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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Volume CIX, Issue 28 Tester K AIMIN School mulls Bar-side chat stadium with candidate expansion

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Arabic Washington-Grizzly Stadium already has more seats than any other stadium in the Big Sky Conference and may be adding significantly more in the foresee- Taking Spanish able future. University of Montana officials is so last year are considering an addition to the stadium that would add 4,000 to Page 6 6,000 seats, said UM Athletic Director Jim O’Day. Eleena Fikhman/Montana Kaimin There simply isn’t enough room UM is considering the purchase of the Highlands Golf Club, located off of Whitaker Drive. The course would replace the University Golf Course, where UM is right now for Griz fans, O’Day hoping to erect new buildings. said. Football games consistently Arts sell out before the demand for tickets is satisfied. Highlands club eyed as potential “Student tickets are gone by Monday afternoon and we have a Filmmakers waiting list for season tickets,” he replacement for UM golf course said. ‘exposed’ Only UM’s underclassmen foot- SEAN BRESLIN ball players can hope to play in administration and finance, between the Highlands and the front of even larger crowds, MONTANA KAIMIN “That’s not the case so far.” foundation. though. UM hasn’t made any firm Page 9 At some point, UM’s nine-hole Dianne Pickens, president of the plans for expansion, O’Day said. The University of Montana has golf course on the south campus Mount Sentinel Women’s Golf “It’s all in a very exploratory been discussing the possibility of will probably be removed to make Association, said she understands stage so far,” he said. “It could be purchasing the Highlands Golf room for new athletic and academ- the need for more academic build- two, four, six years.” Soccer Club in the South Hills neighbor- ic buildings, Dennison told the ings, but worries that any deal And if officials do decide to add hood, UM President George Kaimin last week. with Highlands could fall through on, it would be a long process. Dennison said Monday. In addition to the University and leave her group without a One of the big decisions would be No agreement has been reached itself, there is also the possibility place to play. deciding where to expand. Several Goalie for a day between UM and Highlands, that the UM Foundation, which “I’ve got mixed feelings about options have been considered, but Dennison said, and UM officials invests private donations to UM, it, to be honest,” Pickens said. She for cost and logistical reasons, the declined to discuss any specifics could purchase the course, added that the Highlands course is addition of an upper deck to the about the ongoing discussions. Dennison said. Keith Kuhn, chief less user-friendly for golfers who east side of the stadium may be the When asked if the course had financial and operations officer for enjoy walking the links because most practical, O’Day said. been sold to UM, said Bob the UM Foundation declined to the Highlands course is hillier. “If you started today, you would Page 10 Duringer, vice president for comment on any discussions See GOLF COURSE, Page 4 See STADIUM, Page 4 Despite fall in gas prices, Montana still above national average

HANNAH HEIMBUCH Venezuela given the conflict between that MONTANA KAIMIN president and our president.” Power said that while these are legitimate Though a full tank was a pricey invest- concerns, the rising prices were based on ment this summer, gas prices have been speculation rather than actual disruption of dropping steadily since late August, down the supplies from these places. 80 cents in Montana from the year’s high of “The Israeli invasion of Lebanon did not around $3.14, according to www.montana- lead to a civil war or an outbreak of region- gasprices.com. al warfare in the Mideast, we’ve sort of But statistics show Montana is still one of cooled our rhetoric toward Venezuela, and the most expensive places to buy gas. oil has continued to flow from Nigeria “Yeah, it (the drop) is very nice,” said despite all sorts of unrest,” Power said. University of Montana junior Leslie Lovell, Larry Krause, who manages the Ole’s on whose frequent driving sends her to the gas South Russell Street, said customer station every four or five days. “Rather than response to price changes is mild. He said $35 to fill up my tank, it’s $25,” she said. “I people may come in cursing the govern- A price chart from www.gasbuddy.com shows Montana’s fuel prices compared to the national average. tend to not let it go on empty so long.” ment or the oil companies when prices As of Tuesday afternoon, montana- jump, but they know that the station doesn’t game, Boyd said price changes, even large expects prices to return to sustainable levels gasprices.com showed Missoula’s cheapest control the rise and fall of prices. drops like this one, don’t turn her head too and then make a more gradual increase over gas could be found at Costco, Safeway, Krause said he didn’t know the exact rea- much. the next 10 or 15 years. However, that’s not Deano’s and the Sinclair on Airway sons for the drop, but he does have his own “What’s funny is, I don’t ever look at the to say other reasons couldn’t appear to Boulevard for $2.34 per gallon. ideas on the cause. (price) sign, I just know I have to buy it,” cause sudden concern. UM Economics Department chair “They’re going down because the elec- she said. “The other thing people point out is it Thomas Power said one reason for fuel tion’s coming, there’s no doubt in my While the dramatic price increase sur- doesn’t take much to trigger something like prices retreating toward the lower digits is mind,” he said. prised some, Power said many companies that again,” he said. “All we need is a threat alleviation of some fears about threats to Regardless of the reason, consumers are and agencies forecasted an eventual return that a major source of supply will go off U.S. oil supply. quite familiar with constant price changes. to lower levels once supply threats eased line.” “The high prices that we saw for a good UM senior Miranda Boyd said the sum- and the need to sell oil came to the fore- Aside from the big-event causes of price part of the last six months were really not mer’s soaring prices did inspire her to front. changes, Power said a number of things explainable or expected,” he said. “The change her travel habits a little. “Some of the speculation energy that will could explain the fuel industry’s constant assumption was that it was short-term fears, “I’ve been riding my bike a lot more late- bring prices up will ultimately bring them fluctuation. or concerns, about the Mideast, the Iraqi oil ly,” she said. back down,” he said. See GAS, Page 4 supply or what was going to happen in But with the ups and downs of the gas As far as the future of fuel, Power said he www.montanakaimin.com

