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Inside the Kaimin Sports p 10 On Campus Today Forecast News p 5 Kuehn & A with Cowboy • 7:00 p.m. “Climate Change Policy and Solutions,” UC Ballroom High 36F UM Student survives • 7:30 p.m. “Alexander Hamilton and the West,” Low 22F Cory Procter Presenter Michael Allen, North Underground Lecture Hall Jackson Hole avalanche – Courtesy of UM Events Calendar Bye bye Babs? Grad students could face new requirements Jeff Osteen UM President George Dennison’s FOR THE KAIMIN decision to implement a three- credit requirement. Graduate students at the “I think there is a consensus University of Montana still have that graduate students do not want a chance to avoid an increase in this,” Copeland said. the minimum credit requirement The policy was intended to go before it goes into effect next fall. into effect in fall 2007, but was Beginning in fall 2008, UM deferred after a spring forum at graduate students may be required which the GSA met with Dennison to enroll in at least three credits and concerned faculty and students. per semester. Students who do not Dennison placed a moratorium on maintain continuous registration the issue, giving the University will be dropped from their graduate of Montana Graduate Council program and must petition for an opportunity to determine why readmission. graduate students are not ﬁ nishing “It’s an attempt to motivate their degrees in a timely manner. the timely circulation of graduate Strobel said that particularly students through their programs,” in doctoral programs students said John Copeland, president of were taking as long as ten years the Graduate Student Association. to complete their degree, or not “As the GSA sees it, that is not the ﬁ nishing at all. right solution to the problem.” He said that one reason for this Currently, graduate students is that students accept a job while can take as little as one credit slowly working on their degree per semester and still maintain and can’t do the new job and the continuous registration. doctoral work at the same time. David Strobel, dean of the At the doctoral level, he said, graduate school, said that there has students drop out of the program been an increase in the number of during the last couple years more students who enrolled in graduate than any other time. programs and a decrease in the “Over 90 percent of students number of credits they were who take a leave of absence at that taking. He said that this led to See GSA, page 11 Texts written by professors could intimidate students

Alex Tenenbaum FOR THE KAIMIN

It’s no secret that some professors assign textbooks they themselves wrote as part of their required reading. The practice is as old as the university system, and the concern that professors make extra money from student purchases was born a day later. Hugh Carey/Montana Kaimin While most universities, The Babs Apartments, near the 4th Street West and Higgins Avenue intersection, will have its fourth fl oor renovated and turned into condominiums. including the University of Montana, have policies to prevent fi nancial confl icts of interest, Apartments may turn to condos UM students can encounter other potential problems with professors Kenneth Billington / Montana Kaimin teaching their own texts. Sophomore psychology major Jess Dallman said she Stefanie Kilts offers...have the intention of Coffman said there would need Kendra Jimenez, a graduate enjoys reading her professor’s book, which she was MONTANA KAIMIN switching it to condos,” he said. to be many improvements to the student in intercultural youth and required to buy for his history class, Human Rights. On Tuesday, the occupants, infrastructure including electrical family development, took Politics “I like using the professor’s own book, it shows he The fate of the historic Babs many of whom are college students, and heating upgrades. The high of Social Movements last semester knows the material inside and out,” Dallman said. Apartments is up in the air, but there received notice that the building cost of this renovation is one with political science professor is a good chance the apartments will had been sold and that the buyer reason that making the building Paul Haber. There were only two Jimenez said. be converted into condominiums was doing inspections. They were into condominiums would be books assigned for the class, and “When you know you’re under new ownership. told a structural engineer would be preferable to renting apartments Haber’s “Power from Experience” speaking about his book, you want The building, located on 4th viewing the building the following out for interested buyers, Coffman was one of them. to make sure you’re impressing the Street West off of South Higgins, day. explained. “The book was a big part of the prof. It’s hard to stay true to what was put up for sale at the beginning If the decision is made to convert Babs Apartments has 14 class,” Jimenez said, adding that you actually think,” she said. of the year. There is one main the apartments into condominiums, total units, with two studios, six it sometimes made her scared to Haber could not be reached for offer from a buyer and two other leases on apartments will be upheld single-bedrooms and six double- participate in class. comment, so it is unknown where back-up offers for purchasing the until their fi nal date, which varies bedrooms. 10 units are currently “It was hard to criticize his royalties from his textbook end building, said Ed Coffman, broker between the summer and next fall, occupied and the four units that theories to his face because he was up. at Lambros Real Estate. Coffman said. are vacant will not be rented out the one grading me,” she said. But not everyone’s experience “As far as I can tell, all three The fi nal decision for apartments because of the sale, Coffman said. One of the tests for the class of professor-written material has will be made by April, Coffman Doug Dion, a University of was an oral exam given in front of been bad. said, so there is a chance that the Montana sophomore studying two other students. Jessica Dallman, a sophomore Check us out building may stay as apartments. theater, said that Babs Apartments “The oral exam counted for 25 in psychology, and Jessica on the Web at However, even though the was a nice place to live. percent my grade, and a lot of the Andrews, a senior in history, can’t www.montanakaimin.com building is in good condition, See BABS, page 12 questions were from his book,” See BOOKS, page 4 2 Opinion Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008

