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ARTS OPINION Meme-able Self-help help PAGE 12 movies PAGE 21 NEWS SPORTS Recruiting goes worldwide PAGE 7 Griz G.O.A.T PAGE 31 Issue No. 15 January 30, 2019 KIOSK | CLASSIFIEDS & CONTENTS ON THE COVER INSIDE THE KAIMIN PHOTO DONÁL LAKATUA, DESIGN DAYLIN SCOTT Help Wanted KIOSK 2 Multiple positions in three fields available! Seasonal jobs, full-time (mid-June through August) plus weekend shoulder season. NEWS 4-8 -White Water Rafting Guide, Pay DOE -Outdoor Recreation Business Management Assistant, $10/hr plus tips PROGRAMMING 9 -Rafting/Fishing Shop Logistics Assistants $10/hr plus tips EVENTS 10-11 Email [email protected] or call 406.813.0595! OPINION 3, 12-13 FEATURE 14-17 $10 per hour- resources mapping and data entry for university based project. Need 3-4 self motivated individuals looking to make extra income on their terms; work remote, no set hours. MUSIC 18-19 For more information contact Nicole Camp at [email protected] or call Brittany at 406-443-7664 for application paperwork. Please ask her for the LSOC position. STYLE 20 Services HOROSCOPES 21 I Buy Imports < Subaru < Toyota-Japanese/German Cars & Trucks. Nice, ugly, running or not 327- 0300 ARTS 22-23 For Rent FOOD & PUZZLES 24-25 Room for Rent in 4-bedroom house, washer/dryer, kitchen use, parking spot. One block from bus- route, shared separate fridge. $550 and up, plus deposit. 406-360-7310 SPORTS 28-29, 31 GALLERIES 27, 32

NEWSROOM STAFF BUSINESS STAFF Editor-in-Chief News Reporters Business Manager Matt Neuman Melissa Loveridge, Sydney Ackridge, Jake Patrick Boise Daly, Katie Lindner, Erin Sargent, Addie Managing Editor Slanger, Helena Dore, Cameron Kia Weix Office Assistants Cassidy Alexander and Paul Hamby Norbert Weber Arts & Opinion Editors Arts & Opinion Reporters Drew Novak and Erin Goudreau Noelle Huser, Emma Smith, Mazana Boer- boom, Lily Soper The Montana Kaimin is a weekly independent student Sports Editor newspaper at the University of Montana. It does not Henry Chisholm Sports Reporters condone or encourage any illegal activities. The Kaimin LJ Dawson and Skylar Rispens office and the University of Montana are located on Multimedia Editors land originally inhabited by the Salish People. Kaimin is Sara Diggins and John Hooks Multimedia a derivative‘ ‘ of a Salish langage word, “Qeymin,” that is Quinn Corcoran, Eli Imadali, Micah Pengilly, pronounced kay-MEEN and means “book,” “message,” or Design Editor Kaden Harrison, Jiakai Lou, Daniel Duen- “paper that brings news.” Zoie Koostra sing and Hunter Wiggins

For comments, corrections or letters to the editor, contact Web Editor Designers [email protected] or call (406) 243-4310. Savannah Sletten Jackie Evans-Shaw, Lindsey Sewell, Daylin Scott and Halisia Hubbard For advertising opportunities, contact Features Editor [email protected] or call (406) 243-6541. Kailyn Mercer Copy Editors Luke Smith, Connor Simpson, Lydia Mercier 2 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com OPINION | EDITORIAL AND LETTERS Instead of thinking big, let’s fix the little things at UM

What if a 17-year-old prospective Grizzly It’s easy to look at prospective students as I definitely don’t see changing how many are uneven brick walkways on the Oval when the had visited the University of Montana cam- robots who are interested only in graduation offered as something that would significantly ground is dry. pus for the first time this January? Unless rates, program rankings and class size, but impact how I reflect on my time at UM. Just because there isn’t a metric that tells she was looking for a school with a dominant the typical teenager may care more about the It’s important that the University consid- recruits the odds a business major who lives basketball team, it’s tough to believe what she Food Zoo’s hours and the trendiness of the ers how to improve the value of the education in Craig Hall will have to throw his socks might have seen around here recently would dorms than any of that. Maybe we’re making it offers, but it’s just as important to make in the dryer after his walk home from class, have won her over. The sidewalks were inch- things more complicated than they need to sure students enjoy their time in Missoula. doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. Let’s try clean- deep puddles, the campus Wi-Fi and UM- be. Provost Jon Harbor said he wants to see That means spending time upgrading things ing up the little things. Connect emails stopped working. Somehow, more online classes offered during a meeting like campus infrastructure. Maybe the Wi-Fi there’s still asbestos in McGill Hall in 2019. with the executive committee of the Faculty troubles were a fluke we no longer need to LIKE IT? HATE IT? WISH WE WERE DEAD? These problems may sound trivial — except Senate this week. I took an online class once. worry about, but they made students’ lives Email us your opinions at the asbestos — but to people who spend It was alright. I wouldn’t say it was much bet- more stressful. It’s also frustrating to tip-toe [email protected] hours on campus every day, they aren’t. ter or worse than the classes I took in person. around mud puddles in the winter and dodge

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BIG UPS & BACKHANDS Your Voice: inclusion of wind and gender

Backhands to the companies that The eastern half of Montana has consistent- The article on page four of issue No. laid off hundreds of journalists this ly high wind speeds, and Montana is ranked 14 about parkour mentioned only that the fifth of the lower 48 states in terms of capacity young men were in town for the annual week. No, it’s fine, I love imagining for wind energy generation. Other states with “Balls Jam.” The photos show only men working in the service industry for similar wind capacities have been rapidly de- and boys and the article doesn't mention the rest of my life. veloping wind farms in the past couple of years the group being open to girls. Are there to great success. Oklahoma has over 17 percent any females participating in parkour? of its total electricity coming from wind, and Does the organization ever advertise that Big Ups to the fact that in 1998, The Iowa has over 25 percent wind. females are welcome to participate or is it Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell Though Montana has the same capacity, exclusively for boys? In A Cell, and he plummeted 16 feet we only get about 7 percent of our electricity As females excel in gymnastics and from wind energy. Many of the coal plants that parkour appears to incorporate gymnas- through an announcer’s table. supply a good chunk of Montana’s energy will tic skills, I was surprised to see the lack need to be decommissioned in the next couple of girls in your photos, and no mention of of years, and there’s no smarter business move young women in the article. Since the Uni- Backhands to everyone riding bikes and than investing in more wind energy right now. versity has approved a course and a gym splashing me with their bike slush mud. The wind we have installed right now is the has been secured for the "selfish" reason cheapest per megawatt hour, less than half the of having a "place to train that was our Big Ups to free bus service keeping your feet dry. price of coal-fired electricity. After initial infra- own," could you clarify if this is an equal structure costs, the “fuel” for wind is free, and opportunity offering or not? The language Socialism rocks. thus, over the course of its lifetime wind energy in the article was vague, referring to the is now significantly cheaper than coal. It’s time "athletes, kids and students.” Also, calling Backhands to broke ass for Montana to take advantage of this abundant your annual gathering "Balls Jam" sends a January. We know it’s not your natural resource, and we should encourage strong message. fault that all our Christmas Northwestern Energy to include more wind in money is gone, but we need to its 20-year plan. -Carla Miller blame SOMEONE. -Rebecca Mathisen

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 3 NEWS | MISSING MASCOT Law students go moose hunting, foresters fight back ERIN SARGENT [email protected]

Forestry students know a different type of finals week stress. The tension hanging in the air at the end of fall semester isn’t just about memorization and Blue Books. They all know it in their hearts: they will lose Bertha. Bertha is a name known throughout the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Con- servation. She is beloved by students and faculty alike. She is a figurehead for the department. She is also a moose. Well, just a moose’s head, to be exact. A female moose head, students have told me, with male moose antlers attached for a better effect. For most of the year, she hangs above the entryway to the forestry building until fall finals week, when students from the Blewett School of Law break in and steal her, mount her in the lobby of the law building and keep her until the School of Forestry’s annual Foresters’ Ball. “You know when Bertha goes,” said Austin Reed, a parks, tourism and recreation management major in the College of The W.A. Franke College of Forestry's moose head, affectionately named Bertha, hangs in the Alexander Blewett III School of Law atrium after its December kidnap- Forestry. “When Bertha’s gone, everyone ping by law students. PHOTO HUNGER WIGGINS knows about it because it’s on social media within a few minutes.” gave me a copy of the poem law students president,” she told me. “We put her in a it helped promote the ball. Like everyone When I found out Bertha had been sto- left with the Robber Ducky. She also gave wheelbarrow and take her over to the Col- else I talked to, she assured me there was len, I needed to investigate. So early on the me the contact info of the head of the For- lege of Forestry.” no real malice among students from the morning of Jan. 23, I walked into the forest- esters’ Ball planning committee, Maggie This, of course, is retaliation for Bertha. two schools. ry building, prepared to discover the truth. Noriega. It was time for me to check out the law I had been getting the clean-cut answers I saw immediately where Bertha was Noriega was quick to respond when I school. Entering the building, I finally saw everywhere I went, but I wanted to know supposed to have been. Her majestic vis- called her up, and she was able to fill me in her: Bertha. In all her female-moose-with- more. I wanted to know the nitty-grit- age had been replaced with the “Robber on some of the logistics of this forestry-law male-moose-antlers glory, hanging from ty history of this kidnapping tradition. I Ducky,” a drawing of a rubber duck with feud. I called her on Boondocker’s Day, the the second floor stairwell. An icon. had questions, and I needed to ask them. I a black mask, taunting the students of the day the deans from the schools of law and I wandered into the law office and met needed to go to the source. forestry department since last December. forestry meet for a little friendly competi- law registrar Maria Mangold. She told me In a crazy stroke of luck, a friend of I was able to get more information from tion: a log round toss in the middle of the a similar story – how stealing Bertha before mine told me her dad had been a law stu- the College of Forestry and Conservation Oval. But that wasn’t all. the Foresters’ Ball had become a friend- dent at UM in the ‘90s, and his best friend communications director, Kasey Rahn. She “Today, we’re gonna steal the law club ly tradition between the schools and how was the one to orchestrate Bertha’s kidnap- It’s no secret that our classified ads are a great deal! $5 dollars for first 10 words, $.0.25 for each additional word. Add logo for $15 Email [email protected]

4 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com The "Robber Ducky" poster replaces Bertha, the moose head usually hanging in the lobby of the W.A. Franke College of Forestry. PHOTO DANIEL DUENSING ping during their junior year. So I got his foresters in flannels. It was there that the number and called him up. traditions as we know them today were Justin Starin was in his third year of born. law school at UM in 1999 when he heard Starin said they began planning the the urban legend of law students stealing week leading up to the Foresters’ Ball to- Bertha, but it had never been more than a gether. “We literally sat down and scripted story told between classes. Bertha hadn’t out how we were gonna have them capture been stolen for years. A week before the our president,” he said. “It was completely Foresters’ Ball, Starin and his roommate planned with them.” snuck into the forestry building and took When I told Starin that this tradition Bertha. They brought her back to the law had carried on for almost 20 years, he said school and bike-locked her to the stairwell. it was amazing. “It was just fun,” he said. “This friend of mine had some connec- “We didn’t know any of these people prior tion with the radio station,” Starin told me. to this. I remember at the end of it, some “So he called the radio station and said law student ended up dating one of the for- ‘Hey, we’re holding Bertha hostage,’ and esters.” then he issued some kind of demands.” And it seems that is where law students They included tickets to the Foresters’ and foresters stand today, recreating the Ball and a six-pack of beer. events that unfolded almost two decades Students from the two schools eventu- earlier, creating a tradition of inter-college ally decided to meet up for negotiations community on campus. And all because a at the Iron Horse downtown, which at the few law students got ballsy back in 1999 time inhabited the old train station on Hig- and stole a female-moose-head-with- gins’ north end – law students in suits and glued-on-male-antlers named Bertha.

