?Jt,SU GO CATS okers page2 re polities pages page 11 Tn. R Hor1to/E.1ponln Jill Petaja, Katie Sevren, and Misty Ostermiller (left to right) partner with Derek Clewley, Shawn Seigel, and Zack Anderson to get students fired-up at the Homecoming bonfire last friday evening. alone reveals downsizing expectations onsolidation presented as a solution The Board approved Malone's recommendation to consolidate Malone said MSU's current head count of 10, 540 students is ~sJunghans MSU's four vice presidents into three positions, Malone told the just about right for the proper and efficient functioning of the ent staff writer faculty members. Another consolidation Malone said he is sug­ institution. He said MSU deserves credit for not recruiting gesting is to merge the women's and men's athletic programs. students nationally and pushing its enrollment up. MSU's Fall t 75 members of Montana State University's faculty "Most U.S. colleges have one athletic program," Malone said, 1992 enrollment is up 4.2 percent from a year ago, Malone said, a meeting last week in which MSU President Mike "MSU has had its current dual system since the mid-1970s." which is over the 2 percent increase allowed by the Board. explained the results of last month's Board of Regents Malone added that while the subject of gender fairness is a "What happened this Fall surprised us," Malone said, referring sensitive one, he questioned whether separate programs provided to the jump in enrollment. "Many continuing education students pne outlined his expectations for MSU's future in relation fairness, citing the ability of the men's program to raise more dropped back in." 3oard's and the Montana Legislature's ongoing examina- money than the women's program. Under Malone's proposed A few professors had questions for Malone at the end of his the Montana university system. reform, MS U would have one athletic director and two associate presentation. One asked what the reaction would be to MSU challenge now is the S2 million in cuts (for MSU) made directors. allowing its enrollment this semester to increase over the 2 the Legislature's 1992 special sessions," Malone said. Malone said the Board's decision to possibly "downsize" percent allowed by the Board. oard and the Legislature expect us to work these cuts into enrollment at Montana universities is not a budget consideration "I hope the tuition (raised by higher education) would remain rmanent basis of the instiwtion." as much as it is an issue of "quality control." He said the Board in the university programs that arc coping with the additional I-J's top administrators (Malone and vice presidents) will be wants to maintain a level of spending per student at Montana students," Malone said, "but we don't really know what the Board lg with deans from MSU's individual schools, Malone said, institutions that is comparable to universities of the same size in or the Legislature will do." •r to develop ways of dealing with the cuts over the long­ the region, as recommended by a commission on higher education Another questioner raised the problem of how to control the He said the adminisiration will also meet with MSU's appointed by the governor. number of continuing students at MSU. Malone agreed it was a g committee to review options and discuss possibleadjust­ Compared with enrollment in the early 1980s, Malone said, difficulty, but stressed that MSU's current enrollment was at, or in staff positions. MSU has really downsized itself. close to, the appropriate level. ere has been very little cutting of staff positions," Malone "This place was very crowded," he said. "We were taJCcd Malone concluded, "I think students arc served well with these specially compared with colleges nationally." beyond our abiliues." numbers." SNEWS 2 • Tu eday, October 6, 1992 • .\ \1SL E\p Late night Author Wallace Stegner visits M by Julie Flaming Exponent News Editor Agnculture isn 't Montana's only culture any­ more, srud President Michael Malone when he welcomedPulitzerPnze-wmmngauthorWallacc Stegner to Montana State Wednesday. Stegner, 83, v1s1ted campus to kick off fundraising efforts for the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western Amencan Studies. The Sl .5 million endowment will fund a faculty member who will work with both the History and Engli. h depart­ mentS. The noted author had to leave the stage unex­ pectedly due to illness m the midst of his reading to an esumated crowd of 600 enthus1asuc fans at the Museum of the Roclaes. The reading, focus­ ing on his recent essay collecuon, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs. was completed by RegentS professor of philosophy Gordon Brittan. Brittan laterreponed that Stegner is feeling