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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 1-31-2002 Montana Kaimin, January 31, 2002 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, January 31, 2002" (2002). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 9506. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/9506 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]. Lady Griz look to declaw Bobcats Friday. --------- P a g e 6 Dr. David Bell rings in the New Year as the Curry Health Center’s new director. P a g e 3 ---------► IVWNTArCi KAIflSH Kaimin is a paper T h i M f i y Avalanche seminar focuses on safety in wake of accidents Tuition Chris Rodkey “Right now the layer of snow “It’s hard to tell when education The Outdoor Program’s other Montana Kaimin that caused the recent avalanche works,” Buecking said, “but for as avalanche safety efforts include still persists,” said Improta, also many people who recreate in the increase With the deaths of four snow- interactive presentations about assistant director of programs at hackcountry around Missoula, basic snow safety with grade mobilers near Bonner on winter Campus Rec. Improta has been there are very few incidents.” enthusiasts’ minds, students and school students. e x p e c te d giving the s e m i n a r at UM for The seminar teaches the rela community members took part in Those who wish to leam more over 20 years. He said the num tionships between athletes and the Outdoor Program’s annual ava about avalanche safety can attend ber of human-triggered avalanch lanche seminar this week, learning their environment in the snow. workshops on Feb. 10 or Mar. 2, in 2004 es has been high this year, but important safety skills to avoid Improta said three factors — where outdoor enthusiasts can Bryan O’Connor the actual number is unknown, entanglements in snow slides. weather, terrain and snowpack spend a full day in the field learn Montana Kaimin since records are usually not The three-part seminar includ — combine to create avalanche ing safety techniques. The cost is kept. There have been two slides ed two nights of presentations and danger. $39 and includes transportation UM students who are lan that resulted in deaths. will feature a field trip to “I don’t think anybody’s a and some equipment guishing on the five to seven Kris Buecking, manager for Snowbowl Sunday to dig pits in believer (in avalanche safety) until For more information on ava year program may want to con the Outdoor Program, said the the snow and examine the layers you see one set off,” said Improta. lanche safety, contact the UM sider graduating on time current weaknesses are in the of the snowpack. About 80 people Before heading out for the day, Outdoor Program at 243-5172 or because tuition could go up in upper part of the snowpack, and took part in the seminar, the third outdoor enthusiasts with a visit their website at 2004, according to the Office of people have been accustomed the one of the year. Attendance was on knowledge of winter backcountry www.umt.edu/campusrec/out- the Commissioner of low-risk conditions from earlier par with years past, Dudley safety should check the West door.htm Education. Improta, one of the lecturers said. in the season. With efforts like Central Montana avalanche advi The West Central Montana Rod Sundsted, associate Danger conditions are still high the avalanche seminar, both she sories from the Forest Service, avalanche report can be accessed commissioner for fiscal affairs, and Improta hope that tragedy around the Missoula area. and weigh the risks of danger at www.fe.fed.us/rl/lolo/ava-. told the Kaimin on Wednesday can be prevented. with the enjoyment of the snow. lanche/advisoiy.htm his initial estimates show that there will have to be about a 4 Frozen in time percent increase in tuition for the 2004-2005 budget. The Montana Board of Regents will begin official discussions and planning this spring, so the exact percentage may vary. Sundsted said his estimates are based on the university employee pay increases that are being phased in right now. “There may be some other issues that contribute to that,” Sundsted said. “But the pay increases will be the main fac tor.” The university system’s budget is calculated over a two- year period, concurrent with the state Legislature’s session. Roughly one third of the univer sity system’s total funding comes from tuition, and the rest comes from the Legislature. On Tuesday, UM President George Dennison said the prob able tuition increase was briefly mentioned at the last Board of Regents meeting, but he said it was only part of a larger discus sion on budget requests for the upcoming biennium. “Three-point five to 4 percent was probably mentioned, but the discussion really didn’t focus on what the (tuition) level would be,” Dennison said. “There will be a lot more discus A dusting of snow falls on the Maureen and Mike Mansfield statue Wednesday afternoon. Josh Parker/Montana Kaimin sion in March about this.” Based on a set of projections, each university will set a tenta Public gets first glimpse of rare Crow collection tive tuition level for the upcom ing biennium, then plan a budg Kellyn Brown customs and language of the Sim Dance lodge in the back adopted member of the tribe. et request based on that. The for the Kaimin Crow Indian culture were donat ground and a Crow man cleaning Voget contributed to several main variable in the equation is ed to UM by his widow, Mary UM is the envy of the a hide with a woman watching books, including the prestigious the amount of money the Kay Voget, a 1939 UM graduate. and caring for her baby. Several “Handbook of Native American Legislature gives the Board of Smithsonian Institution, Yale He died May 8,1997. University and various other Crows setting up lodge preparing Indians” published by the Regents to dole out to the uni The collection consists of for a Sun Dance. organizations across the country Smithsonian. He also was a versities. numerous Shorthand notes and There are no pictures of the thanks to a recent addition to the finalist for the Western Writers Facing $40 million in debt pictures taken throughout the actual Sun Dance though. K. Ross Toole Archives at UM’s of America Spur Award for best and obtaining less money from 1930s. Many centered around the Allison-Bunnell said this was the Legislature than was Mansfield Library. non-fiction book of 1995 for his Crow Sun Dance. done out of respect for his sub desired, the Board of Regents “It’s nice to beat out the big book “They Call Me Agnes.” Allison-Bunnell has her jects, who didn’t want sacred cer “Fred Voget was a preeminent was forced to approve a 13 per guns,” said archivist Jodi Allison- favorites: A picture of Pete emonies to be photographed. cent increase in tuition for both Bunnell. culture anthropologist of his day” Lefthand overlooking his Crow Voget developed a close rela said Greg Campbell, chair of the the 2002 and 2003 school years. Noted anthropologist and encampment with a pipe in his tionship with the tribe by spend anthropology department at UM. In each of the two years prior to American Indian ethnologist Fred hand, sitting, his hat pulled over ing part of every summer in “He spent almost his whole_____ that, students saw 4.3 percent W. Vogefs works depicting the his eyes to block the sun, and a Montana and he became an See COLLECTION, page 8 increases in tuition. 2 Montana Kaimin, Thursday, January 31, 2002 [email protected] O pinion Editorial Around the Oval Sept. 11 shouldn't silence Question: Did you watch President Bush’s State of the imperative discussions Union Address? Times are tough for the modem activist. Follow up: What did you think about it, or what did And Thursday in New York may just be the event to prove this you do instead of watching? beyond a shadow of a doubt. Two-thousand corporate leaders from around the world will meet and mingle at the annual World Economic Forum, but they won’t be alone. The forum, started in 1971, traditionally finds •Tom H a y e s home nestled in a ski village in Switzerland, but this year the sophomore, history gathering has been moved to New York, organizers say, to show solidarity for the city. No. I went to an avalanche seminar. The activists within the anti-globalization movement say oth erwise. The forum, they say, has been uprooted because if there is anywhere in the world right now where you can shut up a pro tester, it’s New York, U.S A. The forum has been gamering more and more fire from pro testors since the movement started picking up speed a few years ago. We all remember what happened in Seattle in 1999 at the WTO protest. That debacle was just the first big picture we saw of the movement.