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White out Admissions standards not curbing enrollment Kyle Wood ACT, Akin said. Kaimin Staff The higher scores were sup­ posed to turn away students New, tighter admissions like Lacy Griffiths, a Sentinel standards imposed by the High School senior who wants Board of Regents last year to go to MSU next fall. She won’t keep many new students stands a good chance of getting away from UM and three other into MSU anyway, through an Montana colleges next fall, exemption from the rule even admissions officials cautiously though she has a 2.4 GPA and predict. she scored a 21 on her ACT. Most Montana college stu­ “I messed around my first dents already beat the higher two years of high school, and ACT and SAT minimum scores that’s really not the universi­ imposed by the regents last ty’s fault,” said a repentant May, they say, and each school Griffiths, who is interested in is allowed to give out more social sciences and education. exemptions to the standards “It’s my fault.” then there are students to take Each school is allowed to them. grant exemptions numbering “If it (higher standards) 15 percent of the number of affected us by 80 students, the freshman class the year that would be the max,” said before. UM will be allowed to Mike Akin, UM admissions give 212 exemptions to stu­ director, adding that he won’t dents next year with low scores know for sure until weeks after and GPAs. Last year, UM had the March 1 deadline. 207 exemptions to give and The regents last May upped awarded 124, but only 75 stu­ minimum ACT scores from 20 dents took them, he said. That to 22 and SAT scores from 840 vacancy rate is not uncommon, to 920 as qualification to get as students who are offered into Montana State University, exemptions often end up at the University of Montana, other schools or forget about Eastern Montana College and school entirely. Montana Tech. Applicants at MSU compet­ Freshman in 1994 must ing for the exemptions must achieve two of the following to have a 2.0 GPA and a 20 on get into these four schools: the ACT or an 800 on the SAT, earn a 2.5 GPA in high school, just like last year’s standards, graduate in the top half of said Lisa Wynn, who processes their class, or score a 22 or bet­ freshman applications at MSU. ter on the ACT or a 920 or bet­ “We automatically look at ter on their SAT. Freshman at that when we process applica- UM average about 22.4 on the see “Applicants” page 7 Second candidate pulls application

ROTC LOSES its "green”... walls. UM maintenance painter Jack Searles coats Laura Bergoust Only white finalist no longer trying the two-toned olive green walls, ceilings and stairway underbellies white in the Kaimin ROTC Headquarters in Schreiber Gym Tuesday. for African-American directorship Heidi Williams members. Kaimin Reporter “I think, probably black,” Flightner said. “He has a few Referendum voters hit halfway mark minority scholarships, but I K second candidate has with­ Tom Lutey vote on three constitutional der. Although the survey is drawn her application for the don’t know for sure. We don’t Kaimin Reporter referendums, including an non-binding, it is the intent of African-American Studies ask that.” amendment allowing students the Senate to lobby the Board director position vacated by Conyers will be the second of Students turned out in to directly recall elected of Regents with the choice of Ulysses Doss last spring. four candidates to visit UM. greater numbers for the sec­ ASUM officials from office. the students. Heather Hathaway, the only Patricia Dixon already visited ond day of the ASUM referen­ “If we had this in the first Options include a school white applicant scheduled to Jan. 28. dum vote Tuesday, mustering place, students could have year beginning in mid- visit UM, withdrew last week Daniel Boamah-Wiafe, a pro­ half the votes needed to make voted J.P. out of office without September, after Labor Day, for a job elsewhere, head of the fessor of black studies at the the vote stick. the Senate ever doing any­ with Fall Semester ending selection committee James University of Nebraska, will “All together, we’ve got thing,” Sen. Jon Lindsay said. after Christmas break, push­ Flightner said. She was sched­ visit Feb. 28 and Roland about 600 votes so far,” Sen. If students approve the ing finals back to January. uled to visit this Friday. Williams, an assistant English Mohammad Farooqui said. amendment, they will have the Spring Semester would run Flightner said a new candi­ professor at The Ohio State Four hundred of those votes power to force a recall vote by from February to early June. date, James Conyers, has been University, will visit March 4. were cast today. filing a petition signed by five Another alternative propos­ chosen to visit UM March 11. The candidates will all give Sen. Alison Redenius said percent of the student body. A es shorter semesters with 60 Conyers is an assistant profes­ two presentations on their visit, approximately six percent of 60 percent majority vote by 12 minute class periods. Classes sor of African-American studies one in the form of a class lec­ the student body has voted so percent of the student body would begin in early at Ramapo College of New ture and the other a research far, half of what’s needed to would remove an official after September, after Labor Day Jersey. presentation. The presentations validate the vote by the petition succeeded. and end before Christmas. Flightner said he is not sure will all be from 2:10 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, when the polls Also at the polls is a survey Spring semester would begin of the race of the new candi­ Flightner said the committee close. posing students with three date, a factor that has been will continue accepting applica­ Students are being asked to options for the semester calen­ see “Choices” page 3 raised by some committee tions for the new position.

