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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 2-17-2000 Montana Kaimin, February 17, 2000 Associated Students of the University of Montana Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of the University of Montana, "Montana Kaimin, February 17, 2000" (2000). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 9300. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/9300 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. rFebruary e u r u u i) 17,2000 Thursday Opinion News Sports News Page 4 Page 7 Page 5 Page 2 Bloodsucking mites The Holster's new ink New downtown club brings music to One Christian's opinion: let freedom and the rest of the basket­ the masses ring ball team's tats Today’s Weather M a y y i i § f i I ....... Sunny High 37' low 16' For up-to-the-minute weather, go to www.kaimin.oig KAIMINKaimin is a Salish word for paper h t t p : / / www.kaimin.org Our 102nd year, Issue 64 UM considers gay partner health plan for employees Charles agreed. Jim Wilkson ate students. f you have a partner of the “There may be some political The Inter Unit Benefits Montana Kaimin fallout from this, but the best Committee, which reviews health same sex and you have all the I decision can be made by avoiding UM’s gay employees may soon be insurance concerns for the Montana same burdens and benefits of that kind of rhetoric and looking able to get health insurance for their University System, has approved being married, there is no reason at how important health care is long-term partners if a UM-based the proposal, saying in part that “it why you shouldn’t be able to avail gay rights group’s proposal is for everybody,” Charles said. “I is unlikely that there would be any yourself of the same health care think if the commissioner follows approved. It would mark the first adverse fiscal impact to the group the advice of his advisory board time Montana has formally recog­ insurance plan if the decision were benefits as if you’re married.” and the best interests of higher nized same-sex partnerships. made to allow coverage of same-sex —Casey Charles, associate English education, he will see this is “If you have a partner of the same domestic partners.” professor and Outfield Alliance director something that’s time has come sex and you have all the same bur­ No such recommendations have and is ... fair and equitable.” dens and benefits of being married, been made at the state level, how­ I’ll recommend it or not).” Casey said that he hopes the pro­ there is no reason why you shouldn’t ever, where approval is necessary to Crofts added that he is concerned posal will attract new teachers at be able to avail yourself of the same put the proposal into motion. about the proposal’s reception among UM. health care benefits as if you’re mar­ “The recommendation is under the general public. “Montana has very low salaries ried,” said Casey Charles, associate review,” said Dick Crofts, higher “I think there will be a lot of and not very many health benefits, English professor and director of the education commissioner, “but I Montanans who would be opposed to Outfield Alliance, a coalition of gay haven’t even thought about (whether this,” Crofts said. see INSURANCE, page 8 and lesbian faculty, staff and gradu Adventurous students to rough it for credit Josh Mahan to get to know a place that is so Montana Kaimin close to home,” said Marion Hourdequin, an instructor for the course. Students who want to mix acade­ The fee for the course is $530 mics with hands-on learning in the plus an additional $90 filing fee. back country this spring break have Included in the cost of the class is a golden opportunity. round-trip transportation, reading The Wild Rockies Field Institute materials and camping and cooking is offering a 7-day course, worth two equipment. Dinners are provided, biology credits, titled “Winter but campers have to supply their Ecology of the Northern Rockies.” own breakfasts, lunches, sleeping Participants will be traveling with bags, backpacks and warm clothing. the aid of snowshoes and will focus There is a list of preferred clothing on how plants and animals adapt to at the Field Institute. Camping gear winter, avalanche safety tips and can be rented inexpensivly from the winter camping skills in the snowy Campus Recreation program. Sapphire Mountains. “The assignments were ideal, Students will learn to dig pits to practical, interesting and challeng­ test for avalanche potential, carve ing,” said Tommy Gerber, a UM stu­ snow caves for emergency survival dent who participated last year. “I and safely ascend one of the highest reached a connection with both the Photo Courtesy Wild Rockies Field Institute peaks in the range. UM students plot a route through the Sapphire Mountains while participating in the instructors and my course mates Wild Rockies Field Institute’s spring break course “Winter Ecology of the Northern “We have students come from all that enhanced the educational expe- over the country to take this course, Rockies. ” but for Montana students it’s great see CLASS, page 8 Exam exposes math illiteracy Teens nabbed in Melanthia Mitchell satisfaction of knowing they are not math for the Kaimin illiterate and that they meet UM general education requirements. UM liquor heist UM students haven’t exactly been break­ To take the test, Hirstein said students ing down doors to qualify for the math litera­ the Adams Center before must meet one of two criteria: score a 28 on Rhino says cy exam offered for the first time this semes­ the ACT mathematics exam or score at least last Wednesday’s Lady Griz ter. Just six students wanted to take the 630 qn the SAT mathematics exam. Campus Security game. Gatewood said the test, but none satisfied the qualifications set youths jumped a fence into The majority of students do not even qual­ will deal with theft by the Faculty Senate, said James Hirstein ify for the test. the Sky Club area, which is chair of mathematical sciences. In 1998, 838 students submitted scores for of 22 a group of sky boxes Approval of the math literacy exam came either the ACT or SAT exam. H irstein said bottles of alcohol reserved for people who in December 1998 after the Academic 400 of those students entering UM had a donate $5,000 annually to Standards and Curriculum Review commit­ median score of 510 out of 800 on the SAT Nate Schweber UM athletics. The youths tee submitted a proposal to the Faculty math exam. The 540 students who submitted Montana Kaimin pried open cabinets contain­ Senate. scores for the ACT math exam had a median ing booze and made off with Offered to students during registration, score of 20 out of 36. Five Missoula high school the liquor. Hirstein said the exam will provide students The UM math department set the stan­ students were busted for They were apprehended the stage to prove their math literacy meets dard for the qualifications in conjunction stealing 22 bottles of liquor later that evening because UM standards, in some cases allowing stu­ with the math placement test scores, and A case of beer from the of a Crimestoppers tip. dents to bypass math classes. Hirstein said. When comparing ACT and Harry Adams Events Center Kevin Head, owner of the “Taking this exam is a way for students to SAT exams, Hirstein said his department Sky Club last week. Rhino bar in Missoula, certify that they already know the material,” found students’ math scores were conducive UM Police Lt. Charles which caters the Sky Club, Hirstein said. to their placement scores. Gatewood said the juveniles Students passing the exam will have the see BOOZE, page 4 see MATH, page 4 were playing basketball in 2 Montana Kaimin, Thursday, January 27, 2000 Opinion www.kaimin.org/oped.html_________________ Health Coverage Kevin and the UM semi, part two Colum n by Spears, John Grisham, Yahoo!, SportsCenter, Christians should Paul Thomas Anderson and eBay. Trucks can be cool, but to out-of-state kids? Especially to abandon anti-gay those interested in literature, writing or envi­ ronmental studies, all major draws at UM? rhetoric Please. Montana’s Commissioner of Higher Education, Dick When the money dried up at the start of the Crofts, is considering something right now that could year and we had to divvy up the pie sixty dif­ change lives. It turns out that-it would hai'dly cost any­ ferent ways from Sunday, the one budget the thing for the state to expand health coverage to universi­ school was adamant about not cutting was ty system employees’homosexual partners and their chil­ recruiting. Good choice. Now it’s time to quit dren talking like a duck and start walking like a “You know what, The Associated Press reported this week, however, that Kevin duck. Van Valkenburg,” Crofts has one major concern about approving the expan­ The truck’s purpose was to draw people to VanValkenburg my friend said to me sion: political fallout in the Legislature, which allots UM’s website, a traveling billboard, so to the other day, money to higher education every session.

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