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MONTANA KAIMIN Friday, January 30, 2004 V olume CVI, Issue 55 UM’s ROTC wins national recognition Bennett Jacobs For the Kaimin The University of Montana ROTC program is now ranked among the top 10 in the country, and it hopes to use its status to recruit some of the best cadet candidates. Last month, UM’s ROTC program was ranked ninth out of 271 in the nation. Today the program will decide which incom- ing students will be offered scholarships next fall, and it hopes its new ranking, the highest in its history, will persuade top cadet candidates to come to UM. “We work hard to train our students well,” said Col. Heather Ierardi, chairwoman of the military science department. “We have a train- ing program that is proven to work.” ROTC programs are ranked annually by Cadet Command in Fort Monroe, Va. The rankings are based on the overall per- formance of students, both physically and aca- demically. Adam Bystrom/Montana Kaimin Also figured into UM’s ranking was the per- “It smells so good around here — I don’t mind if they do this every year,” an unidentified student said about the piles of pine branches out- formance of 18 cadets at a 32-day leadership side the School of Law Wednesday morning. A mannequin with a hangman’s rope around his neck marks the beginning of this semester’s camp last summer at Fort Lewis, Wash. ongoing feud between the College of Forestry and Conservation and the School of Law. The feud usually precedes the annual Foresters’ Ball. At that camp, UM’s cadets scored highest in field navigation with an average score of 93 out of 100 possible points. The UM cadets also Vandals avenge stolen moose head excelled in other activities, including a physical training test and basic rifle marksmanship. “It’s a very rigorous training and evaluation the theft of Bertha, a mounted trophy moose “We were outraged by the condition in which Jessica Wambach period for the students,” Ierardi said. Montana Kaimin head, last November. we found her,” the caller said. “We hope they Each year, Bertha is taken by the Moose treat their trees better than they treat their Senior Derek Oberg was a standout success at Late-night vandal- Liberation Party, a “guerrilla” organization moose.” the camp, scoring a 99 on the land navigation ism at the School of Law school whose members have been mysteriously linked An envelope containing a photo of Bertha the exercises, Ierardi said. After graduation, Oberg Law Wednesday might target of latest to the Student Bar Association. Moose professionally dressed and chained to a will go on to field artillery training to fulfill his send Bertha, the in Foresters’ SBA President Jessica Kobos said the MLP wall was delivered to the Kaimin office obligation to the Army. forestry school moose, Ball ritual took Bertha because its members are concerned Thursday. “I think being in ROTC in general will help to the witness stand. for the moose’s welfare. They’re also interested Also in the envelope was an unsigned legal me later in life and in business situations,” In accordance with in lower rates for tickets to the Foresters’ Ball petition to appoint the MLP as Bertha’s guardian Oberg said. “Military service is looked highly an age-old rivalry between the School of Law Feb. 6 and 7. ad litem. upon by the business world.” and the College of Forestry and Conservation, a Kobos denied involvement with the MLP, UM’s Legal Counsel, David Aronofsky, said Ierardi said the program will continue to group of students left behind a mess of ransom saying her only job is to make sure no one goes if the petition were approved the MLP would be strive toward excellence. She said one of the notes and disturbing flyers concerning their cap- to jail during these activities. She said in addi- appointed Bertha’s legal guardian based on evi- things that makes UM’s performance commend- ture of two of the law school’s most prized pos- tion to the ruckus Wednesday night, the locked dence that she cannot take care of herself. Such able is that hardly any cadets are on full scholar- sessions. SBA office was broken into and giant duct tape a designation is usually reserved for minor chil- ships, unlike many of their counterparts in pri- The flyers feature five scantily clad males letters spelling “F.A.R.T.” were stuck to the car- dren and the mentally ill, Aranofsky added, and vate schools that were also ranked in the top 10. making frank gestures to themselves, a podium pet. Bertha would have to testify in court if the peti- UM’s ROTC program distributes five major and a leather judge’s chair and clearly identify All jokes aside, this year MLP is serious about tion were pursued. scholarships, including two full ride scholar- the group as the Foresters’Armed Response Bertha’s rights as a moose. “That’s clever,” Aronofsky said. “Bertha will ships. Team, better known as F.A.R.T. An anonymous caller to the Kaimin said the get her day in court. So will the foresters.” “Our students have very strong work ethic,” Alex Williams, a forestry club member who organization took Bertha last November “out of Williams, speaking again for his unidentified Ierardi said. “They are not just ROTCs, they are denied involvement in the scandalous activities, concern for her safety and welfare because the friend, dismissed the MLP’s accusations that ASUM senators and club members and cheer- said he was told by a “friend” that F.A.R.T.’s foresters mistreat her.” leaders. We have a diverse crowd.” actions should be interpreted as retaliation for See LAW SCHOOL, Page 12 Lack of virus filters threatens UM e-mail accounts Alisha Wyman tion would be to hire an outside only effective in warding off the on computer networks worldwide, September, Ford said. Montana Kaimin contractor to filter all e-mail before army of viruses a computer receives affecting things indirectly related to But the expense forced the it enters the network. daily if a user downloads the e-mail as well, Ford said. A virus department not to renew the contract Thousands of But in the efforts to employ such updates, Ford said. spreads by sending itself automati- in October. Now the network is Virus filter computers are a company, the University faces a “Frequently, though, viruses land cally to all contacts in an e-mail once again vulnerable to virus infec- plugged into would cost problem that has become a theme in before (filters) can get the update user’s address book. tions, he said. the network at about $60,000 every endeavor it hopes to pursue: out,” said Tom Travis, the director “It just starts spewing out hun- While virus filtering is important the University “It’s a question of money,” Ford of Central Systems Support dreds of thousands of e-mails per for protecting the network, there are of Montana. said. Services. second,” Ford said. “The sheer vol- certain risks of privacy violations Tens of thousands of e-mails are The estimated cost of hiring a And the multitude of students ume begins to bog down the system involved. This has been a concern processed each day. company to filter UM e-mail for who use UM’s network do not con- to the point that the other things that for faculty and Ford has presented And the mass of information trav- viruses would be about $60,000 per sistently perform the downloads, are attached to the network — that the idea of hiring an external com- eling through UM’s computer lines year, he said. Ford said. have nothing to do with e-mail, like pany. makes the campus an ideal environ- “When you tell people that, they Every fall, when students bring ATMs — shut down.” “Faculty, and everyone tradition- ment for spawning computer virus- just can’t see how it could cost that their computers to campus from When the University e-mail sys- ally, has worried about this big es, said Ray Ford, the associate vice much,” Ford said. “When you get home, they often carry viruses with tem began to crumble last fall, brother issue that someone else is president for Information up to sort of the corporate level, the them. Information Technology signed a looking at your e-mail,” he said. Technology. price jumps up exponentially.” “That’s 3,000 PCs that have been one-month emergency contract with But virus filtering is a necessary Currently there is no main filter to Right now, the responsibility of living somewhere else,” he said. a filtering company called MX evil, Ford said.