Kaimin is a Salish word that means “massages.” This Day in Black History

Feb. 16, 1923: Bessie Smith makes her first recording for Columbia Records. The record, “Down Hearted Blues,” written by Alberta Hunter and Lovie Austin, will sell 800,000 copies and be Columbia’s first hit. EDITORIAL------Montanans should shut up, not Gun lobby blame government, Californians can't shoot Californians pour into this communi­ I have had it up to the proverbial ty. I wonder what would happen to here with all you whiny, self right­ Missoula without a school? around laws eous, seclusionistic fools who run Guest So here’s the deal, if you don’t want around with your silly little Montana When a law is passed that some to clean up your messes and play nice for Montanans slogans like “Thanks Column people don’t like, these same people with all of us evil outsiders, why don’t for visiting, now leave!” will sometimes do lots of strange by you just declare independence? I could handle the bumper stickers, things to try to keep the law from Wouldn’t that solve all your problems? I could even handle the abuse doled John being enforced. After all, if you’re a state full of out in the numerous letters in the With the Brady handgun law Stanton rugged, strong willed, individualists Kaimin. But when this snotty, holier- going into effect Feb. 28, Gary that don’t need the government’s help, than-thou T.A. started in on it, in my Marbut, head of the Montana then you could do without all the class, that I pay for, with my out-of- Shooting Sports Association (MSSA) money the federal government give state tuition, I flipped. This poor, this earth, in the location of their or wants the Missoula Police you for welfare, education, land deranged, young lady felt it her moral God’s choosing, just as any human Department and Missoula County grants, crime prevention, all those responsibility to spew some of that does. If you really want all these evil Sheriff’s Department to ignore the mean federal judges, and, of course, tired rhetoric about how the forest ser­ do-gooders from California to leave law. The law, named after James our military. We’ll see how far you get vice, the bureau of land management, your state, then start taking care of it Brady, the Reagan aide wounded in when your schools shut down, your and every out-of-stater in the land are yourself, so we won’t have to. an assassination attempt on the pres­ roads fall apart, and every person trying to take over Montana. Well my Secondly, you fools should be kiss­ ident in 1981, calls for a five-day below the poverty line starves to friends, I am here to set you straight. ing every out-of-state butt in criminal background check for poten­ death. It probably wouldn’t get that The reason that the U.S.F.S., the Montana. After all, we do make up a tial handgun owners. far, because, as we learned in the civil B.L.M., and out-of-state groups like full third of the student body. And MSSA is giving a fax machine to war, America doesn’t take too kindly Earth First! are “meddling” in your since we’re going to be paying 100 per­ the city police and sheriff so gun to succession. I wonder if I d still be affairs is simply that you don’t know cent of our tuition from now on, we dealers can send in the federal forms reading ignorant letters in the Kaimin how to take care of the land your­ make one third of the school s income. required for the background check, if there were a few hundred thousand selves. If you did, then there wouldn’t And since we can’t get resident status but with a hitch. Marbut doesn’t armed U.S. soldiers occupying this be any reason for their existence. But and still be full time students, this is a want the police to follow through on state? For some reason I doubt it. Is -signs like “Montana is not a zoo” or permanent deal. Tell me, where do checking the backgrounds. This kind any of this sinking in? Look folks, this the play on Earth Firstl’s logo “Family you think this school would be without of influence-peddling doesn’t wash. is America, and in America, I can go First!,” show the want of intelligence a third of its income. In the gutter, Admittedly, money to enforce the law wherever, and when ever, I want to. around here. A grizzly bear, wolf, elk, that’s where, suffering from them ole’ may be hard to come by. But a fee for And whether you like it or not, I’m and yes, even a tree, have just as bankruptcy blues. And let’s not forget the background checks will probably going to do just that. much of a right to exist unmolested on all the money we demonic be charged by the Missoula County Attorney’s Office. That will more than pay for the fax machine. Fortunately for the citizens of Letters to the Editor Missoula, Police' Chief Jim Oberhofer tion. We can only begin to help them The inspired editorial and Sheriff Doug Chase ignored this Whites not responsible when they start helping themselves. leadership of Bill , desperate act by saying they will fol­ for inner city turmoil It is not my fault, or anybody in, as Heisel is showing, low through with enforcing the feder­ you put it, moderate white America’s but I am sure he has Editor: al law. fault, for the problems of the blacks. a very talented staff. This letter is in response to Royce And it’s a good thing, because As a white American I’m tired of being Speaking of talent­ Simpson’s column on the problems of when the police suddenly begin to blamed for everyone else’s problems. ed staff, I want to give the inner city. decide what laws they should I’ve known blacks from inner cities special recognition to You make me laugh. I don’t know enforce, that opens up a lot of nasty of the U.S. I’ve been to combat in Tomoko Otake. Her inspired articles where you get off blaming moderate possibilities. The police must obey Panama with them. I love those guys have captured my interest throughout whites for the problems of the inner the law because they are the ones like brothers. They are just like us, the year. As I receive each new issue city. Our lack of social responsibility is who enforce it. Not to do so would just different color. Their problems of the Kaimin, I pour over every page not the cause of all the killing in the mean laws against rape and murder can be solved, but it has to start at looking