'S a Banner Day Ll Registration to Occur on Banner 2000 Software Into One Place," Said David Todd, Director of Information Services
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's a banner day ll registration to occur on Banner 2000 software into one place," said David Todd, director of information services. ''The quality of service for stu \s fall registration ap dents will be better." es, students will notice a Financial aid is already up -e in registration proce and running on Banner 2000, to the integrated soft howe\'er several components of anner 2000. the system still have to be fine Janner 2000 is the soft tuned before they are fully func rogram used by UM and tional. r colleges, and now that According to Todd, the soft: oas adopted the software, ware is all there, and now the ation can potentially be functional staffhas to define what - between the two univer data should look like and what wd their colleges. As a the processing rules are. students attendingsum ''Financial aid is up and ssion or taking coun.es running and we are ready to do 1vo or more Montana uni- registration," Todd said. s will have an easier time Although registration on · ginformation concern the Banner 2000 software is mcial aid and credits. ready for the Fall semester, other It [Banner 2000) inte student information data such as ~anc1al aid. human re P 11t11<1 81 Rn<.J.K ULY and student information see Banner page 4 A member of the Crow tribe displays traditional JLT to mal{e waves dress in last years Pow Wow. The festivities will kick off with a presentation entitled lh annual fund drive "Rockin Warriors". EL Fox time to run commercials. The 1Vri1er second source of funding comes from student fees ap 1r 32 years Montana propriated by ASMSU. The re Native American culture revealed i:fniversity's KGLT ra mainder of the funding comes tion has been able to of from listeners' donation. Last Bv DANIEL Fox Wow. reners commercial-free year, private donations ac Exponent Wriler Events to note According to Stein the uilt around their inde counted for approximately annual presentation changes t approach to music. In "Native American Tuesday: 7 p.m. "Rockin Warroo" $53,000 of KGLT's operating Wednesday: 7:30 p.m_"Cirde of every year in an attempt to ft week, the station will budget. Awareness week was really Life" focus on singularly impor >its annual fund drive. The fund drive will in started in an attempt by fac Thursday: 9:30 am. "Crrde of Life" tant aspects of Native Ameri h is is an on-air fund clude incentives to donate to ulty of the Center for Native 2 p.m. "Contemporary Indian can culture. here we ask our listen American Studies to bring Issues· KGLT. This year there is a new 4 p.m. "Tradttional Ways" This year the theme of >edge financial support design on the T-shirts, coffee the Bozeman region and Friday: 7 p.m Grand entry MSU the Native American Aware favorite shows. It is mugs, stickers and other mer MSU students a glimpse of Indian Club Pow WON_ ness Week will focus on the t important two weeks chandise, including music who Native Americans really Saturday: 10 a.m. MSU American Indian alumni gathering. performing arts. ar," said Wylie Roth, packages, vacation getaways, are and help them get past In the world of Native nderwriting represen stereotypes;• said Dr. Wayne 12 noon: Grand entry MSU Indian and season ski pass. OubPowWON. American performing arts d fund-raising coordi- KGLT hopes that the Stein, director of the the Cen 6 p.m. Grand entry Indian Club there is perhaps none more two-week event will once ter for Native American PowWON famous than Kevin Locke. <'s yearly funding again provide crucial dollars Studies. "It's an effort to He holds a master of arts $150,000 currently for the station. bring information about Na- degree in Educational Ad- ' from three major 'We want listeners to ap tive Americans into a different setting." ministration, and was admitted to law school • First, the underwrit preciate the value of KGLT in And so begins the 13"' Annual Native before he decided music and dance were his rram allows businesses terms of the fact that most American Awareness Week. true calling. brief public ack.nowl people have probably never Hoop dancer and traditional flute player Today Locke is revered worldwide as a t for their contribu heard of another station like Kevin Locke will be featured at this year's Na master cedarwood flute player. Beyond the ereas a typical radio tive American Awareness Week culminating interrupts playing '<!e KLGT page-! with the 24'h Annual MSU Indian Club Pow see Revealed pagl'-1 Made Where? Feeling Punchy Big