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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 12-8-1976 Montana Kaimin, December 8, 1976 Associated Students of the University of Montana Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of the University of Montana, "Montana Kaimin, December 8, 1976" (1976). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 6558. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/6558 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Coal, solar heat may warm UM By PATRICK SHEEHY and the fourth" projects started with Montana Kaimln Raportar state funds, he said. UM President Richard Bowers Solar power, coal and garbage said Monday that he created the may be heating University of Mon committee to use UM resources in tana buildings in the not-too-distant energy conservation and to find future, a member of the campus alternative energy sources. energy committee said last week. Bowers said the UM committee will Richard Sheridan, UM associate work with other energy conservation professor of botany and en committee members from other vironmental studies, said UM may be Montana University System schools. forced to use only alternative forms of energy If natural gas reserves con Building Insulation tinue to dwindle and fuel prices rise. James Gordon, manager of the He said that the natural gas supply physical plant mechanical repair will shrink if the Canadian division and chairman of the UM government enforces its plan to stop committee, said the committee will exporting Canadian gas to Montana examine the “cost-effectiveness" of by 1985. adding insulation and thermal-pane Coal is being considered because windows to UM buildings. of its abundance in the state, If the committee finds that the cost OLD FASHIONED TIRES for logging equipment lean against a tree near the Forestry Building. The wheels of the Sheridan said. He added that more of these improvements is hlgh-wheeler, a device for dragging logs over rough ground, have been dismantled lor repair. (Montana Kaimln research will be required before coal outweighed by the cost of fuel saved photo by Bob VonDrachek.) can be burned cleanly enough to over the long term, UM will probably meet air quality standards. go ahead with the work, he said. Sheridan said public structures ‘Solar Assist' System “are usually built to provide the max Sheridan said the committee Is imum amount of space for the least considering the possibility of in amount of money. People don’t look ■ m ontana cluding a “solar assist” heating at 10 years of paying heating bills.” system in a proposed science build The UM committee is currently ing that is in the UM budget to be working on a plan to require Energy presented to the legislature. Impact Statements (EIS) for all According to John McBride, pro remodeling jobs and repairs. The ject director of the federally- statements would also be required financed Montana Energy for each phase of any major Conservation Plan, who spoke in construction project. Missoula last week, records from The EIS would force planners to kaiminUniversity of Montana • Student Newspaper weather stations dating to the last examine the project’s fuel con century show that Montana has con sumption cost, Sheridan said. In the Wednesday, December 8,1976 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 79, No. 37 ditions that are conducive to solar case of repairs and remodeling, the energy collection. EIS would forceplanners to consider The committee is also considering whether installation of insulating technologies that would burn materials would be cost-effective, he garbage and combustible materials said. cleanly, Sheridan said. Other possibilities the committee is considering include: M ove to D ivision I Federal Money • building design standards that Sheridan said any of these energy would provide for energy-efficient sources might be put into operation campus structures. with federal “seed" or "start-up" • an education program for money from the Energy RBSSSrch faculty, staff and dormitory students could cost $30,000 and Development Administration. on energy conservation. By GARY WIENS which could eventually lead the move to Division I there would be Once these systems are "on line • ways to make use of excess heat Montana Kalmin Reporter conference into Division I more of a commitment to minor and working and can be analyzed as produced within the library by body competition. The move was opposed sports resulting in a broader-based to their effectiveness, it's much warmth and lighting. The heat is now Athletic spending at the University by UM President Richard Bowers, athletic program. easier to get the second and the third pumped out by circulation fans. of Montana will Increase by about who reflected UM fears that Division $30,000 - $50,000 If UM decides to I status would make it too expensive enter NCAA Division I competition, for UM to compete in the Big Sky UM Athletic Director Harley Lewis Conference. UM student seeks city seat said yesterday. Under another plan, supported by UM presently spends about UM, a new division would be created. By SUZANNE MACDONALD added, because of the shortage of ficulty in financing his bid. $415,368 yearly on Intercollegiate That division, to be known as Montana Kaimln Raportar housing. “ I don't intend to spend a lot of athletics. The figure does not include Division IA, would allow the Big Sky Hunt would also like to see the money," he said. fee waivers and coaches’ salaries. Conference to upgrade the caliber of A University of Montana freshman council do more to prevent further Hunt will face councilman French Lewis said that most of the in its opponents without facing a mas is running for Ward 1 alderman drownings in irrigation ditches. Kellogg, who filed Friday for reelec creased spending would be on the sive increase in costs. However, the because he believes the Missoula “They (the council) have pretty tion in the primary on Feb. 8. No one minor sports, which would be re proposal would have to be passed by City Council needs a fresh approach much avoided that now” by saying has filed yet for the Ward 1 quired, if UM goes to Division I, to in the NCAA. to its problems. they have no authority in the matter, Republican race. The general elec crease competition and to increase If the NCAA does not pass either of Kevin Hunt, 275 Duniway Hall, said Hunt said. tion is April 5. the number of scholarships currently these proposals, Lewis said, the Big in an interview yesterday that “one "They should be bending over Hunt is studying political science given minor sports athletes. Sky Conference would probably reason I’m running is because I think backward to cooperate” with other at UM and is a 1976 graduate of The specific sports which would continue to play football in Division the city as a whole is becoming involved parties to find a solution to Hellgate High School, where he was have to be upgraded, Lewis said, are II. stagnant in the way it's handling the problem, he said. student-body president. He has skiing, wrestling, golf and tennis. Lewis said although UM is “com problems." Hunt said he has “had favorable served as co-chairman of Montanans mitted" to staying in the Big Sky Hunt, a Democrat and Missoula support” from people in his ward. He for Safe Power and was one of two Action Pending Conference, it would have to “play a native, said the problem-solving plans to run a door-to-door cam Montana delegates in the U.S. Lewis said that the Big Sky waiting game” to determine if the in process should begin in the paign and does not anticipate dif- Senate Youth Program in February. Conference, of which UM is a creased costs would be worth precincts. If elected, he said he will member, has not definitely decided competing in Division I. have several people working in his to move from Division II to Division I Lewis said the “danger” was that precincts to bring residents’ ideas tb status because it wants to see what many of the "richer" schools in the him. action the NCAA will take at its an Big Sky Conference would bring “I would like to make my ward a nual convention in January. "pressure” on the other schools by model” of good government with the “There are several things on the increasing funding for football. people becoming involved in Mob money backs NCAA's agenda," Lewis said, “which decisions," he said. “I think a city have the potential to affect the Big Choose Position that doesn’t have involvementdies of Sky Conference." Lewis said the Division IA plan stagnation.” firms, mayor says Two conflicting plans proposed to proposed would allow each school to Hunt, 19, does not believe his age the NCAA have clouded the future of choose its position or level of or student status will be a problem in Two Missoula restaurants are backed by syndicate money, Mis athletic programs at UM, Lewis said, competition according to the getting elected. soula Mayor Robert Brown said at a press conference in the forcing the Big Sky Conference to amount of money it spends. “I try not to run in a student mold," University of Montana journalism school yesterday.