M o n t a n a K a i m i n 2 Opinion Monday, October 18, 2006 Footprints in Africa Editorial Removing ‘unverifiable’ political A Ghanaian celebration of ... death? When the liquor slid across the table at 9 a.m., I through the street. ads an abuse of station’s power knew this wasn’t to be an ordinary funeral. Richard, As I walked away, I thanked Richard for the won- one of the many Ghanaian porters that works in the derful time and thought to myself that I just attended dorm I live in, invited me to his village a few hours one of the greatest parties of my life. What is written outside of Accra to attend the funeral of its chief here hardly captures the atmosphere and the energy, Once again, a campaign ad accosting U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns has (who happened to be his uncle). When I arrived, hun- but in all honesty, no drunken house party, bar, club been pulled from the air for dubious reasoning. dreds of people, dressed in traditional attire consist- or beach rave has yet compared to the magnitude of For those who missed the first one, a broadcasting company in ing of either red or black patterned cloth, were smil- enjoyment present at, of all things, this funeral. The Billings considered the phrase ‘piss-poor’ used in the anti-Burns ad to ing, laughing, dancing and drinking. The chief of whole day was spent gallivanting around, drink and be in bad taste and pulled it. (For those who need more background, their village had died and what I was watching was, food in hand, dancing, singing, praising. But no talk Burns used those words when telling a group of firefighters what kind in all respects, a party. of death and no tears, save that small room and the 30 of job they did on a fire in Eastern Montana.) Throughout the course of the day, a variety of seconds spent crying as people shuffled past the Now, another one has been pulled because the company could not events took place. Men and women adorned in what body. And then it clicked – Richard saying, verify the information presented in it. The manager of the station said looked like weeds (but was actually traditional herbal “Tomorrow we mourn,” had in turn implicitly said, it is their job to verify accusations made in campaign ads when it is medicine) danced through the streets shooting shot- “And today we celebrate.” Celebrate? Why, or what? made by a third-party group. guns and pistols. Though by midday I was half-deaf Someone had just died, and not just anyone, the chief To be clear, he did not say they found the information to be false, from the constant fire, still I was glad they were only of the village had passed. I am sure if I had asked only unverifiable. shooting blanks. Drumming processions marched in these questions Richard would’ve laughed at me as if This is starting to get concerning. and out of alleyways and through the crowd, and as I were stupid. “We’re celebrating his life. He did live, In theory, it is comforting to think that there are some sort of gate- they passed, waves of people stood, grabbed partners after all. And he lived well. We had a good chief. keepers making sure the dirt rounded up by political groups can’t be and swigged in rhythm. A woman of at least 50, Isn’t that worth celebrating?” That, I am sure, is what thrown without question. clearly drunk and grinning a toothless smile, grabbed he would have said had I asked. And why not? Is that However, in practicality it seems heavy-handed tactics are causing my waist and pulled my arms over her shoulders. She not the greatest philosophy to live by? Say goodbye the stations to be more gatekeepers of unsavory information than pulled tight, squeezing her hips into mine. Slightly and mourn tomorrow, for today we celebrate! How gatekeepers of false information. That’s dangerous. uncomfortable, I chuckled as her husband tapped me novel an idea, to celebrate the fact that someone had The outlets for political advertisements are already few. Since the on the shoulder and told me I was now his brother-in- a life to live in the first place, to place your love for Federal Communications Commission has relaxed regulations on law. someone ahead of your sorrow that you won’t see media ownerships, the people who own these outlets are fewer. More drinks were served as we walked to the them again. The man who made the decision to hold the latest ad is the vice “reception” area – a dirtied cement courtyard behind This idea is a part of Ghanaian culture through and president of a company that runs many television stations in a crumbling warehouse. After we ate some tradition- through, but it becomes practical and apparent when Montana. He said the ad would not run on those, either. al fare – jollof rice, fufu and goat intestine – we went one, it would seem, should mourn, and yet Ghanaians When you take into consideration how much goes on in and paid our respects to the chief. Led by the rela- choose first to celebrate. It is something in Ghanaian Washington — how many bills a senator votes on, what all he is vot- tives of the family, I walked into a building and past culture that I would, if I could, pack up and take ing on when he votes on those bills, what implications those things the slowly decaying body, which was dressed in home with me to share with the world I live in. And have — you can understand why so many wild accusations can be kente cloth and perched, sitting, in a bed. This was not just because I love parties. And not just in rela- made in a political campaign. the first place I saw tears or any mourning, in a room tion to funerals. But there is something invigorating When you start to consider the fact that a station can hold an ad hardly big enough for more than the bed itself. about watching the wife of the departed chief danc- because it can’t verify the information, you start to see how this People shuffled into the room smiling, cried and ing and laughing because of all the time she got to power could be abused. waled once inside, and stepped back out into the light spend with him, rather than shrouded in grief at the Thus, as the campaign season comes to an end, all media need to of day and again began dancing. prospect that the time is forever gone. It is the clichéd relax their hold on these ads. If something is proven false, then it More of the day was spent dancing, drinking and and romantic ideal – carpe diem, seize the day – on a should be pulled. shooting guns, but eventually it came time for me to grand scale, implemented in the practical, real world. But if something cannot be verified, then the benefit of the doubt, leave. Richard, my host, shook my hand and said, I can’t help but wish that I could be like that every at least for a short period of time, should be given to those who did “Tomorrow we mourn.” As I walk past the crowd to day, in the face of tragedy. I wish I could just pluck the work. find a vehicle returning to Accra, that same old lady that facet of their society and place it into my own, It’s unfortunate that there is a risk of these groups lying, but to think who before had grabbed me for a dance again one that is in dire need of such supplication. that they are above that would be naive. But it is also an unfortunate revealed herself to me in the crowd. She stepped out – Ian Basingthwaite is a creative writing major truth that anyone in the media is not above using their influence to as the drums again passed by and she embraced me studying abroad in Ghana help a candidate. for another toothless, smiling, rhythmic bounce Now that those who control the media are becoming fewer, it is not the time to see their power increase as well. ASUM Transportation offers On the afternoon of Thursday, The ad should go back on the air. best possible services Sept. 21, the second Park-N- – Danny Person, Letters Ride’s lift broke. That lift was news editor Currently, ASUM Transportation’s fixed and back in service on Park-N-Ride and U-DASH in- to the editor Monday, Sept. 25, at 11 a.m. The Kaimin accepts letters to the editor and service buses all have working We always do our best with the lifts. This has been the case since funds and equipment available to guest columns. Sept. 25. 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Terrorism not Bush’s fault of life in their terrorist attacks therefore they wanted to get a were in the hundreds. Innocent head start on the terrorism that Incensed? In 1993, the World Trade Center people slaughtered. (Bill Clinton’s contemporary liberals say is only Incensed? was bombed by Islamic terrorists. response to all of this terrorism, happening because of the policies On Oct. 12, 2000, the USS Cole you may wonder: “Come here, of the Republican Bush adminis- was bombed outside the country Monica!”) I guess the Muslim ter- tration. It’s all so clear now. Write a letter to the editor: of Qatar. In 1996, the Khobar rorists were only committing – Daniel Shevlin, Towers were bombed. In 1998, the these atrocities because they knew senior, pre-law [email protected] U.S. embassies in both Kenya and one day that George Bush was Tanzania were bombed. The loss going to be elected president, and