Volunteers encouraged • You could discover a potential Letters career track. Are you unsure of your EDITORIAL The Offi ce for Civic Engagement major or career goals? A number of is once again hosting its biannual to the career possibilities can be tried out Volunteer Fair on Tuesday, as a volunteer with minimum risk. February 12th and Wednesday, Editor It could help you determine if that February 13th from 10:00 a.m. to occupation is really what you are Should teachers teach 2:00 p.m. in the UC Atrium. It’s interested in. a mutually benefi cial event, with Why not? Besides the great feeling I encourage everyone to attend their own materials? students given the opportunity to of helping others, there are many this important event. We are learn about interesting civic work reasons: fortunate to live in such an active they may become involved in and • You can boost your resume. and caring community, and this is Last semester, my classmates and I agencies having the chance to Volunteer activities convey a sense a great chance to fi nd out how you were asked to critique, in an exam worth recruit new student volunteers! of social responsibility as well as can give back! a big chunk of our grade, a professor’s There will be over 20 local experience gained in a work-like For any further information, call theory from a text he wrote and required nonprofi ts on hand for students to environment. the Offi ce for Civic Engagement at us to read. visit with to learn about the services • You can increase your 243-5531. What is a captive audience, keeping these organizations provide to the employment possibilities. Volunteer their eye on the all-important grade community. activities can serve as a “foot-in- Lauren Amato, point average, going to say? “Your Many of you may be wondering, the-door” situation that might lead Campus Corps team leader, theory sucked?” Or, “Your writing needs why should I volunteer? We reply: to an employed position. Offi ce for Civic Engagement work?” I doubt it. We would whisper before class, “Did Jessica Mayrer UWire you get what he was talking about?” or News Editor “What was the point?” The book was full of acronyms, a poorly organized alphabet soup. It even had Dems take black vote for granted typos. I would like to think my experience was rare. I know that Kelley Akhiemokhali ’cause you’re a chump, a political presidential campaign this most University of Montana professors have better writing THE (DUKE) CHRONICLE chump.... Anytime you throw summer. skills than those I encountered in this book, but the practice your weight behind a political The night before I fl ew home, itself is a problem. The classroom should be an environment I applaud African-American party that controls two-thirds of the offi ce had dinner with the that nurtures diversity and debate. It should not be a soapbox Republicans. I say this not because the government, and that party campaign’s chair. After listening for one individual’s limited perspective. Teachers already have I am one, but because they serve as can’t keep the promise that it to the conversation for a while I the power to steer classroom discussion. Do they really need us a small reminder to the Democratic made to you during election time, fi nally decided to ask the chair what to read their books on top of it? Party that not all African Americans and you’re dumb enough to walk his candidate would do about the Sometimes, a professor, with years of experience getting lean left. around continuing to identify unfair crack cocaine vs. powdered through to students, is best suited to write a course textbook. Whenever I believe that a yourself with that party, you’re not cocaine prison sentences. And while that may be the case, sometimes, it doesn’t override person or group has overstepped only a chump, but you’re a traitor It was a simple question. The the fact that students, pressured to kiss up to snag a better grade, a particular boundary, I often to your race.” mandatory minimum sentencing will keep their mouths shut to avoid offending the person who say they got too comfortable. Although I consider myself for crack-cocaine possession is wields the red pen. People are too comfortable when an American and would not call one of the primary reasons African Students should be free to criticize ideas. When professors they put their feet up on a coffee someone a race-traitor, I would say Americans fi ll prisons. If a person write the book and teach the class, it stifl es discussion and the table in a house they are visiting the Democratic Party all too often is concerned about the plight of learning experience suffers. for the fi rst time. They’re too sees African-American voters as African Americans, along with If I asked you to critique my writing, you may soften any comfortable when they make a chumps. Anytime a party takes a education and socio-economic critiques to not hurt my feelings, but when the person asking bigoted joke because they are “part particular aspect of its constituency factors, one must analyze the the questions holds the power of future scholarships, job of the family” now. They’re too for granted, it is relegating that reasons why African Americans opportunities and chances at getting into graduate school, the comfortable like the Democratic constituency to chump status. are outdistancing other ethnicities entire dynamic is magnifi ed. Ultimately, if a student is asked to Party is too comfortable with the Now, I know modern history in prisons. evaluate the professor’s work, it guarantees them an ego stroke African-American vote. shows us that Democrats are more I’m not sure what was worse from a captive and submissive audience. In his famous speech “The vocal than Republicans about – the chair not having a response Perhaps my teacher wanted vigorous debate, as I imagine Ballot or the Bullet,” Malcolm X issues affecting African-American or the fact that he did not know most do. But students will always feel pressure to do well in declared, “I’m not a Republican, communities. Not long after X’s about the sentencing disparity at the eyes of their teachers and will shy away from confrontation nor a Democrat, nor an American, speech, The Civil Rights Act of all. After a few of my colleagues with someone who holds a signifi cant portion of their future in and got sense enough to know it.” 1964 was passed with a Democrat jumped in to explain, he acted like their hands. Malcolm X’s statement in offi ce and it took George W. the stereotypical politician. He resonated deeply with me