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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: gathering 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. Allison Maier, Editor the future holds; they’re still cer- sidewalk running down the mid- spent studying for my impending And while it’s not too late to tain they can make a difference in dle of campus or in the slate-gray French test. change my approach, I think the They can try all they want, the world. winter skies. Everyone talked And all that’s come out of it process would have been easier but freshmen on campus have yet I should just be happy for them. about how that’s what college is is that I’m more indecisive than if I hadn’t let go of the mindset to blend in with their surround- I should encourage our peers who all about. Everyone told me how ever about what I want, more un- I’d had when I first walked onto ings. Even outside of their usual are just as bright-eyed and ideal- much I’d love it. certain than ever about my hopes this campus. It’s the mindset I haunts: the dorms, the Food Zoo, istic as I was when I arrived on It’s not as if I haven’t enjoyed for the future and almost entirely think most freshmen have when the Cascade Country Store – the this campus two years ago. That myself from time to time. But convinced that if I change the they come here – a confidence places that upperclassmen have is why I’ve been asking myself with 247 days left until I gradu- world someday, it will probably in themselves and a willingness long since written off – they are in past weeks why it is that I find ate, I look back on what I’ve done be by accident. to do something significant. It’s easily distinguishable amidst them irritating rather than inspir- during my time here and realize My mistake was that I got so the mindset I’d like to regain in their older, disillusioned counter- ing. And the more I think about that although I always intended caught up in the external aspects this last year and am hoping the parts. it, the more I think it might have to “find myself” at some point, of college – the books, the papers, group of well-groomed freshman It’s not just because they still something to do with the fact that I just got too busy to do it. My the extracurriculars – that I aban- I saw sipping smoothies outside spend time on their hair in the I did college the wrong way. life became a series of home- doned the pursuit of all the signif- of Jus’ Chillin will keep for the morning or bother to match their Before I came to college, I work assignments, deadlines and icant things I could have gained. next four. clothing. It’s not just because talked a lot about “finding my- 16-ounce drip coffees. I’ve spent I don’t expect things to ever It’s the thing that will make they’re willing to participate self.” I picked this campus be- most of my spare time talking make sense completely. I’m this worth it in the end. in campus activities, hoping to cause there was something about about all the things I have to do not holding out for definite [email protected]

even dating, arguing that the song Our Love to Admire. The Unicorns The common sense of th is indeed better than the two it is are a best friend who won’t even modern ing sandwiched between (“Mayfly” speak to me anymore; the Strokes s and “Get Me Away From Here, I’m are all the horrible months I spent My life on iPod Dying”). delivering pizza in this miserable By Karen! Garcia “I’m a cuckoo,” Stuart Murdoch town. reminds me as I speed past nonde- Who needs a camera when a Seeing as I fall between the pictures as a means of record- my thumb across the iPod’s circu- script fields and half-decomposed song, album or band can capture ages of 18 and 30, it is only natural keeping, and generously omit the lar navigation panel, waiting for road kill, and I reminisce about a memory a thousand times more that I spend every moment of my possibility of any narcissistic mo- something to catch my interest. I getting drunk off of cheap beer vivid, a memory that will invari- free time mindlessly meandering tives and/or delusions that anyone choose The Eames Era’s “Double with him and idiotically dancing ably tug at my heartstrings a thou- through the maze of inanity that is besides them cares. Dutch” and am instantly jerked along to the helplessly cheerful sand times more powerfully? Facebook. (I assure you this is not So why am I not compelled to into lucid memories of walking to tune. Initially, I thought 46 albums an article about social networking. keep static images as mementos of class along the Iowa River in early The end of our relationship is and almost 3,000 pictures seemed Even I realize the only thing more events I have experienced, or peo- 2006, even though I am presently The Life Pursuit, in particular “To a little excessive. Then I realized I overdone than a column about ple I have known? Why does every driving through flatland South Da- Be Myself Completely,” which have over 8,000 songs in my music Twitter is one about Facebook.) other college-age girl keep pic- kota in 2009. drifted through