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Volume 123 Issue No. 6, September 23, 2020 Kiosk Kaimin Editorial

Cover Illustration Daylin Scott The Montana Kaimin is a weekly independent student EDITORIAL newspaper at the University of Montana. The Kaimin office and the University of Montana are located on land originally FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA inhabited by the Salish People. Kaimin is a derivative of a Salish language word, “Qe‘ymin,” that is pronounced kay-MEEN and For comments, corrections or letters to To everyone at Curry Health Center: Thank you. means “book,” “message,” or “paper that brings news.” Montana Kaimin the editor, contact [email protected] Remember back to April and those first UM, it’s news again, as case numbers rise putting themselves at great personal risk pandemic. The inadequate systems put or call (406) 243-4310. few weeks of the lockdown? We were all and clusters expand. over and over again. They compassionate- in place to respond to the coronavirus on EDITORIAL STAFF NEWSROOM STAFF navigating the impact of COVID-19 on We want to bring back the energy from ly explain the test and offer a tissue after campus, and in the community, mean that EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS REPORTERS MULTIMEDIA STAFF @montanakaimin For advertising opportunities, contact our lives for the first time and adjusting April to thank UM’s healthcare workers every “brain swab.” They are consistently Curry has too often had to pick up the Erin Sargent Hanna Campbell Liam McCollum to a few new rules of reality. We were also — the doctors, nurses, counselors, recep- patient and kind to students who are nav- pieces. Isabella Butler Nick Mills [email protected] or going above and beyond to thank frontline tionists and everyone in between at Curry igating this crisis. They aren’t judgmental So, yes: test results are sometimes slow to BUSINESS MANAGER Griffen Smith Emma Smith call (406) 243-6541. workers. Health Center. toward the people they test, even though come in; appointments are sometimes hard Cassandra Williams Nikki Zambon Alexis Schroeder In Missoula, there was the howl. Every When they signed up to work at a college every close contact makes their day a little to get; and not every service is available in Jacob Owens Walter Medcraft @MontanaKaimin evening, at 8 p.m. on the dot, Missoulians health clinic, they likely expected to be longer and their job a little harder and more person like it used to be. Then again, noth- SPORTS EDITOR Matt Tryan would stand on their porches and lean out testing for strep, battling the flu, wrapping dangerous. ing is like it used to be anymore. Jack Marshall SPORTS REPORTERS Zach Meyer their windows to howl into their neigh- the occasional sprained ankle and perform- Curry’s counselors have been there for What we at the Kaimin do know is that Mariah Thomas borhoods, thanking healthcare workers for ing more than the occasional STD test. They usWeek during what of is quite9/21/20 possibly the - most9/27/20 we owe everyone at Curry a loud, long NEWS EDITOR John Paul Edge DESIGNERS CLASSIFIEDS their service. The dogs picked up the sound likely didn’t expect to bear the brunt of a stressful moment of our lives—and theirs. howl. Mazana Boerboom John Orzechowski Constance Darlington and howled back, and soon we could hear university’s response to a deadly global A call to Curry is almost always much more Natalie Brancaccio Sussex School seeks substitute teachers for K-8 classes. Applicants should have the echoes from Mount Sentinel, above pandemic. pleasant and productive than one to the ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR ARTS & CULTURE REPORTERS Colton Rothwell experience working with children through teaching, childcare, or summer camps. town. Again and again, Curry has been there health department. LIKE IT? HATE IT? WISH WE WERE DEAD? Alex Miller Noelle Annonen Pay is $13/hr and hours are flexible, some substitute teaching jobs are advance There hasn’t been a howl in a few months for us. As the local health department ex- No small campus health center should Email us your opinions at James Bradley CARTOONIST notice. Please see our website (sussex School.org) to learn about our progressive now. The new-ness of the pandemic has pands contact-tracing in emerging clusters, have to bear the responsibility of keeping [email protected] FEATURES EDITOR Clint Connors Cooper Malin worn off. It’s old news. But now, here at Curry employees continue to run tests, an entire student population safe from a Addie Slanger Meghan Jonas education model. Contact Christy at [email protected] to apply. Resume OFFICE ASSISTANTS and 3 references required. MULTIMEDIA EDITOR COPY CHIEF Abigail Stone Claire Shinner Andrea Halland NOW HIRING @ StoneCreek Lodge, Missoula’s Finest Hotel! ADVISERS Front Desk, Night Audit, Housekeeping. Fulltime, Parttime. Days, Evenings, DESIGN EDITOR COPY EDITORS Tammy Kim Overnights available. Call 406.541.3600 or Apply in person at 5145 Airway Blvd. SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke Daylin Scott Zandria DuPuis Jason Begay Missoula! Alicia McAlpine Difficulty: Easy DIGITAL EDITOR HOW TO SOLVE: Sara Diggins 9 4 6 2 Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and KAIMIN COMIC 3 each set of 3 by 3 boxes must 5 1 7 4 contain the numbers 1 to 9. Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: 2 8 1 9 5 3 4 7 6 6 5 5 7 3 6 2 4 9 8 1 9 6 4 8 7 1 2 3 5 4 2 8 9 4 9 2 3 6 7 5 1 8 2 6 1 7 1 5 2 4 8 3 6 9 8 3 6 1 9 5 7 4 2 3 6 1 2 8 7 3 9 6 5 4 8 9 7 3 5 9 4 8 6 1 2 7 Copyright 2020 by The Puzzle Syndicate 6 4 7 5 1 2 8 9 3

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Kiosk Kaimin Editorial

Cover Illustration Daylin Scott The Montana Kaimin is a weekly independent student EDITORIAL newspaper at the University of Montana. The Kaimin office and the University of Montana are located on land originally FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA inhabited by the Salish People. Kaimin is a derivative of a Salish language word, “Qe‘ymin,” that is pronounced kay-MEEN and For comments, corrections or letters to To everyone at Curry Health Center: Thank you. means “book,” “message,” or “paper that brings news.” Montana Kaimin the editor, contact [email protected] Remember back to April and those first UM, it’s news again, as case numbers rise putting themselves at great personal risk pandemic. The inadequate systems put or call (406) 243-4310. few weeks of the lockdown? We were all and clusters expand. over and over again. They compassionate- in place to respond to the coronavirus on EDITORIAL STAFF NEWSROOM STAFF navigating the impact of COVID-19 on We want to bring back the energy from ly explain the test and offer a tissue after campus, and in the community, mean that EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS REPORTERS MULTIMEDIA STAFF @montanakaimin For advertising opportunities, contact our lives for the first time and adjusting April to thank UM’s healthcare workers every “brain swab.” They are consistently Curry has too often had to pick up the Erin Sargent Hanna Campbell Liam McCollum to a few new rules of reality. We were also — the doctors, nurses, counselors, recep- patient and kind to students who are nav- pieces. Isabella Butler Nick Mills [email protected] or going above and beyond to thank frontline tionists and everyone in between at Curry igating this crisis. They aren’t judgmental So, yes: test results are sometimes slow to BUSINESS MANAGER Griffen Smith Emma Smith call (406) 243-6541. workers. Health Center. toward the people they test, even though come in; appointments are sometimes hard Cassandra Williams Nikki Zambon Alexis Schroeder In Missoula, there was the howl. Every When they signed up to work at a college every close contact makes their day a little to get; and not every service is available in Jacob Owens Walter Medcraft @MontanaKaimin evening, at 8 p.m. on the dot, Missoulians health clinic, they likely expected to be longer and their job a little harder and more person like it used to be. Then again, noth- SPORTS EDITOR Matt Tryan would stand on their porches and lean out testing for strep, battling the flu, wrapping dangerous. ing is like it used to be anymore. Jack Marshall SPORTS REPORTERS Zach Meyer their windows to howl into their neigh- the occasional sprained ankle and perform- Curry’s counselors have been there for What we at the Kaimin do know is that Mariah Thomas borhoods, thanking healthcare workers for ing more than the occasional STD test. They usWeek during what of is quite9/21/20 possibly the - most9/27/20 we owe everyone at Curry a loud, long NEWS EDITOR John Paul Edge DESIGNERS CLASSIFIEDS their service. The dogs picked up the sound likely didn’t expect to bear the brunt of a stressful moment of our lives—and theirs. howl. Mazana Boerboom John Orzechowski Constance Darlington and howled back, and soon we could hear university’s response to a deadly global A call to Curry is almost always much more Natalie Brancaccio Sussex School seeks substitute teachers for K-8 classes. Applicants should have the echoes from Mount Sentinel, above pandemic. pleasant and productive than one to the ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR ARTS & CULTURE REPORTERS Colton Rothwell experience working with children through teaching, childcare, or summer camps. town. Again and again, Curry has been there health department. LIKE IT? HATE IT? WISH WE WERE DEAD? Alex Miller Noelle Annonen Pay is $13/hr and hours are flexible, some substitute teaching jobs are advance There hasn’t been a howl in a few months for us. As the local health department ex- No small campus health center should Email us your opinions at James Bradley CARTOONIST notice. Please see our website (sussex School.org) to learn about our progressive now. The new-ness of the pandemic has pands contact-tracing in emerging clusters, have to bear the responsibility of keeping [email protected] FEATURES EDITOR Clint Connors Cooper Malin worn off. It’s old news. But now, here at Curry employees continue to run tests, an entire student population safe from a Addie Slanger Meghan Jonas education model. Contact Christy at [email protected] to apply. Resume OFFICE ASSISTANTS and 3 references required. MULTIMEDIA EDITOR COPY CHIEF Abigail Stone Claire Shinner Andrea Halland NOW HIRING @ StoneCreek Lodge, Missoula’s Finest Hotel! ADVISERS Front Desk, Night Audit, Housekeeping. Fulltime, Parttime. Days, Evenings, DESIGN EDITOR COPY EDITORS Tammy Kim Overnights available. Call 406.541.3600 or Apply in person at 5145 Airway Blvd. SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke Daylin Scott Zandria DuPuis Jason Begay Missoula! Alicia McAlpine Difficulty: Easy DIGITAL EDITOR HOW TO SOLVE: Sara Diggins 9 4 6 2 Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and KAIMIN COMIC 3 each set of 3 by 3 boxes must 5 1 7 4 contain the numbers 1 to 9. Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: 2 8 1 9 5 3 4 7 6 6 5 5 7 3 6 2 4 9 8 1 9 6 4 8 7 1 2 3 5 4 2 8 9 4 9 2 3 6 7 5 1 8 2 6 1 7 1 5 2 4 8 3 6 9 8 3 6 1 9 5 7 4 2 3 6 1 2 8 7 3 9 6 5 4 8 9 7 3 5 9 4 8 6 1 2 7 Copyright 2020 by The Puzzle Syndicate 6 4 7 5 1 2 8 9 3

