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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Volume CIV, Issue 17 Eastern education:K UMAIMIN plans move forward for China campus SEAN BRESLIN MONTANA KAIMIN who got degrees from UM in 1965 Price said. “We have a geographic and 1966, is now a venture capi- interest in not allowing one nation talist in San Francisco. When he (China) to dominate the Asian In his State of the University learned that investors in China Pacific.” Price did acknowledge address, University of Montana wanted to look into English-based problems with human rights and President George Dennison didn’t curriculum, he said he knew the the free flow of information, but mention the plan to open a UM right school for the job. remains supportive of the plan, he branch in China, but that doesn’t “I know the quality of educa- said. mean the idea is far from his mind. tion” at UM, Price said. Before anything is firmly set in Now some two years in the The China program would not place, the program in Xiamen will making, UM is developing a cur- require UM to build new facilities have to be approved by the riculum for the proposed campus for the expected 2,000 to 4,000 Montana Board of Regents and in the port city of Xiamen, and students, Dennison said. In fact, the regional accreditation board, things in China have been ticking the start-up costs for the project Map courtesy of CIA World Factbook Dennison said. along, Dennison said. would be relatively low, he said. speakers. In addition, every 10 UM won’t tolerate at its facilities But despite the potential prob- “I thought it would go a little “We’re not going to invest any- Chinese students would have one there, Dennison said. lems with information controls, faster than it has, but you have to thing except the time it takes to UM student mentor, Dennison “We have to ensure academic Dennison said education in China do things in accordance with the plan the curriculum and so forth,” said. freedom,” Dennison said. provides an excellent opportunity Chinese schedule,” Dennison said. Dennison said. But UM has some conditions But Price doesn’t think getting for UM. UM got connected to private The campus will mostly focus the Chinese need to meet in order that assurance will be a problem, “There are 250 million college- investors in China through Kent on business and communications to bring UM to the Asian nation. he said. age people in China,” Dennison Price, a UM alumnus who now education, Dennison said. All China’s communist government “The major issue between the said. “They don’t have enough sits on the board of the University classes would be taught in maintains strict controls on the U.S. and China is not an ideologi- schools to deal with them.” of Montana Foundation. Price, English, half by native English flow of information, something cal one, but a geopolitical one,” Stones I’ll be Mav, opener you be unveiled Iceman

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Shane McMillan / Montana Kaimin The San Francisco band UM student Charley Rininger, left, tips the ball over Black Rebel Motorcycle Club opponent Zac deBetizy Tuesday afternoon outside McGill was announced on Tuesday as Hall in a two-on-two match. With the weather getting the opener for next week’s colder the group said they haven’t been playing as Rolling Stones concert in much, but they still like to get out. Washington-Grizzly Stadium. BRMC, as they are known for short, will also be opening for the Stones on Oct. 1 at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kan., the date before UM e-mail system switch nearly complete Missoula’s Oct. 4 show. The band formed in 1998, getting their name from Marlon JAMES LABER GrizMail system that began last that students may use, said Loey Barrett said she uses GrizMail to Brando’s motorcycle gang in MONTANA KAIMIN spring. Knapp, UM’s IT Assistant Chief send old quizzes and assignments the 1953 film “The Wild One.” On that date, the CUE1 e-mail Information Officer. to her students. The trio, described as melan- system that the University has pre- “Now students can access “It is an easy and fast way for choly bluesy folk rock, has E-mails and other information viously used will be completely almost everything with the same professors to interact with stu- three studio albums with the that University of Montana stu- removed from the UM network. password,” she said. “Blackboard, dents,” she said. “If people aren’t latest, “Howl,” surfacing to dents and faculty have stashed in All addresses in CUE1 will be GrizMail, library resources, reading their e-mail, they could be mild popularity and critical the old CUE1 e-mail system will lost, unless transferred manually. everything except Cyberbear.” missing assignments.” acclaim in 2005. The band’s be lost forever on Oct. 1, as uni- One reason for the switch is the GrizMail also has more func- Despite this, many students are first album was described by versity tech administrators com- University’s work toward a single tionality than CUE1, Knapp said. not using GrizMail regularly, or at critics as having a classic hard- plete the switch over to the new sign-on for all computer functions It contains a calendar function, a all. Freshman Patrick Carter said driving punk rock influenced journal and professors can save that his Freshman Interest Group sound, but after being lumped documents in public folders that instructor went over how to access into the hype of the “New Rock student can access from home. GrizMail, but that he hasn’t used it Revolution” in 2003 with bands Knapp also said that the switch since. like New York’s the Strokes, to GrizMail saved the University “I’ve checked in maybe once,” the trio soon changed its style. money. The cost of keeping he said. “But it is really not too BRMC’s second album, CUE1 as the University’s e-mail significant to me.” “Take them on, on your own,” system was increasing, as was the One problem students have included songs making attacks cost for support for CUE1’s cre- faced in using the new e-mail sys- on the United States and ator, Sun Microsystems, Inc. tem is forwarding messages. President Bush in particular. The University will now be According to Knapp, forwarding The band has begun recording using GrizMail to contact students can only be done when using cer- their fourth album that remains with important information, such tain Internet browsers. untitled and should be released as bill reminders and any mes- “Internet Explorer version 6 and in early 2007. sages from President George newer and Netscape version 8 and The Missoula and Wichita Dennison. newer, using Internet Explorer set- dates are currently the only “It’s the only way we as a tings, are the only browsers that shows scheduled for BRMC in University can communicate with allow forwarding at this point,” 2006. (the students),” Knapp said. “So it she said. “Apples cannot forward Photo illustration by Eleena Fikhman/Montana Kaimin is very important that (the stu- at all, but we are working on that.” The University’s old CUE1 e-mail system will soon no longer be accessible. Archived e-mails will vanish dents) check GrizMail.” Students can access GrizMail at and the only option UM students will have, aside from Internet accounts, will be to use the new Journalism professor Sharon http://grizmail.umt.edu. Grizmail system. www.montanakaimin.com