the stereo as he library. Anyway, when I am inevitably tures of her boyfriend and friends Music chronicles my life in a drove me to the airport for the last So maybe I am the one relent- scrutinizing the profile pages of around her room, and I don’t even way pictures could never do jus- time. Sometimes I think he played lessly and excessively document- people I hardly know (while si- know where the hell my camera is tice. For instance, I can essentially this song intentionally, if only being my life. Maybe when my pho- multaneously passing fierce and right now? chart a relationship I had with an cause it seemed so painfully ap- to-obsessed friends are clicking unwarranted judgment for no rea- After driving a total of 20 hours ex-boyfriend through the entire propriate at the time, but then I re- through their digital albums years son whatsoever), I almost always to and from South Dakota this past Belle and Sebastian discography. member he was not capable of that down the road, reminiscing about notice that these Internet socialites Labor Day weekend, I can tell you And it isn’t a retrospective attribu- sort of complexity. college, I won’t be able to partake. possess 10 times as many photos as why. The reason I don’t need to use tion; the memories attach them- While many of these songs I’ll be driving down the highway, I do. a camera is because I have an iPod. selves to the songs, not vice versa. mentally link me to past relation- alone, the music and the memories A certain “friend” of mine My 1998 Toyota Rav4 shakes So if I listen to “If You’re Feel- ships, others just tie to general time echoing through the car in a chorus has 46 digital photo albums and violently as it rumbles down I-90; ing Sinister,” I mentally reel back- periods or people. I recall almost of regret, elation, and everything I 2,705 pictures tagged. I am going it cannot smoothly handle any- wards. I am lying on the bed in all of the events of my summer of ever experienced in between. to assume that these people take thing over 50 mph. I listlessly roll his dorm room before we were 2007 through the lens of Interpol’s [email protected]

The Kaimin invites letters to the editor ontana and guest columns. M Letters should be 300 words or fewer, and columns should be about 700 words. Please aimin e-mail both to [email protected], or drop them off in Don Anderson Hall 208. Make sure to include a phone number. K MKontana aimin Newsroom Phone 406-243-4310 Business Office Phone 406-243-6541 The Montana Kaimin, in its 112th Editor Design Editor Arts/Outdoors Reporters Designers Columnists year, is published by the students Allison Maier Ashley Klein Collin Behan Alaina Abbott Willi Brooks of the University of Montana, News Editors Web Publisher Justin Franz Alison Kilts Andrew Dusek Missoula. The UM School of Brenna Braaten Daniel Doherty Hannah Ryan Jillian Wilson Karen Garcia Journalism uses the Montana Laura Lundquist Web Editor Sports Reporters Copy Editors Kaelyn Kelly Kaimin for practice courses but Will Melton Steel Brooks Tyson Alger Ben Coulter Nate Rott assumes no control over policy or Arts/Outdoor Editor Reporters Matt McLeod Alexa Dobson content. Steve Miller Kimball Bennion Troy Warzocha Sarah Robertson The Montana Kaimin is printed on Sports Editor Cody Bloomsburg Photographers Alyssa Small Jesseca Whalen campus by Printing and Graphics. Roman Stubbs Jayme Fraser Kat Franchino Send letters to the editor to Photo Editor Carmen George Greg Lindstrom Taka Osuga [email protected] Eric Oravsky Mike Gerrity Josh Potter Drew Vetere 3 Thursday, September 10, 2009 Opinion MKontana aimin Universities, community should Tuition and state funding went up, work together for education but where has the money gone? Welcome back, students! We Is this money being invested in Getting back on schedule hope that you had a great sum- teaching and scholarship – the mer and one last blast of fun over core missions of the University of Labor Day weekend, even though Montana – as it should be? it represents the end of summer. Recriminations will not solve As you return to classes this fall, the problem. However, “wage sup- take a moment to look around at pression,” in which management the University of Montana. We, repeatedly turns to employees to the faculty, love bear the burden our University. of budget cuts, As students come Letters to is not the solu- and go through- tion either. We out the years they the Editor encourage MUS take a part of this management to great school with bargain in good them. The University of Montana faith and reach contract settle- is, indeed, a very special place. ments with faculty and staff. Then However, all is not well at our they must engage the faculty, staff University, nor at the other Mon- and students in formulating solu- tana University System (MUS) tions. campuses; the MUS is in a budget One solution is to raise more crisis. Faculty and staff at UM money. Last May at the Board of have been bargaining with MUS Regents meeting, the University management all year in an attempt Faculty Association proposed to reach