Montana Kaimin, February 23, 1979 Associated Students of the University of Montana
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Amended general education program passes By SCOTT HAGEL proposal to make it simpler and the requirement approved by the include and exclude courses from and the general education require Montana Kaimin Reporter much less specific. Faculty Senate, COGE's duties will the general education program, ment. be relegated to the Academic subject to approval by ASCRC and The Faculty Senate defeated a the Faculty Senate. motion by Bruce Bigley, assistant The Faculty Senate voted almost Applies to Undergraduates Standards and Curriculum Review • Courses related to a school’s professor of English, which would unanimously yesterday to imple The general education require Committee and the Faculty or department’s degree program have required 15 credits in each of ment a program of required ment applies only to students who Senate. 36 Credits the three categories, rather than general education at the University enroll at UM during or after the fall may simultaneously satisfy re Although the terms of the re 12. of Montana. of 1979. In addition, the require quirements of degree programs quirement are still subject to ment applies only to un The action culminated weeks of further amendment and revision, dergraduate students. debate over the issue, which at one ■ under the program approved by time drove a wedge between the The requirement also does away the Faculty Senate un College of Arts and Sciences and with the need to form a Committee dergraduates will be required to the professional schools. on General Education (COGE). successfully complete 12 credits The nature of the controversy COGE was a bone of contention in from each of three categories — basically originated with the terms the original proposal, because humanities, sciences, and social of the initial general education many faculty members felt that and behavioral sciences. proposal. Some professional COGE would have too much Therefore, the total number of schools were opposed to the idea arbitrary power to decide which general education credits has of having their curriculums es courses would be suitable to fill the been reduced from 48 in the tablished by people outside the general education requirement. original proposal to 36. schools. In addition: COGE was originally designed | I The conflict was resolved by to consist of only 13 faculty • Professional schools and drastically amending the original members, but under the terms of departments will be allowed to l 2 cars investigated | Headwaters Alliance sponsors festival 1 in hit and run death | Missoula Police reported Thursday that they are investigating festivities begin at 10 a.m. with a Northern Bluegrass Band and By CAROL BREKKE WARREN two suspect vehicles allegedly involved in the hit-and-run free clown show by Wavy Gravy for hoping to receive $1 donations, Montana Kaimin Raportar accident that killed a University Of Montana student Sunday. kids of all ages. again for the alliance's campaign debt. Ronald Bruce Johnson, 26, was found lying in the west bound A bunch of “California crazies” After an intermission for lunch, lane of Kent Avenue in the 200 block area by a passing motorist will be in town for the weekend to Monday morning at 7, a solar activities will resume at 1 p.m. with eclipse caravan will leave the field who called in about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. Johnson was celebrate the eclipse and help a slide show on the history of the taken to Missoula Community Hospital where he died from Headwaters Alliance set new house parking lot for the Gold alliance. Workshops on nuclear Creek-Drummond Valley. massive head injuries 18 hours later. goals. waste and weapons, tenants’ rights Police said Johnson may have been hit three hours before he The crazies are Wavy Gravy and and the proposed reinstatement of “If you’ve got a car, bring it. And was discovered, since he was apparently walking home from the the Hog Farm. Wavy Gravy (his the draft will follow from 2 to 4 p.m. if not, we'll pack you in World Theater, which had closed at midnight. real name is Hugh Romney) is a A general session will be held from somewhere," Adams said. A police detective said Johnson may have been dragged 60 clown and former, member of the 4 to 5 p.m. to integrate the “Remember, this is the last eclipse feet from where he was struck, possibly under the vehicle. Merry Pranksters, the "first hip workshops. of the century.” A hospital spokeswoman said Johnson had no other injuries pies” immortalized in the book, Last, but not least, Wavy Gravy to his body besides the massive blow to his head. “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” The fun will begin again with a will address the “Get Out the Vote" Johnson’s body was taken to Silverton, Idaho, where his The Hog Farm is the political- spaghetti and potluck dinner from and "Free the Earth” party Monday parents reside, for burial. activist commune that fed the 5 to 7 p.m. And from 7 p.m. on, the evening at 7:30 in the UC Gold Oak Johnson was a junior in geology at UM. He was bom in Coeur masses at Woodstock and ran a pig auditorium will come alive. Feature Room. The party is being spon d' Alene, Idaho, and graduated from high school in Wallace, for president in 1968. entertainment will be Ecological sored by the Student Action Idaho. He attended Boise State University for a semester in Headwaters Alliance is the Vaudeville (Hog Farm members Center, ASUM Programming and 1972, then went to Spokane Community College for two years. group that last November spon doing skits) and music by Spare the Elections Committee In hopes He enrolled at UM in Winter Quarter of 1978. sored two" successful rmclear- Change (more Hog Farmers). A $2 of stimulating interest in student control initiatives, giving Montana donation will be requested to help government. voters control over nuclear plant pay off the alliance's $3,000 cam siting in the state and guarantee paign debt. ing that Missoula will remain Sunday's meeting place is the nuclear-free. The group's binding philosophy Ark, on the corner of University Bill that requires Indian studies and Arthur avenues. Starting at 1 is to “help people be free and take care of their own environment,” p.m. with an introduction to the for new teachers fails in House alliance member Barry Adams tactics of getting citizens involved said. The alliance is for en in changing their government By DANIEL BLAHA to have a minimum of three credits the preservation of their cultural vironmental protection and peace, legally, the afternoon's work will Montana Kaimin Legislative Raportar in Indian Studies in order to be integrity.” feature workshops on civil dis and against racial and sexual certified to teach in the state. Rep. Art Lund, R-Scobey, urged obedience, grassroots politics and discrimination, he said. HELENA — The Montana House The requirement would not have passage of the measure, and said if civil liberties. From 4 to 5 p.m. will The weekend activities will start of Representatives last night applied to teachers already cer it failed, “two years from now we’ll be a discussion of the future of with an orientation and movie on defeated a bill which would have tified. have the same problem before us. Headwaters Alliance. the Hog Farm Friday at 3 p.m. in put some teeth back in the Indian The bill failed by a vote of 43-54. It's an honest attempt to meet that the UC Ballroom. The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., is Studies Law. Last Friday, the House passed a mandate in our Constitution." Saturday, in the St. Francis the place to be Sunday night. At 8 House Bill 880, introduced by bill that, if it passes the Senate, will Rep. Edward Lien, D-Wolf Point, auditorium at the corner of West p.m. the Hog Farm and friends will Rep. Dan Kemmis, D-Missoula, allow local school boards to said the Indian studies law was Pine and Owen Streets, the be there listening to the Great would have required new teachers decide whether to require their prompted by a “guilt complex.” teachers to have some education “I will not apologize for what my in Indian studies. ancestors did,” he said. “That’s a Under existing law, as it has fact of history, but I am a product Eclipse featured Grizzlies face squeeze, been interpreted by the Office of of now.” Public Instruction, teachers in He said it would make more Attention shifts this week schools on or near reservations, or sense to teach Scandinavian to Monday's total eclipse of forestry professor says in schools that qualify for federal studies in his part of the country. the sun/ The Montana Montana grizzly bears are being • “We must look at the cumulative Indian education funds, must have In the Montana Senate yester- Kaimin’s reporters have six credits of Indian studies by squeezed between opposing fac impact of these forces,” Jonkel • Cont.