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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 promote 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. he might just buy you a drank. their classic hip-hop style. Like T-Pain, these boys are big Tuesday night, in the middle view I didn’t get. He’s collaborated with Kanye And if you love drinking, you’ll on collaboration. MC Travie Mc- of another weird Montana winter, Fine, maybe just some perspec- West (“Good Life”), Jamie Foxx love… Coy helped out on Cobra Starship’s what’s a homeboy to do? Rent a tive and hype will do. Plus, if you (“Blame It”), and Lonely Island “Snakes on a Plane” and worked movie? Waste hours on Pinterest? love hype then you’ll love… (“I’m on a Boat”), sharing Gram- GYM CLASS HEROES solo with Bruno Mars in 2010. The Listen to the same crappy music mys for the first mentioned and You might have just gradu- band even brought in Daryl Hall over and over again? T-PAIN hipster cred for the last mentioned. ated from middle school, but dig and Busta Rhymes for its 2008 al- Wait, is that the faint sound of Bursting onto the scene in 2005, He’s shared the screen with around a bit and you’re bound bum, “The Quilt.” Auto-Tune approaching our fair and reaching no. 1 on Billboard Taylor Swift (“Thug Story”) and to find a mix CD with these rock- Expect a live set with solid, city? Unmistakably. Turns out the with his second album in 2007 at helped YouTube’s cult hit “Auto- rappers on it. easy-to-listen-to vocals and catchy posters were right: T-PAIN’S CO- just twenty-one years old, T-Pain Tune the News” on a webisode in Maybe it’s “Cupid’s Chokehold” energy. MIN’ TO TOWN. has branded himself in a niche he 2009, which has more than 2 mil- — the Fall Out Boy-enhanced And if you love new-wave hip- The Adams Center hosts Gram- calls “Hard & B.” lion views. single (da da da da, da da da da) hop then you’ll love… my-winning rapper T-Pain Tues- His most obvious and last- There’s even an app called ‘I am — or maybe “The Queen and I” day night as the last stop on his ing influence over the past seven T-Pain.’ Now you, too, can decide from their 2006 album “As Cruel Snowstorm Tour across the north- years has been, of course, his whether to use Auto-Tune for good as School Children.” Maybe you’ve GRIEVES & BUDO ern states. Gym Class Heroes, extreme application of the pitch- or evil. kept up and you’ve got one of their Seattle-based Grieves, together Grieves & Budo and others warm correcting software known only In short, T-Pain’s been ubiqui- singles from last year, like “Stereo with producer Budo, brings the the stage for the man with a pro- as Auto-Tune. His beats are classic tous, always popping up where Hearts” featuring Adam Levine slower sing-rapping that made fessed interest in being on a boat. and radio-safe, but his brand of you least expect him. Like in Mis- or “Life Goes On”— both progres- Atmosphere famous back when, Thanks for reading the neces- hooks (that robo-sounding “heeey, soula in the middle of February. sions for the band into the realm See T-PAIN, page 12 Montana Kaimin Friday, February 17, 2012 ARTS+CULTURE 5 MISSOULA Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ON cover punk, jazz, bluegrass and Hollywood dream of becoming everything between. like his lifelong hero, Bruce Lee. A new feature of this year’s festival: The Doc Shop. It’s is a “BLACK ROCK THE three-day workshop designed HORSE” to give filmmakers the chance to 2/23, The Wilma, 7:30 p.m. meet, discuss and debate all the What better place to recreate elements that go into funding scenes from the Trojan War than TOWN and producing a documentary. Dameon Matule at the Burning Man festival in It’s for those who are interested Montana Kaimin Nevada? At least that’s what a in making films of their own few friends decided when they It’s the time of year Missoula and networking with people al- built a 50-foot tall wooden Tro- film geeks die for: The Big Sky ready in the business. jan horse and convinced a ton of Documentary Film Festival is But if you’d rather just watch strangers to wear togas and pull back, this time with a few sur- the films, here are a few worth it into the middle of the festival. prises. looking for: Rather than attack anyone, they The festival kicks off tonight filled it full of explosives and with the first showing in the “SING YOUR SONG” fireworks and sent it off in true Wilma Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Over 2/18, Cystal Theatre, 7:00 p.m. Burning Man fashion. the next 10 days the Wilma and Harry Belafonte’s incredible the Crystal Theater will be reel- life story is retold. Through his “YOU HAVE THE ing through 144 original docu- well-spoken narration you see mentaries. From full-length fea- the singer/actor’s constant strug- RIGHT TO AN tures to 12-minute short films, gle against social injustice and ATTORNEY” there’s going to be something for the toll it took on his personal 2/26, The Wilma, 10:30 a.m. everyone. life. Hollywood hasn’t seen a A couple New York public Festival director Mike Stein- performer with that much integ- defenders represent some of berg built a career from his love rity since. the poorest clients in the south Abigail Redfern/Montana Kaimin of documentaries, while his pas- Bronx. The two young attorneys The 9th annual Big Sky Film Festival kicks off this weekend and will play host sion for music remained a hob- “THE ART OF attempt to resolve hundreds of to more than 50 different artists. The festival goes through Feb. 26. by. This year he’s combining the FIGHTING” cases while trying to come to two by devoting almost a third 2/18, The Wilma, 9:00 p.m. terms with a legal system they to be one of the best games of and quirky Tetris masters. The of the schedule to films about consider fundamentally broken. all time. The game maintains a great cast and surprise ending music. Nearly 40 movies will Afghani refugee Hussain Sadiqi fled to Australia in search cult following to this day but up make this a must-see. Watching of a better life. Once he got there, “ECSTASY OF ORDER” until now, no one knew who was other people play video games he packed on muscle and de- 2/26, The Wilma, 12:00 p.m. world’s best. This documentary — especially people in their mid- voted himself to martial arts. Among videogame, ahem, follows one man who organizes 30s — has never been so fun. [email protected] Now the self-proclaimed nomad connoisseurs, Nintendo’s 1990 a tournament to find out. Along is giving it all up to pursue his version of Tetris is considered the way, you meet the brilliant snowbowl and MISSOULA.

