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By Rachel Spacek

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With the recent storm of executive orders and talk of building a wall between Mexico and the United States coming from the White House this week, undocumented students at the University of Nevada, Reno, are concerned for their futures in U.S. education.

Last semester, the UNR Latinx Student Advisory Board held a campus demonstration and presentation of a petition in an attempt to call on university administration to make UNR a sanctuary campus.

However, university president Marc Johnson released a statement early last month saying, “The concept of a sanctuary campus at a public institution does not have a foundation in law or policy.”

While he did not name UNR a sanctuary campus, Johnson has assured university staff, faculty and students that the university is committed to protecting undocumented students who are under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

In 2012, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating DACA in order to allow undocumented students to attend school within the U.S. without facing the threat of deportation.

DACA students are undocumented students that have come to the United States before turning 16. These students are given permission to attend school and are given work permits and a social security number.

“DACA is not a law,” said Jackeline Durón, a student at UNR and active member of LSAB. “I want people to understand that DACA is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals which is an executive order by President Barack Obama meaning that it could be redacted and eliminated under current President Donald Trump and he has said before that he does not support the continuation of the program.”

Throughout the presidential campaign, President Trump has promised to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. in an attempt to halt all illegal immigration. Trump has also

By Madeline Purdue

INTERNATIONAL QUEBEC MOSQUE SHOOTING SUSPECT CHARGED FOLLOWING IDENTIFICATION MIXUP

Authorities arrested two people in connection to a shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec mosque that killed six people and injured 17 on Sunday, Jan. 30.

Mohamed Belkhadir was released after being cleared by police. He called 911 after hearing gunshots and was giving first-aid to the victims when he mistook a police officer for the shooter and fled the scene.

“I understand, I respect, that they caught me,” Belkhadir said to La Presse, according to the Montreal Gazette. “They saw me flee, they thought I was suspicious, that’s normal. For them, someone who flees is a suspect.”

The second suspect, Alexandre Bissonnette, was armed when arrested and called police in order to surrender. The 27-year-old was charged with six counts of firstdegree murder and five counts of attempted murder on Monday.

“This was a group of innocents targeted for practicing their faith,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday afternoon, according to NBC. “Make no mistake: This was a terrorist attack.”

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COMPUTER OUTAGE GROUNDS FLIGHTS

Delta Airlines grounded all their domestic flights Sunday, Jan. 29, due to a computer outage. The outage occurred around 6:30 p.m. and forced around 300 flights to be canceled.

The Delta website and app also crashed, leaving travelers unable to track what was happening with their flight. Flights remained grounded for two and a half hours until the system was back online.

Domestic and international flights already in the air were not affected by the outage, but passengers connecting to other flights were inconvenienced by delays or cancellations when they landed. Delta gave affected passengers refunds and vouchers for their flights and waived the normal fee to change flights if they rebooked their travels by Friday.

This is the second time in six months the airline has grounded flights due to technical issues. United Airlines grounded their domestic flights a week beforehand due to technical issues as well.

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RENO PROTESTS TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER

Members of the Reno community gathered on the Virginia Street Bridge Sunday, Jan. 30, to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. They joined a nationwide network of protests organized after the executive order was announced.

The Reno Solidarity Network organized the protest and said 500 people showed up, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.

The Reno Police Department said there were no arrests made and the protest was peaceful.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday that banned Syrian refugees indefinitely and halted residents of seven countries from entering the United States for 120 days.

“This type of religious discrimination is wrong and ineffective – in fact, all it accomplishes is stirring up bigotry and violence against American Muslims, alienating our Muslim allies across the world and helping terrorist organizations like ISIS recruit new supporters,” Cortez Masto told the RGJ. “Make no mistake, these executive actions make our country less safe.”

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Mayor Hilary Schieve speaks to an audience at Atlantic Aviation for her 2017 State of the City Address on Thursday, Jan. 26. Schieve was brief when discussing the issues City Council went through last year.

Mayor vague on city issues

Madeline Purdue can be reached at mpurdue@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @madelinepurdue.

ABSTRACT THOUGHTS

By Rachel Spacek Despite the Reno City Council’s troubling year of sexual misconduct investigations and debt creation, Mayor Hillary Schieve went into little detail about the past year’s chaos in her State of the City address last Thursday evening. Instead of addressing past City Council issues head-on, Schieve said she was dedicated to creating “a new culture to lift Reno up for years.”

Last September, former Reno City Manager Andrew Clinger was terminated due to several misconduct complaints against him. In a fivemonth investigation following Clinger’s termination, retired Clark County judge David Wall found there was not enough evidence to support the claim that Clinger had sexually inappropriate relationships in his workplace. However, the investigation did find that Clinger

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headed an unprofessional work environment that had harmed one of the women who had come forward to file a complaint against him.

Schieve was vague in her speech when discussing Clinger’s termination; she said the city had “hit some turbulence,” which she compared to a kidney disease she had when she was younger that resulted in her having to give up her dream of participating in Olympic figure skating.

“Thanks to my loving mother, and incredible sister who donated her kidney to save my life and put me on a new path,” Schieve said, “I hung up my skates, but not my competitive spirit. I took that passion for competition and rechanneled it into other endeavors.

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Leaving behind a past of on-and-off homelessness and abusive parents, University of Nevada, Reno, freshman Gabrielle Foresta looks forward to a future in medical school and a career as a surgeon. A Las Vegas native, Foresta was forced to balance unstable housing, a drug-addicted mother and high school when she and her mother lost housing in November 2011.

Foresta’s parents divorced when she was very young, so she lived with her “caring mother” and sister for most of her childhood. Foresta said throughout her early childhood, her mother was a supportive parent, due to her consumption of post-pregnancy antidepressants.

“After [my mother’s] pregnancy, she was on anti-depressants and she liked them, so she stayed on them for five years,” Foresta said. “Then when she [stopped taking] them, she became mean, but it did not escalate until she met [a] new boyfriend [who] was involved with a bunch of drug dealers in Las Vegas and she started doing heroin.”

Foresta’s mother was previously a meth addict before she starting using heroin. After she began using heroin, Foresta said her mother became both emotionally and physically abusive.

“She would say things like, ‘you can’t go and live with your dad or else I will commit suicide,’” Foresta said.

In addition to the mental abuse, Foresta’s mother also frequently hit her and her sister.

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“One time she bit my nose. It is funny now, but at the time it obviously wasn’t,” Foresta said. “I still have a scar from it.

[The wound] was to the point where her teeth were inside of my nose. She was just crazy like that.”