Opinion M o n t a n a K a i m i n 2 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Footprints in Africa Editorial Draft would change perception A new perspective on the college lecture I’m an hour early to class and the room is over- remember that I am an American who has studied of war for privileged flowing. The stadium seating is filled, and the few and accepted a rigid system of pure educational effi- aisles and exits are packed with people sitting — if ciency — or, at the least, attempted efficiency. In the they were lucky enough to steal a wooden chair from fourth week of classes, I find myself idled. Most another classroom — but most of them are standing. classes on campus consist of one two-hour lecture It’s a given for any war that some people will support it and some I peer through an open window from the hallway out- per week. Many classes are evaluated with a single people won’t. But here at UM, and around the country, one wouldn’t side. It is the only time in my life I have been forced cumulative test given at the end of the term. No know it. to listen to a lecture from outside the classroom. It is homework, no midterms, no constant struggle to The U.S. is caught in a war in which thousands of its citizens have curious that every one shows up so early to class con- keep up. Half of my classes don’t even have required died and across the country this fact is met with but a shrug, especial- sidering it is commonplace, if not an expectation, for texts. These facts are inevitably aggravated by the ly among young people. the professor to show up to class half an hour late. I nature of the lectures themselves. It can’t be for lack of knowledge, as pictures and stories from the pull out a pen and begin to doodle in an attempt to fill As I have previously mentioned, it is not uncom- war are beamed into homes and dorm rooms every night. Yet the fiery the time. mon for professors to arrive late and depart early. In war protests that rocked campuses nationwide in the ‘60s and ‘70s are Shortly thereafter, my attention is grabbed when a what is supposed to be a two-hour lecture, I find nowhere to be seen, from today’s students or those of the Vietnam student in the class stands and demands his peers’ myself with, on average, two or three pages of notes. generation. attention. He begins to preach the gospel of his I am by no means frugal in my note-taking. Thirteen The difference is simple: during Vietnam there was a draft, and Christian God amidst a roomful of conversation. I weeks of class is summarized in thirty to forty pages now there isn’t. chuckle at the irony in this student’s choice of stage. of notes. Considering I am mostly without a text or Unfortunately, the gap between the rich and the poor in America is We are all waiting for SREL 305—African Tradition homework (with the lone exception of my literature ever-increasing, and along with it, the price of being poor. How many Religion. I put down my pen and listen as hundreds course), I feel as if something, somewhere, is lack- jingoistic politicians out there have sons stationed in Baghdad? How of students continue their briefly interrupted conver- ing. many well-to-do college students have relatives fighting in Fallujah? sations without a second’s thought given to the stu- At first, I found myself intensely critical of what I Not many. dent, turned preacher, in this classroom turned saw as a nearly wasted chance at a formal education. It is the poor who die for the rich men’s war, but a draft changes church. “Jesus died for you. What will you do for Classrooms are too small, loudspeakers are inade- that. It forces the sons of those who support the war to serve along- him?” he shouts. I wonder: is preaching in school a quate, coursework nearly inexistent and class time is side those who joined the army as the only option to escape poverty. common form of preclass entertainment? Or was this seemingly wasted on needless repetition and re-caps. Would George Bush be flexing his muscles to the rest of the world man intentionally speaking to this class in an attempt It takes a while for it to sink in — but it inevitably with such blind confidence if his kids were dying? Probably not. He’d to overshadow his own “Pagan” traditions that he does. Why require textbooks that aren’t readily probably start looking at the war more objectively. was here to study? With a “Praise Jesus” sticker on available to a student body that can hardly afford the He’d probably start to consider things like the recently declassified the back of every car and on every door, one never expense? Why assign papers to students with limit- U.S. intelligence report that called the Iraq War a “cause celebre” for really knows. It’s funny, I suppose. ed access to computers? Repeat and re-cap material Islamic militants. In the time I’ve spent in Africa, I have been within a lecture so students have time to take in- He’d probably start to do some math. And in doing so, he’d realize requested to convert, or join a religion, more times depth notes. For, it seems, to the Ghanaian students, that by the end of his term, if Americans continue dying at the same than in the rest of my life. At last count, I have been notes are not a study supplement, but the only text rate and he continues refusing to “cut and run” in Iraq, he’ll be asked to give my life to Jesus by a doctor during a they have to study off of at all. And so I resign responsible for about 4,332 American deaths. That’s a lot more than medical exam, a professor after class, two beggars, a myself to the fact that school and class is not the the approximately 3,000 who died on Sept. 11, and it doesn’t even grocery store clerk, a hotel receptionist, a “profes- point of this trip. It is something I should have take into consideration the more than 20,000 injured in the war, many sional friend”, a security guard, two waiters and a expected from the start. If I had wanted a classroom horrendously. vast variety of street folk. In the midst of this, I can’t education, I would’ve stayed in Montana. Maybe But the reevaluation of the war wouldn’t stop at the White House. help but ask, “What happened to Africa?” Twenty learning about people and another world by watching The point is the draft would snatch up the loved ones of people from minutes go by and the man sits down. I pick my pen them and experiencing it is enough. Surely that all circles. It would make everyone reexamine the war, even the apa- back up and continue to doodle until the lecture knowledge won’t help me in law school, it won’t thetic college kids and their well-off families. begins. It starts half an hour late. help me to write a book and it won’t push me to the Maybe not everyone would conclude that the war is a bad thing It has taken me a while to become acquainted with forefront of any scientific discovery. But, for some upon examination, and that’s fine. And certainly the draft would be a what a lecture is in Ghana. Or, at least, what a lec- reason, I’m contented with it anyways. terrible thing for the additional lives it would cost, which is why we ture is as I have experienced them. Too, I must – Ian Bassingthwaighte are not advocating its reinstitution. All we are saying is that currently the sons and daughters of privi- lege are not at risk, and this lessens the pressure on decision makers It’s a beautiful life? state tuition. That’s money best and others to evaluate whether this war – or any war – is worth the spent elsewhere. Also, at what cost. In response to the Sept. 19 let- point does being a college senior, – Peter Bulger, ter to the Kaimin, Mr. Rhodes Letters something simply obtained by Editor must feel very high and mighty staying enrolled, mean that you cashing his mommy and daddy’s to the editor have earned the right to state that college tuition check right now. you have lived a “beautiful and While the UM offers great educa- successful life”? tion for a discounted price, it is the – Ross Lane only option however, for many dents have the luxury of paying Sophomore, Political Science The Kaimin accepts letters to the Montana residents. Not all stu- $15,000 or more a year for out-of-