agreement on a contract. that the “partners” in the MUS, Taka Osuga/Montana Kaimin To date, the talks have not suc- i.e., management, faculty, staff, Communications major Bailee Guisti studies at the Mansfield Library on Wednesday afternoon. Although the mid- ceeded; there have been layoffs, students and alumni all join to- terms are weeks away, students are easing back into their studying habits. and supplies and resources for gether in an Advocacy Project classrooms, labs and studios are for Higher Education. We hope critically short. to achieve proper, sustainable must undergo a detailed fiscal force to reorganize the MUS to value of education and lifelong To address this problem, MUS funding levels and greater suc- analysis to show that it is feasible, make it more efficient and produc- learning in the global economy. management has proposed that cess in providing educational op- affordable, and based on sound tive. Once again, a top-down ap- We also recognize that all the faculty and staff accept further portunities to all Montanans. We management practices. We must proach will not work. The MUS partners in the MUS are people cuts in resources and that we ac- must let our state leaders know be aware that adding new pro- partners should engage the citizens of good will and they all want the cept no pay raise for the next two that we care, that we are willing grams or buildings in good times of Montana in a public discussion same thing: success. To achieve or even four years. We don’t need to make necessary changes and could result in adding yet another to answer some fundamental ques- that, we must learn from the past a “Support Your Poor Professor” economize. year of wage suppression in harder tions: “What kind of University and move forward together with fund, but how can an enterprise Second, the UM Faculty and times. We must constantly be judi- system do we want?” and then, the support of the citizens of Mon- consider itself successful when it the Administration should insist cious. “How much are we willing to pay tana. Third, all the partners in MUS for it?” Douglas Coffin can’t provide its employees with a that before approval, any new stra- Vice President, The University Faculty pay raise 50 percent of the time? tegic plan, program or building should join together in a new task We all recognize the increasing Association at the University of Montana 4 MKontana aimin News Thursday, September 10, 2009 Film festival focuses on health care Trail blazer Cody Bloomsburg The first part of the mini-se- Liben said Students for Peace Montana Kaimin ries, “In Sickness and in Wealth,” and Justice originally invited a follows the health of a CEO, a lab representative from Sen. Max As the debate over health care supervisor, a janitor and an unem- Baucus’ office to be a panelist reform reaches a near cage-match ployed mother to show the effects as well as a representative from frenzy, officials with the 2009 socio-economic class and race Congressman Denny Rehberg’s Peace and Justice Film Series said have on a person’s health. staff, but both offices declined. they hope to give students and res- Liben said the documentary is However, Liben said Baucus of- idents better insight into the state focused on the disparity between ficials offered to have a staff mem- of American health care with this the quality of health care and gen- ber read a letter from the senator year’s selection of films. eral wellness available to people at the discussion, but later decided Sponsored by the University in different classes, not on health against it because Baucus didn’t of Montana Students for Peace insurance like many other debates. want staff members talking about and Justice and the Jeannette The panel will feature Matt the issue as he prepares to release Rankin Peace Center, part one of Singer, CEO of Forward Montana, his own plan within the next few the PBS mini-series “Unnatural as a supporter of Obama’s plan. days. Causes: Is Inequality Making us Lee Tickell, former administrator Parts three, five and seven of Sick?” will be shown on Thurs- with the Montana Medicaid Bu- “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality day at 7 p.m. in the University reau, will be on the other side of Making us Sick?” will be shown Center Theater with a panel dis- the table as a supporter of a single- at 7 p.m. in the U.C. Theatre on cussion to follow. payer system. Sept. 17. “We look for non-violent solu- “I think our current system is The presentations are free to tions to the world’s problems,” said extraordinarily broken,” Singer all, but donations are welcome. Robbie Liben, Students for Peace said. “I’m in favor of reform this More information and a complete and Justice coordinator, “and we year, and beyond that I’ve got schedule of this year’s series are believe that one of the ways we some things that I would like to available at www.peaceandjustice- need to get there is by showing see happen, but I’m flexible.” films.org. films and discussing them after- Tickell couldn’t be reached for [email protected] ward.” comment.

