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THE LAST KAIMIN OF THE SEMESTER Sports Kaimin Crossword Surely UM Puzzled? rugby jests Solve this page 15 page 17 MONTANA KAIMIN Friday, April 27, 2007 Volume CIX, Issue 98 www.montanakaimin.com Weather Shooting Partly UM Leans ‘Left’ Cloudy prompts 72 F look at News security ESSICA AYRER How do we slam MJONTANAMKAIMIN thee? Let us count In the wake of the Virginia Tech the ways ... shootings, the University of Montana is checking out new page 6 communications systems better equipped to reach out to students in the case of an emergency, said Arts Jim Lemcke, director of Office of Public Safety. Idiot extravaganza! As it works now, UM’s emergency notification system paral- page 11 lels that of Virginia Tech. That system is being criticized as insufficient, relying solely on e- mail to tell students there was a gunman on the loose. “We are looking at the exact same system Virginia Tech was looking at,” Lemcke said. Dennison Today if an emergency erupted at UM, e-mails would be sent to students to warn them of the mandates potential danger. Campus safety officers would also contact individual departments and local the use of radio stations to spread the word, Lemcke said. Faced with the tragedy at UM e-mail Virginia Tech, UM administrators are now shopping around for a CHANDRA JOHNSON MONTANA KAIMIN system capable of reaching students by text message and tele- If you’re a University of phone in addition to e-mail, Montana student, you’ve got mail Lemcke said. from President George Dennison. “And of course, all these things UM administrators are imple- cost,” he said. menting changes this July man- A new system would run from dating that all “official” UM busi- $12,000 to $30,000 a year, ness be conducted strictly through Lemcke said. the University e-mail system. The Because UM’s student popula- project will also update the tion is about half of Virginia University’s aging archive sys- Tech’s, communication among tem. The archiving system would staff, faculty and students is more archive all e-mails, even those streamlined here, Lemcke said. In that come from external accounts. Krista Miller/Montana Kaimin turn, UM administrators are UM attorney David Aronofsky Dustin Leftridge hugs Tara Ness to celebrate their win as ASUM president and vice president around a campfire at his house Thursday evening. researching if indeed they do need said that the changes would mean Leftridge and Ness were told that the election results were 936 votes to 905 for the 2007 ASUM elections. to shell out the cash for a new more safety for UM faculty, staff communications service. and students. If a student surfaces with men- “Last year, a faculty member tal health problems, staff and fac- from the Butte campus was ulty share information more easi- receiving threatening e-mails,” Leftridge wins presidency ly than in a big school, said Dave Aronofsky said. “If we’d had this Bell, UM’s director of Curry system then, we might have been ASHLEY ZUELKE grasped Jacobson’s knee, and Hogue said he was surprised by Health Center. In this case, a AND able to find the people threatening somberly said, “It was a good the election results, and begrudg- smaller campus is an advantage, MIKE GERRITY him.” MONTANA KAIMIN run.” ingly said, “You can’t win them he said, because troubled students UM Executive Vice President “I’m ready to spend some time all.” are easier to spot in a smaller Jim Foley said he thought the In an election with the largest as a student and wish them Rikki Gregory, chair of the elec- community. changes would be welcome ones voter turnout in four years, Dustin (Leftridge and Ness) luck next tions committee, said 2,038 stu- UM has “a pretty good network at UM. Leftridge and Tara Ness captured year,” Jacobson said. dents turned out for the elections that is to a large degree informal,” “We need a central way to con- the most votes in the race for Erica Henderson defeated Casey on Wednesday and Thursday. Last Bell said. tact everyone on campus and right ASUM president and vice presi- Hogue in the race for ASUM busi- year, only about 1,300 students Curry Health Center is also now we can’t do that,” Foley said. dent Thursday evening by a 24- ness manager by a 357-vote mar- voted in the election, Gregory said. making strides to screen out men- “Right now there are many facul- vote margin. gin. Kevin Nalty, Ali Tabibnejad tal health issues before problems ty members and students that “Woo!! Yeah! We won!” Ness “I’m very excited to be working and Shannon Kuhn garnered the arise, he said. Students are guar- don’t use campus e-mail at all.” said. with Dustin and Tara and I’m most votes in the ASUM senate anteed confidentiality for all The changes will take effect After Cedric Jacobson and Ryan looking forward to a great year,” race. health care visits, including those July 1. Nalty heard the news, Nalty Henderson said. See ASUM, Page 4 See ALERT, Page 4

M O N T A N A K A I M I N 2 Opinion Friday, April 27, 2007

Q1: It’s our last issue of the year! How are you going to live without your daily dose of Kaimin for a whole summer? Q2: In the spirit of citizen journalism, what questions do you have for the Kaimin?

•Ben DeMarco Oh boy what a year! It’s time for the Kaimin to bid adieu to junior, broadcast journalism 2006-2007 by taking a good–hearted angry look back at the year. Q1: “I’ll probably take it day by day and just try to move on with my life.” Big Ups to ending the south campus retirement community Q2: “Do you watch VH1?” (Only when I’m really depressed and I have idea. Use that area for the students, let our alums go to the football enough Ben and Jerry’s to distract myself from the pain.) games for cheaper.

We’d love to give Big Ups to the new Provost, but this person •Drew Baker doesn’t exist, so we’re giving Big Ups to President George freshman, general studies Dennison. There’s nothing wrong with complete power. Wait…? Q1: “I have a stash of old issues tucked away in a box.” Big Ups to Britney Spears for dumping K-Fed, who even with Q2: “If you could meet anyone around the Oval, who would her as a wife could not sell his record. Also, when she went nuts, it be?” (A giant scorpion with Vincent Price’s face riding the she did it with style. Amen. blood-soaked ghost of Joseph Stalin.)

Backhands to angry Christian groups. We love that First •Rachel Matt Amendment like a child, but this year’s angry Christians ... Signs? sophomore, chemistry OK. Shouting? Fine. Airplanes? Not so much. Q1: “I’m going to cry. I’ll have to live without the Kaimin and the Missoulian, There are some Big Ups waiting for everyone involved in Pickle which won’t be as bad.” Barrel-gate. It was great to see so many people care about toler- Q2: “If hot air rises, why is it cold at the top of a mountain?” (Because Lord ance with race even here in Missoula. That said, there are Xenu made it so.) Backhands for how quick people jumped to conclusions.

You know what sucks? Losing your stuff to a fire. Backhands •Eric Fulton to the person who started the fire in Miller Hall this year. What a freshman, information systems jerk. Q1: “Perhaps I could go back to real news.” Obviously, Bigger Bang Big Ups for UM Productions and Q2: “Do you think paperboy is a good name for Mike Gerrity?” everyone else involved with getting the Rolling Stones here in (Gerrity will stick to Mr. Shanks for the time being.) October. They made a grown man cry.

Initiative 2 is getting Backhands. If ever there was a more use- •Carmine Leighton less act we’ve never seen it. Like Yoda said, “Do or do not, there sophomore, environmental studies is no try.” Either prosecute drug possession, or don’t, none of this in-between crap. Q1: “I’m just going to hibernate until it comes back into publication again.” Q2: “Do you ever mismatch socks?” (Never. If I did, the very fabric of my exis- What’s great? Free tickets. Why? No more Athletic deficit. Big tence would tear at the seams. I fear change.) Ups guys. But in the future, how’s not getting us in debt?

The debate at the beginning of the year over the Presidential •Allie Tincher Lecture Series is getting Backhands. While it was great to see senior, botany and liberal studies such fervent academic discussion – the very point behind the series – it soon devolved into a pissing match between factions that we all could have lived without. Q1: “Considering I never read the Kaimin I don’t think it’ll be too tough.” We’re giving Big Ups to the Anna Nicole coverage ending. Ever Q2: “What color is the sun?” (Really bright white at first, then it heard of R.I.P. people? Yeah, next time do it. turns blue for a little while.)