first for articles by Tomoko, inner city and definitely not the solu­ could be ignored if the police decide home. They don’t want our sympathy; then for a fiery editorial by Bill Heisel. tion. the victim deserved it. they want to be treated as equals. In I was first impressed by her If there is going to be a solution to The image of law enforcement has my eyes they are, and that is as much Hiroshima and Fort Missoula articles, the killing it is going to need to come deteriorated considerably since the “Social Responsibility” they will get but the Valentine’s Day comparison from within. The blacks have to take Rodney King beating. The blatant with Japan was icing on the cake. control of the killing fields and end the from me. disregard the police showed for the Please keep turning out the material cycle of hatred among their people. -Jeff Moore law was used as an excuse by many that makes this newspaper worth Blacks of the inner city should respect junior, business administration rioters to loot and bum Los Angeles. reading. life more and not take one over a dime This kind of blatant disregard is Kudos to Kaimin staff, Keep up the great work, something Missoulians can’t afford. bag. —Paul Houston Jr. Royce, I want you to watch another The police must enforce the law loved Valentine issue senior, international movie. It is called “South Central. I because without law, the anarchy think it will change your views on how Editor: business ! Japanese that would result would make life to solve the deterioration of the inner Well, I just want to compliment you unbearable. Regardless of whether on your Valentine’s Day issue. Every city. It is not the moderate whites’ you agree with the Brady law, it problem to solve. We should be con­ time I turned the page, I saw the Remember: must be enforced because it is the cerned and help them if they want to Kaimin treading upon new and unex­ Writing volumes^ law. be helped. The blacks and other people plored territory. I haven’t seen an As County Attorney Robert is for books. of the inner city must come together issue of the Kaimin I have enjoyed Deschamps III said, “It’s a federal We appreciate letters, but please and stop the drugs and killing, more in the four years I have been law that calls for us to make a rea­ keep them under 300 words. through mutual respect and educa­ attending the University of Montana. sonable effort.” And that is the least the police can do. Trying to influence the police by offering a free fax machine is not the CORRECTION: The two land appraisals cited in yesterday’s article “UM frees Fort contract” concerning the land being sold at Fort Missoula were done in 1992, not 1990. The second appraisal was for $500,000 and includ­ right way to go about changing laws. Groups like the MSSA and The ed nil 300 acres being sold by the UM Foundation, not just the 83 acres mentioned in the article. National Rifle Association need to try to reverse the Brady law through lob­ bying Congress, the same thing the NRA was doing when the law was CLARIFICATION Z Yesterday’s column “Bobbitt trial turned attention toward domestic violence” stated, first introduced in the 1980s. Maybe “In Missoula, only about 10 percent of arrests for domestic violence end up in trial, according to Assistant City the NRA will get lucky next time. Prosecutor Judy Wang.” This is true in part, but, according to Wang, the other 90 percent of the cases end with a guilty plea and the appropriate sentence. “I would guess this office is one of the best in the state,” Wang said. “I’ve —Joe Paisley been accused of being over-zealous, over and over and over.”

16,1994 2 Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, February A Day in Yon* Life continued from page 1 Film: Videos affect women's image Wednesday Feb. 17 Choices: • ASUM — Senate meet- in January and finish in early Nancy Storwick ing, 6 p.m., UC Montana May. •Kdtznin Reporter Rooms. The third option would be • Theater — Montana to stay with the current sched­ The camera zooms in on a Rep, “The Heidi Chronicles,” ule, beginning in late August pair of legs, a made-up face, 8:30 p.m., Montana Theatre, and ending in mid-May. rows of bodies clad in string $12. Students are also being bikinis. • Film — German Film asked to vote on moving the Rod Stewart, with micro­ Festival, “Berlin ASUM general elections back phone in hand, appears between Chamissoplatz,” a love story from May 9, the first day of a set of legs that form an invert­ set against the background of this semester’s finals, to earli­ ed “V” around him. This image a renters’ strike in Berlin, er in the semester. repeats itself in various forms 7:30 p.m., Urey Lecture Hall. The polls will be open with different musicians, differ­ • Sports — Weight train­ Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 ent men and different wanton ing techniques, “Arm p.m. at the south end of the women in the documentary film Strengthening,” by Susie University Center atrium. Dreamworlds. As the film pro­ Jauquet, 12:10-12:50 p.m., “We need students to get gresses, segments of the rape Grizzly Weight Room, open to out and vote, otherwise this scene from “The Accused” are all UM faculty and staff, no whole thing will be useless,” interjected. fee, no registration. Farooqui said. The documentary, which will be shown Thursday at 7 p.m. in Science Complex 221, is part of a week of activities commemo­ rating Love without Fear Week, Motar Board Honors Society educating people about domestic is seeking eligible new members with minimum 3.0 abuse. The film contends that these images affect people’s per­ GPA and minimum Junior standing. Info meetings in ception of women. UC Montana Rooms. Thursday. Feb. 17th at 5:00 or Dreamworlds is a compila­ 7:00 pm or pick up application at UC Info Desk tion of video clips that talks through Feb. 21. about how women are portrayed as sex objects and nymphomani­ acs who will take their clothes off for anyone in music videos. DREAMWORLD The documentary shows that L women are seldom portrayed as * A critical anything more than body parts - O documentary legs, breasts, eyes. When they are shown as an entire body, the V on the violence commentator says, the body is shown as a shell void of feelings. in music videos WOMEN’S BODIES are