The Lincoln Hall Association Publications
~ The Lincoln Holler ~
“Shooting the Shit While You Take Yours”
Volume 2, Issue 6
Mark your Calender: Letter from the Editor
Tuesday Nights
A friend of mine had a birthday
7:00 pm: RHA Council in the over the last weekend; 18 years
RHA Office old. It's one of those milestones of
life that are almost arbitrarily
Wednesdays Nights applied to life. At 18, you can buy
your own cigarettes, legally look
6:00 pm: LHA Meetings in the at porn and go to strip clubs (Little
Reading Room Darlings down in Vegas has a $5
cover charge for locals on
7:00 pm: Lincoln Haunted Tuesdays with a valid ID).
Basement Planning committee
But stop and think for a second.
in the Reading Room
Does that define exactly what
being 18 is? What defines any
9:00 pm: Whipple Hall
year of your life? Is it what you
Council in the Fish Bowl
can do on your birthday, or is it
something a little deeper then that.
Sunday Nights
My 18th, I woke up at 6:30 am,
Watch the football games took a shower, had breakfast, and
on the Big Screen in the went to school. I didn't even
Fish Bowl realize it was my birthday until
my Dad woke up for work and
sent me a “Happy Birthday” text.
It wasn't that I wasn't excited for, I
Weekly Weather just woke up and it felt like a
(Taken from the Weather.com) regular day. Being 18 didn't make
the world seem any different.
September 30 – October 5
I suppose that that reaction is
Wednesday: Partly Cloudy normal. People always expect to
feel different when their birthday
High: 60
Low: 36 hits. There's supposed to be that
feeling of change from the night
you're 17 and 364 days old to the
Thursday: Sunny morning you're 18. It's a little
High: 69 funny because you expect it the
Low: 39 most at a young age, forget about
it in the middle, and as you get
Friday: Sunny older, you can really feel every
High: 75 year (every day for that matter)
tacked onto your long, long life.
Low: 45
But for us right now, nothing
Saturday: Partly Cloudy
High: 64 Selected Headlines
Low: 38
-Tsunami in the Samoas kills 34
Sunday: Partly Cloudy
High: 57 -Senate panel rejects government
run insurance option
Low: 37
-US planning to send home 4000
Monday: Mostly Sunny troops from Iraq
High: 59
-NYC terror suspect pleads not
Low: 39 guilty
really changes (unless it's that
minute between getting kicked out
of a bar and those 21 shots that I
do not advise under any
circumstances).
I went through my 18th like any
other day. I got the usual “happy
birthday” wishes. I failed a
calculus test. It was all the same.
After class I went with a friend to
go get some coffee. En route, I
suddenly and unexpectedly found
myself in a park surrounded by 20
of my closest friends. There was
pizza. There was cake. There was
a brand new copy of the latest
Guitar Hero (III by this time). We
ate. We laughed. We talked. I got
clocked in the temple with a tennis
ball. It was awesome.
What really made my 18th year of
life wasn't the fact that I could
now puff a cigar on the streets and
look bad ass. That year was
memorable because of the
awesome people around me.
They're people I'll never forget.
In this week's issue, among the
usual, we have a call to arms. Joey
Nizuk asks us to get involved in
our community and do something
that will benefit all of us. We've
got some pretty awesome guys in
this hall; now is as good a time as
any to make some memories that
will set this year apart from every
other.
And that is all there is.
- Brian Parcon
Room 312
-Skater faces charges in right-of-
way dispute
-Lamar Odom marries Khloe
Kardashian
-Consumer confidence
unexpectedly falls in September
-Newspaper stocks surge
September 28, 2009
LHA News
Here's another set of updates from
the LHA. A few things that are
coming up on the list of to-do are
listed here:
• Homecoming – We're going to be
working on several different events
and participating in several of the
contests. Come to LHA meetings
for details.
• The Men of Lincoln Hall
Calendar – Most of the months are
taken. We'll start shooting soon and
then talk about printing and selling
prices.
• The Constitution – We will be
going over the constitution,
changing many things and
redefining the jobs of the executive
bored to make the club a better
functioning machine.
• Delegates to Whipple Council –
We need 10 guys willing and able
to attend meetings at Whipple
Council on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm
in the Fish Bowl to help voice our
opinion.
• Sausage Fest – Our aptly named
barbeque of epic proportions. If
you want to be part of it, whether
by planning or grilling, come to
LHA and ask about it.
