Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Killed at MSU by Ginny Prior Ministration for S 15.000
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Tuesday, October 30, 1973 BOZEMAN.MONTANA Volume 65, No. 5 Women's intercollegiate athletics killed at MSU By Ginny Prior ministration for S 15.000. This Dr. Ellen Kreighbaum. in a amount would have covered statement made to the salaries for one full time faculty Exponent yesterday. said that member and one T.A. to coach Womens Intercollegiate basketball. volleyball, track. and Athletics will end with the gymnastics. resumption of winter quarter. The two coaches would be According to Kreighbaum. hired on a ten month basis director of womens sports at through the physical education MSU. the athletics program has department and be on academic been allotted no money for the rank. hiring of coaches. Coaches would be contracted Womens Intercollegiate for only ten months because Athletics have been receiving none of the womens sports take funds from ASMSU since 1967. up a full year. There is no Th is year they were approved a scouting. recruiting, entertain travel and equipment budget of ing orreviewing of films involved nearly SB.DOO. ASMSU is not in the coaching aspect as far as responsible, however. for paying womens sports at MSU goes. wages to faculty or coaches. The full time faculty member This money must ·come from of the coaching team was the state budget given to MSU specified to be a physical each year. educator at MSU to avoid The MSU budget is controlled problems of job security and Kreighbaum: "If the students wanted the Johnstone: "As far as women's athletics by a group of administrators conflicts of interest. program bad enough, perhaps they could push being equal to men's. it's just not true." called the MSU budgeting In the budget conclusion was it." Photo by Prior committee. a statement of legal ramifica Womens Intercollegiate tion. By Federal law, institutions Athletics have requested are required to provide equal budgets from this committee for programs for men and women. Cheyennes fight to save land from coal more than five years now. which includes coaches. "We have been denied a salaries. facilities. equipment, The Northern Cheyenne tribe of eastern Another Administration official said. " Unless budget for coaching funds every desirable practice times. travel Montana has mounted a legal drive to block the the coal is dug up promptly, it probably will not be year. President Mcintosh seems expenses, etc. mining of several tons of coal on their reservation. available to meet our growing energy needs until to be fully sympathetic to our Kreighbaum concluded to the Last week a delegation of Cheyennes journeyed the mid-19BO's." needs, but unfortunately the committee . that tremendous to Washington. D.C. and attempted to elicit a The Cheyenne's legal memorandum charges money is apprently in vice potential from high school decision from Department of Interior Officials on that the Bureau of Indian Affairs has committed 36 president Johnstone's hands ... women in sports has been the status of coal leases on the reservation. A violations of law in approving leases that would Kreighbaum retorted. evident. hearing was held Wednesday, but nothing was give four corporations the right to mine 60 percent " If we had a good program of resolved. Interior officials elected to hold off for six of the 444.000 acre reservation. They assert that THE BUDGET PROPOSAL Womens Intercollegiate weeks before deciding if the coal contracts are the proposed mining operations " would wreck 1973-74 Athletics here at MSU, we could valid. cultural, social and ecological havoc ... Womens Intercollegiate draw a Jot more student enroll- According to members of the delegation. their The corporations involved are the Peabody Coal Athletics asked the ad- (Continued on page 10) trip was in vain and Interior Department Solicitor Co .. the Consolidated Coal Co .. of Pittsburgh, Kent Frizzell " acted like he didn't give a damn." American Metal Climax and Chevron Oil. Peabody " America needs the Indian's coal.'' said Frizzell. and Consolidated are the two largest strip mining Last March. tribal leaders asked Interior Secre companies in the country. ACLU conducting poll tary Rogers C. B. Morton to cancel all existing At least one Interior official has taken exception permits and leases for coal exploration and to Frizzell's plahing the role of arbiter in the mining. That petition marked the first time Indians dispute. " The Department is supposed to act as a on out-of state fees have made a serious attempt to void an existing trustee for the Indians:· said the official. "Our job The American Civil Liberties ten of this issue of the strip-mining contract with a major coal cornpany. is to represent their rights. not the coal Union recently formed a sub EXPONENT. The petition came at a particularly sensitive companies. committee to gather information This poll, which is being time, because the White House was then on regulations concerning out of published in a II university The Cheyennes feel that their future as a