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Montana Kaimin, May 21, 1991 Associated Students of the University of Montana University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 5-21-1991 Montana Kaimin, May 21, 1991 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, May 21, 1991" (1991). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 8370. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/8370 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]. Montana Kaimin University of Montana Tuesday, May 21,1991 Vol. 93, Issue 101 Swollen Flathead River receding RAs Clark Fork continues to rise learn (AP)--Swollen rivers in north­ Monday afternoon and evening western Montana started receding were expected to keep water levels , about Monday after peaking above flood high. stage, and disaster officials said The Shields was flooding fields threats of major flooding appear to near Clyde Park Monday and the gays be over for now. Musselshell was approaching By Kathy McLaughlin But forecasters and local offi­ homes near Martinsdale, officials Kaimin Reporter cials alike said increased snow­ said. Resident assistants from melt caused by warm weather will East of Kalispell, residents who the UM dorms will meet with keep waters running high through moved mobile homes and trailers counselors and members of m id - week in many parts of the slate, threatened by the Flathead’s rising the Lambda Alliance this and that heavy rains could cause waters were returning to the area week to discuss harassment some flash flooding. Monday. of homosexuals on campus, Dudley Improta, UM Outdoor “Actually, mine wouldn’t have Housing Director Ron programs manager and river guide, had to go,’’ said Buck Mitzkus, Brunell said Monday. said the Clark Fork River is run­ whose trailer occupied a spot that Bruncll said that the Stu­ ning above normal peak levels. remained dry but was surrounded dent Health Service sched­ Improta said the "high water is no by water. “We just didn’t wait to uled “in service training” for place for inexperienced boaters." find out.” Bill Moran, a deputy sheriff in About 20 trailers were moved all the RAs for Wednesday and Thursday. northwestern Montana’s Lincoln out of Spruce Park and were scat­ County said all the local creeks are tered in parking lots along Montana UM is “trying to bring tol­ running high, "but we’re really not Highway 35. Officials said a local erance and understanding (of getting any flooding. mobile home company offered its homosexuals) to campus,” he said. “Unless wegeta slew of rain... help free of charge Sunday to help The meeting was if we get that, it will be a different residents move homes from the story,"Moran said. flooded area. prompted by the May 9 har­ Portions of the Musselshell and “I had five people show up at assment of UM student Bran­ Shields rivers in South-central my house with trucks,” said Mary don Lahren. Lahren, a Montana were at flood stage Mon­ Rice, who lives next to a camp- member of Lambda Alliance, day, and heavy thunderstorms moved out of his room in See "Rivers," page 8 Jesse Hall after a poster on his door was burned and a mob of people gathered at his door to denounce homosexu­ als. Nancy Fitch, director of the Student Heath Service, said that the sessions will serve two purposes: first, to help the staff sort out their Randall Green/Kaimin feelings about the problems, THE CLARK FORK River, swollen from above normal spring and second, to educate them temperatures and rainfall, rushes past the Jacob's Island about homosexuality. footbridge (above). Floating debris trapped at the Irrigation She said the counseling headgate (left) downstream from the bridge poses one of staff will try to help the RAs many hazards to boaters. Information on river levels for the deal with their feelings about Clark Fork, Blackfoot and Bitterroot rivers is posted in the See "RAs," page 8 Randall Green/Kaimin recreation annex every Friday. Mansfietd Conference Administration Japan's changes discussed vice president Japan has been “helped up,” selected Debra Brinkman Yanagiya said, and now has to stand Kaimin Reporter on its own two feet The United James E. Todd, facilities Since World War II, Japan has States “is no longer an occupation planner at the University of changed rapidly from a country that force, but an equal partner,” he Toledo in Ohio, has been received international assistance to said. named the UM vice president a major donor of aid, the highest In the past two decades, Japan for administration and fi­ ranking official in the Japanese has doubled its overseas develop­ nance, UM President