frequently viewed in the Rebecca Huntington E According to the documen­ inverted “V” stance in Rock videos, such as, Rod Kaimin tary, this portrayal leads to Stewart’s “Hot Legs”, according to a documentary film to be shown without thoughts of women as objects, Thursday. When: Thursday, Feb. 17 and since they’re just objects they don’t feel abuse or victims Recovery Service, said these F Time: 7 p.m. Professor Gigi Weix will also be ization. Some people at UM images and ideas make it easier part of the panel discussion. E Place: Science Complex, Rm. 221 agree that these kinds of images for people to assault women. Christine Fiore, an assistant perpetuate the idea that women Thorndike is part of the dis­ psychology professor who is also * Followed by a Panel Discussion * A are objects. cussion group for after the on the panel, said the video Mary Thorndike, who works video. History Professor Michael could be difficult for some peo­ R *7be. IEM Women 1 Genian. at UM’s Sexual Assault Mayer and anthropology ple to watch. In Celebration of Black History Month We’re confidential. We’re sensitive. We’re courteous. CHUCK WE RE PLANNED PARENTHOOD 219 E. Main Open Mon-Sat 728-5490 FLORENCE '^SPizza ^Pipeline QUARTET 2100 Stephens WILD featuring WEDNESDAY We now accept VISA and Master Card JAKI Saturday, February 26 (please mention when ordering) 7:00 p.m. Any 14" One Item Pizza IO pc Order of Tricky Stiz University Theatre plus One 22 oz. Soft Drink BYARD ONLY $7.50 General $10 -or- Jazz Pianist Student, Staff, Senior $8 Late Night Special 12 and Under $5 Any 16" Two Item Pizza with opening act plus Two 22 oz. Soft Drinks UM Islanders Tickets on sale now at all ONLY $8.00 valid after 9pm to lam only TIC-IT-E-Z outlets or243-4999 Steel Drum Band THE) ’72 1-'75OO

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Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, February 16,1994 3 Wilderness preservation— PMS real, can be relieved physical symptoms of PMS p.m. in room 114 of the Nancy Storwick some women have to face dis­ University Center. Activist rejects Kaimin Reporter belief from spouses, employers Montreuil said discussion will focus on lifestyle changes Since Michele Montreuil and family members. “PMS is a bio-chemical dis­ that can help alleviate symp­ announced she’s starting a toms. For instance, Montreuil compromise pre-menstrual syndrome sup­ order,” Campbell said. “There’s no question about it.” said she’s started eating a port group on campus, she’s The group will be a place whole grain, whole vegetable been asked if it’s for real. Ashley Wilson “Wilderness is simply “where people can really diet that’s low in animal prod­ the earth’s buffer against “This is a real thing women ucts, sugar, caffeine and salt. Kaimin Reporter express all the crap that biological meltdown,” he experience,” “It’s a lifetime Montreuil said. Conservation activists said. change,” she said. “I’ve had PMS for have to be as uncompromis­ Four-fifths of federally “You have to eat it 10 years.” What: PMS Support Group ing as a grizzly bear to save designated wilderness all the time to get Montreuil, a America’s remaining road­ areas are “on the rocks,” or When: Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. your best results.” senior in social less lands, the co-founder of too high for trees to live— One of the work, is doifig the Where: Room 114 of the the environmental group far from streamsides where group’s meetings support group as a might be a pot luck Earth First! said Tuesday. life is most abundant, he University Center one-credit indepen­ where women bring Howie Wolke, who said. The rich valleys, dent study. She foods they can have worked with Earth First! meanwhile, have become said the group will on their PMS diet, said from 1980-1990, said he towns and farmland. Wolke they’ve gone through,” she talk about ways to alleviate Montreuil. saw a grizzly bear in urged listeners to fight to symptoms like bloating, said. Montreuil and Campbell Another way to alleviate Yellowstone Park that reclaim valleys that have cramping, headaches and encourage women who suffer PMS is to do an aerobic work­ showed him how he needed been cleared. depression that as many as 80 from PMS to attend the sup­ out, she said. to be. “We’re not even arguing percent of all women face port group because they say “We want to tell women “What that bear told me anymore over the best habi­ monthly. the disorder can get worse things they can look at and was simply, Don’t mess tats, because we don’t have Carolyn Campbell, a profes­ with time. The group is open try,” she said. “You can control with me. I’m going to them anymore,” he said. sor of health and human per­ to anyone in Missoula. It will your life, it doesn’t have to accomplish my goal for the “They’ve been civilized.” formance and Montreuil’s meet Wednesdays from 7 to 9 control you.” day. Nobody’s going to stop The proposed Northern advisor, said on top of the me, because I’m the Alpha Rockies Ecosystem animal of the valley.”’ Protection Act is a step in The Alpha animal is the the right direction, he said, Bureau chief to describe a changing Japan dominate animal in a popu­ since it considers whole lation. ecosystems and links them He’s also an expert on com­ Tomoko Otake the 1993-94 Presidential Instead of complying with wildlife corridors, Lectures, said Reid has been puters and built his own com­ Kaimin Reporter with political norms, con­ independent of state bound­ known even in Missoula puter in 1982. With ABC News aries. journalist Brit Hume, he servation groups need to When T.R. Reid arrives on through his “witty, charming writes a weekly syndicated col­ change them, Wolke said, “The NREPA is on the campus Thursday, he will and interesting” commentaries umn on personal computers, fighting to preserve all cutting edge,” he said. bring his National Public he often makes for the NPR’s which runs in the Post and roadless public land. “Make no mistake that Radio-style voice and “Morning Edition.” other newspapers around the “The old paradigm says, that’s the future of the new Washington Post-style narra­ “It’s been interesting how Do what you want within conservation movement in tives to the UM audience. many people know him country. the bounds of political reali­ America.” Missoulians are The Washington Post’s Far through NPR,” Hood said. Reid Earlier in the day, Reid will also make a presentation on ty,”* he said. “The new para­ lucky, Wolke said, because East bureau chief’s speech,, began his journalism career as digm says, ‘We can change the Salmon-Selway ecosys­ “Son of Salary Man and Office a member of the national news “Mutual Misperception'* American and Japanese News political reality.”