Volume 129, Issue 3

ASUN Vice President Bayla Fitzpatrick Resigns

By Lizette Ramirez

Bayla Fitzpatrick, vice president of the Associated Students of University of Ne vada, resigned from her position on Nov. 14—effective immediately.

Dionne Stanfill, ASUN president, read her resignation into record during the Nov. 16 Sen ate meeting, where Fitzpatrick was not present.

“President Stanfill and Speaker Thompson, please accept this letter as a formal notice of my resignation from the office of Vice President for the 90th session of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada,”Stanfill read into the record emotionally. “This resignation takes effect immedi ately.”

The resignation is due to unexpected family circum stances.

Fitzpatrick wrote she will always support the univer sity’s athletics and student media, where she served as a liaison, and the community the university sponsors. She is proud of her accomplishments within the association and alongside Stanfill and the cabinet.

Before serving as VP, Fitzpatrick was a senator for the Col lege of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources. She served as the chair for the Committee on Government Operations and helped increase accessibility and pronoun in clusion for officers within ASUN.

Stanfill’s voice was cracking while reading the resignation let ter, and made comment after delivering it.

Politics Guide, Part 5: Nevada Midterm General Election 2022 Results

By Jaedyn Young

Ballot Question 1Results:

YES: 58.63% with 580,022 votes

NO: 41.37% with 409,228 votes

Ballot Question 2 Results:

YES: 55.18% with 545,828 votes

NO: 44.82% with 443,318 votes

Ballot Question 3 Results:

YES: 52.94% with 524,868 votes

NO: 47.06% with 466,635 votes

Candidate Races

U.S. Senate

Catherine Cortez Masto (Demo crat): 48.81% with 498,316 votes

Adam Laxalt (Republican): 48.04% with 490,388 votes

Barry Lindemann (Independent): 0.79% with 8,075 votes

Barry Rubinson (Independent American): 0.51% with 5,208 votes

Neil Scott (Libertarian): 0.63% with 6,422 votes

Attorney General Aaron Ford (Democrat): 52.25% with 511,263 votes

Sigal Chattah (Republican): 44.36% with 434,084 votes

Governor Steve Sisolak (Democrat): 47.3% with 481,991 votes

Joe Lombardo (Republican): 48.81% with 497,377 votes

Edward Bridges II (Independent American): 0.97% with 9,918 votes

Brandon Davis (Libertarian): 1.46% with 14,919 votes

Secretary of State

Cisco Aguilar (Democrat): 48.95% with 496,569 votes

Jim Marchant (Republican): 46.67% with 473,467 votes

Janine Hansen (Independent American Party): 1.72% with 17,472 votes

Ross Crane (Libertarian): 0.87% with 8,821 votes

U.S. House District 2

Mark Amodei (Republican): 59.73% with 185,467 votes

Elizabeth Mercedes Krause (Dem ocrat): 37.8% with 117,371 votes

with 3,466 votes

Lieutenant Governor Lisa Cano Burkhead (Democrat): 45.75% with 463,871 votes

Stavros Anthony (Republican): 49.41% with 500,994vvotes

Bill Hoge (Independent Ameri can): 0.83% with 8,397 votes

Javi Tachiquin (Libertarian): 1.13% with 11,471 votes

Trey Delap (Nonpartisan): 0.78% with 7,931 votes

Nevada Controller: Ellen Spiegel (Democrat): 45.93% with 463,092 votes

Andy Matthews (Republican): 50.06% with 504,703 votes

Jed Profeta (Libertarian): 1.52% with 15,375 votes

Nevada Court of Appeals (Seat 1) Rhonda Forsberg (Nonpartisan): 24.9% with 222,586 votes

Deborah Westbrook (Nonparti san): 51.44% with 459,818 votes

Nevada State Treasurer Zach Conine (Democrat): 47.7% with 482,762 votes

Michele Fiore (Republican): 46% with 465,570 votes

Margaret Hendrickson (Indepen dent American): 1.94% with 19,588 votes

Bryan Elliott (Libertarian): 1.59% with 16,051 votes

Nevada State Senate District 13

Skip Daly (Democrat): 61.57% with 23,416 votes

Matthew Buehler (Republican): 38.43% with 14,618 votes

Nevada State Assembly Dis trict 24

Sarah Peters (Democrat): 65.91% with 12,227 votes

Dorzell King (Republican): 34.09% with 6,325 votes

Washoe County Assessor: Wendy Jauregui-Jackins (Demo crat): 48.42% with 90,835 votes

Chris Sarman (Republican): 51.58% with 96,746 votes

“I just want to thank Bayla for her contributions to the association.” Stanfill said. “I only wish, and I know that the president’s cabinet only wishes her the best of luck on her

As for filling the Vice President Vacancy, Stanfill will start the process of appointing a new Vice President. Stanfill is expecting to have an official appointment by the next senate meeting on Nov. 30.

According to the Constitution of the Associated Students, when there is no Vice President the Presi dent can nominate who they see fit. The nomina tion has to be approved by a two-third vote by the Stanfill did not want to give any further com ment on the Vice President vacancy.

Fitzpatrick did not respond for comment.

Ramirez can be reached via email at lizetteramirez@sagebrush.unr.edu or via Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

TKE pledge hospitalized due to hazing, Fraternity under fire

By Nevada Sagebrush News Desk

A student from Tau Kappa Epsilon, a fraternity not affiliated with the University of Nevada, Reno, was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital between Oct 20 to 21 due to an al leged hazing incident. Details surrounding the incident have not been released but KRCATV confirmed the UNR student was 19-years-old and from Lodi, California.

This incident comes three years af ter the fraternity was put on proba tion due to a fraternity document being found. The document con tained a song that depicted sexual assault.

Since then, the Associated Students of the University of Nevada shared a hazing awareness post on Insta gram on Oct. 26. The post stated ASUN condemns intentional and unintentional hazing and provides resources for students who may be hazed.

Dione Stanfill, president of ASUN, stated many students asked her questions about the situation.

“I feel obligated to make a state ment because there was no clear story about what had happened,” Stanfill explained, “But, it was very obvious that the student body knew something happened in re gard to, like, the safety of the stu dent.”

Stanfill was correct. The rumor spread rapidly across campus. Stu dents turned to YikYak, an anony mous social media site, as their main communication channel. Rumors started circulating on the platform on Oct. 22.

Stanfill explained that alcohol consumption is expected on Ne vada Day weekend and Hallow een weekend. Stanfill defined peer pressure as underage drinking or drinking in general. Stanfill showed a little more passion with hazing. “It’s just the nature of the ugly, hor rible, sad nature of certain Greek life. Not all of them, but that is the culture,” Stanfill stated.

An anonymous source revealed

to The Nevada Sagebrush the stu dent from TKE was hospitalized due to alleged alcohol poisoning. The source has friends in fraterni ties and have talked to them about what pledges go through in frater nities.

Allegedly, the goal is for pledges to experience alcohol poisoning to learn how to handle their alco hol. Our source said it’s part of the pledgeship process.

“They [the fraternities] don’t want you to not be able to handle your alcohol when they have parties,” the source stated. “They’re the ones feeding the drinks to people.”

Right after the hospitalization, our source heard TKE was having par ties with 21 and up and they’re in vite only. The source warned that fraterni ties allegedly don’t care about stu dent wellbeing and only wish to be known for partying the hardest.

ment on campus has made a state ment about the situation.

“The university sent out ‘this hap pened, and we respect the students’ privacy’ and that’s valid,” Stanfill explained, “but I think that actually condemning something by putting the statement out, we are being the moral leaders on campus.”

Stanfill believes when people shy away from speaking about this in cident, it’s under the assumption they’re hiding something.

The university has not released ad ditional information but says they are in contact with the family.

