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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 4-10-1980 Montana Kaimin, April 10, 1980 Associated Students of the University of Montana Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of the University of Montana, "Montana Kaimin, April 10, 1980" (1980). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 7031. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/7031 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Professors say cuts threaten faculty rights By DENNIS REYNOLDS proposal fails to do this, Todd said. Montana Kaimin Reporter He also said the elimination of the program would result in con­ Two University of Montana flicts about which departments faculty members from the would teach the classes left by the humanities program said last night program’s elimination. the proposal to cut UM programs threatens the future protection of Humanities a tradition faculty from "arbitrary” ad­ Dunsmore compared the ministration decisions. humanities program to tradition. James Todd and Roger He said that if a tradition is Montana Dunsmore, associate professors of practiced long enough, people will humanities, testified before the begin to notice it. When that student-faculty committee review­ tradition is dropped, people, in this ing UM President Richard Bowers’ case high school students looking retrenchment proposal to reduce for a university with a humanities kaimin faculty positions at the university. program, will cease to take notice. Thursday, April 10,1980 Missoula, Mont Vol. 82, No. 82 The proposal calls for the Dunsmore added that the elimination of the humanities, proposal to cut the humanities business education and Italian program “was a total surprise to programs by July 1981. • Cont. on p. 8. Quoting from the University (Staff photy by Bob Carson.) Teachers’ Union contract, Todd told the committee the proposal Bowers undecided must give consideration to the on admissions post CB reprimands Kaimin university’s responsibility to “maintain a balanced institutional Although University of effort that is responsive to the needs of the students and the Montana President Richard for Programming editorial state.” Retrenchment proceedings Bowers told the Montana must follow the guidelines con­ Kaimin Tuesday that he By DON LEWIS member committee to look into the "official protest” of the editorial. In tained in the contract. would select a new ad­ Montana Kaimin R•porter matter, which ASUM President a memo to O’Connell, he asked for missions director that after­ David Curtis labeled the “Bogue a “retraction and apology for your Bowers’ referenqe to declining noon, he said yesterday that Central Board passed a resolu­ case.” ASUM Vice President Linda libelous inferences, accusations enrollment in humanities ap­ he has not yet made a deci­ tion last night saying it does not Lang said the committee would and statements.” parently refers to the humanities sion. disciplines, such . as religious agree with a Montana Kaimin "establish the facts” of Program­ “If I was looking for any job in Yesterday Bowers said he studies, philosophy and English, editorial that was published Tues­ ming’s accounting problems and this area,” he said at the meeting, is still in “the process of day. whether what was said in the “this could hurt me. It is your duty, and not the humanities program, finalizing the selection The editorial, written by Kaimin editorial was true. you the legislative body, to look Todd said. process decision.” In addi­ editor Sue O'Connell, said that Lang also introduced a motion, into it.” tion, he said he meant that he "ASUM Programming has which was postponed until the ad- Bogue said the matter came up Importance of program was finalizing the decision seemingly lost track of where its hoc committee reaches a conclu­ when a Kaimin reporter asked him In fact, Todd said, Bowers when he said he would make money has gone in the last two sion, that asked the Kaimin to print about Programming’s finances “seems to have obliquely a decision Tuesday. years.” Gary Bogue, Programming a retraction of the editorial. At that and he could not come up with any acknowledged” the importance of Bowers said yesterday that manager, and Kelly Miller, point, O’Connell said she would figure. He said he explained to the the humanities program by stating he had narrowed the can­ Programming director, were men­ not print a retraction and added reporter that problems in the UM the classes in the program will be didates to two of four tioned in the editorial. that Bogue and anyone else who accounting system and the preserved by being taught in the finalists. The resolution passed by CB disagrees with the editorial can changes in ASUM accountants in various humanities departments. Bowers said he will fill the stated that the board recognizes write a letter to the editor. the past three years have made it Todd said the contract states position “as soon as I can.” the “good job” Bogue and Miller Bogue said the editorial “caught difficult to tell how much money that the proposal must address The position was to be filled have been doing. me by surprise," and added that he Programming has. whether a program is important by March 1. In addition, CB organized a five- brought the matter before CB as an • C ont on p. 8. enough to maintain or not. Bowers’ Toole—bringing life to Montana’s past By KURT WILSON what is known today as Evaro Canyon, north of miles south of Missoula. He still lives on the ranch Montana Kaimin Reporter Missoula. The canyon was once called O'Keefe and commutes to Missoula almost every day. “I Canyon,' named for Toole's great-grandfather, thought that my kids should be reared in the When K. Ross Toole received his doctorate in whose last name was O’Keefe. country,” he said. history, the very last thing he wanted to do was Toole came to UM in 1965, after he had a heart Toole said recently that he is optimistic about the teach. attack and was told he could no longer continue the future of UM and the state university system, adding This year is Toole's 15th as Hammond Professor of strenuous labor that ranching required. He had been that it is an "absurdity” for Montana to maintain all Western History at the University of Montana and running about 1,000 head of cattle on a ranch near six units of higher education. every Spring Quarter, his Montana history class Red Lodge. He predicts that soon, forced by economic attracts almost 1,000 students. pressures, UM and Montana State University will In a recent interview, Toole said he took the job at absorb the other units, although Eastern Montana UM because "I liked the job title, it was right up my College most likely will remain open as a graduate alley.” school in education. Toole has become one of the more popular The state “will be forced to come to it,” Toole said, professors on campus, as evidenced by the size of “because that is all the money there is.” He said the his classes. He conveys his vast knowledge in change will be “painful in the short run, but good in lectures that are intriguing, inspirational and laced the long run,” because it will mean a “much stronger with his unique brand of dry humor. His lectures university system.” bring life to the people and events of Montana’s past. Toole also expressed his enthusiasm for Montana Toole's brother, John, a Missoula city councilman, on the political battlefield. He began observing the said in a recent interview, “Ross has gifts in the use legislative sessions when he was 15 and says he has of the language, in his voice and in his organization missed “very few"'since then. of his thoughts.” John called his brother “a very He has consistently battled with those who wish to talented person,” and added, "his lectures and exploit Montana for its natural resources. teachings are very inspirational.” Montana Rep. Pat Williams said recently that Harry Fritz, chairman of the history department, Toole is a “straight shooter, he never walks away said recently that Toole is "the best Montana from a fight.” Williams added, on protecting Mon­ historian in the nation. He really loves Montana and tana’s resources, “Ross' foresight is about a decade he communicates his enthusiasm in his class.” ahead.” Toole is a native Montanan, born in Missoula in Toole said Montana is “in for holy hell" in the battle 1920. He attended grade school, high school and to protect its environment. "I am not sure we can college in Missoula. He received both his bachelor's resist the pressure to exploit," he said. “It will be a degree and his master's degree at UM. K. ROSS TOOLE head-on clash between states' rights and federal He also attended college at Georgetown Universi­ Before ranching, Toole held jobs as director of the rights,” and he predicts federal rights will rank ty in Washington, D.C., Columbia University in New Montana Historical Society, director of the Museum supreme. York City and the University of California at Los of the City of New York and director of the Museum The exploitation “will not be stopped by the Angeles, where he received his doctorate in 1961.

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