Foresta’s father was also an addict and had left after the divorce between himself and Foresta’s mother, 10 years before Foresta’s mother’s heroin abuse.

When Foresta began eighth grade, she and her mother were evicted from their home and began living in her mother’s boyfriend’s apartment.

“It was like a disgusting apartment, so I would rather stay in the car or at friends’ houses,” Foresta said. “There were, like, bedbugs and stuff; it was disgusting.”

During Christmastime in 2011, Foresta’s mother’s boyfriend found she was cheating on him and kicked the family out of his house. They began squatting in homes and empty buildings or sleeping in their car.

After six months, Foresta’s grandmother found out about her daughter and granddaughter’s homeless situation and offered to let them stay in her home. However, the stable home became short-lived when Foresta’s grandmother found Foresta’s mother stealing money and kicked the two of them out of her home.

The two found themselves homeless again for about two months.

During the family’s on again, off again housing situation, Foresta’s father

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That’s what our city must do now. When things get tough, you must take decisive action to fix it. It may hurt at first, but it’s an opportunity to take a new approach.”

Schieve also alluded to the huge amount of debt the City Council has accumulated over the last two years.

“While we are still recovering from the recession,” Schieve said, “our Council remains committed to fiscal stability.

For one, the city’s total debt has decreased by more than $150 million, and our fund balance totals more than $19 million under the leadership of this City Council.”

In a report from the Reno Gazette-Journal, the previous city council went through a period where it borrowed a large amount of money and racked up more debt than the city could afford to pay back.

While the city has significantly decreased their debt, Reno is still ranked 113 out of 116 cities for financial stability, according to the Fiscal Times.

Reno ranked below North Las

Vegas which, according to the RGJ, has almost had to declare bankruptcy for several years.

Reno ranked above New York City and Chicago.

The City of Reno has also come under fire from many homeless and community advocacy groups for their redevelopment plans that include the destruction of low-income housing and weekly motels.

ACTIONN, a community advocacy group, has been committed to bringing awareness to the displacement of homeless and low-income residents. Back in September, ACTIONN hosted a “Week of ACTIONN Against Gentrification,” where community members discussed personal stories of displacement and shared ideas about how to bring the issue to the attention of the City Council.

“When we say we’re against gentrification, we’re talking about outdated, unjust community development policies and projects,” said Mike Thornton, the executive director of ACTIONN. “[We are] calling for a 21st-century community development agenda that focuses on creating jobs,

justice inclusion and affordable housing. It is about saying yes to creating a sustainable city that meets the needs of all its current and future residents.”

In her State of the City Address, Schieve addressed the issue of displaced residents and homelessness by discussing the Reno Works program.

The program recruits individuals from homeless shelters and trains them for ten weeks.

During the ten-week period, they are taught life skills, given education opportunities and full-time employment. After the program, people are often working full-time positions.

The program was spearheaded

by Ward 5 Reno City Council Member Neoma Jardon.

Schieve also announced the City of Reno will allocate $160,000 to the program over the next two years.

“I’ve also enlisted the help of a working group called Operation Downtown,” Schieve said. “This group is made up of business owners, developers, City of Reno staff, and others who want downtown Reno to rise. But in order to do so, we need more affordable housing options. That’s why Operation

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Downtown and the City held a recent affordable housing workshop to identify ways Reno can take action. We are looking for ways to incentivize more affordable housing projects by participating in public-private partnerships, such as building affordable housing projects on city-owned land.”

Operation Downtown works with the Reno Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help provide low-income housing to individuals and families in need by supplying rent vouchers to individuals and building affordable housing complexes.

Schieve identified one of the city’s affordable housing projects called Vintage at the Crossings by developer Dane Hillyard. She also said there would be more affordable housing projects coming to the city in the next year.

Madeline Purdue can be reached at mpurdue@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @ madelinepurdue.

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SENATE RECAP JAN. 25

PUBLIC COMMENT E.L. WIEGAND FITNESS CENTER OPENING DELAYED To begin the first senate meeting of the spring semester, the Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Reno, heard from Jim Fitzsimmons, Director of Campus Recreation and Wellness, who gave the senators an update on the progress of the E.L. Wiegand Fitness Center.

Construction of the new fitness center had been delayed because of problems installing the rubberized flooring due to humidity levels within the building, however Fitzsimmons said the construction crew was recently able to get the flooring into the building. There are additional concerns about the outside of the building since the wet weather turned the dirt in the front of the building into mud.

Fitzsimmons said he was disappointed the fitness center did not make the original soft-opening deadline planned for Jan. 23, but the predicted first day of operations for the E.L. Wiegand Fitness Center is still Feb. 13.

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SENATORS APPROVE THE NOMINEE FOR OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

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The Senators heard ASUN President Brandon Boone’s nominee for the Office of Attorney General, Cameron Harris. During his presentation to the senators, Harris said he believes the Attorney General position to be crucial, especially with ASUN elections just right around the corner. He also said he would make elections his priority and has already looked into the elections code outlined in the Statutes of the Associated Students. Harris said he is dedicated to making the election season run smoothly, carefully and fairly.

After his presentation, Harris’s nomination passed in a unanimous vote.

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LEGISLATION Photo Courtsey of Gabrielle Foresta

Gabrielle Foresta and her sister, Isabella Foresta, recieve puppies in their Las Vegas home for Christmas. The family spent their last Christmas together before Foresta’s parents filed for divorce , that began the family’s struggle with homelessness.

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was in a rehabilitation center and was living in a government home on disability funding and in rehab. At first, Foresta did not want to live with her father because of his past addiction and family abandonment, but she gave in and moved in with him because he had stable housing.

While living with her father, Foresta began high school at a competitive magnet school in Las Vegas. She excelled in her classes throughout her freshman year of high school. During her second semester of her sophomore year, Foresta flunked all of her classes except mathematics.

She said her teachers were really supportive but recommended she go to a less competitive school due to her housing situation.

Foresta then started school at Sierra Vista High School, taking all honors classes. She received straight A’s during her junior year of high school and the first semester of her senior year. During her last semester of high school, however, Foresta’s father lost their home. He had started using drugs again and was no longer eligible to live in their previous housing.

Foresta’s grades suffered due to the housing situation, but luckily her teachers gave less work and were more understanding during her second semester of senior year.

During the last half of school and the summer, Foresta was sleeping and showering at her friends’ houses.

“It is hard to do school when you’re homeless,” Foresta said. “I flunked out. I really like school, but it is just so hard to keep up with your school work, especially if you don’t have a ride to school.”