Russell Best (Independent Ameri can): 1.35% with 4,194 votes

Darryl Baber (Libertarian): 1.12%

Washoe County Commission District 2: Keith Lockard (Democrat): 44.43% with 19,416 votes

Michael Clark (Republican): 52.53% with 22,957 votes

David Banuelos (Libertarian): 3.05% with 1,331 votes

Washoe County Commission District 3:

Marialuz Garcia (Democrat): 62.36% with 13,867 votes

Denise Myer (Republican): 37.64% with 8,369 votes

Washoe County Commission District 5: Edwin Lyngar (Democrat): 46.29% with 16,506 votes

Jeanne Herman (Republican): 53.71% with 19,154 votes

Washoe County Public Administrator: Molly Stewart (Democrat): 47% with 87,683 votes

Nicole Klitzke (Republican): 53% with 98,885 votes Mayor of Reno Hillary Schieve (Nonpartisan): 59.07% with 52,512 votes Eddie Lorton (Nonpartisan): 40.93% with 36,392 votes

Reno Municipal Court Department 3 Justin Champagne (Nonpartisan): 57.06% with 43,537 votes

Pete Sferrazza (Nonpartisan): 42.94% with 32,769 votes

Reno Municipal Court Department 4 Christopher Hazlett-Stevens (Nonpartisan): 50.29% with 35,152 votes Henry Sotelo (Nonpartisan): 49.71% with 34,750 votes

Stanfill believes the ASUN post is the biggest statement the univer sity has made in regards to the TKE incident. Students know about the situation but don’t actually know what happened. No other depart

Reno Township Justice Court Depart ment 2

Kendra Bertschy (Nonpartisan): 56.71% with 56,455 votes Bruce Hahn (Nonpartisan): 43.29% with 43,095 votes

Update: Nov. 19, 4:20 p.m

The final voter turnout result was 54.58% for Nevada.

Washoe County’s total voter turnout finalized as 63.11%.

Cortez Masto won the race for U.S. Senate and will remain in her position for another six years.

Lombardo won the race for Nevada governor and will take Sisolak’s position in January to serve for four years.

The News Desk can be reached at edrewes@sagberush.unr.edu or on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

These races and other races final results can be found below.

This is the last report the Sagebrush will make about the General Midterm Election for 2022.

online at nevadasagebrush.com

Jaedyn Young can be reached at jaedynYoung@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush

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STAFFERS

Former SNU students concerned with acquisition, coalition created to address needs

The University of Nevada, Reno acquired Sierra Nevada University — now, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe — on July 1, 2022, but students caught in the middle of the merger have concerns.

Now a separate UNR campus, Sierra Nevada University was a private institution located in Incline Village, Nevada. Students on the Tahoe campus are former SNU four-year degree seeking students and have policy related concerns.

A coalition was created by Dionne Stanfill, president of the Associ ated Students of the University of Nevada, to address former SNU students’ concerns; called the the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe Coalition. It was created Sept. 28, 2022.

The concerns will be addressed through various resolutions and follow-up conversations will be conducted to the appropriate and represented bodies.

“We wanted to be really careful and make sure that the students were being heard,” Stanfill said, “which is why we created this coalition to conduct more outreach.”

The coalition includes all three branches within ASUN and students from the Tahoe campus. The officers at ASUN are encouraged to hold meetings at the Lake Tahoe campus instead of having students travel to Reno’s campus.

“It’s more of a proactive outreach and can learn what their concerns and issues are,” Stanfill explained.

The coalition will be short-lived because it was built for the four-year degree seeking students attending SNU before the transition.

“Students are concerned that they cannot hang string lines for their hammocks on campus, with starting clubs, with housing,” Stanfill explained.

There were also concerns with Welcome Week. All the events took place on the campus in Reno. Tahoe students couldn’t attend Welcome Week events because of the 40 minute drive. According to Stanfill, the university is looking into providing transportation with buses from both campuses.

Autumn Telish, former SNU student, transferred to the UNR campus in Reno. Telish revealed she would’ve stayed at SNU if the transition didn’t happen, but she wanted to graduate on time. There aren’t many resources at the Tahoe campus.

Telish was also part of the women’s soccer team at SNU, but she was told she had to try out for the UNR’s team.

“I had to pay for a soccer camp Reno hosted just for them [the coaches] to see me play and all the girls who tried out were ignored by the coaches,” Telish explained

The only team who was able to transition was the ski team. The cred its Telish had at SNU also didn’t transfer over because “Reno believes they’re a higher level of education” she said.

Stanfill revealed the goal with this new campus is for it to eventually not be a traditional four-year campus.

“It would kind of be like almost a study abroad program where you would spend only a semester there at a time,” Stanfill explained.

Stanfill acknowledges that every concern can’t be addressed within a year while in office. Stanfill’s goal is for the association to understand what the concerns are so the legacy of the coalition can continue throughout several administrations.

Lizette Ramirez can be reached via email at lizetteramirez@sagebrush.unr.edu or via Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

ASUN Refuses To Work With Company Who Uses Prison Labor

By Lizette Ramirez

A piece of legislation within the Associated Students of the University of Nevada attempting to remove the university’s ties with prison labor has caused a stir within the body.

Members of ASUN are attempting to cut ties with Silver State Indus tries — a company that utilizes prison labor.

The secretary’s office in ASUN is partnered with Silver State Industries. In the past, the company binded books for ASUN containing their leg islation and minutes from public meetings. SSI has not binded books since the 2018 session because of the pandemic.

The secretary’s office is now being asked to bind books again, but hope to cut ties with SSI for this service.

Wyatt Layland, senate secretary, revealed the secretary’s office plans to get back in 100 percent operation with binding books.

Trace Wolfgang, director of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibil ity, began the legislation with Layland and Jefrin Jojan, senator for the College of Engineering.

When Wolfgang was running for the director of IDEA, they knew cut ting ties with SSI was a vital goal of what needed to be done.

“As the director of IDEA… it is my duty to serve the students of under represented groups on our campus,” Wolfgang stated.

Silver State Industries has about 600 individuals in state facilities who receive a salary ranging from 80 cents to $5 an hour. The inmates work 10 hours a day and are placed in physical danger. Wolfgang describes it as modern day slavery.

The legislation mentions Jovan Jackson, former Nevada Department of Corrections inmate, and his testimony on March 10, 2021 about his experience in prison labor.

“[We] often operated heavy machinery, were placed in physical dan ger, and worked tirelessly every day for Top Ramen Noodles and a bar of soap,” Jackson said.

In addition, Jackson struggled to obtain employment once released from prison.

The legislation was presented during the senate meeting on Oct. 12. The senate body had mixed feelings about the piece. The language used in the writing was the main concern.

Zachariah Dean, senator for the College of Business, cited the lan guage of the legislation as his greatest issue with the piece.

“I want to vote yes so bad, but the language in this piece is why I will not vote no,” Dean said.

The piece of legislation mentions the NDOC a handful of times. Sena tors such Liam Brown, John Kermanshahi, Matthew Swackhamer and Brayden Fiorillo want the language in the legislation to be changed.

According to Wolfgang, the concern with NDOC is it “generalizes the entire population of the prison industrial complex in Nevada,” and Sil ver State Industries is a for-profit company that works with NDOC, but they aren’t internalized with NDOC.

John Kermanshahi, senator for Community Health Science, said his parents work within a prison and said the words are inflammatory and should be revised. Kermanshahi attempted to make amendments to re move all mentions of NDOC, but the movement did not pass.

The legislation also mentions modern day slavery. Kermanshahi at tempted to strike lines that mention modern day slavery, but again thhe amendments did not pass.

After over an hour of discussion, the senate decided to postpone the rest of the conversation until the next senate meeting on Oct. 19.

Wolfgang and the rest of the team met on Oct. 17 to make the appro priate edits for the piece of legislation to get passed.

The senate met again on Oct. 19 to discuss the final decision of the legislation. Unlike the prior week, the discussion was fast.

Kermanshahi proposed amendments to edit the legislation. Kerman shahi motioned to replace NDOC with SSI, and modern day slavery with convict leasing. After this motion, the senate immediately passed the piece of legislation with no further discussion.

Despite the compromises the team had to make with the legislation, Jojan was ultimately happy with the passing of the piece.

“We reserved the original intent of the bill, so I’m really happy with that,” Jojan expressed.

ASUN is not the only department on campus to have used prison la bor. Jojan revealed the next step after this legislation is to see what other departments use prison labor, and eventually rectify that.

Lizette Ramirez can be reached via email at lizetteramirez@sagebrush.unr.edu or via Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

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Books located in the ASUN senate secretaries office. These books were bound by a company called Silver State Industries, which utlizes prison labor.

By Lizette Ramirez

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Nevada Dining remains short staffed

By Madison Wanco

Nevada Dining and other campus dining options are struggling to maintain a sufficient number of employees. Even though they are in a better position than last year, dining ser vices still lack the amount of workers they need.

Dean Kennedy, executive director of Resi dential Life, Housing and Food Services, dis cussed how it has been incredibly difficult to find employees from the student body and general public since coming back to fully inperson classes at the university.

Kennedy said that Nevada dining does not oversee the dining options in the Joe Crow ley Student Union, with the exception of the Habit Burger. All food services in the building are operated by the JCSU.