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 5 NEWS | LAW FEE RAISE

From left, leaders of the University’s Student Bar Association (SBA), Aaron Barker, Tyler Morgan, Summer Carmack, Angie Pancost and Calder Thingvold, discuss the memorandum the SBA and ASUM are trying to pass that would require law students to pay a different student activity fee than before. Law students could no longer seek funds from ASUM to make student groups. PHOTO ELI IMADALI New proposal would raise law student activity fee

HELENA DORE While other UM students pay almost $150 ports, there were 224 students enrolled in the [email protected] in student activity fees, law students pay just law school for fall 2018. This means ASUM under $90 per year. Despite paying about would have received $23,520 from law stu- Law students could pay $60 more for stu- two-thirds of the fee, law students receive all dents this year if the legislation were passed, dent activity fees due to a new piece of leg- of the benefits the fee pays for. a 75 percent increase. islation being considered by the Associated If passed, the agreement would raise the One group of students that ASUM and Students of the University of Montana. student activity fee for law students enrolled the SBA are hoping to reach are joint-degree These students are currently receiving in seven or more credits by about $60 per students enrolled in the law school. Joint-de- funds and services from both ASUM and year. This means that law students would gree students are seeking both law degrees the Student Bar Association, a student gov- be charged the same total amount as all oth- and another degree. Under the current pro- ernment organization that describes itself as er students, but 30 percent of the fee would posal, these students would have to pay the “the organized body of all enrolled students go to the SBA and 70 percent would go to full ASUM fee plus the full SBA fee. This at the University of Montana School of Law,” ASUM. would result in a nearly $200 student activity on its website. According to the University census re- fee payment each year.

6 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com NEWS | ENROLLMENT

quired to pay the regular student activity fee. This was due to the fact law students are represented by two separate student UM hopes to expand bodies, something not experienced by other students. “Right now, it’s totally unequal,” ASUM international recruitment President Alex Butler said. “This is probably the furthest along in the talks that we’ve ADDIE SLANGER ever come to.” [email protected] Earlier last year, the exemption for law students was removed. Executives from the Early results from a market research study SBA and ASUM met for negotiations last showed areas of potential growth in interna- summer and drafted an agreement. tional recruitment for the University of Mon- “I thought that we reached a fair deal,” tana. Carmack said. “They [ASUM] do have strong Cathy Cole, UM’s enrollment chief, commis- opinions, and they do have valid points.” sioned the study after being hired last fall. The With hopes to end the long-lasting dis- goal was to pinpoint recruitment areas with pute, Carmack and SBA Vice President Ty- high potential and capitalize on them. Cole re- ler Morgan introduced the memorandum to cently received preliminary results and, among the ASUM Senate in early December, but the other areas, UM’s international recruiting mar- Senate thought Carmack and Morgan need- ket showed room for improvement. ed more evidence to show that law students “We’re really looking at all the ways we can supported the memorandum. The Senate re- recruit and bring international students to our quested that Butler and the SBA gather more campus,” Cole said. “We have our international data from law students before giving a final recruiter [back] for the first time this year.” ruling. The new international recruiter, Brigitta Lee, Butler said there wasn’t much data at the has focused most of her time in Southeast Asia time. This was because the Senate meeting thus far, Cole said. Cathy Cole in Brantly Hall on Aug. 22, 2018. was on short notice and it was the middle of As enrollment at UM continues to decline, PHOTO SARA DIGGINS finals week. so does the number of foreign students at the “Right now we’re focused on how stu- University. something they can’t get any place else. Once dents are feeling,” Carmack said. Carmack, While previous budget issues resulted in the we can communicate that effectively, in the along with other SBA executives, put togeth- University cutting its only international recruit- international marketplace, I know that the stu- er a draft survey to gauge how law students er in early 2017, the problem also may lie in the dents will come here.” feel about the proposal. desired field of study for international students. In an attempt to clarify specifically what Under the proposal, law students would “There’s a lot of uncertainty amongst According to a study by Brookings Institute, UM offered international students that they also no longer be able to form student groups ASUM,” Butler said. “We’re trying to really more than 60 percent of international students couldn’t receive elsewhere, Cole did not re- through ASUM. This is because only a por- gauge how law students feel.” enroll in STEM programs for their bachelor’s or spond to four phone calls, an email and a text tion of the student activity fee would be paid If the agreement passes, all law students master’s degrees. message from her secretary. to ASUM. Student groups can still receive except for those enrolled in a joint-degree The marketing firm’s analysis told Cole that The market for international students is a funding through the SBA. program will be ineligible for ASUM stu- UM had more of a “softer sciences” appeal. lucrative one. Sixty percent of international stu- Both student government organizations dent group funding. However, they will still “[The report showed] students have come to dents fully fund their own education, according fund student groups, host events and ad- be able to run for Senate and use all other us if they want majors in the social sciences or to a 2018 study done by the Migration Policy In- dress student concerns. But while ASUM other ASUM services. the liberal arts,” Cole said. “That was helpful to stitute. The same study found that internation- advocates on behalf of the student body at If the Senate does not pass the agreement, know. That helps me determine what kind of al students contributed $39 billion to the U.S. large, the SBA only represents law students. Carmack said it would be up to the next messaging I can use.” economy in the 2017-2018 school year. “For 100 years, the law school has had its ASUM administration to approve another Cole said she has been working with Provost International students also tend to retain at a own governing body,” SBA President Sum- agreement. Every accredited law school has Jon Harbor to employ faculty traveling overseas higher rate, Cole said. mer Carmack said. “We can do our own a Student Bar Association, she said. “I think to aid in recruitment. Retention is another area where UM hopes thing around here.” [ASUM] wants to honor that 100-year-old As of yet, there are no other definitive plans to improve. Only 46 percent of freshmen who The proposal would resolve a years-long tradition.” to grow the international recruitment program. enroll at UM will graduate, according to De- conflict between ASUM and the SBA over There is currently no date scheduled for UM may partner with a recruitment company partment of Education statistics. how to fairly divvy up fees. the final ASUM ruling on the agreement, in the future, but that’s “not really close enough Cole said she doesn’t have the exact date In 1969, the University Board of Regents but it will likely be revisited by ASUM in the to talk about yet,” Cole said. she’ll receive the rest of the conclusive study decided that law students should not be re- next couple months. “We really do offer [international students] results.

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 7 NEWS | STUDENT LIFE & POLICE BLOTTER Recycle that punch card: UM coffee operations switch to app

KATIE LINDNER Katie Helms, manager of several of the said. “We plan on expanding this through- [email protected] coffee shops on campus, said the app is a out the semester and doing some promo- push toward sustainability. tions.” Punch cards are being replaced by an app “Rather than having the customers that Additional perks will be offered to those rewards system at all UM Dining coffee op- do have smartphones continuing to use who use the app, Bundy added. erations on campus. punch cards, kind of move toward the app Helms said it seems like a lot of students Flok, a rewards app available for iOS and so we are being a little less wasteful,” Helms are interested in being more sustainable, so Android, was introduced to all campus cof- said. most reactions to the app have been positive. fee locations in November. Its use has really For those who don’t have smartphones or Information is posted on the app for cus- started picking up this semester, according don’t want to use the app, paper punch cards tomers who have questions about specials, to UM Dining Marketing and Communica- are still available at all campus coffee loca- hours of operation or where the shops are tions Manager Trail Bundy. tions. located. Customers can provide feedback To use it, customers download the app, Bundy said another reason behind the through the app as well. go to a coffee location on campus and scan switch is to make earning rewards more con- UM coffee operations has six locations the QR code a barista provides. After nine venient for customers. on campus, including the Market in the UC, punches, the 10th coffee is free; this includes “It’s hard to keep track of your paper Biz Buzz in the Gallagher Business building, espresso drinks and specialty drinks. cards. They end up in the bottom of your Sidebar in the Alexander Blewett School of According to Bundy, 175 people were us- car and purse and suddenly, you have 10 of Law, Le Peak in the Corner Store, Recess in ing the app on Jan. 23. these coffee cards hidden,” Bundy said. “We the Phyllis J. Washington Education Build- “Our goal with this program is to have just want to find one way, one platform to get ing and Think Tank above Urey Under- 20 new members every week. We have met all of your punches on one application.” ground Lecture Hall. Dennis Creel, director of the Market, shows off the that so far this semester and we continue Bundy began looking into switching to Dennis Creel, manager of the Market, Flok app on his smartphone. The application is new to grow,” Bundy said. “We just want to en- online rewards in June 2018. It took some said Flok is a tool for moving forward. to campus and acts as a punch card system for those buying coffee on campus. sure that throughout all of our operations, time to make sure the app would be wel- “Everybody has a phone, and it’s a great PHOTO DANIEL DUENSING we have a sustainable focus in our business come, he added. way to keep your coffee card tallied up. It’s practices.” “This is only the beginning for Flok,” he the 21st century, you know,” Creel said. Some usual, and some unusual, suspects JAN. 20: POM-POM FACE-PALM PAUL HAMBY with the suspected source, their door stayed found three bouncers under 21, beers-in-hand. [email protected] shut. Hard to comprehend the log- Two parents had a little too much All three received minor-in-possession citations. ic there. RAs do know your spirit, or spirits, at the Glam Jam KAILYN MERCER names, you know that, cheerleading tournament JAN. 22: THE HAUNTING HONDA [email protected] right? at the Adams Center. A University Villages resident called police When other audience after seeing two people sitting in a parked Hon- JAN. 14: ALL BARK, NO BOMB JAN. 17: UNCHAINED members com- da, menacingly. Officers arrived shortly after, After a handgun magazine was discov- MALADY plained to security, but could not locate any suspicious characters, ered at Sentinel High School, University of A bike was they decided to or their sedan. Apparently, the worst thing Montana police aided city officers by sending stolen near the leave the cheering about them was owning a Honda. in the bomb squad: a black lab named Ruger, Broadcast Media to the profession- and his handler. The good boy made a quick Building when its als. JAN. 22: COLOMA CAPER sweep of the locked-down school and found cable lock proved UMPD did a sweep through the Univer- nothing. Students returned to classes the fol- futile against the JAN. 21: TRIPLE KILL sity Village apartments after another resident lowing day. thief’s efforts. Pro UMPD arrived complained about a pot smoker somewhere tip: don’t use a god- to a University Villages on premise. The culprit covered their tracks a JAN. 16: ABER REEFER-AL damn cable lock. Pro tip apartment after receiving little too well for University police. The only A certain scent prompted a visit from again: who’s still riding bikes a noise complaint. “They were consequence they’ll deal with is the guilt of dis- the conduct referral fairy. Despite several at- in the snow? Buses are free in Mis- just bouncing around,” UMPD appointing their parents with their illegal drug tempts by the Aber Hall RA to make contact soula. Sgt. Brad Griffin said. After investigating, they use.

