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Wednesday March 31, 1999 * Today’s Weather Inside: Taekwondo club kicks Rain/Snow into high gear in High 41° Berkeley. _ p age 6 Low 25° KAIMINThe voice of The University of Montana since 1898 Our 101st year, Issue 81 Kaimin is a Salish word for messages http://kaimin.kaimin.umt.edu/kol Former student Valbona Sherifi, left, a charged UM exchange student from Albania engages in a in UPS friendly debate with Tatjana Sokic, a UM sophomore from Serbia. pot bust The two shared their Matt Gouras opinions on Kaimin Reporter the war in Kosovo with a tr Apparently Sven Patrick multicultural | Patton was expecting a United reporting class in the w Parcel Service package journalism -g Thursday from San Diego, school § Calif.—a package containing Tuesday. j? 27 pounds of marijuana. The delivery came — albeit via Missoula County Sheriff’s detectives instead of a UPS Half a world away from war, friendship survives driver. more ancient than either topic of Milosevic led to a airstrikes. Sokic, whose fami Instead of receiving an esti KOSOVO: Albanian mated $100,000 worth of and Serbian UM country involved, Sherifi heated debate. Sokic said ly lives in Belgrade, said that said. The ethnic Albanians in that she, along with many she is able to talk to her par drugs, Patton, 21, received a students discuss Kosovo, who are seeking other Serbians, does not ents every day. They, along felony charge of criminal pos session of dangerous drugs autonomy from Yugoslavia, agree with the policies of with other Serbians, have Kosovo conflict with with intent to sell. journalism students have been in Serbia for cen Milosevic. been preparing for the worst, The former UM student is turies. Sokic and Sherifi said “Our president was con clearing the stores of water, the first to fall in an on-going Julie Sarasqueta that the ethnic Albanians stantly ruining the country food and other necessities. investigation by the Missoula Kaimin Reporter have never given up their for the past nine or ten Sherifi said that she County Sheriff’s Department cultural identity. years,” she said. “He obvious appreciates the strikes but that may expand to include When Valbona Sherifi met “In Europe, history plays a ly doesn’t care about the does not know if NATO chose other university students, said Tatjana Sokic last October, big, big role. Everything is country.” the proper course of action. Detective Larry Jacobs. they became friends. But traced back to history,” Sokic When Sherifi asked why “It’s good in the aspect Jacobs would not identify what makes their friendship said. the Yugoslavians don’t over that the international com those individuals, or say how unusual is their back When Yugoslav President throw Milosevic, Sokic munity is doing something they might be involved. grounds: Sherifi is Albanian, Slobodan Milosevic came to brought up the president’s about it, but I think that Sheriff’s detectives found and Sokic is Serbian. power in 1989, he led a crack dictator-like power. Milosevic is playing with the out about the package after The two UM students down on the ethnic “It’s not like people can international community,” U.S. Drug Enforcement debated the situation in Albanians. He took away change the government, espe she said. “I think the interna Administration agents in San Kosovo for a multicultural their schools, their right to cially a government with tional community has to do Diego discovered its contents reporting class in the journal speak their language and mafia ties that is corrupt... something.” and contacted them, according ism school Tuesday. The dis their civil rights. they can not just go and kill Sokic said that despite to justice court records. cussion gave the friends a “(The Serbians) have the him,” Sokic said. their differences of opinion, Detectives agreed to intercept chance to find out more about power, the government and “That’s the problem with the two students remain the package when it arrived in each other’s opinions. the army, and all this time Serbs,” Sherifi said. “They respectful of each other. Missoula, before it was deliv “We never talk like this, so they have been treating the don’t like Milosevic, but they “I’ll be for my people and ered to a residence at 5515 Skyview. UPS then gave police I was really interested in Albanians like animals,” believe in his power.” she’ll be for hers, but it will permission to deliver the Tatjana’s views,” Sherifi said. Sherifi said. Both students had mixed never come between our package. The conflict in Kosovo is For Sherifi and Sokic, the reactions to NATO’s friendship,” she said. See “Bust” page 4 STADIUM: University must spend $500,000 to fix construction mistake made a decade ago Once in a blue moon Nate Schweber field, the cement that holds them Thea Bergeron moons in a single year was Kaimin Reporter in has begun to crack. for the Kaimin in 1961—before that, it was A ‘We need to stabilize the in 1885. In fact, the NSF They probably didn’t want to expansion and contraction of the Peering up into the skies says we won’t see two blue bring the house down like this. structure,” Krebsbach said. tonight you will see a full Unstable soil beneath moons in a single year When the stadium was built in moon. No, your eyes aren’t again until 2018. Washington-Grizzly Stadium is the mid-80s, it was built atop a mistaken; there was a full causing the concrete The rare phenomenon .k o m s e large berm, moon already this month. can only happen when sides of the structure See related story, Krebsbach said. t u i l l t to cave in toward the The moon tonight is not there are two full moons Page 4 The football field just any old full moon, it field, and crews will was dug 20 feet within the same calendar be spending most of will be the second blue month. The second full u p o n t n e below the top of the moon this year; the first the summer and $500,000 to fix berm, and the extracted dirt was moon to occur in the month, the problem, said Kevin piled up on the side to make the blue moon appeared in according to modern tradi Krebsbach, associate director of structure bowl-like. Concrete was January. tion, is known as the blue Facilities Services. poured over the mounds of dirt, According to the moon. The moon will not Krebsbach said that although and bleachers were stuck in the National Science actually look blue, but in S a m i the bleachers have only slid a cement to finish out the stadium. Foundation, the last time the past, weather condi- fraction of an inch closer to the we witnessed two blue See “Stadium ” page 4 See “Moon” page 4 ■ News ; ■ Eye Spy ■ Sports INSIDE Snag a bike from the U M parking \ Writing couple agrees to rare request Sports Editor knows it's not easy garage. | to read together. being a Red Sox fan. The Montana Kaimin — P age 8 — P age 5 — P age 7 2 M ontana Kaimin, Wednesday, M arch 31, 1999 Opinion [email protected] Y2K, not a bother but a blessing Want to know an ingenious Excuse me, sir, is that mid Kaczynski made me do it, but way to not give one more night, or when the sun comes he too may have been onto inkling of thought about the up or goes down on that day? something. Y2K panic that sensationalist Last time I checked, God didn’t We rely on technology now journalists and computer wiz have a calendar. for everything. Most of us have ards have caused a small frenzy If it is going to be the end, forgotten how to survive with over? Learn how to plant your why have you chosen this cave out all the material luxuries we Wednesday, March 31 Anthropology Club. own garden, start a fire and for a refuge? Apparently hell is could provide for ourselves with practice leaving good things more comfortable in large rocks. a little effort. Center for Leadership Easter egg hunt— behind instead of having to take Mr. Jerry Falwell, in his $25 If, hypothetically, all the Developm ent—“Values, Thursday 6 a.m. till the from the system all the time. Y2K video, says it’s wise to have computer-based warfare shut Vision, Goal setting,” 6 to eggs run out. Sponsored by We capitalists have devel lots of ammunition, telling the down on Doomsday, aren’t we to 7:30 p.m., UC MT Rooms. UC Programming / KBGA. oped a superbly funny way of faithful to prepare “as though blame for not being prepared? Must take Myers-Briggs looking at everything these the worst hurricane were on the Buying into all the televised assessment before workshop Fly fishing Western days.