when Bush until 2006 to even address gave me his card and told me to I read it for the fi rst time. I the NAACP Convention. contact him with a follow-up. only have to look at the current Then there is Bill Clinton. I did. Three times. I have yet presidential campaign to remind Bill “The First Black President” to hear an answer. Ironically, myself of his words’ signifi cance. Clinton. a conservative Supreme Court The Kaimin invites The charismatic civil rights leader With all that going on, the responded before the Democratic asserted that African Americans Democrats grew even more Party did. letters to the editor carry serious political clout. Barack comfortable. As they propped their African-American Republicans Obama’s huge triumph in South feet up on the backs of African- serve as the itch the Democrats and guest columns. Carolina’s Democratic primary – American voters, they relished their just cannot quite scratch. I say let where more than 50 percent of the identity as being for the common the Democrats keep scratching. Democratic voters were African man, the ignored, the oppressed. Let them keep working. Maybe American – clearly shows that is For better or worse, being for these one day they will remember those Letters should be 300 words or fewer, and still true today. Yet what I fi nd groups is often synonymous with “burning” issues outside of an columns should be about 700 words. most interesting is what X declared being for African Americans. election year. Maybe one day they next in that same speech. I fi nally realized just how will realize that they have grown Please send to [email protected], “[The Democrats] been down much the Dems were relaxing too comfortable and when they are or drop them off in Don Anderson Hall 208. there four years.... You put about the African-American vote apologizing left, right and center, I Make sure to include a phone number where we them fi rst, and they put you last, when I interned on a Democrat’s will think, who’s the chump now? can reach you. www.montanakaimin.com 110 years Montana Kaimin NEWSROOM PHONE 406-243-4310 BUSINESS OFFICE PHONE 406-243-6541 The Montana Kaimin, in its Editor Design Editor Sports Reporters Arts Reporters 110th year, is published by the Sean Breslin Rachel Cook Jake Grilley Erica Doornek students of The University of Business Manager Bill Oram Steve Miller Montana, Missoula. The UM John Cribb Online Editor Ben Prez Melissa Weaver School of Journalism uses the News Editors Sammy Pearson Roman Stubbs Photographers Montana Kaimin for practice Jessica Mayrer Reporters Ken Billington courses but assumes no con- Karen Plant Copy Editors Amy Faxon Hugh Carey trol over policy or content. 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All other communications should be directed to [email protected] . 4 News Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008 A new face for UM Web services, all in OneStop Trevon Milliard even choose local and national on Cyberbear when I was a their university account passwords have for OneStop are welcome, MONTANA KAIMIN news feeds, search for local jobs student,” he said. “I can use my through OneStop, he said. Pace said. Users can comment on and see what movies are playing experience.” “But we hope once they get in, their OneStop accounts. OneStop Grizmail, Cyberbear, in Missoula. About 12,000 hours have gone their interest is piqued and they is in no way complete, Pace said, Blackboard and other school “It’s not the university into the Web service created poke around a little bit,” Pace and more tools are in the works. Web sites are now all accessible homepage,” Pace said. “It’s your mostly by students, Pace said. said. Because of the Virginia Tech at OneStop, a Web service just homepage.” OneStop has been developed On OneStop, users can send shooting, emphasis has been released by the University of OneStop is four years in the at a fairly reasonable cost. EAI, a text messages or class schedules placed on contacting students in Montana that brings a student’s making and is an attempt to nonprofi t provider of information to their cell phones. About 12 case of emergency, Pace said. university accounts to one personal “simplify things for students by technology, granted UM about $1 professors are making their On OneStop, the University can site requiring one sign-on. putting them in one place in a million to develop OneStop, and lectures available on iTunes U send a message that will appear in The site, onestop.umt.edu, logical manner,” he said. the University’s IT Central funded through OneStop. In the future, an offi cial notice window on the requires each student or faculty Tom Fite, 24, is the senior some of the cost, he said. UM pays there will be the capability to screen. Students are more likely to member to log on using his or developer for the project and $30,000 a year to be a College EAI download videos from class, Pace read that than e-mail, he said. her UM NetID. They are then one started developing OneStop member. said. The University can also use the click away from other sites that when he was a UM student. Even if OneStop weren’t Users can personalize their offi cial notices to send messages to usually require another login and He graduated last spring with a created, there’d still be a need to OneStop site in a variety of ways certain groups, like Miller Hall or password, including Blackboard, degree in computer science and design many of these applications, once they try. For example, any Knowles Hall residents. IT Central Grizmail and Cyberbear, said still works at improving OneStop, Pace said. feed from another Web site can be plans to have the capability to send Gordy Pace, UM director of IT he said. Three UM students are About 13,000 people have linked to it, including Facebook. emergency text messages to cell Communications. currently working to further logged into OneStop since it “I don’t have to go to individual phones this year, Pace said. A student’s OneStop site develop OneStop, and student opened a week before the semester, Web sites,” Fite said. “It’s all “The vision is always changing displays books checked out from involvement helps make it even Pace said. But that doesn’t mean brought to me in one space.” as technology is changing,” Pace the library, the student’s academic more benefi cial, Fite said. people are using it regularly since Student feedback is positive so said. transcript and more. Students can “I always had frustrations many students are forced to update far, and any suggestions students

