Montana Kaimin, December 4, 1997 Associated Students of the University of Montana

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 12-4-1997 Montana Kaimin, December 4, 1997 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, December 4, 1997" (1997). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 9083. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/9083 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 Thanksgiving— Mullen style. Page 2 • Missoula skating on indoor ice. Page 5 •ASUM asks UM Tech for feedback. Page 8 Our 100th year, Issue 49 KaimmKaimin is a Salish word for messages Thursday, December 4,1997 Students finally get Spinning his w eb... chance to vote on UC renovation Soi^ja Lee Kaimin Reporter Students will finally get to vote on how the University Center’s third floor should be renovated. The ASUM Senate Wednesday threw its support behind a plan that will give students the choice of voting for a new $9 or $12 fee to fix the safety violations plaguing the building. The referendum, which will be voted on in February, will give students the choice of paying a $9 fee that would fix the safety problems or a $12 fee that would fix the problems and add a multi purpose theater to the building. But some student leaders insist that the two options aren’t enough. Sen. Stephen Forrest and Sen. Albert Nault voted against the referendum, and Sen. Mike Obland, who also chairs the UC Board, did not vote on the issue. "It ju st seems to me that there is a better deal waiting out there some where,” Forrest said. “The feeling I’m Stuart Thuiikill/Kaimin getting is that no one likes the options being presented.” JOHN MADDEN, dean of the Davidson Honors College, shows the new webpage that he uses in his classes and can only Obland said he was “split” on the be accessed on the university campus. issue and couldn’t vote. “I don’t agree with what the adminis tration is giving us here,” he said. “But I’m not sure there is a better deal out High tecti classes hit Ufll there.” University administrators have ver Daniel Roberts subject matter. also has links to more than 29,000 bally agreed to foot a portion of the bill if Kaimin Reporter “It makes things easier for the stu other pieces of artwork. students choose the $12 fee. dents,” he said. “Maybe they don’t “No textbook is going to get any “To be honest, the president doesn’t Paperless classes — wouldn’t it be have to take as many notes during where near that,” he said. “This is know where (the money) is coming from nice? class and they can pay better atten going to change a lot of the way right now, but he has agreed to it,” UM could be a lot more affordable tion.” teaching is going to be done in the Obland said. if students didn’t have to buy any Skelton admitted that putting his future. Students can go there and do ‘that’ so they don’t have to just read The UC, UM’s Dining Services and textbooks. Perhaps entire classes lectures on the Internet may tempt people into sleeping in every once in a about it.” Catering, along with UM’s administra could be taught online, making over crowding and closed sections a thing while but he said he doesn’t have a There is no official tally of the tors would be providing a $66,000 pay of the past. major problem with that. number of class websites on campus ment yearly to help cover the cost of Well, we’re not there yet, but every “I’m not terribly concerned if stu and many of these sites just have the adding the theater. semester a few more professors spin dents come to classes or not,” he said. class syllabus. But the word is “The administrators want the third their classes into the Web and their “They’re adults. If they can learn the spreading. Soon students’ and profes option with everything,” Obland said. students crawl in to reap the benefits. information on their own, that’s fine. sors’ fives may have an easier run “They want the Cadillac real bad.” Professor Randall Skelton has his Maybe this is the future.” down the information super highway. If students agree to the $12 fix, the entire Introduction to Anthropology One of the largest sites on campus “Tm mad,” Madden said. “If this $60 UC operations fee that students pay course, lectures and all, on a web belongs to Dean of the Davidson technology had been around when I each semester wouldn’t go up for the page. He said he began the site four Honors College John Madden. He has was a student, it would have knocked a year off my dissertation. Students next five years unless students agree to years ago simply because of the size more than 500 slides scanned into his History of Greek Civilization site. He now are a little more fortunate.” another hike. of the classes and the enormity of the MontPIRG blacklists 19 most dangerous toys Josh Pichler Newbold criticized toy-makers manufacturers include hazard Kaimin Reporter who market toys like balloons to warnings on all toys that contain Trouble in Toyland toddlers, such as Baby’s 1st, 2nd small parts intended for children The Bolt ‘N’ Nut, Press ‘N’ Go and 3rd Birthday Balloons, but between 3 and 6 years old. 101 D alm ations— Bin Truck Tank and Eyeball ball are among applauded the efforts of compa The warning is also required small parts Pounding Drum 19 toys that made the Montana nies which have complied with on small balls and marbles and A rthur’s Mom/Baby Tub Squirts Public Interest Research Group’s the 1994 Child Safety Protection on all balloons. Kate (with duck) Baby’s 1st, 2nd and (MontPIRG) annual list of dan Act. According to the Consumer Dressed for School 3rd Birthday Balloons gerous toys. “It’s not all trouble in Product Safety Commission, an Arthur (with lunch- Balloons Toys that made the list were box) Frog Erasers Toyland,” Newbold said. estimated 140,700 people were Kid Spalding 7-Iron divided into six categories Bolt ‘N’ Nut “Passage of the new toy safety hospitalized for toy-related Bottle Magic Eyeball ball including small ball hazards, law is a big step toward happier injuries in 1996. Eraser Helicopter String Along Beads balloon hazards and projectile and safer holidays for all.” Nearly half were children Madeline Doll Windsurfer hazards. The 1994 law requires that under 5 years old. Press ‘N’ Go Tank Stomp Rocket MontPIRG Director Chris 2 Montana Kalmln, Thursday. December 4,1997 Opinion Cats escape certain death at hands of she-witch A full semester of smiles and Last week, my My dad finally lost without them only reliable ~ . patience with this rou- method of defense. TheyTiave scorns for UM’s news makers family spent the hol Column by been tossed, grappled, spun, iday at my apart tine and went the more direct route, picking up trounced, lifted, dropped and •PLUM ment here in tied up more than Madonna To UM’s Director of Native American Studies Missoula. the box and shaking it My parents, vigorously until during her club days. But noth Bonnie Craig, who recently died after a six-year bat Pumpkin popped out. ing could have prepared them tle against cancer, for being an inspirational and knowing my kitchen inventory would be Upon her release, for the humiliation to come. respected professor, for virtually creating the Native Pumpkin lay motion Both were dressed in the outfits: American studies major and for advocating the rights adequate only in remote parts of less for about 10 sec Patches as the proud Indian of minorities across the state. Africa, had brought onds before slowly chief and Pumpkin as the obese, •PIT with them from rolling over so that her slothful pilgrim. Though the To UM administrators for considering delaying fac home a vast layout paws were squarely on details of what followed were ulty raises and for taking advantage of students who of food and the ground. But selectively erased from my agreed to a 6.5 percent tuition hike only if th at Thanksgiving props. Thomas instead of promptly memory, I do recall several pic falling asleep as she tures were taken. Afterward, money went to help pay for the raises. Two of these items Mullen were our family usually does, Pumpkin the torture continued. Rather •PLU M /PIT than releasing the cats from this To UM’s student government. A plum for avoiding cats, Patches and caught a glimpse of my Pumpkin. mom and quickly dart twisted bondage, the outfits the usual cat fights and political coups, and a pit for ed for cover in the nearest clos were ordered to stay on until the wasting time on grizzly bear reintroduction plans In a fit of pre-holiday zeal, my mom concluded that the hol et. full enjoyment of feline abuse instead of working on improving the quality of UM’s idays just weren’t the same Pumpkin had learned what had coursed through every icy education.

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