Montana Kaimin, February 17, 1978 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ■ montana k a im in University of Montana • Student Newspaper Friday, February 17, 1978 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 80, No. 65 V______________________________________________ J Vo-tech funding supported? Yes and no ... If a special session of the state support tor a special session. Legislature were called, a majority Rep. Bob Palmer, D-Missoula, of legislators responding to a said recently that the state’s voca recent poll said they would sup tional schools were under-funded port increased funding for the by $2 million this biennium. But the state's vocational schools. Legislature did not intend to cut However, the same legislators vo-tech funding, according to 40 Indicated that they do not favor representatives and 15 senators calling a special session in the first responding to the poll. place. Although 28 representatives and Donald Todd, a student at the 17 senators said they did not favor Missoula Technical Center, an calling a special session, majori nounced the results of the poll ties of both — 23 representatives WHATEVER PERSONAL OPINION may be, there la something about watching a man tome have described as yesterday at a meeting of vo-tech and 10 senators — said they would the greatest boxer that ever lived go down to defeat at the hands of a young upstart with only seven students and faculty. support a funding increase for professional bouts to his name. Patrons of the Missoula Club, 139 W. Main, seem absorbed as they watch Questionnaires were sent to vocational education if a special Muhammad All surrender his world heavyweight boxing title to Leon Spinks. The televised bout Wednesday legislators by the United Student session were called. night went the full 15 rounds. (Staff photo by Mike Sanderson.) Council for Vocational Education, Because of the funding situa a lobbying group composed of tion, the Missoula Technical Cen students from all five of the state ter has been forced to reduce vo-tech schools. .According to enrollment j>y about 15 percent Faculty Senate redefining Todd, 23 of the 50 state senators from last year. Gene Downey, returned the questionnaires, and director of the center, said yester 46 of the state’s 100 representa day. role relative to bargaining tives responded. About 500 students are now Some of those responding did enrolled at the center. Downey By STEVE STOVALL be affected, he said. The question Since the Faculty Senate is free not reply to every question. said about 1,100 people are on the Montana Katenin Reporter would be whether a faculty of the responsibilities of personnel Todd said the group plans to poll school's waiting list. member's teaching load is a negot problems, it can concentrate on the Legislature again in an attempt Downey predicted the school The wheels are in motion toward iable item for this particular situa to receive a more complete re would have to reduce enrollment defining the Faculty Senate's re tion. • Cont. on p. 4. sponse and a stronger show of by another 8 percent. sponsibilities now that a collective The school will not be able to bargaining unit has been elected, finance its heavy-equipment oper the senate chairman told the ation program next year, and will assembly yesterday. make reductions in its nursing, Wesley Shellen, assistant pro Opinions in coal study educational assistant and electro fessor of interpersonal communi mechanical technology program, cations, who assumed the chair Downey announced at yesterday's manship after the resignation, of may slow western mining meeting. Walter Hill, professor of chemistry, The Missoula Technical Center was appropriated $1,381,219 for said he has met with the University By BERT CALDWELL ment in mining in the western Western coal was in demand Teachers' Union Executive Com the next fiscal year, according to Montana Kalinin Raportar United States." before the scrubber requirement mittee and Irving Dayton, deputy A new requirement that sulphur because it was low enough in Downey's office. That appropria commissioner of higher educa tion will be about $72,000 short of The National Coal Policy Project dioxide scrubbers be installed on sulfur content that the pollutants it tion. meeting the center's costs, he said, has completed a study of coal generating plants is the major produced when burned were In both meetings, Shellen said, it necessitating the program cuts. development in the United States deterrent to more western mining, was established that there was no that could significantly change the Curry said. • Coni, on p. 4. rule which prohibited the senate future of coal mining and energy from discussing any university production in Eastern Montana. Elison finalist matter. However, the senate may not The project was an unusual Personnel Services for chief justice “transmit policy” concerning fa combination of representatives culty wages, benefits and condi from the coal industry and envir Larry Elison, University of tions of employment, he said. onmental groups. It was organized responding to cuts Montana professor of law, has been chosen by the Curriculum matters, moreover, in 1976 to study problems related By STEVE STOVALL For example, the training pro is a "shady, gray issue" between to the nation’s increasing depend Judicial Nominating Com Montana Katenin Reporter gram to help beginning clerical mission yesterday as one of the senate and the UTU, Shellen ence on coal for-its energy. workers upgrade th^ir skills so that said. the three candidates it will Robert Curry, professor of geol Questions on health and life they can move into a secretarial For example, if the senate de recommend to Gov. Thomas ogy at the University of Montana, insurance benefits for University position will not be offered. Judge to succeed Paul Hat cides to redefine student require was a member of the project. of Montana staff employees will no However, she added, workshops field as chief justice of the ments, which would mean restruc Curry said the project's report longer be handled by UMyPerson- financed by outside organizations Montana Supreme Court. turing credit hours, the number of should result in “a rather signifi nel Services, as a result of staff and offered through the depart Elison, who Is also counsel faculty employment hours could cant decrease in the rate of invest- reductions In this department. ment will be continued. to the governor, said yester The department will no longer Janice Decker, director of Per day that the chief justice sonnel Services, said that with the offer recruiting services to depart ments that generate their own position is one of the most Kaimin business manager picked firing of the benefits officer, em “important and challenging" ployees who want counseling on revenue, such as the Food Service Publications Board has dates for editor, although the and Housing, Decker said. jobs in the judicial system. chosen a junior in art and the university's Insurance plan's He declined, however, to board has not yet announced fringe benefits will be referred Personnel Services also has education as business man its pick. been restricted in hiring extra comment on what he ager of the Montana Kaimin directly to the insurance carrier. thought his chances of being The candidates, Paul Dris Personnel Services used to act clerical workers during the beginning next quarter. coll, senior in journalism; summer. These workers, Decker appointed to the position as an intermediary between em are, or what his policies The board's choice, Kat Randall E. Mills, senior In said, absorb much of the added ployees and the Insurance com would be should he be ap hleen Ryan, was the only journalism; Barbara Tucker, pany, but, with the cut, the depart work that occurs In the summer, when the processing of job evalua pointed. applicant for the job. a former journalism student, ment had to curtail giving tions is done. The other two candidates and Leslie Womack, senior In employees Individual attention on Pub Board, an ASUM body journalism, were Interviewed selected by the nominating insurance matters, Decker said. Decker said that the staff cuts that oversees the Kaimin, Wednesday and last night by also came at an Inappropriate time commission are Acting Chief also has interviewed candi the board. Also, some of the workshops because her department Is due to Justice John Harrison and offered by Personnel Services will Justice Frank Haswell. be discontinued, Decker said. • Coni, on p. 4. opinion------------------------- ----------------- The woes of the gang at home The university’s top officer is spend Legislature's line of reasoning: UM has getting restive. While Bowers tries to Unlike with the faculty members who ing his time out on the road these days, been hiring too much personnel, at the paint a rosy picture of UM to outsiders, were cut, the administration refused to telling the world of this school's many cost of everything else. the gang back home is becoming more release a list of names of the people merits and encouraging public confi A university, by nature, must be a vocal with its complaints.

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