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OPINION

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Communication with prospective post-bacs part of enrollment problem

The University of Montana isn't doing everything they can to ensure higher enrollment numbers.

Recently, I decided to go back to school for my post baccalaureate. As a UM alum, it was my first choice of schools, but after months of emailing with the adviser, sometimes with weeks in between the replies, I got a solid "we really don't care if you choose to go here" vibe from the adviser. When I asked for a timeline for my new degree, I got an "I don't know, I guess you'll just have to wait and see" reply about two weeks later. When asked for options and curriculums, I was sent a bunch of meaningless links with very little helpful information.

Because of that, I chose to continue

my education with MSU who had me set up and enrolled less than a week after my first email.

For a school that is struggling to bring students in and keep them there, I'd think the remaining, uncut staff would be slightly more helpful to prospective students. If I was met with this kind of disinterest as an 18-year-old, I sure would have taken my business elsewhere.

The lack of caring on the advisory staff's part was an issue I noticed in my time at UM as a student, but it is clear that it is part of the low-enrollment problem, instead of working to be part of the solution.

Get your act together UM.

EDITORIAL

IT’S TIME FOR CAMPUS ACTIVISTS TO STEP UP THEIR GAME Editorial Staff editor@montanakaimin

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lthough we’re far from the dark days when the student senate voted to condemn humanities faculty speaking out against the administration’s heavy-handed budget cuts, University activists still haven’t mustered the now ambient discontent across campus into tangible change. And that’s a shame, because there has never been a riper time.

In the last few months, three of President Royce Engstrom’s cabinet members have announced their retirement: Vice President for Integrated Communications Peggy Kuhr, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Perry Brown and Vice President for Student Affairs Teresa Branch. The titles of these positions are confusing, but imagining them as minister of propaganda, dean of deans and czar of student needs isn’t far from the truth.

Engstrom said each cabinet member decided to retire independently, giving some credence to the idea that UM’s top administrators are jumping ship, not walking the plank. Conversely, these administrators were responsible for promoting a healthy image of the University, maintaining strong academics and attracting students, and their failures in all these areas calls to question how coincidental their simultaneous departures could possibly be.

Regardless of its possibly self-emancipatory nature, the recent (ongoing?) purge of Main Hall has turned three of the most powerful administrators on campus into lame ducks. Engstrom himself says it is improbable these posts will be filled by the time their current occupants vacate them come June 30.

UM has seen three student activist groups gain enough momentum in the last year to ping the radar, but their methods, often through officially sanctioned channels, have failed to bring about the change they demand.

Last spring, Reinvest Montana succeeded in getting students to overwhelmingly pass a resolution calling on the UM Foundation to divest University holdings in fossil fuels. The foundation swatted it down unanimously. A 2014 occupation of the President’s Office was similarly ineffectual, and the group has admitted their upcoming wedding ceremony between the UM Foundation and fossil fuel industry is purely symbolic. Eighty percent of UM students support Reinvest Montana, but like many groups, adherence to faux-democratic channels and symbolic protest gets them nowhere.

While UM United’s lap around the Oval at the end of last year finally demonstrated the willingness of students and faculty to march in solidarity, it also had no effect. When the soon-to-announce-his-retirement provost is dancing in his office window to the tempo of your protest chant, you can tell how seriously Main Hall takes your demands. UM United has yet to make their next move, but a change of tactics is in order.

Honors College activists got closest to protesting in a meaningful way when they threatened earlier this year to tell potential honors scholars touring the University not to attend UM if their beloved adviser wasn’t reinstated, but nonetheless failed when the adviser expressed discomfort with such an act in her name. They canceled it. America has a rich history of successful nonviolent civil disobedience movements from which students can draw tactics, all of which backed up demands with economic consequences if unmet. The Montgomery bus boycott succeeded because three quarters of riders were blacks who proved they could self-organize community carpools that were just as effective as the bus company they nearly bankrupted. The Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins didn’t just deprive national department store chain Woolworth of revenue in the south, but tarnished the company’s reputation among northern consumers. Federal courts saw segregation was harmful to the economy when the segregated stopped participating.

Presenting the alternative to your demands as unavoidable economic ruin is the only way to make change from the ground up in this country. Money is power, and UM’s organized student groups pay far too much every year not to demand a stronger say.