After graduating high school, Foresta was working over 40 hours a week and never thought she’d be able to attend the University of Nevada, Reno. Her father had no credit to take out loans for her and was in no state to assist her with school. However, Foresta filled out her Free Application for Federal Student Aid and received the highest amount of grants and scholarships an aspiring UNR student could receive.

Despite receiving grants and scholarships, Foresta still had owed a lot of money to pay off her schooling and had to find a way to pay for housing in Reno, so she decided to take out loans herself, as an independent student.

“I took out around $10,000 in loans because I didn’t know what else to do,” Foresta said.

With the money from the loans, Foresta lives in the dorms during the school year but still has to find housing during winter and summer breaks.

“I wouldn’t say I have overcome [homelessness],” Foresta said. “I am living in the dorms eight months out of the year and I have a home to stay in, but winter break I had to find somewhere to stay,

summer break I am going to have to find somewhere to stay.”

In her early childhood, Foresta and her sister were both raised to be successful.

They were both in Gifted and Talented Education Programs in school, however, Foresta said her sister fell into a trap.

“My sister fell into the whole idea that [she is] not going to try because [her] parents were terrible and [she has] an excuse,” Foresta said. “I never wanted to do that, I saw her do that and I just thought, ‘I never want to end up like that.

I never wanted to end up not being a motivated person.’”

Despite her difficult time in school, Foresta said she grew very close with the faculty at both her magnet school and Sierra Vista High School. She said they were very caring people who genuinely wanted her to succeed.

Despite her student loan debt looming over her, Foresta said she is used to not having money. She knows medical school will be expensive, but also knows it is what she really wants to do.

Foresta plans to declare her major in molecular microbiology and immunology after she completes her freshman year.

After completing her undergraduate education, she plans to attend medical school and achieve her dream of becoming a surgeon.

Rachel Spacek can be reached at rspacek@ sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

ELECTIONS COMMISSION INTERNSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE To conclude the first senate meeting of the Spring semester, Sen. Brennan Jordan introduced Senate Bill 84, an act to create the elections commission internship program. The bill states that since the elections commission is only comprised of three people and is in charge of all election promotions, facilitation and oversight, they should be allowed three interns to learn and help with their responsibilities.

Several senators brought up concerns that the legislation does not specifically say that as an intern with the elections commission, students are not allowed to run for an ASUN office. Working with the elections commission and running for a position would be a conflict of interest. Speaker Noah Texeira made it clear to elections chairman Steve McNeese that if an intern wanted to run for a position, they would have to end their internship.

After the discussion, the senate unanimously approved SB 84 to allow the elections commission to hire three new interns.

Rachel Spacek can be reached at rspacek@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

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said he would eliminate the DACA program from colleges and universities.

While Trump has not yet spoken about DACA, he promised in his Jan. 11, press conference that a wall, not a fence, would be built on the border.

In addition to his promises regarding the wall, Trump enacted an executive order on Friday restricting the entry of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.

Trump said he was creating the ban to prevent domestic terror attacks within the United States.

On Saturday night, a federal judge granted an emergency stay to citizens of the seven banned countries who had already arrived in the U.S., those who were in transit to the U.S.

Rebel Yell was unsure of how it would operate through the fall semester.

Before 2012, The Scarlet and Gray Free Press, formally The Rebel Yell, was run through ad revenue and a percentage of student fees from the UNLV student government, the Consolidated Students of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In 2012, the CSUN president tried to gain control over The Scarlet and Gray Free Press’s editor-in-chief position. After the incident, the newspaper decided that in order to produce unbiased content, they had to separate from CSUN. Without the CSUN funding, the newspaper relied solely on sales and ad revenue, but after transitioning

and hold valid visas.

The ban also included barring all Syrian refugees from the U.S., “until further notice.”

The U.S. refugee program has been suspended for 120 days and the executive order states that Syrian refugees may not enter the U.S. until their admission into the country is deemed “consistent with the national interest.”

Trump’s ban drew protests at airports and cities across the United States and the criticism of several human rights groups.

In Reno, Reno Solidarity Network hosted “Bridges not Walls- No Bans, No Walls,” a protest against Trump’s latest ban and planned wall.

“I urge President Johnson to reconsider and declare UNR a sanctuary campus because now more than ever our community needs to know that all people, immigrants, refugees and undocumented folks are safe and welcome on our campus,” Durón said. “We’ve seen an outpour of xenophobia stemming from President

from a bi-weekly newspaper to a weekly paper, saw a sharp decline in sales.

While the newspaper was drowning in funding issues, it was also trying to make a formal name change. Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid made a comment about the relationship between UNLV’s nickname, The Rebels, and the Confederate Army. The battle cry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War was called the “rebel yell.”

The editor-in-chief of The Scarlet and Gray Free Press announced the change in their name in November.

The paper had been called the Rebel Yell for over 60 years.

While still trying to find sources

Trump’s executive orders and a public support of President Johnson is necessary in this political climate to center people first.”

Durón said she and LSAB would not rest in their fight to protect undocumented students, but they are happy with university administration’s decision to create a DACA coordinator position to assist undocumented students through any problems the Trump administration may cause for them.

“They did create the DACA coordinator position for students, it is not just serving students who have DACA or undocumented students, it is for everyone. We commend the administration and President Johnson for creating the position because it is really putting their money where their mouth is and if they are going to support students, it is usually financially and having this position means that someone is going to be directly helping students and their families.”

Durón said the new DACA coordinator

of funding, the newspaper launched a donation drive to try to overcome their budget cuts. The Scarlet and Gray Free Press set the goal for the drive at $30,000 but have so far only raised $2,900.

Without the help of the ReviewJournal, The Scarlet and Gray Free Press may not have been able to stay afloat throughout the entire spring semester. Though the Review-Journal will fund the newspaper throughout the semester, Cseke said she plans to diversity the paper’s revenue sources beyond advertising and plans to hire its first student fundraising director.

Rachel Spacek can be reached at rspacek@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush

position and the university’s pledge to support DACA as an executive order gives the needed support to undocumented students, however she worries it might not be enough if Trump decides to eliminate the order. “[President Johnson] supporting DACA if there is no more DACA [means] that support did not really matter, but it does matter that they do care enough and they are supportive enough of their students that they created the position,” Durón said. “For that, we definitely thank Marc Johnson and administrators.”

Durón said LSAB will now focus on supporting efforts to make the city of Reno a sanctuary city and will be hosting panels on Trump’s executive orders and how they are impacting people in Nevada and across the country.