You knew this was going to happen: Backhands to Students for Economic and Social Justice. Love the issue, but hate the tactics. •Nate Podgajny Maybe they’ll do better next year. sophomore, general education

If anyone deserves Big Ups it’s that kid in Knowles who Q1: “I think I’ll just have to sell mescaline or something.” crapped his pants after getting shot by a Taser. You poor, poor Q2: “How much does it cost to publish the Kaimin in one day?” (The firstborn man, we wish you the best. of Missoula on Tuesday through Thursday. Mike Gerrity’s dignity on Fridays.)

Thanks for the memories kids. We’ll see you in September. •Maria Kendra sophomore, Spanish

1. “I dunno. I don’t think it’ll be that hard. I’ll survive. No offense.” 2. “How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?” (Madagascar)

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M O N T A N A K A I M I N Friday, April 27, 2007 Letters 3

Guest Column Correction: An article in the April 26 issue of the Montana Kaimin incorrectly stated that ASUM voted to increase the parking decal by $10 per semester. The increase would actually Many everyday solutions to global warming be $10 per year. Earth Day has come and gone school every day, which saves me as well. again and just like every year it $150+ for a yearly parking pass, These are three very small Guest Column also tipped off Bike, Walk, Bus money on gas, and it’s faster than changes to start helping out, but Week. But before you get enraged driving because I don’t have to any start is enough. at the hippies worshipping the dirt find a parking spot. You can think After you find these so easy and Solutions to look beyond tragedy and hugging trees, try thinking of helping the environment as a beneficial to yourself you can about what is really going on mere side effect. If you don’t maybe move on to other things. around us. have a bike, you can buy a cheap Those with a little extra spending Last Monday was a very sad day one Iraqi Parliamentarian. Bigger Global warming is an undeni- one at a pawnshop or even build a money can invest in energy-sav- for all of us. Now is a moment in walls don’t solve the problem. able fact. It’s not a theory, not a free one at Free Cycles. Take this ing light bulbs (which again saves which we are called upon to reflect What does? I can’t claim to be belief, but a fact. There is not one week to test it out, and who you money in the long run) or buy on ourselves and our world, to face certain, but some suggestions I’ve credible piece of evidence that knows, maybe you’ll like it. products made of recycled materi- the questions of what went wrong, heard and try to practice are: slow denies it. It’s not too late to Try recycling. If you live in the als. You can surf the net to find and what can we do to prevent this down, be late if you must; pay atten- reverse this problem, but it won’t dorms, many recycling bins are other energy-saving techniques in the future. In light of the recent tion to people and the environment change if we don’t change our located in or near the dorm lobby and products. Maybe even start shootings in Virginia, I’m sure there as you walk across campus; turn off own actions. This may sound like where you can recycle plastic, writing letters to representatives, will be discussions of ways to make the cell phone and head phones; an obvious statement, but the truth paper and aluminum garbage. If senators and governors requesting our campus safer. Some will pro- smile at strangers (friends and fam- is most people (even those who you live off campus, it may not be they draw up initiatives to get the pose metal detectors, more police, ily too); hold doors open; talk to agree global warming is a prob- quite as easy but still worth it. government involved in the envi- high-tech video cameras or other someone about what is on your lem) have not changed their habits There is a recycling plant on ronment. Remember: Nothing such things. There is a common mind, in person; accept the pain you in contributing to this increasingly Broadway just before Reserve will change if we don’t do any- assumption that security can be feel, and appreciate this precious disastrous problem. Street where they have large bins thing differently (and thank you to found with enough force, enough moment. You don’t have to be a hippie or to recycle anything from newspa- those who have already started to technology, or enough orderliness. These may seem simplistic and environmentalist to care about our per to tin. Next time you go shop- change their habits, keep it up!). I think such measures not only even trite, but try them. This alone environment. After all, we all will ping or out to dinner, load up your Don’t be afraid of change or of fail, but worsen the problem. That will not only make your life better, be living in this it for quite some recyclables and head toward the doing something you wouldn’t is because the problem, simply put, but also open you to the experiences time, and many of us will raise plant before going to Reserve. normally do. I challenge every- is isolation. Others might call it of other people so that you can children who will live here even They even pay per pound for alu- one to just try something for a alienation, apathy or selfishness, but improve their lives as well. Imagine longer. It’s not all about “loving minum if you take it inside their week, or even just a day or two is the same condition. It is isolation the ripple effect. If isolation is at the the Mother Earth,” but more about garage. If you don’t want to take (no commitment), and see if it that led to the violence perpetrated root of this tragedy, then it goes caring for ourselves, our friends your cans out there, give them to doesn’t change your perspective. last Monday. Out of isolation also beyond this particular tragedy, and our children. The truth is, if your local bum. He’d be glad to Even Arnold Schwarzenegger is flow fear, distrust and the desire to beyond Sept. 11, the war in Iraq, the we don’t change, the future of life take them for you. strongly involved in helping the keep out what is unknown. Oklahoma City bombing and the on this Earth will not last very Use natural light whenever you environment (he even requested There is no doubt a short-term rest. It is something that we are long. can. Now that it’s warming up, GM make his Hummer hydrogen- gain from barriers: the so-called faced with every day, and with each Our change can start in very study outside instead of being powered!). Like I always say: If Green Zone in Baghdad provided new day comes a new opportunity small ways. You may even find cramped up all day. Or open your the Governator likes it, it must be security for the creation of a demo- to confront isolation and open up those changes to be better for blinds to let the sun in and study good! cratic government. But even the our hearts. yourself than what you do now. I by a window. Again, this is saving – Duncan Hendrick most heavily secured zone in the – Justin Whitaker live two miles away from campus you electricity money but it just junior, human biology world could not prevent the recent graduate student, philosophy down Broadway. I ride my bike to happens to help the environment suicide bombing that took the life of instructor of Buddhist studies

You might prefer potshots to the tango, but stay the hell away from Letters me. And in regard to Mr. Hurd’s L O O N G patronizing suggestion that we all K I to the editor take the realist’s approach and drop a feel-good 25 bucks on a micro- credit loan: Maybe he had the K Give SESJ a chance chance to catch SESJ’s Sam I’m mystified by the recent viru- Schabacker when he presented his lent attitude toward SESJ that has senior thesis at this year’s UMCUR, F manifested itself on these pages. as Schabacker’s research deals with Why is it suddenly open season on the pitfalls of the micro-credit para- these students? The concerned indi- digm. Turns out he worked for a S O M E T H I N G viduals that demonstrate a commit- micro-credit organization in Bolivia ? ment to recognizing human rights and has spent much of the past year should be considered an asset to this studying the idea. Sounds pretty R “university.” So you’re threatened realistic to me. by dancing – don’t worry, it’s much – Nick Vanden Bos easier to sit to the side and heckle. senior, English Unfortunately, we couldn’t afford our Sept. 11 conspiracies straints, I cannot elaborate on here. backed by professionals Duganz professed to have “plenty of In response to Pat Duganz’s col- evidence” which could be used to subscription to the crossword puzzle service umn of April 24 (“Letters From Part discredit my “conspiracy poppy- of the Conspiracy”), I beg to submit cock,” but he declined to “bother.” I without that Kaimin fee increase. the following: The people involved challenge him to find fault with in exposing the truth of 9/11 have ONE of the questions I raised. One Sucks to be you. not “been exposed as frauds and would be sufficient. To my great dolts” for six years– they have been chagrin, I can address but one of his systematically ignored and insulted. absurd and sophistic questions, and They have not been exposed as such as this limits my ability to respond to because they are nothing of the the numerous insults, I will confine Good thing you passed the KBGA fee, kind– they are highly regarded pro- myself to one example of his infan- fessors, forensic experts, high-level tile reasoning. He asked how the military personnel, and over 100 government could control “every though. Have fun listening to Björk. million typical Americans. Mr. member of FEMA, the FBI, NYPD, Duganz asserts that neither the theo- and NYFD” as well as the people on ry that the government was involved the planes and each employee in the or criminally complicit in the 9/11 buildings. The answer is: they Love, attacks, nor the theory that there haven’t. There – I’m up to three hun- were bombs in the buildings “really dred words. Insufficient. But to all make sense.” The former does in who enjoy slightly greater intellectu- fact make considerable sense, but al ferment than Mr. Duganz, the fol- due to space constraints, I cannot lowing sites may be of some inter- explain it here. The latter is not a est:www.ny911truth.org, theory, unfortunately, but a fact, and www.911scholars.org, and Peter Bulger, current Kaimin editor Sean Breslin, future Kaimin editor one which is supported by an over- www.911files.net. whelming body of evidence, which, – Meade Morgan and the whole Kaimin staff again due solely to space con- sophomore, conspiracy

