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For more information, please contact [email protected]. c( 0 ( 0 Friday c October 19, 1984 o Missoula, Montana 5 Kaimin Vol. 87, No. 16 University parking problem not limited to Montana By Brian Justice ing complex has been added “a little bit at a time.” Kaimin Reporter to help eliminate some of the Since September I982, Wil The University of Montana is university's parking problems, lett said, room for about I20 not alone in its problems in Jones said, but added "it has spaces has been obtained trying to supply adequate done nothing but help us from areas around the UM parking space for students. catch up.” campus, That gives UM a In a Kaim in survey done According to Ken Willett, total of 2,670 parking spaces. yesterday, information obtain UM safety and security man He added that there are plans ed from Purdue University;, ager, the parking situation for a 200 car lot to be built Stanford University; the Uni here is a complicated matter near Aber Hall when the new versity of Southern California, to solve, because of the area football stadium is built next as well as several Montana surrounding the UM campus. year behind Adams Field- schools, indicated they also Willett pointed out that the house. have parking problems similar UM campus is bordered by Willett said a Missoula city to UM's. the Clark Fork River on the ordinance requires that at "W e have plenty of em ," north side, Mt. Sentinel on least one parking space must said Don Jones, parking facil the east and residential areas be allocated for every three ity manager of the Purdue to the south and west. registered vehicles. University Police Deptartment “We’re locked into our "We have more (parking in Lafayette, Ind. area," Willett said, adding that spaces) than the ordinance “We have adequate park attempts to expand the requires,” Willett said. ing," he said, but added that amount of parking space are Although UM meets that re some of the parking places difficult. quirement, many students are are not conveniently located Th e long-term solution to not satisfied with the current to the cam pus. Because of the problem, Willett said, may parking situation. FINGER-PICKIN' GOOD. Chris Proctor, 1982 national Purdue's enrollment (more be to either build a high-rise Glenn Gibson, a senior in finger-pickin' champion, entertained a packed house than 30,000), Jones said that or an underground parking business administration, said at the UC Lounge last night. at times students have prob lot. the metered parking lot by lems finding parking places Willett said neither solution the University Center was close to the buildings where Js planned and added that blocked off one day when he they have classes. either would be “extremely came to school and so he Exit exam re-enters "To a person who can’t find costly.” parked by a curb hear the By Judi Thompson son why the test has never a parking space, it's a major The short-term solution, he Men’s Gymnasium. Kaimin Reporter been administered is many issue,” he said. said, is to get space from The area was not posted for University of Montana stu faculty members did not con A one thousand-space park wherever it can be obtained, See ‘Parking,’ page 15. dents will soon have to pass sider an exit exam fair, in a writing test before they can light of the fact that there was graduate if the UM Faculty no writing entrance exam. Senate approves a committee Little attention was given to ASUM doesn’t want money recycled plan to institute the exam. the exam, Koostra said, until At its first meeting of the last year. Then, he said, two By Robert Marshall cycling on the campus and in the comm u year yesterday, the Faculty committees discovered and Kaimin Reporter nity." As a “precautionary” measure, ASUM has Senate approved a motion questioned its not being used. After a group has its petition granted, it frozen $225 allocated Spring Quarter to the advising their Academic English Professor Robert must follow ASUM and Montana state ASUM Recycling Committee. Standards and Curriculum Hausmann, chairman of one guidelines and file an "Adjusted Budget Re Jeremy Sauter, ASUM vice president, .said Review Committee to develop of the committees, explained quest” form, according to Brenda Perry, ASUM is curious about who will spend the a plan for the test. that the first time the test ASUM accountant. She said a group files recycling money this year, since some of Although the exam has could have been given would the request form during Winter Quarter for last year's committee members have left been detailed in the UM cata have been January 1984, the following year's budget. school and the committee has not filed a log since 1978, because of fi since the students it affected The form, which tells what groups plan to petition with ASUM this year. nancial barriers it has never were then entering their junior do with the money they receive, is ruled on A group must file a petition with the stu been given. year. Under the system stu by the Budget and Finance Committee. dent governing body each year if it wishes Walter Koostra, a microbiol dents must have completed Last year’s committee, according to Saut ogy professor, said that the 110 credits before they can to be officially recognized and receive er, asked for $480 and was granted $225. lowest cost estimate for ad take the test. money from ASUM. He said the money was intended to be ministering the test was be Hausmann said, however, “When a group files a petition with us, used to build recycling receptacles. After tween $35,000 -$40,000. the Executive Committee of they must list on the form their constitution, that, money gained from the recycled mate Koostra said that in 1978, the Faculty Senate decided membership, officers, purpose and descrip rial would be used to run the committee. half the money would have not to allocate funding for the tion of what they wish to do,” Sauter said. Perry said that if the group doesn’t file a been used to pay the addi exam. After the petition is filed, he said, it then petition with ASUM , the money will revert The committee estimated tional faculty members goes on to the Student Union Board where back to the general fund after one fiscal the cost of giving the exam at needed to administer the test it is either granted or denied. If a group is year. A S U M ’s fiscal year runs from July 1 $1300. About the only actual and the other half would have late with a petition, said Sauter, it will not to June 30. cost would have been the been applied to the costs of necessarily be turned away. Last year’s Recycling Committee faculty the test itself. money paid to the graders, adviser, Ron Erickson, director of the UM Foreign Language and Liter Hausmann said. He said that Last year's Recycling Committee petition Environmental Studies Division, is currently ature Professor Maureen C ur- he did not understand why filed with ASUM stated the purpose of the on sabbatical at the University of Washing now added that another rea- See ‘Exams,’ page 15 committee was "to educate and promote re- ton and could not be reached for comment. O p inion The non-partisans have it N f c U R V C f f t i&m i ftUOKNeER There has been a recent barrage of criticism at the University of Montana aimed at MontPIRG. The gripes have ranged from how the organization is funded to how it doesn't represent various sectors of the UM community. These complaints can be considered valid or petty, depending on how one views them. But the criticisms haven't actually gotten to the root of the problem. In fact, the real problem with the PIRG is in its roots. What’s really wrong with MontPIRG is its hypocrisy. Editorial At MontPIRG's informational meeting Tuesday night, it was announced that, along with further efforts to cripple the utilities in Montana, one of the group's main objectives during the upcoming Legislature, the PIRG will be pushing a “truth in labeling" bill regard ing politcal action committees. The PIRGers say that it’s unfair and deceiving for The Top Rail-----------------------------by Stephen Smith Montana Power to name its PAC Citizens for Re sponsible Government. Now that's interesting. Ask a PIRGer what MontPIRG is, and he will quickly recite, "W hy, its a non-profit, Leotard retards non-partisan research organization established by d i I smile, smirk really, to myself whenever I tine? versity students." see someone wearing a running or exercise So I wonder about those who must find Citizens for Responsible Government is no more suit.