THE ASMSU November 15, 2007 • Vol. 102, Issue 13 • • '• • • • • • ... '• • • ' • • • • • • • • • • • • • •, •' • • ••••I .. I•• • .. ••I •'I• I• I• 1·1·.1 I• 1e • i ' t > t i t •,.,I • o ,.,.,. ... •' • • J • • •• • 1t • • • J • t •I•••»•" II II• >I•• I•~ l i • LETTERS HEY YOU! YEAH YOU ... More than ants love a discarded popsicle on a sidewalk, the ASMSU Exponent LOVES feedback! Please send your rants, raves, and heartfelt expressions of your undying love to: [email protected] n~asthead THIS ISSUE BROUGHT TO YOU BY: MANAGEMENT EDITORIAL ADVISOR NEWS EDITOR Bill Wilke Lacey Gray EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STATIC EDITOR Amanda Larrinaga Scott Obemesser MANAGING EDITOR DISTRACTIONS EDITOR Kelsey Dzintars Emma Lynn ART DEPARTMENT REC[REATION] EDITOR PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Kim Krieger Annie Backenstose COPY EDITOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Erica Aytes beverages. And Felicia Reynolds, Chelsea McKenna, Kevin Ludwig, Brianne Rediske CONTRIBUTORS Herny York, Ryan Dalke, Allison C ADVERTISING & BUSINESS Dustin Cichosz, Rune Vander We} AD SALES MANAGER Victor, Eric Meyer Proud Sponsors Eric Newman AD SALES REPRESENTATIVES THE ASMSU EXPONENT Kindra Bragg, Alex Yudell, Strand Union Building Room 30~ Owen Halligan. Danielle Chamberlain Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone: (406] 994-2224 MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES ed1torraexponent.montana.edu Nate Byrne, Hannah Pauli Montana State Athletics ABOUTTHEar tj s t Amy True 'Spiritscape' I believe that I must make sense of what happened yesterday in order to fully understand what is happen­ ing today, so it would be no coinci­ A compromise 1s an agreement whereby both parties get what neither dence that when making art, I am of them wanted. most intrigued and inspired by his­ tory. I work in an array of mediums, -Anonymous much of my time spent with oils, but am currently concentrated on the methods of encaustic. When observing my work as a whole, it lacks consistency. It is scattered and some pieces could be read as flaky, but at times my life at twenty-two finds it­ self with the same description. I am most drawn to a single TABLE OF CONTEN 3 YOU ARE HERE artist when their lifelong work reflects their lifelongjoumey and that is my current intention: to reflect, render, and in­ terpret, to satisfy my creative bug and hope that someone NE 4 NEWS FEED gets a kick out of it. SUBMIT YOUR 5 THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL OSE' cover art ASHLEY HILDRED discusses the history of a resurrected closet. Liter­ ally. From the ashes. Shock ofshocks , the Exponent is produced by stu­ dents, and guess what?! We want your artwork plas­ tered all over our recycled-paper body. Well ma~be, 7 NO MORE RECREATION AT THE BUFFALO not that so much, but definitely on our cover. STATION? Featured artists get the benefit of being seen by nearly 10,00 0 faces. Try fitting that into a gallery! 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It ist Check your College Home Page TODAY this demographic. only reported case where both diseat Some \LT deadlines an: as earl) as Januaq 3 1. 2008 have been transmitted through OJ1 Tanker Spills 58,000 Gallons of transplant simultaneously. The mists • Go to your College Financial A.id \X'eb Site Oil, Drng Tests Botched is due to the fact that when the dor ~... ~ ..,U\ Check 1 our 1nJ1nJual colk~l LlN Having trouble seeing, the pilot of the was tested for the diseases, they Wt Cosco Busan crashed his ship into the • Check ) our hon1etown organizations still in their incubation period and c ..id ........! support structure of the Oakland Bay not show up on the tests. Later, usilt . l ~1c;1l scholar>h1p> h.t\L fcwn applicant' '-\Jlo.1~ Bridge in San Francisco Bay. The Coast fuodol a.. more sensitive teSt, the two viruses WI DL<tJhnc:s may be m 200- for I-all 2008! \'-.:uSurc__........ Guard has ruled out mechanical failure found in the donor's blood. 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Schnlar~h 1p \mcnca- " ' ''' .schobr.;h1pamcnca.o~ State Department Head bows out of Blackwater Issues Itnportant Headlines: •ttw·c ·1 ""'"'.r.n.~ ..... f~~huUMrJ.ml har­ When faced with evidence that his • '$2.7 million Pledged for MSU J MONTANA "~•.mi:....u._-Ju/.adnu«k.ll'h ~~u1~'1.rnl ht1r: M SI1ITI: WI IVEllSITI' brother serves as an advisor for Black­ mal Bioscience Facility \\\,\)\;'(;hull~ 1r'ft hur ·\Ao'\" r1nlmf1iw"1it>on1)f}'. water, Inspector-General Howard Kron­ Rnft('{"('J'.':..,..~, l~.~l\r • MSU has more security breache gard bowed out of any decisions regard­ • MSU Library marks 100 years ~ 1-1---------------. .-------------Lf ing Blackwater. government document repository • French workers strike against ~ Earthquake Rocks Chile sionreform A 7.7 on the Richter scale, the earth­ • Nun pleads no contest in sex ab quake damaged property and caused case panic and power outages. Somewhere BER 15, 2007 I THE ASMSU EXPONENT NEWS 5 THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL CLOSET IN T01MN Ironically, the lack of attention paid to this year's Queer Straight Alliance (Q.S.A.) 'closet' is consid­ ered by many in the organization to be an improvement to the hate crimes it attracted in the past.