipped the image onto itself. Since the dancers were costumed in multi-colored neon leotards and socks, it created a unique image on the screen. Depending on where they placed their bodies, the projection had different shapes. Sometimes they would put their arms in certain places that made the projection look like they were floating. The shapes that were projected did not seem human for the most part. In many sections, the dancers would move their hands up and down slowly like a swimming fish. This camera filter also allowed them to dance with themselves. The dancers lined up parallel to the camera that projected their image and also flipped it so that it looked like the dancers had made a soul train with themselves. The piece demonstrated how skillfully BodyVox can use different forms of media to create and amuse audiences. Throughout the entire show, the audience was very responsive and fully engaged in the show. Stephanie Rosauri can be reached at bnelson@sagebrush. unr.edu or on Twitter @b_e_nelson.

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Let’s calm it down, America Follow these simple self-care tips to recover from election season stress

More than a year of the 2016 election cycle has undoubtedly left many Americans feeling anxious, stressed or even downright angry. By Tuesday night, it will be over. We will have a new president-elect, and in the absence questions such as “who should I vote for?” or “what the f**k is happening?” we will be faced with the question of how to recover some semblance of the innocence we have lost over the past 19 months. Here are some ways in which we can all take a proverbial deep breath and face 2017 with fresher minds.

1. TAKE A RELAXING BUBBLE BATH, IN YOUR OWN TEARS Let’s be honest: no matter how the election turns out, tears will be shed. Crying can be cathartic. Embrace it. If you would like to increase the

cathartic value of your tears, weep into your bathtub. Add hot water and your favorite essential oils, and soak for several hours. You will emerge cleansed inside and out.

2. GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER CHILD Take a much-needed break from grappling with the existential threats posed by the election and remember that you were once a vibrant youth — your ears free from vitriolic political attacks, your face unwrinkled by worry lines, the sparkle in your eyes not yet dulled by the endless sight of a sentient, racist carrot. This is the you that must be rediscovered. There are many ways in which you can accomplish this, but we recommend expelling all that negative energy the old-fashioned way: at your favorite

playground. Hopefully, your favorite playground has survived the riotous onslaught of disgruntled Trump supporters. Find the pieces that have not been burnt to the ground and play away! If it’s been so long that you find yourself not knowing where to start, allow us to make some recommendations: - Find a swingset. Swing so high that you are close to swinging all the way around the top of the set. When you reach the pinnacle of your mighty swing, let go. Allow yourself to fly through the air. Pray you make it to Canada, into the loving and chiseled arms of Justin Trudeau. - Get on a merry-go-round. Not the kind with fanciful horses, but the kind that is essentially a spinning platform of certain doom. Spin. Spin

faster. Faster! You have now created your own vortex. Slip away into the void.

pounds of skin each year. Amazing, also disgusting! We will all eventually meet our demise, regardless of who is president. Breathtaking! Literally! Memento mori, bruh.

3. IMPROVE YOUR DIET Fruit can have a great effect on your mental state, specifically grapes, specifically when they have been fermented. (Nudge nudge, wink wink).

4. DISTRACT YOURSELF WITH THINGS THAT AREN’T RELATED TO THE ELECTION Regardless of how stressed American politics have made you feel, it’s good to remind yourself that we don’t live in a vacuum. There is a big wide world outside America! It is wondrous! For instance, there are more than 900,000 kinds of insects in the world. Amazing! Humans shed 40

5. BE PROUD OF YOURSELF You made it. This has been a long, treacherous road filled with a veritable menagerie of beasts (Bernie Bros! White feminism! Blatant racism!). But the beasts no longer growl in the night, disrupting your slumber. You have defeated them. You are a warrior. Allow yourself to swell with pride. Let the pride fill you like sweet, sweet jelly. Admire your sensual, swollen form! You deserve it. The editorial board can be reached at jrussell@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @TheSagebrush.

When sanity last in the dooryard bloom’d Nonstop talk of emails and pussy grabbing galore I can’t be the only one who can’t take much more Not nearly enough booze will get us through this Election Day And for Christ sake, why has Donald yet to get a new toupee? But on the bright side we are in this together At least we’ll have funny presidential memes— those, if nothing else will last us forever Shit. Where’d Deez Nutz go? Photo courtesy Wikimedia

The highly anticipated election will finally be over on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been deemed some of the most infamous American presidential candidates of all time.

