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The Montana Kaimin, in its 109th year, ispublished by the students of The

University of Montana, Missoula. The UMSchool of Journalism uses the MontanaKaimin for practice courses but assumes

no control over policy or content.

Send letters to the editor toletters@kaimin.umt.edu or drop them off

in Journalism 107

EDITOR

PETER BULGER

BUSINESS MANAGER

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NEWS EDITORS

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Question 1: Since Disney is on campus recruiting forsummer internships, which animated Disney Characterdo you want to get with and why?

Question 2: What would you and that character’slove-child look like?

•Kierstin Randlessophomore, general studies

Q1: “Um … get with in like a sexual way? Orhang out with? Uh … probably Mickey Mousebecause he’s the head honcho, the leader of thepack.”

Q2: “Let’s see … it’d be short with big ears andbig butt, but cute, still cute.”

•Sam Schorzmansophomore, political science

Q1: “Get with how? Like, get with get with? Orjust meet with? OK, um … who’s the hottestDisney character? How about Hercules? He’s a hot-tie with a body.”

Q2: “Oh, man. Uh … it would have muscles andcarry an M-16 and wear a lot of camo and be in theROTC program. And if it were a girl it would weardangly earrings like me and drive a BatmobilePontiac Grand AM GT.”

•Dave Jonesfreshman, music/undeclared

Q1: “I would get with Jasmine because of hervoluptuous hair. I like that hair.”

Q2: “Fairly good looking, tan, really good hair.”

•Matt Englishfreshman, undeclared

Q1: “Aladdin’s girlfriend, what’s her name? Notthat I’ve thought about that before or anything,because she’s not a mermaid.”

Q2: “Kind of like the parrot in Aladdin.”

•Chris Amesonfreshman, journalism

Q1: “I’m gonna go with the Little Mermaidbecause she grows legs at one time. I mean, theremay be some residual fishiness …”

Q2: “It definitely wouldn’t have fins. That’s aboutall I can come up with. It’d be weird. They’d proba-bly get picked on.”

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Kaimin’s numbers need fixingI am writing to clarify the information presented in

the article “Full-time enrollment less than predicted”by Sean Breslin in the Oct. 3 issue of the Kaimin. Mr.Breslin came to my office on Monday, Oct. 2, andasked me to provide enrollment figures, which I did.He also asked me for the budgeted enrollment fig-ures, and I explained that I don’t provide those num-bers and he should contact the Office of Budget andPlanning. He then gave me a figure for budgetedenrollment and asked if it was correct. I respondedthat I didn’t have those figures and again stressed thathe needed to verify that information with the Officeof Budget and Planning.

As Mr. Breslin was leaving, I once more suggestedthat he contact the Office of Budget and Planning.

When the story was printed on Oct. 3, I saw thatMr. Breslin did not follow my suggestion, insteadusing budget enrollment figures that were erroneous.As a result, the entire article was inaccurate. He alsowrote the story in such a way that it appeared I pro-vided those figures when I didn’t. Lastly, he mistak-enly reported that 12 credits equals full-time equiva-lent for undergraduates, and nine credits equals full-time equivalent for graduates. The actual credits are15 for undergraduates, and 12 for graduates.

Even though the Kaimin is a student publication, itis still important to assure that information printed inthe paper is accurate.

-David Micus, Registrar

Grow up, wheelchair usersThis is in response to the article in Wednesday’s

Kaimin about the two students that have taken itupon themselves to file a grievance about the factthat the lifts on the shuttle buses have been havingissues.

To those two students,my advice to you is: Grow up. The first law of any-

thing mechanical is, “If it is mechanical, it can andWILL fail.” Things break, they get fixed. It’s a 10-minute inconvenience for you; suck it up.

Some of us end up being late for class because ofthe extra five to six minutes it takes to get your chairon and off the bus (especially if you get off at a stopbefore us), and we don’t gripe or complain about it,do we? We don’t file grievances with the U.S.Department of Education about how we’re late forclass because of it, but yet if a lift is broken, it’s ohmy God, go run to somebody and whine.

You probably think you’re being cute, but appar-ently you didn’t think of the other students whendoing this. What if they cut the program? What ifthey make it so we get charged extra on our tuition toupgrade the buses? Are you gonna bitch then, too,saying that you shouldn’t have to pay for it?

-Shelby Soots,Junior, anthropology

Administration wanting for studentsPresident George Dennison and University of

Montana administrators are working to reduce thecost of a quality college education for Montana stu-dents. As part of our efforts to keep tuition costsdown, we are making changes in the way certaincourses are funded – from self support to state sup-port.

A recent in-depth analysis of UM enrollment pat-terns shows that record numbers of students earncredit toward their degrees by taking ContinuingEducation courses – online courses that are self-sup-ported and do not receive state appropriations.

Lack of state support for these courses leads tohigher costs for students in that students enrolled inself-supported courses are not counted in the num-bers that determine state funding to help keep tuitioncosts down; the courses do not qualify for the flatspot that allows students to pay for only 12 creditsand take up to six more without additional tuitioncosts; and students are not allowed to use financialaid to pay for self-supported courses.

Moving these courses to state support allows moreopportunities for students to participate in onlinelearning and to move seamlessly among MontanaUniversity System institutions, a primary goal setforth by the state’s Board of Regents.

UM also will change the way Wintersession cours-es are counted, allowing academic credit as part ofspring semester registration.

This means students will pay the normal tuitiontied to their residency status for Wintersession cours-es. For resident students, this means a significantprice cut. For both nonresident and resident students,the ability to take advantage of the flat spot forWintersession courses will reduce tuition costs. UMwill work closely with students whose degree pro-grams may be affected by these changes.

-Bill MuseAssociate Vice President

University Planning, Budget & Analysis

-James Staub Associate Provost

The University of Montana

Kaimin ‘below intellectual’For a while now, I have looked at the Montana

Kaimin as a below-intellectual piece of journalism.Tuesday’s Kaimin only furthered this appearance.

