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For more information, please contact [email protected]. www.kaimin.org MONTANA KAIMIN Kaimin is a Salish word for paper Friday April 18, 2003 — Issue 93 Fall fees to go up for art, lab courses U.S. forces Friday forum of supplies, department heads open forum in the UC cerned about the quality of say, and those fees are here Theater to discuss tuition the students’ experience, too,” get Saddam’s allows students to to stay. increases, and course fee she said. “If they don’t have discuss fee increase The fee for taking a print increases will also be quality materials, they won’t making class will increase explained and discussed, said be able to do anything cre- half brother Natalie Storey from $50 to $65, painting Bob Duringer, vice president ative.” Montana Kaimin classes will cost $7 more and for Administration and Cathryn Mallory, co-chair- the fees for classes in sculp- Finance. The forum will be woman of the art department, David Espo Sculptors, print makers ture are being increased from from 9 to 10 a.m. said she and others try to AP Special Correspondent and painters will have to pay $31 to $35, as well as many Shirley Howell, dean of the keep fees at a bare minimum. more to attend their classes others. School of Fine Arts, said the “The fee just buys the nec- American forces seized a half at the University of Montana Some courses that did not fees for many art classes have essary material you need to brother of Saddam Hussein in a for the upcoming fall semes- have fees before will have not increased for more than a create,” she said. “And it is commando raid Thursday, eager ter. fees in the fall, such as decade while costs have con- still a lot cheaper than going to interrogate him about secrets Fees for many hands-on advanced geochemistry, which tinued to climb. out and buying all of your of the old Iraqi regime. The FBI classes at UM will increase in will have a fee of $22. “We are always concerned joined the hunt for irreplaceable the fall because of rising costs Friday there will be an about costs, but we are con- See FEES, Page 16 antiquities stolen from the National Museum in Baghdad. In northern Iraq, there were Swinging in the sun grim hints about life, and death, under Saddam. Kurds brought American officials to what they said was a large area of unmarked graves around Kirkuk, a region where thou- sands of Kurdish men disap- peared in the 1980s. With the fighting all but over, Americans struggled through another day of trying to restore security and vital services for civilians. Soldiers thwarted a Baghdad bank robbery over the protests of Iraqis eager to share in the loot, and Marines sought to calm tensions in Mosul after shooting 17 Iraqis to death in clashes over the past two days. “The war is not over,” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned an audience at the Pentagon. But the State Department awarded Bechtel Restoration of San Francisco a contract worth $34 million immediately and as much as $680 million over 18 months to evaluate and repair Iraq’s power, electrical, water and sewage sys- tems. And the USS Constellation steamed from the Persian Gulf for its home port of San Diego, carrying dozens of warplanes that helped bomb Iraqi forces Matt Hayes/Montana Kaimin into submission. It was the sec- Six-year-old David Bingam warms himself in the sun Thursday afternoon while swinging in the ASUM Childcare Center playground. David ond aircraft carrier ordered says his favorite part of the day is playing on the swings in the afternoon. home in recent days. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks announced the capture of Candidates get personal at ASUM forum Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of the former Iraqi Executive hopefuls Schilke/Cole Price and Aaron only three of us are acting like remained full of interested stu- leader who is the five of clubs in Flint/Gale Price traded barbs we’re a part of it.” dents as the forum progressed. the Pentagon’s deck of most- draw crowd and potshots as they debated Business manager candi- Candidates’ responses were wanted Iraqis. Hasan was an for election debate campaign issues ranging from dates Averiel Wolff and Matt occasionally broken up by scat- adviser to Saddam “with exten- the writing proficiency test to Singer also participated in the tered applause. sive knowledge of the regime’s Katie Aschim Grisss Ride. forum. Candidates were given three inner workings,” Brooks said. He Montana Kaimin “Our opponents say they’re ASUM elections will be held minutes to deliver their plat- also was responsible for manag- the voice of experience,” Flint next Wednesday and Thursday. forms, then answered questions ing Saddam’s wealth, according High emotions and subtle said. “What has that experience A teeming noontime UC from the audience. to the Coalition for International digs enlivened the ASUM exec- gotten you? Fee and tuition crowd wandered in and out of While both teams agreed Justice, a nonprofit organization utive candidate forum in the increases across the board.” the forum as the candidates that work with the state based in The Hague, UC Atrium Thursday. Schilke retorted, “Four of us spoke. The assembled chairs Legislature is necessary to keep Netherlands, and Washington. President and vice-president were on ASUM last year, but and the booths in the atrium candidate teams Christy See FORUM, Page 16 See BROTHER, Page 16 Inside News: Sports: Eye Spy: First Indian Law Week brings Native issues The Missoula Jesters rugby team Missoula-made films will hold you hostage to UM next week. crushes most competition, scares the rest. at the first ever “Missoulawood.” Page 10 Page 15 Page 13 2 Montana Kaimin, Friday, April 18, 2003 [email protected] OPINION Editorial Campus Voices Hidden peace protesters Flag burning is offensive, pointless Moments later, I heard a discussion about sending the wrong message Column by what was happening. I joined in saying that Lee Butterfield it was one man and his policies that these There’s never one side to any issue. Just like you can’t two people were preaching against. Why have waffles without syrup, you can’t have a war without burn the symbol that stands for their right peace protestors. to disagree? A young woman said that it is But lately we have been a little overloaded by the I am a 21-year-old veteran. My father is a just a symbol. She said it was a strong sym- syrup. veteran. His dead father is a veteran. My bol for me as a veteran, but not for every- Last Saturday at the peace rally in Caras Park you maternal grandfather is also a veteran. I am body. could peer over the Higgins Avenue Bridge and see below not, however, a person who agrees with Here is the point. The flag is a symbol, you the typical demonstrators. They were standing next every policy that is brought on by the gov- and a strong symbol for those who have to their worn peace signs that have made an appearance ernment of the United States of America. I served under it. What did these two people at every noon-time rally since George W. started talking am also not a person who believes wars are accomplish in our Oval today? Do they think about the thought of Iraq or Saddam Hussein. the only solutions to our world’s problems. that lighting a flag on fire in the middle of But this time there was a protester with a black ban- I am upset today. I need help understand- our campus is the first thing in the minds of danna across his face dressed in a T-shirt reflecting his ing what I witnessed Tuesday. I was leaving the Bush administration? Do they feel they political messages. When asked why he donned the mask class when a friend of mine came in and are causing a huge movement by setting up he said, “I don’t want my face in the paper.” When asked said that a flag was being burned in the a poorly organized and poorly thought-out what his name was, for journalistic reasons, he refused to Oval of our campus. I was flag burning? No! If the Bush give it. administration even hears upset, but I also understand Here is the point. The flag is One word to describe this guy: coward. that there is no law against rumor of such a thing, they a symbol, and a strong Plain and simple. the burning of the American will blow it off. To them it is If these people, like Mr. Bandanna, want their opinion flag.