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MK fridaykaimin Dream Catcher Friday, March 25, 2011 Volume CX111 Issue 84 www.montanakaimin.com Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Friday, March 25, 2011 EDITORIAL KAIMIN COMICS Working for peanuts by Jed Nussbaum, Arts+Culture Editor I’ve had a job every summer since I was 11 years old. For the past eight years, I’ve worked construction, doing everything from pounding nails to fixing plumbing leaks. I’m still not much of a car- penter, and I probably never will be. But I understand what it’s like to put in long days of hard work in the summer heat. Most college students go to school to avoid labor jobs. They work menial, underpaid positions in the fast food industry and behind the bar, but these positions are temporary in their mind — just pay- ing the bills before that magical degree transports them to a realm far, far away from backbreaking manual labor jobs. In today’s economy, however, those degrees often get col- lege graduates nowhere fast. A study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that less than a quarter of 2010’s college graduates who applied for a job had one waiting for them post-graduation. Instead of recognizing the benefits of learning a trade, most college graduates believe going to graduate school is the key. Umpteen thousand more dollars in debt later, you’re now an “expert” in a field that still doesn’t have legs. Currently, the government is debating slashing Pell Grant fund- ing, and is deducting nearly half of my bi-weekly work study grant B G UPS+ paycheck due to a “change in tax tables,” according to The Universi- ty of Montana’s Human Resource office. It’s becoming even harder to pay for an education that promises virtually nothing. BACKHANDS Most of us elitist college students scoff at kids that didn’t pur- sue higher education after finishing high school. Many of those Big Ups to the White House security team hanna. Chris allegedly took off his shirt, yelled at kids, however, pursued modest-paying labor jobs and have nice for making sure that absolutely nobody can en- the makeup artists backstage and broke a window vehicles or a house to show for it. Meanwhile, the typical college ter the home of our president, even the president at the studio. We know it’s usually Chris Brown grad spends years bouncing in and out of their parents’ base- himself. When he returned from his tour of Latin that takes care of backhanding people, but we ment, holding out for that real world job that may not even ex- America, Obama found the outside door to his think that this outburst should put the same type ist, while working the same shitty burger-flipping positions that office locked, and had to walk around the building of black eye on his reputation usually reserved for barely put them through college. to find a way in. We can only take comfort in the the women in his life. Don’t get me wrong, I have no interest in returning home and fact that Joe Biden is not in charge around there; working in the mine in Troy for the rest of my life. Nor do I sup- he would have stood by the door trying the knob A belated Backhands to the Egyptian port anyone’s decision to settle for the mediocrity of security that for at least two hours. national who named his daughter Facebook fol- the isolation of their hometown has afforded them. But I’m not lowing the civil unrest that took place in that foolish enough to believe higher education is my golden ticket to Big Ups to Brigham Young University for country. We get it, Facebook was an important a life in the shade, nor does a degree make me superior to some- losing their Sweet 16 game against Florida. BYU tool and played a big role in the lives of you and one whose profession didn’t require four-plus years wallowing stuck to their school honor code, benching star your fellow citizens during that time. But by that through academia. player Brandon Davies for having pre-marital sex. logic, we will have to be naming our future kids After all, consider who the greater asset is. If the economy hits It’s good to see a team playing by the rules, stand- Top Ramen and Pabst Blue Ribbon. rock bottom, the people making money aren’t going to be the ing up for what they believe in and being victori- anthropology and creative writing majors. They’ll be the auto ous in the end. Or not. mechanic, the plumber, the carpenter, people that provide a ser- police blotter vice necessary to daily life. Often, the difference is simply a lack Backhands to Chris Brown. The singer sup- of commitment in personal application. So unless you have an posedly threw a fit after his interview on Good for this week’s crime report see understanding of the principle of hard work, that degree only Morning America promoting his new album serves as one hell of an expensive paper airplane. montanakaimin.com [email protected] turned to questions about former girlfriend Ri- COVER PHOTO Sally Finneran COVER STORY Greg Lidstrom montanakaimin Newsroom Phone 406-243-4310 Business Office Phone 406-243-6541 Editor Photo Editor Lily Rabil Ben Coulter Brandy Kiger The Montana Kaimin, in its 113th Roman Stubbs Alisia Duganz Kate Whittle Sally Finneran Quinn Lowendorf year, is published by the students of Business Manager Design Editor Arts+Culture Reporters Greg Lindstrom Ashley Oppel The University of Montana, Missoula. Stefan Gladbach Alison Kilts Emily Downing Designers Chris Wells The UM School of Journalism uses News Editors Web Editors Emerald Gilleran Miranda Dalpiaz Jesseca Whalen the Montana Kaimin for practice Taryn Chuter Steve Miller Michael Beall Dillon Kato Columnists courses but assumes no control over Justin Franz Brady Moore Sports Reporters Billie Loewen David Elison policy or content. Joe Pavlish Reporters Taylor W. Anderson Amy Sisk Brady Moore The Montana Kaimin is printed on Arts+Culture Editor Erin Cole AJ Mazzolini Copy Editors Jed Nussbaum campus by Printing and Graphics. Jed Nussbaum Victoria Edwards Daniel Mediate Michael Bloomquist Alyssa Small Send letters to the editor to Sports Editor Jayme Fraser Court Weston Rebecca Calabrese Hannah Spry [email protected] Tyson Alger Heidi Groover Photographers Piper Haugan Joe Veltkamp Paige Huntoon Steel Brooks Tor Haugan Montana Kaimin Friday, March 25, 2011 NEWS 3 MONTANA Legal opponents to discuss wolf management Heidi Groover this whole wolf delisting spread interest in wolf con- said, so their discussion will Montana Kaimin saga in a larger political “ servation and management, focus on wolf management context.” and it’s just a manner of and state laws regarding it. Amid recent litigation and Martha Williams, legal I think it’s important how we go about that.” State agencies, including protests, Missoula residents counsel for Montana Fish, Ten conservation groups, Fish, Wildlife and Parks are will have the chance Friday Wildlife and Parks, and to show that the sides including Defenders of responsible for educating the to hear both sides of the argu- Mike Leahy, director of the Wildlife, recently reached public on conservation issues, ment about wolves’ place on Rocky Mountain Regional on this issue are not all a settlement with the De- Williams said. Students in par- the endangered species list. Office of Defenders of Wild- that far apart. partment of the Interior ticular can benefit from discus- A panel discussion from 3 to life, will each present on ” to keep wolves on endan- sions of wolf delisting because 5 p.m. in University Hall Room wolf delisting in Montana gered lists in Utah, Wyo- of the complexity of the issue, 210 will feature a legal activist and will then take audience Mike Leahy, ming, Oregon and Wash- she said. from each side of debate. questions. ington, where they believe “We can use this as an “I’ve asked each of them The Montana Fish, director, Rocky Mountain Regional Office the animals are still in example of the interplay be- to talk about what this story Wildlife and Parks Depart- of Defenders of Wildlife danger, while delisting tween state management and means for the future of the ment has worked for the them in Idaho and Mon- federal management,” Wil- Endangered Species Act,” said removal of wolves from the servation non-profit, has been tana. A judge is currently liams said. “This is an iconic Martin Nie, a professor of natu- Endangered Species List, ar- involved in legal action to pre- hearing the settlement in Fed- species regarding how all of ral resource policy in The Uni- guing that wolves have been vent delisting.