VOLUME 37 April 4, 2005 ISSUE 1149 rce for campus news nd informati n See page 8 • Check in with softball Blunt seeks to eliminate funding for MOBIUS BY BEN SWOFFORD catalogues with over 17 million items. Governor can use the power of line For UM-St. Louis, which has a yearly --- Staff writer -- MOBIUS was founded in 1998 by item veto to enact the cuts. appropnatlOn of $73,166 for 50 Missouri libraries and since has In 2000, an official legislative let­ MOBIUS, this would mean an What is MOBIUS? Missouri Governor Matt Blunt grown to 60 members. Its members ter of intent was issued by the increase of almost $30,000. At UM­ proposed a $239.2 million budget include almost every college or uni­ Missouri House Budget Committee Columbia the extra appropriation . Stands for Missouri Bibliographic Informafon User S reduction on March 24, on top of versity in the state and two non-acad­ and the Senate Appropriations would be around $119,000. -Links fifty member colleges and Universi tils.~Jj· ~' ·~l!~l more than a billion dollars already emic libraries. Committee speCifying the state of "It's really robbing Peter to pay announced in proposed budget cuts. Funding for MOBIUS began at the Missouri would appropriate an Paul. It would put pressure in other -Students can search the MOBIUS catalog of 14 million Tucked away in the new proposed university level with each charter amount to support half of the CLP places," Amy Arnott, UM-St. Louis budget cuts is the complete elimina­ member paying for itself to be in the budget. Funding never reached that Dean of Libraries, said. books and request items from any member library. Books tion of state monetary support of the program, including upgrades to com­ high and today supports approximate­ Blunt's official press release are delivered at the student's university library. Missouri Bibliographical Information puting and creation of the needed ly 23 percent of the CLP budget. announcing the cuts said, ''The User System, more commonly known infrastructure. Last year member libraries sup­ actions I am taking today were made -MOBIUS is funded by member libraries and state funding. as MOBIUS, a Common Library For the cuts to become official ported MOBiliS with over $1.5 mil­ with careful thought and analysis and Platform. they have to pass through the House lion in funds, $650,000 of it coming complement the priorities of main­ -Ustate funding is eliminated, members will have to pay 40 At $649,530, it is a complete cut of Budget Committee, which began from private colleges and universities. stream Missourians to increase fund­ percent more. At UMSL, that would be an increase of state appropriations for MOBIUS work on Tuesday March 29, and then If the cuts are approved, fees paid ing for our classrooms." CLP, which will hamstring MOBIUS, the House and Senate. Even if the cuts by the 60 member colleges and uni­ almost $30,000. UMSL currently pays $73,166 each year. the database of libraries, users and do not pass the House or Senate, the versities will increase by 40 percent. see MOBIUS, page 9 Beautiful day for 'The Big Event' Plan calls for end of Evening College Evening courses will still be offered, but will be administered by individual departments BY PAUL HACKBARTH ._ --_...... - ... _- dents take night classes and Co-News Editor "evening" students take day courses, so a defining line between them Beginning this summer semester, became unclear. This reorganization the Evening College will close as the also would remove the confusion of responsibilities of its administrators comparing a student with a degree and staff are reorganized and reas­ from the Evening College as com­ signed to other colleges after an pared to another college. evening program committee made Evening College Dean Sheilah recommendations to better serve Oarke-Ekong explained other rea­ evening students. sons for restructuring the colleges. Chancellor Thomas George and "Given certain demographics, given Provost Glen Cope formed the com­ certain trends in higher education mittee, led by Honors College Dean and given some of our resource chal­ Robert Bliss. Bliss said the group's lenges, I think all of those things goal was to reconsider the evening were factored in how to do this more college program in the context of the efficiently," she said. University as a whole. Over several While the recommendations call meetings, the committee discovered for eliminating her position and clos­ interesting issues that helped them ing the college, Oarke-Ekong sajd recommend the appropriate changes. the most appropriate way to explain ''There have been a declining the change is as "a reorganization number of evening students, and and a decentralization." Mike Sherwlni The Currelli there has been a tremendous increase The committee's