Rachel Spacek can be reached at rspacek@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

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The Scarlet and Gray Free Press, the financially embattled student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, might have finally solved their funding woes with a little bit of outside help. Early this month, the Scarlet and Gray received funding from the Las Vegas Review Journal that will allow the paper, formerly known as the Rebel Yell, to produce content through end of the spring semester.

Through the newly approved plan, the Review-Journal will donate $40,000 to the student publication and will print the weekly newspaper for free. The first issue of the news-

paper came out last Monday, Jan. 23.

“The student newspaper at UNLV has always been an important resource for the Review-Journal and all other news media sources in the valley,” said Keith Moyer, editor-inchief of the Review-Journal in a story published earlier this month. “We felt it was important to help as we might in ensuring the newspaper’s doors remain open until it can get itself on better financial footing.”

Last school year, the newspaper received $86,000 from the Student Life Funding Committee to operate for the entire school year, but beginning in the fall the paper only received $31,000. After receiving less than half their normal funding, the former

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PACK N THE EVENTS THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS WEEK

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Abstract Thoughts: Liz Penniman presents her work

PORSHA OLAYIWOLA DATE: Tuesday TIME: 6 p.m.

LOCATION: 15th Street

Food Court INFO: Poet Porsha Olayiwola is visiting UNR to grace us with her poetry and spoken word.

This event will touch on the ills plaguing society.

Free coffee, hot coccoa and muffins will be provided for attendees.

THE BLACK PANTHERS DATE: Thursday TIME: 6 p.m.

LOCATION: Joe Crowley

Student Union INFO: This documentary about the controversial civil rights movement received a 93 percent on rotten tomatoes. Kicking off black history month, this movie is even more relevant than ever. Free snacks and beverages will be provided for students.

SURF CURSE DATE: Friday TIME: 8 p.m.

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Paintings are shown at abstract painter Liz Penniman's art gallery "Extravagant Chemistry" on Jan. 27.

LOCATION: Holland

Project INFO: After releasing their new album, "Nothing Yet," the duo is returning to where it all started. The low-fi surfer punk duo is known to have rowdy concerts, so strap on your dancing shoes and get ready to sing along. The opening acts are Royal Noble and Snack. Tickets are going for $5.50.

THE EXPLORER'S CLUB DATE: Jan. 20-Feb. 5 TIME: 7:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Restless

Artists' Theatre Company INFO: This hilarious comedy takes audience members back to 19th century London, and tells the story of a bumbling acting troupe. Tickets are $15. Senior citizens, students and military members pay $12. Tickets at the door cost $20.

LISA LAMPINELLI DATE: Friday TIME: 8 p.m.

LOCATION: Silver Legacy INFO: Known for her work

on Comedy Central roasts, Lisa Lampinelli takes no prisoners in her style of insult comedy. With several stand up specials under her belt, she is headed to Reno. Although it will not be for the faint of heart, this is sure to be a hilarious night of comedy.

Tickets are going for around $36.

Joey Thyne can be reached at jsolis@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @joey_thyne

By Joey Thyne Liz Penniman’s art exhibit, “Extravagant Chemistry,” began showing at the McKinley Arts and Culture Center, Jan. 9, featuring her abstract paintings. The receptionakes place from Feb. 2 5-7 p.m.

Penniman describes the project as “a mountain inside of me. It’s a bunch of peace-loving parts that constantly move.”

As for the name, it was a means of trialand-error osmosis.

“I flipped through a bunch of words and those two words seemed to go with the paintings. When I started, the whole idea was that it was going to be a whole bunch of simple, pared-down things. As I kept trying to make them work and make them finished, they just got more and more complex. I wouldn’t usually use the word extravagant, so it’s not the ego that calls it that, it just gets excessive in order to finish,” Penniman said.

It has been a long road for Penniman, originally from San Jose, to end up presenting her art in Reno. In college, she studied architecture. Upon graduation, she began painting but kept working in architecture to make a living. After 10 years, she decided to move to New York and become a full-time artist.

“It was like jumping off the deep end,” Penniman said. “But nothing really happened. I didn’t die or fall in the gutter.”

Eventually, she started getting art jobs.

Since then, she has been focused on get-

ting better.

“In order to achieve success, you have to make those decisions which allow you to continue to be an artist. People have different paths: they have kids, they decide they can’t live on very little money. Also, you can’t waste your time with things that are dragging you down.”

Penniman became fascinated with abstract art early on. A teacher encouraged her to reject the necessity of generating a narrative in her painting. This frees the painting and allows it to become much more interesting.

“With the abstract, it makes the painting the most important part. Then, all of this subconscious imagery comes out anyway and I decide whether to paint over it or let it be. If I start painting, inevitably it’s people or animals or something.

So I continue to muffle those and keep it a painting so the viewer and I don’t get bored with it. You can look at it longer that way, if it’s one of the good ones.”

Penniman perfected the work for “Extravagant Chemistry” at her studio in Truckee. She usually begins with a specific color she feels compelled to create. A lot of her inspiration comes from nature.

“If I’m driving around in the winter, I’ll see that purple tinge of the bush

twigs and it looks like brown but then it’s also purple and then it’s also rose.

Or the shadows on the mountains aren’t very dark, they’re very light this time of year. Then I make that color and I make a gesture or a line with it, then I want to do something next to that. I won’t know what that is until I’ve already done the first part.”

A plethora of sources influence her.

Artistic inspirations include Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes, New York painter Dana Schutz, abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell, Bay Area Figurative school pioneer David Park, and Francis Bacon.

Aside from fellow painters, she is greatly affected by writers, as she is an avid reader.

Penniman belongs to a group of local artists and writers that assisted her in developing “Extravagant Chemistry.”

Spawning out of the Reno Art Salon, the collective requires each member to produce a new body of work every two months. They provide one another constructive criticism.

Members have included Wes Lee, Stephanie Hogan, Glynn Cartledge, Jerry Franzen, Frances Melhop, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Jana Sibley.

One of the greatest challenges with this exhibit was to stay focused and not get impulsive with different approaches.

“The main thing is remaining completely entertained. You can see the second an artist starts getting bored in their work; it’s really obvious. Staying interested in the format you selected is like being in a relationship. How do you stay interested? Basically the glue is there, but it’s more about your own inner-work than what the other thing is doing,” Penniman said.

Penniman gives credit to the Biggest Little City for allowing her to present her work. Reno, she believes, is just starting to get interesting, with an influx of newcomers introducing fresh artistic points of view.

“There seems to be some innovation going on, even if it’s a little bit underground. It’s a good place to experiment because it’s still not too expensive. The public art scene is already well on its way because everyone is practicing every year on their own out in the desert. The makerspaces are well beyond the size Joey Thyne can be reached at jsolis@ sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @ joey_thyne.

