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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 4-10-2002 Montana Kaimin, April 10, 2002 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, April 10, 2002" (2002). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 9540. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/9540 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]. Musical brings life and times of Nat King Cole to Missoula. ------ Page 4 Star UM sprinter Louis Patrick balances track team and school with fatherhood. Page 6 ------► www.4iimin.org ntatcs ka/ e p i n f W e d a y UM students help revive Salvation Army business plan Diplomat Students receive “It’s the students’ project,” to discuss Reece said. “They’re the ones credit and who meet with the client, experience as part scope out the project, and tensions in complete an analysis.” of a program The Missoula branch of the M iddle East to help Salvation Army contacted the Speaker has small businesses Small Business Institute early served in several Katherine Sather this year for help in boosting sales. The Christian organiza­ Montana Kaimin Mid east tion has provided social serv­ 'hot spots' Every army needs rein­ ices, food and clothing vouch­ forcements on occasion. ers and grants for Missoula’s Bryan O’Connor Even the Salvation Army. needy for more than a century. Montana Kaimin When the local thrift store It is funded through a thrift and social service organization store, which operates out of a The situation in the building at the comer of began a fight against sagging Middle East appears to profits this year, it called on Broadway and Orange streets. grow more violent and com­ UM students for help. The past few years have plex every day. A community The students were three seen a decline in the store’s seniors in UM’s Small sales, said Garth Volbright, discussion with a U.S. diplo­ Business Institute, a program the shop’s business manager. mat who is a policy maker in which students earn credit He attributes the decline to for that region could provide for providing consultation to competition from other sec­ some insight. area merchants. After a ondhand stores in Missoula Marc Sievers is the semester of research, they’ve such as the YWCA and Deputy Director of the nearly completed a business Goodwill. Office of Lebanon, Jordan strategy to help the Salvation “We’re looking for ways to be and Syria Affairs for the competitive,” he said. “There’s Army increase revenue and U.S. State Department. He pressure from the competition tackle competition from other will speak Wednesday night area secondhand stores. here, but it’s not terminal.” at 7 p.m. in the Urey The task was rewarding in In their research, UM stu­ numerous ways, said Jamie dents found that the store’s Underground Lecture Hall Battmer, one of the students biggest setbacks are its run­ at UM. The World Affairs involved. down facilities and inconven­ Council of Montana and the “We’re trying to do our ient location. Volbright admits Northern Rockies Model part, not only by receiving the Salvation Army shop is far Arab League are hosting the credit for school, but by help­ from perfect. event. ing out a good cause,” he said. “Our building is old, and we Mark Johnson, director of Business students John have parking problems,” he WACM, said the discussion, Irey and Melanie Wall also said. “Crisis in the Middle East, The facilities are especially worked on the Salvation Army War or Peace?” is open to project. The Small Business lacking in comparison to Kate Medley/Montana Kalinin everyone and admission is Institute has been active on Goodwill, its largest competi­ Three UM senior business students are working with the Salvation Army in Missoula to develop a business strategy to increase revenue free. campus since the ’70s, said tor, said Battmer. and tackle competition from other area secondhand stores. professor Jack Reece, director Goodwill has existed in “Hopefully the communi­ of the program. Its clients are Missoula since the ’70s, on Brooks Street in the spring Battmer said. ty will come and listen,” small- to mid-sized businesses according to Sandi Crowder, of 1999. “People are more willing to Johnson said, “then be able throughout western Montana assistant vice president of The move took business drop by donations or shop to ask questions.” who pay a fee in exchange for marketing. Its profits provide away from the Salvation Army there,” he said. Sievers has served in since Goodwill’s new location Crowder said she thinks completion of a personalized services for the disabled. The what Johnson called “hot business or marketing plan. store moved to a new building and larger facilities are more convenient for shoppers, See SALVATION ARMY, Page 8 spots,” including Hong Kong, Cairo, Rabat, Ankara and most recently Refugee speaks out against aid to El Salvador, Colombia Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His current office is part of the Speaker will lecture Lecture Hall. She will describe that opened fire that day. any deaths,” Ayala said. “It was the suffering caused by U.S. sup­ “I couldn’t see through the dust prolonged 12 years and had a Bureau of Near Eastern about her port for the Salvadoran military and smoke,” said Ayala through an large death toll. Without inter­ Affairs. experiences in during the civil war in interpreter and organizer vention this probably wouldn’t Johnson said Sievers has war-torn countries her country and how for the Montana Human have happened.” been an active policy maker U.S. support for the Rights Network, Scott Ayala said the Salvadoran gov­ Kellyn Brown for our government in rela­ Colombian military is Nicholson. “A lot of us put ernment received aid from the tions with several Middle for the Kaimirr having that same ourselves on the ground United States by labeling civilians Eastern countries during impact now on the peo­ against a rock wall that “child-eating guerrillas.” She Isabel Ayala makes a circle ple of Colombia. his 20-year career with the with her index finger and thumb surrounded the commu­ argues that the war was a fight for Ayala was back in El nity.” free expression and social justice in State Department. The talk then puts her hands apart nearly Salvador for three will focus on the turbulent eight inches to describe the diam­ When the dust cleared a country marred by severe pover­ months when the attack and the dead were count­ ty and that the violence swelled events unfolding in that eter and length of the bullets that began. Before that she were shot at her in El Salvador. Isabel Ayala ed, the community noticed because of the U.S. support. part of the world, Johnson had been in Honduras that one bomb didn’t fully “It is a miracle of God more peo­ “People were massacred, and said. after she was forced to flee her detonate. On a piece of tom shrap­ ple weren’t killed,” said Ayala “It disappeared,” said Ayala. “I am Sievers knows Arabic, country during the war between nel was the acronym “U.S A.” was a storm of bullets and bombs.” convinced the civilian population Hebrew and Turkish and 1980 and 1992; she spent eight During the war America gave died in this war. The one without Ayala, a peasant leader from has received several awards years in a refugee camp there. more than $5.5 billion to the arms.” El Salvador, will be giving a pres­ Her community was made up of Salvadoran government and mili­ The current war in Colombia is including two Meritorious entation titled “Resisting State 800 people. They had no dignified tary to fight terrorism. similar to the one that went on in Honor Awards and the Terrorism: from El Salvador to housing, just plastic hung up for “Perhaps with no aid from the El Salvador, Ayala said, except the American Foreign Service Colombia” Wednesday at 7 p.m. walls and shelter, providing no U.S. the war would have been Association’s Sinclaire in the North Underground protection from the 16 aircraft shorter, and there wouldn’t be See CO LO M BIA, Page 8 Language Award. [email protected] 2 Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Editorial Guest Column Robbing the poor to pay the wealthy Teams losing out have virtually no chance of getting caught. Colum n by How can we restore sanity to our tax system? in blame game The first step: refocus the agency’s enforcement It seems that lately the Charlotte Hornets and the UM Grizzly Stephen Sachs efforts. The Senate is just starting to take the basketball program have been more or less on the same page. (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Enron issue seriously, with Finance Committee hearings Both have gone to great lengths during the last 30 days to con­ scandal has plenty of dirt to go around, as the this week. Offshore accounts would be a good place vince their respective fan bases that the sky is falling. Each says Harvard Corporation has already discovered.

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