THE ASMSU November 5, 2009 • Vol. 104, Issue 10

ANNUAL SKI SWAP TO SUPPORT BRIDGER YOUTH PROGRAMS 6 l "HATE-FREE BOZONE" BOZONE RESPONDS TO WHITE SUPREMACISTS GOLF PACKS UP THE CLUBS AND BASKETBALL TIPS OFF 13 2 THE ASMSU EXPONENT I NOV. 5, za

lllCIT LETTERS FOITMllvs. Welcome to your MSU Dear Editor, The worst part of all is that the sit SAC•EllTO I am writing today on behalf of the ation will get much worse before getti students and faculty that park in the F better. With more snow and/or rain, t STATE (dirt) parking lot. As the fall weather potholes will get bigger and more n hits Bozeman, the seasonal destruction merous. I propose the lot be graded of the dirt lot has commenced. Potholes some manner to restore the conditic develop, then deepen, then deepen This should be a small job, and I thiru some more. This year seems to be par­ is well worth the effort. ticularly bad, to the point that in some places the lot is nearly impassable. This I know those ofus that park in the d is not (much) of an exaggeration. I have lot don't pay as much, but tl\at does a fairly high clearance 4X4 vehicle, and mean that we don't deserve some ba I don't think a smaller car's suspension maintenance to allow for continued l can handle some of the more crater-like of the lot. areas.

n-asthead THIS ISSUE BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

MANAGEMENT EDITORIAL ADVISOR NEWS EDITOR Bill Wilke Eric Dietrich

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STATIC EDITOR Brandon French Lisa Lundgren

PRODUCTION MANAGER DISTRACTIONS EDITOR Claire Nelson Ben Miller

ART DEPARTMENT ATHLETICS EDITOR PHOTOGRAPHER Erica Killham Bruce Muhlbradt OUTDOORS EDITOR GRAPHIC DESIGN Daniel Cassidy Todd Schilling, Andreas Welch COPY EDITOR ADVERTISING & BUSJNESS Jill Searson AD SALES MANAGER Jake Lewendal CONTRIBUTORS Ashley Wheeler, Brent Zundel, r AD SALES REPRESENTATIVES Howard, Trudi Mingus, Kyle Reyne James Rota, Ashley Lewis, Nathan Carroll, Joe Thiel, Josh Fre: Catherine Boberg, Sabre Moore Amy Lanzendorf, Mary Biehl, Jos Wirtz, Derek Brouwer, Nate Cox. L BUSINESS MANAGER Tanner, Matt Smith, Mike Tarrant, Shardae Johnson Andrew Mazzella,

OFFICE MANAGER THEASMSUEXPONENT Tucker Hankinson Strand Union Building Room 366 Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone: [406) 994-2224 editorraexponent.montana.edu THEASMSU f ABOUTTHEar ti s &.. Bruce Muhlbradt Bruce is a Bozeman area pho­ exp~~~o~o tographer in his senior year at MSU working on a Bach­ elors Degree in Photography. He worked as a photographer ""In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead ... before coming to MSU and is currently the staff photogra­ -Ben Franklin pher for the Exponent. Having photographed a wide range of subjects from wild horses in the North Dakota badlands to endangered parrots in Australia and Brazil has inspired Bruce to pursue a career in photojournalism and documentary photography. The goal of Bruce's photography is to not only to tell a story, but also to use photography to emotion­ NEWS 4 COMMUNITY MEMBERS SPEAK FOR AND ally connect the viewer with hls subjects. AGAINST TOBACCO BAN A ASMSU FORUM The debate surrounding tobacco use on campus is heating up, so a group of people for and against the bad decided to lock themselves in a room together and talk things out. ERIC DIETRICH was there, and has decided to share the experience with you . SUBMIT YOUR 5 SPOTLIGHT: CAMPUS RESEARCH cover art· Ever wonder about the interaction between humans and wildlife in Kenya·s Southern Rift Valley? If so, JOE THIEL.:s article on ecology re­ search should be right up your alley. Shock ofshocks, the Exponent is produced by stu­ dents, and guess what?! We want your artwork plas­ 7 CAN THE GRIZ KICKS OFF tered all over our recycled-paper body. Well maybe, A competition between MSU and UM. I'm down. It deals with a can food not that so much, but definitely on our cover. drive. I'm still down. ASHLEY WHEELER has the details. Featured artists get the benefit of being seen by nearly 10,000 faces. Try fitting that into a gallery! DISTRACTIONS 8 THE IPOD IS THE ULTIAMATE DISTRACTION Give us a jingle, or drop us a line, we'd be happy Have you ever actually taken the time to consider just how much time to help you out. (Hey, per chance, can you scratch you spend connected to your 1Pod? Well, BEN MILLER has, and this is my back... . lower. Thanks.) his take on the phenomenon.

9 THE BOB-KITTYCAT email: productionraexponent.montana.edu Has one of your college friends been missing for an extended period of phone: 406/994.2224 time, and you know there was no way he was ever going to graduate? Might want to check out the University Prison. JOSEPH WIRTZ will tell you where to find it.

REC[REATION] 12 MY TAKE There are still two undefeated teams playing in the NFL, and it is boilerplate already week eight. ERICA KILLHAM is wondering which one is going to EDITORIAL DEADLINE: fall first. The ASMSU Exponent prints approximately 5,000 copies Monday at five p.m. prior to every Thursday and is free of publication date 12 WORKING COWS charge at nearly 65 locations. limited one per reader Addi­ SALES DEADLINE: NATE COX reflects on the beauty of a hard day's work, filled with cows. tional copies of the current is­ Friday at five p.m. prior to sue of The ASMSU Exponent publication date Deadline may be purchased for $1.00, may shift at the discretion of 13 ASMSU PROPOSES TAILGATE REFORM payable in advance the Editor-in-Chief Tailgate reform is being debated again in ASMSU, and KYLE REYNOLDS TO CONTACT US: Introduced in 1895, The is covering the whole thing. Make sure to read up so you know what to The ASMSU Exponent office is ASMSU Exponent 1s the old­ located on the MSU campus est college newspaper in expect at future football games the state of Montana. Origi­ 305 Strand Union Building nally introduced as ·a way Bozeman, MT 59717 A SHEPARD FOR BOZEMA to increase college spirit at STATIC 15 Phone: (406)994-2224 Montana State ... exponen- In light of the Hate-Free Bozone march. MATI SMITH asks readers to Fax: (406) 994 ·2253 t~l~: • reflect on what hate and v10lence really mean for the Bozeman com­ Email: munity. editorfilexponent.montana.edu Web : exponent.montana edu 16 GNORANCE IS NOT CRE T "ITV TRUDI MINGUS discusses the Creat1v1ty Movement 1n her opinion article this week. Don't know what it is? Read on and try to keep your temper even. Printed on recycled newsprint with soy-based inks. 16 MSU'S NEXT PRESIDENT Do your part! Please share this How do you feel about Waded Cruzado being MSU's new president? publ1cat1on with friends and recycle BRENT ZUNDEL tells us how he feels. when you've fully exhausted the ASMSU Exponent. THE .ASMSU EXPONENT NOVEMBERS, NEWS I 4

window, smoke comes in." through an ashtray." "We have professional athletes who Nick Landeros, a community attend this university, we have people ber who doesn't smoke, disagree with asthma, and we have people who can maneuver my way around c NEWS just fine without going through t just want to take a break and get some fresh air," said Sasha Dingle, a student clouds that don't exist," he said. who identified herself as a member of Jenny Haubenreiser, the dire Comm.unity the MSU Leadership Institute. of MSU Health Promotions and o Alex Crosby, a freshman in market- the ban's primary advocates, that including sm Members Speak less tobacco prod is necessary be "We have professional ath­ "There is no safe For and Against letes who attend this uni­ of tobacco." versity, we have people with to just worry Tobacco Ban at asthma, and we have people smokewhensmokf who just want to take break is part of the prob! and get some fresh air." she said. "This is al ASMSUForum - Sasha Dingle the health of evei: on this can1pus." The final deci on the issue rests ing and a smoker, spoke against the pro­ MSU's administration. ASMSU, the posed ban, arguing that "Maybe the is­ versity's student government, will sue isn't that we're smoking on campus, mit a resolution outlining what it cor but that smoking areas are directly in ers the opinion of the student body front of buildings." meet with President Geoff Gamble o Zach Stewart, a Junior in University successor, Dr. Waded Cruzado, to ll Studies, added that "we haven't really its case, President Pro-Tempore Jt provided them the opportunity to go Folsom said. someplace else." Folsom, who did much of the wo "A lot of times, when it comes to to­ organize the forum, said that he co1 bacco, it becomes almost a witch hunt ers it a success and anticipates thati thing," Crosby said. lar events will be held in the future. Often, much of the debate seemed to The Senate plans to debate the i come down to a matter of perspective. at its regular meeting in SUB z.35 at 6 Proponents of a ban repeatedly referred on Thursday, Nov. 5. "I was impre to "clouds" of smoke, and Medical Sci­ with what both sides had to say," Fo ence student Adam O'Brien compared said. "I think it will be ve1y beneficu walking out of the library to '"walking the senators on Thursday."

