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Compromise requires deans montana to cut 16 faculty by September By DENNIS REYNOLDS mittee, Habbe said final decisions Italian program and one faculty Montana Kalmln Reporter kaimin on specific cuts will be left to the position in the business education Friday, May 9, 1980 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 82, No. 99 deans of the schools in which the program. The compromise retrenchment cuts are to be made. Habbe said both tenured and proposal recommendation Faculty reductions suggested by nontenured faculty members will proposes the elimination of 16.44 the recommendation are: be cut, but because tenured facul faculty positions by September, • College of Arts and ty must be given one year’s notice, Fee increase favors Donald Habbe, University of Mon Sciences—10.05. they will be kept through the next tana academic vice president, said • School of Education—3. academic year with “vacancy Kaimin, Day Care yesterday. • summer program—2. savings.” Although declining to publicize • School of Forestry—.89. These savings come from By DON LEWIS advertising rates. The Kaimin the agreement reached last Thurs • School of Fine Arts—.5. salaries that faculty members on Montana Kalmln Raportar requested $61,473. day between the administration The recommendation also leaves of absence do not receive. If the increase is not approved, and the retrenchment review com proposes the elimination of the Habbe said the compromise she said, the Kaimin will probably proposal contains both program If the proposed $9-per-year‘ have to publish only two days a elimination and program curtail student activity fee increase is week instead of four. The ex ment, as well as attrition and approved by the Board of Regents, ecutive budget that does not reassignment. the Montana Kaimin and ASUM include the increase recommends Bowers' original proposal called Day Care should benefit the most. $40,000 for the Kaimin. for the elimination of six faculty The executive corqmittee The $8,000 extra that ASUM Day positions by dropping the Italian, presented two budgets to Central Care will get if the fee increase is humanities and business educa Board yesterday. One uses the approved would pay for rent of a tion programs by July 1981. total budget figure of $340,500, University of Montana building at Domenico Ortisi, professor of which was estimated from current 750 Eddy St. The budget without foreign languages and the only enrollment figures multiplied by the fee increase gives $15,600 to faculty member in the Italian $45, the current yearly student Day Care, an amount which covers program, said that although the activity fee. The other budget is only operating expenses. recommendation suggests the based on the assumption that the The university will begin charg program is to be eliminated, he has regents will approve the fee in ing Day Care rent for the building been informed that he is to con crease at their next meeting on in July because the Department of tinue teaching Italian. May 19. With the increase, which Health, Education and Welfare has He added that the rriajor would bring in about $69,000, said that UM cannot use HEW change—in the program— ASUM would have $410,403 to funds for non-academic programs proposed by the recommendation work with. such as Day Care. Day Care asked is to drop the bachelor of arts The executive budget, which is a ASUM for $8,000 more than its degree in Italian. He declined recommendation to Central Board usual budget request of about UTU MEMBERS, John Lawry (left) and Ron Erickson picket Main Hall to further comment until the and assumes ASUM will get the $15,000 to cover the charge. protest salary negotiations. (Staff photo by Bob Carson.) recommendation is released to the activity fee increase, gives the Rosemary Raphael, Day Care public on Monday. Kaimin $10,000 more than the manager, said yesterday that she is Lois Welch, English professor budget without the increase does happy about the budget and committee co-chairwoman, and gives Day Care $8,000 more. recommendation with the fee UTU may take action agreed that the degree was However, Kaimin Editor Sue increase and the possibility of targeted for elimination, but also O’Connell said if the fee increase is getting the $8,000 needed for rent declined to discuss until Monday approved and the Kaimin gets if settlement not made $50,000 from ASUM, she will still By RICH STRIPP consider taking should Tuesday’s • Cont. on p. 8. have to cut the staff and raise • Cont. on p. 8. Montana Kalmln Reporter talks not be settled to its satisfac tion. James Walsh, president of the He did say that faculty members University Teachers’ Union, said are being polled about the options UM soils expert says she works yesterday that recent contract the UTU should consider, and that negotiations with the Board of a strike remains a possibility. best in field at Lubrecht forest Regents have led the UTU to Walsh said that 208 of the consider “fairly dramatic” action if University’s 430 faculty members By JIM BRUGGERS work with soils of the South “Students are paying for an a settlement is not reached soon. belong to the UTU and that the Montana Kaimin Raportar American jungle. education and if I provide too Walsh, professor of psychology, union is currently conducting a She identified the method by much education, they are getting joined other UTU members in an membership drive. It was “murder one.” The man which nutrients are taken from their money's worth,” Stark said. informational picket at Main Hall “We think at this time that we confessed to 14 slayings in the organic material on top of the Stark began teaching for the first for about two hours yesterday have excellent support from the Nevada desert but he couldn't infertile soil and recycled into the time when she came to UM in 1972. afternoon. faculty,” he said. tropical trees. And in 1977, she took over full-time teaching of the basic forest Sporting signs with slogans like Walsh said that he didn't want to “ In academia, we depend on our ecology class. “wages for the faculty” and “wages make details of the contract dis peers to evaluate our research,” Every Spring Quarter, Stark can for the valley,” the pickets received pute public. Stout said, adding that Stark has be found at Lubrecht Forest, “a very good response” from But UTU negotiator William an “excellent reputation” as a students and faculty, Walsh said. Derrick, professor of mathematics, researcher. because she feels ecology needs to be taught outdoors. Walsh said that a meeting said in April that the union is Stark, whose nickname is “the Lubrecht Forest, where between UTU and regents' asking for a 13 percent cost-of- littlest forester," devotes much of sophomore and junior forestry negotiators on April 28 convinced living wage increase. He also said her research to finding out how students can go for Spring the faculty members that some that salaries for the 1980 summer natural resources can be used Quarter, is where Stark says she action had to be taken, school session have not been without ruining the environment. teaches best. “The results of the meeting led finalized. For example, she and other us to believe that there is no Walsh added that the UTU is forestry professors are trying to • Cont. on p. 8. significant willingness to bargain seeking to have a special successfully replant trees on strip- on the part of the regents," Walsh legislative session called in order mined land in Colstrip. said. NELLIE STARK to focus attention on the economic Stark takes a practical approach Iranian to speak The next contract negotiations problems facing Montana in remember where he buried the to her teaching and research. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, will be held Tuesday in Main Hall, general and Western Montana in bodies. “ I believe we have to use a good professor of Islamic studies Walsh added. particular. So Nellie Stark, now a professor portion of our natural resources— at Temple University, will Walsh would not say what He said that a recent survey of forestry at the University of especially the renewable ones,” hold three lectures on Mon specific action the UTU would conducted by the Montana Public Montana, was called in to find the she said. day. Employees Association indicated graves. This idea, she says, separates The Iranian-born expert that nearly 50 percent of the Stark, an ecologist and soils her from the political environmen on Islamic culture has taught legislators polled supported a specialist, said she found five of talists. extensively, both in the special session. Montana Review the graves by flying over the area in "Many so-called environmen United States and in the The UTU is also attempting to a helicopter, looking for disturbed talists don't believe natural Middle East.