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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Serving up the UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 sport of squash page 5 Montana Kaimin Thursday, April 30, 2009 www.montanakaimin.com Volume CXI, Issue 97 ‘Real women’ hit the catwalk Interim dean to fill position for arts college Allison Maier Montana Kaimin Award-winning opera singer Stephen Kalm will take over as the new dean of the University of Mon- tana’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Kalm has served as interim dean of the School of Fine Arts – recently changed to the College of Visual and Performing Arts – since last summer, after former dean Shirley Howell retired after nine years. Kalm has worked as a music professor at UM since 1994 and was chair of the music department from 2002 to 2008. “I think I bring a passion for the arts and I bring a regular enthusiasm for arts education and profes- sional programs,” he said. Kalm said his goal is to promote the various pro- grams offered in the College of Visual and Perform- ing Arts, including what he calls “niche” programs like media arts. This spring will be the last time students’ diplomas Bess Brownlee/Montana Kaimin will say they have graduated from the School of Fine Linds Sanders, Margarita Dorzhiyeva and 21 other student models strut their stuff on the runway during the Real Women Fashion Show on Wednes- Arts. day afternoon in the University Center. The event, sponsored by several local businesses and the university, aims to bring awareness to students about Starting next fall, the programs will fall under the body issues and encourage women to “celebrate real beauty and embrace your bodies,” according to Josh Peters-McBride, the show’s emcee. College of Visual and Performing Arts, which will contain four different schools: the School of Art, Kayla Matzke Tina Brown, the program coordinator said Jennifer Hepner, a graduate student in School of Theatre and Dance, School of Music and Montana Kaimin and creator of the fashion show, said she communications studies who volunteered School of Media Arts. Twenty-three young women strut- put out a call for models in March. Local to be a model in the show. The change in titles was approved last March by ted their stuff on a makeshift catwalk businesses, including Bob Ward & Sons, Senior Carmine Leighton, also one of the Montana Board of Regents, which oversees the on Wednesday in the University Center Macy’s, The Green Light, Betty’s Divine 23 models, said the fashion show brought state’s university systems. Atrium to celebrate real beauty and real and My Sister’s Closet, donated clothing out a confidence among the women who Kalm said the change reflects the fact that the Col- women. for the show. modeled that she doesn’t often see on cam- lege of Visual and Performing Arts is capable of giv- “The purpose of this event is to bring Drawings for two prize bags were held. pus. ing out both undergraduate and graduate degrees in an awareness to our campus about the many Brown, a senior in social work, said the The show pushed at her comfort levels array of disciplines. issues that young women face concerning show was meant to break down social per- in a good way, she said. Kalm said the name change sheds light on the fact their bodies,” said Josh Peters-McBride, ceptions of female beauty that are filtered “This is my first fashion show ever. I that UM plays an important role in the arts. the event’s emcee. through the media. almost peed my pants,” Leighton said. “It “I’m tremendously excited to take this position, The first “Real Women Fashion Show” “I think there are so many women that challenged how I felt about my body.” and I’m looking forward to working with my col- drew a crowd and featured models that de- get overlooked because of outward appear- Brown said she saw many of the women leagues to expand our influence on the role of arts in fied stereotypes. ances,” she said. “I feel like, on college open up once they put on the clothes and the state and throughout the nation,” he said. Before the show started, Peters-McBride campuses, women are really looked at by walked down the carpet. Kalm was selected from among three other candi- listed a few statistics: 34 percent of women their body appearance. A healthy woman is “It gave the girls a chance to exude con- dates, one of whom withdrew after he was offered an- had their first negative thoughts about their more attractive than an unhealthy woman.” fidence,” Brown said. other job. A search committee selected the candidates body before age 11; 47 percent of women No matter what your body type is, it’s Stacy Nadeau, an advocate for Dove’s and gathered feedback on each from students, faculty say their body image has been affected by about confidence, Brown said. Campaign for Real Beauty, gave a presen- and community members before Provost Royce Eng- photos of models and stars; and 26 percent “It’s important for us to support other tation later Wednesday afternoon in the strom made the final selection. of women started dieting in high school. women and the idea of universal beauty,” See FASHION, page 16 [email protected] Retiring biology professor was tough but interactive Kelsey Bernius when the professor of what some call “the search for Westphal’s replacement. A tem- a textbook.” Westphal said. “Learning is not Montana Kaimin most challenging course a UM undergradu- porary instructor will teach the course in the just about memorization and your grade. Black tape lined the inside of Kathe ate can take” retires to spend more time with fall, during which the division can conduct a You really have to start learning at a higher Westphal’s office door, creating the illusion her family. national search for a permanent hire. level. And with that, we become uncomfort- she might not be in her office. “It was a decision that took a lot of time, The anatomy and physiology course, able, and this is when you really start learn- It’s the only way the UM anatomy and and I need a schedule with more latitude and BIOL 313, is an in-depth study of bodily ing.” physiology professor can get five minutes to flexibility,” she said. systems, including skeletal, muscular and This idea rang clear and true for former herself, she said. Westphal’s presence will be sorely skin systems. The course is intended to pre- student Jeremy Dunphy, who now works “When I first started teaching here, stu- missed, said the associate dean of the divi- pare students for a career in the health care as Westphal’s teaching assistant and lab in- dents were constantly coming in and out and sion of biological sciences, Charlie Janson. professions. structor. I couldn’t get any other work done,” West- “These are difficult shoes to fill,” he said. The class is widely referred to as one of “I wanted to cry a couple times in the phal said. “This way, students have to take “Every student who commits themselves to the most intense and challenging courses at middle of exams because I felt like I was that extra step of knocking, at which point, I the course looks back on it as one of the de- UM. seeing stuff I had never come across be- am happy to help them.” fining courses of their career at UM.” “You have to be able to think on your fore,” Dunphy said. The black tape will come down this May, Janson said he is actively engaged in a feet. Not all answers come from a page of See ANATOMY, page 16

Today On Campus Inside the Kaimin Forecast • Debate: Gun Control Green Taxi Droppin’ the ‘Baum High 49F Free and open to the public pages 8-9 page 2 UC North Ballroom, 7 p.m. New taxi company ...on the end of ink Low 29F faces hardships 2 Montana Kaimin Opinion Thursday, April 30, 2009 Editorial Droppin’the‘baum Issuing a challenge: ...on the end of ink consider a different ‘cool’ By Alex Tenenbaum Today, The University of Montana can declare vic- a still, black night and get- In high school, no one would even admit to owning a Frisbee, or tory over me. This is my final column. And, because ting nothing in return. Other worse, playing folf. I’m an idiot and signed up for the wrong class back days, the e-mails came rush- However, my first semester at The University of Montana came in December and didn’t realize it until yesterday, this ing in like a tide, foaming with some surprising changes. Peer attitudes towards the definition of fine institution will, relieved of my opinions, continue and churning with all your salty anger. If you sent me “cool” completely changed at college. The easiest way to get laughed to take my money. Don’t worry – I didn’t need that e-mail like that, thank you. In my narcissism, it felt out of class at home – riding long boards, walking slack lines, and $2,300 anyway (For three credits? Really? Are you wonderful to know I had touched a nerve. But your playing ultimate Frisbee – was now the “in” thing to do. I always building a toilet out of gold?). letters were not in vain. With the exception of two ut- wondered, why is that? But this is the end. Somehow, I managed to com- terly confused ramblings, your e-mails at least made After four years of being here and bicycling around campus five plain every single week that I hadn’t a single idea for me think. A few of you even made me re-evaluate my days a week, I’ve come to understand why. It’s not that the definition my own personal, write-whatever-you-want column. position entirely. of cool changes so much as the people defining it. In high school, ev- It was true. That’s why I wrote incoherent blatherings The letter to President George Dennison spoof- eryone is together, taking the same classes: jocks, the popular crowd, on the Federal Reserve Bank (old guys playing with ing Obama’s tax plan is still, and may always be, my art geeks, the outcasts and the majority that just float around. To be money in ways no one understands), media bias (yay, favorite column. Dennison hasn’t written back on cool, you have to fit the one mold of the melting pot you’re forced complicated statistics) and gun laws (since there’s whether he’ll redistribute our grade point averages, to stand in. You don’t give a crap about school, you’re athletic, you just sooo many new arguments there). If you remem- but as I get worse and worse as a student, I’m starting drink on the weekends and you wear Abercrombie and Fitch. ber any of them, I am sorry. to think it’s a good idea. In the absence of administra- But in college, art geeks don’t have to go to gym with jocks or go With those fantastic failures in mind, I’ve opted to tive feedback, I received a tsunami of angry letters, to the gym at all. And music kids aren’t forced to go to classes with tell stories. Sometimes, they read like diary entries, calling me a fascist and a couple o’ hearty ayes to the “cool” kids. Everyone is separate. The art kids have their own and you probably only got deeply involved with them boot. (Sorry for talking like a pirate there and for all building where they see only art kids. Those that were the art geeks if you were, well, me. Seriously, some of that stuff I the sea references. I just switched the language of my in high school now feel cool and can be true to themselves because couldn’t even get my mom to read. Facebook page to “pirate.”) everyone around them cares about the same stuff they do, whether it Which is why I owe a huge thanks to editors for But this is only the end of the print edition. You be Frisbee or whatever. Their cool is now always cool. printing “The ‘Baum” against their better judgment can keep up with the ‘Baum weekly from now on This seems like a good thing, to feel comfortable, not an outcast – not to mention any poor copy editor who, by the at (shameless self-promotion) droppinthebaum. because you don’t fit a shallow mold. But it can be just as bad. nature of their job, was obligated to read my columns blogspot.com. The U.S. is known as a melting pot, where various cultures and all the way to the end. So this is where the Kaimin and I part ways, and people of varied backgrounds all live together. But do we? Every city Because of them, I’ve had a lot of fun this year. I bend over to blow four months’ rent on a single still has its little Italy or its Chinatown, where those of the same back- What was written in a dim basement apartment got month-long online course: Ethics in Health Profes- ground flock together, fearful of entering the melting pot. hooked up to the megaphone that is a free (compli- sions (which will be so useful to a journalism major). It’s the same on campus. Everyone keeps to their groups where mentary – believe me, you pay for it) campus paper. Here’s to the class of (summer) 2009. they feel safe. Most foreign students who study here still congregate Some days, I felt like I was howling at the ocean on [email protected] only with those from their own country, speaking together in their native language. We’re all living in the same country, but we’re not living together. It’s the same on campus. We’re all attending the same school, going to the same campus every day, but we only talk to and U-Wire By University Star Editorial Staff, The University Star, Texas State U.-San Marcos are friends with those in our major. By the time we’re seniors, we only go to one building. We’re together, but completely separate. Immigration investment less competitive. One argument cited against il- It’s unhealthy to never challenge yourself, to never walk out of Immigrants arrive every day in Anytime someone goes to col- legal aliens is it is unfair to those your comfort zone into the overall group. Even when we leave col- our country with little more than a lege in this country it actually costs who came to the country by work- lege, most graduates will go off to a job, and it will be the same all dream. taxpayers money. Why pay to have ing in the system. It is true people over again. Instead of cloistering with students in the School of Fine If passed, The Dream Act would people educated in this country, should not break the law, but it Arts, you’ll do it by making friends only with coworkers with the grant green cards to illegal im- then deport them to their home hardly seems right that people who exact same interests as you, who agree with you and who don’t chal- migrants who came to the United countries? It just does not make fi- were 15 years old or younger when lenge you to try new things and grow. States when they were 15 or young- nancial sense. they came to this country should Public high school is the closest thing the U.S. has to a melting pot. er upon completion of two years of In an April 21 column in The be held accountable for what their There we are forced to intermingle, to coexist. When people have the college or the military. University Star, Erica Rodriguez parents did, especially if they have choice, they’ll huddle in small groups. It is not fair to deport people who told the story of an illegal immi- been productive in college or the have always lived in the United grant who attends Texas State. She military. Trevon Milliard, news editor States because their parents brought works, goes to school and pays tax- The Dream Act is not a solution [email protected] them here. Most people would not es. However, she cannot get schol- to the immigration debate. Howev- stay behind if their parents left for arships or financial aid. er, it is a step in the right direction. another country, legally or not. The These are the types of people People come to this country to see U.S. government should not treat The Dream Act could help. Hard- their children have better lives, and these people like criminals. working people who are as Ameri- The Dream Act ensures that is not Comment on Furthermore, The Dream Act can as the next-door neighbor, yet done in vain. would help the United States com- live in fear of deportation. It does People who can improve Ameri- pete in the new global economy. not make sense to harm the econo- ca should not live in fear, and those our stories online: Having a well-educated population my and make people live in fear. same people are the ones we should is what will keep the United States If there is one thing the history of embrace — not push away. People www.montanakaimin.com a global power. Therefore, it would America has taught, it is hardwork- come to the United States because it be a major mistake to deport people ing, intelligent people make the is truly a land of opportunity, but if who are educated. But this is some- country great. There is no reason to immigration policy continues down thing the country does. It only hurts assume those qualities are exclusive the path it has been, it might not be the economy and makes the country to natural-born citizens. forever. Montana Kaimin Newsroom phone 406-243-4310 Business office phone 406-243-6541

The Montana Kaimin, in its 111th Editor Design Editor Alex Tenenbaum Arts/Outdoors Reporters year, is published by the students Bill Oram Letty Hingtgen Reporters Amanda Eggert Business Manager Online Editor Kimball Bennion Will Freihofer of The University of Montana, Steve Miller Matt McLeod Joe Licitra Carmen George Missoula. The UM School of Copy Editors Jeff Osteen News Editors Journalism uses the Montana Alaina Abbott Stacy Gray Photographers Virginia Cleaveland Brenna Braaten Allison Maier Ken Billington Kaimin for practice courses but Trevon Milliard assumes no control over policy or Laura Lundquist Kayla Matzke Bess Brownlee Lauren Russell Will Melton Mark Page Blaine Dunkley content. Arts/Outdoors Editor Alyssa Small Molly Priddy Alisia Muhlestein Kalie Tenenbaum Taka Osuga Melissa Weaver Josh Potter Columnists Designers Contact the Kaimin online at Sports Editor Sports Reporters [email protected]. Whitney Bermes Kelsey Bernius Patrick Cote Colter Nuanez Amy Faxon Photo Editor Bess Davis Mike Gerrity Roman Stubbs Alison Kilts Eric Oravsky Tyson Alger Ashley Klein 3 Thursday, April 30, 2009 Opinion Montana Kaimin Being gay is not a sin trine. Over the centuries, the Bible has In his column on “tolerance,” Alex Te- been used to subjugate marginalized peo- nenbaum said that, while he thinks homo- ple and support prejudice. sexuality is a sin, he still cares about his Many churches have now begun to friend. I do not doubt this is so. publicize themselves as Open and Affirm- However, I wanted him to know why Letters to the ing (ONA) which means that they don’t his attitudes, however mild they may just “tolerate” members of the LGBTIQ seem, can still be deeply scarring. community, but actively support and af- It seems that what Tenenbaum is say- firm them. ing is that God is okay with you loving The University Congregational Church another human being, but to express that Editor (UCC) and the campus student organiza- love crosses the line. tion Lutheran Campus Ministries are both Are gay people then doomed to a life of examples of ONA, faith-based groups celibacy? Or should they be shoved back here in Missoula. into the closets? your words encourage others to hate. You discuss ways that we can support our LG- Learn about the experience of mem- I ask Tenenbaum, who has seen first- may not want to bring them down, but BTIQ friends and colleagues: bers of the LGBTIQ community. hand the incredible challenges many your words force them back into closets. Watch movies based on the lives of LGBT people face, why would people You may not wish violence upon our Keep their confidence. members of the LGBTIQ community. choose to be gay, knowing the prejudice LGBT brothers and sisters, but your atti- Just because someone has told you (MILK is terrific and just came out on and hate they would face? And if they do tude encourages those who would murder something about their sexual or gender DVD.) Read books, listen to music, at- not choose to be gay, then doesn’t it fol- a stranger because of their own self-righ- identity doesn’t mean that they want the tend LGBTIQ events, and reflect on the low that they were made that way by their teousness and fear. rest of the school to know. messages that you have received about creator? I ask you to re-examine your attitudes We cannot forget the history of ha- LGBTIQ individuals. Challenge yourself. As a Christian, I cannot believe God and seek to do more than simply tolerate. tred and violence against members of the Offer resources. would condemn one of his children to a LGBTIQ community, some of which has The LGBTIQ-friendly student group life of misery, simply because of who they Daniel Viehland, sophomore, reared its ugly head in Missoula. Many Lambda Alliance is a great place to learn are. pre-journalism, political science members of the LGBTIQ community are more about LGBTIQ issues. Intimacy with someone who fulfills you justifiably cautious, and we should respect There is also a new program on cam- both physically, emotionally and spiritu- Tips to help LGBTIQ community their desire for safety. pus, the UM Allies program, that is train- ally is not a sin, no matter what their sex. Many individuals within the UM com- Allow your friends and colleagues to ing staff and faculty allies to “work for I think that an act is not sin because the munity hope to make this campus a safer, decide when and with whom they would LGBTIQ equality through education, sup- Bible supposedly says it is, but because it more welcoming place for lesbian, gay, like to share their personal information. port and awareness.” separates you from God. bisexual, transgender, intersexed, queer, Remain open-minded. Find out more on the web at www.umt. Attitudes like Tenenbaum’s lead to a and questioning (LGBTIQ) people. Although many individuals across edu/diversity/umallies. culture that dismisses people based on Alex Tenenbaum’s opinion piece last campus have been raised within the Chris- who God called them to be. Thursday (“Droppin’ the ‘Baum on tol- tian faith, we must remember that there Erin Scott You may not hate LGBT people, but erance”) offered a perfect opportunity to are many interpretations of Biblical doc- SARC Outreach Coordinator 4 Montana Kaimin News Thursday, April 30, 2009 Trial to pin blame in fall of ultra-rich resort “I was the manager and I did loan. Members of the private ski Associated Press what I felt was an appropriate deci- resort — including Dan Quayle MISSOULA — The mountain sion at the time,” he said. and Bill Gates — saw $88 million resort founded by Tim Blixseth has He added that in the club’s early in deposits disappear when the club collapsed financially. But the flam- years, when