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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 10-4-1983 Montana Kaimin, October 4, 1983 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, October 4, 1983" (1983). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 7507. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/7507 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]. ! I THE MONTANA KAIMIN Tuesday, October 4,1983 Missoula, Mont. Vol. |8^No. 5 No financial aid for men not registered for draft Montana Rep. Pat Williams lective Service. L wise discriminatory against 90 days because most financial By Brett French voted against the amendment, MPirg said that the law vio KaMn Report* poorer students. aid had already been awarded saying "it is not right for Con lates the right of due process, Financial aid recipients The Reagan administration for this fall. gress to enact selective penal the protection against self-ln- who are not registered with the quickly responded with an ap ties." Williams said the amend crimination, the. Privacy Act Consequently, financial as Selective Service may want to peal to the U.S. Supreme Court ment, if enacted, would single and discrimination laws. sistance could have been reconsider their source of and the Supreme Court stayed out the poor and minorities A Minnesota judge declared granted to students who did financing after Fall Quarter. the lower court's injunction who are in need of financial as the Solomon Amendment un June 29. An enactment date of not sign the certificate before . As of last Saturday any sistance. constitutional June 17 because Oct. 1. However, before receiv male bom on or after January. July 1, 1983 , was set for the They are the ones who will It violates student's Fifth ing additional aid, applicants 1,1960 who is at least 18 years, amendment. “feel the Congress' wrath," Wil Amendment privilege against However, full implementation must file a statement with their old and is not a member of the liams said. self-Incrimlnation and Is other of the law was postponed for educational institution. U.S. Armed Forces must sign a However, Donald Mullen, certification of registration be University of Montana Financial fore receiving additional finan Aid director, said the amend cial aid. ment would not hurt the poor Males failing to register with or minorities. Selective Service already face “The vast majority of people a $10,000 fine or a maximum of who refuse to register for the five years in prison, or both. draft are upper and middle New York Rep. Gerald Solo class," Mullen said. "And at mon drafted the amendment least one-half of the people ap more than a year ago with the plying for financial aid are also intention of denying tax money upper and middle class." to people in violation of any MPirg, the Minnesota Public federal law. Interest Research Group, filed The amendment passed by a suit in a Minnesota district 303-95 vote in the House of court in 1982 against the Edu Representatives. cation Department and the Se Hearing on Ma Bell rates scheduled for this week ByTimHuneck Mountain Bell maintains that, Kilmin Reporter before the breakup, AT&T sub sidized local Installation and service rates with profit from Beginning today in Helena, the long-distance service. the Montana Public Service Mountain Bell says the local Commission will hold public rate increases are necessary to TWO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS take a lunch break in the center of what will be the hearings on Mountain Bell's offset the loss of the AT&T sub Performing Arts-Radio-TV building. The $8.6 million building Is scheduled for completion rate increases. sidy. by October, 1984. (Staff photo by Richard Radtke.) A branch hearing will be held in the Missoula City Council Chambers at 7:30 p.m. Thurs day. Oct 6. Frey becomes third female department head at Mountain Bell has asked to By Pam Newborn raise the basic hook-up service Ko'rrJ n Contributing EMor For example, Frey said, had the United States known more charge from $30 to $47, an in about the Vietnamese, it might have changed some of the deci crease of 57 percent; to raise sions it made during the Vietnam War — decisions that might the basic monthly service Linda Frey considers herself very fortunate. have been based on inaccurate knowledge.. charge from $7.67 to $11.52, "I’m one of those people who's lucky enough to do exactly "History increases your sense of freedom," she said. "If you an increase of 51 percent; and what they want to do," she said. don't have history, you're kind of like a victim of collective amne to increase the cost of a pay Frey, 36, has been doing what she wants to do — teaching sia." telephone call from 10 cents to and doing research In history — at the University of Montana for Frey says the UM history department faces the same prob 25 cents. more than 12 years. And on Aug. 15, she welcomed the chance lems that many other university departments do, such as a lack The increases come as a re to expand those duties. She became the new chairman of the UM of money to replace professors who leave and too few teaching sult of the recent federal court- history department when David Emmons, the former chairman, assistants and library resources. ordered reorganization of the returned to teaching full-time. The history department has five teaching assistants, a num American Telephone & Tel The only woman professor in the history department, and ber Frey said is too small. Most history classes require extensive egraph Co. Under the reor one of two women department heads at UM, Frey says site pre reading and writing, and the teaching assistants are inundated ganization, AT&T will supply fers to be called "chairman" rather than "chairwoman." with papers to correct, in addition to their own reading assign long distance service and "Feminists have gone overboard in the use of the term," she ments. some equipment while Moun said. Frey said she wants to introduce more group-taught history tain Bell will supply the dial As the new chairman, Frey said she hopes to draw attention courses on topics such as drinking or the family. tone and local connections. to the importance of history within a liberal arts curriculum. Frey said that the courses would include speakers on var Mountain Beil will no longer be "It tells you who you are and how you came to be who you ious topics, and would involve the 13 full-time history department a subsidiary of AT&T and theo are," she said. "It gives you a new way of looking at things. professors. retically neither company will "it increases awareness of. the world. The decisions that we Originally from Ohio, Frey said she fell in love with Montana have a monopoly over the ser make are shaped not only by what we know, but by what we vices it provides. don't know." See "Frey,” page 11. Opinions Pandora’s Box — i by Ross Best New rates The Purloined Constitution will soak you I was leaning back with my feet up when When l told Meg. she gasped, "Surely we can suddenly a woman kicked my chair from have it deprogrammed!" under me and I went sprawling. She meant Shortly after the first of the year you will have just Now we had two missing parties. business. It was a La-Z-Boy rediner. finished shelling out a lot of bucks for winter quarter tui "You aren't hurt, are you?" she asked • t # tion. fees and books. Will you be able to afford a 57-per anxiously. cent rate increase for basic telephone hook-up service "Nothing a body cast won't fix," I replied, and a 51-percent increase in your monthly telephone flexing a smile. service charge? A lot of you won't because, being stu Then to the authorities. They didn't have "Are you Mr. McRaker, the trou time to chase down every crackpot missing dents. you can't take time to work a full-time job and blemaker?" thus, you live on a fixed Income. constitution report. After all, Judge Crater "That’s me." was still missing. Where are these increases coming from? The dives "You're a hard man to And. My name is "Forget foul play. No one had a motive. titure of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Because Meg Bucks." of a recent federal court order, AT&T, the largest corpo That constitution was just an old fuddydud. "Thanks. Bucks. Not the new high-rise "And sexist." ration in the world, will split into separate holding compa video arcade?" "And verbose." nies Jan. 1. The order resulted from the idea that AT&T "My family. I’m frantic. I just started here controlled a monopoly on communication services. How "Besides, the statute of limitations has as a freshman In International Relations and l run o u t" ever, many believe the holding companies, (Mountain can't find the ASUM Constitution anywhere.” Bell is one) will still be able to funnel a profit back to As she spoke she eyed my motto on the door AT&T during the transition from corporation to separate —"We never sleep comfortably"—and l sized companies.