Greg Lindstrom/Montana Kaimin A man jogs on the Kim Williams Nature Trail that runs along the South bank of the Clark Fork. The trail currently dead-ends about three miles East of the University. MontanaMK Kaimin M K 5 Thursday, September 10, 2009 Sports MKontana aimin Griz look to slow down potent UC Davis attack Kaitlyn Heinsohn getting more shots off, but also to keep pace on the other end, they’ll have Matt McLeod getting better looks. That’s some- to pick up a little attacking steam of their Montana Kaimin Grace McKoy thing that has paid off in spades own - something that has been largely ab- With an aggressive new offensive for us.” sent so far. scheme, the early season has been a success- 78 minutes into last Friday’s match ful experiment for the UC Davis women’s against Boise State, the Griz found them- soccer team. As the Aggies set their selves still scoreless in the regular season sights on tonight’s matchup with Mon- until goals by junior Kaitlyn Heinsohn and tana at South Campus Stadium, UM freshman Ashley Tombelaine pulled the coach Neil Sedgwick says his team club ahead in the match’s late stages. isn’t signing up to be another positive The Griz were shut out against the test case. Vandals two days later, but Sedgwick Despite a 1-4-0 record out of the As the still thinks getting on the board in gates, Sedgwick said Montana’s tough Aggies look Boise is the breakthrough his team had schedule has already prepared them to sustain their been missing. for what’s in store from the attacking scoring mo- “We definitely look at the end of the Aggies. mentum, it’s game as the biggest step in the right direc- “Most good Division I teams are up to Montana tion so far,” Sedgwick said. trying to play pretty quickly, so we’re defenders and The offensive frustration hasn’t stopped used to facing their pace,” Sedgwick said. keeper Grace Montana from been competitive in their “With the schedule we’ve played, I don’t Harris to pump losses, hanging tough with larger programs think we could be any better prepared.” the brakes on like Iowa, Iowa State and Gonzaga. Concentrating on boosting their shots on the Davis attack. It’s a fact Robinson hasn’t overlooked, goal is a philosophy that has paid off for UC After notch- and neither is the possibility of an upset Davis, which has scored early and often, ing eight saves against a club she thinks has been better while retaining consistent possession and against Idaho, than its record indicates. remaining solid on the defensive end. senior Har- ”Obviously you go into every game, Saturday’s 5-0 mop up of Cal State Ba- ris has led a even if you’re expected to win, with your kersfield left the Aggies sitting at 2-0-1, and m a k i ng defense that eyes wide open,” Robinson said. “But the club heads to Missoula chock full of the formula has looked even more so in this case, because from confidence. work has meant solid of what I’ve seen Montana is a very good The scoring chances have come as a sur- not only looking late. But team. They’ve just had some bad luck in prise to few, as the Aggies are fulfilling a to pour numbers this time front of goal.” vow coach Mary Claire Robinson made be- forward, but focus- a r o u n d With a powerful 3-1-1 BYU team coming fore the season. ing on sharpening it could to town Saturday, the road doesn’t get any The 18-year head coach promised her the attack in the field’s take ev- easier for Sedgwick and his club. But if the team would be an up-tempo outfit, becom- final third. erything the players in Griz coaches are sweating the home stand, ing less defensive while assaulting the nets “We’ve made some the backfield can muster it hasn’t showed. with an aggressive offensive attack. changes specifically geared at to keep UC Davis at bay. “We’re confident and ready to do some But in a sport like soccer, scoring is easi- getting more dangerous in the attacking And even if the Griz good things,” Sedgwick said. er said than done. According to Robinson, space,” Robinson said. “It’s not just about slow down the Aggie express [email protected] A sports history with the world’s oldest man Governor Brian Schweitzer was Babe Ruth were playing today, “I was working in Butte. When Breuning has had to learn football, running late to meet him, Breun- he would still be the highest paid the fight was over, a private car of watching it evolve from a rogue ing was ready to cancel. He isn’t player in baseball. And why peo- the Great Northern took Dempsey descendant of English rugby to an exactly a prima donna type of ple hated to see Mickey Mantle to Butte,” said Breuning, who then American phenomenon. And bas- man. chase his record in 1961. Christy