8 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com PROGRAMMING | WHAT WE’RE WATCHING See the Two new docs expose the morons responsible for Fyre Fest MAZANA BOERBOOM name [email protected]

Fyre Festival founder and currently-incar- of your cerated Billy McFarland took procrastination, disorganization and bull-shitting to a level even a student couldn’t pull off in the fraud that broke theater headlines in spring 2017. The failure inspired Netflix and Hulu to dive into exactly what went wrong with a pair of documentaries released this January. Netflix’s “FYRE: The Greatest in lights Party That Never Happened” and Hulu’s “Fyre Fraud” each took part of the picture and did it justice. However, neither tells the whole story. So which one is worth your precious time? COURTESY PHOTO NETFLIX err… print! Our The festival, held on the Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas and co-founded by has-been made the festival appealing and ultimately Hulu kept on track by showing McFarland’s rapper Ja Rule, was supposed to be the pinnacle drove it into a ditch. newest business venture: teaching other in- readers love the of a millennial’s ideal lifestyle. The promo video “FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never mates music entrepreneurship and concluding promised beautiful beaches, gorgeous models, Happened,” took a different approach. Rather with an ominous statement: “It’s a great time to movies. Make luxury living and the best musical artists. What than focus on McFarland, Netflix instead inter- be a conman in America.” it delivered was a gravel construction site, sog- viewed several people who worked closely with We’ll likely never get the complete picture of gy mattresses and repurposed FEMA tents. him during the festival’s inception. They shared what happened behind the scenes, but watch- sure they know “Fyre Fraud” is more interested in the crook stories of their futile attempts to put the festival ing both films gets you pretty close. For viewers behind the catastrophe, including one-on-one together. Anxiety of its eventual failure was pal- looking for a more in-depth look at the making interviews with McFarland and exposing a man pable throughout the interviews. of the festival and the people behind it, “FYRE” your theater’s obsessed with the lifestyle of the one percent. Netflix’s buildup to the big event was rap- is the film of choice. For viewers hoping for a The film’s line-up of experts in psychology, turous, but it lost me in the last 15 minutes. Sap- more analytical take on it all and a cautionary schedule by reporting and social media (among others) an- py inspirational music played while interview- tale of getting in way over your head, “Fyre alyzes McFarland’s motives and the “FOMO” ees waxed poetic about how McFarland needs Fraud” is the way to go. purchasing the (fear of missing out) mindset of youth that to be held accountable, but surely he’ll be back. Kaimin’s special The 45th president: ‘What a fuckin’ story’ movie theater ELI IMADALI The president is sworn in, gives his uncharac- more than almost any other show I’ve watched. [email protected] teristically dark inauguration speech, and it’s offi- I’m certainly not impartial – it is about journalists, cial. Trump is number 45. and I am a journalist – but I found it intoxicating. ad package. “Okay, let’s go!” says Baquet. The beginning of The bustle of the newsroom and the feeling of what will become historic and challenging cover- watching the first draft of history being vigorous- It’s Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The sky age for the “Newspaper of Record” is here. ly deliberated and written, particularly while we Send us an email at is overcast as the words of President Donald J. This was the opening scene of “The Fourth Es- are living it, was incredible and nerve-wracking. Trump’s inauguration echo throughout Ameri- tate,” a four-part documentary series by director In an era of heightened media distrust, at- [email protected] ca. The New York Times’ newsroom is buzzing: Liz Garbus, produced by Showtime. The series tributable in part to the 45th president, this series phones are ringing, reporters are typing and jour- intimately follows The New York Times and its brings some much-needed transparency to the for more information. nalists are glued to the screen watching history reporters and editors, from the newsroom to Air process of one of the industry’s most prestigious unfold. Force 1 to their homes, as they cover the Trump newspapers. “Wow,” says Dean Baquet, executive editor of presidency. “The Fourth Estate” is available to watch on Show- The Times. “What a story. What a fuckin’ story.” “The Fourth Estate” immediately drew me in, time, Hulu, YouTube and other streaming services.

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 9 EVENTS | CALENDAR Events January 30 - February 6

ing, Japanese matcha or a classic British Critical darling LP will be stopping in are $6 too, so don’t forget yours at home. Wednesday 30 cuppa. Don’t forget: when in doubt, pinky Missoula on her Heart to Mouth tour in out. Lake Missoula Tea Company at 136 E. support of her latest album, coincidental- Karaoke at the Kaimin’s bar of choice, Broadway. 6 p.m. ly titled “Heart to Mouth.” She’s written the Union. Every Monday from 9 p.m. 21+. Work by the artists at the Clay Studio songs for Cher, Rihanna, the Backstreet of Missoula are featured at the Daily Inter- Get down your fiddle and get down Boys and Christina Aguilera. How can you If you need some soul to round out your actions exhibit in the first floor gallery in your bow. Open mic night at Green Alter- miss that? By the way, we have a one-on- Monday, head to Motown on Mondays at the Social Sciences building. Exhibit runs native Dispensary. 314 N. 1st St. W., near one Q&A with the musician in this very the Badlander. Featuring classic and new through Feb. 7. Free. Northside Kettlehouse. 7 p.m. issue. (Check that out on page 19.) The Wil- remixes of Motown, soul, funk and disco. ma at 131 S. Higgins Ave. 8:30 p.m. $25-$35. 9 p.m. 21+. Free. Learn more about fighting money in DJs Kris Moon and T-Rex bring elec- politics at the public library at Chili & tronic dance tunes to Party Volcano, the Speak Out. Discuss and learn about Mon- latest incarnation of Dead Hipster, at the tana’s effort to reverse the Citizens United Badlander. $1 vodka all night. 10 p.m. 21+. Sunday 3 Tuesday decision. 6 p.m. No cover. 5

Laugh with or at the folks willing to Baseball is allegedly America’s favor- The Craicers and Friends bring tradi- get on stage at the Revival Stand-Up Com- ite pastime, but everyone knows football tional Irish music to Imagine Nation Brew- edy open mic at the Badlander. 7:30 p.m. Friday 1 is where it’s at. We all love pigs in a blan- ing each Tuesday. 6-8 p.m. All ages. Free. Come early to get in on the Women’s ket and cheese dip, but skip the clean-up Comedy Workshop, open to all women and and head to The Union Club for some Su- Dust off the banjo you found at that nonbinary people looking to improve their First Friday! Head downtown for a vari- per Bowl fun. P.S.: free pool all day. 208 E. pawn shop and head to Montana Distillery act or talk about funny stuff. 6 p.m. ety of Missoula’s monthly arts and culture Main St. Party starts at 3 p.m. Kick-off is for the picking circle. 6-8 p.m. every Tues- experience. See works by local artists like at 4:30. 21+. Or head to the UC Theater at 4 day. All ages. For trivia buffs, hit up either Brains on painter Abbey Moore, space landscaper p.m. for pregame food and fun. Free. Broadway at the Still Room at 7:30 p.m. or Robin Dobbe and photographer Geoffrey Warm up your soggy brain for Trivia Trivial Beersuit at the Press Box at 8:30 p.m. Paul Taylor. Honestly, there’s just too much Center yourself with some hair of the Tuesdays at the VFW each week. 8-10 p.m. stuff to see for us to print. And hey, most dog. Yoga and Cider at Western cider. 10:30 Drink specials on domestic tallboys, well Orgone’s gritty funk and soul bring exhibitions serve free wine. 5-8 p.m. Free. a.m. $10 covers class and one cider. drinks and Fireball. 21+. some West Coast rhythm to the Top Hat. All ages. Doors at 8:30 p.m. $15. If you’re more jagerschnitzel than yoga, check out Brunch and Biers at Missoula’s Vodka RedBull works wonders for Saturday 2 German brewery and eatery, Edelweiss Wednesday 6 Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander. 10 Bistro at Bayern Brewing. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. p.m. Free. Time is an infinite loop, never-end- Feeling competitive? Got a sick free ing and kind of a slog. But Bill Murray is throw? Check out the intramural 3-Point amazing. And “Groundhog Day” is peak and free-throw competition at the Rec Thursday 31 Bill Murray. Can you handle a day-long Monday 4 Center. Free for students. Check for regis- marathon of one of the funniest movies tration details online. of all time? What if it meant winning a Fancy yourself part of the upper crust? year of free movies — and free popcorn? Tune up your zither and head to Open Women’s climbing night at the Rec Cen- Lake Missoula Tea Company has you cov- That’s worth spending a Saturday at Mis- Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Ev- ter rock climbing wall. Get belay certified ered with its monthly Tea Tasting and Talk. soula’s finest local theater, right? The Roxy ery Monday from 6-8 p.m. and climb. $5 includes gear and personal- This edition will focus on the rituals that Theater at 718 S. Higgins Ave. $20 for the ized instruction. 9-10:30 p.m. All levels of go into making the world’s favorite caf- day or $8 for a single screening. Check the Live Music Mondays at Conflux Brew- experience welcome. feinated beverage, be it Chinese tea shar- Roxy’s website for showings. ing starts each week at 6 p.m. Growler fills

10 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com EVENTS | CALENDAR Top 4 Events: Comedy, tea, art and LP WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, JAN. 30 FEB. 1 Laugh with or at the First Friday! Head down- folks willing to get onstage town for a variety of Missou- at the Revival Stand-Up la’s monthly arts and culture Comedy open mic at the experience. See works by lo- Badlander. Hosted by local cal artists like painter Abbey comedy mainstay, Charley Macorn. 7:30 p.m. Moore, space landscaper Robin Dobbe and pho- Free. Come early for the Women’s Comedy tographer Geoffrey Paul Taylor. Honestly, there’s Workshop, open to all women and non-bina- just too much stuff to see for us to print. And hey, ry people looking to talk funny stuff. 6 p.m. most exhibitions serve free wine. 5 - 8 p.m. Free. THURSDAY, SATURDAY, JAN. 31 FEB. 2

Fancy yourself part of the Critical darling LP will be upper crust? Lake Missoula stopping in Missoula on her Tea Company has you covered Heart to Mouth tour in sup- with its monthly Tea Tasting port of her latest album, coin- and Talk. This edition will focus on the cultur- cidentally titled “Heart to Mouth.” She’s written al tea rituals, be it Chinese tea sharing, Japanese songs for Cher, Rihanna, the Backstreet Boys and matcha or a classic British cuppa. When in doubt, Christina Aguilera. Read our Q&A with the mu- pinky out. 136 E. Broadway. 6 p.m. sician on page 19. The Wilma. 8:30 p.m. $25-$35. Butterfly Herbs will host “Pentimenti” by Erin Langley on First Friday. PHOTO ERIN LANGLEY

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montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 11 OPINION | MENTAL HEALTH Does your business have daily specials or student discounts?

GRAPHIC LINDSEY SEWELL Need help self-helping? Look no further.