much beuer this week. The huge crowd, the largest seen in the Mu­ Brittan esumates that the funds will be seum of the Rockies according to Brittan, over­ in a period of approximately five years. nowed from the Hager Auditorium into the Tay­ he added that u just depends on how I lor Planetorium and a downstairs classroom, fundra1sing takes. where the reading was televised for those unfor­ Because the money will be pnvate tunates who were unable to find seating m the downsizing will not affect the sccunty auditorium itSelf. chair. Briuan said threat:> of downsizin "Stegner's a great giant for people in Lhis part motivated the faculty and admmistrauo of the country. He's one of our heroes," Brittan out and raise private funds. said. "We've got a great university and we're The Western American Studies chair to make it greater," Brittan emphatically One of Stegner's obJecLives for the c 0 The purpose of the Wallace Stegner Chair in that that person be an effocuve \'01ce m Western American Studies will be threefold. usage disputes in which Montana 1. cu He or she, in the Chair's overlappmg arena of embroiled, Brittan answered when quc: history and English, will work cooperauvely about the ecolog1cal rcspons1bitilics of a~ • with the Chair in Native American Literature to chair named after the famous environme develop a well-balanced program m literature "Wc need somebody v. ho has the pre:Li and history, will work toward the development largeness of vision and the scholarly back of MSU as a center for Western American to make construcuve suggestions that v.1 studies and will improve library resources m the scend some son of poli11cal context. The areas of We ·tern American history and litera­ lem 1· that peopk get caught up m the ture. context and the) 're on one side or anothc Fundrrusmg cffons have current!} resulted need some \ 01ces who, lx.'Cause of their in a Nauonal Endowment for the Humamues ground and experience ... '' Ill nse above grant proposal, which, if received, will cover that, Brittan said -~ENI approximately $300.000. The remaining The Chair will be hired through a Steve Hams, a media and theater arts maior, is currently hosting "Campus Late Night," a weekly late- S l ,200,000 will be raised through canvassing search, although local professors will bee n;ght talk show on Thursday nights at 8p .m. in Studio A of the Visual Communications building. The private donors and foundations. to apply. Bnttan continued that faculty f show is Hams' senior project. He and his crew would very much appreciate audience participation. Five percent of the Sl .5 Stegner Chair fund Sec more on "Stegner," Smokers reprieved to January 1 deadlin Monetary contributions have mostly been made by smokers, Joyner said. There have also been non-smoking contributors by John T. Palmer towards the ASR fund . Exponent staff writer The Strand Union Advisory Board has been cooperauve with the efforts made by the ASR to keep the lounge, Joyner said. The placing of signs and the allowance for fundraismg has been cleared by the SUB management. A smoking lounge will remain in Lhe Strand Union at least A raffle is being establi shed to raise the remaining arnountS of until January of 1993. money needed to complete all modificauons, said Viclo Spark , The Association for Smoker's RightS (ASR), has raised ap­ ASR secretary. The grand prize m the drawing will be a 1978 proximately $1 ,100 of the $5,000 needed for use in funding the Honda civic. Second prize will be a shotgun. Other prizes construction of a partition and ventilation system, says Jack planned are yet to be determined. Joyner, ASR president. The funds ASR raise will be matched by Designated smoking areas in the Strand Union have teadily the Student Union. been reduced since approximately three years ago, says Al "What the smokers arc trying to do is keep the non-smokers Bertelson, Strand Union Manager. There have been petiuons for safe," Joyner said. "People have a hard ume supporting smok­ and again t the allowance of smo~ing m the Strand Union. ers." The ASMSU Senate endorsed a policy of a smoke-free Stu­ Enclosing the smoking lounge is for the benefit of all con­ dent Union in May of 1991 , Bertelson said. In the summer of cerned, Joyner said. Non-smokers and smokers alike will benefit 1992 the area for ·moking was reduced to JU St Lhe Nonh Lounge from the construction. area. Building the dividing wall will begin soon, Joyner said. The vote to extend Lhe deadline for the ASR to raise money TN-·.... t Installation of the ventilauon system will have LO wrut until ASR was made by the Strand Union Advisory Board. The vote was 6- has raised itS share of the money. 1 m favor of allowing the lounge to remrun unlit January.