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Montanaj F The University of Montana KaimmT P MT q q O ur 97th year, Issue 73 Kaimin is a Salish word for messages Tuesday, February 14,1995 Council member snubs housing law Mark Matthews of the Kaimin Busted? Missoula City Council mem When City Attorney Jim ber Elaine Shea and her hus Nugent reads the accompa band Bill have the neighbors nying stoiy about four they prefer, but they became unrelated students living outlaw landlords to get them. together in violation of a Last fall, the Sheas rented city ordinance, here are out a property they manage to some of the things he could four unrelated students in vio legally do. lation of a Missoula zoning ordi First, he’d send a letter nance that prohibits more than to the renters that explains two unrelated people from liv the family definition ordi ing together. nance. The ordinance The Sheas, who have never restricts more than two supported the “family defini unrelated people from liv tion” ordinance, said the rental ing together in Missoula. gave them a chance to act on Second, he’d hope they their convictions. voluntarily comply with the And they’re finding support ordinance by reducing their from state legislators. number to two. Steve Lympus/ for the Kaimin Missoula Rep. Mike Radas’ If they don’t comply, he UNIVERSITY YOUNG LIFE volunteers David Bass, left, Joe Larson, center, and Isaac House Bill 371, scheduled to be could investigate to deter Hasselblad, go as low as they can go doing the Limbo at a surprise Valentine’s Day party for voted on in committee Tuesday, mine that there is indeed a Missoula middle school teenagers Friday night. would make the Sheas’ action violation “beyond reason legal by prohibiting cities and able doubt.” towns from passing zoning laws But, Shea’s renters are Youth find Valentine's romance based on relationships. probably safe. Nugent said “We’ve always been very Tuesday he rarely launches Jeff Jones packed into their parent’s mini-vans and sta adamantly opposed to the such investigations. of the Kaimin tion wagons on their way to the bi-weekly restrictive zoning passed by the “The process hasn’t gone meeting, held this night a t the Missionary City Council,” Bill Shea said. any further in 15 years,” he After last year’s embarrassing entrance at Alliance Church off Hillview Way in south “But I rented to the students said. a Valentine’s Day surprise party, UM sopho west Missoula. because they best embodied the And it’s even more more Elizabeth Hawkins was dressed to the The young ladies giggled and chitchatted, kind of people who I wanted to unlikely it would this year 10s for her first anniversary celebration approaching the church’s heavy, wooden have next door.” since the city council is in Friday night. This time, she was ready. doors. Although he does not own the process of trying to Hawkins shoved the mirrored memory of “It was so cute seeing them walking down the rental house which is next loosen up the ordinance, he blue jeans and a non-descript sweatshirt the dimly lighted pathway, each with two door to their home at 1025 Briar said. into her bottom drawer. Everyone else had escorts,” Hawkins said. The escorts, male S ee “H o using” p ag e 8 been decked out. But this year’s Valentine’s teenage members of the Young Life “club,” surprise party would not be on her. relished their roles catering to their friends, Forty or more of Missoula’s seventh and said the Turner Hall resident. Chilly fingers and toes eighth-grade teenage girls received invita Jill Welker, Young Life middle school coor tions to enjoy “Elegant Food and Spectacular dinator, Hawkins, and other volunteer lead Entertainment” at a social gathering of the ers, put together perhaps the most romantic don’t stop UM classes Young Life club, whose goal is to “reach kids evening the teenagers had ever experienced. Tom Lutey The health minded also for Christ through personal relationships Kristi Monaco, an eighth grader at of the Kaimin took the plunge, cycling or with them.” Meadow Hill Middle School, said: “I was so walking for “Try a Better Way As usual, the middle school youngsters See “Valentine’s” page 5 Responding to an outbreak Day,” Missoula’s designated of cold fingers, nipped noses day for alternative travel. and grumblings that classes “I’m from Chicago, I figured should be canceled, UM I could do this,” Karen President George Dennison Jaworsky, Missoula’s bicycle- Greeks mandate sober monitors Monday urged students to pedestrian coordinator, said, Tara Tuchscherer the Jan. 28 incident. Another “dress warmly.” bouncers and if there is only owning up to freezing her butt of the Kaimin woman came forward a week one area where alcohol is “We will remain open and off on her way to work. “I put later to report an October served. If there are violations operational during this period, my bike inside and got a ride The Greek monitoring com attack. with classes and other func of party rules, SEMCo moni home.” mittee that Michael Johns In the wake of those tions as scheduled,” Dennison tors notify the hosts of the Local Veterinarian Shoni worked for the night a woman charges, Kolhouse said SEMCo stated in a memorandum sent party and then return later to Card said although yesterday’s says he raped her is stiffening will change some of its policies, see if the violation has been to campus departments. UM cold snap wasn’t fit for man, it standards for its monitors, a including adding a rule that last canceled classes in janu- corrected. But SEMCo isn’t was okay for beasts. group organizer said Sunday. monitors stay sober. ary of 1989, when tempera responsible for fixing the situa “Cats and dogs can go out Nonetheless, the young SEMCo is also working on a tures dropped to minus 30 and tion, Kolhouse said. side when it’s this cold but Social Event Monitoring system to screen potential “If SEMCo does nothing at winds blew down trees on they need someplace to go for Committee is no police force campus. monitors, Kolhouse said. When all, it will raise people’s con shelter,” Card said. and is only there to watch and Johns was selected as a mem Winds gusting out of sciousness about being respon Drivers should pound on report, Chris Kolhouse said. ber, the woman involved in the Hellgate Canyon made sible partyers and responsible their hoods before firing up Creating a safe party environ October incident hadn’t yet hosts,” he said, “and that is Monday’s 11 degree high a their vehicles in the morning, ment is up to individual Greek chilly 29 below. named him as her alleged our primary objective.” just in case some chilly kitten chapters that host parties, he attacker. Monitoring Greek parties That didn’t stop student crawled under the hood, she said. Jeff Powers from poking his Kolhouse says that the sys began at the University of said. Pets also have a sweet “If they choose to have an tem was designed to give head between doors of the Idaho last year when a drunk tooth for anti-freeze. It only unsafe social event then that’s Greeks feedback on how well journalism school to have a woman fell from a third-floor takes a teaspoon of radiator their choice. SEMCo is not the they are addressing safety window after partying at a fra couple smokes between class fluid to kill a cat, Card said, Gestapo,” Kolhouse said. es. issues at their house parties. If ternity house. She was para adding that three tablespoons Johns, a former SEMCo there are chronic problems, lyzed from the waist down. “This one lady looked at me will kill a dog. monitor, faces two charges of like ‘shut the door’ because SEMCo will alert the All Greek The first draft of SEMCo’s The National Weather rape after two women accused Council and UM officials. actually I was standing in the policy says it was created by Service forecast for Tuesday him of forcing them into sex According to SEMCo policy, UM Greeks because of the doorway and blowing the calls for highs between 15-20 after fraternity parties. The monitors attend Greek parties increasing negative publicity smoke out,” Powers said. “I degrees and a low of 5 with 19-year-old Johns, who has and go through a safety check of problems at parties such as only do it when it gets this winds dying down and skies since resigned from SEMCo, list that includes precautions underage drinking and sexual cold.” clearing. was on duty on the evening of such as whether there are abuse.