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For more information, please contact [email protected]. $70K PAY RAISE Greet Your Griz: See who New higher ed commissioner salary raised to match UM, MSU presidents 8 is leading Griz hoops 10 montanaTuesday, January 24, 2012 www.montanakaimin.com kaimin Campus faces reality SEX CRIMES HAPPEN HERE In 2010, 6 people reported sex crimes to Campus Safety. 41 talked to SARC. Missoula has 279 registered sex offenders. According to UM and state sex crime statistics. Jayme Fraser during Engstrom’s midyear state the investigation until the official Missoula police are reviewing Montana Kaimin of the campus address from 4-5 report is released Jan. 31. 50 cases from the last two years p.m. Wednesday in the University “We’ll let the report speak for after some city council members As reports of sexual assaults Center Theater. Engstrom said itself,” Foley said. complained about the depart- against students piled up over in the release he would answer The timeline on page 4 outlines ment’s handling of rape cases. Po- winter break, the University of questions on any subject after his how UM’s investigation about two lice Chief Mark Muir will present Montana drafted a plan to review speech. student sexual assaults escalated the findings to a city committee 1 and rewrite its policies, in addition Vice President Jim Foley said into a campus-wide analysis of p.m. Wednesday in City Council to ramping up education on cam- Engstrom did not promise a stu- policies’ effectiveness in prevent- Chambers at 140 W. Pine St. pus. dent forum this week, just to an- ing attacks and fairly helping vic- Similarly, campus officials say At a community forum Jan. 17, nounce their times, despite mul- tims recover or seek justice. they’re working to resolve com- President Royce Engstrom prom- tiple reports by local media to the Some students who were sexu- munity accusations of apathy, ised to host question-and-answer contrary. Vice President of Student ally assaulted while attending UM special treatment for athletes and sessions for students this week, Affairs Teresa Branch said the fo- told local media the policies of the unclear sexual assault reporting but in a press release Friday he rums were postponed so students Missoula Police Department and policies. said they would be held in fol- could be more engaged in ad- the University disenfranchise lowing weeks — he did not spec- dressing the problem. victims without adequately pun- ify when. The dates and times of Foley said UM won’t have an ishing assailants or fighting the See INVESTIGATION, page 4 those sessions will be announced updated comment for students on larger trend. •Victim services Visit this story online for links to earlier stories about the University of Montana’s investigation, and reporting contact ONLINE Diane Barz’s letter to President Royce Engstrom about a “gap in reporting,” the University’s annual information Page 12 ONLY: crime report and contact information for victim services available in Missoula. www.montanakaimin. CAMPUS Foresters’ Ball to change venues, decor Linds Sanders an old logging town for the two props,” said Missoula’s Fire Mar- modate for this higher fee: Cou- year the Foresters’ Ball provided Montana Kaimin nights of the event. shal Gordy Hughes. ples’ tickets cost $30 and single $20,000 in scholarship. Over the past few years, the With a new location comes tickets cost $20. A ticket drop The increased square footage This year the leg-lifting can- Foresters’ Ball has been hosted new fees. The Adams Center from a helicopter over the oval of the Adams Center means a can girls, proud, chanting log- in the Schreiber Gym. The gym, provides a larger space and high- and competitions held on Boon- bigger town. Four new store fa- gers and makeshift sheriffs will built in 1921, is not equipped er capacity, but also higher costs. dockers Day, provides ways for cades will be added — including barrel into the Adams Center for with fire sprinklers so fire code This year 400 more people will students to win and find free a bank housing ATM machines the 95th annual Foresters’ Ball. regulations forced the event to be able to attend the ball each tickets. to solve previous problems of Volunteers will spend four spend $250,000 to install sprin- night, raising the attendance While a small amount of pro- students without cash wishing days using lumber donations klers or find a new location. to 1,600 people per night. The ceeds from the dance cover the to purchase merchandise. and creative construction plans “The problem is you have rental fee for the Adam’s Center cost of the event, the majority to build a jail, saloon, chapel and somewhat of a nightclub atmo- costs nearly twice as much as of the money provides scholar- See FORESTERS’ BALL, page 8 four new stores. Ultimately, the sphere with a lot of fuel from the the Schreiber Gym. Ticket sales ships for students who volunteer arena will be transformed into raw woods of the western town have increased by $5 to accom- in constructing the ball. Last Volume CX1 V Issue 51 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 @KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Tuesday, January 24, 2012 TECHNOLOGY COLUMN U SAY What’s the coolest and/or dumbest thing ZEROS AND ONES you did over break? SOPA IN THE By Brady Moore UC In 1984, The Terminator said “I’ll be back,” and those words have been stuck in American pop culture ever since. Last May, I left this column without so much as a “See ya.” But, I’m back nonetheless. A few of you may remember me from last spring; most of you won’t. The powers that be at the Kaimin are kind enough to let me babble for 500 words once a week about computers, cameras and ca- Lief Christian Kate Klundt bles — the things necessary to compulsively check your Facebook, Aubrey Juden Sophomore, Twitter and (eight years ago) MySpace. Sophomore, Music Junior, Communications Elementary Education Last year I wrote about iPhones, the technology behind the Super Well, my roommate and I Probably going to Seattle They’re the same thing. Bowl and The Oregon Trail. I discussed iPads, talked about 3D mov- started a nonprofit called for New Year’s. And the I turned 21 over break. I ies and bid adieu to the Zune. Montana Musicians and dumbest thing was prob- proceeded to go downtown This semester I’ll write about anything and everything technol- Artists Coalition. ably wrecking my dad’s and have 13 shots in two ogy touches. How does that phone in your pocket actually work? snow mobile. hours. Should you get a Nook, a Kindle or an iPad? Would you ever even Go online to see full-length video of this week’s “U Say in the UC” responses. use a tablet? And what the hell is SOPA? ONLINE: www.montanakaimin.com/multimedia Let’s start with that last one. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, has been blowing up the interwebs lately and for good reason. EDITORS’ COLUMN SOPA could potentially change the way everything on the Inter- We are a generation of tolerance. net works. SOPA’s bread and butter is wording that allows intellec- Our parents and society taught tual property owners to blacklist sites hosting pirated content. us to be tolerant of others’ political views, ethnicities and sexual orien- EDITORIAL What does this mean to you? Movie studios could require that Google remove sites from search results. Record companies like tations. As college students, we tol- Optimum that you buy Internet access from could force ISPs to erate the roommates we don’t like Despicable. prevent people from even going there. In essence, the sites still ex- because we’re bound by a lease. We ist, but you’d be blocked from accessing them. As a journalist I’m tolerate being the generation of col- We’ve muddled the line be- We tolerate sexual assault be- rather fond of my intellectual property, but SOPA crosses the line lege graduates with no jobs because tween right and wrong. By not act- cause we don’t actively stop it. We and doesn’t look back. we have no power to change it. ing, we’ve encouraged even normal see the guy in the corner of the par- Worse yet, SOPA has an “anti-circumvention” clause. The clause But the thing is, it’s easy to tol- people to think it’s okay to sleep ty, scoping out the drunkest girl in makes Websites, blog posts, images and videos explaining how to erate. You don’t have to agree with with a drunk girl who threw herself the room, but when he approaches get around SOPA nearly as bad as hosting pirated content.