Montana Kaimin, April 28, 1994 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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MONTANA KAIMIN Volume 96, Issue 133 The University of Montana Thursday, April 28, 1994 Petition group demands refund lor 'illegal' athletic fee Four students threaten suit; Dennison, regents brush off claim Kevin Crough Kyle Wood Kaimin Staff UM students should get reimbursed for the athletic fee because the Board of Regents imposed it illegally, the authors of a petition fighting the athletic fee said in a written objection released Wednesday morning. Greg Byrne, Michael Novak, Leif Haugen and Steve Breezley want to send their objection to the regents with the help of Missoula Sen. Harry Fritz. If that doesn’t work, they’ll Gregory Rec/Kaimin take the dispute into the MARZA NICHOL hits the dirt for a save during soccer practice at the Fort Missoula fields Tuesday. The women’s soccer program, starting courtroom, Breezley said. But its first season next fall, is funded in part by the athletic fee currently being pulled in two directions: a compromise that would raise the fee President George Dennison and a legal challenge by a group of students. and the regents’ top lawyer said Wednesday the voted on would have been only $21 for seven petitioners won’t have a legal leg to stand on. credits, Breezley said. The four students, authors of a petition that “It’s like you surf today, and tomorrow Compromise considered demands the regents give students the choice of they make a law making it illegal and they sending their $30 fee to the Mansfield Library, arrest you for it,” he said. “We are honestly wrote that the athletic fee imposed last year is trying to do something about this.” on athietic fee proposai illegal because it’s not the same fee presented Breezley said the petitioners are waiting for Kevin Crough to the students in a campus-wide vote last the regents to clear up the matter themselves, Kaimin Staff April. About one quarter of UM students have or to at least respond, before they go to court. ASUM Sen. Alison Redenius said Wednesday that she signed the petition. But LeRoy Schramm, the regents’ chief supports the athletic fee compromise that Dennison has Moreover, they charge, the regents legal counsel, said Wednesday afternoon the been saying he will endorse since last week. changed their own rules, taking away from regents had no plans to respond because they “I am going to go home and put the proposal in writing student governments like ASUM the right to already did everything legally. and bring it back to President Dennison on Wednesday,” dole out athletic fee money and taking for The regents chose the $30 fee because that’s Redenius said after a meeting with Dennison. “I am willing themselves the power to impose the $30 fee the proposal that was before the students at to meet with him again concerning his proposal.” at its June meeting. Montana State University in a similar referen The two agreed on a compromise that would raise the ath That means, the petitioners said, the uni dum, he said, adding that they do have the letic fee from $60 to $70 per year, but students can check a box versity should refund every penny of the power to assess uniform fees at both campuses. on fall registration to give $20 to the Mansfield Library and $565,630 it collected in student athletic fees, “The regents maintained the right to adjust still get tickets to Griz and Lady Griz events. pegged to fund scholarships under new NCAA the proposals so that they have some uniformity,” rules and two added women’s sports to meet he said. “I don’t think that’s a legal impunity.” The agreement comes after a week of misunderstanding and confusion. gender equity requirements. Besides, he said, the regents enacted the “We were voting under 1977 guidelines that athletic fee at the same meeting they gave Dennison told the Montana Kaimin last Wednesday that gave the student body the right to administer themselves the power to impose it. And the the plan was Redenius’. But the proposal she made to the student athletic fees,” Novak said. changes in board policy never did require a University Athletic Committee earlier this month would also More than half the students casting ballots student vote, he said, although he under raise the fee to $70, but students could only send $10 to the in a referendum last April voted against a