it was cash-strapped sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy pro- boyant billionaire insisted in federal and looking for members, the situ- tection last November. court Wednesday he was justified in ation was reversed, with Blixseth Edra Blixseth’s attorney latched taking hundreds of millions of dol- pumping in tens of millions of dol- onto creditors’ claims during open- lars from the Yellowstone Club lead- lars to keep the resort afloat. ing statements in Wednesday’s trial. ing up to its bankruptcy. Blixseth is due back in federal “The corporate greed of Credit Blixseth blames the worldwide court Thursday in a lawsuit that pits Suisse coupled with Mr. Blixseth’s economic crisis and his former him against his former wife, Edra, sense of entitlement is a very, very wife’s supposed mismanagement of and creditors owed tens of millions bad situation,” said attorney Troy the club for its problems. His critics of dollars by the club. Greenfield. cast him as emblematic of the finan- Edra Blixseth took over the Yel- Tim Blixseth’s attorney, Mike cial excesses that spurred the global lowstone Club last August, shortly Flynn, said the fact some money crisis — even as rich players like before it fell more than $400 million went to Blixseth was a red herring. Blixseth made off with millions. into debt and sought federal bank- “If anyone in America builds a busi- “I assumed when no one said ruptcy protection. ness and wants to take money out to me there’s something wrong Tim was in control in 2005 when of the business ... they’re absolutely with it, there’s nothing wrong with the club took a $375 million loan entitled to do so,” Flynn said. it,” Blixseth said during testimony through the firm Credit Suisse. Blixseth and Credit Suisse are Wednesday in a trial connected to That loan accounts for the bulk united in their defense, but could the club’s bankruptcy case. He was of the resort’s current debt. $68 mil- end up pitted against one another if referring to one of several money lion was repaid by Tim before Edra the creditors’ prevail and the 2005 transfers totaling at least $200 mil- took over, leaving $307 million still loan is wiped off the club’s debts. lion that the club made to Blixseth outstanding. Edra Blixseth last month de- Most of the money went to the clared personal bankruptcy. She was and corporations he controlled. Blaine Dunkley/Montana Kaimin Blixseths’ private accounts, to be scheduled to testify in the lawsuit as Tim Blixseth exits the Russell Smith Courthouse in Missoula on Wednesday. spent on luxury jets and estates in soon as Thursday. California, France, the Caribbean, Despite the millions she made off also took “distributions” from the for $100 million. The price could Mexico and Scotland. the 2005 loan, Edra Blixseth now loans made to their resorts. be driven higher during an auction The club’s creditors and members says she objected to the deal when A Credit Suisse attorney, George scheduled for May 13. accuse Tim Blixseth of “looting” the it was made. Attorneys for the club’s Zimmerman, defended the loans and Before the real estate collapse, resort. They say the loan was fraudu- creditors have painted Tim Blixseth pointed out the Yellowstone Club Byrne last year sought to buy the lent because Credit Suisse knew it as the engineer of the transaction. kept up with its payments for three club for $470 million. He later with- would not benefit the club. The loan was one of at least six years before it fell into bankruptcy. drew the proposal. Since the bank- Credit Suisse got $7.4 million in Credit Suisse has arranged for up- Wednesday’s trial had been de- ruptcy, Crossharbor has loaned the fees in the deal. Its investors could scale resorts now in financial trou- layed for a week after U.S. Bank- club and Edra Blixseth at least $55 be left on the hook for the unpaid ble. The deals were marketed to re- ruptcy Judge Ralph Kirscher ruled million. Byrne has tens of millions sort owners who then took massive Tim Blixseth’s lawyers had not been more sunk into club real estate. and early “profit dividends” before given enough time to prepare. Tim Blixseth accuses his former the developments were completed. Yellowstone Club member and wife of colluding with Byrne to During his testimony Wednes- Boston real estate investor, Sam By- “prepackage” the resort’s bankrupt- day, Tim Blixseth said he was told rne with Crossharbor Capital Part- cy so Byrne could later pick up the by Credit Suisse that other owners ners, has offered to buy the resort club at a bargain price. 5 Thursday, April 30, 2009 Sports Montana Kaimin UM professor holds court on the benefits of squash

Tyson Alger Montana Kaimin On campus, it is common to find professors taking part in activ- ities outside of the classroom. For biology professor Erick Greene, one of those activities for a period of time involved him hitting a ball against a wall, alone. Greene, who has taught at Mon- tana for 19 years, is an avid squash player. Squash is a game similar to racquetball, but with different court dimensions and a smaller, harder ball. Greene grew up in Canada, where squash is much more pop- ular than in the U.S., especially Montana. When he moved to Montana 20 years ago, he couldn’t find anywhere to play the game he loved. “It’s a little bit of a desert here for squash,” Greene said. “When I got here, there were no squash courts, I think, in all of Mon- tana. I led a group that retrofitted a racquetball court, in a place that is now a business, into kind of a squash court.” Greene said the court they con- structed had the correct markings of a squash court, but the dimen- Eric Oravsky/Montana Kaimin sions were the same as a racquet- Biology professor Erick Greene attempts to dig a ball out of the back corner. He can finally enjoy a game of two in the scarcity of squash games in Montana. ball court. “The courts were about 10 feet too long,” Greene said. “It drills,” Greene said. “It’s a great class from Greene last year when the game that you would expect a get hooked for the most part, even was good conditioning but poor workout either way.” Greene led Daniels to the game. professor such as Greene, who ob- the dreaded racquetball players, as squash.” Greene said that squash has “In class, he would always drop tained his doctorate degree from Greene calls them. Since his playing days on the slowly grown on campus, and random squash references,” Dan- Princeton, to excel at. “I like to convert people from makeshift court, Greene has seen he now has a solid contingent of iels said. “One day after class, I “I like to get out there with any- their evil ways of racquetball un- the construction of a squash court people whom he plays with. The asked him if he ever had time to body, whatever the skill level. I’ll til they see the true righteous path in the Rec Center on campus. growing popularity of the game is, teach me how to play. He intro- go out there with a beginner just to that is squash,” Greene joked. The number of players in Mis- in part, due to Greene’s efforts of duced me to the game, and we show them the basics.” Squash, in Greene’s mind, is soula remained low for a while. introducing the game to different started playing quite a bit. I love it Another benefit of introducing superior to racquetball because Although Greene then had a court people. because I get about twice the exer- new people to the game for Greene of the “athletic chess” that is in- to play on, he spent time in the Senior Hugh Daniels, who cise in about half the time I would is watching his new players catch volved in the game. court hitting alone. was once a member of UM’s ten- with tennis.” squash fever. Greene said once “You can hit the ball 100 miles “I would just do a lot of solo nis team, was taking a biology Teaching squash is an aspect of players try it the first time, they See SQUASH, page 6 March Madness can’t hold a candle to 40 Games in 40 Nights Opinion In reality, a column arguing that they can wave in this format has war, how can anyone complain juvenation of the NBA, a league the NBA playoffs are better than their fellow sports many benefits. about more basketball? The NBA that has been searching for a solid the NCAA tournament should have fans’ faces, proving First, a seven- markets the playoffs as “40 games identity since the retirement of Mi- to be only two words long: LeBron that they “know” game series in 40 nights.” Anyone who consid- chael Jordan. James. more about college makes for good ers themselves a true basketball fan With a young, hungry, LeB- But since the last column of my basketball. drama. Storylines cannot find anything wrong with ron-led Cleveland Cavaliers team college career can’t simply be the And the chance between teams watching the greatest athletes in waiting to overthrow the defend- real name of the greatest athlete in to take your friends’ build, intensity the world compete at the high- ing champion Celtics in the East, the history of humanity (damn right and co-workers’ builds, game est level of competition for six the league is again relevant in the I just went there), education and jus- money is all gravy. planning evolves straight weeks. conversation of the dominant sport tification are necessary. Sure, every year, Colter Nuanez and individual Even if the NBA Finals almost in the U.S., alongside the NFL. Since the time when Magic John- a Cleveland State Montana Kaimin battles become never feature surprise teams, they When it comes down to it – son’s Michigan State Spartans faced beats a Wake For- highly competi- almost never disappoint. Only gambling, brackets and upsets off against Larry Bird’s Indiana est. But is that the result of a well- tive. twice in the past decade and only aside – only one question needs to State Sycamores in the NCAA final executed game plan or simply luck? Before this year’s playoffs seven times in the 63-year his- be considered when determining 30 years ago, the U.S. has been ob- March Madness lovers may argue began, no one was looking to tory of the Finals has there been a the greater of the two men’s bas- sessed with March Madness. Year in that upsets simply don’t happen in the first-round matchup between sweep. ketball tournaments. and year out, it is billed as the great- the NBA playoffs due to the seven- the Chicago Bulls and the Bos- On the contrary, seven of the Which would you rather watch? est sporting series in the country. game series format. ton Celtics as the first matchup last 10 NCAA Finals have been The ineloquence of Tyler Hans- But at the end of the day, the NCAA But, if an underdog beats a top to watch. But Tuesday night, the affairs decided by double digits. brough leading the preseason fa- tournament is popular for one rea- seed in the NBA playoffs in a best- Celtics survived the third overtime North Carolina defeated Michigan vorite to an excruciatingly boring son above all else: gambling. of-seven, isn’t that truly an upset? game of the series to go up 3-2 as State 89-72 earlier this month in victory over a no-name Spartans Some will argue propensity Luck and cold shooting are dimin- the series headed back to Chicago. the most anticlimactic champion- squad? for upsets is the main allure of the ished, if not eliminated, during a No one expected overtime dra- ship ever played, regardless of Or Kobe Bryant’s Los Ange- NCAA games. But upsets go by seven-game series, whereas upsets ma. No one expected such a heated sport. les Lakers trying to cement the the wayside after the first or second are not. battle. No one expected the birth Not only does drama within Black Mamba’s place in history round. Since 2001, only two teams A 16-team playoff with four of a rivalry that fans could love for a series exist, drama surround- against a man who may just be (No. 5 Michigan State in 2005 and rounds means the eventual NBA years to come, as both the Bulls’ ing potential matchups builds the heir apparent to his Airness No. 11 George Mason in 2006) have champion can potentially play in Derrick Rose and the Celtics’ Ra- as well. NBA fans from coast to in King James and the Cleve- made it to the Final Four without be- 28 games, the equivalent of more jon Rondo have had coming-out coast hoped for a Boston Celtics- land Cavaliers in a seven-game ing a top-three seed. than a quarter of an NBA regular parties. Los Angeles Lakers final in 2008. series? When all is said and done, sports season. This may seem to make Aside from building suspense When the two storied franchises Two words. Kobe-LeBron. fans like to have a hard copy bracket the regular season irrelevant. But and individual battles within the squared off, it was the official re- [email protected] 6 Montana Kaimin Sports Thursday, April 30, 2009