BOOKS stop praising their history professor Rights.” class that it was his book,” she of praise and simply said, “Any Continued from page 1 Paul Lauren or his book, “The They said he is impartial and said. “The man didn’t need to have royalties I make on sales at the Evolution of International Human open to disagreement. his ego massaged at all.” University of Montana go to a “Both in the textbook and in Andrews said that even if the scholarship fund.” his lectures, he is very objective,” book seems to be objective, certain Dan Dutton, a forensic Dallman said. “I don’t feel that he situations still require skepticism. anthropology major in professor is imposing his views on us.” “If it’s a subject where there’s Mark Cracolice’s General “He makes an effort to ensure a lot written already, like WWI Chemistry class, said that the that we hear a whole bunch of or WWII or something, I would textbook written by Cracolice and perspectives,” Andrews said. question why the professor is using others was mostly a good buy. Andrews added that sometimes his own text,” she said. “But if it’s The UM Bookstore sold the professors who write their own a narrow subject like, in this case, book as a stack of photocopied textbooks make a parade of it, the history of human rights, I don’t pages, three-hole punched and expecting respect and praise. But, think it’s a problem. Especially shrink-wrapped together. she said, nothing could be further when the professor is the authority Considering its humble from the truth with Lauren. on the subject.” appearances, he said he spent an “He didn’t even mention in Lauren downplayed the reports awful lot for it. “Seventy-three dollars seems pretty crazy for this,” Dutton said, motioning toward the stack that now straddled the three metal rings of a beat-up binder. General Chemistry is a two- semester class, so students buy the fi rst half of the book one semester and the second half fi ve months later. Dutton, now in his second semester, grinned as he said, “At least I got to use the binder two semesters in a row.” Despite its odd format and high price tag, Dutton still defended the book. “It doesn’t really bother me that Cracolice wrote it. It’s a good text. If it were a terrible book it would, but I’m learning, and it is well written,” he said. Cracolice defended it too. “For my class it’s the best choice since it includes everything the course covers,” he said. “It’s not ideal. The quality is defi nitely lower. But to make up for it, I show color slides in class.” In spite of its appearance, Cracolice said the unbound, black- and-white book actually comes from a publisher. He said he chooses not to take royalties, which is in line with UM policy, which forbids professors from making a profi t on course materials without the approval of their department. Professors who do make royalties must either donate them to charity or get approval from the majority of his or her department to make their book a course requirement. Most universities have similar policies, but according to the Association of American University Professors, if neurology students at Case Western Reserve University are ever assigned faculty-written textbooks, they get them for free. News 5 Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008 UM student recalls Wyo. avalanche experience Mike Gerrity hollow,” Frederick said. people you trust and checking MONTANA KAIMIN Frederick added that he and regular avalanche reports online Talermo discussed stopping are a crucial step anybody can take Morgan Frederick remembers and digging a pit to check the to ensure safety on a backcountry everything. The blunt “whomp” condition of the snow right before run. of the snowy face of Cache Peak the snowline fractured. “A lot of these decisions can be barreling towards him. The carpet This winter has already proven made at your home with an internet of powder sliding out from under itself a deadly one for avalanches in connection,” Anderson said. his skis. Montana. The day after Frederick Even though grappling for a But before he knew exactly and Talermo managed to survive tree may have helped Frederick, what was happening, the last thing in Jackson Hole, two backcountry Anderson said that the idea of he says he can remember hearing skiers were killed in an avalanche heading for the trees in order to was his ski buddy, Ryan Talermo, on the backside of Whitefi sh save oneself during an avalanche screaming. Mountain Resort (formerly Big is really a misnomer. As the wave of snow plucked Mountain). “They can be good anchors but him from the ground and carried A junior at Montana State generally they have to be closer him down the mountain, Frederick University in Bozeman, Tyler together than you would want to latched onto a sapling, only to be Stetson, was killed a week after ski in,” Anderson said. ripped away. that in an avalanche in Beehive On Feb. 26, the Aerie School Eventually he was able to Basin near Big Sky, Mont. for Backcountry Medicine will aim towards a large tree and pin According to the Colorado be holding EMT courses at himself against it as the avalanche Avalanche Information Center, UM, in conjunction with the pummeled against him. the national average for avalanche Department of Health and Human After he climbed out of the pile, fatalities is about 25 a year. Performance. The classes will he realized his friend was nowhere Since Dec. 2, avalanches have offer students an opportunity in sight, and started hollering, already killed 22 people in the to earn EMT certifi cation and hoping for a sign of life. West, three of them in Montana. a chance to be better aware of Then he heard one. Kari Gunderson, who has been dangerous avalanche conditions “It took about a minute before teaching the intensive Winter on the backcountry trail. I got a vocal response, which is a Wilderness Field Study course The research behind the shitty feeling,” said Frederick, a over winter session for six years, behavior of avalanches, however, University of Montana junior. has her students take elementary is still fuzzy, which makes them Talermo had been carried courses in avalanche survival such a formidable menace to skiers almost completely to the bottom every year using transceivers and and snowboarders. of the mountain. The force of the snow poles. “The science of analyzing avalanche had thrown him into a Photo courtesy of Morgan Frederick For the average backcountry avalanches is not very clear or tree trunk, snapping his left femur Avalanche aftermath in Jackson Hole, Wyo. rider, Gunderson said that a primary well-defi ned, and may never be,” on impact. factor of avalanche survival lies Anderson said. Remembering back to prior out from the femoral artery. a toboggan. in common sense, and not letting Gunderson said that in her wilderness and medical training He was able to get a signal on Frederick was uninjured, and peer pressure to hit a potentially backcountry experience, those who he received as a raft guide, his cell phone from that hillside Talermo is recovering from his unstable run get the best of you. fi nds themselves close enough to Frederick made a seat for him out in the Gros Ventre Mountains broken femur and a broken arm. “A big thing I try to stress in an avalanche to understand them of snow and managed to stabilize in Jackson Hole Valley, Wyo. But Frederick is glad to be my course is good judgment. If seldom live to talk about it, hence Talermo’s leg. He managed to get in touch with alive. you have any reservations (about the lack of strong scientifi c study. As he looked at his wounded a friend of his in Teton County “I’m a little bit luckier than he a backcountry run), don’t go,” “I’ve had some of the biggies friend, slashed and bleeding from Search and Rescue who organized is, but we’re both glad we’re fi ne Gunderson said. in the avalanche world tell me branches and other debris he grazed a helicopter retrieval, a move that now,” Frederick said. Peter Anderson, a training there are no avalanche experts,” on the way down, Frederick could went against protocol due to the Looking back on the avalanche offi cer for the Aerie School Gunderson said. “They’re all see things were looking grim. fact that they would be pulling that could have killed him and his for Backcountry Medicine in dead.” “He had a broken leg and was their chopper out after dark. ski buddy that afternoon on Jan. Missoula, said that riding with messed up bad,” Frederick said. “They did us a favor to fl y in,” 12, Frederick says that the signs “He was going into shock.” Frederick said. indicated that particular slope bode The thought gnawed in the back Frederick was airlifted from ill for them from the start. of his mind that, on average, one the site, having lost his skis in the “The avalanche danger was out of four femur fractures results avalanche. Talermo had to be skied considerable. We didn’t notice in death, usually due to bleeding out by search and rescue crews in the snow on the slope was pretty