WORDS BY faculty from the effects of secondhand Eric Dietrich smoke. ASMSU Exponent "The reality is-I'm looking for a safe workplace," said Rick Lawrence Nearly 60 students and community a professor in the Land Resources an~ members addressed the ASMSU Sen­ Environmental Sciences Department. "I ate at a listening session Tuesday, Nov. cannot open my window. .. if I open that 3, sharing their opinions on a proposal to ban to­ bacco on MSU's cam­ pus. A majority of at­ "A lot of times, when it tendees spoke in favor of the ban, complaining comes to tobacco, it that the e::-dsting policy, becomes almost a witch which bans smoking hunt thing." within z.5 feet of the cam­ - Alex Crosby pus's buildings, is rarely enforced and doesn't protect students and MBER 5, 2009 f THE ASMSU EXPONENT NEWS 5 potlight: Campus esearch SU RESEARCH ERS STUDY ILDLIFE HUMAN INTERACT ION ~ KE NYA'S SOUTH RIFT VALLEY

benefits back to locals." The Masai, people native to where Schuette and Creel do their research, are conditions. "Right now is the worst SU researchers Paul Schuette and drought in 50 years," said Schutte. The ott Creel are srudying how native hope for the conservation area is that it e, predators and prey intel .ct by can use eco-tourism and careful man­ g at the relationship between wild­ agement to make the people an integral d humans in Kenya's Southern Rift part of a functioning wildlife area with­ !. Their ultimate goal is to form a out negatively impacting their already munity conservation district that difficult way oflife. for wildlife conservation without To accomplish this goal, Schuette 'vely impacting the local popula- and other researchers have looked into thre~ areas relating predator, prey and huette and Creel have worked over community relationships. tlSt several years with the South Rift The first is the impact predators have I ·iation of Land Owners (SRALO) to on prey. The most obvious is direct pre­ attempts to look at the cross section of grate humans and their livestock with­ .lish a consetvation area in an area dation, but it is not.necessarily the most all carnivores and their behavior. Using out harming wildlife. rb them Kenya between Masai Mara detrimental, Schuette said. motion sensing cameras in four square The recent drought in Kenya has 11Ambosali National Parks. They Instead, "predation risk effects," the km grids, researchers track the distri­ caused severe hardship for the Masai 1-.ially hope to form a conservation negative impact associated with being bution of carnivores. From this infor­ people, leading to the closure of com­ or between the two parks similar in the vicinity of predators, can have mation they can determine what areas munity funded schools in the area of • · Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, "costs greater than direct predation," carnivores prefer and also how they re­ Schuette and Creel's research. In re­ 1aempt in Idaho, Montana and Wyo­ said Schuette. "Much like in people, if an spond to people and livestock entering sponse, the two researchers have orga­ Cto protect the region's ecosystem animal gets really stressed, it gets sick." the ecosystem. nized an event with the African Conser­ t1•than only parts of it. Constant fear of predation can weaken Similarly, the Masai's decisions on vation Fund to raise money for South h e classical view of conservation;• the immune system, lower nutritional where to graze their herds are dependent Rift Valley communities. The event will tl:ichutte, "is national parks where levels and decrease the pregnancy rate, on predator's locations. When preda­ be held at the Emerson at 7 p.m. on Nov. :? are excluded." Community con- he explained. tors, prey and livestock compete for the i9 and will feature a silent auction, bev­ 1~on, however, "is a program that Another area of srudy for the group same limited resources, it is important erages and a presentation by Schuette o reduce these issues and give is carnivore-community ecology, which to determine what areas are important and Creel. Admission is free. to each group. From this information researchers can gauge how to best inte-

Get Involved: Fundraiser: Wed. Nov. 28 7 p.m. Emerson Ballroom Who: Dr. Scott Creel and Paul Shuette • Silent Auction Where: MSU Department of Ecology • Short video & presentation with Looking for: students interested in Dr. Scott Creel & Paul Schuette ecology. Currently five undergraduates (MSU, Dept. ofEcology) are working on the project cataloguing •Beverages evidence from past trips. • FREE (donations accepted) Contact: [email protected]­ Contact: tana.edu Christine Kovash - 209-so83 ckovash@gmaiLcom Nancy Creel - 580-0122 [email protected] THE ASMSU EXPONENT I NOVEMBER 5, 2 NEWS 6 Can the Griz the Nordic, Alpine and Freestyle youth the sale. ski teams. "Last year was a record-breal l{icks Off The Btidger Ski Foundation is a non­ year. But this year people will bring< profit volunteer organization that focus­ in," said Holland. Community meml es on providing activities involving ath­ \vill bring their old gear, and ski sh letic excellence to youth and community around town will bring in last year's r members of all ages. The BSF Ski Club plays a role in much 2008 Results of the ski­ pounds of food collected ing that takes place in the 11,668 Gallatin Valley by grooming trails, coordi­ nating gath­ erings, and promoting ski­ MSU ing within the community 2000 The swap will feature a wide selection I UM I of skis, snow­ boards, bind­ ings, poles, WORDS BY UM's Office for Civic Engagement-the boots, jackets, Ashley Wheeler equivalent of MSU's Office for Commu­ gloves, hats, ASMSU Exponent nity Involvement. The goal was to have helmets, and a friendly competition between the two thermal wear. The 10th annual Can the Griz Food campuses while benefitting each univer­ In the past few Drive, a competition between MSU and sity's local food bank during a time of the years, more the University of Montana (UM), is set to year when need is the greatest. snow sport begin on Nov. 7. The donations received Since the program began, many orga­ items have from the MSU and Bozeman commu­ nizations have joined the effort at MSU, also begun to nity will benefit the Gallatin Valley Food including the Office for Community In­ appear such as Bank. volvement, the Montana Campus Corps hockey gear, Donations of non-perishable food Program, ASMSU, the Greek community, ice skates, items can be dropped off at the Strand Residence Life, and Alpha Lamda Delta. ski racks and Union Building (SUB), any campus resi­ During the 2008 food drive, MSU col­ snowshoes. dence hall, Culbertson Hall, Reid Hall, lected 11,668 pounds of food. UM collect­ Bridger Bowl Montana Hall, or the Gallatin Valley ed approximately 2,000 pounds. and Bohan Food Bank. Cash donations can also be The 2009 winner will be announced Ranch will also set up booths at the Ski chandise. made at the Gallatin Valley Food Bank. at the 'Cat-Griz football game on Nov. Swap, selling season tickets. Bob Ward's, Chalet Sports, and• The event 01iginally resulted from an 21. Holland said there will be great deals ski shops in town will be holding idea ofa member of the Campus Corps at for college students looking for a bar­ own sales this weekend. "We no gain, and added that "The Ski Swap gets try to do something with the Ski ~ bigger every year." or run a sale at the same time; beca Bozeman's ski swap is unique due to is the weekend everyone is buying, the numerous coaches and volunteers a sales associate ar Bob Ward's. who help others community members "It definitely brings the co Annual Ski Swap with the selection of skis, snowboards together," Holland said. "People and accessories. Holland commented coming to it, coming together ands that Bozeman has one of the largest ski old skiing friends, and getting rea to Support Bridger swaps in Montana, and people from all the ski season." over the state will be corning down for Youth Programs

WOR SB public on Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m Amy Lanzendorf and Sunday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. ASMSU Exponent The Ski Swap is an annual sale put on for the benefit of the community, with 15 The Bridger Ski Foundation will hold percent of proceeds going towards the its annual Ski Swap this weekend at foundation to help fund the promotion the Gallatin County Fairgrounds, giving of skiing around the Gallatin Valley. The Bozeman residents the opportunity to event is the foundation's biggest annual prepare for the coming ski season while fundraiser, said Kris Holland, the foun­ helping fund the foundation's youth ski dation's office manager, and brings in teams. The event \vill be open to the about $40-50,000, which helps suppon 11

jpBCAT VOLLEYBALL PRAY FOR SNOW PARTY BOBCAT FOOTBALL BSF SKI SWAP wHERE: Flagstaff, Ariz. WHERE: Gallatin County Fairgrounds Event WHERE: Penland, Ore. WHERE: Gallatin County Fairgrounds Event WHAT: Lady 'Cats will try to break their two Park WHAT: With an overall record of 5-3, MSU Park match losing streak as they take on Northern WHAT: Big Sky Brewing, The Moose KMMS football travels to Penland State University WHAT: The Bridger Ski Foundation will host Arizona University in Flagstaff. Match begins radio, Outside Bozeman, and The Friends of for their sixth conference game of the year. its armual Ski Swap Friday through Sunday at7p.m. the Gallatin Avalanche Center are excited to Kickoff at 1:05 p.m. at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds Events armounce the fourth armual Pray for Snow Park. The proceeds benefit the Gallatin Val­ :HOOL OF ART PRINT SALE PartyfFundraiser. The highlight of the event BOBCAT VOLLEYBALL ley Alpine, Nordic and Freestyle Ski Teams. WHERE: Helen E. Copeland Gallery is the 'Bunting Dog' Powder Hound bonfire, WHERE: Greeley, Colo. Consignment day is Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 WHAT: The MSU School of Art will present held as an offering to the snow gods to ensure WHAT: The volleyball team will play Nonhem p.m. It costs $1.00 to consign items; BSF will "Forty Years! Student Print Sale: i970 - 2009,'' abundant snowfall in Montaria this winter. Colorado in Colorado for their fourth-to-last take 15 percent of earnings. The sale stans from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Prints will be priced Tickets are $10 at the door. Party goes from 6 match of the season. Match starts at 7 p.m. Saturday and goes from io a.m. to 5 p.m. BSF from $5 to $20, and the proceeds will go to­ to 11 p.m. members enter the doors at 9 a.m. (Member­ ward visiting artists in prinonaking. There will BOZEMAN BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL ships will be available that morning before 9 be a reception with music from 5 to 7 p.m. in SO'S FOR THE LADIES NIGHT WHERE: Emerson Cultural Center Ballroom a.m.). The sale continues on Sunday from 10 the gallery. The Helen E. Copeland Gallery is WHERE: Filling Station Make sure to come to the Third Annual a.m. to 2 p.m. Equipment pickup is Sunday located on the second floor of Haynes Hall. WHAT: We bring you The So's for the Ladies Bozeman Bluegrass Festival Saturday from from 2 to 5 p.m. - unsold items nor picked will Night! This show will feature great So's covers 5:30 ton p.m. The stage in the Emerson's be donated to charity. Also, most items will be OTECTING WILDLIFE IN A by a wide array of great bands such as Out Ballroom will be filled with SW Montana's priced lower on Sunday. Admission is $2.00 ANGING CLIMATE The Lights, Rygar the Destroyer, Birds Mi.le best bluegrass and folk anists. Food and beer on Saturday and is free on Sunday. WHERE: Bozeman Public Library Home, Tonight We Ride, John Hughes & the will be available at a very reasonable cost. Be WHAT: Dr. Molly Cross, ecologist with the SLxteen Candles, and Passion Party! Event sure to thank Music Villa, The BoZone, Cactus CLAUDIA WILLIAMS Wildlife Conservation Society, will discuss starts at 9 p.m. Records, Bozeman Brewing Co., The Dry Fly WHERE: Norris Hot Springs fish and wildlife conservation in Montana, and Saloon, Three Fiddles Farm, Bozeman Angler, WHAT: Montana Rose"s Claudia Williams present strategies for increasing the chances CIRQUE DREAMS: ILLUMINATION. and Summit Bike and Ski, this year's event plays solo at the dome. Concen scans at 7 for conservation success as our climate WHERE: Brick Breeden Fieldhouse sponsors. p.m. changes. Lecture begins at 7 p.m. WHAT: Theatre Council Productions, a Chi­ cago-based presenter of touring productions, THE HARD MONEY SAINTS & JAMES HUN­ TEX TUCKER fHETASTING are proud to armounce the sixth season of the NICUTI WHERE: Haufbrau WHERE: The Emerson Grill American Barik 'Broadway in Bozeman' Series. WHERE: Filling Station WHAT: Join Bozeman's own Tex Tucker WHAT: Come expand your wine knowledge The 2009 to 2010 season includes Cirque WHAT: Section oS brings back The Hard Mon­ every Sunday to sing and strum away your with EG wine buyer Nikki Crisman at our Dreams: Illumination, Jesus Christ Superstar, ey Saints & James Hunnicutt for a rocking own tunes at the Haufbrau. Tex will begin his informal wine tasting event from s to 6 p.m. Avenue Q, RAIN, Cabaret and legendary come­ night of great songwriting and intense rock-a­ music at io p.m. in EG North. We will be sampling a variety of dian Bill Cosby. Cirque Dreams: Illumination billy. 10 p.m. marks the start of the event. wines from regional, national and world vine­ will be performed 7:30 p.m. Season tickets yards. For more information call 406-5S6-5247. range from $122 to $221. ll 11 11 11