* tem is just to the south, and Lady: How the New staff at the Post, following a Coverage of Each Other.” The Wolke said America’s is the largest roadless area Generation is Changing stint in Japan as a teacher at speech will take place in the wilderness is the base for in the 48 states. The Japan,” will begin at 8 p.m. in Kumamoto University. He has journalism school library at all life on earth, supporting Glacier-Bob Marshall sys­ the Urey Lecture Hall. covered the Congress, national 1:30 p.m. the widest gene pools. Since tem, to the north, is also Journalism Professor politics and three presidential Lectures are free of charge 95 percent of the original the most biologically com­ Charles Hood, who suggested campaigns in the United and open to the public. wilderness in America has plete, retaining most Reid as a speaker in a series of States. already been disturbed, species from before people can’t afford to lose Montana was settled, he CUP THIS AD CLIP THIS AD CLIP THIS AD any more, he said. said. OFF ALL E&Szfifl FREE INDEX 12oz Expires 2/28/94 Limited To Stock On Hand Shampoo & CARDS SAVE10% MONEY with coupons from The UC Bookstore! Conditioner UCBookstore $15.00 HOURS: M-F 8 to 6 • Sat...l0to6 UNIVERSITY CENTERj VALUE! with any color service. Expires 3/15/94 The Guard's Got ’Em GI Bill - $190.00 Per Month up to $6,840 $14,000 Salary (based on your first THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR LIFE Your hair can look sun kissed and sensational in enlistment term) minutes with dazzling highlights blended in. 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The Campion’s Piano Gay Workshops Screening a skillful sonata tells whole story Michael David Thomas from the stereotypical list of of human passion Kaimin Arts Editor gay people seen only as ‘drag queens’ and ‘diesel dykes.’ ” Room home. Ada then enlists the have come off as either filthy A secret can be a wonderful Kent has previously con­ help of their neighbor Baines or funny. Ada allows Baines Shaun Tatarka thing. A crush on someone. ducted two workshops in (Harvey Keitel) who puts the to look up her skirt while she Kaimin Film Critic The extra-special present your November 1992 and 1993. The instrument in his house and plays but when he tries to special person will get this response from the initial Jane Campion’s The Piano strikes a deal with Ada’s touch, she bangs the key­ year. workshop has prompted Kent is a graceful, elegant film husband Stewart. Baines board loudly and forcefully But imagine the pressure to continue conducting more that deals with human pas­ trades land for the piano and as if to say back off. The on a person keeping the secret sions in a way rarely seen on lessons from Ada. Stewart stakes go up (more keys for of them. He said the work­ of homosexuality. Steven film. Due to its outstanding gladly accepts despite his more action) and the two are shops are intended to get Kent, a well-known theater performances and confident wife’s objections. soon involved in a passionate homosexuals to talk about director, said that despite the directing, it is most deserv­ We realize from earlier affair. their experiences of being politically correct attitude of ing of its Oscar nomination scenes that if Ada didn’t Campion then shows us homosexual in Montana. our society today, “coming for best picture. want to give the lessons, she the passions of Stewart, who He said the tone of the out” has “social conse­ The film confirms is quickly becoming aware workshop is very conversa­ quences,” such as professional Campion’s status as one of that his new wife has no tional and he tries to create and social discrimination. the best directors working The Piano is intention of sleeping with an atmosphere that is “safe” today. She is a visual stylist him. This triangle of such Because of the social back­ and non-confrontational. lash against public admission, who somehow makes every intense characters must Sometimes, he asks everyone rated R and Kent said that many homosex­ shot interesting, even when eventually explode and it to vow that anything said in uals repress telling stories merely advancing the plot. plays nightly does in a shocking scene the room won’t leave the room about their lifestyle that Many young female film­ that Campion displays with without specific permission. makers will be crossing their at Cine 3 with power. many heterosexuals might “The initial session is usu­ fingers next month in dire The Piano boasts three take for granted. ally to get everyone comfort­ hopes that Campion upsets weekend outstanding performances Starting Wednesday able with talking,” Kent said. Meister Spielberg at the matinees. from all of its main charac­ evening, Kent will be conduct­ Academy Award ceremony. ters. Keitel will shock a lot ing a series of workshops for He said ultimately he Hollywood has a large gap of people in his understated telling those stories as part of would like to gather all the when it comes to female role. His Baines is a brutish the second round of the stories told from these collec­ directors. An Oscar for sort who is quite romantic. Montana Gay/Lesbian tive workshops and produce a Campion would be instru­ would flat out refuse to do so, Watching him declare his Storytelling Workshops. performance piece next fall or spring 1995. In addition, he mental in changing that. consequences be damned. It Jove for Ada is moving. Kent said several people 77ie Piano’# heroine, a is, however, a chance for her Hunter gives a flawless who will attend have yet to said an oral history of 19th century Scotswoman to play her beloved instru­ performance, complete with publicly announce their homo­ Montana homosexuals is named Ada (played by Holly ment so she complies. her own piano work. Without sexuality and these work­ being amassed. Hunter), is sent to New It