Montana Kaimin, August 29, 2006 Students of the Niu Versity of Montana, Missoula

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Griz Commercials Griz soccer Who will be the next MONTANA Gracin’ the goal UM Star? Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Volume CIX, Issue 1 Full dorms leave UKM studenAIMINts in living limbo ‘Beats’TY of HAMPT BurdenON MONTANA KAIMIN A concertgoer’s dream– and possible commuter’s nightmare— will hit town Oct. 1 when the Rolling Stones’ crew’s 70 tractor-trailers arrive to prepare for the Washington-Grizzly Stadium show three days later. The trailers will invade Missoula for the sold-out Oct. 4 show, which will include a high-tech six-story stage towering over the legendary British rock quartet and 21,490 adoring fans who paid a minimum of $95 per ticket. The grandiose structure, reaching higher than most buildings in town and reported to resemble a miniature city, has a massive monitor screen at center stage and a six-foot runway leading off the stage down the middle of the floor crowd. The stage will require a minimum of two days to build with the help of 200 production crew workers. Traffic and parking along the north side of UM campus will undoubt- edly be interfered with, including the closure of Campus Drive for the better part of the week, but details of the exact schedule of the building process have not yet been determined. Preproduction meetings will be held Sept. 7 and 8 with UM Productions, the Rolling Stones’ promoters and Public Safety. UM Productions is still working out the details to a contract “rider” that deciphers how many cranes will be used to erect the stage, the cost of food for the crew and catering to the Rolling Stones’ demands, Kevin Hoffman/Montana Kaimin according to Gale Price, director of UM Productions. Freshmen Kane Russell, left, and KC Swain play video games in their temporary room in the fourth-floor study lounge in Jesse Hall on Monday. Price said that large portions of the Adams Center parking lot, the Recreation Center lot and lot W, located between the heating plant and An increase in applicants has forced Residence Life to get the stadium, will be used by the crew for parking and construction pur- poses. The construction of the stage will most likely take place outside creative with housing for more than 110 students of the stadium and be lifted in by four large cranes, but the possibility of construction inside the stadium is still being explored. HANNAH HEIMBUCH some, causing the Residence Life Thanksgiving,” said junior trans- Regardless, the stage will be in the south end zone of the football sta- MONTANA KAIMIN Office to get creative with tempo- fer student Jonathan Bell, who dium with its back to Aber Hall and a cover over the main structure, rary placement. As of yesterday, kicked back yesterday on the deck interfering with many locals plans to hike Mount Sentinel to view the University of Montana fresh- more than 110 students were liv- of the Knowles Hall study lounge show for free. Although at this point there are no plans to shut down or man Eric Powers hadn’t expected ing in study lounges, at family where he’s living. patrol the “M” trail by UM Productions or Public Safety. to be calling a study lounge home, homes, bunking with local friends Bell is living with four others, “For the most part you will only be able to hear the show from up but this is the limbo he and his or staying in hotel rooms. but he expects a fifth roommate to there, but I imagine if you hiked high enough on the hill you might be four temporary roommates found “We did utilize a local motel, show up any day now. Like able to view the stage at midfield,” said Capt. Jim Lemcke with the themselves in the first day of but I think we’re past that,” said Powers and Longo, he’s disap- Office of Public Safety. school. Residence Life Director Ron pointed in the lack of Internet or “We’re going to do everything in our power to make the event a safe The third-floor lounge in Jesse Brunell. cable, but he said he’s asked one, but what we’re not going to do is ruin anybody’s fun,” Lemcke Hall is stuffed with bunk beds and “Six or seven Saudi students Information Technology to run an said. unpacked boxes and, like dozens who have arrived are still staying Ethernet cable to the lounge. Tickets went on sale Aug. 14, split between Ticketmaster, the UC, and of others in interim housing, the in apartments out at University The 72 people staying in study the Adams Center, and all tickets were sold by 10 a.m. the next morn- five men are still waiting for any Villages,” Brunell said. But those lounges and the 12 others waiting ing. Student tickets, 1,500 of them, were offered at a discount price of sign that they may be moving on spots are earmarked for visiting in off-campus housing total $95 at the UC and 1500 general public tickets were sold at the Adams soon. professors who will be arriving in almost six times the amount of Center box office starting at $115. Fans who missed out on the original “You want my honest opinion?” a few weeks. men waiting at this time last year. sale can bid for tickets online at auction sites such as eBay, where tick- Powers asked. “It’s a hassle.” Every year a few students end Brunell said he wouldn’t be ets are ranging from $182 next to runway to a pair of front row seats Powers and current study up in interim housing, but this able to say when they will all be going for $1,149. lounge roommate, Edward Longo, year’s overflow is more than moved out until after registration Among the complications that come with holding such a huge event said their biggest complaints, usual. ends Wednesday. Then Residence in a small university venue is the homecoming Griz football game besides not being able to actually Only 28 students on the waiting Life will tally the no-shows and against Northern Arizona University set for Oct. 10 in the stadium, less move in, are the lack of storage, list are female, and Brunell said immediate dropouts. than a week after 6,000 Stones fans will occupy the field’s turf in fold- Internet connections and privacy. he expected all of them to be Brunell said he and other ing chairs. “You jam four, five, six guys placed in permanent spots by Residence Life staff realized sev- Coach Bobby Hauck passed up his option to veto the event telling the into a room and they can’t con- Monday evening. eral months ago that there would Missoulian in late July that he trusted the crew to protect the field. centrate,” Powers said. “It’s nice “We’re right where we should be a crunch at the start of school. Price said UM Productions is following strict specifics set by the ‘cause you meet people, but it’s be,” he said. They called 69 Missoula males Athletics Department in relation to the field’s use due to the obvious not that nice.” The males, on the other hand, this summer to see if any were concern for the football team. An increase in applicants for face a longer line. interested in staying at parents’ “We’re following their instructions to the letter of the law,” Price said. on-campus housing has all dorm “Some of my other friends have homes – three said yes. Then they The concert is the culmination of months of work by a team of UM rooms booked solid and then been told as late as See HOUSING, Page 8 See STONES, Page 4 State and school officials seek alternatives to raising tuition SEAN BRESLIN state students is up about 7.75 per- college tuition by 5 percent,” spending that could not be exceed- and administrations. MONTANA KAIMIN cent from last year, and 8.75 per- Stapleton said. Under the plan, ed except through voter approval, Duringer echoed Robinson’s cent for nonresident students. state funding would increase by potentially limiting the increase in assessment of rising tuition costs, Schweitzer has been working $57 million dollars, which would university funding in a given putting recent increases in stark As college tuition continues to with David Ewer, budget director come from a state budget surplus, budget. terms. increase, state lawmakers and of the governor’s office, and the he said. Schweitzer has criticized Rising tuition at Montana insti- “Tuition’s gone up about 120 University of Montana officials state Board of Regents to develop the proposal, saying it could lead tutions reflects a national trend, percent over the past 10 years,” are considering a variety of his proposal, said Sarah Elliott, to an increase in taxes.

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