started to point to his face. “When ketball was invented just five years Instead of fielding conventional Mathewson’s three World Series he got off the car, you could see before his birth. “It’s a nice game,” questions regarding his birth in wins with the New York Giants Tommy Gibbons had butchered he says. 1896, or his grandfather’s service in 1905. The 1908 Chicago Cubs, him up pretty good.” Breuning could tell sports sto- in the Civil War – Breuning takes the year the franchise last won In the summer of 1946, Bruen- ries all day in this green-carpeted ROMAN an hour out of his morning to re- the World Series. Ted Williams, ing attended the first East-West ballroom. His experiences are so THE call a century of sports moments who Breuning says, “was an aw- Shrine football game at Memorial rich, they begin to sound like folk SIDELINES he has witnessed. ful good player. He always hit over Stadium in Great Falls, and later tales. But his hour is almost up. So On the record, he wants to get .300.” Sandy Koufax. The dead- become involved in the organiza- he puts the final touches on his sto- By Roman Stubbs something straight: he had no ball era. Eight teams in the Ameri- tion that gives back to the Shri- ry about how the Brooklyn Dodg- business betting on the Cincin- can League, eight in the National, ners Hospital for Kids. Today, the ers once came to Great Falls in the On Labor Day morning at the nati Reds to win the 1919 World nothing west of the Mississippi Shrine Game is the oldest high 1930’s to play a cast of talented Rainbow Retirement Home in Series, “Because the White Sox River. The memories pour out. school all-star football game in farm boys from the local area and Great Falls, the elevator dial in at that time had the best players in Integration in 1947, with Jackie the country. simply says that sports has never the main lobby ticks down. Three. the whole damn league.” Robinson breaking the color bar- He has been a fixture in the changed. Everything else has. Two. One. Breuning was 23 when the most rier as a Brooklyn Dodger. “It Great Falls minor league scene for “We used to have kerosene lamps When the silver doors slide infamous scandal in baseball his- was a big moment for the blacks, 90 years, from baseball in the 20’s, for light,” Breuning says. “Who the open, it isn’t him. tory occurred that October, when I’ll tell you that. At that time, no to boxing at the old Civic Center in hell wants to go back to that?” Walter Breuning doesn’t eight White Sox were banned from blacks could get into baseball at the 30’s, to Montana State Fair ro- He finally clasps his old rail- emerge. The world’s oldest man is baseball for life after intentionally all. None. Which wasn’t right,” deos in the 60’s, to semi-pro hock- road hands together. They are frail already waiting by his suede seat throwing the series. says Breuning, who witnessed in- ey in the 70’s. He threw out the with brown spots and purple veins. in the piano room, his 112-year “That’s why Pete Rose, when tegration for the first time at Wrig- first pitch on opening day for the Breuning says he wouldn’t be sur- old body filling a crisp black suit, Pete got mixed with the gambling, ley Field in the 1960’s. Great Falls White Sox at 110. At prised if the two Los Angeles navy tie and platinum cuffs. He is he couldn’t get back in there. Gam- A Great Northern railroad 111, he practiced throwing the ball teams play for the World Series in crouched by his walker, unable to bling is the thing that they don’t worker for 50 years, Breuning viv- in the Rainbow’s lobby in prepara- October. When he finishes his sen- fully walk and stand without it. want,” he said. “That dope that idly remembers the aftermath of tion for another ceremonial open- tence, he nods with a slight smile. To the people around here, Mr. they’re giving those young kids to the 1923 Heavyweight Champion- ing pitch, but later confessed, “I It signifies the joy that the Fall Breuning is 15 feet tall. When he make them better players, that isn’t ship fight between Jack Dempsey can’t make it anymore.” Classic can bring and proves that sits in his chair, he speaks like a right, either.” and Tommy Gibbons in Shelby. He grew up in the infancy of even with 100 years of memories, king. Breuning becomes animated Dempsey won that famous Fourth baseball, when Honus Wagner was the powerful spirit of sports never He doesn’t have time to waste. with his stories, waving his hands of July battle, set in boxing’s gold- more than a baseball card and the grows old. 