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Pages 8-9 Page 11 Page 16 Street acrobats Montana faces Looking back at the test their limits Stephen F. Austin decade that was www.montanakaimin.com MKontana UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 aVolumeimin CXII Issue 50 Friday, December 4, 2009 TEAM Family and friends recount Frost’s GINGER recovery from boat crash, coma Dustin Frost, a 2004 University of Montana graduate Greg Lindstrom/Montana Kaimin I don’t remember a crash or anything like that. “ Frankly, I wish I could even remember that, but I don’t. – Dustin Frost ” Jayme Fraser • Montana Kaimin half-smile rose up the right side of Dustin Frost’s face as he chuckled with the leadership at St. Joseph Medical Center and the Indian Health Service. Af- near the back of the Billings auditorium. ter, they drove to Wayfarers State Park for dinner near Flathead Lake. His red hair rose above the button shirts and military uniforms But Dustin doesn’t remember the rest of Aug. 27. Asearching for seats at a Veterans Day celebration. When his boss, U.S. Rep. Denny He doesn’t remember state Sen. Greg Barkus driving the 22-foot speedboat into Rehberg, stepped up to the podium, Dustin moved forward to take pictures. a cliff that dark night. After the ceremony, as people chatted with friends from the service or with Reh- He doesn’t remember how he ended up face down in the water. berg and U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, one man congratulated Dustin on his campaign back He doesn’t remember squeezing the hand of a camper who pulled him out of the to health. With the left corner of his mouth anchored, Dustin thanked him and gave lake shortly after 10 p.m. a crooked smile. The first thing Dustin recalls is the ambulance ride from Kalispell Regional His unusual grin is a reminder of a terrible accident a little more than three Medical Center to the inpatient therapy program at Missoula’s Community Medical months ago. Center two weeks later. “I remember the day certainly. That was the day we were up in Polson,” Frost “I remember waking up and I had this tube in my stomach, but other than that I said. “I don’t remember a crash or anything like that. Frankly, I wish I could even felt pretty good,” Dustin said. “So they had to talk me through and tell me what was remember that, but I don’t.” wrong with me.” Dustin, a University of Montana grad and Rehberg’s state director, remembers Though Dustin can’t remember the accident itself, he said he will not forget the traveling to Polson. There, he, Deputy Chief of Staff Kristin Smith and Rehberg met See FROST, page 4 2 MKontana aimin Opinion Friday, December 4, 2009 Caught in the BIG UPS Act Kaelyn Kelly and Willi Brooks Dirty Jokes & Editor’s note: Kaelyn buy, and quickly lessens a higher than women of any We’re getting a little misty-eyed here at BU&BH. We’ve been dropping so much Kelly and Willi Brooks take person’s ability to take con- other age. That means that knowledge on you for the past three and a half months and we’re afraid that you’re just turns writing this column, trol of the situation they are the men most likely to be going to lose it all by next January. Here’s some parting advice: Stay indoors, don’t talk which is published on Fri- in. Not to mention the fact dating women in the high- to anyone and, please, Backhandsdon’t go forming your own opinions! You want us to be out of a days. This is Kaelyn’s week that people like to drink. est-risk age group are of- job? to write. But there’s a double stan- ten the same men watching dard here: For the most part, movies that convey the mes- Speaking of out of a job, Big Ups to the folks at the White House’s Recovery.gov for All you got to do is use your men don’t have to worry sage that it’s OK, and even including non-existent congressional districts to show where the stimulus package has instincts. How do you think a about having someone try normal, to take advantage of created jobs. The White House’s deputy secretary of Unicorns and Leprechauns insists lion knows to tackle a gazelle? to take advantage of them a drunk woman. it was due to a technical snafu. It’s written, it’s a code writ- when they drink; for wom- Don’t worry guys, I’m ten in his DNA, says, “Tackle en, it’s a constant concern. giving you more credit than Surging Backhands to President Obama for announcing that he will send 30,000 the gazelle.” And believe it Women are always re- you might think. I’m grate- more troops to Afghanistan and then start taking them out after 18 months. Listen, or not, in every man there’s a minded not to leave their ful that most men realize Obama, we’ve all had that psycho boyfriend/girlfriend who keeps hitting us up for mon- code written that says, “Tackle drinks unattended in order that it is absolutely unac- ey, has a serious opium habit and rigs elections. (That last one might not fit the analogy.) drunk bitches.” to prevent being slipped a ceptable to take advantage We know you want out, but a “we’ll try to make this work one more time and then we’re I really hope not. date rape drug like a roofie. of someone who is under through” speech won’t do any good. Afghanistan, we need to talk. The above quote came But even when they follow the influence. These movie from Judd Apatow’s “The those precautions, they can scenes are not likely to in- Sari-draped Big Ups to that couple who sneaked past Secret Service to crash a state 40-Year-Old Virgin” and, be at risk for getting raped fluence the behavior of a dinner at the White House last week. Apparently they were on “Real Housewives of unfortunately, it’s not the just because they got drunk. man who respects women Washington D.C.” or something. We thought the balloon boy thing was the lamest stunt only movie that seems to That might be why it’s and knows that the absence ever pulled to get us to watch reality TV, but these guys have upped the ante consider- take date rape lightly. In an- easy for movies like “Super- of a “no” doesn’t indicate a ably. Ball’s in your court, Octomom. other Apatow movie, “Su- bad” and “Observe and Re- “yes.” perbad,” one of the main port” to make a joke out of But what about a guy Five-iron-wielding Backhands to Tiger Woods for joining the Successful Men With characters almost gets a date rape. These movies are who is already considering Impossibly Hot Supermodel Wives But Still Cheat On Them With Cocktail Waitresses “b.j.” from an obviously directed by and marketed to this behavior? Basically, Club. Oh well, as the old saying goes, sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until gone classmate. The 2008 young men who probably these films are giving him it’s (reportedly) chasing down your Escalade with a golf club. Reportedly. film “Observe and Report” haven’t ever experienced a a nod of approval to perpe- sparked mild controversy situation in which someone trate a horrendous crime. Easily trackable Big Ups to Public Safety for planting a decoy bike with a hidden GPS because in one scene Seth took advantage of them. If Date rape should never device around campus to catch bicycle thieves. Keep up the good fight, guys. And do let Rogen’s character has sex only the same held true for be portrayed the way mov- us know if you are able to find a pink two-speed Huffy with streamers and a banana seat. with an unconscious wom- their female peers. ies are portraying it now — It belongs to a friend of ours and they’d really like it back because it has lots of sentimen- an. According to the United as normal, acceptable, and tal value that they’d rather not go into right now if it’s all the same to you. Moving on. Alcohol is the No. 1 date States Department of Jus- even funny. It’s not. rape drug in the United tice, women between the Kaelyn Kelly is a junior Finally, some farewell Backhands to the most depressing decade ever, in which we States for a few reasons: It’s ages of 16 and 24 experi- studying broadcast journal- got our own 21st century versions of the 20th century’s worst tragedies all neatly pack- easily accessible, legal to ence rape at rates four times ism.