The front page says it all: an oversized picture of apair of tickets followed by the day’s main story, anarticle one could find in the classified ads. The leftcolumn gives readers a peek at what they can lookforward to: a very inappropriate headline that refersto the female mammary glands for an article on hunt-ing. And the headline “Moo” just screams, “I can’tthink of anything to put here and it’s 2 a.m.”

This brings me to my next point: “What’s Beef?”is simple-minded, non-investigatory journalism thatis outright idiotic. It appears as though they foundsome 14-year-old’s blog and just copied and pasted.Perhaps the only smart thing they’ve done is left outthe name(s) of its author(s). It just shows how littleeffort is put into this newspaper.

I know this is not supposed to be a professionalnewspaper but, dammit, you could sure as hell actlike it was one. For a journalism program that is sup-posedly the third best in the nation, you sure do a hellof a job pretending to be a just group of lonely mid-dle school nerds who get together after school andmake up news stories about that jerk that pushed yourhead under the water while you were taking a drink.

I know many journalism students personally. Theyare all very hard working and are proud to be part ofa prestigious program. The Kaimin is in no way areflection of what really goes on in the Journalismschool, but not everyone knows that. Maybe youshould clean up your act and give the school some-thing it can be proud of.

-Duncan HendrickJunior, human biology

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Sept. 30, 12:19 a.m.

A caller reported a near-colli-sion on campus between a four-wheeler and a unicyclist. Whenofficers responded, the four-wheeler was gone and the unicy-cler wasn’t hurt.

“This kind of stuff only happenson the University of Montanacampus,” said Capt. Jim Lemckewith the Office of Public Safety.

Oct. 1, 1:30 a.m.

A group of intoxicated studentswalked into Aber Hall, one ofthem carrying a backpack,Lemcke said.

When resident assistants askedabout the backpack’s contents, theowner fled and left the bag behind.It contained a partially consumedbottle of whiskey, as well as somebeer, Lemcke said. One of theRAs recognized the student, whowas later cited for underage pos-session of alcohol.

Oct. 1, 7:53 p.m.

Public Safety received a reportof a man stumbling around theLewis and Clark Villages. The

caller also said there was a pool ofblood on the sidewalk.Responding officers did notimmediately find the stumblingman, but they did find blood andhair on the brick corner of onebuilding, Lemcke said.

Shortly thereafter, officersfound the man in a random apart-ment, where he had walked in toclean his wounds – which hadapparently been sustained whenhe fell against the building – andgone to sleep, Lemcke said.

“Alcohol was definitelyinvolved,” he said.

The man was taken to the hospi-tal and cited for trespass to proper-ty.

Oct. 1, 11:24 p.m.

A student in Craig Hall wasdrunk and obnoxious, Lemckesaid.

RAs called Public Safety, and

officers sent the man back to hisroom. After officers left, however,he came back out and continuedyelling at people, Lemcke said.

The student admitted he wasbeing stupid, but he persisted inthe disruptive behavior and waseventually cited for disorderlyconduct, Lemcke said.

“Some people, when they drink,they want to share their wisdom.This guy did it in a loud andobnoxious way,” he said. “It does-n’t matter to me whether he knowshe’s being stupid or not.”

Oct. 2, 6:32 p.m.

A backpack was stolen from theAdams Center, reported a student.

Among other things, the back-pack contained prescriptionpainkillers, Lemcke said. Thetheft was caught on video, andpolice are working to identify thethief, he said.

Oct. 3, 12:00 p.m.

UM staff noticed that the candymachine in Schreiber Gym, oper-ated by Kiwanis to raise moneyfor charity, had been stolen.

“One day it was there, the nextday it wasn’t,” Lemcke said.“Maybe it will turn up in a dorm inthe middle of May.”

“Out of candy and full ofmoney,” said Lt. Gary Taylor withthe Office of Public Safety.

Oct. 4, 9:16 p.m.

A man reported an attempted“strong-arm robbery” near theLaw School. Four men had tried totake away his backpack, the mantold police. The complainant saidthe attackers punched him in theface, but didn’t get the backpack.The victim was unable to providemany details about the attackers,who were never found, Lemckesaid. The contents of the backpackare unknown at this time.

Oct. 4, 10:13 p.m.

A man was pushing on barri-cades outside Washington-GrizzlyStadium, trying to get into theRolling Stones concert.

He was also inciting the crowd,then fighting with officers,

Lemcke said. The man was citedfor disorderly conduct and resist-ing arrest.

Other than that and a few otherrelatively minor incidents, therewasn’t very much trouble withcrime at the concert, Lemckesaid.

“Nobody got hurt,” he said.“That makes it a success in ourbook.”

Oct. 4, 11:23 p.m.

Public Safety received a reportof a man passing out beer in frontof Craig Hall, but he was gonewhen officers arrived.

“Who the heck is going to callthat in?” Lemcke said.

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“A guy reported initially that hehad been robbed.” Lemcke said.“It turned out he was mistaken;he was just drunk.”

Police Blotter

Citations:

Alfred Anderson, 18, MIPJon Fay, 19, MIPRoman Fisher, 27, Trespass to property Patrick Maddison, 22, Trespass to propertyBill Willits, 18, Disorderly conductMichael Short, 22, Disorderly conduct, Resisting arrest

said.Despite all the extra work, the

Stones concert left Muse smiling,she said.

“I was able to see parts of it, asong here and a song there, and itwas one of the most spectacularshows I’ve seen in my wholelife,” she said.

STONESContinued from Page 1

“The University of MontanaCollege of Technology is a won-derful place to work,” he said. “Ithink we have a wonderful facul-ty. They’re very student-friendly,and just as important, we have awonderful support staff — andreally they deserve all the credit.”

