Montana Kaimin, December 10, 1982 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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Tentative tuition hike approved By Theresa Walla years. said an across-the-board hike Kaimin Contributing Reporter Regent Mary Pace, Bozeman, would be "disastrous" because said the board should try to get many out-of-state students would The Montana State Board of additional money from the not be able to afford the tuition. A Regents during committee Legislature before taking it “out of 12-percent tuition hike would mean hearings yesterday tentatively ap the hides of the students.” That a $1.50 additional cost per credit proved a 12-percent tuition hike for way, she said, the board could hour for in-state students, but a $4 students in the Montana University count on the students to help increase per credit for out-of-state Sytem. The board will vote on the lobby the Legislature. Increasing students. issue today. tuition could "price people out of a UM President Neil Bucklew said The regents, who govern Mon college education,” Pace said. the board should not “earmark" tana's six higher education units, out-of-state students for a large agreed an increase is economical Regent Robert Knight, Missoula, tuition hike. William Tietz, Mon ly necessary, but debated whether took a compromise position, say tana State University president, to raise tuition before or after the ing the board could raise tuition to agreed, saying the costs should be Montana Legislature meets in an “ appropriate” level for next "commensurate” with in-state January. year. Then, he said, the board fees. Irving Dayton, commissioner of could raise the next year’s tuition if higher education, said he favors the Legislature does not budget In addition to Bucklew’s es increasing tuition before the enough money for the university timate that out-of-state students Legislature meets to prevent it system to operate efficiently. contribute between $4,000 and from raising tuition itself. Although The Student Advisory Com $5,000 each to the economy in the regents govern the university mittee, composed of the system’s other ways. Tietz said those system and have the authority to student body presidents, students bring to the state “a raise tuition, the Legislature presented a statement to the board cultural mix and resources" hot decides the system's budget and asking it to consider in its decision otherwise available in Montana. also can mandate higher tuition. that students’ incomes generally In other meetings, regent com Board Chairman Jeff Morrison, do not keep pace with inflation. mittees recommended: Marquette McRae-Zook, ASUM Helena, agreed with Dayton, say • a resolution stating the ing the regents need to show the president, said the advisory com Legislature should not require that Legislature that the regents are “ in mittee realizes a tuition hike may private money be raised as a control” of tuition increases and be necessary. However, she said, a condition for state financing of that they are going to help “as "moderate” increase every other construction of campus buildings much as possible” to provide year would be better than playing such as the University of Montana revenue sources for the system. “catch-up” after five years, as she Performing Arts/Radio-TV Other regents supported waiting said happened recently. Building to see how much the Legislature The regents also disagreed appropriates for the university about whether to raise in-state and • rejecting MSU’s proposal to ANNIE BURHAM (left) and her brother Jon (right), get a free ride from system for the next two school out-of-state fees equally. Dayton establish a bachelor's degree in their mother, Leslie. The two were saved the chore of navigating the ice music; MSU has a music education which covers many of the university’s sidewalks. (Staff photo by Jim degree with a performance LeSueur.) Montana emphasis. Other matters the board will vote Missoula senator on today include a supplement appropriation for system units that have had an unexpected increase aimin in students, and additional finan resigns position cing for the UM law school and Friday, December 10,1982 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 85, No. 39 K pharmacy program. By Lan,ce Lovell from a list of three nominees Kaimin Contributing Reporter provided by the controlling party, the Republicans. Jobs and Industry sought for Missoula Jan Johnson Wolf, the If the commissioners cannot Republican senator from District decide on any one of the three By Charles F. Mason same. for Community Development, Inc., 49 in Missoula, resigned from her p'eople nominated, the Kaimin Reporter “You can buy aluminum cheaper a Cambridge, Mass, consulting position yesterday. Republicans will nominate three than a 2 x 4” , he said. “The expense firm. Wolf formally announced her more people. If the commissioners of housing has permanently put it Daniels recently produced a decision to resign in a letter to still cannot make a decision, the Jack Thompson has been out of out of the reach of many.” “report" on the Montana economy Missoula County Commissioner six names will be put in a hat and work since last September. The Jim Stevens, vice president of D. and ways to create more invest Barbara Evans. one will be drawn at random, unemployment checks stopped H. Stevens Co., a Washington, ment and capital availability for Evans said Wolf decided to Evans said. coming a couple of months ago D.C. contractor, agrees. state companies. The lack of resign because she felt her main Ron Fernelius, acting chairman and he says he’s tired of looking for “You're seeing less and less capital has been a major stumbling responsibility was to her family. of the county GOP Central Com a job. wood in new houses these days,” block for companies trying to Wolf said in the letter that she and mittee, said long-time Missoula “I forget what it’s like to work,” he said in a recent telephone expand their production within the her husband had tried to find Republican R. Budd Gould and he said. “After awhile, you get use interview. “There are cheaper state. employment in Missoula, but were Lolo Republican Aaron Andreason to rejection.” materials you can use." Daniels §aid he believes the not successful. will be nominated by the com Thompson has friends working Stevens said with labor and passage of Initiative 95, which There had been much specula mittee today. in Alaska. But they tell him that few materials costs rising at a rapid would require that 25 percent of tion and rumor in both the GOP Fernelius refused to disclose jobs exist for a laid-off mill worker. rate, builders are looking for ways Montana’s coal tax revenue be and Democratic parties that Wolf who the third nominee is. “I’m tired1 of living with my to cut costs. invested within the state rather would resign this week. Evans said she will receive the mother but I don't know where else “Housing will continue to take a than outside, is the first step in Wolf, 38, had been sharply list of nominees from Fernelius to turn,” the 34-year-old said. bigger chunk out of the average increasing money available for criticized by Missoula Democrats sometime today and that the Thompson is one of many Mis family’s budget,” he said. “Wood is capital expansion. More money for who said she violated state commissioners will begin inter soula workers affected by the a luxury the average person will expansion would potentially mean legislative residency laws by living viewing the nominees Monday at slump in the wood products in have to do without." more jobs. outside of the county in which she 1:30 p.m. dustry. Missoula, while not a one- Missoula Jobs was created in Daniels also said he thinks the was elected. Gould, who failed in a campaign industry town, is affected by any 1981 as a non-profit corporation. state should take money from the Elected in 1980, Wolf moved out for a county commissioner posi downturn in the wood products Its budget is $60,000, raised from coal tax and its pension funds and of the county in 1981, when she tion this fall, has served four industry; an industry that supplies the private sector. sell long-term certificates of and her husband, Joseph, moved consecutive terms in the State many of the high-paying jobs Byrne, a former director of the deposits to state banks which to Plains, 80 miles northwest of Legislature. available in the area. Missoula Area Chamber of Com would then have to loan the money of Missoula in Sanders County. He is remembered by many as a Missoula’s first sawmill was built merce and one of two paid staff to local industries. Wolf later moved to Glenrock, conservative legislator who favors in 1864 to provide lumber for members, said the job-seeking John Badgley agreed.

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