Look at you. You’re crying. Why? Take a look at is better than sadness, yeah? Yeah. But now you 11. Wait a minute. Yes, you can handle it…The your life. Why wouldn’t you be crying? It’s OK, cry- want to punch stuff, but you can’t lose your dam- answer is corpse pose. It has always been corpse ing is cathartic! But you probably want to stop cry- age deposit because you’re really poor and honest- pose. ing before you need to leave the house again, don’t ly that’s probably why you were crying in the first 12. Here’s what you’re gonna do. Lie back on you? That’s what I thought. So, here’s what you do. place. Shit. the floor. Flat on your back, arms at your side, 1. Do some yoga. The easy shit. Downward 7. Uh… OK, here’s what you’re gonna do. Drink palms up, fingers separated. Breathe. Focus on dog. Did you fall? Of course you did. Now you’re more Tension Tamer tea! I’m sure it’s clinically breathing into your belly, not your shoulders. In crying on the floor. This isn’t going well. I’m sorry. proven and FDA approved to treat rage and a mul- through your nose, out through your mouth. Stay Maybe try some yoga on the floor? titude of other ugly emotions that you feel all the still. 2. Now you’re laughing at yourself! That’s an time, like being jealous of Jessica a decade after the 13. Close your eyes, picture your house. Not the improvement, right? Keep laughing. Don’t start fateful day that obviously ruined your life. one you live in, but the one you want. Picture the crying again because you’ve remembered you 8. The anger has overwhelmed you. You have angry, hurtful thoughts whispered in your head were sad and fell down during yoga. Seriously, no, transcended mortal rage into god-like fury. floating away. Use your mind and your powerful stop crying. Just laugh again? Please? 9. Now that you’re a god, you should probably thoughts against your anxiety. Focus. 3. This yoga thing isn’t working out. Do you stop crying. None of your subjects will respect 14. Keep breathing. Wiggle your fingers first, have any candles? Light them. The flames will you if your tears are spilling all over them from then your toes. Your negative feelings aren’t per- Reach an army of Coupon Kings calm you down. the great heights you’ve now reached as a celestial manent. Everything will be OK. I mean, look at 4. Grab your Celestial Seasonings Tension Tam- being. You’re large enough to destroy cities. And you! You’re doing yoga! and Queens by advertising your er tea, sit down and watch that candle burn. Re- Jessica’s house. Your crippling debt can’t affect you deals in the Kaimin. member the boy who dumped you in eighth grade now. Email [email protected]. at Jessica’s birthday party and then kissed Jessica in 10. Alright, stop fantasizing. You’re no god. You front of you while “Check Yes Juliet” was playing? don’t want all that responsibility anyway. Sounds KAILYN MERCER 5. The candle is a metaphor for his house. hard. You couldn’t handle that. You can’t even han- [email protected] 6. Alright, now you’re angry. That’s cool, anger dle yoga.

12 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com OPINION | COLUMN Sure, befriend your professor. Just don’t sleep with them

If you’re still friends with your high school teachers, either you were a kiss-ass or they were creepy. Is that dickish? Per- haps. But riddle me this: if your teacher is so cool, why can’t they find friends who are legal adults? In college, the situations are more nu- anced. Maybe you’re a nontraditional or graduate student and there isn’t even an ag- gressive age difference. You might be older than your professor. Maybe your kids go to the same daycare. In this case, who am I to judge? Well, I’m judging anyway. Admittedly, the Helena School District has, like, a record number of creepy teachers, and I grew up with a minor complex. Because of that, when I hear about my peers in their early 20s hanging out with their professors, I get a weird vibe. Before finding out whether or not professor-student friendships are inappropri- ate, however, let’s define “friendship” in GRAPHIC JACKIE EVANS-SHAW itself. Personally, I’m friendly with a few of my professors. After three years in the same I’ve never gotten a professor’s digits. consensual relationship between a teacher while they were trying to learn the subjunc- program — especially in something like So where does it get weird? Where it and student due to a little problem called tive tense. creative writing where oversharing is the always gets weird. Sex. If there’s a chance “power imbalances.” Once I had this gor- At the end of the day, if you are friends name of the game — you get to know each you want to bang your professor, get a new geous French TA who was only two years with your professors, more power to you. other. Office hours go from a place to dis- professor. If there’s a chance your professor older than me (I think he was gorgeous, but They’re pretty damn cool people. But if cuss your grade to a place to gossip, discuss wants to bang you, get a new professor but in retrospect he may have just been French you want to bang them, please don’t. Or, at politics, your future or their future, your at twice the speed. and tall). I thought about going for it, but least, wait until they aren’t responsible for friends and family and adorable dog, Otis. “But Lily, we’re both consenting adults,” didn’t. Why? Well for starters, because he uploading your grades to Moodle. But would I text them asking to wan- I hear you say. And maybe you are. Doesn’t had a girlfriend and was not interested in der around Kohl’s with me, or to complain matter. Don’t bang your professors. And me sexually. But beyond that, I didn’t make about my boyfriend’s inability to put the if your professor tries banging you, email a move because he was my direct superior. LILY SOPER toilet seat back down? Probably, if I had me, and I’ll punch that professor in the face. And because I’m pretty sure my classmates [email protected] their phone numbers, but for some reason There’s no conceivable way to have a fully got sick of my failed attempts at flirtation

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14 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com Halsey Kordonowy and Joshua Bacha chat on the steps of the Union Ballroom on Oct. 20 at Ghost Carrot Record fest PHOTO DONAL LAKATUA

In the ‘90s, the smell of smoke and stale ago for ages 7 to 16. The girls are encouraged booze welcomed a tight-knit group of music to play without being told how to play, form- lovers into Jay’s Upstairs, a hole-in-the-wall ing their own bands and writing original Missoula dive bar and music venue. For as songs. many women who seemed to be hanging Instructors are strong female role models around, very few of them were playing in like 18-year-old Erin Szalda-Petree, the lead bands. It wasn’t talked about much, maybe singer and guitarist of Carpool, a vibrant because it wasn’t thought about much. The band of Hellgate High indie-pop rockers. The guys were the music geeks and musicians girls are given “the space to be as noisy and and the girls groupies and girlfriends. You loud as they want to be”, said Szalda-Petree. got into a band by being invited, and dudes “Giving them that opportunity to wail on invited more dudes. the instruments is so beneficial to their con- Kia Liszak, 20 at the time, was fed up. She fidence.” and her girlfriends locked themselves in a ga- At the end of the camp, they perform at Erin Szalda-Petree sings during Carpool’s set during the Winter Formal, held at Free Cycles on Jan. 25. rage, picked up instruments they didn’t know the Top Hat, a coveted Missoula venue that PHOTO SARA DIGGINS how to play and left the garage as “Sasshole.” many local bands strive to play. Before the As the only girl punk band in town, the 2018 fall showcase, the girls buzzed around dramatically,” Liszack said. “They are for- tion. There are underlying currents of sexism group’s audiences focused on its gender and the bar’s green room, giggling about their mulating at a young age such a different idea that remain, and women still feel patronized commented on its looks more than its music. nerves and discussing their emotions: excit- about it.” by their male counterparts. The environment Liszak kept at it, though, because she knew ed, hyper-confident. They gave each other She hopes the confidence displayed on the surrounding DIY music, a culture that prides she wanted to normalize female and nonbi- words of encouragement before taking the Top Hat stage will remain through their teen itself on being accepting, can still feel exclu- nary people playing rock music. stage as the Golden Unicorns, Divine Devils years. But when they are lugging their guitar sive to anyone but cisgender white men. Although Liszak made great strides, and the Vibrations. When they weren't play- cases into their college dorms, will they still Halsey Kordonowy was 21 in 2016 and there’s still a long way to go when it comes ing, they flooded the front row, jumping up be supported and respected playing the mu- regularly attending shows in Missoula. Like to Missoula’s music scene. Now 43, Liszak di- and down, cheering for each other. sic they want? Liszak, she grew tired of watching. Her friend rects the Zootown Arts Community Center, It’s enough to give a Sasshole hope. “I re- The Missoula music scene is still mostly Karlie Efinger, 24 at the time, invited her to where she started a girls rock camp four years ally do think it’s going to change the scene run by men and lacking diverse representa- start a punk band called “Moss Mouth.” The

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 15 She’s slowly regaining confidence in her respecting people’s pronouns. bass playing, but her past experiences plague “If someone misgender[s] me, I hold them her with imposter syndrome. She still won- accountable,” she said. ders if she’s only treated a certain way by a Burkhart's friend Chloe Sky Dittloff, 19, crowd because she’s playing with a male mu- said the music scene has been working to be sician established in the scene. more queer-inclusive, but needs to make the “The difference of how someone treats same effort with racial diversity. Dittloff is a you before you go onstage and how someone Blackfeet photographer and poet who grew treats you after … plays into the whole gender up in Missoula and isn’t afraid to tell Bur- thing,” said Elizabeth Taillon, 28, who plays khart if a venue feels “too white.” guitar and sings in the pop punk band Go “Missoula has a very large Native Ameri- Hibiki. can population, but it’s very poorly represent- She and her male bandmates were set- ed in the music scene,” Dittloff said. ting up for a show at the Kettlehouse Brew- Dittloff believes that white people usually ery when a man approached her and asked only talk to other white people out of comfort. if she was any good at guitar. “It’s so stupid Not all Native Americans are urban, many and laughable,” she said. “I have had to work grew up on reservations, only talking to other harder than my male bandmates in order to Native Americans, and they might have prej- establish this baseline of respect.” udice issues against white people themselves. Ask just about any musician who is a “I know when I was younger I definitely woman in this town and you’ll hear echoes did,” Dittloff said. “It's a matter of empathy of what Taillon dealt with at the Kettlehouse. and the imagination it takes to at least start Emily Silks, the drummer in four different understanding another person's lived experi- local bands, says she felt isolated when she ence.” started playing music in Missoula because fe- The music industry is still white male musicians, especially drummers, were male-dominated — from music instructors scarce. She noticed people commenting on and music store employees to sound engi- her gender, rather than her skill. At Ghost neers, bookers and promoters. The same voic- Carrot Record Festival, a DIY music festival at es decide who gets to be amplified on stage, the Union Ballroom in October, someone told resulting in a homogenous makeup of genres her she was “so powerful as a female drum- and performers. Basically, it’s a lot of local, mer.” It was well-intentioned, but she didn’t white-dude bluegrass, funk and psych rock. see it that way. “I just book the people who hit me up, the One of Silks’ bandmates, Molly Buchan- majority of which are male, and that is just be- an, 24, is the steadfast leader of art-rock band cause of how the industry works,” says Josh- Tormi. She had to cut ties with another mu- ua Bacha of Ghost Carrot Records. sician after he expressed sexual feelings for Josh Vanek, who organized Total Fest mu- her while he was recruiting her to play music sic festival for 15 consecutive years, disagrees. with him. While working with women organizers on Bands, venues and show organizers are the festival, he became more aware of their still grappling with how to deal with abus- audience and more intentional in his booking. ers. Julia Burkhart, a 19-year-old performance Together, they had to ask the simple ques- poet who has been sneaking into shows since tion, “Does this represent what we want the she was 16, said there are still plenty of preda- world to look like?” Maria Zapeda plays guitar and sings at Imagination Brewery on the evening of Dec. 1 as part of the Decem- tory men. She said known sexual abusers still “Even if 97 percent of the submissions are ber Women Crush Music showcase. PHOTO SARA DIGGINS seem to be included in the community, which dudes, you have to go out of your way to find can especially make women and genderqueer bands that aren’t just dudes,” he said. reaction to the band’s shows was similar to the band felt it only got the gig because it was people feel unsettled and triggered. Dan Redinger, 25, lives in a punk house what Sasshole endured: Kordonowy said the all-women. She also said DIY music can be a niche cul- venue called Flavortown. He’s been throw- people who attended seemed to be interested “People didn’t give a shit about how good ture that feels unwelcoming to people who ing house shows in Missoula for the past few in Moss Mouth not because of their talent but we were or how bad we were,“ Kordonowy aren’t straight, white cisgender men in the years and claimed Flavortown has the most simply for the fact that it was the only all-fe- said. The band stayed together long enough same way “craft beers feel unapproachable to diverse lineups out of any previous venues he male punk band in Missoula. to play the show but fell apart shortly after. non-hipsters.” lived in. But regarding what groups of peo- Even before the band’s sound was fully Kordonowy has since formed a new proj- She has heard racist and homophobic slurs ple are coming to their shows, Redinger said, cultivated, it got an offer to play at the Union ect, Tomb Toad, with 24-year-old Joshua Ba- at different venues in Missoula and said peo- “There are a bunch of punks, I’m not going Ballroom, opening for the Screaming Fe- cha, a member of a local psych rock band ple in attendance at shows should consider to say anything about gender because I guess males, a big-deal punk rock band from the Charcoal Squids and the founder of Ghost their behavior and word choice. They can I’m not aware or paying attention.” East Coast. As honored as Moss Mouth was, Carrot Records, a DIY record label. start by using gender-neutral vocabulary and If a venue is majority male and majority