aSTORY BYlove EMILY DOWNING story PHOTOS BY FOREST CHAPUT DE SAINTONGE

or one woman, it’s the Fridays and Sundays — her only Fdays off work — she gets to spend skiing with her son. For another, it’s the sense of female camaraderie provided by the Friday afternoon women’s lesson program. For one eighth-grader, it’s relishing in missed school for “powder days” when her dad yanks her out of class to go ski fresh snow. Most couples consider themselves lucky to make it to their golden anniversary. AS MONTANA SNOWBOWL CELEBRATES THE 50-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ITS MARRIAGE TO MISSOULA, IT’S TIME TO REFLECT ON WHY THE SKI AREA IS STILL AROUND

The snow conditions are hit-or-miss. The ter- ping work and school. tacks of paper and books line every avail- rain’s excellent but extreme, and the lifts are ag- Between November and April, Snowbowl able surface in Stan Cohen’s office. The ing. But for a low-elevation, two-chair ski area, provides a home for Missoula’s skiers, no mat- S cluttered room is located in the ware- Snowbowl has a solid fan base. ter the conditions. In return, Missoula’s skiers house that holds his publishing company, Pic- On any winter weekend morning in Mis- have kept the area alive since 1961, proving fan- toral Histories, as well as boxes upon boxes of soula, there’s a full parking lot next to the Star- cy condos and high-speed chairlifts don’t mea- historical memorabilia. A signed photo of Bob bucks on Grant Creek Road and a line of cars sure a ski area’s success. In Snowbowl’s case, Hope, binders of information on military his- snaking its way up the treacherous Snowbowl wealth is found in the community that has sup- tory, a newspaper from a 17th century London Road. On a midweek powder day, skiers toler- ported it for half a century. newspaper — Cohen’s got it all. ate a few extra minutes in the crowded lift line But a good portion of what the warehouse by cracking jokes with each other about skip- holds is the history of downhill skiing in Mon- tana. In 2007, Cohen published a book that cov- ers everything from the first ski trip in Yellow- stone National Park to the opening of Big Sky Resort. Of special interest to Cohen, however, is the Snowbowl memorabilia, as that’s the ski area he’s most familiar with. He began working at the ski shop in 1963, a year after Snowbowl moved to its present site from T.V. Mountain, where it had operated under the name Snow Park since 1954. At the time, Cohen was a recent transplant from West Virginia and had only skied twice in his life. “I honestly didn’t even know which end of the ski went downhill,” he said. “And now, all of a sudden, I’m running the ski shop, so I had to learn real fast.” That changed after a decade of running the ski shop and helping manage the area under a series of different owners. By the time he left the business in 1973, Cohen was a regular Snowbowl skier and part of a tightly knit community of Missoula skiers who called the area home. Although Snowbowl management hoped to draw national attention in 1967 by hosting the U.S. National Alpine Championships, the event to 18,000 skier visits annually. The heavy snows of the 1984-85 season drew 42,000 skiers. The group’s second year of ownership, Brad Morris said, was exactly the opposite. The poor snow conditions persisted for the next few years until the five-year trial period of the ownership was up and the other doctors bowed out of the business. Since then, it’s just been the Morrises running the joint. “We were true believers,” Brad Morris said. “It still wasn’t making any money, but we wanted to keep it going.” They’ve done just that for almost 30 years. Judging by the 65,000 skiers who’ve visited Snowbowl each year for the past few years, they’ve done a smooth job of it, too (mechanical mishaps aside, of