The department is not exclusively looking to hire students. However, students make up the majority of the employees within Nevada Dining.

“For the ability to operate the locations … 230-240 students that are needed to run those locations,” Kennedy said. “We just do not have those students and full-time staff members.”

To combat the issue of low staffing, Nevada dining hired a company that provides tempworkers to fulfill the needs of the different dining options on campus. Kennedy said Ne vada Dining has subcontracted to work with them as they are trying to attain more fulltime and part-time staff.

Angelo Casiano, the director of Market ing and Guest Experience at Nevada Dining, shared how staffing numbers increased this semester. Although, the numbers continue to not be where they need to be.

According to Casiano, Nevada Dining start ed the semester with 65 percent of the staff needed to run all locations and the catering department. Casiano stated this number has increased to 85 percent of the required staff as of October. Out of Nevada Dining’s current staff, 65 percent of employees are students at the university.

“We started recruiting for staffing in April. I believe that we have increased our wages about four times because the market has moved a lot,” said Casiano on their attempts to attract workers.

Casiano attributes the small increase in workers to a multitude of reasons, including the wage increases. He also thinks the depart

ment’s marketing helped them receive more interest in working at Nevada Dining.

For the future, they are looking at getting stipends for full-time staff so employees do not have to pay for parking. They also regu larly check the market to ensure that their wages continue to be competitive. They are also currently looking to further increase stu dent wages.

The department expected staffing chal lenges this year, but hoped it would be bet ter than the previous year. Casiano attributes the issues in staffing to the rapid expansion of

dining services on campus causing a shortage of workers.

“We were opening Argenta Hall and that was a very expensive project that required a lot of labor. In addition, we were expanding all of our retail locations. We were expanding our retail hours,” Casiano said. “So, we were growing quite a bit. One of the challenges was just that the staffing did not grow as fast as we wanted it to.’’

They have been working around this is sue by prioritizing residential dining, which caused retail outlets on campus to close or

Madison Wanco can be reached at mw anco@sagebrush.unr.edu or via Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush.

Laundry now free in the dorms; included in price of living

ers to find open machines— was supposed to be available for students using the campus laundry machines on Aug. 1, but glitches pre vented the app from being released on time. Kennedy hopes the new app will launch at some point in the fall 2022 semester.

“Right now if you live on campus you can go down to the laundry rooms and just do your laundry. We are waiting for the laundry vendor to give us an app, and that app will allow [you] to figure out what machines are open,” Kennedy said.

Some students were not disclosed on the exciting changs to the campus laundry ma chine usage, but found it to be a pleasant sur prise.

Denim Richardson, an Argenta Hall resi dent, did not find out that the laundry ma chines were included in the price of living in the dormitories until he moved to campus. He was not the only one briefed on the update to campus laundry usage.

“I did think at first we were going to have to pay for it [laundry] every time, so it is cool to see it is free to use,” Richardson said.

Timothy Hardin, an Argenta Hall resident, had similar sentiments to Richardson.

“I did not know it was included but it came in clutch,” said Hardin. “It has made my laun dry way easier to do.”

Additionally, students do not have to do anything to the laundry machines to access them to do laundry when they are using the machines in their residence halls. In August, the university updated the machines to allow for this change.

Doing everyday tasks can be daunting in new environments, which is why taking away the regular fee for doing laundry makes the task of getting the chore done a little easier and more convenient.

By Madison Wanco

Campus housing chose to remove laundry fees for each individual load with a new “Just Like Home Laundry” program. Students in residence halls now have the luxury to do their laundry without worrying about expenses. As of this semester, students can easily go to the laundry room and complete a chore without any extra steps.

According to Dean Kennedy, executive di

rector of Residential Life, Housing and Food Services, laundry is not technically free, but rather included in the cost of rent. A portion of the increased housing rates covered the leasing of the laundry machines and an up coming laundry app.

In the past, students paying for individual laundry usage offset the costs of the ma chines; However, the department ended up

making additional revenue from the students using the machines.

“I did not feel it is ethical, for where students live to make additional money off of them when they are doing their laundry which is something that you should be able to do just like home,” Kennedy explained.

A few changes to the laundry rooms are still pending. The laundry app — which allows us

Madison Wanco can be reached at mw anco@sagebrush.unr.edu or via Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush.

have reduced hours. They have moved the staff from the retail locations to the residen tial dining in Argenta Hall’s Pack Place. They also received some minor delays with staffing numbers due to training as some lo cations require employees to train up to two weeks before being able to run the location.

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Laundry in progress in Sierra Hall’s laundry room, free of charge as of fall 2022.

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Students walk to the Downunder, Nevada Dining’s flagship location on the first floor of Argenta Hall.

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Noticias

Departamento de teatro experimenta disrupción, perseverando a través de su pérdida de experiencia en producción

Mike Fernbach — El especialista en tecnología y diseño teatral había sido el director técnico no oficial y enseño clases de teatro entre bastidores — se jubiló en la primavera, dejando a los estudiantes que están estudiando teatro y las próximas funciones de este ano en una desventaja.

Había trabajado en la universidad por más de treinta y cuatro años. Con tribuyó en múltiples aspectos técnicos teatrales en el programa de teatro del campus, además de hacer más de lo que fue contratado. Ahora, el pro grama de teatro no solo falta a alguien con su experiencia, en su campo particular, sino de suficientes personas para hacerse cargo de todo el trabajo que tenía.

El departamento requiere que los especializaciones y asignaturas secundarias de teatro tomen prácticas y clases tras bambalinas. De bido al retiro de Fernbach y la falta de reemplazo por parte de la uni versidad, los estudiantes de teatro deben sustituir clases.

La estudiante Cheyenne Hills, la directora de escena de “9 to 5” en lo cual es el próximo musical este semestre en la Universidad de Ne vada, Reno, reveló muchas de las dificultades que enfrenta el departa mento de teatro debido a la garantía y los compromisos que enfrenta el departamento con la falta de ayuda y experiencia en el campo.

“Mike Fernbach fue el director técnico, el electricista principal, el mae stro de utilería, el diseño del escenario y sobre otros dos trabajos. También enseñó clases”, dijo Hills.

“9 to 5” se presentará sin un maestro electricista, maestro de utilería, escenógrafo y todo el trabajo que Fernbach puso en las producciones.

El programa de teatro no tiene un director técnico oficial desde 2018. Aunque Fernbach era el especialista técnico de iluminación y sonido, se encargó de las responsabilidades que tendría un director técnico para ayudar al departamento.

“No es suficiente contratar a otro Mike. Mike nunca debió haber tenido que hacer todo lo que hizo”, dijo Hills. “Necesitamos a tres personas mínimo y las necesitamos certificadas en los programas que se están utilizando en el campo hoy”.

En lugar de ensamblar una producción sin alguien con la misma experiencia que tenía Fernbach, el departamento decidió seguir adelante con una representación teatral al estilo de un concierto. Presentarán sus producciones sin iluminación, utilería, vestuario y piezas

escenográficas. Kendra Bell, especialista en diseño de vestuario y tecnología, enseña algunos de los cursos necesarios para estudiantes de teatro y ayuda con las funciones en el departamento de teatro.

Bell reconoce lo abrumador que es para una persona administrar toda una sección de producción, pero Fernbach fue más allá — trabajó solo en dos áreas de producción durante una temporada de seis espectáculos. “Es demasiado, y creo que es injusto que la universidad o el depar tamento esperen continuamente que se ofrezca como voluntario y se encarga del trabajo adicional que no tenía que hacer”, dijo Bell. “Pero, no hemos tenido un director técnico durante unos cuatro años. La gente simplemente no se ha dado cuenta porque Mike estaba dando un paso al frente y dando servicio al departamento”. Para la obra de este semestre, están presentando cinco narrati vas en “actos únicos dirigidos por estudiantes” (“Student Directed one-acts”).

Según Jayton Newbury, uno de los directores, el programa de teatro está trabajando creativamente con sus recursos limitados para hacer que sus producciones sean lo más excelentes posible. “Trabajar sin un director técnico tiene sus desafíos, pero todos real mente se han unido para hacer que el espectáculo funcione. Hemos teni do que hacer espectáculos antes con aspectos técnicos y vestuario limitados en los últimos pares de años. “Creo que todos estaban dispuestos a luchar para poner un gran espectáculo”, dijo Newberry. “Personalmente, espero mostrar lo que podemos hacer sin un aspecto técnico que abrirá los ojos de la gente a lo que el departamento puede hacer con un espectáculo totalmente financiado con aspectos técnicos”.