was hitting on the court by myself, SQUASH and they basically pointed me to- Continued from page 5 wards Erick.” Track and field can’t run from Through Greene, Branston said he has found many other people to hit with. doping problem, retests show an hour like you do in racquet- “He is great for networking ball,” Greene said. “But, because here,” he said. “He put me in Associated Press the ball is dead (a squash ball continually trying to reinvent itself that victory lap, never enjoy that touch with several other players, as clean. moment the way it was designed doesn’t bounce nearly as much even a couple in Great Falls and With a gold medalist in one of “Honestly, track and field for the winner to enjoy it.” as a racquetball), it just dies com- Kalispell.” its top events busted for doping at didn’t need another blow like Track and field medals have ing off the wall. The game is re- For Greene, the slowly-grow- the Beijing Games, the troubled this,” said Dee Dee Trotter, a 2004 been stripped and redistributed for ally about moving the other person ing Montana squash base, which sport of track and field is once American gold medalist who runs decades, though the scandals of out of position, not hitting kill he calls “a small hardcore group,” again at the center of an Olympic the anti-doping Web site Test Me the last decade have taken on more shots. You maneuver your oppo- is something that he enjoys and drug scandal. I’m Clean. “Our reputation is truly sinister elements of multilayered nent out of position over seven or hopes to build on for the future. Bahrain’s Rashid Ramzi, the depleting and it doesn’t help when doping programs and attempts to eight shots in order to finally win “I’ve been playing three to four 1500-meter champion and his fans who have long loved the sport cover them up. the point. You’re always thinking times a week for 20 years now,” country’s first gold medalist in begin to doubt what they see.” In a scandal that dragged out ahead a few shots.” Greene said. “But I just love it, track, was among three track ath- Though the 1,500-meter race for more than eight years, Marion The “athletic chess” that Greene and it’s a great way to stay active. letes — and a half-dozen Olympi- isn’t immensely popular in Amer- Jones was stripped of all five of her refers to is also seen in his game. I’m always trying to encourage ans in all — snagged in the latest ica, in international circles, it is medals — including three gold — In matches, Greene will volley younger people to come out and game of cat-and-mouse between considered right up there with the after admitting that she was dop- with opponents, patiently await- play.” cheaters and those who try to nail 100 meters as the most popular ing at the time of the 2000 Sydney ing an errant hit from his rival. He Greene loves the game, and ev- them. race. It’s the metric mile, a dis- Olympics. then swiftly takes advantage of the ery new person that he introduces The twist in the nabbing of tance the common man runs for The 2004 Athens Games were mistake with either a deadly drop to squash in turn is another person Ramzi and the rest was their drug recreation and a long-standing test overshadowed by the scandal in- shot or a cross-court rocket. that Greene has the opportunity to of choice. It’s called CERA, a new of both speed and endurance at the volving Greek sprinters Katerina “He is a shrewd tactician on share the court with. form of EPO, which increases en- elite level. Thanou and Kostas Kenteris, who the court,” said Jack Branston, a “It’s just such a great game,” durance by stimulating production The fact that Bahrain got its were banned after allegedly evad- 24-year-old graduate of the Uni- Greene said. “And if there are any of red blood cells. first Olympic track gold in the ing drug tests on the eve of the versity of Tennessee, who recently people out there, students or facul- Olympic drug testers recently event made it that much more games. Stripped of golds in Athens moved to Montana. Branston, who ty, new or old to the game, I would came up with a way to detect special. Calls to Ramzi and his were winners in the men’s hammer has been playing squash for sev- love to know.” CERA. They called for retesting coach seeking comment were throw and discus and women’s eral years, said that Greene was [email protected] the first person he heard of when of 948 samples taken from the unanswered. Accused women’s shot put. he asked about squash in Montana. Beijing Olympics; many of those weightlifter Yudelquis Contreras Officials from International “I found him through a couple Recycle this newspaper retests were looking for CERA. of the Dominican Republic issued Association of Athletics Federa- of handballers,” Branson said. “I PLEASE Six came back positive. One a strong denial, telling The Asso- tions even seemed relieved about was from weightlifting, two from ciated Press: “I know I am clean.” the latest scandal, noting that three cycling — including a silver med- If Ramzi’s positive test is up- positives out of several thousand alist — and three from track. held through the appeals process, tests was not an elevated number. Of the four medals that have the medal will go to Asbel Kipruto “The IAAF would like to com- already been stripped for dop- Kiprop of Kenya, one of Africa’s mend the IOC for their efforts ing violations from Beijing, three more traditional running power- in the storage and reanalysis of were from track and field. Ramzi’s houses. samples and for their coordination would make it four. Granted, there “But that’s one of the worst with the IAAF in this process,” the are more athletes and more tests in things about it, is that they’ll send group said in a statement. “This track than other sports. Still, this it to him in the mail,” Trotter said. step shows that athletes who cheat is hardly the news that the sport “You want your time to shine. You can never be comfortable that they hopes to generate after decades of can’t get that back. You never take will avoid detection and sends a strong message of deterrence.” The samples are deep frozen and stored in case they’re needed for further testing down the road. There have been questions about how accurate tests can be on sam- ples held as long as eight years, but the prevailing theory among anti-doping experts is that the level of a drug could only decrease over time, and the chance of an in- crease are slim. The emergence of CERA of- fers the latest proof of why hold- ing samples for eight years is a good idea. There is nothing particularly new about the drug itself. It is very much like EPO in that it el- evates red blood cell count and has legitimate uses for people with renal failure or cancer who have trouble keeping their counts elevated. 7 Thursday, April 30, 2009 News Montana Kaimin Chunks break from U.S. wants to move on climate change Associated Press treaty, with no ozone-depleting successful environmental treaties materials, if this goes forward,” an because it essentially eliminated UNITED NATIONS — The EPA technical expert said Wednes- the use of chlorofluorocarbons, or Obama administration, in a ma- ice shelf in Antarctic day, speaking anonymously be- CFCs, blamed for damaging the jor environmental policy shift, is cause a final decision is pending. ozone layer over Antarctica. leaning toward asking 195 nations Associated Press spheric warming,” said David The expert said the 21-year-old Because they do not affect that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty Vaughan of the British Antarctic ozone treaty known as the Mon- the ozone layer, HFCs broadly BERLIN — Massive ice chunks to enact mandatory reductions in Survey. treal Protocol created virtually the replaced CFCs as coolants in ev- are crumbling away from a shelf in hydrofluorocarbons, according to The falling away of Antarc- entire market for hydrofluorocar- erything from refrigerator to semi- the western Antarctic Peninsula, U.S. officials and released docu- tic ice shelves does not, in itself, bons, or HFCs, so including them conductors. But experts say the researchers said Wednesday, warn- ments. raise sea levels, since the ice was in the treaty would take care of a solution to one problem is now ing that 1,300 square miles of ice “We’re considering this as an already floating in the sea. But problem of its own making. worsening another. — an area larger than Rhode Is- option,” Environmental Protection such coastal tables of ice usually It’s uncertain how that would As a result, the U.S. is calling land — was in danger of breaking Agency spokeswoman Adora Andy hold back glaciers, and when they work in conjunction with the HFCs “a significant and growing off in coming weeks. said, emphasizing while a final de- disintegrate that land ice will of- Kyoto Protocol, the world’s cli- source of emissions” that could be The Wilkins Ice Shelf had been cision hasn’t been made it was ac- ten flow more quickly into the sea, curate to describe this as the admin- mate treaty, which now regulates eliminated more quickly in sev- stable for most of the last century, contributing to sea-level rise. istration’s “preferred option.” HFCs and was rejected by the eral ways, including amending the but began retreating in the 1990s. Researchers said the quality The change — the first U.S.- Bush administration. Negotiations ozone treaty or creating “a legally Researchers believe it was held and frequency of the ESA satellite proposed mandatory global cut in to replace Kyoto, which expires in distinct agreement” linked to the in place by an ice bridge linking images have allowed them to ana- greenhouse gases — would trans- 2012, are to be concluded in De- Montreal Protocol, says a March Charcot Island to the Antarctic lyze the Wilkins shelf breakup far form the ozone treaty into a strong cember in Denmark. 