The only way to stop the election madness is to be friends again

A Clinton supporter and a Trump supporter walk into a bar. One gets called a criminal, the other gets called a racist. There is no punchline. It’s no secret — this election sucks. It has sucked for a long time now. And unfortunately, after Nov. 8, no matter who wins, things are still going to suck. It seems like there’s no escaping it. America is caught in an election horror movie, and it’s unclear when it will end. Our news alerts are always either Dominique Clinton’s emails Kent or Trump’s tweets. Facebook has become a desolate sea of those who have been unfriended for their political posts. This has been ugly. This has been dirty. This has been hell. But why has something based on such civilized ideals become so brutal? Why are we the people fighting among ourselves when the battle is supposed to be between two candidates? When did the ugliness leave

the debate stage and land at our own feet? “This whole election has been so mean.” “I just feel so gross all the time.” These words, delivered by Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin, respectively, during this weekend’s SNL election skit sum up the sentiments of the majority of Americans today. I feel gross. I feel mean. I’m not having fun anymore. It’s no secret I’m not a Trump person. I don’t like the guy, and I think his campaign gives a voice to those Americans who embody traits that have no place in a modern, diverse America — traits such as racism, sexism and bigotry. But nobody deserves to feel hated or afraid because of who they vote for. I was never in love with Clinton either. As a Bernie supporter, I spent long periods of time earlier this year actively trying to make sure she didn’t make it into the White House. Will I still vote for her? Yes. But my vote is not cast out of love or loyalty; it is cast because I have evaluated my personal values and made a choice based on that evaluation. Do I deserve hatred and ridicule for

my vote? Do Trump supporters? ever be known as the year that shall The election began to feel ugli- not be named. There isn’t a silver est when it stopped being a battle lining to this thing and there never between two people and became a has been. battle between the whole country. I’m tired of this. You’re tired of this. This is a presidential election, and We’re all tired of this. The least we can with it comes one of the biggest do is be tired of it together. privileges we have in this country: After Nov. 8, let’s try to fix what the right to choose our own leaders. has been broken by this election. Sit It is not meant to create a divide in down at your computer and refriend the country. the Facebook friends you deleted in The SNL sketch made a powerful an election-fueled rage. Have a conpoint when McKinnon and Baldwin versation with that Trump/Hillary chose not to participate in the crazi- supporter in your family nobody’s ness anymore. It was like a lightbulb been talking to over the last few — the realization that this kind of months. hate and anger is not normal and can Christmas is coming; let the holibe stopped. day music and lights mend the rifts It is not normal to feel the need to that were created over the course of remove your political sticker because this whole messy ordeal. America will you could be beaten up for being a not be great again, and being with racist or a liar. It is not normal to end her will make no difference if our friendships over support of political country is left permanently broken candidates. It is not normal to hate by this election. someone because of who they voted On Nov. 8, vote. But after that, let for. This is not normal. the madness created by this election I think it’s time we left the mud- end. It’s time to be something resemslinging and the hate speech and the bling normal again. lying to the politicians and became decent, civilized human beings again. Dominique Kent can be reached at The fact is, Nov. 8 isn’t going to be dkent@sagebrush.unr.edu and on great for anybody, and 2016 may for- Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

Maybe his foreign policy wouldn’t blow… Clinton, since when did you get so rich Like Tyga, I heard you and Bill were broke, bitch Obama please don’t go Or better yet, when out of office grow out your afro How do you choose between a nasty woman and a groper? But come on, Johnson is no doper Relax people it’s almost over This election really made us all bend over There’s still some time to get out there and vote And remember, whether the crook or the creep we’re all in the same boat.

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(From left to right): Britt Brown, Dustin Congdon and Dillon Maguin. Members of the Nevada boxing team pose for a photo at their training facility on Thursday, Nov. 3. Nevada’s first fight is on Friday, Nov. 11.