JIM DURFEY - PHOTOGRAPHY AND TALES. COMEDY DEATH MATCH :)S: THE SECRET STORY BEGINNING WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING WHERE: Equinox Theatre WHERE: MSU Campus WHERE: Rhythms Drum and Dance Store WHERE: Pine Creek Lodge and Cafe WHAT: Jim Durfey will be presenting at 7 WHAT: Improv comedy gladiators battle to WHAT: Roben Ha~tings will deliver a 90-rnin­ WHAT: Join Chet Leach for Beginning West p.m. on his experience cycling through Asia;i the death with this ongoing performan~es ~f ute lecture and slide show concerning the African Drum classes. Panicipants will ex­ and Europe. Jim graduated from Park Htgh m Equinox Comedy Death Match! Adnuss1on 1s U.S. government's secret response to UFO plore rhythm through body n;ovement, v_oice, $7 and the event starts at S p.m. Call 406-5S7- and drumming. Drummers will learn b~gm­ 2000. After completing college in Minnesota, sightings. From 1988 to 2002, Hastings was he spent two years in China, where his friend 0737 for more information. employed as a laboratory analyst by Philips ning drum technique and each.class willfocus on a different rhythm from Africa. Drop mto hatched a plan for a rrans-continental bike Semiconductors in Albuquerque, NM. The lec­ trip. After working for a year in the U.S., he re­ THE DIRTY SHAME ture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in SUB Ballroom D. any class for just $15 or buy a 'six-pack' for WHERE: Zebra Cocktail Lounge $p.. Extra drums are available fo_r class and turned to China and met up with four college friends. They immediately depaned Beijing WHAT: Come down for Outlaw Country with SCAT BASKETBALL (MEN) for rent by the month. Classes will run every The Dirty Shame, a group .whose shows are Tuesday night from 7 to S:30 p.m. through No­ by bike and meandered West. The slide show WHERE: Bozeman, Mont. follows the adventures of the bikers from always high-energy expenences that tak~ au­ WHAT: The men's basketball team will play vember. Classes meet at the Rhythms Drum diences rrom two stepping waltzes to stra1ght and Dance Store, located at the Emerson. Beijing to Southeast Asia, across India, and ahead rock and rvll Their sets are steeped their second exhibition game of the season at through much of Europe. Jim will discuss the home versus Valley City. Tipoff at 7 p.m. heavily in outlaw country classics by Merle vicissitudes of bike travel, the cultures he Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and CROWN CITY ROCKERS encountered, and feature various indivi~uals OVER MEXICO WHERE: Zebra Cocktail Lounge Johnny Cash with some newer selecaons ~y he met along the way. He will share stones bands like Uncle Tupelo, Hank III, and Whis­ WHERE: MSU Campus WHAT: Hip Hop with the Crown City Rockers and commentary, but will keep the latter keytown. This fine selection of enjoyable. T: The week's events begin at noon in & The Prime, featuring Luckyiam (Living thankfully brief. Call 406-222-362S for further cov­ Legends) and Sapient. Crown City Roc~ers is ers is interwoven With highly conceptualized SUB 233 when Bridget Kevane, MSU Spanish information. professor, speaks on "History of Mexican Mi­ a genre-blending collective whose music _is all original music that is as fun to listen to as it is gration in Montana." Clarissa Maninez from together original, powerful and provocaave. to dance to. Their original music showcases a STUD TRERKEL."S '"THE GOOD WAR'" wide diversity among the musicians that takes the National Council for La Raza will speak on With an organic blend .of lush, funk-drenched WHERE: Museum of the Rockies , Mlmmigration in America: Forging a Shared grooves, riveting classic soul samples, sharp listeners on a unique and meaningful Journey. WHAT: Join MOR for a special Veterans Day Tickets are $5 and the event starts at 10 p.m. rure" at 7 p.m. in SUB Ballroom A. live instrumentation and old-school rhymes, live performance of e.xcerpts from S~ds Crown City Rockers is a welco~e breath Terkel's "The Good War" accomparued by ER SCHOOL PDTIERY & THROWING ON of fresh air in today's commercially c;:tutter. DISCOVER MEXICO songs and images of the times at 1 and 7 p.m. WHERE: MSU Campus - SUB • WHEEL musical cosmos. Luckyiam is an ind1e mus•~ • in the Hager Auditorium. Studs Terk~~ woi:i veteran and one of the best "almost famous WHAT: A Mexican lunch will again be served WHERE: Emerson Center for the Arts and the Pulitzer Prize for "The Good War, w~ch in the SUB Union Market from noon to 2 p.m. CUiture rappers in the world. Sapient is a true reI!a:'s­ detailed peoples' accounts of the counrrys WHAT: After School Pottery, Throwing on the sance man, often composin,g bears by playing involvement in World War II. Admission ~s piano, keyboard, drums. guitar, bass or what­ Wheel (for grades 4-8) will be held Monday $5 for members; $7 for non-members.1:1lls emoons from 4 to s.30 p.m., Oct. 19 through ever else he feels like. Tickets are $S and the program may not be appropriate for children Nov. ~- Through demonstrations ancl_guided event begins at 10 p.m. 12 and under. wa,ctice, Tl\e C(>~t js $45 fpr.fl)ember;s, O{ jl55 or non-members. THE ASMSU EXPONENT I NOVEMBER S, 200 DISTRACTIONS 8 DISTRACTIONS

