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urt Skrivseth picks up his five-string Stingray bass named “Linda.” She is sparkly gold, has a white pick guard, her neck is one piece of bird’s-eye maple.

She is a thing of beauty.

Skrivseth slaps the bass.

He is playing a bass line of his own creation, for the song “Auf Wiedersehen.”

It’s hip, upbeat and at times, almost sounds friendly.

But playing it is harder than it looks, and striking the strings is an art form in itself. You have to hit a low string with the bone in the middle of your thumb. You have to strike the string with eq-

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uity. The closer you are to the anchor, the tighter it is, the farther away the looser it is, you’ve got to find a balance.

Skrivseth has mastered this, despite little to no finger function in his right hand. He is missing the radial nerve that would allow him to wiggle his thumb free from the joint, something that has helped him perfect the art of slapping the bass.

“I remember this day during high school when I couldn’t find a guitar pick or the tape I used

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to put it between my fingers, and out of frustration I decided to hit the bass with my right hand. I had this urge that I needed to play,” Skrivesth said. “That was sort of my breakthrough point. I was able to overcome this physical limitation.”

The 27-year-old was born this way, coming out feet first instead of leading with his head.

The doctor had to perform a Cesarean, but pulled too hard on @montanakaimin

Skrivseth’s right shoulder and bent his spinal cord. He lost the use of both his legs and some of the function of his right arm his first day outside the womb.

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OPINION TRANNY 911

Your asshole: The last best place Michael Siebert michael.siebert@umontana.edu

The human anus is a mystical orifice. Reviled by puritans and celebrated by sexual thrill-seekers, ass play is under-discussed and over-scrutinized. The reasons are understandable. After all, poop comes out of there, and almost never mixes well with a steamy encounter.

Yet recently there has been a surge of interest in anal stimulation.

Jhene Aiko rapped about “eat[ing] the booty like groceries” in last year’s song “Post To Be” and more recently Kanye West was outed as a “#FingersInTheBootyAssBitch” by ex-lover Amber Rose during a Twitter dispute with Wiz Khalifa.

And while the latter example carries some homophobic undertones, it doesn’t change the fact that putting things in your ass has become part of a national dialogue on sex.

In order to understand why it’s so taboo, we first need to understand why it’s pleasurable.

Over at Columbia University, the author of the column “Go Ask Alice” explained that “when touched or massaged, the prostate — about a half-inch inside the opening of the anus — is a spot in [people with prostates’] bodies that heightens sensations during … masturbation.” This is due to the abundance of nerve endings in the region, all of which elicit a pleasurable response.

But it’s not just for folks with prostates. Slate reported in 2010 that 94% of prostate-less individuals had achieved orgasm through anal sex, a higher number than through vaginal sex.

“It absolutely can be enjoyed by anyone,” Dac Cederberg, an English literature and creative writing major at UM, said.

Cederberg, a gay man, believes that homophobia is the root cause of the stigma surrounding anal play.

“Culturally, it’s associated with homosexuality, which I think goes back to the deeper homophobia and misogyny,” Cederberg said

"Because anyone who’s getting penetrated is automatically feminine, so you don’t want to admit to enjoy[ing] being penetrated. It’s seen as a joke, like, ‘oh, if you want anything in your butt you must want a dick in your butt,’ which is not true at all,” he said.

Despite this view, fear of anal stimulation does seem to be going by the wayside. Vi, a BDSM leather worker and former Missoula resident, declared 2016 “the year of the butt.”

“Everyone low-key wants a finger in their ass, but no one wants to talk about it,” Vi said.

“Dudes are all like, they’re coy about it. They’re like, ‘I suppose …’”

Of course, the chief concern when it comes to assplay is cleanliness.

But both Cederberg and Vi argue that with some baby wipes or anal douching, it can be just as clean as any other orifice.

“If you wanted to get into buttplay then think about cleaning your butt more,” Vi said.

“But seriously, not everyone likes a clean ass either. Don’t shame anyone who doesn’t like clean ass.”

If you’ve always been interested in the idea of eating ass, fingering ass, or whatever else your heart desires, know that it’s not weird, and you’re definitely not alone.

But taking it slow is key.

“You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to,” Vi said.

But shedding your fear of the unknown also has the potential to be a healthy, enriching sexual experience. Don’t be afraid to try things, but make sure that you’re trying them with a consenting, understanding and patient partner. Lubricant is of utmost importance if you’re sticking anything in there.

