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UMʼs Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 Montana KaiminVolume CX, Issue 35 Friday Home sweet home October 26, 2007 Forecast High 50F Low 29F Arts Turn up The Volumen7 Sports Cross Country championships9 On Campus Today •”Art 4 Lit” Cutbank Literary Magazine Fundraiser Laurie Lane Studio 141 S. 3rd St. W. Shane McMillan / Montana Kaimin free will donation Japanese exchange students Kozue Tokunaga and Azusa Tsuchimochi use pins to point out their hometowns on a world map at a reception Thursday night at the Davidson Honors College. The Mix and Mingle event was created to help international students meet each other and American students. •Contemporary Chamber Players, Music Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. free International students ‘Mix and Mingle’ •”Elvis 007” Trevon Milliard The University of Montana’s fi rst resist interacting with Americans English-language class together, Musical tribute to the king of Montana Kaimin Mix and Mingle. and even other foreign students, but don’t necessarily know each rock-and-roll, University The informal gathering, Kia said. other, Kia said. Theatre, 8 p.m. Buzzing voices and laughter sponsored by the Honors College Jim McKusick, dean of “The students mix a lot,” $15; $12 students could be heard streaming down the and UM’s English Language Davidson Honors College, Kia said, “but don’t necessarily – UM Events Calendar halls of Davidson Honors College Institute, was created to give encouraged students at the Mix and mingle.” last evening. international students a chance Mingle to put their fears aside. Alex Alajmi, 22, of Saudi Dozens of international students to meet, said UM Associate “We want every student to make Arabia, was at the Mix and Mingle Around the from Malaysia, Japan, South Provost for International Programs a friend from another country,” and enjoyed it, he said. Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Mehrdad Kia, who is from Iran. McKusick said. “Just walk boldly “It’s good,” he said. “We study Chad, Taiwan and other countries, International students, insecure up to someone you don’t know. in this building together, but we World transcended language barriers and about their heavy accents and That’s your assignment today.” don’t talk.” See MINGLE, page 12 Myanmar: cultural differences to chat it up at English-speaking skills, sometimes International students take an Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi – under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 Dining Services sees serious decline in student employees years – met for a little more Ashly Zuelke The drop in on-campus student money. Now, it’s the stroke of a is at a premium,” Hanson said. than an hour Thursday with a Montana Kaimin employees isn’t just a Dining pen in some cases,” he said. LoParco said, “We’re Myanmar government offi cial Services phenomenon. Mick Hanson, director of the competing in Missoula, which has in a meeting broadcast on state Dining Services, the largest Residence Life Director Ron Financial Aid offi ce, said more seen signifi cant growth in the food television. student employer on campus and Brunell said he’s seen a downturn students are declining their work- service arena. My understanding is in Missoula County, is missing in student applicants over the past study offers in favor of seeking a that unemployment in Missoula is Portugal: one third of its student workforce few years. higher-paying job off campus. at 2.6 percent.” Russia’s President Vladimir this semester. He said 20 years ago, there “For some students, (accepting Senior Julie Taylor, an Putin on Thursday warned “This has been the hardest were about 20 times the number of work-study) will mean they get accounting major, has worked at strongly against new inter- year since I’ve been here to hire resident assistant applicants than less student loan money,” Hanson the Food Zoo for two semesters. national sanctions on Iran, students,” said Dining Services there are now. About 130 to 150 said. Taylor saw wages as the largest saying they would lead to a Director Mark LoParco, a students applied this year. Other students could cancel factor in why a student would dead end. University of Montana employee Brunell said he’s also heard their work-study offer and receive decline work at the Food Zoo. She since 1992. that more students don’t want the same amount in student loans. said students see they might be Each year, Dining Services the responsibilities RAs have. “Anytime a student declines paid more off-campus, but fail to Turkey: hires between 400 to 450 students, They must be in their dorms four work-study … they’re borrowing recognize that external costs come Turkish warplanes and heli- LoParco said. nights per week and one night on against their future,” Hanson said. with those jobs. copter gunships reportedly This semester, “we’re not at weekends, and they only have “There’s a tough balance between Food Zoo employees make pounded Kurdish rebel posi- full capacity in very many, if any, three weekends completely off per the two.” $6.15 per hour and receive a free tions along the Turkey-Iraq of our operations,” he said. semester. Hanson said he encourages meal with each shift. border Wednesday, broaden- Gail Ormesher, the manager of “They don’t want these type of students to work around 10 hours Ormesher said she would like to ing military operations against residential dining operations, said restrictions,” Brunell said. per week and 19 hours maximum. see more incentives for employees insurgents. Dining Services usually struggles Brunell said fi nancing an Working at that rate for four years in the future and higher wages for – Associated Press for the fi rst two to three weeks of education has shifted gears from could save a student $12,000 on student employees. a semester to fi nd enough student students paying for their education student loans, he said. However, she said, raising employees. This semester, they’re with work-study awards to now Wage issues are especially student wages runs a “really fi ne Check us out still struggling. fi nancing college with student signifi cant in Missoula’s labor line” due to the large number “We’re probably down 30 loans. market. of student Dining Services on the Web at percent from what we usually are “There used to be something “The job market in Missoula for employees. www.montanakaimin.com at,” Ormesher said. that you had to do to earn that entry level, service-type positions See DINING, page 6 2 Opinion Montana Kaimin Friday, October 26, 2007 BACKHANDS Big Ups & It was another fun week here at the Montana Kaimin. By fun we mean there’s one less until Christmas. What’s scarier than religious fundamentalists scripturally stroking their own egos on campus? Big Ups to BU&Bh. While we’re not usually big on patting Around the Oval on Halloween! We’re looking for the creepiest spots on campus to get a good scare ourselves on the back, it appears we have jinxing power. Last week we this year, so the Open Air Outreach speakers can give their overblown jaws a rest. all but proclaimed that the Cleveland Indians would be in the World Series. Well, they’re not. Given this sign of the supernatural, let’s try What’s the scariest place on campus? again: Go Hillary! What’s the scariest thing about you? The City of Brotherly Love is apparently lucky to get any love, according to a recent survey. Philly gets Backhands, because it is reported to have the least attractive people in the country. Incidentally, •Peter Bailon Kaimin Editor-in-Chief Sean Breslin is from Philadelphia. senior, English linguistics and philosophy It appears Turkey – the country, not the processed lunchmeat – is Q1: Probably math, having nothing to do with aesthetics. Simply the nature of math. on the verge of invading Iraq to stop the Kurds from using Iraqi soil as Q2: The amount of coffee I consume. a launching pad for terrorist activities. Big Ups to the Turks – or the “gobblers” as we like to call them – for having the balls to invade the war-torn nation to unilaterally defeat terrorism. Yeah, ask GW how that worked out for the U.S. of A. •Lindsey Benov J.K. Rowling continues to be a newsmaker even now that the Harry freshman, general studies Potter series has mercifully ended. She outed Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts. Backhands to Rowling, because now Q1: La Peak at 8 a.m. The lines are huge. Dumbledore can’t give blood, and Missoula residents are irate about Q2: I’m really messy. it. By the by, Big Ups to Andrew Slack, head of the Harry Potter Alliance, for pointing out that Albus Dumbledore is an anagram for “Male bods rule, Bud!” As an aside, Big Ups and Backhands is an anagram for “Such bad, bad spanking.” •Shelby Baldridge freshman, art Travelodges in Britain get Backhands this week after the motel chain announced that it has had a chronic problem with naked Q1:Where that little tent was with the Christian Fellowship people.