Montana Kaimin, February 11, 1987 Associated Students of the University of Montana
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Montana Kaimin University of Montana Wednesday/February 11, 1987 Missoula, Montana Photo by Mike Hagan VANCE SHERMAN, a senior in pre-med, struggles to pull sled during the preliminary weight-pulling contest Tuesday. See the story on page 6. Protest stops letters alerting prospective students to cuts By Mike Dawson Akin said he stopped sending the gram eliminations at UM while en would be available, Hulme said, they Kaimin Reporter letters after he received a complaint couraging them to stay interested in might turn away students who would The Admissions Office recently from Janet Hulme, the physical thera the school. otherwise come to UM if they knew stopped sending letters alerting pro py director. The problem with the letters, Hulme the prerequisite classes were avail spective students about proposed Hulme said she first heard of the said, is that they list the six programs able. program cuts after some program di letters when a woman from Oregon that could be eliminated without men Hulme also said the administrators rectors complained that they might called the physical therapy office to tioning that the prerequisites for the from the six programs were con unnecessarily scare off potential stu get more information on the budget professional programs would still be cerned because they were riot in dents. situation at UM. available even if the programs were formed of the letters, which were re Mike Akin, University of Montana Hulme and the leaders from other phased out. viewed by Mike Easton, vice presi admissions director, said in an inter programs targeted for elimination The programs that face possible dent for university relations, before view Tuesday the mailing has contend that the letters, although de elimination are physical therapy, com they went out. stopped so program administrators signed with good intent, will turn munication sciences and disorders, Barbara Bain, chairwoman of com can revise statements in the letters. many students away from UM com pharmacy, home economics, religious munication sciences and disorders, About 700 letters were sent out in pletely. studies and business education. agreed with Hulme. separate mailings on Jan. 29 and Akin said the letters were meant to Because the letters don't mention Feb. 4. alert students of the possible pro the pre-professional courses that See ‘Letters,’ page 16. By Don Baty Facutly saves staff Kaimin Reporter University of Montana faculty and staff owe the univer sity $3,500 in campus parking fines while about l,600 from five-day layoffs students hold unpaid tickets. By Dave Kirkpatrick In an interview, Shirley Benson, the office supervisor of Kaimin Reporter the fees and fines division of the Physical Plant, said College of Arts and Sciences staff members will not have to Cashing in about 1,400 people, who consistently park on campus take five days off without pay, Howard Reinhardt, dean of the but do not have campus decals, also owe the university college, said Tuesday. fines. Faculty and staff in the college, the journalism school and The Physical Plant is towing away vehicles without dec the radio and television department took Jan. 30 off without als whose owners haven’t paid their parking fines, Ben pay and donated their wages to the college. son said. In mid-January, Reinhardt ordered the college staff to take Physical Plant “People who do not have decals do not have a right to five days off without pay to meet the college's share of the 2 be on campus,” she said. percent reduction in the university’s budget ordered by Gov. goes after Last week, the Physical Plant had two vehicles towed Ted Schwinden last November. away and had a third vehicle immobilized. In an interview, Reinhardt said that since the donated wages unpaid tickets Benson said UM has a contract with Fred’s Towing amounted to enough money to meet part of the college’s Service, and towed vehicles are impounded in Fred's budget reduction, the staff does not have to lose five days' pay. yard on Russell Street. The towing service charges the owner of the car $19.50 for the tow plus a $5 daily stor Ken Stolz, UM budget director, said Tuesday that about 135 age fee. faculty and staff members took the day off without pay, saving She said the vehicles are impounded until the owners about $16,400. have at least made arrangements with the university to Reinhardt said that when he ordered the cuts he needed to pay the fines. save about $15,000 to help meet the budget cuts. In some cases, she said, campus security officers are The extra money donated by faculty will stay in the depart immobilizing vehicles by attaching a clamp to the front ment, Reinhardt said, adding that the donated money will help wheels rather than having them towed away. cover still more of the reductions mandated by the governor’s order. See ‘Fines,’ page 16. See ‘Pay,’ page 16. • Wednesday February 11,1987 opinion Fat abounds in ASUM budget requests A SUM has a problem. formation to non-traditional students," fraternity Council and Panhellenic — • If ASUM gives the Future Science It has $417,948 to distribute to 58 shouldn’t receive the $3,825 it wants. should withdraw their budget re Teachers the $1,155 the group re groups requesting $563,706. Let an adequately-funded Student Re quests of $5,733 and $2,491, respec quested, it should fund Future Hu source Center handle the older stu tively. Pay your own Rush Week ex manities Teachers, Future Liberal Arts dents' problems. penses. Teachers, etc. Funding the group • To run the student government would set a scary precedent. editorial next year, the ASUM administration is • The Handball Club is out of line • Let the Woodsmen Team mem seeking $67,787, an increase of $18,- in requesting $1,904. Go bounce your bers pay for their own trips to out-of- 247 or 36.8 percent. Something's balls against a garage door some state log-rolling competitions and However, slicing the requests fishy. Central Board should scrutinize where. save the students $1,497. shouldn’t be too difficult. In Mon this budget as thoroughly as it does • Cut the Advocate’s request of • T h e M en’s R ugby C lub wants tana’s budget-cutting lingo: There’s a others. $9,227. If the UM administration $4,612 and the wom en’s team wants lot of fat out there. wants students to brown-nose for the a whopping $7,372. They can scrum For example: • Programming scored a nice coup campus, let President Koch pick up for a lot less. • The Women’s Resource Center by bringing .38 Special to Missoula the bill. • Th e Rodeo Club wants $7,985. should not receive the $9,165 it re right before budgeting. The group Club members should transfer to quested. ASUM should establish a • Send the Collegiate Karate club has requested $81,432 for next year. MSU where the students give a Student Resource Center that would and its $1,161 request to the garage However, it's time to decide whether puddle of tobacco spit about rodeo. devote equal time to helping and with the Handball Club. the students want to give so much • The Yearbook Committee re counseling all students, not just one • Ax the EVST Advocates’ $2,175 money to the group and still pay $12- quested an amazing $16,311. The portion of the student population. request and let members enhance $15 for concert tickets. Homecoming Committee wants • On the same line, Phoenix, which the students’ “environmental aware • The governing bodies of the $2,270. Go back to high school, folks. provides “advocacy, support and in ness” through the Student Action fraternities and sororities — Inter Center. Kevin Twidwell Doonesbury b y g a r r y tru d ea u While we play 0.D. THISISSUCHAN I M EA N . TH ERE A R B S O HONOR TO B E ASKED TO MANY H IM ACTRESSES JOIN THE STATE TASK Usually when I walk through a parking tu rn MUCH MORE EXPERI FORCE ON 5EIF~B5JSEM! ENCE IN PERSONAL & W TH ! lot, I get a chuckle from the bum per stick ers. But recently I saw one that really rub / bed me wrong. Maybe you’ve noticed the DoLayed one that boasts, “He who dies with the most toys wins." Beaelion Wins what? A pledge by the worms to wait a few years before dining on the body? That bumper sticker proclaims what B> our capitalist system says is the ultimate Ba nd ) Do Lay meaning in life. Think about it. From Seattle to Boston, most of us can eat our fill. From L.A. to Miami, we’re whales were made to play in the oceans, dressing fit to kill.