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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 4-3-1981 Montana Kaimin, April 3, 1981 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 3, 1981" (1981). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 7252. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/7252 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]. m o n t a n a kaim in Friday, April 3, 1981 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 83, No. 76 s____________ ______________ ? Judge speaks out on death penalty By DOUG O’HARRA spoke to about 50 people last Montana Kaimin Reporter night at the University of Mon­ tana School of Law on the effec­ When asked why the United tiveness of capital punishment. States, France and Spain were Allen, who in 1975 presided over the only Western countries that the trial of Bernard James Fitz­ have capital punishment during patrick who was sentenced to peace time, Judge Nat Allen of death for the murder of a Safeway Musselshell County answered: Store, Inc. employee, said he has “What are we going to do with “never had any regrets” about these animals? These men are sentencing a man to death. animals, not human beings.” Allen, with five other people, John Forsyth, Rosebud County attorney, said that the death including John Maynard, Mon­ tana deputy attorney general, Cont. on p. 6 Price reduced on phone directories By DOUG O’HARRA definitely “looking at a loss,” but Montana Kaimin Reporter said she didn’t know exactly how Because of poor sales, the price much it would be. of the 1980-81 University of “Insufficient advertising” and Montana phone directories will the $1.50 price are the reasons for be reduced from $1.50 to 75 cents the poor sales, Thornton said. today, according to Deanna Because the directories were free Sheriff, director of UM Universi­ last year, Brown added, students ty Publications and Media are probably unwilling to pay for Relations. them this year. The directories Bryan Thornton, manager of were distributed free -last year THIS KIND OF MUD WON’T be found in the Harry Adams Fieldhouse tomorrow and Sunday, the Associated Students’ Store, because a private firm that but the action will be similar as the best of the Big Sky Region’s cowboys and cowgirls let ’er said yesterday that the direc­ printed them had sold adver­ buck in National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association performances. See related story on to­ tories had been selling “very, tising to cover costs. The firm was day’s sports page. very, very, very slowly.” The not interested in printing the store still has about 3,600 of the directories this year, Brown said, directories, he said, but added because it did not make enough of that he was not sure exactly how a profit. U-system budget intact, but many the store had sold. Thornton said that reducing Bill Brown, publications editor the price this year could result in for UM, said yesterday that only poor sales again next year. But ‘run on the budget’ feared about 1,500 of the directories were Sheriff disagreed, saying that sold. When the exact sales figures since the directories are good only By CATHY KRADOLFER committee finished debating the two-thirds salary. The proposed were last compiled February 5, until the end of the summer, it Montana Kaimin Legislative Reporter bill, university officials and budget would pay them at full only about 1,300 were sold, and was just like selling outdated legislators were discussing a salary in recognition of the longer only 375 of those sold were calendars at a reduced price. HELENA — After two days of possible “run on the budget” hours of summer school classes. through the bookstore, he said. Brown said that next year rampant rumors and several when it reaches the Senate floor Members of the Joint Ap­ The rest of the sales were to media relations will try to have attempts to make cuts, tile sometime next week. propriations Subcommittee on faculty and staff, and to down­ the directories subsidized, as they Montana University System Sen. Harold Dover, R- Education, which spent the first town book stores. were last year. He said that Hart budget remains in tact. Lewistown, said he will try to 45 days of the session putting Last fall, UM Publications and Enterprises Inc. of San Diego, The Senate Finance and drum up support in the Senate for together the budget, said they will Media Relations had about 6,000 Calif., has expressed interest in Claims Committee yesterday twp amendments he sponsored fight any attempts to make directories printed at a cost of doing next year’s directories, but gave final approval to the state’s and the committee defeated. One across-the-board cuts, and will about $5,000. Brown said in no decision has been made yet. spending bill for 1981-83, which would decrease university fun­ insist that specific programs be January that at least 3,500 of the Brown said that media relations includes $220 million for the ding as enrollment decreases; the cut instead. directories would have to be sold would probably decide what to do university system. other would retain the practice of to break even. Sheriff said yester­ about next year’s directories by But even before the Senate paying summer school faculty at Cont. on p. 6 day that media relations was the end of the month. By TIM ROGERS compromise concerning the. law. Association which, along with 13 other Montana Kaimin Reporter Initiative 85 is the lobbyist disclosure companies, make up the Western En­ initiative. The Montana Supreme Courtis vironmental Trade Association. Republican legislators have angered now deciding whether the initiative is the people of Montana with their attacks constitutional. While in Helena, Toole began on initiatives 84 and 85, K. Ross Toole, Toole said that comments made by researching and writing his fourth book professor of history at the University of some legislators during floor discussions about the energy-rich mountain states for Montana, said yesterday. of the two bills were insulting to the voters Atlantic Little Brown Publishing Co. Because of this, they could be in danger of Montana. He also said that sending the His first two books, “Montana: An Toole of losing their jobs in the next election, nuclear waste-ban bill back to the voters Uncommon Land” and ‘Twentieth Cen­ Toole said. is like telling them, “Since you didn’t tury Montana: A State of Extremes,” are Toole, who has been commuting know what you were doing the first time, used in his Montana history class. He has criticizes between Missoula and Helena since the we’ll give you another chance at it.” recently written another book called “The legislative session started on Jan. 5, said Rape of the Great Plains.” that the Republicans have “opened the Initiatives 84 and 85 “frightened the He is teaching both his Montana living daylights out of the big door for the Democrats in 1982” with their history class and a seminar class in GOP businessmen in Montana,” Toole said. “hostility towards the initiative process.” American history for graduate students They spent a lot of money—-$700,000 on I- this quarter. The Montana history class 84 alone—to fight the two initiatives, and Initiative 84 ip the nuclear waste ban has about 1,000 students. According to have spent a lot more lobbying against approved by the people of Montana last Toole, a class of that size presents a them during the session, he said. November. The state House of Represen­ problem at test time. tatives repealed the law, but the Senate Toole named several groups lobbying Even the help of TAs (teaching recently voted to send the law back to the against the initiative. The Montana Coal assistants) isn’t enough when there are voters. Both houses must now come to a Association and the Montana Mining over 900 tests to correct,” Toole said. J opinions MontPIRG past is hey to future In these times of apathy and moderation, student activism may be returning to the University of Montana. The Montana Public Interest Research Group (MontPIRG) is attempting a comeback. MontPIRG, which will concern itself with research and resolution of social issues, is ideal in its precepts and theories. But it is hoped they have learned from the past and can- avoid pitfalls in the future. In 1976, MontPIRG was dissolved because of inade­ quate funds donated by students. This time around funding again will be optional, but a positive approach to collection is being proposed. By paying fees, students will automatically donate $2 to the MontPIRG fund. If a student objects to this use of his money, it will be refunded to the student during the second or third week of the quarter. MontPIRG also will gamer funds (xm tf&m voting kgmhst m increase unwittingly from students who don’t care either way, or feel it isn’t worth the effort to collect only two bucks. MontPIRG says that it will be democratically maintained because any two consecutive quarters where 50 percent or more of the student body collects letter refunds, the group will be removed from the fee Thanks MLAC provide this service.

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