En este momento, la universidad está buscando un nuevo director técnico y está teniendo un foro abierto para hablar con Don Eller, el candidato potencial. Sin embargo, la universidad no ha encontrado un sustituto para las clases de Fernbach.

Es la época más maravillosa del año: clases de cancelación de nieve

Por Jaqueline Lopez

La Universidad de Nevada, Reno, canceló las clases del mediodía del 8 de noviembre para todas las clases pres enciales y en el campus debido a las constantes nevadas.

La universidad envió un correo electrónico a las 3:50 p.m. anunciando las clases canceladas.

“Debido al reportaje del empeoramiento de las condi ciones climáticas, descenso de las temperaturas y condi ciones viales potencialmente peligrosas, todas las clases presenciales en el campus de la Universidad de Nevada, Reno, comienzan a las 4 p.m. o más tarde hoy, martes 8 de noviembre, han sido cancelados”, decía el anuncio.

La universidad insistió a los empleados de irse de cam pus después de las 4 p.m. La cancelación también incluyó instalaciones universitarias ubicadas en el condado de Washoe, el condado de Douglas, Incline Village y Carson City.

La universidad advirtió al facultad que “tengan extrema precaución durante las próximas 24 horas a medida de que esta próxima serie de tormentas llegue al norte de Ne vada”.

Los estudiantes esperaban despertarse con nieve por la mañana. Según la aplicación meteorológica, se suponía que nevaría toda la noche del 7 de noviembre y toda la mañana del 8 de noviembre.

Evelyn Rosas Ojeda, una estudiante, expresó su decep ción inicial cuando no hubo nieve en la mañana.

“Estaba muy decepcionado porque estuve revisando mi aplicación meteorológica anoche tantas veces y había muchas posibilidades de que nevara”, explicó Ojeda. “Pero ahora estamos aquí en la escuela y es como una tormenta de nieve”.

Ojeda está feliz de que esté nevando, pero tiene miedo de conducir en la nieve.

Comenzó a nevar en el campus universitario alrededor

de las 10 a.m. Cuando la nieve comenzó a caer, los estu diantes se apresuraron a jugar en ella. Los estudiantes construyeron muñecos de nieve, tiraron bolas de nieve e hicieron ángeles de nieve.

Chad Fisher, estudiante de último año, vio a un estudi ante afuera de Peavine Hall haciendo un ángel de nieve sin camisa.

Katie Mason, una estudiante recién graduada, visitó Reno el día de la nieve. Mason dio su percepción sobre sus experiencias mientras asistía a la Universidad de Nevada, Reno.

“Si alguna vez cancelaran las clases, sería a la mitad del día, así que para cuando las cancelaran, tendría nomas una clase por la noche”, dijo Mason. “Sentí que la escuela quería que yo sufriera”.

Aunque Mason es de San José, California, y nunca vio nieve, no le impresionó a ella. La reacción inicial de Mason fue no ir a clase.

“Literalmente odio la nieve. Lo siento”, se río Mason. Mason no es el único que odia la nieve. Yi Xuen Tay, di rector residente de Peavine Hall, también está harto de la nieve. Tay vino a Reno desde Nebraska, entonces sí ha experimentado la nieve antes. Tay dice que la nieve está sobrevalorada.

A pesar de aquellos a los que no les gusta la nieve, los es tdiantes del campus parecían estar disfrutando del clima. Hay muchas muñecos de nieve ubicados alrededor del campus, algunos frente a Peavine Hall, Canada Hall, frente al Knowledge Center y en el Quad.

Nevada Dining, un servicio de comedor de Nevada, permanece con falta de personal

Nevada Dining y otras opciones de comida en el campus están luchando por mantener una cantidad suficiente de empleados, aunque están en una mejor posición que el año pasado, los servicios de comedor aún les hacen falta la canti dad de trabajadores que necesitan.

Dean Kennedy, director ejecutivo de Residential Life, Hous ing and Food Services (servicios de vida residencial, vivienda y alimentación), habló sobre cómo ha sido increíblemente difícil encontrar empleados del alumnado y el público en general desde el regresó a las clases totalmente presenciales en la universidad.

Kennedy dijo que Nevada Dining no supervisa las opciones de comida en la unión de estudiantes de Joe Crowley, con la excepción de Habit Burger. Todos los servicios de comida en el edificio son operados por la unión de estudiantes de Joe Crowley.

El departamento no busca exclusivamente contratar estu diantes. Sin embargo, los estudiantes constituyen la mayoría de los empleados de Nevada Dining.

“Para la capacidad de operar las locales... se necesitan 230-240 estudiantes para operar esas locales”, dijo Kennedy. “Simplemente no tenemos esos estudiantes y miembros del personal de tiempo completo”.

Para combatir el problema de la falta de personal, Nevada Dining contrató a una empresa que proporciona trabajadores temporales para satisfacer las necesidades de las diferentes opciones de comida en el campus. Kennedy dijo que Nevada Dining se ha subcontratado para trabajar con ellos, ya que es tán tratando de conseguir más personal de tiempo completo y de medio tiempo.

Angelo Casiano, director de mercadotecnia y experiencia del huésped en Nevada Dining, compartió que cómo au mentó la cantidad de personal este semestre. Aunque, los números siguen sin estar donde deberían estar.

Según Casiano, Nevada Dining comenzó el semestre con el 65% del personal necesario para administrar todas las lo cales y el departamento de catering. Casiano reveló que este número ha aumentado al 85% del personal requerido a partir de octubre. Del personal actual de Nevada Dining, el 65% de

los empleados son estudiantes de la universidad.

“Comenzamos contratando a personal en abril. Creo que hemos aumentado nuestros salarios como cuatro veces porque el mercado se ha movido mucho”, dijo Casiano sobre sus intentos de atraer trabajadores.

Casiano atribuye el pequeño aumento de trabajadores a multitud de motivos, incluyendo los aumentos salariales. También cree que la mercadotecnia del departamento les ayudó a recibir más interés en trabajar en Nevada Dining.

Para el futuro, están buscando obtener estipendios para el personal de tiempo completo para que los empleados no tengan que pagar por el estacionamiento. También revisan regularmente el mercado para asegurarse de que sus salarios sigan siendo competitivos. Actualmente también están bus cando aumentar aún más los salarios de los estudiantes.

El departamento esperaba desafíos de personal este año, pero esperaba que fuera mejor que el año anterior. Casiano atribuye los problemas de dotación de personal a la rápida expansión de los servicios de comedor en el campus, lo que provoca una falta de trabajadores.

“Estábamos abriendo Argenta Hall y ese era un proyecto muy costoso que requiero mucha mano de obra. Además, es tábamos ampliando todas nuestras locales. Estábamos am pliando nuestro horario de venta”, dijo Casiano. “Entonces, estábamos creciendo bastante. Uno de los desafíos fue que la dotación de personal no creció tan rápido como queríamos”.

Han estado trabajando en este problema al priorizar las comidas residenciales, lo que provocó que los locales de ven ta en el campus cerraran o tuvieran un horario reducido. Han trasladado al personal de las locales de ventas al comedor residencial en Pack Place de Argenta Hall.

También recibieron algunos retrasos menores con la canti dad de personal debido a que algunas locales requieren que los empleados se entrenan hasta dos semanas antes de poder operar la local.

Puede comunicarse con Jaqueline Lopez por correo electrónico a edrewes@sagebrush.unr.edu o a través de Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

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Dangerously Fast, Deeply In Love: Bird Scooter Review

By Gabe Kanae

It shouldn’t come as a giant surprise that the hyped up and anticipated electric scooter and bike generation has finally arrived. With an increase in energy-based transportation products in stores and online retailers, these newer electric scooters and bikes are available to use and access on streets within a moments reach.

Driving around town, it typically doesn’t take more than ten minutes to spot multiple elec tric scooters made by the company Bird Global Inc. The gray scooters with a blue logo sticker attached can be seen standing in place on sidewalks or even better – lying flat on the cold, hard ground.

Using the scooters isn’t technically a difficult issue. When intrigued, all the user has to do is install the accompanying Bird app, sign up and add a payment method. Once in, you are shown a map of all the Bird scooters locations that are not currently in use. Of course, if you are in the presence of one at that moment, you can simply just scan the QR code on the scooter’s handle.

After agreeing to certain terms and conditions and going through a short tutorial, you can easily kick the standing mount that’s on the bottom of the scooter up and go on your way by kicking off and pulling down the acceleration lever.

