Finding home UM soccer coach's journey to U.S. citizenship PAGE 16 NEWS ARTS OPINION Sports safety Mauna Kea Appropriating solutions protests Halloween PAGE 5 PAGE 8 PAGE 14 Volume 122, Issue No. 9, October 23, 2019 KIOSK | ABOUT US OPINION | EDITORIAL Cover photo Sara Diggins Cover design Lindsey Sewell EDITORIAL STAFF HELP WANTED Editor-in-Chief Arts & Culture Cassidy Alexander Editors Elderly woman needs help Participation in government is a right. Don’t limit it. Erin Sargent Business Manager Lily Soper Patrick Boise with cleaning. Friendly Multimedia Editor Cutting constituents off from the nies,” was scheduled to discuss a fee ing. They should also have ample oppor- classes or work, spending a significant News & Sports Sara Diggins atmosphere. Pay $18/hr. Editors opportunity to engage in public comment that would make using solar energy tunity to reschedule based on any chang- amount of money on gas in the process. Sydney Akridge Design Editors is the ultimate disrespect to students and more expensive for many Montanans. es. The government’s ability to function When officials cancel an open meeting, Helena Dore Jaqueline Evans-Shaw Contact Carol at (818) 314-9656. Daylin Scott the public at large. It means many mem- UM students and Missoula residents depends on a robust connection with the they limit the voices they hear about an bers of the public can’t express their views who opposed the fee took time off of public, yet there are still many barriers to issue. Student participation in govern- NEWSROOM STAFF Seeking someone to create an to their elected representatives, which classes and work to drive nearly two participation, especially among students. ment doesn’t just depend on students’ means many important voices go unheard. hours to Helena so they could participate According to an annual survey efforts to participate. It also depends on The Montana Kaimin is a weekly independent student News Reporters Multimedia Staff app which would trigger play- For the second time, Montana’s Public in public comment. They were given no conducted by U.S. News, between 2016 the government’s willingness to accom- newspaper at the University of Montana. It does not condone Mazana Boerboom Quinn Corcoran Paul Hamby Daniel Duensing ing of music when in the prox- Service Commission cancelled an open explanation regarding the cancellation. and 2017, fewer than 50% of universi- modate and respect their participation. or encourage any illegal activities. The Kaimin office and the JoAnn Martin Jiakai Lou University of Montana are located on land originally inhabited Aidan Morton Liam McCollum imity of a known RFID device/ meeting shortly before its scheduled Regardless of the reasons behind can- ty students nationwide brought a car by the Salish People. Kaimin is a derivative of a Salish Addie Slanger Claire Shinner time on Oct. 15. The agency, which is celling the meetings, the PSC’s move sig- to campus. Since nearly all meetings Emma Smith language word, “Qeymin,”‘ that is pronounced kay-MEEN and tag. Example, smart phone or responsible for regulating “the rates naled a lack of respect and consideration between state government officials are means “book,” “message,” or “paper that brings news.” Sports Reporters Hunter Wiggins Dante Filpula Ankney music player to auto start a and service quality for investor owned for constituents’ opinions. The public held in Helena, many students may not For comments, corrections or letters to the editor, contact Jack Marshall Copy Chief electric, natural gas, water, waste-water, should have ample opportunity to know have a way to travel to them. Those who [email protected] or call (406) 243-4310. Luke Schmit Luke Smith Griffen Smith music play list when nearby and legacy telecommunication compa- the time and location of any public meet- do often must take time off from their For advertising opportunities, contact Copy Editor the RFID device. Bluetooth Week of 10/21/19 - 10/27/19 [email protected] or call (406) 243-6541. Arts & Culture Andrea Halland Reporters LIKE IT? HATE IT? WISH WE WERE DEAD? FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Meghan Jonas Cartoonist could also be used in place of Email us your opinions at Drew Novak Cooper Malin [email protected] Serena Palmer RFID. @MONTANAKAIMIN Jordynn Paz Office Assistants Noelle Annonen Ava Cline Please call or text Ruth at Katie Lindner Designers Norbert Weber (224) 200-7847. MONTANA KAIMIN Kaitlin Clifford Constance Darlington Advisers Lily Johnson Jule Banville @MONTANAKAIMIN Lindsey Sewell Leah Sottile TABLE OF CONTENTS SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke