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Montana kaimin Sustainability Then &Now WHY UM STRUGGLES TO GO GREEN WHILE IN THE RED NEWS We’re here ARTS Get Lit at OPINION Lemme and we’re queer book fest Smash! Issue No. 5 September 26, 2018 KIOSK ON THE COVER The Montana Kaimin is a weekly independent student newspaper at the University Illustration LindseyWeek Sewell of 9/24/18 - 9/30/18 of Montana and does not condone or encourage any illegal activities. Services For comments, corrections or letters to the editor, contact The Weekly Crossword by Margie E. Burke [email protected] or call (406) 243-4310. Text: I Buy Imports < Subaru < Toyota-Japanese/German Cars & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 For advertising opportunities, contact Trucks. Nice, ugly, running or not 327-0300 [email protected] or call (406) 243-6541. 14 15 16 17 18 19 Help Wanted NEWSROOM STAFF 20 21 22 Editor-in-Chief 23 24 25 Missoula’s only popcorn shop is looking for a part time em- Matt Neuman ployee to work a few evenings and Saturdays. Must have great News Editor 26 27 28 29 30 customer service skills and cash handling experience. Please Cassidy Alexander Arts & Opinion Editors 31 32 33 34 35 36 come in person and apply or bring a resume. No email resumes Drew Novak and Erin Goudreau please. Come in between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. 37 38 39 40 Multimedia Editors M-F. KornUtopia, 617 S. Higgins behind the Big Dipper. Reed Klass, Sara Diggins and John Hooks 41 42 43 44 Design Editor 45 46 47 48 Zoie Koostra Web Editor 49 50 51 52 53 Savannah Sletten 54 55 56 57 Week of 9/24/18 - 9/30/18 News Reporters 58 59 60 61 Melissa Loveridge, Ryan OConnell, Madeline Broom, Shaylee Ragar, Sydney Ackridge, Emily Schabacker, Helena Dore, Cameron Kia Weix and Paul Hamby 62 63 64 Arts & Opinion Reporters 65 66 67 Kailyn Mercer, Noelle Huser, Emma Smith, Ethan Newman and LJ Dawson Sports Reporters Copyright 2018 by The Puzzle Syndicate Zach Flickinger and Henry Chisholm ACROSS 1 Study in a hurry DOWN 30 Japanese plane Multimedia 5 Cousin of a 1 Rocky's title 31 Q-Tip SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke Quinn Corcoran, Eli Imadali, Micah Pengilly, Cheyenne Fisher, Donal Lakatua, Kayden mandolin 2 Bit of gossip 32 Programmer's Difficulty: Medium Harrison, Jiakai Lou, Daniel Duensing and Colton Rothwell HOW TO SOLVE: Type of drum Deserted output Designers 9 3 1 2 Each row must contain the 14 Maui dance 4 Add up 33 Like the Sahara numbers 1 to 9; each column must Jackie Evans-Shaw, Lindsey Sewell, Daylin Scott and Marijka Devivier 15 ____-friendly 5 Semicircular 36 Warning on 8 6 7 3 contain the numbers 1 to 9; and Copy Editors each set of 3 by 3 boxes must Luke Smith 16 Haul with effort window paint cans contain the numbers 1 to 9. 17 One way to run? 6 Like hand-me- 38 Lily-like flower 7 4 6 1 BUSINESS STAFF 18 Close calls downs 43 In all respects Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: Business Manager Well-to-do Tetley product State with 4 1 20 7 47 8 3 2 9 1 5 7 6 4 Patrick Boise 22 Objective 8 "To ___ is certainty 6 4 6 9 5 8 4 7 1 3 2 Advertising Representatives 23 Car radio button human …" 48 Sculler's need 1 4 7 6 3 2 9 8 5 Mason Hague and Norbert Weber 24 In a fitting way 9 Wild lily of the 49 Metric volume 3 2 9 5 7 6 9 3 2 1 5 4 8 Office Assistants 26 Rough valley 51 Lit Dominique Nault and Mickey Haldi calculation 10 Cantankerous 52 Kind of change 3 4 2 8 3 5 9 4 6 1 7 28 Kin of "i.e." 11 Lighten 53 Sign above a 4 5 1 7 6 8 2 9 3 31 Glance over 12 Uniform door 6 5 7 9 2 6 4 7 3 8 5 1 34 Broadcast 13 "___ we 54 End of a 9 4 3 3 7 8 1 5 9 4 2 6 35 Full of zeal forget…" Hemingway title Copyright 2018 by The Puzzle Syndicate 5 1 4 2 8 6 3 7 9 37 Bottom of the 19 Baseball gear 55 Attempt barrel 21 "Absolutely!" 56 Cozumel coin 39 Crooner Boone 24 Friendly 57 Bookkeeper's 40 Pizazz 25 Pitter-_____ stamp 41 French farewell 27 Skewer 59 Outrage 42 Aid and ____ 28 Medicine bottle 60 Atlantic food fish 44 As well 29 Pigmented eye 45 River bottom part Contact us to sponsor a puzzle! 