soon becomes apparent uttering a word she takes shops are a way for them to But the ultimate purpose, Zealand by her father for an that the last thing on Baines’ command of the screen the express themselves in a safe Kent said, is that the work­ arranged marriage. She mind is piano lessons. He way silent film queen Mary and comfortable atmosphere. shops help homosexuals to brings along the two loves of becomes impassioned by her Pickford did 70 years ago. At first, he said people are come out and tell great sto­ her life—her piano and her attitude and piano playing Anna Paquin is also deserv­ “terrified.” ries. nine-year-old daughter (pos­ and strikes a deal with her. ing of her Oscar nomination “I believe everyone has a sibly in that order). Both the He tells her he’ll give her for best supporting actress. “To come to one of these great story to tell,” he said. piano and the daughter back the piano if she’ll let Under Campion’s direction, workshops is to come out of (wonderfully played by Anna him “do things” while she Paquin’s Flora is an intelli­ the closet,” Kent said, “and for The second round of the Paquin) act as Ada’s voice. plays. He tells her it will gent little girl who thinks some, that is scary.” Montana Gay/Lesbian She uses hand signals to take one visit per piano key she knows what’s best for He added, however, that Storytelling Workshops will communicate to the girl and to gain back the piano. One her mother. She, fortunately, there is a “wonderful exhilara­ be held in the University plays her piano with great black key, she responds. He does not become the movie tion” that fills the room, Center in the Montana Rooms intensity and splendor. agrees and then the shenani­ cliche sweetheart with a 200 because everyone at a work­ Feb. 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. and on After arriving in New gans begin. IQ- shop like this is gay. Feb. 19 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Zealand, Ada’s new husband, The scenes involving Ada The Piano is one of those “Some of these people can It is sponsored by ASUM Stewart (played by Sam and Baines are both intense rare instances when every­ be role models for others who Programming and Helena Neil) refuses to haul Ada’s and strange. In the hands of thing goes right. are not as comfortable about Presents with support from piano from the beach to their a lesser director, they would Grade: A+ coming out,” Kent said. “They the American Festival Project see that they can be separated and co-sponsored by PRIDE. '' slips under the surface Richard Fifield all. I don’t know why she was in fine form, her lyrics have say you were something in there is such a thing. It’s the for the Kaimin in Rockin’ Rudy’s—there must never been sharper, and her those formative years...” finest piece of pop on the be a Whitney Houston remix piano playing is delicate and She pretty much kicks album. “The Waitress” is I can die now. I’ve heard the on sale or something. striking. Charles Manson’s ass in the frightening—I shall never look new album, and So, kids, Tori Amos and “” is the surrealistic lyric department. at Effie from 4B’s the same truly feel complete. No sup­ Tori Spelling are not the same album’s finest track. Amos Halfway through the song, it again. And “” is port groups for me, kids. people. One begins the song erupts into angry industrial so delicious, it almost made me “Under The Pink” is all the has talent, with a mem­ noise, and then fades back to forget the Huey Lewis nude therapy that a jaded music the other orable lounge singer stylings just as scene in “Short Cuts.” I can critic needs. one has a piano riff quickly. The production on honestly say that the memory Let’s start with a witty little boob job. and fol­ “Under The Pink” is dazzling. of that song kept me from anecdote: I overheard some Tori lows it Amos then switches gears vomiting on the people in front freaky shockalocka girl (so Amos with entirely, whipping out a touch­ of me at the Crystal Theatre. named after the chorus of Tag would some of ing little ditty called “God,” “Under The Pink” is truly Team’s “Whoomp! There It Is”) never be the most sure to inspire clumsy sing-a­ the work of a wonderful artist. in Rockin’ Rudy’s yesterday, seen with Luke intriguing Prozac- longs at church camps every­ Amos’ earlier work, “Little and she was examining Tori’s Priestley, or that Brian Austin moment lyrics in pop history: where. “God, sometimes you Earthquakes”, and it’s follow new C.D. Perry fellow. Amos does not “Tears on the sleeve of a just don’t come through/do you up album, “Crucify”, marked “Wow,” she said, “I had no date men with better hair than man/Don’t wanna be a boy need a woman to look after the debut of a thought-provok­ idea that any of the people on she. today/heard the eternal foot­ you?” It’s a happy song, boys ing voice. Her latest is a testi­ Beverly Hills 90210’ made Well, anyway, “Under The man bought himself a bike to and girls. mony to her evolution as an music.” Like I said, she was a Pink” is truly a revelation. race/And Greg he writes let­ “Past The Mission” cops a artist and a person. shockalocka girl, big hair and Amos’ nifty mezzo-soprano is ters and bums his CD’s/they Carole King-ish groove, if Grade: B+

Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, February 16,1994 5 sp©rts Despite anonymity... Soccer coach optimistic Kimberly Benn And Duerksen should know. Her accolades, both academic and Kaimin Reporter athletic, are numerous. When Betsy Duerksen walks down But she doesn’t anxiously rattle off the halls of Harry Adams Field House, all of her achievements. she is as unfamiliar as her sport. “I don’t remember my stats any­ Duerksen, UM’s new women’s soccer more,” she says modestly from her coach, has been here for only about a office in the field house where the month and her sport hasn’t even begun shelves and walls are void of any tro­ at the university. phies or plaques. But Duerksen isn’t worried about But after a little prodding, fleeting support for the team’s inaugur­ Duerksen reveals that she was a four­ time soccer All-America at Boston al season beginning in September. BETSY DUERKSEN, coach for the new women’s soccer team, hopes Gregi£im“ ‘Tve had tons of people call me and College from 1984 to 