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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 9-10-2009 Montana Kaimin, September 10, 2009 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, September 10, 2009" (2009). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 5227. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/5227 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]. Page 2 Page 5 Page 7 The modern common Lady Griz face Montana filmmaker sense of things fierce competition focuses on Butte from UC Davis www.montanakaimin.com MKontana UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 aVolumeimin CXII Issue 6 Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 PEAS Farm students glean yards around Missoula Carmen George Montana Kaimin A bright red windowless van pulls slowly out of the UM PEAS Farm gate, while its driver looks back for a moment over ten acres of veggies and thick rows of sky- reaching sunflowers. Four students sit inside holding large plastic tubs for collecting fruit as the rest of the fall PEAS Farm students stay on the grounds to harvest tomatoes and beans. They’re going gleaning: gather- ing left-over, unwanted fruit from around town to donate to the Mis- soula Food Bank, make cider and feed the goats and chickens at the PEAS Farm (UM’s Program in Ecological Agriculture and Soci- ety). The gleaning program began five years ago to help keep ani- mals – specifically bears – out of people’s backyards, said Josh Slot- nick, UM PEAS Farm director and environmental studies teacher. “Imagine getting rid of all of this yourself,” said Ross Monasmith, a student in the fall PEAS class, as he picked a handful of apples from a limb heavy with fruit in the yard of a home in the Rattlesnake. “Most people don’t just have cider presses laying around.” After around a halfhour of pick- Greg Lindstrom/Montana Kaimin ing and gathering fallen fruit, about Jenna Tomiello and Ross Monasmith sort through apples at a house in the Rattlesnake Wednesday as part of their PEAS class. 150 pounds of apples have been class focus on small-scale sustain- falls in the Environmental Stud- evieve Jessop Marsh, community farm, is then celebrated and shared gathered, said Zach Johnson, PEAS able agriculture. The farm, located ies department and combines tra- outreach director for Garden City amongst students at a party around Farm intern and gleaning coordina- two miles from campus in the Rat- ditional academics with hands-on Harvest. “And I think it’s really fun Halloween. tor. So far, four houses in the Rat- tlesnake, works closely with The work at the organic farm, growing to go pick apples for an afternoon.” Homeowners interested in hav- tlesnake have signed up to have the Missoula Food Bank and nonprofit dozens of different kinds of veg- Pears, along with the apples, are ing a group of volunteers collect PEAS farm glean their fruit trees, group Garden City Harvest to pro- etables. also sometimes used in the cider unwanted fruit from their yards he said. duce tens of thousands of pounds “I really like the feeling that this making process. The tasty liquid, can call the PEAS Farm at 406- The 28 students within the four of fruit and vegetables each season food that would have gone to waste made from some of the gleaned 543-4992. sections of the Fall PEAS Farm for low-income Missoulians. PEAS is going to good use,” said Gen- fruit with cider presses at the [email protected] Bridge jumping good for thrills, not for flouting the law Students still waiting Laura Lundquist “I didn’t know what was down there,” McKellin said. Montana Kaimin “I’m used to swimming and diving in lakes, but we don’t for dorm rooms have strong rivers. Plus, I’ve heard there’s supposed to Mike Gerrity An anxious crowd stared up at the young man bal- be a $1,000 fine.” Montana Kaimin anced on the side of the bridge, clinging to the railing. Janna Smith, a pharmacy grad student who was pass- Suddenly, he let go and stepped off. The crowd gasped ing by, said she wasn’t nervy enough to jump and added As of Wednesday, 27 students remain in temporary as he plunged 50 feet through the hot air of a late sum- that it was illegal to jump off bridges. housing at the University of Montana. mer day. It turns out McKellin and Smith are wrong. UM director of Residence Life Ron Brunell said it The jumper, Tyler Hawkins, lived to tell the tale be- Signs at both ends of the pedestrian bridge warn peo- could take three or four more weeks to find places for the cause he is one of a group of students who regularly en- ple about “permanent injury or death caused by jumping rest of the students, who are all male. He said vacancies joy jumping off the Madison Street bridge into the Clark off bridge.” But they are just that: warnings. Warnings might pop up after registration issues with some students Fork River. Close to 50 students gathered at the bridge that are not only ignored, but sometimes eliminated, as get cleared up. All unclaimed rooms on campus have al- late Friday afternoon to share in the thrill of jumping, in in the case of one sign obscured by spray paint. ready been filled with new occupants. spite of the fact that most think it’s illegal. Betsy Willett of Missoula Parks and Recreation, the “I think we’ve identified all the no-shows now,” While some students brave the jump from the low- organization that created the signs, said they were posted Brunell said. er pedestrian bridge, about 25 feet above the water, as a safety issue in agreement with the Missoula Rede- UM freshman Ben Buckridge checked out of the study Hawkins, a freshman from Kalispell, took it one step velopment Agency, which sponsored the bridge when it lounge on the tenth floor of Aber Hall Wednesday after- further – one big step – and jumped off the road bridge was built in 2006. noon after spending the first two weeks sharing it with above as cars whizzed by. Hawkins is no newcomer to Kristina Datsopoulos of the Missoula police depart- five other people. He now has a single room in Elrod Hall. jumping, having leapt off bridges and cliffs into Flathead ment said the department is in charge of patrolling the “It’s a lot more peaceful,” he said. Lake. bridges, but there is no fine. City attorney Andrew Scott Buckridge said he still gets along with his former “But this is the highest I’ve done,” he said. “I’ll defi- confirmed that no city or state ordinance prohibits jump- roommates and went to find them hanging around outside nitely go off the top again – it’s the most exciting.” ing off bridges. He said anyone who got injured couldn’t Aber Hall Wednesday afternoon. The majority of the enthusiasts were male, but a few successfully sue because “everyone knows how danger- Travis Shepard, another freshman, still occupies that women also took the plunge. Kristen McKellin, a fresh- ous it is to jump off bridges.” same lounge with one other student. He said after talking man from Minneapolis, has been in Missoula two weeks Now in its third summer, the Madison Street bridge with Residence Life, he may be moving a few rooms down and spent most of those days frolicking at the bridge. may challenge Brennan’s Wave as a thrill seeker’s haven. the hall from the old study lounge, although he admits he A lake lover like Hawkins, McKellin is experienced, But if part of the fun is getting away with something, got used to the atmosphere of sharing one big room. but she said she was a little scared before her first jump that thrill is gone. And those who can read through the “They should just leave it and make it a room,” off the pedestrian bridge. spray paint have been warned. Shepard said. [email protected] [email protected] 2 MKontana aimin Opinion Thursday, September 10, 2009 EDITORIAL Freshman mindset: something to keep, not destroy glean valuable information from this valley, something about the while mired in what seems like conclusions about the purpose a “beer goggle” learning session tree-lined streets and the pierc- an unofficial competition among of life or the state of the world. or research the clubs they can join ing cold air that made me believe my friends to see which of us is But I’d like to contemplate those to be “more involved.” It’s mostly that I could reinvent myself here. the most stressed. I’ve stopped things more than I have recently. because they’re still optimistic I expected to figure out what I daydreaming about what I hope I’d like to strike a better balance about this next chapter in life; wanted somewhere along a trail to accomplish in life because it between studying other people’s they’re still excited about what on Mount Sentinel, or the brick seems that time would be better ideas and formulating my own.

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