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 4 News Wednesday, October 18, 2006

was paid for with bonds, he said, STADIUM which are still being paid off. Continued from Page 1 To justify the expense, the Athletic Department has to be pretty sure the demand for tickets be lucky to have anything ready will remain. Though the football for the 2008 season,” he said. team has consistently done well The first game in Washington- and been popular for years, there’s Grizzly Stadium was played in no guarantee that will continue. 1986. At that time the capacity “You look at it realistically and was 12,500. Since then there have say, ‘How long can we continue to been several expansions. The do this?’” O’Day said. “But peo- most recent, an addition of 4,000 ple are going to continue to move seats in 2003, brought the stadium to Missoula, and you hope the to its current capacity of 23,117. program will keep doing as well One obstacle to expansion is the as it has.” price. Because the price of con- Head football coach Bobby crete and other materials has Hauck said his current focus is on increased significantly in recent this season, but that he would sup- years, the cost of building on is port expansion. much more now than even in “I think it would be terrific,” he 2003, O’Day said. At that time, said. “As long as we can put peo- each new seat cost an average of ple in the seats, that’s great. It’s $853. Now, early estimates put the good to have full stadiums, but cost at $1,500 to $2,000 per seat, there are experts that can project he said. The cost of the proposed that, that are a lot smarter than I expansion, then, would be at least am.” $6 million. The last expansion OLF OURSE campus, something that also takes G C time to complete. Shane McMillan / Montana Kaimin Continued from Page 1 And even if any deals are final- A Missoula resident fuels up at an Exxon station near the Orange Street Bridge on Tuesday evening. Over the last few weeks, fuel prices have been drop- ized or a construction plan is ping nationwide. The price at this station has fallen 25 to 30 cents in the past month, according to attendant Tonyqua Watson. “The sign isn’t right; it’s actu- developed, the act of actually ally 5 cents cheaper,” he said. But the south campus golf removing a golf course from an course won’t disappear any time area is a chore in itself, partially GAS Secondly, oil sources are few haven’t been as low since late soon. Duringer said any negotia- because of a course’s extensive and far between compared to March. tions with Highlands would take irrigation system, said UM course Continued from Page 1 sources for other products. “We Still, Montana is on the high several months to finalize. UM superintendent Tom Burt. are dependent on a relatively lim- end in the country, and only nine also has no master plan for con- “It’s going to be a two- to five- ited number of producers,” Power states have higher averages, struction projects on the south year process,” Burt said. “The argument is that it’s very said. “That’s not true in the same including most of the Northwest. difficult to balance regional way about cattle, or cotton, or The lowest in the country is in demands for different types of wheat or peaches. We can’t quick- Missouri at $2.004, and Alaska’s gasoline coming from an already ly replace the loss of Venezuela or average tops the high end at overstressed refining capability. the loss of Nigeria.” $2.645. That leads to oversupply of this Montana’s current average price Farther north, Canada’s prices and undersupply of that, and the per gallon is $2.361, and accord- have followed a similar trend, but result is that the supply (and price) ing to www.gasbuddy.com price remain higher than the U.S. aver- jumps all over the place.” charts, Montana’s gas prices age by a 60- to 80-cent margin. Montana Kaimin

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n Wednesday, October 18, 2006 News 5 From Beirut to Baghdad, UM alum films the globe JACOB BAYNHAM ing bacteria. While other reporters honed in MONTANA KAIMIN After a year in Choteau, Nybo on oil, the falling statue of sent his clips to CNN, where they Saddam Hussein and the disinte- It was as unlikely a position as liked him well enough to give him grating Iraqi army, Nybo talked to any to be in, but Thomas Nybo has a couple of tests on broadcast citizens who simply wanted run- gotten used to it by now. writing and current events. He ning water and electricity. Nybo, a University of Montana passed them. “There are many shortcomings graduate, was filming a documen- “They said pack up your stuff of embedding,” Nybo said. “By tary in Lebanon in November and come down and work for us,” definition you’ll only get one side 2002 about the radical Islamic he said. of the story. But at the same time, movement Hezbollah. He was get- So Nybo moved to Atlanta, it’s a pretty broad view of that ting some innocuous shots in the where the CNN network had more side.” suburbs of Beirut when, from the people in it than the entire town of When Nybo returned from Iraq, corner of his eye, he saw a shiny Choteau. But instead of spending in late 2003, he spent two months new Land Rover peel onto the time in the field like he enjoyed, arranging clearance with the U.S. scene and expel five armed Nybo found himself stuck in the government to travel to Cuba to Hezbollah fighters. studio, writing and editing. He shoot a documentary on a bur- One of them jumped in Nybo’s asked his boss for six months off geoning hip-hop movement there. car, his gun a visible bulge under to backpack around Central The documentary he made with his jacket. Nybo told his driver America. Simon Ulauf is called “Guerilla they had better call the producer. Radio: the Hip-Hop Struggle But the driver slowly shook his under Castro,” and it played head. There were no minutes left Monday night in the UC Theater. on his cell phone. It is a film about the revolutionary The Hezbollah men comman- role an emerging underground deered the vehicle and took Nybo I never know hip-hop scene is playing in a to the local headquarters. where I’m going country continuously under Fidel “It was straight out of Mad to go next ... It’s Castro’s watchful eye. Max,” he said. a great life. When he returned from Cuba, a Extremely suspicious of Nybo’s“ former CNN colleague offered motives for filming, Hezbollah —Thomas Nybo Nybo a job shooting short docu- was not taking this lightly. What mentaries for UNICEF. He accept- finally resolved the situation was ed it and has been criss-crossing Nybo’s mention of the head of the planet ever since. Nybo has Hezbollah’s public relations been through 40 countries, five department. continents and multiple passports “Two smartest words I’ve ever in the past three years. For one said in my life,” Nybo said. “Once you get a taste of (travel- short film, he floated in a dugout Shortly thereafter, Nybo ing) you think it would quiet the canoe through the Darien Gap, an returned to the U.S., having com- hunger, but it really” sparked it,” extremely dangerous border Eleena Fikhman/Montana Kaimin pleted the documentary, “Party of Nybo said. region between Panama and Thomas Nybo, a UM graduate, is currently working for UNICEF making documentary films. Nybo’s God.” But if Beirut had been hot, In Guatemala he took Spanish Colombia, with a UNICEF film about hip-hop in Cuba made its premiere in Missoula Monday night. Nybo’s life showed no signs of classes in the mornings and stud- woman starting children’s health cooling. ied salsa dancing in the after- programs in the area’s remote vil- Almost immediately he was noons. He also shot a film about a lages. partaking in two rounds of war- girl who lived in a cardboard box “I never know where I’m going zone training to prepare for six in the middle of the Guatemala to go next,” Nybo said. “It’s a www.montanakaimin.com months of war duty in Iraq as an City dump. They called her “the great life. If you’re interested in embedded reporter for CNN. flea” because she was so small. other cultures and the world, it’s a All this from a boy who grew up When he returned to work at great job.” in quiet Helena. CNN in Atlanta, Nybo used his For now, Nybo is back in the Nybo graduated from UM in spare time and his recently United States for a spell. His doc- 1995, with degrees in English and acquired footwork skills to make a umentary on Cuban hip-hop is journalism. He spent the next year film about the insurgence of salsa entered in several film festivals working in Choteau, Mont., for dancing in the United States. He across the country. On Nov. 16 he the Choteau Acantha, a small showed it to his superiors and they has a screening in San Francisco. weekly newspaper. liked it. Nybo’s style and techno- But in the meantime, he reckons “The town had one stoplight,” logical know-how convinced his he has enough time to plan a quick Nybo said. “I don’t even think bosses to send him to Iraq, embed- trip to Azerbaijan. they needed it.” ded with the 173rd Airborne “It’s nice at this point to be The paper gave Nybo the free- Brigade. doing something (from) which dom to cover all the stories he Stationed in Northern Iraq, you can see tangible results,” wanted, and he quickly collected a Nybo saw another side to the war Nybo said. small pile of eye-catching clips. than many did. There was the story about a cow- “It was actually very different boy poet, a series on Gulf War than flying in a tank towards Syndrome and an almost tabloid- Baghdad,” he said. “To me the worthy piece on a woman who most rewarding moments were survived an infliction of flesh-eat- speaking with everyday Iraqis.”

