I only lived in Reno for four years, but in many ways it is where I “grew up.” How much more tragedy can my little college town handle?
The University of Nevada, Reno will likely see the closure of more than a dozen degree programs, the elimination of a major college and the loss of about 75 faculty members by Fall 2011. The search is on to find $11 million to cut from UNR’s budget (nearly $50 million from higher ed) since state leaders passed a 6.9 percent cut to higher education yesterday — a figure UNR officials call “fantastic” compared to initial proposals as high as 22 percent just two weeks ago.
The term transsexual woman fits 33-year-old student Corinna Cohn, but her identity goes deeper than what her body shows.
“I want to be considered as somebody who is an economist, somebody who is libertarian and conservative in principle. Somebody who is smart. Somebody who’s friendly,” Cohn, who plans to graduate later this month, said. “I’m kind of nerdy … I really dig politics. I think that makes a lot more of who my identity is than what is or isn’t between my legs.”