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Bonggoch Tangjaipak, a sopho-more student from Thailand study-ing business at the University ofMontana, was about to enter herafternoon peer advising class whenher cell phone rang.

“Hey, what’s going on in yourcountry?” a friend from UM askedanxiously.

Unbeknownst to Bonggoch, afleet of tanks, illuminated by theneon lights of nightclubs, had rum-bled slowly into Bangkok.

News networks from around theworld were announcing the Sept.19 bloodless coup, in which themilitary seized power in Thailand,surrounded government buildings,suspended the constitution anddeclared martial law.

Thai television stations simplydisplayed a screen with the words,“The military has taken power.”

After class, Bonggoch, who isone of four Thai students at UM,rushed to the Internet and beganscanning English and Thai Websites for information. All day,friends from UM who watchedCNN called to ask about the coupin Thailand’s capital.

“I only heard something fromhere, but not from Thailand direct-ly,” Bonggoch said. “I was not surewhat was going on.”

By midevening, Bonggochcouldn’t wait any longer and calledher parents, who were still sleepingin their city located three hoursfrom Bangkok.

They had heard little newsbecause it was too early for themorning paper, and the Thai televi-sion stations were still only show-ing the message that the militaryhad seized power. But Bonggoch’sparents told their daughter not toworry and said they were not con-cerned about the situation.

The night before, her parentswatched an American CNN broad-cast, but because they speak littleEnglish, they could only under-

stand fragments of the correspon-dent’s report.

Now, three weeks after the nightwhen Thailand’s governmentchanged in a matter of hours,Bonggoch views the coup as a pos-itive action and said her family hasnoticed little change.

“I was surprised,” Bonggochsaid. “I didn’t expect it. But I thinkit’s a good idea to make a change.”

Bonggoch’s family is a micro-cosm of Thai people’s opinionsabout the ousting of their billion-aire prime minister, ThaksinShinawatra, who was elected by alarge majority five years ago.

Bonggoch’s mother and auntdespise Thaksin, whom they viewas a corrupt and immoral businesstycoon. National outcry eruptedagainst Thaksin in January whennewspapers revealed the primeminister had sold his telecommuni-

cations empire to Singapore for $2billion without paying taxes.

But Bonggoch and her fatherbelieve Thaksin helped bringThailand into the world market andimproved the country’s health caresystem. Under Thaksin, Thai citi-zens could pay 30 baht, or 80 cents,to receive complete care for mosthealth problems, including fulltreatments for cancer.

“When we have political talks,we always have a fight,” Bonggochsaid. “We have conflicts, so usual-ly we don’t talk over dinner. Peoplehave strong opinions.”

Akkharet Choksuphachinda, ajunior from Thailand studying eco-nomics and finance at UM, saidThaksin may have helped the Thaipeople but was far too corrupt toremain in power.

Akkharet and his family live inthe heart of Bangkok, about five

minutes from the governmentbuildings that were surrounded bytanks.

While initially surprised by thecoup, Akkharet merely shruggedwhen asked how he felt about tanksrolling down his street.

“It’s not bad,” Akkharet said.“No harm. No one died. No oneshot.”

The young man from Thailandsaid he is glad Thaksin is gone andsaid his family watched people inBangkok give flowers to the sol-diers in the tanks in a show of grat-itude.

He said he recently read a poll ona Thai Web site that claimed 85percent of Thais approve of thecoup.

Akkharet and Bonggoch, liketheir countrymen, have turned totheir king for support and guid-ance.

The revered King BhumibholAdulyadej, whose picture gracesthe sides of buses, park benchesand restaurant walls, and hangs inmost Thai homes, has remained asteadfast rallying point for a nationthat has witnessed 17 coups in thelast 60 years.

On Oct. 1, the Thailand junta,with the blessing of Bhumibhol,declared former army commanderSurayud Chulanont the new primeminister. Surayud was also a mem-ber of Bhumibhol’s council ofadvisers.

Though the United States criti-cized the coup as a setback forelected rule, Bonggoch said shedoesn’t mind not voting for a newleader.

“Whatever the king decides willbe best for the country,” Bonggochsaid. “We all love the king. Ask 5-year-old kids – they will say theylove the king.”

Bonggoch said that since thecoup, daily life has remained thesame for her family, and the onlything that concerns them is the sta-bility of the stock market.

Last week the United States sus-pended its $24 million in militaryaid to Thailand on the grounds thatthe new government took power byforce.

Though Bonggoch sees a strongfuture for the new government, sheis worried the coup will be a furtherblow to Thailand’s tourism indus-try, which was crippled by the 2004tsunami and the religious violencein the south.

“There are the Islamic militants,and we’re just recovering from thetsunami, and now we have anotherproblem,” Bonggoch said with asigh of weariness.

Bonggoch said she won’t be sur-prised if the images of armed tanksand soldiers deter people from vis-iting the souvenir shops, ornatepalaces and gold Buddhas ofBangkok.

“The South used to be reallycrowded,” Bonggoch said. “Nowit’s bare.”

EMMA SCHMAUTZ

MONTANA KAIMIN

Eleena Fikhman/Montana KaiminBonggoch “Gail” Tangjaipak and Akkharet Choksuphachinda both moved to Montana to attend school. They both feel that the coup was a good thing forThailand. They say that the prime minister was corrupt, and they are happy to see him gone.

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Noah Ginnings is 15 minuteslate for an interview.

He sits down, smiles warmlyand apologizes. He’s 24 years old,and it’s been five and a half yearssince the surgery removed 90 per-cent of the tumor and the entireright temporal lobe of his brain.The grand mal seizures stopped ayear ago, but the petit mals stillcome about twice a week. He hadone before he came.

You get really focused, he says.All your senses are flying. Yourhands and face and feet go numb.You get really forgetful. And thenit’s fine. Kind of.

Noah’s hand is wrapped in abandage from an injury the otherday when he had a seizure at thegym and fell off the treadmill.