M O N T A N A K A I M I N 4 News Friday, April 27, 2007 Stolen Subaru, sneaking sleuths, squabbling siblings

ZACHARY FRANZ MONTANA KAIMIN officers determined the individual citations were issued, but officers Safety. No citations will be issued to them over nearby. was an employee of Security recovered several items from the people reclaiming the items, Taylor Police contacted the juveniles’ April 19, 6:30 p.m. Armored Express, making his daily scene. said. parents, who came to pick them up. A woman reported that her car trip to the bank. “When the smoke cleared, we April 25, 8:30 p.m. Two males were cited for misde- had been stolen from the north Park- There has been a slight increase found a skateboard and three pairs meanor possession of dangerous N-Ride lot on East Broadway in reports of suspicious people since of shoes: women’s leather sandals, An officer leaving the Office of drugs, Taylor said. Avenue. the Virginia Tech massacre, Taylor fuzzy suede slippers and your stan- Public Safety smelled marijuana as The woman told police the car said. April 26, 6:03 a.m. April 26, 6:03 a.m. doors had been locked and the keys “(People) are a little more obser- were not in the vehicle, said Capt. vant,” he said. “It’s much better to Several residents of Several residents of Craighead Gary Taylor with the Office of err on the side of safety. Nobody Craighead Apartments reported Apartments reported a disturbance Public Safety. should ever feel embarrassed about a disturbance in one apart- Police Blotter in one apartment. Taylor said this is only about the calling in something out of the ordi- ment. Responding officers found a third car theft in his 20 years with nary.” Responding officers found a brother and brother and sister, both intoxicated, Public Safety. sister, both intoxicated, “beating on each “beating on each other,” Taylor said. The vehicle has not been recov- April 20, 11 p.m. other,” Taylor said. They were both arrested for part- ered. It is a blue 1996 Subaru ner/family member assault. The Legacy, with Montana plates, 7C- Following reports of marijuana woman was also cited for underage 26797. use, several Public Safety officers possession of alcohol. stealthily approached the Oval in dard footwear for 4/20 – a pair of he was walking toward his patrol April 20, 9:15 a.m. patrol cars, Taylor said. Birkenstocks,” Taylor said. “There car. Citations: “One officer described it as like a were also several partly consumed There was only one other car in Starla Last Star, 18, partner/fami- 911 received a report of a man National Geographic special,” he joints.” the lot, and it was occupied by sev- ly member assault, minor in posses- walking into the UC with a large said. Aside from the joints, which were eral juveniles, Taylor said. The juve- sion handgun in a holster attached to his As officers closed in, people fled destroyed, the property can be niles drove away when they spotted Kelwin Last Star, 21, leg. Based on the description given, in all directions, Taylor said. No claimed at the Office of Public the officer, but the officer pulled partner/family member assault

insight into the transition to the ALERT ASUM 14-hour workdays that lie ahead 2007 ASUM Election Results Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 for the new ASUM executives. “The primary facet of my life President/Vice President Fee increases has been ASUM. I know what the involving mental health, but, if Three out of the four proposed transition is like when becoming Dustin Leftridge/Tara Ness ASUM Transportation Fees counselors believe there is an fee increases passed, including the an executive,” Jacobson said. “I 933 Park-N-Ride immediate threat, they will ASUM Transportation fees for the think this year Andrea and I made Cedric Jacobson/Ryan Nalty Yes: 1348 inform campus safety, Bell U-DASH and the Park-N-Ride our jobs look relatively easy,” 909 No: 580 said. bus systems. Jacobson added. U-DASH However, it is rare to see Ness was especially antsy while Basking in the promising Business Manager Yes: 1331 destructive violence on cam- waiting to hear if the $10 per results, Leftridge could only pon- No: 587 pus, Lemcke said. “That hap- semester transportation fee der the last few weeks of his cam- Erica Henderson ASUM Activity Fee pens with a weapon, almost passed. paign. 990 Yes: 1069 never,” he said. “It would go really well for us if “This whole process of going Casey Hogue No: 808 But administrators across we had that next year. I mean the out and talking to the students and 633 KBGA Student Radio Fee campus are paying close atten- wheels are falling off the bus,” getting them excited to vote has Yes: 1128 tion to potential security prob- Ness said. just been phenomenal,” Leftridge Senators No: 792 lems after Virginia Tech. If an Students upheld the KBGA stu- said. Kaimin Fee emergency arose here, dorms dent radio fee increase of $1 per After calling her mom to tell her Kevin Nalty 849 Yes: 865 would be locked down within semester and the $3 per semester the news, Ness was already mus- Ali Tabibnejad 638 No: 1041 15 minutes, said Ron Brunell, ASUM activity fee increase. tering up ideas for their office next Shannon Kuhn 606 Director of Residence Life. Students shot down the $1 per year. Sean Morrison 602 Also the “DEN,” a university semester Kaimin fee increase. “I’m going to put up a giant Trevor Hunter 576 TV station, would broadcast a After barely letting the results poster of Charles Darwin in the Emily Cossitt 567 warning to dorms and UM sink in, Jacobson offered some office,” Ness said. Allie Harrison 555 buildings, he said. Matt Fennell 541 UM President George Jacob Childers 524 Dennison will evaluate Kip Rand 518 Lemcke’s recommendation on Abbey Effertz 507 whether UM should purchase a Alexander Gosline 493 new communications system, Peter Tolton 487 he said. In the meantime, the Eric Fulton 473 University is well positioned to Montana Kaimin Matt Ferguson 468 handle problems that may arise, Katherine Herrera 450 he added. Dan Dodds 450 “I think we’re prepared to It’s all downhill from here. Janelle Chapman 439 deal with these situations as Joe Tipton 430 they come up,” Dennison said. Jed Cox 421 “Communication is still going to be a very difficult issue.”