editor and guest columns. Abortion protesters don’t further of a mangled fetus shoved in your airplane can be tolerated, but the debate face while a man shouts about next time these protestors decide murder. Abortion is a complex to harass students on the Oval, it Letters should be 300 words or fewer, For all students who consider issue, and can also be a private would be “considerate” of the uni- campus to be a place for consider- and painful thing to discuss. These versity to remember that most of and columns should be about 700 ate political debate, Monday’s protesters’ presence did nothing to us are paying for an education, not anti-abortion protest on the Oval further bipartisan discussion or a tirade. was a seriously inconsiderate tolerance, only to upset a large words. Please e-mail both to presence. There is nothing as number of people who didn’t – Alexis Jones wonderful as walking across cam- appreciate seeing gruesome Student [email protected], or drop them pus, enjoying the weather and images. For many students the Missoula and then having a poster constantly buzzing anti-abortion off in Journalism 107. www.montanakaimin.com

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 3 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Opinion 3

Screw the Rolling Stones therefore will not make the extra effort, thus costing the university So, in about two weeks our Letters to money and a fan base! Won’t it be campus is going to be overrun great for the volleyball team to Accuracy with 70 tractor-trailers and tour the editor, play Montana State with more buses for a one-night stand by the MSU fans in our seats than Griz The Montana Kaimin is committedWatch to Rolling Stones. I’m sorry, but fans? Or for the members of the does it piss anyone else off that continued drama department to perform accuracy in its reports. If you think the Kaimin has com- our campus and students are being shows they’ve dedicated their unnecessarily and ridiculously know what the hell they’re doing lives to for months to no audi- mitted an error of fact, please call us at 243-2394 or inconvenienced for an entire week anymore, anyway), that makes ence? Why don’t we ask Mick just so the city of Missoula and the everything OK. Twelve percent of Jagger or George Dennison if e-mail [email protected] and let us know. university might make a small our parking will be unusable for that’s fair. I’m sure Mick would- profit? I don’t know, maybe I’m an entire week! Doesn’t that seem n’t even know what a Missoula is, If we find a factual error we will correct it. the only one who thinks closing a little ridiculous for a one-night and Dennison would probably five parking lots in an already concert that probably won’t be dodge the question, as usual. This overrun campus parking situation any good? Not to mention the town is so freakin’ enamored with Anti-abortion demonstrators left Let’s not confuse the message is ridiculous, or that it’s complete- numerous families who live close the thought that a famous band is audience disgusted instead of with the messenger. ly unwarranted. Truthfully, the to campus who will be overrun coming here, nobody took the informed In secular institutions, abortion Rolling Stones suck! They might with students trying to find park- time to think about the conse- practices are better rejected from a have been OK (at best) about 30 ing. During that week the drama quences … as usual. I’m sorry, If you don’t know, an anti-abor- less-high ground. For when the years ago, but did anyone else see department has two productions but kiss my ass, Mick Jagger; you tion demonstration of fringy issue of abortion is confined to the Super Bowl halftime show? If going up, not to mention there will should have ended your stream of Christians was held this past morality, otherwise reasonable that much campus parking was be three Grizzly volleyball games. disgusting music about 30 years Monday on the walkways people are discouraged from con- closed down for an entire week for Where are the patrons to these ago. Instead, you’ve just managed between the Mansfield Library sidering pro-life positions at all, as anything else, there would be out- events supposed to park? Make to find another way to piss me off. and the University Center. many pro-choicers disdain the rage and voiced opposition, but them park on the other side of It was sickening. From a lofty religiosity with which pro-lifers since it’s the Rolling Stones (all of campus? Are you kidding me? – Eric Holman-Opper pole draped an enormous graphic are associated: “Get your rosaries whom are 60 plus and don’t really People are inherently lazy, and Junior, BFA in Acting picture of a mutilated fetus. There off my ovaries,” chanted pro- were more pictures and messages, choicers at a rally here not long Negative speed-dating criticisms do something constructive. I am ply a good-natured idea to help but that was at the center of every- ago. have no standing without actions sure that the Residence Life students meet other students, not a one’s attention. The point was to It’s unfair. Pro-lifers