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Continent’s Crown New winter session geography course offers hands-on experience Story and Photos by Emily Haas and Krista Miller for the Kaimin

his winter session, several River Corridor and Highway 200, at Rogers Pass. students found themselves in The crown’s eastern border encompasses the Rocky an unconventional classroom Mountain Front, where the vast short-grass prairie experience. Rick Graetz’s pilot ends abruptly at the impressive over-thrust belt, and Crown of the Continent geography extends west to the Mission and Flathead Valleys, course drew in students from different backgrounds including the Whitefi sh range. The two jewels to learnT about the complex ecosystem just north of of the crown are Glacier National Park and the Missoula. Chinese Wall, in the Bob Marshall The University of Montana Wilderness. College of Arts and Sciences is In addition to the two-week embarking upon a new, university- lecture course, students had the wide initiative to coordinate research chance to take a weeklong fi eld trip in and near Glacier National Park to Montana’s outdoor classroom, the and the Rocky Mountain Front. The North Fork of the Flathead River initiative, seeing fi rst light through ecosystem. the Department of Geography, is an Heading up the North Fork and outreach to students through new out of one of the fastest growing curriculum, research and internship regions, the Flathead Valley, one will opportunities. A speculated see a strikingly different landscape. Interpretive Center for the department It’s a bumpy, dusty road covered may result from these efforts. with hard-packed snow leading to The ecosystem of the crown of Polebridge, Mont. The road can the continent can be defi ned geographically on a be nearly impassable in winter and so dusty and map, but its infl uence is not limited to that area. rough in summer that many are discouraged from The crown’s northern border begins at British traveling it. Polebridge, nestled between the snow- Columbia’s Crows Nest Pass and the Elk River, the capped peaks in Glacier National Park’s Livingston headwaters of the North Fork of the Flathead River. Range and the Whitefi sh Range, has around 25 full- The crown stretches 250 miles south to the Blackfoot time residents.

Above: Andrew Bell and Andrew Stolle snowshoe along the North Fork of the Flathead River during the winter session ﬁ eld course, Exploring the Mountains of Western Montana, a geography course. Class began each morning with a lecture and the afternoons were spent in the ﬁ eld.

Top: John Frederick and his dog Blue spoke to students at the North Fork Hostel about the local perceptions concerning development in the North Fork Valley. Frederick, the unofﬁ cial mayor of Polebridge, is instrumental in the preservation of the North Fork.

Bottom: Lucy Beard, right, Courtney Oyler, and Greta Rybus listen to backcountry traveling tips from course instructor Rick Graetz. Graetz is part of the new initiative though UM incorporating research and knowledge for the Crown of the Continent. Feature 7 Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008

Above: Freezeout Lake, just north of Fair- ﬁ eld, Mont. on the Rocky Mountain Front is a resting spot for over 230 species of migrating birds. For a few weeks in the spring over 400,000 snow geese can be seen resting on the lake and feeding in nearby ﬁ elds.

Above: Students visiting the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological station at Yellow Bay hear from Jack Stanford about the importance of looking at an ecosystem in its entirety and as a complex resource. The station, used as an outdoor classroom, is spearheading research in the crown, which is applicable around the world.

Right: A sign tacked near the front A resident dog watches students shopping in the Polebridge Mercantile. The Mercantile serves door of the North Fork Hostel as a grocery store, bakery and a community meeting place. welcomes visitors. Sixteen students spent four nights in Polebridge, Mont. without urban amenities such as electricity and indoor bathrooms. 8 News Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008 Foresters’ Ball Frenzy ASUM buys emissions offsets

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ASUM agreed Wednesday night to give the Students of Wilderness and Civilization group $726 to bring a speaker on global warming to campus. Of the $726, $228 would go towards purchasing carbon credits, or Green Tags, to offset the carbon emitted from the speaker’s fl ight to Missoula. The Students of Wilderness and Civilization is hosting the fi nal lecture of the annual Wilderness Lecture Series. Policy Director K.C. Golden, of the Seattle- based Climate Solutions, will advise University students and community members on climate solutions and how to help offset carbon emissions. SOWC requested ASUM purchase Green Tags to enforce Hugh Carey/Montana Kaimin Golden’s message. The Green Freshman Anna Penner-Ray, center, gets clashed as students frantically grab the Foresters’ Ball tickets on the ground dropped by a helicopter above the Oval Wednesday afternoon. Of the Tags program was set up by dozens of students on the Oval, Penner-Ray successfully grabbed a ticket to her fi rst Foresters’ Ball. There were only four tickets hidden in hundreds of ticket packets falling from the sky. the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. Purchasing Green Tags funds the development of renewable resources. ASUM was divided on whether or not to give SOWC the money Check us out online at for the Green Tags. Some senators worried that if they approved this www.montanakaimin.com request it would set a precedent for future group requests, while others were excited to be the fi rst group on campus to support Green Tags. Sen. Kevin Nalty said purchasing Green Tags for this lecture would prompt other student groups to ask ASUM to do the same for their trips. Financing groups to offset carbon emission will continue to get more expensive in the future. He suggested the senate look at the fi nancial aspect of this request before supporting it. Vice President Tara Ness said that not paying for carbon credits would be hypocritical. Golden will address this new way to offset pollution in his lecture, and not supporting the Green Tag purchase would be contradictory. ASUM President Dustin Leftridge is excited that ASUM will be the fi rst group on campus to support offsetting carbon emissions. It is ASUM’s responsibility to set a precedent for the future of this campus, Sen. Allie Harrison said. The other $498 will cover Golden’s travel, food, and lodging expenses. Golden’s will deliver his lecture, “The Climate Solutions: For a New, Sustainable Prosperity,” on April 15. ASUM also passed a resolution to discontinue smoking in all university housing. Currently, some university apartments, like the University Villages, allow smoking inside the apartments. Another resolution, to not ban smoking on campus, was passed. The University of Montana Tobacco Task Force has considered banning smoking on campus. The ASUM senate acknowledged that all students, smokers included, have the right to smoke on campus as long as See ASUM, page 12 Kaimin Sports Thursday, January 31, 2008 Griz gaining ground in Big Sky Conference