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ASUM discuss fate of child care program Silas Miller silas.miller@umontana.edu

At the Feb 10 meeting, ASUM President Cody Meixner presented senators with multiple budgeting options for its child care program, each of which would allow the program to continue in some capacity.

ASUM subsidized its child care program with $120,000 this year to operate, an amount that must increase next year by between $40,000 and $120,000 to maintain the program’s current size.

New state health regulations, which will be addressed in a public hearing in Helena on Feb. 12, have brought on much

of ASUM Child Care’s current financial strain.

The University’s enrollment decline has also decreased ASUM’s cash pool, leaving them with less money to dole out to its programs for next year.

The student body will have to pass a fee increase later this spring, long after the senate’s decision, to maintain the child care program’s current size.

“ASUM is easily amid their worst fiscal situation ever,” Meixner said during Wednesday’s meeting.

Meixner also presented two “worst case scenario” budget options for their child care program, options that wouldn’t

require a tuition fee increase to fund.

He told the senate he doesn’t want to have to consider the two plans, which entail downsizing the program, slashing almost half of staff positions and eliminating infant care. The senators could also decide to eliminate the program at their final budgeting at the end of February.

Regarding the “worst case scenario” options, Senator Wyatt Smith said, “We have more to lose than we have to gain.”

Smith said it would be much harder for ASUM to rebuild the program once enrollment swings back up in the future.

Other senators said the program is not intended to make a profit, but is to provide

an essential service for parents within the University.

Senator Pierce Frazier said that ASUM should reflect the actions taken by the University in dealing with the current fiscal climate.

Frazier, along with several other senators, said the senate can’t ignore the “last resort options.”

“It’s easier to remedy while in the black,” Frazier said in regards to the program’s needed recovery.

ASUM may vote on their current child care budget options at a meeting on Feb. 17, in the University Center rooms 330-331 at 6 p.m. ▪

Hunting and fishing increases Claire Chandler claire. chandler.umontana.edu

Montana hunters and fishers will pay more for licenses due to a Montana legislative bill that took effect February 1, 2016.

The bill does away with free fishing licenses for kids, seniors and people with disabilities. Instead, these groups will pay Changes are outlined below:

half the price of normal licenses, according to a Fish Wildlife and Parks website information sheet.

FWP used to give away $4.9 million in discounted or free licenses every year, a cost too high for the organization to maintain. Active military and veterans will continue receiving free fishing licenses because the state reimburses FWP for these,

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$10 (new base 400 hunting license, includes the AEF)

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FWP licenser Hank Worsech said.

“No business can run for ten years without increased fees. Costs go up,” Worsech said.

Historically, FWP budgets ten years out, setting their fees to cover projected future costs, which can be difficult, Chairman Dan Vermillion, of the Fish and Wildlife Commission, said.

A committee of 14 sportsmen, outfitters, legislators, landowners and FWP department officials created the legislative proposal for the fee increases.

It was a good cross section of Montana people, according to Vermillion, who served on the committee. After looking at expense projections ten years out, it took the committee a year to arrive at the new fee structure.

“They really take to heart (that) these are licensing dollars spent by sportsmen and women to support Montana fishing and hunting,” Vermillion said.

Vermillion would like to see a shorter funding cycle, with smaller increases more often. This would help FWP budget better.

UM graduate Kelsey Carlson is an instate fisher and hunter. Fee increases are something to be dealt with in order to maintain hunting and fishing privileges, she said.

“On one hand, I understand the logic of people being upset because they claim the prices are too expensive,” Carlson said. “On the other, I know that the cost of buying a license and having my hunt meat processed is astronomically less than if I were to be buying my meat at the grocery store.” ▪

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How an MSU student gun running for rent money was mistaken for an Islamic terrorist by the FBI

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etyr Botti-Anderson was terrified.

Wires attached to his hands and wrists measured the perspiration of his palms and his pulse, while the belt wrapped around his waist monitored his breathing patterns.

According to the FBI agents studying Petyr — whose hands were sweating and heart was racing as he tried to take deep, calming breaths — he was failing all the tests.

The sterile, white room Petyr sat in reminded him of a hospital. The lights were fluorescent and the furniture minimal. It felt uncomfortably clean.

The agents who started off nice and who, minutes ago, were making sure Petyr was comfortable, seemed to transform when they hooked him to the lie detector test.

