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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 11-14-1989 Montana Kaimin, November 14, 1989 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, November 14, 1989" (1989). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 8186. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/8186 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]. montana In Brief... University of Montana Missoula, Montana Regents to begin kaimin Tuesday November 14,1989 national search for new president Political misunderstaning The Board of Regents will begin a national search led to retrenchment of CSD, for UM’s next president next month, Regent Dennis Lind said Monday. Montana lobbyist says Lind said the Board of By Christian Murdock Regents will advertise for Kaimin Reporter the job in the national “I publication, the Chronicle don’t think A political misunderstanding I for Higher Education, in between the Board of Regents and the state can December. the Legislature led to the retrench UM’s President James afford to lose ment of UM’s Communication Koch will leave after four Sciences and Disorders, a Montana the program." years as president next July lobbyist said Monday. -Mona Jamison to take the president’s Mona Jamison, a Helena attor position at Old Dominion ney who lobbied for the continu University in Virginia. ation of the CSD program during summer, the 1989 Legislature the 1989 Legislative session, said passed House Bill 44, which would Auxiliary Services the Board of Regents thought the have funded half of the money Legislature would give UM more Review Committee needed to save the program, but money to save the program during Gov. Stan Stephens vetoed the bill. its special session last summer. to meet with Victor Bjomberg, Stephens* On the other hand, the Legisla press secretary, said the governor legislative auditors ture thought Board of Regents vetoed the bill because he felt the would have retracted their decision decision to fund the program should The Auxiliary Services to retrench the CSD program if the be the Board of Regents’ and UM’s. Review Committee plans to Legislature didn’t save the program, The Legislature gives the uni meet with legislative she added. versities their money, but the Board auditors this week to Regent Dennis Lind denied that of Regents and the university presi discuss concerns the group the retrenchment of CSD was a dents must decide how to spend it, has about UM’s accounting. political move by either side. he added. UM student Brian Smith, “There was no more political “If the Legislature wants to run the committee’s spokesman, motivation in the retrenchment of their schools, there is no reason for said the group has been CSD than in the cutting of the ath the Board of Regents and the working on a list of letic budget,” Lind said . “The university’s president to be there,” concerns to present to the people on the retrenchment com PHARMACY STUDENT Jennifer Harlan carefully meas Bjomberg said. auditors. mittee acted in good faith. ures potassim powder for a class. Harlan spent Monday “Even if the bill was signed, “We’ve been working on “They tried to do what was best filling various sample perscriptions. it for months,” he said. for the university.” “We’re trying to get it real During its special session last See "CSD," pg. 8. specific.” Among other issues, die committee has questioned Pro-choice advocates gather in Caras Park for rally the potential use of student fees to repay bonds that Speakers say choice helped build Washington- Grizzly Stadium. The is a voting issue auditors are on campus this quarter to perform a By Lisa Meister compliance audit that is Kaimin Reporter done every two years. Candles in paper bags and in Smith said ASUM Vice Dixie cups lit Caras Park Monday President Andrew Long and night as about 500 pro-choice ad committee member Lynn vocates gathered for a rally. Israel met with Deputy Leg Some carried signs with such islative Auditor James Gilette two weeks ago, and messages as “America Stands For they were told to speak to Choice” and “Abortion: A Personal the auditors on campus. Decision.” And many wore but Gilette said Monday he tons that read “Catholics for thinks the compliance audit Choice” or “Students for Choice.” will address the concerns And nearly all of them stamped, the committee has. He said cheered and hooted their approval he doesn’t know when that as local pro-choice spokeswomen ABOUT 500 people march from Caras Park to the Moose Lodge In support of the pro-choice movement. Many in the crowd chanted "2-4-6-8 we're the ones who ovulate! 2-4-6-8 women will audit will be completed. addressed them. decide our fate!” as they marched Monday evening. Photo by Chris Walton Diane Sands, the executive di rector of the Montana Women’s Inside... Lobby, told the crowd, “Choice is now a voting ing themselves a majority, she added. Montana cities this week, including Red Lodge issue.” “The Webster (Supreme Court) decision and Helena. And over the weekend, demon Crime doesn't She noted that pro-choice governors recently alarmed the public in a really unprecedented strations took place in Washington, D.C. and in pay, page 5. have been elected in New Jersey and in Virginia manner,” she said. Los Angeles and in about 150 cities nationwide, and that the mayor of New York City is an She told the shivering crowd,"The nineties Missoula’s Planned Parenthood President De outspoken advocate for choice. are going to be the decade of choice.” borah Frandsen said. Lady Griz spik And she urged the crowd to tell Montana’s The rally was part of a movement called the No representatives of any anti-abortion ers and hoop elected officials, “‘If you are out of step with pro- “National Mobilization for Women’s Lives,” groups spoke at the rally, though Alana Myers, sters both win, choice ... you are out of a job.’” sponsored by such groups as the National Or the president of Mi ssoula R igh t to Life, passed page 6. This summer’s S upreme Court decision, which ganization for Women and the American Civil out a press release asking anti-abortionists to left the dec ision to restrict abortions to the states, Liberties Union. has threatened pro-choice advocates into prov- Similar rallies have been held in several See "Rally," pg. 8. Opinion November 14,1989 2 Bush ignores will of the people Communism worth The nationwide Mobilization for Women’s Lives brought matter what the cost. One such group, Teens for Life, staged nearly a half-million Americans into the street Sunday to an anti-abortion rally in front of Missoula Planned Parent preserving voice their support for a woman’s right to decide whether hood two weeks ago. Citizens of East and West Germany are she wants to become a mother. So-called Right to Life groups want to see abortion made bringing home bricks from the Berlin Wall illegal. If they succeed in their efforts, the United States to use as paperweights. As the political cli Clearly, most Americans agree that the question of would break from the ranks of most of the democratic and mate of Eastern Europe warms up faster than whether to continue a pregnancy is best left to the pregnant socialist countries in the world. a poodle in a microwave, people are begin woman, not the government. Two elections last week were It is important to remember that abortion is still practiced ning to ask what these rapid changes will decided on the abortion issue. One put a liberal black in nations where it is illegal; in Brazil, the most common mean to our future. Democrat in the governor’s office in Virginia, and one saw cause of death among women is illegal abortion. Is communism dead? I certainly hope another Democrat win the governor’s seat in New Jersey. not The victories of the pro-choice candidates reinforce the fact People who oppose abortion are not out to kill women. The communists of Eastern Europe and that most Americans support a woman’s right to choose. For the most part, abortion opponents sincerely believe that the Soviet Union have always made good Unfortunately, the Bush administration has chosen to they are being good Christians. However, that belief also enemies for the United States. We spent the ignore the will of the people. leads many of those people to oppose the only reasonable entire Cold War period searching under our Last week, President Bush vetoed a bill that would have alternatives to abortion: sex education and birth control. beds for their spies. We’ve built sophisti cated satellites and airplanes to spy on them. provided money for abortions for poor women who become We’ve created stereotypes of babushka clad pregnant as a result of rape or incest. During his campaign, Most anti-abortion activists believe fundamentally that women and furry-eyebrowed, vodka-guz Bush said he did not believe women in such situations sex outside of marriage is sinful.