M O N T A N A K A I M I N Friday, April 27, 2007 News 5

UM Afghans question intentions of U.S. in their country ACOB AYNHAM MJONTANAB KAIMIN example of a $163 million package to promote alternative liveli- Last week, when several U.S. hoods in Afghanistan’s opium- State Department diplomats and growing regions, a package he Central Asian ambassadors came worked with through USAID. to the University of Montana to Ahmad said 20 percent of that discuss their regions of specializa- sum went for the overhead of tion, they were given more than a Chemonics International, the political soapbox. They were given American company the project a polite but sound grilling by three was contracted to. Chemonics Afghan students. then sub-contracted the project to Any real discussion about the 32 nongovernmental organiza- immediate future of Central Asia tions, which accounted for anoth- must include the present situation er 20 to 25 percent in overhead in Afghanistan, a country with costs. These NGOs further dele- great, recent destabilizing influ- gated the work to local groups, ence in the region. Five and a half resulting in more diverted money. years after the United States’ After the customary 10 percent removal of the Taliban by was skimmed off by corruption, Operation Enduring Freedom, the the hard cash that reached the effort seems to be more enduring ground was only 20 percent of the than freeing. Many Afghans, $163 million written in the con- including three here on campus, gressional record in Washington. are wondering when the diplo- With that amount of money, it is mats’ political lines will match unreasonable to expect farmers to with some sense of a practical stop growing lucrative opium, reality. When more money or sup- Ahmad said. Jacob Baynham/Montana Kaimin port is promised to Afghanistan “The money that is going to The U.S. has promised $11.6 billion to Afghanistan, but in the past, little of that money has reached the people who need it. Here two brothers dig through from Washington, they say, the Afghanistan is going to very few rubbish looking for aluminum cans to exchange for bread. world’s conscience is appeased, people,” he said. “This is the real- but very little changes on the ity. This is the reason there are no approach include emphasizing provinces. The Ring Road that “The U.S. government should ground. tangible results.” opium’s “un-Islamic” nature, connects Kabul to the western city be asking, ‘Who is supplying Mumtaz Ahmad, a Fulbright Moreover, the projects are reforming the judicial system, of Herat, by way of a northern and them? Who is arming them? Why scholar from Afghanistan studying imposed on Afghans, Ahmad said. providing alternative livelihoods southern route, is plagued by are they getting stronger?’” he ecology at UM, knows this from Very little time is spent asking for farmers and using outright impassable roads in the north and said. Ahmad, along with many firsthand experience. Ahmad worked Afghans what they want, and how crop destruction. This is easier continuous violence in the south. Afghans, point to Pakistani with the United States Agency for they want to achieve it. One exam- written in policy memos than it is The Taliban insurgency that is President Pervez Musharraf for International Development in ple of a dumped project is the U.S. practiced on the ground, howev- rising from the south is getting allowing the Taliban to operate Afghanistan before coming to military’s attempt to eradicate er. Opium has been the cash crop more violent as spring turns to with impunity along the lawless Missoula. He listened to the words of opium, Ahmad said. of Afghanistan for the three summer. Now attacks have region along the border of John Fox, director of the State In an interview with the decades it has been in war, with reached Kabul and several north- Afghanistan. The Taliban grew Department’s Office for Afghanistan, Kaimin, John Fox highlighted a a minor lull during the five-year ern cities, places where the out of the religious schools of heralding more congressional fund- “multipronged approach” to com- rule of the Taliban. In a drought- Taliban have never been popular. western Pakistan, and Pakistan’s ing secured for Afghanistan, and an bat the accelerating opium pro- ridden country in which only 12 Ahmad said that while much secret service is known to have optimistic strategy for opium eradi- duction in Afghanistan. Fox said percent of the land is arable, American money is funneled to supported the Taliban in the past. cation. Fox spoke of the $11.6 billion action needs to be taken immedi- poppies are the perfect dry-land Afghan police, the people find it But both Boucher and Fox aid package America has promised ately. Last year’s harvest landed crop. Moreover, it is easier to difficult to put confidence in them. insisted Pakistan was doing all it the country. Afghanistan the dubious distinc- pack a harvest of opium on the “People now in my country do could to put pressure on the insur- But Ahmad said the impressive tion of producing 92 percent of the back of a donkey and send it not trust the police,” he said. “The gents on the border. Boucher said sound of a number on Capitol Hill world’s heroin from a bumper over the mountains than it would closer they are to the police sta- that Musharraf realizes “the rings hollow in Afghanistan after crop. be to find a road and a truck to tion, the less safe they feel.” Taliban is a gun that can be point- it is sent through the sieves of “It was a bad year,” Fox said. send a crop of onions to a distant Ahmad attributes this to the ed either way.” The army periodi- bureaucracy, corruption and inef- “There’s no doubt about that.” market. incorporation of many powerful cally strikes insurgent camps and ficiency. He cites the recent The prongs of the new As for outright eradication, this but infamous Afghan war crimi- arrests members of the Taliban, correspondent nearly drove over nals into the government and law they said. an improvised explosive device in enforcement. Ahmad isn’t so convinced. the middle of northern “This is like when you appoint a Along the border region, where Afghanistan’s opium zone. The thief to catch thieves,” he said. there is a literacy rate of 10 per- bomb was meant for the German Ahmad said the occurrence of cent, and only one hospital bed per military, which had started suicide attacks, in direct imitation 6,000 people, the rule of the gun destroying fields of poppies right of the insurgency in Iraq, marks a takes precedence over the rule of at harvest time. The farmers, particular shift in the violence. law, and intervention from clearly, are ready to fight for what Until recently, suicide bombings Islamabad is rare. they see as their most hopeful were rare in Afghanistan. “I’m sure that Musharraf is not livelihood. “You don’t feel safe anywhere, as sincere as he is showing him- Ahmad said America must work it can happen anywhere,” Ahmad self to the U.S. government,” to eradicate opium slowly and said. Ahmad said. sensibly. Farmers have depended But Ahmad said that America is Ahmad said that without appre- on their poppies for the past three not spending enough time under- ciating the underlying causes for decades, he said, and that reliance standing the roots of the Taliban the continuing violence in can’t be replaced overnight. Take and the violence they are bringing. Afghanistan, America runs the it away all at once, he said, and Poverty is one particularly deep risk of gilding over a problem that “you are taking away their food.” vessel fomenting violence in will not go away. In their interview with the Afghanistan. The Taliban gives its “(America) should trust the peo- Kaimin, both John Fox and fighters three to $5 a day, an ple, so they trust them,” Ahmad Richard Boucher, the assistant attractive sum in a country racked said. “They should give them a secretary for South Asia and with unemployment. Ahmad said sense of ownership.” Central Asia at the State the Taliban gives $2,000 to the If rampant poverty, war crimes Department, said the bridges, family of each suicide bomber, and a pervading sense of hopeless- roads and other infrastructure which sometimes acts as a life ness are left unchecked, Ahmad American money has helped build insurance policy that is too good said, Afghanistan will never heal are tying a disparate country to not cash in. from the fighting it has been together. Boucher said that the “They think, at least (my fami- plagued with for 30 years. Ahmad road system being developed in ly) can survive after I die,” Ahmad highlighted the importance of Central Asia would eventually said. “At least my family can sur- stemming the destabilizing influ- connect the region to a plethora of vive for one year.” ence Iran and Pakistan are using to new economic opportunities. America is also not pressing manipulate Afghan affairs. But the reality of Afghanistan is Pakistan enough to crack down on “There are many people fishing a Kabul-based government that the Taliban operating along its in the troubled waters of enjoys very little control over the western provinces, Ahmad said. Afghanistan,” he said. www.montanakaimin.com

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Bathroom stalls serve as A Slammin’ Good Time: inspiration for poetry slam

AMES ABER MONTANAJ LKAIMIN April 5 was the first competition and was a great success, Webster Poetry is a beautiful thing that said. He said he was most pleased can be found anywhere at any with the diversity of the poetry at time, Eric Webster tells me, and the competition. some great poetry can even be “There was a wide range of found on bathroom walls. poetry, ranging from more That is why Webster, a reserved, introspective poetry to sociology major graduating in more wildly controversial fare,” May, decided to name a new poet- he said. “Some (of the poets) got ry competition he organized the really animated and had their Bathroom Wall Poetry Slam. poems memorized and some just “When I was thinking of a name read from their notebooks.” I thought of all the poetry scrib- Danilo Thomas, a graduating blings on the walls of the Old Post creative writing and literature and Charlie B’s and there has been double major who helped Webster some cool stuff in there, so I organize the event, participated thought it would fit for what I and said the experience was a wanted to do,” Webster said. great time for anyone interested in What he wanted to do was start the creative expressions of writ- a poetry competition open to ing. everyone in the community that “I thought it was a great time, had a light feel where anyone lots of local writers from the com- would feel welcome. munity showed up to read or just On the first Thursday of every listen,” Thomas said. “The atmos- month the BWPS, a free event to phere was great, not intimidating attend, will take place at at all. No one was rolling their Dauphine’s with five poets squar- eyes or scoffing. I completely ing off in two rounds of competi- froze twice while reading and the tion. The next reading will be audience just yelled encourage- May 3. ment.” Kevin Hoffman/MontanaKaimin “The competition is really kinda Anyone interested in participat- ABOVE: UM junior Peter Ore recites his poetry light, right now all the poets win is ing in any future BWPS events in front of an audience at Dauphines in early prestige,” Webster said. “(The can contact Webster for more April. Ore won the event after receiving more judging) is more of a way to get information at 327-0235. points than the other four poets in the competi- the audience involved. I just pick tion. people to be judges as they come LEFT: UM sophomore Greta Bates holds up her in the door.” scorecard during a poetry slam held at Dauphines in early April. The event consisted of contestants competing for points in two rounds of readings in front of an audience.

