Welcome back to MSU and good luck getting across or1er1 campus! ASMSU Ex onent · Tuesday, August 30, 1994 VOL. 87 NO. 4 • Emplo}'ees of parking lot awaits Barnard Construction work on the utility tunnel, Malone's approval through the on both the east and west ends of the field middle of campus. The n Hedge across from Johnstone Center, while grass poncnr new> editor would replace the pavement where Cleve­ tunnel will land Street currently runs. As a result, there house the stearn­ Faced with congested parking on cam­ would be green space from Johnstone Cen­ condensate lines, , the UniYersu:y facilities Planning and ter to Montana Hall. along with other ttlization Board (Uf PUB) has proposed The lot would pro\'ide approximately utility lines and e dc\'elopment of a new parking lot, 250 additional parking spaces for on-cam­ will be accessible ccss1blc to residents of Hannon and pus residents of the northeast corner of to service apncr halls, the Quads and Johnsrone campus, according to Lashaway Con­ personnel. enrer. struction would be expected to start some­ Completion of The implementation of the Bozeman time in Apnl of 1995, with completion of the bUlk of the es1dent1al Parking D1stnct, which limited the project before classes start in the fall of work is expected rkmg on streets~ near Montana State to 1995. In the meantime, Lashaway added around 1e re;idents of chose streets 8 a.m. to 5 that lighting along Cleveland Street will be December 1, m., has added further stress to the already 11npro\'ed to compensate for the long walk although the lrnted parking available in the northeast from the lot across Langford co Hannon. fence barriers >mer of campus. To compensate for the In assessing the need for additional will not be st parking, the lot south of Langford Hall parking on campus, the UFPUB took into removed until his been designated H parking for resi­ consideration the response to a survey on next spring, :ncs of Hannon, Hapner and the Quads. parking, issued last spring, along with in­ when the owe\·er, the added parking for those resi­ formation gathered from open forums con­ --:;.::.1 landscaping will :nts, whom arc mostly female, has its ducted last May. From such, they con­ 4 be complete. aw backs. cluded that students and faculty overwhelm­ "It's basically four or five blocks from ingly farnrcd some kind of parking reform. !irking to Hamion, so it JUSt isn't conve­ To help ease the burden that the new c:nc for those residents," Director of Fa­ Bozeman city ordinance and the construc­ iries Sernccs, Bob Lashaway commented. tion of the Engineering/Physical Sciences IfMSU President Michael Malone gives Project arc bringing to campus parking, the 1c go-ahead on the .:onstruction of the UFPUB recommended, and Malone subse­ ·Jot, Ck\·eland Street from Eighth Av­ quently approved the construction ofa new aue ro 11th A venue, would cease to exist. see Parking page 14 ere would be two rows of parking added photo b)' Nuh;an 1-lo~uJ Construction maze will remain through spring semester tion should be completed near the be completed until the next con­ ply digging where any problems students on current and upcom­ end of the semester. strucnon season, near the begin­ occurred. The new tunnels, which ing events, MSU President Michael Montana State Facilities Plan­ ning ofspring; for that reason, the will house the new sream-conden­ Malone explained the financing of ner Cecilia Vaniman expects the fences will not be removed. s a tc lines It appears that the fences and completion of the utiliry runnels, According to Vaniman, the along with "It is probably one of the most important :smcted areas currently holding along with the majority of the steam-condensate heating lines fiber optic projects ever undertaken on this campus. We pmpus hostage will not be re­ final sidewalks, lighting and re­ that formerly served campus were cables and can t spend millions to beautifx this campu O\'ed until sometime next spring, grading, by Dec. 1. She noted, rapidly deteriorating and there was eventually and continually dig [pipes] up. lthough the bulk of the construe- however, the landscaping will not no access to them, other than sim- other utili­ Cecilia Vaniman, Facilities Planner ties that cross campus, will provide access the project, in face of IO\\ salaries points where repairs can be com­ and operations budgets. In the pleted without disturbing campus memo, he stipulated that the nm­ landscaping. nel project, along with impro,·ed "It is probably one of the most campus lighting and the building important projects ever undertaken of another family housing unit, on this campus," Vaniman said "arc all funded by sa\•mgs gener­ "We can't spend millions to beau­ ated from rcfinancmg our bond tify this campus and continually issues, raking advantage of the Jo,,· dig [pipes] up." interest rares that prc\'a1led last Vaniman