By Brandon Cruz The Battle Born State truly lives up to its name, as it has been home to some of the most monumental boxing fights of all time: Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries in Reno, widely known as the fight to restore the heavyweight title to “white America”; and finally the bout between Félix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya on Sept. 18, 1999, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The Nevada boxing team resonates with the rich history of Nevada as it boasts two decorated seniors in three-time national champion Garrett Felling and bronze medalist Zach Smith. Other than Felling and Smith, much of Nevada’s roster is untested, as many of its team member’s first collegiate matches will take place in the Eldorado Resort Casino ballrooms on Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. Granted, Nevada may be short in ring experience, but to counter-

balance its rawness, the team has been practicing day and night since the start of summer — morning runs accompanied by intense sparring sessions in the evening as well as a host of circuits that would test the willpower of any individual, all for six days a week. Along with the team members’ demanding training, they dedicate countless hours to their education just like other students, and some even work a job on the side. Boxing itself is a full-time job, but these student-athletes do not have the luxury of being at school on scholarship due to their club status. There are three boxers who bolster down the untested fighters: 153-pounder Britt Brown is the most experienced of the three, with four collegiate fights under his belt in which he went 3-1; Dustin Congdon is next, who has been boxing for two months but has an extensive background in wrestling; and there is Dillon Maguin who, like Congdon, has a wrestling background and will be debuting on Nov. 11.

Reno native Brown has been boxing off and on for about two years. At first what he saw as a hobby or time-filler soon became an addiction he could not seem to shake. “I wanted something to keep me busy, but once I started it was hard to stop,” Brown said. Brown found a positive addiction in boxing as the sport soon took over his life. But for him it isn’t about the accolades or fame that could come with boxing; he looks forward to the daily gains he can make through practicing with his teammates. “Yeah, you know, getting out there in front of people and performing feels great. But getting here in the gym with a bunch of good guys and good coaches is all that really matters,” Brown said. Southpaw fighter Congdon is a force to be reckoned with because of his fighting style, at least according to Brown. “I haven’t fought any southpaws collegiately, but I hate fighting them in

the gym. I hate sparring with them … you find that they’re more comfortable sparring with you than you are with them,” Brown said. This is a popular opinion throughout the ranks of the Nevada boxing team and looks to give Congdon an edge on his opponent, EJ Reyes from Air Force, come Friday. Congdon’s wrestling background also gives him a favorable advantage due to the psyche that comes with being a wrestler. “I think my mindset and my focus are a strength of mine,” Congdon said. Although Maguin may be new to boxing in terms of in-the-ring involvement, he has an edge not many fighters can boast: boxing has been the hand-medown sport in his family for decades. “Boxing has been in my family for generations. My grandparents, my uncles and a couple of my brothers boxed in an amateur league,” Maguin said. Maguin’s brothers taught him his first jabs and right hands, mainly the

basics to give him a solid foundation to build from. This foundation must have counted for something, as senior Smith can see great qualities in Maguin. “I think he’s prepared. He’s been coming in here pretty frequently. He looks good, he’s sharp, athletic and fast. So I think he’s going to come out with a W,” Smith said. This Friday Brown squares off against a familiar opponent in Pedro Barrientes, who Brown beat just a year ago, while Congdon and Maguin will take on two fairly inexperienced fighters like themselves as they look to get their feet wet in the collegiate boxing world. However, only time will tell if these young boxers can live up to the Nevada reputation set by some of the greatest to ever step foot in the ring. Brandon Cruz can be reached at neil@ sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @ TheSagebrush.

Walk-ons look to contribute to Nevada’s success By Javier Hernandez For most college basketball programs, walk-ons are essentially glorified practice players who only earn playing time in blowout victories. In coach Eric Musselman’s program, walk-ons have played a much greater role and will continue to play an elevated part in this upcoming season. At times last year, point guard Juwan Anderson, who has now transferred to play at Cal State East Bay, handled backup duties, backing up starter Lindsey Drew. Before his departure, Anderson played in 23 games. When Marqueze Coleman went down with an ankle injury, Anderson’s defense and hustle were integral to the second unit’s stability. Musselman has stressed the importance of walk-ons in his system. He values their role in game preparations and has not shied away from playing them in games. “We have a high value of them. We have guys who are good culture guys and help us in the locker room, help us in practice,” Musselman said. “And we’ve proven that we can trust them in game situations.” Now in his second year as a walk-on, sophomore guard David Cunningham, who earned a spot last year via open

