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Page 2 Page 9 Page 10 Politicking Griz Basketball Women’s hockey Time Bomb caps perfect team a force weekend in the Big Sky www.montanakaimin.com MKontana UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 aVolumeimin CXII Issue 41 Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 Vegan group hosts “gentle” Thanksgiving Wild drive Kimball Bennion Montana Kaimin pumps up Rose and Xerxes were the guests of honor, but kept to them- intrastate selves for most of the dinner. They stayed in their cage by the door, coming out every once in a while blood feud to greet guests who gingerly held Cody Bloomsburg them and were more than willing Montana Kaimin to forgive the occasional wing- If everything goes as planned, flapping or outburst of indignant the University Center Ballroom clucks. will be filled with bleeding Griz Rose is a female chicken and fans today and Wednesday as they Xerxes is a male Turken, which, in try to leak their way to victory spite of the name, is not a type of over Montana State University in turkey. the Brawl of the Wild blood drive, “It’s a type of chicken,” said said Julie Brehm of the American Susan Eakins, the dinner’s host- Red Cross. ess. “And it’s the closest thing that The two-day drive is a vein- I have to a turkey at the moment.” to-vein grudge match that awards Turkey would have been more the winning school with a travel- fitting, perhaps, since the dinner in ing trophy and provides the local question was a “gentle Thanksgiv- blood bank with its biggest drive ing,” where the poultry was alive of the year. and well, nestled by the guests in- Last year, each campus donated stead of eaten. more than 200 pints of blood. “She’s like a cat; she just melts This is the fourth year of the in your arms,” said guest Heidi challenge. UM won the first two, Michaelson as she cradled Rose but the Bobcats trounced the Griz- and mingled with other guests. zlies last year with a second-day The Thanksgiving-style pot- blowout. luck is actually a monthly, rather “Last year we lost, and hope- than yearly, tradition. On the first fully this year, the traveling trophy Saturday of every month, New will come back,” Brehm said. Dawn Montana, Eakins’s farm Volunteers with the UM Advo- animal sanctuary in Stevensville, cates have been working with the hosts a vegan potluck dinner at the Red Cross to help spread the word Unitarian Universalist Fellowship about the event and will also be on House on McLeod Avenue. hand to help register donors and The monthly potlucks have lit- staff the recovery room. tle to do with the Unitarian church Blake Fisher, an Advocate co- aside from the location. But the ordinator, said they have been pre- group teaches principles that are paring for the event for at least a in line with the values of many month. vegans and vegetarians. “I have big hopes in the Griz A mantle above the fireplace and know that we can definitely holds a plaque that reads, “We come out on top in the blood drive affirm and promote the inherent as well as in the football game,” worth and dignity of every per- Fisher said. son.” That statement, one of the Brehm said the rivalry even church’s seven principles, has been Kat Franchino/Montana Kaimin spills over to the Red Cross of- Judy Moore holds Xerxes — a rescued Turken — at the Western Montana Vegetarian Society’s first “gentle Thanksgiving.” See VEGAN, page 12 Despite the name, Turkens are a breed of chicken. fices. She said she hated to take phone calls from her counterpart in Bozeman last year when the Bobcats started to edge the Griz- Diversity dinner reveals forgotten movie stereotypes zlies out. After it was all over, she Mike Gerrity ing hero himself as the young man same “shocking” scene remained Even recent Disney films are was a little reluctant to hand over Montana Kaimin getting a dance from Tiger Lily, when it was re-released in 1994. still haunted by what Lawson re- the trophy. The cartoon Indians, their skin the Indian chief’s daughter. The dinner, hosted by LISTEN, fers to as the “Indian Princess” The UM campus typically inked bright red and covered in When it played in front of a an ASUM-sponsored group work- stereotype, such as their 1995 ani- generates about 50 pints of blood war paint, beat drums and sing, dinner audience in the UC Ball- ing to raise awareness of Native mated version of Pocahontas. In a per month while Bozeman scores “What makes the red man red?” room Monday night as part of the American issues, examined clips scene screened at the dinner, the around 80, so the Brawl has been The chief’s daughter climbs Diversity Dinner, Native Ameri- of several popular films that up- chief’s daughter creeps through one of the few times when Brehm atop a drum and starts dancing can Studies assistant professor held sometimes racist stereotypes the grass, extending her muscular brings in more blood. seductively for a young white boy Angelica Lawson said few people of Native Americans throughout legs in what Lawson said Disney Competition aside, Brehm said watching with a slack-jawed look. can believe that scene is even in the 20th century. animators themselves claimed events like the Brawl help to add to When she leans into his face for the movie. Many haven’t noticed it Lisa Irene DeCelles, a Native gave her a sexy, animalistic qual- the donor pool, and hopefully, in a nose-rubbing “kiss,” another before, she said. American student majoring in cre- ity. Upon the film’s release, some the next few years, it will become white female gasps in jealousy as “You get so used to seeing ative writing, said she finds the complained that the character a three-day drive or last the whole the boy’s face turns beet-red from these images over and over again Peter Pan scene disturbing. She looked more like the black Brit- week before the game. excitement. He leans back and that you don’t even question it,” said she has had more than her fair ish supermodel Naomi Campbell Brehm said the major reasons flaps his flat palm over his mouth, Lawson said. share of unwanted attention from than a Native American woman. people are turned away are ill- emulating the stereotypical “woo- And while some of her students white men due to the negative im- Not to mention that the character ness or being too small. Anyone woo-woo” call. have tried to blame the harsh ste- ages cartoons like that convey. was obviously much older in the younger than 19 years old and un- That is a scene few people re- reotypical imagery on sheer igno- “The stereotype I feel is that cartoon than the 11- to 13-year-old der 5-feet-6-inches tall should call member from Disney’s 1953 ver- rance of the time when the film we’re more earthy and lusty,” De- 1-800-737-0902 to talk to a donor sion of “Peter Pan,” with the fly- was made, Lawson pointed out the Celles said. See DIVERSITY, page 12 See BLOOD, page 8 2 MKontana aimin Opinion Tuesday, November 17, 2009 EDITORIAL Christmas coming a little too early these days nation-wide last weekend? tured notes from his readers Carville, “it’s the economy, year to being in the black than enough (I think even A Christmas Carol! pointing out this phenom- stupid.” (gaining money). that’s too much, but I’m And why not? For enon around the nation. For Christmas is the only Marketers realized years willing to compromise). Christ’s sake! Christmas is example, many of Easter- holiday where people spend ago that, if they expanded And so it is time for us to only six weeks away! Better brook’s readers noted that in exorbitant sums of money the Christmas season be- rise up. It’s still autumn — get shopping! mid-July (July!), Sears and buying the newest violent yond its traditional post- Writer Gregg Easter- celebrate the harvest, cel- Kmart started their “Christ- video game, the latest gad- Thanksgiving start date, brook, who does a sports ebrate Thanksgiving. mas Lane” Web site. Now, get that will be totally out- consumers could be suck- Will Melton, News Editor column for ESPN called There’s plenty of time we’ve all heard of “Christ- dated in three weeks and the ered into buying more and Happy Ho-Ho-Holidays, Tuesday Morning Quarter- mas in July,” but it’s just get- for Wassail and Yule logs in most recent fashions in ugly spending more.