Each minute of riding a Bird scooter is 15 cents, an affordable amount of money considering the amount of reach you can achieve on this transportation meth od.

Bird scooters became one of Reno’s most popular transpor tation methods. I have seen dozens upon dozens using the Bird scooters as a fast and cheap method to go from student apartments to their classes on campus. This is a wonderful integration and usage of the scooters considering some walkways and paths could be dangerous to tackle for minorities by foot and to make things better, Bird claims that community members such as students, veterans, teachers, low-income house holds, nonprofits and hilariously: senior citizens—can get their scooter prices lowered with a 50 percent discount.

The scooters can go 15 miles per hour on a street road and are restricted in pe destrian walkways. The technology involved is very specific and focuses more on ensuring you’re not in pedestrian walkways. This preference could cause misreadings and think you are in an unsafe area for speed even when you may just be in the middle of the road like the app told you to. While this flaw is annoying, it’s more beneficial for it to exist and be wrong. It prevents scooters from accidentally bypassing the limits and putting other walking pedestrians in danger.

Community pricing is actually an amazing step forward for public transportation consider ing the amount of recent backlash and union controversies other transportation formats are currently suffering from. However, Bird scooters offer their biggest con and issue: not every body can ride a scooter.

Even though riding a scooter is based on personal skill, Bird scooters are definitely not the safest form of transportation. Though many may have tried and overcome the learning curve of riding a scooter, Bird scooters also act differently than your typical scooter. The scooters do not rely on manually pushing forward and do not have emergency brakes; it can even take an adjusted scooter rider a few minutes to get adjusted to the technology.

The scooter relies on technology to a dangerous extent. For instance, it could be dangerous to slow down the riding when it detects a potential pedestrian walkway while not restricting a scooter that could be next to you, which could potentially cause a crash. It is also worth not ing that you have to place both feet back on the scooter before pulling down the acceleration when you kick off the scooter, or else your body weight versus the acceleration speed could sweep the scooter from underneath you. This can be very painful and the fall can leave you with some marks (based on personal experience).

The worst and most dangerous side of this scooter is downhill. When doing downhill, the

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scooters successfully go beyond the speed limit the acceleration lever can go, resulting in you going upward to 25 miles per hour. In my case: going 25 miles per hour downhill, seeing a hole in the road and attempting to slow the scooter down with their electric break may result with you face planting into the road, getting second-degree burns, a nice little visit from the ambu lance and scars on your arms that will last years.

This unfortunately isn’t a rare case either. Some students have ended up at the Student Health Center due to a collision, some minor and others temporarily disabling.

Besides the injuries, another one of the Bird scooters unfortunate restrictions is distance. Most of the scooters are restricted by the map and all riders will have to stay within a certain range or area of the map. In our case: downtown Reno for the most part is the only area of town people can ride scooters in. You cannot ride the Bird scooter inside the univer sity, but you can ride them on the outskirts. With the rise of the scooters, you also begin to question college students using it as a form of travel when intoxicated. This simply just risks the lives of the rider or any other people sharing a road, sidewalk or bike lane. It’s a topic to consider and an issue to address, though from the outside it is easily overlooked.

Besides the Bird Scooters, the university started experiencing issues of scooter, skateboard and bike riders risking the lives and safety of our students walking between classes or on campus. These fast rid ers zip through crowds. All it would take is one student with headphones on to take a wrong step, not knowing what is behind them and then being run over, causing an accident. We need to remem ber to not speed through zones where crowds of students may be walking or socializing due to their safety, but the riders egos and inconsiderate no tions result in different expectations.

After finishing a ride, Bird scooters can be left anywhere. I’ve seen Bird scoot ers inside my apartment complex behind locked doors, on the side of roads or on the sidewalk. Since the Bird scooters are electric, they do need to be charged. In a program with Bird, people can be paid for picking up the scooters from locations, taking them home and charging them. According to Inc., “Birds must be collected and recharged every night. Bird pays from $5 to $20 per scooter per charge depending on how dif ficult it is to locate it and how much juice it needs.” I have seen a lot of trucks picking up Bird scooters near my apartment com plex or around town and hauling groups of 30+ scooters home to charge. With the payment that much for an easy task: I cannot blame them! Easy cash! Though I do wonder how they access scooters locked behind or within an apartment complex.

The other issue with Bird scooters is cleanliness. When I fell off my scooter, I was bleeding everywhere and the scooter never got cleaned until it was collected for charging, according to Bird. This is simply why I am honestly disgusted to use the scooter anymore considering how many injuries, accidents or other forms of unhealthy interactions the scooters may come across in a day and a rider wouldn’t know about. The idea that my Bird scooter was still around town that day stained with my blood while another rider uses it is quite frightening.

Bird has become one of the most fascinating and integrated community level electric trans portation services of all the new retailers. If you do not want to share your scooter, on Bird’s official shop you can buy a personal scooter for $599, assuming they restock them! You can also from the allotment of electric scooters available across multiple companies and brands from an online retailer or local shop.

Though I may have scars that will last me for many years, the Bird scooters truly are an excit ing and fun way to travel. They offer affordable use to those in the community who are suffer ing from a lack of transportation methods and provide it in a fun and engaging way. Overall, the scooters have improved the lives, but also harmed the healthy skin, of many as well.

Opinions expressed in The Nevada Sagebrush are solely those of the author and do not necessarily express the views of The Sagebrush or its staff. Gabe Kanae is a student at the University of Ne vada studying journalism. They can be reached at edrewes@sagebrush.unr.edu and on Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush.

Spotify’s Largest Con: Sociality Over Music Quality

By Gabe Kanae

It is very easy to say that most music lis teners use Spotify to enjoy their music. Of course, over the years there has been an up rising of these platforms with the introduc tion of Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer and more. How ever, there is one thing every single one of these streaming platforms have that Spotify doesn’t: high resolution music.

By Gabe Kanae

It isn’t shocking anymore to go into a film or televi sion show and see a woman become sexualized on the screen. The idea of the sexu alized woman on screen is a part of media many femi nists and powerful women around the world attempted to change, espeically those created by a male.

As a gay male, when I watch a show and see female nudity, I often question why we can’t do this with men. It’s a tricky subject to hop around, but wouldn’t you claim that if Hollywood can force women to show every intimate part of their body? It’s quite strange men are al lowed the decency to either cover up or only show their butt?

This isn’t only a sexual topic, however. We also push men to be more vulnerable in their character performances in movies and shows. Not just by having them cry but also representing the unknown a man could face such as gen der or sexual expression and experimentation.

Only showing men as the growing, strong character until an unfortunate event occurs is a story told one too many times now. What if we subtract that element and have more men in the media be explorative and dynamic? That should be easy right?

It seems Hollywood loves to cater to the men, obvi ously. They don’t need to take many creative risks that could separate them from

being “manly” or “strong”. Many men in Hollywood would refuse to take a role that would showcase them in a feminine light, yet women have to take these roles no matter what the risk or pre sentation is offered.

We should push for vulner ability more than ever on our men. If Hollywood has built up their careers so high that they could be unstoppable, let them do the unthinkable.

Women are always nervous and anxious about a role be ing their last. From public perfection to minute and subconscious sexism —the risks women have to take to pay bills can oftentimes be the role that breaks them.

Throughout the #MeToo movement, we started to expose the amount of men in higher roles in the media taking advantage of women. One of the most complicated elements to the exposure of these media giants is that the women simply were just getting exploited trying to do their jobs and earn money to live.

When you force a woman to be vulnerable in a film, no matter the cost, whether its exposure of intimate parts or emotions —the same logic and mindset should be pushed on the men. If we were to make this a real ity, the media as we know it would look completely dif ferent.

Men would also be ex posed fully naked and would also have to take the roles

that could ruin their careers. Films would have a much more realistic tone of emo tional vulnerability and con fusion that everyone faces in real life. There would also be more powerful women in higher positions in the in dustry who are shaping its future and we would also be spreading less toxic mascu linity messages than ever.

Allowing men to be vul nerable would change how new generations of men would see themselves and those around them. Perhaps, if everyone in media is on an equal playing field - we would have more sexual and gender equality. Of course, this would also impact politi cal statements and perspec tives.

The media creates near ly all messages that hu mans consume and spread. Whether it is subconscious or transparent. The next time you watch a piece of media and see a fully naked woman while the male is 95% covered up, I hope you will think about what that represents and how far we truly are from full equality.

