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[email protected]. Students petition Baucus to keep professor at UM By Shaun Tatarka Staff Writer A UM student has sent a petition signed by 35 UM Russian department students to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., in an attempt to keep a visiting professor from having to return to the former Soviet Union. Judith Dotson, a senior in Russian and history, said she sent the petition in hopes that Baucus could help find money to keep visiting professor Dr. Ludmila Pavlina at UM. Pavlina has spent the last three years at UM teaching first-year Russian language students. “She is an excellent teacher and the only native-speaking Russian professor we have,” Dotson said. “It would be a tragedy to lose her.” Dotson said she chose Baucus because of the national government's recent concerns over Soviet-U.S.