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NEWS in REVIEW By Madeline Purdue
VOLUME 123, ISSUE 5
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INTERNATIONAL FIFA DISBANDS RACISM TASK FORCE FIFA announced Sunday, Sept. 25, that it is removing its anti-racism task force after three years. The decision has received backlash from groups who believe there is more work to be done. “The fight against racism is far from over and the notion that the current FIFA leadership believes that the ‘task force’s recommendations have been implemented’ is shameful,” said Prince Ali, FIFA vice president, to the Associated Press. The task force was formed in 2013 by then-FIFA President Sepp Blatter. It was then directed by the vice president at the time, Jeffrey Webb, until he was arrested with other FIFA officials in 2015 on racketeering charges. “The reality, as with many programs within FIFA, is that the task force was never given real support since its conception and its role was more about FIFA’s image than actually tackling the issues,” Prince Ali said to AP. Many people are concerned with the disbandment of the task force as the 2018 World Cup in Russia approaches.
NATIONAL SAILOR RESCUED WEEK AFTER BOAT SINKS Nathan Carman was rescued Sunday, Sept. 25, after spending a week on a life raft off the coast of Massachusetts. Carman, 22, was sailing with his mom, Linda, last week when their boat began to swiftly sink. She is presumed dead, though a body has not been found. Carman told the Coast Guard he did not see his mother when the boat began to take on water. He jumped on the life raft after gathering the food and water he could find. The Coast Guard did not receive a distress call, and it is unclear whether there was a radio on board. Carman was found by a freighter boat that spotted his raft about 100 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. They are expected to dock Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts. He will be questioned by Coast Guard officials when he arrives so they have a better understanding of what happened. “I was ecstatic, and then I found out Linda wasn’t with him, and I was terrified,” said Sharon Hartstein, a family friend of the Carmans. Nathan has Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism. He has been a subject of a missing persons case before, when he ran away from home at the age of 17.
LOCAL FIRE DESTROYS LOCAL FUNERAL HOME Sparks and Reno firefighters responded Friday, Sept. 23, to a fire at Walton’s Funeral Home and Cremation Center located at the intersection of Oddie Boulevard and El Rancho Drive. When firefighters arrived at the funeral home, they learned that everyone had made it safely out of the building, despite the rapidly spreading fire. There were no injuries and only one civilian was checked by paramedics. The cause of the fire is under investigation. The building is now unusable due to the damage and the owners have not decided whether or not to rebuild their business, according to News 4. There were two bodies inside the funeral home, but neither were harmed by the fire. Madeline Purdue can be reached at mpurdue@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @madelinepurdue.
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(Above) Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine waves to the crowd gathered in the UNR Student Services circle on Thursday, Sept. 22. Members of the community and students alike showed their support despite chilling weather conditions. (Left) Students raised signs in support of Clinton’s campaign slogan “Stronger Together.”
By Rachel Spacek As Election Day draws closer, the Hillary Clinton campaign has been ramping up efforts in the Biggest Little City to mobilize supporters and seize votes. In what the Clinton campaign dubbed “Glass Breakers Week,” women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem spoke at the University of Nevada, Reno, to a group of firstgeneration Latina students, and vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine gave a speech on campus to energize voters in the Battle Born State.
STEINEM EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF LATINA VOTE In a small room at UNR’s Latino Research Center, Steinem spoke to a group of passionate first-generation Latina students. Steinem was there to campaign for Clinton, but she had a deeper conversation with the group about the importance of their votes in the upcoming election. “This is the first election that I am aware of which the Latina vote could decide the presidency,” Steinem said. “And it depends on turnout because so far the Latina vote is the least likely to turn out, less likely than the African-American vote or the Asian-American vote, but this election could make all the difference.”
According to Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public on issues and trends, a record 27.3 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2016 presidential election, an increase since the 2012 election in which 23.3 million Latinos were eligible to vote. In July, Pew reported Clinton had a 66 percent approval rating among Latino voters, while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a 24 percent approval rating. According to Pew, Clinton is more popular among Latino women than men. Steinem told the crowd that historically Latinas have a larger voter turnout than their Latino counterparts. Steinem said she sees Clinton as the only qualified candidate because she is the only candidate who understands violence against females should be an element in all of U.S. domestic and foreign policy. “If you look at her life history, she is extraordinary,” Steinem said. “She was standing up against the Vietnam War in her commencement speech as a graduating senior. She then went to work for the rights of children; she went to reform the school system in Arkansas. What she has accomplished and what she has
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UNR admission policy Throw a better Halloween party for sex offenders revised By Madeline Purdue The University of Nevada, Reno, is now able to deny registered sex offenders admission to the school, according to a new policy from the Nevada System of Higher Education. The policy clearly states the school’s right to deny or dismiss a student, professor or employee from the campus if they are a registered sex offender. It was written up this year after the other NSHE schools expressed their desire for a formal policy on how to conduct formal matters in regard to sex offenders. The Board of Regents does not have specific guidelines when it comes to admitting people to the university who have been placed on the sex offender registry. Registered sex offenders can apply to the university the same as any other student. After they have been accepted, they then must register with the campus police, who monitor them from there. The new policy now allows the university to ask the offenders to identify themselves during the applica-
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tion process. The campus police work with the city police, as well as the offender’s parole officer, to ensure they are not violating any laws while on campus. This includes scheduling classes so that they are not with minors or near the day cares on campus. The university registrar, Heather Turk, was on the committee that devised the new policy. She says that most of the time, sex offenders know what regulations are set for them and go out of their way to follow them. “The university just wants to work with them to make sure they are meeting those restrictions,” Turk said. Turk also said that most of the time, the police will just have a conversation with the sex offender once they are registered on campus. If they are a higher-level threat, there could potentially be scheduled check-in times with the police, along with other precautions. There are three tiers that sex offenders can be
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