Montana Kaimin, March 19, 2008 Students of the Niu Versity of Montana, Missoula

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UMʼs Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 Wednesday MVolume CX, Issueontana 81 Kaimin March 19, 2008 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.

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