are agnos- Office did not realize its uninten- discriminatory event aimed only shock viewers into a repulsion for tics and atheists, too. For some of “Life isn’t fair.” A phrase I have tional exclusion of students who to help the straight majority. The abortion. This point was missed, a secular persuasion, it is counter- heard repeated many times since live alternative lifestyles. In fact, University of Montana can only however, as more people were intuitive to think that human life childhood. I may not like it, but speed-dating wasn’t really exclu- do so much to keep every individ- shocked into a repulsion for the begins with independence from there is a ring of truth to the say- sion at all. The intent of the event ual happy, and in some cases peo- demonstrators themselves. the mother, or at some variable ing. I agree with people not being was simply to allow freshmen stu- ple are left out. Life isn’t always Fringy Christians rarely per- stage in between contraception discriminated by their race, reli- dents to meet people, which is fair. I only ask you to stop com- suade college students of any- and birth. Further, the necessity gion or even sexual preference. accessible to anyone even if it was plaining and become part of the thing, as reason is easier to accept of abortion is, in many cases, However, special accommoda- hosted as a dating event. solution. than faith. Muddling their mes- questionable. tions cannot always be made for However, rather than becoming sage on Monday was a fuzzy sort If it was repulsion they were every individual who does not fit part of a proactive solution, the – Clare Kelly of morality. I am one who consid- after, the demonstrators unequivo- the term of “general population.” author chose to soapbox and CE Registrar/Program ers abortion unjust, yet was told cally succeeded. But if it was a In response to the letter entitled unjustly attack the RLO. It is Coordinator by one of them that I “will be rethinking of the pro-choice “Speed-dating should be open to naïve to say that RLO intentional- Department of Educational going to Hell.” (The man thought stance they wanted, then they all students,” I ask the author to ly excluded any minority group. Outreach I gave a sarcastic “great” to his resoundingly failed. step down from her soapbox and The speed-dating event was sim- Continuing Education proposition that abortion is mur- derous, when I actually said, – Erik Hurd “agreed.”) Senior, Liberal Studies

Abortion debate never anything moment, the pro-choicers and more than back-and-forth insults pro-lifers cannot recall the argu- ments they have constructed, and The scene outside the are left screaming epithets and University Center on Monday trite, meaningless catchphrases illustrates the sad state of public like “my body, my choice” and discourse today. The context of “every life has value” at each the confrontation – preachers with other. Clearly, they are in the signs shouting at passersby, and wrong frame of mind. A solution vice-versa – demonstrates that too to the perceived problem involves often, these issues boil down to negotiation and compromise, not one group of idiots yelling at cursing and covering one’s ears. another. The abortion debate is These solutions are not limited to tough because it involves an ethi- just the abortion issue, but every cal decision. Factions on either political debate we engage in. side of the divide scramble to find Unfortunately, name-calling and facts that support their position, sloganeering often elicit more of a but they come up empty-handed. response in people than level- Sadly, there is no way to logically headed debate, which is why prove that one side or another is scenes like Monday’s are all too correct. We choose based on our common. own gut feelings about the issue. We cannot resolve the debate – Dave Short cleanly because no solution exists Computer Science that would satisfy both sides equally. So in the heat of the

Stones have the choice for fuel Stones know damn well what they are doing when it comes to con- Although at first incensed by cert production, if they have not the article appearing in forgotten it already in light of their Wednesday’s Kaimin, after care- youthful exuberance. I mean, ful thought I came to the conclu- c’mon, these guys not only lived sion that the university’s decision through Altamont, they created it. to allow the Rolling Stones to use Unless we want another appear- whatever diesel fuel they want to ance from the Hell’s Angels in be the prudent move. Although it Missoula, I recommend that the flies in the face of Missoula ideol- university, and more importantly, ogy, I agree with the administra- the students, allow the Stones to tion’s decision to allow the con- use whichever damn fuel they cert to run on regular old diesel, deem necessary. much to the chagrin of Montana’s Democratic Party. The last thing – Greg Strandberg that I want to do is alienate the History Stones, or more importantly their production crew, which could pos- sibly cause a bout of laryngitis to befall Mick. Furthermore, the

