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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 11-1-2011 Montana Kaimin, November 1, 2011 Students of The niU versity of Montana, Missoula Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Students of The nivU ersity of Montana, Missoula, "Montana Kaimin, November 1, 2011" (2011). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 5468. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/5468 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CITY COUNCIL Q+A Online Exclusive: UM finalizes Wondering who to check on that mail-in ballot? 4 MonTec takeover montanaTuesday, November 1, 2011 www.montanakaimin.com kaimin NATIONAL MISSOULA Obama made progress on promises Emily Creasia Montana Kaimin The Obama for America cam- paign held a press conference Monday to kick off Greater To- gether, an effort to garner sup- port from young voters. Campaign manager and Uni- versity of Montana alumnus Jim Messina said President Barack Obama fulfilled his 2008 cam- paign agreements to young people. “I think the president’s done more than his campaign prom- ises,” Messina said. “You know if there’s one thing I didn’t say to you, it’s ‘He’s done.’ Cause he’s not. There’s way more things he’s got to do.” See OBAMA, page 3 MISSOULA Occupation Nick Gast/Montana Kaimin waning Robert Brown plays the part of Christopher Higgins in front of Higgins’ grave during Stories and Stones at the Missoula Cemetery Sunday afternoon. Tom Holm Montana Kaimin As Occupy Missoula enters Dead men tell their tales its fourth week, the initial excite- ment wanes as the real work be- gins, said Debby Florence, one of Volunteers share stories of Missoula’s settlers and infamous residents the protestors. Rebecca Calabrese Dolan Missoula Cemetery for Stories valley of my family,” she said, “Hell Gate never had more There is Web networking to Montana Kaimin and Stones, an event held an- gesturing toward the mountains. than 14 permanent inhabit- do, fuel supplies to get, portable nually for the past nine years. “Thankfully for my brothers ants,” he said. “But we had toilets to pay for — $450 a month As they arrive at the ceme- Families of the dead contribute and sisters and me, my mother nine violent deaths.” — and tents to move around. tery gates, men in top and bowl- records and photographs, and thought this was a fit place to He said that after someone Florence said many of the er hats and women in Victorian people volunteer to recount life raise children.” committed a crime, trials, like to- people who began the move- dresses greet one other like old stories at the cemetery. All around the cemetery they day, were speedy — but so were ment have pulled away, need- friends, as if meeting after an- Listening to some of the vol- told their stories, and many of the executions. ing a break. She said that stu- other year of rest. They squeeze unteers on this self-guided tour, accounts had a common theme: He said that when Cyrus Skin- dents haven’t been as present together for a photograph, and it’s easy to forget that they’re not the lawlessness of the unbridled ner, an infamous gang member, now that the movement has the mountains around Mis- the people whose graves lie at West and settlers’ attempts to began to terrorize citizens of Hell slowed down. soula seem far away, as if be- your feet. bring civilization to Missoula. Gate, a group of vigilantes took She said the movement needs hind a milky film. Meanwhile, Jeannette Rankin, a brown Rankin’s aunt hadn’t thought the Skinner into their custody and more organization before any caravans of automobiles try to folder in her hand and a large, West was a place fit for families held a swift trial. further progress can be made. find parking in the temporarily black hat on her head, looked — and sometimes it wasn’t. “We took them out to my cor- Florence has been with the move- enchanted Missoula Cemetery. around at a crowd gathering C.P. Higgins, one of Missou- ral and hung ‘em all,” Higgins ment since the beginning, but On Sunday, men and wom- and tried to rally men to vote for la’s three founders, said law and said. “Justice was that quick.” said she sees Missoula as a little en shed their identities and women’s suffrage next Tuesday order wasn’t easy to achieve, and But “justice” could also be too closed off from the broader donned the clothing and per- — in 1914. he described the misfortune of bought and sold. See OCCUPY, page 4 sonalities of people buried in “I stand here in this valley, the the ghost town of Hell Gate. See CEMETERY, page 5 Volume CX1V Issue 36 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 @KaiminNews Volunteers tell stories of Missoula’s first settlers and infamous residents Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Tuesday, November 1, 2011 POLITICAL COLUMN CRASHING U SAY What was the best costume you saw this THE PARTY IN THE Halloween weekend? Planned personhood UC By Bryn Hagfors By killing the manned space missions for NASA this summer, the Obama administration killed a small part of me, too. This isn’t because I wanted to be an astronaut — those guys have it rough. Sticking a grown man in a small capsule with diaper-wearing math nerds for months on end sounds like a mean practical joke to me, not a dream occupation. Rather, killing this program made it so that Kristina Finsaas Dallon Espinosa Scott Barrett I could no longer tell older people I wanted to be an astronaut when Senior, human biology Visiting UM Grad Student, Education I grew up. Because this was no longer a viable grandma-deterrent, I There were some good pea- A Hulk guy who punched There’s this guy who hangs out at found myself floundering to discover a new story to escape actually cocks: one girl had a big tail. out Edward Cullen at the (Al’s and Vic’s) with gray proofy choosing a career path. It looked homemade, which Elk’s. He looked really hair; he kind of looks like Don Luckily for me, this didn’t last long. It only took me a few days to realize that I had my story wrong the whole time. What I should is why I give her credit. I was amazing, but really strong King. Well, a bunch of his friends have been telling people my whole life is not that I wanted to be an just a mummy, wrapped and mean. bought a bunch of Don King astronaut, but that I wanted to be a corporation. myself in gauze. wings and dressed up like him. Corporations in the United States grow up in a house with a par- ent who is too afraid to punish them. The government’s unwilling- ness to punish those corporations that created the recent mortgage F PRESIDENT OBAMA AND crisis reflects this relationship. If I did something that serious and I Mark Zuckerberg had a love negative, my parents wouldn’t bail me out; they’d kick me out. child, it would be We the People. EDITORIAL Corporations also pay lower taxes than individuals. For example, The White House website links companies like GE and Delta paid no taxes last year due to tax in- citizens to the president by al- We the people are fed up centives and complicated accounting tricks. If I intentionally avoided lowing them to create, browse and sign digital petitions for taxes, I would be called unpatriotic and would likely make friends thing from forgiving student The idea could find more suc- Obama’s consideration. with the good folks at the IRS. loan debt to acknowledging that cess in a smaller community Although it’s a step in the right They have access to important people on a level that very few real aliens are attempting to make where it’s easier to ensure leaders direction for digitizing citizen people have. It is rumored that the only person closer to Bill Clinton contact. Some want an end to give more thoughtful responses. involvement in government, the during the Monica Lewinsky scandal than Monica herself was agri- puppy mills, the Transportation For example, the idea fits per- quality of conversation has large- culture giant Monsanto Company. According to the story, President Security Administration or the fectly with President Engstrom’s ly failed to improve since its birth Clinton was on the phone with them at the same time that every- electoral college system. Nearly call for increased and innovative in September. thing was going down. Talk about connections. 75,000 people signed one ask- communication at the University It’s not that participation is Finally, corporations can now use their huge amounts of money ing the White House to legalize of Montana. It would allow fac- lower than expected. Originally, to influence politics in ways that I could never dream of as an indi- and regulate marijuana like al- ulty, staff and students to create any petition that garnered more vidual. Since the Citizens United ruling, corporations can make un- cohol after the Prohibition and and share topics they wish to see than 5,000 signatures in 30 days limited campaign contributions without ever disclosing the fact that — bringing the entire We the addressed by campus leaders.

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