• Lincoln Haunted Basement – It's
a fantastic fundraiser. We decorate,
we plan, we scare people. 7:00 pm
on Wednesdays in the Reading
Room. Come help out.
That's all we have for this week.
We've got a lot of work to do. If
you are interested at all in making
Lincoln even better than it is now,
make your way to the meetings.
-Brian Parcon
Room 312
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“I can stop whenever I want to... I just don't want to.”
Addiciton is never a favorite topic for discussion.
This is especially true for things generally well
loved; things like video games. In this second part
of our unofficial video game expose, Mr. Lemon
takes us into the the concept of addiction and a
theory on the what's and why's of video game
“addiction”.
If you couldn’t tell from my last paper, I have
strong opinions on video games. Growing up with
parents who don’t understand video games as a
form entertainment will do that to a guy. It was
pretty commonplace in my house for my mom to
walk in on me sending a plethora of Covenant
forces to meet their maker and make some remark
about how what I was doing was evil and this is
“why our generation is so violent” (commence eye
rolling now). Hence my last paper that you may or
may not have read while you were doing your
business.
Also growing up, there
were a few times where
that one special game
would come along and
I’d spend some extra
time playing it. Of
course my folks would
notice this and
arguments would ensue
on how I’m addicted,
video games are just
like drugs, I might as
well go shoot up, and
I’m destroying my life.
Once again, please
commence the rolling of
the eyes.
What was interesting about this though, was the
more I thought about it, the more I thought that
they might be on to something. In my case they
were being totally nuts, my gaming never topped
more then 6 or 7 hours a week which was less
time then they watched television. However, we
always hear those weird stories about kids
dropping out of school because it’s cutting in to
their MMO time or parents accidentally letting
their infant die because they can’t leave their raid
group to go feed it. So can someone be addicted to
video games? Are they just like drugs? So
naturally I turned to some online health journals
and did some research.
In one such article Keith Bakker, founder of
Europe’s first clinic for treating compulsive
gamers, is interviewed on this exact topic. Bakker
has found compulsive gaming to be more of a
social problem then a physiological addiction.
Addiction is when someone no longer has the
power to not do something when given the
opportunity. According to Bakker, only about 10%
of the cases he has are people who suffer from a
gaming addiction. The majority are people who
suffer from social problems and have no need for
addiction counseling. Bakker says that what most
of his cases need is communication. By providing
positive social experiences to his patients, Bakker
has helped many to put down the controller, find
some moderation, and move on with their lives
In another article, published by HealthDay News,
the reasons behind why people are compulsive
gamers were explored. Researchers found many
games that people were playing excessively
fulfilled many physiological needs, such as
achievement, freedom, and connection to others.
The author goes on to say that the most successful
video games are ones that find ways to satisfy the
gamers’ mental needs.
Reading articles was one thing, but the only way
for me to really understand weather video games
were addictive or weather gamers are compulsive
was to talk to one. I didn’t have to look far.
Someone who I was acquainted with at the time
had just started college and was no stranger to
playing WoW nearly all
day every day. Taking
breaks only to sleep, eat,
and go to the occasional
class. When I asked him
different questions
about his video game
habits I received very
similar responses to
what Dr. Bakker
received from his
patients, i.e. “Video
games are cheep
entertainment,” “I could
stop any time I wanted
to, I just don’t see the
big deal,” “All of my friends are online,” “I don’t
have anything better to do. “
Was this person addicted or was he just clinging to
the only social outlet he had? I would argue that
he was having trouble making the adjustment to
being away from home and was looking for
positive human interaction.
So what does this mean for all of us? I don’t
know, it’s definitely not for me to tell you how
much time you should spend gaming. But if you
do find yourself gaming more then you think is
healthy at least you are armed with this
information.
-Mitchell Lemon
Room 203
The Lincoln Review
Welcome to the first column of The
Lincoln Review. This hopefully recurring
entry will be an anonymous review of the
various programs run by RHA, Whipple
Council, and the Lincoln Hall Association.
This column is not written by myself, it is
a group think project. The writers of this
article necessarily deal with opinions that
may or may not be widely accepted, hence
the anonymity.
This is the start to many reviews of
programs within the White Pine
community. The first program up for
review is, the Lincoln Luau Which from
my own personnel experience was a lot of
fun. I don't know about you but a change
in flavor was pretty nice, and you have to
love the great variety of meats offered.
