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For more information, please contact [email protected]. montana In Brief., University of Montana Missoula, Montana Thursday November 16,1989 Mattress fire kaimin at Aber UM security officers responded to an unusual fire call this weekend -- a mattress was burning near the north side of the building. “Evidently somebody was smoking and caught the mattress on fire and threw it out the window,” said SgL Dick Thurman, a UM security officer. The fire didn’t spread, and officers were able to put it out. According to a front desk clerk at Aber Hall, no one has yet reported missing a mattress. Ferret found in dorm bed A Craig Hall resident was surprised by a late- night visitor that MISSOULA RESIDENT Chris Harper is fascinated by his reflection In a metal sculpture behind the UM Music Building. squirmed its way be Harper and his sister were playing on the structure Wednesday while their mother, a UM student, was In band practice. tween his sheets last Photo by Patricia Aboussae week. Now, get your minds out of the gutter. Panel: Group ownership of media harms news quality The visitor was a brownish-grey ferret that By Marlene Mehlhaff said journalists need to dig deep to Kaimin Reporter give readers an informed look at apparently crawled issues and the news, but that they through the resident’s The increase in corporate own also need to remain objective. first-floor window and ership of the media has led to a During the hour and a half panel into his bed. decline in news coverage, accord discussion, Holloron said corpo UM security officers ing to three panelists who spoke in rate chains own 75 percent of the put the ferret in a large the Missoula City Council cham newspapers in the United States. bers Wednesday, but the three have For example, he said, Gannett cardboard box and different solutions to this problem. newspapers, which owns USA turned it over to Mis Dick Manning, former environ Today, owns 87 other daily news soula Animal Control the mental reporter for the Missoulian, papers, which have a Sunday circu next morning. and Don Snow, environmentalist lation of 5.5 million people. and writer, told about 125 people In Montana, all the 11 dailies'are that the media need to tom to advo owned by chains. The Lee Newspa JERRY HOLLORON (far right), Dick Manning (facing toward) cacy in some areas, like environ per chain owns the daily newspa and Don Snow (behind Manning) answer questions about the Inside... mental issues, to bring readers the pers in Billings, Butte, Helena and press* role In covering environmental Issues. The panel dis news they need to know. Missoula. These papers account for cussion was sponsored Wednesday night by the Bitterroot- Jerry Holloron, a UM journal Missoula Sierra Club and the Five Valleys Audubon Society. Photo by Patricia Abowme Tornado hits ism professor, on the other hand. See "Media," pg. 8. Alabama, page 4. ASUM Senate allocates $5,000 for weight equipment By Lisa Meister Program plans to contribute a minimum of since last Spring Quarter. Kaimin Reporter $1,100, Glaes said, adding that he plans to ask From Sept. 21 to Nov. 12, the service an The ASUM Senate gave Campus Recreation the Student Building Fees Committee for the swered calls for more than 100 escorts, accord Constitutional about $5,000 to cover part of the cost of new final $5,000. ing to a packet Schacher gave the senate. Symposium weight equipment for the Harry Adams Field "Basically we have wrecked a couple of ma Last Spring Quarter, the service escorted 68 house annex. chines ... through use," he said. people. schedule, page The money will come from ASUM’s short Campus Rec plans to keep those machines UM students, faculty and staff currently can 5. term investment account, which pays for proj for parts, Glaes explained. call for escorts between 8 and 12 p.m. ects that benefit UM students in some way. In other business, the senate decided to Those hours will be changed next quarter to Campus Recreation Director Keith Glaes told continue the ASUM Escort Service through coincide with the earlier hours of darkness in the senate that the machines currently in the Winter Quarter. winter months, Schacher said. Lady spikers to annex were purchased in 1971 and are nearly The senate voted to give the service about And she said that since the service doesn’tget play BSU, page worn out $2,900 from a carry-over budget to pay salaries a lot of use on Fridays and Saturdays, it will only He said campus rec plans to buy four weight for two escorts a night and Student Coordinator run Sunday through Thursday next quarter. 6. machines that will cost more than $16,000 in Darcy Schacher. She also has been working with Women’s cluding shipping and handling. Escorts make $4 an hour and Schacher gets Place to bring information seminars to the sorori UM Auxiliary Services has committed $290 a month. ties and dormitories about issues such as date $5,000 toward the project, and UM’s Wellness The service has been running on a trial basis rape, she said. Opinion November 16,1989 2 Journalists should remain objective A reservation If you believe some former journalists, the job of the newspa population is too ignorant or stupid to form their own opinions, per is to tell people what is right and what is wrong. newspapers are in trouble. And so are the people who turn to newspapers for factual information to base their opinions on. Dick Manning, the former environmental reporter for the for Aryans Missoulian, seems to think readers are not smart enough to make that decision for themselves. These people won’t be given the chance to form their own At a panel discussion last night on the role of the press in views on important issues because journalists like Manning may without zits? environmental issues. Manning said newspapers should be fight only fairly present one side of the story. But in Manning s As if we don t nave enough problems ing to save the environment because that is the right thing to do. journalistic world, this is right, because his views are correct. with the Indian reservations now in exis Manning said newspapers should take on the environment as a The environment is probably the most important issue being tence, the Aryan Nations want to create political cause and work to make sure that it is not destroyed. covered today. But even though Manning feels strongly about another one. This one is not for Indians, protecting the environment, it is not his function, as a journalist, however. This reservation is to be for He added that bias must be apart of reporting and that journal to form opinions for people. white people. Not garden-variety white ists cannot sit by and idly report as the environment is raped. A journalist is a person who is committed to presenting facts people, mind you, but blond-haired, blue Manning quit his job at the Missoulian after the paper’s about an issue. And these facts should be strong, and the story eyed white people without zits. editorial board accused him of biased reporting and decided to should present all sides of an argument. A story should not tell a The name for this new sanctuary is not reassign him. Manning has maintained that the Missoulian was reader how to think or tell them which side of the issue is right. reservation but homeland. H-o-m-e-l-a-n- going to reassign him because of pressure from the timber If the story is well-written and contains strong facts from all d. When I say that slowly it sends peals of industry. sides, a journalist can be confident that the reader can make an bells ringing in my head, like on the UM We’re thankful that there are not very many journalists who informed decision based on his or her own personal beliefs. campus at noon. Homeland, yeah, I think I think the same way as Manning. At Wednesday’s forum. Manning said he no longer considers had one of those sometime, somewhere. I could swear by it Imagine if every journalist were biased. Imagine if every himself to be a journalist; he’s now an environmentalist. We The Pacific Northwest is the proposed journalist thought his or her opinion was right and opposing admire him for having the courage to take a stand on a very site for this Aryan homeland, away from opinions are wrong. important cause, and at the same time, we are happy that he is not Jews, Blacks, Chicanos, Indians, Republi The only place opinion should appear in a paper is on the trying to do this as a journalist.