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UM’s Independent Campus Daily Since 1898 Montana Kaimin Volume CX, Issue 13 Wednesday Getting around September 19, 2007 Forecast High 63F Low 43F Arts Indie-film fest hits the Wilma6 Sports 10 things you need to know7 about volleyball On Campus Today •Volunteer Fair UC Atrium, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Find local volunteer options. Dog helps student •SARC Workshop “Understanding Men” with everyday life 4 - 7 p.m., to sign up and info Call 243-6429. Trevon Milliard each other, Scholl said. Scholl •Ecology Seminar Series MONTANA KAIMIN was a fireman for 28 years, but Presenter Jim Marden an injury on Oct. 19, 1999, para- UC Theater, 4:10 - 5 p.m. A siren blared through the lyzed him from the chest down. – UM News and Events Calendar halls sending crowds out of the Scholl was a lieutenant fire Mathematics Building, but no medic in Brevard County, Fla. smoke could be seen. Someone He instructed firefighters and pulled the fire alarm. Marines, rappelled from build- Around the Bill Scholl, 52, called the ings and helicopters, rescued University of Montana police to people from confined spaces, Kristine Paulsen/Montana Kaimin World inform them that his Labrador conducted arson investigations TOP: Bill Scholl takes notes in his pre-calculus class during a lecture Tuesday morning in the Retriever service dog, Zeb, was and did some rescue diving. Mathematics Building. This is the first semester the building has been accessible to wheelchairs. Iraq: the prankster. “Bill carried a hand-held scan- Scholl is a chemistry major but is “focusing on math right now.” “One of my goals is to teach one The United States suspended all “I told them not to worry, and ner so he could always be there,” day,” he said. land travel by U.S. diplomats and that the suspect was with me,” his wife, Katie Scholl, 42, said. BOTTOM: Scholl’s dog, Zeb,rises to push a button that opens the door to the new addition of the other civilian officials in Iraq out- Scholl said from his wheelchair “He resuscitated babies, deliv- Mathematics Building. The addition houses an elevator, which now makes the building wheelchair side Baghdad’s heavily fortified and let out a loud chuckle. ered babies.” accessible. This is Scholl’s first semester at the University. “The moon was lined up and my health Green Zone, amid mounting public Zeb accidentally hit the fire In 1999, Scholl was installing was good,” he said about being able to attend school this fall. outrage over the alleged killing of alarm, Scholl said. He gave the a fire extinguishing system at a civilians by the U.S. Embassy’s command “switch” for Zeb to Cape Canaveral gas port. As he inch of pressure, through the of his head then came back security provider, Blackwater USA. rise onto his back legs and press stood on a gas tanker and pre- hose. The firefighter next to around right in his chest. The the door-open button, but his pared to test the system, a man Scholl jumped out of the way, force threw Scholl onto the pave- China: paw fell on the wrong button. on the ground mistakenly turned but Scholl didn’t have time to let ment below, breaking his back. Typhoon Wipha slammed into the Fire alarms and handicap but- on the pump and sent foam, go. The charged hose leaped coast south of Shanghai early tons shouldn’t be placed next to equaling 300 pounds per square from his hand, tore open the top See SCHOLL, page 4 Wednesday as authorities moved 2 million people following forecasts it would be the most powerful storm to hit eastern China in a decade. Advocates bumped from Brantly Hall Zimbabwe: Constitutional amendments that Katie Michel critics say are meant to boost the been nice enough to give us the temporary. tinue to have meetings in the ruling party’s power passed a par- MONTANA KAIMIN space for the longest time,” said While in Knowles, Hansen said, Gallagher Business Building. The liamentary hurdle Tuesday with- Ryan Hansen, UM Advocate coor- Jed Liston, Assistant Vice group hopes to gain enough sup- out challenge from the main oppo- After 20 years of sharing dinator. “They’ve been doubling President for Enrollment, will help port to eventually find a place of sition, which cited progress in Brantly Hall’s tight quarters, the up on offices but now they can’t the organization search for a per- its own. talks on easing Zimbabwe’s politi- University of Montana Advocates