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Colstrip ads to be stopped by MPC a . _ > i a ___r __ nnri Tk« hau anThe aHnarfieinn halt on advertisingu/ac ro- chedwas tore influenceched to public influence opinion public opinion on Montana Power Company agreed posing or supporting the Colstrip Fish and Game Environmental and quested until after the draft en the necessity and benefits of the Monday to curtail its advertising of project will do likewise." Information administrator. vironmental impact statement has Colstrip three and four proposal. the proposed Colstrip coal In a statement issued Tuesday by In a letter Sept. 19, Wes Woodgerd, been completed by the Department Such advertising, said Wicks, could gasification plants and two 500- the Northern Plains Resource Coun Fish and Game director, told Wicks of Natural Resources. Wicks said the "unduly bias public opinion, kilovolt lines running from the cil (NPRC), an agriculturally based, that his department would public would be more objectively in obscure the real issues, and plants. The agreement came in res citizens organization opposed to immediately stop “public in formed by the statement than by interfere with the objectiveness of ponse to a request by Gary Wicks, massive coal development, formation directed at Colstrip plants advertising. the decision making process." director of the Department of three and four and associate chairman Robert Tully called the Natural Resources dated September If the agreement is not made, said facilities." This information con agreement “incredible." Wicks said, “Although we ap 18. sisted of public service spots on Wicks, the advertising and public NPRC will not give up its “rights of parently have no legal authority to ■ radio and television and in "Montana meetings will continue. Wicks said Montana Power will halt assembly, freedom of speech and prohibit these campaigns both the Outdoors,” said James Posewitz, its campaign if all organizations "op freedom of the press,” he said. “ Only The request was prompted by a board and the department believe an if the utilities withdraw their ap $100,000 advertising campaign expedient compliance with our re plication for units three and four will which Montana Power, with Pacific quest would be in the best interest of UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA ■ ■ STUDENT NEWSPAPER we stop saying what we think." Northwest utilities, recently laun Montana citizens.” Schools’ fates to be settled montana The fate of Montana College of Senate noted the following as • The recognition that the Mineral Science and Technology in particularly appropriate in the university system does not provide Butte and Western Montana College report: high school seniors and counsellors in Dillon will be decided Oct. 22 to with adequate information about the • The statement of goals which 24 in the final meetings of the Mon university. calls for providing diversity of tana Commission on Post-Secon educational opportunity and • The call for increases in faculty dary Education. KAIMIN recognizes the need for careful salaries. In two days of hearings last week in deployment of educational Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1974 • Missoula, Mont. • Vol. 77, No. 12 • The minority report submitted by Helena the commission heard resources. Marjorie King which calls for con recommendations on its draft report tinuous planning by the Board of and on the closing of Tech and • The call for reduction in the bureaucracy of • admissions, of Regents and the Board of Public Western. Students plan opposition transfer between units and in exten Education seems more appropriate UM president Richard Bowers, sion and continuing education. than the formation, every eight to World Affairs Seminar Henry Bugbee, professor of yqars, of a new Blue Ribbon Com • The call for continuing review of Two University of Montana students dealing with defense, politics, the philosophy; Howard Reinhardt, mission. programs, of faculty, and of ad have organized the Missoula environment and the economy. chairman of the Faculty Senate, and ministrators. Fixed terms of ap Counter-Seminar Committee Thomas Margrave, president of the Movies to be shown by the MCSC in pointments for all administrators. Reinhardt said there are at least two Faculty Union, all of the University (MCSC) to oppose the World Affairs the UC lounge October 7-18 will be hazards associated with the adop of Montana attended the hearings. Seminar opening in Missoula next The Selling of the Pentagon, Who • The concern for the education of tion of the draft report. One is that Monday at the Wilma Theater. Invited Us? and Cam pent o. Reinhardt, speaking for the Faculty Native Americans. the report if neglected could “let us John Waite, senior in Asian studies, drift into the future locked into the and Marion Dakin, graduate student historical patterns which fail to ad in philosophy, have scheduled three dress the real needs of our times,” speakers and three movies for the he said. next two weeks, beginning Monday. Pornography law passage forseen a referendum vote after the City MCSC was organized primarily to Over 300 University of Montana soula City Council to pass the The other hazard, said Reinhardt, is Council passes the ordinance. offer socialist solutions and students have signed a petition ordinance when it comes up for a the creation of an educational Thomson .said that he believes Mis alternatives to current world drafted by the American Civil vote Monday. Thompson and the bureaucracy. problems in opposition to the Liberties Union (ACLU) in op ACLU are petitioning to put the soula's voters would vote to uphold pornography issue on a public the City Council’s ordinance should solutions proposed in the World Af position to a proposed anti- Margrave, representing’ the Faculty referendum vote at the next city the issue come to a referendum fairs Seminar Waite said. pornography ordinance, Central Union, recommended that tenure election this Spring. vote. Board member and petition remain open to internal, not ex The World Affairs Seminar (WAS) is coordinator Tim Thompson said The signatures of 1,500 registered Ed Sharp, a Missoula.theater owner ternal, review. He also said the a Pentagon sponsored meeting that yesterday. features mostly military leaders as Missoula voters are needed to put who has been working with th e ' Union was concerned over the com speakers. Topics of daily WAS the referendum on the ballot. Both ACLU in circulating the petition, mission’s idea of “ cost effec meetings will include problems Thompson said he expects the Mis- community and student response said he believes that, even though tiveness” in education. supporting the petition have been the City Council will probably pass the ordinance, the ACLU will get the very high, sources working with the Last week's hearings completed the 1,500 signatures needed to put the ACLU say. fourth phase of the commission's referendum on the ballot, and that study of post-secondary education Resignation did not affect Missoula’s voters will vote against The chairman of the City Council’s in this state. The final phase of the any more pornography restrictions. ad hoc committee that proposed the study will be the adoption of a final Congress’ power to impeach ordinance, Fred Thomson, said Missoula's voters “don't want people report to be submitted to the yesterday that while he “would telling them what to do and what to Governor, the Legislature and the Congress “probably” had the power Willoughby, The Constitutional Law personally like to see the ordinance read,” Emily Johnson, Ed Sharp’s State Board of Education in to impeach and try Richard Nixon of the United States). go through,” he has no objection to secretary, said. December. even though he resigned the office of President, according to a Cromwell emphasized that the last memorandum prepared by clause of Article I, Section 3, University of Montana law professor “provides not only for removal from Gardner Cromwell for Sen. Mike office as a judgment in a case of Mansfield. impeachment, but permits ’dis qualification to hold and enjoy any Mansfield, D-Mont., had asked office of honor, Trust or Profit under Robert Sullivan, dean of the UM law the United States.’ ” school, to have a member of the law He quotes Raoul Berger, A faculty research two questions: 1) Constitutional Myth, as saying that whether Congress has the power to “if the derelictious warrant, impeach and try a President after he impeachment can follow has resigned, and 2) whether the (resignation) and result in dis Senate has the power to continue qualification to hold office.” the trial of an impeachment begun in one session of Congress into the In answer to the question of whether next session. a trial begun in one session of Congress can continue into the Cromwell's memorandum was next, Cromwell said “ probably not.” inserted into the Congressional Record by Mansfield on Sept 17 and He based his assumption on several Sept. 23 with an accompanying sources which said a Senate trial letter from Sullivan. was considered a legislative function rather than a judicial Cromwell said Nixon “probably” function.