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NEW FREESTYLE PLAYGROUND Griz hoopsters look to avoid Snowbowl to open expanded terrain park to the public 10 repeat in Colorado 9 montanaThursday, November 10, 2011 www.montanakaimin.com kaimin CAMPUS ASUM launches Through the lens COT committee of a Emily Creasia Montana Kaimin Shanda Hayward filled a prescription bottle with green M&M’s as she completed a soldIer practice order for Adderall in her pharmacy lab. OURNALISM SENIOR Hayward, 20, is a pharmacy JSeth Dahl started his vid- technology student at the Uni- eo documentary “Through versity of Montana’s College of the Lens of a Soldier” to Technology. She raved about document each individual the new fume hoods in the lab, Montana veteran’s experi- which were bought with grant ence through a single pho- money. tograph. Hayward is a member of a “I believe these stories new Associated Students of the need to be told,” said Dahl, University of Montana COT who is also a veteran. “With Committee that started last our current wars, we’re cre- week. She hopes more COT ating many new veterans. students will get involved, or- Around 800 attend UM. ganize student groups and take They’re all around us and advantage of possible funding attend class with us.” from ASUM. The new com- In the studio, Dahl asked mittee is designed to increase Iraq and Afghanistan veter- knowledge and understanding ans to show one photo from between the COT and the UM their tour that speaks about main campus. their deployment in some Hayward said many COT way, whether happy or som- students don’t even realize ber. they are paying a $49 ASUM “I believe mainly in docu- fee in their tuition. menting history and getting “I didn’t know I had a voice them to tell their stories,” in where that money went,” she he said. “I decided to stick said. with Iraq and Afghanistan Hayward said she could see vets with this project to put COT radiology and pharmacy a face to our generation of technology students in the fu- veterans.” ture starting a health group and asking ASUM for funding to help cover the costs of con- Turn to pages six and seven to see the photos ferences or new equipment. and stories six of those “The two-year campus has a veterans shared. lot to offer and brings diversity to the four-year campus that Seth Dahl for the Montana Kaimin wouldn’t be there otherwise,” An Iraqi child asks for a soccer ball said Cathy Corr, department during a zone patrol of the 1-163rd chair for applied arts and sci- Infantry’s sector outside of Hawijah, ences at the COT and faculty Iraq in July of 2005. On many vil- member of the committee. lage visits and various missions kids “We’re all UM; there are more would plead, “Mister, Mister, soc- similarities than differences.” cer ball, soccer ball,” when we were stopped. Gunning from the Humvee Corr said that since most turret I would hand out candy, toys of the COT programs are two and occasional soccer balls. years, there is more turn over See COT, page 4 Volume CX1V Issue 42 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 @KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Thursday, November 10, 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL COLUMN LGBTQQI ‘safe spaces’ necessary, As President Engstrom recently THE SANE not exaggerated stated, our campus community The undersigned affiliated fac- needs to come together “to combat L ulty of The University of Montana’s behavior that detracts from our core ENVIRONMENTALIST Women’s and Gender Studies Pro- value of celebrating diversity.” This gram are writing this letter for two need is especially pressing given E Where the reasons: 1) to thank President Royce the current state of this campus for Engstrom for his recent statements LGBTQQI students, faculty, and buffalo roamed about the importance of creating “a staff. Our campus has made great By Cody Wooden welcoming learning environment strides in moving towards that “wel- T Some people say hindsight is 20/20. Today, we can all agree that celebrates diversity” (See Presi- coming learning environment,” but that pissing off the British was a smart move, slavery was legiti- dent Engstrom’s October 5th email there is still work to be done, and mately evil, and displacing thousands of Native Americans was to the Campus Community), and 2) Professor Valentin’s letter unfortu- T just plain dumb. No one alive today can claim responsibility for to respond to a recent problematic nately demonstrates that. Professor these acts, but we can all know them as being important decisions Letter to the Editor by one of our Valentin states that the Student Af- that have set off tidal waves throughout American history. colleagues, Michel Valentin, which fairs Diversity Council is “positing a E However, there is a persistent echo of prejudice against one suggested that LGBTQQI (Lesbian, campus. in a war situation where of these groups that continues in America today: the treatment Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, islands of safety have to be created of Native Americans and what’s left of their land. But luckily for Questioning, and Intersex) students, for LGBTIQ people” and contends faculty, and staff at UM had no need that this is an inaccurate perception R them, resource extraction corporations discovered hidden trea- sures of wealth beneath the ground of reservations throughout for “safe spaces.” We contest Profes- of UM. Many WGS faculty are re- the West. And the saga of exploitation continues. sor Valentin’s claim and join Presi- sources for the UM Allies Program For example, take the uranium mining on the Navajo Indian dent Engstrom in promoting a wel- See LETTERS, page 3 S Reservation in Arizona. During the Cold War, efficiently min- coming, safe, and diverse learning Online Letter: environment at The University of to the ing uranium was crucial if we wanted to build nuclear bombs • Engstrom defends biomass plant and obliterate Russia, so why not mine on more lenient sovereign Montana. EDITOR states within our own borders? Pretty genius plan, until a few Na- vajo hogans were contaminated with a toxic slough of uranium- AY IT AIN’T SO, JOE. EDITOR COLUMN mine leftovers. To this day, uranium is still causing problems on S Longtime Penn State foot- the reservations in the Southwest. ball coach Joe Paterno has an- Hydraulic fracking for oil is also a major environmental con- chored arguably the cleanest col- SPORTS cern on private and reservation land alike, including on the Fort lege football program in history Downtime with Daniel: Penn State Peck Indian Reservation in Eastern Montana. Shooting water into — until now. By Daniel Mediate, sports editor the ground to force out oil is eerily similar to Bill Murray’s meth- Late Wednesday evening, the ods of eradicating that pesky gopher in “Caddyshack:” ill-fated Penn State board of trustees dis- to compare this to. That’s why it’s This scandal has halted the man and wasteful. Fracking might be a decent way to extract oil if it missed Paterno and the school’s so bad. The stigma attached to who used to be the most famous didn’t cause minor earthquakes and make tap water flammable. president amid a swamping mess this school has been tattooed on Pennsylvania employee, an icon in Those are two things I would rather not have to deal with to have involving sex abuse allegations the campus. college sports culture. Paterno has cheap oil. against a former assistant coach. Paterno dodged charges because been a part of the Nittany Lions It’s no secret that a lot of reservations are in bad shape these Last week, state Attorney Gen- he told athletic director Tim Curley since 1950 and at the helm since days. The Bureau of Indian Affairs estimates that 66 percent of eral Linda Kelly announced the about an alleged 2002 incident in 1966. His brown-tinted glasses and working age people on Montana reservations are unemployed indictments brought by a grand which a graduate student reported worn windbreakers were older than and 38 percent of the employed still live below the povery line. jury against former Penn State finding Sandusky performing sex his players, and now he has coached Oil and mining companies know this. They come to the reserva- defensive coordinator Jerry San- acts on a boy in the shower area of his last game. tions, court the tribal councils, promise jobs, then, as Sarah Palin dusky, who is accused of multiple a football locker room. Paterno told He is a man I’ve looked up to, best put it, “Drill, baby, drill.” sexual assaults on children. Two Curley, who failed to report it to the my father has looked up to and my Nowadays, people can look back and say that treating the Na- Penn State officials were also in- proper authorities, the attorney gen- father’s father has looked up to.