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MONTANA KAIMIN Friday, September 26, 2003 V olume CVI, Issue 16 UM students Back in the saddle again working to ski Madeleine Creevy boarders this kind of work-trade Kaimin Reporter opportunity. “It is a special thing that A number of Snowbowl Snowbowl does to accommodate peo- University of offers jobs ple who really want to get in a lot of Montana students for ski days on the mountain, but don’t have found a cheaper passes the money to buy a pass right now,” way to hit the Murphy said. slopes this season Work crews are normally clearing — instead of buying a season pass, trails, painting, chopping wood and they are working for one. doing other miscellaneous grunt Montana Snowbowl Ski Area has work, said Morris. a program that allows students and The work isn’t easy, Morris said. anyone else interested in skiing or “The kids who come up here to snowboarding a chance to trade 60 work are dedicated. They have to get hours of work at the mountain for a up here early and work all day,” full season pass. Morris said. UM senior Betsy Murphy has Snowbowl staff also receive full been at Snowbowl for the last few seven day season passes. weekends, and said it is a great alter- If students are interested in work- native to buying the $400 pass. ing on the mountain this winter they “I have a lot of expenses this can pick up an application or apply semester and I cannot afford to buy a Bret Ferris/Montana Kaimin online, Morris said. Examples of The UM equestrian team, horses and all, were out on campus Thursday afternoon looking for new members to pass. It is basically bitch work, but it positions include maintenance, lift is worth it,” Murphy said. join their team. Anyone interested in signing up needs to by Sunday; no experience required. Contact Jennifer operators and ski-school instructors. Michaelis at 721-6706 with any questions. Ronnie Morris, co-owner of Morris said the sooner new appli- Snowbowl, said that students can cants apply, the better their chances come up to Snowbowl and fill out an are of being hired for work-trade for a application if they want to work. pass, whether it is a part-time or full- “If we have something for an time position. Center receives new director applicant to do, then we will give Murphy said she hopes there will them work,” she said. be enough good snow this year so all cy of Mansfield. ing to its Web site. Morris said that the student sup- Natalie Storey her hard work does not go to waste. “I think I have the background Weidner will have more chal- port is a big help in getting work done Kaimin Reporter “It seems like people are fired up and the sort of breadth that will lenges to deal with than represent- in the off-season. for a big season this year,” Murphy The new New She said that there are about 40 help me succeed in this position,” ing the legacy of Mike Mansfield. said. director of the director of he said. He will have to accomplish his crew members working off passes Brad Morris, another co-owner of Mansfield throughout the off-season and about Mansfield Weidner was the director of the goals with less funding than the Snowbowl, agrees that skiers and Center considers Center Asian Affairs Center and the center has had before. Last year, half of them are either students or boarders are excited for a big season, the late Montana graduates. optimistic Missouri International Training the center lost $83,000 in funding but there is no way to be sure. senator it was There are no other mountains in about Institute at the University of because endowments the “Pray for snow,” he said. named after to the Missoula area that give skiers and funding, Missouri at Columbia, a job he Mansfield Foundation holds were be close to his future held since 1998. Before that he hit hard by tough financial mar- heart. was the associate director of the kets. The foundation provides the Game Day Terry Weidner said he admires Office of International Programs primary source of funding for the KAIMIN Game Day Kaimin will the work of Mike Mansfield, for- at the University of Kansas, and center. mer ambassador to Japan, U.S. he was a Chinese media analyst Funding issues don’t worry be available Saturday at Senator and University of for the Foreign Broadcast Weidner too much. He said he will Talking Montana professor. As the new Information Service. look to outside sources to help It the game as well as director of the Mansfield Center, The Asian Affairs Center was fund the center. Up Weidner will have the challenge of created in 1983 to advocate educa- “The goal is not just to get online today at upholding values Mansfield tion in Asian affairs, history and money, but to get money for stuff embodied such as truth, openness culture. The center’s staff organiz- that makes sense for the www.kaimin.org and human rights. es conferences, retreats and dia- University,” he said. Weidner says he’s up to the logues around themes that incor- challenge of representing the lega- porate Asian perspectives, accord- See MANSFIELD, Page 12 West Nile risk decreases with fall weather Katherine Sather said. “There have been some cases infected out of the state. ed, Johnston said. Many become month in south Phillips County, and Kaimin Reporter in horses, but not in humans.” West Nile virus symptoms are worried about the disease when he urges area residents to report any The state works with agencies flu-like, said Brant Goode, infec- they see it in the news. game birds they find dead. Health offi- Colder like the Missoula County Health tious disease intervention specialist “Every time they see an article, “We’d like to know where the cials in Montana temperatures Department and Montana Fish, at the Missoula County Health they come in,” she said. birds were seen and any informa- hope that this may Wildlife and Parks to track the dis- Department. They include Staff at St. Patrick Hospital have tion about what they appeared year’s risk for exterminate ease in Montana. All agencies are headaches, body aches, rashes and not diagnosed anyone with any like,” Thomson said. West Nile virus carriers of preparing for an onslaught in west- swollen glands, and last three to form of West Nile virus. Thomson said that West Nile is will be put to virus ern Montana next summer. five days. Area residents should still take not known to be transmitted by rest within the “If you notice the pattern, it’s “It affects about one in every precautions until the first frosts set consuming or handling animals that next few weeks. gradually moving across the states, five people infected,” he said. “It’s in, especially hunters, said Bill have been exposed. Additionally, An onset of cold, fall weather hitting the susceptible populations pretty self-resolving.” Thomson, of Fish, Wildlife and there’s no evidence that bird dogs should kill off the mosquito popu- and infecting those,” Mosher said. But the virus can cause a form Parks. can be infected by grouse that have lation that spreads the virus, said “Those infected are now immune to of encephalitis that is more threat- Hunting season for upland game been exposed to the disease. Elton Mosher, Health Service it and the disease is moving on to ening. Goode refers patients who birds is open and sportsmen are apt One horse in western Montana Specialist at the Department of westerly states.” think they display symptoms of to be outside during prime mosqui- was infected with West Nile virus Public Health and Human Services. This year, 210 human cases of encephalitis, which include neuro- to action: sunset and sunrise, he this month in Ronan. Local veteri- But there’s not much of a risk West Nile were recorded in logical problems like confusion and said. Mosquitoes become infected narians have been vaccinating hors- for area residents, he said. Montana, said Kay Johnston, ER dizziness, to St. Patrick Hospital. by feeding on birds with the virus. es against the disease, said Bill Only two Missoula County resi- nurse at St. Patrick Hospital. Encephalitis is rare, Goode said, Thomas urges hunters to apply Brown, a veterinarian at Western dents were infected with the dis- Each were east of the and elderly patients are most sus- insect repellent and wear long Montana Equine in Missoula. ease this summer, and they were Continental Divide, and only one ceptible. sleeves and pants. “I don’t think there’s any in exposed to it while in Colorado.