M o n t a n a K a i m i n 4 News Wednesday, September 27, 2006

UM COT branch Montana Kaimin: in Bitterroot to Beautiful people work here. be proposed to Board of Regents

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The University of Montana will “Why would you go to a place present a proposal to the Montana where the people who are recruit- Board of Regents that details a ing you might not be there?” said plan to open a branch of the UM Athletic Director Jim O’Day. College of Technology in He said three-year tenure would Hamilton, said UM President allow coaches to make long-term George Dennison. Although he changes to their programs. doesn’t expect the board to take President Dennison said three- any action on the plan until year coaching contracts for foot- November’s meeting, Dennison ball and basketball programs are said he hopes the proposal keeps important because those sports moving along. generate the most revenue for “I think there’s a real need to UM. serve the people of the Hamilton In addition, ASUM will present area, so we shouldn’t be dragging a resolution against controversial our feet,” Dennison said. ballot measure CI-97, which Also on the agenda is a propos- would regulate state spending al to give three-year contracts to through a formula, which ASUM football coaches and men’s and President Andrea Helling said she women’s basketball coaches at believes could negatively impact UM and Montana State tuition costs for students if it pass- University. Proponents say the es. Although courts in Great Falls plan will help recruitment of stu- and Helena have struck down CI- dent athletes and provide consis- 97, Helling said it’s still important tency to those programs. to take a stand against it. www.montanakaimin.com

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Shane McMillan / Montana Kaimin Freshman Ian Finch, left, and junior Kirsten Vorreyer practice for their Tai Chi class in the Oval Tuesday afternoon. “I usually don’t (practice), but I’m procrastinating on my math homework,” Vorreyer said.

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 6 News Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Thai coup sends mixed messages to world

JACOB BAYNHAM It was this style of what has been called “CEO govern- MONTANA KAIMIN ment” that once-enthusiastic Thais have grown increasingly critical of. In January, when Thaksin arranged the sale of his Last week, democracy activists and international watchdog family’s telecom empire to Singapore for $2 billion, without groups spoke out against the Thai military’s ouster of Prime paying any tax, Thais took to the streets calling for his resig- Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. As tanks rolled onto nation. Bangkok’s streets and the billionaire Thaksin sweated in the And yet, despite his fall from grace in the eyes of many in UN headquarters in New York, many political analysts saw Thailand, there is an undeniable sense of unease about the the turn of events as a further loosening of democracy’s way Thaksin was removed. Groups assembled in Bangkok already slippery hold in Southeast Asia. Corruption is bad (in clusters of five, so as to comply with the military’s ban on government, they said, military coups are worse. political organization) to call for a change of power by But in the land of a thousand democracy, not tanks on the street. The United States called News Analysis smiles, the end of Thaksin’s the coup “disappointing” and urged Thailand to resolve its graft-ridden road gave many political differences peacefully. Thais another reason to grin. Popular support for Thaksin’s Concern is certainly warranted for the message Thailand’s removal and the pivotal nod of approval from Thailand’s military takeover will send to its immediate neighbors. beloved 60-year monarch, King Bhumibhol Adulyadej, both Burma, to the west, has been ruled by an oppressive military led to the ease and peace with which the military took control government since 1962. Laos, to the north, is a communist of the government last Tuesday. The King has now seen 17 country, riddled with corruption and cronyism amongst the coups during his reign. elite, and has shown that it is not shy of using its military to Five years ago, Thaksin swept into office as prime minister control segments of the population. Indonesia has only on a landslide election victory. His populist promises of recently emerged from the 32-year authoritarian, military rule cheap health care, debt relief for farmers and rural develop- of General Suharto. And the Philippines is a nation ripe for a ment projects gave him overwhelming popularity, especially coup, with the popularity of President Gloria Arroyo deterio- in the countryside. As he was the richest man in Thailand, rating rapidly amidst charges of corruption and fraud. there was also a hope that he could rally the country out of its If a message is sent that carte-blanche coups are permissi- economic woes and into nationwide prosperity. ble, political analysts fear that it will destabilize Southeast But it wasn’t long before Thaksin stirred controversy into Asia’s burgeoning democracies. The next move of the mili- his rule. In an attempt to crack down on the spiraling tary now in power in Bangkok is therefore pivotal. Prudently, methamphetamine addiction of his country’s youth, he began the generals have pledged their loyalty to King Bhumibhol, a ruthless campaign to curb the influx of the drug spilling whom the entire country respects and adores. across the Burmese border. In his new policy, Thaksin It appears now that the King will select the interim prime authorized the army to shoot any suspected drug runner on minister who will rule until a new constitution is written and sight. The result was more than 2,000 small-time dealers and elections are held in a year’s time. His advisers have already

refugees killed along the border. The true force behind the been talking to Supachai Panitchpakdi, former chief of the Factbook Map courtesy of CIA World industry, the drug lords, stayed safe and rich. World Trade Organization. Thai media reports Thaksin also brewed dissent with his iron-fisted response to that Supachai may be chosen as temporary leader the separatist insurgency in Thailand’s Muslim south. for his financial expertise and untarnished record. Perhaps fearing an attack targeting foreigners – like the Bali That something was rotten in Thaksin’s nightclub bombing – that might debilitate a $5 billion-a-year Thailand goes without saying. The question tourism industry, Thaksin favored heavy retaliation. Turning remains, however, whether King Bhumibhol can from King Bhumibhol’s advocacy of negotiation, Thaksin right his country’s precarious tilt to military rule appointed his cronies in the police force to take control of the and restore democratic integrity to the prime min- volatile region, as corruption and smuggling grew rampant. ister’s office. As a result of Thaksin’s heavy- handed tactics, 1,700 people have died in the south in two years.

