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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 6 SPORTS Q+ The lone Griz A Mauler 5 ARTS 7 SPORTS Jason Webley, all-folk Griz goin’ troubadour wild montana Volume CX111 Issue 54 www.montanakaimin.comkaiminWednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 CAMPUS Engstrom: Hateful speech is inexcusable Heidi Groover Montana Kaimin Racist posters hung around The University of Montana Music Building last week have prompted calls for more accep- tance of diversity on campus. Music professors spoke to classes about diversity and President Royce Engstrom sent out a campus-wide e-mail Mon- day calling for tolerance. “We’re still trying to figure out what was behind this,” Engstrom said Tuesday. “We are trying to focus at this point on continuing to educate our campus community about nur- Ben Coulter/Montana Kaimin turing diversity of thought.” Lisa Dell (left) and Alex Jernstrom laugh together in the UC Tuesday as they hand out candy and therapeutic salts from the Alpha Phi Heart Health booth. The notes contained hateful statements and encouraged viewers to visit a related website, said Dean Preventing broken hearts of Students Charles Couture, but he refused to give any specifics. Engstrom sent a campus- Erin Cole conditions. When combined, While many will welcome “It’s such a great deal that wide e-mail Monday calling Montana Kaimin they account for 35.3 percent of the news around Valentine’s I encourage students to do it the messages “hateful” and “ra- deaths in women over 20, five Day that eating chocolate and once so they can have that in- cially derogatory,” but neither It’s not uncommon to think times more than breast cancer. drinking wine are good for formation on file,” she said. he nor Couture would specify of hearts during the month of In order to raise awareness, the heart, it’s important to keep Other campus groups and what the posters said or toward February, yet the focus tends Woody’s sorority, Alpha Phi, has moderation in mind, according events are rallying to support what group they were directed. to spotlight the romantic one, set up shop in the UC atrium this to Karen Behan, clinic manager the cause. Those attending the Director of UM Public Safety rather than the physical one. week to recognize February as at the Curry Health Center. Feb. 3 Lady Griz basketball Jim Lemcke said his office has This is unfortunate, accord- American Heart Month. “The downside is the calories,” game against Weber State are no official report, but hateful ing to University of Montana Along with dispensing in- she said. “A little bit goes a long encouraged to wear red while messages spread on campus student Lauren Woody, because formation, Alpha Phi members ways.” the week culminates with Go targeting a certain group or heart disease is the number one are handing out dark chocolate, While risk does increase Red for Women Day on Fri- threatening violence could vio- killer of American women. lavender bath salts and stress with age, Behan said it’s im- day. Woody said she hopes to late the student conduct code. “It’s a big issue that’s fac- squeeze balls. portant to instill healthy life- see fellow students wearing red. “If someone is posting offen- ing a lot of women and a lot of “A lot of people don’t know style habits earlier rather than “It’s nice to tell people about it,” sive things that interfere with the them don’t know,” the junior that [heart disease] is something later. This includes refraining Woody said. “We’re trying to help learning environment then that’s studying organizational com- that’s pretty easily preventable,” from binge drinking, avoid- out.” a problem,” Lemcke said. “We munication said. Woody said. ing a sedentary lifestyle, not In addition to raising heart would take steps to remedy that The National Coalition for Research has found that dark smoking and maintaining a disease awareness at the booth, and correct that behavior if we Women with Heart Disease esti- chocolate, along with red wine, healthy blood pressure. Alpha Phi also hosts its Red find out who the offender is.” mates that 42 million American contains flavonoids known to If students are concerned Dress Gala each fall. Money Couture said the messages women have some form of heart boost cardiovascular health and about their heart health, Be- earned from the event goes violated multiple sections of disease, many unknowingly. reduce high cholesterol. Mean- han said Curry offers students to the sorority’s foundation to the conduct code. He encour- Heart disease is an umbrella while, stress reduction is also who’ve paid the health fee $9 help fund awareness and re- aged witnesses to contact his term that includes heart attacks, cited as beneficial in preventing lipid panels and $22 full chem- search. strokes and other heart-related the disease. istry panels. [email protected] See DIVERSITY, page 8 twitter.com/ 21°F | 10°F UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Wednesday, February 2, 2011 EDITORIAL TECH COLUMN Zeros and ones This pint is for you Can you hear me now? by Justin Franz, News Editor by Brady Moore Sunday evening. Downtown Missoula. Flathead Brewing Company tap room. Your time has come. That’s ple to use and has the most There’s an accessory for that. It’s the perfect moment. Just a few good friends sitting right, those of you who have apps: over 300,000. The Veri- Just a plain iPhone not quite around a table enjoying some quality beer. It’s moments like signed your life away to Veri- zon iPhone will also work as a fancy enough for you? Style this where nothing else matters, not even the fact that I have zon are at long last able to get WiFi hotspot. That means you it up with a designer brand to write an editorial in the next few days. an iPhone. Is it worth it? Here can use your laptop and check leather case. I thought long and hard about what to write today. I con- is a pros and cons list to help your Facebook in the dead Cons: sidered doing an editorial about Higher One and the UM you decide. center of the Oval, or sitting on • The iPhone 5. If tradition Debt card, but kicking them while they’re already down (at Pros: Mount Sentinel. Imagine the continues, Apple will come least in the public opinion of this campus) didn’t seem right, • Verizon. It’s “America’s possibilities. out with a new iPhone early and they still have my personal information, and God knows Most Reliable Network.” Here • Angry Birds. It’s the great- this summer. If you just can’t what they’ll do if I piss them off. in Montana, it’s the only reli- est game since The Oregon Trail wait and get your iPhone Then I remembered that beer from Sunday night and Senate able network. While a short and the best 99 cents you’ll ever next week, you’ll be stuck Bill 202, a piece of legislation that could change the course of his- drive out of Missoula will ren- spend. And it sure as hell beats with a soon-to-be obsolete tory in both Montana and America for generations to come. der any phone useless, here in the crossword for a class-time phone for two years. I’m talking, of course, about the proposal that would change town you’ll have dependable distraction. • Lack of multitasking. brewery tap room hours from 10 a.m. through 8 p.m. to noon service almost anywhere. • Accessories. The iPhone Looking for Fandango tickets through 10 p.m. • The iPhone. Arguments has every accessory you can to the new Justin Bieber mov- The advantages to this are many, in my opinion, includ- can be made for other smart imagine. Want to make your ie while talking to your BFF? ing giving breweries an extra two hours to sell their product. phones, but in my opinion the modern, do-everything phone Not gonna happen on the You might be thinking that my math is off, I realize that noth- iPhone can’t be beat. It’s sim- look like it’s from the ‘80s? See TECH, page 8 ing would change in the number of hours they’re allowed to be open. They will, however, be able to remain open during FORIEGN EXCHANGE COLUMN hours in which people are more likely to drink. I mean with the exception of maybe a Griz game, people rarely drink be- fore noon, but after 8 p.m. is a different story. Wee Words from Edinburgh: Of course not all breweries are in support of this, including the management of our hometown favorite: the Kettlehouse, who, as reported in yesterday’s Kaimin, said that they weren’t Energy audits: interested in staying open later because they didn’t want their tap room to take on the atmosphere of a bar.