UNR clubs recruit students

By Joey Thyne The University of Nevada, Reno, held its biannual club fair on Jan. 25, which allowed for different clubs and organizations to promote their brands and allows students to get involved on campus.

According to Richard Long, ASUN Director of Clubs and Organizations, approximately 145 clubs participated, only a few shy of maximum capacity.

“The student turnout was great,” Long said. “We saw large numbers of students attend the fair. Enough, in fact, to keep the ballrooms busy for most of the night.”

One of those tables was occupied by Wolf Pack Radio, whose General Manager Caroline Ackerman was pleasantly surprised by the success of the fair and the WPR

booth.

“I was amazed at the overall turnout of both students and clubs,” Ackerman said. “We had a lot of students stop by our table to grab a sticker or button. It was great.

We also had a lot of people express interest in volunteering.”

The transition from quad to ballroom forces some clubs and organizations to improvise their set up from semester t semester.

“This was my first time at the spring club fair, so I didn’t entirely know how to prepare,” Ackerman said.

"However, we table a lot so we know how these things go.”

The location was not the only innovation. “We were

able to change the layout of the tables from the past, which allowed all of the clubs more exposure, and therefore a chance for more membership,” Long said.

Of course, no event is without flaws. One hiccup was a miscommunication between the clubs and ASUN about who needed electrical outlets.

“For next semester, I would send out the application earlier so that the Commission could work to accommodate each club on its specific requests,” Long said.

However, if that is the biggest problem of the event, one would consider it a very successful day.

Joey Thyne can be reached at jsolis@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @joey_thyne.

Migos Mania Hip hop trio makes art out of trap on “Culture”

By Joey Thyne There was a glorious moment a few weeks back when the top two songs in the country were “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd and “Bad and Boujee” by Migos. Both are trap bangers by rap groups who wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without the assistance of internet memes: the mannequin challenge and ‘rain drop/drop top’ tweets, respectively.

Migos is the face of Atlanta trap, a scene that boasts the likes of Future, Young Thug and 21 Savage. Despite a few hits here and there, they never really got the exposure they deserved.

After recently signing to Kanye West’s label, GOOD Music, there seems a conscious effort to expand their publicity. One example is their cameo on the hit TV series “Atlanta.”

“Culture” is Migos’s sixth project and second proper album. The album cover is a smorgasbord of things Migos considers as culture: cars, doves, explosions, flowers, capitol buildings, graffitied highway signs and, of course, themselves.

With “Culture,” Migos achieved an anomaly in modern music: a conventional album rollout. A few months ago they announced the album, they released a few singles, then the album was released on time without any funny business. Although they will most likely be overshadowed by “Bad and Boujee,” the singles “T-Shirt” and “Call Casting” are fun and solid songs At this point, their chemistry is fully realized and they have bangers down to a science incorporating their immaculate flows. They collaborate with the pantheon of hip-hop producers, including Metro Boomin, Zaytoven, and Buddha Bless. There is a clear focus on creating hypnotic hooks and drums and bass are on point. Each song has an individual sound, but they all groove in the same beautiful way.

Migos and Travis Scott is a match made in heaven. Migos’s heady nonchalance is complemented by Travis Scott’s insane lack of self-restraint. Alternatively, Lil Uzi Vert’s god-awful and obnoxiously whiny presence nearly spoils the masterpiece that is “Bad and Boujee.” Gucci Mane’s cameo on the album highlight “Slippery” is an homage to the man who paved the way for Atlanta trap.

It must be a strange dynamic when an obvious leader emerges in a group. Just as Destiny’s Child insidiously became Beyonce and those

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two other girls, Migos is evolving into Quavo and those two other guys. Over the past year, Quavo was featured on a handful of hit songs, including “Champions,” “Pick up the Phone,” and “Minnesota.” On “Culture,” it seems like the songs are centered around him. One of the biggest drawbacks on the album is that some songs drag out in order to provide space for each member. One wonders how long it takes before ego causes the group to disband and for Quavo to go solo. But, thankfully, for right now we can enjoy the sum of all their efforts, Takeoff and Offset included.

Migos does not shatter any glass ceilings on “Culture,” or even say anything particularly thought-provoking. Trap music is the type of senselessly fun music that causes parents to shake their heads and mutter “kids these days.” But for such a famously ignorant genre, it’s evident that a lot of intelligent, talented people worked on this album. If trap music is a spectrum, then “Culture” is upper echelon.

Maybe this really is where culture is at—internet memes acting as calculated capitalistic PR strategies perpetuating trap bangers. I wholeheartedly believe “Culture” will be an artifact representative of 2017; a time capsule of the divine, grotesque present.

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White House travel freeze misguided, un-American

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n Friday afternoon, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order which did three things: it suspended entry of refugees in the United States for 120 days, barred entry to Syrian refugees indefinitely and suspended immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.

To say the order has caused chaos and outcry would be an understatement, and to just call it a farce would leave so much unsaid.

Practically, the order caused an immediate crisis of sorts. It stranded an indeterminate number of people in American airports and, ultimately, has affected about 90,000 people around the world.

It’s a move toward the un-American from an administration that is only showing growing contempt for the Constitution and the American people.

It took all of one day for parts of the order to be put on hold when on

Saturday, federal Judge Ann Donnelly issued a court order stopping the government from deporting refugees. It only took one more day for the White House, in the form of Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, to take a step back, formally excluding legal residents and those with green cards.

Though backlash be damned, it seems, as the White House has been doubling down on the order even as it pulls back.

“This is not a Muslim ban,” Trump said in a written statement. “This is not about religion — this is about terror and keeping our country safe.

There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order.”

It was a sentiment that was summed up best by Priebus earlier that day.

“We’re not willing to be wrong on this,” Priebus said as he made the Sunday show circuit.

Trump went on to say that the or-

der only affected about 100 people out of some 300,000 travelers, and while Trump is not necessarily wrong here, he is not necessarily right either. It’s true that there are more majority-Muslim countries than those included in the executive order. What is also true, however, is that the order excludes Saudi Arabia — the country from which the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were born and harbored.

In point of fact, there has been no deadly terrorist from any of the seven travel-restricted countries and, if we’re to be honest, more recent deadly terrorist attacks have been homegrown. In Orlando, Charleston and Colorado Springs, the shooters were born in America and even in San Bernardino, the shooters were radicalized at least in part in the U.S. On top of that, his numbers are way off base. There are 90,000 people from the seven affected countries who have received immigrant or nonimmigrant visas.

