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MK fridaykaimin snowbowl and MISSOULA. a love story Volume CX1 V Issue 65 February 17, 2012 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 @KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Friday, February 17, 2012 COLUMN EDITORIAL CARTOON OPEN LETTERS Dear Mars Inc. By Nick Gast Dear Mars Inc., Did I cut you off in traffic? Make fun of your taste in music? Are you a big fan of gyms? Please, for the love of god, tell me what I’ve done to you so I can make this right. I promise never to hurt you again. Just don’t end it like this. Don’t downsize the Snickers bar. I have a long and storied history with your nougaty caramel mouth-frenzy of a chocolate bar. I used to stroll the halls of my high school, caramel from a freshly eaten Snickers proudly stream- ing down my chin (OK, so maybe I wasn’t always aware that I had caramel dangling off my chin like a moron ... my friends were dicks). The point is, I’m in love with each and every one of Snick- ers’ 280 calories. Each has a special place in my heart (literally). If you follow through with your plan to downsize your candy bar to 250 calories, I won’t know what to do with myself. How will I dehungerize? You claim that this 30-calorie cut is being made in an effort to promote “responsible snacking.” I’m skeptical. I don’t think the last 11 percent of your candy bar is what’s causing Fatty O’Chocolatesauce’s ass to burst out of his size portable-garage sweatpants. It’s like going with Diet Coke over regular with your Big Mac meal because you’re watching your figure — I don’t think the soda’s the problem. Instead, why don’t you focus your efforts on a campaign to pro- mote responsible snack choices with the occasional Snickers bar thrown in? That way you can turn a guilt-free blind eye when I still choose to jam a couple of your two-ounce sugar sticks in my face back-to-back when the Higgins Holiday has a buy-one-get- Thayne Palmer one-free sale (One of them was an almond Snickers. I’m not an animal). I’m still pretty worked up about this whole thing, but I have to U pump the brakes for a second. I just discovered, in my thorough P investigation of Mars Inc. (I am a journalist, after all.) that you BACK guys make pet food. Pet food?! Snickers, Twix, M&Ms, Skittles, S Pedigree and Whiskas (which, by the way, is the most annoying HANDS cat food brand name in the world. Is it really necessary to make BIG me feel like I’m saying the word “whiskers” with attitude?). That’s Big Ups to Whitney Houston Big Ups to Montana’s Attor- Big Ups to the end of Mon- quite a repertoire. I’m not sure why this is so disturbing to me, I for making it to the Grammys ney General Steve Bullock for tana wolf hunts. Our lupine just know that it is. after all these years! Too soon? asking the Supreme Court to friends can go back to listen- Back to the task at hand. Mars Inc., I implore you to be brave. maintain Montana’s century- ing to Duran Duran and ap- Don’t kowtow to the health advocates of the world. Stand up for Backhands to Cupid for once old campaign finance law. Ob- pearing on hipster t-shirts. your customers and our right to pollute ourselves with 280 calo- again missing his mark and viously the court doesn’t care ries of the finest milk chocolate-like product you can mass manu- making people fall in love what you think, but thanks Backhands to Iran for parad- facture. with spending money on each anyway Steve! ing its nuclear achievements other instead of simple roman- around like a kitten with a re- Regards, tic gestures. Damn you Roman Backhands to KBGA’s Ra- ally, really radioactive mouse. cherub! diothon — if you want money, Think of the damage said then listen to the people’s enhanced kitten might cause! [email protected] demands: LESS TECHNO. montanakaimin Newsroom Phone 406-243-4310 Business Office Phone 406-243-6541 The Montana Kaimin, in its 114th year, is published by the students Editor Photo Editor Linds Sanders Sports Reporters Designers Masaki Nakagawa of The University of Montana, Mis- Jayme