Adam Weinacker

Adam Weinacker is a Jersey boy who somehow, someway wound up in Montana seven years ago. Did his parents find new work? No. And he doesn't have extended family within a 1,000-mile radius of Montana. He and his family just up and left, driving cross-country in a Ryder truck and a Honda Accord with a Bernese Mountain dog slobbering in the backseat. Never did they make a better decision.

Adam attended high school in Bozeman, a town of which most people are secretly jealous, he says, and he is now a print journalism student at the University of Montana.

This semester, in addition to reporting and editing for the J-school Web site, Adam is a copy editor for the Montana Kaimin and Web journalist/designer for Spectral Fusion Designs, a campus Web design company. He even has his own home page, but if you don't have a Flash player it won't work, he says.

Adam can write, copy edit and works well with computers. And he implores newspaper editors to give him just one shot to prove himself outside the University. As of yet, no takers.

As a UM student, Adam doesn't really understand the whole rivalry between Bozeman and Missoula, and he never thought about it before coming to college. But if he ever again hears another person ask, "What's a Bobcat doing in Griz country?" he'll flip a conniption, if a conniption can actually be flipped.