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Montana Kaimin CBS anchor questions cable news quality

WE did the crossword today. AMES ABER MONTANAJ LKAIMIN often find their way into television sively for UM. news programming. It is up to the Schieffer, with 50 years experi- With 24-hour-a-day news just a viewer to be educated and realize ence in journalism, said that tradi- click away, sensational news sto- the difference between hard news tionally, news outlets have gener- ries such as Anna Nicole Smith’s and sensational fluff, said CBS ally admitted any mistakes in their death and Britney Spear’s haircut News anchor and UM alum Meg broadcasts and ignored mistakes Oliver in her lecture, “The Battle by other stations and newspapers. for Your Attention: Everyone But with the Internet’s “tremen- wants it but is it worth your time?” dous impact” TV news often has Thursday evening in Urey Lecture to report mistruths found on the Hall. Internet. Schieffer used the exam- “We live in a fast-food world ple of knocking down false reports and cable news television takes found on the Internet after Sept. advantage of that,” said Oliver. 11 to prevent “mass hysteria.” Oliver said that in an effort to Schieffer also said that showing “feed the beast” and produce con- footage of the Virginia Tech gun- stant news programming 24/7, man’s rantings, criticized by cable news stations often put some, was necessary to show the entertainment news mixed in with reality and horror of the situation. hard news in their broadcast as an As parting advice to fledgling “easy way out.” journalism students, Schieffer She said that sometimes it takes said, “I think journalism is the a travesty such as the Virginia best way to spend your life … I Tech shooting to have “trivial think the main reason you want to entertainment news fall by the be a reporter is because it is so wayside” in cable news broad- much fun. You’ll not find a better casts. way to spend your life.” With the Virginia Tech shooting Oliver agreed with Schieffer’s tragedy, cable news stations were sentiments, saying that reporters bringing viewers constant may start out making no money updates, but the network nightly and working horrible hours, but news reports were more fleshed the excitement makes it worth- out and complete, Oliver said. while. Also, in this age of the Internet, Oliver, who is described by her blogs reported constantly on the former professors as “determined shooting, sometimes without total and knowing,” graduated from accuracy. These “citizen journal- UM in 1993 and has worked at ist” reports are becoming more stations across the country from prevalent, leading some to say that Kalispell to California to news standards have dropped. Not Connecticut. so, said Oliver. Although Oliver has worked in “I still believe it’s worth your small, medium, large and net- time to watch a well-crafted news- work-level stations, she said she cast,” she said. was more nervous giving her As part of her lecture, Oliver speech at UM. presented an interview she con- “When I give the news, I’m just ducted with former CBS Evening looking into a camera,” she said. News anchor and current Face the “Here I was looking out into an Nation host Bob Schieffer exclu- audience, students and former professors I’ve had. It was a little nerve-wracking.”

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Poet to speak Monday Hot wheels “Now, it’s not OK. JESSICA MAYRER MONTANA KAIMIN “I wonder if it’s possible for reason to contribute anything to a Robert Hass, a former U.S. poet peaceful world,” he added. laureate, will give the final install- Hass has written several books, ment of the President’s Lecture including “Field Guide,” “Praise,” Series this coming Monday at “Human Wishes,” “Sun Under 8 p.m. in the UC Ballroom. Wood,” “Twentieth Century Hass, an English professor from Pleasures” and “Now & Then: the University of California at The Poet’s Choice Columns.” Berkeley will give a speech titled, Also, a collection of Hass’ articles “Study War No More: Violence from The Washington Post was and the Literary Imagination.” released this spring. The lecture will focus on the He is also an environmental role of the poet during wartime activist and was named educator and “why heroic violence is so of the year by the North American appealing to the imagination,” he Association on Environmental said. Education. In 2005, Hass was Poets along with everyone else elected to the American Academy are struggling with how to articu- of Arts and Sciences and he is late the world’s problems today, active in the fight against Hass said. illiteracy. In the past, literature expressed Earlier on Monday, Hass will a romanticism that many writers also give a speech, titled, “Litany, grapple with today, he said. The Dirge and the Origins of Lyric poet’s awe of a pristine natural Poetry.” It will be held from 3:10 environment is turning into alarm. to 4:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Artists are left with an increasing- Building Room 123. ly violent culture and its effects on Both events are free and open to the planet to fuel their artistic the public. inspiration. Of these changes, he said, UM names provost candidates

SEAN BRESLIN from the job more than a year ago. MONTANA KAIMIN The candidates are: • Robert Sheehan, interim The University of Montana provost and executive vice presi- announced Thursday its second dent at the University of Toledo. round of candidates in its yearlong Sheehan will visit UM May 3 search for a new provost and vice and 4. president for academic affairs. • Royce Engstrom, provost and The provost search committee, vice president for academic affairs Krista Miller/Montana Kaimin now headed by Teresa Branch, at the University of South Dakota. Dave Schommer, a second-year grad student at UM, stops on the Oval Thursday afternoon to fine-tune his brakes vice president for student affairs, Engstrom will visit UM May 7 and tires. Schommer rides his bike year-round and says his favorite bike shop is Open Road Bicycles on Orange hired a search firm after President and 8. Street. George Dennison rejected the • Matthew Moen, dean of the committee’s last pick for provost College of Arts and Sciences at earlier this semester. Dennison the University of South Dakota. has been serving as interim Moen will visit UM May 9 provost since he fired Lois Muir and 10. M Montana KKaimin

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Montana Kaimin Are you going to miss us this summer?

Yeah, we didn’t think so.

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proudly presents: * Kaimin Arts The Dennies FIRST came the Oscars, then the Dundees, and now Kaimin Arts is proud to announce: “The Dennies,” the only award dedicated to the legacy of “Provident” George Dennison. Please enjoy Kaimin Arts’ look at this year.