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Follow Kaimin Sports at twitter.com/KaiminSports 6 MKontana aimin Sports Thursday, September 10, 2009 Osprey head to the playoffs Oudin’s magical US Open ends with loss in quarters Associated Press set. Plus, there was her wide-eyed, age-appropriate attitude: Every- NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe thing was “cool” and “awesome,” it all was a little too much, a little including meeting Roger Federer too soon for Melanie Oudin. The for the first time and finally getting 17-year-old from Marietta, Ga., to shake hands with Sharapova – kept erasing big deficits and up- only after beating her, of course. setting older, taller, higher-ranked Away from the court, there was players at the U.S. Open, generat- heady stuff, too. Extra interviews ing more and more interest in her and photo ops. Greetings from magical ride. strangers on the street. Autograph- Her gutsy play, aw-shucks ap- seekers in the hotel lobby. proach and those pink-and-yellow “She’s just had so much other sneakers with “BELIEVE” on the activity going on that mentally heels carried Oudin all the way to she wasn’t quite as focused as the quarterfinals at the American she should’ve been,” said Oudin’s Grand Slam tournament. That’s mother, Leslie. “All this comes where her surprising story ended with experience, and she’ll learn Wednesday night with a 6-2, 6-2 how to handle this better.” loss to No. 9-seeded Caroline As Oudin’s coach, Brian de Wozniacki of Denmark. Villiers, put it: “Yeah, I think, over “It was a lot,” Oudin conceded. time, the distractions might have “These past two weeks have been gotten to her.” really different for me. I’ve gone An additional distraction did from being just a normal, like, ten- not come to light until Wednesday nis player to almost everyone in night, when SI.com reported that the United States knowing who I Oudin’s father, John, filed for di- am now.” vorce from Leslie in July 2008 on Then, keeping a brave face, grounds of adultery. According to Oudin added: “I don’t think that the report, John Oudin alleged in affected my tennis game tonight a sworn statement last month that at all.” his wife had an affair with de Vil- Perhaps. Still, facing Wozniacki liers. in the sport’s largest arena, playing John Oudin was not in his under the bright lights in the big daughter’s guest box Wednesday city, Oudin showed signs of shaki- night. ness at the start, dropping 14 of the She made 43 unforced errors, first 18 points. Even the comeback 23 more than Wozniacki, who kid couldn’t recover from that. also was playing in her first major “This has been a great expe- quarterfinal. In essence, Oudin ran Greg Lindstrom/Montana Kaimin rience for me. I had a great run smack-dab into a version of her- Winners of their last three games, the Missoula Osprey are wrapping up their regular season on a high note. The Osprey, here,” the 70th-ranked Oudin told self, a counterpunching baseliner the Rookie League affiliate for the Arizona Diamondbacks, currently sit in second place in the Pioneer League North the crowd during an on-court in- who was far steadier on this night. behind Great Falls. A three game playoff series against Great Falls begins Saturday in Missoula. terview right after the match, an “She plays incredible defense honor usually reserved for the win- and makes me hit 1,000 balls,” ner. “I hope to come back next year Oudin said. “I could have been and do even better.” more consistent and more patient.” www.montanakaimin.comwww. It’ll be hard to top her 2009 Wozniacki leads the women’s montanakaimin.comwww. U.S. Open. tour in match victories this season montanakaimin.comw- With impressive court cover- and, while all of 19, is a relative age and solid groundstrokes, the veteran next to Oudin. Wozniacki ww.montanakaimin.com www. 5-foot-6 Oudin knocked off four is tied for the tour lead with three montanakaimin.com- more established players – in- titles in 2009, including a hard- www.montanakaimin.comwww. cluding three-time major cham- court tournament in New Haven, montanakaimin.comwww. pion Maria Sharapova and Beijing Conn., the week before the U.S. montanakaimin.comwww. Olympic gold medalist Elena De- Open began, meaning she is on a montanakaimin.comwww.mon- mentieva – to become the young- 10-match winning streak. est quarterfinalist at Flushing “I’m sorry that I won against Meadows since Serena Williams Melanie today,” Wozniacki told in 1999. the partisan fans, some of whom Making the tale even better, cheered when she double-faulted. Oudin’s last three victories each “I know that many of you wanted came after she dropped the first Melanie to win.” 7 Thursday, September 10, 2009 News MKontana aimin ‘Butte, America’ premieres in Missoula Four-day school week faces abandoned