Egents Get Raise, Enrollment Gets

1"4«k msu Career Fair 92' JDYStery solved page2 easts for pear arlng lovers page 10 musical sport page 13 t night page 13 . TN R H.. -OPO NENT Strand Union Ballrooms were full of activity Thursday as MSU students met with potential employers. Over 100 corporations sent recruiters to talk to students who were interested in post-graduation employment. egents get raise, enrollment gets cut gents vote for pay raise Downsizing is here have supported raises al this time." Regent KenniL Schwancke of Missoula defended the raises, saying thal Montana's universities tagged behind by Chris Junghans red Freedman cenain peer institutions, such as the University of Norlh Exponent staff writer ~nt news writer Dakota, in their pay of dean-level and above employees. He also noted that those employees have the highest turnover rate within the Montana University System (MUS). Raising admission standards would be the fairest way of administer oard ofRegents recently gave itself and high-level He emphasized that deans are pan of that system, as well. ing a Board of Regents' plan to cul 10.49 percent of Montana State's y employees a 3 1(2 percent raise. The Regents This was not the first Lime that Farmer had differences enrollment over the next four years. elena on July 30-31 and gave themselves and all with the Board of Regents. That's what MSU President Mike Malone told the Exponent about s Dean-level and above a pay increase. The raise ''The Board of Regents has no checks and balances the tentative plan 10 cut enrollment at Montana colleges by nearly 4,000 verage increase of 3 1(2 percent, with 1(2 percent whatsoever. They answer Lo no one in no situation," students. The cuts would mean a loss of almost 1,000 full-time students ward guaranteed equity and lhe other 3 percent Farmer said, "The only way to remove a regent is if the at MSU, leaving enrollment at 8,500. Dt_ward~ the subjective category known as "merit". Regents themselves vote to do so. The governor, the The Board adopted the plan Sept. IS, Malone said, in an effort to IS year of budgetary dilemma, with services and LegislaLUre, the people ... no one can remove a regent but comply with one of the recommendations of a recent study by the being cut, lhe idea of a raise for any employees themselves." governor's commission on higher education. The study points out that ~many students at the meeting. Jodie Farmer, Farmer also noted that since the Regents answer to no Montana's university system is behind its peer institutions when it r•lof ASMSU and member of Montana Associated one, when lhe Legislature cul $4.7 million from the Uni comes to spending per student. :s (MAS), an organization comprised of the 11 versity System's budget, which included $840,000 from Malone said MSU spent SS,098 per student in 199 l, compared with -body presidents of the universities, colleges and MSU, during the special session in July, it could only S6,479 spent at other colleges of the same size in the Northwest. schools in Montana, was one of those sLUdents. recommend to lhe Regents what should be cut. The "We can get that figure in line in two ways," Malone said. "The 1993 ) formally opposed the raises, which did not include Regents could disregard this advice if they chose, and the Montana Legislature can spend more, or each pan of the university led or classified employees. Although the opposi State Legislature would be unable to do anything about it. system has to be down-sized." is strongly voiced, "obviously the Regents did not Farmer praised President Mike Matone and the MSU Since the commission's study was released, however, Montana's Farmer said. administration for their tough budgeting decisions, ''They university system has been denied much of the budget increase prom 1SU itself had no official position at the time be made a very good-faith effort LO stay away from cutting ised to it during the 1991 session of the Montana Legislature. The state's student consensus could not be obtained. Farmer student services and instruction." budget shortfalls appear to threaten or at least make more difficult the •''.My impression is that with all the tuition increases The Regents themselves noted during the meeting of vtces that have been decreased ASMSU would not See more on "Downsizing," page 8 See more on "Regents," page 6 2 • Friday, September 18, 1992 • ASMSU Exp Telling the truth--Jesus style Bush's new congre Quayle encourages party line vo WASH! GTON (AP) - Remember the pnmaf) elecuons today and the -...ov gridlock Congress? Forget iL lions. President Bush now says 11 1s certain 10 be But changing faces doc~n·1 mean c supptanLCd by a new-look Congress he could parties. Republicans no'' hold only 1 work with in a second term, even if the Demo ·BS House seats. The Democrats' Sen· crats remain in solid control. as they almost gin is 57 to 43. certainly wilt. Bush nO\\ 1s empha:·izmg the W:l)S Besides, Bush said, 1f he can '1 get his agenda work with, or around, another Democra through the House and Senate he'll go around gress if he must. He sait.I he '' ould get t them to get things done. "ith the ne\\ membcL :ind tell them: "With a new Congress. I think we'll have "Look. vou and I ha\e been hstcnin something entire!