Montana Kaimin, May 2, 1986 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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(O c(0 c 0 Presidential finalist flays faculty salaries By Kevin McRae stitutions, he said. paratively low the salary is for the such planning can hinder immediate KawmfttporMr Faculty members at Montana col UM president. opportunities for financial gain. The most serious problem lacing leges received a 1.5 percent salary The UM president makes about He said long-term budget planning the University ol Montana is difficulty increase this year, while the national $70,000 annually. at the University of Oregon was not in faculty recruitment because of low average was 6 percent. But the salaries for UM faculty successful. salaries, Robert Berdahl, UM presi “If I were to come here, I would members are even lower in compar A better alternative, he said, is for dential finalist, said Thursday. run to the Legislature with one song,” ison to other schools than the presi a university to "seize the moment” Berdahl, dean of the College of Berdahl said, "and that would be that dent's salary, he said. whenever it can to improve its qual Arts and Sciences at the University of they’ve got to give 10 percent raises "You're probably more competitive ity. Oregon and the first of three UM to the faculty for several years in a at the presidential level than the fac "We've built what we have (at Ore row." presidential finalists visiting UM. ulty level by a long shot," he said. gon) because we have been able to He told members of a presidential Faculty members at other schools Berdahl questioned the use of long seize opportunities that came our search committee that UM’s new have much higher salaries than at term planning proposals in dealing way," he said. president must direct an effort to in UM, he said, and many of those sala with financial problems such as the The year-to-year changes in the crease faculty salaries, ries are still increasing. low salaries. fiscal condition of a state interfere Faculty salaries at UM are signifi Berdahl said he was "a little taken "I don’t believe in real organized See ‘Berdahl,* page 12. cantly lower than those at peer in aback" when he found out how com long-term planning," he said, adding Forestry dean selected By Adlna Lindgren Kaimin Roporler University of Montana Pro fessor Sidney Frissell is the new dean of UM’s School of Forestry. Frissell accepted the posi tion yesterday after two days of negotiating with Richard Solberg, acting academic af fairs vice president. He has been a UM faculty member since 1967 and act ing dean of the forestry school since October 1985 when former Dean Benjamin Stout resigned. Frissell was one of four candidates interviewed by UM administrators and a search and screening committee, which comprised forestry fac Staff photo by David Loewenwarter ulty and students. ROBERT ROLL, a senior in accounting, takes an early the closet and lie In the sun. Today's weather forecast Solberg, who approved Fris morning break on the oval. Thursday's temperature of 75 calls for mostly cloudy skies and a 30 percent chance of son's nomination, commended degrees persuaded many people to leave their coats in rain. The temperature is expected to be in the low 70s. Frissell for accepting the posi tion "in such dire times.” Solberg said Frissell was the first candidate offered the Area’s exclusion from bill blamed on treaty position. Three other candi dates from outside the univer needs protection from oil and By Adlna Lindgren life traveling between Glacier wilderness designation. sity also applied. gas development. KaMmnRaporMr Park and the Bob Marshall. "Uses, such as grazing and Frissell is a wildlife habitat Chevron Corp, has slated The Montana congressional The area was excluded from hunting, are allowed within specialist and former associ the Badger-Two Medicine delegation’s decision to exclu a proposed Congressional wil wilderness areas.” ate dean of the forestry de the Badger-Two Medicine area for natural gas and oil derness bill, which would In addition, Bader said 15,- school. He earned his bache area from its wilderness bill drilling in 1987. have stopped the oil drilling, 000 to 20,000 acres surround lor's, master’s and doctoral stems from ambiguity in a Badger-Two Medicine is a after Blackfeet Chief Earl Old ing the area could be used by degrees in forestry from the 1895 treaty with the Blackfeet roadless area at the northern Person wrote the delegation the tribe for non-commerciai University of Minnesota. Indians, a Glacier/Two Medi end of the Rocky Mountain saying treaty rights would be logging. He said he will continue the cine Alliance representative Front. The area is bordered violated if the area were On the contrary, “with full programs he started when he said yesterday. by the Blackfeet Indian Reser made wilderness. oil and gas development there became acting dean, including Mlcheal Bader, president ol vation on the north, Glacier The treaty gave tribe mem may not be game for Black a review of the forestry school the alliance’s Badger Chapter National Park on the north bers logging, hunting, fishing feet to hunt,” Bader said. curriculum and development and a sophomore In wildlife west, the Great Bear Wilder and mineral rights to the ’’Non-designation is a green of new recruiting tactics to in biology, said in a press con ness on the west and the Bob Badger-Two Medicine area. light to the Forest Service, crease enrollment. ference yesterday that the Marshall Wilderness on the But Bader said, "The Black BLM and the oil companies.” He said UM’s financial sta group is protesting the deci south. feet Treaty Rights, as we have Well drilling could actually tus is going to make planning sion not to include the 130,- It is an ideal grizzly habitat intrepreted them, would not dissolve the tribe’s claim to and growth difficult, "almost 000-acre area because it and serves as a link for wild be denied or diminished by See 'Medicine,' page 12. impossible." Opinion UM-area residents have to take good with bad It’s time for members of the Univer good idea. At best the plan is drastic They knew the situation when they rorities and some multi-unit dwellings sity Homeowners Assocition to realize and unfair. moved in. No one forced them to in the area — people who tend to they can't have the university and It is wrong for the homeowners to move in. They shouldn’t start whining oppose the parking district — how their parking too. assume that owning property guaran about it now. they felt about such a plan. The homeowners are upset because tees them the right to park in front of But even if it were fair, the permit Students are not totally absolved students and faculty park on the it. City streets are, after all, public plan wouldn't work. Oh, it will work from guilt in this situation. Too may streets surrounding campus rather property. fine for residents in the the two-block students drive to school when they than in campus parking lots, leaving The university district is the most area. But instead of rushing to park could easily walk or ride a bicycle, the homeowners no place to park. It's desirable place to live in Missoula. on campus, students and faculty will making the parking problem worse frustrating, they say, to be unable to Property values there are higher. simply park two blocks farther from than it needs to be. park near their homes and to have And, even though Missoula has a de campus, where they will still be rela Students who must drive could no room for visitors to park. pressed housing market, homes in tively close to campus. The park a little farther away voluntarily, the university district have little trou homeowners will have pushed the spreading cars over a multi-block Editorial ble selling. problem onto their neighbors, not area rather than concentrating them It is the university that makes this solved it. Hardly a neighborly thing to in one area. To solve their parking problem, the area desirable. Homeowners know do. But whatever happens with the homeowners advocate a permit-park this. That is why most have chosen to The homeowners' plan also falsely parking situation, it shouldn't be the ing plan that would prohibit everyone live there in the first place. assumes most homeowners in the creation of permit district, even if but themselves and their guests from It isn't very ethical for people to two-block area want such a plan. nothing is changed. parking on the street between 8 a.m. reap the benefits of living near the To justify the plan, the Homeowners ASUM President Paul Tuss has said and 5 p.m.

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