George Ministry for Foreign Affairs said ment assistance, he said. Dennison announced Friday. Monday night at the Montana The­ But that is not enough. Invest­ “Jim Todd will bring to the atre. ments, trade and ventures also help university a background that will help us a great deal as we Kensuke Yanagiya, president of the recipient countries become self- move through the decade of Japan International Cooperation sufficient, he said. the nineties,” Dennison said. Agency, said Japan knows the value JICA also is gradually placing “He’s served at a number of of aid and knows how difficult re­ greater emphasis on policy issues, institutions and brings that ceiving and giving aid can be from such as environmental protection, range of experience to our both sides. Yanagiya was the third in recipient countries, he said. administration here. I’m speaker in the 1991 Mansfield “Restoring the environment is pleased to have him come.” Conference. far more expensive than protecting Todd, whose salary will be “From experience, we know the it in the first place,” he said. $80,000, will start his new job value of human resource develop­ Japan and the United States are July 1. He will oversee ac­ ment,” he said, “and the value of counting; auditing and budg­ very important to each other, eting; administrative and aca­ helping other countries help them­ Yanagiya said. demic computing, the physi­ selves.” “There is a shared goal. This is cal plant, payroll, purchasing Aspresidentof JICA, Yanagiya, what the Mansfield Center is teach­ and cash management, auxil­ more than any other single person, ing us,” he said. iary support operations, cam­ is responsible for implementing Earlier in the day, Yanagiya pus security and parking, policies that allocate more resources spoke to about 25 people at an in­ printing services, and person­ for economic development around formal session in the Mansfield nel administration. Jay Schweitzer/Kaimin the world. Center Seminar Room. Kensuke Yanagiya Montana Kalmln Tuesday, May 21,1991 2 Mansfield Conference Woman survives United States, Japan must create stability, senator says 9,500-foot fall PARKMAN, Ohio (AP)—A today with a compressed frac­ woman, whose parachute failed ture of the spine at MetroHeal th to open, fully plummeted 9,500 Medical Center in Cleveland. feet arid survived, authorities said. The accident occurred at the Jill Shields, 31, of Euclid in Cleveland Parachute Center suburban Cleveland, jumped near Parkman. from a plane at 9,500 feet and went into a virtual free-fall with Troy Township Fire Lt. Fred the parachute trailing above her, Ogrinc said Ms. Shields was said Mark Mosley, an emergency found in 15 inches of mucky medical technician from Park- ground. She was conscious but man Township. complained of chest pains, he She was in critical condition said. Red Cross to alter blood donor rules SAN DIEGO (AP) — The before a news conference. American Red Cross will close The plan will cost $120 mil­ its 53 blood centers in rotation lion and take more than two next year to install a new com­ years to complete, she said. puter system and make other It was given final approval Jerry Redfem/Kaimin changes to protect the nation’s by the Red Cross board of direc­ SEN. CLAIBORNE PELL shields his eyes from a spotlight during a question and answer blood supply from the AIDS tors on Sunday. session Sunday night. virus and other threats, the Red The 53 centers nationwide Cross said today. will be divided into 10 regions, By Melanie Threlkeld United States’ 24 percent. with as many as eight centers Kaimin Reporter “Just th ink what we Pell, who supported sanctions “I am announcing what is being closed at a time next year. rather than war against Iraq, said he The United States and Japan and Japan alone perhaps the most ambi tious proj­ The length of lime each cen­ was disappointed in Japan’s role have “one of the most important could accomplish if ect the Red Cross has ever un­ ter willbeclosed will vary, some bilateral relationships in the world” during the Persian Gulf War. dertaken — the total transfor­ poten tiall y for up to two months. and they need to improve their rela­ we work together in However, he added, “neither Ja­ mation of how we collect, proc­ To prevent a blood shortage, tionship, Sen. Claiborne Pell, D.- harvest and har­ pan or the United States know what ess and deliver one-half of the neighboring regions will build that specific role should be.” Rhode Island, said Sunday night at mony.” nation’s blood supply," Red up additional supplies to be the Montana Theatre.
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