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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 11-19-2003 Montana Kaimin, November 19, 2003 Students of The niU versity of Montana, Missoula Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Students of The nivU ersity of Montana, Missoula, "Montana Kaimin, November 19, 2003" (2003). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 4758. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/4758 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 KAIMIN W ednesday, November 19, 2003 V olume CVI, Issue 44 Regents look at student fee process Natalie Storey Ponder said. Kaimin Reporter MontPIRG was originally allowed to collect voluntary fees The Montana Board of Regents in the 1980s, but a student had to will be asked to choose this week opt out of the process in order to between three proposals that deal not pay the fee. In 1989, the with how student groups are board decided to make funded, because some say the MontPIRG’s fee-collection way MontPIRG collects dues process opt-in, meaning a student from students is unfair. had to affirm that he or she want- MontPIRG finances itself pri- ed to pay the fee. The group was marily through student fees, involved in a debate regarding an which students sign up for and initiative that would have institut- have attached to their bills at the ed automatic deposits from con- University of Montana. sumers on pop cans for recycling MontPIRG is the only student costs. MontPIRG was taking heat group with the ability to raise from bottling companies and the funds through voluntary student board said it had become too con- fees. troversial, Ponder said. UM student Tom Figarelle, Ponder said Figarelle was in on Matt Hayes/Montana Kaimin state president of College original negations to open up the Army Reserve communication team chief Sgt. Ryan Evans received orders last week that will send him to Iraq. Republicans, said the practice is process to other student groups Evans and other members of the 379th Battalion of the Reserve in Missoula will train in Colorado for a year unfair. He has submitted a resolu- because he wanted Forward before heading overseas. tion asking the board to stop the Montana, a group he’s affiliated process. The regents will consider with, to be able to solicit volun- that proposal and two others on tary funds from students. UM Reservists called up Thursday. Figarelle’s proposal Figarelle said MontPIRG would require that all student should be in charge of collecting groups at UM seek funding Kristen Cates has not affected him much, even tours of duty; he spent a year in its own fees. through ASUM. Most student For the Kaimin though he was applying for a job Korea with the Army. That is “Under my proposal, student with the U.S. State Department in where, without his big-screen TV, groups already do, but MontPIRG groups can still collect dues, Sgt. Ryan Evans, a communica- Diplomatic Security Service. After he said he homed his card skills: is exempt from that process. except the University isn’t in tion team chief in the Army his tour of duty, he said, he will re- hearts and spades are his best “The policy, as it stands now, charge of collecting them,” he Reserve, said he is going to miss apply for the position. games. specifically mentions MontPIRG said. biscuits and gravy. “This is the job that needs to be This holiday season, Shaffer will and that is inherently unfair,” he ASUM President Aaron Flint Spc. Matt Shaffer said he will done, and it’s my turn to do the head home to see his family in said. said at least three student govern- miss his big-screen TV. job,” he said. Dutton and spend time with his David Ponder, MontPIRG’s ments in Montana have passed Evans and Shaffer, both students Besides the biscuits and gravy, brothers and harass them. executive director, said ASUM resolutions saying they do not at UM, are members of the 379th Evans said he will miss his family “We give each other a lot of already doesn’t have enough support the MontPIRG proposal. Battalion of the Army Reserve in and his custom-built Puma Sports crap,” he said. money to adequately fund student Ponder said he realizes many Missoula, which received orders race car that he bought as a gradua- Shaffer said the family usually groups and throwing MontPIRG campuses are not ready to insti- last week that will send them to tion present for himself. gets a tree and goes to midnight into the mix would mean less tute the voluntary student fee Iraq. Shaffer, a communication spe- mass on Christmas Eve. Then on funding for everyone. process, but he wants the option On Jan. 2, Evans said, they will cialist and junior in foresty, said he Christmas day, they have a big “We all know that there isn’t to be available. be sent to Colorado to train for a will have to study a little bit more meal. He also said he wants to enough funding for student Scott McCarthy, Montana State year. Then they will spend 18 than others when he gets back from catch up with as many people as groups already,” Ponder said. University’s student government months abroad. his tour in order to catch up. But possible before he leaves. MontPIRG has come up with its president, said he does not sup- “To me, it’s not a bad thing,” he he’s not worried. Although he said he and his own proposal, which would open port the MontPIRG proposal. said. “I look forward to it.” “Right now this is probably the brothers give one another a hard up voluntary student-fee collec- ASMSU passed a resolution Evans is no stranger to living out easiest time to do this,” he said, time, Shaffer said it will be hard to tion to all student groups that can Thursday saying it would not of the country. Before joining the referring to the typical college situ- leave them behind with his TV. muster 10 percent of the student support the expansion of the vol- reserves, he spent five years in the ation of moving often and finding It also might be difficult for body’s support. untary fee-collection process to Marines, and during that time spent new roommates. “As far as being Shaffer to find his favorite food, The MontPIRG proposal raises its campus or other campuses in two-and-a-half years away from his mobile, this is a good time in my barbecued steak, he said. the fee limit to $7.50 and would the Montana University System. family in Frenchtown. life.” “They’ve (the military) got their be available for any valid non- “The autonomy of the student He received money from the G.I. Shaffer has two brothers, Mark own kind of steak,” he said with a profit student-run organization. government is what we wanted to Bill and joined the reserves in 2001 and Scott. Mark is in the Air Force laugh. There has also been a third pro- maintain,” McCarthy said. in Missoula so he could go to and Scott is in ROTC at UM. But Both Shaffer and Evans said they posal submitted, which would McCarthy said ASMSU senators school and be near his family. Shaffer is the only one of his broth- are not concerned about their safe- open up the voluntary student- were concerned that authority “I spent two-and-a-half years ers being deployed, he said. ty, because they have been training funding process to student groups would be taken away from stu- away straight from my family,” he Shaffer also had a previous mili- for years and are well-prepared. at UM only. dent governments, which fund the said. “The nieces and nephews and tary life, serving in the Army from “I’m not the type that’s overly “In principle, we support a sys- majority of student groups across goddaughters grow up quick.” 1998 to 2001 before joining the concerned with security and safe- temwide policy, because we think the university system. Some sena- He is a senior in political science reserves as a way to pay for col- ty,” Evans said. “I’m ready to go.” students should have the right to tors thought many student groups and will graduate in December. lege. He is accustomed to long democratically institute and col- Evans said this sudden departure lect voluntary student fees,” See MontPIRG, Page 8 Former UM professor wins state teacher’s award Madeleine Creevy Brenner taught at UM for for the award by UM UM’s annual staff and faculty Christmas Kaimin Reporter more than three decades President George Dennison party hosted by Dennison. and retired this fall — and UM alumni. Scott McMillion, a former student of Gerry Brenner, Montana’s 2003 profes- much to the dismay of stu- This is the fourth time a Brenner’s, said Brenner inspired his stu- sor of the year, said his favorite thing dents such as junior Julie UM professor has won the dents to work hard. about teaching is being in the classroom, Brown.

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