16 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com white, onstage or off, then there is probably something making others uncomfortable, and toxic or exclusive behavior that needs to be addressed. “Curiosity in other people's interests de- fends against stagnation,” Dittloff said. The more people involved, the more perspectives you get. This is the sentiment behind Women Crush Music, an online networking agency started in Portland, Oregon. It serves as a platform for women and genderqueer people in music to help one another set up shows. Maria Zepeda, 25-year-old singer and guitarist for Emzee, Silas and Why We Came West, has opened up a Missoula chapter along with Callie Morris, 25. The shows are held in all-age venues, prioritizing performance over booze. Some of the show proceeds go to various female and LGBTQ-friendly organizations that work to end sexual violence, like Make Your Move Missoula and Missoula Human Trafficking Task Force. Naomi Siegel has also made a conscious effort to bring more diverse music repre- sentation to Missoula. Her organization, Lakebottom Sound, nourishes the value of live music in Missoula with concerts, education and improvisational jam sessions. She is committed to having discussions around toxic gender norms in her approach to music education. She said she never books shows that only feature cis men because ”that is the narrative we see everywhere.” The availability of all-age music spaces has been in a state of flux since the shutdown of 18+ venues like Stage 112 and the Pal- ace Lounge, causing a resurgence of house shows and a desire for more DIY spaces. The Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC) will be moving to a new downtown location within the year, opening up possi- bilities with a larger music space. Liszak said the ZACC is made to be shaped by the people who want to use it. Change is in the hands of people like Liszak, Siegel and Zepeda, who have the connections and power to create inclusive spaces and put on shows. But the majority of bookers in town are still white men and they need to be doing the work, too. Bookers should include their audiences in conver- sations regarding what they want to see in shows. ”We need to figure this out together.” Zepeda said. “We are only going to be in this battle of the sexes until we can listen to each TOP:Elizabeth Tallion on Oct. 21 at Ghost Carot Record fest PHOTO DONAL LAKATUA BOTTOM: Daydream celebrates the success of their first live performance at the other.” Girls Rock show at the Top Hat Feb. 17, 2017. PHOTO ISABELLA GRANNIS

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 17 MUSIC | ALL EARS Joshua Tree-inspired jams and boisterous indie rock

NOELLE HUSER up began playing together in 2000. Since then, THE DISTRICTS joined by guitarist Pat Cassidy. The rawness [email protected] eight members have consistently hit the road The Districts bleed spirited sorrow, per- of this album is palpable, half-produced by for tours, though more members join the studio forming deep-heart surgery with their bois- Congleton and half on their own with the help during recording sessions. terous rock. Their most recent sound of Philadelphia engineer Keith Abrams. They ORGŌNE The songs on this new record demand lis- bounds forward with passion, pull shoegaze inspiration in their loudest, Orgōne brings sunshine and unstoppable teners to call upon that feeling storming straight into Missoula most charged music yet, but the record’s most groovy beats to our dreary Montana winter. The of liberation that hits after this weekend. gripping quality is its ability to keep the noise antidote for gloomy skies and depression is here: huge personal victories. This The band’s strong cohesiveness is from canceling the thought. It’s not just about you only need to show up with your dancing echoes in the group’s name, no surprise considering members the grumble of the belly, but finding the source shoes. which means the “universal life Rob Grote (vocals of the ache. The LA-based funk group comes to the Top force” or a “cosmic unit of en- and guitar), Con- “Ordinary Day” is riddled with anxiety, Hat this Wednesday, returning after an explo- ergy.” nor Jacobus (bass) sourced by melancholic descriptors of mun- sive show last January in the Zoo. The band is The album’s lyrical content and Braden Lawrence danity. “Covering miles in a broken car. Cov- touring in support of “Reasons,” its new and 10th came out of a week spent in (drums) have known each other ered in gold and kicking through the belly studio album released Jan. 18. The record’s beats Joshua Tree National Park since grade school in Lititz, Pennsylvania. ache. An ordinary sunset, an ordinary day,” and basslines are constructed to support Adryon jamming late into the The Districts began playing together in Grote sings. “Point” is existential, establishing de León’s crooning and fiery vocals, demanding desert night in a ranch high school in the tri-state area, pro- that “the point is beside the point now.” movement from crowds, bodies and souls. The house. A bleakly beau- ducing their first full-length album, Isolation and memory are present themes group’s music is clearly inspired by the raw soul tiful desert landscape “Telephone,” in 2013. “Telephone” was that The Districts tackle with grit. “Violet” records of the ‘60s and ‘70s. inspired straightfor- innocent with a folky twang, filled with a is possessive, alternatively soft and harsh as León’s lead vocals should pull you down to ward funk beats with longing exemplified in hit songs like “Long Grote sings, “What does not last gets stuck the Top Hat even if funky vibes aren’t your thing. a twist of summer Distance,” and “Funeral Beds.” to your throat.” The album emotes through The singer’s found her way into all things soul in heat under palm The Districts’ next leap was moving from thought processes. “Rattling of the Heart” de- LA, singing for numerous soul groups including trees with vintage clares, “If I can get to the root of all this maybe backup vocals for Macy Gray. Weaving in and I can live gratefully,” while the album’s final out of her commanding vocals, the decade-strong song, “Will You Be Quiet Please?” surrenders band’s tried-and-true funk promises to deliver. to tiredness. The guitar, bass and percussion mesh together in “Before I Wake” serves a powerful intro- timeless melodies. duction to the entire experience. Grote admits, A standout song, “We Can Make It,” plays “I’m just a narcissist,” before one of the most with the album’s conscious soul-healing grooves cadillacs rolling around. Lititz to Philadelphia, where famed St. Vin- purgative guitar riffs, full of fear of being alone to match Leon’s iridescent croon. “It’s the give and The group calls its music “dirty, organic, Cal- cent and Kurt Vile producer, John Congleton, and hope in loneliness. The song stares all the the take,” León reminds us. “You got strength ifornia soul with heart.” Show up, Missoula, and produced the 2015 album, “A Flourish and a what ifs of the album in the eye and serenades you can face it,” she sings, waltzing with a French prove to them that Montana has its own funky Spoil.” This sophomore effort was moody and them. horn. Bop yourself to salvation, she’s saying. Bop grooves running through our hearts. dark, with a poetic tenderness. The Districts play Friday, Feb. 1 at 9 p.m. at the to it live. Orgōne returns to the Top Hat Wednesday, Jan. 30, For their third full length record, 2017’s Top Hat. Tickets are $15 and the show is all ages. Orgōne started in the ‘90s, but its current line- doors at 8:30 p.m. “Popular Manipulations,” The Districts were Opening band: Deeper. TALK IS CHEAP. SO ARE TEXT-ONLY ADS. Contact [email protected] to advertise your band in our special music classifieds.

18 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com MUSIC | ALBUMS Talking to LP about everything except her current album

KAILYN MERCER [email protected]

NYC musician LP has worked as a singer/songwriter for more than 20 years, including writing for big name artists like the Backstreet Boys. Lately, she’s been focusing on her own music. On Feb. 2, she’ll be at the Wilma after the release of her fifth studio album, “Heart to Mouth.” We wanted to talk to her about this album because it’s really good, but we ended up just getting to know her, because she is Very Cool. Montana Kaimin: Tell me your favorite part of touring and performing. LP: Fans. People. Seeing the work come HEART TO MOUTH full circle. You know, from a little voice LP memo on my phone that I bring to a session, RELEASED OCTOBER 2018 and then suddenly it’s a smile on someone’s We thought we should at least show you the face. album that we never talked about. MK: Your tour is taking you to cities way bigger than Missoula. What do you think your unique type of music brings to a smaller town? MK: Are you still writing for other artists? Stoned beats and sad lyrics hypnotize LP: I think we’re pretty universal. I don’t LP: Yeah. I enjoy it. I think it is really think it will be earth-shattering, but I hope valuable as an artist and as a person to real- on Fish Bwoi’s ‘Space Ghost Fish’ it’ll be a good show. I’ve been to Montana ly step outside and see what the other folks before, and I saw a lot of kids there that are doing with their own lives. MELISSA LOVERIDGE both feature those aforementioned nostalgic looked just like people I knew and hung out MK: I think something special about Mis- [email protected] samples. “Back to Space,” the outro track, also with in Williamsburg, NYC. soula that’s cool is even if people haven’t heard features a sample of a phone call, with someone MK: People are calling you a gay icon. How an artist before or don’t know much about them, on the other end of the line saying, “I feel like the do you feel about that? they’ll still go check it out. only appropriate questions to ask you after lis- LP: Wow. Be careful, don’t tell them I’m LP: That’s so old school. Back in the day, tening to it is, ‘Are you okay?’” The sample hits not gay. I’m joking! I’m definitely worthy as kids didn’t have the internet so they didn’t “Space Ghost Fish” by Fish Bwoi feels like lis- the mark. The lyrics on many of the tracks are in I’m gay as fuck, but “icon” I’m not sure. know what the hell was going to happen. tening to an M.F. Doom album upside-down and either heartbreakingly hopeful, or, in the case of Being gay in America is a thing that’s in a Can you imagine? Like Led Zeppelin would underwater in the best possible way. The 12-track the track “Zoo”: “I kinda wanna die.” But in a city constant state of flux. It’s a really interest- roll into your town, and you’d just go down album, re-released Jan. 18 on Slicehop Cassettes, that spends its winter months essentially without ing time. I’m happy for all the people who there to see what’s going on? That’s fucked is another hallmark of Western Montana’s bur- sunshine, the mix of stoned beats and sad lyrics are freeing themselves, and it’s really cool up. Awesome. geoning hip-hop scene, with low-fi fuzz backing resonates. to be in that sphere. MK: You have super vulnerable songs on a majority of the songs and wistful lyrics giving Fish Bwoi shines best when he’s solo on a MK: You have worked with some crazy big your new album. What’s it like performing those shout-outs to Montana. track — his laid-back vocals and samples paired artists. Did you ever meet any of them? Spend songs for crowds? The album just feels good to listen to: looping, with the floaty synth and drum machines differ- time with them? LP: You’ve just got to get into character. almost delirious vocals and beats create what is, entiate “Space Ghost Fish” from other regional LP: I’ve been standing next to such ran- When I do those songs I think, “Hmm, may- sonically, an extremely interesting experience. projects. The deliberate pacing and layers in the dom people. I was going to bed last night, be I could be an actor.” I could only be an On first listen, it’s hard to focus on anything but back tracks contrast with his casual vocals, but it’s and I remembered being at this party and actor if I acted like myself. I definitely just what’s in your headphones. Every track feels a contrast that works. standing next to Paul McCartney, and him turn a switch, and I’m right there where I carefully crafted. “Space Ghost Fish” is available on Bandcamp and looking at me and smiling. I never thought was when I wrote it. The standout tracks are the dream-like on cassette at Rockin Rudy’s, Record Heaven, Ear Can- about it again until last night. This interview has been edited for clarity. “Woahs Freestyle” and “Back to Space,” which dy and online from Slicehop Cassettes.

