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"Part of it is According to we have a bigger base Photo by Roger Dey Allen Yarnell, vice provost for student now; for the last couple of Navigating crowded sidewalks is a common experience this fall with the record number of students affairs, the increase is due to the fact years the classes have on campus. that more students are staying in been larger, so even if you school. stay with your same retention rate the crease in students and the Cat-line three percent over our projection of The retention rate has been a number of the students staying would has taken some pressure off their of new students, in this business that is concern ofYarnell's since he has been be more." fice. great if you can be within three per atMSU. The increase in enrollment "I think that we tried to gear up cent of projecting your student num •1 chair a university-wide reten should not cause problems with class for this the best we could," Nelson bers, I'll take that any day." tion committee and for the last two rooms. said. "Faculty were very cooperative Montanans are the priority at years I've gone to two major retention "Class availability has been the in trying to accommodate students; it MSU when it comes to being educated conferences, we try to learn from that; best it's been at least since I've been worked out very well." within the state. to make our advising better ana here, and that's because we went to a Yarnell said the campus is in "We continue to fulfill a mandate s like that," Yarnell said. new system," Yarnell said. "We took good shape for housing because the from the state legislature to meet the The most vulnerable time a stu students out of the system who haven't growth is slow and steady. needs of all qualified Montana stu may leave school is between their paid, therefore opening places." "We set a goal of slow, steady dents," said Mike Malone, university an and sophomore years. Ori Chuck Nelson, registrar, said growth anywhere between two and ·on and freshman seminars have they were ready for the projected in- four percent," Yarnell said. "We were See Enrollment, page 20 oyalty toppled Concert cancelled bassadors to replace due to lack of interest mecoming king, queen By D'ET STEPHENSON STAFF WRITER ity contest,• McCray added. The events will be coordi Tim McGraw and Faith Hill cancelled their Sept. 25 per nated between ASMSU, stu formance at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse due to low ticket sales. e king and queen will dent activities and the Alumni According to Kelsi Macintyre, ASMSU concerts chair, coun sent from this year's Association. try music still sells in Bozeman and that inadequate promotion ming celebration. Melanie Bury, special was the culprit. bassadors will be ap projects coordinator for the "Faith Hill and 'l'i.m McGraw are a great act and I think d in lieu of the tradi Alumni Association, said that had it been promoted better," Macintyre said, "I'm sure king, queen and royal travel could also be expected ticket sales would have been higher." . Jim McCray, ASMSU for the winners. One goal for Allen Short, events promotion specialist, also said that the ~1dent, said the shift repre the ambassadors is to share photo by C.J Brighi lack of advertising >ents a new expectation of the was to blame for student perspectives to com Ali Skaar "I think we need to let stu ?eople holding the title. munity members at "MSU for the low ticket sales. "(These representatives) a Day," which will be held in "I don't think dents and the whole town are going to promote positive Choteau and Great Falls this background of each of the can that it was pro know that this is a really big relations between students fall. "MSU for a Day" is a func didates will give voters more of moted as well as blow as far as getting major hereat Montana State and the tion where faculty, alumni and a choice this year at the polls. concerts have been CO!llmunity.• staff visit a different commu "I think with the eight in the past," Short bands here." said. "I think pro . Ali Skaar, homecoming nity to highlight what MSU candidates for Homecoming -Allen Short, events promotion ~,cited several examples of does for their business commu that these eight people defi motion was the n;w ambassador's duties. nity and what their business nitely represent the entire main thing, just not . As a student, we are go community does for MSU. gamut of all views on campus," enough people knew about it ahead of time." ~ to try to get it more as a With the increase of re Bury said. "One person may The cancellation and low sales took a lot of people by sur hro~oter, using them for sponsibility, there was a record be involved with six different prise. Wea th promotion, if SASA number ofpeople-28- inter organizations, all of which "Bozeman seems to always be very receptive to country n:ts to do some kind of pro ested in the position. stand for something else, and shows," Macintyre said. of on or SADD or any kind "The Homecoming Com they whole-heartedly believe in "I would have thought that this show would have done a student activity," she said. mittee met together and each of those things. We defi lot better," Short said. "It's been doing well nationwide. I actu lllg~ey ~e.going to be do through an interview and ap nitely want to make sure that ally saw it out in Spokane last spring. It was a very good show. the. nk.dnvmg campaigns, plication process they selected they're being true to them People really don't realize what they missed." baJre going to serve as am- the top four men and the top selves; we don't want someone However, Roger Nelson, KZLO marketing and sales repre sadors for children and four women to serve as the can out there promoting something sentative, said that they think that they promoted the concert ;. ger students and they're didates," McCray said. "These that they don't necessarily as well as they previously have. O:g to be used by the vari candidates are now up for elec agree with or back whole "We ran a similar schedule on any show that we've ran llso~dent affairs offices and tion and are campaigning be heartedly." in the past-same amount of commercials, promos, and liners create eAiumru Association to fore Homecommg and will be "I think that this election everything pretty much just as we always do for shows like lather ~hmor~ positive aspect elected on Oct. 9." See Cancelled, page 3 an simply a popular- Bury believes the broad See Ambassadors, page 2 Regents approve UM fee increase, IUake MSUlisted credit funit exceptions for Montana Tech as best buy BUTTE (AP) - The state Board of the fee. students would receive. in education Regents approved a plan to charge all The plan calls for classrooms and In July, the regents voted to ex University of Montana students a labs built before 1970 to be renovated. clude teacher education programs from High quality faculty ar;. ~ $24.21 per semester fee for the next 20 The project will also address tech the limit. years to refurbish classrooms and labo nological and disability-access needs. Friday's exceptions for Montana students, and relative!) ratories at the university. The regents also exempted a num Tech will allow students to graduate low tuition boost value · UM President George Dennison ber of academic programs from a new from any of its engineering programs, said the fee will raise another $7 mil limit on the number of credits needed except engineering science, with 136 MSU STAFF BULLETIU lion. UM will ask the Legislature to to graduate. As part of an effort to get credits. That is still a drop from the pre Montana State University-Bazer come up with an additional $7 million students through college faster, the re vious 140 to 144 credits. and the state itself can be prou. and if it refuses, Dennison said he will gents earlier this year imposed a limit Graduating from the occupational the university being listed as om look for the money from private sources. of 120 on the number ofcredits required safety and health engineering science the best buys in the West, accoro Dennison's original proposal said for students to earn an undergraduate programs will now require 128 credits. to Jillian Kasky, a senior reporte:l that only nonresident students be degree. Many students agreed that the Money magazine.