BY MATT BIEKER
Best conversation you’ve had here? ASKED AT BIBO COFFEE COMPANY, 945 RECORD ST. NADIA RUIZ Student
My best conversation was with a girl named Sierra. We met each other in class before, and we saw each other the second time at Bibo. We got to know each other, exchanged information, and now she’s one of my really good friends, and I cherish that friendship. IAN DEJONG Teacher
This is where I asked my now wife out on our first date. We were sitting right by the big garage door, it was open during the summer, and I bought her gelato and said, “Do you want to go out with me?’ And she said yes, and now we’re married. It’s super sad this place is going to be gone.
NATALIE GUSTAFSON Insurance agent
Bring back Kap “Students of color say they feel increasingly unwelThis is a widespread, systematic problem, without come at UNR”—that’s the headline of an Oct. 10 a simple solution, but there’s a basic step that the article by Wenei Philimon, a University of Nevada, university could take to fix at least part of the percepReno, student journalist. It was posted to the Reynolds tion problem: The university should re-embrace its most Sandbox, a forum for UNR student journalism hosted by famous alumnus, Colin Kaepernick. the platform Medium. A few years ago, the face of the former NFL star The article features interviews with several could be found on official posters all over campus, students recounting their negative experiences and on university promotional and recruitwith UNR campus police, other students ment materials. But, in recent years, as and the general population of Reno. It Kaepernick has become more known also details some recent incidents that for his activism—he started the The university have attributed to this unwelcome movement of NFL players taking perception: the viral photo of a a knee during the national anthem should re-embrace then-UNR student at the fatal white to protest police brutality and its most famous supremacist rally in Charlottesville systematic racism—the posters in 2017; racist incidents involving have vanished. alumnus, Colin campus officers from that same Kaepernick has been blackyear, including the officer who wore balled by the NFL. Team owners Kaepernick. blackface for a Halloween costume; have—in essence—colluded to keep and, just this semester, racist posters him out of a job. And it appears that and swastikas appearing on campus, and a the University of Nevada, Reno, has university-sanctioned appearance by right-wing done the same to his legacy. speaker Charlie Kirk. If the university were to once again embrace The anecdotal accounts from students are supported Kaepernick as an important icon, it would signal that by the results of a “campus climate” survey commisthe university values the contributions of its students sioned by the university. The survey concluded: “The of color. It would also signal that the university isn’t overall campus climate, workplace climate and classashamed of socially aware consciousness, and that the room climate were described as comfortable by many university views community leadership and social activrespondents, however, less comfortable by a significant ism as things to be celebrated. Ω minority of other respondents.”
That was when they had, I think it was a Halloween, like devil-y, monster-y, scary art exhibit on the walls, and [my fiancé] Ben and I started talking about the Manson Family. It was super cool.
CHRIS ATCHESON Sculptor
That’s a hard one because I built this place with my dad when it was Record Street Cafe, and then it turned into Bibo’s after my sister sold it. … Probably talking to the owner, Paul, about surfing in Nosara, Costa Rica.
PAT FLYNN Server
I’ve never been to this location before, but one of my old friends actually works here. So I was able to catch up with him, and he invited me to a show here tonight. So, that’s my favorite conversation here, and it just happened two minutes ago.
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