To count just the 100 or so people detained — which, by the way, does not include those travelers who were unable to even board a plane in the first place — is misleading at best.

It also becomes hard to say it’s not a ban on Muslims when the White House seems to be favoring Christians from the same areas, an implicit part of the order made explicitly clear by a Trump interview this weekend.

This order is, at its core, contrary to the founding values of this country and not only harms America as a whole, but even our own university community. Every part of a university, from its teachers to its students, can be affected by this and we have no reason to believe that this won’t be the case.

This is an order that cannot stand.

The editorial board can be reached at jsolis@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

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Protestors gather in Downtown Reno on Sunday, Jan. 30, to protest President Trump’s executive order on immigration. Critics have called the order un-American.

Misguided Morals Journalism forces ethical balancing act with Theft in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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hen I was steals from those who have playing ‘Deus done nothing wrong so he Ex: Mankind can purchase skill points and Divided’, weapons. one constant In Human Revolution, the issue was always plaguing my only mention I ever found mind. Why does Adam Jenson of the world reacting to your need to steal? theft was an e-mail in your In ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolu- office of people asking who tion’, you are the security was stealing their stuff. It chief at Sarif even goes so far as to have Industries. others in the office accuse You would other office workers of the think that thefts. This reinforces one working simple rule to the player, you at one of can get away with theft. the most I felt like this was fine in prestigious Human Revolution because I augmentation never felt like I was presented corporations with anything of true value.

Bailey would lend A couple of credits here and MeCey you some there isn’t going to kill supplies or anyone, no problem. But the cash you Mankind Divided presented need for equipment, but that too many scenarios in which is not the case. You skulk your theft could easily cause around different parts of the devastating consequences. world, breaking into inThe most striking to me nocent (and not so innocent) was after I broke into an people’s homes and stealing apartment ,then went into the their belongings. bathroom. The whole room For some reason, I never was littered with empty beer quite cared about this, as it cans and cigarette butts, and was a means to an end. In on top of a box was a vial of order to best represent the Neuropozyne, the drug that interests of the corporation keeps a person’s body from and find out who was behind rejecting their augments. the attack that left me barely Without thinking, I walked clinging to life, I’d need to in, grabbed the drug, and lift every fridge in the game almost left before I realized in search of a possible what I had done. This person credit chip. ( Then throwing might have been scraping by the fridge in the bathroom to afford the medication, and because it was pretty funny).

I stole it only so I could sell However, when playing it. Adam has no need for the Mankind Divided, something drug, as his body does not changed, both because of the reject the augments. game and myself.

What surprised me most Mankind Divided is downwas that Adam does not right gorgeous, the character reflect on this, on how his models and environments actions could hurt an indamn near took my breath nocent person. When it comes away on more than one occato combat, Adam can be a sion. The issue, however, was pacifist, but his day-to-day how life-like it represented actions are not given any the plight of the people of acknowledgment.

Prague.

In a later cutscene Adam, Once I arrived at Golem even says he has a no kill rule, City, the visuals of this but does he factor the many decrepit town of thousands ways his actions could hurt living on top of each other left people besides terrorists or me broken. No matter what gang members?

I do, these people still live, Adam Jenson is in a world sleep and try to survive here. where he has no reason to Why would I want to steal steal besides the fact that from these people? since he can, he will. He could One of the first things you put in a request for nutrition encounter in Golem City is bars and gas grenades, but a group of police beating up since no one will stop him and arresting a bunch of the why not just steal. augmented individuals. I This is what put me off must have stood there for five continuing Mankind Divided, minutes just watching this as I felt conflicted to continue harassment occur in front of playing a character that had me, unable to comprehend no qualms with stealing from how there is nothing I can do the less fortunate. When it for these people. I can’t give came to almost stealing the them some money, or even Neuropozyne, not only did I some medicine. return the drug but I also left This issue of the game a second one for them. conflicting with my own I imagined that person personal beliefs carried on in coming home and finding how the game dealt (or really the drugs left for them, and did not deal) with theft. Theft how much joy it would have in Human Revolution and brought. This small human Mankind Divided is never gesture gave me more emoreally addressed. tional satisfaction than any of The security chief at Sarif the scripted scenarios that do Industries and now special not see me as a person, but as agent at the Interpol Task a robot badass with no soul.

Force 29, Adam should be given resources or at least Bailey MeCey can be reached at the financial backing to get bmecey@sagebrush.unr.edu and on what he needs. However, he Twitter @NevadaSagebrush

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ournalists are unique members of American society. They are supposed to cover people and events without bias in their articles. This is is easier said than done. It is human nature to have opinions and beliefs, but journalists can’t let those sway how they report on a story.

They also can’t express their opinions on social media because then their bias is shown, even if they keep it out of their writing, and it could harm credibility.

As an aspiring Madeline journalist, I’ve written Purdue dozens articles for several organizations and I’ve never had this problem until 2016.

Like many college students, this was the first presidential election I was going to vote in, and I was stoked. Also like many people, I was not prepared for what the 2016 election would hold.

This was not like any election before and I didn’t know how to balance my journalistic ethics and my personal morals.

I found myself wondering, “At what point do I put aside journalism and start speaking up?”

I couldn’t stand the hateful rhetoric against different races and people.

I couldn’t stand to hear one of the candidates making remarks about grabbing women without their permission. As a regular person, I wanted to tweet and post about all of this and beg people to turn to love instead of hate,

but I didn’t.

I decided the election wasn’t the time to speak up. It was up to people who are involved in politics to do their job and it was my job to report on it. I cast my ballot and had my say.

Then Donald Trump was elected. I stayed away from social media because I didn’t trust myself not to state my opinion. My friends and I spent the next couple of days talking about what we were afraid of. I was mostly scared for my friends.

A few of them were going to lose their health insurance. Others were afraid to walk alone because of their skin color or their sexuality. I didn’t blame them.

People were being attacked, their hijabs being ripped off their heads, swastikas being painted on the side of buildings. I didn’t know what to do.

I decided that I was going to give President Trump a chance because I wanted to see him succeed at being a good president for the sake of our country.

Now, I find it much harder to stay silent. I find myself asking the same question as before, “At what point do I put aside journalism and start speaking up?”

I wanted to be at the Women’s March and at the airports standing up for what I believe in, instead of just covering it as a journalist. I do not like what I see in this country. I don’t like seeing people who were promised asylum from terrorists being turned away. I don’t like people with green cards that have lived in the country for years being turned away at the border after visiting their family in another country.