M o n t a n a K a i m i n 6 News Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Despite popularity of Arabic courses, U.S. still short on translators

EMMA SCHMAUTZ MONTANA KAIMIN choose to work in higher-paying private agencies, the report said. “I don’t understand how you Arab pop music blared out of could be so deeply into politics in the back-alley café, covered in the Arab world and not speak tiled mosaics and nestled between Arabic,” Greiman said. “That a synagogue and a mechanic shop. should not happen at the (national) Inside, people lounged on cush- government level.” ions, smoking hookah water pipes University of Montana profes- and drinking coffee from cups sor Samir Bitar, who has taught resting on low tables. Arabic at UM since 1999, agrees Lillie Greiman recalled sitting with reports that the FBI and CIA at a table across from a row of are deficient when it comes to lan- whitewashed apartments with guage skills. wrought-iron balconies and blue About a month after the Sept. 11 shutters. terrorist attacks, Bitar gave his The University of Montana jun- students an article printed in the ior who is majoring in liberal stud- Los Angeles Times that claimed ies spent last spring semester the U.S. government “faces a crit- studying Arabic for four months in ical shortage of foreign language Tunisia, a French and Arab speak- expertise.” ing country in Africa located on Five years later, Bitar sees little the Mediterranean Sea between improvement. Algeria and Libya. “The FBI is sitting on tapes and Surrounded by her group of letters with no one to translate friends in the coffee shop, them,” Bitar said. Greiman began perfecting her He said the lack of adequate understanding of the world’s fifth- knowledge of Middle Eastern lan- largest language: Arabic. guages causes intelligence agen- Greiman is among the increas- cies to miss important information ing number of students who are by not understanding much of “the tackling a complicated alphabet chatter” picked up in telephone and difficult pronunciation to calls and radio transmissions. learn the language that is official The FBI said it is not crucial for in 23 countries and is the religious agents to know Arabic because idiom of the world’s 1.4 billion they can rely on documents that Muslims. have already been translated and But although Arabic is becom- they have access to many transla- ing a popular subject to study in tors in America and overseas. American universities, the number But Bitar views the method of of Arab speakers in the U.S. gov- agents using a middleman as high- ernment remains low. ly ineffective and even potentially The Washington Post recently hazardous because subtle informa- reported that only 33 of the tion can be lost in the translation. nation’s 12,000 FBI agents have Bitar, who was born and raised even a limited proficiency in in the Arabic sector of Jerusalem, Photos by Eleena Fikhman/Montana Kaimin Arabic. said many translators in the Top: Samir Bitar teaches noun conjugations to his first-year Arabic class Tuesday afternoon in the Liberal Arts Building. Bitar has been teaching at UM since Other government intelligence Middle East are not familiar 1999. agencies leading the fight against enough with English and Bottom: The first-year Arabic class is taught five days a week. The everyday approach is an attempt to fully immerse students in the language. terror, such as the CIA, are facing American culture to make accu- a similar lack of trained linguists rate translations. quialisms, the phrase ‘he kicked two sections of beginning Arabic. stand other cultures and their his- in Middle Eastern languages For example, if the translator is the bucket’ could be misinterpret- Since the introduction of Arabic tory, which will help us to better because many who are fluent not familiar with American collo- ed to mean a person physically into UM’s curriculum in 1998, understand our current world kicking a bucket across a room, Bitar has seen a continuous affairs,” Bitar said. instead of describing a person increase in the number of students The professor said that language who died, Bitar said. wanting to take his classes. He is the open doorway to under- “I wouldn’t want to rely on said his classes become complete- standing a foreign society’s cul- security that comes from that,” ly full a week after registration. ture, politics, religion, history and Bitar said. He attributes the high demand geography. But while the FBI is struggling to an increased interest in Arabic “If you learn somebody’s lan- to find people with the necessary culture brought on by the United guage, you learn what they are all language skills, UM has more stu- States’ current involvements and about,” Bitar said. dents who want to learn Arabic conflicts with the Middle East. Greiman, who plans to return to than it can handle. “Americans, because of what is Tunisia and possibly study Arabic Currently, 70 students are taking place, now come to the at an Egyptian graduate school enrolled in Arabic classes, and, for realization that we need to devel- until she becomes fluent, is inter- the first time, Bitar is teaching op the linguistic skills to under- ested in forming a career out of her Arabic skills. Just so long as it’s not with the U.S. government. She said she is far more interest- ed in translating Arabic literature into English and studying the nuances of Arabic poetry than translating tapes or radio commu- nications for an intelligence agency. “I get that question constantly,” Greiman said. “‘Oh, you’re study- ing Arabic? Oh, do you want to work for the CIA?’ I just want to kick them.”