“I’ve learned to wear the clip,”he says, and laughs.

In January 2001, Noah was onan ice-fishing trip with his friendsat Placid Lake, when, while sleep-ing, he was hit with a grand malseizure that shook him so hard healmost took the bunk beds apart.His friends rushed him home toMissoula and he went in for a CTscan at Community MedicalCenter.

The radiologists found abranched tumor in Noah’s brain.They decided to operate. Butbefore they did, Dr. Richard Day,the surgeon, gave a quiet warningto the family: “Brain surgery isnever a sure deal.”

So, the night before his surgery,Noah had three of his best child-hood friends over. Just to be with

them–and say whatever goodbyesmight be necessary. It was a mov-ing night. “That was the first timeI’d seen them cry,” Noah said.

In a 12-hour surgery, Dr. Dayremoved the right temporal lobeof Noah’s brain and most of thetumor within it. But part of it hadto be left. One branch of the tumorwas too close to Noah’s opticnerve to touch. Other sectionswere rooted in sensitive areas thatcontrol speech and motor skills.Though its grip was loosened, thetumor remained.

Now Noah was left to function,as his mother says, on four-fifthsof a brain.

Nevertheless, three and a halfweeks later, Noah was back at theUniversity of Montana, enrolledin dance classes and pursuing hismajor in elementary education.

Two years went by before neu-rologists discovered Noah’s tumorwas growing back. He started

radiation therapy to inhibit itsgrowth.

“I actually would go from classto radiation, and I would comeback and play basketball, and myhair would be falling out.”

People would ask him what wasgoing on, but he would just laughit off. Cancer makes people feelbad, he says.

“I don’t want to be the kid onthe jar that you look at and say,‘Oh, poor him,’ and put money inthe jar.”

Noah’s just sore that he can’t dowhat he likes. After doctors foundmore tumor growth and renewedbleeding in his brain this August,he has to go through chemothera-py and be extremely cautious withhis head. That means no swim-ming, no weightlifting and, worstof all, no basketball.

“I’m a fairly active person,”Noah admits. Anyone who knowshim would laugh at the understate-

ment. Noah is an Advocate, a discjockey, a dancer, a singer and anavid Griz fan of all sports. He hasa role in an upcoming MissoulaChildren’s Theater production ofthe musical “Cats.”

Sitting in the University Centerwith Noah, it’s easy to see howengaged he is. At intervals, hepauses to say hello to friendswalking by.

Hey, what’s up?Why haven’t you called me? How is everything? Then, always respectful, he

turns back to the conversation athand. Noah doesn’t ask for muchin the way of sympathy.

“I’m not going to introducemyself as ‘Hi I’m Noah, withbrain cancer,’ but I’m also notgoing to shy away from it,” hesaid.

Unfortunately, the cancer is notall Noah has to worry about. Thereare the medical bills, the insurance

companies and the pharmaceuticalcompanies. It costs money to havecancer in this country, and Noahand his family are finding out justhow complicated that can be.

Noah chokes up when he talksabout his mother battling to keepher son away from financial stressand as much in a normal 24-year-old’s life as brain cancer willallow.

“My mom is the greatest,” Noahsays. “I’ve always been amomma’s boy, but she’s my hero.”

Deb Chittick, Noah’s mother,spends much of the day on thephone wrangling with insuranceand pharmaceutical companies tofind ways to pay her son’s exorbi-tant medical bills.

Now in his sixth year here,Noah is on UM’s Blue Cross BlueShield student insurance plan. Theplan promises to pay 70 percent ofa student’s medical expenses aftera $611.50 premium and a $250deductible are met. But whenNoah buys his medicines, he hasto pay for them outright, then senda claim in to Blue Cross BlueShield, and then wait for the insur-ance company to return him theagreed 70 percent.

“We’ve talked to them on thephone,” Noah says. “I meanthey’re insurance companies, theytry to dodge it as much as theycan.”

The catch is Blue Cross BlueShield’s irregularity in their reim-bursements — “Sometimes we getit in a week, sometimes it’s amonth,” Noah says — and findingthe money to pay for a prescrip-tion of anti-seizure medicines or asession of chemotherapy is often astruggle.

Noah takes 18 pills on a dailybasis, excluding those he takeswith the chemotherapy he startedin August.

There’s Keppra, an anti-seizuremedicine, $300 for a 10-day regi-men. And Lyrica, $275 for 10days. And the anti-nausea pill,

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Surviving cancer, surviving the bills

Left: After his first operation, Ginnings wokewearing this necklace and has worn it ever since.None of his friends or family ever admitted togiving it to him. “Some people check for theirwallets, I check for this,” he said.

Below: Ginnings’ current chemo regiment callsfor an expensive and powerful cocktail of pills.Two pills from every dose are meant just to keephim from getting sick to his stomach. “You can’teat chicken strips with them,” Deborah, Noah’smother says.

Story by Jacob Baynham

Photos by Shane McMillan

which keeps him from throwingup hundreds of dollars worth ofmedicine, runs $620 for five days.

And the Ativan and Temodarthat are part of Noah’s chemother-apy? They cost about $3,500 permonth, depending on the pharma-cy distributing them. Thechemotherapy will take sixmonths to complete.

Add this to the cost of tripsevery three months to Noah’sneuro-oncologist in Seattle, andyou have a medical financialnightmare that is Noah’s family’spresent reality.

Noah’s mother, Deb, relies onher husband, family and closefriends for the money to pay herson’s bills.

She says that while there aregovernment and non-profit pro-grams designed to help the youngand the elderly, Noah is of the agegroup that often falls through thecracks of a healthcare system.

Deb says that often the bills inthe mail are overwhelming.

“You completely freak out,that’s what you do,” she said.“And then you pick yourself upand say, ‘OK, we can do that,too.’”

