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Budget may cost UM 30 faculty The University of Montana faculty • raising non-faculty salaries in ac Carl McIntosh, president of Montana may be cut by 30 members if a cordance with the new pay plan for State University, agreed with budget recommended by a state employes. Bowers, saying "the regents’ budget legislative subcommittee is ap is based on the fact that in previous • a drop in enrollment. proved by the legislature, UM years we have lagged behind.” President Richard Bowers warned • increasing average faculty salaries yesterday. by 9 to 10 per c^nt over last year. The McIntosh disagreed that enrollment will drop. Presidents of Montana colleges and regents’ had requested an increase universities yesterday told the House of about 19 per cent. "Applications for next fall are run Appropriations Committee that its ning 13 per cent ahead of last year subcommittee’s higher-education • increasing the student-faculty ratio by about 10 per cent. At the and 25 per cent ahead of two years funding recommendations are based University of Montana, the student- ago,” he said. on faulty assumptions. faculty ratio would be raised from 18 The subcommittee, in its presen The higher-education subcommittee to 1 to 20 to 1. tation to the full committee Wednes recommended Wednesday that the day, indicated that, under its six units of the Montana University Richard Bowers, UM president, said recommendations, UM would have System be funded $94.1 million for the 9 to 10 per cent increases in to drop 18 faculty members. the 1975-77 biennium, a figure about faculty salaries would “provide only $7 million below the governor’s a cost-of-living increase” to the Bowers said that the figure would be recommendation and almost $11 faculty. Because faculty salaries in closer to 30 faculty members. If 30 million below the Board of Regents’ the University System have been low faculty members were to be dropped, budget request. for many years, he said, the small in he said, it would be equivalent to The subcommittee based its creases could "seriously damage the closing the schools of forestry, recommendation on: quality of education” in Montana. journalism and pharmacy at UM. City Council candidates air views Last night, the League of Women multiple family dwellings, iden they would result in another run-off Voters sponsored a meeting with tification of dangerous materials, election. City Council candidates to discuss annexation, bikeways and a mass the candidates’ stands concerning transit system. He did not want anti In Ward Five, Jacquelyn McGiffert,.a current campaign issues. pornography enforcement without Democrat, favored TV over radio PLANTS IN THE UC are silhouetted against the windows in the roof. (Mon public approval. broadcasts of council meetings, tana Kaimin photo by Jim Frye) The meeting in the council chambers reluctantly supported non-partisan in City Hall was the last chance for elections, but identified with the Fritzie Yonce, Republican candidate Missoula residents to elicit a public Democratic party. Marion Dixon, a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA h STUDENT NEWSPAPER in Ward Four, supported a cleanup response from the candidates before Republican and Kiwanis Club campaign for downtown streets, the city primary election March 18. president, felt new sub-divisions broadcasting meetings and non The outcome of the primary election should be annexed before they are partisan elections because of the will decide the council seats for developed so they can hook into city money saved. Daniel Hjartarson, wards two, five and six, where all the services. He favored non-partisan junior in history and a Democrat in m o n t a n a candidates are running on the elections and thought broadcasting Ward Four, was opposed to the anti Democratic ticket. council meetings would be interes pornography ordinance on the prin ting. Leroy Berven, a Republican In Ward One, the incumbent ciple that it would not have any candidate, favored non-partisan alderman, Walter Hill is not seeking effect. He supported stricter en elections but thought that broad re-election. Jack Morton, assistant forcement of the minors law, non casting council meetings would be professor of management at UM and partisan elections and broadcasting very dull. a Democratic candidate, said he council meetings. Fred Springsteel, favored land use planning, further associate professor of math and a In Ward Six, Georgia Walters, the in KAIMIN development of the city parks, and a Democrat, supported consolidation cumbent Republican, favored the Friday, March 14, 1975 • Missoula, Mont. • Vol. 77, No. 85 group to study a city bus of city government, bus transit, civic use of state money for the construc transportation system. Walter ten center, downtown renovation, edited tion of bikeways. She supported Ham, a glazier and a Democrat, broadcasts of council meetings and non-partisan elections and broad favored non-partisan elections and public action on the anti casting of meetings. Wesley Restaurant union organizes broadcasting of selected parts of pornography ordinance. He op Waldbillig, a Democratic candidate, City Council meetings. Brooks posed non-partisan elections saying did not attend the meeting. Dr. Jekylls and Mr. Hydes Boedecker, senior in business ad ministration and also a Democrat, Nine of twelve Dr. Jekylls and Mr. • Job security on a seniority basis. favored the partisan theory of Hydes employes signed union cards Now the older waitresses can be fired government and the broadcast of im Thomson, Ervin square off March 2 and 3 and will negotiate with so a younger one may be hired, for portant council decisions. Walter the management Saturday in an example. Tom Ervin, president of the Brouelette, a Republican, favored ordinance. It would be enforced attempt to have the union University of Montana chapter of the • Vacation and holiday pay. As it non-partisan elections and fair zon when necessary. “There are some recognized. American Civil Liberties Union stands now, there is none. ing enforcement, but opposed fuzzy areas in all ordinances. For the (ACLU), said Missoula’s anti The union made its first demand for broadcasting council meetings. extremes at either end, the obscenity D’Hooge said no demands will be put pornography ordinance is un recognition on March 10. ordinance is perfectly clear.” together until the union and All candidates in Ward Two were constitutional, while Fred Thomson, • The Supreme Court has ruled that Rick D’Hooge, organizer for the management meet for contract Democrats. Stan Healy, the in city alderman, said it is within the negotiations. cumbent alderman, was not ready to limits of Supreme Court rulings. obscenity is not protected by the Hotel and Restaurant Employee’s resign his Democratic position for a constitution. It said that each com Union, said the employes want to go A union bartender’s minimum scale The ordinance, which was passed by non-partisan one. Broadcasting munity should set its own obscenity union because the bar’s prices for is: the City Council on Oct. 7, will be up council meetings would tend to swell standards and people have the drinks are about the same as those at for a referendum vote at the city elec • $3.75 a hour for a shift less than a person’s image, Healy said. He op freedom to set these standards. the Top Hat and the Florence, both tion on April 1, but debate overthe is eight hours. The person must be paid posed converting north Higgins union establishments, but the wages sue still rages. In a letter to the Montana Kaimin for at least four hours. “A person Avenue to a mall and consolidating are lower. March 13, Ervin said the ordinance goes to as much trouble to come to city government, but said outlying “ I am totally against it or anything could possibly ban the movie Lenny. work for one hour as he does for districts surrounding Missoula like it because it is censorship,” And, at an ACLU meeting on Monday “We are not demanding that they br ing wages up to union scale four,” D’Hooge said. should be annexed before people get Ervin, sophomore in anthropology, he said that the ordinance could immediately, but they can negotiate sick from the sewage being pumped said yesterday. "It is an extremely make the possession of Playboy • $3.71 an hour for an eight-hour with us and gradually increase into the ground. Terry Wayman, a blatant corruption of civil rights.” magazine in the dorms illegal. shift. Vietnam veteran, favored non them," D’Hooge said. partisan elections and broadcasting During a telephone interview yester Rebutting this, Thomson said, “ I do A Dr. Jekylls and Mr. Hydes employe council meetings. Leo Krause, a day Thomson said, “The people are not think Lenny would be banned. It D’Hooge said the employes also said a bartender’s starting wage retired well-driller, made no offered the opportunity to vote, that would not come under the ordinance want: there is $2.00 an hour.