COOPER MALIN| MONTANA KAIMIN

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Week of 9/21/20 - 9/27/20 Horoscope Briefs & Blotter The Weekly Crossword by Margie E. Burke 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Welcome to Libra Season, you indecisive weirdos 17 18 19 ERIN SARGENT Briefs: business dean, RBG and flu shots 20 21 22 [email protected] The COVID Response email also said UM 23 24 25 26 FIRST FEMALE BUSINESS DEAN HIRED RBG’S DEATH PROMPTS ACTION granddaughter Clara Spera, were: “My most employees can get their flu shot at the next fervent wish is that I will not be replaced WellCheck event from Oct. 6 to 9. (MB) 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 The University of Montana appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins- until a new president is installed.” (MB) 34 35 36 Dr. Suzanne Tilleman as the Sprunk and burg died Sept. 18 at age 87 from complica- DIVERSEU SET TO HAPPEN IN LATE OCTOBER 37 38 39 40 Burnham Endowed Dean of the UM College tions of cancer. Ginsburg became an CURRY OFFERS FLU SHOTS of Business last week. Tilleman is the first icon to many as one of the longest The annual DiverseU event is still set to 41 42 43 44 woman to hold the permanent dean position standing Supreme Court In an email from happen Oct. 28 to 29. This year will be the 45 46 47 within the College of Business, according to justices and a strong advo- the UM COVID 15th year of DiverseU, an event aimed at the UM News release. Before being named cate for gender equality. Response Team celebrating and promoting diversity at UM 48 49 50 dean, Tilleman worked as a business profes- Throughout the weekend sent last week, through student, staff, faculty, alumni and sor, department chair and the interim dean pictures of Ginsburg and students were community member presentations, perfor- 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 within the college. She holds degrees in some of her famous quotes encouraged mances and discussions. “The DiverseU ex- 59 60 61 mechanical engineering, business adminis- circulated social media to call Curry perience gives you an even broader platform NAT BRANCACCIO| MONTANA KAIMIN tration and strategy and entrepreneurship. with messages of both grief Health Center to share your ideas, research and art in a 62 63 64 “I look forward to continuing working and calls to action with the at 406-243-5171 to flexible format,” a UM Student Weekly email 65 66 67 Virgo season burnout got you down? Same with our faculty, alumni and partners as November election drawing get a flu shot. “Flu sent last week stated. Proposals for anything (although the pandemic could be playing a role PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) we evolve a curriculum that leverages data, near. On Saturday, the local group season will be here from poetry reading to research presenta- Copyright 2020 by The Puzzle Syndicate : So, there are the people ACROSS in that, too, if we’re being honest). Anyway, good analytics, value-added business and human Missoula Rises held a vigil for Gins- soon, and the symptoms tions are due Friday, Sept. 25 at the DiverseU Lauren of It comes from Holiday veggie who still flirt over Snapchat and then there are 1 64 24 news! It’s Libra season now. Time to try to fall in processes,” Tilleman said to UM News. burg at the Missoula courthouse. According can be similar to those resulting webpage. The email stated any presentation fashion the heart 26 Earth-friendly the people who handwrite love letters, and love with the babe across the tent-classroom or (Mazana Boerboom) to the Missoulian, hundreds gathered to from COVID-19. Please get a flu shot this format can be accommodated, whether it’s 6 Tread-bare 65 Washstand activity somewhere in the middle is you: Communicating spend a solid half-hour trying to decide whether listen as speakers urged them to take steps year,” the email stated. Another email sent to a masked and socially distanced in-person 10 "Tip" or "rip" vessel 27 Biblical tower solely through emojis when someone asks you to ensure Democrats are elected to offices in students stated shots are free with most in- presentation or a remote session over Zoom. finish 66 Bookie's quote 28 Dark wood or not you should just Zoom into class from your out. Montana. Ginsberg’s last words, said to her surances including Medicaid and Medicare. (MB) 14 Honda's luxury 67 Do a host's job 29 Cemetery sight bed. line 30 "Homeland" ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Just circling back to 15 Not home DOWN actress LIBRA (SEP. 23-OCT. 22): Ok, so you’re known for check in on all the Aries who started a band like 16 Steak preference 1 Billiards need 32 Kind of code weighing every single option, right? That’s why we’ve told you to do over and over. Hi, guys! 17 Gene carrier 2 Masseur's target 33 Throw for a loop none of your friends ask you whether or not they Did you do it yet? How’s it going? Do you need a Singer Campbell Tackle box item Guardian 19 3 36 should skip class. If they ask you, they know backup on the tambourine or anything? 20 Castle part 4 Breed plants 39 Popped up you’ll hit them with the follow-up, “Are you 21 Loathsome 5 Lunch meat 42 Rich soil Blotter: stolen picnic table, pizza lockout and COVID transports doing something important today?” They don’t TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Please, for the love of 22 Scouted for a 6 Rationale 44 Big success want to hear that. They want to hear “yes.” God, write out your grocery list! Please! It is not GRIFFEN SMITH table’s value to be $300. There are no leads heist 7 Military no-show 49 Radio knob that hard! It’s only the tiniest bit harder to actually [email protected] or suspects on the case. “If they weren’t 23 Roll call calls 8 Defeated incum- 50 Entices Go on and on bent Something to SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Yeah, cool, Libra season locked down before, they are locked down 25 51 remember to bring it with you to the grocery 27 One with a hand 9 Salon service spin is chill and all, but right now you’re a little bit now,” UMPD Lt. Bradley Giffin said. store, but we believe in you! Since last week’s blotter, UMPD has report- out 10 Church fixture 52 Acknowledge focused on something else. Crack open a cold ed 10 crimes, the most common being disor- 30 Sword fight 11 Sprinter's 54 Extend credit one and start counting down. Your season is in GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): 9/15 LOCKED-OUT PIZZA You daydream about derly conduct. Only one bike was stolen on 31 Chic getaway infraction 56 "Race" anagram T-minus 30 days. graduation, and we love that about you. No 34 "Fringe" co- 12 Complimentary 57 Overdue campus, the lowest weekly number since the matter how far away your end date is, it will be A resident of Bannack Court creator J.J. 13 Mail away 58 Campus house beginning of the year. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 22): Look at you, you farther if you keep forgetting about your online decided he would order a 35 Not taboo 18 Go beyond, as 60 To and ___ little social butterflies! Coming out of your little classes. pizza one night. After his food 37 Gravy dish a target 61 Old witch 9/11 BUSINESS SERVICES GETS SCAMMED? cocoons just in time to... go to the one in-person arrived, he stepped outside to grab it from 38 _____-panky 22 Porter who class on your schedule? Or... fuck, we don’t CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): the pavement, and in his rush to snatch 40 McNally partner wrote "Night It’s ok if not everyone UMPD received a complaint of theft from a know... sit in the UC when other people also sit dinner, locked himself out of his apartment. 41 Letter holder and Day" likes you, we swear. The one exception to this company contracted by UM. An investiga- 43 Like "Glee" music there? Party. Neighbors heard yelling and called UMPD. Answers to Last Week’s Crossword: rule is Starbucks baristas. It’s not ok if they don’t tion found that the accused worker had not 45 Caustic sub- like you. Put on a mask in the drive-thru, and Officers arrived on the scene and unlocked S E W S A C M E S A L S A stolen from UM, but stole the check issued stance CAPRICORN (DEC. 23-JAN. 19): You’ve been trying answer the little questions they have to ask while the door for the pizza patron. CONSTANCE DARLINGTON | MONTANA KAIMIN 46 Blunder follower O R E O Y O U R A D I E U by business services that was destined for D O L L E N T R A P M E N T to decide if the person who sits next to you (six you wait for that PSL. 47 Pint-sized the outside company. The University did A D L I B F E A R I N T O feet to your left) in Urey is actually cute. You can’t 9/15 FLAMIN‘ BBQ 48 Mental condition not have to send a second check, and UMPD UMPD issued no warning or citation and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects all S E E A C I D T E S T exactly see them with the whole mask-and-social- LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): We can’t help but feel like 50 Angler's hope referred the case to a different jurisdiction continued on its way. patients from unauthorized disclosure of A L L A N I N K A G O distance situation, but you had big dreams of 51 Ryan's "Paper you guys have messy kitchens right now. Let this for investigation. A resident of the Sisson Apartments report- confidential information, UMPD is allowed E N R O U T E C A I S S O N Moon" co-star falling in love during Bio and this could be your serve as your reminder to PLEASE clean up the ed an uncontrolled fire coming from a barbe- to log transports, though they could not pro- M I N U S N A S A L 53 Arkin or Alda shot. frozen pizza packaging from last weekend. Y’all. que grill on the second floor of the complex. I C E D T E A F I D G E T Y 9/13 PICNIC-TABLE POACHER 9/17 UMPD TRANSPORTS COVID-19 CASES vide the number of transports to the Kaimin. 55 Young yak The garbage truly is right there. Sisson does not allow barbeques on the These trips are voluntary and provided T E D E R R A T E A M AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) 59 Shakespeare's P R E T E N S E B A D : If you’re in need of a second-floor balcony, probably to prevent to students who have no other method of Education building officials returned from UMPD transported multiple students stream G O G O C L E F P O L A R coping mechanism, might we suggest a hot bath VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEP. 22): Staying up late doing setting the building on fire. When UMPD their weekend off to find that someone had with COVID-19 to University-provided transportation. Officers must wear biopro- 60 Hobo's ride U N I L A T E R A L P A R E and a list of places you’ll be visiting when (1) the homework is not a personality trait, but you arrived, the suspected resident claimed they stolen a picnic table from outside the east quarantine and isolation spaces last week. tective equipment and try to keep the inter- 62 Kind of wolf S C R I P S I R I A G O G pandemic is over and (2) you have actual, real, all sure seem to think it is. Take a melatonin did not own a barbeque, and there was no side of their building. UMPD estimated the While the Health Insurance Portability and action low-key to protect patient identity. 63 Monthly cost H E L O T S E E P L E N S grownup money? supplement and go to sleep, dammit! sign of the suspected fire. With no evidence,

montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 5 4 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com Week of 9/21/20 - 9/27/20 Horoscope Briefs & Blotter The Weekly Crossword by Margie E. Burke 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Welcome to Libra Season, you indecisive weirdos 17 18 19 ERIN SARGENT Briefs: business dean, RBG and flu shots 20 21 22 [email protected] The COVID Response email also said UM 23 24 25 26 FIRST FEMALE BUSINESS DEAN HIRED RBG’S DEATH PROMPTS ACTION granddaughter Clara Spera, were: “My most employees can get their flu shot at the next fervent wish is that I will not be replaced WellCheck event from Oct. 6 to 9. (MB) 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 The University of Montana appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins- until a new president is installed.” (MB) 34 35 36 Dr. Suzanne Tilleman as the Sprunk and burg died Sept. 18 at age 87 from complica- DIVERSEU SET TO HAPPEN IN LATE OCTOBER 37 38 39 40 Burnham Endowed Dean of the UM College tions of cancer. Ginsburg became an CURRY OFFERS FLU SHOTS of Business last week. Tilleman is the first icon to many as one of the longest The annual DiverseU event is still set to 41 42 43 44 woman to hold the permanent dean position standing Supreme Court In an email from happen Oct. 28 to 29. This year will be the 45 46 47 within the College of Business, according to justices and a strong advo- the UM COVID 15th year of DiverseU, an event aimed at the UM News release. Before being named cate for gender equality. Response Team celebrating and promoting diversity at UM 48 49 50 dean, Tilleman worked as a business profes- Throughout the weekend sent last week, through student, staff, faculty, alumni and sor, department chair and the interim dean pictures of Ginsburg and students were community member presentations, perfor- 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 within the college. She holds degrees in some of her famous quotes encouraged mances and discussions. “The DiverseU ex- 59 60 61 mechanical engineering, business adminis- circulated social media to call Curry perience gives you an even broader platform NAT BRANCACCIO| MONTANA KAIMIN tration and strategy and entrepreneurship. with messages of both grief Health Center to share your ideas, research and art in a 62 63 64 “I look forward to continuing working and calls to action with the at 406-243-5171 to flexible format,” a UM Student Weekly email 65 66 67 Virgo season burnout got you down? Same with our faculty, alumni and partners as November election drawing get a flu shot. “Flu sent last week stated. Proposals for anything (although the pandemic could be playing a role PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) we evolve a curriculum that leverages data, near. On Saturday, the local group season will be here from poetry reading to research presenta- Copyright 2020 by The Puzzle Syndicate : So, there are the people ACROSS in that, too, if we’re being honest). Anyway, good analytics, value-added business and human Missoula Rises held a vigil for Gins- soon, and the symptoms tions are due Friday, Sept. 25 at the DiverseU Lauren of It comes from Holiday veggie who still flirt over Snapchat and then there are 1 64 24 news! It’s Libra season now. Time to try to fall in processes,” Tilleman said to UM News. burg at the Missoula courthouse. According can be similar to those resulting webpage. The email stated any presentation fashion the heart 26 Earth-friendly the people who handwrite love letters, and love with the babe across the tent-classroom or (Mazana Boerboom) to the Missoulian, hundreds gathered to from COVID-19. Please get a flu shot this format can be accommodated, whether it’s 6 Tread-bare 65 Washstand activity somewhere in the middle is you: Communicating spend a solid half-hour trying to decide whether listen as speakers urged them to take steps year,” the email stated. Another email sent to a masked and socially distanced in-person 10 "Tip" or "rip" vessel 27 Biblical tower solely through emojis when someone asks you to ensure Democrats are elected to offices in students stated shots are free with most in- presentation or a remote session over Zoom. finish 66 Bookie's quote 28 Dark wood or not you should just Zoom into class from your out. Montana. Ginsberg’s last words, said to her surances including Medicaid and Medicare. (MB) 14 Honda's luxury 67 Do a host's job 29 Cemetery sight bed. line 30 "Homeland" ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Just circling back to 15 Not home DOWN actress LIBRA (SEP. 23-OCT. 22): Ok, so you’re known for check in on all the Aries who started a band like 16 Steak preference 1 Billiards need 32 Kind of code weighing every single option, right? That’s why we’ve told you to do over and over. Hi, guys! 17 Gene carrier 2 Masseur's target 33 Throw for a loop none of your friends ask you whether or not they Did you do it yet? How’s it going? Do you need a Singer Campbell Tackle box item Guardian 19 3 36 should skip class. If they ask you, they know backup on the tambourine or anything? 20 Castle part 4 Breed plants 39 Popped up you’ll hit them with the follow-up, “Are you 21 Loathsome 5 Lunch meat 42 Rich soil Blotter: stolen picnic table, pizza lockout and COVID transports doing something important today?” They don’t TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Please, for the love of 22 Scouted for a 6 Rationale 44 Big success want to hear that. They want to hear “yes.” God, write out your grocery list! Please! It is not GRIFFEN SMITH table’s value to be $300. There are no leads heist 7 Military no-show 49 Radio knob that hard! It’s only the tiniest bit harder to actually [email protected] or suspects on the case. “If they weren’t 23 Roll call calls 8 Defeated incum- 50 Entices Go on and on bent Something to SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Yeah, cool, Libra season locked down before, they are locked down 25 51 remember to bring it with you to the grocery 27 One with a hand 9 Salon service spin is chill and all, but right now you’re a little bit now,” UMPD Lt. Bradley Giffin said. store, but we believe in you! Since last week’s blotter, UMPD has report- out 10 Church fixture 52 Acknowledge focused on something else. Crack open a cold ed 10 crimes, the most common being disor- 30 Sword fight 11 Sprinter's 54 Extend credit one and start counting down. Your season is in GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): 9/15 LOCKED-OUT PIZZA You daydream about derly conduct. Only one bike was stolen on 31 Chic getaway infraction 56 "Race" anagram T-minus 30 days. graduation, and we love that about you. No 34 "Fringe" co- 12 Complimentary 57 Overdue campus, the lowest weekly number since the matter how far away your end date is, it will be A resident of Bannack Court creator J.J. 13 Mail away 58 Campus house beginning of the year. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 22): Look at you, you farther if you keep forgetting about your online decided he would order a 35 Not taboo 18 Go beyond, as 60 To and ___ little social butterflies! Coming out of your little classes. pizza one night. After his food 37 Gravy dish a target 61 Old witch 9/11 BUSINESS SERVICES GETS SCAMMED? cocoons just in time to... go to the one in-person arrived, he stepped outside to grab it from 38 _____-panky 22 Porter who class on your schedule? Or... fuck, we don’t CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): the pavement, and in his rush to snatch 40 McNally partner wrote "Night It’s ok if not everyone UMPD received a complaint of theft from a know... sit in the UC when other people also sit dinner, locked himself out of his apartment. 41 Letter holder and Day" likes you, we swear. The one exception to this company contracted by UM. An investiga- 43 Like "Glee" music there? Party. Neighbors heard yelling and called UMPD. Answers to Last Week’s Crossword: rule is Starbucks baristas. It’s not ok if they don’t tion found that the accused worker had not 45 Caustic sub- like you. Put on a mask in the drive-thru, and Officers arrived on the scene and unlocked S E W S A C M E S A L S A stolen from UM, but stole the check issued stance CAPRICORN (DEC. 23-JAN. 19): You’ve been trying answer the little questions they have to ask while the door for the pizza patron. CONSTANCE DARLINGTON | MONTANA KAIMIN 46 Blunder follower O R E O Y O U R A D I E U by business services that was destined for D O L L E N T R A P M E N T to decide if the person who sits next to you (six you wait for that PSL. 47 Pint-sized the outside company. The University did A D L I B F E A R I N T O feet to your left) in Urey is actually cute. You can’t 9/15 FLAMIN‘ BBQ 48 Mental condition not have to send a second check, and UMPD UMPD issued no warning or citation and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects all S E E A C I D T E S T exactly see them with the whole mask-and-social- LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): We can’t help but feel like 50 Angler's hope referred the case to a different jurisdiction continued on its way. patients from unauthorized disclosure of A L L A N I N K A G O distance situation, but you had big dreams of 51 Ryan's "Paper you guys have messy kitchens right now. Let this for investigation. 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Sisson does not allow barbeques on the These trips are voluntary and provided T E D E R R A T E A M AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) 59 Shakespeare's P R E T E N S E B A D : If you’re in need of a second-floor balcony, probably to prevent to students who have no other method of Education building officials returned from UMPD transported multiple students stream G O G O C L E F P O L A R coping mechanism, might we suggest a hot bath VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEP. 22): Staying up late doing setting the building on fire. When UMPD their weekend off to find that someone had with COVID-19 to University-provided transportation. Officers must wear biopro- 60 Hobo's ride U N I L A T E R A L P A R E and a list of places you’ll be visiting when (1) the homework is not a personality trait, but you arrived, the suspected resident claimed they stolen a picnic table from outside the east quarantine and isolation spaces last week. tective equipment and try to keep the inter- 62 Kind of wolf S C R I P S I R I A G O G pandemic is over and (2) you have actual, real, all sure seem to think it is. Take a melatonin did not own a barbeque, and there was no side of their building. UMPD estimated the While the Health Insurance Portability and action low-key to protect patient identity. 63 Monthly cost H E L O T S E E P L E N S grownup money? supplement and go to sleep, dammit! sign of the suspected fire. With no evidence,

montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 5 4 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com News News The other side of the screen: How Zoom treats professors Campus child care undergoes changes in response to COVID NIKKI ZAMBON would care for her daughter and that HANNA CAMPBELL [email protected] the University would make the correct [email protected] decisions for its student body. However, she Several women sat on the floor in early also knew she needed to be realistic about Professor Scott Samuels opened up his September, cradling a baby in each arm. the potential of school shifting to remote computer to begin his 200-student online Floral-print masks covered their faces, learning and ASUM Child Care shutting lecture. Without the use of Zoom, Samuels and several standing fans circulated warm down. would not be able to teach this semester. air with such force that it was almost “It’s hard enough to get study hours in Zoom is loved by some, and hated by impossible to hear anyone speak. when I am home with her, let alone if we do others. However, for teachers, Zoom may The ASUM Child Care Center, located go virtual,” Nicholson said. be the best option to continue their lessons beneath McGill Hall, serves children of Across campus, The Learning and while COVID plagues the school system. faculty, staff and UM students year-round. Belonging (LAB) Preschool was having Samuels, a University of Montana pro- It has an outdoor playground, infant room, a different childcare experience.“We are fessor in the College of Humanities and toddler center and two preschool areas under-enrolled because of COVID right Science, is incapable of teaching classes in where children can play and learn while now,” Kristin Dahl Horejsi, director of LAB, person due to a chronic lung disease. So their parents hit the books during the day. said. he teaches his classes online, and he said But after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a LAB serves children ages 3 to 5 from it seems to be working. typical pre-pandemic protocol of singing the Missoula community, partnering with “It is a challenge, but the actual me- in kids and end-of-day cleaning had to the Department of Teaching and Learning chanics [of Zoom] are great...and my change. to give UM students hands-on work students are doing well,” Samuels said. “We closed March 13 — actually Friday opportunities. The online platform also provides the 13th was our last day in the classroom,” ASUM provides faculty and staff of UM Samuels with an effective way to engage with childcare, while LAB aims to provide his students. In his cellular and molecular Michelle Tezak, lead teacher for the infant class, said. field experience to pre-service teachers. biology course, Samuels utilizes tools like LAB is less of a typical daycare and more the group chat and, occasionally, break- The teachers worked remotely from home until May 15, before being of a high-level learning environment for out rooms. Samuels said the use of these Missoula. tools provides a more engaged class, even furloughed until August. They were used to working with children directly, so when Typically, there is a waitlist for compared to an in-person lecture in Urey enrollment. In a normal year, LAB serves Lecture Hall. in-person teaching ceased, they were forced to get creative. 48 children, 16 in each classroom. This year, Samuels also pointed out flaws in the the LAB staff chose to be cautious and cut online-based learning, such as the ease of The ASUM teachers sent daily email Universtiy of Montana biology professor Scott Samuels on Zomm. HANNA CAMPBELL | MONTANA KAIMIN those numbers in half. cheating. He, for example, allowed one updates to parents, orchestrated lesson plans and student activities via Zoom and But even with the large cut, LAB still had open-book test once classes moved to a difficult time retaining children because of his two classes online, not for person- There are benefits to teaching online caught up on staff training. During the two online learning during spring semester parents felt nervous about putting their 2020, for which the test scores increased al health conditions, but for logistical versus in-person, Harper said. He said months of furlough, many teachers spent kids in a group setting. dramatically. When he gave the next test concerns. Some of his students are not students can be more interactive online time with family or worked on neglected To aid its mission, the LAB preschool has as closed-book, the test scores went back returning to campus for this fall semester, via breakout rooms. Collaborating in house chores, while a lucky few were able three classrooms with an observation area down. According to Samuels, this “experi- and others cannot attend in-person due to person, on the other hand, is harder with to maintain other part-time jobs. attached to each. Microphones hang from ment” was discouraging, but predictable. health concerns. So teaching his less ad- masks. When August rolled around, ASUM the ceiling, and the walls are equipped with “My job is to evaluate students and give vanced class online was the best approach Harper also said teaching with a mask staff prepped their space and established a two-way mirror through which students them a grade that reflects their mastery of for teaching this semester. on is challenging. He said it can be twice new protocols: temperature checks and and parents can observe their children in an the subject,” Samuels said. “[Cheating] is Harper also utilizes tools on Zoom, such as tiring teaching in-person than online. mandatory mask-wearing for all visitors, unobtrusive manner. not fair to students that work really hard.” as the breakout rooms, to help the class “I try to be animated and engaging, but as well as constant cleaning of ASUM Hoping to increase enrollment, Horejsi Zoom also helps Samuels outside of be more interactive. He set up a space it’s hard with the masks,” Harper said. spaces. After the first couple of weeks of placed sandwich boards across campus the classroom with his research. Through for himself when he teaches, consisting “I try to read the faces behind the masks, the semester, enrollment eventually reached with LAB’s contact info and launched a Zoom, he meets with his research team of a 75-inch computer screen, a more and I am just thankful that I don’t have to an average of 14 kids per preschool, which radio ad a couple of weeks ago. No one has to discuss their experiments and results. advanced camera and a whiteboard. The do that with [the online] class.” was standard in previous years. People sit on the floor of the infant room, amongst the toys, at the on-campus ASUM Child Care Center.The called yet. Although not having daily, in-person in- large computer monitor allows him to see Samuels and Harper both appreciate on- DeAnna Nicholson, the mother of a Child Care Center, located beneath McGill Hall, has an outdoor playground, infant room, toddler center and Horesji isn’t giving up hope, though. teractions with his team is hard, Samuels his students while he is teaching, and the line learning, but, like most students, they 4-year-old who attends ASUM Child Care, two preschool areas where children can learn during the day. MATTHEW TRYAN | MONTANA KAIMIN Next she plans to contact the leader of the said Zoom has effectively aided him with advanced camera allows his students to are ready for classes to resume in person. is also a staff member of the Center and a staff and faculty senate to spread the word his research career. see him more clearly. Without this set up, In the meantime, they are making the best first-year radiology student. She moved to about openings at the LAB preschool. Professor Joel Harper shares similar Harper said, it would be difficult to teach of online teaching. Missoula from the Bay Area in March after Whatever the future holds for UM views with Samuels. Harper teaches one online. losing her nanny job, in hopes of finding a more affordable place to live. childcare on campus, Horejsi and Nicholson During this difficult time, Nicholson both agree the world isn’t going back to felt confident that ASUM Child Care normal anytime soon.