46 Fancy dance hall Answers to Last Week’s Crossword: 49 Embankment SCAT FROM SPELL 50 Mexicali munchie PAGE LAVA CAMEO (406) 243-4310 or [email protected] 54 Shoot for, with ABANDONED REINS "to" SLIDER REHEARSE 57 Ideal MEN SAND YEN 58 Like some DELOUSE DAM questions WADER REINSTATE ERRATUM CAPITOL 61 Stain LEAFSTALK ADAPT Exodus leader 62 LAB ULULATE 63 Muddy up TAR NEST FIN 64 Misplace SCROUNGE SERENE 65 Mall tenant ALONG UTTERANCE 66 Water whirled SEDGE STAN SCUD 67 Pitcher SPEAR TENT HERS 2 September 26-October 2, 2018 montanakaimin.com OPINION KAIMIN EDITORIAL THE ONE PLACE WHERE WE TRY TO BE FUNNY UM’s new motto: “Fuck, BIG UPS & BACKHANDS Big Ups to Grizzly Athleltics for reminding us there’s enough money floating around for new retro fuck fuck. What do we do?” uniforms — for everyone but marching band. The following is a transcript, with one tee, held more illegal meetings without misspoken correction, of comments made proper public notice and opportunity for SHAME Backhands to UM for listing the College of Visual and Performing Arts by a student at the Sept. 20 Faculty Senate public comment. as priority for development and then slashing its budget. Oh wait, no meeting. The student submitted the tran- Increasingly, Cabinet meetings, like they didn’t. Can people make up their minds? script as a letter to the editor. Budget Committee meetings, are just can- celed. And when Cabinet meetings are sort of open to the public, most of the agenda Big Ups to the 903 students who decided not to come back. We’re glad OUCH! items are just “updates.” you got out, but man is that 7.6 percent Hello. My name is Ross Best. I’m a stu- The process has “evolved” so that most drop in enrollment going to hurt. dent. of the big decisions are still dealt with only I’ve spoken before about the scandalous behind the scenes. refusal of the University to comply fully The word around campus is that the with [the] requirements for public partic- administration is borrowing a trick from KAIMIN COMIC ipation, open meetings and open docu- private business and reducing the number ments. of meetings in favor of “huddles,” informal Our new president repeatedly prom- micro-meetings, almost like just casually ised transparency last semester. bumping into each other in the hallway, But in April, the Kaimin had a telling designed to be under-the-radar and fall headline: “Public sees public information, between the legal cracks. UM administrators get nervous.” The sports metaphor of “huddles” is At a dean’s meeting, someone carelessly sadly appropriate, since courts sometimes committed an act of transparency in front call the kind of secrecy game our public of witnesses. university plays “hide the football.” Against all decency, some actual infor- In other words, the system is too often mation about likely areas for cuts appeared designed to obstruct, not facilitate public on a graph in a slideshow with reporters participation and public accountability. nearby. The Faculty Senate should be doing Reporters being what they are, photo- more to hold the university administration graphs were taken. Administrators being accountable when it comes to public partic- what they are, a recess was called. ipation, open meetings, and access to doc- And then the interim provost at the uments. But to do that the Faculty Senate time, the dean of the law school, whispered and ECOS need to clean up their own act. to the president some of the most profound Thank you. words in the history of this university. He said: “Fuck, fuck, fuck. What do we Ross Best, do?” UM Grad Student What they did, of course, was take down [email protected] the graph. Forget about “Lux et Veritas.” Thanks to the Kaimin, we now know LIKE IT? HATE IT? WISH WE WERE DEAD? the real motto of the University. Email us your opinions at Over the summer, the Cabinet, the [email protected] deans and ECOS, your executive commit- PAUL TIEDE montanakaimin.com September 26-October 2 2018 3 OPINION KAIMIN COLUMN It’s time to bury the ‘body count’ question You’re in bed getting frisky, and your partner substitute for important conversations about sex- blows the mood by asking you what your “num- ually-transmitted infections and sexual history.