Montana Kaimin, April 20, 1988 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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Montana Kaimin University of Montana wednesday/Aprll 20, 1988 Missoula, Montana Biotech center will help economy, professor says By Gabrielle Tolliver 1985 when the Montana Leg state businesses to the the Kaimin Reporter islature formed the Montana areas surrounding each cen A biotechnology research Science and Technology Alli ter, create new companies center slated for the Univer ance, an arm of the state De and also inspire out-of-state sity of Montana will improve partment of Commerce. The businesses to relocate In Montana’s economy and the Legislature allocated $600,000 Montana, he said. quality of scientific research to create research centers in throughout the state, UM Butte, Bozeman and Missoula. “It's a give type of situation chemistry Professor Walter rather than a take type of sit Hill said Tuesday. UM will receive $200,000 uation,” Hill said. "What we from the alliance for its bio iwant in return is well-trained Hill, who will serve as direc technology center. Earlier this I people we can hire in the fu tor of the Center for Excel year UM also received 10,000 ture.” lence for Biotechnology at shares of stock from Chroma- UM, received a $25,000 check toChem Inc., a Missoula bio Initially, the centers will rely from the state in a ceremony technology firm. on state money, Hill said, but marking the beginning of the ultimately the centers will center's funding. The UM center will fund begin earning money for the graduate student research state and universities. proposals in biotechnology, Hill said the purpose of the Hill said, adding money will center is to help improve bio be given to researchers to In addition to UM’s center, technology research in Mon see if their proposals can be Montana State University in tana. The center will help in I applied practically. Bozeman will be the alliance's crease communication be center for material sciences, tween scientists and research | "Hopefully, these projects I and Montana Tech in Butte ers working throughout the will have commercial value,” will be the center for second state, he added. he added. ary processing of natural re Staff photo by Grog Van Tigham The center was created in This could help attract in- sources. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Advocates destroyed these “mindless gadgets'* during their non-reverence for technology rally In the oval Tuesday. Regent predicts one set of standards for U system HELENA (AP) — The Montana Uni changes beyond their next meeting In The alternative of having more strict Tuesday's opponents were led by versity System will have only one set Havre on May 5-6. admission requirements for three of Alan Nicholson, chairman of the state of admission standards for all six "By not taking action, we probably the six schools — the University of Board of Public Education, who made schools, but the Board of Regents would create more problems than by Montana, Montana State University it clear his board rejects the regents’ will not abandon plans for mandating taking action and getting this thing and Montana Tech — probably will plan for high schools to offer college college-preparatory classes In high behind us,” he said after Tuesday's be scrapped because of the unani grooming classes. school, the board chairman predicted hearing here. mous opposition, Lind said. But some Such a proposal would discriminate Tuesday. School districts and students have uniform standard based on grade against minority students and those Despite two public hearings at faced enough confusion and uncer point average, class placement or from families with low incomes or which dozens of critics blasted the tainty since the board first endorsed college entrance testing will be imple less-educated parents, he said. proposed admission requirements the idea of entrance standards and mented, he added. “I do not believe we should and changes in high school curricu college-prep courses In December The college-prep requirements for lums, Dennis Lind said the regents 1986, Lind said. The changes will high school students may be reduced See ‘Admissions,’ page 8. will not delay implementing the apply to incoming freshmen in 1990. from their original proposal, he said. U.S.-China relations are at high point, speaker says By Carol Roberts compatible with both countries and According to Hummel, although the response to a remark by President Kaimin Reporter with the American people, Hummel Chinese don’t support U.S. policies in Reagan that the United States would Diplomatic relations between the said. Central- America, South Africa or the United States and China are at a upgrade relations with Taiwan, de The deterioration in the triangular Middle East, the disagreement high point in what has been an up manded that the United States set a relationship between the United doesn't harm U.S. relations with and down cycle, former Ambassador date to stop arms sales to Taiwan. States, the Soviet Union and China is China. to China Arthur Hummel said Tues also a positive indicator, Hummel After a year of negotiations, the day. “You can’t fight all of the issues all said. of the time,” he said. Chinese abandoned their ultimatum, Hummel, who retired from the for Hummel said, adding that the United eign service in 1985, spoke to about The United States now makes The Chinese generally vote with the States was able to maintain its objec 150 people in the Underground Lec policy in terms of its own national in Third World In the United Nations in tives of maintaining both good rela ture Hall in the second part of a terest rather than trying to “play the order to criticize the United States, tions with China and arms sales to three-part lecture series sponsored China card” when dealing with the Hummel said, but that doesn't affect Taiwan. by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Soviet Union, he said. In the early diplomatic relations because “we can tell the real from the rhetoric.” Center. 70s China accused the United States He said that U.S. diplomats ought Presidential candidates aren't talk of “standing on China’s shoulders” to Hummel said when he first arrived to pursue further improvement in ing about China, which indicates that reach the Soviets in diplomatic rela in Peking in 1981 he was faced with U.S.-Chinese relations without aban U.S. policies regarding China are tions, he added. a diplomatic crisis. The Chinese, in doning Taiwan. 2 Wednesday, April 20,1988 OPINION Case for admission standards looks strong The Board of Regents will decide in two weeks expected to offer expensive remedial courses that Lind predicts will happen. on a set of admission standards for Montana’s belong in high school curriculums. And taxpayers Small high schools would have to cut important colleges and universities. The Board also will should not have to fund a student’s high school elective courses to pay for the addtional college decide whether to mandate college-preparatory education twice. grooming courses. Many of those elective courses classes in high schools. Last month the regents reviewed a plan that would be in vocational education, which is vital to The regents held public hearings on the topics would establish two sets of admission standards. students who are not college bound. The regents Monday in Billings and Tuesday In Helena. Based The plan proposed that students entering the were told Tuesday that less than half of graduating on predictions by regent Chairman Dennis Lind, University of Montana, Montana State University seniors go on to college, and only a fourth of those and on statements from a majority of the regents and Montana Tech as first-time freshmen would finish four-year degrees. at the hearings, it looks as If the outcome will be a need a high school grade-point average of at least case of good news and bad news. 2.5, an ACT score of at least 20 or placement in The regents should recommend — not mandate the upper third of their high school class. Students — a curriculum of college-preparatory courses. The good news is the Montana University System entering Western, Northern and Eastern Montana They should leave the responsibility of running high will have a fair set of admission standards by 1991. Colleges would need a grade-point average of only schools with the local school boards and the state The bad news is there’s a strong chance the 2.0, an ACT score of 18 or placement in the upper Board of Public Education, where it belongs. regents will mandate changes in high school half of their graduating class. The regents seem to be on the right path curriculums, a move that only local school boards The majority of the regents, however, oppose the concerning admission standards. Let’s hope their or the state Board of Public Education should be discriminatory two-tiered plan.

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