1987, the school’s to net some fleet-foot talent for the team, which begins its first sea­ tell me they’re interested in soccer,” Female Athlete of the Decade, inducted son next fall. she says. “We’re definitely going to into BC’s Hall of Fame, an assistant coach at Brown University, and a coach have tryouts, and not everyone is going But soccer has not always been helping people.” Even though she has at Seattle University, where she trans­ to make the team.” Duerksen’s full-time job. played every sport imaginable, formed it from a 35-88-12 team into a Although tryouts won’t begin until After getting her master’s degree in Duerksen has little trouble explaining 44-20-2 team and was NAIA’s National the end of March, Duerksen knows social work from Boston College, she her passion for soccer. Soccer Coach of the Year. exactly what she’s looking for in a play­ practiced for a year, then decided it “It’s a player's game,” she says. ‘You “I would attribute a lot of the suc­ er. was time to return to her first love. send your players on the field for nine­ cess of that team to the support of “Personality, the ability to be a part “Actually soccer and social work are ty minutes and the decisions are made Seattle University,” Duerksen says, of a team and intelligence,” she says. similar in terms of dealing with peo­ by them.” adding that SU implemented a scholar­ “If you can get the combination of those ple,” Duerksen notes. “But I think Fd It’s obvious that Betsy Duerksen is ship and recruiting program. “So I three things, then you have a potential like to stay coaching. I still feel like I’m as much a player as she is a coach. player.” can’t take all the credit.” Top intramural records All-sport trophy competition down, not out

Jon Ebelt such as the Greeks, Black winner keeps the trophy for a as of Feb. 16, 1994 year but must return it the next Kaimin Reporter Student Union and some foreign year. If the same team wins compiled by Jon Ebelt Men’s 6’ & under student groups, Glaes said. More individual opportuni­ “It started as a challenge three years in a row they are Kaimin Reporter •Mike Addams Conference ties have meant less participa- between different men’s dorms awarded the trophy for good. Dickey’s Squad 3-0 tion in the intramural all sports in the Greek system,” Glaes Just for entering a competi-, . Women’s Hoop Hornets 3-1 trophy competition over the last said. “It’s geared towards tion a the team is awarded Team Wibaux 2-1 few years, the campus recre­ groups that spend a lot of time points. After that, points are Basketball •Spud Webb Conference awarded based on a weighted • Vanderbilt Conference ation director said Tuesday. together.” South Patrol 4-0 However, Glaes said, over system for each sport. For The Screwups 3-0 Keith Glaes said the overall KYI-Yotes 3-1 the years there have been teams example, if softball a team wins Thunder 2-1 interest is down, but has no Dookie Stains 3-1 outside the Greek system that the tournament, it receives 500 Not Your Average Chicken plans to discontinue the year- •Mugsy Bouges Conference round competition. have been successful. In the points, but in the walleyball Sandwich 2-1 Taco’s Contada 4-0 “There are so many different 1970s, the Team Angels, com­ tournament the winning team •Ohio State Conference Saucers 3-1 things to do,” Glaes said. “Thirty posed of male athletes from receives 250 points. Omega Beta 3-0 Harrington’s Belly 2-1 years ago there were no plastic Thompson Falls and Plains, had Glaes said the standings are Hoop It Up 2-1 kayaks or cross-country skis. As no affiliation with any campus “easy to keep track of,” except Tanookettes 2-1 Indoor Soccer long as five or six teams want to group. They just knew each for the latest mishap. During •Texas Tech Conference •Duerksen Conference (compete) we’ll do it.” other from high school and the move to the new campus Lucky Charms 3-0 Frizzle Fry 3-0 The all sports competition stuck together in college, Glaes recreation office last month, the Dribbling Idiots 3-0 Rec-in-Crew 2-0 focuses on intramural sports said. all sports points records were Apocalypse Now 2-1 The Knowles Hall Posse 2-1 such as football, basketball, vol­ At the end of the year, both a misplaced. The standings are •Rote Conference leyball and softball. However, men’s and a women’s trophy is currently being re-added and Men’s 4- will be posted in the UC upon Atlas Lions 3-0 one or two-day competitions awarded based on the point sys­ completion. person Norse Force 2-0 such as the walleyball tourna­ tem Glaes has incorporated. The Hussars 2-1 ment, wheelchair basketball Basketball and the golf tournament are •Pele Conference One-eyed Rockets 4-0 included in the standings. Arsenal 3-0 Big O & The Posse 4-0 Teams that compete are usu­ SAE Lions 2-0 Sausage Party 3-1 ally involved in some other UM 3,000 acres Blue Wave 2-1 Co-Rec “A” group that is already organized Volleyball divided by# George & Georgina 4-0 From The Land of Volley 4-0 Public TELECONFERENCE Yo Mama! 2-2 equals j Co-Rec “B” COMMUNITY Service $29 Volleyball Diggin 4-0 Gulo Gulo 4-0 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 War Pigs 3-1 McGill Hall, Room 217 •Fish Creek Conference Panacea 4-0 The University of Montana Team W.E.T.S.U. 3-1 Ace In Your Face 2-2 The Governor's Advisory Council on Community Affordable Good Times! Service will present a draft of a proposed state 3,000 acres of incredible skiing for just $29 * Co-Rec and a free phone call for your lodging reservation! Basketball plan for volunteer and community service in a •Devils Conference statewide METNET interactive teleconference. Adrenalizers 3-1 This event will launch a public dialogue about Adam’s Family 3-1 the Big Mountain Dream Team 3-1 Montana's vision, priorities and strategies for Whitefish, Montana •Terps Conference community service. Grin & Bear It 4-0 800-858-5439 Dogs of Winter V 2-2 "Current valid Student I.D. required for $29 ticket Armadillos 2-2