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 8 Arts Wednesday, September 27, 2006

...And concrete for all

PHOTOS BY DANNY BOBBE The circus came to town on Sunday when a crew of elite skateboarders christened Missoula’s long-awaited public skatepark. The festivities began when nearly 9,000 people gathered in and around the MOBASH Skatepark in McCormick Park and the events ended when their exhausted ringleader, leg- endary skateboarder Tony Hawk (above), fled his tent refuge while hungry pre-teens stormed in through the side, hungry for the Birdman’s autograph. Kaimin Arts infiltrated the event by posing as local production assistants for Fuse TV and saw firsthand the chaos that goes on behind the scenes of a once-in-a-lifetime event. –DB

A long time coming: MOBASH Skatepark Timeline by Ian Graham

2000 • The Missoula Skatepark Association, created from a grassroots skatepark built under the Higgins Street bridge that was demolished, begins fundraising to fund a free public skatepark for Missoula. Winter 2002 • Board of Missoula, now Edge of the World, builds a mini-ramp in its shop to help raise money for the skatepark. Fall 2003 • MSA hosts its first official fundraising and planning meetings, begins a recycling drive. • Hosts the first video premier party, which will become a semi- annual fundraising event featuring professional and local snowboard and skateboard videos. • McCormick skatepark plan is unanimously approved by the Missoula City Council. Missoula Redevelopment Agency donates $100,000 in matching funds. • Pearl Jam donates $50,000 to the MSA. Winter 03/04 • Big Sky Brewery picks MSA and Brennan’s Wave kayak park as the beneficiaries for their Summer Concert series. February 04 • MSA creates T-shirts to help raise money and awareness for the park. Spring 04 • Second video premier takes place. Street specialist Andrew Reynolds prepares to catch one of his patented frontside flips • Big Sky Brewery and Clear Channel Communications host a begins. fundraising/awareness day for the Fall 04 • Appleseed Foundation donates $5,000 skate and kayak parks. • Third video premier takes place. Summer 04 • MSA obtains January 05 • First public design meeting held at the 501C3 (non-profit tax exempt) status Missoula Public Library with Grindline Skateparks. • Big Sky Concert series raises February 05 • For the 2005 Summer Concert Series, Big $14,000 for the skatepark project. Sky Brewery picks MSA as its sole beneficiary. • Grindline Skateparks chosen as • MSA creates an official Board of Directors. March 05 A crowd of several thousand doesn’t faze David Loy, 14, from a throwing a huge frontside air designer for the park, design process • Missoula Redevelopment Agency donates an addi-

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-tional $75,000 to the project. skate video featuring local skateboarders, to help raise May 06 • Game of SKATE and video premier raise April 05 • With a rough draft of the park’s layout money for the park. more than $1,000 in one day, Art Night at Paxson available, MSA and Grindline Skateparks hold a second July 05 • First Interstate Bank donates $5,000 Elementary School and Spring Thaw at UM bring in an public design meeting. August/September 05 • Big Sky Brewery additional $500. • First MSA Game of SKATE competition raises $450 Concert Series earns more than $30,000 for MSA. • Skate video, “Rattails and Riches,” produced by skaters • $250,000 left to raise at this point. • AEV Jeep raffle gets national exposure in 4Wheel Drive from Missoula and Great Falls, premiers to help raise May 05 • The Tony Hawk Foundation donates and Sport Utility Magazine, Overlander Magazine, Four money. $15,000 to the project, eventually leading to an appearance Wheeler Magazine, Four Wheel and Off Road, Hungarian • Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation donates at the grand opening. 4x4 and on many international Web sites. $3,000. June 05 • American Expedition Vehicles and the October 05 • Fifth video premier • Gallagher Western Montana Charitable Foundation, MSA begin selling raffle tickets to win a $72,000 cus- • OnDeck Art Show and Auction feature skate-inspired Inc. donates $10,000. tomized Jeep Hemi Wrangler. Raffle ticket sales total art on blank skate decks, earns $7,100. June 06 • Inaugural Montana Bowlriders $200,000. November 05 • First Battle of the Bands Competition at the Anaconda skatepark raises $660. • Merchandise sales at Downtown ToNight and the first fundraiser held at the ELKS Club. Your Divine Tragedy June 21, 2006 • Fundraising for both phases concert at Big Sky Brewery raises $10,000 in less than a wins. completed. week for MSA. Winter 05/06 • Project split into phases allow- September 16, 2006 • AEV Jeep ticket • Local skaters produce and premier “Fingerbang!”, a ing construction to begin sooner. Phase I is the bowl fea- drawn. The winner is a woman from Encinitas, Calif. tures and Phase II is the street September 24, 2006 • The MOBASH course. Skatepark (named for the anonymous major donor) opens February 06 • First with a bang: it’s estimated that as many as 9,000 people Interstate Bank donates an addition- crowded McCormick Park to see a demo put on by profes- al $5,000. sional skaters Tony Hawk, Bam Margera, Mike Vallely, March 06 • Grindline breaks Alex Chalmers, Andrew Reynolds, Kevin Staab, Neal ground at McCormick Park. Hendrix and others. Chris Bacon, the president of the • Anonymous donor offers 2-to-1 MSA, said, “I’m pumped on the whole gig. The demo was matching funds totaling $150,000 epic, the crowd was stellar; the day was totally lumberjack. ($50,000 raised, $100,000 donated I’m so glad it’s done and we can skate it.” to match). April 06 • Groundbreaking This timeline was compiled from information ceremony in McCormick Park raises $12,000, despite heavy rain. available on missoulaskatepark.org