course). A much-discussed expansion is still more than a few years down the road, but Morris said he hopes it will help Snowbowl better serve Missoula’s skiers. T.V. Mountain offers the kind of beginner and intermediate terrain that’s been rare in town since Marshall Mountain closed in didn’t bring the area its hoped-for spotlight. In- area. He grew up learning to ski race and ski 2003. Two new chairlifts and 20 new runs on stead, it drew in Missoulians who wanted to ski better through the Ski Education Foundation. the old Snow Park site would add 166 new acres and race on the area’s notoriously advanced ter- As an adult, he has coached for the foundation to Snowbowl’s existing 240 acres of terrain. rain. with his wife Melanie, held nearly every posi- First, though, the Forest Service must ap- Parents who wanted their kids to learn how tion on the board and put his own kids through prove the plan — a complex process involving to race started the Missoula Ski Education the program. various impact statements and inspections. The Foundation. Originally called the Hellgate Ski The foundation has changed and developed environmental impact review and statement Club, the youth ski racing club started at Snow over time, parting ways with the freestyle team was supposed to be completed at the end of Park and became a part of Snowbowl as soon as 20 years ago and attracting new families and 2011, Morris said. Now, it looks like that step the area launched. new skiers. However, Matelich said, it’s still in the process could last until March or April. Lewis Matelich, who’s participated in the backed by the same passion for skiing held by Such delays, he said, are one reason it’s too ear- program for most of his life, said kids start out so many Missoula families. ly to put a time frame on the expansion. in the Grizzly program at age 6 and are coached “Missoula families don’t want to drive far to in ski racing through high school. Lewis said ski,” he said. “We just deal with Snowbowl and n the meantime, Snowbowl is left to rely on it’s quite a different story from Snowbowl’s deal with the conditions and it makes you a bet- what Morris and others say is its greatest ski school, which offers lessons for people inter skier.” I strength: the excellent combination of ad- terested in learning how to ski or snowboard. Those “conditions” include an infamously vanced terrain and 2,600 feet of vertical — the The kids on the team have already been taught inconsistent snow quality. While a good storm greatest amount of continuous vertical in the how to ski by their parents, so the program just might dump several inches of powder at the state. helps them hone their skills. top, the area’s base might receive several inches “There aren’t too many places that have that “It’s not a learn-to-ski program,” he said. “It’s of icy rain. Because of this, runs located on the mix,” Morris said. “That’s why we like skiing a learn-to-ski-better program.” lower mountain can have icy or slushy snow. here. That’s how we got into skiing here in the The Missoula Freestyle Ski Team, which also In the ski business, weather can make or first place.” trains at Snowbowl, does the same thing for break a ski area. Snowbowl was purchased by a James Banister started working for the vol- kids who are more interested in tricks and flips group of local doctors, including current own- unteer Missoula Ski Patrol in 1992, which split than spandex and slalom courses. ers Brad and Ronnie Morris, in 1984 — one of itself between Snowbowl and Marshall Moun- Lewis’ family moved to Missoula 50 years the best snow years Brad Morris said he’s ever tain. After 10 years of working at Marshall he ago and began skiing at the then-brand-new ski seen. Previously, the area had averaged 16,000 started patrolling at Snowbowl. After Marshall

