Insight Magazine

My First (Semi) Hitchhiking Experience

Sam DiSalvo — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:58:14 +0000

On the night of March 8, I hugged my parents close, told them I loved them, and apologized deeply for sticking pencils in their pillows as an April Fools’ Day joke 12 years prior. For on Friday, March 9, I would be utilizing the Cragislist Rideshare program to give 57-year-old Bob C. a ride to [...]

THE RUNDOWN: Burned Out

Geoff McFarland — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:17:03 +0000

So you didn’t get a ticket to Burning Man 2012. Join the club. While this year’s experimental lottery system left thousands of would-be participants without means of attending, there’s no reason to malinger this summer in the Default World. Direct your energies elsewhere. Some of the creators of the best theme camps are similarly going [...]

Highway 40 Revisited

Will von Tagen — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:11:33 +0000

The point is invariably reached when the last drip of amusement has wrung clean from the typical downtown scene. Relationships need breaks, and your water hole of choice is no exception to the rule. The girls become faceless—the drinks become nameless; and the song that pounds down your spine can only be silenced by repeated [...]

Mind-Altering Journeys

Brian Parcon and Charlie Woodman and Lucas Combos — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:06:07 +0000

PACKING FOR THE TRIP… Charlie Woodman Sometimes people will get together and spend 100 years pretending to be legitimate tunnel bandits. It’s not a common thing, but it’s been known to happen. For example, it happened to me. Earlier in my college career, a friend from a calculus class told me about “hobbiting,” wherein a [...]

The Mentality that Fits

Cambria Roth — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:54:32 +0000

I can remember back to sixth grade, when some guy would constantly make comments about how fat I was. It was humiliating and degrading to be ridiculed in the middle of a classroom that had 25 students, all looking at me and judging me for something I couldn’t control. We had a student teacher, and [...]

In Defense of Education

Evynn McFalls — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:41:28 +0000

Painting With Light

Brandon Lacow — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:32:05 +0000

My goal with this project is to allow people to look at the nude human figure as if it were art. Applying colored lighting and dark shadows has allowed me to accomplish this goal. The shadows allow for the figure to be broken down into segments for our eyes to wander. I am interested in [...]

Opinion: Studying Abroad can be Enlightening

Michael Lingberg — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:21:17 +0000

Senior student Michael Lingberg shares his perspective on studying abroad, and the effect it can have on a person's perception of the world.

Shinedown Shines at GSR

Brad Scribner — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:39:01 +0000

Shinedown performed at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno last Friday, but were they any good? Insight's Brad Scribner tells it all.

The Reno Virgin: Jumping on the Clubbing Bandwagon

Vicki Tam — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:49:33 +0000

It's the Reno Virgin's first time--going to a nightclub in America's biggest little city! Check it out.

Satire: The (Unofficial) Guide to the Reno Rave Scene

Cambria Roth — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:46:27 +0000

“Raving,to put it simply, is an easy way to get fucked more in one night than you ever would in your life, and the easiest way to get the drug hook ups.” My sorority sisters are always talking about how fun it is to rave and I decided I totes wanted to go. I looked [...]

Satire: Raymond Eliot in The Red Tent Caper

Raymond Eliot — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:43:13 +0000

When the editor called me, I was up in my office underneath my blanket of seclusion with a bottle of cheap bourbon and my trusty rod. She was hysterical when she called. Dames always are that way, especially when they get on the other end of a phone. She called the house line and spoke [...]

Satire: Meat Eaters Ruin Earth, Universe

Lucas Combos — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:37:20 +0000

There is a scourge taking over our society. The very fabric of our day-to-day life is within seconds of being compromised forever. By now, any reasonable person should have recognized this menace as being only one thing. Not the constant threat of foreign persons impeding our nation’s thriving utopia of a republic. Not the uproarious [...]

Satire: Plight of the Carnivore

Chanelle Bassette — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:35:22 +0000

Too long has an important American subculture gone unnoticed, cast aside and unrepresented by mass media. The state of American advertising and pop culture has somehow managed to miss this small but substantial group of people, leaving them to seek solace in each other’s company and in alternative media. Flip to any television station, thumb [...]

Satire: Nightmare on Virginia Street

Nick Rattigan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:33:16 +0000

The construction of the new dorm on Virginia is said to be coming to an end soon, and it is planned to be open for the coming semester, Fall 2012. This is an exciting new prospect for the University of Nevada, Reno that will be great for the students and the housing situation around campus. [...]

Satire: Vote for Charlie Woodman for ASUN President

Charlie Woodman — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:31:11 +0000

The Associated Students of the University of Nevada (ASUN) have grown complacent, and I am tired of it. I am tired of ASUN being a streamlined, well-oiled machine, because machines sometimes overrun their human masters in a bid for freedom. I am tired of typing ASUN into Google and not finding the right thing, because [...]

Satire: Dear Broadcast News Graduates of the Reynolds School of Journalism

Franco Fredrickson — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:24:38 +0000

Dear Broadcast News Graduates of the Reynolds School of Journalism, I extend to you my heartfelt congratulations on completion of your studies in the noble field of Journalism. You can rest assured, the thousands of dollars worth of debt incurred during the pursuit of this endeavor was well spent. In this thriving industry of [...]

Satire: The Weekly Ritual

Sage Leehey — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:21:20 +0000

Calling all my mistresses of the night! Prepare for your dutiful binge once again! Watch as they busy themselves readying for the night of depravity that awaits them. Each of them is stationed in front of their mirror, applying their makeup as if their faces were paint by number canvases, dressing in as little as [...]

Satire: The Rise and Rise of Reno Comedy

Brian Parcon — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:11:15 +0000

Standup comedy is hard. Observing the quirks of the world around you and crafting a sentence in a way that makes it funny takes a sharp mind and hours of dedication. Often, even after days filled with writing, rewriting, and divine inspiration in the form of cheap beer and too many cigarettes, the tentative joke [...]

Satire: The Promised Land

Evynn McFalls — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:08:46 +0000

As a member of the world’s most exclusive intellectual communities, I have always found it to be of the utmost importance that I explore, discover, organize, and delineate truth to the masses. In the past, I have shared with you my forays into the phenomenon of Internet culture that was Minecraft; I’ve compared the wardrobes [...]