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Students petition Baucus to keep professor at UM By Shaun Tatarka Staff Writer A UM student has sent a petition signed by 35 UM Russian department students to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., in an attempt to keep a visiting professor from having to return to the former Soviet Union. Judith Dotson, a senior in Russian and history, said she sent the petition in hopes that Baucus could help find money to keep visiting professor Dr. Ludmila Pavlina at UM. Pavlina has spent the last three years at UM teaching first-year Russian language students. “She is an excellent teacher and the only native-speaking Russian professor we have,” Dotson said. “It would be a tragedy to lose her.” Dotson said she chose Baucus because of the national government's recent concerns over Soviet-U.S. relations. “I thought he might be able to find a grant or talk to the governor or something, “Dotson said. “I just don’t think UM can afford to lose WITH LIGHT passing the horizon Tuesday, the Kyi-Yo Indian Club’s drum group sang “round dance” John YoUK*lmin this fascinating window into Russian cul­ songs to about 40 people who danced in the Oval. The Kyi-Yo powwow will start at 6 p.m. at the Harry ture.” Adams Field House, Friday and Saturday. Pavlina, who has 23 years teaching experi­ ence, said she doesn’t know what she will do U.S.,Japan security alliance crucial, speaker says following this school year. She may return to Ukraine University but has been told that Japanese official says U.S. can help resolve Cold War in Asia there will be an 80 percent reduction in the By Tomoko Otake tion, which symbolized the end of leader without le Russian department at Ukraine next year, for the Kaimin the Cold War in Europe, he said. gitimacy.” leaving her future there uncertain. She is Japan will continue its best Okawara currently working in the U.S. on a work Keeping strong security ties possible effort to contribute in the replied to permit. between the United States and international community through his argu­ Russian chairman Paul Maloney said the Japan is crucial, not only for the economic assistance and more ment, department will go back to two full-time bilateral relations but also for balanced trade, but it cannot take saying Japan teachers and one part-time teacher next year. resolving the Cold War in Asia, a a military role because of constitu­ has contrib- He said he didn’t think the department would former Japanese ambassador to the tional restrictions, he said. uted to maintain find any money to keep Pavlina. United States said Tuesday. In return, Donald Hellman, a world peace and stability. According “I could always use an extra teacher, but In the third session of the professor in international studies to Okawara, Japan increased it’s just not in the cards,” Maloney said. Mansfield Conference, Okawara at the University of Washington, economic aid to Third World coun­ James Flightner, dean of arts and sciences, Yoshio said that aspects of the Cold commented on Okawara’s speech, tries and recently sent self-defense said Pavlina’s future at UM was undecided War in Asia, such as the divided saying the United States has forces to war-tom Cambodia. because he wasn’t sure what next year’s Korean peninsula and the territory sheltered Japan for the past 50 A member of the audience, budget would be. dispute between Russia and Japan, years, while paying the cost of the Charlie E. Hood, said the United “With the legislature just wrapping up, we reflect diversified political and Cold war in Asia. States should not blame Japan for won’t know until several weeks,” Flightner social backgrounds. The unification “Japan did not fully participate spending money on the Cold War. said. between communist North Korea in the Cold War,” Hellman said. “What happened was you [Japan] Pavlina’s salary was paid last year by a and capitalist South Korea will not “Participating is a part of legiti­ grew up to be a power like America,” private grant. be as easy as the German unifica­ macy. Japan cannot be a world Hood said. Ambassador urges nations to foot bill for peace By Mark Heinz issue the United Nations must Bosnia or elsewhere, it should brought an era of cooperation for the Kaimin deal with. be paid for out of the military to the United Nations, and it He said if that conflict goes budgets of member nations, could be an effective problem The United Nations has the unchecked, it could engulf the Vorontsov said. solver if properly funded, potential to stop conflicts such entire Baltic region, and Although there is wide­ Vorontsov said. Although it as the civil war in Bosnia, perhaps even the world. spread U.N. support for this may take billions of dollars to but it needs more “Now it can be a idea, he said some nations, bring peace to areas such as economic support from third world war if we such as the United States, are Bosnia, he said by ignoring member nations to do do not stop that hesitant to put forth money them, “we will lose millions of so, the Russian idiocy there,” he said. because of the bad reputation lives.” ambassador to the However, the United Nations gained Vorontsov also said there United Nations said Vorontsov said U.N. during the Cold War. has been tension between Tuesday. air strikes would not Vorontsov said that in the Russia and Japan over the Yuli Vorontsov, who is also YULI VORONTSOV, *«»<» work in Bosnia because there 1950s, the United Nations Kurial islands north of Japan, Russian ambassador to * a member of the U.N. Security is no invading force to repel as was divided into capitalist and which the Soviet Union the United Nations, speaks at the Council, spoke on the U.N. there was during the Persian communist ideological camps claimed at the end of World Mansfield Conference Tuesday. post-Cold War role during the Gulf war. He said the factions that wasted time “shouting at War II. Since the islands have not want to give any more up, second lecture of the 1993 occupy the same areas, and no each other.” little strategic or economic he said. He said the situation Mansfield Conference in the distinct targets could be When Third World nations importance, the conflict has can be resolved, but Japan Montana Theatre. picked out from the air. joined in the 1960s, the been mostly emotional, he should wait for the Russian Vorontsov said factional Instead, he recommended superpowers used the them as economy and social situation warfare, such as the conflict in said. The Russians, who lost harsh economic sanctions. pawns, Vorontsov said. vast areas of territory when to stabilize before asking that Bosnia, is the most important If U.N. force is to be used in The end of Cold War has the Soviet Union collapsed, do the islands be returned. “Kaimin” is a Salish word that means “messages.” Montana Kaimin.Wednesday, April 28.1993 2 MONTANA KAIMIN EDITORIAL BOARD Karen Coates • Mark Heinz • Bill Heisel • Kyle Wood Joe Paisley • Linn Parish • Deborah Malarek Editorials reflect the views of the board. opinion Columns and letters reflect the views of the author. EDITORIAL-------- There is some goodness out there . _ ................. n ------------------------------------------------- lp.nce. of viewing the best of what As I write this column, most of lence, of viewing the best of what man is and should be. the world is unhappy. All we It is a thought that makes me It was a response to values of the contemplative of my previous Column highest order, the unwavering dedication to perfection, the are saying disposition that everyone, includ­ by ing myself, could and should live in unharnessed potential of music to a benevolent universe where real Jamie move, stir and transform the human is give weed evil hasn’t a chance to survive, Kelly soul. much less flourish. As I looked around the room, I saw But, as the cynics say, this is wide eyes glowing with so deep an a chance the real world, “out there,” a world admiration for the musicians that some of them, including mine, Agrowing number of people across of stillborn infants, dead and But that does not matter. What is forgotten soldiers, skin-whipped important is that they were my reproduced a slightly blurred reality. America believe they have found the It was a gift that the musicians answer to some of the nation’s most victims of despotic tyrannies and a emotions, and, though possibly a resounding and omnipresent echo product of my all-too-sensitive and gave to me, freely, though I paid troubling social and economic ills.