27 State Department briefing pa- mainland. more effectively than any previous tool for fighting global warming. The Montreal Protocol is per presented at one of two recent But the 127-square-mile bridge event. “Now it’s going to be a climate widely viewed as one of the most meetings on the topic. lost two large chunks last year and “For the first time, I think, we then shattered completely on April can really begin to see the pro- 5. cesses that have brought about the “As a consequence of the col- demise of the ice shelf,” Vaughan lapse, the rifts, which had already said. fractured along the northern ice He said eight ice shelves along front, widened and new cracks the Antarctic Peninsula have formed as the ice adjusted,” the shown signs of retreat over the last European Space Agency said in a few decades. statement Wednesday on its Web “The retreat of Wilkins Ice site, citing new satellite images. Shelf is the latest and the largest of The first icebergs broke away its kind,” he said. on Friday, and since then some 270 The Wilkins shelf, which is the square miles of ice have dropped size of Jamaica, lost 14 percent of into the sea, according to the satel- its mass last year, according to sci- lite data. entists who are looking at whether “There is little doubt that these global warming is the cause of its changes are the result of atmo- breakup. 8 Montana Kaimin Feature Thursday, April 30, 2009 Going after the white picket fence Part II: New company Green Taxi struggles through rough economy while rival 80-year-old Yellow Cab has a year for the record books Trevon Milliard the Prius’s rear hatch, the woman thought she was having a heart at- The chances for Green Taxi A green chalkboard hanging in Montana Kaimin takes her girls out of the car and tack. It was super scary.” didn’t look good, but the Murrays the office marks the “New High unbuckles the car seats she brought Taxis are an expensive way to got their license in December 2007 Day” for Yellow Cab. Scribbled on Editor’s note: This is the second of with her. She places her youngest get around town. Riders shell out on the evidence that Yellow Cab’s the board is “12/31/2008. 687 pas- a three-part series on Green Taxi that girl in the stroller on the sidewalk. $5 just to get in the Green Taxi and service, according to a dozen testi- sengers. 442 calls. $4,298.50.” The will end on Friday. The older girl then walks to her $2.50 per mile after that. After 25 monies, wasn’t meeting Missoula’s cab company broke its high mark on As a red Toyota Prius rolls west mother’s side on the sun-bleached miles, it drops to $1.50 per mile. It’s needs. The Murrays insisted that six different days last year. Kristine on Mullan Road, a girl strapped into concrete, and both face the building. a luxury, admits Murray, but he’s competition would give Missoula Baker, office manager, has worked a rear car seat repeats the same sen- As Murray drives off, the mother learned that most riders simply have two consumer-conscientious cab 18 years for Yellow Cab and said tence. grabs a car seat in one hand and the no other options. And it’s true now companies instead of one taking its she’s never seen anything like it. “I want to see daddy. I want to stroller’s handle in the other. The more than ever. People have been customers for granted. The record breakers were due to see daddy.” other empty car seat sits on the pave- watching their wallets very closely Since hitting the road with one improvements made over the last The young mother, squeezed be- ment, waiting for the third hand that these last eight months. Prius in late February 2008, the year, Hill said. Yellow Cab spent tween the rear passenger door and she doesn’t have. “People aren’t going to dinner, Murrays had a spurt of success in $36,000 overhauling its eight taxis. another car seat holding her other “If people are calling a cab, having a few bottles of wine and May and June, but little else has giv- About $10,000 more was spent to daughter, voices an acknowledging, things aren’t going well for them,” calling me,” Murray said. “The type en them great confidence, according equip each taxi with a GPS unit and repetitive “OK.” said Murray, cab driver and owner of use has changed. People call only to Jessica Murray, bookkeeper for upgrade dispatch with a state-of-the- Mick Murray pulls the car into of Green Taxi, a Missoula County when absolutely necessary, whether the business. art computer system. the Missoula County Detention taxi service that uses hybrid cars. they’re drunk or stranded.” “When I did the books those In the office, Baker stands on a Center parking lot. He pushes the “You see people at their weakest Economic conditions have made months and looked at what we raised platform behind a tall desk. golf ball-sized shifting knob into and their worst. Not just intoxicated, it hard for Murray and his wife were taking in, we were making Three computer screens and two park and walks to the back of the car. but in some sort of crisis. Last year, to build a business based on their more than ever before,” she said. “It keyboards cover the desktop. The While Murray pulls a stroller from I took a woman to the hospital who dream for a hybrid-vehicle taxi wasn’t thousands of dollars more, right and left screens are regular service. But the hurting economy but we could pay the bills.” size, but the middle one is a long is only the latest roadblock for this For extra money, Jessica also rectangle about 3 feet high and 1 year-old company that spent the pre- works in Missoula as an adjunct pro- foot wide. A map of Missoula on vious two and a half years and thou- fessor of social work and sociology the right screen is marked by mov- sands of dollars convincing the state at Walla Walla University’s branch ing dots, each one depicting the live- it deserved a license. The Murrays graduate school. But she spends time position of all eight taxis. had to persuade the Montana Public most of her time at home with her The new system has allowed Service Commission that a new taxi two children, she said. Baker to handle 30 calls at a time if company wouldn’t hurt the existing Since August, Green Taxi’s num- needed and cut the average response one, Yellow Cab. The hurdle was bers have waned due to the reces- time in half (from 27 minutes to 15 created to ensure that a town has a sion and fewer tourists. Winter was minutes) since it’s easy to see which healthy public transportation system especially tough because people just cab can get to the passenger the and not two struggling cab compa- stayed at home, Mick said. quickest. Yellow Cab has been plan- nies. Robert Gray, Yellow Cab’s He admits a ride in his cab “is by ning for the computer upgrade since owner at the time, thought the com- no means cheap.” To attract repeat 1998, but only recently did the price petition from Green Taxi would ini- customers, he looked into offering come down enough to make it af- tiate his downfall and fought Green frequent-riders cards and senior dis- fordable for the small cab company, Taxi the entire way. counts, but the Public Service Com- Hill said. They’re in a similar situ- mission denied his request, saying ation with hybrid cars. Yellow Cab it’s discrimination, Murray said. just has to wait for hybrid car prices As of now, Green Taxi is break- to come down and the technology ing even, but it’s a struggle. to improve. But they haven’t yet, he “For a new business in a deep re- said. cession, we’re doing good,” Murray The biggest change in Yellow said. Cab this past year has been driver The extra money the company courtesy, Hill said. This was an pulled in last summer has become overriding issue during Green Taxi’s critical in the current slump, Jessica licensing struggle, since many cus- said. tomers and former drivers testified Yellow Cab also started feeling to the Commission that Yellow Cab the pinch, but not until a few weeks drivers were rude, late to pickups ago, said co-owner Victor Hill. This and unreasonable. In the last year, past year was marked with great Yellow Cab has made its drivers success for the company despite take sensitivity training and defen- the new kid in town encroaching on sive driving courses, Hill said. their territory. See GREEN TAXI, page 9 9 Thursday, April 30, 2009 Feature Montana Kaimin GREEN TAXI Continued from page 8

Jessica claims that Yellow Cab has stepped up its service because another player has stepped onto the stage, and it now has to compete for attention. The Murrays argued this would happen when fighting for their license two years ago, try- ing to prove another cab company would benefit Missoula. During the hearings, Yellow Cab took the op- posite stance, saying a small town such as Missoula couldn’t feed two cab companies. Hill still takes that stance. Missoula doesn’t have two cab companies fighting for customers, he said. Yellow Cab still controls 99 percent of Missoula’s taxi service. That’s not competition. Green Taxi runs one cab to Yellow Cab’s eight. And that will increase to 10 by next year. “(Mick) could disappear tomor- row and no one would notice,” Hill said. “If we disappeared, he couldn’t do anything to keep up with the de- mand.” And if Green Taxi was bigger, Missoula would have two dying cab companies, Hill said. But Jessica Murray still argues that competition from Green Taxi is a benefit to Missoula and even to Yellow Cab. Bess Brownlee/Montana Kaimin Yellow Cab employee Kristine Baker operates the newly installed dispatch center on Wednesday afternoon. Yellow Cab installed the new system just in time for “(Yellow Cab’s) quality of ser- the New Year’s rush and, according to Baker, the difference in business efficiency is “night and day.” The three-monitor computer system helps schedule, record vice has gone up because of Green and track Yellow Cab’s eight vehicles, and has allowed the company to streamline its operation. Taxi,” she said. “We need to step up cab service in general. By creating competition, we’re going to do that.” [email protected] www.montanakaimin.com 10 Montana Kaimin News Thursday, April 30, 2009 Schweitzer vetoes 6 bills Billings man gets including special panels 5 years in pot case Associated Press Associated Press weitzer wrote in his veto message. bills he is eyeing to veto, saying only brought more than 1,300 pounds HELENA — Just a day after Senate President Bob Story, he will evaluate each one individu- BILLINGS — A Billings man of marijuana from California to the Legislature adjourned, Gov. the Park City Republican who led ally. He only vetoed one bill during who trafficked marijuana into Billings. Some of the marijuana Brian Schweitzer vetoed six bills support for the bill, said he is not the session, a measure that allowed Montana will spend five years in was smuggled in the undercar- Wednesday, including one shep- surprised the governor killed it juveniles to be prosecuted as adults federal prison. riages of cars that crossed into the herded through the session by the since Democrats opposed the idea in cases of vehicular homicide. Saul Nuno pleaded guilty to country at Tijuana. Senate Republican leader. throughout the process. Five of the six vetoed bills had conspiracy to distribute