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Kailyn Mercer Copy Editors Luke Smith, Connor Simpson, Lydia Mercier 2 January 30-February 5, 2019 montanakaimin.com OPINION | EDITORIAL AND LETTERS Instead of thinking big, let’s fix the little things at UM What if a 17-year-old prospective Grizzly It’s easy to look at prospective students as I definitely don’t see changing how many are uneven brick walkways on the Oval when the had visited the University of Montana cam- robots who are interested only in graduation offered as something that would significantly ground is dry. pus for the first time this January? Unless rates, program rankings and class size, but impact how I reflect on my time at UM. Just because there isn’t a metric that tells she was looking for a school with a dominant the typical teenager may care more about the It’s important that the University consid- recruits the odds a business major who lives basketball team, it’s tough to believe what she Food Zoo’s hours and the trendiness of the ers how to improve the value of the education in Craig Hall will have to throw his socks might have seen around here recently would dorms than any of that. Maybe we’re making it offers, but it’s just as important to make in the dryer after his walk home from class, have won her over. The sidewalks were inch- things more complicated than they need to sure students enjoy their time in Missoula. doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. Let’s try clean- deep puddles, the campus Wi-Fi and UM- be. Provost Jon Harbor said he wants to see That means spending time upgrading things ing up the little things. Connect emails stopped working. Somehow, more online classes offered during a meeting like campus infrastructure. Maybe the Wi-Fi there’s still asbestos in McGill Hall in 2019. with the executive committee of the Faculty troubles were a fluke we no longer need to LIKE IT? HATE IT? WISH WE WERE DEAD? These problems may sound trivial — except Senate this week. I took an online class once. worry about, but they made students’ lives Email us your opinions at the asbestos — but to people who spend It was alright. I wouldn’t say it was much bet- more stressful. It’s also frustrating to tip-toe [email protected] hours on campus every day, they aren’t. ter or worse than the classes I took in person. around mud puddles in the winter and dodge LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BIG UPS & BACKHANDS Your Voice: inclusion of wind and gender Backhands to the companies that The eastern half of Montana has consistent- The article on page four of issue No. laid off hundreds of journalists this ly high wind speeds, and Montana is ranked 14 about parkour mentioned only that the fifth of the lower 48 states in terms of capacity young men were in town for the annual week. No, it’s fine, I love imagining for wind energy generation. Other states with “Balls Jam.” The photos show only men working in the service industry for similar wind capacities have been rapidly de- and boys and the article doesn't mention the rest of my life. veloping wind farms in the past couple of years the group being open to girls. Are there to great success. Oklahoma has over 17 percent any females participating in parkour? of its total electricity coming from wind, and Does the organization ever advertise that Big Ups to the fact that in 1998, The Iowa has over 25 percent wind. females are welcome to participate or is it Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell Though Montana has the same capacity, exclusively for boys? In A Cell, and he plummeted 16 feet we only get about 7 percent of our electricity As females excel in gymnastics and from wind energy. Many of the coal plants that parkour appears to incorporate gymnas- through an announcer’s table. supply a good chunk of Montana’s energy will tic skills, I was surprised to see the lack need to be decommissioned in the next couple of girls in your photos, and no mention of of years, and there’s no smarter business move young women in the article. Since the Uni- Backhands to everyone riding bikes and than investing in more wind energy right now. versity has approved a course and a gym splashing me with their bike slush mud. The wind we have installed right now is the has been secured for the "selfish" reason cheapest per megawatt hour, less than half the of having a "place to train that was our Big Ups to free bus service keeping your feet dry. price of coal-fired electricity. After initial infra- own," could you clarify if this is an equal structure costs, the “fuel” for wind is free, and opportunity offering or not? The language Socialism rocks. thus, over the course of its lifetime wind energy in the article was vague, referring to the is now significantly cheaper than coal. It’s time "athletes, kids and students.” Also, calling Backhands to broke ass for Montana to take advantage of this abundant your annual gathering "Balls Jam" sends a January. We know it’s not your natural resource, and we should encourage strong message. fault that all our Christmas Northwestern Energy to include more wind in money is gone, but we need to its 20-year plan. -Carla Miller blame SOMEONE. -Rebecca Mathisen montanakaimin.com January 30-February 5, 2019 3 NEWS | MISSING MASCOT Law students go moose hunting, foresters fight back ERIN SARGENT [email protected] Forestry students know a different type of finals week stress. The tension hanging in the air at the end of fall semester isn’t just about memorization and Blue Books. They all know it in their hearts: they will lose Bertha. Bertha is a name known throughout the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Con- servation.