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UM’S INDEPENDENT Weather CAMPUS NEWSPAPER MONTANA SINCE 1898 Partly cloudy 35F Thursday, November 2, 2006 Volume CIX, Issue 37 AIMIN IT department Wheelchair KIt’s not even Thanksgiving! Access to upgrade UM campus Internet Seven ZACH FRANZ inaccessible MONTANA KAIMIN hours The University of Montana’s information technology department is working to speed up the Pages 6,7 sometimes-crawling pace of Internet service on campus, according to a statement released Tuesday. The plan calls for creating sepa- Letters rate avenues for the network traffic in dorm rooms and all other campus computers, as well as increasing the University’s total bandwidth and installing new hardware. Wise words Previously, UM officials have blamed the slowdown on the large from your peers Amanda Determan/Montana Kaimin amount of bandwidth used by “These guys are a lot like the luggage handlers at the airport. We have to replace a lot of bulbs,” said Jim Coyne, watching his cowork- dorm residents for file-sharing er Mike “Bucket Man” Harrison check for shorts and dead bulbs at the top of one of the many holiday trees that were erected by main- programs like Kazaa. tance workers on the Oval Wednesday afternoon. The latest release, however, Pages 2,3 suggests that the networks may simply be inadequate. “By operating dangerously close to saturation on both our The 19th Tester to visit UM in last external network links, even minor ‘glitches’ cause network performance to drop rapidly to unaccept- able levels,” said Ray Ford, UM Hole push in Senate campaign associate vice president for information technology, in the release. To bring the system up to par, IT plans to implement the following steps: Bush still scheduled for Billings stop today -Separating on-campus from TY HAMPTON Residence Life traffic, assigning talk with students and “get out the open the rally. Tester will then each to their own external network MONTANA KAIMIN Page 11 vote,” said Denver Henderson, give his own speech to students on links Missoula chapter chair of the importance of raising funds for •Increasing net bandwidth to With five days remaining before Montana College Democrats. higher education followed by a campus from 90 megabytes to 135 the election, Montana Gov. Brian Henderson reported that Ament question-and-answer session, megabytes Crossword Schweitzer and Sen. Max Baucus contacted Tester in the past week, Bennett said. •Dedicating 90 megabytes of will be taking part in a rally for asking what he could do to help. “I think it says something about bandwidth to on-campus traffic senatorial candidate Jon Tester Tester then asked Ament to go to Tester that he would come to UM and the other, and a separate and tonight at 7 in the University Missoula to get the students this close to Election Day,” additional 45MB to Residence Center Theater. On the same night, “revved up,” Henderson said. Bennett said. “Tester puts a lot of Life President Bush will take part in a Pearl Jam put on a campaign ben- value in what students have to say •Dedicating a newly purchased Way cooler than rally for candidates Conrad Burns efit concert for Tester at the and student votes, because he “filtering box,” which reduces out- across the state in Billings. University of Montana last fall, cares about funding for higher side traffic, to the on-campus load, 8 a.m. lecture Due to a recent back injury, Jeff and Ament has spoken out in favor education and improving all while switching the older unit to Ament, Tester supporter and bass of Tester during the campaign. aspects of students’ lives. Residence Life traffic. player for the rock band Pearl Jam, Both Tester and Ament are natives “It will be an exciting evening The IT department hopes to will not be making an appearance of Big Sandy, Mont., and Ament to have all three of these guys here have the improvements in place in the UC today as planned by the owns a house in Missoula. in the flesh, talking about the need within two weeks, Ford said. Tester campaign. Ament was Bryce Bennett, state chair of the for change in Montana,” Bennett scheduled to make an appearance Montana College Democrats, said. Tips for increasing Page 3 in the UC at the College reported that Schweitzer and Internet speed: Democrats booth around noon to Baucus will both give speeches to When the network runs slowly, any little thing you can do to speed ASUM goes green with recycling resolution up your connection helps. The Resident Technology Assistant JAMES LABER and encourage other departments bins around campus. can receive an aid package of up office offers these suggestions to MONTANA KAIMIN and organizations on campus to do “I think we could put (recy- to $2,000 a year for up to four eke out a little more speed. the same. cling) bins on every floor of the years. • Surf in the early morning or “This is one step forward,” sen- dorms and they would get used ASUM Vice President Cedric evening. The dorms are allotted ASUM pledged Wednesday ator Eric Schultz said. “And that is more than just having them on the Jacobson said that MPACT has less bandwidth between 8 a.m. and evening to make the University what we’re here for, to take steps main floor,” Esler said. been “very successful at UM” and 5 p.m. “greener” by passing a resolution forward towards improving cam- ASUM also passed a resolution that this resolution will encourage • Make sure you’re getting the that focuses on increasing on-campus.” urging the Board of Regents to the Board of Regents to continue most out of your computer. Viruses pus recycling. Jason Esler, campus sustainabil- continue and expand a program MPACT at the University and and spyware can dramatically The resolution, authored by sen- ity coordinator, urged ASUM to that helps Montana high school make the program statewide. slow performance, so keep your ator Dustin Leftridge, states that work with him to “lessen the eco- students afford college. “(MPACT) is designed to com- protection up to date and run regu- ASUM will “work towards a sus- logical impact” of students on MPACT, currently a trial pro- bat the widening gap between the lar scans. tainable and ecologically friendly campus. Esler said that he would gram at the University, is designed rising cost of tuition and the medi- • Consider uninstalling peer-to- campus.” be assembling a research team to to help recent high school gradu- an household income,” Jacobson peer programs like BitTorrent and The first step ASUM is taking in figure out ways that this can be ates attend UM by providing them said. “Hopefully this program will Kazaa, which take a lot of band- this process is requiring that it and done efficiently. with a significant? amount of be at institutions across the state.” width, thus slowing down your all affiliated agencies use 100 per- One idea that Esler said he will financial aid that they don’t have computer and all the others on the cent post-consumer-product paper look into is adding more recycling to pay back. Students who qualify network. www.montanakaimin.com M o n t a n a K a i m i n 2 Opinion Thursday, November 2, 2006 Guest Column Editorial Bush’s Billings visit more a Initiative 151 is central to Christian values We are a group of Missoula clergy who come from payroll. We sympathize with small businesses that belated trick than treat a variety of denominations and political perspectives may suffer initial difficulty with this wage increase. and are part of the Missoula Ministerial Association. However, much of the research suggests that higher We often disagree on various issues across the cultur- wages increase morale and productivity and will al spectrum. However, we are united in our support have a greater economic impact in the community for Initiative 151,which calls to increase our mini- over the long haul. (National Council of Churches: Today, the illustrious leader of the free world, President George mum wage in Montana from $5.15 to $6.15 per hour. “A Just Minimum Wage,” 2005) W. Bush, is scheduled to stop off in Billings to do some last minute We are united in our understanding that in the There is also concern about the cost of living campaigning for U.S. Senator Conrad Burns and Representative Gospels, Jesus is very clear in his vision of justice, adjustment that would be implemented each year and Denny Rehberg before next week’s mid-term election. freedom and integrity for the poor. In Luke chapter is based on the national inflation rate. However, this Now, maybe it was caused by the Halloween season or perhaps four, his stated mission statement is: “The Spirit of is the same rate that is used to adjust social security Jon Tester’s scary ass crew cut, but it seems something has given the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to pro- for thousands of Montanans as well as many state the Republicans a fright.

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