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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 6 SPORTS 8 ARTS Play adds new twist to Cal Poly, UC Davis join old fairytale Big Sky 10 NEWS football Study Abroad league Fair brings flavor to UC montana Volume CX1V Issue 5 www.montanakaimin.comkaiminWednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 CAMPUS Food Zoo turns fries into fertilizer Erin Cole Montana Kaimin Over the summer break, two silver rectangles were moved into a corner of the gold-tiled Food Zoo dish room. While the unassuming machines look like high-tech dishwashers, they are actually the latest step in the evolution of how Dining Services handles its waste. According to Dining Services Director Mark LoParco, uncon- sumed portions from students’ meals used to get thrown away in bulk. Despite later purchas- ing a food pulper to cut down on the volume and sending some of the leftovers to the PEAS Farm to be used as compost, LoParco was still looking for a more en- vironmentally-friendly disposal method. Enter the two eCorect 100 Waste Reducers. According to LoParco, the two machines, which turn compostable waste into a rich soil fertilizer, are the first to arrive in the Northwest. “The need was created by us wanting to do more sustainable business practices,” he said. Ben Coulter / Montana Kaimin Dining Services Director Mark LoParco stands beside a fresh batch of soil enhancement Tuesday morning in the Food Zoo. The dining facility recently in- See FOOD ZOO, page 4 stalled two new waste reduction machines capable of converting over 200 pounds of compostable material and food waste into soil enhancement in a matter of hours. CAMPUS Law school honors Transgender group seeks support Kate Whittle Montana Kaimin pointment with a trans woman der individuals in the city, as of plane crash victim therapist in Missoula. last year,” said Sutherland. She The first time Bree Suther- Sutherland walked out of estimates that about 150 trans Justin Franz land talked to a therapist, it that first session an hour an individuals are on campus. Montana Kaimin changed her life. a half later with “a million The University of Montana In 2008, Sutherland, a trans- pounds let off [her] chest.” has its own transgender ther- Tears and sorrow were overwhelmed by laughter and fond gender woman, was living as a Since then, she’s become apy group, which is seeking memories Tuesday afternoon during an hour-long memorial ser- man and trying to ignore her a trans activist and started members this fall. vice in honor of former University of Montana student Brian Wil- feelings. “At the time, I knew sponsoring her own Missoula This fall marks the fourth se- liams, who died in a plane crash in June. I was a girl, I knew the way I transgender support group, mester the Department of Clini- On June 27, Williams, 28, and three friends — Sonny Kless, a UM felt, but I didn’t want to accept which is just part of the re- cal Psychology has organized graduate, Erika Hoefer and Melissa Weaver, a recent UM graduate it,” she said. “I decided to go to source network for Montanans the group, said student clinician and former editor for the Montana Kaimin — boarded a small plane a therapist to have her tell me struggling with identity issues. and co-facilitator Leslie Croot. See MEMORIAL, page 5 I’m not trans.” She made an ap- “There’s roughly 750 transgen- See TRANSGENDER, page 4 http://twitter.com/ 68°F | 48°F UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 KaiminNews Montana Kaimin 2 OPINION Wednesday, September 8, 2010 EDITORIAL EDITORIAL CARTOON COT needs legislative help by Roman Stubbs, Editor Construction on University of Montana’s main campus has been prevalent the last five years, and our campus has gorgeous new structures to prove it. The Payne Family Na- tive American Center, Don Anderson Hall, even the glis- tening new luxury boxes in Washington Grizzly Stadium — much of it is a testament to the generosity of private do- nors who have devoted millions to this school’s facilities. This is what we see every day — and it’s not hard for cartoon by Joe Veltkamp students on the main campus to often take for granted how comfortable and spacious the facilities really are. A mile SCIENCE COLUMN and a half south at the UM College of Technology, where enrollment has been booming in the past two years, many students are learning in trailers set up in a parking lot. The things I think I think: The primary COT facility was built 42 years ago and was intended to hold 700 students; today, more than 2,000 are enrolled on the campus. The bed bugs do bite It is important to remember that things could be a lot worse. But the sister campus isn’t likely to see any seven- or eight-figure private donations soon — and even though the Board of Regents have made the COT a top construc- by David Elison tion priority when it disperses money from the Montana Legislature each year, the renovation process remains at an Have you told your big city ally have the capacity to live treatment in an oatmeal bath. urgent pause. friends to “sleep tight” lately? essentially anywhere and in Yep, that’s right. If you go The promising news is that the construction at the COT If not, then you might be re- any climate. Bed bugs have to the emergency room you has also been a priority of the UM administration for many sponsible for the resurgence been shown to survive tem- get the oatmeal bath, anyway, years — and President Dennison reiterated its importance of the proverbial bed bug that peratures as low as -26°C to up- so you might as well just do it in his university address two weeks ago. ASUM will put has occurred across the nation. ward of 115°C (almost as wide at home and save yourself the forth a pair of resolutions this evening that, if passed, will Don’t worry, though; I didn’t as the range tolerable to hu- costs. push for a student lobbyist to advocate for funding when think they were real either. mans, which is pretty insane The itchiness of the bite is the legislature convenes in January and would install wire- Turns out the bed bug, or for a bug) and are only about caused by a part of the insect’s less internet on COT West’s location. Those are steps in the Cimex lectularius, is real. The as tall as the numbers on your mouth called the stylet, which right direction. A tough economic time naturally sends critter is about the size of a credit card, which means they the insect pushes through the more students back to school, and students at the COT pinhead, and has a taste for are everywhere. Once they get victim’s skin to receive its re- are developing workforce skills that will eventually help your blood unmatched by any in, they are damn hard to get ward: a blood meal (that IS a stimulate downtrodden industries. The legislature has de- “Twilight” character. And it’s out. Cue the bites in the night, technical term). Removal of voted nearly $1 million in feasibility and design projects back. Mostly eradicated from which I guess earns them the the stylet causes the skin to for the new facility in two of the last three sessions, but the developed world in the name. lift slightly, which results in an with enrollment steadily overflowing the campus, it should 1940s and ‘50s through use of Though they carry no itchy welt. A break in the exter- be a primary goal of the legislature to give these students the insecticide dichlorodiphen- known human diseases, the nal defense of the body is now a permanent home and the resources to be competitive in yltrichloroethane, or DDT, bed bites inflicted by the bed bug present, and the victim is at a the marketplace. bug numbers have slowly risen are painful and annoying. higher risk of infection, espe- Board of Regents and administration prioritizing can again. Imagine a mosquito bite that cially if they scratch the wound only go so far without a legislature that delivers. It would Since the Environmental you have itched like a crazy with dirty hands. be foolish to neglect the fact that this is a costly endeavor Protection Agency outlawed mutt for four days that be- Health advisors are meeting — $44 million total, $33.5 million without a culinary wing DDT in 1972 (due to the fact comes the size of a nickel and now to find out how to effec- — but even if the legislature was unable to allocate a ma- that it killed bald eagles by the redder than tomato paste.