Although the FBI had interrogated him about the same case three days earlier, Petyr said this line of questioning was different.

“Are you a homosexual? Sometimes it’s OK for Muslims to be gay in Saudi Arabia.”

“No.” “Did you know the Koran allows men to have sex with little boys?”

“No.” “Are you Muslim?”

“No.” “Are you interested in Islam?”

Petyr was. He thought it was an interesting religion with millions of followers with no intention of radicalizing. But he didn’t want to seem more like a suspect than he already did. So he lied.

“No, I’m not interested in Islam,” Petyr said.

It was the first time he had ever felt nonwhite. His mother, fully Italian, passed her dark skin and hair to him.

Life as Petyr knew it was destroyed after he stole a wallet from the Montana State University Fitness Center in October. He found a credit card in the wallet and used it to buy a gun. He then pawned that gun for just enough money to pay October’s rent.

By the end of the interrogation, Petyr was in tears.

Petyr was poor and depressed and went searching for a solution alone in the wrong places.

Depression is common among students, but few end up falsely accused of Islamic terrorism by the FBI, suspended from school and put in jail.

Petyr believes it was his inability to reach out for help that is to blame. Treatment for his severe depression and a more understanding environment could have prevented this all.

Theft and deceptive practices

Although he had a job on campus, Petyr, a junior, still couldn’t make his rent. As a full time art history major at MSU, he didn’t have time for another job.

After borrowing money from his roommate and friends to pay his bills the previous two months, Petyr felt disinclined to ask for help again.

With work and school, Petyr felt an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. He was almost suicidal, but his pride outweighed depression, and help was out of the question.

“I wanted everything to end,” Petyr said.

“I was done with school. I was done having to pay these bills.”

A precocious 20-year-old with a nothingto-lose attitude and an underdeveloped plan is a dangerous mixture, and Petyr quickly learned how much he actually had that could be lost.

On Oct. 22, Petyr hit the gym. But when he got there, he didn’t lift weights, and he didn’t do yoga. He didn’t change his clothes when he entered the men’s locker room either.

Instead, spotting a backpack sitting on a bench, he opened it. The balled-up pair of jeans inside had a wallet in the back pocket.

Petyr looked around and didn’t see anyone — just a sign that read, ”Your belongings may not be safe if they are not locked up.”

In his mind it meant, “If you steal some-

thing here, we won’t come looking for you.”

He slipped the wallet into his pocket and headed to Sportsman’s Warehouse to buy a gun.

In the short-lived planning process for his fast cash scheme, Petyr researched what items had the highest return rate at any given pawnshop. He discovered that although most new guns sell for thousands, pawnshops buy them for hundreds.

After little deliberation, Petyr landed on purchasing a $1,199.99 big-game hunting rifle chambered in 300 Weatherby Magnum from Sportsman’s.

Petyr had his soon-to-be-unclean background checked. He passed.

Even after giving his real identity, Sportsman’s allowed Petyr to buy a rifle using a credit card under a different name, which is inconsistent with the store’s gun policy. After filling out paperwork, a person buying a gun at Sportsman’s Warehouse must use cash or his or her own card to carry out the deal.

But not in Petyr’s case. Sportsman’s Warehouse refused to comment as to why.

Twenty minutes later, Petyr was in Debos Pawn on North Seventh Avenue in Bozeman.

Rachel Herndon, an employee at Debos, was suspicious, not because of Petyr’s looks or age, but because the rifle was still in its box.

It looked brand new.

Herndon remembers asking several questions.

“Why haven’t you ever shot it?”

Petyr told her the gun was a gift from his father, but his brother died in a gun accident and now he wanted nothing to do with firearms.

Herndon noticed he still had the receipt.

“Why don’t you just return it for the full price?”

Petyr said Sportsman’s needed his father to return the gun, since he was the buyer, but Petyr and his father weren’t on good terms.

It was a sad story, and after seven months at Debos Pawn, Herndon had only seen the

police come in for stolen items two or three times. After Herndon took down the serial number of the gun and Petyr’s license information, she gave him $550 cash.

Petyr thought Herndon seemed excited to add such a new rifle to Debos inventory.

Herndon finished her shift by reporting every item sold to Debos that day to a website called LeadsOnline, which flags any item police report as stolen. Herndon said every pawnshop in the nation has a legal obligation to do this.