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n Wednesday, October 18, 2006 News 7 Tester looks to bring change, leadership to Washington

SEAN BRESLIN MONTANA KAIMIN deregulation of the energy indus- try. Since then, Tester has climbed the rungs of Montana’s political ladder and eventually reached the Editor’s note: This is the first in Senate presidency when the a series of profiles on candidates Democrats took control of the for the U.S. Senate. The Montana state Senate in 2005. Kaimin is committed to covering “He had natural leadership all Montana candidates in the skills,” said state Sen. Vicki race. As of press time, Conrad Cocchiarella, a Democrat who Burns had yet to finalize an inter- represents Senate District 47, view with the Kaimin. where the University of Montana is located. Jon Tester had a long day before Cocchiarella said Tester man- arriving at the University of aged to remain patient in heated Montana last week, flying in from debates while still standing his Billings before visiting with the ground, saying she never saw him Missoula Downtown Association in a strong confrontation with any- and holding a press conference at one. the Missoula County Courthouse. “I never saw him lose his tem- This is standard fare for a U.S. per,” Cocchiarella said. Senate candidate with only three But Senate Minority Leader weeks remaining before the Nov. Bob Keenan, a Republican from 7 election. But despite the busy Bigfork, has a different assess- schedule, Tester said a brief open- ment of Tester’s work in the state ing statement before submitting Senate. himself to students’ questions. “When push comes to shove, Early in the question-and- he’s very partisan,” said Keenan, answer session, Tester stressed a who ran against Burns in June’s theme central to his campaign: primary election. He’s not too happy about the Keenan has been trying to con- Kevin Hoffman/Montana Kaimin direction the Bush administration tact Tester for the past two months Candidate for U.S. Senate Jon Tester sits next to the bar in the Missoula Club downtown after eating lunch there last Wednesday. Tester stopped by the – with the support of Republican about conflict-of-interest concerns Missoula Club during a full day of campaigning in Missoula. incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns – is he has about some of Tester’s taking the country. It’s something appointments, he said. As of yet, More than simply authority fig- pitfalls, he said, is coming home. Congress in Washington or comes that comes through in Tester’s Keenan said Tester has not ures, Shon said his father and “Our plan is to get back here home to Big Sandy after the elec- debates, his speeches, his entire responded to his concerns. mother both are confidants to him every weekend, and that’s a heck tion, it won’t change Shon’s image campaign: Montana needs a While Keenan acknowledged and that he’s comfortable dis- of a tax on a guy who isn’t crazy of his father. change in Washington. Tester’s busy campaign schedule, cussing pretty much anything with about flying,” Tester said. “I don’t look at my dad’s posi- “I think you can play two roles Keenan said Tester is still the Jon. Despite the closeness, Jon Now, just three weeks left tion,” Shon said. “I look at my dad in the Legislature, or in Senate president and should be Tester instilled a sense of disci- before Nov. 7, neither Burns nor as my dad.” Congress,” Tester said. “You can doing his duties there. pline in his son when it came to Tester has a clear advantage in the go in there and let things happen “Even if Jon Tester disagrees working on the farm, teaching him polls. But whether Jon Tester to you, or you can get out there with my opinion of the situation, all that needs to be done to make becomes part of the 110th and provide leadership.” he could at least call me,” Keenan the family business run smoothly. Earlier that Wednesday, Tester said. “Now it’s to the point where we entered the Missoula Club with a The whole experience has left a know what needs to be done, and smile on his face, shaking hands sour taste in Keenan’s mouth, he we just do it,” Shon said. with the bartender as he ordered said. Jon Tester said his parents tried cheeseburgers for himself and his “I hate to say it, because in all to give their children better oppor- entourage. He waved to passersby appearances he’s a decent man,” tunities than they had and credits through the window while still Keenan said, “but I have no faith their parenting with his personali- remaining focused on this in his integrity whatsoever.” ty today, a personality Tester said reporter’s questions about the Despite Keenan’s assessment, won’t be susceptible to lobbyists’ USA PATRIOT Act. He calmly Tester’s campaign has focused on influence. discussed serious issues one his small-town Montana roots and “I think if you have the kind of minute, and laughed with his cam- values. Tester and his family farm personality that’s inclined to be paign manager the next. He was the land his grandparents home- bought, I think you’ll be bought,” able to grin even when discussing steaded near Big Sandy, land that Tester said. negative ads launched against him his family will continue to work Tester’s campaign has focused with people at the bar. But after should he go to Washington next heavily on Burns’ association with the smiles and the handshakes, year. Prior to his time in Helena, disgraced Washington lobbyist Tester readily turned back to the Tester served on the Big Sandy Jack Abramoff. Tester has said he wrongs he hopes to right if School Board of Trustees. Now, doesn’t believe Burns would have Montana voters send him to his statewide recognition comes as been as receptive to big-money Washington. a bit of a surprise to his son Shon, lobbyists when he was first elect- It was an attitude of discontent a fine arts major at UM. ed to the Senate, but Burns’ time that led Tester to run for the “I’ve never seen my last name in Washington’s “culture of cor- Montana State Senate in 1998, over the state so much,” Shon ruption” changed the senator. The when he was disturbed by the said. key to Tester avoiding the same

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 8 News Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Montanans to ‘share the voices’ of Venezuela TY HAMPTON power upon his release. In Chavez’s time as applauds such a statement about Bush in a Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Cuba’s Fidel MONTANA KAIMIN president he has written a new constitution setting like the U.N., it means people want Castro agree with his tactics. for Venezuela, nationalized the nation’s rich to see change in the world,” Brown said in “Chavez represents a direction that Latin Seven Missoula residents who traveled to oil fields and used the profits to support response to the support Chavez received America could go in, but is definitely not Venezuela, a nation that has been in the education and health care and nutrition from his speech. going in at this time other than Bolivia and news because of its controversial leader funds for the poor. Jody Pavilack, an assistant history profes- Cuba,” Pavilack said. “The other leftist Hugo Chavez, will be sharing their impres- But he has also been subject of multiple sor at UM specializing in Latin American leaders do not get along very well with sions of the South American country and its accusations of rigging elections, two of politics, said criticisms of Chavez are large- him.” leader tonight at 7 in the North which he has won since becoming the pres- ly unfounded. Community Action for Justice in the Underground Lecture Hall. ident. “He’s a controversial figure who’s no Americas member Sam Schabacker said he “We will relay the overwhelming support Chavez addressed the United Nations, doubt done great things to increase econom- encourages students interested in hearing a these people have for their new opportuni- calling President Bush “a dictator and the ic justice in the Latin world, but he’s only as discussion of the issues surrounding ties and their president, as well as share the devil,” and saying that he cannot have the controversial as anyone who opposes Bush Venezuela’s “revolution” and the U.S.’s voices of those who oppose Chavez’s revo- same discussions with Bush as he had with and the war in Iraq,” Pavilack said. role should attend the event. lution, decrying government corruption and former President Clinton because, “with “I certainly don’t think there is any “It’s a good chance to hear about people the crime that still plagues Venezuela’s city this cowboy, you can’t even talk … the empirical reality that he’s been corruptly around the world taking part in a social, streets,” said Brittany Brown, one of the Texan who goes around shooting from the keeping himself in office through fixing economic revolution, so that others can presenters. hip.” elections, because he has been re-elected build their own ideas of how the same could Chavez was jailed in 1999 after an Brown added that earlier in her tenure, twice and on landslide votes,” she contin- possibly be achieved here,” Schabacker attempted coup on the former right-wing Condoleezza Rice called Chavez a threat to ued. said. leader of Venezuela. Although the attempt U.S. security and a dictator himself. Brown Pavilack added that there have been a failed, Chavez was viewed by many calls this the “war of the microphones.” number of leftist leaders being elected in Venezuelans as a hero and was put into “It’s unfortunate, but when a crowed the region in the past years, but only U.S. population milestone meets little fanfare