Changes C:,/umnisf c:.tpfmef. /Ire dan~1') or Ch1:ck u11t:tl1t• MSll Ad Cl11/J' lad11 Cnts \lollc'vlufl ntl 111ct ~-e,> t1ade m 1\111erim SmCJkd1 BO\ mg match st111plnyt1;11· wcmd1 see page 2 see pagc5 see page 7 .. E:xponent ~ ommen s Tuesday, l\larch 30, 1999 Incarcerating d1~it iisers will not sol'1 tlie drug proble111 B' Ml<ll\11 KIR!o..IA!'OD of an illicit drug. \/1d11~cu1 Stare l,11i1w\ll\' The same goYern statistics also point out tha In America today, nearly average. Americans do no one of every 150 persons is incar drugs more than people in cerated in some sort of correc nations do. So the nitt'd S tional facility. does not have any more i That';; more than twice the drug use than any other n; number of a decade ago, despite but is simply one of the the fact that government statis Democratic ;;;ocietics tha tics claim crime rates have fallen chosen 111carcerat1on as 1t3 sharply for six consecutive years. mary solution to its drug p The most compellinge:\.-pla !em. nation for this seemingly unnec This is a ridiculous essary growth in the imprison tion that is rooted in i1:,TJ10rt ment rate 1s the fact that many hypocrisy and puritanism. ofour society's prisoners are drug Incarceration will not offenders. essarily alter the view of Conservative politicians in sual user, nor will it ne the 19 Os, realizing our society ily rehabilitate the depen was plagued by savage dope user. fiends who indulged in horrifi Meanwhile. public [ cally non-taxable substances are used to support a g such as marijuana. launched a tuan prison system that nationwide campaign to rid our expanded to accommo 'Free Trade' isn't always free countiy of the scourge of casual people who do nothing drug use. freely choose to ingest a 8' At f\11 H RllOH Bangladesh, Korea and Thai dents or U.S. citizens. Today, Congress passed the man substance and people wl K111ght-Rulder IY<'"'-'P<IP<'rl land - live with six to eight more than 90 percent of the datory minimum law, which re other people in a room in bar garment industry jobs in the nothing but provide that quires a judge to imprison any stance to those freely cho Congressional Republi racks surrounded by barbed .Marianas are held by foreign drug offender, regardless of the individuals. cans are currently fighting a wire; toil 70 hours a week in "guest workers," who together circumstances. early 60 percent I new piece of legislation that filthy conditions with no comprise more than half of the While could cont of federal prisoners are drug of < aims to raise the U.S. mini overtime pay; and are threat total Marianas population. along these Ii nes for fenders. On the state level, the mum wage. But unlike pre ened with deportation upon Since 1996, while Saipan's gar some time, it seems to figure is 22 percent. vious minimum wage bills, complaint. ment industry was doubling, pointless exercise. I don Almost one-third of these pect drugs to be decrirt the 1999 Fair Minimum These women were more than 200,000 apparel in convicted drug offenders are in Wage Act would explicitly brought to Saipan with prom dustry jobs were lost in the ized in America soon, an carcerated simply for possession apply to workers in a region ises of high pay, quality work continental United States. not alone. most people do not even - and eventual U.S. citizen The Saipan garment in Tht Exponent 1s publishtd most Thtsdays and Fridays throu know is part of the United ship. They agreed to pay up dustry has been hit with more acadtmtc ytar and is affiliattd u.•ith tht .-issociattd Studt e States. to $7 ,000 in "recruitment than 1,000 OSHA citations Montana Stott TJnivusiry. It is the U.S. Common fees" just to work there. Last for unsafe working conditions Editonal Policy The Exponent welcomes feedback from its audience. Responses t wealth ofSaipan - part of the year alone, in Saipan's sweat in just the last four years. sent to SUB Room 305 in care of the editor as either a Lener to Northern Mariana Islands in shop, these women produced Plus, last year the U.S. or a Guest Editonal Leners should be ~50-300 words m le ed1tonals should be no longer than 700 words The Exponent re the Central Pacific - where $1 billion worth of "Made in Depa rtment of Interior docu nght to edit or reiect 3.llY materials submitted. SubOllss:ons sho U.S. minimum wage laws do the U.S.A." garments for ma mented "fraudulent recruit the author·s name, phone number and address Anonymous sub111 not apply. jor retailers, including The ment practices, substandard will not be pnnted. Opiruons represented on the comments 1'4ges t those of the author a..d in no way represent the Exponent.