hundred bucks -- or getting daddy to -­ escape, relax, wind down or get pumped iPods are completely unaware of de climbers, and more importantly, 1 WORDS BY for the ease of music at their fingertips, up. But it can get out of hand, and may ers. There are also the rude people~ Ben Miller at the touch of a button. Then follows already be. ASMSU Exponent the refusal to acknowledge anything go­ On April 9, 2007, Apple sold its 100 leave an ear bud in while ordering co ing on around them. millionth iPod, a mere s 1/2 years after or lunch or talking, as if another hUI The trend has become an epidem­ Don't get me wrong. I buckled, selling its first in November 2001, and as doesn't even deserve half of their "lll ic; iPods are enslaving and distracting bought into the multi-billion dollar in­ of Sept. 9, 2009, Apple's sold more than vided" attention. people all across the globe at an unprec­ dustry that cashes in total revenue ex­ 220 million. These millions and millions The iPod also distracts per. edented rate. They hang from people's ceeding $10 billion, with quaner profits of people now wear ear buds daily, some ally and privately. Who wouldn't rat necks, cuddle in pockets, jog along on between $i.2 and $1.6 billion; and that's while driving -- not sman -- others bik­ watch a movie, look at photos, listeJ arms, and bounce along in cars. ipods only Apple. The entire mp3 distraction ing, running, walking, skiing --and if they music, play games, browse the Inte:. have infested the entire world. They are industry must be at least a little bit big­ could while swimming, people probably or record a video with a dozen effE the ultimate distraction. And we all love ger. It's ridiculous; but the new iPod would. Many use them in class, lecmres, than do whatever it was we're suppc Apple for it. nano has a decent video camera as well in the coffee shop, restaurant, every­ to, and most likely forgot? This could certainly be said of all mp3 as music capabilities, and the unit's only where. It's become a problem, a distract­ The iPod has become an icon. players, and cell phones for that matter, slightly larger than a vanilla wafer! For ing epidemic of daunting proportions. chetype, cliche, trademark, scar but for simplicity's sake I'll refer to the only i8o bucks! People hardly converse casually any­ "earsore" of not only American cul iPod. Now, there's also no wonder the In a little undeno years (the first iPod more, or politely say hello to the pass­ but the world. It's as if the 21st cen iPod has become an epidemic; it's mu­ was sold in November 2001), Apple has ing student whose eyes they met, but was destined to be permeated by, sic, style, relaxing, efficient and down­ created a trademark piece of technology instead stare forward, engulfed in their plugged into, the iPod, to music, whi right wonderful, the ultimate freedom that captivates and entertains, inspires own musical universe without a con­ not a bad thing if its distraction leVt to choose your own life's soundtrack, creativity and musically enhances a per­ cern for their surroundings. the natural mains acceptable, respectful. Until t 2.4/7/365 - if the batteries are charged. son's life, all at a reasonably affordable soundtrack and new friends a conversa­ hit play and crank the volume, or I But the iPod is also already a cliche, price. Setting the profit numbers aside, tion's length away. This is most notice­ record and capture the moment. a gimmick of sorts that's ensnared mil­ the iPod is quite a benevolent, enriching able on trails in the surrounding moun­ lions of people into coughing up a few accessory, providing people a means to tains, where people exercising to their DISTRACTIONS THE .ASMSU EXPONENT I NOVEMBER 5, 2009 ::heck Out The oze1nan Symphony's inter Season The YEARS AND PLAYING STRONG! Bab-Kittv on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30 for cocktails). This event will take place DON'T WORRY THE at MSU in the SUB Ballrooms, and is $75 per ticket or $500 for a table of 8. TERRORIST'S This last weekend, I had the last-min­ This is the only event that does not ALWAYS APPREHENDED e opportunity of going to the Bozeman include an affordable rate for students ~phony's performance at the Willson but defirtitely proves to be a delightful ause a friend had given me tickets to evening of Latin music and dancing. WORDS BY ticular group of students, the president event. This particular concert was After "Salsa Metales" in November, Joseph Wirtz responded, "Minority groups are more ou!1ding the piece, "The Planets;' the next Bozeman Symphony perfor­ ASMSU Exponent important than other groups of stu­ en by the famed zoth century com- mance will be the 26th annual "Nut­ dents because they are disadvantaged. er Gustav Holt (1874-1934), with each cracker," as they team up again with This week a terrorist was arrested Besides, hippies don't have any money ement being dedicated to each of the Montana Ballet and the Symphonic by University Police for publishing radi­ anyway." seven different planets (before Pluto Choir on Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 6 cal and racist articles around campus. When asked if Caucasian males ever declared and undeclared a planet in at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for this event range The terrorist was following up a satiri­ became a minority in universities, would solar system). from $i5-45 depending on seating prefer­ cal story written by Joseph Wirtz, who they have extra protections that other e first part of the program was ence. two weeks ago wrote that the Montana minority groups receive now, the presi­ prised of "The Creatures of Pro­ To continue building the momentum Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks dent responded, "Of course not, they're eus: Overture," by Beethoven for the Bozeman holiday season, fol­ was opening a hunting season on hip­ white. People need to understand that 0-1827), which sent chills coursing lowing the "Nutcracker," the Bozeman pies. Mr. Nathan Hale Jr., the terrorist minorities are disadvantaged by the ughout my body, and "Schelomo: Symphony will perform a "Holiday Fes­ in question, argues that under the First simple fact that they are minorities, no raic Rhapsody," by EmesL Bloch tival" on Dec. 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Amendment of the Constitution, he can matter if they drive a Bentley to class or 4-1934), which highlighted the tal­ 2:30 p.m. For this concert, the symphony write the satirical follow-up story. The stay with their family on break in their of guest cellist Amit Peled, a world­ joins the Symphonic Choir and the four university thinks otherwise. fourth house in Big Sky. They are minori­ ed and celebrated musician. winners of the 2009 Montana Associa­ The university responded, partly in ties and need to be protected. Mr. Hale d was a magnificent performer with tion of Symphony Orchestra's Young his defense, that since he hasn't broken tried to make them feel bad about them­ ing talent and passion, his face ex- Artist Competition. Ticket prices range any laws, he will not be tried in acourt of selves and that is not OK. America was sing both the pain and ecstasy of the from $zo for Students (with a valid ID at law but by the university for disobeying not founded on the ideas of equality and ting piece. the door) and $z5-$58 for all other adults, university policies. Mr. Hale Jr.'s. article Mr. Hale was trying to state his opinion, er the intermission, the symphony depending on seating preference. talks about how minority groups could which I find offensive." 1lghted the audience with "The Plan­ The rest of the symphony's season be placed on their own little reserva­ At this point, I interjected, "But what with each movement being distinc­ includes "Mostly Mozart" on Saturday, tions so that they could be alone with if a student, who is a member of a minor­ r. ·to the personality traits that have Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and 7 at 2:30 p.m; "A their own people, because they tend to ity, is inferior for the university? What associated with each of the planets, Star Spangled Symphony" on Saturday, complain that they always are having if they can't read, or write? What if they back to Roman mythology. The Feb. 13 at 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m; "From difficulties because they are minorities. don't come to class because they don't movement is "Mars, the Bringer of the New World" with Joseph Gramley He is being held in the University feel like getting up? Are they to have spe­ cial accommodations because they are ' and was ferocious and passion­ on the marimba on Saturday, March 6 at Prison in the basement of Romney Gym a minority over other students who are followed by "Venus, the Bringer of 7:30 p.m. and March 7 at 2:30 p.m; "Car­ without bail. Nathan Hale Jr. will be tried ce," which was gentle and sweet in nival" with Janet Sung on violin on Sat­ tomorrow and iffound guilty ofu psetting not?" At this point, the president's face parison, then "Mercury, the Winged urday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. and April 11 at the university's sensitive policies, he will darkened then brightened. "You are ~r,senger," "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jol­ 2:30 p.m; and the Bozeman Symphonic be executed. The University System has absolutely right. Thank you for bring­ i ~ "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age," Choir will have a concert on Sunday, really been able to speed up the process ing that problem to my attention. Next \UlUS, the Magician," and the piece April 25 at 3 p.m at the First Presbyterian of this type of trial due to the fact that week, I will make sure that each minority with "Neptune, the Mystic." Church. Tickets are $lo. they can circumnavigate civil liberty and lzd student has a personal tutor/trainer to :'his concert was such a treat, be­ There will also be an Adams Founda­ human rights by not trying the case in make sure that if they can't read or write tion Piano Series concert presented by court but in their own facilities. They say e, how often do we think of going to or get up for class, they will be taken care ymphony? Most of us think that it the Bozeman Symphony, to take place in it is very handy and one of the new cost­ saving measure of the University. of and be equal to the other non-minor­ e too expensive because of its high- MSU's Reynolds Recital Hall on Friday, The university president made a ity students. Equality is essential at this ' cultural reputation. I wouldn't Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for statement on Mr. Hale Jr's. case. The university. I don't want anyone to get the thought about going had I not been Students and $15 for all other adults. president made it clear that Mr. Hale Jr. idea that any type of favoritism is being . owed these tickets. The Bozeman Symphony is in the is a threat to the university because he shown." lowever, upon further research into throes of its 42nd season, and it is Mat­ is offending groups of students. When I fear Mr. Hale's trial will start slackly fozeman Symphony, it becomes ap­ thew Savery's 16th year as the music di­ asked why Mr. Wirtz's article about the and come to a jerking halt with a snap. t that there are a variety of ticket rector. hippies was allowed to be published, as i::es to all of the events of the sym­ There are several opportunities for it called for a hunting season on a par- ty's season, including a student dis­ those who would like to volunteer for lt. There is also a $50 Family Dress the symphony, including assisting with ~arsal Pass that allows families to concerts and special events. For further Editor's Note: td all of the season's dress rehears­ information about the 2009-10 Concert Montana State University, President Gamble and President Cruzado n the Friday nights of thE' concert Season,you can either e-mail info@boze­ were in no way involved in this article's story; it is the original, satirical -ends. mansymphony.org or log-on to www. and fictional content of the author. For those of you who've caught on to pcoming events include the annual bozemansymphony.org. Tickets can be the KittyCat, enjoy the humor, for those still a bit unsure of this Kitty, keep raiser for the symphony, this year's purchased either online or at the office petting and he'll keep purring. ~ "Pops: Salsa Metales" with guest located at i822 W. Lincoln St., Suite. 3· ' cians, the Spectrum Bass Quintet, 10 CENTER T HEASMSUEXPONENT I NOVEMBER~20~ 11Hate·Free Bozone''

Derek Brou'A er and Joe Thiel dents feel welcome and safe" rn the com­ "deadly enemies • Populating the Earth Recent activity by white supremacists munity. white supremacists hove gained public e with "wh11e people exclusively 1s its pro­ posure in Bozeman. Members of onotiw 1n Bozeman provoked a powerful re­ Robbi Ed Stoffmon, campus minister ponents' stated sacred goo/ white supremacist organization nov.n c sponse from students and c1t1zens, who Tim Spring, and Father Leo Proxell present­ Though several members across. the the Notional Alliance distributed /iterotul roilied on Sunday lo promote a ·Hate­ ed rel1g1ous perspectives of the Creativity Free Bozone." country hove been convicted for acts of n 2004 and 2005 One membe1 Kev Movement Travis McAdams, Executive racial violence, the Creativity Moment Over a thousand community members Director of the Montono Human Rights McGuire, ran for a seat on the Bozemc marched from MSU campus lo Main soys that t does not "promote, to1erote, Schoo1 Boord in Moy 2005 He rae1ve Network, spoke about the history of white nor nc1te illegal activity.· As of press lime, Street carrying homemade signs and supremacy in Bozeman and encouraged 157 votes oul of over 4,200 total vok the Creativity Movement hod not respond­ chanting "Hey ho, hate and fear hove got citizens to remain vig lont against such cost in on election which hod the h1ghe ed lo on e-mail request for comment to got On the steps in front of Willson ideology turnout in over 20 years. School speakers representing a variety of The Montono Human Rights Network MSU students Ivie English and Zoch McGu1•e's candidacy provo ed a COi groups and orgon1zolions addressed the soys 11 first heard of literature drops ond Rogala also addressed the lively crowd munity response that involved news p acts of vandalism in Bozeman last July recent surge of v. h1te supremacist oclv1ty English discussed the formation of a new advertising and door-to-door compo1g in Bozeman and advocated for tolerance when someone placed neo-Noz, lirero campus group coiled We Are the Dream, "condemning" the Notional A: 1once c and d1vers1ty. lure at the Bozeman Public Library. Further v.hose mission "1s the continuation of Mor­ cording to the Bozeman Doily Chromck "We ore here lo demonstrate that we literature drops hove reportedly occurred tin Luther King's dream· for tolerance and ore a COrTJmunity who Vve/comes all at Bozeman High School and lrvrng El­ peo­ equality. • The Bozeman Community Reacts ple, Bozeman Moyor Kooren Jacobson ementary School Rogala followed by odnowledg ng Students and community members 1n said kic~ing off the rally which inciuded Last month the Norther,, Roe res Psy­ the Creativity Movement's rrght to speak oted plans to counter the Creahv ty /\ music speeches and dancing Address­ choanalytic Institute was vandalized Vvhen and colling for leg1slot•ve action to nclude ment soon aher the Oct I 1 demonsh ing those targeted by white supremacy someone threw a rock through a ""rndow protec11on from d1scrim notion based on t1on oc v sts Jacobson said, We will honor and placed a Creot;v1ty Movement stic er sexual orientation Accord ng to Let ecq, who 1s a so you, we Vv11l protect you ndeed, all ore at the scene, according to the institutes According to event organizer and MSU professor and president of the G Vvelcome here Executive Director Scalia Ill The moderator Bethany Letiecq, the rally was Josep~ lot•ri Volley Human Rights Tos Force ~ Following Jacobson's speech letters Creativity Movement hos denied respon­ staged tn port because many students original meeting of community leaders frofll Go\ Schweitzer and Montana's sibility for the act and community members were starling to was organized by Fron e Wilmer congressional delegation Vvere read to In some instances, these ocl1vit1es may feel threatened by the white supremoc sts' State Representot•ve for Distnct 1he crowd Wh11e supremacists "ore not hove specifically targeted minorrties The presence and actions 64 Meanvvhrle students on he voice of our commun ty, • wrote Gov Exponent has received unconfirmed re­ Schweitzer campus coordinated with ports that Creativity Movemenr literature The Creativity Movement in each other and com- Leaders of rel1g1ous and humanitarian hos been d.str"buted around campus on Bozeman munity members organizations also spo e, includrng Rev vehicle w1ndsh1elds ond under specific Denise Rogers Director of the Montono Much of the neo-Noz1 activity in recent to respond to doors of students l1v1ng in residence halls. Hate-Free Zone Rogers, who is African months hos been linked to the Montono the Creativity One mrnorrty student may hove temporar· Creat1v1ty Movement, a statewide chapter Movement American and Chero ee, downplayed the 1/y withdrawn from the un•vers1ty due to importance of racial di is1ons and spoke of on international organization which as­ Act1v- serts white racial supremacy. concerns about his or her safety ago nst "1e ideology of the Creot1v1ty 1sts cir- Tensions escalated on Oct 1 1 when Movement the white supremacist group According to its website, the Creativity c u eighr members of the Creotiv•ty Move­ "10t recently become active in Bozeman. Movement is on organization "dedicated 1 lo the survival, expansion, and odvonce­ ment held a demonstrot1on n front of the "1 you ore a d1'ferenl color, 1' 1s be­ Gollolin Volley Courthouse in downtown cause God s creative, not the Creo11v•ty rT'enr of the white race • The name ref­ Bozeman They gave the Nazi solute V10\erient • Rogers said She ''ier urged erences the wh te racial relroion known waved iorge fiogs, and handed out ' Bozemon1tes to "help internal ono stu- as Crea! v1ty, which views n;'n-wh1tes as "inferior mud races· Vvho ore cors1dered the orgon1zot1on's literature This ts not the f1rsl time that MEMBER 5, 2009 I THE ASMSU EXPONENT CENTER 11