Opinions expressed in The Nevada Sagebrush are solely those of the au thor and do not necessarily express the views of The Sagebrush or its staff. Gabe Kanae is a student at the Univer sity of Nevada studying journalism. They can be reached at gkanae@sage brush.unr.edu or on Twitter @Nevada Sagebrush

I have seen a lot of people justify their choice in using Spotify because of Spotify Wrapped, their recommendations and social features. As someone who uses Spotify, Apple Music and Qobuz: I have noticed that Spotify is most definitely the best service to enjoy with friends, but at what cost?

Last year, Apple Music introduced their high resolution plan for free with the addition of Dolby Atmos. Dolby Atmos is a surround sound-based format that allows listeners to hear music from all directions no matter what headphones you are wearing. While not all songs are available in the surround sound format, most of the biggest songs in the last 80 years. The experience is unbeatable.

Spotify is the only platform to introduce a high resolution audio streaming opportu nity. Apple Music, Qobuz, Deezer, Amazon Music and Tidal offer uncompressed music, meaning your music doesn’t lose any quality while you stream it. The version you hear is the exact same file that was created and ex ported in the studio.

Apple Music made it so that most songs on their platform are available in the resolution that was created in the studio for free. How ever, Spotify locked their music to the size of an MP3 file. It loses most of its quality as soon as you press the play button.

You could debate if you’re going to notice a difference between the high resolution or the Spotify compressed version, but why would you get a 1080p TV for the same price as a 4K one just because you wear glasses?

Does the social side of Spotify really matter when you are losing quality every time you share or enjoy a song? There are many plat forms and sites that focus on recommenda tions based on your music habits that are not Spotify. Last.fm has been around for years and gives you detailed information and rec ommendations about your music taste ondemand. All you do is connect your stream ing service.

Around two years ago, Spotify announced that they would implement a high resolution service in a new plan and that it would offer “CD quality” music. While this is high resolu tion, Apple Music and most other streaming services offer their music in quality as much as four times the amount of CD quality.

However, the best part is that Spotify has yet to talk about this new feature since. It has yet to be integrated. The idea that they’re go

ing to charge more is incredibly unrealistic considering Apple Music gave the upgrade to all of their users for free. Spotify never men tioned a plan to implement the surround sound ‘Dolby Atmos’ feature to their music.

Spotify is known to have a poor history with their artists, like paying artists low amounts of money per stream. Taylor Swift removed her entire catalog in 2014 to protest Spotify and force them to raise their benefits for artists. Swift didn’t add music back to the service until 2017.

Meanwhile, Apple Music instantly heard Swift’s complaints and took action by offer ing better benefits for artists on the platform.

Recently, Spotify spent their time focusing on podcasts, audiobooks and other forms of audio. Their greed is starting to show more than ever. They seem to have forgotten that people mainly use their platform for music. Spotify’s lyric feature came years later and is poorly done. Their recent short video snip pets that are played during music videos are a unique but poorly integrated concept.

Spotify also focused a lot on making exclu sive merch for users who use Spotify. Except these “exclusive” items end up going on sale on the artist’s official store as soon as the Spotify exclusive period is over.

Other streaming services focus on keeping music as their main product by raising audio quality, offering unique ways to listen to mu sic, offering artist interviews and even radio stations.

Apple Music may not have the best social features, but they exist. You can still find pub lic playlists, share your music with friends and see who is listening to what album. While Spotify definitely has the benefit with social features, is it worth it if you’re completely missing the best part of music listening?

Social feature alternatives have been around before Spotify even added theirs. There are websites that make it easy to trans fer all of your music information and songs. Maybe it is time to think about what makes Spotify “so great”, and maybe it’s time to try out a new service and see what you think. You may not notice the music’s improve ment instantly, but you’d be surprised how different they sound.

Opinions expressed in The Nevada Sagebrush are solely those of the author and do not nec essarily express the views of The Sagebrush or its staff. Gabe Kanae is a student at the Uni versity of Nevada studying journalism. They can be reached at gkanae@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @Nevada Sagebrush

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Fall Dance Festival: A beautiful show to highlight the memory of Kristen Avansino

By Jaedyn Young

In the little Lombardo Recreation room, the University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Theatre and Dance put on their annual Fall Dance Festival, this time in memory of the founder of the dance program, Kristen Avansino.

The show took place at various times on Nov. 16 through Nov. 18 and Nov. 20. On opening night, the show was sold out.

The production coordinator for the show, Eve Allen-Garza introduced the show with tears in her eyes as she announced its dedication to Avansino. After her introduction, a video in memory of Avansino was displayed for the audience. The video had old video clips and memories of Avansino which showed the huge impact the founder made on UNR and all the students who valued her.

Soon after, the show began with an opening performance called “keep your hands, arms, feet, and legs inside the ve hicle.”

This was a fun start that kept the beginning of the show light and goofy. It hooked the audience in almost immedi ately with its comedic display of a roller coaster simulation. The dancers compiled a sort of acting experience with their expressions in this piece, which was choreographed by Emily Leech.

The six dancers, Kenneth Carter, Jasmine Johnson, Halie Landers, Noel Martin, Kiera Middlebrook and Maddy Regrut, did a great job of keeping the audience engaged and setting up a nice foundation for the remainder of the show.

“Pieces,” which followed right after, was quite an addict ing performance to watch. The movements by Marie-Louise Goerner, Alexa Patton and Samantha Sargent were all very harmonized and graceful. Even the colors of the costumes showed harmony and were all similar or the same, which kept with the theme of the entire dance. The choreographer, Jenna Fortino — with contributions from the dancers — made it feel in-sync and well-organized.

Followed by this act came “a slice of life” which was dis

played on the big screen as a stu dent-produced short video. The choreography was done by Shay Jordan with the dancers Madison Blea and Saman tha Connolly. This perfor mance was a compilation looking at the positives and nega tives of life. In the portrayal of a young person, the audience watched as the negative voice overcame the positive voice in their head and depression took over. Watching the ending unfold as the main character became happier and the clash ing voices slowly joined together, made for a touching meta phorical display.

“Please wait…” was captivating right from the start. The choreographer, Sarah Ziolkowski captured a great display of anxious impatience with the three dancers’ — Kenneth Cart er, Ayanna Compton and Anthony McMenamy — nervous fidgeting in their chairs. The sporadic bursts of anxiety under the bright blue lights was enough to make the audience even fidget in their seats from nervousness.

“Trying” is the piece that stuck out substantially in the first half, a great lead into the intermission. The choreographer, Halie Landers used the hit TV show “Euphoria”’s soundtrack for the performance.

Jaedyn Young can be reached at jaedynyoung@sagebrush.unr. edu or

Fall One-Acts make do splendidly, with way too little

By Peregrine Hart

This year, the Department of Theatre and Dance mounted a showcase of student-directed one act plays with none of the usu al suspects.

“Our productions this season will all focus on the performa tive aspect of artistic creation with minimal design and staging elements,” the Playbill for the production read. “Through retire ments and departures, we currently find ourselves without the capacity to provide the elements of spectacle in the critical areas of scenery, lighting, and sound.”

Mike Fernbach was one of the retirees that came at a great loss to the theater department for all the hard work he did for their productions.

That’s no joke. The showcase’s second night on Oct. 8 opened with the same announcement, delivered by actors in the produc tion holding signs on poster boards. The audience in the Nell J. Redfield Studio Theatre fell to murmurs of intrigue upon learning of the strange circumstances facing the Department of Theatre and Dance.

The announcement ended with a call for donations. Between this and the start of the show, the house lights did not ever dim.

The fact of the Department of Theatre and Dance lacking the resources and faculty to which it is entitled aside, it achieved a great deal in using this stripped-down mode of performance to its advantage.

The short, small cast affair of a one-act play lends itself readily to the intimacy of a no-budget production. And much of the sus pension of disbelief you lose without technical elements can be restored with the conviction of a great, committed group of actors asking you plainly to believe in their story.

If it wasn’t clear: they all deserve better from the university, but the casts and directors of these one acts shone nonetheless.

The showcase on Oct. 8 opened with a zany, multilayered com edy under the direction of Brie Albright. “The Rotary Phone,” with a script by Andrew Martineau, looked toward a disarmingly funny pastiche of a prophetically dark future. The leading trio – played with aplomb by Elliot Dungan, Crystal Holmes and Leif Aucoin –were digging through heirlooms when they uncovered an archaic rotary phone.