Will eating butt be the oral sex of the future?

Who knows? But one thing is for certain: the likelihood of you having a partner that’s into it increases every day. ▪ Cover photo by Will McKnight / @willmck_photo

EDITORIAL

UM’S LATEST CRISIS IS OF IDENTITY editor@montanakaimin.com

After ending last semester on the sour note of emergency firings, many would like to see the new year start off well for the University of Montana.

That will not be happening. Not this year and not next year.

Every semester since UM’s back-to-back rape, budget and enrollment crises, the administration has said we are about to metaphorically “turn the corner” on a rough but temporary chapter.

And every semester things have gotten worse.

Enrollment has dropped for the fourth consecutive year, and the administration has punched new holes in the belt ever tightened around the faculty’s neck. Simultaneously administrators graciously accepted raises, and Provost Perry Brown’s timely retirement looks more like a man rowing away from a sinking ship than a seasoned bureaucrat spending more time on the river.

Budgetary projections that next year’s enrollment will be at worst stagnant – not lower – beg the question of what university administrators believe they are administrating.

If UM’s first crisis was the public outing of the community’s pro-rape bureaucracy, and the second the resultant snowballing enrollment plunge and budget hatcheting, the third is a crisis of identity.

Missoulians have yet to acknowledge the long-term damage done to the local economy by a callous treatment of rape victims. We are still the “rape school,” not just in Montana, but in America. The University has yet to convince prospective students otherwise, no matter how many routine declarations of progress.

MSU has had no trouble attracting the humanities majors oddly absent from UM, the state’s traditional liberal arts and sciences school, meaning it’s not true when administrators say we no longer offer routes of study demanded by modern students. Montanans are still interested in studying the humanities, they’re just not interested in studying at the University of Montana.

UM’s enrollment hemorrhage mirrors levels seen at colleges in New Orleans and Detroit, yet Missoula hasn’t been depopulated by the tragedies of global capitalism and global climate change like those shattered cities.

UM’s enrollment was torpedoed by the dark side of the “global century” President Royce Engstrom once promised to prepare students to embrace.

In the age of global communications, local rape scandals don’t go away, they explode into viral sensations. This university has not even begun to recover from the thorough tarnishing earned by its outed institutionalized sexism.

Trying to shock a depopulated liberal arts and sciences school into a STEM university through public announcements of secret firings and disaster capitalism is an unconvincing facade of progress, a lurching homunculus ambling awkwardly into the sea.

The University of Montana got into this position because it didn’t have a heart. Wishing for a brain won’t get it beating.

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Gold could cure cancer one day Kasey Bubnash kasey.bubnash@umontana.edu

Ray Hamilton, a biostatistician and professor of biostatistics at UM, along with others, has discovered solid gold nanoparticles, or extremely small particles of gold with huge surface areas, which could potentially kill cancer cells and tumors, diminishing the need for invasive surgeries.

While some studies have been done on gold’s toxicity, Hamilton said most people still consider it to be inert, but this study proves otherwise.

“Gold was considered to be inert, so everybody thought you could just put gold in the body and nothing would happen,” Hamilton said. “But we’re finding that’s not necessarily true, especially with these nanorods.”

David Macaluso, an assistant professor of physics and a project member, studies how gold interacts with laser light. Because the hu-

man body is mostly transparent, a laser wavelength can be used to illuminate things inside the human body, Macaluso said.

If a laser illuminates a gold nanoparticle of the right shape and size for long enough, it gets extremely hot, Macaluso said. Therefore, a gold nanoparticle could essentially be injected into a cancerous tumor, have a laser shined onto it, and then “you just cook the tumor from the inside out,” he said.

“You don’t have to do nearly as invasive surgery, or if the tumor is attached to critical structures, it could be removed with this,” Macaluso said.

The team of researchers are also working with carbon, using it both separate from and in collaboration with gold.

Macaluso said he will be creating carbon cages for the gold nanoparticles to grow inside of. Various cells can stick to carbon, which would allow the gold to be attracted specifically to cancer cells. This way, normal cells in the

A mandatory revolution Erin Goudreau erin.goudreau@umontana.edu

The start of a new semester: a time for emptying bank accounts at the UM bookstore, soaking up the last few months at Snow Bowl, and enrolling in the Department of Justice’s mandatory Junior Bystander Intervention training.

