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MONTANA KAIMIN Friday, February 20, 2004 V olume CVI, Issue 66 Try, try again Advice discourages blind student Natalie Storey every few steps. He told them the said. “You are using potentially Montana Kaimin news shyly: He was withdrawing harmful radiation and you can’t put from classes because he was dis- patients at risk that way.” Scott Boege’s enlarged eyes stare couraged from continuing in the Ceela Mcelveny, a public affairs out from behind multiple layers of radiology program. He’s changed representative for the American magnifying lenses like an insect’s. his mind about going to school at Society of Radiologic Technology, He’s wearing his “Back to the UM. Instead he’s now planning to said she agrees that radiology is a Future glasses,” as he calls them. go to school somewhere else to get visual science. The industry has The glasses help visually impaired a master’s degree in health admin- practice standards that say technol- people see better. They make him istration. ogists must be able to look at and look a little funny, he knows, but Scott has no peripheral vision, determine whether the images they he had to wear them during his and his partial blindness was have taken are of high quality, and classes at the University of brought on by diabetes. He sees they must also be able to monitor Montana’s College of Technology. through small cracks, or as he says, the production of the image. When Scott was still going to “I have tunnel vision, literally.” “X-rays are basically different class he always made sure to sit in Scott’s advisers said they felt it shades of gray,” Mcelveny said. the front of class. He often brought was their duty to inform him of the “The radiological technologist a tape recorder along with his difficulties a visually impaired per- needs to be able to look at that glasses to class. The glasses, tape son would face when trying to get image and determine if it’s good recorder and front-row seat helped a job as a radiological technologist. enough to give to the radiologist or Scott earn a B last semester in “We felt we had an obligation to the technician.” anatomy — considered the radiolo- Scott to say that this might be more But succeeding as a radiological gy program’s hardest class — involved and intense than he might technologist was something Scott despite the fact that he is partially have anticipated,” said Lynn always thought he could do. blind. Stocking, associate dean at the “In my experience of shadowing But last Thursday Scott dropped COT. “Do we just let someone go radiology representatives I was out of school at the COT, ending down that path to let them find out able to get where I needed to go his pursuit of a career as a radio- that it’s not accomplishable? Then with my cane,” he said. “I was able logical technologist. He was told you end up in a situation where to see the things I needed to see. I by advisers at the COT that it someone is asking, ‘Why didn’t wouldn’t be able to run through the would be hard for him to get a job you give me all the information?’” hospital, but no one should do that that requires a person to take X- Ann Delaney, adviser for the anyway.” rays. Although Scott still thinks it radiology program, said she wanted Scott’s red and white cane might have been possible, for now to make sure Scott was aware of bumps lightly against obstacles, he says he’s given up. the challenges he would face so he such as a curb, that come up in his Adam Bystrom/Montana Kaimin He walked slowly down the hall- could make the best choice for path. Tap, tap, tap. To any other “Okay, try it now...Okay, try it now,” was all that could be heard coming way Thursday, partially because he from underneath a stalled vehicle on University Ave. Thursday afternoon. himself and his future. partially blind person an unexpect- The couple was unable to start their truck and eventually called for further walks with a cane, but mostly “This is a visual science,” she help. because his friends stopped him See BLIND, Page 12 Alumni share decades of university memories Alisha Wyman baby boomers flooded campuses across the students could go out the back door across the degree with majors in social science and bio- Montana Kaimin country. alley to the Top Hat, then out the front door of logical science in 1967 at Western Montana But Fritz attended UM between those the Top Hat and across the street to College in Dillon, Couture began working In 111 years, the University of Montana has times. It was a transition period for universi- Stockman’s. toward a Master of Arts in guidance and provided an education for many of its own. ties, he said. Fritz saw George Dennison’s band play at counseling at UM. His education was a strong Those students have returned after graduat- “I think the university population was the Rathskellar, a bar that was in the basement force in his life at the time, he said. ing to pass on what they learned to current growing very slowly,” he said. of The Bodega and used picnic tables as fur- “I’ve always believed even at that stage of students, perpetuating a cycle of UM’s legacy Between World War II and the Vietnam niture, he said. my education that the University was a high- across generations. War, a resurgence of conservatism resulted in Charles Couture, dean of students, also quality institution,” Couture said. Whether they graduated in 1962, like histo- a quieter student voice. attended school in the ’60s, but he graduated A “laid-back” environment ry department chairman and professor Harry “It was a different university then,” he said. from UM in 1969, at the close of the decade. By the end of the 1960s, UM came alive Fritz, who received his master’s degree at “They still had a dean of men and a dean of In 1967, five years after Fritz left UM, the with demonstrations against the Vietnam War. UM, or in 1986, like Kate Gadbow, the direc- women.” University still held its parental position, While Charlie Thorne, assistant to the vice tor of the creative writing program, graduates The University saw itself as a parent and Couture said. president for student affairs, never participat- have witnessed first-hand the changes UM enforced a dress code and curfews for stu- “We’ve certainly gotten away from that,” ed in the protests, he remembers the prevalent has gone through as it aged. dents living in the dorms. he said. “Students are very independent now fear of the draft. He and many other students A parental UM But this didn’t stop students from enjoying and make their own decisions from the were required to have a physical in Butte. In the mid-1950s, interest in education themselves. An art-deco bar called the Flame moment they arrive.” swelled with the GI Bill. In the mid-’60s, Lounge was a popular hangout. From there, After completing a secondary education See MEMORIES, Page 12 Charter Day events mark UM’s 111th birthday Matt Pritchard on campus and her involvement in does for the campus and the com- John and Katy Delano, graduates Dennison Staff Award, Johnny Lott, For the Kaimin student sponsored activities, said munity,” Flint said. of the University of Montana, will who is receiving the Dennison ASUM President Aaron Flint. Several other awards will be be presented with the Neil S. Faculty Award and Don and Pat The University of Montana will ASUM took nominations from given out today to faculty and Bucklew Presidential Service Simmons, who are receiving the honor some of its best faculty students and student groups and alumni. Award from the UM Foundation. Montana Alumni Award. members, students and alumni chose Douglas at the end of last Roberta Evans, a professor of They have been an influence on According to “The University of today as part of Charter Day, cele- semester for the award. education, will be given the Robert their community and have brought Montana, a History,” by H.G. brating UM’s 111th birthday. “Jacole is amazing,” said ASUM T. Pantzer Award, which has been that influence back to the Merriam, UM was created Feb. 17, Events will begin at 1 p.m. in the Vice President Gale Price. “She is distributed since 1975 and honors University, said Kathie Nygaard, 1893, by the Montana Legislature UC atrium, where a birthday cake only a sophomore and yet she sets people that have “promoted an public relations manager for the when it set aside money for the will be served.