Obstructing a peace officer

Petyr went home and paid his rent with every dollar he made at the pawnshop. Not long after, he went to counseling offered through MSU to treat his depression.

Petyr was doing better. Although life was still stressful, counseling helped.

It had been almost three weeks since he bought and pawned the gun with a stolen credit card, and he was beginning to think he somehow slipped through the cracks.

But on Nov. 11, Petyr was called in to talk to MSU police. As he sat and waited, he noticed one of the officers holding what looked like surveillance photos of Petyr in Debos Pawn with a hunting rifle.

He confessed immediately.

After the owner of the credit card noticed an unknown $1,000 charge to his card, he reported it to the police, according to Herndon from Debos Pawn.

It was clear to police the card was used at Sportsman’s Warehouse to buy a gun. When the police filled out a report, the serial number of the rifle Petyr purchased was flagged on LeadsOnline.

When the police talked to Herndon at Debos, she gave them all of Petyr’s information and a photo of him in the store.

Petyr now owes Debos Pawn $550 in restitution.

After confessing, MSU police made Petyr realize just how much trouble he was in.

Although his theft was a misdemeanor, the amount of money he stole was only $300 away from a felony, and because Petyr stole the wallet, then stole the credit card out of the wallet, he would be charged with two separate counts of petty theft.

“The cop kept saying that if I implicated someone else, I wouldn’t get in as much trouble,” Petyr said. “So I created a false story to make it seem like I wasn’t such a bad guy.”

Petyr told the police another man had been in the locker room that day and pressured him into stealing the wallet.

When the police asked Petyr for the man’s name, he answered with the first thing that came to mind — Aziz, a common name among Muslim men.

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“I’m friends with a lot of the Saudi community in Bozeman, and I know there are at least five different people named Aziz,” Petyr said. “I figured it would be hard to trace.”

He couldn’t have picked a worse name at a worse time.

That weekend, terrorists linked to ISIS killed 130 people in Paris and wounded 368 more in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. The following Monday, Nov. 16, Petyr was called in for another interrogation. This time when he came in, there were no MSU police.

He sat across from two FBI agents.

Petyr said the agents laid out a photo lineup of Arab-looking men living in Bozeman named Aziz.

“Which one told you to steal the wallet?”

But Petyr couldn’t pick one. The Aziz he had fabricated was obviously not any of these very real men.

So he caved. He told the agents he made up Aziz in a failed attempt to get into less trouble.

The agents didn’t believe him.

“They told me that some people had been buying guns for Muslims, and that was their fear,” Petyr said. “They were worried that’s what I was doing — that I was essentially buying items for terrorists to use in the U.S.” MSU Police Chief Robert Putzke said there has been more than one case of suspected terrorism in the past year at MSU, and the FBI is always brought in to help solve those cases.

“If there is a threat, a terroristic threat, whether that be domestic or international,

that’s something that would involve the FBI,” Putzke said.

MSU police work with the FBI about six times a year, according to Putzke, and they always work as a team.

“If the FBI gets involved on campus, usually we’re the ones who call them,” Putzke said. “Both agencies work together to try to solve the crime.”

If MSU police and the FBI find there is only a local crime that has been committed, Putzke said the FBI will drop the case while MSUPD continues to work on it.

The FBI interrogated Petyr four times before he convinced them he wasn’t a terrorist.

The shortest interrogation took an hour and a half, the longest three hours, Petyr said.

Petyr spent half of every interrogation sitting and waiting. He said during one, he waited for nearly an hour while the FBI agents left the Bozeman office and went to Target, where Petyr’s friend worked, to ask her some questions.

She thought it was a joke.

After finding no evidence that Petyr was involved in an Islamic terror plot, the FBI left his case to the MSU police without making any arrests or pressing charges.

Living with the consequences

Petyr was suspended from MSU on Dec. 8. He will be able to return to school in January 2017. The administrative agreement given to him by the dean of students reads: “You intentionally misled the police, causing them to fear for the safety of the univer-

sity and greater Bozeman community. As a result of this fear the MSU police involved the FBI.” Matthew Caires, MSU dean of students, said whether or not a student is suspended after a criminal investigation depends on the severity of the case — what the student stole, and how he or she stole it.