stands the petitioners’ anger. library and wouldn’t be able to keep their tickets to games. $1.50/credit hour fee. The regents in June “I think in some ways, it’s an unfair circum The UAC gave Redenius the approval to explore her idea. approved a flat $30 fee on all students taking stance to ask for a vote, to get a negative vote, She said she offered the more restrictive compromise because more than seven credits. and then do it anyway,” Schramm said. “If you her initial objective was to get Dennison to move on his firm And that’s illegal because the fee students stance against allowing See “Fee” page 12 See “Compromise” page Panasuk and Lindsay win elections Tom Lutey the other elected candidates within the President/Vice president Kaimin Reporter next two weeks in order to get a jump on Jennifer Panasuk/Jon Lindsay 580 next year. She said the meeting would Josh Arnold/Shawn Fast 505 Jennifer Panasuk and Jon Lindsay focus on getting acquainted with the took the ASUM’s president and vice candidates rather than establishing an Business Manager president seats in a close finish agenda for Fall Semester. Tye Deines 606 Wednesday night. Also, students approved a choice Joao Tomazeli 407 “Wow,” was all Panasuk could initial between giving their current $30 a semes ly say early Thursday morning at a cele ter athletic fee to the library or the athlet Jennifer Panasuk bration party at her home. “I was really ic department by 975 votes to 252. The 1994 ASUM Senate Niles Brush 463 afraid that we were going to lose.” There were 1229 votes cast in the The final tally of the general elections election. Heberto “Tito” Flores Jr. 581 Tripp Chenault 458 Sarah Elizabeth Akhtar 577 Melanie D. Kovarik 458 put Panasuk and Lindsay ahead of can Business manager elect, Tye Deines didates Josh Arnold and Shawn Fast by Derrick R. Swift-Eagle 568 pixie R, Dishon_____________441 triumphed 606 to 407 over opponent Christina Witt 550 Cheri Denton 434 580 votes to 505. Neither Arnold nor Joao Tomazeli. Fast were available for comment. Lynette M. Anderson 546 Trinity Baillie 174 “I’m elated,” Deines said. “But it “I’d have felt that we’d have had good Rod Souza 517 hasn’t really hit me yet.” William Little Soldier Mike 514 President/Vice president leadership regardless of who won,” Also among the unfortunate were can Alan Miller 499 Josh Arnold, Shawn Fast Panasuk said, describing campaigning didates Sheri Denton, Trinity Baillie Jeremy Hueth ' 498 Jennifer Panasuk, Jon Lindsay by each party as more than fair. and Dehlen Howe. Only 23 candidates Luke Laslovich 497 Arnold however could have suffered actively campaigned for the Senate Angela Schendel 494 Business Manager from a malicious attack on his campaign including Howe and Bailie, who were Dana Shonk 486 Tye Deines which began as early as Monday and write-in candidates. Baillie received the Renee Hilburn 481 Joao c- Tomazeli wasn t stopped until Tuesday afternoon, least votes of those released by the elec Timberly Marek 480 Write-in Candidates for Senate the day the polls opened. Betty Gregory 478 Trinity Baillie tions committee. Howe’s results were not Matt Lee 472 Dehlen Howe Panasuk said she plans to meet with released. International Month Notes Dien Bien Phu—In 1954, Vietnamese forces defeated the French at this town and mili tary outpost in North Vietnam, almost 200 miles west of Hanoi, near the Laotian border, end opinion ing France’s 8-year war to maintain control of Indochina. EDITORIAL_____ Columnists can’t hide in wine-soaked poetry Last Friday, I had a message in the “Your columns in the Kaimin answering machine blinking doggedly Don't let talent always deal with political crisis, like a cloistered spell urging to be freed social unrest and refugees,” a from a bottle. wither away in friend told me the other day Column by It was him, who called me to recite with irony. some poetry overseas. high school Made uneasy at his subtle Ibon I could also hear a tune, and the It took two shots, but School reproach, I biked my way home Villelabeitia unhurried airs of a Spanish guitar fill District 1 finally hit its mark Tuesday and decided to do what the mae ing the thin night: and won the necessary public support stro Picasso use to do with his “I am like the lion in the range: I live for the $1.1 million mill-levy to make paintings: to fetch for fresh air.

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