Bill Oram Side MONTANA KAIMIN Just when some were ready to bury the University of Montana lines men’s basketball team six-feet- under in the Big Sky Conference, they wiggled a toe. Then, a couple of nights later, another. Aspirations for any kind of Home games postseason run appeared slim after the Griz started their Big Sky season •Thursday, Jan. 31 – Lady 1-4, but wins in the past week over Griz vs. Portland State, 7 p.m. Eastern Washington and Northern •Saturday, Feb. 2 – Lady Colorado seemingly have given Griz vs. Eastern Washington, 7 Montana hope. p.m. Now, with two road games slated in the next four days, the Griz (9- 11, 3-4 Big Sky Conference) have Sports Briefs an opportunity to further their cause and show they are capable of – in Track: UM senior Loni hopes this metaphor hasn’t lost its Perkins-Judisch is this week’s steam – a full resurrection. Big Sky Conference women’s Tonight’s tilt at Portland State indoor track athlete of the week. (11-8, 4-2 BSC) should provide a Perkins-Judisch, a Conrad, challenge, and Sunday the Griz will Mont. native, swept the 200 and have another opportunity for a win 400 meters at last weekend’s at Eastern Washington (3-5, 8-14 MSU Open in Bozeman with BSC). times of 24.97 and 55.74. Throughout the team’s recent Both times qualifi ed her for swoon, coach Wayne Tinkle conference, and both times are maintained that his team was capable the best in the Big Sky this of rebounding and making a run late season. Perkins-Judisch holds in the season. the Montana record in indoor “We knew we were close, we’d and outdoor 400 meters and has lost so many close games, our guys won the Big Sky Conference just found a way against Eastern to 400 meter championship fi ve just come out and win,” Tinkle said times. Wednesday. “We turned around the way we were playing, now we just Volleyball: Montana State- need to make sure we don’t get back Billings volleyball coach Sara to doing the things we were doing Schaub has been named the earlier in the season.” new volleyball coach for the Tinkle credits his team’s Bobcats. Schaub, 28, played resurgence to a new, bigger starting volleyball and was an assistant lineup he fi rst turned to against Idaho coach at Eastern Michigan State on Jan. 17. He pulled guard before coaching at Division II Cameron Rundles, the reigning Big MSU-B. Last fall, she coached Sky Freshman of the Year, from the the Yellowjackets to an 18-10 starting lineup, and inserted Brian record. Schaub now faces the Qvale, the 6-foot-11 freshman who task of rebuilding a struggling may be an early-season candidate Montana Stat program that for the same award. Eric Oravsky / Montana Kaimin fi nished 1-27 in 2007, under “The thing we really like about Freshman guard Zach Graves drives around junior guard Ceylon Elgin-Taylor in practice Tuesday afternoon. The Grizzlies play away tonight at Portland State and will try to Miya Malauulu, who resigned it is it really allows us to establish a add another win to their 3-4 conference record. in December. physical style of play,” he said. “If it gets to where it hurts us not having point shot and they’ve been pretty crosstown University of Portland said Martin, who played against another handler on the fl oor, we’ll successful so far in league,” he said. Pilots, leads the Vikings in scoring Dominguez in AAU tournaments go back to the small lineup.” “But if we contain the 3-point arc with 12.1 points per game, while in high school. “We know if we can Standings Portland State is a perimeter and limit them to one shot … I think guard Deonte Huff averages 11.9 come in on this road trip and get a team, from its guards to its big men, we’ll be good.” points and center Scott Morrison sweep it will make us move up in Men’s bball senior Griz guard Matt Martin said. Junior guard Jeremiah posts 10.4. See MEN’S BBALL, page 10 School Big Sky All “I think they rely on the 3- Dominguez, a transfer from the “It’s defi nitely a big game,” Northern Arizona 6-2 14-7 Weber State 5-2 10-9 Idaho State 5-2 8-12 Portland State 4-2 11-8 Lady Griz, Portland State tied for lead in BSC Montana State 4-3 12-8 Ben Prez Montana 3-4 9-11 think it’s more about us as a team MONTANA KAIMIN Eastern Washington 3-5 8-14 encouraging each other and fi guring Northern Colorado 2-6 8-12 The second half has been kind to out what we did wrong and using Sacramento State 1-7 3-16 the Lady Griz lately. Before coming it as a stepping stone,” sophomore from behind to beat Northern guard Lauren Beck said. Colorado on Saturday, the team Montana shot 33 percent from Women’s bball outscored Weber State by 10 points three-point range against Northern School Big Sky All in a win and Idaho State by one in Colorado in the fi rst half but shot Montana 5-1 15-4 the second half in a loss. 46 percent in the second half. Sonya Portland State 5-1 15-4 “You’ve got to play a full 40 Rogers, who leads the nation in Idaho State 5-2 13-6 minutes, and if you start great three-point shooting percentage, put Northern Colorado 4-2 10-9 it doesn’t mean anything, and if in most of the long-range buckets. Montana State 3-3 8-10 you fi nish great it doesn’t mean “We’re playing well at 5-1,” Northern Arizona 3-4 7-13 anything,” Montana Lady Griz Selvig said. “That was a good game Weber State 2-5 8-11 coach Robin Selvig said. “We plan against Northern Colorado. That Sacramento State 2-5 4-15 on playing a full 40 minutes and was the fi rst close game we’ve had Eastern Washington 0-6 3-16 being there at the end of the game.” at home, but you gain confi dence Tonight at 7 p.m. the Lady Griz from those tough situations.” this day in sports face a Portland State team that has Hugh Carey/Montana Kaimin Portland State will be taking the history won fi ve of its last six games. The Freshman Jessa Linford, left, handles the ball as freshman Misty Atkinson attempts to block during basketball fl oor at Dahlberg Arena tonight with two teams are tied for the lead in practice in the West Auxiliary gym Wednesday morning. The Lady Griz will host Portland State tonight at 7 p.m. a squad that has held its opponents to In 1991, Denver Nuggets’ the Big Sky Conference, and the runs,” senior guard Dana Conway Griz were outscored by 14 in the 41 percent shooting and 27 percent Michael Adams became the Lady Griz are hoping for a strong said. “Robin tells us to play our fi rst half and shot much better in the from beyond the arc, so a comeback shortest NBA player to get a triple- effort from start to fi nish against the game, get on the boards and stay second half. could be tougher this time around double at 5-foot-10. Vikings. aggressive.” “Rob does a good job of for Montana. “We’re a team capable of big Against Idaho State, the Lady encouraging us at halftime, but I See LADY GRIZ, page 10 10 Sports Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008 Former Griz talks Cowboys, Super Bowl MEN’S BBALL Continued from page 9 With Super Bowl Sunday A: He’s a good lucky breaks, Kuehn: What are your thoughts fast approaching, Kaimin sports guy, he’s pretty to get with the on the success of the Patriots this league. It will make it easier to editor Amber Kuehn spoke with light-hearted. He right team. It’s season? get a win at Eastern if we can win Dallas Cowboys center and former just has a good Kuehn-A all about getting A: It’s cool, they’re only the (Thursday) night.” University of Montana standout time and he sings Q&A comfortable with second team to ever do it. It’s pretty Portland State coach Ken Cory Procter about life in the NFL a lot even though with Cory Procter it and realizing impossible but they’re showing it’s Bone said despite Montana’s and his prediction for the big game. he has a horrible voice. it’s all football. It’s all relative, just a not. To go undefeated in the NFL slow start he still anticipates they step bigger. You play big guys every these days is tough. I mean, to have will be competitive as the Big Kuehn: How much playing time Kuehn: Hasn’t taken enough week instead of big guys every once our record (13-3) is pretty damn Sky Conference schedule moves did you get this year? vocal lessons from his girlfriend in awhile. good. Some of those old Miami along. A: I mostly got clean-up time at (Jessica Simpson)? guys, I don’t know, I think some of “They just had some bad luck the end of the year. I was in special A: Laughs. Kuehn: A lot of people thought them want that streak to keep going. early, they got beat by a couple teams all year but got in on offense the Cowboys had a good shot at of teams that beat them on those against St. Louis. When (starting Kuehn: The Cowboys had an making the Super Bowl. How did Kuehn: What is your prediction nights,” he said. “I think when it’s center) Andre Gurode went down incredible season. What was it like you and the rest of the team handle for the Super Bowl? all said and done at the end of the against Philly (Eagles) to be part of it? the unexpected upset? A: New England in a tight game, year they’ll be right there in the top I came in for most of A: Sure, it’s great, but A: It was heartbreaking. You because I think New York will play three.” the second