The Junior Bystander Intervention training is part of the Student Advocacy Resource Center’s Bystander Revolution, a two-day spring event that includes training and prizes. The training aims to provide strategies that reduce the occurrence of sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking.

Chase Greenfield, a student who’s worked closely with ASUM to implement this training, is optimistic about its potential to help create a safer, more comfortable environment on campus.

“We not only want to comply with the Department of Justice,” Greenfield said, “but to create a community of students dedicated to keeping each other happy and safe.”

Since all freshmen are required to take the online PETSA, or Personal Empowerment Through Self Awareness, training, SARC considers the Junior Bystander training to be an opportunity to reiterate how to be an effective bystander.

Chase said it’s beneficial to do trainings both freshman and junior year.

“We want to give students a refresh of material from freshman year and build upon that base of knowledge after they have had some real life experience on campus,” he said.

There are, however, 11 classes that allow students an exemption from the junior training. These courses were reviewed by a university panel for their content and were found to address topics of sexual assault and gender-based discrimination.

In some courses, representatives from SARC come into the classroom to do extended, detailed trainings and panels with students.

Elizabeth Hubble is the co-chair of the University Council on Student Assault and the director of the Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies program. She also teaches two classes that allow for bystander training exemption.

The trainings SARC provides in these classes are more expansive than the Junior Bystander Intervention training, Hubble said.

“There is more information in these trainings, more time to work with students, and we often have a panel of experts come in,” Hubble said. “We consider the students who take these classes as having fulfilled the requirement.” ▪

human body wouldn’t be harmed.

“You don’t want to be injecting toxic materials into your body to kill tumors, sort of like chemotherapy damages other things,” Macaluso said. “So that’s the study. How damaging are these gold molecules and can we make them less damaging?”

While the current research for this project is funded by a $75,000 pilot grant through UM’s Center for Environmental Sciences, Macaluso said the team recently applied for a separate $5 million grant that would establish a new center at UM, and allow the research project on gold, among other projects, to move forward.

With the grant money, the gold project could begin testing on mice.

“It would be the Center for Biosystems Nanotechnology. That’s the center this grant is proposing to fund, which several departments would be involved with, including physics, material science, biomed and chemistry,” Macaluso said.

Andrij Holian, director of the Center for Environmental Health and Sciences on campus, is in charge of writing and gathering information for the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Proposal, which will be turned in as an application for the $5 million grant.

Holian said this proposal consists of three separate projects, including the research on nanoparticles, a field of study he said would fit in well on UM’s campus.

“It’s really time for the University of Montana to start getting visibility in this area,” Holian said. “We have a school of pharmacy here, the college of health professions, so it’s a great fit for us to take the lead in the state on this type of an effort.”

The team will know by next fall if they’re awarded the grant. ▪

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“There is footage of me as a baby that’s actually difficult for me to watch because I identify with the physical struggle that the precognitive me is trying to get its mind around, it’s kind of challenging,” Skrivseth said.

Skrivseth adapted to playing bass guitar despite his handicap, fretting the strings with his left hand, the only limb he can fully control, and slapping the strings with his right.

Skrivseth taught himself to play guitar by taping picks between the fingers of his right hand. He was driven to learn to play, read and live music.

He was 15 years old when he started playing, and found success early on. He played bass in local bands and was the new kid on the music scene of Missoula. After high school, he worked at Best Buy and heard of the Best Buy Roadshow in 2008, a show featuring 20 musicians working at Best Buys across the nation, performing at the Anaheim Convention Center across the street from Disneyland. He sent an audition tape and was

accepted into the Best Buy band. They even got Slash, the guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, to have a guest appearance at the show, hosted

by Snoop Dogg.

“Man isn’t that funky?” the drummer of the band said about Kurt’s bass playing.

Snoop Dogg then said the most Snoop Dogg thing ever.

“Man that’s not even funky man, that was more than funky, that was stanky,” Snoop said.

After the excitement of concert life returned to normalcy, Skrivseth returned to his job, but assumed college was the proper thing to do and the next step to better himself as a musician.

He enrolled in the University of Montana School of Music in 2011 and majored in composition.

Accepted into the top jazz band in 2012, he worked so vigorously he got tendonitis in his left hand, and now his only fully functional limb was becoming impaired. But a new disability was the least of his problems.

According to Skrivseth, for a place that is supposed to support up-and-coming musicians, the University could not have been more discouraging.

