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By Lizette Ramirez

Cameron Rose, presidential candidate for the ninetyfirst session of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada has been gaining traction with the campaign Homeless2President.

Rose is a student on campus who was originally houseless. Rose hasn’t had much history with being in ASUN, but he is passionate about his beliefs and the changes needing to be done on campus.

“I feel that the university has some issues,” Rose stated. “I feel a lot of the students are in the same position I am where we feel helpless and like there’s nothing that can be done. I think that’s bad.”

Students have approached Rose and shared they feel excluded from the university.

Students and Rose himself have felt excluded because of having an issue with a student, or professor, and the university doesn’t solve the problem.

“If there’s issues. We need to discuss those issues and not ignore the issues as we do, and hope that they’re just going to go away, because that just makes the problems worse,” Rose expressed.

This isn’t just a UNR problem to Rose, he feels it’s a problem across the nation. Rose hopes to encourage leadership if elected and values students speaking up and out about issues, something he hopes to mirror for students in his run for president.

“Inclusivity means giving more opportunities for the students to participate,” Rose said.

Rose gave an example of the initiative petition process. If a student feels a representative or themselves can present an issue then students can vote on the issue. Though this allows students to present issues, Rose doesn’t feel this process is inclusive.

“It requires 50 percent of the last general elections, amount of student signatures which is audacious, like That’s ridiculous. That’s not inclusive in any way, shape, or form,” Rose explained.

Despite Rose not having much history in ASUN, he has been attending more meetings since announcing his campaign. Rose wanted to get adjusted to campus life before diving into the organization.

Rose believes in order to be a great leader to the campus, he has to put himself first and get the hang of how UNR functions.

Even if Rose doesn’t win this election, he plans on working with the association to continue to advocate for the issues on campus and to continue to be a representative for students.

ASUN elections start on March 15 at 8 a.m. to March 16 at 5 p.m. on Pack Life. Students can vote for presidential, vice presidential and senatorial candidates, as well as ballot questions.

Lit AF: UNR students rallying for a news literate Nevada

By Emerson Drewes

On Thursday, March 2 was declared News Literacy Day in Washoe County all due to the efforts of six Reynolds School of Journalism students. These students are a part of the Bateman Case Study Competition where this year they have been tasked with making students more “News Lit AF.”

The students, also members of the Public Relations Student Society of America, the student chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, have been tasked with creating a public relations campaign for The News Literacy Project as a part of the Bateman Case Study Competition.

According to the PRSA website the competition is “PRSSA’s premier national case study competition for public relations students.” Every year the students partner with a client and implement a full public relations campaign for them within a month. This year it spanned from Feb. 6 to March 6.

“It’s by invitation. When I heard about it and when Alison approached me, I was like, ‘Yeah, this sounds like a really fun opportunity,’ especially with what our client: The News Literacy Project,” said Mckenzie Papa, account manager for the Bateman team.

The News Literacy Project is a non-partisan, non-profit, educational organization dedicated to stopping the spread of misinformation.

“Their goal is essentially to create a better informed, more engaged and more empowered individuals and ultimately a stronger democracy,” said Papa. “They have tools like RumorGuard that help people find credible news and fact check credible news or fact check news in general.”

Operating as a public relations team, they must bolster the efforts and message of the client through implementation efforts and get students to be News Lit AF, their slogan; the AF stands for “actual factual” a nod to their Instagram handle.

Currently, the team has created an Instagram called @Actu- alFactualNV where they spread awareness about news literacy and the organizations assets and have had events throughout campus. Their slogan has been plastered throughout campus — News Lit AF — something RSJ students can see as they walk down the stairwell of the journalism building.

“So we’ve been putting on events for the most part every week our campaign launched on Feb. 6,” said Skyler Lacey, publicity manager for the team.

The events that have happened include their Canada Coffee event on Feb. 8 where they passed out coffee in exchange for pledges, a trivia night on Feb. 23 at Slieve Brewery where they tested “people’s ability to identify misinformation,” according to Lacey and a round table talk on March 2 where they partnered with Al Stavitsky, dean of the RSJ, and chatted about misinformation in Nevada.

Also in attendance at the event was Mariluz Garcia, Washoe County commissioner for District 3, where she read the proclamation to make March 2 News Literacy Day.

“I think that this year specifically, we have a really great team of people who all individually bring really good skills to the table,” said Lacey. “I think that I’m really grateful to have this opportunity because it is very rewarding.”

The implementation ends for the team on Monday. After they make a 50-page long document that compiles all of their campaign efforts submitted at the end of March and winners are announced in April. The team competes against over 70 teams across the country.

Editors Note: Lizette Ramirez, Nevada Sagebrush news editor, and Jessica Cabrera, Nevada Sagebrush copy editor, are members of the Bateman team. They were not involved in the writing or editing of the story. This story is written objectively