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UMʼs Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 Friday MVolume CX, Issueontana 95 Kaimin April 18, 2008 Inside the Kaimin Sports p 13 On Campus Today Forecast Feature p 8 Griz tennis teams make push • 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Spring Art Fair, UC Atrium High 54F Artini hosts fashion show and • 7 p.m. Take Back the Night Rally, Courthouse lawn Low 31F for playoffs. • 7:30 p.m. UM Concert Band, University Theatre, $3 students Russian author – Courtesy of UM Events Calendar ASUM to audit Christian group shows strength candidate Diaz Amy Faxon MONTANA KAIMIN Business manager candidate Jose Diaz will meet with the ASUM elections committee tomorrow at 1 p.m. to explain his campaign expenditures. Chair of the elections committee, Rikki Gregory, said the committee became suspicious when Diaz exceeded the $100 allowed for campaigning after reading a recent Kaimin article that cited Diaz’s alleged attempts to use his Kappa Sigma fraternity to pay for campaign fl iers. Charging campaign materials to a fraternity breaks ASUM election bylaws. Diaz said he intended to pay the money back, and the event was taken out of context. Yesterday, the committee requested an audit of Diaz’s campaign expenditures to calculate the total amount of money he has spent so far in the campaign. According to the elections bylaws, each candidate is required to fi le an expenditure form with receipts for all campaign purchases to the elections committee by 3 p.m. two days prior to the general election. This year candidates will need to turn their form in on April 22. Clarence Lee, a member of the Strength Team, breaks a Louisville Slugger over his back. Lee spoke about how God gives him strength, explaining that his faith is what gives him the ability to perform these acts. From the receipts Diaz showed the committee, the initial Story by to the longer end, forming the “We got young people walking each syllable with a shake of his impression was that he did go Mike Gerrity shape of a cross. Before chucking into schools with handguns and microphone. “We’re the Strength over the maximum expenditure the split ends away, he shatters shooting each other,” Hagen said. Team, and we’re here to wage war allowed, Gregory said. Photos by another bat over his spine. Hagen told the audience the on the Devil!” “I have not overspent,” Diaz Alisia Muhlestein The Mike Hagen Street Team only way to overcome violence, The audience rose to their feet said. “I have proof of this.” performs these spectacles for teenage suicide and drug use is and roared along with Hagen, Diaz said he didn’t actually school assemblies and community through God. “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” spend most of his money. The A 6-foot, 300-pound man grabs centers all over America, and a “In this crazy world we live in, The act started out with a bang. only money he spent on campaign a wooden Louisville Slugger in few others across the world, but it’s important to stand up for God,” One by one, all around the stage, materials was for tape, cutting fl iers front of a packed crowd at the the strongman act is only half the he said. members of the Strength Team at Kinko’s and banners hanging in South Hills Evangelical Church routine. He also warned that God was broke towering stacks of bricks and the University Center. and tucks it under his leg. “The Strength team is a tool not the source of the catastrophes cinderblocks with their elbows and Candidates also have to claim a Clarence Lee curls his leg over that God uses all over America to of the world. Hagen said they foreheads, while thundering hard price for fl iers they make and print the bat. His teeth clench. The touch people in a powerful way,” are caused by what he calls “the rock played in the background. themselves. bat snaps. Splinters fl y into the Hagen declared on the stage, as he enemy.” Scores of kids, mostly between Diaz said he already had paper, crowd. listed social ills the Strength Team “The Devil, he’s a roaring the ages of 7 and 13, screamed toner, and a pack of labels. So he He picks up the shorter end of the tries to heal through evangelical lion. He wants to steal, kill and and hollered with glee as one man researched how much money it bat and hoists it up perpendicularly Christianity. destroy,” he said, enunciating See STRENGTH, page 6 would cost to purchase those items and estimated from there. When the committee meets tomorrow, they will invite Diaz to explain his receipts. Rally to support Ugandan children Gregory said if Diaz did overspend, he would most likely Stephanie Kilts displaced two million people in adopted the school through the program has been a way to help be disqualifi ed from the election. MONTANA KAIMIN the process. Schools to Schools program Ugandan children obtain an During tomorrow’s meeting, Beecher said Invisible Children conducted by Invisible Children education. the elections committee will In a week of student rallies, the works to help children because and has donated $400 to the Gulu The mentor program pays for decide if Diaz spent more money new University of Montana student “Once the war is over, they can School this year, she said. the schooling and supplies needed on campaigning than allowed group Invisible Children is hosting step up and be the leaders for the Invisible Children is a to train Ugandan locals who will and if he will be disqualifi ed. If a “Displace me Rally” on Friday next generation.” nationwide non-profi t based in then oversee the 100 children who he is disqualifi ed, the committee in support of children affected by The rally will start at 8 p.m. and California that started the Schools attend the school. Beecher said will also discuss whether former war in northern Uganda. will have music and speeches from to Schools program to help gain this approach is a way “to fi nd and candidate Eric Mundt can again The rally, which will be held students involved with Invisible support for Ugandan children. The teach people how to make things become a candidate for business in the Oval, is designed to inform Children. At 9:30 p.m., the group program connects U.S. schools run without having Invisible manager. students about the lives of children will show a documentary on the with schools in northern Uganda. Children there.” Diaz said the elections in the midst of war in Uganda and effects of the war on children in The war in northern Uganda UM’s Invisible Children group committee is just a little concerned raise money for a mentor program northern Uganda. has been going on for more than is now trying to get more support and wants to make sure everything the group is supporting in a “The documentary will help 22 years, Beecher said, and more from students, Beecher said, and is OK. He’s confi dent, he said, Ugandan high school, said Chelsea people understand the history of the than 90 percent of the rebel army continue to spread the word about after tomorrow’s meeting he’ll Beecher, a freshman who started war and why things are happening is made up of children ages 5 to the confl ict in Uganda. still be in the race. the Invisible Children group at the way they are,” Beecher said. 17. Thirty thousand children have “We are working to get UM in February. The group will also be selling been abducted to serve as rebel (Ugandan) kids to schools and The Lord’s Resistance T-shirts, marked with a red “X” to soldiers, she said. educate them,” Beecher said, “We Check us out Army (LRA) and the Ugandan symbolize displacement, to raise Due to the war, there are only want them to keep dreaming so on the Web at government have waged war money for the Gulu High School 30 schools running in northern then when the war is over, they’ll www.montanakaimin.com against each other in northern in Gulu, Uganda, Beecher said. Uganda, Beecher said, adding be able to reach out and obtain Uganda for two decades and have The University of Montana that Invisible Children’s mentor those dreams.” 2 Opinion Montana Kaimin Friday, April 18, 2008 BIG UPS Backhands &by Bill Oram Members of Students for Economic and Social Justice sat in President Dennison’s offi ce for most of Wednesday, urging UM administrators to a worker’s rights agreement called the Designated Welcome to Big Ups and Backhands, the oasis of humor in your Suppliers Program.