~ a pet1t1on declaring ·as sludenfs of a .m1versity lhot puts a very h gh priority •010 State University and commt.nity or ndusiveness • She felt that the univer­ oers of Bozeman, we embrace diver sity hos partnered with the community 'in Jnd compassion' and held meetings good times and bod" and lhot •t hos deter rgor. ze o'l oporopnote commun ty mined there was ro void of leadership" r se the present s· uot on ilory' rvoved 'l thecoL.1ter-movemer• In response 1o wornes ·~at wh te su­ be tre • oe'1ons as a celebration of pref"locist oct1v •es r Bozeman wot.Id hurl 1 s1ty and 01eronce, nor simply a •e• the universities image and discourage di se to st oct1v •es Englisr f•orred •oc vers1ty ri the studert body, Conover said c-etings pel1t1on ord rally as foruf"ls "10t ''le odrr r strof on hod seer 11 e ev1 press o pro-d versify pro-•o eronce denc;c; of any riegot1ve 1mpoc• Instead she ge You con f combat hate w11h emphasized that more than a student not Mott Goodw a studer• oct1v1st dec•d1ng to come ~ere we ore co~cerned about the studerit who feels u1comfortob1e or ll"eofened We wont to ersi.; e s•uder•s here feel comfortob1e and supported University Police does offer safety es­ corts to anyone on compu~ To arrange on escor1 coll University Police at 994- THE ASMSU EXPONENT I NOVEMBER 5, 2G REC[REATION] 12

REC[REATION] Working Cows WELCOME TO THE CORRAL

by Erica K illham WHEN WILL THE MIGHTY FALL?

It's pretty rare to have two unde­ again, not so much. Brees and company feated teams in the NFL eight weeks into delivered a 35-27 loss to the Falcons. the season, but that is what we are look­ The Indianapolis Colts have an iden­ ing at this year. The New Orleans Saints tical record, but quite different story. and the Indianapolis Colts are both un­ Their schedule hasn't been nearly as defeated in the middle of the season. difficult as New Orleans'. But, they have These two teams are very different and consistency. Peyton Manning will al­ look very different within the context ways do well, and we can always depend of the 2009 NFL season. The one thing on him year after year. They did face last they have in common is that both teams season's NFC Champions the Arizona are 7-0 and leading their divisions (NFC Cardinals, but the Cardinals have a 4-3 WORDS BY mare at the time, but later on they Ill South for New Orleans and AFC South record and, frankly, are not playing like Nate Cox the best stories. for Indianapolis). Both teams should be NFC champions this season. Arizona ASMSU Exponent One of my more notable stories proud of their great records. However, has really been their only tough compe­ from this last April. I was using a hr the longer these undefeated records go, tition, however. There just isn't anything quite like a that a neighbor wanted to sell to m the more intense the pressure will get. Both teams have their work cut out day of working cows. It's a lot of work, bring in the cows before "preg-testi And intense pressure can sometimes kill for them if they want to defend their it's about the dirtiest you can get while (Preg-testing is a way to determine a team. shiny records. New Orleans will meet being productive, and there's a very good COW is carrying a calf.) The New Orleans Saints have been The New England Patriots at the end of chance you will get hurt. Despite all this, The mare hadn't been ridden I doubted going into many match-ups, but the month, who are also leading their re­ after years of branding, shipping, vacci­ few months and decided to throw• they have redeemed themselves each spective division. They will also have a nating or administering other attention sky high just as the cows decided · time. re-match with the Atlanta Falcons, who that a herd might need, it is difficult to didn't want to cooperate. I landed otJ They haven't had a winning season will undoubtedly want to avenge their turn down a chance to do it again. mouth, then my chest landed on my1 since 2006, but this is definitely a win­ loss. The Colts will also face the Patri­ Many students at MSU have had the hand, folding it in half. It took awhi:t ning one. Not only are they undefeated, ots, two weeks earlier than New Orleans. chance to work a few cows, either be­ gather my wits after that spill, and I bur they are also undefeated against They also play the 4-3 Baltimore Ravens cause their families run a few or they nitely lost a few IQ points. Nonethe some pretty tough opponents. in a couple of weeks, which could be in­ have friends that do. Being as neighborly I rode the rest of the morning and A couple of weeks ago, the Saints teresting. as we can, we like to help each other out. when the job was done. My hand tu had one of their biggest match-ups of So, will we have even one undefeated The crew shows up early in the morn­ out to be broken, but through a Hti the season against the then-undefeated team by the end of the season? No way. ing, bringing the cows into the corral Service miscommunication, the b New York Giants. Heck, I thought the I'll choke on my own tongue (or words, and sorting off the cows from the calves. still baffles me. I didn't know abouti Giants were going to win that one. A lot I guess) if that happens. It's not even Once that job is out of the way, the cows ti! three weeks after the wreck. of people did. However, Drew Brees did the halfway point in the season. One the or calves are pushed down an alleyway Just a few weeks ago, a North D what he has been doing so well this sea­ same note, will we see a Saints/Colts Su­ into a chute one by one, where they farmer who had almost no exr~ son and annihilated the Giants defense, . per Bowl this year? Very, very unlikely. are doctored, branded or vaccinated as with cows decided to help my ft winning the game 48-27. Both teams have had a combination needed. brand. He was unlucky enough to c Another defeat could have easily of great skill and a little luck the past Most everyone has a job, be it run­ his fingertip severely not even an been handed to them on Sunday against few weeks, but something is bound to ning the chute to catch each cow, giving into the day, but despite a great d1 the Atlanta Falcons. However, once change. shots, pushing the cows up the alleyway blood and pain, he came right ba or watching tag numbers to account for the corrals once the finger was cl~ each cow. Some ranches still rope all the up. Such a tough, helpful attitude calves for branding instead of pushing tremely admirable. the calves down a chute and into a calf More often than not, the cows table. The methods for handling the live­ up and go through the chute v.i stock depend on the rancher and the much trouble. A few, though. habits they have formed. Chances are, easily persuaded and would rathe they've worked their cows the same way Sometimes they will tum arounc for a long time. find their way back to the last c This agenda sounds fairly cut-and­ gate. At other times, they would 1 dried, but there are always a few sur­ fight their way out. prises. The corrals might be a muddy Working cows might sound lik1 mess or they may be so dry the dust fiies aggravation or an easy way to get as soon as one cow starts walking. The but the way it brings friends and cows might not want to cooperate as bars together for a day or two well as they did the year before. Some­ months is not seen very often. ' one might accidentally get hun, equip­ body visits, jokes and ribs each oth ment or corrals may break down or any an unmatched opportunity to cat number of other problems may arise. with, or get to know, some great ~ They can be a headache or even a night- t EMBER 5, 2009 I THE ASMSU EXPONENT REC[REATION] 13 SMSU Proposes ailgate Refor111.