They toyed with it for a while, as we learned through idle con versation how bleak and corporate human life had become. To the shock of all present, the unconnected phone worked.

Albright’s pitch-perfect eye for comic physicality presented it self throughout the piece, with just the right amount of slapstick to ease the viewer into the play’s shadowed world. The trio’s rau cously funny interactions with Ruthie, played by Coleen Keene,

who was on the other end of the line, really shouldn’t have paired well with an encroaching sense of dystopia – but they very much did.

In fact, “The Rotary Phone” joined all of the night’s plays in lev eling misery, some of it dystopian, and some of it personal, with a keen and abiding sense of humor.

Following it was “Top Shelf Tolstoy”, directed by Lili Abel-Su arez, in which a would-be library patron — played by Vi Grauso as understudy — walked into a bar. Or, a bar that would’ve been a library, were it not for budget cuts.

Sam Shepherd was an absolute delight as the librarian-turnedbartender; as was Grauso, in the richly satisfying cynical-to-sin cere transition that’s now become all but cliché when a character takes up an offer for a drink.

Abel-Suarez landed the play’s jokes perfectly, but it took an ex tra discerning look from her to let us simmer in the quiet tragedy it speaks to. The underfunded arts are a dystopian bleakness that needn’t wait for the future to arrive. The leap from library to forprofit operation isn’t all that absurd, despite how funny it may be on stage.

By inviting us first to laugh at the situation, Abel-Suarez gained our rapport, which she was then able to use to convey a deep sense of loss. The specifics are plenty amusing, but the rest is very real: people in a hard place need good stories to survive, and they can’t have them when society starves art infrastructure like librar ies and community theaters.

Society provided another somewhat-clumsily hit target in the night’s largest-cast play, “Be Yourself,” under the direction of Jay ton Newbury. The play wove together vignettes of various young characters as everything from guilt after the death of a parent, to coming out as gay in a hostile family, got a sympathetic and sincerely-acted treatment on the Redfield stage.

“Be Yourself” saw an unfettered earnest approach, a complex use of space and genuinely committed performances make the best of a script that felt a little heavy-handed at times.

Despite social critique that only extended so far beyond the characters’ own minds, Newbury’s direction made the most of a surplus of strong players. Especially for such blunt and one-note devices as Big Pharma – played by Maya Wolery – who was pre cisely the right degree of funny, chilling and surprisingly human all at once.

Following intermission, the showcase’s last two plays, “The Murmuration” and “The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould”, round ed out the evening with impressive two-person casts and signifi cant accomplishments in depth for about fifteen minutes apiece.

Tragedy to Hope: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review

By Gabe Kanae

When Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman shocking ly passed away during the peak of his career due to colon cancer in August 2020, grief, sadness and condolences were spread throughout the internet.

However, questions lingered on the future of his iconic character, T’Challa, or Black Panther. The sequel to the leg endary ‘Black Panther’ film had been announced in May 2021 and fans were anxious to see how Marvel Studios would tackle the unexpected change.

On Nov. 11, those questions were answered when “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” hit theaters globally.

The film, with the first film’s director Ryan Coogler return ing, has a runtime of two hours and forty one minutes. While its length can be seen as intense, when watching the movie, it flies. The film covers so many topics and covers the rise of a new superhero legend who is created by actress Letitia Wright, who plays Black Panther’s sister, Shuri.

But, the main pitfall is: it dives in too deep, too fast. Re vealing the death of the original Black Panther instantly and forcing viewers to instantly engage with a massively and progressively changing Wakandan society, is the film’s big gest flaw while it casts a wide net.

With the rise of a new and undiscovered species of people based underwater, the film ignores to question the elements that shocked the Marvel universe in the past. Topics about the “Avengers: Infinity War” Thanos snap that eliminate half of the global population was never even addressed from this new society of people and it begins to push the question of why we never heard or knew of these characters until now.

Recently, Marvel has been pushing their films and prod ucts as a cash grab and tend to complicate and add too many elements to their films. Consistently adding new su perheroes and villains that all lack depth and all include the same three layers of character development, it is easy to stop caring about the characters and rather just see the films as a way to get some multi-hundred million dollar action se quences to appear on the screen.

Due to this issue, it is incredibly hard to actually care about the villains and their people, it just feels like they were added to make the movie a superhero movie with two peo ple of power going against each other.

The best thing this new Black Panther film offers is the amount of empowerment that is expressed from not only the women in the film, but also black women. It is truly in spiring to see so many powerful black women gain so much power and to see it all happen on screen accommodated by all of their marvelous acting is simply just a stunning cap ture of culture and love.

The film can easily be seen as a thank you to the late Chad wick Boseman, while also progressing the story beyond him. With elements of growth, this film is a great stepping stone in the Black Panther storyline and allows us to gain a grip as to what the future of Wakanda and Black Panther is.

Though the film does consistently repeat many of the same elements that made all the other Marvel movies feel the same, this Black Panther film is a creature in itself. With a lengthy runtime, it is honestly hard to skip this Marvel film in comparison to its recent counterparts.

This film holds a sense of necessity that recent Marvel projects simply haven’t been able to have. If you were to miss this film, you could catch on in later projects, but the developments and growth of the characters is so important and unique from both a culturalist perspective but also from that of an empowering feminist message.

While the film does suffer from elements that have made recent Marvel films start to decline from their glory days of ten years ago, it manages to contain an element of memorial and necessity by exploring growth, grief and empowerment.

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Even with limited means, the one-acts this year were an im maculate night of pure, uncut theater.

To support the university’s Department of Theater and Dance, they are accepting donations to keep them afloat through retire ments and departures.

Hart can be reached at jaedynyoung@sagebrush.unr. edu or via Twitter @NevadaSagebrush

Rachel Jackson / Nevada Sagebrush Fall dance performers performing from Nov. 16 - Nov. 20 in memory of Kristen Avanisno, the founder of the dance program.

on Twitter @jaedyn_young3.

Gabriel Kanae can be reached via email at gkanae@ sagebrush.unr.edu or via Twitter @NevadaSagebrush

“The Murmuration”, direct ed by Alyssa von Eberstein, dipped again into dystopia’s grabbag with an avian post-apoca lypse. Sophie Hoffman and Will Ney tackled the two leads with honed realism, grit and broken humor in a grounded scene of im pending oblivion that felt like it could’ve happened the next day.

In “The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould”, director Jasmine Johnson brought the night to a hilarious, despairing and hopeful con clusion with a man who fails to commit suicide, played by Jayton Newbury and his unforeseen spectator, played by Alyssa Granger. The play’s comic treasure was in Granger, who dialed the charac ter up to such

boldly funny extreme that the script’s heart was

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Not Bad For A Wednesday Night: Nothing More And In This Moment Rock The Stage In Reno

By Clayton Greb

In This Moment and Nothing More rocked the Grand Sierra Resort Grand Theater stage on October 5 for the “Blood 10 Year Anniver sary Tour”.

In This Moment is celebrating their hit al bum “Blood” that rose to popularity due to songs such as “Blood” and “Adrenalize” Nothing More took the stage at 8 p.m. For their first song,they performed “Turn It Up Like” – which starts off with some impressive vocal work by Jonny Hawkins that leads into the rest of the band joining in with explosive force.

Midway through the song, Nothing More unleashes their secret weapon – “The Scor pion Tail”. This machine is a 400-pound and 14-foot instrument of madness built by Dan iel Oliver, the band’s bassist, out of scrap car parts and cutting edge MIDI technology. The Hawkins climbs the beast and uses it to modulate the guitar’s pitch during the rip ping solo section.

Nothing More’s set was never short of en ergy. With Hawkins’ painted body running around the stage, the crowd seemed to follow suit with lots of jumping and head banging. The band made it a point to get the crowd involved in the songs, only adding to such a memorable experience.

They ended their set with one of their big gest

songs, “This Is The Time (Ballast)”. This song again shows their impressive technical music knowledge by starting off with vocal modu lation not only done with machines but also physically from Hawkins vibrating his hand across his throat.

The high energy set left the crowd eager for more, only increasing the momentum into In This Moment’s set.

In This Moment last performed in Reno less than one year ago. Since then, they turned everything up a notch: a bigger set, more back up dancers, more props, more heavy metal goodness.

They started their set off with a giant cur tain up, sounds of drums and sirens warned the crowd they were about to grace the stage. The curtain slowly lifted to the sound of a pi ano to unveil singer Maria Brink surrounded by 8 masked drummers. The piano gave a creepy and ominous vibe that was destroyed when the band kicked into the crushing song “Burn”. The song is fueled by Maria’s voice as she belts out the lyrics.