PHOTOS, COUNTER-CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT

The Grizzly Chairlift takes skiers up almost 2,000 vertical feet in about 12 minutes, and gives skiers a beautiful view of the Missoula Valley on a clear day. The Grizzly lift operates daily from 9:30-4 p.m. during the ski season.

Skiers leave their skis outside the Snow- bowl bar around lunch time to grab some food before heading back up the mountain in the afternoon.

View of the “Base Area” of Snowbowl from the top of the Sunrise T-Bar. The Mis- soula Ski Team uses this run for many of their races and events.

Skiers and snowboarders walk past the Gelandesprung Lodge and up the small hill leading to the Grizzly Chair late Sunday afternoon. The Gelandesprung Lodge has many hotel rooms available for visitors. TOP

Rodney Claiborne, 24, cleans a returned rental snowboard in Snowbowl’s ski shop and makes sure that their rental equipment stays in good working order. Clai- borne has been skiing for the past five years, and working at Snow- bowl for two years.

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A view of the Missoula Valley from the top of Snowbowl’s “Big Sky” ski run, which was one of the original runs on the mountain.

closed in 2002, the volunteer patrol became the the Missoula Ski Education Foundation when After that, it was pretty much a given Snowbowl Ski Patrol. she was in college, said the terrain attracts good that their family would grow up skiing. The Banister said many of Missoula’s volunteer skiers, but it produces even better skiers. She Thorsrud family was part of the group of ski- patrollers retired after Marshall closed, but said kids who learn to ski at Snowbowl tend to ers who ran the early Diamond Mountain in they’ve been replaced by a wave of younger be able to ski almost any kind of terrain. Potomac, migrated to Snow Park when it failed, men and women who are still committed to fol- “The terrain makes you a really great skier,” and then helped start Snowbowl. Edgar built lowing the group’s motto: “Freezing ours. Sav- she said. “You can ski other terrain elsewhere the ski shop in the 1960s that was then run by ing yours.” that you’d normally be afraid to ski if you didn’t Cohen. “It’s a younger patrol than it used to be,” grow up skiing at Snowbowl.” Thorsrud said she was part of the gang of he said. “We have some folks that understand To illustrate her point, Melanie has an old five or six families of children who would ski what it’s like to have a younger family. It’s photo of her children and some other kids who and run around together while their parents nice to have that perspective at an area where learned to ski at Snowbowl ducking under a skied and apres’d at the Bierstube — the origi- there’re a lot of kids learning to ski.” rope to ski a closed double-black-diamond run nal Snowbowl bar. She said the kids would Though Snowbowl’s families are getting at a Utah resort. sled outside and then have to grope their way younger, Banister said the skiers are still good. Though Melanie has only been skiing at the through the smoky darkness of the bar to find Compared with patrolling at Marshall Moun- area since she moved to Missoula 25 years ago, their parents so they could get quarters to tain, he said working at Snowbowl is a breeze. her husband and her now-teenaged son and spend on hot chocolate. “We used to joke at Marshall that it was slow daughter are lifelong Snowbowl skiers. The “We took it for granted, being able to ski at if we didn’t get four or five accidents a week- family is part of a growing group of multi-gen- such a great local ski area,” she said. end,” Banister said. “Here at Snowbowl we eration Snowbowl-skiing families. Fifty years later Thorsrud still heads direct- don’t have that many calls.” Another member of that group, Darci ly to the West Ridge when fresh powder falls, The accidents the ski patrol does respond to, Thorsrud, grew up skiing and racing at Snow- and one of her sisters brought up a new gen- however, tend to be more serious at Snowbowl. bowl with her brother and two sisters during eration of Snowbowl ski racers to continue the What else can be expected when a mountain is the area’s early days. She said her parents met Thorsrud tradition. covered with expert skiers looking for lactic- when her dad, Edgar, picked up her mom hitch- acid-inducing runs and new thrills? hiking to go skiing when they both were in col- Melanie Matelich, who started coaching for lege at the University of Montana. Skiers take a break from from the slopes and sit by the fire in the Snowbowl Main Lodge Sunday afternoon. The lodge includes a cafe and offers a place for skiers to get warm during their day of skiing.