Difficulty: Easy HOW TO SOLVE: 6 8 Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and BRIEFS & BLOTTER 4 STUDYING’S FOR NERDS 13 1 8 7 each set of 3 by 3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 to 9. NEWS 5-7 CULTURAL APPROPRIATION 14 1 7 MAUNA KEA 8-9 HOROSCOPE 15 4 5 3 Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: 4 8 7 9 6 5 1 3 2 PHD REQUIREMENTS 10 COVER STORY 16-19 4 3 6 1 8 7 2 5 9 4 MEET ROCKY 11 SPORTS 20-23 3 1 2 8 5 9 2 3 4 1 7 8 6 2 3 6 4 1 7 8 5 9 DOES MY BIRD LIKE IT? 12 GALLERY 24 2 9 4 1 8 4 9 6 5 3 2 1 7 1 7 5 2 9 8 6 4 3 6 3 9 5 3 1 2 6 4 7 8 9 4 8 6 1 4 7 8 9 3 2 5 Copyright 2019 by The Puzzle Syndicate 7 2 8 5 3 4 9 6 1 COOPER MALIN | MONTANA KAIMIN 2 October 23, 2019 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com October 23, 2019 3 NEWS | BRIEFS & BLOTTER NEWS | CAMPUS SAFETY UM, GRIZ ATHLETICS GETS SUED… of what is causing pulmonary illnesses. AGAIN The lawsuit said around 20 shops in Misidentified minors, shattered Montana could be in danger of closing if UM takes new measures to prepare for the worst A man filed a civil lawsuit the ban went into effect. Bullock’s PAUL HAMBY against a Griz football player office said the purpose of shields and golf cart capers [email protected] and the University after the ban is for researchers OCT. 10: BANNACK PANIC the football player to look into illnesses chain and cable put up little resis- Fans attending the Griz- tracked down the suspect. pleaded guilty in and deaths linked to University of Montana tance against bolt cutters. As zly home games at Washing- “What we learned from the January to a mis- e-cigarettes, accord- police assisted in issuing always, Lt. Giffin said students ton-Grizzly Stadium for the past lockout was that our response demeanor assault, ing to a press release an order of restitution can buy U-locks from from few weeks walked past a new times in locking exterior doors according to the from the Governor’s after somebody decided the Office of Public Safety feature: bollards—defensive to all buildings needed serious Missoulian. Lorenzo Office from Oct. 8. to smash the wind- for $20 and register their traffic posts—installed to prevent improvement. I think it took SHOOTINGS Brown, a defensive The Montana shield of a car parked in bikes with the University. anyone from running a vehicle police two hours to lock up all end for the Griz, Department of Bannack Court. Along into the tailgating crowds. of the buildings,” Emnett said. punched the man Health and Human with a criminal mischief OCT. 15: COMBS OVER In addition to bollards, which All the residence halls and 400 in the face, knocking Services has reported charge, the offending protect an average of 20,000 most of the newer buildings on out one of his teeth and three deaths linked to shield shatterer must pay for Somebody attending the tailgaters per game, Grizzly campus have exterior door Griz breaking his upper jaw at a vaping. The Center for Dis- damage to the car. When asked Luke Combs concert at the Ad- Athletics have also implemented Card locks that can be locked COLLEGE house party last November. The ease Control has linked vaping for a motive, UMPD Lt. Giffin said, “Who ams Center seemed to love country music a “clear bags” policy for home automatically in an emergency. victim, Noah Willison, alleges that he to nearly 1,500 pulmonary illness cases knows? They’re still going to pay for it.” but hate subtlety. Police halted the “clearly games, limiting those enter- Currently, UM safety policy has already paid over $5,000 in medical and more than 30 deaths nationwide. inebriated” concertgoer a little over a half ing the stadium to plastic bags advises all those on campus CAMPUSES bills, despite monthly restitution from (SYDNEY AKRIDGE) OCT. 11: ROLLER DURPY hour into the show. A quick bit of investigat- and purses no bigger than a outside during a lockout to 132 the perpetrator. Brown was ordered to ing revealed that the person was not only clutch. Magnetometers at the go to the western entrance pay Willison more than $27,000 through MONTANA WOMAN IN NASA’S FIRST The saga between skateboarders and underage, but also possessed a fake ID. stadium entrance also became of the University Center. monthly payments of $100 over 22 years, ALL-WOMAN SPACE WALK campus police continued this week. After a new screening measure at the Missoula College faced but Willison’s attorney alleges the victim receiving two weeks of calls about inconsid- OCT. 18: SECONDHAND SLEUTH start of the football season. a similar lockdown in 2018, needs compensation now.