One Jackass too many

DYLAN LASLOVICH MONTANA KAIMIN

A profound thinker of our time put it best when speaking of “Jackass: Number 2”. “It’s not funny anymore,” said Bam Margera after performing a seriously dangerous skit. The movie evoked general concern for the “cast’s” safety more than it did laughs. Whether Johnny Knoxville and company were feeling the wrath of bear traps, riot control defenses, King Cobras or Anacondas, I couldn’t help but think, “When is this going to stop?” I am not assuming that Jackass: Number 2 is supposed to be something it’s not. The point of Jackass is to shock and entertain the viewer, but it just didn’t happen enough. When the show first came out years ago you didn’t know what to expect. The premises were fresh and they were consistently funny. Maybe it’s gotten old or maybe they’ve done it all. Either way having a decent idea of what’s going to happen takes the fun out of it. Multiple pseudo-celebrities were thrown into the mix. None of them attempted anything except the southern rap group, Three 6 Mafia, in a small part of the film. One of the rappers offered Jackass’ Dave England $200 to eat cow manure. My suggestion: offer Mr. England $200 to listen to one of their albums in one sitting… now that’s punishing. But like most sub-par movies there are some high- lights. Johnny Knoxville deserves some kind of award for not giving a damn about whether he lives or dies. Knoxville always went the extra mile to make sure he got trampled a couple more times by a bull or almost beat down by a stranger on the streets. “Jackass: Number 2” does feature one of the greatest pranks, albeit tasteless, of all time. The premise revolves around Ehren McGhehey dressing up as a ter- rorist and having a cab driver take him to the airport. To add a better effect he had fake, at least I hope so, dyna- mite strapped around his stomach. Shortly into the taxi ride all hell breaks loose and I think my mouth stayed open for the remainder of the prank. If you love anything that is Jackass you’ll probably think the movie was fine. For the rest of us it’s more of the same. And in the eternal words of the tired and battered Margera, “Please God don’t let there be a Jackass 3.”

What were you doing when you were 12? Taylor Smith spins hardflips down steep banks

M o n t a n a K a i m i n 10 Sports Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Golf world mourns loss of legend Byron Nelson

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Byron When she returned, Peggy Nelson that Nelson's feat would fall anytime Championship in 1940 and 1945. Nelson's graceful swing and gentle found her husband on the back porch, soon, comparing it to Joe DiMaggio's Then, at age 34, he retired after the manner earned him the nickname "Lord which faces the woodworking shop elusive 56-game hitting streak. 1946 season to spend more time on his Byron," a tribute to the courtly Texan where he spent much of his free time. "In this day and age, with this compe- Texas ranch. whose kind, caring style with fans and Arnold Palmer called Nelson "one of tition, to win 11 in a row would be Nelson held the PGA Tour records for competitors made him one of the most the greatest players who ever lived." almost unheard of," Woods said. "What most consecutive made cuts (113) and well-liked figures in sports. "I don't think that anyone will ever Byron accomplished, that goes down as for single-season scoring average But what will forever set Nelson exceed the things that Byron did by one of the great years in the history of (68.33) until both were broken by apart is a single record, one that no winning 11 tournaments in a row in one our sport. ... DiMaggio's record, I see Woods. golfer has ever approached: his 11 year," Palmer said in a statement. that being broken more than winning 11 straight tournament victories in 1945, The closest any player has come to in a row." the greatest year in the history of golf. Nelson's streak is six, first by Ben Nelson won 18 tour- Nelson died Tuesday at 94. The Hogan in 1948. When Tiger Woods naments in 1945, also a Tarrant County Medical Examiner's reached that number in 1999-2000, record for a calendar Office said he died of natural causes. Nelson was typically gracious when year. He captured 31 of His wife, Peggy Nelson, told family putting his own mark into perspective. 54 tournaments in friend Angela Enright that her husband "Anytime you make a record stand 1944-45, and won a appeared fine as she left their Roanoke for 55 years, why, you've done pretty total of 52 events, home for Bible study Tuesday morning. good," he told The Associated Press. including five majors: "I'm so proud of you," he told her, Last month, when Woods' current the Masters in 1937 and something he often said about her streak of PGA tour wins reached five 1942, the U.S. Open in church involvement, Enright said. and counting, he didn't sound confident 1939 and the PGA