lection to mix it up a little and make it a little more entertaining. sists accompanied by five digs. Meghan Monday. After one round of play the · Get a corporate sponsorship for the Albiston had 16 digs for the 'Cats which Lady 'Cats stood in tsth led by Melissa name of the stadium like Pepsi or Exxon led the defense. Hultstrand who was 26th overall in the , fall is in full swing, and I don't and serve their product throughout the field. Hultstrand shot a 78 followed by 'I about you but when I think about stadium. CROSS COUNTRY Molly Dorans (tied for 57th) with.an 83, think about tailgating. I think about ·Have the greek houses put up booths Both of the cross country teams were Kelly O'Brien (tied for 71st) shot an 85, mell of brats on the grill and the and other entertainment of the sort. in Colorado on Saturday competing in Leslie McGetrick (tied for 77th) with of a fresh beer in the crisp fall air. · Develop a major tradition unique to the Big Sky Conference Championships. and 88, and Elise Nelsen who sits tied here at our beloved Montana State our university and our teams that will al­ Bad weather led to the 8k course being in the 86th shot a 91. The second day of ersity, tailgating sometimes doesn't low all of the students and fans to bond covered with mud and slightly post­ the tourney marked great improvement ? provide the perfect gameday envi­ together. poned. The MSU men ran extremely from the whole team. MSU managed to rient. That is why the ASMSU senate The revenues created by allowing well to finish in second place led by run­ jump into the ioth place position to end roposed some tailgate reforms that the sale of alcohol within the stadium ners Nick Atwood (25:46.26), which set their season. Hultstrand shot a 74 which really enhance the Bobcats game­ could go a long ways towards helping him in fourth closely followed by Patrick tied her for the 19th position which put erience. Montana State grow as a university and Casey (26:02.91), who finished in eighth. her as the 'Cats top performer. Dorans top the half time rule where people as an athletic program. However, my per­ Both runners won all-conference honors shot a 78 and McGetrick 73, which tied reed back into the stadium from sonal favorite is the tradition proposal. for their performances. Remaining MSU them both for 45th place. O'Brien shot an ting, there is no advantage to not The University of Colorado has Ralphie runners were Matthew Atkinson-Adams So and finished tied for 61st followed by ·ring fans to enjoy the game the way the 1,200-pound buffalo that leads their (26:22.41) who finished in 12th, Graydon Nelsen who finished in 68th after shoot­ t. team out onto the field before the game. Cuny (26:52.96) finishing in 19th, Carl ing a second round 76. Have a $4 fee all tailgaters will have At Auburn Univeristy, an Eagle circles Nystuen (27:02.56) in 24th, Daniel Jack­ y regardless of whether or not they above the crowd before every home son (27:07.51) finished in 26th, and Tyler BASKETBALL a game ticket or not, This way, indi- game. And my personal favorite, the Noland (27:2i.36) coming in at 30th. The basketball season unofficially s without tickets can get ir ·o the visitors' locker room at the University of The women's cross country team started on Sunday with the women's tes, and the university will still get Iowa is painted pink to try to throw off also competed which led to a sixth team taking on MSU Billings in an ex­ ue from them. the visiting team. All of these proposi­ place finish. The Lady 'Cats were led by hibition game. The 'Cats won 71-59 over '!ave keg permits and sell cups for a tions seem extremely reasonable to me Heather Haug who finished the female host MSU Billings with standout play to last the whole game. and I can only hope we can get some of course in 20:24.30, putting her in 14th from Sarah Strand who had 20 points Try to get some vendors from these goals moving in the right direction, place. Kala Jauquet (21:07.35) was next and io rebounds. Erica Perry and Lyndi d town, like Pickel Barrel or Pau- and maybe start a new, memorable Mon­ for the 'Cats in 30th followed by Corrine Seidensticker also played well for the '.dot Dogs. tana State University tradition. Malcolm (21:29.05) in 33rd, Rebecca So­ 'Cats. Perry had 14 points along with \Jew announcer and new music se- renson (21:42.65) finished in 39th, Mor­ three assists, four rebounds, and two gan Dunley (22:00.30) in 46th, Tara Will steals while Seidensticker combined for (22:09.35) in 48th, and Larkin Guenther 10 points, including two 3-pointers. The (22:26.85) who placed 54th. game was close with six ties in the first half alone. The 'Cats offense led the way, FOOTBALL shooting 40 percent from the field over The football team improved their Billings' 31 percent; this combined with overall record to 5-3 on Saturday and steady defense paved the way for the olf Packs Up the bumped their conference record to 3-2 'Cats win. with their 41-10 win over Idaho State. The men's also delivered their first lubs and Basketball Both Aaron Mason and Mark Iddins ap­ win of the season against the Univer­ peared in the game after missing mul­ sity of Saskatchewan on Tuesday night tiple games due to injury, along with in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. The fi­ ·ps Off punter Eric Fisher and kicker Jason Cun­ nal score was 82 to 68. Will Bynum led ningham, who both sat out last week due the team with i8 points and six steals. to the flu. Mason ran for 108 yards while Overall, the team had i5 steals. In fact, Iddins threw for i69 yards off the bench. the Huskies had six turnovers in the last The MSU offense played well with 236 seven minutes alone, and the 'Cats de­ rushing yards and 488 total offensive fense held them to 44 percent shooting 21-25, i9-25, and 22-25 set scores in their in the second half. loss to Eastern Washington. The 'Cats yards including a rushing TD from CJ Palmer. The 'Cats defense played their Volleyball will be on the road this made every set go the distance but ulti­ week playing Northern Arizona on mately came up short against EW who best in weeks holding Idaho State to 17 rushing yards and 144 yards total. The Thursday and Northern Colorado on athletics was busy this weekend holds the top spot in the Big Sky Confer­ m MSU defense forced two turnovers in­ Saturday. Cross Country will next com­ "Vents from five separate sports in­ ence. Kyla Hendry led the 'Cats with .278 cluding an interception by Kevin Reto­ pete in the NCAA Mountain Region g volleyball, cross country, foot­ field hitting including eight kills, while riano and a fumble recovery ran for a TD Championships, which will take place on lasketball, and golf. Kylie Edinger and Meghan Albiston were from Darius Jones caused by Brad Daly. Saturday, Nov. 14· The football team will defensive leaders with three blocks and be in Oregon over the weekend taking on The win was a team effort on both sides 18 digs respectively. Portland State University on Saturday, iEYBALL of the ball and was one of the Bobcats' ~volleyball team was at home this The match against Portland State Nov. 7. Women's basketball will open up best games of the season. tnd for two conference matches, was more of a struggle for the 'Cats. their regular season Friday night when :i g Eastern Washington on Friday MSU lost three straight with set scores they will travel to play Cal-State Bakers­ of i6-25, 23-25, and i3-25. The team did GOLF field. The golf team has played their last it'ollowed by Portland State on Sat- The golf team traveled to Cali1:or­ not hit well from the floor and could not rounds and concluded their season. Con­ After coming off two well played nia to participate in the Cal Poly Invita­ stop Portland State's top hitters. Tay­ gratulations to them on a well-played es including a win over the UM tional early this week. The event started lar Barney led the MSU offense with six season and a great finish. le Lady 'Cats managed to fall 0-3 in on Sunday, Nov. 1 and went through If their home duals. MSU suffered kills, while Taylor Faught provided i9 as- . ·'· .. .·.:.1.'." .. ' THE ASMSU EXPONENT NOVEMBER S, STATIC I 14 What is Cyclocross? STATIC Ignorance Is Not Creativity

WORDS BY fact, a religious practice and not an Trudi Mingus human beings. ASMSU Exponent RaHoWa is the label they plasti shirts and posters, and it means Until now I would assume, perhaps cial holy war," a term coined by ori due to my own naivete, that racism as leader, Ben Klass en. Their choice I a cult has declined exponentially and fer to themselves as "white natio could never exist in a civilized area as leaves only one thing in mind, and tl I believe my home in Montana to be. I Hitler and his group of Nazi soldier have been tragically proven wrong by They are bent on gaining "libe the existence and movement known as through legal action, and I must asl the Creativity Movement. self and all of you: What in the i WORDS BY football-encased American consciou s­ This group encourages the "White could the "w hite race" want liber Lydia Tanner ness. Your cycling knowledge may not Race" to follow a heinous creed of igno­ from ? ASMSU Exponent extend past that guy with cancer who rance and Nazi thought towards Christi­ These people use Charles Darvt claimed the color yellow, but you don't anity, any colored race and panicularly b ack their philosophy and creed aru · Last Saturday you may have gone have to be an aficionado to enjoy watch­ the Jews as a "race." If you have not fess that true science shows thea to the football game; over 12,277 other ing people do something insane. heard about this movement, you should the way they think is common ! people also joined you. Yet for a growing Americans have even staned panici­ look into their Web site: group of athletes with more question­ pating (craziness loves company) and http://montanacreativ­ able sanity, Saturday's activities were since the '70s, cyclocross races have ity.webs.com. Whoever decidedly stranger. been popping up more frequently all created this group and Cyclocross, or 'cross, is a ridiculous over the country. The sport is morphing belongs to it clearly is spon in which cyclists ride (or run) into an underground addiction, and it not of stable mind. "We must secure the around, often in the snow, in pursuit of turns out that Americans are actually These repulsively existence of our peo­ fame and glory. It originated in Europe pretty good at it. Right now an American minded people belong ple and a future for our as a way for road cyclists to stay fit dur­ rider named Katie Compton is ranked to the Church of the ing the winter and was known for its lack No. i in the world, which is a pretty big Creator and believe white children." of rules. deal, especially to the Belgians. wholeheanedly that the Often taking place between towns, This Halloween, cyclocross hit close "White Race" is above old-time cyclocross races allowed and to home. Bozeman's Team Mulleterro all others and as such even encouraged shoncuts of all kinds, pulled out all the stops and, in coop­ should fulfill its duty by which meant that autumn in i9th cen­ eration with USA Cycling and the city procreating and populating the world only to promote the survival ofthei tury Europe could easily have included of Bozeman, put together a really great with purely white babies and demolish­ The Montana Creators "complete packs of pro cyclists flying/running/slid­ event. There was mud, crashing and ing all Jewish-based ideals in our world. categorically reject the Judeo-Chr.t ing through your yard. Forget carving competition, as well as all manner of They profess themselves in ignorant pumpkins; the Europeans were too busy Democratic-Marxist-Liberal-Fet dresses, pantyhose and helmet adorn­ pride with staunch Nazi swastikas and values of today, and supplant ther jumping over fences with their bikes and ments. a seal with a black "W," wearing an Eng­ new and basic values, of which RJ falling in the mud. Crazy, right? A doctor went over the bars; a uni­ lish Royalty crown and a halo. THE FOUNDATION" with a clei Perhaps not. Today, cyclocross has corn pulled off a strong finish, and Lady America, and in fact our world, de­ despicable reference to "Jew-sp: grown from an off-season pastime into a Gaga won the men's cat 4 race. Lenny serves better than this. We live in a Christianity" as "the deadly · full-fl.edged world championship spon. Kravitz and a small tiger provided color­ country known to us as grade schoolers son which destroyed the glorious It doesn't take place in people's back­ ful commentary as MSU's very own bear as "The Great American Melting Pot," Roman Civilization." yards anymore, but the spirit of trespass­ lover (Zach Guy) and zombie (Sam Car­ ing lives on with mandatory barriers and not "The land of the white supremacist." It is difficult to not react srron~ leson) battled to the finish. Molly Oakley I intend to keep it that way for my chil­ unbridgeable sections. Some athletes represented the MSU women in a down­ angrily at these professions of fai dren and their children and every gen­ still use cyclocross simply to stay fit in hill speed suit, racing with the Wolfman. belief which endanger every per eration to follow. a mixed racial background (inc the off season, but for others cyclocross As I stood on top of the hill watching is the main event. I, for one will not allow such ignorant everyone struggle through the mud, ru­ most everyone in the United St. idiocy to overpower and infiltrate the In countries like Belgium, 'cross has ining their costumes and damaging their America). We must maintain pE minds of our country. There is always even become as popular (if not more so) bikes, I felt warm, dry and a little left out. our community and even more tl' room for the freedom of speech, but this than road and mountain bike races, and It may be craziness, but it's the sort of fore stress the importance of acce • movement will not ever be allowed to it's not hard to see why. With shon laps, craziness you can't help but want to be a and equality. There is no such tl rise to its projected potential as a world mandatory barriers and copious mud, pan of. Though the spon staned humbly "race." We are all people living tc crashes are common and watching is fun power. with a bunch of bored Euros, Cyclocross and working toward our own ind and easy. Also, this is Belgium we're talk­ We have a responsibility, ladies and has become something much more, and pursuit of happiness, as we are g ing about -- you know that beverages at gentlemen of Montana State University. doesn't look like it's slowing down any the right by our Constitution. any Belgian event, especially a cold crazy Our responsibility is to maintain the time soon. I'm already brainstorming We need to love our fellow l one, are going to be tasty. about a bike-friendly costume for next rights of all humans and most cenainly, ity and not s tomp it out. Share th Cyclocross has become so popular year; hope I'll see you there! not to distinguish their lives by the color and instead ofs preadin g ignoranc that it's even begun to permeate the of their skin or their desired reli!tious . • b ead1 other and love each other. practice, mcluding Judaism, which is in • VEMBER 5, 2009 I THEASMSU EXPONENT STATIC 15

a microphone and decidedly rejected the It is apparent that America is moving unjust. Last Sunday, Bozeman came out, forward on this statement: Our nation true to their upbringings of equality and realizes that the diversities that embody plurality, and became whole. America must not be targets. In Bozem­ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while an, we recognize that no one should ever imprisoned in the Birmingham Jail af­ have to live in fear while others stand ter a similar peaceful demonstration for idle, and through our respective actions equality, wrote, "we know through pain­ and educations, each individual is begin­ ful experiences that freedom is never ning to learn that equality is an incarnate voluntarily given by the oppressor, it quality to American life. must be demanded by the oppressed."