The concert was enhanced by the large stage show. The band itself consisted of two guitar players and a drummer who were ac companied by eight back up dancers. These dancers did contortionist movements along with Cirque du Soleil style acrobatics.

The band showed off their technical skill as well as their respect to the past of heavy metal in the middle of the show when they played a melody of songs from bands such as Slayer, Sepultura, and White Zombie. This led to an epic drum solo from Kent Diimmel. At the end of the solo the rest of the band came back together for the slow burning in tro for “Big Bad Wolf.”

The show ended with a speech from singer Maria Brink before they got into the song “Wh—e”. This song has become an anthem for the band and its fans. With every lyric be ing sung by thousands of fans.

The show left everyone amazed — not bad for a Wednesday night.

Clayton Greb can be reached at jaedynyoung@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

Why does the “Chainsaw Man” fan base have collective amnesia?

By Jessica Cabrera

Fan bases are extraordinary facets of society. It’s beautiful to witness how many people can come together to support an interest they share. What’s even more interesting is the characteristics all members of a fanbase have.

The most remarkable common trait I observed in recent years is the number of people in the “Chainsaw Man” fan base who remember nothing about the manga.

The fandom’s poor memory of their beloved series shows in different ways. It ranges from mischaracterization of key characters to forgetting entire arcs. Every day, there is another Tweet or TikTok in the rough format of “I can’t believe I forgot this happened in ‘Chainsaw Man’???”. It’s almost a universal experience. It seems like the only thing that stays in anyone’s mind is the feeling of reading the manga, but nothing specific.

Before coming back to Reno for the fall semester, I had a little outing with a friend from high school. She read the series and wanted to share her thoughts with me in-person. We discussed the manga over lunch, and I came to the realization that I remembered only one-fourth of the manga. I did remember key details on world-building to clarify what happened, but she had to describe specific events to spark any type of recollection from me.

It’s a shame that fans can hardly remember the narrative of Fujimoto’s most popular work to date. Fujimoto proved himself more than capable of writing fantastic stories in his one-shot releases like “A Look Back” and “Goodbye Eri”. Why does it feel like everyone was ordered to forget everything that transpired in “Chainsaw Man”?

A few theories come to mind.

“CSM” can be a little confusing to read. The first part’s absolutely breakneck pace is bru tal on people who speed read manga, which is tempting when there are only 97 chapters. Anecdotally, a good portion of CSM readers decided to complete the series in a day or two because of its relatively short length. Unfortunately, the short length does not mean it is easier to digest. It’s a short yet powerful first part. It’s a lot to remember, and most people usually cannot take in that much information about a new series so quickly.

People may like to live in delusion. “Chainsaw Man” is a heart-wrenchingly tragic se ries. By the end of the first part, the reader probably went through the five stages of grief at least one time. Sadness appears to be a key characteristic of Fujimoto’s work, but some times people just like to pretend like everything is okay. No one died. There is no sadness – just everyone living peaceful lives with their loved ones. There is nothing wrong in the CSM canon.

My final theory is that Fujimoto’s attractive character design made people forget the story. All of the characters are well-designed in their own ways, but most people tend to land on them being wildly attractive anime characters. Some characters are favored based solely on their design. It’s a shame – all of the characters have interesting stories and personalities. Reducing a “CSM” character down to their design should be consid ered a crime.

If anything, the anime should serve as an excellent recap for people who cannot re member where the second part started from. Episodes for the anime release every Tues day on Crunchyroll and Hulu.

Jessica Cabrera can be reached at jessicacabrera@ sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush

Nevada shut down by Boise State Broncos, losing 41-3 in the snow

By Derek Raridon

Boise State Broncos shut down the Nevada football team on Nov. 11, losing 41-3 in the snow.

Nevada stalled out to start the game. On the starting drive, the Wolf Pack defense was not able to hold the Broncos offense and allowed a touchdown in three min utes. The offense, continu ing trends from previous games, did little to respond. The program’s single scor ing chance was a field goal blocked by Kaonohi Kaniho, Boise State cornerback. Al though the Nevada defense did force a fumble to cause a turnover on downs, the Boise State offense scored one more touchdown before the end of the quarter.

With 15 minutes gone, Ne vada was down 14-0.

The Wolf Pack started to show a bit of life in the second quarter. Both teams went back and forth with quick three and out drives. Boise State was the first to

score with a 49-yard run from George Holani, run ning back. Another backand-forth occurred, this time with more extended drives. Nevada scored after the second back-and-forth, as Brandon Talton, kicker, scored a 26-yard field goal as time expired.

With one half in the books, the Wolf Pack trailed 21-3.

Nevada’s third quarter played out similarly to their first. After a quick three and out and a short punt from the Wolf Pack offense, the Broncos were held in the red zone and held to a field goal. However, the Boise State offense took over the rest of the quarter, scoring touchdowns in both of their other two drives before the quarter ended. The Pack’s offense could not answer back, only getting as far as the Boise State 38-yard line in the quarter.

With 15 minutes left in the

game, Nevada trailed 38-3.

The end of the game was quiet for Nevada. Boise State kicked a field goal to cap off their final drive from the third quarter to start. However, Nevada’s defense did not allow the Broncos to score afterwards, stopping them in their next drive with a fumble recovered by Chris Smalley, linebacker.

Despite the defensive showing, the Nevada offense did not share the same performance. They got as far as the Boise State 36-yard line on one drive, but that ended thanks to a turnover on downs. In their next and final drive of the game, Wesley Kommer – Nevada running back – fumbled after five plays, giving the ball to Boise State with six minutes left in the game. The Broncos ran down the clock while slowly progress ing downfield, ending the game at the Nevada 19-yard line.

The Wolf Pack lost 41-3. With their eighth straight loss, Nevada moved to 2-8 on the season and 0-7 in conference play. This loss also keeps the Pack at last place in the conference.

The Wolf Pack’s next game is on Nov. 18, where the team will take on the Fresno State Bulldogs at home in Mackay Stadium for their senior night.

Derek Raridon can be reached at edrewes@sagebrush. unr.edu or on Twitter @ NevadaSagebrush.

The Fresno State Bulldogs beat out the Nevada Wolf Pack in a 41-14 loss—finishing winless at home versus confer ence opponents for the first time.

Nevada started the game tumbling out of the gate. The Nevada offense started the game with a three and out. And although they were able to muster up more plays per drive afterwards, the team was not able to get past their own 38 yard line for the entire quarter. While this was happening, the Fresno State offense capitalized, scoring 17 points in their three possessions of the quarter.

Going into the second quarter, the Wolf Pack trailed 17-0. The second quarter saw Nevada improve on the defensive side. The Nevada defense was able to hold the Bulldogs to one touchdown, not allowing Fresno State past their 40 yard line, besides on the scoring drive, for the rest of the drive. However, unlike their opponent in the previous quarter, the Nevada offense was not able to produce any offense for the second quarter in a row.

Nevada trailed 24-0 at the start of the second half.

The third quarter showed promise for the Wolf Pack as their offense pushed Fresno State’s side of the field for the

first time, going as far as the 20 yard line. However, Nevada’s first score would come a 73 yard passing touchdown from Nate Cox, Nevada quarterback, to Dalvon Campbell, wide receiver. With a missed field goal early on and a made one later by Fresno State, the Wolf Pack trailed 27-7 after three quarters.

Nevada combined their performance from the first and third quarters in the fourth. Similar to the third, the Wolf Pack was able to put points on the board on their last drive of the game, ending it with a 28 yard touchdown pass from Cox to BJ Casteel, Nevada wide receiver. However, this would be overshadowed by Fresno State, who scored rush ing touchdowns on two of their three drives in the quarter.

The Bulldogs would use their final drive to run the clock down by kneeling down. Nevada wound up losing 41-14.

With this loss, Nevada moved to 2-9 on the year—0-7 in conference play—going into their final game of the season. This loss also marked the first time in school history that Nevada went winless at home versus conference opponents at home.

Derek Raridon can be reached at edrewes@sagebrush.unr.edu or on Twitter @NevadaSagebrush.

The Wolf Pack’s final game of the season will be at Allegiant Stadium, where the program will take on the UNLV Rebels in Las Vegas in the Battle for Nevada.

By Derek Raridon

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Shane Illingworth, Nevada quarterback, launches the ball during the Nov. 11 Boise State game. Nevada lost 3-41, their seventh straight loss in conference play.

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