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MONTANA KAIMIN T uesday, October 7, 2003 V olume CVI, Issue 21 Alumni favor renaming Campus Drive after them Alisha Wyman many other campuses have streets called Alumni ASUM Reporter Drive. Johnston and others first sought the approval An alumnus paid for the recent Washington- of students, and ASUM responded by passing a Grizzly stadium expansion. Numerous alumni resolution last Wednesday in support of the contribute money for University of Montana effort. President Aaron Flint was unsure of the general scholarships and other projects. Many name change at first, but later decided to author volunteer to help with Homecoming and other the resolution. events. “I think it was perfect timing last week with Despite alumni contributions to the all the alumni in town for Homecoming,” he University, the campus map has no tribute to the said. “What a great way to recognize all the graduates. efforts that the alumni do.” That’s why Bill Johnston, executive director The Facilities Committee must now consider of the Alumni Association, and the Alumni the change. If the committee approves the Association board want to change the name of change, UM President George Dennison will Campus Drive to Alumni Drive. decide whether to continue the process. The association hopes to change the name of The fate of the proposal is ultimately up to the street, which wraps around the campus from the city. The alumni board must present it first the corner near the Schreiber Gym to the inter- to the city engineer and then to the City section of Fifth and Van Buren streets, to Council. It’s a process that could take weeks to remind everyone of the “importance of former months. students,” Johnston said. Expenses are limited to the cost of changing The street was most likely named Campus the street signs, Johnston said. The current cam- Drive because buildings and streets are usually pus maps would not be updated until the supply named for their function if not for a person or runs out. This would make the cost of the name entity, said Hugh Jesse, director of Facility change modest, he said. Services. Alumni deserve the honor, Flint said. Johnston presented the name-change proposal “It’s the community support that makes our Adam Bystrom/Montana Kaimin to the Alumni Association board. It’s an idea The Bio Bus runs its loop around Campus Drive Monday afternoon. The University what it is,” he said. Alumni Association is proposing renaming Campus Drive to Alumni Drive in that is not unique to UM, he said. However, light of recent contributions made to the university. UM student dies, man injured in fatal truck rollover Chelsi Moy taillights flipping in the air. Crime Reporter Laney jumped from the vehi- cle to look for Byrd after the A former University of Ford Ranger rolled down a hill Montana student has been and hit Velk’s house, court docu- charged with negligent homicide ments stated. after the truck he was driving Laney admitted to having “a rolled and his passenger, a cur- couple of beers,” although rent UM student, was ejected Missoula police are investigating from the vehicle and killed. how long he had consumed the Christopher John Laney, of alcohol before driving. Wolf Point was arrested shortly He refused a blood alcohol after the accident, which test, but his blood was drawn at occurred on Hillview Way in the hospital and submitted to the Missoula Thursday morning. Montana State Crime Lab for Katherine Byrd, 18, also of Wolf analysis. Adam Bystrom/Montana Kaimin Point, suffered massive head In court documents, Laney Chicago Tribune reporter Maurice J. Possley discusses the need for changes in the criminal justice system Monday trauma in the accident and was evening in the UC Theater. Possley is the School of Journalism’s 2003 Pollner professor and is teaching a seminar at UM said he was worried about Byrd on crime reporting. taken to St. Patrick Hospital and repeatedly inquired about where she was pronounced dead Byrd’s condition instead of later that morning, according to answering police questions. court documents. Velk said he believes the road Possley: DNA the only way The vehicle rolled one or two is improperly graded in the spot times down the road, ejecting where the accident occurred and Byrd from its passenger side, is primarily responsible for the to reform justice system said John Velk, a witness who fatal wreck. spoke to a police officer at the Byrd was a freshman at UM scene of the accident. Will Cleveland DNA is the tool that can reform memory of a 1999 graduate of this fall, while Laney was a reg- Kent Pratt, another witness, Kaimin Reporter the system. the School of Journalism who istered freshman last spring. “DNA is telling us we’ve died two years later in a motor- reported he awoke when he Both Byrd and Laney were The criminal justice system in blown a piston,” Possley said. cycle accident. heard tires squealing. He then raised in Wolf Point, a town on the United States can’t be cured “What DNA tells us is that while The lecture and visiting pro- looked out of a window to see the Fort Peck Indian reservation. with a quick remedy, but needs a we’ve got plenty of pistons still fessorship was established with massive overhaul, said a visiting firing, this is not fixable with a an endowment from Pollner’s journalism professor at the can of legislative or judicial STP. family, which brings a distin- University of Montana Monday We need an overhaul.” guished journalist to the school night. Possley’s lecture was the third each fall to teach a seminar class Maurice Possley, a Chicago annual T. Anthony Pollner www.kaimin.org Tribune crime reporter, said Lecture, a series delivered in See POSSLEY, Page 8 2 Tuesday, October 7, 2003 OPINION Montana Kaimin Versus Editorial It’s time to take responsibility for our world Arnold should terminate reason our forests are in the predicament they’re in is because the Forest Service was far too his evasive tactics aggressive in fighting wildfires, which has left One of the hallmarks of a great politician is the ability to be a Column by many forests dangerously overgrown. It turns out Smokey was blowing some smoke himself. You good communicator — a political bandwagon made as famous as it David Nolt was suspect by former president Ronald “The Great would think Smokey would be a big hemp advo- Communicator” Reagan — especially in an era where media rela- There seems to be some denial and confusion cate too, considering we could cease harvesting tions can all but make or break a political campaign. about the environment and what we’re doing to trees for paper products if we grew industrial California gubernatorial hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger has this Earth (i.e. the planet that gives you life). hemp. Somehow Uncle Sam and Smokey are still proved himself just as politically inept in terms of communications Regardless of which science you subscribe to, deathly afraid of the most useful plant known to as he has in the rest of his campaign. unprecedented changes are taking place in the man. On Monday’s edition of “Good Morning America,” cycle of this planet, and whether you accept it or Turning our national forests over to the timber Schwarzenegger did his best to field (read: ignore) Peter Jennings’ not, we humans have a heavy hand in it. industry isn’t going to stop forest fires, no matter questions surrounding his campaign, including whether or not he There are a few options for us. We can: A) what they tell you. They’ve left us little reason to admired Hitler (“I always was against anything and despised any- Deny that there is a problem all together. trust them. Our forests have been mismanaged for thing that Hitler stood for and what the Nazis stood for”) and the B) Admit there’s a problem, but not give a shit twenty-some odd years, and yes, some thinning is validity of reports of inappropriately groping women in his past. about it because “We’re human beings, God damn needed. We just can’t seem to find any common While he was able to answer charges related to the former with it.” ground on the definition of “thinning.” To most ease, the same could not be said for his response to the latter. C) Admit that, “It might be environmentalists it means sus- tainable logging. To the timber With all the subtlety of a steroid-infused rhinoceros, possible that there’s the possibili- The problem in all of our industry it means the more trees Schwarzenegger charged through Jennings’ questions, choosing to ty of a problem, but it’s too early thinking is that we think we you cut the more money you get, answer the query of whether or not the alleged groper of years past to tell so we’re not going to understand the natural world.