stated that MSU of­ year." He further explained that ficials originally requested that the since the bonds ha\'e to be repaid "' company contracted for the they must be tied to re\•cnue project, Barnard Construction, streams-in rh1s case, mainly resi­ work on one secnon of campus at dence hall fees. a time; however, Barnard insisted Following the complenon of on working on the project as a the tunnel project next spring, whole, in return for completing construction on the centennial mall the rwo-year proicct in one. The will begin, dependent on available tJ company also agreed to keep three private contribunom. Accordmg HC ~£ 1-- corridors across the site open at all to Vaniman, the mall wit! pronde nmes to help case the flo\\ of campus with a \'isual, focal point, _, ni 8 traffic as much as possible. and will be centered around Mon­ In a memo to faculty, staff and tana Hat!. 2 Tuesday, August 30, 1994 t\S~1~L Exponent President Malone 'MONTANA STATE anticipates 'hectic,' UNIVERSITY ram;;,mlti':ff Tu . but very vital year \f\t (O\f\Jl \/T) , mumcattons network, mreractivc Michael Malone telecommumcations studios, and Prcs1dcm, Montana Stace increased collaboration in software and administrative systems. We As we approach Academic Year believe that the MSU presence in 1994-95, the rush of events prom­ these communities - all of our ises to make this one of the most units have a common first name - hectic and vital years in the history will be of considerable benefit to of the university. This memo is an this campus. attempt to apprise you of what to New Administrators: Re­ expect. It will be followed up by an placing Jim Isch as Vice President open forum on October 3. The for Admmistrarion and Finance is various institutional Rob Specter, who strategics discussed be­ comes to us from the low generally follow Iowa H igher Educa­ recommendations re­ tion system. Our new cently made by the Vice Provost for Stu­ Long-Range Planning dent Affairs and Ser­ Committee. vices is Allen Yarnell, The Montana BOZEMAN formerly at UCLA. Re- Stare University Sys- placing Don Clark as tem: Became effective Director of Interna­ on 1 July. The system consists of tiona I Education 1s ' orman MSU-Bozcman (Yes, that 1s our Peterson, from Washington, D.C. new name, like the University of Anthony Barnovsky, the new Di­ TexasAu~tin or the University of rector of the Yellowstone Center Wisconsin-Madison), for Mountain Environments, is MSU-Billings, and currently a member of the faculty MSU-Norrhcrn. The MSU Col­ at Berkeley; he will join us lege of Technology-Great Falls is, part-time this year, full time next. in fact, a college of this campus, Legislative strategics: We arc whose dean, Will \Veavcr, reports still at an early stage in this pro­ ro Provost Mark Emmert. The cess, bur from the perspective of former Billings VoTech Center is this campus and system - and I am now a college of M U-Billings. sure also from the perspective of We began the process ofcreating a the: entire Montana University collaborative and integrative sys­ System - the top priority will be system consolidaoon and the wear­ consideration of the total "size" of 1zed or a more decentralized 1 tem at a 3-day retreat in Billings faculty and staff salaries and the ing impact of year after year of the b baccalaureate degree; stream­ rem. For another, 1t 1s time· during late June. Through a pro­ enhancement of our badlr dete­ budget cutting, the time 1s appro­ lining sequenc111g requirements to conduct national searches for bo rated contribution offunding from riorated Opcranons budgc'ts. An­ priate to appoint such a commit­ allow smooth progress through Dean of Libraries and Director each unit, half of Rolf Groseth's other key goal of MSU will be tee, and Provost Mark Emmert courses; and new pedagogical ap­ the Office of Svsrems and Crn time is now dnoted to the role of legislative apprm al of the will soon do so The charge to this proaches. puring Services' To what exte System Coordinator. Considerable AgrirnlturalB1osc1ence addition to task force will be to review oppor­ Information Services Strat­ should these two units, which : progress has already occurred, most the Plant Growth Center. Since tunities for reforming the univer­ egics: As the Long-Range Plan­ clearly on com·erging paths, notably the renegotiation of this addition will be funded by sity curriculum 111 ways that en­ ning Committee has recom­ integrated? To assist in addres 1 , bonded mdcbtcdncss for the Bill­ federal and prt\'atc sources, the hance learning while maintaining mended, it is rime for some fo­ these questions, I shall be appo11 ings and Northern campuses, issue here will im·olve che scare and even increasing efficiency of cused decision making regarding ing a special task force after Lal:­ which as part of our larger system assuming ownership of che prop­ cost and effort.