et, for all the reasons Missoula loves Snowbowl, there are still plenty of Y grievances with the area. There’s the slow, sporadically-breaking lifts, the lack of beginner terrain and adequate grooming, and the long lines on powder days. Just like grumbling about icy snow near the base isn’t going to fix the conditions, griping about Snowbowl’s shortfalls isn’t going to perfect the area. Morris said when a ski area continually operates past capacity, like Snowbowl has for the last 10 years, there is no shortage of unmet needs. Snow is a huge determining factor in how “It’s super-local,” Thorsrud said. “You know The chairlifts are breaking down more fre- well the area does, but it’s not the only thing everybody, and you just deal with what’s there quently, for instance. Morris said the area’s keeping skiers coming back to Snowbowl. Mel- and have fun doing it.” struggling this season with bad derail server anie Matelich explained her 20 years with the Perhaps the people are what keep Snowbowl connections on both the LaVelle Creek and Ski Education Foundation and her family’s use open. A tight-knit community of dedicated ski- Grizzly chairs. As the lifts age (They are 27 and of Snowbowl simply: ers can make a world of difference when a ski 17 years old, respectively.), the problems are “What else is there to do in Missoula in the area toes the line between success and failure. bound to increase. winter?” she said, laughing. Without its skiers, Snowbowl is just a moun- Like all businesses, keeping Snowbowl ship- Many Missoulians think along the same line. tain with some decent snow. With people like shape comes down to the amount of money There’s really nothing like escaping a gray win- the Matelichs, the Morrises, the Thorsruds, Co- available to keep the place running. ter day in town and being met by a bluebird sky hen and Power all putting their two cents in, it’s “It’s not like a year-round business,” Morris at the top of the Grizzly lift. Even if the snow is one of the best ski areas around. said. “You get fooled, because things look good icy or the visibility is poor, there’s still the high There’s a reason Snowbowl’s been around for for a few months and then you have a long likelihood of running into one or two — or 20 50 years. summer.” — people you know. [email protected]

www.MONTANAKAIMIN.com www.MONTANAKAIMIN.com Montana Kaimin 10 SPORTS Friday, February 17, 2011 BASKETBALL with University of Hawaii’s Q+ JOEY RAMIREZ Erik C. Anderson A Montana Kaimin Saturday night the Grizzlies won’t be facing a very familiar and are currently tied atop the Big Sky Conference with Weber foe. State with identical 12-1 records. Their conference success ties The Western Athletic Conference’s University of Hawaii them with the 1991-92 team for the best start in conference play. Rainbow Warriors are making the 3,284 mile jaunt to Dahlberg The Griz have won eight in a row and 14 of their last 15. Arena to clash with the Griz in ESPN’s 10th year of Bracket- The Kaimin took the opportunity to invite Joey Ramirez, Buster games. The teams have met four times, splitting the series associate sports editor of the University of Hawaii’s student- 2-2. newspaper Ka Leo, aboard to preview Saturday’s contest, which Hawaii is 15-10 overall, 6-4 in the WAC and has won four of tips at 7 p.m. its last five. Meanwhile, the Grizzlies boast a 19-6 overall record