6 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 7 News News The other side of the screen: How Zoom treats professors Campus child care undergoes changes in response to COVID NIKKI ZAMBON would care for her daughter and that HANNA CAMPBELL [email protected] the University would make the correct [email protected] decisions for its student body. However, she Several women sat on the floor in early also knew she needed to be realistic about Professor Scott Samuels opened up his September, cradling a baby in each arm. the potential of school shifting to remote computer to begin his 200-student online Floral-print masks covered their faces, learning and ASUM Child Care shutting lecture. Without the use of Zoom, Samuels and several standing fans circulated warm down. would not be able to teach this semester. air with such force that it was almost “It’s hard enough to get study hours in Zoom is loved by some, and hated by impossible to hear anyone speak. when I am home with her, let alone if we do others. However, for teachers, Zoom may The ASUM Child Care Center, located go virtual,” Nicholson said. be the best option to continue their lessons beneath McGill Hall, serves children of Across campus, The Learning and while COVID plagues the school system. faculty, staff and UM students year-round. Belonging (LAB) Preschool was having Samuels, a University of Montana pro- It has an outdoor playground, infant room, a different childcare experience.“We are fessor in the College of Humanities and toddler center and two preschool areas under-enrolled because of COVID right Science, is incapable of teaching classes in where children can play and learn while now,” Kristin Dahl Horejsi, director of LAB, person due to a chronic lung disease. So their parents hit the books during the day. said. he teaches his classes online, and he said But after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a LAB serves children ages 3 to 5 from it seems to be working. typical pre-pandemic protocol of singing the Missoula community, partnering with “It is a challenge, but the actual me- in kids and end-of-day cleaning had to the Department of Teaching and Learning chanics [of Zoom] are great...and my change. to give UM students hands-on work students are doing well,” Samuels said. “We closed March 13 — actually Friday opportunities. The online platform also provides the 13th was our last day in the classroom,” ASUM provides faculty and staff of UM Samuels with an effective way to engage with childcare, while LAB aims to provide his students. In his cellular and molecular Michelle Tezak, lead teacher for the infant class, said. field experience to pre-service teachers. biology course, Samuels utilizes tools like LAB is less of a typical daycare and more the group chat and, occasionally, break- The teachers worked remotely from home until May 15, before being of a high-level learning environment for out rooms. Samuels said the use of these Missoula. tools provides a more engaged class, even furloughed until August. They were used to working with children directly, so when Typically, there is a waitlist for compared to an in-person lecture in Urey enrollment. In a normal year, LAB serves Lecture Hall. in-person teaching ceased, they were forced to get creative. 48 children, 16 in each classroom. This year, Samuels also pointed out flaws in the the LAB staff chose to be cautious and cut online-based learning, such as the ease of The ASUM teachers sent daily email Universtiy of Montana biology professor Scott Samuels on Zomm. HANNA CAMPBELL | MONTANA KAIMIN those numbers in half. cheating. He, for example, allowed one updates to parents, orchestrated lesson plans and student activities via Zoom and But even with the large cut, LAB still had open-book test once classes moved to a difficult time retaining children because of his two classes online, not for person- There are benefits to teaching online caught up on staff training. During the two online learning during spring semester parents felt nervous about putting their 2020, for which the test scores increased al health conditions, but for logistical versus in-person, Harper said. He said months of furlough, many teachers spent kids in a group setting. dramatically. When he gave the next test concerns. Some of his students are not students can be more interactive online time with family or worked on neglected To aid its mission, the LAB preschool has as closed-book, the test scores went back returning to campus for this fall semester, via breakout rooms. Collaborating in house chores, while a lucky few were able three classrooms with an observation area down. According to Samuels, this “experi- and others cannot attend in-person due to person, on the other hand, is harder with to maintain other part-time jobs. attached to each. Microphones hang from ment” was discouraging, but predictable. health concerns. So teaching his less ad- masks. When August rolled around, ASUM the ceiling, and the walls are equipped with “My job is to evaluate students and give vanced class online was the best approach Harper also said teaching with a mask staff prepped their space and established a two-way mirror through which students them a grade that reflects their mastery of for teaching this semester. on is challenging. He said it can be twice new protocols: temperature checks and and parents can observe their children in an the subject,” Samuels said. “[Cheating] is Harper also utilizes tools on Zoom, such as tiring teaching in-person than online. mandatory mask-wearing for all visitors, unobtrusive manner. not fair to students that work really hard.” as the breakout rooms, to help the class “I try to be animated and engaging, but as well as constant cleaning of ASUM Hoping to increase enrollment, Horejsi Zoom also helps Samuels outside of be more interactive. He set up a space it’s hard with the masks,” Harper said. spaces. After the first couple of weeks of placed sandwich boards across campus the classroom with his research. Through for himself when he teaches, consisting “I try to read the faces behind the masks, the semester, enrollment eventually reached with LAB’s contact info and launched a Zoom, he meets with his research team of a 75-inch computer screen, a more and I am just thankful that I don’t have to an average of 14 kids per preschool, which radio ad a couple of weeks ago. No one has to discuss their experiments and results. advanced camera and a whiteboard. The do that with [the online] class.” was standard in previous years. People sit on the floor of the infant room, amongst the toys, at the on-campus ASUM Child Care Center.The called yet. Although not having daily, in-person in- large computer monitor allows him to see Samuels and Harper both appreciate on- DeAnna Nicholson, the mother of a Child Care Center, located beneath McGill Hall, has an outdoor playground, infant room, toddler center and Horesji isn’t giving up hope, though. teractions with his team is hard, Samuels his students while he is teaching, and the line learning, but, like most students, they 4-year-old who attends ASUM Child Care, two preschool areas where children can learn during the day. MATTHEW TRYAN | MONTANA KAIMIN Next she plans to contact the leader of the said Zoom has effectively aided him with advanced camera allows his students to are ready for classes to resume in person. is also a staff member of the Center and a staff and faculty senate to spread the word his research career. see him more clearly. Without this set up, In the meantime, they are making the best first-year radiology student. She moved to about openings at the LAB preschool. Professor Joel Harper shares similar Harper said, it would be difficult to teach of online teaching. Missoula from the Bay Area in March after Whatever the future holds for UM views with Samuels. Harper teaches one online. losing her nanny job, in hopes of finding a more affordable place to live. childcare on campus, Horejsi and Nicholson During this difficult time, Nicholson both agree the world isn’t going back to felt confident that ASUM Child Care normal anytime soon.

6 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 7 Alex Northey’s car screeched to a halt While Farr could not elaborate on at the front of the Curry Health Center’s the clusters associated with the Athletic parking lot. He felt his head shoot with Department or Greek Life due to privacy pain from a headache, and tried to relax concerns, she said cases in the college com- himself walking out to his early morning munity are rising due to the large number COVID-19 test at the University of Mon- of close contacts related to the clusters. tana campus. “The trend that we're starting to see now A plastic chair and accompanying hand is that people are really good [about] using sanitizing table greeted him on the morn- protective measures when they're out in ing of Sept. 16 as he walked to the back public,” Farr said. “But you may have alley of the center. Health officials wore your group of friends that you're not using full body smocks and light blue gloves. protective measures with, and they've They told him everything was going to probably got other friends that they are be okay as they stuck two, 6-inch long cot- not using protective measures with either. ton swabs into his nose. The two tests — That's how we're seeing it spread right one a rapid test, the other to be sent to the now.” state lab in Helena — took over Northey’s J.C. Weida, head athletic trainer at UM, thoughts. confirmed that, despite the reported clus- “I hope this is negative,” Northey said ter, most sports teams are still practicing to himself in the back alley, but knew or working out. Weida is in charge of the the odds were against him. He and his Rhinehart Athletic Training Center, and roommates first felt sick a week earlier, said the facility is still open and used by after Northey visited friends in Butte, student athletes everyday. Montana. Those friends tested positive for “We are still in single-digit numbers of COVID-19 after he left. positive cases in the Athletic Department,” At first, they thought their mild cold Weida said on Sept. 16. symptoms could be the smoke, allergies or All student athletes experiencing symp- anything that wasn’t involved in the pan- toms are getting tested at Curry, he said. demic gripping the world. Those thoughts “We have lots of athletes in different fell away with the sound of coughing, levels of quarantine. We have a few that dull, prolonged body aches and eventually are positive, and most sports are practicing chest pain. and working out,” Weida said. Before they knew it, Northey and his While the athletics cluster began with three roommates joined hundreds of others small numbers spread across teams, at in Missoula County self-quarantining due least one team has completely stopped to the coronavirus. meeting due to the virus. UM sports infor- mation officer Joel Carlson confirmed in a Sept. 19 email that the entire cross country team has been quarantined, though the Kaimin could not determine when that quarantine period started. The Kaimin reached out multiple times to Greek Life coordinator Lacey Zinke, It’s been over a month since students who declined to comment. Multiple Greek returned to UM for face-to-face learning. Life members refused to comment as well, The school implemented coronavirus citing their national house policies not to policies, handed out Healthy Griz Kits and talk to the press. told students to “defend their den.” But by The clusters have already been reported the fifth week of instruction, sick students to have spread to other organizations on poured into Curry, and case numbers campus. According to students who attend began to rise. Resonate Church, a mostly student-affiliat- At least two COVID-19 clusters have ed church, a positive case connected with appeared on campus in the past week. the original cluster forced a shut down of According to an email from the UM in-person events. INTERCINTERC NNECTED: A press release from Resonate said the COVID Response Team, Greek life and UM Athletics are at the heart of both. The church has followed UM’s Risk Mitigation combined clusters have reported close con- Plan and did not have a positive case for tacts of more than 200 people. With such a the first four weeks of classes. On Sept.13, wide berth, there is likely to be additional however, a COVID-19-positive person spread throughout campus and into the from the Greek life cluster attended a community. church event indoors at the University In an interview with the Kaimin, Cindy Center ballroom with between 60 to 80 Farr, the Missoula City-County Health De- students. UM’S COVID-19 WEB Pastor Preston Rhodes said he was not UM’S COVID-19 WEB partment COVID-19 Incident Commander, defined a cluster as more than two cases aware of another positive case stemming connected by personal, group or locational from the event. STORYSTORY BY GRIFFEN SMITH AND ALEX MILLER contact. “I've encouraged everyone in our church

8 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 9 Alex Northey’s car screeched to a halt While Farr could not elaborate on at the front of the Curry Health Center’s the clusters associated with the Athletic parking lot. He felt his head shoot with Department or Greek Life due to privacy pain from a headache, and tried to relax concerns, she said cases in the college com- himself walking out to his early morning munity are rising due to the large number COVID-19 test at the University of Mon- of close contacts related to the clusters. tana campus. “The trend that we're starting to see now A plastic chair and accompanying hand is that people are really good [about] using sanitizing table greeted him on the morn- protective measures when they're out in ing of Sept. 16 as he walked to the back public,” Farr said. “But you may have alley of the center. Health officials wore your group of friends that you're not using full body smocks and light blue gloves. protective measures with, and they've They told him everything was going to probably got other friends that they are be okay as they stuck two, 6-inch long cot- not using protective measures with either. ton swabs into his nose. The two tests — That's how we're seeing it spread right one a rapid test, the other to be sent to the now.” state lab in Helena — took over Northey’s J.C. Weida, head athletic trainer at UM, thoughts. confirmed that, despite the reported clus- “I hope this is negative,” Northey said ter, most sports teams are still practicing to himself in the back alley, but knew or working out. Weida is in charge of the the odds were against him. He and his Rhinehart Athletic Training Center, and roommates first felt sick a week earlier, said the facility is still open and used by after Northey visited friends in Butte, student athletes everyday. Montana. Those friends tested positive for “We are still in single-digit numbers of COVID-19 after he left. positive cases in the Athletic Department,” At first, they thought their mild cold Weida said on Sept. 16. symptoms could be the smoke, allergies or All student athletes experiencing symp- anything that wasn’t involved in the pan- toms are getting tested at Curry, he said. demic gripping the world. Those thoughts “We have lots of athletes in different fell away with the sound of coughing, levels of quarantine. We have a few that dull, prolonged body aches and eventually are positive, and most sports are practicing chest pain. and working out,” Weida said. Before they knew it, Northey and his While the athletics cluster began with three roommates joined hundreds of others small numbers spread across teams, at in Missoula County self-quarantining due least one team has completely stopped to the coronavirus. meeting due to the virus. UM sports infor- mation officer Joel Carlson confirmed in a Sept. 19 email that the entire cross country team has been quarantined, though the Kaimin could not determine when that quarantine period started. The Kaimin reached out multiple times to Greek Life coordinator Lacey Zinke, It’s been over a month since students who declined to comment. Multiple Greek returned to UM for face-to-face learning. Life members refused to comment as well, The school implemented coronavirus citing their national house policies not to policies, handed out Healthy Griz Kits and talk to the press. told students to “defend their den.” But by The clusters have already been reported the fifth week of instruction, sick students to have spread to other organizations on poured into Curry, and case numbers campus. According to students who attend began to rise. Resonate Church, a mostly student-affiliat- At least two COVID-19 clusters have ed church, a positive case connected with appeared on campus in the past week. the original cluster forced a shut down of According to an email from the UM in-person events. INTERCINTERC NNECTED: A press release from Resonate said the COVID Response Team, Greek life and UM Athletics are at the heart of both. The church has followed UM’s Risk Mitigation combined clusters have reported close con- Plan and did not have a positive case for tacts of more than 200 people. With such a the first four weeks of classes. On Sept.13, wide berth, there is likely to be additional however, a COVID-19-positive person spread throughout campus and into the from the Greek life cluster attended a community. church event indoors at the University In an interview with the Kaimin, Cindy Center ballroom with between 60 to 80 Farr, the Missoula City-County Health De- students. UM’S COVID-19 WEB Pastor Preston Rhodes said he was not UM’S COVID-19 WEB partment COVID-19 Incident Commander, defined a cluster as more than two cases aware of another positive case stemming connected by personal, group or locational from the event. STORYSTORY BY GRIFFEN SMITH AND ALEX MILLER contact. “I've encouraged everyone in our church