A grassroots fundraising effort

has risen around Noah and hisfamily. Longtime friends Robinand Ken Wall have created a Website, noahginnings.org, to coordi-nate donations and celebrateNoah’s impact on the Missoulacommunity.

“He has touched so many peo-ple,” says Vickie Mikelsons, afamily friend who is helpingorganize fundraising for Noah’smedical bills. “He’s not someonethat’s forgettable.”

The UM Advocates have alsopooled their resources and raised$1,100 toward his expenses.

To Deb, it’s obvious there areserious gaps in Blue Cross BlueShield’s student insurance plan.Sometimes the cost of Noah’smedicine is the equivalent of twomortgages.

“I don’t understand how anystudent can do that,” Deb said.“It’s not adequate for a studentpopulation …. These are all kidswith ambition here – and we makeit impossible for them to afford todo that.”

Rick Curtis, an insuranceadministrator at Curry HealthCenter, insists that for the cost andcoverage, the Blue Cross BlueShield student insurance plan at

UM is one of the best dealsaround.

Curtis says that insurance com-panies cover individual client’smedical emergencies with the pre-miums everyone else pays. ForUM students, those premiumshave risen 22 percent in threeyears. But Curtis points out that ifexceptional care were to be givento extraordinary circumstances,like Noah’s, everyone would beforced to pay more for servicesthey may not be in need of.

“Insurance is designed to help,”Curtis says. “Insurance isn’t per-

fect … it’s like anything, there’slimited resources.

“I stay awake at night thinking,‘How do I make this better?’ Butyou’re working with traditional,national systems,” Curtis said.

Deb says her daily negotiationswith Blue Cross Blue Shield andvarious pharmacies are quick totire her. She is taking yoga classesto ease her stress. The rest of thetime she is at home, trying to keepthings as normal as they can be,especially for Noah’s 16-year-oldsister, Liza.

She is frustrated with the vague-

ness and inconsistencies of insur-ance policies and the U.S. healthcare system.

“It’s always two steps forwardand two steps back,” she said.

Through it all, however, Debtries to remember that even behindthe system, there are real people.

“It’s not political to me, it’s peo-ple to me,” she says. “Being agentle, kind human being is reallyenough.”

She says her son’s optimismkeeps her going.

“Noah reeks of potential,” shesays. “We all follow his lead.”

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surviving the bills

Above: To ensure accuracy during radiation treatments, doctors created a facemask of plastic meant tokeep Ginnings’ head in place during the procedure. The mask is strapped to the table during treat-ment. Doctors aimed the treatments at targeted regions, and with no more than two millimeters ofleeway, succeeded.

Right: One of the ways Noah Ginnings’ mother Deborah dealt with her son’s tumor was by starting ascrapbook; she then got him to start his own. The book is heavy and filled with photos from opera-tions, mementos from friends and cards from well-wishers. Ginnings points to a close friend whobrought him cookies and visited him every day after his initial diagnosis.

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Thousands of people are going to inundateeach of their friends with stories aboutWednesday night’s Rolling Stones concert.It’ll be something to the tune of, “Oh myGod! I was so close to Mick! They played‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and there was fire!Holy crap!”

With more than 20,000 fans in attendance,it’ll take a maximum of five recountings perperson for all of Missoula county to haveheard some fan freak-out story. That’s notcounting the deaf, who should count theirblessings, as they won’t have to hear the sameranting and raving over and over.

Weeks – scratch that – months and evenyears from now, when people are still talkingabout the awesome moving stage, the epicfirework displays and the naked black woman

bumping and grinding withfamous international

landmarks to“Brown Sugar,”

we will havelost the bestpart of theshow: theminutia.

W e ’ l lhave lost

the stories offellow fans

obsessed withreaching a new

record of pre-showbeach ball punches, cou-

ples so into the music that they just can’t helpbut stick their hands in each others’ pants, orthe Stones freaks that told stories of the timethey saw Guns’n’Roses open for Jagger andcompany in Dodger Stadium during a 1991tour.

“Axl took a header off the stage,” the cou-ple alternately bragged to their neighbors. “SoMick came out and said ‘Hey, you’re theopener, knock it off,’ and we had to waitanother 40 minutes until the Stones came on.”

Long gone will be our memories of the twovery well-dressed men, seated in a sectionthat cost them nearly $400 apiece to get into,casually passing a joint back and forth. Thethousands of “crazy drunk guy” anecdoteswill blur into one collective memory (e.g.,“There were so many crazy drunk guys!”).

Not to say that people will completely blurthe details out of their stories; they’ll be morelikely to remember their favorite song than

the guy who spilled beer on them and thensaid, “You can say Mick spilled it on you! Ipromise I won’t tell anyone!”

My partner in Arts Section crime, DylanLaslovich, won’t forget how much KeithRichards reminded him of Captain JackSparrow. He’ll always remember MickJagger’s gyrating pelvis, but he’ll alsoremember how he finally confronted theMissoulian’s bespectacled arts chief execu-tive, Jamie Kelly, about a mild but long-standing beef (and his impressive transitionfrom beef to a job inquiry).

The image of Ron Woods’ tight pants andjewel-encrusted belt will never leave hismind, and neither will blindly stumblingthrough dressing rooms and off-limits back-stage areas, trying to find a press hospitalityroom filled with snacks and free drinks.

Hundreds of millions of people have seenthe Rolling Stones perform (more than 4.5million have attended this tour alone), but atmost 25,000 got to see thisshow. Of course it’simportant to rememberthe songs and the per-formance. But whatmakes this experi-ence different

from a Stonesshow in Berlin,Milan, Zurich,London or NewYork is that wegot to see, hear,smell and feel thisconcert.