STEPHEN OHLEMACHER tion reached 200 million. Since then, about change significantly depending on immi- “We should all feel good about reaching ASSOCIATED PRESS 55 percent of the growth has come from gration and birth rates. this milestone.” immigrants, their children and their grand- In 1967, President Johnson held a news The U.S. adds about 2.8 million people a WASHINGTON — Maybe there will be children, according to a recent report by the conference at the Commerce Department to year, a growth rate of less than 1 percent. a bigger party when the population hits 400 Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan mark the 200 million milestone. He hailed The Census Bureau counts the population million. Save the date: 2043. research organization. the country’s past and talked about the chal- every 10 years. In between, it uses adminis- America’s official population passed the In other words, if the U.S. had cut off all lenges ahead. Life magazine dispatched a trative records and surveys to estimate 300 million mark Tuesday, fueled by a immigration since 1967, the population cadre of photographers to find a baby born monthly averages for births, deaths and net growing number of immigrants and their would be about 245 million — and a lot less at the exact moment, anointing a boy born immigration. The bureau has a “population children. diverse, said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demog- in Atlanta as the 200 millionth American. clock” that estimates a birth every seven The moment, recorded at 5:46 a.m. MDT, rapher at the center. This year, there’s a good chance the 300 seconds, a death every 13 seconds and a passed with little fanfare, perhaps damp- “We’ve had much more Asian and Latino millionth American walked across the bor- new immigrant every 31 seconds. Add it ened by a divisive debate over illegal immi- immigration than white and black,” said der from Mexico months ago. together and you get one new American gration and the fact that many experts think Passel, the study’s author. “That has led to Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, every 11 seconds. the population had already hit the 300 mil- the racial and ethnic diversity that we have himself an immigrant from Cuba, said the The U.S. population trails only China and lion mark months ago. today.” Bush administration isn’t playing down the India. There were no fireworks or government- When the population hit 200 million in milestone, though no public events were It’s not easy estimating the exact number sponsored celebrations. Just a written state- 1967, more than 80 percent of Americans scheduled. of people in a country the size of the United ment from President Bush near the end of were white and less than 5 percent were “I would hate to think that we are going States. Passel said the Census Bureau has the work day, welcoming the milestone as Hispanic. Less than 1 percent were Asian. to be low key about this,” said Gutierrez, improved its population estimates in the “further proof that the American Dream Today, Hispanics make up nearly 15 per- whose department oversees the Census past few years, but it still undercounts ille- remains as bright and hopeful as ever.” cent of the population and Asians about 5 Bureau. “I would hope that we make a big gal immigrants. “It’s a couple of weeks before an election percent. White non-Hispanics account for deal about it.” There are an estimated 11 million to 12 when illegal immigration is a high-profile about 67 percent, blacks a little more than Gutierrez said America’s growing popu- million illegal immigrants in the U.S. issue, and they don’t want to make a big 13 percent. lation is good for the economy. He noted Experts differ on the specifics, but many deal out of it,” said William Frey, a demog- By 2043, white non-Hispanics are that Japan and some European countries estimate that more than 1 million of them rapher at the Brookings Institution, a expected to be a little more than half. That’s expect to lose population in the next few don’t show up in census figures. Washington think tank. the year the population is projected to hit decades, raising concerns that there won’t “The census clearly misses people,” said It’s been 39 years since the U.S. popula- 400 million, though the numbers could be enough young people entering the work Passel, a former Census Bureau employee force to support aging pop- who used to help estimate the undercount. ulations. “Having said that, when they crossed 200 “This is one more area million, they were missing about 5 million where we seem to have an people. We think the 2000 census missed a advantage,” Gutierrez said. lot less than 5 million people.”

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Short film makers have chance for ‘Exposure’ in new contest DYLAN LASLOVICH “The SCI-FI Channel is going votes on the Web sites to crown MONTANA KAIMIN out on a limb because all of their weekly winners. Each week’s shows suck so bad; an amateur winner will have their shortfilm could probably top their best pro- featured on the SCI-FI Channel at Who wants to be the next gram,” he said. “But I think it’s a a yet to be announced time. After Steven Spielberg? great opportunity for anyone inter- they are shown additional online “Exposure” is an eight-week ested in making shortfilms.” voting will occur to determine the contest that the SCI-FI and Printz’s background with the grand prize winner. The winner Sundance channels are is holding SCI-FI Channel stems from his will be rewarded a three-day trip that intends to shed light on the brother’s obsession with it. for two to New York City and country’s up-and-coming inde- “Every day for at least six given the chance to pitch a project pendent film makers. months the SCI-FI Channel was to the SCI-FI Channel’s Pictures ‘Exposure’ is the perfect way to on,” he said. “I hated it.” Group. harness the new movement of Printz is submitting a video, “We make or buy about 26 films ordinary people creating extraor- “Tempo Cops III,” he made in a year,” Engler said. “We want to Movie Stills Courtesy of Brandon Printz dinary videos for the Web,” said Hamilton with friends. Be it from fist or fly swatter, the action does not stop in “Tempo Cops III”, a short film that a UM fresh- find new talent to work on shows Craig Engler, senior vice president The film is about three under- man worked on and plans to submit to a sci-fi competition. at the SCI-FI Channel.” of the SCI-FI Channel and cover cops who infiltrate a drug This is the first year the two Magazine. “It also lets us harness smuggling operation and then are have held a short-film contest, but the most knowledgeable people on discovered by the drug dealers. mitting the piece and it is a great be submitted.’ We define sci-fi future contests are already in the the planet to help us find the best The movie got its name because chance to break into short film very broadly.” works. filmmakers out there.” there are three cops and the car making. The other reason is for Both SCIFI.com and “Right now the idea is to do it Chris Barry, vice president of featured in the film is a 1990 the “greater good”’ of SCI-FI SundanceChannel.com are cur- annually, but we’ll have to see Digital Media and Business Tempo. Channel viewers like his brother. rently accepting submissions of how it goes,” Engler said. “We’re Strategy at the Sundance Channel, “The entire movie is in bad high “I worry the SCI-FI audience two-to-eight minutes in length in expecting a couple hundred sub- shares Engler’s outlook. school German except the fight will slip further down the wrong the genres of sci-fi, horror or fan- missions.” “Sundance Channel is excited to scenes,” Printz said. “But the fight track if they don’t get some ass- tasy. The deadline for entries is Nov. develop this joint platform with scenes don’t have, nor need, dia- kicking back on that channel,” These submissions will be 20. Online voting begins Oct. 23 the SCI-FI Channel for emerging logue because the fists talk for Printz said. judged by a committee that con- and ends Dec. 17. short-form filmmakers,” he said. themselves.” So what constitutes sci-fi? sists of officials from both the Engler has some basic advice Brandon Printz, a freshman Even with his negative percep- “Today I was watching a short SCI-FI and Sundance channels. for all shortfilm makers. business major at the University tion of the SCI-FI Channel, Printz film that featured a boy stick fig- The winners will be selected by “Make the film you are passion- of Montana, sees this opportunity decided he should submit “Tempo ure who was trying to get girl stick the online communities at both ate about and submit it early,” he just as important to the SCI-FI Cops III” for a couple reasons. He figures to like him,” Engler said. SCI-FI and Sundance Channel said. Channel as it is to the filmmakers. said he has nothing to lose by sub- “And I said, ‘this is what should Web sites. Viewers will cast their Michael Franti