The School of Music requires every student take piano class, something Skrivseth is physically incapable of doing. Skrivseth said that in an attempt to work with the school to accommodate for this he took a semester of their keyboarding class, although it would only count for half of a piano credit.

“I sent them an email asking if there was a way that could be waived or worked around, or if there was a way I could play a piece, perhaps on the instrument I’m physically capable of playing. Sounds weird I know,” Skrivseth said. “Understand that as a composition major I can write for piano.”

Skrivseth could not play in the orchestra because of his instrument — they would require him to play an upright bass, which again he could not physically do. He instead played in a jazz band to meet the requirement, but said it only partially counted for an orchestra credit.

Although he had been playinig electric bass for six semesters, Skrivseth said the school told him that his instrument was not acknowledged by the National Association of Schools of Music, where UM’s School

of Music receives its accreditation.

“I was never told, all this time I was playing bass guitar, that it wouldn’t be allowed,” Skrivseth said.

Skrivseth said that what the school did do for him was suggest he learn a different instrument. The school also suggested that he change his major to a Bachelor of Arts in Music, a degree that would add two years to his college career. They suggested this because that major would supposedly be less demanding.

Fern Glass Boyd, professor of cello at the School of Music and Skrivseth’s adviser in the string instrument area, said the music school tried to help Skrivseth, but could only do so much, and suggested other programs for Skrivseth.

Glass Boyd said that because of how accredited the music school is, if they accommodated for everything they would lose some of their prestige.

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The School of Music is the only institution of higher education in Montana that offers a bachelor’s degree in music performance and is strictly regulated by NASM in all of their music degree programs, according to Glass Boyd.

She said the Bachelor of Music has the least amount of flexibility regarding accommodation in the music performance area, and the Bachelor of Arts in Music has the most flexibility.

UM would not be able to completely accommodate Skrivseth and change the requirements of his degree because they would be in violation of NASM accreditation standards, Glass Boyd said.

NASM's standards for accreditation don't provide many clear answers. Their 20152016 handbook states a school's equipment and technology shall be provided as appropriate to the student learning purposes and to the size and scope of the degrees and programs offered. This incudes “grand pianos;

upright pianos; pipe and/or electronic organs; electronic instruments and equipment.”

In a later section, the handbook says there are many ways to achieve excellence.

“Innovation and carefully planned experimentation is encouraged. Experimentation might lead to programs to study not specifically indicated earlier in the handbook,” the handbook reads.

Ableism is not part of NASM's criteria for their non-discrimination policy. It only states that “it is a policy that no person shall be subject to discrimination in any relationship because of sex, race, color, creed, religion or national origin.”

The University of Montana’s Disability Services for Students says students with disabilities have equal opportunities for education as much as anyone else. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination based upon disability, requiring schools to offer programs and activities to persons with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.

Section 504 is not about reducing

Will Mcknight / @WillMcK_ Kurt Skrivseth identitifies the signature of Bootsy Collins, bassist for the band Parliament. Collins is one of the many musicians that have signed his bass guitar.

expectations for students with disabilities, but to give students with disabilities a level playing field to meet the academic level.

Amy Capolupo, the director of disability services and Skrivseth’s disability services adviser, helped Skrivseth through his quarrel with the School of Music. Capolupo said the school should have told Skrivseth his electric bass would not be acceptable from the beginning.

Capolupo felt Maxine Ramey, the director of the School of Music, was supportive of Skriveseth getting done with school as quickly as possible. They could have continued to push, but Skrivseth decided enough was enough. He dropped out in December of 2014.

“It took me awhile when I realized that I was already a musician before I got involved in the program. As soon as I was involved with it, they were criticizing whether or not that was the case, or at least something that was up to their par,” Skrivseth said. “I didn’t realize it, but it made me feel like less of a musician.”

Since withdrawal from the School of Music, Skrivseth has finally been able to pursue his passion on his own terms. He

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plays in the band “Pale People,” where he feels he can express himself musically.

Skrivseth’s “Pale People” bandmate, Mack Gilcrest, met Skrivseth when they played together in the jazz program.

They formed a friendship that turned into an alternative rock band. Gilcrest found someone who not only shares his love of music, but also his dedication.

“The amount of struggle that he has gone through in his life that has made him the musician that he is today, the remarkable thing is, it doesn’t show. Or rather what shows is consummate dedication. He has never let anything hold him back. He is a very egoless player,” Gilcrest said.

Gilcrest said watching Skrivseth go through his frustrations with the school, and how he found other means of having a musical outlet to express himself is heroic.