Although my opinion is the only one that
counts, so I set out to see what other
residents thought. Ben from room 214 in
Lincoln said he loved the Luau, “ it had
great food, great music and volleyball was
a sweet way to burn off all those calories.”
All in all I would say that the Lincoln
Luau was a success. Don't forget our RA's
worked pretty hard to set that up for us, so
make sure you thank them.
-The Lincoln Review
Staff Updates
A quick update from the guys who run our
lives and make sure that when we break
something, we don't get yelled at for it.
Please make sure to check-in and check-
out guests into our building. Guest must
check out even if they are heading to the
D.C. Store and back; anytime a guest
leaves they must check out.
- Please smoke 25 feet away from the
building. NO SMOKING ON THE
STEPS! The building and porch is made of
wood and brick. Plus, when the smoke
from the steps goes directly into second
floor's windows. Thank you for your
consideration.
- Final Drop Date is coming soon!
- Freshmen! If you have not done your
MAP Survey from the email in your UNR
Student email account - go do it today!
Thanks!
Thanks for being so enthusiastic this year!
-The Management
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Are you sick of being misrepresented ?
Well I hope you are because I am sick in
tired of it. Lets take back what we
rightfully own, and make are voices
heard in Whipple Council. For those of
you who do not know me, my name is
Joey Nizuk (Second floor 214), and I am
a transfer student from Sacramento,
California in my third year of school. I
am PROUD to say that I am a resident of
Lincoln Hall, and I am honored that I
share this great historical building with
very noble gentlemen such as yourself.
Though I have only been blessed with
laying my head to rest here for short six
weeks, I feel a great passion for this hall
and its atmosphere of brotherhood, and
acceptance. Now, I have great plans to
make this hall a better place for all of us;
for example I am starting a donation for
new pool cues, chalk, balls, and possibly
re-felting the table. Also, another
Lincoln Resident and I are working on
raising money to construct a felt top
poker table. I am also very excited that
members of LHA (Lincoln Hall
Association), and myself are organizing
Lincoln Hall Home coming events
(which we will prevail in all events). All
A Little bit of Comedy...
Editor in chief: Brian Parcon (312)
Super Editor: Jacob Camp (2nd Floor RA)
Contributers: Mitchell Lemon (203), Joey Nizuk (214)
Submissions or Comments can be emailed to LHApress@gmail.com
or slipped underneath 312's door.
All opinions expressed are those of the contributors and do not represent the views of the Residence Life, Housing, and Food
Service Department or the University of Nevada, Reno or the chief editor unless explicitly stated.
The Lincoln Holler
A Call to Action
of this has been discussed in LHA, but a
couple of the issues have been batted
down in Whipple counsel.
All of this sounds great for Lincoln, and
I know it is all going to be a lot of fun
for Lincoln residents. However, there is
a problem. We are poorly under-
represented in Whipple council, for
example it is stated in the Whipple
Constitution that each hall gets ten votes
on issues discussed, debated and voted
on that decide our outcome in the
Whipple Community. Furthermore, we
have two or three Lincoln residents
attending Whipple council and fifteen or
twenty White Pine residents. Clearly, we
are being outvoted by White Pine, but it
does not have to be like that, because no
matter how many White Pine residents
show up to Whipple Hall Counsel, they
are only allotted ten votes. At last, I want
the residence of Lincoln hall to all stand
up and take back what is ours, half the
votes in Whipple Hall Council. I am
proposing a special election for Lincoln,
in which we will vote on choosing ten
delegates to represent all the residents of
Lincoln. What I want from you, the
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residents of Lincoln, is to show up to our
LHA meeting this Wednesday evening at
6:00 p.m. Were we will be discussing the
special election, nominating delegates to
be voted on, discussing homecoming,
and re-constructing the LHA
Constitution. I want all of you to be
there, because every opinion matters and
this is your hall to, so take pride in it,
and share my passion. Finally, I want all
residence of Lincoln Hall to show up to
this Wednesdays night at 9:00 pm at
Whipple Council, to put forth our
presence and let White Pine know that
LHA and Lincoln will not sit idly by,
and that we are an army of Lincoln
residents that will not be batted around
any more.
- Joey Nizuk
Room 214
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily
conquered; yet we have this
consolation with us, that the harder the
conflict, the more glorious the
triumph.” (Thomas Paine)
…and messiah we could all believe in
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