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n 10 Sports Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Campbell comes up big for Griz in replacement goalie gig

AMBER KUEHN her box with less than two minutes in goal. made four saves and posted a 1-0 MONTANA KAIMIN left. Montana’s only other goal- “It was exciting and nerve-rack- shutout against PSU. While Harris keeper, freshman Shay Cardwell, ing, but somebody on the team wishes she could have been play- is a red shirt and doesn’t travel had to do it,” Campbell said. “I ing, she was pleased with the per- Most days, Sara Campbell is with the team. was happy to step up.” formance of her teammate. either a midfielder or forward for Since a red card results in an Campbell said she had never “It was hard watching from the the University of Montana soccer automatic ejection and a one- seriously played the position, stands,” Harris said. “I just wanted team … but not last Sunday. game suspension, Harris was although she’s been known to to be out there. But I’m really In Sunday’s game at Portland ejected for the waning minutes of goof around in goal at practice, proud of her.” State, Campbell took her position the Sac State match, which ended having her teammates shoot Campbell said it was great to in front of the net. It was the first in a 1-1 tie. Harris said that while against her. She added that playing get a shutout, but credited the time the 5-foot-8-inch sophomore she was coming off the field, she basketball in high school helped defense. She said she had fun, but from Billings has played goal- wasn’t surprised to see Campbell with her hand-eye coordination, that she enjoys her other positions keeper for the Griz. taking her place. and Harris agreed this is one of more. Freshman goalie Grace Harris, “I knew she could totally handle Campbell’s strengths. “I hope that never happens who started UM’s first 14 matches it,” Harris said. “She’s really ath- “She can catch a ball,” Harris again, to be honest with you,” she this season, was out serving a one- letic.” said. “Anyone can, really, she’s said with a laugh. game suspension. In the Campbell finished the match Campbell just so confident about everything Montana (8-6-1, 2-1-1 Big Sky Sacramento State game on Friday, with one save in 62 seconds in Sedgwick was considering putting she does.” Conference) wraps up its home Harris received a red card for goal. senior MacKenzie Murphy in, Campbell had every reason to schedule against Idaho State on catching the ball a yard outside of Campbell said coach Neil until she volunteered herself to go be confident on Sunday, as she Thursday at 4 p.m.

UM golf closes out fall with top-10 finish Cardinals one win away from The University of Montana golf team finished in fifth place at the ST. LOUIS (AP) - A big swing by Making his 35th postseason start, the most in TaylorMade Aztec Fall Classic on Tuesday to close out its fall season. and another playoff gem from a rejuvenated Jeff major league history, Glavine got only 12 outs. UM shot a 609 for the 36-hole tournament to finish in a tie with Weaver put the St. Louis Cardinals on the cusp of the Weaver, on the other hand, earned his second impres- Notre Dame, 27 strokes behind tournament winner Denver. World Series. sive playoff victory. Three other Big Sky Conference teams participated in the tourna- Pujols' homer in the fourth inning helped the And now, for the second time in the series, the ment. Sacramento State finished in 10th place, while Portland State Cardinals get to Tom Glavine at last, and Weaver shut clubs will travel without a day off. and Northern Arizona landed 14th- and 16th-place finishes, respec- down the New York Mets for a 4-2 victory Tuesday Pujols' homer put St. Louis on the scoreboard and tively. By finishing ahead of Sac State, UM has beaten all eight of its night and a 3-2 lead in the NL championship series. snapped Glavine's 22-inning scoreless streak that conference foes during the fall season. Eastern Washington was the Cardinals ace can close it out dated to his final regular-season start at Washington. lone Big Sky team to beat Montana, the defending conference cham- Wednesday night in Game 6 at Shea Stadium, which Playing on a sore right hamstring, Pujols also went to pion, this fall. would give St. Louis its second pennant in three his knees at first base for Shawn Green's one-hopper UM senior Jill Walker led the Griz with a 148 and finished tied for years and a date with the in the World in the sixth. 13th place on the individual leaderboard. Walker was the top Big Sky Series. Rookie right-hander John Maine is on the The 40-year-old Glavine threw four-hit ball for finisher for her second-straight tournament. mound for the Mets, who hope to force a Game 7 at seven sharp innings in Game 1, beating Weaver 2-0 UM will next be in action at the Northern Arizona Invitational in home. on Carlos Beltran's two-run homer. Sedona, Ariz., in April. UM head coach Joanne Steele expects to The Cardinals got timely hits from But Weaver got the best of this matchup. return to the squad by January after missing three of UM’s four fall and Ronnie Belliard, and an insurance homer by Cast off by the Los Angeles Angels this summer to tournaments following a successful heart transplant in September. pinch-hitter . With the red-clad crowd make roster room for his little brother, Jered, the St. - Kaimin Sports Staff of 46,496 twirling white towels, St. Louis' young Louis right-hander kept Beltran and Carlos Delgado bullpen held on in the late innings after getting in check, yielding only two runs and six hits in six roughed up during New York's 12-5 victory in Game strong innings. 4. Weaver is 2-1 with a 2.16 ERA in three playoff The second rainout of the series Monday night starts. He tossed five innings of two-hit ball to beat gave Glavine and Weaver a chance to pitch on regu- San Diego 2-0 in Game 2 of the first round. lar rest instead of only a three-day break.