!ilRDS BY bill was groundbreaking in that it is one t Sm ith of the only measures taken in response ~SU Exponent to the fact that"[m ]orethan 77,000 hate­ crime incidents were reported by the I 'The Laramie Project:' a short book FBI between i998 and 2007, or 'nearly ,1 . has been adapted from a play writ­ one hate crime for every hour of every ·'Jby the American people, is taught in day over the span of a decade;" Attor­ Introduction to Issues on International Studies ; ·\University Studies Freshman Semi- ney General Eric Holder cited in a June Sprong 2010 • MWF 9:00-9 so a.m 1cx:ourse every semester at MSU. hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary · The author of the book, Moises Committee. 1mnan, and his acting troupe traveled It's apparent that the central theme raramie, Wyoming after the brutal, le­ of "The Laramie Project" equated to a What do ubeating of Matthew Shepard, a Uni­ sociological cross-section of a small, Wy­ "ty of Wyo. student. Shepard was oming town. We now truly see, though, Latin American hip-hop nomaly in the rural American West, that it was a dissection of every Ameri­ and Chinese film have sh, liberal and gay. can community and how they respond Every semester, hundreds of MSU to the prejudices that haunt all of us in in common? an read the book and discuss in someway. 1;: What was the motivation behind Now Bozeman is that American com­ (11no pu11 pue sse10 s141 e>1Ul.l •beating, what does it mean to be munity dealing with its prejudices. Thoreau once wrote, "I was not !Pr an outcast,in a foreign or hostile ML 1oo is an ontroch.rctory course that otters the chance to rethink the wot1d Taught by a tea"' onment? Every semester, though, brought into this world chiefly to make of language and culture expens rrom the Department of Modern Languages and Lltera1ures one asks whether or not it was it a better place to live, but to live in it, ard that was the central spectacle good or bad.... A man has not everything the course 1s designed to introduce students IO a wtde range of issues and apptoaches to is story, or was it us? to do, but something. And because he '8Q10ll3l cuaures cove0ng a bme span from the Mldele Ages to the present All lecll68S Reciprocity is that simple notion cannot do everything, it is not necessary readings and d•!.CUSSIO

r as you would have them do unto In response, several thousand mem­ three ~ey themes Immigration, nation. and race. • Given that, integrity towards our bers of the community of Bozeman ation has been the foundation to turned out to protest the hate-speech Ptease contact pslmpeon montana edu TI>eTeom tor mont information orogress as individuals, and equal­ and bigotry the Montana Creativity James Martfn La!Jn Am:::-can Stud es as been ubiquitously leveraged in Movement (MCM) idolizes. The MCM is Patnclll Catoaa Lat Amencan Studies nique, shared upbringing. It has unlike any group Bozeman has seen be­ 1saoo a Fembacl> French t. Ftancophone StlldieS our teachers who began the initial fore in that 95 percent of the population Ada G si, Ffencll t. Francophone Studies ation of what we call ourselves, and is subject to their hate-speech, and they Marc Mueller German Swellas JoM Tnompoon H spanoc Studies ain have begun targeting not only minorities level of reciprocal action is due Pela< Tlll<:ck Japan SludieS ehalf of this education of equality. in Bozeman, but school-children across Hi.a U MandarlrVAslan Studies Last Thursday, a federal measure our community. Course Coordinator The diversity march began on cam­ ist hate-motivated violence was Patr1da Anne Simpson. Go!M!A.~ Stud CS P-d overwhelmingly by the U.S. Sen­ pus and ended at Willson School, a fitting ::ommonly known as the Shepard rallying point, where pastors, reverends, named for Matthew Shepard, the rabbis and young children stepped up to STATIC THE ASMSU EXPONENT I NOVEMBER 5, 2 16 MSU's Next President The Fla\\Ted Fix

WoRDSBY minority president in one fell swoop I Brent Zundel also encouraging for MSU. Howevr ASMSU Exponent these facts are something of a red he ring; Cruzado was not selected for 1 In a move that will set the tone of ther of these reasons. She was selecr1 our universiry for years to come, the because the Board of Regents thoug Montana Board of Regents has recently she was the candidate best suited for tJ named Waded Cruzado MSU's next job. One of Cruzado's strongest asse WORDS BY ing of insurance. Insurance is not some president. After attending the student f Nick Howard incremental pay scheme, it is a gamble. forums, I am happy with the decision. All seems to be that she genuinely cares ASMSU Exponent Individuals gamble that they will be three candidates could have made excel­ her students and with an undergrad sick, and make a deal beforehand in the lent leaders, but Cruzado impressed me ate population as robust as MSU's, tt The Baucus Bill, touted as the Demo­ event that they are. Insurance is denied ve1ymuch. will prove crucial. If we lose sight of a crat's last best hope of healthcare re­ for pre-existing coverage not because As president, her job will include of the central tenets of our land gra form, recently passed committee with insw·ance companies are greedy penny­ countless interactions with other peo­ mission-education-we will cease nominal bipartisan support. Despite the pinchers, but because that is the nature ple, and that is something she obviously be relevant. lauds by leading reform supporters, the of insurance. The left and many on the excels at. Of all the candidates, she was Cruzado's many abilities should bill has enormous and crippling prob­ right seem to think of insurance as some easily the most personable and the most able to lead us successfully into the j lems that could sink its chances in the social net, where every man helps his likeable. She asked students about them­ ture. Balancing the tripartite land 0 Senate at large. Foremost anlong these neighbor. There is a different word for selves, even knew some of their names, mission of community involvement, is found in the insurance debate. that: Charity. and shook hands with everyone present search, and education is no small fe Despite the basic and unavoidable Imagine if pre-existing conditions as they left the forum. These refreshing­ but I think that Cruzado showed beya • difficulties inherent in government man­ were allowed for other types of insur­ ly personal interactions, combined with doubt that her interests are well b agement of insurance, Democrats and ance. Car owners would wait until after her numerous, and often humorous, an­ anced and she will not overemphasi liberals are eager to work in another their first accident to get liability insur­ ecdotes about students at NMSU, make one of these aspects. Her focus is on t stumbling block: pre-existing condi­ ance. Spouses would wait until death to her care for her students exceedingly students, and I believe this \vill allow I tions. Career politicians can sing a very get a life insurance policy for their hus­ obvious. to make good choices that benefit t sad !ament for those whose illnesses band or wife. Around the campus, the reactions university in the long run. prevent them from gerting healthcare In reality, however, spouses and I've heard have been ve1y much positive. Also worth noting is the fact d and can sway some gullible voters, but drivers could not exploit the system in It is no surprise that those associated Cruzado accepted the job before they have no solution. that way. The ban on pre-existing con- with liberal arts programs are excited ing upon a salary. While her agret The left has one because Cruzado boasts a proposed fix: pass a law strong background in the preventing the denial humanities. Many of our lib­ of coverage for pre-ex­ eral arts programs are under­ isting conditions. They funded and underappreci­ The atmosphere can see no problem; ated; Cruzado could breathe after all, they believe Insurance is not some in­ around campus is cremental pay scheme, new life into them. insurance companies Contrary to what some one of excitement are only denying cov­ it is a gamble. science-minded people be­ erage because they are lieve, I think that for a uni­ and anticipation. greedy and their profit versity to be relevant, it margin will be hurt. should have a decent liberal Nor can they imag­ arts program. Increasing- ine anyone exploiting ly-and especially so with professional upon salary is a jump of nearly $75,( the system. Denise de Percin, execu­ ditions as a legitimate reason for cover­ degrees-universities are seen as a sort from the current pay, it's still consic tive director of the Colorado Consumer age denial would be the end of private of "job training," but they should be so ably less than what is offered in our E Health Initiative, palters thus: "They are insurance, and many on the left know much more. It is ve1y important for stu­ rounding states. Steven Leath, a foll assuming that people would game the this. They play along anyway, telling dents of all majors to be able to under­ Presidential finalist, was very stuck system... they are looking at the worst mournful anecdotes of citizens that died case scenario. People aren't stupid­ stand other cultures, engage in discus­ the issue of a salary, giving the unh because insurance failed to cover them. sions about governmental policies, and they are not going to pay a penalty and sity a price and saying that they ne~ That is sad indeed, but it won't be fixed be able to participate in society. get nothing." by the government. to come close or further discussi However, when given the choice be­ One of the major facets of Cruzado would not be worthwhile. It speaks It is a sign of desperation. Baucus Bill that remains to be seen is how she will tween paying for insurance and paying supporters speak from one side of their umes that Cruzado was excited eno balance her liberal arts background with a smaller fee with no tangible benefit in mouth and pnvately negotiate through to accept the job-where the cun the importance of research at MSU. Dur­ either case, no one would pay the larger the other to get something-anything­ pay is $40,000 less than what she 1 ing the forum, her experience in research amount. In other words, people aren't passed before the outcry starts. With rently makes-without squabbling c going to pay for insurance they can get remained too cloudy as a result of her support plummeting and the 2010 elec­ the salary. later- when they are sick-- with no pen­ num:rous anecdotes. Some of the engi­ tion looking worse for the Democrats The atmosphere around cam alty. No one in their right mind would neenng professors with whom I spoke eveiy day, they have no other avenue for is one of excitement and anticipat seem slightly hesitant about her ability fail to "game the system," and insurance healthcare and power. Gamble was a very well-liked presic companies would go bankrupt with no to strengthen MSU's research chops. . T~e Baucus Bill, this last best hope, and many people will be sad to see source of income and enormous e>.."Pen­ However, I think most of these fears is a silent revoluuon. If Democrats can leave, but Cruzado seems well prep< ditures. The government, the only orga­ are relatively unfounded: President succeed in its passage- especially with to take the helm of the university. ' nization that can handle that much red ~amble's terminal degree is in Linguis­ a pre-existing conditions ban-then they is a time of great change, but also g ink, would have to step in for a quick-fix ncs-cenainly part of the humanities­ have government insurance, and that is possibility for our school. socialist medical system. an_d MSU has established itself as some­ something no logical mind supports. I think I speak for the campus 'I\ The real obstacle to debate in this in­ ~ng of a research powerhouse under I say congratulations to Dr. Cruzado stance is a fundamental misunderstand- his careful watch. welcome ro Montana State. The nan-Ung of our first female and VEMBER 5, 2009 f THE ASMSU EXPONENT STATIC 17