Best Pirate-Affiliated Band to Hit Missoula: Best Local Band While this could go to the Decemberists or Modest Mouse, we’re Although it pains us to put down the Sharktopus, the Arts vote goes giving it to the Rolling Stones – the only band with a real pirate in the to … umm … the VoluNational PlayJoes. Honorable mention to the lineup. Good Neighbor Policy, Victory Smokes and Rome is Falling (though, technically, we think Rome has fallen). Best and Worst Books Sent to Kaimin Arts: Best: “Rant” by Chuck Palahniuk. ‘Nuff said. Best Drama/Dance Production: Worst: “How to Become a Straight-A Student” by Cal Newport. No one Alex and Pat were the only Arts staff to actually see any drama pro- on Kaimin Arts is a straight-A student, and we’re comfortable with that. ductions, and Ian only went to the dance showcases because they were We didn’t need some smarmy self-help guide to tell us we’re wrong. We free (and Callie Yeager’s pretty hot). That said: Everything we saw got have parents and credit lenders to tell us we’re not good enough. M a good review. Go Griz! …? Best Buzzword Found in Letters to the Editor: Best Way to Protest President Dennison’s Policies: Stephen Colbert has “truthiness.” We have “sustainability.” Despite sev- 1) Make sure he’s not in his office when you are. eral letters explaining in excruciating detail what its meaning is, we’re still 2) Dance! confused. We think it has something to do with Earth Day or ridiculously 3) Dance! expensive produce. 4) Write a compelling argument outlining your grievances and submit it respectfully to both the administration and to campus media. K 5) Dance! Worst Celebrity (still living): Some of us leaned toward Paris Hilton, but after much deliberation we’ve decided that we’d rather be surrounded by a campus ministry group, Best Line From “The Departed” (that we can beating us with pocket Bibles and telling us that God, like our parents and print): credit lenders, cries when He thinks about us, than ever have to hear Fergie “My theory on Feds is they’re like mushrooms – feed ‘em shit and spell another word wrong or make a word out of her name. You’re not keep ‘em in the dark.” – Dignam “Fergalicious” – you look like a dude. Best Celebrity (still living): A Best Classroom Distraction: Xenu, the evil intergalactic overlord who, according to To hell with text messaging and watching “Lost” on your iPod, the novelist/Scientology-prophet L. Ron Hubbard, is locked in an electric cell best classroom distraction is running a Sega Genesis emulator on your somewhere in the far reaches of space. Xenu, according to Hubbard, froze laptop, so you can play “Street Fighter II” during your lecture. the bodies of millions of aliens and disposed of them on Earth. The souls Honorable mention: Kaimin Crossword Puzzle. of those aliens, according to the prophet/novelist, prompted every major development in our civilization. Thanks, Xenu. Most Legitimate Beef With Pat Duganz: Most Ironic Name for a Group: Pat’s offended a lot of people, but they just have to read his column Campus Crusaders for Christ promote interfaith acceptance and harmo- once a week. We, his reporters, have to see him at least twice a week, ny. They do a good job of respecting different religions – something a “cru- and have to actually be in his presence. You might think he puts on an sader” would never have agreed to do. Remember, the crusades aren’t act in his writing, but Pat actually is a pretentious, snarky dick. See you remembered for tolerance. in hell, Duganz. (Editor’s Note: You’re all fired.)

Best Movie of the Year: HANKS FOR THE YEAR EVERYONE. IT’S BEEN A LOT OF FUN AND “Snakes on a Plane” is a prime candidate; “300” was man-tastic; “Borat: we’ve had some laughs, but now we’re just going to go to sleep Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of forT a week so we can somehow pass our classes. Kazakhstan” taught us oh so many things; and “Casino Royale” single- Later, handedly made up for everything Roger Moore did to James Bond. But we’re holding our breath for “Pirates 3” and “Spider-Man 3.” Viva los trilogies! Kaimin Arts *President / Provost Dennison does not endorse The Dennies

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PaPATlDUGANZahniuk: Still a badass with ‘Rant’ MONTANA KAIMIN people’s quotes about a person – What makes him stick out, however, two – or nothing but – let’s say Truman Capote. All of these is that he isn’t ever in the book. Or – unreliable narrators. After Though it goes without saying quotes are assembled in a varying and this is the weird thing – he might all, the novel is told from (actually, it gets said a lot), Chuck form to give the biographical tale of be nearly every male character in the the perspective of people Palahniuk is the person. book. with rabies, drug-addled a complete Review Buster “Rant” Casey, Palahniuk’s “Rant” challenges our normal brains and unclear memo- badass. protagonist, is a person who is sense of reality in many ways. It asks ries of what are some Between “Fight Club,” responsible for one of the single questions like: “Is time travel real?” seriously big events. “Survivor” and “Choke,” Palahniuk worst outbreaks in world history. His and “What the hell is going on?” In a story arching over a has established himself as one of the disease: rabies. He may very well As usual (for Chuck) the local of life of someone whose most unique voices in American fic- also be his own father, as well as a “Rant” is ambiguous. What’s differ- degenerate and odd foibles tion. He’s also made most of us serial murderer. ent is that it is unclear when this (his sense of taste is so cringe at one point or another Yes – you guessed it – “Rant” is book takes place. Is it in a dystopian advanced that after per- (Example: “Guts”). an odd novel that would be other- future where the primary source of forming cunnilingus he In his newest offering to the wise unbelievable aside from the entertainment is either crashing cars can tell what a woman has world, “Rant: An Oral Biography of accurate details that Palahniuk in an anarchistic “sport” called eaten that week), the only Buster Casey,” Palahniuk comes out meticulously researched before- “Party Crashing” or downloading question is how much you swinging like “Fight Club’s” Tyler hand. visions directly to one’s brain called can take. Durden with what is possibly the The narrators of Rant’s life weave “outcording”? Is this dystopia actu- Hopefully you can take most inventive novel in years (and a tale about a guy who loves his ally occurring during the same frame some perversion and odd yes, he mentions Missoula). mother and who also loves deadly of time as the present, but perverted takes on life, because Like “Diary” before it, “Rant” spiders. He’s also fond of shoving by someone tinkering with time? “Rant” is well worth tak- isn’t written in a normal narrative his arm into holes in the ground to That’s up for you to decide – as is the ing a look at when it is form. For this book Palahniuk took get bitten by everything from skunks question of whether you can believe released Tuesday. Go buy Photo courtesy Chuckpalahniuk.net on the guise of an oral biographer. to snakes. Really, Rant Casey isn’t anyone in this book. this book and prepare to “Rant” will be released May 1. It’s retailing for $24.95. To clarify what this is: An oral biog- any more disturbing than other pro- Unlike the traditional unreliable have your mind blown. raphy is an amalgamation of tagonists in Palahniuk’s books. narrator, “Rant” may have one or ABC’s newest drama tries to be something new by copying older, better shows

AN RAHAM MOINTANAG KAIMIN coming venture capitalist) and watching the pilot, I’m excited to Will Traveler (the mysterious third see where the show goes. The FBI OK, here’s the formula: take a friend) –– take off on a post-grad agents on the case are conflicted few ideas from a few successful school road trip. But after decid- because the evidence is so circum- TV shows, ing to play a prank in New York’s stantial, but are forced to throw combine them Review oldest art museum (racing from out standard investigative proce- and add some the top floor to the street on dure in the name of national secu- hot young stars and starlets. rollerblades), a bomb goes off in rity. Jay is sure he can work his Following that, ABC’s the building, leaving two of the way through the situation with his upcoming series, “Traveler,” takes men suspected terrorists and the newly minted law degree; Tyler is the conspiracy theory element of other missing (and, known only to convinced it’s a big-time conspir- “The X-Files,” the paranoid chase the two suspects, the bomber). acy, a theory only further con- element of “The Fugitive,” and Because of damaged security firmed by the mounting bits of never-resolved plot of tapes (burned in the explosion) evidence. “Supernatural” (among hundreds and other very unfortunate cir- The show is much more politi- of other series) and stirs in Aaron cumstances, Jay and Tyler make a cal than I expected it to be –– the Stanford (from “X-Men: The Last run for it after the FBI names them two fugitives live in fear of being Photo illistration by Pat Duganz Stand” and “The Hills Have top suspects in the bombing. shipped to Guantanamo Bay, “Traveler” premieres on May 10 at 10 p.m. Eastern on ABC, and will air Wednesdays. And hell, it’s Eyes”), Logan Marshall-Green Thus, the scene is set for an epic named as “enemy combatants” by free; it’s definitely worth watching at least once. (“The O.C.” and “24”), and an series of chase scenes, tense police the federal government. Much of assortment of other character office drama, and sweaty young their fight is a veiled condemna- actors recognizable only for the men in physically demanding situ- tion of much of the current admin- shows they appeared on. The ations. They even used iPod com- istration’s security policy, but Jay show is completely full of “Oh, mercial-worthy indie rock songs constantly reminds the audience what was he in?” moments. for parts of the soundtrack. that he doesn’t hate the “Traveler” introduces three But as cynical as I am about, government – he wants to fix its friends –– Jay Burchell (a soon-to- well, everything, “Traveler” is problems. be lawyer), Tyler Fog (an up-and- interesting and suspenseful. After www.montanakaimin.com M O N T A N A K A I M I N Friday, April 27, 2007 Entertainment 13

