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UMʼs Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 Wednesday MVolume CX, Issueontana 85 Kaimin April 2, 2008 Inside the Kaimin Arts p 8 On Campus Today • 4:10 p.m. Ecology Seminar, UC Theater, free Forecast Feature p 6-7 R.E.M strikes back with High 44F UM student shooting for • 6 p.m. ASUM Senate Meeting, UC 330-331 CD #14 • 7 p.m. “War, Morality and Autonomy” lecture, UC Ballroom, free Low 19F Olympics – Courtesy of UM Events Calendar Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary in Montana Ashley Zuelke FOR THE KAIMIN Former President Bill Clinton appealed to Montana voters Tuesday afternoon in Helena stressing economic, healthcare and foreign policy improvements his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, would make to create a better future for young people. His one-day sweep through Montana began on the Hi-Line in Havre with stops in Great Falls and Helena before fi nishing in Butte more than ten hours later. By the time he made his third stop he was more than an hour behind schedule. He took the stage shortly after 5 p.m. before a crowd in the hundreds at the Helena High School Auditorium. Donning a pair of cowboy boots, Clinton began the hour-long rally in Montana terms by focusing on local issues like the present state of the rural economy and the need for alternative fuels from crops aside from ethanol that would help farmers. “I’m the designated rural person in the family,” Clinton said, citing Ashley Zuelke /For the Kaimin his knowledge of crop rotation Former President Bill Clinton greets spectators after his speech promoting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday afternoon in the Helena High School Gymnasium. It was the third stop on his one-day swipe with a chuckle. through Montana before Sen. Clinton visits this weekend. Students and educators were allowed priority seating for the their student loans incrementally important, but low-paying service and even a skateboard. Some meet the former president. event, and Clinton fi ttingly summed and in reasonable amounts. jobs like teaching and nursing after audience members wore buttons “I’m just giddy,” he said up many points throughout his He emphasized his wife’s work college without the fear of being and T-shirts for the Clinton-Gore afterward. speech by saying change is on the Student Borrower’s Bill overburdened by loans. team that carried the Montana Martin told Clinton that his dad, necessary for the wellbeing of of Rights and against students “Your service should repay presidential election in 1992. a federal employee for 15 years, future generations. being “ripped off” by private loan your loan,” Clinton said. UM College Democrats missed Clinton being his boss. Within his major topics, companies. After his speech Clinton stepped President Scott Martin, who “I miss being his boss,” was Clinton addressed the rising cost of Clinton also cited Hillary off the stage into a swell of excited recently became a member of Clinton’s response according to attending college and the right for Clinton’s proposed policy that spectators, shaking hands and the Clinton campaign’s steering Martin. college students to be able to pay off would encourage students to take signing copies of his autobiography committee in Montana, was able to See CLINTON, page 5 UM student group headed to Uganda Peace Corps recruiters Stefanie Kilts Blackburn and Linford, along with Reach the Children, a MONTANA KAIMIN with senior Ian Bassingthwaighte, humanitarian aid organization calling all candidates started planning a 15-day trip that that located a local hospital and Elizabeth Harrison would know details about when Eleven UM students will travel would put 11 members of the group orphanage through which the MONTANA KAIMIN and how to apply.” to the banks of the Nile in Uganda to work on sustainable projects in students will conduct their service Miller spoke with the Kaimin this summer as part of a service Buluba, Uganda. projects. University of Montana students from Guatemala Tuesday, where project through the new University Bassingthwaighte, vice About a third of the group with an itch to travel and a desire to she is setting up her graduate of Montana student-run group president of Global Grizzlies, is using the trip as a basis for a serve can learn about Peace Corps research in forestry for the Global Grizzlies. has studied abroad in Ghana and research thesis or independent opportunities at an information Master’s International Program. For UM seniors Hayley done service work in Kenya. He studies project, Bassingthwaighte session in the University Center She served in Guatemala from Blackburn and Sadie Linford the said that through his experiences said. Thursday evening. The session 2005 to 2007 and said she learned trip started as an idea for their he found many service projects “Everyone has some sort of will begin at 7 p.m. in UC Room about the Peace Corps through a senior honors project last spring. simply drop off supplies without individual investment in the 330. similar UM information session. It bloomed into something much giving the tools for people to use project that is different than anyone In addition, Peace Corps The Peace Corps began in bigger when the two began to them in the future. else’s,” he said. recruitment coordinator Catherine 1960 when then then-Sen. John F. garner support from UM students Therefore, a main goal of The cost for the trip is $4,000 Swanson, who is traveling to UM Kennedy challenged University of who also wanted to make a the group’s service projects will per student, which will cover travel from the Seattle regional offi ce for Michigan students to peacefully difference abroad. be based on the “teach to fi sh” expenses, as well as the projects the event, will set up information serve their country by living and “It snowballed into an actual philosophy; creating sustainable they conduct. Students traveling tables Thursday from 10 a.m. to working in developing countries, group,” said Blackburn, president projects that will make a lasting were asked to put forth $500 but 3 p.m. in Lommasson Center 154 according to the agency’s Web of Global Grizzlies. impression, Blackburn said. the rest of the money has been and Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. site. The Corps has since grown By the beginning of fall, Global Projects planned for the trip raised through fundraising projects. in the main foyer of the UC. into a federal government agency Grizzlies had approximately include helping establish facilities Members have worked concessions UM Peace Corps representative with more than 190,000 volunteers 20 members from a diverse for personal hygiene and dental at the football games, conducted a and campus recruiter Kassi Miller in 139 host countries. background of majors, but all care to aid in the prevention of showing of “Invisible Children” said the information session is A press release on Jan. 17 committed to a common goal of avoidable infectious diseases, and received donations from the a good opportunity for students announced that UM is No. 17 on learning about and providing aid a literacy program at a local Honors Student Association’s to fi nd out about ways to travel the 2008 list ranking medium- for developing nations around the orphanage and self-suffi cient Homecoming Dance. and make a difference after sized colleges and universities, world. agricultural projects for families in The group has raised about graduation. placing ahead of Brown and the area. half of the $44,000 required for “The regional recruiter comes Yale universities. According to “This is so when we leave, they its trip and hopes that the silent out about once a semester,” she the announcement, UM now has Check us out can sustain it so it keeps going auction event, “The Auction for said. “I can answer all questions 23 alumni serving in the Peace on the Web at and be benefi cial in the future,” Action,” on April 11, will raise the about what it’s like to be a Corps. www.montanakaimin.com Bassingthwaighte said. remaining funds. volunteer, (but) they’re really The group has been working See GLOBAL GRIZ, page 5 good about actual deadlines. They See PEACE CORPS, page 11 2 Opinion Montana Kaimin Wednesday, April 2, 2008 EDITORIAL U-Wire Donʼt buy into Tax rebates will not help students Cokeʼs green claims Kelsey Childress THE DAILY UNIVERSE (BYU) possible for graduating seniors. college-aged students have about Poised to ramp up their marketing The IRS stipulates that “you may $200 billion in buying power efforts at the University of Montana, Coca- Many people breathed a sigh of be able to claim the (economic annually, according to an article Kelsey Childress Cola is taking full advantage of UM’s cash relief when the federal government stimulus) credit on your 2008 tax written by Rebecca Gardyn in the THE DAILY UNIVERSE (BYU) crunch to spread misleading advertising on announced that the IRS will be return, but you will not receive the November 2002 issue of American campus.