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tions,” she said. Wynn didn’t know EMC has always prided itself on six exemptions are given out every from ever applying to college or force how many exemptions went being open to anybody, Everett year. them to apply to a junior college, an unclaimed last year, but said they added. “I’m not saying we’re big-headed option Griffiths is looking into. ■ ■ never award the full 15 percent. MSU “I don’t think we would have over here, but we don’t usually see ‘What you are getting is the stu­ (0 has rejected only 23 of 1,500 applica­ raised the standards if it would have the student who would be better off at dents who are qualified when they +-» tions for Fall 1994 for whatever rea­ limited access that much,” she said. the vo-tech,” Van Nuland said. “We apply,” he said. “The problem is that c son, she said. At Montana Tech, applicants select are up-front on our recruiting trips. you are evaluating a group that you Karen Everett, admissions director themselves out, said Chris Van Most of the students who come to never see.” (0 at Eastern Montana College said Nuland, assistant director of admis­ Tech are finely tuned in high school. And enrollment will keep going up ■ o■■ “only a handful” of students currently sions. Recruiting trips are filled with They are ready to rock when they get all over the place a's more out-of-state enrolled at EMC would not get in tales of tough classes, and the school’s here.” students come to Montana, and a Q. under the new standards. Thirty science and technology bent attracts a Jeff Baker, Montana’s commission­ growing number of in-state students exemptions went unclaimed last year. specific brand of student. er of higher education, said he’s not fight for the same number of spots, Q. “We’ve never given away all of the “I don’t think its going to have a surprised to hear that the standards Baker said. MSU’s Wynn said the exemptions,” she said. Fifty students major impact here,” Van Nuland said. aren’t having much of an impact university is recruiting in California < claimed the 80 exemptions EMC “These are the minimum scores any­ because admissions departments only this year for the first time ever, and awarded last year, a number she way.” The average ACT score at Tech deal with the students who apply. Tech’s Van Nuland said total enroll­ doesn’t expect to go up that much. is about 24, he said, and only five or Higher standards keep some students ment went up 19 percent last year.

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Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, February 16,1994 ——— ------—------—------__ 7 ASUM may New senators promise action, not paperwork limit voting Tom Lutey Kaimin Reporter on funding Joao Tomazeli and Tye Deines are from dif­ Tom Lutey ferent worlds but as new Kaimin Reporter senators of ASUM the two share a common ASUM Senators might be ground on their desire to asked Wednesday night to tie provide substantive ser­ their hands when it comes to vice to UM students. funding ASUM groups in which “We need to focus on they are officers, Sen. Josh issues that are impor­ Arnold said Tuesday. tant to students instead “If people can’t step back and of working on paper­ not vote on their own then it work,” Tomazeli said. should be written in the Tomazeli, a native of bylaws,” Arnold said. Brazil, and Deines, Arnold will introduce a reso­ raised in Glendive, were lution that would prevent sena­ chosen by the Senate tors who are officers in a stu­ last week to fill the dent group from voting on seats vacated by Shawn funding allocations for their Fast and Donielle Boyle group. That would mean groups who resigned in January expecting an extra vote from to take positions with senate group members would Student Political Action, be out of luck. the lobbbying arm of Sen Alison Redenius called ASUM. the resolution unnecessary. Deines said the “That’s why people are on Senate needs to focus on the Senate,” Redenius said, legislation that provides “because of interested groups.” action rather than Derek Pruitt Redenius said it was up to the words. JOAO TOMAZELI, international business, and Tye Deines, political science, will Kaimin conscience of senators to deter­ “I would like to see replace two AS.UM senators who resigned last month. mine personal conflict of inter­ the Senate pass legisla­ est. Although the resolution tion that accomplishes because it only called for a experience with ASUM. Two Tomazeli for a student book hasn’t been brought out of com­ something rather than pass letter of opposition. Had the years ago he was a lobbyist bank geared toward provid­ mittee, Redenius said it was judgement on other schools resolution called for a confer­ with Student Legislative ing low income students with sure to come up. who don’t recognize gays,” he ence between the two student Action, a group, that lobbied text books under the condi­ Also on the Wednesday’s said. governments Deines said he local and state government tion they return them at the agenda is a proposal to loan In Deines’ first meeting would have supported it. on behalf of ASUM. end of the semester. textbooks to low-income stu­ two weeks ago the Senate Tomazeli ran for the Deines, a political science “There are a lot of non-tra- dents, by Sen. Joao Tomazeli. If passed a resolution opposing Senate in last year’s general major, said he’d like to see ditional students who have the resolution passes, ASUM a decision by the Northern the Senate generate more elections and lost but said he kids in high school,” would provide a book bank for Idaho College student gov­ public comment, perhaps by felt strongly enough about Tomazeli said, “and Fm low-income students who can’t ernment who refused to rec­ conducting opinion polls to getting involved to apply for afford books. ognize a gay and lesbian see where students stand on the recently vacated seats. telling you that $150 for The meeting begins at 6 p.m. group. Deines said he voted campus issues. Tonight the Senate will someone like that makes a on the third floor of the against the resolution This isn’t the Deines’ first consider a proposal by hell of a difference.” University Center in the Montana Rooms. SUB SHOP HOURS In A Word... We SURFACE at 10:30 a.m. and SUBMERGE at 8 p.m. MONDAY thru THURSDAY FRIDAY & SATURDAY TO 9 p.m. SUNDAY 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. FRESH, Fast, Famous & Fun! Show a current, valid Perfect! student i.d. and recieve a 10% discount. K-MART PLAZA 251-6468 WordPerfect PLEASE JOIN US

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