the oh-so-common guy rubbernecking allow that, especially after my effons to after every girl's ass.There are the gym rub the gum off onto the grass resulted employees (sorry to the good ones for in approximately half of all the leaves stereotyping all of you), which sit and that had fallen from the well matured check F-book or whatever it is they do maple I was standing under were now on the computer,while the machines stuck to the bottom of my shoe. terrifyingly squeak and everyone leaves I tentatively tried to just take a sweat, germs, HiN1 and incurable dis­ few more steps only to leave my shoe eases all over the equipment. You were behind,stuck to the concrete. As I hired to work, right?Try cleaning and scraped off the now frozen solid and maintenance for a start. But, of all these still completely sticky goo with my fin­ people, the gum-smacking, bicep-check­ gernails, I could not help but wish the ing, bragging, swaggering gym bro takes person who had littered their gum onto the cake.Sure, you can lift a small car. At a main concrete sidewalk that must get least I have a life, real friends, and peo­ thousands of person traffic daily would EXPO RANTS! ple who actually like me, not from fear of walk by at that second. rt, ct y art cle~ where we ke the charce to sc nd off on "OmP bodily harm from my abnormally huge As I began to imagine that person a t "Jf fe the univc:rse Jnd everything that drives u$ [ & sen 1c t My first article will determine your texting away. There are those other 'On of my writing. I should be care- girls that get made up to go to the gym 586-5451 1d keep this in mind. I should write (you're there to sweat,aren't you?), or 18 STATIC THE ASMSU EXPONENT I NOV. 5, 200 A Diversify Nails Mat1icure, Pedicure, Fullset, Fill it1, Acrylic, Sudoku PiatMottd, C.el, Silks Wrap, Hat1d Art Airbrush at1d .... 7 5 1629 W. Maht St.

3 I 9 1

I ' DIRECTIONS: FILL IN THE GRID SO 8 2 5 7 Last week's solution: THAT EVERY ROW, COLUMN, AND 7 4 6 3 2 5 8 I 9 3X3 BLOCK CONTAINS THE DIGITS 1 -1---t 4 6 3 9 I 6 4 8 5 7 2 THROUGH 9.

5 2 8 7 I 9 6 3 4 SEE SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK 'S 3 7 5 6 s 2 1 4 9 7 PAPER! 1-- ~3 -+-- 9 8 3 4 6 7 l --2 5 I 7 4 9 5 2 3 6 8 6 8 2 3 I 9 4 7 5 6 ~8 -+----+-- 8 6 ' 5 2 7 3 9 4 l ~ ·;-- ,_____ 4 I 7 s 9 6 2 8 3

Modern Thought. Montana Fly Fishi Guide School SPRING BREAK MARCH 14-20 W E PROVIDE E.XTE.'ISIVL TR.\IN11'G D L Rill A Wr:tXLO:\G GUIDE CllOOL Week Includes: • GUIDE TECHNIQUES FOR \ Born ALASKA AND Lowfit 48 • fly FISHING TRAINING • FLY CASTING \ • FLY T YING • DRIFT BOAT TRAINING • J ET BOAT

Land Your Dredm Job & Cate some Montana Wild Trout l'l.:..t'e call I Soo GO Gl ID!-. 1 I 'bf>-4(>-1-843~) I 'F01 • S\\ £1:.f\\ -\1 ERi RA\'l:.I CO ,II. 5, 2009 I THE ASMSU EXPONENT STATIC 19 ~Tl-IE EMERSON GRILL~ YOUR NEIGMBORMOOD RESTAURANT MANDCRArTtO ..rRt5M +l.9CAL+9R

·RDS BY cigars throughout the house, and Carroll his tobacco in the end of a Persian SU Exponent slipper. He also finds jay in keeping my stapler in Jell-0. li>ear Sherlock, The smoke cloud must not bother I've got roommate problems. him too much, or those surround­ I 'a really good friend, and I've ing hi?H, because he has no diffi­ !l'lf11 him for a long time. He's culty meeting women and seducing 'iant in nearly all walks of life, them. Once he even got engaged but BOZEMAN SOUTH 19TH AVENUE t for organization and person­ only so he could get closer to some­ CONSTRUCTION WRAPPING UP FOR j.nsideration for other people. one else. Do you know the sound a WINTER; TO CONTINUE SPRING 2010 ofpaper lie everywhere. He woman makes after she realizes 1 ~y washes dishes and leaves that her fiance was just using her to Traffic control will be in effect during a project to widen S. 19th J >iusual amount ofunderu',ar get closer to someone else? Imagine Ave. between Babcock and Kagy. Crews are wrapping up for winter :nd the house. He's an excellent a sound that simultaneously makes and will finish up in the spring of 2010, as weather permits. Be alert ist, but he plays at ungodly you defecate yourself and throw for the changing traffic patterns throughout the work zone. s of the morning. I also have the up. Then multiply that by io, plus a 1Wing suspicion that he has been dying cat. He has the innate ability -gall ofmy groceries and eat- to attract a female to as far as our y peanut butte1· with hisfin- house before his curt nature offends lAfter he cooks he always leaves them. Then I get to hear doors slam mess that he has no intention and the sound ofsomeone weeping xmingup. in his room. •most always leaves interest­ According to hi?H, his Basset hound ecimens that "You gotta come is prone to crying in the middle of 'n the toilet. Besides that, the the night, and that it has an un­ 1:·oom is always full of disguises canny resemblance to the sound aair shavings. Again, there is humans make. This dog also craps tention ofcleaning up. He also in my bed, so perhaps it is a fairly l"ently commandeers the bath- human dog. • and kitchen for his chemical He is also very fit and practices lriments. Most ofthese experi- fitness-whenever he can. I am all ~ s result in the near loss of limb for fitness, but not ifI have to par­ t~ severe distrust of any of the ticipate and clean up afterword. I eft in the kitchen. One time I came home one day only to find my 1 home to him trying to make roommate successfully wrestling a J nelet and sequence some DNA small bear. When I asked him why ·same time. Let's just say we there was a bear in the house, he u1 series of unknowingly dis- replied, "Because that's where I put g meals. out the bear food." ?t's just talk about his drug Like I said earlier, I like my room­ Plan for extra travel time, use caution and refrain from using a little bit. He readily uses co­ mate very much. All of these things cell phones in work zones. and opium. And sometimes he would normally be forgiven and back home after being at his forgotten had he not eaten all of Current phase of project includes: den, no doubt, singing Pink the mars11mallows out of my Lucky • Widening of S. 19th to 4 lanes with turn pockets tl at the top of his lungs. Naked. Charms. I spent two damn weeks tvouldn't be a huge proble?H, plucking out all the marshmallows • New signals and street lighting at S. 19th intersections metimes he doesn't always so that, one day, I could enjay a with W Koch St. & College St. •tup in our house. One time I glorious explosion offlavored sugar. pick him up at the mall after But no~ t11anks to my ROOMMATE, • New sidewalks, pedestrian ramps & bicycle lanes

MODELS WANTED for fine art and fashion Notices: photography. Will compensate with prints Call 646-875-8227 for more Did you lose your dirt bike? Well. I found information. one 1n the duck pond. If you thin!<. it belongs to you call 406-6 72-4325 For Sale:

STRESSED OUT ? /:'[• I!! Get 2.0 College NEED Affordable Furniture??? 10% OFF CREDITs for JUSt learning HOW TO meditate! - Home decor for your dorm/apartment. LEARN Transcendental Meditation TM Couches, poker tables, bar stools, desks. technique. Apply Online: www.mum.edu/ Contact: Second Impressions - Home tmcourse/ Contact: Peter DeRuiter Jpeter0 Furnishing Gallery, 40 Spanish Peak Drive tm.org #406-587-0205 Four Corners #406-585-0700

UPHEAVAL: A REVOLUTION OF THE ARTS Lowepro Micro Trekker 200-Black Camera 1s just around the corner! Fill out an Backpack, GREAT condition only used twice, application today to have your artwork $45, 406-600-2157. featured in this three day art sale and show! MSU students and alumni must submit an VOLKL GOTAMA 183 application for entries by November 20th, w/Tyrolia LN 12 Ra1lflex Binding $300- 2009 to the Office of Student Activities. Used 3 seasons. good condition Questions? (207] 240-0406 Call 994-1828. For Rent: Help Wanted: 1ST MONTH FREE! 3BR/2BA One block ASMSU 1s hiring students to tutor in all from campus. W/D same floor. W/S/G subjects, make your own schedule, $9.00/ paid, low utils, off street parking, N/S, N/P, hr. visit sub 221 or call 994-2933 for more $895/mo. Call Ian at 406-595-2426. www. info. aspenpropertiesbozeman.com

a stu ds free of charge "or students lde 3 words Email us ~or ore ir.Jorm non on non st.ldent ra.tes EMAIL· ADSfaEXPONENT.MONTANA.EDU

1 Pregnant Woman + Fetal Development Facts + Abortion Facts + AJI Options

= 1 Informed Woman Acuna v. T11rkisli dismissed Acuna's rightto kn . f th e b'10 Iog1ca . 1 acts about her preborn babow Misin_Iormed. b) her doctor, Acuna regrets t~ abortion which ended the life of her child. ;=·teenbreaks.com click Pregnancy, LifeB-4 Get The Facts! G . V. Right To Life po Box6l4,B&lgrodeMT