The ESPN BracketBuster throws ment (which UM has a chance to creates a lot of exposure for both a serious curveball into the con- host). schools, which definitely seems ference schedule for both teams. Plus, the marketing team at like a win to me. The game means essentially UM is handing out leis, sunglass- Unfortunately, the “loser” of nothing to overall records and es, hats and grass skirts before tip this game is definitely going to be provides the hosting University off. Welcome to Montana, Hawaii! whichever guy decides that it’s a of Montana the rare opportunity What stereotype did we miss? good idea to walk to the game in to indulge in the clichéd theme Doesn’t this also take away from a 25 degree snow shower while of “beach night,” encouraging home court advantage? Instead of wearing a grass skirt and a coco- fans to dress in their — wait for welcoming in an opponent with nut bra. it — beach/Hawaiian attire! So “Hawaiian” gestures, shouldn’t who wins this game? Or are we we be shelling out shotguns, flan- What do you know about the op- all losers? nels and Keystone Light, and en- posing team’s state? Forest Chaput de Saintonge/Montana Kaimin couraging Montanan fans to act, Junior Mathias Ward (40), tries to block Idaho State Bengals player Chase Erik C. Anderson (Sports Reporter/ ya know, Montanan? EA: I know that since third grade, Grabau (2) from scoring a basket. The Grizzlies are playing the University of Montana Kaimin): While ultimate- Joey Ramirez (Associate Sports teachers, televisions and transients Hawaii Warriors on Saturday night at 7 p.m. in Dahlberg Arena. ly I think the Grizzlies are playing Editor/Ka Leo): I think that the have advocated for the alluring too well to lose to a middle of the “winners” for this game are defi- beauty of the Aloha State. Beyond was born there. It’s called Big Sky EA: The University of Montana road WAC team, we’re all losers. nitely the teams playing in it. Each that, I assume everybody is “han- Country. And it’s the last name of has turned out professional bas- Earlier in the week head coach squad has a lot of fight and talent gin’ loose” and surfing. No? I need one of the greatest quarterbacks of ketball players before and is on the Wayne Tinkle made it clear that an in them, so it’s going to be a pretty to read more books. all-time. verge of its third 20-win season. abrupt nonconference game is det- great matchup that will ultimately JR: Honestly, not much. It borders The Griz have been to the NCAA rimental to his team’s preparation make the both of them stronger. Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota If you’re recruiting a basketball tournament seven times. Hawaii for the upcoming Big Sky Tourna- Also, the ESPN BracketBuster and South Dakota. Phil Jackson player and he’s told you he’s nar- can’t say that. rowed it down between the Uni- JR: If I were trying to recruit a versity of Montana and the Uni- player to UH instead of UM, my versity of Hawaii, what’s your selling point would be: Try get- final selling point? ting a tan in Montana during the middle of February. [email protected] Montana Kaimin Friday, February 17, 2012 SPORTS 11 GOLF Weber, golf team ready to hit links