Those littlethings you got to seeare what make theconcert your concert. Ina matter of days, everyoneis going to know what songsthey played (that is, if they hadn’t predicted italready). But they’ll never know what it waslike to feel the heat of those huge fireballs, orto smell the beer sweating its way out of theguy next to you, or to taste the schnapps hepassed you earlier. Your ticket cost anywherefrom $77 to upwards of $500, your beer costyou $20, and your T-shirt cost you $35. Butseeing that lady’s boob pop out of her tube topduring “Miss You” is a memory that can’t bebought.

LLaasstt llooookk aatt tthhee SSttoonneessIAN GRAHAM

MONTANA KAIMIN

It’s hard to review a CD when your computer decides youshouldn’t be allowed to use iTunes. No matter how many keys Istroked or how often I clicked my mouse, the Kaimin office’strusty eMacs continued to tell me that my access privileges areinsufficient.

Being the resourceful little worker bee that I am, I found thenext best thing: MySpace. If I had a dollar for every time the net-working Website has made my life better, I could maybe buy asweet G.I. Joe tank. So, thank you MySpace, for letting me listento key tracks from the Lights’ new release, “Diamonds and Dirt.”

Marked by syncopated rhythms, dirty guitars and beautifullyraw vocals, “Diamonds and Dirt” recalls a number of Seattlegrunge icons, though they deftly avoid anything that could leavethem branded a sound-alike group.

Nirvana (the good stuff, not “Teen Spirit”) sneaks in from timeto time, but so does Dick Dale on “Up The Stairs Out TheWindow.” Some of the riffs point back to late-sixties garage rock,a la the White Stripes, while the vocals float somewhere betweenIggy Pop and something decidedly more Seattle.

The album is not a polished production, and never does that feellike a disadvantage for the Lights. Listening to the recording, onegets a very good idea of what to expect from them live (though Ihear their shows incorporate a lot of visual entertainment).

They don’t touch up little errors or sand the edges of their tracksto a smooth buff. Instead, the Lights allow their little flaws tocatch the listener. Like the one tooth in my mouth that squirmedback to its original position once I was done with my retainer, theLights unkempt recording gives the album character.

Missoula toMissoula tosee the lightsee the light

IAN GRAHAM

MONTANA KAIMIN

WHO:WHO: The Lights (Seattle), Volumen(Missoula), The Touchers (Bozeman),Riddl in ’ Que (Missoula) and TheConstants (Boston)

W H AW H ATT:: The Lights “Diamonds andDirt” release party

WHERE:WHERE: ELKS Club, on the corner ofPattee and Front Street

WHEN:WHEN: Tonight at 9 p.m .WHYWHY:: Because it’s $6 for advance

tickets (available at Ear Candy Music),$7 at the door and it’s a killer line-up, tosay the least

Rolling Stones

Ashley McKee

Ashley McKee

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Kaimin Kwik PixHere at the Kaimin we love you, the student. That is why we

want to know more about you, like the things in your house orthe places where we could find you over the weekend. Don’t bescared, take it as a compliment.

Chad Dundas, junior, English

•In the CD player:Built to Spill

•In the fridge:Milk and beer

•Weekend agenda:Going to Helena for

grandfather’s 90th birthday•Go to the Stones this

week?No

•Get stoned this week?A little bit

Casey Knapp, freshman, psychology

•In the CD player:Sufjan Stevens, alt-

indie stuff •In the fridge:

One hot pocket•Go to the Stones this

week?Saw it from the moun-

tain, good view of thefireworks show

•Get stoned this week?Nope

Orrin Tiberi,sophomore, anthropolo-

gy

•In the CD player:Nelly Furtado

•In the fridge: Drinks and cheese

•Go to the Stones thisweek?

Caught it from atop thehill

•Get stoned this week? Not this week,

at least

Nadine Dolan, sophomore, biology and

secondary education

•In the CD player:Dashboard Confessional

•In the fridge:Water, Sixlets, milk,

orange juice and a sandwich•Weekend agenda:

Going to Idaho to visitthe boyfriend

•Go to the Stones thisweek?

No Stones•Get stoned this week?

No dope

Stacey Graves, sophomore, psychology•In the CD player:

The Moulin RougeSoundtrack

•In the fridge: Water, soymilk, tortillas, a

pear, cream cheese and jelly•Weekend agenda:

Going to Billings withboyfriend and his mother tobuy a dog

•Go to the Stones this week? No, but babysat for someone

who did•Get stoned this week? No,

definitely not

Laura Koday, sophomore, human biology

•In the CD player:John Mayer’s Continuum•In the fridge: Water, bread and choco-

late• Weekend agenda:

Father coming to town,going to Still Life with Iris

•Go to the Stones thisweek?

No Stones•Get stoned this week?

Define this week …

It is about that time of the year when many students are seriously considering dropping outof school. The Kaimin’s advice: Go for it. Travel Europe, start your own buisness, live in acave in Alaska. And if all else fails take comfort knowing Burger King is usually acceptingapplications.

Kaimin back to school tip, No. 4 of 5

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So far this season, home courthas seemed like a safe haven forthe University of Montana volley-ball team.

That all changed last night whenthe Portland State Vikings crushedMontana 3-1, delivering the Grizwith their first home-court loss infive matches.

“We knew it was going to be agrind because it always is whenwe come here,” Portland Statehead coach Jeff Mozzochi said. “Ithink Montana plays very well athome and the crowd does a nicejob of helping them, so we expect-ed it to be a tough, tough match,and it was.”

Montana came out flat at thebeginning of the first game, hit-ting only .171 to the Vikings’ .324.

The Griz also committed eighttotal errors. Montana managed togain some momentum with bighits from sophomore outside hitterMicaela Parker and senior middlehitter EvaLyn Whitehead. But,Montana was left scramblingthroughout most of the first gameto recover from their timid startand lost 30-24.

“I thought we did every aspectof the game well in game one,except I had to ask my team to hitthe ball harder,” UM head coachJerry Wagner said.

Wagner said he was proud thatMontana was in the position tobreak through against a team likePSU, who is currently ranked sec-ond – just above Montana – in theBig Sky Conference.