tryout, hopes to bring back his energy to make practices more competitive. “Last year, I came here as just a regular student,” Cunningham said. “I didn’t plan on playing basketball, but I made the team through an open tryout. My role right now is to be a solid practice player and to come off the bench and provide a lot of energy.” Joining Cunningham as the only walk-on mainstay is sophomore John Carlson, who joined the team late in the season last year. Carlson had given up on his basketball career and was working for the South Reno Athletic Club when his boss reached out to Musselman in hopes of a tryout. “He called the coaches last year without asking me,” Carlson said. “And all of a sudden I got the call from the coaches and they wanted to meet me, and shortly after I was at my first practice and I loved the team.” Carlson, a local who played for Damonte Ranch, had fond memories of the Pack teams of the early 2000s. “It was always my dream to play for the Wolf Pack,” Carlson said. “I went to a lot of the games. The crowd was crazy all of the time and I talked about it with my friends the next day. Then we would re-enact the games on the playground during lunch.” Coming into this season, Musselman

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(Left to Right) David Cunningham, Colin Weaver, David Kyle, John Carlson and Charlie Tooley. Walk-on players for the Nevada basketball team pose for a photo during Wolf Pack media day on Oct. 27.

and staff have recruited well as far as scholarship players but have also been impressive in bringing on quality players as walk-ons. This year, he has added David Kyle, Charlie Tooley and Colin Weaver. David Kyle played for Reno High. Musselman added him to the roster to provide size and rebounding. He projects him as a developmental player who will contribute with more experience in the system. Charlie Tooley, who had offers from Sacramento State, UC Irvine and UC Davis, is a left-handed scorer who has the ability to shoot from deep, has excellent court vision and brings intensity on the defensive end. “I like being the energy guy,” Tooley said. “I like hustling all over the floor. I talk a lot during practice, and just getting better every day and just being

there for my teammates is my mindset.” One of Nevada’s biggest offensive deficiencies last year was its 3-point shooting, with teams capitalizing on this as they often played the Pack in a zone defense. Transfer Colin Weaver will hope to be the Pack’s marksman when faced with the zone. Weaver was a former scholarship player at Oakland University who transferred to Iowa Western Junior College before Musselman offered him a walk-on spot. Weaver will most likely receive the most playing time this upcoming season due to his experience and shooting. For him, Musselman’s philosophy was what sold him to join the team. “He needs a guy to come in and play hard,” Weaver said. “There was a need for what I can do: energy, speed and 3-point shooting. He gives us the

freedom to be more of a player and expand on what you can do but at the same time play within the realm of your game.” Nevada’s roster will feature five walkons this season, and the Pack has increased the competitiveness of practice and continually pushes the scholarship players to their limits. While most of the attention will be on the scholarship players, Carlson wants Pack fans to take a closer look at the walk-ons this upcoming season. “The walk-ons on this team are not bad at all,” Carlson said. “We’re all good athletes. Not quite the Fab Five but the Fab Five in our own way.” Javier Hernandez can be reached at Neil@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @Sagebrushsports.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT RIFLE TEAM The No. 7 ranked Nevada rifle team suffered a loss this past weekend, despite breaking a school record. The team broke its original record by 7 points, shooting a 2362. The Pack’s overall score was a 4654, but it fell just short of No. 5 Alaska, losing by a mere eight points. Nevada now sits at 5-5 overall and 4-5 in conference play, as it looks to rebound this weekend on a road trip to the Ohio State Buckeye Classic this Saturday. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL The Nevada Women’s Volleyball team records its third straight sweep, after defeating San Jose in just three sets. All three sets were played close to the vest, as Nevada won the first set 25-23, the second 25-22 and the third set 25-22. Madison Morell and Kathryn Groenweghe led the team in kills with 14 and 12 respectively. The Pack sits at 17-8 and 8-5 in conference play, surpassing its 2015 win total by an impressive five victories, with five games left to play on the schedule. WOMEN’S TENNIS The Nevada Women’s’ tennis team’s fall season concluded after its recent trip to Santa Clara, California, to participate in the Bronco Invitational. The invitational spanned three days, seeing the Pack walk away with three wins’ in the singles category and one victory in the doubles category. The three singles victories went to Sheila Morales, Adriana Gergelyova and Sara Korzeniecki. Korseniecki added another win to the teams column when she went into doubles play alongside freshman Carlijn Ketting. Brandon Cruz can be reached at bcruz@sagebrush.unr.edu and on twitter @Sagebrush Sports.

