Big Ups & Backhands

Welcome to Big Ups and Backhands, the oasis of humor in your desert of classes.

Backhands to Montana weather. Eighty degrees one day and snow flurries the next? It’s like we all took a non-stop flight from Miami to Moscow without ever leaving the confines of Missoula. 

With the temperamental weather, we can’t blame anyone for hanging out indoors on Wednesday. Thus, patchouli-scented Big Ups to members of Students for Economic and Social Justice for doing so in a creative way: posing a sit-in in President Dennison’s office. Shoot, he wasn’t using it, glad somebody could.

On the other hand, Backhands to SESJ. Because no matter how hard they try, no one can occupy that office longer than George Dennison.

Big Ups to the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA for firing former Griz coach Larry Krystkowiak. Now Jim O’Day can hire Krysko back, move Wayne Tinkle back to head assistant, and it will be just like the last two years of Griz basketball never happened …

Bad news for those of you in the “Kaimin Sucks” camp. This week we’re claiming superiority over, as well as Backhanding, the Boston Herald. Unlike the Beantown paper, we didn’t report as fact a comedian’s bit that Dick Cheney had challenged Hillary Clinton to a hunting contest. Apparently Boston journalists don’t need Cheney; they’re perfectly capable of shooting themselves in the face.

While pontificating in Washington, D.C., the pontiff, Pope Benedict the XVI, earned himself some holy Big Ups for Backhanding American bishops for their handling of recent sex scandals. Maybe the key here is to stop letting priests and bishops handle things altogether.

The Food Zoo, a haven for those of us on campus who like food, gets Big Ups for getting rid of trays. Admittedly, at first blush this disheartened BU&Bh, but we’ve come to realize it is, in fact, a good plan. At the very least, that one creepy kid in the corner will have one less item on which to create his ketchup-mustard-cottage-cheese-green-pea art masterpiece.

Backhands to Earth Day. We spend all our time sitting around bitching about the fate of our planet, but spending just 1/365 of our time actually doing anything about it simply won’t get it done, fellow hippies.

Finally this week, a softball update: Team Kaimin improved to 0-3 on the season with an extra-inning’s loss to a team that was apparently capable of scoring more runs. Big Ups to sports reporter Jake Grilley for hitting a solo home run, the first for Team Kaimin all year.

That’s all for this entry of Big Ups and Backhands. Next week will be the final installment of the year, so come armed.