8 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 9 hour, he was able to get a rapid test from sent the tests to the Montana Public Health COVID-19. answering check-in calls from the Health Active COVID-19 Cases Ages 20-29 In Missoula County Curry. Lab in Helena to confirm the machine’s Curry double checks positives from the department and taking breaks or naps due The process was not as streamlined findings. Sofia with PCR testing, which is what the to fatigue. the next time he needed testing. North- Jim Murphy, chief of Montana's Com- ID Now and the lab in Helena do. Bell Northey felt his symptoms fluctuate ey called in for the second time on Sept. municable Disease and Prevention Bureau, added that antigen tests are used more since the start of quarantine. He had been 14, and was told that the next available said that when the protocols are followed, than PCRs at Curry because they are more sick for a week straight, and a second appointment could take up to two days. the results generally match those of the readily available. wave made him feel a little worse. He and his roommates couldn’t get in state lab. “The antigen would serve as a screening “I felt a little bit of chest pain, and that's immediately because so many people were “When they follow the users instruc- test, where you can trust the negative, but when I thought this could be worse than a 42% already getting tested. tions on these machines, and test symp- the positive you need to confirm,” Bell cold,” Northey said in a raspy voice. “The Northey’s two symptomatic room- tomatic people at the point-of-care, it said. other symptoms set in and I kind of had a 40% mates, who felt the worst, were able to get has been very good,” Murphy said. “[It] Curry sent tests to the public health lab fever there for a little but I still felt warm tested Tuesday. Curry scheduled Northey matches our results, with a different, more in Helena in conjunction with its rapid and sweaty and gross.” 37% for Wednesday. The fourth roommate, sensitive testing method than we have.” tests. After first receiving the ID Now, Cur- As Northey worked on homework, he who did not display any symptoms, was However, according to a news release ry sent over a hundred tests to compare heard something. 33% 33% refused testing initially because he wasn’t from the FDA from May, the ID Now was and confirm results. With the Sofias, Curry “I got it,” a roommate yelled from across connected to any previous positive cases. known to produce false negatives. Some does the same thing, having sent over 150 the apartment. The first call from the “They didn't say exactly like, ‘Oh, we false negatives, Murphy said, were associ- tests from the two machines. Bell said that health department. Positive. can't get you in today because we have ated with different handling of the speci- the lab is confident now in all three of the “Oh fantastic,” Northey responded. too many people to test,’” Northey said. mens that Abbott did not recommend. machines, and plans to no longer send “Here we go.” “[Curry] was like ‘we can get you in to- It also depends on the time between tests to Helena. Two hours later, Northey’s rapid test 23% morrow at 11.’ I'm assuming they've got a came back negative. He was the only one pretty big waitlist for the tests.” in the house to get a negative result, as 20% The number of tests Curry is capable “people are really good [about] using protective his second roommate received a positive of doing is hard to define. Dr. David Bell, result the same day. head of Curry’s testing lab, said that the measures when they’re out in public,But you Northey said he was confused. He felt number of tests is a moving target. sick and knew he was in contact with at “We’re working on everything we can may have your group of friends that you’re not least three positive cases in Missoula and do to expand the number of tests that we using protective measures with, and they’ve Butte within 14 days. His fourth room- can do, and everyday we try to do a little mate, who eventually received testing after better,” Bell said. probably got other friends that they are not his other roommates tested positive, also Before Curry was receiving more and had a negative rapid test. more calls for tests, scheduling for testing using protective measures with either. That’s With Northey and the fourth room- was already in place. Bell said they can test mate’s test results uncertain, the group every 10 minutes, but if the days’ schedule how we’re seeing it spread right now.” must try to stay out of their shared living gets filled up, people will have to wait. spaces, and clean constantly to prevent the “There’s always going to be a waitlist,” virus from spreading to two. Percentage of active cases Bell said. “Any system isn’t prepared like -Cindy Farr Friends dropped off groceries and the McDonald’s where you drive up and get health department sent an isolation kit, your test right when you want to do it.” filled with thermometers and symptom Bell said he could not estimate how when tests are taken. Despite confidence in the machines, just tracking sheets. The wait for his final test many people have come into Curry for “You can test me today, and I’m nega- because a test is negative does not mean results consumed his thoughts. COVID-19 tests because of privacy issues. tive, and then you might want to test me that a close contact is in the clear. Many “It's slowly eating away inside of me,” date Bell said Curry health workers are limit- tomorrow or the next and I might be posi- students, Bell said, are missing the big Northey said. “That's another thing at the ed, which can cause the wait time for both tive,” Murphy said. “That could be the fact picture of what a negative test means. back of my mind, maybe I don't have it.” COVID-19 tests and results. Up to four that now I’m producing enough virus to “A lot of people perceive that if they “They offered to let me stay in quaran- to obey the health officials if they receive a living situations off-campus. Short said UM has a capacity to quar- based on some metric,” Short said. “So I people are involved in the testing process, be detectable. It might not mean anything get a negative test, they’re good to go,” tine housing away from positive cases. phone call,” Rhodes said in an email to the “We know lots of college students, to antine or isolate up to 110 people. The expect that any adjustments in how the Bell said, from the person that sets up the bad about that first test that was taken, but Bell said. “The truth is, if you’re a [close] And if I truly do have a negative test that Kaimin on Sept. 18. “Our Sunday meetings save money on rent, have lots of room- number is set to fluctuate because, as University is proceeding this semester appointment to the person that runs the it might have been too early.” contact you’re supposed to quarantine for comes back, I could have gone and stayed are organized in such a way as to mini- mates. And you’re sharing rooms and Short noted, some spaces include two- or would happen on that sort of smaller, indi- test. Murphy said close contacts are being 14 days.” elsewhere away from positive cases three mize if not eliminate the ability for anyone you're sharing spaces,” Short said. “So rec- three-bedroom apartments, which can vidual or case-specific basis, rather than a Northey received two tests when he tested as early as possible to try and find or four days ago,” he said. “But I really to become a ‘close contact’ of anyone else.” ognizing that not only are the fraternities hold up to three people. massive, all of a sudden transition.” went in, one from a rapid testing machine any asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19. don't know right now. I'm living under the and sororities — those living conditions “If people are positive, they can isolate to be analyzed in Curry, and another test Testing that early could lead to false neg- assumption that I'm positive.” congregate by nature — the only ones.” together,” Short said. “So the number of that was sent to the state lab. atives. After waiting five days, Northey For students who live in these spaces, spaces doesn’t necessarily correlate to the Curry has three rapid testing machines: “We’re not trying to wait for them to de- received his second test results. It was UM offers quarantine and isolation hous- number of individuals.” an Abbott ID Now and two Sofia SARS velop the illness. You want to catch them negative. ing. Though the spaces are similar, there is Instead of a potential all-out campus Antigen FIAs. early to look for asymptomatic folks,” His fourth roommate, whose first test a difference between the two designations. closure, Short said the University would The ID Now arrived before the begin- Murphy said. “That does mean that you Northey sat on the couch of his small was negative, received his state test three In an email sent to campus Sept.18 in focus on more of a patchwork approach. ning of the school year, while the Sofias are may be testing some people before they apartment doing homework a couple days later. It was positive. response to the rise in positive COVID-19 For example, the recent wildfire smoke Paula Short, the Director of Communi- A month prior to his Sept. 16 visit recent additions. The small, sleek white ID are producing enough of the virus to be hours after taking his test at Curry. The cases, the University defined the difference forced professors using outdoor class- cations at UM, attributed the increase in to Curry, Northey was concerned that Now, which has been on the market since detected.” four-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex, with Additional reporting contributed by between quarantine and isolation. Quaran- rooms to move temporarily online, Short cases to shared living spaces on and off he might have come in contact with 2014, has a 13-minute turnaround for test The Sofia, alternatively, has been known a small kitchen and living room, had been Erin Sargent and Addie Slanger. campus. tine keeps someone who might have been said. She added the flexibility of instruc- COVID-19. results, according to Abbott’s website. to produce false positives. Bell said that the only place Northey and his roommates Short said that, while Greek Life has exposed to the virus away from others in tors is essential for this situation-depen- Northey, a sophomore from Helena The Montana Department of Public this is because the Sofia is an antigen test. had been since the fifth week of school. large numbers of people in shared living order to prevent further spread. Isolation dent approach. majoring in finance and management and Health and Human Services trained Curry In the process of testing a sample, the test For three of the four roommates, the spaces, most college students have similar keeps someone infected with the virus “I think that’s actually more responsive information systems, decided to get tested, staff on the machine. It had testers at could potentially detect other versions days since they first felt sick have been DESIGN BY DAYLIN SCOTT AND SARA DIGGINS away from others, even in their home. than to just pivot the entire institution and made the call at 9 a.m. Within half an Curry run samples on the ID Now, then of the coronavirus that are different from filled with taking vitamin C gummies,