mines, lost jobs Butte is a sort of microcosm Kimball Bennion and an environmental wasteland. of what happened to America in Montana Kaimin Many of the interviews include the industrial age, Roberts said, could close budget gap The story of Butte’s rich 120- families whose roots go back to which makes its story of interest to Montana State University.” Jayme Fraser year history will be told at a Butte’s first mines. a larger audience outside of Mon- The Regents plan to reallocate Montana Kaimin screening of “Butte, America” “I was attracted to the story be- tana. $900,000 a year to UM from MSU Friday at the Wilma Theatre. cause of the people to begin with,” “Butte, America” will also air Students could switch to a four- because of a shift of nearly 1,000 After ten years of interviews, Roberts said. this October on the PBS series day school week if the University students to the UM campus and a research and fundraising, the The mining tradition in Butte “Independent Lens,” which fea- of Montana chooses that option as loss of about that many from MSU. documentary was produced and has also established a tradition tures documentaries and dramas part of a plan to make up the an- The current draft of UM’s plan directed by Montana filmmaker of community and place, Roberts from all around the country. ticipated annual loss of $3.2 mil- includes six goals that would help Pamela Roberts. said, which makes for a popula- Friday’s screening at the Wil- lion from the University’s general balance the budget, including in- The film spans Butte’s unique tion that looks out for each other. ma will begin at 7 p.m. Admission fund after federal stimulus money creasing the efficiency of various story of a thriving copper-mining “Butte’s history is so much a is $10. runs out. operations across campus, raising boomtown during the rise of the part of who we are as a nation,” [email protected] UM President George Den- an administrative fee levied on electric age – a town that now Roberts said. nison asked ASUM to review the entities like ASUM and UM ath- plan’s first draft at their regular letics, and phasing in additional meeting Wednesday night. funds related to continuing enroll- “Because there was a short- ment increases. age on state revenue and other However, ASUM Vice President On-campus construction continues pressure, [the Legislature] appro- Emily May finds one of the alterna- priated money from the federal tive options most interesting. stimulus act,” Dennison said. “The “I think conversion to a four Regents asked we develop a plan day schedule is a particularly in- as to how we will handle the with- teresting proposal that deserves drawal of these funds.” consideration,” May said. The state appropriated the “one- Other alternatives include closing time-only” funds from a federal campus for five days during winter package intended to ease tuition break, reducing overtime and extra increases until the start of the 2011 compensation pay, and increasing academic year. Dennison said these tuition by 1.5 percent in 2011. funds balanced what would have Fennell said ASUM will in- been a 6.5 percent tuition increase clude discussion about the plan at this year and next year. their retreat this weekend. One way to close that gap will “We’ve a significant brain trust come with higher enrollment num- to come up with ideas on how bers. ASUM could contribute,” Fennell “During economic downturns, said. enrollment increases, and I believe The plan also will be present- that’s likely to continue,” Denni- ed to the UM Faculty Senate on son said. He said this should bring Thursday and the Staff Senate Fri- in an additional million dollars a day morning. year. In other business, Amanda ASUM President Matt Fen- Stovall, a sophomore in social work, Dan Doherty/Montana Kaimin nell said student enrollment is an A worker from Northwestern Energy adjusts a lamppost in the area between the Social Sciences and Fine Arts buildings, was sworn in to fill the seat Jeff Ver- which is currently blocked-off for construction. “obvious necessity” for the plan’s lanic gave up over the summer. success. “I feel like I have a lot of re- “The Regents receive appro- sponsibility,” Stovall said. “I priations from the Legislature in would like to see some of the is- a lump sum and it’s typically al- sues concerning Native American 2 California men sentenced in drug bust located based on resident enroll- students addressed, particularly Calgary, Alberta, in August 2007 Gordon to 70 months – almost six ment,” Dennison said. “There are retention.” Associated Press [email protected] but were stopped at the border. years – in prison because he was now more