Buddy DeFranco Jazz Fest begins tonight AN RAHAM MONTANAI G KAIMIN around the nation as well as a hand- 1970s, and Frank Zappa from the lowed the decline in popularity of led his own big band in New York ful of well-known jazz artists, 1960s until his death in 1993. big bands and swing music. He has since the early 1980s, and has Since 1980, the University of including Buddy DeFranco, Ingrid “What makes this year’s festival played with the Count Basie Septet, worked with musicians ranging Montana has played host to leading Jensen and Bob Mintzer. stand out is the mixture of tradition- the Glenn Miller Orchestra and, from Tito Puente, Buddy Rich and jazz musicians from around the Though the traditional image of al and contemporary,” said Lance until the 1980s, was the only note- the New York Philharmonic to world, putting on a festival to act as jazz is of big swing bands playing Boyd, UM’s jazz director. “This worthy jazz musician to play only James Taylor, Aretha Franklin and a venue for well-known contempo- songs like “Sing, Sing, Sing,” that year the balance is wider than clarinet. Queen. Mintzer will be performing rary artists to perform together, and style makes up only a small portion before. There’s some very tradition- Following in his footsteps is Andy tonight at 7:30 with DeFranco and to give student jazz groups a chance of the jazz world. Jazz has been al music and some very new, cut- Firth, a younger clarinet player who Jensen. to hear criticism from leading jazz adapted and reinvented since its rise ting-edge stuff, too.” sticks to traditional jazz styles. Firth “It’s hard to explain what’s going musicians. to popularity in the early 20th centu- Boyd said that DeFranco personi- will be playing with DeFranco and on in (modern jazz) in the music This year, the 27th Annual Buddy ry by artists such as Django fies the traditional side of jazz – the percussionist Ed Soph tomorrow itself,” Boyd said. “Now there are DeFranco Jazz Festival (known Reinhardt (credited with the inven- swinging, bebop sounds associated night at 7:30. elements of rock and New Age before 2000’s festival as the tion of “gypsy” jazz); Miles Davis, with big bands. DeFranco, who has Mintzer, a saxophonist, is known music in jazz. There are lots of com- University of Montana Jazz Herbie Hancock and (arguably) Jimi been playing for 70 years, was one for blending traditional swing with posers writing in a vein that’s totally Festival) has drawn 25 ensembles Hendrix in the 1960s; Jaco Pastorius of the few jazz clarinet players to newer, more lyrical and unpre- different than what we’d normally from high schools and colleges and his band Weather Report in the adapt to the “new” jazz that fol- dictable arrangements. Mintzer has consider ‘jazz.’” Arts’ fake Anna McGary’s ‘A Simple Turn’ worth all of your pennies interview Local singer-songwriter shows that fancy production isn’t what makes a decent album

IAN GRAHAM with Duncan MONTANA KAIMIN album title a theme throughout, it’s very clever. If it’s not, Anna, feel You may remember Anna free to use that line. You can just YLAN ASLOVICH McGary from a profile in the owe me. MDONTANAL KAIMIN March 8 Kaimin. Back then Anna Lyrically, “A Simple Turn” takes was a noon issues familiar to teens and 20- What follows is a Kaimin Arts name singer- Review somethings. McGary tackles the “interview” with Spring Thaw head- songwriter in confusion of relationships, the liner Duncan Sheik. a college town, readying herself hard reality of ending them and We were supposed to have an for the release of her debut album, coming to terms with young adult- actual interview with Duncan, but “A Simple Turn.” hood. But this is no Elliott Smith after multiple unreturned calls to him Fast-forward to now. McGary is downer-fest; she pairs her lyrics and his agent we gave up. On his still a no-name singer-songwriter with upbeat, fun melodies that answering, the Grammy-nominated in a college town, but she’s furi- make it easy to mistake for happy- artist explained he was experiencing ously promoting her recently go-lucky. phone problems and who can’t relate released CD, playing a frenzy of One of my favorite things about to that? So we’ve instead used lyrics shows in Bozeman and Missoula. “A Simple Turn” is the lack of from his songs to fill in as answers. “A Simple Turn” is a collection intrusive production on the album. of very listenable alt-pop songs Some bands freak out when they Kaimin: Hey Duncan, how are reminiscent of the mid-90s surge have a studio to work with, and it you doing? of femme-rock. McGary’s voice gets in the way of otherwise good Sheik: I am barely breathing and I flirts with restrained anger as often music. Gil Stober of Peak can’t find the air. as it leans toward a playful, almost Recording and Sound in Bozeman Kaimin: Wow, that’s awful. Can I country-esque sound. kept his work minimal, letting help? Her guitar-work is kept simple – McGary’s songs speak for them- Sheik: I don’t know who I’m kid- almost no sound-altering effects or selves. Photo by Ashley McKee ding imagining you care. distortion come between what her “A Simple Turn” is available at Kaimin: Moving on. You’ve been fingers did in the studio and what Rockin’ Rudy’s and Ear Candy UC Game Room at 9 p.m. May 1, A few of her songs are available making quite a splash on the hits the listener’s ear. If it was Music – ask for their “local artists” and in the UC South Atrium at to stream on her MySpace profile, Broadway music scene. Did you ever intentional, perhaps making her section. Anna will be playing at the noon the following day. http://www.myspace.com/annamcgary. see yourself writing scores for Broadway? Sheik: It’s better left unsaid. I’ve said more than I should. Kaimin: Um, OK. So you were Kaimin Arts: We’re putting on our nominated for a Grammy early on in your career. That’s quite an achieve- Sex Panther Cologne and going to ment. Sheik: I know what you’re doing. I talk with Kaimin Sports. see it all too clear. Don’t you see I’m breaking down? Kaimin: But you’re responsible for the critically acclaimed “Spring Awakening” score. That’s got to make you feel good. Sheik: There are so many reasons I could give you why I should be down. Kaimin: If you could only give one reason for students to attend your show, what would it be? Sheik: You really can’t be serious if you have to ask me why. Kaimin: It’s beautiful here and there are plenty of outdoor activities … Got any plans to enjoy Montana? Sheik: Meet me and we’ll drive this car away. We can leave right now, what do you say? We’ll head out for the wide and open spaces if we can clear the way. Kaimin: That’s the spirit. You sound a lot better. Sheik: I’m on a high, I’m on a high. There’s nothing more to it. Kaimin: What can the students expect from your show? Sheik: For you I want to sing a hap- pier song. For you I’m gonna try to right all my wrongs. Kaimin: Well good luck tonight Duncan. It’s been fun. Sheik: I say goodbye. Go to www.montanakaimin.com

Sports M O N T A N A K A I M I N 14 Friday, April 27, 2007 Griz, Bobcats set to take storied rivalry to the track