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AccordingtoNeiL Trump’s botching of USFL an omen for America

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This 2016 presidential election has been a combination of a “Family Guy” episode and the opening scene from an apocalypse movie. It’s been god awful, and there’s a giant, five-letter, orange reason for this spray-tanned dumpster fire — Trump. I hear all the reasons for why Donald Trump shouldn’t be president. Everything from the blatant racism, misogyny, pussygrabbing, Trump University, demeaning POWs and the weird obsession he has with his daughter. To all of that, I always have the Neil Patrick same response. Healy “And he killed the USFL.” Whenever I say this people usually just laugh at the absurdity of my reasoning for not voting for Trump (spoilers, duh), but I think there is a wealth of knowledge from Trump’s escapade in the 1980s upstart football league. For those of you like me who weren’t even born when this was a thing, the USFL was a professional football league formed in 1982 by New Orleans businessman David Dixon to try and capitalize on America’s rising interest in football. The league’s business plan, called “The Dixon Plan,” was to play its games in the spring so not to compete with the NFL or college football directly in the fall. It also wanted to play its games in NFL-caliber stadiums, have a territorial draft so teams have college players that people in their respective markets are familiar with and to have a rigid salary cap so teams don’t get into bidding wars. The league was offering a different kind of product than its more established rival. While the NFL was fining its play-

ers for celebrating too much (sound familiar?) and earning the nickname of “The No Fun League,” the USFL became known for its antics and fun environment. Teams like the Tampa Bay Bandits (who were co-owned by actor Burt Reynolds) had famous, extravagant promotions such as sevencar giveaways and mortgage burnings. The USFL introduced the two-point conversion and replay challenges to professional football, which are now staples to the NFL today. The league was also a quality product in terms of performance. Of the 1,536 players who played in the league, 778 of them had played or would go on to play in the NFL. The list of NFL players include Hall of Famers Jim Kelly, Steve Young, Reggie White and Gary Zimmerman along with former Heisman Trophy winners Herschel Walker, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. The USFL’s first season in 1983 looked to be a relative success. The goal of having an average attendance of 25,000 per game was reached and the projected TV rating exceeded the 5.0 rating the owners wanted and was at 6.1. ABC and the upstart ESPN were broadcasting games. If the league had just stayed the course, it may have been a successful minor league, but then Trump happened. Trump acquired the New Jersey Generals in 1984 as the league expanded from 12 teams to 18 so that the owners could secure franchise fees and cut some losses, and he began to make a media circus out of it. Trump came in, as Trump always does, as the selfproclaimed savior while pouring in tons of money and grabbing headlines in the process. He spent big money to acquire players from the NFL and lure in college stars. He even came close to signing defensive end Lawrence

Taylor away from the New York Giants, but the deal fell through once the Giants nearly doubled his salary. The Generals jumped from 6-12 to 14-4 in Trump’s first year as owner, but it was his moves off the field that made the league tank. In 1985, the owners, led by Trump, decided to move the season from the spring to the fall in order to compete directly with the NFL. Canadian businessman and co-owner of the Bandits John Bassett pushed back against this idea for years, but his health began to worsen when it was discovered he had two brain tumors. With Bassett out of the way, Trump was free to take control of the league. His plan was to force a merger and basically get an NFL team for almost nothing. The first step was to file an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, citing the NFL had broken anti-monopoly laws. The jury did rule in the USFL’s favor, but it was only awarded $1. Antitrust laws triple the payouts, so the USFL was granted a whopping total of $3. The court ruling was catastrophic for the league and was the end of the USFL. Thanks to the owners being greedy and expanding to 18 teams and Trump trying to bully his way to owning an NFL franchise, the USFL failed to last. Trump moved on to his failed casinos in Atlantic City while the rest of his partners were forced to pick up the pieces. Are we seeing any correlation between this and the election cycle or the rest of his business ventures? The plan was never to merge with the NFL. The plan was to have a different league play in a different time of year and carve out a different niche, which was the fun league in the spring that was a little weird and wacky. Trump never wanted anything to do with