10 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 11 hour, he was able to get a rapid test from sent the tests to the Montana Public Health COVID-19. answering check-in calls from the Health Active COVID-19 Cases Ages 20-29 In Missoula County Curry. Lab in Helena to confirm the machine’s Curry double checks positives from the department and taking breaks or naps due The process was not as streamlined findings. Sofia with PCR testing, which is what the to fatigue. the next time he needed testing. North- Jim Murphy, chief of Montana's Com- ID Now and the lab in Helena do. Bell Northey felt his symptoms fluctuate ey called in for the second time on Sept. municable Disease and Prevention Bureau, added that antigen tests are used more since the start of quarantine. He had been 14, and was told that the next available said that when the protocols are followed, than PCRs at Curry because they are more sick for a week straight, and a second appointment could take up to two days. the results generally match those of the readily available. wave made him feel a little worse. He and his roommates couldn’t get in state lab. “The antigen would serve as a screening “I felt a little bit of chest pain, and that's immediately because so many people were “When they follow the users instruc- test, where you can trust the negative, but when I thought this could be worse than a 42% already getting tested. tions on these machines, and test symp- the positive you need to confirm,” Bell cold,” Northey said in a raspy voice. “The Northey’s two symptomatic room- tomatic people at the point-of-care, it said. other symptoms set in and I kind of had a 40% mates, who felt the worst, were able to get has been very good,” Murphy said. “[It] Curry sent tests to the public health lab fever there for a little but I still felt warm tested Tuesday. Curry scheduled Northey matches our results, with a different, more in Helena in conjunction with its rapid and sweaty and gross.” 37% for Wednesday. The fourth roommate, sensitive testing method than we have.” tests. After first receiving the ID Now, Cur- As Northey worked on homework, he who did not display any symptoms, was However, according to a news release ry sent over a hundred tests to compare heard something. 33% 33% refused testing initially because he wasn’t from the FDA from May, the ID Now was and confirm results. With the Sofias, Curry “I got it,” a roommate yelled from across connected to any previous positive cases. known to produce false negatives. Some does the same thing, having sent over 150 the apartment. The first call from the “They didn't say exactly like, ‘Oh, we false negatives, Murphy said, were associ- tests from the two machines. Bell said that health department. Positive. can't get you in today because we have ated with different handling of the speci- the lab is confident now in all three of the “Oh fantastic,” Northey responded. too many people to test,’” Northey said. mens that Abbott did not recommend. machines, and plans to no longer send “Here we go.” “[Curry] was like ‘we can get you in to- It also depends on the time between tests to Helena. Two hours later, Northey’s rapid test 23% morrow at 11.’ I'm assuming they've got a came back negative. He was the only one pretty big waitlist for the tests.” in the house to get a negative result, as 20% The number of tests Curry is capable “people are really good [about] using protective his second roommate received a positive of doing is hard to define. Dr. David Bell, result the same day. head of Curry’s testing lab, said that the measures when they’re out in public,But you Northey said he was confused. He felt number of tests is a moving target. sick and knew he was in contact with at “We’re working on everything we can may have your group of friends that you’re not least three positive cases in Missoula and do to expand the number of tests that we using protective measures with, and they’ve Butte within 14 days. His fourth room- can do, and everyday we try to do a little mate, who eventually received testing after better,” Bell said. probably got other friends that they are not his other roommates tested positive, also Before Curry was receiving more and had a negative rapid test. more calls for tests, scheduling for testing using protective measures with either. That’s With Northey and the fourth room- was already in place. Bell said they can test mate’s test results uncertain, the group every 10 minutes, but if the days’ schedule how we’re seeing it spread right now.” must try to stay out of their shared living gets filled up, people will have to wait. spaces, and clean constantly to prevent the “There’s always going to be a waitlist,” virus from spreading to two. Percentage of active cases Bell said. “Any system isn’t prepared like -Cindy Farr Friends dropped off groceries and the McDonald’s where you drive up and get health department sent an isolation kit, your test right when you want to do it.” filled with thermometers and symptom Bell said he could not estimate how when tests are taken. Despite confidence in the machines, just tracking sheets. The wait for his final test many people have come into Curry for “You can test me today, and I’m nega- because a test is negative does not mean results consumed his thoughts. COVID-19 tests because of privacy issues. tive, and then you might want to test me that a close contact is in the clear. Many “It's slowly eating away inside of me,” date Bell said Curry health workers are limit- tomorrow or the next and I might be posi- students, Bell said, are missing the big Northey said. “That's another thing at the ed, which can cause the wait time for both tive,” Murphy said. “That could be the fact picture of what a negative test means. back of my mind, maybe I don't have it.” COVID-19 tests and results. Up to four that now I’m producing enough virus to “A lot of people perceive that if they “They offered to let me stay in quaran- to obey the health officials if they receive a living situations off-campus. Short said UM has a capacity to quar- based on some metric,” Short said. “So I people are involved in the testing process, be detectable. It might not mean anything get a negative test, they’re good to go,” tine housing away from positive cases. phone call,” Rhodes said in an email to the “We know lots of college students, to antine or isolate up to 110 people. The expect that any adjustments in how the Bell said, from the person that sets up the bad about that first test that was taken, but Bell said. “The truth is, if you’re a [close] And if I truly do have a negative test that Kaimin on Sept. 18. “Our Sunday meetings save money on rent, have lots of room- number is set to fluctuate because, as University is proceeding this semester appointment to the person that runs the it might have been too early.” contact you’re supposed to quarantine for comes back, I could have gone and stayed are organized in such a way as to mini- mates. And you’re sharing rooms and Short noted, some spaces include two- or would happen on that sort of smaller, indi- test. Murphy said close contacts are being 14 days.” elsewhere away from positive cases three mize if not eliminate the ability for anyone you're sharing spaces,” Short said. “So rec- three-bedroom apartments, which can vidual or case-specific basis, rather than a Northey received two tests when he tested as early as possible to try and find or four days ago,” he said. “But I really to become a ‘close contact’ of anyone else.” ognizing that not only are the fraternities hold up to three people. massive, all of a sudden transition.” went in, one from a rapid testing machine any asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19. don't know right now. I'm living under the and sororities — those living conditions “If people are positive, they can isolate to be analyzed in Curry, and another test Testing that early could lead to false neg- assumption that I'm positive.” congregate by nature — the only ones.” together,” Short said. “So the number of that was sent to the state lab. atives. After waiting five days, Northey For students who live in these spaces, spaces doesn’t necessarily correlate to the Curry has three rapid testing machines: “We’re not trying to wait for them to de- received his second test results. It was UM offers quarantine and isolation hous- number of individuals.” an Abbott ID Now and two Sofia SARS velop the illness. You want to catch them negative. ing. Though the spaces are similar, there is Instead of a potential all-out campus Antigen FIAs. early to look for asymptomatic folks,” His fourth roommate, whose first test a difference between the two designations. closure, Short said the University would The ID Now arrived before the begin- Murphy said. “That does mean that you Northey sat on the couch of his small was negative, received his state test three In an email sent to campus Sept.18 in focus on more of a patchwork approach. ning of the school year, while the Sofias are may be testing some people before they apartment doing homework a couple days later. It was positive. response to the rise in positive COVID-19 For example, the recent wildfire smoke Paula Short, the Director of Communi- A month prior to his Sept. 16 visit recent additions. The small, sleek white ID are producing enough of the virus to be hours after taking his test at Curry. The cases, the University defined the difference forced professors using outdoor class- cations at UM, attributed the increase in to Curry, Northey was concerned that Now, which has been on the market since detected.” four-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex, with Additional reporting contributed by between quarantine and isolation. Quaran- rooms to move temporarily online, Short cases to shared living spaces on and off he might have come in contact with 2014, has a 13-minute turnaround for test The Sofia, alternatively, has been known a small kitchen and living room, had been Erin Sargent and Addie Slanger. campus. tine keeps someone who might have been said. She added the flexibility of instruc- COVID-19. results, according to Abbott’s website. to produce false positives. Bell said that the only place Northey and his roommates Short said that, while Greek Life has exposed to the virus away from others in tors is essential for this situation-depen- Northey, a sophomore from Helena The Montana Department of Public this is because the Sofia is an antigen test. had been since the fifth week of school. large numbers of people in shared living order to prevent further spread. Isolation dent approach. majoring in finance and management and Health and Human Services trained Curry In the process of testing a sample, the test For three of the four roommates, the spaces, most college students have similar keeps someone infected with the virus “I think that’s actually more responsive information systems, decided to get tested, staff on the machine. It had testers at could potentially detect other versions days since they first felt sick have been DESIGN BY DAYLIN SCOTT AND SARA DIGGINS away from others, even in their home. than to just pivot the entire institution and made the call at 9 a.m. Within half an Curry run samples on the ID Now, then of the coronavirus that are different from filled with taking vitamin C gummies,

