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UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 Griz anticipate close game with Eagles page 5 Montana Kaimin Friday, October 10, 2008 www.montanakaimin.com Volume CXI, Issue 26 Lecturer: Dialogue key to resolving Middle East tensions Carly Flandro MONTANA KAIMIN The ongoing problems in the Middle East should be solved by easing tensions among countries rather than injecting more Amer- ican and European troops, an ac- claimed Pakistani reporter and author said Thursday night. Ahmed Rashid gave details on the solution in a speech deliv- ered in a packed UC Ballroom. Rashid also commented on the role the economic downturn and the presidential elections in the U.S. could play in the Middle East. Both McCain and Obama are concerned with the Taliban and al-Qaeda resurgence in Afghani- stan. In response, they both want more troops in Afghanistan, but Rashid said that’s not the an- swer. “More troops alone won’t solve this problem,” he said. “It’s a question of troops — plus what?” Instead, Rashid said in the third installment of the Presi- dent’s Lecture series that there is a need for a comprehensive plan to deal with tensions and insta- bility in the Middle East. Six countries surround Af- ghanistan: Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran and China. These neighbors have increased their interference in Alisia Muhlestein / Montana Kaimin Afghanistan, Rashid said, and Journalist and author Ahmed Rashid speaks at the President’s Lecture Series Thursday night to a record crowd in the UC Ballroom. Rashid recently published a Americans have not tried to derail new book, “Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.” See LECTURE, page 8 Pell Grant promise unlikely Film explores coal’s Carly Flandro award amount. Epperson said she would like ONTANA AIMIN effects on water shed M K Epperson, a sophomore study- to work less hours each week to Beginning in the 2009-2010 ing international business, stood spend more time on schoolwork, Carmen George The panel discussion and recep- school year, tuition could become behind a cash register at the UC but that’s not possible with her re- MONTANA KAIMIN tion will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m., more affordable for low-income Market on Thursday night greet- maining tuition costs. The fi lm “Burning the Future: including Evan Barrett, the chief students both nationwide and at ing customers and counting out Hanson sat in the fi nancial aid Coal in America,” will show Fri- business development offi cer to the University of Montana. change. offi ce Monday morning and skep- day at noon and 7 p.m. at the Roxy the Governor’s Economic Devel- The maximum award limit for Coming to Montana from Cali- tically glanced at a Pell Grant Theater on Higgins Avenue as part opment Offi ce. Filmmaker David federal Pell Grants, which are of- fornia, she receives a Western chart. of the fi fth annual Montana CINE Novack will also appear via the fered to low-income undergradu- Undergraduate Exchange scholar- It showed that the maximum Film Festival. A panel discussion Internet. ate students, could potentially in- ship and pays out-of-state tuition. amount a student receives for Pell will also precede the fi lm, includ- Jim Jensen, the executive crease by $1,759 to $6,490 each She was also awarded the current Grants could jump to $6,490 per ing experts for and against coal’s director of the Montana Envi- year per student. maximum amount possible for year by the 2009 fall semester, an use as a fuel source. ronmental Information Center, However, students shouldn’t Pell Grant recipients – $4,731 per initiative that came into play af- “The fi lm shows coal’s affects a non-profi t organization work- get their hopes up, according to year – but that still leaves her with ter Congress renewed the Higher on groundwater, children, schools; ing to stop the development of Mick Hanson, director of the fi - leftover tuition fees. Education Act on Aug. 14. The you name it, it covers it,” Margaret new coal plants in Montana, will nancial aid offi ce. To make up for it, Epperson current maximum is set at $4,731 Gainer said, the festival coordina- also be speaking on the panel. Only twice since the Pell Grant works at the Market 17 hours a per year. tor for the International Wildlife He said the state has issued a per- Program was founded in 1972 has week. “Those fi gures are never gonna Media Center & Film Festival that mit for a new coal plant to be built the federal government funded the “Sometimes it makes it hard to happen the way they’re printed is showing the fi lm. in Great Falls as early as Novem- maximum amount possible for the focus on school,” she said, adding here,” Hanson said. The award-winning fi lm shows ber. grants. that she is also taking 15 credits Reaching the maximum amount the negative effects of the coal “Every plant that’s built just Catelyn Epperson, who re- this semester. “I’m used to work- available for these grants is no industry on a community in West makes global warming worse and ceived a Pell Grant for the fi rst ing a fi ve-hour shift on Wednesday simple task, he said. Virginia, while also denouncing worse,” Jensen said, “and that affects time this year, is one student who nights and then having two tests To increase the maximum the idea of “clean coal.” The show- See COAL, page 6 would benefi t from an increased the next day.” See GRANT, page 8 ing is $4 for students. Today On Campus Inside the Kaimin Forecast •Patty Duke Speaks About Bipolar Arts page 7 Blotter page 4 High 45F Disorder Too early for winter Smeared shrip, sleeping student UC Ballroom, 6 p.m. but not for Pinter and suing senior Low 22F 2 Montana Kaimin Opinion Friday, October 10, 2008 most read stories... The 5online at www.montanakaimin.com 1. Dems challenge claim that 6,000 Montana voters aren’t BIG UPS eligible to vote, Oct. 7 kaimin 2. Three Griz football players may be expelled, Oct. 9 3. Sports Whit, Oct. 8 4. Editorial: Montana Republicans’ dirty tricks have no place kounts in the election, Oct. 8 Backhands This week in numbers 5. Overcrowded COT hopes to revamp building or relocate, & Oct. 7 Hey, we can’t talk long. BU&Bh has to crank this out so we can get over to the Wilma for the new high-def snowboard Read and comment on these fl ick “That’s It, That’s All.” I bet that our violent faceplants on Thousand: stories and more at fl at ice would look pretty damn majestic in HD, too. 30proposed cost to relocate the College www.montanakaimin.com of Technology – which Backhands to Sen. John McCain for throwing the second currently operates in presidential debate to Sen. Barack Obama. Way to win over antiquated facilities the young voters by pacing around the room like you’re lectur- – to the South Campus. ing your kid about pot. Lemcke should act accordingly was found in the bushes near Mill- I am writing regarding the Oc- er hall if the incident would have Big Ups to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who announced tober 3rd article “Masked man, been reported so casually. Wednesday in a news conference that he is stopping all evic- misplaced muni- Has everybody Thousand voter tions of people living in foreclosed properties in his county. 6registrations tions, mutilated ma- forgotten about Col- Maybe when he’s done with his Robin Hood crusade against challenged. The chines.” Letters to the umbine and Virginia evil landlords, he can serve us some justice by getting our Montana Republican I was shocked to Tech? I would like to Editor rental agency to send someone to fi x the damned sink at our Party dropped its discover that a shot- know exactly what house. voter challenge this gun had been found Lemcke is doing week after opposing in the bushes at Sisson, less than about this, and why the Kaimin leaders fi led a lawsuit Backhands to Skylar Deleon, who once appeared in minor 20 feet from where my children hasn’t picked up on the fact that 16 in federal court. roles in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV se- play. I was even more shocked at gauge pump-action shotguns don’t ries. Deleon may get the death penalty for tying a wealthy cou- Lemcke’s cavalier comment, “If it fall out of pockets. ple to the anchor of their yacht and throwing them overboard dropped out of somebody’s pocket I am concerned that our safety — alive.