1996
The
1996 Grateful Deadhead and Chia Butthead Awards
Originally
published 12/29/96
Shadowboxing
Jello, yahoo kangaroos & Downsize This!
Originally
published 12/22/96
EXTRA! Barbano
endorses environmental jockocracy
Originally
published 12/15/96
The Empire
Strikes Back
Originally
published 12/8/96
Howard Rosenberg:
the most powerful man in Nevada
Originally
published 12/1/96
Howard Rosenberg:
unlikely David vs. Philistine Elite
Originally
published 11/24/96
Clark Santini:
still watching over his university
Originally
published 11/17/96
Protected
pianists at the Casablanca College Casino
Originally
published 11/10/96
Ghost Professors,
Gold Mines and Shell Games at UNR
Originally
published 11/3/96
Slam-dunks
with Ma Bell & Mary Ellen McMullen
Originally
published 10/27/96
EDITOR'S
NOTE: The Oct.
27, 1996, Barbwire began a six-month investigation
into the labyrinthine intrigues of the University and Community
College System of Nevada (UCCSN), now called the Nevada System
of Higher Education (NSHE). At the suggestion of chess
grandmaster and author Larry Evans, most of the 1996 installments,
as well as one involving university issues in the following year,
were entered by the Sparks
Tribune in two categories of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize competition.
You may access the archive by clicking here. That ongoing
interest in the affairs of higher education has never waned. You
may use the NevadaLabor.com search
engine to do a keyword search on the occasional treatment
of university issues. You will also enjoy the ongoing comments
of longtime University of Nevada-Reno journalism Prof. Jake Highton.
Be well. Raise hell. — Andrew
[UPDATED
ON 11-22-2010]
Unemployment
debris and J.G. phone home
July 7, 1996
Spitbugs,
prophets and male chauvinist pigs
June 30,
1996
Eating
shoes & guzzling gas? Who you gonna call?
June 23,
1996
Smoking
guns, lone wolves and gaseous greed
May 19, 1996
Darth
Vader & ARCO's Empire strike back at Rebels
May
12, 1996
Big
oil, false choices and Pat McCarran's oranges
May 5, 1996
Gas
pedals and peddlers: BOHICA at the pump
April 28,
1996
Merle
Brennan —The Last American Sportsman
January 7, 1996
