EDITORIAL: Wanted – a few good undergraduate students

March 11, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · Leave a Comment

We write plenty of editorials calling for your involvement in academic and extracurricular activities or your activism against budget cuts – Go to this lecture! Check out that club! Write to your legislators! This...

IN BRIEF: Regents award Nevadans

March 8, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 1 Comment

The Board of Regents honored recipients of annual awards at their meeting on Friday, including the 2010 Distinguished Nevadans. This year’s Distinguished Nevadans are: Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, chairman...

EDITORIAL: Prepare and vote. You can’t afford not to.

March 8, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · Leave a Comment

Only 1580 students voted in the CSUN Executive Board primary elections on Wednesday and Thursday – 7.1 percent of the undergraduate student population. It was a discouragingly poor turnout. This display...

IN BRIEF: CSUN to present ethics ruling

February 25, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · Leave a Comment

A committee ruling on a complaint filed against CSUN Chief Counsel Juan Serafica will be announced during this Monday’s CSUN meeting. The complaint, filed last October with the Rules and Ethics Committee,...

EDITORIAL: Why we walked out, whether you did or not

February 11, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 2 Comments

We heard about the walkout. We heard the snide comments about how it’s pointless or stupid or counter-intuitive. We still showed up. Here’s why. Objection #1: Why did you walk out of a class you already...

EDITORIAL: Death to the plan: Life to education

February 4, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 4 Comments

Nevada students are not fighting for their education because they’re greedy, naïve or misinformed. We are not fighting because we want to pay comfortable tuition rates or because we want to be able...

IN BRIEF: Smatresk talks budget cuts

February 1, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · Leave a Comment

UNLV President Neal Smatresk posted a letter on the UNLV budget Web site assuring his colleagues that he is working with leaders in the state legislature on behalf of the university. The special session...

EDITORIAL: Diversity on the rise despite falling funds

February 1, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · Leave a Comment

UNLV can’t buy culture, but celebrating it is worth a million bucks. The history of race relations in the United States is inextricably tied to the economy of social difference. Segregation perpetuated...

EDITORIAL: Let’s fund education before entertainment

January 28, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 1 Comment

This week’s top story and the hottest item of discussion at Monday’s CSUN Senate meeting was Campus Life Director John Goldman’s proposed spring concert. The discussion centered less on the proposal...