} d1rfercnt than the gridlocked same ·ong: the 'an1c Am..:nean peopl Congress that I've been facing," Bu-;h said. \\ant the kind ot changes I've outlined. explaining how he'd push his repackaged eco let's get together. la) :is1de partisansh nomic program, Agenda for Amencan Renewal. let's in the first IOOdaysenactth1 · ne'' :i the new centerpiece of his re-elecuon campaign. That .ounds a lot hke his 1989 sum But Congress has bren blocking Bush eco congressional Democrat.!· to a nC\\ erJ o nomic proposals for mo t of the past four }Car.>. usansh1p. ·'The Amenl-an people a\\ ait a That raises the q uesuon of how he'd get new ones he said in his inaugurJI address. "The} passed in the next four, given the prospect that send us here to bicker. Thq a.sk us to ris his re-elecuon would extend di;·1dcd govern the merely parusan."' ment. He recalled that iruugural .1ddrcss at With one party in control at the White House publican auonal Comenuon· '"l e\ll'n and the other in charge of Congress, impasse has hand to the Democrauc leaders and L become a habit. That means compromise or, iL" often, the inaction of political gridlock. The difference, he s;iy,, 1s that next U "I think we must end the divided govern U) to work \\ith congr~ ·sional ne\\CO ment," Vice PresidentDanQuaylcsaidearlierin stead or le:iders. Ofcourse he won't be'' the campaign season. suggesung in a tc!evis1on "1the1therunless he's re-clectcd,an<l 1f h internew that people who intend to vote for message from th<' \Oters might help hi Democrat Bill Clinton should vote for Demo his point. cratic congressional candidates too. Quayle :ays new!) elected freshmen "It's a controversial viewpoint,'' Quayle said closer to the people than members of C in the July 22 CNN interview with Larry King, with 20 or 30 years in office, "more \\I "and it's not shared by alt the people in my give a president the benefit of the doubt party .. Still, new Democrauc senators and re He could say that again. He didn't. tauve aren't gomg to come from a di Quayle now says that he can't predict the political planet - most of them are com1 election of a Repubhcan Congress, much as he of stale legislatures, local and state oflic hopes for GOP gains, and that solidly Demo tradiuonal backgrounds of candidates fo cratic government would make things worse gress. than they are under today's divided govemmenL "I will fight for this agenda with He said Sunday on ABC-TV that there may be Congress and its I SO expected ne'' mem 180 new members of Congress next year and Bu h said in a campaign radio addre ·on they'd be far more cooperative w1Lh Bush than day.'' lfCongre_· ·balks, I will work'' ith Bl~EHT the people they replace. nors, ma}'Ors, teachers and community I Jim Berry spends a lonely afternoon 1n front of the SUB. Berry passes time each week talking lo incty-Lwochangesare guaranteed; eight Sen to keep my agenda moving forward." students and praying for the campus while holding his sign. ate ;.nd 84 House seats were left open by reure Fir.;i, of course, he ha to convince the ments, deaths and defeats, with more to come in he deserves four more years to try it. Mystery building - Foundation Alumni Cent anniYcrsary reunion during commencemenL This fall G helping to coordmalc the reunion of an athleuc tcJm that by Ed Hodukavich here fifty years ago, and the 75th annivcrsal') reunio Exponent staff writer fratemlly. The Foundation also provides alumni with a am1osphel'\' to' 1·it when they return to \tontanJ State "People tend to hJ\'ea connccuon ''1th a smaller organ than the universit} as a whole.'" Groseth said. Pan ol hc1 A marriage of convenience has resulted in the new building to figure out 1-.hat smaller componcnLs of the uni,crsll) :i being constructed at the comer of Eleventh and Lincoln, across mg alum \\Ould feel most loyal 10 in helpmg plan a rcun from the fieldhouse.

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