Fraser Sally Finneran Amy Sisk Erik Anderson Lynn Campbell Allison Bye soula. The UM School of Journal- Business Manager Design Editor Spencer Veysey Dustin Askim Sarah Dickmeyer Maren Engen ism uses the Montana Kaimin for Curtis Black Carli Krueger Senior Videographer Alexandria Valdez Jess Neary Columnists practice courses but assumes no News Editors Web Editor Brady W. Moore Austin Schempp Matt Wier Nick Gast Videographer Photographers Copy Chief Missy Lacock control over policy or content. Victoria Edwards Dillon Kato Reporters Beth Beechie Forest Chaput de Sain- Alyssa Small Brady W. Moore The Montana Kaimin is printed on Paige Huntoon Cody Blum Arts+Culture Reporters tonge Copy Editors Bekhi Spika campus by Printing and Graphics. Billie Loewen Arts+Culture Editor Tom Holm Emily Downing Nick Gast Bethany Bea Cody Wooden Send letters to the editor to Michael Beall Jacob McHugh Brooks Johnson Tim Goessman Missy Lacock Cartoonist [email protected]. Sports Editor Candace Rojo Dameon Matule Megan Jae Riggs Claire Mikeson Thayne Palmer Editorials are discussed and writ- Daniel Mediate Hannah Ryan Ali Murray ten by Kaimin editors. Montana Kaimin Friday, February 17, 2012 NEWS 3 CAMPUS Heartbreaking play overcomes obstacles Linds Sanders tionship between a man and a to bring the play to Missoula, but Montana Kaimin woman. It goes from their first every aspect of the production date to the end of their divorce, but was too specialized for any local Cast and crewmembers of it uses an unconventional time- production company. It was too “The Last Five Years” describe line. small of a production for the Uni- senior Dan Miller as overworked, The show begins with the wife, versity, too simple for the School of passionate and crazy — that’s Cathy, played by sophomore Ma- Music, and too risky for Missoula what it takes to be the first Uni- ria Miller (no relation), singing Children’s Theatre. versity of Montana undergrad in the number“Still Hurting” at the But it was too perfect for Miller living memory to obtain the rights end of their divorce. After Cathy’s to pass up. In his last semester, to perform an off-Broadway pro- scene, Jamie (played by Dan Mill- Miller spearheaded the project duction. er) takes the stage, elated at the with a now-or-never mindset. Miller worked with School of end of their first date. The rest of With a nearly complete accom- Music professor David Cody to the show’s shape takes this form, panying orchestra, a $2,250 bud- purchase the rights to the two-per- jumping across time as Cathy get and the efforts of volunteers son musical. While Miller is using moves back in time and Jamie (a director, co-star and back stage the University’s account with Mu- moves forward. crew), Miller’s dream of produc- sical Theatre International (which Dan Miller fell in love with the ing “The Last Five Years” is com- owns the rights), he is solely re- musical two and a half years ago ing true — but not without its ob- Jayme Fraser/Montana Kaimin sponsible for footing the $1,200 bill. when his friend and now music stacles. Dan Miller rehearses a song Wednesday night for the two-actor musical “This is a big undertaking for a “The Last Five Years.” director gave him the CD. MCT has provided costumes, student,” Cody said. “But this mu- “It was one of those rare times I props, and the set as well as agree- sical is proof that a show doesn’t sat down and listened to the whole ing to share its stage with Miller’s have to be huge to be great the- thing,” Miller recalled. “Every show. But that doesn’t mean Miller atre.” track blew my mind.” has exclusive use of the stage. “The Last Five Years” is a small- He began brainstorming how scale musical recounting the rela- See BROADWAY, page 12 Montana Kaimin 4 ARTS+CULTURE Friday, February 17, 2012 CAMPUS Bring on the Pain T-Pain and other class acts storm Missoula Brooks Johnson sities above. It’s now time to break alriiight”) makes him stand out Get lucky on Tuesday night and of hooks while they still maintain Montana Kaimin into that career-making star inter- most.