Record Number of Student Athletes Receive Diplomas from Nevada by Nathan Shoup Sparks Tribune
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YOUR COMMUNITY SPARKS NEWSPAPER SINCE 1910 Tribune construction SPARKS RTC: Delays anticipated at Pyramid and McCarran intersection TribuneYOURYOUR COMMUNITY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERNEWSPAPER SINCE SINCE 1910 1910 Page 3 Volume 108, Number 20 Tuesday, May 17, 2016 95 cents sPORTS coVEr story Record number of student athletes receive diplomas from Nevada By Nathan Shoup Sparks Tribune The vast majority of large schools in this country sell the idea that their student Reed captures athletes are students first. In many cases, they are lying. fourth straight Few are the months news regional title doesn’t break of an academic scandal at one NCAA Div. I Page 7 school or another. Nevada is certainly in- cluded on the list of institu- tions that projects the no- tion its student athletes are scholars primarily. It’s not a mirage though. In Friday and Saturday’s three separate graduation ceremonies at Nevada, 2,710 total degrees and ceremo- nies were awarded. It was a record number in the school’s 142-year history. Of those 2,710, 65 went to Wolf John Byrne/Tribune Cougars’ run ends Pack athletes—which was The Quad on Nevada’s campus was packed all weekend as the University hosted three also a record. separate graduation ceremonies for its record number of 2,710 graduates. one game short of “We are extremely proud state berth of this excellent class of stu- said Doug Knuth, Nevada’s time at Nevada and thank among the four former Page 8 dent-athletes and congrat- fourth-year athletics direc- them for their contributions hoopers to graduate (Mar- ulate them on achieving tor, in a release. “We are ap- to Wolf Pack athletics.” queze Coleman, Tyron this ultimate goal of gradu- preciative for all that they Now former basketball ating from our University,” have achieved during their player Lukas Stivrins was > See GRADS, Page 4 insiDE Weather..............................2 State Briefs........................ 2 Primary ElEction Police Briefs.......................5 Opinion............................14 City Council News..........16 Puzzles..............................18 Sparks Tribune, 39 North Downtown to host Advice..............................19 Health...............................20 ‘2016 Sparks Primary Candidates Night’ tonight Classified Ads..................21 Sparks Tribune ferent local races. running for the City Council Ward No. Legals................................22 From the election for County Com- 5 char, will attend. 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Kristopher will moderate, along with 2014 Reno candidates who are running in five dif- Dahir and John Walters, who are both mayoral candidate, Eddie Lorton. Visit our website at www.sparkstrib.com 2 May 17, 2016 your sEVEn-Day forEcast toDay WEDnEsDAY tHursDAY friDAY SATURDAY sunDAY monDAY 75/48 81/54 74/48 59/38 58/41 60/42 68/42 Sunny and Sunny to partly Mostly sunny and Cooler Showers, mainly Cold with A couple of pleasant cloudy breezy later occasional rain showers possible battlE born statE nEWs Associated Press nevada inmaTe seRving life lated to illegal cock fighting after a counting effort. senTence dies aT hospiTal Nevada state trooper found a dozen RENO — Officials say a 72-year-old caged roosters in the trunk of his car. piloT dead in helicopTeR Reno officials Rescue 4 inmate serving a life sentence for sex- Jose R. Ortiz of Salinas was being cRash on nevada dRy lake idenTified people fRom TRuckee RiveR ual assault has died at a Reno hospi- held in Elko County Jail Thursday RENO — Reno officials say they tal. on $48,750 bail for seven charges, in- LAS VEGAS — A pilot killed in the have rescued four people from the The Nevada Department of Cor- cluding conspiracy to conduct fights crash of a kit-built helicopter at a re- Truckee River after they fell off a flo- rections say Roger Hee was taken to between animals. mote Nevada dry lake bed has been tation device. Renown Medical Center on Friday Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. identified as a 58-year-old Utah man Reno Fire Department Chief Dirk afternoon and subsequently died. Alex Perez told the Elko Daily Free with an aircraft operating license. Minore says none of the victims were Authorities did not say why he was Press (http://tinyurl.com/z3pso9o) a Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee wearing life jackets but all were con- transported to the facility. trooper detected the smell of mari- said Friday that an autopsy was scious and breathing when rescued Hee was sentenced in Washoe juana when he pulled Ortiz over for planned following the death of Kevin Sunday afternoon. He says fire offi- County in August 2000. speeding on Interstate 80 about 6 Eaton, of St. George, Utah. cials rescued three of the people and He was convicted of sexual assault a.m. Tuesday. Lee says the Thursday crash of the the fourth made it to the shore with- with substantial bodily harm. Perez says Ortiz turned over less single-seat experimental gyrocopter out help. An autopsy is being scheduled than an ounce of suspected pot. A appears to have been an accident. They were hospitalized with minor with the Washoe County Medical Ex- search of his white Chrysler 300 A telephone number for Eaton ap- injuries and hypothermia. aminer’s Office. turned up the roosters along with a peared Friday to be out of service. Minore says the three women and a dozen razor blades typically used for Lee says Eaton and a friend trail- man were using a float ring designed man on ledge aT TRump hoTel cock fighting. It’s not clear if Ortiz has ered the aircraft to Texas Dry Lake, for a pool that was insufficient for in vegas Taken inTo cusTody a lawyer. about 12 miles east of Highway 93 Truckee River conditions. LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police near Alamo. say a man who threatened to jump off annual 1-nighT Tally counTs The friend told deputies he heard 1 wounded, 2 quesTioned a ledge at Trump International ho- 6,200 las vegas-aRea an unusual “pop” sound before the homeless afTeR shooTing on las vegas tel apparently over “an unpaid bill” copter plunged about 100 feet to the Strip moved off the ledge and was taken LAS VEGAS — Officials say an ground. LAS VEGAS — Police say one man into custody. annual one-night tally found just The Federal Aviation Administra- is wounded and two people are being Police say officers were called Fri- over 6,200 homeless people living in tion and National Transportation questioned after an early morning day night to the hotel near the Las and around Las Vegas in January, or Safety Board are investigating. shooting in front of a Las Vegas Strip Vegas Strip after the man refused to about 1,300 fewer than the year be- resort. leave the hotel and climbed up seven fore. inmaTe walks away fRom Officer Laura Meltzer says officers or eight stories to a ledge. Clark County Social Service chief woRk cRew in caRson ciTy arriving just after 3 a.m. Monday to Police say that about six hours later, Michael Pawlak called the 17 percent CARSON CITY — Authorities say a report of a shooting in front of the he had moved off the ledge but was decrease a step in the right direction. a Stateline man has walked away Paris Las Vegas hotel-casino didn’t still in the area. They took him into The count found a steep decline in from an inmate work crew in Carson immediately find anyone injured. custody about 1:15 a.m. Saturday. the number of people living in shel- City. She says a man arrived at Moun- Lt. Charles Jenkins told the Las Ve- ters or other temporary indoor loca- The Nevada Department of Correc- tainView Hospital in northwest Las gas Review-Journal the man would tions — from almost 3,600 in 2015 to tions reported that 37-year-old Mi- Vegas about an hour later, with a be taken to a hospital for a mental fewer than 2,500 this year. chael Lillie walked away on Wednes- gunshot wound that wasn’t believed evaluation. A count in 2011 found just over day. Lillie was serving up to 10 years be life-threatening. It wasn’t clear if he was under the 8,000 people without permanent in prison for felony drunken driving. The wounded man told investi- influence of drugs or alcohol. shelter, but county officials in 2014 He had been paroled once, violated gators he’d been in a fight with an- stopped including an estimate of that parole and was serving time at other man before he was shot in the nv TRoopeR nabs nearly 2,000 couch-surfing and Stewart Conservation Camp on April leg. cock-fighTing suspecT on shed-dwelling “hidden homeless.” 8. i-80 neaR elko Police detained two people, but Officials say southern Nevada re- Anyone with information about didn’t make any immediate arrests.