I don’t like people I know and love

being worried about their safety or their health insurance or anything else they have reason to be worried about.

Now, I feel like I am betraying people by keeping silent, and I’m afraid that people will see this silence as me identifying with what our president is putting into place.

But I also have my future career to think about. For as long as I remember, I have wanted to be a journalist. There isn’t another calling for me. So what do I do? When is enough, enough and when do I start putting my morals before my career?

While contemplating this situation, I realized the answer to my problem was staring me in the face. Journalism is the platform I can use to help these issues that I find so important. I also decided to minor in political science so that I could report on politics and keep our government in check by bringing the American people the truth.

We are living in a unique time in history, and there have only been another handful of times that journalists have faced the situations we are facing now.

I encourage other journalists who are feeling the way I feel to find an answer in their jobs. If they can’t do that, I also encourage them to stand up for what they believe in. As journalists, it is our job to protect the First Amendment, and that includes the freedom of protesting. Do what you feel is right for you.

Madeline Purdue studies journalism and political science. She can be reached at mpurdue@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @madelinepurdue.

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Nevada Sagebrush News Editor Rachel Spacek interviews protestors at the Women’s March in Downtown Reno on Saturday, Jan. 21. Protestors came out to voice their concerns about losing rights under the Trump administration.

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Nevada takes number one spot in MWC standings Oliver, Caroline and Marshall shine.

LOOKING BACK

By Brandon Cruz Nevada Men’s basketball had a succesful past week. It begun by ousting Boise State from first place in the MWC and defeating New Mexico state in a more convincing fashion than their last meeting.

The Wolf Pack found themselves in an early 3-0 deficit in Boise, following a three-point from the Bronco’s Justinian Jessup. Nevada quickly combatted this deficit taking the lead 6-5 following two free throws from D.J. Fenner.

Nevada and Boise State traded the lead two more times to end the first, with Nevada up 37-32.

As Nevada is accustomed to doing, they came alive in the second half. The Wolf Pack would outscore the Broncos 39-25 in the second period, ultimately leading to a Nevada victory, 76-57.

Marcus Marshall, Cameron Oliver and Jordan Caroline led the points column for Nevada.

Just three days later the Pack traveled back to Reno, to take on New Mexico State in Lawlor

Events Center. New Meixco Jalen Harris would put up the first points of the game with a jumper, quickly countered by a basket at the other end from Caroline.

The first period would prove to be a back-andforth affair, seeing three lead changes ending in Nevada’s favor. The Pack suprisingly end the first up by six following a turnover filled period.

Although the Pack committed a great deal of turnovers in the second, they would never relinquish the lead after gaining it with ten minutes left in the first.

Nevada would beat New Mexico 82-65, avoiding an overtime thriller, like their last meeting in New Mexico, in the WisePies Arena. Marshall, Oliver and Caroline again led the points column for Nevada.

LOOKING Ahead Brandon Cruz can be reached at bcruz@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @SagebrushSports.

The Wolf Pack will catch somewhat of a breather this upcoming week, as the only team they will be facing is the Utah State Aggies. The Aggies and the Pack are currently sitting at opposite sides of the Mountain West Conference with the Aggies posting an overall record of 9-11 and a conference record of 3-6. All the while, Nevada boasts the best record in the Mountain West at 18-4 and 7-2 in conference play.

Even though the Pack appears to be a shoe in for an easy victory come Feb. 1, there is one underlying fact that Nevada should be wary about. The only team that has beaten Nevada, not just once, but twice in the Mountain West, was defeated by Utah State on Jan. 28. Granted, no team plays exactly like the next, but it is still an issue that warrants a piece of attention.

Nevada also boasts the best record in the mountain west when squaring

off against opponents ranked within the top-150 teams. The Wolf Pack’s record against teams in the top-150 ranking sits at 7-4, while the Aggies have a dismal record of 2-8 against foes in the top 150.

Nevada will have to focus on shutting down Utah State’s senior wing Jalen Moore, as he has scored in double-digits for the past 33 consecutive games. The Pack must also keep an eye on freshman guard Koby McEwen who leads the Mountain West freshman class with 15-points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists on average.

The last time Nevada and the Aggies faced one another on feb. 26, 2016, Nevada took the victory at home 73-68. Nevada out-shot the Aggies with a 47.4 shooting percentage, compared to Utah’s 38.1.

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Nevada forward Cam Oliver (0) soars in the air and glides to the basket in Nevada’s game at Lawlor Events Center Saturday, Jan. 28. Nevada is 18-4 on the season after a victory over New Mexico State at home.

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Three-time national champion Garret Felling strikes a punching bag, Jan. 27, at the Nevada boxing team gym on Fourth St. Felling, along with his teammates, preparing for his upcoming bout against Army and Washington Feb. 3.

Nevada boxing takes on Army & Washington

By Brandon Cruz Nevada’s highly-accomplished boxing team takes the ring this Friday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. in the El Dorado Hotel and Casino ball rooms. The first 100 students with a Nevada student I.D. and the first 50 army reservists will be allowed to watch the Wolf Pack take on Army and the Washington Huskies for free. Any other students or community members must purchase a $15 ticket at the El Dorado box office.

Three-time national champion Garret Felling and bronze medalist Zach Smith will lead the Pack into battle. Felling will take on Edgar Cortes from the University of Washington in the 195 pound. weight class. Cortes has fought heavyweights in prior seasons but cut down to Felling’s weight division during his current quest for gold.

Although many would see this as an advantage for Cortes, Felling’s training and conditioning

coach Pat Jefferson would say otherwise.

“There is nobody in all of collegiate boxing that can box straight-up with Garret. If [Cortes] boxes he gets knocked out. If he runs, it takes longer,” Jefferson said.

While Jefferson believes Felling has his match in the bag before the first bell rings, Smith might have a bit more to worry about. Smith is fighting against Josh Melendez from West Point in the 165 pound. weight class. Head coach Dan Holmes says it will be a hard-fought bout for Smith.

“Zach Smith is going to have a real tough challenge against Josh Melendez. They both have around 15 bouts and he is a seasoned guy,” Holmes said.

Smith is squaring off against a huge competitor in Melendez, but according to Felling they know how Army fights, so they have been preparing properly.

“Army is always in great shape and they always

come forward throwing a lot of punches. Part of to fight back-to-back weeks or days. For the that is being able to match that by being in just regional and national championships, you have as good of shape. Working on strategies to stop to fight three-days in a row. So it’s a good experitheir momentum, regardless of the volume of ence for them to build for that. Especially for the younger guys being prepared to get right back at punches they throw,” Felling said.