repolt suggested Pat Johnson, UM-5t. Louis alumna and curator of Gallery Visio, bags leaves on Saturday morning at the St. Vincent Children's in the number of students, both eliminating the positions of the Home. Johnson was among 65 volunteers from UM-st. Louis who wori(ed at the facility as part of 'The Big Event,' an annual one· evening and day, that take courses," Evening College and reassigning day service project. With clear skies and a high of 59 degrees, the volunteers enjoyed perfect weather for maintenance wori( and Bliss said. spirited games of kickball with the young residents of St. Vincent's. STORY ON PAGE 12. Cope explained that "day" stu- see EVENING COLLEGE, page 12 'Trailblazer' ceremony honors UMSL women Author says nuclear terrorism BY PATRICIA LEE (From left) is possible, yet preventable .c o-:j.iews-'jjdiior- Kristin Runde, Marcia Mellitz, UM-St. Louis capped off Barbara BY PAUL HACKBARTH Graham __ • - _0 . , . __ _ . _ ._ • . ••. _ .. Allison Women's History Month with its Harbach, Rita Co-News Editor rfarvard professor, tenth annual Women Trailblazers' H. Days, and author will discuss ceremony on March 30, which hon­ Marie A. Casey were given the "Can we prevent ored several women for their contri­ 2005 Nuclear Terrorism" butions to society. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Thursday, April 7 Trailblazer 2001 have been called the worst at 7 p.m. on the Chancellor Thomas George pre­ award from the MSC's 3rd floor. sented awards to Marie Casey, Rita Office of Equal attack on American soil ever, but as Days, Barbara Harbach, Marcia Opportunity. one Harvard scholar believes, a big­ Mellitz and Kristin Runde. They The annual ger threat still lies within reach than were nominated by UM-St Louis ceremony what Americans experienced that A month after the Sept. 11 students, faculty and staff, and cho­ awards women faithful day. attacks on New York City and sen by a review board. who have made Graham Allison, author of the Washington, D .C., CIA intelligence The Office of Equal Opportunity notable contri­ book, "Nuclear Terrorism: The intercepted a report claiming terror­ has been coordinating the Women butions at UM­ Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe," ists had hidden a nuclear bomb in St. Louis. Trailblazers event since 1998. "The will visit UM-St. Louis Thursday, New York City. While the report April 7 for a discussion called, was fortunately false, Allison goal is to highlight the accomplish­ Tenaz Shiraziani The Current ments and achievements of women "Can We Prevent Nuclear believes the threat of terrorists who are connected v,>ith the campus ceremony were well known in the 2004." posers. Terrorism?" using a nuclear device in an in some way," Deborah Burris, community or on campus. "Each Rita Days became the first female ''I'm very honored," Harbach ''To me, it's not a very big American city is inuninent. director of the Office of Equal one is different and unique in their African American State Senator said. "I feel very humbled to be clas­ stretch going from a 9/11 to a Opportunity, said. own right," Burris said. elected from St. Louis County_ She sified with all those other women ... nuclear 9/11," Allison said. see ALLISON, page 9 "A trailblazer is symbolic, some­ "It's especially appropriate we became involved in politics after one our campus has many outstanding /&' one who's going down some unchar­ can do this at UM-St. Louis because of her friends challenged her to do women." tered place," Burris said. "We've more than 60 percent of our student something instead of merely com­ Another winner, Marcia Mellitz, INDEX ~~r41 Student expanded the program to recognize body is comprised of women," plaining about it. was also recognized as a "Most ~~.r. revisits civil women who have excelled in their George said. Barbara Harbach, wife of Influential Business Woman in Bulletin Board 2 -----.-----.... ~ rights fields and are moving the University Marie Casey, who graduated Chancellor Tom George, was anoth­ 2004" by the St. Louis Business QEinions 4 & 5 history in forward." summa cum laude from UM-St. er Trailblazer award winner. She J oumal. One of the reasons she was Besides recognizing women for Louis, went on to found Casey said that she believed she was cho­ chosen was for successfully entering Features _. __. _6&7---_._-- Alabama their accomplishments, Burris hoped Communications and was recog­ sen because of her work in launch­ a male-dominated field in the Sports __ 8 & 9 nized by the St. Louis Business ing Women in the Arts 2005 and as biotechnology industry. the event would motivate other A& E 10 women to pursue their chosen paths. Journal as one of the "Most the founder of Vivace Press, which ._ ---- .... 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