10 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 11 Arts Reviews Montana Rep returns with socially-distanced theater with ‘The Fog’ NIKKI ZAMBON ‘The Devil All the Time’ is a boring, unfocused edge-fest CLINT CONNORS [email protected] time. The film is too busy jumping back and forth between subplots [email protected] to stop and let the characters develop naturally. The various stories Square boxes painted on the ground sat six feet apart around the towering Theaters may be reopening, but Netflix keeps churning out orig are clumsily tied together near the end, but by then, viewers won’t fire lookout at Fort Missoula. About 25 inal content, struggling to stay relevant now that Disney is holding care anymore. people sat in lawn chairs situated inside your childhood hostage elsewhere. Pollock is the film’s narrator, which is a novel idea until you real the painted boundaries. Most wore masks, The service’s cinematic line-up is a decidedly mixed bag. At its ize that he never shuts up. Sometimes, he simply states the obvious despite being seated outside. best, it offers refreshing alternatives to Hollywood blockbusters, (he really likes telling us that Arvin is angry while we watch Arvin The crisp autumn air of that mid- September evening was betrayed by the like “The Irishman.” At its worst, it spits out low-brow yawns act angry). Other times, he gives us information that should have heavy smoke. The audience wrapped lacking theatrical polish, like “Tall Girl.” been conveyed visually (we don’t know why Lenora is attracted to themselves in blankets and prepared to “The Devil All the Time,” though not completely in the latter Preston until we hear Pollock’s explanation). watch Montana Repertory Theatre’s newest category, still lacks the punch needed to justify a big-screen release. This tell-don’t-show curse extends to Campos’s directing. His play, “The Fog,” on its opening night. It’s got competent direction from Antonio Campos (“Afterschool”) shots, though decently aesthetic, never evoke danger or fear. Most “Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and and some fine acting, but it fails on almost every other front. scenes are filmed in broad daylight, with a dead corpse or two welcome back to theater,” Michael Legg, artistic director of the Montana Repertory Tom Holland gives a career-best performance as young Arvin tossed in whenever the audience gets bored. Theatre, said. Russel, albeit with a distracting cowboy accent. But he doesn’t have Perhaps Campos thought that the dark, religious undertones “The Fog” is a 45-minute play written by nearly enough to do in the crowded screenplay, based on the book would be enough to give viewers the willies. But what’s trying to Jean Ann Douglass. It’s also the first UM- by Donald Ray Pollock. pass as a meditation on the pros and cons of faith feels more like an associated theater production presented Arvin’s mission to avenge his sister Lenora’s (Eliza Scanlen) loss edgy high schooler’s fanfiction. The outlandish actions of the film’s since March. Every year, the Montana Repertory of innocence at the hands of Reverend Preston Teagardin (Robert sinners, most of which involve bloodlust and nudity, are given no Theatre commissions the “Plays on Tap” Pattinson) is only one of the three plots. We also follow the road explanation other than, “because religion.” series, a collection of original, short and trip of two married serial killers (Riley Keough and Jason Clarke), “The Devil All the Time” offers nothing substantial in 2020’s site-specific plays. In the past, they’ve as well as a sheriff (Sebastian Stan) looking to win his reelection no sparse cinematic line-up, nor does it help Netflix step back into performed in offbeat places like hotel matter the cost. the limelight. Film-goers, get back to the theater ASAP. If you feel rooms and cars. But an indoor set wasn’t an Despite all of this activity, so little happens in the two-hour run safer at home, just binge “Friends” again. option this year. Without ticket sales at the door, it raised the question: Could theater survive during a worldwide pandemic? “I’ve seen a lot of theaters closing, or trying to transition to a Zoom-based Cults: When musical nostalgia doesn’t pay off platform, but I didn’t want to do that,” MEGHAN JONAS Follin’s voice isn’t bad, but it’s so one- thinking they’d created a masterpiece. Legg said. “I already spend four-to-eight Theater-goers set up their chairs to watch Montana Repertory Theatre’s “The Fog” play, set against the backdrop of the the fire tower at the Historical Museum at hours on my computer every day, and I [email protected] note that it becomes unremarkable. Either Three songs in, and listening to the rest Fort Missoula. Audience members sat on blankets and camp chairs in socially-distanced boxes marked out on the grass in front of the tower. didn’t want to add to that number.” the music or vocals might be salvaged if of the album is a chore. We can search as Legg had to think about live CLAIRE SHINNER | MONTANA KAIMIN The indie rock band Cults dominated both weren’t so lackluster. desperately as we want for some hidden performance differently to avoid the soundscape of high school girls who “Trial,” the first track on the album, is gold, but it’s not going to be there. before and had always enjoyed her work. proceeded with the wedding after her less than three months, but continued to transitioning to online theater. He was hoped to be “manic pixie dream girls” boring. Hyper-focused, almost stalkerish So then comes the question: Where do When he contacted her in July, Douglass death. Essentially, Pinchot married a ghost. tweak the script until opening night. already armed with the unconventional and high school boys who idolized girls love songs don’t do it for us anymore, musical legends from our youth go to mentioned she had an idea based on “Gifford Pinchot is a perfect example Stephen Jay Clement, a UM sophomore experience from “Plays on Tap,” so hosting Timothy Egan’s book, “The Big Burn,” a of a daguerreotype boyfriend, handsome who plays Gil, said they rehearsed over who dyed their hair and wore black. But but Cults didn’t seem to get that memo. die? And what happens when they refuse the play outdoors didn’t seem like such a historical account of the U.S. Forest Service and moody and private, and unusually Zoom. Rehearsals at the lookout waited now that these Tumblr-loving teens have It’s not a cute love song that makes us to go? stretch. And Legg had just the place. and the Great Fire of 1910. dedicated to the one woman in his life, until three days before the show. He also grown up, do Cults still hold up? Or is it want to dive into a passionate love affair; Let’s make one thing clear: There’s He always loved Fort Missoula. The book describes a devastating even after her death,” Douglass said. said it was loud. just nostalgia that makes fans come back it’s the kind of song that makes us want nothing wrong with older artists making Montana’s rich history was interwoven wildfire that burned 3 million acres Douglass centered the story around “When we were rehearsing the night for more? to avoid anyone with an attachment new music. In fact, Cults have only been through every inch of lush lawn and across Montana, Idaho, Washington and a fanatical Pinchot (played by Mark before the show, there were people playing “Host,” the singer Madeline Follin and complex. around for nine years. They’re relative old log. More than anything, Legg was parts of British Columbia. Theodore Plonksy), his ghost wife, Laura (performed bagpipes across the road, we heard always captivated by the ancient fire tower guitarist Brian Oblivion’s fourth album, The next track, “8th Avenue,” could babies compared to other artists, like Roosevelt acted as the protagonist of the by Erin Agner), who sits bored in the fire someone using a chainsaw and there was a overlooking Missoula and knew it would shows that nothing has changed. But it have picked up the pace, with dark Death Cab for Cutie (formed in 1997) or book, battling Congress for increased tower all day long, and a recent graduate football game going on,” Clement said. “It be the perfect performance space. becomes clear early on that this isn’t a guitars, drums and strings that create Arcade Fire (formed in 2001). But nine conservation efforts with his head forester, of forestry named Gil, recently hired by was kind of funny, but that’s just a part of a Next was finding a play. He reached good thing. an ominous sound. It almost does, if the years is still a long time to be doing the Gifford Pinchot, by his side. Pinchot to work on conservation projects. live performance.” out to playwrights across the country to Typical indie techniques, like breathy vocals and lyrics weren’t such a drag. exact same thing and expecting no one to Though Roosevelt was an admirable She wrote the play in her Brooklyn “The Fog” presented itself as a live see who could devise a piece in which vocals and electronic riffs, appear “A Low” is exactly what the title get bored. main character, it was actually Pinchot who apartment with windows that look out at performance that was part love story and the characters never physically came into inspired Douglass’ play. big, green trees on her street. Legg would part cautionary tale. As indoor theater and throughout the record. We hoped that the says: the lowest point on the album. Artists need to break out of their contact with one another — without the Pinchot lost his fianceé, Laura send Douglass pictures and videos of the performance suffer from COVID-19, some instrumentation and vocals would save Every part of the song is bad. There’s no comfort zone at some point and do play referencing COVID-19. If theater was Houghtelling, to tuberculosis before the fire lookout to give her a sense of location creative professionals are unwilling to give the release, but they don’t. redemption in the vocals, the lyrics or something new. If they don’t, they going to survive, creating contactless plays couple could marry, but he never gave for scenes. up their craft. There’s nothing wrong with old the instrumentation. It would be comical become embarrassing relics. In “Host,” that existed outside the pandemic was her up. He was convinced he could Legg said scripts can take a year to write, “We have an opportunity to reimagine standards if they’re done with some sort if we couldn’t tell how hard Cults were Cults have banked on the nostalgia of essential. communicate with her in the afterlife, and often longer. Douglass wrote “The Fog” in what storytelling can be,” Legg said. of originality. But originality doesn’t show trying. It’s like the song a laughably bad their fans, but they forgot to also make Legg had worked with Douglass up anywhere on this 40-minute album. band in a bad movie would play while the record good. 12 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 13 Arts Reviews Montana Rep returns with socially-distanced theater with ‘The Fog’ NIKKI ZAMBON ‘The Devil All the Time’ is a boring, unfocused edge-fest CLINT CONNORS [email protected] time. The film is too busy jumping back and forth between subplots [email protected] to stop and let the characters develop naturally. The various stories Square boxes painted on the ground sat six feet apart around the towering Theaters may be reopening, but Netflix keeps churning out orig are clumsily tied together near the end, but by then, viewers won’t fire lookout at Fort Missoula. About 25 inal content, struggling to stay relevant now that Disney is holding care anymore. people sat in lawn chairs situated inside your childhood hostage elsewhere. Pollock is the film’s narrator, which is a novel idea until you real the painted boundaries. Most wore masks, The service’s cinematic line-up is a decidedly mixed bag. At its ize that he never shuts up. Sometimes, he simply states the obvious despite being seated outside. best, it offers refreshing alternatives to Hollywood blockbusters, (he really likes telling us that Arvin is angry while we watch Arvin The crisp autumn air of that mid- September evening was betrayed by the like “The Irishman.” At its worst, it spits out low-brow yawns act angry). Other times, he gives us information that should have heavy smoke. The audience wrapped lacking theatrical polish, like “Tall Girl.” been conveyed visually (we don’t know why Lenora is attracted to themselves in blankets and prepared to “The Devil All the Time,” though not completely in the latter Preston until we hear Pollock’s explanation). watch Montana Repertory Theatre’s newest category, still lacks the punch needed to justify a big-screen release. This tell-don’t-show curse extends to Campos’s directing. His play, “The Fog,” on its opening night. It’s got competent direction from Antonio Campos (“Afterschool”) shots, though decently aesthetic, never evoke danger or fear. Most “Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and and some fine acting, but it fails on almost every other front. scenes are filmed in broad daylight, with a dead corpse or two welcome back to theater,” Michael Legg, artistic director of the Montana Repertory Tom Holland gives a career-best performance as young Arvin tossed in whenever the audience gets bored. Theatre, said. Russel, albeit with a distracting cowboy accent. But he doesn’t have Perhaps Campos thought that the dark, religious undertones “The Fog” is a 45-minute play written by nearly enough to do in the crowded screenplay, based on the book would be enough to give viewers the willies. But what’s trying to Jean Ann Douglass. It’s also the first UM- by Donald Ray Pollock. pass as a meditation on the pros and cons of faith feels more like an associated theater production presented Arvin’s mission to avenge his sister Lenora’s (Eliza Scanlen) loss edgy high schooler’s fanfiction. The outlandish actions of the film’s since March. Every year, the Montana Repertory of innocence at the hands of Reverend Preston Teagardin (Robert sinners, most of which involve bloodlust and nudity, are given no Theatre commissions the “Plays on Tap” Pattinson) is only one of the three plots. We also follow the road explanation other than, “because religion.” series, a collection of original, short and trip of two married serial killers (Riley Keough and Jason Clarke), “The Devil All the Time” offers nothing substantial in 2020’s site-specific plays. In the past, they’ve as well as a sheriff (Sebastian Stan) looking to win his reelection no sparse cinematic line-up, nor does it help Netflix step back into performed in offbeat places like hotel matter the cost. the limelight. Film-goers, get back to the theater ASAP. If you feel rooms and cars. But an indoor set wasn’t an Despite all of this activity, so little happens in the two-hour run safer at home, just binge “Friends” again. option this year. Without ticket sales at the door, it raised the question: Could theater survive during a worldwide pandemic? “I’ve seen a lot of theaters closing, or trying to transition to a Zoom-based Cults: When musical nostalgia doesn’t pay off platform, but I didn’t want to do that,” MEGHAN JONAS Follin’s voice isn’t bad, but it’s so one- thinking they’d created a masterpiece. Legg said. “I already spend four-to-eight Theater-goers set up their chairs to watch Montana Repertory Theatre’s “The Fog” play, set against the backdrop of the the fire tower at the Historical Museum at hours on my computer every day, and I [email protected] note that it becomes unremarkable. Either Three songs in, and listening to the rest Fort Missoula. Audience members sat on blankets and camp chairs in socially-distanced boxes marked out on the grass in front of the tower. didn’t want to add to that number.” the music or vocals might be salvaged if of the album is a chore. We can search as Legg had to think about live CLAIRE SHINNER | MONTANA KAIMIN The indie rock band Cults dominated both weren’t so lackluster. desperately as we want for some hidden performance differently to avoid the soundscape of high school girls who “Trial,” the first track on the album, is gold, but it’s not going to be there. before and had always enjoyed her work. proceeded with the wedding after her less than three months, but continued to transitioning to online theater. He was hoped to be “manic pixie dream girls” boring. Hyper-focused, almost stalkerish So then comes the question: Where do When he contacted her in July, Douglass death. Essentially, Pinchot married a ghost. tweak the script until opening night. already armed with the unconventional and high school boys who idolized girls love songs don’t do it for us anymore, musical legends from our youth go to mentioned she had an idea based on “Gifford Pinchot is a perfect example Stephen Jay Clement, a UM sophomore experience from “Plays on Tap,” so hosting Timothy Egan’s book, “The Big Burn,” a of a daguerreotype boyfriend, handsome who plays Gil, said they rehearsed over who dyed their hair and wore black. But but Cults didn’t seem to get that memo. die? And what happens when they refuse the play outdoors didn’t seem like such a historical account of the U.S. Forest Service and moody and private, and unusually Zoom. Rehearsals at the lookout waited now that these Tumblr-loving teens have It’s not a cute love song that makes us to go? stretch. And Legg had just the place. and the Great Fire of 1910. dedicated to the one woman in his life, until three days before the show. He also grown up, do Cults still hold up? Or is it want to dive into a passionate love affair; Let’s make one thing clear: There’s He always loved Fort Missoula. The book describes a devastating even after her death,” Douglass said. said it was loud. just nostalgia that makes fans come back it’s the kind of song that makes us want nothing wrong with older artists making Montana’s rich history was interwoven wildfire that burned 3 million acres Douglass centered the story around “When we were rehearsing the night for more? to avoid anyone with an attachment new music. In fact, Cults have only been through every inch of lush lawn and across Montana, Idaho, Washington and a fanatical Pinchot (played by Mark before the show, there were people playing “Host,” the singer Madeline Follin and complex. around for nine years. They’re relative old log. More than anything, Legg was parts of British Columbia. Theodore Plonksy), his ghost wife, Laura (performed bagpipes across the road, we heard always captivated by the ancient fire tower guitarist Brian Oblivion’s fourth album, The next track, “8th Avenue,” could babies compared to other artists, like Roosevelt acted as the protagonist of the by Erin Agner), who sits bored in the fire someone using a chainsaw and there was a overlooking Missoula and knew it would shows that nothing has changed. But it have picked up the pace, with dark Death Cab for Cutie (formed in 1997) or book, battling Congress for increased tower all day long, and a recent graduate football game going on,” Clement said. “It be the perfect performance space. becomes clear early on that this isn’t a guitars, drums and strings that create Arcade Fire (formed in 2001). But nine conservation efforts with his head forester, of forestry named Gil, recently hired by was kind of funny, but that’s just a part of a Next was finding a play. He reached good thing. an ominous sound. It almost does, if the years is still a long time to be doing the Gifford Pinchot, by his side. Pinchot to work on conservation projects. live performance.” out to playwrights across the country to Typical indie techniques, like breathy vocals and lyrics weren’t such a drag. exact same thing and expecting no one to Though Roosevelt was an admirable She wrote the play in her Brooklyn “The Fog” presented itself as a live see who could devise a piece in which vocals and electronic riffs, appear “A Low” is exactly what the title get bored. main character, it was actually Pinchot who apartment with windows that look out at performance that was part love story and the characters never physically came into inspired Douglass’ play. big, green trees on her street. Legg would part cautionary tale. As indoor theater and throughout the record. We hoped that the says: the lowest point on the album. Artists need to break out of their contact with one another — without the Pinchot lost his fianceé, Laura send Douglass pictures and videos of the performance suffer from COVID-19, some instrumentation and vocals would save Every part of the song is bad. There’s no comfort zone at some point and do play referencing COVID-19. If theater was Houghtelling, to tuberculosis before the fire lookout to give her a sense of location creative professionals are unwilling to give the release, but they don’t. redemption in the vocals, the lyrics or something new. If they don’t, they going to survive, creating contactless plays couple could marry, but he never gave for scenes. up their craft. There’s nothing wrong with old the instrumentation. It would be comical become embarrassing relics. In “Host,” that existed outside the pandemic was her up. He was convinced he could Legg said scripts can take a year to write, “We have an opportunity to reimagine standards if they’re done with some sort if we couldn’t tell how hard Cults were Cults have banked on the nostalgia of essential. communicate with her in the afterlife, and often longer. Douglass wrote “The Fog” in what storytelling can be,” Legg said. of originality. But originality doesn’t show trying. It’s like the song a laughably bad their fans, but they forgot to also make Legg had worked with Douglass up anywhere on this 40-minute album. band in a bad movie would play while the record good. 12 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 13 Sports Sports Transfers hope to help men’s basketball win a Big Sky Championship MARIAH THOMAS Missoula Bruins hockey hopes to play in 2020 [email protected] MARIAH THOMAS [email protected] Basketball player and graduate student Cameron Satterwhite transferred to the University of Montana from Northern Ari- The National Hockey League, which has been playing in a bubble since August, has zona University (NAU), but complications had zero COVID-19 cases, and Missoula’s local hockey team, the Missoula Bruins, is with his transfer made for a difficult start hoping to achieve the same. to the season. Head coach Emerson Etem is in his first year with the Bruins. He’s a former first- “I wanted to transfer from NAU, but round draft pick in the National Hockey League who retired from play after the 2018- there were complications,” Satterwhite 2019 season due to a knee injury. said. “I needed to graduate before I could The Bruins’ website states that after retiring, “Etem got right into coaching, reuniting officially transfer.” with his former NHL and WHL coach Willie Desjardins at the South Alberta Hockey The NCAA approved his transfer, and Academy.” he is allowed to play for the Grizzlies as Etem was announced as the Bruins’ new head coach in February of 2020. of Wednesday this week. He said that the team is taking extensive safety procedures to ensure the players stay “I’m just glad to be getting together healthy and the Bruins have a full season of play. with the guys,” Satterwhite said. “It’s a “We’re very lucky to just be in Montana in general, because the state is probably in great team, and they’re great guys. I’m the top 5 for lowest number of COVID cases,” he said. (According to the Centers for enjoying the process and trying to build Disease Control’s COVID tracker, Montana has the sixth-lowest caseload in the United something for myself.” States, as of Sept. 20.) Fellow transfer Cameron Parker, a Etem said the team is undergoing temperature checks before every practice, the junior point guard on the team, had a locker room and equipment are being disinfected regularly and the players must wear much less difficult experience. Parker, masks when they are not on the ice. He also said that this year, the Bruins are operating who transferred to UM from Sacred Heart under a return to play protocol in the event that a player does not pass the temperature University in Connecticut, received a checks. waiver to play during his first year on the “If you do meet the threshold of too high of a temperature, you will have to self-quar- UM team. Typically, transfers have to sit antine, take a test and, until those results are back, you can’t participate in any activi- out for a year before they are allowed to ties,” Etem said. play with their new team, but the waiver The team’s schedule has also been reduced. Instead of playing 47 games over the allows Parker to skip a year of riding the course of the season, the Bruins will only play 40. bench. The North American Tier III Hockey League, in which the Bruins play, has also can- “Because COVID was so bad in Con- celed its annual showcase in Minnesota. The League operates as a training ground for necticut and New York, that made it easier junior hockey players, with the goal of advancing players to North American Hockey for me to get a waiver to play this year,” League or NCAA hockey teams. Parker said. Despite these changes to the season and the safety protocols that come along with COVID-19, Etem is looking forward to a winning season with the Bruins. Last December, he broke the NCAA sin- University of Montana junior Cameron Parker watches his teammates warm up in the Adams Center West Auxiliary Gym on Sept. 10, 2020. Parker joined the Griz “I’m looking forward to teaching these young men how to be young professionals gle-game-assist record by dishing out 24 this season as a guard after transferring from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. CLAIRE SHINNER | MONTANA KAIMIN assists for Sacred Heart in a game against and, ultimately, give them the tools individually to succeed, but from a team standpoint Pine Manor. “I’m happy everyone here has accepted them on during breaks. Josh Vazquez also played big roles for UM to just have as much success as possible,” he said. “I think I have all the ingredients to As an Oregon native, Parker said since me, and I feel welcomed.” Last year, UM’s team was the third seed in 2019 as true freshmen. do that.” his transfer was closer to home, it acted Before attending NAU, Satterwhite in the Big Sky Conference, with a record Transfer and redshirt senior Michael Cayce Balk, a sophomore at the University of Montana, is the only UM student on the as another factor in receiving a waiver played for Loyola University in Chicago. of 14 wins and six losses. Parker said the Steadman is eligible to play for UM after Bruins. Balk is from Michigan, and has been playing hockey for 17 years. This year is to play this year. But moving during the He was a member of the 2018 Loyola Chi- team has high hopes for this season, if sitting out in 2019, having transferred his second playing for the Bruins as a left wing. Being a student while playing hockey is coronavirus pandemic was uniquely cago team that made a magical run to the they are able to play amidst COVID-19. from San Jose State after the 2018-19 tricky under normal circumstances, but COVID-19 has added another element to this. difficult. Final Four during March Madness. “We’re aiming for a Big Sky Champion- season. UM hopes to optimize his 6’10” “There’s just a scare of not being able to play this season,” Balk said. “When I transferred, we couldn’t visit In terms of what he hopes to bring to ship and making it to the NCAA tourna- frame. Despite the conditions with COVID-19, Balk said he’s glad to be back for another schools, so my first time on campus was the team, Satterwhite said he wants to ment,” Parker said. “I think we’re going to Mack Anderson and Peter Jones are the season. when I came here to start playing,” he provide leadership and experience. do well.” only returning upperclassmen on UM’s “We’ve got a pretty new group this year,” he said. “I don’t think we have more than said. “I just want to be a leader, and the rest Along with Parker and Satterwhite, the roster and hope to add leadership and eight returners from last year, so it’s good to have a new group of guys and get to meet However, Parker has so far enjoyed the will take care of itself,” he said. Griz have a variety of other weapons for a experience to the 2020 UM team. all new people. That’s always fun.” atmosphere at UM, including the moun- At practice on Sept. 10, the team mem- potential 2020 season. UM also welcomes three freshmen to Balk said that, as one of the returners, he’s excited to be a leader on the team and tains and West Coast lifestyle. bers wore masks around their necks. In Derrick Carter-Hollinger is expected to the team in 2020. communicate with the new players about what the team needs to be successful. Satterwhite also had positive things to accordance with the Governor’s executive make a jump in his sophomore year after On Sept. 16, the NCAA announced that The Missoula Bruins play their first home game at Glacier Ice Rink on Oct. 2 at 7:05 say about his transfer to UM. order, they do not have to wear masks winning Big Sky Freshman of the year as its basketball season will start on Nov. 25. p.m. against the Yellowstone Quake, a team from Cody, Wyoming. Balk encouraged “I’m excited to be in Montana,” he said. while practicing, but they do have to put a true freshman in 2019. Kyle Owens and students to come to the Bruins’ games, and said he thinks the stadium will be allowed to be at half capacity by November. Cayce Balk, the only University of Montana student on the Missoula Bruins, wears his mask after practice to “Usually students get in for cheaper if they have their Griz card, but it’s still pretty comply with COVID-19 guidelines. Players grab their masks off of a foldable table after getting off the ice. cheap without that, too. With no sports going on at school, this is a sport you can come The team has had zero COVID-19 cases. Missoula Bruins head coach and former first round draft pick of the and watch,” Balk said. Anaheim Ducks Emerson Etem said that the team is taking extensive safety procedures to keep the team healthy. LIAM MCCOLLUM | MONTANA KAIMIN