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 19 THICC Kaimin Is here IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE US AT OUR 32-PAGE-BEST, YOU DON’T DESERVE US AT ALL

20 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com CULTURE | HOROSCOPES & MEMES Get ready for some more Aquarian-made chaos

It’s still Aquarius season and that eccentric, you make a viral meme. Flex your creative, OK to defend your turf against stuff-snatchers. can’t wait to tell everyone you know aaaaaaaall air-sign energy is bringing about a season of bitchy muscles and tap into the zeitgeist as you about how ObViOuSlY fAAAkE it was from the change for everyone. Make the next viral meme give the world its next “most-liked Cancer (June 21 - July 22): Be nice beginning. Be careful though; we wholeheart- or clean up some part of your life, it’s time to egg” meme or whatever. to your friend’s girlfriend. edly supported your R. Kelly rampage, but this shake things up! You might not approve is a little annoying. Taurus (April 20 of her, but you need to Capricorn (December 22 - January 19): - May 20): Be extra be supportive and Libra (September 23 - October 22): You’re Treat yoself, Caps! Whether that means eating a polite to people start treating her going to start a podcast this week. If you weren’t cinnamon roll or reorganizing your sock draw- this week. Like, like one of the planning to do that already, get to it! Time is er after the influx of Christmas socks created we know that’s group. running out! chaos where there was once order, make sure not really your you do something for you. strong suit, but Leo (July 23 Scorpio (October 23 - November 21): Now, your regular - August 22): four weeks into the semester, is the time to stop Aquarius (January 20 - February 18): It’s barista is one Don’t, for any avoiding your responsibilities and do your still Aquarius season, bitches! Feel free to get encounter with reason, eat any damn homework. We know you already have chaotic. Use your powers for good or evil, you away from East Asian cui- a good argument against it. But like, just do it, things will work out eventually. revolting, and then sine this week. Not man. what? Dollar Sushi night, Pisces (February 19 - March 20): Hi, guys. not pad thai, not pho, Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21): Get out of your feelings. Like, please, we’re beg- Gemini (May 21 - June NOTHING. Indian is OK, Last week, this horoscope reminded someone ging you. A person can only be so sad while also 20): Keep a tight hold on your though. else to do their dishes, but my dear sweet Sags, being happy, nervous and an attention whore. stuff this week. Whether it’s a misplaced you gotta buck up and do your dishes, too. Put wallet or your roommate trying to “borrow” Virgo (August 23 - September 22): You’ve on some music or something. It’ll be over before Aries (March 21 - April 19): This is the week that one sweater, set boundaries and know it’s watched both Fyre Fest documentaries, and you you know it. What makes a movie meme-able? Catharsis and nostalgia, and Shrek

JOHN HOOKS What is it about these select cultural properties [email protected] that elicit so much internet dedication years after their release? Why are there Shrek memes but not The first Shrek film came out when I was 6 years Madagascar memes? There are no easy answers old. And, like many of my fellow youths, I watched to this question, but there are shared traits that can that damn movie about 100,000 times before I form the basis of an explanation. turned 7. My brothers and I tormented our parents Largely, these movies and shows enjoyed a with constant, and not exactly culturally sensitive, near-ubiquitous following among kids in the early renditions of Donkey’s best lines. But then, over the 2000s, so much so that they entered the collective course of a decade, Shrek slowly faded out of my consciousness of a generation of American kids. life. I watched the sequels, but the jolly green ogre There’s also a throughline of carnivalesque absur- was largely relegated to a fond, nostalgic corner of dity in most of these properties. They’re colorful, my psyche. loud and absurd in ways we really liked as kids. But, sometime in the early 2010s, Shrek stormed Revisiting them now, more than a decade later, back into the popular culture as a titan of meme hardened by years of internet irony, we still con- culture, his ugly chartreuse mug contorted and re- nect with the absurdity, just in a different way. In contextualized into all manners of absurd internet that light, we can understand these meme mov- humor. He wasn’t alone. In due time, Spongebob, ies as a kind of cathartic nostalgic exercise, where the Star Wars prequels and the Tobey Maguire the collective consciousness of our generation can Spider-Man series all joined the ranks of beloved look back and trade inside jokes on a shared foun- childhood entertainment rebranded as hubs of dation of fond childhood memories and crippling meme-ery with dedicated online communities. irony. GRAPHIC JOHN HOOKS

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 21 ARTS | INTERVIEW Life of an artist ‘chewed up and spat out’ by Seattle EMMA SMITH encompasses digital portraits, comics and design. Since coming to Missoula, Drudge has had or live drawings. [email protected] “I use a lot of color,” Drudge said. “I think many First Friday showings. One of his murals In the future, Drudge wants to become more what inspires me is nonsense. The second I’m hangs in Clyde Coffee and he created an action self-sustaining. He currently participates pri- In a dimly-lit basement on the Hip Strip, doing something and it starts to remind of some- figure for the Monster Project at the ZACC. He marily in galleries, but wants to shift his focus 41-year-old Indiana native Freedom Drudge sits thing else, I lose interest in it. I like making horrific loves that Missoula embraces art that some con- to comics and story drawing. He’d also like to at a desk. Dozens of colored markers and piles things adorable and adorable things horrific.” sider ridiculous. phase out his day job making pizza in order to of papers printed with geometric art are splayed His best selling piece of art is a picture of the In- “It’s incredibly non-judgmental and welcom- create art full time. across the work space. The Missoula artist shares credible Hulk using Wolverine as a back scratcher. ing,” Drudge said. “All the artists are really cool “It’s the dream,” he said. “I want to be more this studio with a black belt academy. Each piece is intricate, layered and colorful. and I don’t feel like I’m hanging out with my su- prominent. I want to get my name out there. So, After graduating from high school in Ham- Drudge’s passion for art started at age 5. periors.” that’s why I’m focusing on things like a comic.” ilton, Montana, Drudge hung around for fewer “I walked into the kitchen where my mom Drudge said he feels at home in Missoula. His Drudge has two shows coming up in Seattle than 12 hours before moving to Seattle with $300 and grandma were painting on plates,” he said. favorite show is the Monster Project, in which this summer. In March, he will be at the Comic in his pocket. He described his 20 years in the Pa- “My mom was painting a Smurf, and my grand- the ZACC brings in 200 kindergarten students to Convention, and in June, he will have a slot at cific Northwestern city as one of survival. ma was painting Garfield. I didn’t know that you draw monsters and write a short biography about the West Seattle Street Fair. “I was chewed up and spat out,” Drudge said. could go, ‘Here’s this, it exists now,’ and I hav- them. Two hundred local artists then adopt the “It’s tens of thousands of people. I’ve been “It did nothing. I was on buses or at work the en’t stopped since. I walked out of the room and monsters and create their own versions of them. there, and it’s a mosh pit for several blocks,” he whole time. I needed to get away from it.” When grabbed a crayon and a piece of paper.” “It’s actually something I found out about said. “That’s going to feel really good. I’m really Drudge passed through Missoula to hang out Most of the time when Drudge pulls out a when I wasn’t living in Missoula,” Drudge said. excited about that, to actually hang in Seattle.” with some friends before heading to Bozeman, piece of paper, he still has no idea what he’s doing. “So, when I moved, I just head-hunted it. I swear This Friday, wander around the Hip Strip he decided to stay. Within a week, Drudge said he The one common theme with his art is a commit- to you, I will never miss that. If I move to Mars, I and look for “Follow the Art” signs. Drudge sealed one art show and got a mural commission. ment to originality. will still send a submission in.” has posters and stickers in his studio that you Drudge focuses mostly on illustration with “If I’m going to sit down and spend hours and In addition to the Monster Project, Drudge will only be able to purchase then and there. If markers and ink. He often starts by either drawing hours on a picture, I want it to be the only time opens his studio every First Friday, calling it a you ask him, he may just show you his favorite something and finishing it digitally or making art you’re going to see that,” he said. “If I hadn’t have “head space.” He hopes to make his studio more piece of art: the Hulk using Wolverine as a back digitally and finishing it with marker. His work done it, you wouldn’t have seen it.” interactive with either a card game he’s designed scratcher.

PHOTO COLUMN | SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER Finding light: my annual journey through Seasonal Affective Disorder

BY ELI IMADALI The sun’s been out a bit lately, which has been pleasant for me. I’ve soaked up all the extra vitamin D that I could with a few walks, which has supplemented my already daily Costco D₃ supplement of 4,000 international units quite nicely. But the sad truth is that it won’t last. I’m generally a really optimistic person, but even I know that the sun won’t be out for much more than a few days. In no time, we’ll be back to the seemingly endless gray that is winter. Again, though, I’m feeling hopeful. Didn’t I say I was an optimist? I’m hopeful that the intervals between sunny days will progressively shorten. For now, though, these suits on a recent sunny day will satisfy my craving for color and sunlight.