M o n t a n a K a i m i n Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Sports 11 Chambers’ performance presents a pleasant problem for Montana After shredding Sac State defense, former Husky adds another dimension to deep UM receiving corps PETE DELMOE establish that I was a legitimate D- have been eligible to play this year MONTANA KAIMIN I receiver.” he would have considered going On Saturday, Chambers got his some place else, but that was chance to shine in Montana’s 59- unlikely. Being the starting quarterback 14 victory over Sacramento State. “I would have stayed but it for the University of Montana Chambers led the team with five would have sucked, though, football team is never a walk in catches for 82 yards and he caught because that’s the reason for me the park, but things just keep get- his first touchdown of the season. coming to Division I-AA because ting easier for Griz senior QB Josh Chambers had a shot at another I wanted to play right away.” Swogger. touchdown but dropped a pass For now though everything is After witnessing the emergence from sophomore quarterback Cole working out for Chambers and he of junior wide receiver Eric Allen Bergquist in the endzone. is enjoying his stay in Missoula. in the first two games of the sea- “It felt good,” said Chambers, So far he has been pretty son, Swogger now has another impressed with his teammates, weapon in the arsenal with junior especially his fellow wide I-A transfer Craig Chambers get- I wasn’t totally receivers. ting his shot to fight for playing satisfied with my “I think it’s pretty amazing we time in a crowded Montana performance, but it can field the receivers like we receiving group. still felt good. have,” he said. “We have every “We got an unbelievable receiv- single kind of prototype receiver. ing corps,” Swogger said. “You — Craig Chambers, We have possession guys, quick have so many weapons on offense“ guys, down-the-field guys, sure- UM junior wide receiver you just want to get them the ball handed guys. I think we’d have a and let them do what they do good receiving corps on a lot of best.” D-I teams, let alone D-I-AA.” Chambers missed the opener in who led the University of With so many receivers on the Iowa because he was academical- Washington in touchdown recep- team, some players might be con- ly ineligible, and he only played tions last year with six. “I wasn’t cerned about playing time and get- sparingly in the Griz’s 36-7 win totally satisfied with my perform- ting the ball, but Chambers said over South Dakota State. ance, but it still felt” good, though. that shouldn’t be a problem. Chambers said it was difficult to I had that drop in the endzone and “Everybody’s going to have sit out against the Iowa that kind of pissed me off a little their games and they are going to Hawkeyes, especially since they bit.” be able to show what they can do,” Ashley McKee/Montana Kaimin are a Division I-A program. For some time there was the he said. “I think we’ll have plenty UM wide receiver Craig Chambers runs after making a reception Saturday at Washington-Grizzly “It was really hard just because question of whether or not of balls to go around. You can Stadium during UM’s 59-14 blowout win over Sacramento State. Chambers, a transfer from the that’s where I came from was D- Chambers would be playing at all never throw too much.” University of Washington, led the team Saturday with five catches and 82 yards and he also scored his I.” Chambers said. “It was kind of due to his academic eligibility. first touchdown of the season. like another chance for me to Chambers said if he wouldn’t

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Paced by the play of two seniors, the University of Montana golf team grabbed a fifth place finish at the nine-team Inland Empire Invitational in Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday. The Griz were led by seniors Krista Swanson and Jill Walker who finished in third and eight place. Swanson shot a 221 to finish in a tie with Idaho’s Amanda Jacobs, two strokes behind first-place Kelly Nakashima, also of Idaho. Four Big Sky Conference teams competed in the Invite, and Montana placed second within that group. UM bested Montana State and Portland State, but finished eight strokes behind Eastern Swanson Washington, which placed second. It was the second time in September that the Eagles have beaten Montana, the reigning conference champion, as EWU finished 15 strokes ahead of UM at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic in Fort Collins, Colo., earlier this month. EWU also got UM on the individual leaderboard as the Eagles’ Marli Mikulecky finished in second place, one stroke ahead of Swanson. Two UM freshmen got their first collegiate tournaments under their belts. Jacqueline Olson and Teddi Roberts competed as individuals and finished 40th and 48th place, respectively, in the 53-person field. The UM golf team will wrap up its fall season with back-to-back tournaments in mid-October. -Kaimin Sports Staff Walker

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There are two pen- guins sitting in a bathtub. One penguin says to the other, “Can you pass me the soap?” The other penguin says, “What do I look like, a toast- er?” - submitted by Kaimin copy editor Rachel Honrud. (She swears she stole the joke.)

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 12 News Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Upped enrollment sets UM record Montana Kaimin:

The University of Montana’s UM President George Dennison statement. enrollment for the 2006 fall credited UM efforts to increase The statement also noted .36 percent the semester came to a total of 13,961 enrollment and retain students for increasing diversity on UM’s students, a record high number. the increase. campus, with higher numbers of Last fall, 13,602 students enrolled Dennison also said UM has American Indian students, black circulation of The at UM. seen an increase in the number of students, and Hispanic students The number of full-time equiva- students taking online courses, enrolling at UM. lent students increased as well, which has given the appearance New York Times, from 11,695 last year to 11,716 that students are taking fewer – Sean Breslin, this year. credits due to the way online cred- Montana Kaimin twice the prestige. In a statement released Tuesday, its are counted, according to the

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