The Griz picked up the slack ingame two, hammering the Vikingswith a 30-20 win.

Senior outside hitter ClaudiaHoule smacked down five kills,while Whitehead and senior EmilySakis totaled three kills each.Montana also came back to hit.407 percent.

“The second game we simplyknew we were playing well andthat we could play with this team,”Wagner said.

“We quickly gathered ourselvesand believed in that and put our-selves in the position to maybehave a breakthrough game here orthere and put this thing together.”

In the third and fourth games,both Montana and PSU battledrelentlessly for the wins but, in theend, Portland State walked awayvictorious.

“I’m not disappointed with it,I’m just happy that we put our-selves in the position to be thoughtof as that kind of team (that could

beat PSU),” Wagner said.PSU senior outside hitter

Jessica Brodie dominated with amatch-high 26 kills againstMontana and had an attack thatwas difficult for the Griz to con-trol.

Houle led Montana with 13kills. Parker, Whitehead and sen-ior outside hitter Emily Sakis fin-ished with double-digit kills.

Petersen said the loss last nightwill help prepare Montana for thegame against Eastern Washingtonon Saturday night.

“I know that this (loss) will giveus a lot of fire for Saturday, soEastern had better watch out,”Petersen said.

Montana plays against theEastern Washington Eagles onSaturday at 7 p.m. in the WestAuxiliary Gym.

Padres one loss awayfrom early exit

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Not evenSan Diego native David Wellscould save the Padres, who appearto be headed for their same ol' post-season fate against the St. LouisCardinals.

Albert Pujols and Jim Edmondshit RBI singles off Wells in thefourth inning and Jeff Weaver heldthe popgun Padres in check to leadthe Cardinals to a 2-0 win Thursdayat Petco Park and a 2-0 lead in thedivision series.

The two-time NL West championPadres spoke about going deep intothis postseason. Heck, if they don'tstart hitting the ball, they might notgo deep into this weekend.

San Diego has now lost ninestraight postseason games dating toits World Series sweep at the handsof the New York Yankees in 1998.

Pujols got three more hits afterhomering in the 5-1 victory inGame 1.

Weaver, dumped by the LosAngeles Angels with a 3-10 record,and four relievers combined on afour-hitter. The Padres have only 10hits in the first two games and are 0-for-10 with runners in scoring posi-tion.

Game 3 is Saturday at St. Louis.Game 4 would be Sunday, if neces-sary, but history suggests otherwise.St. Louis, which barely avoided oneof the biggest September collapsesever, improved to 8-0 in the post-season against San Diego. Thatincludes division series sweeps lastyear and in 1996.

Triple-digit fastballsjumpstart Tigers

NEW YORK (AP) - JustinVerlander and Detroit's bullpenheld down the New York Yankees'mighty offense, bringing justenough 100 mph heat to send theTigers home with a split.

Curtis Granderson hit a go-aheadtriple off Mike Mussina in the sev-enth inning to cap a comeback froma two-run deficit, and the Tigersbeat the Yankees 4-3 Thursday toeven their best-of-five AL playoffseries at one game apiece.

"I hope in my heart everybodyrealizes we are a playoff team,"Tigers manager Jim Leyland said."I'm not sure everybody believedthat."

After the threat of rain caused apostponement Wednesday night,the skies were sunny for the rarepostseason day game at Yankee

Stadium. But before a somewhatstunned crowd of 56,252, the wild-card Tigers ended a six-game losingstreak that stretched to the finalweek of the regular season.

Alex Rodriguez had anothertough day at the plate, going 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, includingone that ended the first with thebases loaded.

A-Rod, booed loudly after hisfinal two at-bats, hasn't driven ina run in his last 10 postseasongames and is 5-for-40 (.125) inhis last 11. He's 1-for-8 with fourstrikeouts in this series.

When the series resumes inDetroit on Friday night, RandyJohnson (17-11) will test hisbalky back for New York,opposed by former-YankeeKenny Rogers (17-8).

LA loses Nomar, game

NEW YORK (AP) - Sure, theNew York Mets are missing twoexperienced starters. They stillhave Tom Glavine, though, andhis stellar pitching performanceput them on the brink of a first-round sweep.

Making his 33rd postseasonstart, but first since joining theMets in 2003, Glavine tossed six

shutout innings and New Yorkscratched out enough runs to beatthe Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1Thursday night for a 2-0 lead intheir NL playoff series.

Jose Reyes drove in two runsfrom the leadoff spot, 48-year-oldpinch-hitter Julio Franco hustledto beat out a double-play ball foran RBI, and Billy Wagner earnedhis second consecutive save.

Two days earlier, the NL Eastchampions lost OrlandoHernandez to a calf injury, leav-ing him on the sidelines with ace

Pedro Martinez all postseason.But now, they're one win from

the NL championship series.The Mets will go for the sweep

Saturday in Los Angeles againstGreg Maddux, who has 333career wins. Steve Trachsel orOliver Perez will pitch for NewYork.

The Dodgers dropped to 1-11 inthe postseason since winning the1988 World Series.

They also lost All-Star firstbaseman Nomar Garciaparra inthe sixth inning to a leg injury.

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Home wreckers: PSU hands Griz first home loss of seasonSARAH SWAN

MONTANA KAIMIN

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Cardinals, Mets take 2-0 leads; Tigers, Yanks squared up at one

What a difference a year makes.Last year when the University

of Montana played EasternWashington in Missoula, the Grizwere trying to develop freshmanquarterback Cole Bergquist whilethe Eagles had the eventual win-ner of the Walter Payton Award,given annually to the best offen-sive player in I-AA Football, quar-terback Erik Meyer. The resultwas a 34-20 Eastern Washingtonvictory with Meyer throwing for395 yards and five touchdowns.