marijua- Co-defendants Steven B. Nava Lawmakers wrapped up their “The only surprising thing is he Republican sponsors. na and possession with intent to Jr., and Winder Werner of Tennes- work Tuesday and dozens of bills fired up the veto pen so fast,” he Other bills vetoed Wednesday: distribute. On Wednesday, Chief see, also pleaded guilty. are hitting Schweitzer’s desk. His said. — House Bill 629 that promised U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull Seykora said the three worked Wednesday vetoes included the Re- Schweitzer has said he could schools a bigger stake in natural re- sentenced 31-year-old Nuno to a together to repackage, store and publican-led plan to have a special veto more bills, and has not ruled source development on state land. minimum mandatory five years, distribute the marijuana, some legislative panel oversee spending out line-item vetoes in the state’s — Senate Bill 249 that would which was about the middle of the of which was sold to undercover of federal stimulus money. main budget bill. have allowed restricted driver’s guideline range. agents. Schweitzer said he thinks the Schweitzer’s Wednesday vetoes licenses to certain offenders who Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Nava and Werner are awaiting Economic Stimulus Program Over- included a bill that aimed to allow have had a license stripped in an- Seykora said Nuno and others sentencing. sight Commission is a waste of coal-bed methane wastewater to other state. money and duplicates accountabil- be more easily used in other ways, — Senate Bill 291 that set up a ity measures included in the federal such as in ranching or in road-dust new panel charged with increasing act itself and the oversight of exist- mitigation. Proponents said it is railroad competition. Government releases ing legislative committees. needed to help create beneficial — Senate Bill 349 that set up “I believe the creation of a new uses for the water that is at the heart new rules for protection of propri- commission is unnecessary and a of contentious debate over CBM etary information submitted in bids Libby asbestos memo drilling. to state government. waste of taxpayer money,” Sch- Associated Press of government-employed profes- The governor said in his veto Story said he is prepared for sionals, filed a lawsuit last week message that the bill tinkers with more vetoes from the governor. HELENA — A government charging the EPA improperly with- established water rights law and The top Senate Republican said memorandum identifying public- held the document about Libby uses a “sleight of hand” to circum- he suspects Schweitzer may use health concerns about the U.S. En- cleanup. Asbestos was in vermicu- vent groundwater protections. line-item authority to pull money vironmental Protection Agency’s lite mined years ago near the north- Schweitzer has not said which out of the budget destined for the asbestos cleanup in Libby was re- western Montana town. Montana Meth Project, and other leased a week after a group sued for In U.S. District Court in Mis- money intended to set up more disclosure, citing fruitless attempts soula, mine operator W.R. Grace community mental-health service. to obtain the document through the & Co. and four former executives “We will just have to see,” Story Freedom of Information Act. of the Columbia, Md.-based com- said. In releasing the 2006 memo- pany are on trial on allegations randum Tuesday, EPA’s Office of they allowed asbestos exposure in Inspector General noted the Obama Libby while aware of health risks. administration’s policy that open- Lawyers for some Libby residents ness should prevail when there is say asbestos from the mine, which doubt about FOIA requests. closed in 1990, has sickened about Public Employees for Environ- 2,000 people and killed about 225. mental Responsibility, an alliance The memorandum was written by investigator Cory Rumple in the Office of Inspector General, and circulated within the office. The memo refers to lack of communication between scientists and the EPA; infighting; deadline pressure to decide what should be done in Libby; and criticism of documents distributed in the com- munity, one titled “Living With Vermiculite” and the other a letter sent to residents after their homes were cleaned by EPA contractors. Scientists and members of an EPA Technical Assistance Unit found language in the documents mis- leading, Rumple wrote. 11 Thursday, April 30, 2009 News Montana Kaimin Montanans fire Uncertain funding has many a warning shot library improvements on hold Allison Maier The role of libraries has of those people are students, many Montana Kaimin changed in recent years as more are visitors who tend to spend a The University of Montana’s people use the Internet as their lot more time on library comput- Mansfield Library is slated to un- in states’ rights primary tool for gathering infor- ers. For that reason, Allen said, 10 dergo what will amount to a $1.7 Associated Press mation. computers would be set aside for mineral extraction on federal land. million renovation of the main Now, libraries are used less for visitor use while the rest would be HELENA, Mont. — Montana Montana’s leading gun rights or- floor, though only about a fourth storing paper and more for offer- reserved for students. is trying to trigger a battle over ganization, more hardcore than the of that money is available. ing a variety of technological re- In addition, the plan calls for gun control — and perhaps make a National Rifle Association, boasts The goal of the reconstruction sources, according to Allen. The more electrical outlets for stu- larger point about what many folks it has moved 50 bills through the is to organize the library in a way proposed changes aim to modern- dents using computers and better in this ruggedly independent state Legislature over the past 25 years. that better reflects the changing ize the Mansfield Library, which lighting, including large windows regard as a meddlesome federal And lawmakers in the Big Sky way that students and research- was built in 1973 when libraries rather than small slits in the walls. government. State have rebelled against federal ers work, which means placing a were still used in traditional ways. The new floor plan also includes In a bill passed by the Legisla- control of everything from wetland greater emphasis on technology, Some of the proposed changes room for a coffee bar. ture earlier this month, the state is protection to the national Real ID according to Bonnie Allen, UM for the library include furniture New furniture is another com- asserting that guns manufactured system. dean of libraries. designed to give students enough ponent of the plan. Allen said in Montana and sold in Montana Under the new law, guns in- For the past month, the library room to work together on a single learning what students like is a to people who intend to keep their tended only for Montana would be has displayed a floor plan and computer and areas that would process of trial and error. One weapons in Montana are exempt stamped “Made in Montana.” The three-dimensional model illus- allow students to present their new desk has already been placed from federal gun registration, drafters of the law hope to set off a trating what will be done with the work using technology such as on the main floor to see how stu- background check and dealer-li- legal battle with a simple Montana- main floor of the library, which is flat screen monitors, Allen said. dents respond. censing rules because no state lines made youth-model single-shot, technically the third floor since While some areas would be de- “Most students don’t know are crossed. bolt-action .22 rifle. They plan to two floors are underground. Allen signed to allow large groups of what they’d like to see, but they That notion is all but certain to find a “squeaky clean” Montanan plans to make some of the changes students to work together, indi- like it when they have it,” Allen be tested in court. who wants to send a note to the this summer, though she doesn’t vidual study areas would also be said. The immediate effect of the law ATF threatening to build and sell know when the renovation will available. The library has received some could be limited, since Montana is about 20 such rifles without federal be complete, mainly because the Allen said the Mansfield Li- feedback about their plan from home to just a few specialty gun dealership licensing. university still needs more than a brary is almost “tomblike,” it’s so students and faculty who have makers, known for high-end hunt- If the ATF tells them it’s illegal, million dollars to make it happen. quiet. filled out voluntary surveys locat- ing rifles and replicas of Old West they will sue and take the case all In order to get that money, the “I know students are trying to ed on the main floor of the library. weapons, and because their out- the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, library is relying in private donors escape dorms and noisy homes. Allen said the response has been of-state sales would automatically if they can. rather than student fees or univer- So we will offer that (quiet), but I mostly positive. trigger federal control. Similar measures have also been sity sources of income. However, don’t think today’s libraries need ASUM senator Whitney Sjos- Still, much bigger prey lies in introduced in Texas and Alaska. the dismal state of the economy to be silent,” she said. trom, who sits on the Faculty Montana’s sights: a legal show- “I think states have got to stand means that donations aren’t ex- The proposed plan would bring Library Committee, said the re- down over how far the federal up or else most of their rights are actly flowing in. For that reason, tutoring services located in other construction is a good long-term government’s regulatory authority going to be buffaloed by the ad- the library is focused on sending areas of the library to the main project for the library. extends. ministration and by Congress,” out promotional material to find floor so they would be more easily “I think it’s a really awesome “It’s a gun bill, but it’s another said Texas state Rep. Leo Berman. some financial support. accessible. Library faculty would idea,” she said. “I think it will way of demonstrating the sover- Critics say exempting guns The main floor reconstruction have offices in the same area. The make the library more friendly for eignty of the state of Montana,” from federal laws anywhere would is only the beginning of what back wall of the library would students.” said Democratic Gov. Brian Sch- undermine efforts to stem gun vio- Allen hopes will eventually be a be knocked out in order to make [email protected] weitzer, who signed the bill. lence everywhere. renovation of every floor of the more room available. Carrie DiPirro, a spokeswoman “Guns cross state lines and library, a task with a timeline she About 15,000 people visit the for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, they do so constantly, and this is can’t yet determine. library each week, according to Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Sagebrush Rebellion-type effort “I want the library to be a com- counts taken by the