22 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com ARTS | CREATIVE WRITING

DEEP BURN BLUE SLEEPING WITH ROSES

Blooming calla lilies The last firefly in a sticky Kentucky summer I pull the car over Thrown to the side The way you press your palm into my back In the angle parking off Main And lean in We sit there The cold November air When you speak to me Seeps through glass, Together, Foggy windows and This is a collage of moments Rain falling on the sun- And time in between seems impossible roof above us Breathless, I ask you where you see I press my nipples to your chest The clock is always ten minutes slow yourself in five years Hard, We have missed the train but You say married, They drag across your skin Sit together in the station With two kids, Warm in this cold car You tuck my hair back behind my ear A dog, And say something about the little A backyard across It ’s fickle, Flowers that grow on vines from your mother These taboo moments But not the thorns Hidden in this city When you ask me, I am saying my prayers I say New York, The rain reflects downtown lights: And speaking to ghosts Writing for something, The little bulbs I have laid my body down before God and still Scraping by, Strung through trees Begged that you were the one to forgive me I say that I want the city At trendy cafes to break me down And neon signs at the I am becoming So that I am forced to parking garage A garden pick up the pieces You know I like the col- Of mourning glories I say that I really want ors on the streets to feel something In the rain. You have made the ground around us Turn to eggshells And I don’t have to look up There’s no future You have asked me to lay down next to you To know I need to ease you, Where we are together And shatter I mean that I need to feel We both know that it’s true something for myself I am not in possession of this body anymore But here, in this car, And this body is not a body anymore We make out like teenagers In the angle parking off Main, But rather a collection Sloppy Neither of us needs to say it Of times that you have crashed into me In the back seat of my car We have collided Our shirts and my white bra And we are orbiting –ERIN SARGENT And I can’t reach you anymore But I want so badly to touch you again. –ERIN SARGENT

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24 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com FOOD | LOCAL REVIEWS Missoula chows down Middle Eastern Getting drunk munchies at Soft Landing’s Supper Club for nature LILY SOPER [email protected]

WHAT WE’RE DRINKING

Sierra Nevada’s Resilience Butte Country ately?) smokey and robust. Dark enough IPA. Some guy at Orange Street Food Farm to qualify as a meal in terms of carbohy- told us it was the newest in stock, and we like drates, but with the hops-y IPA kick we’ve to keep it fresh. come to know and love here in our college town. We’re not typically fond of Sierra WHY WE’RE DRINKING: Nevada, but the second beer was definitely For humanity, bitch. One hundred percent better than the first, and that is absolutely of the proceeds from Resilience go towards not because it has a 6.7% ABV and we’re fighting the Camp Fire. We couldn’t exactly low-key drunk already. The second beer Iraqi Chicken Biryani PHOTO DANIEL DUENSING go with a bottle of wine after the guy at Or- gives us the inspiration to cook the scal- ange Street brought it up, now could we? lops that’ve been stinking up our fridge EMMA SMITH for three days, but if we drink a third we’ll WHERE WE’RE DRINKING [email protected] probably pass out mid-sauté and burn the Home. Bars are expensiveWeek and, ofusually, 1/28/19 house - 2/3/19 down. A local organization created to help refugees According to Soft Landing director Mary smelly. Also, pants are required at (most) bars ALL-IN-ALL: transition to American life treated Montanans to Poole, the organization’s mission is to “help Mis- around town. Also, no bars air “The View” an Iraqi-style feast Sunday evening. Soft Landing’s soula be a welcoming, supportive, and informed (unless they do in which case please tell me). Is this the best beer we’ve ever had? monthly Supper Club served diners looking for community that can assist refugees to integrate Maybe not. But it gets the job done and HOW’S IT TASTE? a taste of something a little different with a night and thrive.” Food can bring together even those how else are we going to justify our drink- of culture, food and friendly conversation at local with the most varied backgrounds can find some- It’s appropriately (or maybe inappropri- ing habit other than through charity? restaurant Masala. thing to relate to. Supper Club is a monthly event thrown by Soft “Refugees want to give back,” Poole said. “We Edited by Margie E. Burke Landing in which a refugee chef is paired with a all eat, so use food as a cultural bridge.” SUDOKU local restaurant to provide a cultural meal to the After coming to Missoula a year Difficulty: Medium HOW TO SOLVE: community. January’s chefs were Iraqi immi- and a half ago, Omar and her broth- 6 9 4 Each row must contain the grants Zena Omar and her brother Ammar who er have opened a food truck outside numbers 1 to 9; each column must prepared a tantalizing selection of Iraqi cuisine. Imagination Brewing. The siblings also own Ka- 9 4 2 5 contain the numbers 1 to 9; and The environment hummed the moment the food moon Cuisine. each set of 3 by 3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 to 9. arrived. The wine was poured, with laughter and Haley Court, the front house manager at Mas- 7 2 smiles, as diners shared this unique experience. ala, believes Missoula is richer when people bring Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: The menu was mouth-watering. The appe- their own experiences to the table. 8 6 tizer included fatayer, a type of meat pie served “It’s so nice to incorporate these people into our 4 9 1 8 3 5 6 2 7 with spinach and a yogurt tzatziki sauce. The kitchen,” Court said. “We have a lot of sports bars, 5 1 2 7 6 2 4 9 1 8 3 5 main course followed with fattoush (a chopped and it’s nice to bring some diversity into Missoula.” 3 8 5 6 7 2 1 9 4 salad with flatbread croutons and a light, lemony As dinner finished, satisfied customers ap- 3 7 5 1 3 4 7 6 9 5 8 2 dressing) and Iraqi-style chicken biryani with proached the brother and sister pair. Many com- 6 2 5 8 7 9 7 6 5 2 8 3 4 1 spiced rice, potato, carrot, green peas, raisins and pliments were shared, and one customer even 2 5 8 3 1 4 9 7 6 almonds. For dessert, warbat bil kiskta, a sweet reached over the glass barrier and embraced Am- 1 7 cream filled pastry. You’d be hard-pressed to find mar’s hand while saying, “Thank you so much.” 8 4 3 2 5 6 7 1 9 a sweeter dish. Despite the crunchy coating of But don’t fret if you missed out on this 6 1 9 5 2 9 1 8 7 4 6 3 pistachios, each bite is surprisingly smooth and month’s event. Supper Club returns in February. Copyright 2019 by The Puzzle Syndicate 6 1 7 9 4 3 2 5 8 buttery. Stay hungry.

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STYLE |CUTE 4 CHEAP Broke fashionistas: Mondays at Goodwill deliver $1 finds ERIN SARGENT [email protected]

I don’t go to Goodwill a lot. Like all self-respecting Missoulians, I try to avoid Reserve Street at all costs. But, if someone offers me a deal, I answer the call. This is why I can’t believe I missed the memo about Goodwill’s $1 Mondays. I’m a broke college student who loves fashion. So when I finally got caught up, I set a mission for myself. Get in, spend less than $10 on one cohesive outfit, and get out in under an hour. And so, I found myself walking into Goodwill on Monday with nothing but 10 singles and a can-do attitude. Here’s how it works: Everything in the store is labeled with a different colored tag, and each Monday a different set of tags will be priced at $1. I like to think the rotation makes it more competitive. I defined an outfit as pants, shirt, jacket, shoes and some kind of accesso- ry. If you’re a math major, you might be questioning why I brought in double the amount of single dollar bills that I would need for a true “dollar outfit.” This is because I don’t trust myself. Sure enough, the whole pants situation called for three more dollars. I also cheat- ed on the shoes. Listen, if you’re about to offer me a Converse/Dansko elemen- tary-teacher-meets-urban-hipster pair of shoes, yes, I will spend $18 on them. Everything else was pretty easy. I saw a green Oregon State volleyball t-shirt. I don’t know what to say except that it called to me. Pair that with a blue and white windbreaker, and suddenly I looked a lot more like the people I see at house shows around here. The total bill (sans Danskos) came to $7.50, thanks to that sweet, sweet student discount. I rounded up and donated 50 cents to Goodwill for dealing with me. Time elapsed? 51 minutes. Goodwill TOP: Kaimin reporter Erin Sargent finds a stylish top with a $1 tag. BOTTOM: The final outfit, purchased for fashion? Priceless. $7.50. The shoes, though, were $18 with no $1 tag. PHOTOS ELI IMADALI

26 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com CULTURE | PHOTO ESSAY What can improve? Hearing from minority students about diversity at UM

Martin Luther King Jr. stood for equality and justice. He helped lead the civil rights movement toward achieving an equal future for people of color in America. Today, his message extends to many marginalized groups: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The Kaimin took the week following MLK Day to ask students of color what they think about diversity and discrimination at UM. We asked them what needs improvement and what UM gets right. You can view the full collection of portraits online at montanakaimin.com. PHOTOS BY ELI IMADALI

TYHEED STEPHENS “One of the things I liked [on campus] was participating in the family culture night at the Payne Family Native American Center a few months ago. I thought that was really, really awesome. Just showing culture from, you know, people of color, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, African-American culture and dis- playing that to the community. I thought that was a very good event and I would actually advocate for more of those.” JORDYNN PAZ “I think we tend to stick to the groups that we know, which tends to be each other, and I think that just sets us apart from the rest of campus. Then, it puts the rest of campus at a disadvantage, because how can you have a proper education without a diverse education? And you can’t get a diverse education if you don’t talk to diverse people.”

OYATULLOHI MADUD “I’ve been here for, like, eight years now, so there were a couple of instances [on campus]. Things like—I usually don’t curse—but they were like, ‘Fucking Muslim! Go back to your own country. Blow up your own camels.’ First of all, we don’t have camels back in Tajikistan. Second of all, if I did have a camel, why would I blow it up? I would put it to good use. Isn’t that true? And then we have this place [the IMSA house], of course, the place where we pray. We’re really blessed that we have this spot. The University provides this. This is basically a place where people can come and get educated about Islam.” University of Montana students Hamidou Sankara and Oyatullohi Madud pray at the International Muslim Student Association house on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2018.

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 27 SPORTS | TOPIC Goligoski’s injury is one of many for the Lady Griz HENRY CHISHOLM [email protected]

The Lady Griz didn’t have an answer for Sa- vannah Smith early. In the first quarter of a Sat- urday afternoon contest, the reigning Big Sky Conference MVP outscored the entire Montana roster, and Northern Colorado Bears built an 11-point lead. After the buzzer, redshirt junior guard Taylor Goligoski found Lady Griz head coach Shannon Schweyen. “I can guard her,” Goligoski told her coach. “I’m good to go. I want to guard her.” “Ok, go for it,” Schweyen answered. The plan was always to put Goligoski, the team’s ace on-ball defender, on Northern Col- orado’s sharpshooting star. But on the Monday before that game, while driving to the hoop during practice, Goligoski stopped hard and tried to turn away from her defender. Her leg twisted and she fell. She felt a sharp pain in her knee and tried to play through it, but eventually had to pull herself out of practice so she could talk to the team’s trainers. An MRI the next day showed a sprained ACL, a bone bruise and a small crack in the Freshman guard Sophia Stiles is helped off the court after tearing her ACL during the second half of the Lady Griz 53-51 victory against North Dakota in Dahlberg cartilage near her knee called an osteochondral Arena on Feb. 3, 2018. PHOTO SARA DIGGINS fissure. The doctors were most concerned with a certain angle, which happened to be right In the second quarter, Goligoski cut Smith’s fell off the bone. It hurt. She couldn’t put any Goligoski’s ACL. That confused her. Her ACL above the fissure, she could tell something was scoring from 15 points to three, while holding weight on her leg. She ran down the court any- wasn’t what hurt. wrong. her to just three shots. Smith only managed way, hoping the pain would go away, but she She sat out the rest of the week’s practices, “Obviously, being an athlete and a compet- three points in the third quarter as well. knew it probably wouldn’t because of the pop as well as Montana’s loss to Eastern Washing- itor, you want to play,” Goligoski said. “Some- But as time wound down in the third, Goli- she felt. ton on Thursday, but doctors told Goligoski she body tells you you can play, you want to go out goski closed out on Smith at the 3-point line “When she looked over and said ‘I need a could try to play against Northern Colorado, there and do it.” and stopped hard, again. This time the cracked sub,’ that’s when I thought, ‘Oh, this is serious,’” if her knee felt up to it. When she rotated it to So she told her coach she was good to go. piece of cartilage, about the size of a dime, Schweyen said.

