In The News: College of Liberal Arts
When Jay Sarno opened Circus Circus casino in 1968, he charged an admission fee to visitors. “He thought it was so unique and wonderful that people would pay to go in,” says UNLV history professor Eugene Moehring.
If you've checked your email lately, I'm willing to bet you've gotten at least one.
Granted, he hasn't even been nominated or elected. But what if ... what if Donald Trump becomes President? How much of a jackpot would that be for America's gaming capital?
Across the country, Republican politicians have begun distancing themselves from their party’s presidential front-runner, Donald Trump, for fear of what a Trump nomination might mean for Republicans’ down-ballot chances. Not in Nevada.
One of the charges leveled against pornography, and there are a lot of them, is that it is fundamentally bad for women. Porn commodifies women's bodies, certain feminist rhetoric goes. It trains viewers to see women as nothing more than objects.
Little more than a week after Donald Trump easily won Nevada’s Republican caucus and professed his love for “the poorly educated,” many Republicans were appalled that during a presidential debate, he assured Americans his penis is normal, although he obviously isn’t. They seemed less appalled that he did so in response to “establishment” choice Marco Rubio suggesting it wasn’t, uh, huge.
The debate revolving around the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) contributed to the Michigan victories of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
While driving home to California following his less-than-triumphant two weeks at the Last Frontier in Las Vegas in February 1954, song-and-dance man Ronald Reagan, then at the lowest point in life, shared his sorrows with Nancy Reagan.
Over the past several weeks, Michael Green has added another entry to his usual roster of entertainment-related activities: politics-watching.
Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican US presidential nomination is building a momentum that may sweep away challenges by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, with his crushing win in the Nevada caucuses marking a third straight victory in state contests. Kasich has six and Carson has four.
When I was 10, my friend’s mother, who was a script supervisor for the sitcom Designing Women, asked me to audition for a part on the show. The role was that of a Vietnamese boat child named Li Sing, who Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) agrees to foster for a few weeks. The casting director was having trouble finding enough Asian child actors to audition for the role.