electronic had no comment on the legislation. to light some sort of fire and get fortable and useful place for stu- gates at the entrance of the library. But the federal government has something going that’s pleasing to dents. And it is, but we can do a Allen said that while the majority generally argued that it has author- the gun nuts and that has very little lot more,” Allen said. ity under the interstate commerce actual sense,” said Peter Hamm, clause of the U.S. Constitution to communications director for the regulate guns because they can so Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun easily be transported across state Violence. lines. “Firearms are inextricably Guns and states’ rights both play linked to the history and culture of well in Montana, the birthplace of Montana, and I’d like to support M the right-wing Freemen militia and that,” said Montana state Rep. Joel a participant in the Sagebrush Re- Boniek, the bill’s sponsor. “But I bellion of the 1970s and ‘80s, dur- want to point out that the issue here ing which Western states clashed is not about firearms. It’s about state rights.” K with Washington over grazing and 12 Montana Kaimin News Thursday, April 30, 2009 Arabic minor degree State legislature passes three receives thumbs-up fiscal bills before adjourning from ASUM leaders Molly Priddy The approved House Bill 2, ance Program to pay for contra- Montana Kaimin the state budget, will fully fund ceptives. the Healthy Montana Kids Plan, “In 2009, to be standing here Josh Potter there aren’t any,” Dempersmier HELENA – The final gavel fell a voter-approved expansion of trying to beg and plead about hav- Montana Kaimin said. He expressed optimism that on a snowy Day 90 as lawmakers, children’s health insurance funded ing contraception being taken care if the minor were created, UM hastening to beat the legislative by the state. The budget will also of so children will have healthy ASUM senators passed a reso- would be encouraged to grant clock, gave final approval to the give K-12 education a 3 percent opportunities ahead of them in- lution officially endorsing an Ar- professors tenure who don’t yet state budget, the federal stimulus increase in funding next year with stead of unplanned pregnancy is abic minor degree supported by have that credential. plan and a bill that seeks to lessen help from federal dollars. just beyond my recognition of student petitions during the last “A lot of the professors in that the financial blow for taxpayers af- Democrats demanded the full where we are as a people,” said meeting of the semester Wednes- (department) are eligible for ten- ter property values are reappraised expansion for children’s health Senate Minority leader Carol Wil- day night. ure and haven’t been granted it this year. care and more school funding for liams, D-Missoula. “There is really, really strong yet,” Fennell said. Republicans and Democrats most of the session, but Republi- Sen. John Brueggeman also demand for this,” ASUM sena- The resolution ultimately fought over ideological differenc- cans asserted that the state did not favored CHIP-funded contracep- tor Matt Fennell told his fellow passed with unanimous consent. es on funding for children’s health have enough money to pay for a tives as a means of avoiding future senators. “The students have said that care and K-12 education, but leg- new program and still maintain abortions. Although the creation of the they want this, and as their rep- islative leadership asserted that state agencies. “I wish that everyone was liv- minor faces roadblocks on its resentative body, we need to sup- the level of civility this session al- In an effort to reduce state ing biblically moral lives; I wish way to becoming an accred- port this,” Dempersmier said. lowed for more compromise than spending, Senate Republicans cut that was the case, but it is not,” ited program, business manager [email protected] the last session. 2 percent from all state agency Brueggeman said. He told Repub- Alex Gosline said as long as the “We did have a good working budgets, a move that left a bad licans that more abortions would students show support, ASUM relationship between the Senate taste in some Democratic mouths. happen because women could not should follow suit. and the House and between the “This specifically targets jobs access birth control. “A lot of students want this Republican and Democrat cau- in state agencies,” said Sen. Chris- “We all have to be clear with minor,” Gosline said. “It’s not M cuses,” said Senate President Bob tine Kaufmann, D-Helena. that,” Brueggeman said. “We all our place to discuss the pros and Story, R-Park City. The Senate voted 27-23 to ap- have to sleep with that.” cons of finance.” Both parties said they stuck prove the latest version of the bud- The House voted to pass the One potential problem is the to their priorities throughout the get, but several senators expressed budget with a 56-44 vote and fact that there aren’t enough K session, with Republicans touting reservations about overspending. little discussion. Rep. Jon Sesso, tenured professors at this point lower state spending and Demo- “I’m flabbergasted that this is D-Butte, said he worked with Re- to make the minor a legitimate crats praising the state funding of what we call an austere budget,” publicans to craft an austere and program, Sen. Jon Dempersmier M children’s health insurance and said Sen. Joe Balyeat, R-Boze- prudent budget that also pays for said. education. man, after describing more than children’s health care and educa- “The problem with creat- “I think overall we have done $10 billion of state spending. tion. ing a minor is you need it to be the people’s business,” said Sen. Sen. Jim Shockley, R-Victor, “I’m proud of the package that run by tenure-track faculty, and K Carol Williams, D-Missoula. said revenues would probably not we present to you today,” Sesso bounce back as quickly as the bud- said. “It’s a budget we can say get suggests, and Montana will be without a doubt is fiscally respon- in a hole. sible.” “This (budget) is a compro- But the House would not stay mise, but it won’t work,” Shock- quiet for long. The bill that seeks ley said. to lessen the sting of higher prop- The Senate budgeting chair- erty taxes after reappraisal, House man, Sen. Keith Bales, R-Otter, Bill 658, was debated hotly after stood up for the budget he and his several Democrats split with their committee crafted, but also ex- leadership to denounce the bill. pressed doubts about avoiding a Rep. Mike Jopek, D-White- special session. fish, said the bill does not provide “I don’t know that we could’ve enough money for mitigation and crafted a budget in these uncertain homeowners could be faced with times that everybody could’ve got- a 15 percent tax increase with little ten what they wanted,” Bales said. help for elderly or low-income Many Senate Democrats voted residents. Rep. Dick Barrett, D- against the budget because it re- Missoula, agreeing with Jopek, routed funding that was earmarked said the bill forces the poor to pay by voters for the Healthy Montana more of their wages toward prop- Kids Plan into the general fund. erty taxes than the wealthy. They also disagreed with re- But House Speaker Bob Ber- moving an amendment that would gren, D-Havre, said the bill needed allow the Children’s Health Insur- See BUDGET, page 15 13 Thursday, April 30, 2009 Feature Montana Kaimin A thera-pot-ic activity Always wanted to work for a newspaper?

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Associated Press said the global threat is nevertheless Eight states closed schools Canal Authority ordered pilots and virus is believed to have sickened serious enough to ramp up efforts to Wednesday, affecting 53,000 stu- other employees who board ships 2,498 people across Mexico. But MEXICO CITY — Global produce a vaccine against the virus. dents in Texas alone, and President passing through the waterway to use only 1,311 suspected swine flu pa- health authorities warned Wednes- “It really is all of humanity that Barack Obama said wider school surgical masks and gloves. An aver- tients remained hospitalized, and a day that swine flu was threatening is under threat during a pandemic,” closings might be necessary to age of 36 ships per day pass through closer look at daily admissions and to bloom into a pandemic, and the WHO Director General Margaret keep crowds from spreading the flu. the waterway, most from the United deaths at Mexico’s public hospitals virus spread farther in Europe even Chan said in Geneva. “We do not Mexico has already closed schools States, China, Chile and Japan. suggests the outbreak may have as the outbreak appeared to stabilize have all the answers right now, but nationwide until at least May 6. In France, President Nicolas peaked during three grim days last at its epicenter. A toddler who suc- we will get them.” “Every American should know Sarkozy met with cabinet ministers week when thousands of people cumbed in Texas became the first It was the first time the WHO that the federal government is pre- to discuss swine flu, and the health complained of flu symptoms. death outside Mexico. had declared a Phase 5 outbreak, the pared to do whatever is necessary minister said France would ask the President Felipe Calderon asked As of press time on Wednesday second-highest on its threat scale, to control the impact of this virus,” European Union to suspend flights Mexicans to stay at home, saying at 11:45 p.m. MST, Mexico, taking indicating a pandemic could be im- Obama said, highlighting his request to Mexico. their houses were the safest place. a drastic step as confirmed swine flu minent. for $1.5 billion in emergency fund- The U.S., European Union and “In the last several days, Mexico cases doubled to 99, including eight The first U.S. death from the ing for vaccines. other countries have discouraged has faced one of the most serious dead, announced it would temporar- outbreak was a Mexico City toddler Just north of the Mexican border, nonessential travel to Mexico. Some problems in recent years,” Calderon ily suspend all nonessential activ- who traveled to Texas with family 39 Marines were being confined to countries have urged their citizens to said in a nationally televised ad- ity of the federal government and and died Monday night at a Houston their California base after one con- avoid the United States and Canada dress. Calderon brushed aside criti- private business from May 1-5. Es- hospital. U.S. Health and Human tracted swine flu. Senators ques- as well. Health officials said such cisms that the government response sential services like transport, super- Services Secretary Kathleen Sebel- tioned Homeland Security Secretary bans would do little to stop the virus. was slow, stressing several times markets, trash collection and hospi- ius predicted the child would not be Janet Napolitano about her decision Germany and Austria became the that authorities had reacted “imme- tals will remain open. the last U.S. death from swine flu. not to close the border, action she latest countries to report swine flu diately.” New deaths finally seemed to be The virus, a mix of pig, bird said “has not been merited by the infections Wednesday, with cases al- He said authorities would use the leveling off after an aggressive pub- and human genes to which people facts.” ready confirmed in Canada, Britain, partial shutdown to weigh whether lic health campaign in Mexico — have limited natural immunity, had Ecuador joined Cuba and Ar- Israel, New Zealand and Spain. to extend the emergency measures, only one additional confirmed death spread to at least nine countries. In gentina in banning travel either to In addition to the 168 suspected or “if it is possible to phase out was announced Wednesday night — the United States, nearly 100 have or from Mexico and Peru banned deaths — including 17 new ones some” restrictions. but the World Health Organization been sickened in 11 states. flights from Mexico. The Panama announced late Wednesday — the Scientists believe that some- where in the world, months or even a year ago, a pig virus jumped to a human and mutated, and has been spreading between humans ever since. Unlike with bird flu, doctors have no evidence suggesting a direct pig-to-human infection from this strain, which is why they haven’t recommended killing pigs. Medical detectives have not ze- roed in on where the outbreak began. One of the eight deaths in Mexico directly attributed to swine flu was that of a Bangladeshi immigrant, said Mexico’s chief epidemiologist, who suggested that someone could have brought the virus from Paki- stan or Bangladesh. 15 Thursday, April 30, 2009 News Montana Kaimin

BUDGET discrepancies. Front range highways, schools Continued from page 12 “I’m pleased with the work of the Legislature; this wasn’t an easy session for anyone,” Schweitzer closed due to spring snowstorm said. “Let us hope that there isn’t to pass before the end of the day or something that we left behind.” a special session would be neces- But Schweitzer said he was not Associated Press 3 a.m. this morning,” Noe told the Front. sary. pleased with the work done on Great Falls Tribune on Wednes- The Montana Department of “Right now, this is the best we property tax reappraisal mitigation HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Au- day. “We were getting about 2 Transportation closed Interstate can hammer out,” Bergren said. because it gave too many breaks thorities closed all the roads in and inches an hour. It was just pound- 15 from just north of Great Falls He added that if there were prob- to subdivision owners and busi- out of Browning on Wednesday ing, pounding, pounding.” to just north of Shelby for most lems with mitigation, the next ses- nesses. after a spring storm dumped up The Weather Service said the of the afternoon. U.S. 89 from the sion could adjust rates. The governor also said univer- to 4 feet of snow along the Rocky storm brought 2 feet of snow west Canadian border to Pendroy, U.S. The bill passed with a 57-43 sities should be able to mitigate tu- Mountain Front. of Cut Bank while drifts of 5 to 7 Highway 2 from East Glacier to vote. ition increases despite drastic cuts A foot of snow fell in Browning feet were reported west of Fair- Cut Bank and parts of Montana The 2007 session was plagued made to their budgets in HB2. overnight Tuesday, bringing the field. About a foot of snow fell in 200 also were closed for most of with bipartisan acrimony over a “I would encourage the Board total on the ground to about 4 feet, Shelby while lesser amounts were the day. $1 billion surplus, which led to of Regents to cap tuition for an- the National Weather Service said. reported to the south. The storm led to school clo- the Legislature’s failure to com- other two years,” Schweitzer said. “Getting out of my door to the A record 8.1 inches of snow fell sures in Cascade, Conrad, Dutton- plete its one constitutional duty – Since fewer than 100 legisla- street, (the snow) was up to my in Great Falls Tuesday, breaking Brady, Power, Fairfield, Vaughn, constructing a state budget for the tors voted in favor of the budget, waist,” Browning schools Su- the old mark of 7.7 inches recorded Sun River Valley, Choteau and next two years – in regular session. Schweitzer retains the power to perintendent Mary Johnson said on April 28, 1970. Wednesday’s the Greenfield School in Teton Lawmakers said they entered into veto individual aspects of the Wednesday. “This is by far the record of 5.4 inches set in 1913 County. The Cascade, Conrad and the 2009 session with that lesson bill. The governor would not say worst (storm) we’ve had in several also was shattered. The Weather Dutton-Brady districts also will be learned. if this was a choreographed effort winters and it’s still snowing.” Service reported another 13 inch- closed Thursday. Leadership from both parties by Democrats, but did say there is Johnson said all she could see es by nightfall. The Montana Highway Patrol said they were proud of the civil- always communication between his was a snow drift when she looked “So we broke that record said icy roads were to blame for ity and openness between them in staff and Democratic legislators. out of the south window of the ad- pretty handily,” the Weather Ser- two traffic deaths Tuesday. both houses. Bergren said there was talk about ministration building. vice’s Jerome Saucier told the A man in his 30s died after an Before any of the work can offi- ensuring Schweitzer’s line-item veto “It’s up to the roof,” she said. Tribune. SUV went out of control on icy cially be counted as completed, the power, but nothing official. Johnny Noe, co-owner of the Meteorologist Jonathan Suk, roads and crashed early Tuesday bills have to be signed into law by “There were some discussions St. Mary Lodge in Glacier Nation- Saucier’s colleague, said moisture near Garrison, and a 68-year-old Gov. Brian Schweitzer. The gover- in the hall, but there was no coor- al Park, reported 5 feet of snow coming in from the Oregon coast Colorado man died Tuesday night nor said he has yet to look over the dinated effort,” Bergren said. with 12-foot drifts. was mixing with cold air coming when he lost control of his pickup details in the budget and stimulus Barring special session, the “The worst of this storm was down from Canada to bring heavy truck on Interstate 15 near Mel- bills, but hopes there will not have next Legislature will meet in 2011. from about midnight last night to snowfall to the Rocky Mountain rose. to be a special session to deal with [email protected] Pleased? Wanted Perturbed? Write a letter to the editor • Reporters [email protected] • Copy editors • Photographers • Designers • The Kaimin is now taking applications for all positions. Pick one up in Anderson Hall 208 16 Montana Kaimin News Thursday, April 30, 2009 part of the learning experience.” FASHION ANATOMY Westphal said she doesn’t see Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 her departure from UM as a re- Congress adopts budget tirement because she still plans to UC titled “Embracing Real Beauty.” Several students drop out of work in some way in the future. Nadeau was one of five women who the two-semester lab and lecture Originally from Bozeman, with favoring Obama’s goals appeared in their undergarments on a course, Dunphy said, adding that a bachelor’s degree from Montana Associated Press The budget outline also makes billboard in Times Square, challeng- during the second semester, he State University and a doctor- WASHINGTON — Demo- it plain that Democrats won’t let a ing the stereotype that women must felt like the class shrank by almost ate degree from the University of crats in Congress capped President mountain of deficits and debt inter- be tall, thin, young and skinny to half. Kentucky, she previously worked Barack Obama’s 100th day in office fere with advancing Obama’s am- be beautiful. She now tours college Dunphy said he appreciated worldwide for the U.S. Army as a by advancing a $3.4 trillion federal bitious but costly agenda. campuses spreading this message. Westphal’s teaching style – it physical therapist. Her work expe- budget for next year — a third of it It gives Democrats the option Brown plans to have the fashion forced him to understand all the rience led her to military hospitals borrowed — that prevents Repub- of moving Obama’s health care show again next year. material presented because she in Denver, Colo.; Tacoma, Wash.; licans from blocking his proposed plan through Congress without the “Next year, I want to include never went over what may or may San Antonio, Texas; Massachu- trillion-dollar expansion of govern- threat of a Republican filibuster, men. Everybody and every body,” not be on tests. setts and Germany. ment-provided health care over the though Democrats promise to try to she said. “Her teaching style is so inter- Westphal said she always next decade. find bipartisan agreement. [email protected] active, animated and full of analo- planned to come back to Montana Wednesday’s House and Sen- The Senate adopted the plan by gies,” Dunphy said. and eventually retire. ate votes to adopt the nonbinding a 53-43 vote just hours after a 233- Westphal said it’s hard for her “I think a lot of people from budget blueprint were only a first 193 House tally. to sign student drop slips when Montana have that dream,” West- step toward Obama’s goal of pro- Newly-turned Democrat Ar- she knows that, for some, the class phal said. “I don’t know exactly viding health care coverage for all len Specter of Pennsylvania voted caused a large amount of stress what will come next for me work- Americans. The budget plan for against the measure as he did earlier and discomfort. wise. For now, I’m going to be the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 this month when it initially passed “Who likes to cause that?” able to see more of my family.” sets the parameters for subsequent the Senate. Three other Democrats Westphal said. “But that’s really [email protected] tax and spending bills expected to also voted no: Ben Nelson of Ne- boost clean energy programs and braska, Robert Byrd of West Vir- student aid and extend many of ginia and Evan Bayh of Indiana. former President George W. Bush’s Seventeen House Democrats, tax cuts. mostly from GOP-leaning districts, Accuracy Watch “It’s a budget that reduces taxes, voted against the budget.` lowers the deficit and creates jobs,” Not a single Republican in the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- House or Senate voted for the mea- The Montana Kaimin is committed to accuracy in its Calif., said. “It honors the three sure. Obama inherited an economy in reports. If you think the Kaimin has committed pillars of the Obama initiatives: energy, health care and education.” deep recession and a financial bail- an error of fact, please call us at 243-2394 Obama cheered passage of the out costing hundreds of billions of or e-mail [email protected] and let us know. plan, saying in a statement that it dollars, and even some Republicans If we find a factual error we will correct it. “builds on the steps we’ve taken didn’t fault him for deficits rocket- over the last 100 days to move this ing to $1.7 trillion for the ongoing economy from recession to recov- budget year and a still-stunning ery and ultimately to prosperity.” $1.2 trillion in 2010.

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