Montana Kaimin, October 30, 1991 Associated Students of the University of Montana

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 10-30-1991 Montana Kaimin, October 30, 1991 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, October 30, 1991" (1991). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 8394. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/8394 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]. WEDNESDAY October 30,1991 Vol. 94. Issue 19 RaimiThe University of Montana N Student reps to join in stand against tuition increases By Kathy McLaughlin Kaimin Reporter Students will plead their case Thursday morning to the State Board of Regents against a tuition increase in January, the vice president of ASUM said Wednesday. Dana Wickstrom said student representa tives from each university will meet before the regents meeting Thursday to discuss how they should approach the board. She also said ASUM members wi 11 not arrive in Bozeman in time to join MSU students in a “peaceful pro test” at 9 a.m. outside the building where the regents are scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Right now, Wickstrom said, the regents have scheduled ten minutes for student repre Dawn Reiners/Kainun sentatives from each school to speak. The BURTON LEVIN, former ambassador to Hong Kong, speaks optimistically about the British colony’s future under students have decided to combine their alloted Chinese sovereignty In a Tuesday lecture. times and give one presentation. “At the mass meeting, the students will form a unified front and Kirk Lacey will make the entire presentation,” she said. Lacey is the Socialist China may follow Hong Kong president of Montana Associated Students. The students wi 11 probably choose to ask the regents not to raise tuition at all or raise tuition in adopting market system, speaker says by the lowest proposed amount, Wickstrom said. By Shen Fuyuan lecture co-sponsored by the Mansfield Cen change earnings comes from trade with The options which stand before the Board of for the Kaimin ter and the UM Asian Studies Committee. Hong Kong, he said. Hong Kong is also Regents right now would: Hong Kong, a British colony on the by far the largest investor in China, ac •Option 1—increase tuition by $7.50 per A former U.S. ambassador to Hong Kong southern coast of China, will revert to counting for about 70 percent of China’s semester credit hour ($3.75 per quarter credit said Tuesday he is optimistic about the China’s sovereignty in 1997 according to a foreign investment. hour) and cut the university system budget by territory’s future after observing the “evolu 1984 agreement between China and Brit With the economic development will $4.5 million by July, 1992. $1.03 million of tion process’’ in China toward a market ain. The treaty guarantees that Hong Kong come political pluralism, Levin said, and these cuts would be made at UM. economy and its developing political plural will maintain its current political and eco people will have less patience with au •Option 2—increase tuition by $10 per se ism. nomic system for 50 years after 1997, Levin thoritarian rule. Technocrats, or intellec mester credit hour ($5 per quarter credit hour) Burton Levin, the U.S. consul general to said. tuals, will also play a larger role, he said. and cut higher education funding by a total of Hong Kong from 1980 to 1986, said that According to Levin, China’s economic Levin also said “unification” has al $3.58 million. UM would be forced to make despite the present Chinese leaders’ adher and political interest in Hong Kong will ways been a fundamental policy in Chi $841,000 in reductions. ence to socialism, the market economy is al soensure the territory’s stability and pros nese history. He added that China’s de •Option 3—increase tuition by $15 per se- more effective in Hong Kong than in Fast perity after 1997. sire to unify with Taiwan, an island occu mestercredithour($7.50 per quarter credithour) European countries. Currently, Hong Kong is the major ex pied by Chinese Nationalists, will also and reduce spending by $2.17 million, $451,000 “In China, reality and rhetoric are mov porter of Chinese goods to the world and shape the political relationship between of which would come from the UM budget ing in opposite directions,” Levin said at a about 40 percent of China’s foreign ex China and Hong Kong after 1997. UM employee wins Noon rally offers last chance award for assisting to fight tuition raises at UM, people with disabilities says ASUM business manager By Nicole week, and was presented to her Marlenee by the Governor’s Committee By Kathy McLaughlin when your tuition goes up.” to cut $6.8 million from the univer Kaimin on Employment of People with Kaimin Reporter ASUM representatives decided sity system budget by July 1992. Reporter Disabilities. to have the rally after UM President The regents made the offer in Crego said.she felt really Students who want to protest a George Dennison told the commis response to Gov. Stan Stephens* People honored to receive this award proposed tuition increase at UM sioner of higher education last week request for $21 million in univer with disabili and appreciates the individual should attend an ASUM sponsored he could only make budget cuts at sity system reductions to help bal ties who are respect for her work and com rally today, the business manager ance an expected state budget defi looking for a mitment. for ASUM said last week. "If you don't come to cit. According to three options of job in the UM The purpose of the week is to “You’re going to have $210 this rally, don't fered by the regents, UM has to cut system can rest assured they have raise the public conscious about crammed down your throat unless about $2 million this year through someone in their comer. complain when your hiring people with disabilities you attend this rally,” Paula a series of tuition increases and Kathy Crego, director of hu and to give credit to employees, Rosenthal said. tuition goes up," budget reductions. man resources at the University said Hal Pulling, who nominated Rosenthal said if enough students ASUM Business Manager ASUM Sen. J.V. Bennett said of Montana, received a service Paula Rosenthal Crego for the award. Pulling is show up at noon in front of Main Tuesday, “I think it’s important achievement award last Friday an employee at Missoula De Hall she hopes university adminis UM by raising tuition $105 per that people show up for the rally if for her assistance in employing velopmental Service Corpora trators will rethink their suggestion quarter. Any less, and the “integ they ’re concerned about the tuition workers with disabilities. tion. to increase tuition. “This is our last rity” of the university would suffer, increase.” The award was a part of Na Pulling said Crego deserves chance,” Rosenthal said. Dennison said. “The amount of people who tional Employment of Workers the award because she has “ac- “This is the rally you cannot af Dennison made the proposal to come to the rally will be a direct with Disabilities Week, held last See "Crego," page 8 ford to miss,” she said. “If you don’t the commissioner last week after come to this rally, don’t complain the State Board of Regents offered See "Rally," page 8 Wednesday, October 30, 199] 2 On eve of Middle East peace talks Police Beat Jewish, Arab problems Girls 'scout' new territory with scam; not 'black and white,' fire in the hatch raises stink in UC American rabbi says Editor’s Note: this article is a Thurman said the girls did not Transient By Julie Burk communities because they “don’t listing of the reports registered collect any money and have since want to assimilate with each other,” for the Kaimin with the UM Policefor the week of been warned by UM police about he added. Oct. 22-29. This will be a regular “engaging in this type of activity in ordered to Despite U.S. State Department Whenever peace talks arise, As- feature of the Kaimin.) the future.” cherman said, each side says, “great “It was basically two young girls assurances in 1950 that there were avoid UC idea, but they (Arabs or Jews) don’t who were bored with their life and “too many problems” and it was “not viable” for Israel to survive as want peace.” decided to add some excitement by A long-haired bearded transient a new state, the country continues More than 40 organizations in taking orders for girl scout cook was warned by UM police about to exist, an American rabbi who Israel are working on Jewish-Arab ies,” he said. hanging around the UC, Thurman lived in an Arab village in Israel for relations, trying to dispel stereo said Tuesday. types, Aschcrman said. Richard Cancemi, homeless two years said Tuesday at UM. But,Rabbi Arik Aschcrman said, Many organizations are discus and unemployed, was cited in two Man avoids sion groups, in which Jews and UM police reports last week for it is a country whose peoples, Jews Cookie and Arabs, have “very real reasons Arabs try “to form personal bonds,” 'hot seat' in loitering in the UC.

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