unified negotiating an end to the crisis at Wounded Knee. state tuition. papers in Montana. will provide people is being jeopardized by the BIA's opening of " The government is anxious to avoid another According to sub-committee the committee with a list of their land to corporate coal exploitation ... For most. Wounded Knee:· said one administration official chairman Kurt Krueger. "Our people and their circumstances their land is the last thing they have. familiar with the Cheyennes charges against the organization feels that the concerning out of state tuition. The coal companies are anxious to begin BIA. The official noted that so far the Cheyennes present criteria for determining Percentages of out of state operations before Congress sets minimum " have worked within the system" and as a result payment of out of state tuition students filling present standards for land reclamation during and after the Interior Department has given their petition fees is arbitrary in nature." residency requirements and " top priority ... strip-mining. " There is nothing specific that being rejected by the registrar really establishes what will be calculated. residency is ... The committee will then One of ACLU 's main goals in decide at their November Linda Lewis here in free concert this project is to define a set of meeting the course of action definite criteria by which an out they will take. Strange. the difference a hit whose business it is to know few who would 'make it' in the of stater may establish residency record can make. A couple of what's happening on the coming year. for all purposes including "We will be making a file of potential law suits. and can years back, when Linda Lewis contemporary music scene, and She was born in the East End academic. of London where her grand This criteria will hopefully be either carry them out or present was first signed to the Reprise more important still, what's label. and released her first solo father has settled from the West adopted for all university them to th~. Board of Regents as about to happen. announced to a warning album " Say No More" a small, Indies. Attended stage school at systems in the state. the world at large that Miss ACLU is asking for the yet select band of British a tender age; and (incidentally The committee's chief cooperation of a II out of state Journalists, D.J .'s. radio and T.V. Linda Lewis was most certainly • information gathering device (Continued on page 2) students in filling out this poll. Producers. and other people a name to watch; one of select will be the poll printed on page Post secondary in Helena By Ginny P rior Adult and Continuing Educa hearings on this draft report The Commission on Post tion, Faculty Research. Fiscal have then been scheduled for Secondary Education met in and Budgetary Information, the months of August and Helena last Tuesday to discuss Health Care Education , September. their proposed study plan for the Manpower planning and post- 73-74 year. s econ d a r y education . The final report to the Present from the commission programmatic planning , governor, legislature and State were director Pat Callan. Deputy relationships between post Board of Education will be some Director George Bousl1man, and secondary institutions. student time in November and December Assistant Director JoEllen enrollment . admission , of 1974. Estenson. retention and progress. survey ASMSU will be working on a The three directors talked with research. and television and campus hearing for sometime in representatives from colleges educational technology. the future. This hearing will be and universities in Montana as Upon completion of the publicized and anyone will be to how they could effectively information gathered by these welcome to express their ideas · inform Montanans of their goals. technical committees, a draft on post-secondary education in ASUM president and com report will be drawn up. Public the state of Montana. mission member Garry South suggested the idea of holding campus forums with district commission members for the public to attend. Linda Lewis It was felt that if these forums • • • were publictzed sufficiently they (Continued from page 1) notice her. and she supported could be highly informative to appeared in films like Help and such artists as Richie Havens, both the commission and the Frightened City) progressed to a Elton John and Family on major public. convent school where she first concert dates around Britain. The 30 member commission began to take an interest in Then she recorded her second adopted their 73-74 study plan music (extra curricular. solo album 'Lark' electing to October first. naturally); jammed one night produce herself (with Family They will be investigating with John Lee Hooker who, guitarist Jim Cregan) and using higher education in the state on much impressed, brought her to a selection of eminent two levels ; student the attention of sundry vips in musicians to supplement her characteristic surveys and the the music business; continued guitar and piano setting up of technical com to play around London clubs accompaniments.