residents at UM than GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) Court records say Gordon and more heavily involved in obtaining — Two California men have been Striker acknowledged they had a the drugs. Striker was sentenced to sentenced for their roles in smug- small amount of marijuana in their 38 months – just over three years – gling more than 2,000 Ecstasy vehicle. A search turned up 5.3 in prison. pills into the United States from grams of pot and more than 2,000 Both men had pleaded guilty to Canada. Ecstasy pills. conspiracy to import a controlled Noah Childs Gordon of Los Judge Sam Haddon sentenced substance. Angeles and Thomas Paul Striker of Glendale, Calif., appeared in District Court in Great Falls on Tuesday. Prosecutors say the men tried to smuggle the pills from

MontanaMK Kaimin 8 MKontana aimin News Thursday, September 10, 2009 Taking the easier way out

Taka Osuga/Montana Kaimin A man bikes on the Madison Street pedestrian bridge Wednesday afternoon. The intersection on the street above is one of the most frightening for Missoula bikers. Police raid ends hijacking in Mexico; 1 arrested Associated Press The others were quickly He ordered the pilot to circle lived in Mexico for 17 years. Flores spoke on condition of anonymity. released. over Mexico City seven times, but described himself as a pastor in A U.S. Embassy spokesman MEXICO CITY — A Bolivian Jose Flores, 44, later told police the pilot, Ricardo Rios, said he southern Oaxaca state who had said at least 14 U.S. citizens were religious fanatic briefly hijacked his three companions were “the Fa- didn’t do that because the plane gone to Cancun to preach. on the plane and were being inter- a jetliner from the beach resort of ther, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.” didn’t have enough fuel. The hi- He is also a Christian music viewed by Mexican authorities at Cancun as it landed in Mexico City Flores hijacked Aeromexico jacker also asked to speak with singer who in videos posted on the airport. on Wednesday, police said. All pas- Flight 576 after a divine revelation, Mexican President Felipe Calde- YouTube sings of leaving drugs Aeromexico said in a statement sengers and the crew were released according to Public Safety Secre- ron, saying he wanted to warn him and finding God. “I was in jail, I that neither passengers or crew suf- unharmed. tary Genaro Garcia Luna. Flores of an impending earthquake, Gar- was a despicable drug addict, but fered any harm. The Bible-carrying hijacker said Wednesday’s date – 9-9-09 – cia Luna said. Christ freed me a few years ago,” Passenger Pamela Cheatham, used a juice can he said was a bomb is the Satanic number 666 turned The suspect’s wife, Elizabeth he sings along with recorded music 48, an insurance industry employee to hold the 103 passengers and crew upside down. Melgar, told W Radio that Flores at a crowded stadium. from Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the tarmac for more than an Flores, speaking to reporters “always told me that he was look- In other videos, Flores, who is cautious about flying on “fateful” hour. after he was detained, said he took ing for a way to attract the atten- goes by the stage name Josmar, is dates, but said she didn’t make the Masked police stormed the air- control of the aircraft with “a juice tion of the media ... he always told seen playing with nunchakus or connection with “9-09-09” – the craft with guns drawn and escort- can ... with some little lights I at- me that he was waiting for a signal shooting at a coin he tosses in the number that obsessed the hijacker ed several handcuffed men away tached.” from God to do something. air. – until after the fact. without firing a shot. Police later “Christ is coming soon,” he add- “Don’t worry if they put me in U.S., French and Mexican citi- “When I was doing my flight said there was only one hijacker, ed, smiling. jail,” Melgar quoted him as saying. zens were among the passengers, I was like, ‘I don’t want to fly on and the other men aboard were de- As the plane was landing, Flores “[It will be] glory to God.” according to a U.S. official in 9/11, but then it didn’t hit me until tained because the suspect had told stood up and showed his contrap- Garcia Luna said Flores is a Washington who was briefed on this was all over,” Cheatham said. a flight attendant he had three ac- tion to a flight attendant, Garcia drug addict who was convicted of the situation. The official was not “I should have evaluated that a little complices. Luna said. armed robbery in Bolivia, and has authorized to discuss the case and better.”

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