“A criminal federal investigation or a local investigation doesn’t necessarily mean a student is guilty, and it doesn’t necessarily mean the student has committed a policy violation,” Caires said. “The university suspends students based upon policy violations, not on violations of the law. Now sometimes, violations of the law are policy violations.”

Petyr’s criminal charges violate several of MSU’s student conduct code policies, including illegal conduct, theft and acts of dishonesty.

In Fall 2015, MSU handled 49 illegal conduct cases and 26 acts of dishonesty, according to MSU’s Fall 2015 Report. Of the 49 illegal conduct cases, only three students were suspended.

Aside from suspension, Petyr’s final court date was on Feb. 4, where he pleaded guilty to five separate misdemeanors.

Before court, Petyr expected he would have hefty fines to pay, but the owner of the credit card decided not to press charges.

As Petyr walked into the courthouse, he slid a cigarette into his shirt pocket. He was ready to smoke off the nerves when court was over and he was sentenced.

“I definitely should have smoked that before I went into court,” Petyr said.

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Sentenced to three days in Gallatin County Detention Center, he was booked into jail right after his hearing. Petyr was supposed to be in for six months, but because he was a first time offender, that sentence was suspended.

In jail, Petyr wore a blue jumpsuit and drew a monster eating himself with a plastic pen, flimsy so that no one could possibly use it as a shank.

If his sentence had been longer, Petyr said he would’ve had an anxiety attack.

He couldn’t see the sky in jail, and he said the inmates all had to drink a juice mix packed with vitamin D because there was no sunlight.

Now that Petyr is out, he plans to make some money and pay off his fines.

Although it was cut short, counseling improved Petyr’s mental health.

“I wish I would have tried that first,” Petyr said. “I should have reached out for help, but I’m not the type of person who likes to ask for help. I believe I require a year or more of therapy before I’m my normal self again.”

Petyr hopes college students dealing with depression will learn from his mistakes.

“It’s shitty that I committed that theft and it’s shitty that this happened, but I’m glad I have this time to get my life together and get things in order,” Petyr said. “I think there’s not enough awareness about how college can sort of crush you and lead you to do stupid things if you’re not in a good spot.”

And he’s got some more advice: If you still plan to make money the illegal way, don’t lie to the police. If you still plan to lie to the police, don’t use a name like Aziz. Try John. ▪

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BOBO HITS HIS STRIDE

Samantha Hodgson

Tiffany Folkes tiffany.folkes@umontana.edu

Sydney MacDonald / @sydneysmacdo Dominique Bobo currently ranks second in the 200-meters, third in long jump and ninth in the 60-meters in the Big Sky Conference. “I don’t want to just win Big Sky, I want to kill the whole competition itself to solidify that I’m not the same runner I was a year or two ago,” Bobo said.

Sojin Josephson sojin.josephson@umontana.edu

When Dominique Bobo was 9 years old, he started racing around his neighborhood in Wichita Falls, Texas with his friends and cousins. And he hasn’t stopped running since.

Bobo has come a long way since his freshman and sophomore indoor track seasons at Montana. He started both of those seasons running his main event, the 200-meter race, in the 22s. Now in his junior year, he has finished the 200-meters in the 21s five times.

Bobo is currently ranked first in the 200-meters and fourth in the long jump for his indoor performance, according to the Big Sky Conference “This season, my work ethic has changed,” Bobo said. “I grew up and learned that I couldn’t just run off of pure talent. I learned that I have to put in the hard work to actually be great.”

Coach Brian Schweyen said it’s incredible to see Bobo’s performance now compared to his freshman season and that he needs to keep setting his goals higher.

“He has a lot of God-given talent, but his desire to be the best has really taken over,” Schweyen said. “That’s what’s pushed him to work harder, to be more mature and to be a leader. In the last two years, he went from a boy to a man.”

Dylan Reynolds, a redshirt junior sprinter from Florence, said he and Bobo bring out the best in each other with

healthy competition.

“He’s the type of kid that likes to talk, but he backs up everything he says,” Reynolds said. “He’s grown into what he said he would and everyone can see that.

It’s a lot of fun to be his teammate.”

Bobo was recently named the Big Sky Conference Men’s Athlete of the Week after he improved his No. 2-ranked 200-meter time with an adjusted time of 21.67 seconds and won the event at Montana State. That week, he anchored the 4x400 relay team’s second-place finish and came in second in the long jump. He also qualified in the 60-meter dash.