“You’ve got to look within yourself to find the music. It’s a personal journey that school can’t capture,” Skrivseth said. “The greatest lesson I’ve learned from music school is that you don’t need someone’s permission to be a musician. You don’t need somebody’s approval to play what you want to or to express yourself. Just because you’re handed a piece of paper, that is in a special font, that has a shiny sticker on it, doesn’t mean that you are any better than anyone else.” ▪

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Creative without credit Kate Shea katherine.shea@umontana.edu

For the fourth semester in a row, the Davidson Honors College isn’t offering any courses in the performing arts.

For the 47 honors students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, that means yet another semester taking courses outside of their major in order to fulfill the seven required honors courses necessary to graduate from the DHC. Jasmine Sherman, a senior majoring in music and theatre, began college at the University of Montana in the DHC, but she quickly found the lack of overlap between her major and the honors college difficult.

Sherman stopped taking honors courses after her freshman year in order to make more time for her major requirements. She doesn’t plan on attending graduate school and felt that the honors college wasn’t necessary for the average audition.

“I don’t really think putting on your resume that you’re an honors college graduate is going to help if you aren’t good at singing or acting,” Sherman said.

Claire Robertson, a senior majoring in music, does plan on attending graduate school and remains in the honors college for exactly that reason.

“I know I’ll be able to go out and turn out a good audition, so I want to be able to distinguish myself from other candidates who may be straight-A students elsewhere in the nation but may not have that honors thing,” Robertson said.

Robertson said she compensates for the lack of honors classes in her major by trying to find courses in other sections that she can relate back to performance, like a course on Shakespeare.

Still, Robertson said making room for honors courses has made succeeding in the music program increasingly difficult.

“It’s been a struggle getting all my courses balanced, carrying such a heavy course load throughout my college career

The X-Files: keep watching Bowen West bowen.west@umconnect.edu

“The X-Files” isn’t just a television show; it’s a phenomenon. Almost 14 years since the last episode of the original series aired, the new six-episode miniseries has a lot to live up to. It’s flawed, but nostalgia will keep you watching.

“The X-Files” is a science fiction drama that follows FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigate the paranormal. The miniseries picks up where the 2008 movie, “X-Files: I Want To Believe” left off. Mulder is still in pursuit of extraterrestrials, Scully continues to be a surgeon and a non-believer, and the two are reunited by a right-wing Internet news anchor, Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale).

The miniseries began its two-night premiere with the episode “My Struggle.” It served two purposes: 1. Reunite Scully and Mulder. 2. Give them a new threat to overcome.

It accomplished both ... but in the most unsatisfying way possible. “The X-Files” was always driven by Scully and Mulder’s relationship. It was always a show about two characters with differing views encountering the inexplicable. But “My Struggle” seemed robotic. Even Duchovny and Anderson seemed to be going

through the motions of these characters.

“My Struggle” tries to cover a lot in a limited amount of time.

The second episode of the premiere was “Founder’s Mutation,” a successful return to the classic monster-of-the-week format that the series is known for.

In “Founder’s Mutation,” Mulder and Scully work on a case involving a genetically modified janitor trying to find his long lost sister. It was a return to form with great character-building moments. The episode deals with Scully and Mulder giving their son William up for adoption. Duchovny and Anderson, who got out of the funk from the previous episode, compliment the storytelling. It was dark while still having a campy feel to it.

The return of “X-Files” is forced in some areas, but nostalgia helps makes it an enjoyable experience. The premiere was littered with fan service. The classic 90s opening was the same.

Mulder’s cellphone is still the theme song. This miniseries was created for fans of the series; new viewers won’t get a lot from it.

“The X-Files” is back. It’s not the original but its enjoyable. If you’ve been binge watching the old series on Netflix, I suggest watching this series. If the second episode is any indication, the miniseries will only get better and better.▪

and also having that commitment a music major has which nobody else really has,” Robertson said. “Not only are you studying and doing work, you’re practicing and you’re involved in an ensemble or a production every semester.”

New honors college Dean Brock Tessman said he is hoping to introduce more honors courses in the arts over the next few years by coordinating with faculty in music, theatre and dance.

Tessman said he has been talking with theatre professor Jillian Campana to convert her social justice drama course to a designated honors course, but getting approval for new courses can take years.

