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UM’S INDEPENDENT CAMPUS NEWSPAPER SINCE 1898 Arts THE PICTURE BEYOND THE FRAME page 9 page 2 MONTANA KAIMIN Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Volume CIX, Issue 89 www.montanakaimin.com Weather Partly cloudy Asbestos review firm responds MILY ARRELL to be ready over a year ago, but was bought out by RGA one year to hear that McCaslin had MOENTANAD KAIMIN 51 F that UM’s Dan Corti, director for ago, did issue a final report, but returned a reporter’s phone call environmental health and risk that UM kept requesting further regarding the matter. Each day in the University of management, says he’s never changes to it. UM paid an initial “He’s steadfastly refused to Montana’s Clapp Building stu- seen. fee of around $2,000 to Prezant contact me,” Corti said of dents explore the mysteries of sci- Last Friday, in a telephone Associates. McCaslin. ence. interview, George “Jerry” McCaslin said the changes UM Corti has not spoken with Arts One of the biggest mysteries in McCaslin, the general manager kept requesting were minor, and McCaslin in the past year, nor the Clapp Building, however, con- for the Seattle-based RGA that eventually the company with Brad Prezant, the former ‘Urine’ for a show cerns the building itself – more Environmental Inc. said that became frustrated with the CEO of the now-defunct Prezant specifically an asbestos-related air Prezant Associates, the company requests. quality report that was supposed that McCaslin worked for until it Corti said he was very surprised See ASBESTOS, Page 4 page 9 Dance, Dance Sports NFL sniffs around Swogger page 11 Primary for ASUM president today ETER ULGER MONTANAP B KAIMIN Voting for the ASUM presiden- tial primary election began at 12:01 a.m. this morning on Cyberbear and will continue through 8 p.m. tonight with one team of executive candidates fac- ing elimination. The primary pits three presi- dential candidates along with their vice presidential running mates against each other. The two president-vice president teams that receive the most votes will Tim Kupsick/Montana Kaimin Students for Economic and Social Justice dance in the hallway of UM President George Dennison’s and Vice President Jim Foley’s offices in Main Hall on Tuesday. SESJ is advocating that UM purchases “sweat- square off in ASUM’s general free” clothing. election on April 25 and 26. Votes can be cast on Cyberbear, and each student can cast two votes. The three teams of candidates are as follows: Jose Diaz, an Dance-in latest of SESJ protests ESSICA AYRER ASUM senator and a senior, is MJONTANAMKAIMIN ing manufacturers. The group says istration, and the students have with them after their little stunt running for president alongside UM is likely purchasing clothes been unable to make another one, today.” Shandi Torgerson, a sophomore. About 25 members of Students from factories that commit human Schabacker said. Members of SESJ, however, Dustin Leftridge, an ASUM sena- for Economic and Social Justice rights violations. It wants UM to As of press time, the Kaimin said they saw the dance-in as their tor and a junior, is running for marched into University of sign onto the Worker Rights was unable to reach UM adminis- only option. president alongside Tara Ness, an Montana President George Consortium, a non-profit group trators for comment. “We have to resort to dance- ASUM senator and a sophomore. Dennison’s office on Tuesday that monitors labor practices of ASUM president Andrea ins,” Schabacker said. “We are And current ASUM Vice morning to hold a dance-in, garment manufacturers across the Helling, who said she has strongly eight months in and nothing sub- President Cedric Jacobson is run- demanding UM purchase only globe and certifies them as sweat- supported SESJ’s cause from the stantive has been done. Their inac- ning for ASUM’s top spot with certified sweatshop-free Grizzly free. beginning, frowned at the idea of tion is an action, in and of itself.” ASUM senator Ryan Nalty, a jun- apparel. SESJ organized the dance-in the dance-in. Schabacker said because UM ior, as his running mate. “We have our demands and because its demands have been “I don’t think that staging a sells a disproportionate amount of “It’s good to pick the best peo- we’re going to dance,” said Sam placed on the back burner for protest in the president’s office to Griz gear, 46th nationally in over- ple to go forward because the Schabacker of SESJ. eight months, Schabacker said. make the point is the right way to all athletic apparel sales, the people who face off in the general SESJ formed to ensure UM The group’s last appointment with go about it,” Helling said. “I think administration’s response is election will shape how things go buys all of its Grizzly athletic gear Executive Vice President Jim that they should be happy if the See ASUM, Page 6 from certified “sweat-free” cloth- Foley was canceled by the admin- University continues to negotiate See DANCE, Page 4 M O N T A N A K A I M I N 2 Opinion Wednesday, April 11, 2007 THE PICTURE BEYOND THE FRAME: Editorial Scientists get desperate as U.S. Out with the occupation, in with the cooperation continues to ignore global warming Fortunately, the United States has come up against the vexing realities of post-war reconstruction before. The aftermath of World War II taught us that In the not-so-distant future, a swarm of small spaceships could be massive investment in the infrastructure and economy hovering above earth. Nearly 16 trillion of them would float around of a destroyed country yields impressive results. In the atmosphere, casting a shadow on the entire planet by blocking 1948, this policy was adopted in the form of the out most of the sun’s rays. Marshall Plan, a four-year economic aid program for No, this isn’t a scene from the latest sci-fi blockbuster in which Western European countries to the tune of $16 billion aliens attack and take over the world. It’s actually one of several – then a stunning sum of money. outrageous solutions scientists have developed to combat the ever- The method worked – Western Europe was rebuilt increasing problem of global warming. Other ideas include planting and stabilized. It will work in Iraq too. Iraq doesn’t artificial metal “trees” that would absorb carbon dioxide, as well as need more troops on the ground; it needs more dumping an enormous amount of iron into the ocean to promote the opportunities to build an economy. It doesn’t need a growth of algae, which absorb carbon dioxide while releasing oxy- U.S. corporation to build its bridge; it needs the gen. Tens of thousands of Shiites supporting the radical cement between Iraqis’ fingers – fingers that can then With everything we know about the causes and prevention of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in Iraq on buy bread and books after work. It doesn’t need a global warming, why have scientists resorted to developing such Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of temporary military surge; it needs a massive, long- absurd solutions to the problem? Baghdad to U.S. troops. term economic program to regenerate its educational According to The Associated Press, which reported on the out- Only the protest was not entirely celebratory. The system, its health care and its infrastructure. landish schemes, “they are not substitutes for cutting back on car- throng – which included men and women – marched “Whoa,” comes the response from the political bon dioxide emissions, but last-ditch efforts in case things get three miles between the holy cities of Kufa and realists and fiscal conservatives. Spend hard-earned worse.” Unfortunately, the United States, the only current global Najaf, burning and stomping American flags along American money to stop a Sunni from killing a Shia superpower and one of the leading producers of carbon dioxide the way. Spurred to demonstration by Muqtada al- half way around the world? Yes. Immediately. emissions, hasn’t done its part to reduce them. Sadr and the Mahdi Army militia he commands, the Consider what President Truman’s secretary of In 2001, President Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto marchers offered the drumbeat of their footsteps to state had to say about the Marshall Plan: “These Protocol negotiations, and refused to sign the agreement when 141 their shouts of “No, no, no to America.” measures of relief and reconstruction have only in other nations ratified it in 2005. More recently, the United Nations Meanwhile, back in Washington, democracy in part been suggested by humanitarianism. Your released a report revealing a grim outlook on the planet’s future if Iraq has never looked scarier.