half and then there’s only one ultimate don’t expect it. We had planned on them good. They turned it on last He pointed to Andrew Strait started the next two games goal and obviously it’s coming in next week, had meetings week, and especially against New and Jordan Hasquet as dangerous after that. The rest of the the reason you’re calling. scheduled even. It isn’t a bad thing, England in the last regular season weapons for the Grizzlies and said season I played special It’s Super Bowl time. you should expect to win, but when game. It’ll be a good one. each player is “as good as anybody teams, and eventually we It’s great to win and the you have everything planned and in the conference.” got our starting center season goes a lot better it’s done all of a sudden, and you’re Kuehn: Do you still follow the Martin said wins over both the back. because there is no blame. doing exit interviews and exit Griz? Vikings and Eastern Washington When I was with Detroit physicals, it doesn’t sink in until A: Of course. I was bummed on Sunday would set a positive Kuehn: What was we were losing all the later. out that they lost to Waffl e House tone for the rest of the season. that like, to see some Cory Procter time, so everybody hates University – or whatever, Wofford “I think this is probably one of real playing time, after each other. This makes Kuehn: You were defeated by – some team I never heard of. I our biggest road trips because next essentially spending three seasons it a lot more fun. There’s still a lot Eli Manning and the Giants, who are always follow them. Those were week we’re at home,” he said. “We on the sidelines? of disappointment when you don’t facing the Patriots in the Super Bowl good times. There are still a bunch can’t look too far ahead, but this A: It’s neat. It’s kind of stepping make it where you want. Just like the this weekend. What can you say of great coaches there. I’m coming road trip could be key for the rest stones to get where you want to be in Griz going undefeated and losing in about the talent of that team, having back in a few weeks to see a few of of our season.” life. It’s kind of like any profession. the fi rst round. played against them? them. The Griz play at Portland It’s a step up that ladder, and getting A: Everybody was surprised they State’s Stott Center at 8:05 p.m. some playing time helped me out a Kuehn: What has been the made it. I think they were surprised Kuehn: What do you hope the tonight, and at Eastern Washington lot. It’s good for later down the road biggest adjustment from the college they made it. They were able to turn future holds for you? on Sunday at 2:05 p.m. The game if I ever play for another team. My game? it on right when need be. Good for A: My goal is to start, and then against the Eagles will be broadcast two-year contract expired, then I A: I had to develop a little more. them. I’ve got a buddy on the team, just getting in and playing all the on the Altitude television network. signed a one-year contract this year I was lucky. I was able to get with so I’m happy for them. It proves that time. I want to win a Super Bowl, go and I’ll do the same for next season. the right program … one that I liked. even though a team can just get by to the Pro Bowl. I liked (former Cowboys coach) Bill all year and limp along, they can LADY GRIZ Kuehn: What is quarterback Parcells when I fi rst got there. A lot kind of put a season together. All of Kuehn: If you weren’t playing Continued from page 9 Tony Romo like to work with? of guys don’t get those breaks, those a sudden you had a great year. football, you’d be … A: Coaching. Maybe teaching Forward Kelsey Kahle leads the Kuehn: Who’s your friend who somewhere. team with 17.9 points per game, plays for the Giants? most of which are scored off of A: Chase Blackburn, he’s a back- Kuehn: What’s the best thing quick post moves. up lineman, and I also know (guard) about Dallas? Kahle is a great post scorer but Grey Ruegamer. His parents actually A: A lot of food. Lots of good not in the traditional sense because own some land in Polson. restaurants and places to eat. And she is only 5-foot-10 and uses the country music. quickness around the basket rather than power moves, Selvig said. Kahle isn’t the only threat for Portland State. Guard Claire Faucher leads the nation in assists and guard/ forward Delaney Conway is a tough match-up on the wing. “We’ve got to have a balanced defense because they’re defi nitely more than an inside team for sure,” Selvig said. From the Portland State perspective, Montana presents an interesting challenge. Earlier this season, the Vikings beat Gonzaga 75-72. The Bulldogs defeated the Lady Griz 87-71 in November. “(Montana’s) a team that executes well with a ton of different offensive sets and looks, which is really diffi cult to defend,” Portland State head coach Sherri Murrell said. “We’re going to focus on shutting down different personnel rather than trying to stop their whole offense.” She said that her team isn’t playing as well as they should be, but they’re still young and they do have great chemistry. She also said her team performs particularly well on the open court, scoring a lot of points quickly. “Every coach in the country watches game fi lm, so it’s no secret that we love to run,” Murrell said. After the game tonight, the Lady Griz will face the struggling Eastern Washington Eagles on Saturday night at 7 p.m. The Eagles have yet to win a conference match-up. “Right now we’re getting more patient, and being ready to meet the challenge,” senior forward Johanna Closson said. “We’re taking it one game at a time and not overlooking the challenge in front of us.” News 11 Montana Kaimin Thursday, January 31, 2008 UM must show progress for new accreditation assessment Mark Page agencies such as the Northwest up with an overall understanding “We are trying to fi gure out necessary to assess students’ MONTANA KAIMIN Commission on Colleges and of what students gain from their ways to measure our students learning. Universities. particular programs. It is up to from the moment they enter our Walker-Andrews addressed this To meet the demands of Now, Associate Provost Arlene each department to fi gure out how program till the moment they fi rst fear by saying it is programs accreditation in recent years, Walker-Andrews is putting on the to measure their own teaching leave,” department chair Richard as a whole that will be tested, not colleges and universities across pressure. ability. Drake said. any individual student or faculty the country are being asked a big The University of Montana’s big “Even though you have courses, Three solid ideas came out of member. question: What are students actually accreditation visit by the NWCCU is and that leads up to 120 credits, the meeting, he said. “We’re trying to do this not at getting out of their education? in 2010, and Walker-Andrews must that doesn’t necessarily show what Entrance and exit exams, essays a student level, more as a cohort,” “Are we adding value? Are get all the university’s departments you’ve learned,” Walker-Andrews by seniors refl ecting on their Walker-Andrews said. Assessment we teaching something?” These in line before then. UM must show said. experience and entry-level and is “not supposed to be an evaluation are the questions history professor progress and offi cials hope that Certain departments are making senior-level classes designed to of individual faculty, but of a whole Kenneth Lockridge asks, and is the new assessment programs will headway in this process, such track progress. Drake, along with program.” seeking answers for. demonstrate that progress. as Lopach’s Political Science Lockridge, stressed that writing Meanwhile, the Department of Assessment is the new “All colleges and universities Department. Some departments, ability should not be accounted for History is wary of how to conduct buzzword in the world of higher in the United States are under the such as history, are not as far in these tests, only critical thinking reasonable evaluations, along with education accreditation, the gun right now to tell ‘What are you along. and analysis skills. what those evaluations might say new “raison d’être,” as Political giving to our students,’” she said. On Monday afternoon, the Some concerns are also being about their teaching abilities. Science Department chair James “What I asked all departments to history faculty shuffl ed out of their raised in these meetings. Faculty “If all were to fare poorly, that Lopach puts it. For a university start doing is to start showing what cramped quarters on the east wing members fear that they are going would start some soul-searching,” to be recognized as an institution our students are doing.” of the Liberal Arts Building to to be told that their teaching Drake said. “It just depends on of higher learning, they must be Because individual ability get together and start hashing out performance is to blame, and are what the tests show.” accredited by large and powerful levels vary, it is diffi cult to come ideas. wary of the amount of extra time