WEEKLY STATS ROUND UPS LADY GRIZ GRIZ LADY GRIZ: 34 LADY GRIZ: 72 IDAHO STATE: 69 WEBER STATE: 68 IDAHO STATE: 50 WEBER STATE: 60 GRIZ: 80 GRIZ: 75 Part of the reason for Forward Jamar Akoh Jamar Akoh put together STAT LEADERS The Lady Griz held close in STAT LEADERS STAT LEADERS STAT LEADERS the first half, but couldn’t Montana’s rebound win notched his third dou- his second huge game of pick up their offense in over Weber State was ble-double of conference the week, as Montana Points 10 Fatkin crunchtime, leading to lop- Points 18 Harrington improved deep-shooting. Points 22 Akoh play, and point guard Points 25 Akoh knocked off the top- sided score in a low-scoring The Lady Griz made Ahmaad Rorie nearly ranked Wildcats. The Griz Rebounds 9 Stockholm contest. Montana only Rebounds 13 Henderson 9-of-20 3-point attempts. Rebounds 17 Akoh matched him with 19 Rebounds 10 Akoh led by as much as 32-10, made 3-of-21 3-point The win moved the Lady points and nine assists. Rorie, following a 20-point run, Assists 3 Johnston attempts and two of them Assists 7 Henderson Griz into fifth in the Big Assists 9 Rorie Montana never trailed, ex- Assists 3 Pridgett but Weber State worked came on four tries from Sky, tying Montana State, tending its winning streak its way back into the Sammy Fatkin. who they will square off over Idaho State to game, giving Montana a against in Bozeman on 16 straight games. scare near the end. Saturday. 28 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com SPORTS | COLUMN

A few days later, doctors told Goligoski she needed surgery to fix an osteochondral lesion — the technical term for knocking off the cartilage. The specialist in Seattle who performs ‘Who cares? It’s the surgery told her she should be back to full strength sometime between August and Octo- ber. Goligoski is just the most recent victim of a rash of injuries that have left the Lady Griz women’s hoops’ extremely thin. The lack of depth on the bench is putting pressure on UM’s starters to carry a HENRY CHISHOLM massive burden. [email protected] In two games this weekend — a 50-34 loss to Idaho State and a 72-60 win over Weber State Saturday afternoon, prior to the Lady — the Lady Griz’s starters averaged nearly 35 Griz’s 72-60 win over Weber State, Montana minutes a piece per game. In the two games took the court in its usual graphite gray combined, bench players only scored eight total road uniforms. Rather than wearing home points on 4-for-17 shooting. whites, Weber opted to don light gray al- Freshman Katie Mayhue battled an ankle ternates. It was a mess, and I tweeted my injury. Starting point guard McKenzie Johnston concern. is playing through a rebroken nose. After four Most of the repliers to my tweet agreed; weeks in a protective mask, she may be allowed the jerseys were too similar in color to easily to play without it in this weekend’s matchup distinguish who was who. A few dissented. with Montana State, according to Schweyen. One reply, from a Gen Xer in New Jersey, But the killers for UM are the season-ending said, “Who cares it’s women’s hoops.” injuries, like Goligoski’s. At this point, takes like his are just tir- The first of the Lady Griz to be ruled out this ing. It used to be fun to watch tweets like year was Madi Schoening. The junior guard is that get ratioed back into their ugly corner redshirting this season because of an avulsion of the internet. It was a real-world “mar- fracture in her foot. The injury occurred in prac- ketplace of ideas” experiment, where the tice in September, but she aggravated it after the rational majority shouted down the misog- lor Pierce drained a 3-pointer — her eighth first game of the season. She tried to rehab but ynists. But the market’s gone stale. The cre- of the day — from a half-step in front of the the pain lingered, so she had surgery to fuse the ativity disappeared. Now the responses are center court logo to pull within one posses- bones together. lazy random-caps SpongeBob memes and sion, with only 30 seconds on the clock. But Now, she says her role is to be the “loudest “White Guy Blinking” gifs. her effort wasn’t enough to overcome Jace cheerleader on the bench.” But our middle-aged friend asked who Henderson’s 31 points, which came almost While Schoening was the first to be ruled cares, so I’ll tell him. exclusively from the paint thanks to post out, sophomore Sophia Stiles has ridden the Missoula cares. footwork that would move Michael Jackson bench the longest. She’s recovered from the torn Forget that Lady Griz basketball is a dy- to tears. ACL she suffered a year ago, but it took longer nasty. Dusty rings don’t put butts in seats, But, yeah. If you’re the type of basket- than she’d hoped. even if you’ve septupled your conference’s ball fan who only tunes into TNT when the Stiles planned on taking the first five games second-most prolific program with 21 Warriors play whomever we’re currently of the season off before reevaluating wheth- championships in 39 years. pretending is even half as good as them at er she could play. But it took until halfway The Lady Griz triple the average home the time, and you only look up from your through the season for Stiles to feel comfort- attendance of their Big Sky Conference ri- phone to catch the replay of a dunk when able. She used an exhibition game against Mon- vals. Only two of the conference’s 11 men’s Marv Albert yells his signature, “Oh! A fa- tana Tech in late December to gauge her prog- teams have superior numbers to Montana’s cial!” and you only even do that so you can ress. She felt fine on the court but decided that women this year. Who knows what the stats say you’ve already seen it when your room- it wasn’t worth burning a year of eligibility to would look like if the Lady Griz had played mate sends the clip to your Twitter group, play half a season, so she kept her spot at the far all of their home games this season at 7 then maybe women’s basketball isn’t for end of the bench. p.m., like the men, instead of hosting seven you. That’s fine. “Whenever anyone’s sitting next to me, if matinees. But if you don’t believe the only play they’re just a little injured, like a sprained ankle, Maybe you didn’t watch the last time the deserving of your time is a dunk, maybe I’m like, ‘Don’t get too comfortable down here,’” Lady Griz played in Missoula, but the game it’s time to check out the half of the sport Stiles said. “But then Taylor did.” was worthy of a primetime slot. Idaho’s Tay- you’ve missed out on.

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30 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com SPORTS | PROFILE The Griz G.O.A.T: Anchor returns ferociously from early season injury

good,” Oguine said. But Akoh’s wrist wasn’t good. The Griz- zlies’ G.O.A.T was sidelined. He wielded a soft cast on his shooting wrist. It hurt to open doors and take showers. He was left to figure out how to remold his leadership role on the bench and off the court while recov- ering and being badgered by everyone who saw him on his wrist’s healing status. “He brought energy from the sidelines while he was out, which, when we got him back again, wasn’t the drastic change for us, on the negative, you can get sometimes when guys are out. I think it’s been more positive,” head coach Travis DeCuire said. Akoh’s season has been a grind, but grinding doesn’t scare Akoh. Weeks of traveling to road games made rehab difficult. He spent his weeks off the court, wrist immobi- lized in a splint that made his arm a gangly, flapping wing when he ran, working on the side of practices with his trainer. “[My teammates] were looking over there like ‘What is this guy doing?’” Akoh said. Akoh transferred to the Griz from Cal State Fullerton and redshirted the 2016-2017 season. After a successful redshirt junior year, he tried hard this summer to condition himself for his last season. Over the final weeks of his recovery, what worried Akoh most was the loss of the hard-earned fitness from pre- season work. “When guys can see him on the sidelines Jamar Akoh, the Grizzlies 6-foot-8 forward and defensive anchor, sits in front of his apartment on Jan. 26 2019. PHOTO DANIEL DUENSING doing sit ups and slides and sprints, staying physically involved knowing he’s done ev- LJ DAWSON der the hoop on every possession. But this son. He returned to consistent play over a erything he could to get back, I think they [email protected] wasn’t a normal bruise or sore spot. It didn’t month ago, but his wrist still needs therapy. had a lot of confidence in him and his re- feel right. It hurt worse than normal. Despite his injury, he posted 25 points and turn,” DeCuire said. In the last minute of a closed-door pre- Akoh leaned forward to whisper to his 10 rebounds against Weber State on Satur- Akoh’s high-flying offensive stats com- season scrimmage, the cornerstone of the teammate, senior guard Michael Oguine, day. pliment his defensive prowess. In last Satur- Griz basketball team fell backward and who sat in front of him on the bus. “He’s really a monster,” Oguine said. day’s game, he powered through defenders stuck his hand out to catch himself. Jamar “It may be bad,” he said. “No one can stop him, especially in our con- to propel the team to its win. On defense, Akoh, who weighs over 250 pounds, landed Akoh went on to miss nine total games ference.” Akoh stole the ball two seperate times from with all his weight on the wrist of his shoot- with a torn tendon and ligament in his Friends and teammates refer to Akoh’s stunned players and pulled down 10 re- ing arm. The adrenaline helped him play wrist. He returned for the team’s win size often – he’s the “unstoppable force and bounds. A few months ago, Akoh couldn’t through the pain, but on the bus ride back to against North Dakota State but missed the immovable object” and a “thicc guard.” But, even dribble a ball or shoot because of his Montana he rolled his hand around, testing next game against Arizona. He permanently they most often refer to him as the G.O.A.T, injury. his wrist out. returned on Dec. 22, but Akoh says he’s not or greatest of all time, a title earned for his “We’re just a better team with him,” Akoh’s position, forward, requires him fully recovered. caring and reliable attitude. Oguine said. to battle with the opposing team’s biggest, Akoh averages almost 17 points and “When he cares about you, he’s going to Read the full length version of this story in strongest players for the basketball un- more than nine rebounds a game this sea- do everything he can to make sure you’re the sports section on montanakaimin.com

montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 31 SPORTS | GALLERY Men’s basketball knocks off top Big Sky team

The University of Montana men’s basketball team had two big wins last week, the first on Thurs- day, Jan. 24, against the Idaho State University Bengals (80-69). The second Griz game was against the Weber State University Wildcats (75-68) on Saturday, Jan. 26. The victory over the Wildcats launched the Griz up to a No. 2 ranking in the Big Sky Conference and dropped the Wildcats down from No. 1 to No. 3. Now, the Griz get a week of rest before heading to Bozeman for the first of two Cat-Griz rivalry games Saturday, Feb. 1.

RIGHT: University of Montana redshirt senior guard Ahmaad Rorie dunks the ball during a counter-attack late in the game on Jan. 26, 2019. The Griz beat the Wildcats 75-68 at home in Dahlberg Arena. PHOTO HUNTER WIGGINS

Ben Brodhead, second from left, Alibi August, and Maggie Volk, hold images of Ahmaad Rorie and Sayeed University of Montana redshirt senior guard Ahmaad Rorie waits to pass the ball into play late in the second Pridgett while watching the game from the student section. PHOTO SARA DIGGINS half. PHOTO SARA DIGGINS

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