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Oral history interview with Leslie Ann Ybarra Paz conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on September 19, 2024 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Paz, a third-year Film and Graphic Design student, recalls the events of December 6. Her seminar course was scheduled to present their final volunteer projects at 10:00am in the Student Union Ballroom. After presenting, she called her mother for a ride home and was waiting at the bus stop near Maryland Parkway when she saw two police cars speeding towards campus. She then saw some girls on the sidewalk, and one said, "Shooter!" She tried to call her mom and her dad, but neither picked up. She joined the girls and, finally, her mother called back. She returned to the bus stop to meet her mother; she got in the car, and her mother exited South on Maryland Parkway to Tropicana and turned East (left). She then stopped in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the left side of the street to look for an apartment to live in, leaving Leslie in the car texting her friends, one of whom was trapped in Beam Hall (BEH). Leslie heard ambulances and let her brother know she was okay. After returning home, she spent time that evening with her family. Ybarra Paz shares that she feels more alert after December 6, and has grown closer to her classmates. Digital audio and transcript available.

Oral history interview with Emily Navarro Medoza conducted by Claytee D. White on August 5, 2024 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Mendoza, a freshman at UNLV, recalls working a pre-final exam event in Pida Plaza that began at 11:00 on December 6, 2023. As the first popping sound was heard, students began running out of Beam Hall into the open plaza area where her event was in progress. Mendoza witnessed the arrival of police cars, and when she heard, "shooter," she ran to the microphone and announced, "active shooter" before she began to run with her colleagues. A large group of students ran between the Student Union and FDH, across the parking lot, onto Maryland Parkway where all cars stopped, and they assembled at the business area near the Chipotle Restaurant. Mendoza and about nine others ran toward Eastern and ended up at the Medical Center on the corner of Harmon and Eastern where they were given shelter and snacks. Her sister picked her up after maneuvering around all the street closures.The next morning, Mendoza recalls the Rebel Events staff greeting each other in Pida Plaza with hugs, securing their belongings, and cleaning up the plaza. They were heartbroken but could not allow the disrespect of their event, their campus, to be left in such chaos. They felt fearful being in the area, yet, they decided to finish this event as they always do: by leaving the space better than they had found it. Digital audio and transcript available.

Oral history interview with Frank Waterman conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on March 5, 2025 for the UNLV Remembers: an Oral History of the 6 December 2023 Shootings project. In this interview, Waterman discusses his past career in the United States Navy and Army National Guard, ​before becoming a printing apprentice at a large job-printing warehouse. In 2008, Waterman took a job at the Wynn-Encore print shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2014, he began working at UNLV's Reprographics print shop, and in 2015, he opened Rebel Copy in the Student Union. He recalls on December 6, he was working at the shop with three student workers. When they heard the alarms, they closed (but did not lock) the front doors and he led his students out by the back door, exiting the Student Union by Pida Plaza. They heard shouting from police officers, but they didn't understand the words. They were between Beam Hall (BEH) and the Student Union, intending to head toward Wright Hall. They instead went between BEH and Student Union to the bus stop, where Waterman called his wife. He ended up at Vons, where he let people charge their phones from his car, and he took four people home. He remembers the smell of burnt rubber from so many emergency vehicles slamming on their brakes on Maryland Parkway. He also recalls phone calls from the Department of State office that oversees Las Vegas telling him their first priority was their safety, to mail the passport applications from their print shop when he could. Digital audio available; no transcript available.

The Claude Warren Papers (1916-2019) series consists of archaeological maps, surveys and reports, manuscript drafts, and administrative college faculty files. His papers also include organization and associational records, personal correspondence, and academic records. The majority of material in this series consists of research files from Nevada and California, in addition to manuscript drafts and files pertaining to Warren's employment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). This series also contains the professional papers of Robert H. Crabtree, a close friend and colleague of Warren.