Alexandria Valdez The 54-hole tournament will Arizona, but miss classes for she pretty much studies every game and improving her swing. Montana Kaimin feature 12 teams, including Big these three-day tournaments. day, and most of her professors Despite any perceived For any athlete, it’s challeng- Sky Conference schools East- This can be difficult at times are understanding of her sched- thoughts about golfers, the ing to keep up academic excel- ern Washington and preseason for Weber, who is taking a ule. women had workouts like any lence when he or she has to league favorite Sacramento 20-credit load this semester. Ac- During the winter the players other sport. This year they did travel for a game or tournament. State. Montana is predicted to cording to NCAA guidelines, still keep up on their golf game. cardio, core work, sprints and Usually, though, it’s only one se- finish in the middle of the pack a Division I athlete must take a A large portion of their off- weight lifting in addition to mester, but Montana’s women of the nine-team conference. minimum of 12 credits. To play season was spent on visualiza- practicing. golfers must deal with a split- Head coach Emily Milberger at Montana, athletes also must tion: seeing their shots, their “We carry 35-pound golf season schedule. said the team will also have a have a cumulative GPA of at swings and what they wanted bags,” Weber said. “There is During the fall they have prominent strength going into least 1.8 at the start of their soph- to accomplish come spring. We- some degree of fitness.” [email protected] tournaments, take a “break” in California. omore year and that minimum ber also said she read some golf winter, then pick up where they “As far as the strengths go, increases every year. Weber said books to learn more about the left off in the spring. we’re very experienced with Spring is knocking, and for that,” Milberger said. “Our play- junior Olivia Weber, the second ers have lots of course knowl- half of her season begins this edge and lots of experience go- weekend as the team travels to ing from indoor to outdoor. I City of Industry, Calif., for the feel like we’ll be able to have a CSU Fullerton Folino Invita- pretty strong showing.” tional. Competing in a sport that “My personal goals are inter- runs all year is a personal chal- linked with team goals, so it’s lenge that Weber loves. She said hard to separate,” Weber said. everyone can always win be- “As a team, I hope we can come cause players set personal goals out of the gate and play a round for themselves. we can all say was a good round Traveling is both a luxury for the tournament … shoot some- and disadvantage for players. thing to be proud of and set the They get to play in warmer ven- tone.” ues like California, Nevada and Montana Kaimin 12 NEWS Friday, February 17, 2012 BROADWAY tra is one cello shy of complete. But PARTING SHOT From page 3 the show will go on tonight. The children’s theater produc- “Every facet of this production tion of “Winnie the Pooh” is also is coming together in the eleventh running this weekend at MCT. hour,” said volunteer director and Miller was only able to secure the UM professor Creighton James. venue for his show by taking re- James is a testament that the bumps sponsibility for the disassembly and potholes have only made the and reassembly of the “Winnie the cast and crew more passionate, hav- Pooh” set before and after every ing canceled his classes this week to rehearsal and performance of “The dedicate his evenings to rehearsals. Last Five Years.” As a result, an hour The process has been “life-af- of every evening’s rehearsal has firming” for Miller. “I’m sure this been spent “pushing the Pooh,” or is what I want to do with my life,” striking the Hundred-Acre Wood. Miller said. “This show is some- Miller’s crew also isn’t allowed to thing I’ve loved as long as I’ve alter the lighting design for “Win- known it.” nie the Pooh,” so they have figured “The Last Five Years” runs Fri- out how to work within those con- day and Saturday night at 8 p.m. straints. Tickets are $7 for students and $10 The music arrived three days for the general public. They can be late, a technician dropped out with- purchased at the box office before Forest Chaput de Saintonge/Montana Kaimin out notice, everyone has school or the show or pre-ordered by email- University of Montana student Leslie Hittmeier skis down one of the many runs at Snowbowl last winter. Hittmeier full-time jobs to work around, cos- ing [email protected]. has been skiing for 16 years, ever since she was three years old. tumes aren’t fitting, and the orches- [email protected] T-PAIN journey, bringing up Seattle imag- love the last three groups rounding Tube. It’s feel-good, pop candy that Fargo’s DJ Dextrious heads off From page 4 ery and leaving any listener want- out this tour. you can’t help but get into. the cast with progressive electronic ing to hear what else he can do. Miami’s Cris Cab, on the other mixes bound to keep you buoyant which is fitting, since they’re label- The held-back but apparent OUTASIGHT, CRIS hand, brings in the ’90s. Its ska-in- until the lyrics are unleashed. mates on Rhymesayers. emotion in his voice and lyrics, a CAB, DEXTRIOUS fluenced production and an obvi- Whatever the weather, it’s going He’s put out four albums in five la “Boogie Man,” gives hope for New York’s Outasight combines ous beach-side feel give light to his to be a lot hotter at the Adams Cen- years, and already he’s sharing a the rise of a new Slug, before it all a club-friendly vocal style and beats single “Good Girls” and his cover of ter Tuesday. The concert is all-ages, stage with T-Pain before heading comes to a head with something with an ’80s nostalgia you have to “Pumped Up Kicks.” He’s the guy and tickets are $29.50. Doors open to Europe for a May tour. like Atmosphere’s “The Family hear to believe. His newest single, that always had the guitar around at 5:30 p.m. See you there, Shortay. [email protected] His single “Lightspeed” is al- Album.” “Tonight is the Night,” already has the campfire and he’ll probably most a piano ballad, profiling his And if you like family, you’ll nearly three million views on You- have it on him Tuesday night.

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