Junior Carissa Lund has had to take a unique approach to succeeding in the arts and the honors college. Lund has been working with both the Davidson Honors College and professors in the theatre and dance programs to create her own honors courses around her upper-level arts courses.

She was able to supplement her theatre

history course with a project on Middle Eastern theatre in order to make it count toward the honors college.

“I like the ability to push myself as an honors student in this field,” Lund said.

“It is a little bit of a stressor not being able to have it mapped out for me, like in some of the other fields where you can just take these seven honors courses that you would take anyway, but hopefully, if anything, I’m just helping to pave the way for other fine arts students.”

Even though creating her own courses has been a positive experience, Lund said she would still like to see the DHC create courses in the fine arts, and she would like to see more creative arts students in honors courses.

“The more people that we get to look into these honors courses the better,” Lund said. “I think there’s a really strong group of people in those departments that would benefit from having that accessibility and being able to use those honors courses.”▪

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 15th annual UM Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR) UM students of all majors are invited to present their research and creative scholarship through oral presentations and posters.

New this year: UMCUR is proud to be part of UM ix5 – a weeklong celebration of research and innovation at the University of Montana. UM ix5 will include an opening night celebration, the Mansfield Conference on Global Health, the Innovate UM Conference, the UM GradCon, UMCUR and many other exciting events.

For information on UMCUR and how to submit online, visit the UMCUR website: www.umt.edu/ugresearch/umcur.

The submission deadline is Friday, February 19, 2016.

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FEBRUARY 3-9, 2016 / MONTANA KAIMIN / MONTANAKAIMIN.COM

GrizVision Will McKnight / @WillMcK_Photo

Grizzly Athletics computer support specialist Aaron Heiner is responsible for supervising the staff of Griz Vision and has been doing it for the past six years. During basketball games, Heiner is down on the floor working on the video stream.

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Call time is 90 minutes before the game for the Griz Vision crew in Dahlberg Arena.

They plug cords into cameras and are good to go. They eat popcorn, drink soda and double-check the system for the next hour until showtime.

The setup for football games in Washington-Grizzly Stadium isn’t quite that easy. But when the shirtless students flex for the muscle cam, that guy proposes to his girlfriend on the Jumbotron or the crowd shows off their dance moves to “Cotton Eye Joe” – that’s Griz Vision.

The program pushes content and the Grizzly brand from the athletic department to the rest of the community at sporting events and on GoGriz.com. It’s also a way for students interested in the broadcast field to get experience

behind cameras and with production equipment.

Senior Andy Anderson is in his second year with Griz Vision. He’s a broadcast journalism student and said Griz Vision solidified his choice to pursue a career in production.

Anderson prefers to shoot basketball games because he is set up under the hoop, and likes being close to the action.

“I usually take a pompom to my head or a player in my lap but usually have to dodge more pompoms than basketballs,” Anderson said. “Sometimes nobody crashes into me.”

Anderson works under Aaron Heiner, who is the computer support specialist for Grizzly Athletics and has been maintaining Griz Vision for six years. During basketball games, he is usually on the floor working on the stream and the audio.

“We live in a day and age where content

is king, and the graphics and videos drive so much of what we do,” Heiner said. “When it’s done well, we can really drive people and bring a lot of excitement to a game.”

Griz Vision not only pumps up the crowd at games but is also used for official review. At games, the crew makes sure to keep the play clock in frame and the cameras on the action.

Heiner said having replay is great because everyone can see how the crowd reacts when a call is made a certain way, and then they can see the play again.

“We see this in the NFL all the time and at these bigger schools, so it’s nice to bring it here,” he said.

Junior Nathan Brown sits in the front row of every football and basketball game, which also means he’s on Griz Vision a lot. He said every time he sees himself on screen its just as exciting as the first time he got on camera.

“I’ll push over whoever is next to me and be like, ‘Dude, look, there we are,’” Brown said.

Although Brown sits in the student section, he said he loves to look at the Jumbotron and see the rest of the crowd — grandmas and grandpas whose days are made because they were on the big TV at the football game or a little kid who’s going crazy on screen — and that’s why Griz Vision is valuable.

But the program means something different for the crew behind the on-screen fun.

Heiner said his favorite part of Griz Vision is simply when everything works. He likes producing solutions that are cost-effective and get the job done.

Anderson enjoys getting career experience and the people he works with.

“We walk into the control room, and it feels like we’re the A.V. Club of a ‘90s teenage movie,” Anderson said. “It’s kind of nerdy.”▪