Oh how things have changed. This year, the Eagles (1-4 over-

all, 1-1 Big Sky Conference) willbe the ones with a freshman atquarterback with Matt Nicholsrunning the offense, while theGriz will have fifth-year seniorJosh Swogger at the helm. There’sno question that without Meyer on

the team, Eastern is totally differ-ent offensively.

“He won our version of theHeisman last year,” said UM headcoach Bobby Hauck. “They don’thave the best player in the countryon their offense. They’re probablynot as good at quarterback. Otherthan that they’re doing theirthing.”

Nichols has struggled so far thisyear, throwing eight interceptionsand only two touchdowns, butHauck said he was impressed withwhat he saw watching game film.

“He’s good,” Hauck said. “I wasactually surprised when I watchedhim. He’s a lot farther along in hisdevelopment than I anticipated hewas.”

Nichols’ struggles have been abig part of the Eagles’ slow startthis season, but another factor hasbeen their tough schedule. Theystarted off the season with back-to-back games against Division I-A teams West Virginia and Oregon

State, which resulted in blowoutlosses for the Eagles by a com-bined score of 108-20.

Eagles head coach Paul Wulffsaid the two games againstDivision I-A teams was tough onhis team.

“I think it had an impact, I do,”said Wulff, who is in his seventhyear as head coach at EWU. “Idon’t think it helped, that’s forsure.”

Unfortunately for Wulff and theEagles, things aren’t getting awhole lot easier. They will have toface a Griz offense that ranks No. 1 in the Big Sky, scoring 32points a game with Swogger look-ing more and more like anothergreat Montana quarterback.

“Josh has got a great arm andhe’s very experienced,” Wulffsaid. “He can do some great thingswith his arm. When he’s on, he’sdeadly.”

Montana (3-1 overall, 2-0 BSC)also has the No. 1 rushing offense

in the conference, averaging morethan 140 yards a game on theground with junior ReggieBradshaw and senior Brady Greendoing most of the damage. Inrecent weeks Green has seen hisrole in the offense grow quite abit, and that’s fine with him.

“It’s been fun,” said Green, whogot a game ball after Montana’s26-20 win over Portland State lastweekend. “It’s been kind of a newthing, but I’ve really enjoyed it.”

The Griz will hit the road for

their second-straight game, insearch of their ninth-consecutiveleague title, but this game is morethan just about this season — ithas to do with last year’s loss toEastern that played a big part inthe conference standings.

“Eastern’s a tough, tough team,”said UM senior defensive endDustin Dlouhy. “They beat us lastyear, so we owe them one thisyear.”

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The University of Montana soc-cer team will look to extend itsthree-game winning streak thisweekend as they open Big SkyConference play at home.

The Griz will take on NorthernArizona today at 4 p.m. and willfollow that match with a gameagainst Northern Colorado onSunday at 1 p.m.

In last year’s matchup withNAU at Flagstaff, Ariz., the Grizfell 2-0. However, Montana has a9-3 all-time record against theLumberjacks and has never lost tothem at home.

Northern Arizona enters thegame at 5-6, coming off a 1-0 winover St. Mary’s College last week-end in the University of NewMexico tournament.

UM head coach Neil Sedgwicksaid NAU is a team on the rise.

“Northern Arizona is a verygood team that gets better everyyear,” he said. “It was a good bat-tle last year.”

Like the Lumberjacks, the Grizare coming off a similar 1-0 winover South Dakota State lastSunday, with senior midfielderKristina Lamberty scoring thelone goal. Montana is 6-5 and has-n’t lost a home game this season.

The Griz are excited to openconference play at home.

“This is what we’ve been work-ing for the whole time,” Lambertysaid.

UM freshman goalkeeper GraceHarris, who recently received BigSky Conference defensive playerof the week honors, said they’lljust have to continue to play likethey have been.

“They’re going to be tough,”she said. “We just have to comeout and play every game.”

The Lumberjacks have had twopeople guarding the goal this sea-son, rotating between juniorElizabeth Winkelblech and sopho-more Daren Kleinsmith. Theyeach have a shutout this season.By comparison, Harris has had ashutout in all three UM homegames.

The Northern Colorado Bearsare new to the Big SkyConference this season, and UMhas never played them before. TheBears competed in the UM-hostedNike Cup this past weekend, soSedgwick and his team had achance to scout them out.

“From what we saw (last)weekend, Northern Colorado is atough and talented group,”Sedgwick said.

The Bears defeated SouthDakota State this weekend, beforefalling 1-0 to North Dakota State,

a team Montana beat 3-0 lastFriday. The Bears are 4-7 and playEastern Washington today beforecoming to Missoula on Sunday.

Northern Colorado has strug-gled to get the ball in the net thisseason, and have been outshot byopponents 192-92. The Bears arestronger on defense, with goalieChrissy Marvin posting fourshutouts and making 75 saves.

The Griz have been happy withthe large crowds that have turnedout to support them. Sedgwickand Lamberty each said thecrowds have been great, andHarris echoed this.

“The team has been workingreally hard, and it’s awesome thecrowd gets to come out and seethat,” she said. “I’m excited we’rehome again.”

Shane McMillan / Montana KaiminUM freshman goalkeeper Grace Harris practices at South Campus Stadium on Thursday afternoon.Harris has racked up 41 season saves and has played goalie in all of UM’s 11 games this season. TheGriz look to improve their 6-5-0 record in today’s match against Northern Arizona.

AMBER KUEHN

MONTANA KAIMIN

Soccer kicks off conference play against Northern Arizona

Big Sky Conference Soccer Standings

Montana 6-5-0Weber State 5-4-2Sac State 6-5-1N. Arizona 5-6-0Idaho State 4-6-0E. Washington 4-7-1N. Colorado 4-7-0Portland State 0-10-1

Griz Football travels to Cheney in hopes of revenge against EaglesPETE DELMOE

MONTANA KAIMIN