that, saying, “If god wanted football to be played in the spring, he wouldn’t have invented baseball.” The common response to that is why did he get involved at all? Because he saw it as the best way to get in the NFL. He blew up the rules and the Dixon Plan to better himself, even if it hurt the rest of the league. Blowing up the salary cap and getting into bidding wars with the NFL while trying to compete with them directly spelled disaster. You can even compare the league expanding to the GOP having 17 candidates in the beginning of the election process — all that expansion and chaos leading to the rise of Trump. He used it to his advantage to get what he wanted, and when he didn’t he left and kept doing it up until now. You can compare his ambition to compete with the NFL to his ambition with a lot of his failed businesses and how he isn’t a good businessman at all. “You can cut and paste the USFL and the GOP, and it’s the same damn story,” said former radio announcer for the Generals and Dodgers Charley Steiner in an interview with Esquire. “It’s all about him and the brand and moving on to the next thing if it doesn’t work out.” Hindsight may be 20/20, but it’s clear the USFL didn’t get a chance to fail on its own. It failed because of Trump putting his interests before the interests of the league, and that’s the message people need to think about before voting. Does Trump really care about making America great again, or does he care about making The Donald great? Neil Patrick Healy can be reached at neil@ sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @ NP_Healy.

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Nevada beats SF State in exhibition game

Looking Back By Jack Rieger In its first game of the season, Nevada basketball defeated San Francisco State at Lawlor Events Center 88-58. The game won’t count as an official win because it’s considered an exhibition, but that won’t stop The Nevada Sagebrush from dissecting the tape. While Nevada won by 30 points, the first half consisted of rusty, disconnected November basketball. Nevada entered the half leading by just one point, shooting 34.5 percent from the field and committing 10 turnovers. The team has lots of new players with pivotal roles, and it may take a few games to establish a rhythm. The second half looked like last year’s Nevada team. The Wolf Pack was forcing turnovers on defense then getting out on the fast break and converting transition baskets. Sophomore Cameron Oliver led the team with 21 points and seven rebounds, and Devearl Ramsey and Elijah Foster added 12 points each. Newcomers Leland King and Ramsey provided some valuable minutes off the bench. King went 0-for-3 from the field but converted seven of eight free-throw attempts and showed good offensive instincts in the paint. Ramsey flaunted his speed on a couple of fast breaks and consistently picked up his assignment after Nevada caught the inbound. Pack fans went home happy, as Nevada heads to St. Mary’s, 1-0.

Looking ahead While Musselman was pleased after Friday night, he was also realistic with the team’s performance. “We have a lot of work between now and next Friday, playing against a ranked team in their own building,” Musselman said. Nevada will face 17th-ranked St. Mary’s in its first official game of the season. St. Mary’s is led by Australian point guard Emmett Naar, who averaged 14 points, four rebounds and six assists last season. St. Mary’s is loaded with offensive weapons, all of which shoot the 3-pointer well. “They’ll [Nevada] find out at about 7:08 at McKeon Pavilion what 3-point shooting is really like because that’s [St. Mary’s] one of the best 3-point shooting teams in the nation,” Musselman said. St. Mary’s also has size and a really deep roster. Nevada will be big underdogs in one of the toughest stadiums in the country, McKeon Pavilion. St Mary’s home court seats just 3,500 people, making it one of the smallest and loudest arenas in the country. If Nevada is able to pull out a win, the Wolf Pack has a real chance of being ranked for the first time in over seven years. Nevada will have to live by Musselman’s bible: play great defense the entire game and run out in transition. The Wolf Pack has the talent and the coaching to beat the 17th-ranked team in the country, but can this unfamiliar group find chemistry before Friday night? Jack Rieger can be reached at jrieger@ sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @JackRieger.

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Nevada star forward Cam Oliver (0) twirls in midair and makes a behind the back pass in an exhibition game against SF State on Friday, Nov. 4. Oliver finished 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting.