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Inside the Kaimin Arts p 7 On Campus Today Forecast Sports p 5 Finals week will start with • 9-11 a.m. President’s Open Offi ce Hours, University Hall 109 High 45F UM billiards player headed • 6 p.m. ASUM Senate meeting, UC 330-331 Low 29F Wilco, get worse from there • 7 p.m. “Lunafest,” short fi lms by, for and about women, UC Theater to nationals – Courtesy of UM Events Calendar UM possible stop on Obama’s Montana trip Elizabeth Harrison Montana’s June 3 primary draws for the Obama campaign. When Democratic But Tinsley said his subsequent MONTANA KAIMIN near, the candidate might campaign he found out the senator was to party, he phone calls to the campaign in other areas of the state as well. appear in Butte, he immediately might as well haven’t yielded confi rmation of an With news breaking last week Although the campaign did made contact with Dan Gabor, the come early Obama visit to UM. that Democratic presidential not confi rm a UM visit, several offi cial Montana organizer for the and visit UM “It’s all very fl uid. We all like candidates Hillary Clinton and staffers have been assigned to set campaign, he said. where Obama to think we’re the center of the Barack Obama will be appearing up camp all over Montana this According to Tinsley, he told has lots of universe here, but there’s a bunch April 5 in Butte, speculation has week, according to Ed Tinsley, Gabor, “Here’s the deal, I would support, the of other states out there doing the been rife that the Illinois senator the only one of Montana’s eight recommend the campaign come commissioner same thing we’re doing,” he said. may make a stop at the University Democratic superdelegates who to Missoula because it would told Gabor. Barack Obama After Obama’s campaign staff of Montana. has endorsed Obama. probably be a really good rally.” “He’s going arrives in Montana, Tinsley said A spokesperson for Obama’s Tinsley is a commissioner While the senator is in Montana to be in Montana anyway, it’d be he will meet with them in Helena. campaign in Washington, D.C., for Lewis and Clark County and for the Mansfi eld-Metcalf dinner, a good hit for him if he went to “And I’m sure they’ll be in told the Kaimin Tuesday that as said he has become a contact a fundraiser for the state’s Missoula,” Tinsley said. See OBAMA, page 4 Charge it Sushi rolls through Missoula, UC Market

Karen Plant being a restaurant-owner’s son. MONTANA KAIMIN “They grew up on it,” Nagata says. Feast on an appetizer of ankimo, While sushi sales have always a salad of ika-sansai, followed by been strong, Nagata has noticed an entrée of tako – steamed fi sh a steady increase in sales over liver, squid salad and octopus. the years, especially among Eating sushi is the stylish thing college students. And the sales are to do these days, says Ray Lei, a markedly higher on Wednesday’s local chef who prepares and sells dollar night, when a single piece of sushi at Rosauer’s grocery store. fi sh sells for a dollar. Lei delivers the sushi to the UC “Typically, we serve them in Market on campus each weekday pairs,” Nagata said. “So opposed as well. to four or fi ve dollars for a pair, it “We’ve been carrying the is a dollar a piece. It is a signifi cant product here since January,” says savings.” John Alari, manager of the Market. Students may be eating sushi “We’ve had a terrifi c, outstanding for the health benefi ts too. “I think response.” they enjoy eating this type of food “I expected it to do well, but because it is defi nitely something not in the quantities we are seeing they categorize as pure or whole – simply because of the price,” he food rather than having lots of says. additives and preservatives,” The spicy tuna rolls, shrimp Nagata said. rolls and mini California rolls are Sushi meats are served both considered high-priced items for cooked and raw. Alisia Muhlestein / Montana Kaimin the Market. Many of the store’s Unlike Nagata and his sons, Senior Cameron Fehring uses a credit card to make a purchase at the Bookstore Tuesday afternoon. Cashier Sherry Kost, who has worked in the Bookstore for about sandwiches and lunch items sell sushi is fairly new to Libby seven years, said she has seen a defi nite increase in the number of cards used by students. for less than $5. On the lower- Knutson. Knutson, 24, and her priced end, Lei’s pot stickers sell 18-month-old son, Nathan, are for $3.75 a package. Eel rolls sell frequent customers to Sushi Hana. for $6.75. “I hated fi sh my entire life,” Group to educate students about credit cards Alari attributes the success Knutson says. “When I was of the sushi products to their pregnant with Nathan I was Jeff Osteen implement fi nancial literacy Central, also offers free debt and freshness. craving something. I ate a lot of FOR THE KAIMIN education, is teaming up with credit management counseling Students looking for fresh craving foods to try to fi gure out UM to ease students’ fi nancial and budgeting workshops to UM sushi can also venture downtown what it was. I didn’t know what it Many students cite fi nancial burdens. students. for a full-dining experience at was until I was about eight months pressures as their reason for “There are ways to go into debt Norma Nulliner, UM’s full- Sushi Hana, a restaurant on North pregnant and stole a shrimp off my leaving college before graduating, and not have it be insurmountable,” time AmeriCorps member and Higgins Avenue. Sushi sales have 7-year-old son’s plate. Ever since and the University of Montana said Marian Palaia, program fi nancial literacy counselor at the increased dramatically over the then I have loved fi sh.” is stepping up the effort to help director of MM$. “We defi nitely Student Assistance Foundation in past 10 years since Christopher Across town on North Reserve students fi nd relief from credit want people to come and take Griz Central, said that in the latest Nagata has owned the restaurant. Street, employees at Nara Korean card debt. advantage of us.” workshop on Feb. 26, there were Nagata lived in Japan until he Bar-B-Que & Sushi prepare a sweet Thirty-eight percent of college While some students get in seven in attendance ranging in age was about nine years old. pink fi sh powder for futomaki (a dropouts state fi nancial pressure as trouble with too much debt, Palaia from 19 to about 55. “My parents went from the hotel veggie roll with scrambled eggs) their reason for leaving, according said others might be afraid of She said there were several business in Japan to the restaurant and roll rectangles of nori (dried to a recent survey conducted by credit card companies. Students students who participated, business in the States,” he said. seaweed) around fi sh and veggies Duck9, a company that notifi es don’t establish credit and then including young parents who were “When we started, we were the in preparation for the Tuesday college students through text have trouble buying a house or a forced to drop out of school because fi rst Japanese restaurant in town.” evenings’ “Ladies Night” when messages to pay their bills on car because they have no credit of fi nancial mismanagement. Sushi Hana is quiet this weekday featured items are half price. time. history. Nulliner said parents aren’t afternoon. Crisp white tablecloths “We also do dollar sushi on Montana Making Sense Since the MM$ program began teaching the responsibilities that drape over the 17 tables set with Monday and Thursdays from (MM$), an AmeriCorps program in October, Ramsey Sprattmoran, come with having a credit card white vases. The cherry-wood open to close and we are packed,” that pairs AmeriCorps national team leader of MM$, said they and that most students get into chairs add to the room’s simple waitress Ashley Miller says. service members with community have helped more than 500 people trouble with debt because of a lack elegance. “Tuesdays starting at fi ve, we organizations to develop and through free workshops offered of knowledge about credit card Nagata’s sons sit at the dimly pretty much fi ll up.” throughout Montana. fi ne print. lit bar eating an after-school snack. Miller, 22, has worked at Nara “Our offi ce functions almost as Karissa Drye, orientation Thirteen-year-old Christopher since the restaurant’s opening Check us out a referral agency,” Sprattmoran director for Enrollment Services feasts on salmon rolls, 7-year- seven years ago. on the Web at said. at UM, said that Missoula banks old Alex eats fi sh eggs and crab. The restaurant is decorated in www.montanakaimin.com The Student Assistance are invited to set up booths at a Both boys agree that eating the grays and blacks. Several small Foundation, located in Griz See CREDIT CARDS, page 8 restaurant food is the best part of See SUSHI, page 4 2 Opinion Montana Kaimin Wednesday, March 19, 2008

EDITORIAL U Wire Half-decade war China oblivious to the world T.J. Tranchel happened yet. Steven Spielberg security forces interrupted protests UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO stepped down as artistic director in Lhasa. may not save Iraq over China’s constant human rights Every time this comes up, there I had the opportunity a few violations. Wait a second. OK, I is an international rally cry for Exactly fi ve years ago today two B-52 years ago to spend a week in China. respect the hell out of Spielberg but Tibetan freedom. Richard Gere bombers took off from a London airstrip A very kind driver named Mr. Xu didn’t he know about China before will hug the Dalai Lama on TV and, under a darkening sky, fl ew across told me that there is no such thing taking the job in the fi rst place? and the Beastie Boys will have the barren deserts of Syria and Iraq. They as news in China because by the I mentioned 1989 not long ago another music festival. Tibetan soared over Baghdad, and at precisely 9 time anyone hears about it, it’s and if Spielberg forgot about the freedom – any freedom for that p.m. fi re blazed in the darkness as Saddam old. This cultural tidbit came in the Tiananmen Square demonstrations matter – is not so simple. Even the Hussein’s presidential complex exploded middle of the spy plane incident and the lone guy facing a tank, he Dalai Lama recognizes that. He under the bombardment of cruise missiles. of 2001. Remember that? Two needs to stop and watch some CNN has said that Tibet is not seeking “Shock and awe” was to be the grand Chinese fi ghter jets collided with archives. separation, but that ties to China opening to President Bush’s theater of a U.S. EP-3E Aries II surveillance Sports of all kinds seem to be can help Tibet modernize and catch war that promised to end Saddam’s reign, Emma Schmautz plane, forcing it to land on Hainan shaking up China’s borderline up to the rest of the world. In the fi nd weapons of mass destruction and bring News Editor Island. Events later that year tend stability. Maybe they are angry meantime, though, he sees China’s democracy to the Middle East. to overshadow that incident, but that Yao Ming is injured and the actions against Tibet as “cultural But while the Bush administration treated the start to the war China is back in the news and I’m Houston Rockets just keep on genocide.” Interesting, isn’t it? as a drama production with a villain to slay and a village to save, wondering just how many Chinese winning. Maybe they are mad that There’s China, trying to wipe out America now realizes there was no script, no weapons of mass know about it. the Los Angeles Dodgers and the anything that is uniquely Tibetan destruction, no al-Qaida connection and the stage of battle brings Beijing is hosting the Summer San Diego Padres played to a tie and here is the U.S. taking baseball very real death, destruction and chaos. Olympics this year and that might during an exhibition game held and Disneyland to China’s massive After half a decade of being in a war, many Americans want be the only thing the Chinese at Wukesong Stadium, or that population. out of Iraq. people know about. Not simply the Padres won the second game. I know. I was there. During one They want the numbers to stop increasing. Numbers such because it’s meant to be a positive A tense moment did occur after tourist stop, I saw a large group as the 3,241 American soldiers killed in combat (an additional thing, to show off the country and that fi rst game when uniformed of Chinese schoolchildren on a 749 have died in non-combat related incidents) and over 29,300 all the progress it’s made since Chinese security guards tried to fi eldtrip. Their shouts of “Hello, soldiers wounded, the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths and the 1989, but also because any house prevent Korean pitcher Chan Ho America,” fl oated at me from above $650 billion currently spends on the war – a fi gure that could that can be seen from a road had Park from signing autographs. their Mickey Mouse T-shirts. That exceed two trillion in the coming years. its highway facing exteriors They eventually relented. was almost seven years ago. I hope We want to bring all of our soldiers home, put Iraq in the past repainted in “international colors.” None of this, however, compares some of those kids grew up to and wash our hands clean of any more bloodshed. But we can’t. That’s white with a blue stripe, to the new Chinese aggressions know more about what is going on To leave Iraq now would be disastrous to the lives of Iraqis apparently. against Tibet. According to Tibet in their country and in the world. who would endure brutal sectarian fi ghting and chaos. We tore All is not well with the Beijing Watch, 34 people died during If they don’t, the Olympics will apart Iraqi society, however repressive, and cannot leave it in Olympics and they haven’t even clashes on Friday when Chinese bring the world to them. bedlam. While opinion polls have claimed Iraqis want America to U Wire withdraw immediately, journalists, such as New York Times international corresponded John F. Burns, caution that fearful Iraqis often tell pollsters only what they think the pollster wants Eco-terrorists hurt environmentalism to hear. “My own experience, invariably, was that Iraqis I met who Abby Schwimmer traditional, semi-endearing view of pleasing environmental advocates felt secure enough to speak with candor had an overwhelming INDIANA UNIVERSITY activists as “crazy hippies.” and that taking the smallest desire to see American troops remain long enough to restore Who doesn’t love tree huggers? The group’s name doesn’t measures to limit ecosystem stability,” Burns wrote in a recent essay composed at the end of OK, obviously I’m kidding. A lot help either. When I hear the word damage will never be enough, and his fi ve-year assignment in Iraq. of people are less than supportive “elf,” I think of pointy shoes, the thus isn’t worth the effort. Even We cannot win the war in Iraq because there is no longer a of them. Stereotypically, society North Pole and occasionally Will if this incident doesn’t dissuade clear defi nition about what it means to win. Winning implies we views this group as a hemp- Ferrell. If there’s any hope of ELF the majority of developers to have gained, conquered or vanquished. The only thing America wearing, picket-sign-carrying, ever being taken seriously, the consider going green, every single has gained, though, is more hatred and anger from other nations, overly socially conscious nuisance. group should probably think about developer, including this one, who and even when we leave Iraq, terrorist networks will continue But as the environment rises to the fi nding a name with a less bizarre purports to have adopted green to exist. forefront of global concern, being acronym. building principles has the potential But while we won’t win in the traditional sense, we can “green” has become a buzzword The worst part is these so- to create market pressure for others remain until we restore stability. that companies and individuals called “McMansions” were to do the same in order to remain Instead of anarchy, the American military can be a force that pride themselves in using and is marketed as “built green,” having competitive. Besides, in one of the quells violence between Shiite and Sunni extremist groups and rarely intended to convey any sort been constructed according greatest ironies of the situation, gives Iraqis a chance to start rebuilding their country and their of stigma. to the concept of rural cluster the amount of carbon dioxide and government. As people take more of an interest development, which has been toxins released into the atmosphere This may take fi fteen years, hundreds of lives and billions of in environmental sustainability, said to control sprawl by limiting from the fi res clearly could not dollars. why are eco-terrorist groups like development density. Of course, have helped the plight of the local It is a grim thought and a reminder of what can happen when the Earth Liberation Front working this claim is somewhat ridiculous, environment, either. a nation follows its leaders into a war whose goals, missions and to alienate mainstream society considering the woodland habitat it It’s time for ELF to step back endpoint are unknown and undefi ned. from their cause? destroyed, but when you take into and take a look at how its actions A few weeks ago, in the latest account that most developers don’t are actually harming the cause it case of ELF counter-productivity, even make an effort to consider claims to be fi ghting for. Favorable Corrections: arsonists set fi re to the “Street overall environmental impacts, public perception can move In the March 14 article titled, “Native American Center Breaking New of Dreams” development in ELF might have lost a possible mountains as far as ensuring the Ground,” the Montana Kaimin incorrectly reported there are 397 Washington, leaving a sign with ally. success of grassroots movements, Native American Students registered at the University of Montana. the group’s acronym “ELF” Whether or not the manner in and people generally don’t look There are 501 Native American students. on it that dubbed the houses which these homes were being favorably on militant pyromaniacs, A caption in the March 13 issue of the Kaimin incorrectly referred to “McMansions.” constructed was low-impact or not, no matter how worthy their cause Nemesis Project as a project. It is in fact a company. Additionally, the Great. Seriously, the setting fi re to the development was may be. Either ELF needs to caption incorrectly referred to Jadyn Welch as a hired photographer, environmental movement does defi nitely not the best course of change its tactics, or it needs to go not need to be associated with action. In doing so, ELF has shown back to the North Pole and leave when Welch was in fact shooting photos for fun. craziness in any context beyond the developers that there’s just no civil society alone.

110 years Montana Kaimin NEWSROOM PHONE 406-243-4310 BUSINESS OFFICE PHONE 406-243-6541 The Montana Kaimin, in its Editor Photo Editor Sports Reporters Arts Reporters 110th year, is published by the Sean Breslin Shane McMillan Jake Grilley Erica Doornek students of The University of Business Manager Design Editor Bill Oram Steve Miller Montana, Missoula. The UM John Cribb Rachel Cook Ben Prez Melissa Weaver School of Journalism uses the News Editors Online Editor Roman Stubbs Photographers Montana Kaimin for practice Jessica Mayrer Sammy Pearson Reporters Ken Billington courses but assumes no con- Karen Plant Amy Faxon Hugh Carey trol over policy or content. Emma Schmautz Copy Editors Mike Gerrity Alisia Muhlestein Arts Editor Leslie Brown Elizabeth Harrison Eric Oravsky Send letters to the editor to Alex Sakariassen Virginia Cleaveland Stefanie Kilts Designers [email protected] Sports Editor Kalie Druckenmiller Katie Michel Letty Hingtgen or drop them off in Anderson Amber Kuehn Karl Krempel Trevon Milliard Ashley Klein Hall 208. Kayla Matzke Mark Page Elizabeth Rauf Lauren Russell Matt Unrau Kaimin is a Salish word for messages. Games 3 Montana Kaimin Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4 News Montana Kaimin Wednesday, March 19, 2008

SUSHI be dangerous. People should be Renter Center to offer seminars in dorms aware of the dangers of eating Continued from page 1 raw fi sh, according to the U.S. Stefanie Klits is to provide basic information covered at the seminars, including Food and Drug Administration. MONTANA KAIMIN students need to know to avoid lease agreement basics, premises Eating raw fi sh can cause food the most common problems (of reports and security deposits. tables near the front windows are poisoning, Hepatitis, Listeriosis University of Montana dorm renting),” he said. Henderson said these are the set with chopsticks, tiny bowls and intestinal parasites. students will have the opportunity Henderson said he will speak to three issues students have the most for soy sauce and napkins. Each “Sushi and sushimi must to attend a crash course on renters’ students “on important information trouble with or the most questions of the six tables along the side be commercially frozen to kill rights at a series of seminars held that all renters should know.” about. The seminars will also wall have small, built-in grills any parasites,” the U.S. FDA three nights this week. Luke Berger, a law student with briefl y touch on landlord repair and towering black hoods recommends. The seminars are aimed at Legal Services, will also speak at responsibilities, eviction notices, overhead for serving Korean However, sushi is crossing the students currently living in the seminars about legal aspects of pets and roommates. barbecue entrees. minds of many trendy brides these the dorms who are planning to renting. All students attending the Customers at these tables cook days. move off-campus, said Denver “Most of the problems that seminars will receive a packet their own food. Sushi bars are suited for wedding Henderson, director of the Off come to me from students stem with additional information on “It’s just like a barbecue,” receptions, writes Deborah Joseph Campus Renter Center. The Renter from a lack of understanding of renters’ rights. The packets will Miller says. “We bring them raw, in a Sunday TimesOnline article, Center and ASUM Legal Services their rights and responsibilities,” also include a quiz consisting of marinated meat, and they cook it “20 Hot Wedding Trends for are conducting the seminars. Henderson said. four short questions that were as they like.” The meal is served 2008.” “The purpose of the seminars Three main topics will be covered in the seminar. Students with red leaf lettuce, veggies and “Forget the usual three-course who fi ll them out will be eligible rice. sit-down do. Instead mingle while for a drawing to win a $300 “Ninety percent of my diet is you munch,” she says. security deposit voucher. sushi,” Miller says. “Eating raw Las Vegas Wedding Sushi menus The dorm seminars are part fi sh is a lot different than cooked are available at cupidswedding. of an emphasis on education fi sh, but I love it.” Miller isn’t com, and Blueberry Weddings and public outreach, Henderson concerned over the safety of eating Press lists sushi food stations as a said. The housing fair, which raw fi sh. trendy food choice. usually occurs just before spring “I’ve had two children. I stayed Like any fad, sushi can become break, was canceled this year in away from it when I was pregnant a habit. order to have more educational and when I was nursing, but other “I have heard people say it is opportunities for students on the than that it doesn’t even cross addicting,” Miller says. “You eat basics of renting, like the dorm my mind,” Miller says. it once and you have to come get seminars. But eating uncooked fi sh can your sushi fi x.” In the future, Henderson said he hopes the dorm seminars will be conducted on a yearly basis in BAMA “We haven’t heard anything, conjunction with the housing fair O but it wouldn’t surprise me if so students will be informed about Continued from page 1 either of these exciting candidates their rights before making any want to reach out to this state,” renting decisions. said Montana Democratic Party The dorm seminars are held Missoula at some point,” he said. spokesman Kevin O’Brien. “Since in the lower lobbies of the dorms With the Democratic Montana is going to make a real over three nights and start at 7 p.m. nomination so tight, Montana’s difference in deciding who the Future seminars will be in Jesse eight Democratic superdelegates next Democratic candidate will Hall on Wednesday evening and and 25 delegates are in high be.” Miller Hall on Thursday evening. demand. Still, University of Montana political science professor Christopher Muste said the two campaigns are probably weighing the worth of spending time in Montana. “How much is it worth to go to Butte when they could spend time campaigning in a bigger state like Oregon?” he said. “I think it’ll depend on a lot of other factors, including whether candidates think that those 25 Montana delegates are crucial or if time is better spent somewhere else.” Muste said that if one candidate comes, that puts pressure on the other one. Thorough Montana campaigning by Obama could even lead to a visit by former President Bill Clinton in support of his wife. “It’s just a rumor at this point,” said Bill Clinton’s spokesman Matt McKenna. “Montana’s a state that the campaign is very committed to. So look for activity from us there in the future.” UM College Democrats President Scott Martin confi rmed Tuesday that he had heard buzz of an Obama visit to UM, but his sources have not verifi ed. “With Montana in play, Obama and Hillary Clinton would be nuts not to come since it’s such an important area,” he said. “It’s likely they will be coming to Missoula at some point between now and our primary.” Martin said the College Democrats have planned a number of fundraisers, including one on May 3 in which they plan to invite both campaigns. The Adams Center declined to comment Tuesday on rumors concerning the possibility of any presidential candidate appearing at the venue.

Alex Sakariassen contributed reporting to this story. Kaimin Sports Wednesday, March 19, 2008 UM Junior beats competition in Side Seattle tournament lines

Games this week

Friday, March 21 – Men’s Bill Oram tennis vs. Sacramento State, 2 MONTANA KAIMIN p.m., Lindsay Tennis Center Bring on Jeannette “The Black National Widow” Lee. Hell, bring on Minnesota Fats, for all I care. Sports Briefs I’m pumped. I’m stoked. Yesterday I dominated the best College basketball: UCLA’s female billiards player on the Kevin Love and Luc Richard University of Montana campus in Mbah a Moute both sustained a game of 8-ball. injuries in the Pac-10 tournament OK, “dominated” may be a bit las weekend, and coach Ben strong. So may “edged,” even. Howard was unclear on whether But thanks to some generous Mbah a Moute would play in ball-spotting by my opponent and Thursday’s NCAA tourney the pool version of a mulligan opener. Love returned to practice – a pooligan, perhaps – I was just two days after straining his victorious. lower back in the championship Ahva Potticary shouldn’t be against Stanford, but hasn’t held losing to me at pool. She rarely back in practice. Mbah a Moute loses to anyone. Last month in is nursing an ankle injury. Seattle, at the regional qualifying tournament for the Association of College football: Boston College Unions International 9- College quarterback and Ball Championships, she swept the possible fi rst-overall NFL fi eld. draft pick Matt Ryan threw Granted, the fi eld there for pro scouts for the fi rst time comprised just four women, but Tuesday. He didn’t throw at the her “boyfriend and semi-trainer” NFL Combine last month. Ryan is quick to point out that when completed 48-of-52 passes and included in one of the men’s said he “made every throw you brackets, she fi nished second. need to make in the NFL.” In fact, David Reynolds fawns, if Potticary hadn’t “choked” on the MLB: The baseball players’ 9-ball, she would have been fi rst. association is looking into why “Any other day she’ll look Barry Bonds is still unemployed at me, balance a spoon on her with less than two weeks to go nose and make that shot,” said before Opening Day. Bonds’ Reynolds, whom Potticary was agent Jeff Borris said “he’s playing against when I arrived at in playing shape right now.” the UC Game Room. The players’ association does With her win in Seattle, a review of the free-agency Potticary, a junior biology major market each year. from Portland, Ore., punched her ticket to Tucson, Ariz., for the National Sports Briefs are ACUI nationals in July. She says compiled by the Kaimin sports she’ll be one of only about 20 staff with information gathered players, but insists she won’t win from wire reports. and is just going for the experience. Yet, she acknowledges the pressure Standings of playing in front of scouts from professional tours. MEN’S TENNIS Watching Potticary work the School Big Sky Total cue, it’s not hard to see why she’s E.Washington 3-0 9-3 been successful. Her face hardens Sacramento State 2-0 8-7 with concentration as she lines Weber State 2-0 7-7 up her shot. Reynolds calls it her Montana 1-0 3-1 “Jaws face” because she looks like Montana State 1-1 4-9 she’s “preparing to eat somebody’s N. Arizona 1-2 3-12 boat.” Alisia Muhlestein / Montana Kaimin Idaho State 1-2 1-8 When she hits the ball, her Avha Potticary plays billiards Tuesday evening, preparing for the National Tournament that she will participate in this summer. A friend of Potticary said, “I’m poor, but I N. Colorado 0-1 1-5 stroke is strong and hard, but not would bet $20 on Avha to win. In all the years I’ve played, I’ve never seen a girl half as good as she is.” Portland State 0-4 2-8 wild. Potticary said she picked up Regardless, her confi dence and WOMEN’S TENNIS pool just two years ago, inspired in skill are undeniably intimidating. School Big Sky Total part by cinema. When she fi nishes wiping the Sacramento State 3-0 11-2 “I didn’t have a favorite (pool fl oor with Reynolds, Potticary Montana 2-0 3-8 movie), I’ve just seen a lot of cool looks up at me and asks, “Wanna N. Arizona 4-1 11-7 pool players in movies,” she said play a game?” Like the idiot writer E. Washington 3-1 6-6 right before sinking the three ball I am, I say yes. Portland State 2-4 4-8 on a bank shot. Pool has always intimidated Montana State 1-1 5-3 But it takes practice. Reynolds, me. While Potticary was drawn Weber State 0-2 3-9 a player for seven years, coos that to the game because it bred cool Idaho State 0-2 0-5 he has never seen anyone pick up people, that very thing scared me N. Colorado 0-3 3-9 the game as quickly as she has. away. I’ve never been the cool, “I’m here a lot,” Potticary smoky bars, scotch-rocks and TODAY IN SPORTS demurs, as the nine rattles in and eight-ball-corner-pocket-with-my- HISTORY then out of the corner pocket, eyes-closed kind of guy. Moreover, eliciting an annoyed pout. pool confuses me. It’s one of those 1975, Pennsylvania became She begs me not to make her classic questions, probably fi rst the fi rst state to allow girls sound cocky, because there are posed by the ancient Greeks, “How to compete with boys in high “a lot of people who are better at do you hit a round ball square?” Alisia Muhlestein / Montana Kaimin school sports. pool” at UM. See Potticary, page 6 Potticary picked up pool only two years ago, inspired by movies with pool players. Sports 6 Montana Kaimin Wednesday, March 19, 2008

POTTICARY pocket. Coaching Kudos My fi rst chance to win comes Continued from page 5 with both of us needing the 8-ball, and me banking on a bank shot. It sends my ball into the cushion and Because of my assumptions, perilously close to toppling into I had never really played a game the wrong hole. of pool before yesterday. “You Reynolds quickly grabs the don’t have to know how to play teetering black sphere and says, the game to enjoy it,” she said “We’ll make her work for it.” cheerily before we begin. He places it in the middle of My fi rst shot was one for the the table, leading to a missed funny pages, not the sports section. shot by Potticary. This sets me up I stroke the cue ball into the three, with a cake corner shot. I notice which veers off course into the 11, Reynolds didn’t insist that I have before innocently coming to rest to work for it. three feet from where I intend it After I “win,” Potticary laughs, to go. and murmurs something about Potticary feels it early, dropping “playing like crap.” her fi rst three shots. When I Her boyfriend, however, seems blunder on my next attempt, she elated. That I had done on my rearranges the balls, giving me a fi rst try something that he says direct line at the side pocket. he can’t do with much regularity Eureka! earns me a high fi ve and a swell After I make that one, I start compliment: to feel it (see lucky). Potticary’s “This guy’s going to win shots come millimeters short of nationals next year!” the pockets, while mine dance all I’m up to the challenge. I’ll around the table – rarely in the just need a pooligan or two. In the direction I intend – before fi nding, meantime, I’ll be pulling for Ahva Portland State’s head coach Ken Bone / Photo Courtesy of the Big Sky Conference as if guided by remote control, a Potticary. PSU’s Bone named top Big Sky Coach Portland State head coach Ken named both conference MVP and Sky, but after a spectacular season Bone was named the 2007-08 Big Newcomer of the Year, senior they now head to Omaha, Neb., Sky Conference Men’s Basketball center Scott Morrison earned where they will face top-seeded Coach of the Year on Tuesday. Defensive Player of the Year, Kansas in the opening-round of Bone, 49, is in his third season and senior guard Deonte Huff the NCAA Tournament. Tip-off is with the Vikings. He just led captured MVP at the Big Sky slated for 10:25 a.m. on CBS. them to their fi rst-ever NCAA Championship. Tournament appearance after The Vikings were originally –Kaimin the Vikings defeated Northern picked to fi nish third in the Big Sports Arizona 67-51 last week to capture their fi rst Big Sky Championship. The selection committee for the award is made up of the Big Sky’s nine head coaches. It is the fi rst time a Portland State men’s basketball coach has won Coach of the Year. Bone guided PSU to a school- record 23 wins and nine losses, and the Vikings were crowned regular-season champs after going 14-2 in league play. During his tenure at Seattle Pacifi c (1990-2002), Bone was named PacWest coach of the year during the 1999-2000 season. This is his 16th season as a head coach, and during that span he compiled a 312-156 record. He also was an assistant coach at Washington from 2002-06. Portland State has already garnered many accolades this season. Bone’s Coach of the Year honor is the fi fth major postseason award won by a Viking, as junior guard Jeremiah Dominguez was M Montana K Kaimin [email protected] Arts wednesday, march 19, 2008 Wilco fans on campus rejoice over May concert

Steve Miller by their label, Reprise Records. MONTANA KAIMIN The label dropped Wilco prior to the album’s release because they Preparing for tests Monday didn’t believe the record had any night of fi nals week may prove crossover potential. particularly diffi cult for lovers of In 2004, Wilco released A country music with a psychedelic Ghost is Born, which earned them kick. two Grammy Awards, including Last Friday, UM Productions Best Alternative Album. Ghost announced that the Grammy also serves as arguably the band’s Award-winning alternative- most progressive and experimental country group Wilco will play the work – an album that Rolling Adams Center on May 5. Tickets Stone hailed “as eerie as Wilco has for UM students, staff and faculty recorded yet.” went on sale Monday at 10 a.m. for With Sky Blue Sky, Wilco $26 with a valid Griz Card. Sales returns to its folk-roots, while open to the general public Friday incorporating some heavy blues at 8:30 a.m. for $31. licks reminiscent of the Beatles’ At the very front of a line that White Album. Sky debuted at No. stretched past the courtesy phones 4 on the Billboard charts last May on the fi rst fl oor of the University and earned Wilco another Grammy Center sat Ty Wolosin, who nod for Best Rock Album. claimed his spot around 8:10 a.m. Last month, the band played Wolosin, a UM graduate student tunes “I Hate It Here” and in geology, has been a Wilco fan “Walken” on Saturday Night since the release of the band’s Live. 2007 album Sky Blue Sky and even Ryan Hamilton, director of UM attended the band’s Austin City Productions, said ticket prices were Limits performance, a PBS live relatively inexpensive because concert series. Wilco wanted to do a community- For Wolosin, the lyrics of front centered show without “pricing man Jeff Tweedy, as well as the anybody out.” band’s “mix of rocking it pretty Dan Torti, UM Productions’ hard,” serve as Wilco’s most marketing coordinator, believes appealing qualities. that although Wilco’s notoriety “I just really like his (Tweedy’s) has grown, the band continues to mindset in general,” Wolosin said. reach out to the community. Torti Sharing Wolosin’s admiration said that the band’s fi rst Missoula of Tweedy is Riley Byrne, a performance was in 2001 in the UC sophomore majoring in history. Ballroom. In 2003, Wilco returned “Jeff Tweedy’s voice is as the opening act for alternative amazing,” Byrne said. “He really rock legends REM in the Adams puts his heart into it.” Center. This time around, Wilco is A loyal listener since Wilco’s headlining. 2002 release, Yankee Hotel “I think that’s the coolest thing,” Foxtrot , Byrne said he looks Torti said of Wilco’s progression. forward to a concert of “rock and “Now they’re starting to sprout.” strange noises, as opposed to a Although the concert takes folk set.” place during fi nals week, that Wilco formed in 1994 following hasn’t deterred fans from showing the disbanding Uncle Tupelo, a up and supporting the Chicago Chicago-based alternative-country rockers. group. With Jeff Tweedy at the “You can always work your helm, Wilco released its debut in studying around a concert,” Byrne 1995, A.M., an album faithful to said. the original Uncle Tupelo sound. According to Adams Center The band achieved its greatest Box Offi ce staff, fl oor tickets have amount of success with its fourth nearly sold out and are expected to album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, do so when tickets go on sale to the Eric Oravsky/ Montana Kaimin selling over 500,000 copies in general public. There is still plenty the U.S. despite being dropped of reserved seating available. Fans purchase tickets for Wilco late Tuesday morning in the UC. The Chicago-based alternative folk band will be playing in the Adams Center on May 5. Spearhead to put Missoula in the spring break mood with reggae concert

Melissa Weaver head Sam Porter. the air … it’s just a very positive process album, set for release Though the show is “sold out,” MONTANA KAIMIN The band will perform at the experience,” Porter said. later this summer. Porter said he usually releases Wilma Theatre March 27 at 8:30 And educational, he added. Think of upbeat reggae/hip- around 40 extra tickets at the If you’re not going to be on an p.m., and the show holds promise. Spearhead is very involved in hop – like G. Love and Special door. island this spring break, the music Porter described Spearhead’s educating the public on global Sauce, Matisyahu or Slightly Or, wait for the next reggae of Michael Franti and Spearhead concerts as an inspirational issues. Last year, the band came Stoopid – to get a rough idea of concert, as Missoula tends to see can help you pretend you are. experience. to Missoula for the Northern Spearhead’s sound. a few of them every year. “It’s worth sticking around “By the end of the show, Rocky Mountain Bioneers “They put on a rockin’ show. “It’s only natural that more for,” said Porterhouse Productions everyone is dancing, hands in Conference, which was devoted The sets are awesome,” Porter reggae concerts happen in the to fi nding solutions for the planet said, adding that the best part of spring,” Porter said. “The artists concerning issues ranging from the show usually happens during like a warm climate. It’s what Kaimin Arts sustainable farming to women’s the after-party at the Loft, when they are used to.” Movie Quote Quiz rights. the artists “grab the mike and start The Michael Franti and This week marks an unprecedented event in the Kaimin But don’t expect a lecture. The free-forming like crazy.” Spearhead concert will be at the Arts Movie Quote Quiz, our fi rst repeat winner. San Francisco Bay area-based Paying a $5 cover at the Loft is Wilma next Thursday. Doors band will be performing some one way to get around coughing open at 7:30 p.m. with hip-hop Unfortunately, the victory proves somewhat hollow as new songs from their work-in- up $35 for a concert ticket. DJ J. Boogie opening. this was the only response we received:

“Star Trek: First Contact by Dr. Zefram Cochrane played by James Cromwell... I’m ashamed I actually know this answer...” TINY DANCER says: Burn your fuse out here with Kaimin Arts, baby! We’re ashamed too, Andrew Schmidt. Maybe some free Rockin’ as always at [email protected]. crappy music will cheer you up. Stop by DAH 208. Kaimin Arts News 8 Montana Kaimin Wednesday, March 19, 2008

CREDIT CARDS Nulliner said the assistance some students to Consumer Credit foundation is working on putting Counseling Service in Missoula to Continued from page 1 together another workshop to help consolidate their debt. be held after spring break. The Nulliner said that she gets workshop will focus on budgeting about three credit offers in the bank expo that takes place during and the management of credit mail every week. student orientation. cards and school loans. Even knowing what you’re The goal of the bank expo, Drye After spring break, students getting into, it’s sometimes tough said, is to familiarize students with can register for the workshop to turn away the offers. the services of local banks. Banks through the Internet or by calling “They get us anyway,” she in Missoula are really good about the assistance foundation. said. helping students build credit and In addition to coordinating stay out of serious debt, she said. workshops, Nulliner said they refer