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M o n t a n a K a i m i n Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Sports 11 Griz open 2006-07 season with eyes on 3rd-straight title

PETE DELMOE real well with Coach Tinkle, so MONTANA KAIMIN going into practice it’s more of a relaxed feel for me.” This year’s team will return three starters – Dlouhy, junior With the University of Montana Andrew Strait and sophomore men’s basketball season under- Jordan Hasquet. Other returnees way, one might think things would include seniors Mike Chavez, be getting busier for new head Bryan Ellis and Stuart Mayes, coach Wayne Tinkle, but he says along with junior Matt Martin and that’s not the case. sophomores Kyle Sharp, Austin “We’ve been really busy, but it’s Swift and Greg Spurgetis. kind of funny, I told a friend of “We’ve got a lot of good veter- mine the other day things will ans coming back with a nice mix actually slow down a little bit of some young talent,” Tinkle more now that the season’s start- said. “I think it’s going to take us ed,” Tinkle said. a little while to develop the chem- The Griz had their first practice istry and our rotation, but shoot, on Friday, to kick off their 2006- there’s no reason why we 2007 season as they defend their shouldn’t have high expectations Big Sky Conference title with for ourselves.” Tinkle at the helm. Tinkle said The Griz are coming off a 2005- he’s excited to get out on the court 06 season that saw them win the and get things going. conference postseason title and “Now that the season’s started not just go to the NCAA tourna- it’s like, ‘OK, now we can get ment but win a game over the between the lines and get our team fifth-seeded Nevada Wolf Pack. It better, spend more time with our was Montana’s first win in the Amanda Determa/Montana Kaimin guys,’” Tinkle said. “That’s the NCAA tournament since 1975. Eastern Washington is one of the Big Sky Conference teams aiming to knock off Andrew Strait (#34), Jordan Hasquet (#2) and the defending Big Sky fun part.” “It’s good to have guys with a Champion Montana Grizzlies. UM opened up its 2006-07 season last week with a Friday evening practice and is under the leadership of new coach Wayne Tinkle is replacing Larry lot of experience that have been to Tinkle, who replaced Larry Krystkowiak in June. The Griz open their season with a Nov. 10 home match against Montana State-Northern. Krystkowiak, who left UM in June the tournament the last two years to take a job as an assistant coach and have been there and know players in Montana’s run to the Junior forward Gus Chase trans- ing off back-to-back tournament with the NBA’s Milwaukee what it takes to get back there,” tournament. ferred from Sheridan Junior appearances, Dlouhy said this is a Bucks. Tinkle had been an assis- said Strait, who led the Griz in “We’ve got to replace a lot College in Sheridan, Wyo., and is new year and a new beginning. tant coach for the Griz since 2001. scoring a year ago with more than when you lose Virgil and Kevin,” already expected to be a big con- “We’re going to have some high Krystkowiak took the Griz to 16 points a game. “Hopefully as Tinkle said. tributor, said Dlouhy. expectations, but this is just a the NCAA tournament the past the season goes on they can pull The Griz have seven newcom- “Gus is probably the most raw whole new year,” Dlouhy said. two seasons, but UM is still excit- us through a little bit when hard ers on the team this year with two talent I’ve seen in a while,” “We got a new team, new coach, ed about Tinkle taking over. times hit.” transfers and five freshmen. Dlouhy said. “He’s almost, like, so I think we just got to wipe the “I love Tinks,” said senior for- The Griz lost only two players Former Missoula Hellgate prod- 95 percent unstoppable on offense slate clean, but just keep the tour- ward Matt Dlouhy. “Me and to graduation, but they were the uct Charlie Cox, a sophomore – pretty much impossible to nament in the back of our minds Coach K always clashed heads a starting guards Kevin Criswell guard, transferred from Montana- guard.” that that’s where we want to be at little bit. I’ve always gotten along and Virgil Matthews, both key Western and will redshirt this year. Even though the Griz are com- the end of the year.”

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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Ashley McKee/Montana Kaimin T-shirts hang on a string tied to trees Tuesday between the Mansfield Library and the UC. Project volunteers, who have experienced a form of relationship abuse such as rape and partner abuse, designed all the T-shirtswhich the Women’s Center has gathered over the past 10 years. Images show possible prep for N. Korea nuke test

BO-MI LIM ASSOCIATED PRESS Christopher Hill told reporters in plans to ask the South to expand gathering. He said that although ment released on the official Seoul on Tuesday that another its role in a U.S.-led international the purpose of the structures is Korean Central News Agency. nuclear explosion would be “a very program to stop the spread of unclear, officials are concerned “The resolution cannot be con- SEOUL, South Korea — belligerent answer” to the world. weapons of mass destruction. because North Korea has left open strued otherwise than a declara- Satellite images indicate North As the White House acknowl- Concern over a second test the possibility of another test. tion of a war” against the North, Korea appears to be getting ready edged that the isolated nation stems partly from new satellite In North Korea, the nation the statement said. for a second nuclear test, officials might try a second test, Secretary imagery showing increased activi- marked the 80th anniversary of The North also said it “wants said Tuesday, as the defiant com- of State Condoleezza Rice ty around at least two other North the “Down-with-Imperialism peace but is not afraid of war,” and munist regime held huge rallies launched a diplomatic drive to Korean sites, a senior U.S. defense Union” — a political platform on that it would “deal merciless and proclaimed that U.N. sanctions persuade Asian allies and Russia official said. which the ruling party was built. blows” against anyone who vio- amount to a declaration of war. to intensify North Korea’s isola- The activity, started a number of North Koreans held parades lates its sovereignty. China, the North’s longtime ally tion by enforcing sanctions that days ago, included ground prepa- across the country along with an It said it wouldn’t cave in to and biggest trading partner, the U.N. Security Council unani- ration at one site and construction enormous gathering at a central “the pressure and threat of some- warned Pyongyang not to aggra- mously approved on Saturday. of some buildings and other struc- square in Pyongyang. one at this time when it has vate tensions. The U.N. has con- Alexander Vershbow, the U.S. tures, said the official, who spoke The regime slammed the U.N. become a nuclear weapons state.” demned the Oct. 9 atomic blast, ambassador to South Korea, said on condition of anonymity measures with a stream of belli- and U.S. nuclear envoy Wednesday in Seoul that Rice because it involved intelligence cosity in a Foreign Ministry state- The Kaimin assumes no responsibility for K A I M I N C L A S S I F I E D S advertisements which are placed in the The Kaimin runs classifieds four days a week. Prepayment is required. Classifieds may be placed Classified section. We urge all readers to at Journalism 206 or via FAX: (406)243-5475 or email: [email protected]. use their best judgment and investigate Student/Faculty/Staff Off Campus fully any offers of employment, invest- $.90 per 5-word line/day R A T E S $1 per 5-word line/day ment or related topics before paying out k iosk k iosk LOST AND FOUND: The Kaimin runs classified ads for lost or found items free of charge. any money. They can be 3 lines long and run for 3 days.

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