Felling is expected to pulverize his opponent, it,” Felling said.

Congdon and Brown face the difficult task of according to Jefferson, and Smith is expected to face a few obstacles. But the true test will overcoming the adversity of sparse relaxation come when Britt Brown and Dustin Congdon time. Felling endures the struggle of living up to take the ring this Friday, as both boxers will lofty, but worthy expectations and Smith must have fought a previous match six to seven days weather the storm of a host of punches from his prior. Brown (0-2) fought in Seattle on Jan. 28, Army opponent while finding a way to dictate losing a close split decision to Washington’s Adan the pace of the fight. Nevada boxing will have its Rangel. Congdon (2-0) fought the following day training and strategy challenged this upcoming in Washington against Cal State’s Eric Pan, win- Friday. ning by unanimous decision in the 136 pound. weight class. Granted, this could be perceived as Brandon Cruz can be reached at bcruz@sagebrush. an insufficient amount of time for fighters to rest unr.edu and on Twitter @SagebrushSports. between bouts, but this is not uncommon.

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UNR student embarks on first professional fight

By Javier Hernandez The first time Ricardo Lucio-Galvan set foot in a boxing gym, he walked up to the head trainer, Thelma Tavares, to introduce himself. Her first two words to Lucio-Galvan: “Glove up.”

Immediately thrown into the fire, 10-year-old Lucio-Galvan was forced to spar against an experienced boxer two years older than him. For a kid who had no prior fighting experience, much less in a boxing ring, the threeminute sparring session seemed like a drawn-out torture session as he was hit with one thunderous combination after another—all the while unable to throw any punches in return.

Afterward, overcome with emotion, Lucio-Galvan felt defeated and began to cry. To his surprise, Tavares gave him a warm embrace and congratulated him on his toughness, as most novices would have run out of the ring or begged to stop the fight.

“I was scared because I was a beginner,” Lucio-Galvan said. “I had seen it on TV before, guys getting cuts on their eyebrows or getting their noses broken. But after Thelma comforted me after the first sparring session, she really welcomed me to her gym and her boxing family.”

Lucio-Galvan is a freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno, and has gone a long way since his first sparring session at the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows. He has fought in the amateur ranks for almost half his life and is regarded as one of the top fighters in the Reno amateur boxing circuit. His current amateur record is 67-9-0, a record that includes a win over Devin Haney, who Floyd Mayweather Sr. regards as the “next Floyd Jr.”.

“When he was a kid, I signed him up for soccer but he was very timid and let the other kids push him around,” said Lucio-Galvan’s father, Ricardo Lucio-Falcon. “I chose boxing because he was a calm kid who didn’t get easily mad and thought that boxing would be something he would be very good at and would be good for him.”

Initially, Lucio-Galvan was supposed to only train as a means to toughen up for soccer. In his first amateur fight, a fight in which he flustered his op-

ponent with a bombardment of three -punch combinations while forcing two standing eight counts, he found himself bloodthirsty for more competition.

“When I used to play soccer, I enjoyed it but I didn’t win any awards or trophies,” Lucio-Galvan said. “Winning my first trophy in boxing is what made me fall in love with the sport.

Having my own sense of accomplishment, knowing that if I worked hard that I was going to win—that became my motivation to fight.”

What was supposed to be three months of boxing turned into 10 years of year-round training. In boxing, especially in the amateur ranks, one’s reputation is earned through winning matches and building up your record.

Since he first started boxing in 2009, Lucio-Galvan has averaged eight fights a year, without any respites in training in hopes of one day pursuing a professional career.

“When I first started, I went for just an hour at the gym and did a little bit of everything: jump rope, hit the bags, do a little bit of mitts,” Lucio-Galvan said. “When I chose to get involved more seriously, I started running in the mornings and trained three hours a day in the gym.”

Photo Courtesy of Ricardo Lucio-Galvan His father, Ricardo Sr. who is also his trainer and has amateur boxing Former WBC Welterweight Champion Robert “the Ghost” Guerrero (left) meeting with Ricardo Lucio-Galvan (right) after a experience from his fighting days in sparring session in 2014. Lucio-Galvan hopes to follow inGuerrero’s footsteps by winning multiple titles in different weight diviMexico, has helped guide Ricardo sions. throughout his boxing career. While he never envisioned his son to be a always tries to do the right thing, like ing from Spanish to English. Since I’m Lucio-Galvan is ready to parlay his boxer from the get-go, once Lucio- helping the kids in the neighborhood bilingual, I always want to help those accolades and take the next step: to Galvan made the decision to continue with their schoolwork or just being a who can’t speak English and also just declare pro and start from scratch. try to make it a point to help others.”

While he and his team are still working boxing as a potential career path, he good person.”

This past fall, Lucio-Galvan began with the promoters to set a fight date, approved under the condition that he Growing up, boxing became a huge continue to do well in his academics part of Lucio-Galvan’s identity. How- his college education as a Pre-Business Lucio-Galvan is patiently sticking to while also committing to always give ever, it was equally important for him Major. While most freshmen are still his four-hours-a-day training regimen his best effort in any extracurricular to stay true to the morals his parents deciding what major they want to pur- to stay sharp and ready. As he gets set to delve into uncharted territory, this activity he wanted to pursue—which instilled in him. Outside of the ring, sue, he already has his plan A and B. “A lot of boxers just box,” Lucio- time around, Lucio-Galvan is not the Lucio-Galvan serves as a mentor to in this case was boxing.

Given his experience with boxing the younger boxers in the gym. He Galvan said. “They don’t go to school. same kid who walked into his first both in Mexico and Reno, Lucio- is always willing to lend a hand in There are a lot of boxers that don’t sparring session rattled and discourFalcon has worked hard not only to teaching them the fundamentals or by have a college diploma. In the future, aged.

I want to be able to have a boxing title keep his son on the right path in the merely providing moral support. u Throughout his schooling, he put an and also a business degree in college. ring but also to try to keep him away emphasis on helping translate for kids As I continue on in boxing, I want to from the dirty side of boxing. u make my own business promotions “There is a lot of favoritism and who struggled in speaking English.

“When I was younger, I used to live company through my degree to help mafia involved in boxing and I wanted to be there to guide him in the right in apartments,” Lucio-Galvan said. “I promote and develop the skills of the Javier Hernandez can be reached at bcruz@sagebrush.unr.edu and on direction,” Lucio-Falcon said. “One of would hang out with the kids a lot and younger generation.”

After a decorated amateur career, Twitter @SagebrushSports. the things that I am proud of is that he a lot of them needed help in translat-