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Associated Students: Following the events of the 2021 Vice President Primary Election, I am issuing a stay of the campaign finance laws for the 2021 General Elections in order to allow the ASUN Senate to reevaluate the current stipulations present in the Statutes of the Associated Students and the Candidate’s Packet. Upon reading comments from…

March 6, 2021 Associated Students of the University of Nevada: After further consideration, we are rescinding the declaration of disqualification of candidates Keegan Murphy and Aaron Piña based on the difficulty of applying the complexity of the campaign finance rules and regulations. Candidates Murphy and Piña will move on to the ASUN General Election on…

The winner of the 2021 Primary Election for Vice President is Kate Torres with 256 Votes. Vice Presidential Candidates Murphy and Piña are disqualified for failure to comply with: 1. SAS a. Title 702, Section 13, Subsection E, 8) “Failing to turn in campaign finance receipts, as required by Section 20” b. Title 702, Section…

The University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Business is hosting its third International Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (IWES) on Monday, March 8 from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 200 scholarships are available for University of Nevada, Reno students to attend the event for free. Standard tickets are available to the public. IWES provides learning and networking…

The ASUN Spring 2021 Election cycle is underway. Soon students will be voting to select a new group of student leaders to represent them. ASUN needs your voice, talents and passions. To build upon successes and address new challenges. Consider running for office when the candidate filing period opens January 25th. As an ASUN officer,…

National Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10, which just so happens to be the final day of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. This day is designed to honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ (UDHR) statement proclaiming inalienable rights entitled to every human being. With ongoing civil unrest occurring…

Human trafficking, by definition, “involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.” Polaris, an organization responding to sex and labor trafficking, worked on 11,500 cases reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline in 2019 but this number is only a fraction of the problem…

Enabling gender stereotypes in society is a large contributor to dating violence. Gender roles can be instilled as early as adolescence, which is an important developmental period. These behaviors may include following the assumption that men should have the final say in decision making and women are to remain passive. Encoding these behaviors then pressures…

Break the Cycle conducted a poll on college dating violence and abuse which revealed “43% of dating college women report experiencing some violent and abusive dating behaviors.” Most of these women, according to loveisrespect, are not equipped to deal with dating abuse as it is difficult to identify. Although love is exciting and vulnerable, it…

College, whether it be a four-year institution or a community college, is an integral time for personal growth. While young adults gain a larger sense of autonomy, they are also learning to navigate new worlds, one being sexuality. Unfortunately, college campuses across the globe are common places for various forms of sexual violence and is…