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MK apocalypsekaimin * end of the world Volume CXV Issue 49 Friday, November 30, 2012 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 @KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Friday, November 30, 2012 SCIENCE COLUMN EDITORIAL CARTOON THE HUME’N EXPERIENCE Question everything By Alice Martin “To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to know universal truth,” Evelyn Fox Keller said. This semester I invested significant time into trying to con- vince the four of you still reading this column that science is a worthwhile endeavor, not only on a personal but also on a pub- lic scale. From wolves to evolution, climate change and bighorn sheep, I earnestly tried to explicate the reasons why the contro- versies arising from science often come from those unacquaint- ed with science instead of internally. But the last thought I want to leave you with is not an apolo- getic one. I will not try to convince you to think scientifically about one issue or another. Instead, I ask you to contemplate whatever beliefs you hold. It does not matter their source — per- sonal experience, religious teachings, scientific inquiry or even the study material for your finals in a few weeks. For example, I strongly believe it is physiologically impossible for me to survive my chemistry final without an excess-cortisol (stress hormone) induced heart attack. Yet, as with all human notions, there is the possibility I am completely wrong. I may survive my final to live through an- other semester and live to be a healthy old bird. I doubt it, but it’s possible. The problem with any person — whether they are U a scientist, politician, judge or pastor — claiming they possess the perfect truth is they are all human. Humans are prone to P BACK error and idiocy, blind spots and flawed vision when it comes to understanding the world. This is not surprising, considering S HANDS we are living organisms. Living things, as any biologist will tell BIG you, are extremely messy systems. I don’t advocate you dump all your beliefs and trade them in Big ups to all our loving Big ups to the immortal jel- Big ups to global warming. for new ones, even for scientific viewpoints. Instead, I point out families and the great friends lyfish. Your tiny, hydroid spe- Damn, it feels nice to wear T- it is statistically likely (based on history) that at some point in we’ve made over the years. cies could help us cure degen- shirts in the winter with bling our lives, some fact currently stated with absolute certainty, will We’ll totally miss you. But we’ll erative diseases. But let’s try bouncing around and not be completely reversed. There used to be nine planets: now there also totally kill your zombie to avoid any Benjamin Button freezing to your chest hair. are eight. Germany and Japan were our deepest enemies: now forms too. scenarios, mmk? Boosh. they’re allies. Before Einstein, physicists assumed they had all the mysteries of the universe figured out. Instead, we now have Backhands to all this end- Backhands to the fiscal cliff. Backhands to another se- whole new problems. of-the-world crap. Obviously, It’s like that Tracy Chapman mester. Can’t we just work My last thought: Whatever you end up doing, whether it be it’s just a scheme to get us to song ending really horribly: through the darker months and science or art, politics or law, always keep in mind you are not buy more guns, gear and grave- “Drive so fast, felt like I was have a longer summer? ‘Snot perfect. You will not always be right. The important thing is to stones. Plus, the rumor is if the drunk…” And then, you know, like there will be snow-heavy reject complacency at every turn. The journey we take toward Mayan calendar included leap they went off a cliff. Way to go, activities in the future anyway a more complete knowledge or more just society is far more years we would be 18-months Congress. (see above). Whatever. See you important than the end result. Billions of people have lived on dead already. in January, losers. this planet, and we remember only a tiny fraction of them. Their lives mattered, not because of what they left behind, but how Cover photo by Samuel Wilson they lived when they were alive. [email protected] We’ve got news for you. Please send any news tips, ideas GOT NEWS? and press releases to [email protected]. montanakaimin The Montana Kaimin, in its 115th Newsroom Phone 406-243-4310 year, is published by the students of Business Phone 406-243-6541 the University of Montana, Missoula. The UM School of Journalism uses Editor Photo Editor Reporters Photographers Video Reporters Copy Chief the Montana Kaimin for practice Billie Loewen Tim Goessman Austin Green Thom Bridge Tommy Martino Alyssa Small courses but assumes no control Business Manager Design Editor Heather Jurva Meghan Nolt Hunter D’Antuono Copy Editors Curtis Black Carli Krueger Ashley Nerbovig Abigail Redfern Brinna Boettger over policy or content. Columnists News Editors Multimedia Editor Jessica Roden Stacy Thacker Cassidy Belus Jackson Bolstad The Montana Kaimin is printed on Taylor W. Anderson Samuel Wilson Candace Rojo Taylor Romack Missy Lacock Allison Bye campus by Printing and Graphics. Emily Downing Web Editor Hanah Redman Designers Alice Martin Missy Lacock Sam Lungren Jack Stannard Sports Reporters Jess Neary Blake Reynolds Ricky Sanchez Send letters to the editor to Arts+Culture Editor Arts+Culture Reporters Dustin Askim Alyssa Small Cartoonist [email protected]. Brooks Johnson Christopher Allen Andy Bixler Caitlyn Walsh Callan Berry Editorials are discussed and written Sports Editor Eben Keller Austin Schempp Ricky Sanchez Riley Pavelich Alexandria Valdez by Kaimin editors. Erik C. Anderson Montana Kaimin Friday, November 30, 2012 NEWS 3 Electronic music brings ‘club drug’ controversy Cassidy Belus Lt. Scott Brodie said police the specialize used of club drugs, tronic dance music, like, stupidly Ben said. “Personally, I think that Montana Kaimin are looking for club drugs like Brodie speculates there is less of enough,” he said. used in moderation, when you’re MDMA, ketamine and ecstasy at a demand for them. While he ex- When Ben first tried molly very careful with its usage, I think Through Curry’s Self Over parties. There were a few busts at pects to see these drugs become in the fall at age 19, it wasn’t at a it’s a fantastic drug and a fantastic Substance program, Mike Frost, Disco Bloodbath’s Halloween bash more common as the population concert or rave. He’d been dealing experience for anyone, really.” the interim director of Counseling in October, most notably the arrest increases, Brodie said it’s average with depression since his early Not knowing the substance is and Psychological Services, has of football player Trevor Poole, but for a college town. teen years and heard that MDMA one of the biggest dangers with heard more about LSD (acid) with- Brodie said that’s not out of the “As the population of Missoula could help. He said while the $15 club drugs, said Sherrill Brown, in the last two years, as well as an ordinary for such an event. Most grows, we see more and more of pill was a good experience, he no an associate professor at the Uni- increased use of MDMA (molly). busts for club drugs are at parties (club drugs), but it’s still not near longer uses molly. versity of Montana’s pharmacy SOS sees 500 to 700 students a or specialized events. the problem that the regular illicit “I’m pretty happy right now so, school. With a drug like ecstasy year. While the majority of those “We do encounter (club drugs) drugs are,” Brodie said. “It’s not like, I don’t have any desire to use that’s cut with another substance students aren’t talking about club from time to time, but it’s not with something everyone uses every- it again,” he said. “Even if I was in such as heroine, Brown said the drugs, he said they are more fre- the frequency that we encounter day, typically. Some people prob- such low spirits as to merit another risks are increased. If mixed with quently brought up because of an the regular illicit drugs,” he said. ably do.” use, I would still consider as many alcohol, the effects of the drug increase in raves and electronic Illicit drugs like cocaine, meth For “Ben,” an economics major, other alternatives as I could.” are stronger, which adds another music events throughout the state. and heroine are more commonly experimenting with molly grew Ben acknowledged drugs can problem, she said.