justify giving us space.” manent home. “It’s certainly hard to be moving cal and economic crisis. are moving out to make room for a The primary base for the “It works as a temporary spot, around like this because it takes growing Alumni Association staff. Advocates’ organization and home but for the long term we don’t have time away from us being able to – Associated Press The Advocates, a UM volunteer of the Advocate coordinators and any idea. It is hard because for all help out the University,” Hansen student group that gives campus adviser is on the second floor of that the Advocates do it’s not said. Check us out tours, help with orientations and Brantly. The office will be moved going to be ideal to be in the base- Despite the displacement, Bill on the Web at works on alumni functions, are to the basement of Knowles Hall ment of Knowles,” Hansen said. Johnston, Alumni Association looking for a permanent office. by the end of this month. The Although their location is director, said the two groups will www.montanakaimin.com “The Alumni Association has Advocates hope the move will be changing, the Advocates will con- See ADVOCATES, page 8 2 Opinion Montana Kaimin Wednesday, September 19 , 2007 Askafarian EDITORIAL Ask a Hippie Awarding scholarships Dillon Tabish How do I become a hippy? days a week; a friend with long, MONTANA KAIMIN – Freshman with high hippie nappy hair at least five days a by race, gender unfair hopes week; a friend who knows how to I’ve lived in Missoula my Dude, first off it’s not “hippy,” slackline; endless amounts of whole life, fished the Blackfoot, it’s “hippie.” A hippy is flatu- patchouli and a beginner’s The University of Montana is acting unfairly and unethically hiked the “M” a thousand times, lence shot from the hip, hopeful- knowledge of folk guitar. by considering race and gender as factors when granting stu- picked around the Farmers’ ly in an open-aired setting, dents academic scholarships. Market and lost my voice (and whereas a “hippie” isn’t defined Why do hippies smell? On the application form for UM’s premier my decency) at Griz games. I’ve so easily. – Hippie-hater in the house merit-based scholarship, the Presidential done nearly everything adver- Merriam-Webster defines a Dude, not all hippies are creat- Leadership Scholarship, one question tised in pamphlets about hippie as “a usually young person ed equal and not all of them involves gender, while another asks if the Missoula. And those are all great, who rejects the mores of estab- smell. So maybe the hippies that applicant is an enrolled member of a Montana you know, but what really makes lished society (as by dressing stand out the most get a little tribe or a descendent of an enrolled member. Missoula “Zootown” is the peo- unconventionally or favoring grungy sometimes, but who does- UM describes the scholarship, which ple who kick it here. Living in communal living) and advocates n’t. Missoula, in its heyday, was a grants a full or partial tuition waiver, as an paradise sucks if your neighbor’s a nonviolent ethic,” but, dude, logging town and if you haven’t award “recognizing outstanding talent, aca- a crazy hillbilly who drinks that’s pretty general and inaccu- been to The Lumberjack Saloon demic performance and contribution to the moonshine and beats his goat all rate. There’s plenty of ways to be in Lolo or the Filling Station in community.” day. Yeah dude, you won’t find a hippie without fitting the Seeley Lake then you haven’t But if the scholarship is purely merit- Emma Schmautz any in Missoula (Bozeman’s stereotypical mold. There’s the really tortured your nasal pas- based, why does the application inquire News Editor another story). “know-it-all college hippie” or sage. Secondly, did you check about gender and tribal background? Missoulians are a special the “North Face-sponsored hip- that “smelly” hippie’s member- Does being male or female, Blackfeet or Caucasian define the breed. And after a couple drinks pie.” My favorite is the ship card to verify that they were worthiness of a student? at the Rhino you’ll start to see “Carhartts-and-sandals hippie” indeed card-carrying members of Creating a program to help combat hunger and poverty on the that we aren’t the black sheep of because they are elusive in their the College Hippies Association? Flathead Reservation contributes to society and is therefore a Montana, although much of the hippieness.