MBER UEHN MONTANAA KKAIMIN from all the travel. Raunig said they are favored to rivalry is the fact that the duel is can also be a little risky. “They need to get a good meet, win again. another opportunity for people to “If you get too comfortable with so this is their chance to get Although this Cat-Griz matchup qualify for the Big Sky where you’re at, then you don’t Both of the University of healthy and rested,” Raunig said. is different from football in that Conference and Regionals meets. perform as you should,” she said. Montana track teams are hoping to “This is our best bet to get more the track teams have already com- The Griz have already qualified Bean, who qualified in the ham- be victorious this weekend against qualifiers.” peted against each other earlier in six athletes for the NCAA mer during the first meet of the a well-known foe. Last year at Bozeman the the season, the rivalry is still very Midwest Regional tournament year, said it was nice to get that UM will face rival Montana Bobcat women eked out a win, much alive. held in Des Moines, Iowa. Seniors accomplishment early on. State in the schools’ annual duals defeating Montana by just one “We see an awful lot of them Alicia Mills and Hollenbeck, jun- “The rest of the season I’ve just this Saturday at Dornblaser Field. point. This year, the UM women during the season, but this one’s iors Perkins-Judisch and Curtis been able to sit back and work on The event kicks off with women’s are seeking revenge and looking still important because this is the Bean, and sophomores Ryan getting more speed and better field events beginning at 10 a.m. to turn around a 10-year losing one that matters, this is the one Grinnell and Logan Labbe all technique,” he said. On the women’s side, Montana streak. Junior Loni Perkins- that goes in the record books,” qualified in their respective Twenty-one men and 15 women State has dominated the past Judisch said she thinks the team is Raunig said. events. have also qualified for the Big Sky decade while the Montana men more motivated to beat the UM senior Robb Hollenbeck Perkins-Judisch, who qualified Conference Championships May have won four out of the past five Bobcats this year. said it doesn’t matter what sport it for Regionals for her third time, 9-12 in Pocatello, Idaho. duals with MSU. “We didn’t have the team unity is, the rivalry with MSU is always said already qualifying takes a lot Bean said he feels confident The dual marks the last home the past few years that we have competitive. of the pressure off and helps her about the team’s chances at the meet of the season for Montana now,” she said. “We’re really “If they had a pingpong tourna- confidence. championships. and the first since late March. The looking forward to beating them, ment against MSU it’d be compet- “It’s nice because then I’m not “I think we have a great chance Griz have been on the road for the so I’m just hoping we can do itive,” he said. “Nobody wants to worried about that, I’m just at getting a title as a team,” he past three competitions, and UM that.” lose to the Cats and everyone focused on getting my best time,” said. head coach Tom Raunig said he The Montana men defeated the wants to beat them.” she said. hopes his athletes aren’t fatigued Bobcats 97-94 last year, and But what matters more than the But, she adds, qualifying early Kaimin Sports: Red Sox players confirm that We wish we knew how to quit you, Kaimin Arts. Schilling’s ‘04 injury was real BOSTON (AP) - No paint, no from flopping around. With blood ink, no ketchup. seeping through his sock, the Nothing but Curt Schilling's pitcher came back in Game 6 to blood was seeping through his beat the Yankees. socks in the 2004 postseason, cur- The Red Sox completed an rent and former Red Sox said unprecedented comeback from an Thursday after a rumor resurfaced 0-3 deficit to reach the World that the pitcher milked his injury Series, and team doctor Bill for drama while helping Boston Morgan repeated the procedure end its 86-year title drought. before Schilling's Game 2 start On Wednesday, Baltimore against St. Louis. Boston beat the announcer Gary Thorne said dur- Cardinals en route to a four-game ing his broadcast of the Red Sox- sweep and its first world champi- Orioles game that Boston backup onship since 1918. catcher Doug Mirabelli admitted No stranger to the spotlight, it was a hoax. Schilling is not afraid to say or do "It was painted," Thorne said. things that court controversy. The "Doug Mirabelli confessed up to it suggestion that he faked the injury after. It was all for PR." to get attention has cropped up But Mirabelli denied ever talk- before, including a GQ magazine ing to Thorne, telling The Boston article that cited an anonymous Globe that Thorne's comment was Red Sox player as its source. "a straight lie." Schilling has said the sock from After an ankle injury hampered the Yankees game got tossed in Schilling in Game 1 of the '04 AL the laundry. The one from the championship series against New World Series is at the Baseball York, team doctors jury-rigged a Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, tendon in his right ankle to keep it N.Y.

M O N T A N A K A I M I N Sports Friday, April 27, 2007 15 Jesters set to scrum in Maggotfest, conference tournament

BILL ORAM MONTANA KAIMIN add to its list of achievements. The MRU is made up of eight They may be Jesters, but they're teams from around the state, with no joke. players ranging in age from 18 to The Jesters, the University of 60. Montana's club rugby team, are As a tune-up for next weekend's looking to add to an already tournament the Jesters are compet- impressive 2007 season. Sitting at ing in this weekend’s Maggotfest, 9-2 in the Montana Rugby Union, the Missoula tradition that sends the team will enter next weekend's rugby-goers into a feverish pitch. conference tournament as a No. 4 In its first game of the seed, looking to do some damage. Maggotfest tournament on The Jesters and the Maggots, Thursday, the Jesters erupted Missoula's men's league team, will against the Band of Brothers, a play hosts to the MRU's six other team made up of Army men from team's next weekend for the union around the country, winning deci- tournament. sively 42-10. Jesters club president Arik Brum "Maggotfest is cool because it's a said rugby gives athletes an oppor- really good time for us to prepare tunity to keep their competitive for our state tournament," Brum juices flowing after high school. said. However, upholding the "It's a chance for guys who team's mantra of "work hard, play didn't really get a chance to go on hard," he did not discount the sto- to college sports," Brum said. "It's ried social aspects to the weekend- not a hard game to play, but it's a long event. hard game to be good at." "It's really a good chance for our "Good" is certainly one way to guys to see the social side of rugby Tim Kupsick/Montana Kaimin describe the Jesters' history. In and the traditions that go into it," Trent Drinkwalter jumps for an inbound pass during the Jesters game against Band of Brothers Thursday afternoon at Dornblaser field. 2005, after joining the Pacific he said. Northwest Rugby Football Union, UM freshman Matt Johnson, games are really fun because it's a that the team is about 25 members and bringing him back up. The which competes in the fall, the from Eugene, Ore., said that he social tournament." strong – come from all over, but more a guy's exploited in front of team advanced to the Sweet 16 of came to Montana in part for the Now an ASUM club, the Jesters many are local boys. his mates, the more comfortable he the college national tournament in opportunity to compete in rugby, were formed in 1968 for UM stu- The team is known for some is," he said. "It's really for the main its inaugural season. However, in and that he has been looking for- dents, but as players graduated and wacky rituals that help build team purpose of bringing those guys 2006, due to a lack of funding, the ward to Maggotfest since he joined wanted to keep playing, the team unity and Brum declined to go into together and forming that cama- team was unable to compete in the the Jesters. split into two teams, creating the detail as to what those traditions raderie. PNRFU. "I've heard a lot of fun stories Maggots. were. "We're an eclectic group," he Now amid their spring campaign about it so I'm really looking for- The players that now comprise "We can basically just say we added. "A lot of these guys would- in the MRU, the team will try to ward to it," he said. "I've heard the the UM team – Brum estimated emphasize bringing a guy down n't be together outside of rugby." Hundreds of rugby players set to converge on Missoula for Maggotfest ETE ELMOE MOPNTANAD KAIMIN bunch of half-naked men ends on Sunday. few years ago a team came from Merrill estimated Maggotfest wrestling around and chugging For the Maggots it is a relaxing England. will bring in about $350,000- This weekend will be the 31st beer like frat boys. weekend before next weekend Maggotfest isn’t just for the $450,000 to local businesses as annual Maggotfest and the rugby Maggots’ head coach and cap- when they host the Montana rugby players though, as it’s well as about 700 or so rugby showcase will feature nearly 40 tain Bill “The Bull” Merrill said Rugby Union Cup Tournament. become a big part of Missoula and players. men’s and women’s teams in one that Maggotfest is more of a social “This weekend is more of a fun, it is almost like a holiday. It is sort For the Maggots this is without of the countries largest rugby tour- event and the drinking just kind of hanging out with your buddies and of like the Testicle Festival out at question their biggest time of the naments. But anyone who knows goes with it. have a few beers deal,” said Blake Rock Creek. year. With Maggotfest and next anything about Maggotfest knows “Rugby is an Old World sport,” Meyers, the Maggots’ vice-cap- “It’s a big shot in the arm for the week’s tournament, this is what that rugby is more of an after- said Merrill, who’s been a Maggot tain. “Next weekend is where we community,” Merrill said. “It’s it’s all about. thought than anything. for seven seasons. “It was founded really get down to business.” kind of become a cornerstone of “It’s a great time to be a The main focus will be on get- on camaraderie and social values, Maggotfest brings in teams the community.” Maggot,” Meyers said. ting together with friends and getting together and drinking a from all over the country and even drinking. Most of the bars down- beer after the game.” some from outside the U.S. and town will look like a scene from Maggotfest, held at Fort even the continent. Some teams the movie “Animal House” with a Missoula, began Thursday and come down from Canada and a

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