EDITORIAL: Death to the plan: Life to education

February 4, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 2 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...

EDITORIAL: New writing faculty is best use of UNLV’s short funds

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

The UNLV Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing is hiring. Read More →

EDITORIAL: Go to the town hall. Stand up for UNLV.

January 14, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 2 Comments

As if demeaning the state’s K-12 education system with a ridiculous plan last week wasn’t enough, Governor Jim Gibbons has found yet another way to stick it to higher education. In our previous editorial,...

EDITORIAL: Dangerous fake proposal taunts, discourages

January 11, 2010 by The Rebel Yell · 1 Comment

No one really thinks Republican governor Jim Gibbons’ proposal to cut K-12 education funding and restructure state-level governance of schools will pass the Democratic state legislature. Read More →