Montana Kaimin, April 3, 1987 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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For more information, please contact [email protected]. lontana Kaimin University of Montana Friday/April 3, 1987 Missoula, Montana Koch says student will head dean search By Dave Kirkpatrick Koch said, the cost would be be Kaimin Reporter tween $40,000 and $50,000. A search committee is being Koch said the on-campus search formed to find a new dean of stu will begin May 1 and should be com UM’s budget could be getting bigger dents, and a student will be selected pleted by July 1. appropriations committee recom to head that committee, University of "We’ve got to make our student By Dave Kirkpatrick Montana President James Koch said Kaimin Reporter mended that UM receive about $2 services more responsive to stu The University of Montana has “a million less. Thursday. dents,” he said. sporting chance" to receive about “The amendment has a sporting The committee will comprise one The dean of students, he said, administrator, one faculty member $400,000 a year more than the chance;’’ Koch said* adding that would be the contact between the ad House Appropriations: Committee there is a "pretty healthy group” of and one student, Koch said. ministration and the students. He said he wants ASUM to recom recommended, UM President James legislators supporting it. The dean would work with student Koch said Thursday. However, Koch said he didn’t mend three student candidates, and government and individual students to Koch said Rep. Ralph Eudaily, R- know if the amendment would re he will choose one to serve as the help them with any problems they selection committee’s chairman. Missoula, will propose an amend ceive the 51 votes it needs to pass might have with the administration, ment today or tomorrow that would the House. However, ASUM President Scott he said. add $3.5 million to the committee’s Even if the amendment passes the Snelson said he wants three students “ I want ASUM to know that that’s recommendation for higher educa House, there is no guarantee that it on the committee instead of one. He their contact," he added. tion over the next biennium. will stay in the budget. The Senate said he also would like the admin Koch also wants to reorganize UM’s Higher education’s budget has not must also pass the budget after the istration to fund a national search for fiscal affairs department and Auxiliary yet come under debate in the Senate Finance and Claims Commit the dean of students rather than Services. naming a current UM administrator to House, but Koch said it should be tee makes recommendations. He has recommended combining on the agenda today or tomorrow. the new position. Auxiliary Services with fiscal affairs to But Koch said a national search UM requested a budget of $37,* help with the merger between UM 882,777 for fiscal year 1987-88. The See ‘Budget,’ page 8. isn't possible because it would be too and Western Montana College, which expensive and there are “probably is to take place by July 1, 1988. one-half dozen who should get the The merger will be more admin remain separately run, and using the UM. job" already at UM. istrative than academic, he said, add same student-record system. He said the dean of students posi Athletic Director Harley Lewis will ing that Glen Williams, vice president He said that Auxiliary Services Di tion would be created by giving report directly to Koch instead of the for fiscal affairs, will be responsible rector George Mitchell will remain at someone on campus additional du vice president for university relations. for many of the “ physical arrange UM if Auxiliary Services responsibili ties, but that person would have to ments” that will be made. ties are taken over by fiscal affairs, continue with some prior duties. “ I think we’re running an excellent Koch said the arrangements include but Mitchell would have a different program," Koch said, adding that he If an outside search were con establishing a unified accounting sys job. ducted and someone from other than wants the athletic director to report to tem for the two schools, deciding Koch also is partially changing the UM were named to the position, him because of recent scandals on whether the food services should athletic director's responsibilities at other campuses. Rev. Jackson reschedules trip to Montana for April 13 The Rev. Jesse Jackson has res spring whether to announce his can cheduled his visit to the University of didacy formally. Montana for April 13, according to He recently has stressed the need the Missoula coordinator of Jackson's for new investments in housing, edu trip. cation and programs to help farmers In a news release Thursday, David and unemployed blue-collar workers. Smith said that Jackson will speak at Jackson’s involvement with human the University of Montana’s University rights has lasted two decades. Center Ballroom at 8 a.m. The 45-year-old South Carolina na The free public lecture will be fol tive first received national attention in lowed by questions and answers, 1967, when he was appointed nation Smith said. al director of Operation Breadbasket Jackson's appearance is scheduled by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to last until 9:15 a.m. Jackson held that position until he Missoula is the first stop on Jack established People United to Serve son’s trip to Montana. He will also Humanity in 1971. travel to Helena and Great Falls. In 1984, Jackson was the first black The lectures he will give in Mon presidential candidate to stay in a tana are expected to focus on the presidential campaign all the way to problems rural areas presently face. the nominating convention. Jackson has launched a nationwide campaign calling for aid to farmers In that campaign, he won 18.6 per and other victims of what he terms cent of the Democratic primary vote “economic violence. nationwide. “There is something very wrong Jackson also was visible in 1984 for with an economy where Wall Street his successful negotiations with Syri profits soar while working people an President Assad for the release of scramble," he said at a March 19 downed Air Force pilot Lt. Robert rally in Greenfield, Iowa, as reported Goodman. by the New York Times. Slat) photo by Todd Goodrich That same year, his discussions ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Richard Gajdosik prepares Bill Park for a Jackson is a potential presidential with Cuban President Fidel Castro test of his hamstring muscles Thursday. See story on page 3. candidate for 1988. were instrumental in the release of 48 He has said he will decide by late American and Cuban prisoners. 2 Friday April 3,1987 o p in io n Despite silly name, ThUMbs Up is a good idea A group of folks concerned with More Money For Our Schools. The school with a sharp, concerned fac UM administration will begin charging morale and communication at the titles are insignificant when measuring ulty and a good number of bright a toll for use of the campus walk University of Montana has come to the success oj these groups. What students. It is interested in letting ways, one may simply call the hotline gether under the name ThUMbs Up, counts is endurance, honesty and the folks know that most members of the and the people in UM News and and, regardless of the silliness of its ability to recognize that all the slo campus community do indeed care Publications will try to figure out title, the group and its goals seem to gans and lofty goals in the world may about UM. There’s little loftiness to whether there is no truth to that be good ideas. not make a difference. be found on the ThUMbs Up agenda. rumor or no rumor to that truth. The goals of ThUMbs up are rela The hotline is by no means the tively humble. It is not attempting to Of course, most groups with similar most remarkable means of aiding editorial remove the governor from office to goals have come and gone like a communication and helping morale, morrow, nor is it promising a UM traveling salesman with a briefcase but it is a beginning. It is a sign that renaissance next week. It threatens full of a cure for baldness. The differ ThUMbs Up is actually trying to do Crises, especially financial crises, no administrator with death, holds no ence seems to be that the fly-by- something to help this campus. tend to breed new, excited groups individual ultimately responsible for night crusaders are a lot of talk with ThUMbs Up is not a group leading with catchy titles and a big but brief UM's troubles and demands no little action. ThUMbs Up, however, a fight song on a bandwagon.

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