On Feb. 12, Bobo won his fourth 200-meter race in five meets with an adjusted time of 21.43. This moved him to the top of the Big Sky Conference performance list and just shy of the University of Montana track and field record that David Blair set in 2000.

Bobo is expected to be a major point producer for the Grizzlies at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championships at the end of February and NCAA Championships at the beginning of March. He said he’s ready to bring the competition in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.

“I don’t want to just win Big Sky, I want to kill the whole competition itself to solidify that I’m not the same runner I was a year or two ago,” Bobo said. “I want to prove that to everyone in the conference and to my team because if they see that I can change my whole mindset, then they all can, and together we can achieve really big goals.”▪

Samantha Hodgson is Montana born, bred, and trained. Growing up, she dreamed of leaving the Big Sky when she graduated high school, but couldn’t put this beautiful state in her past. Now, she is working toward breaking the Montana records that she already broke.

Hodgson currently holds the Montana track and field records for outdoor discus (2013) and indoor and outdoor shot put (2014). After studying abroad in Ireland in the fall, the Billings native is getting back into the swing of throwing, utilizing a new coach and new season to set a series of goals for her redshirt-junior year.

A two-time regionals performer, Hodgson hopes to find herself competing at nationals this season.

Montana Kaimin: When did you first get involved with track and field?

SH: Seventh grade is when I actually started throwing. I was not good enough to do high jumps, so they were like: “try the shot put,” because I was really strong.

MK: What did you like about it when you started?

SH: I was just naturally good at it and that was a big draw for me, that it was something that came really naturally.

And I’ve always had really good coaches with my experience so I’ve never had a bad throwing experience, so that’s really helpful.

MK: Do you remember the first time you threw a discus or shot put?

SH: The first time I shot, I actually threw it out the back of the rink, like I didn’t even throw it straight, so that was a good start. It definitely was way harder than it looked. I thought it was crazy how far it went for how heavy it was. There’s a lot of technique involved.

MK: How does it feel to hold the school record for shot put and discus?

SH: It’s kind of unreal. Back in high school, I threw with some chick who’s training for the Olympics right now.

She’s going to be in the Olympics this

year. I came from people always being amazing to being the one having the records, so that’s really cool for me.

MK: Why is it better being a Griz than a Cat? SH: Every reason ever. I feel like we’re just way more upbeat and peppy and … obviously the Grizzlies are better than the Bobcats.

MK: What are your goals for the indoor championships at the end of this month?

SH: At the end of this month, I would like to be back where I was my sophomore year. A lot of things have happened since then. I studied abroad. So, [I’m] coming back and trying to get back in the groove of things. I’d like to be up in the 51s, that’d be dope.

MK: What are your goals for the outdoor championships this year?

SH: We have a new coach and he actually went to regionals in the hammer, so we’re looking for big, new marks in the hammer.

MK: Do you have a certain number goal in mind?

SH: Outdoor I’d like to break the 50s, that’s a huge mark. For discus, I’d definitely like to get back up there because even if you throw 165 at regionals, you’re pretty destined to go to nationals.

MK: Do you have any hobbies that you enjoy doing in your downtime?

SH: I have two dogs, so we go hiking a lot and we sleep a lot. I like to take naps. We practice a lot, so it’s nice to just relax.

MK: What is your favorite thing about winters in Montana?

SH: I really honestly like to sit inside and watch movies and drink hot cocoa rather than being outside in the cold. I’m not too big on the cold, but I like to wear sweatshirts. I love sweatshirt weather.

MK: What is your best college memory so far?

SH: One night at a track meet, we were all hanging out and we found a karaoke thing and our entire team did karaoke. It was crazy. All the boys started singing “Milkshake” and it was fun.▪

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Deputy Sports Editor Jackson Wagner Multimedia Editor Evan Frost Deputy Multimedia Editor Lacey Young Design Editor Kayla Robertson Copy Chief Kate Shea

News Reporters Silas Miller Micah Drew Abby Lynes Kasey Bubnas h Erin Goudreau Claire Chandler Johanna Bernha rd Katie Fairbank s Arts Reporters Rylan Bogg s Kate Shea Bowen West Maddie Vincent

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