GSA addressed. students would take larger course Continued from page 1 Strobel said that it is too early loads and refrain from enrolling in to talk about the solutions because classes that were not required for there is not enough evidence as to their degree, it would help them to point never fi nish,” he said. what the real problems are. But he fi nish the program on time. The fi nal draft of a survey will also said there would be no need “I think the three-credit rule be made available for graduate for a minimum credit requirement issue has stimulated the appropriate students and faculty next week. if graduate students planned a discussion,” he said. It will play a large role in fi nding timely course of study. the major problems that need to be He said that if graduate

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the 1920s or 1930s. he has visited with some of them would just ﬁ nd another apartment but a little pricier than other BABS Coffman said he feels that the about the sale of the building. in a similar location. places,” Dion said, whose lease Continued from page 1 new owner will most likely respect However, Dion, and Maria “It’s a nice place, nice location, will expire in June. the historical value of the building Giarrizzo, a senior studying theater and maintain the architecture if who lives in a different apartment “It’s a cool place and has a lot renovation is decided on. in the building, said they are not recommending that UM Tobacco of history,” he said. Nonetheless, he was sympathetic too worried about not being able ASUM Task Force does not ban smoking The building was constructed in for the current occupants if leases to renew their lease if that is the Continued from page 8 on campus. 1903 as the Garden City Business won’t be renewed. decision. In Sen. Jedediah Cox’s words, College, Coffman said, and has “Tenants have pride living in Giarrizzo is graduating in May they are 25 feet from buildings. By “If you want to kill yourself, you probably housed apartments since the Bab,” Coffman said, explaining and Dion said he liked the place but passing this resolution, ASUM is need somewhere to do it.”