14 September 23, 2020 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com September 23, 2020 15 Sports Sports Transfers hope to help men’s basketball win a Big Sky Championship MARIAH THOMAS Missoula Bruins hockey hopes to play in 2020 [email protected] MARIAH THOMAS [email protected] Basketball player and graduate student Cameron Satterwhite transferred to the University of Montana from Northern Ari- The National Hockey League, which has been playing in a bubble since August, has zona University (NAU), but complications had zero COVID-19 cases, and Missoula’s local hockey team, the Missoula Bruins, is with his transfer made for a difficult start hoping to achieve the same. to the season. Head coach Emerson Etem is in his first year with the Bruins. He’s a former first- “I wanted to transfer from NAU, but round draft pick in the National Hockey League who retired from play after the 2018- there were complications,” Satterwhite 2019 season due to a knee injury. said. “I needed to graduate before I could The Bruins’ website states that after retiring, “Etem got right into coaching, reuniting officially transfer.” with his former NHL and WHL coach Willie Desjardins at the South Alberta Hockey The NCAA approved his transfer, and Academy.” he is allowed to play for the Grizzlies as Etem was announced as the Bruins’ new head coach in February of 2020. of Wednesday this week. He said that the team is taking extensive safety procedures to ensure the players stay “I’m just glad to be getting together healthy and the Bruins have a full season of play. with the guys,” Satterwhite said. “It’s a “We’re very lucky to just be in Montana in general, because the state is probably in great team, and they’re great guys. I’m the top 5 for lowest number of COVID cases,” he said. (According to the Centers for enjoying the process and trying to build Disease Control’s COVID tracker, Montana has the sixth-lowest caseload in the United something for myself.” States, as of Sept. 20.) Fellow transfer Cameron Parker, a Etem said the team is undergoing temperature checks before every practice, the junior point guard on the team, had a locker room and equipment are being disinfected regularly and the players must wear much less difficult experience. Parker, masks when they are not on the ice. He also said that this year, the Bruins are operating who transferred to UM from Sacred Heart under a return to play protocol in the event that a player does not pass the temperature University in Connecticut, received a checks. waiver to play during his first year on the “If you do meet the threshold of too high of a temperature, you will have to self-quar- UM team. Typically, transfers have to sit antine, take a test and, until those results are back, you can’t participate in any activi- out for a year before they are allowed to ties,” Etem said. play with their new team, but the waiver The team’s schedule has also been reduced. Instead of playing 47 games over the allows Parker to skip a year of riding the course of the season, the Bruins will only play 40. bench. The North American Tier III Hockey League, in which the Bruins play, has also can- “Because COVID was so bad in Con- celed its annual showcase in Minnesota. The League operates as a training ground for necticut and New York, that made it easier junior hockey players, with the goal of advancing players to North American Hockey for me to get a waiver to play this year,” League or NCAA hockey teams. Parker said. Despite these changes to the season and the safety protocols that come along with COVID-19, Etem is looking forward to a winning season with the Bruins. Last December, he broke the NCAA sin- University of Montana junior Cameron Parker watches his teammates warm up in the Adams Center West Auxiliary Gym on Sept. 10, 2020. Parker joined the Griz “I’m looking forward to teaching these young men how to be young professionals gle-game-assist record by dishing out 24 this season as a guard after transferring from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. CLAIRE SHINNER | MONTANA KAIMIN assists for Sacred Heart in a game against and, ultimately, give them the tools individually to succeed, but from a team standpoint Pine Manor. “I’m happy everyone here has accepted them on during breaks. Josh Vazquez also played big roles for UM to just have as much success as possible,” he said. “I think I have all the ingredients to As an Oregon native, Parker said since me, and I feel welcomed.” Last year, UM’s team was the third seed in 2019 as true freshmen. do that.” his transfer was closer to home, it acted Before attending NAU, Satterwhite in the Big Sky Conference, with a record Transfer and redshirt senior Michael Cayce Balk, a sophomore at the University of Montana, is the only UM student on the as another factor in receiving a waiver played for Loyola University in Chicago. of 14 wins and six losses. Parker said the Steadman is eligible to play for UM after Bruins. Balk is from Michigan, and has been playing hockey for 17 years. This year is to play this year. But moving during the He was a member of the 2018 Loyola Chi- team has high hopes for this season, if sitting out in 2019, having transferred his second playing for the Bruins as a left wing. Being a student while playing hockey is coronavirus pandemic was uniquely cago team that made a magical run to the they are able to play amidst COVID-19. from San Jose State after the 2018-19 tricky under normal circumstances, but COVID-19 has added another element to this. difficult. Final Four during March Madness. “We’re aiming for a Big Sky Champion- season. UM hopes to optimize his 6’10” “There’s just a scare of not being able to play this season,” Balk said. “When I transferred, we couldn’t visit In terms of what he hopes to bring to ship and making it to the NCAA tourna- frame. Despite the conditions with COVID-19, Balk said he’s glad to be back for another schools, so my first time on campus was the team, Satterwhite said he wants to ment,” Parker said. “I think we’re going to Mack Anderson and Peter Jones are the season. when I came here to start playing,” he provide leadership and experience. do well.” only returning upperclassmen on UM’s “We’ve got a pretty new group this year,” he said. “I don’t think we have more than said. “I just want to be a leader, and the rest Along with Parker and Satterwhite, the roster and hope to add leadership and eight returners from last year, so it’s good to have a new group of guys and get to meet However, Parker has so far enjoyed the will take care of itself,” he said. Griz have a variety of other weapons for a experience to the 2020 UM team. all new people. That’s always fun.” atmosphere at UM, including the moun- At practice on Sept. 10, the team mem- potential 2020 season. UM also welcomes three freshmen to Balk said that, as one of the returners, he’s excited to be a leader on the team and tains and West Coast lifestyle. bers wore masks around their necks. In Derrick Carter-Hollinger is expected to the team in 2020. communicate with the new players about what the team needs to be successful. Satterwhite also had positive things to accordance with the Governor’s executive make a jump in his sophomore year after On Sept. 16, the NCAA announced that The Missoula Bruins play their first home game at Glacier Ice Rink on Oct. 2 at 7:05 say about his transfer to UM. order, they do not have to wear masks winning Big Sky Freshman of the year as its basketball season will start on Nov. 25. p.m. against the Yellowstone Quake, a team from Cody, Wyoming. Balk encouraged “I’m excited to be in Montana,” he said. while practicing, but they do have to put a true freshman in 2019. Kyle Owens and students to come to the Bruins’ games, and said he thinks the stadium will be allowed to be at half capacity by November. Cayce Balk, the only University of Montana student on the Missoula Bruins, wears his mask after practice to “Usually students get in for cheaper if they have their Griz card, but it’s still pretty comply with COVID-19 guidelines. Players grab their masks off of a foldable table after getting off the ice. cheap without that, too. With no sports going on at school, this is a sport you can come The team has had zero COVID-19 cases. Missoula Bruins head coach and former first round draft pick of the and watch,” Balk said. Anaheim Ducks Emerson Etem said that the team is taking extensive safety procedures to keep the team healthy. LIAM MCCOLLUM | MONTANA KAIMIN

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