Montana Kaimin, April 12, 2011 Students of the Niu Versity of Montana, Missoula

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 4-12-2011 Montana Kaimin, April 12, 2011 Students of The niU versity of Montana, Missoula Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Students of The nivU ersity of Montana, Missoula, "Montana Kaimin, April 12, 2011" (2011). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 5417. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/5417 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2 OPINION 5 SPORTS Elison: global warming Coach Tinkle 7 NEWS will be back Legislative roundup: abortion, budget, COT, gun rights, same-day voting montana Volume CX111 Issue 89 www.montanakaimin.comkaiminTuesday, April 12, 2011 MONTANA FEATURE PHOTO Marijuana dispensaries could face closures Crane campaign Paige Huntoon giver. In addition, it reduces the Montana Kaimin number of plants caregivers may grow per patient. The bill As the 62nd session of the also prevents caregivers from Montana Legislature comes to accepting compensation for a close, the fate of medical mari- any services or products given juana is becoming clearer. to patients. House Bill 161, which would Joel Haffey, assistant manager completely repeal the 2004 voter at Montana Cannabis and Hemp initiative that legalized the use Foundation, said that these pro- of medical cannabis in Montana, visions, and most importantly has been sent to Gov. Brian Sch- the non-compensation stipula- weitzer’s desk. The governor has tion for caregivers, would make told the press that he would not growing marijuana plants very sign that bill and would prefer unappealing. to keep medical marijuana for “It makes growing a non- those who need it. profit,” he said. Senate Bill 423 would greatly University of Montana gradu- reduce the number of people able ate student Blair Gemmer is both to use medical marijuana. It limits a patient and a medical marijuana registered caregivers to one card- grower. Gemmer said he’s invest- holding patient, plus two other ed about $12,000 into his marijua- patients as long as they are related na plants for eight patients, and by blood or marriage to the care- See MARIJUANA, page 4 CAMPUS UM communication students mentor prisoners Victoria Edwards Montana Kaimin communication at The Uni- versity of Montana, and other Natalie Caplis was appre- students in the Communica- hensive when she initially tion and Entrepreneurship began mentoring a convicted class, have been working as felon. business plan advisers this When she first wrote to him, semester for 11 soon-to-be introducing herself, she was paroled prisoners in Texas as nervous about giving him her part of the Prison Entrepre- last name, but now after work- neurship Program. ing with him for nearly two She is currently advising months to come up with a plan Philip, who Caplis said is to start his own business, she spending time in jail for ag- Sally Finneran/Montana Kaimin has removed the stereotype of gravated robbery. Although Kate Lufkin and Caitlin Parker laugh as they struggle to learn how to fold paper cranes in the University prison inmates from her head. Philip has a past in diesel me- Center Monday morning during the kickoff of the Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Paper Crane Campaign. A table “These guys have a lot of chanics, he is looking to start will be set up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the UC until April 22 where a dollar can be donated to fold a crane. All proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross. Once all of the donations are collected and the cranes are a business in the field of job stereotypes and stigma sur- folded, they will string up the birds in the UC. “Once they’re hanging it’s going to be a constant reminder of what rounding them, and they just recruiting, where he would is going on in Japan,” Parker said. Student involvement was inspired by the story “Sadako and the Thousand Paper kind of surprise you once you draft people for information Cranes.” Sadako Sasaki was very young when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and she was tragically start working with them,” Ca- technology, software and injured. According to the story, anyone who folds 1,000 cranes is granted a wish, but Sasaki died before she could plis said. managerial positions. complete her thousand cranes. In her honor, her friends finished her cranes and buried them with her. Caplis, a junior studying See PRISONERS, page 4 twitter.com/ 52°F | 31°F UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Tuesday, April 12, 2011 SCIENCE COLUMN EDITORIAL CARTOON The things I think I think: Global warming by David Elison I have largely avoided this topic due to the stigma, but re- cent findings have encouraged me otherwise. Allow me a mo- ment to climb onto my soapbox. I work in an analytical chemistry lab where the majority of research done examines the prevailing oceanic trends of the globe. Last week, during a lab meeting, we discussed a paper that addressed the concerns of ocean acidification and warming on coral reefs. Not too surprisingly, the results were profoundly negative. What truly struck me, though, was the conversation that took place during said meeting regarding by Joe Veltkamp the number of people who still do not believe the research is accurate or that this is actually a real problem. With a little further investigation I uncovered some saddening statistics. Some 27 percent of people polled nationwide said there was no evidence of global warming, and a mere 47 percent LETTERS to the EDITOR said they thought human behavior had something to do with the observed trends. The work has been done and the MontPIRG matters doing inspiring work — at the state cause the core of our mission is research is out there, people. As the paper we discussed in As a University of Montana Legislature, on Capitol Hill, staffing to mentor and train students. my meeting (titled “Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change student, MontPIRG board mem- other organizations and even run- We don’t spend much money and Ocean Acidification,” by O. Hoegh-Guldberg, if you’re in- ber and a lobbyist for MontPIRG ning their own nonprofits. on other things such as office terested) and another piece of data I found discussed, this is at the 2011 Legislature, I wanted A few have taken the cynical space, computers, travel or an issue that needs attention. And, if you’re still a nonbeliever, to provide some important in- view that students can’t make a supplies. We invest in people you may not be as well read as you think. Stepping down ... formation. For those who might difference through their own or- because that is the essence of Scientists at the University of Washington recently discov- not know, MontPIRG is a stu- ganizations and that important our democracy. Much like the ered a distinct correlation between warmer temperatures on the dent-directed, nonpartisan or- issues of our generation don’t University spends most of its Antarctic Peninsula and increased surface temperatures in the ganization that for 30 years has actually affect students. Many of budget on salaries, and sports central Pacific Ocean, near the International Date Line. Using provided students with mean- us donate money to other wor- teams have to pay their coach- satellite and surface readings, the researchers observed some of ingful opportunities to address thy organizations such as the es, we spend money where it the “largest shifts in the Antarctic climate in decades,” and these serious problems by engaging Red Cross or the Nature Conser- can have the greatest impact on were marked by significant increases in temperature, especially in important public policy issues vancy. But we also do more than students — professional staff during the summer months (June through August). on the local, state and national that. We’ve advocated so that 80 dedicated to teaching the next Since Antarctica is largely isolated in the Southern Ocean, levels. We believe that Universi- percent of the drillers near the generation of leaders. climate shifts related to weather in other areas of the globe ty of Montana students deserve North Fork dropped their leases The best way to learn the are rare. That is what makes these findings so intriguing. The chances to engage in civic life this fall. We worked to cap pay- skills to be effective citizens statistical correlation the work uncovered (between a warmer beyond the voting booth and op- day loans at 36 percent instead is through action. During this Antarctica and surface temperatures in the Pacific) allowed portunities for learning beyond of 400 percent. The list contin- school year alone, MontPIRG scientists to determine that it was largely the work of strong the classroom. ues. To create real change, stu- students have worked on cam- westerly winds that carried the warm air off the Pacific and Over the years, MontPIRG has dents need to donate more than paigns to protect Glacier Na- onto the frozen continent. The circulation of these winds fol- hired staff who have mentored money; they need to fund and tional Park from oil and gas lows a changing pressure pattern of high to low pressure and trained literally hundreds of run their own citizen advocacy development, restore the pas- across the Pacific Ocean to Antarctica.

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