Montana Kaimin, May 15, 1975 Associated Students of the University of Montana
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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 5-15-1975 Montana Kaimin, May 15, 1975 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, May 15, 1975" (1975). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 6385. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/6385 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]. Central Board approves new registration plan By DAN McKAY with UM president Richard Bowers that CB Montana Kalmln Reporter would allocate the funds provided they be used for activities that benefit only summer Proposed changes in the registration students. process were endorsed by Central Board (CB) Nockleby said these activities traditionally last night. have been campus recreation, fine arts The changes, presented by Philip Bain, programs and a summer publication. 'Day 1975: director of admissions, include dropping pre A special allocation of $1,000 was approved registration and ending the practice of letting for Gilt Edge, a women's literary magazine, for seniors register first. publication costs. Debra Hartigan, Gilt Edge e a t u fr, cO unfa u fr Another change would be drafting a ten editor, said she hopes the publication will be tative class schedule for the entire academic self supporting in two years. year so students could plan ahead and The Wilderness Studies and Information departments would have an idea of interest in Center was given $499 for trips to gather in O x t c t particular classes. formation on wilderness areas in Montana. The late registration fee and the re Dale Harris, center coordinator, said the quirement for obtaining an overload card for center also receives money from the Sierra taking over 18 credits also would be Club and the Western Montana Fish and Game Aber Day photos eliminated. Association. In other business, CB passed a resolution Harris said the center has supplied in by Ed LaCasse outlining the procedure for allocating summer formation on wilderness to the Sierra Club, activity fee money. Montana’s two senators and other groups. ASUM President John Nockleby said that in Nockleby appointed Dave Hill to continue as the past the UM administration has allocated director of the Student Action Center (SAC). r the money, which he aid has been about Hill was made acting director of SAC by $12,000 to $15,000. former ASUM President Tom Stockburger 1 montana Nockleby said he reached an agreement when the previous director, Tom France, left. K a i m i n m . IIRIIVFRSITY O F MONTANA • STUDENT NEWSPAPER. Thursday, May 15, 1975 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 77, No. 109 Legal fund approved By KARL KNUCHEL got $375. Last yearjt got a special allocation of Montana Kaimin Reporter $200 because the organization was organized during the summer. Central Board (CB) voted last night to in • Rugby Club requested and received clude in its final ASUM budget a $10,000 legal $1,940. Last year it received $1,275. fees and collective bargaining fund. • Women’s Place asked for $1,603.50 and was allocated $1,085. Last year it got $1,191. ASUM President John Nockleby said the • Jubileers requested $800 and received goal of CB was to have the $10,000 in a fund $300. Last year it got $872. when all final ASUM allocations are met. He • Soccer Club asked for and got $1,415. said the fund would not be connected with the Last year it received $1,239. $25,000 emergency reserve fund that was Of the preliminary allocations made last allocated at the first budgeting session. night two organizations had part of their funds Nockleby said there already was a legal fees frozen. Student Activity Fair had $250 frozen fund for ASUM, but did not say how much was until it attempted to get some contracted in it presently. services done through the Physical Plant. The CB voted to add a stipulation to the $250 is the amount estimated that the Physical allocation given to Women’s Intercollegiate Plant would charge the Student Activity Fair to Athletics. The motion states that no fee move tables, pick the tables up after the fair waivers or scholarships shall be given to and to hook up electricity for booths at the fair. women athletes at the University of Montana. The funds were frozen after ar suggestion The motion further states that if any from CB member Carrie Hahn that the ad scholarships or fee waivers are given to ministration might pick up the Physical Plant women athletes no ASUM funds will be given tab because the Student Activity Fair is a part to Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics. of Freshman Orientation Week at the UM. Soccer Club had $75 of its $220 capital CB has allocated $16,402 to Women’s equipment money frozen until it makes a Athletics as a preliminary allocation. All report to CB on the cost of new goal posts. CB preliminary allocations will be subject to CB does not want to pay the estimated $75 for the review before final allocations are made. new posts. During 1974-75 there'*were 10 women athletes on fee waivers at the UM. Next year the proposed number of women’s athletic fee waivers is 28. In other budgeting, preliminary CB inside. • • allocations were made to the following organizations: • Saturday Kegger music review . p. 4 :£ • Computer Club asked for $505 and got • Ofl-campus housing, part two . p. 4 S $240. It did not seek funds last year. • “ In Poor Taste" . p. 6 • Student Activity Fair requested $450, it Marines board captured ship By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Marines last night boarded the U.S. cargo ship Mayaguez, which was seized Monday by Cambodia. The boarding came as radio Phnom Penh broadcast a declaration that the ship would be freed. Earlier in the day American planes sank three Cambodian gunships which were trying to move the Mayaguez crew from Koh Tang, an island about 30 miles offshore to the mainland. President Gerald Ford said the crew was unharmed and the ship was intact, but that Marines who landed on a small island off Cambodia still • were under hostile fire as they sought to disengage following return BXM of the crew. opinion l e t t e r s Choke on it Miscredit Editor: Michael Sol’s interpretation of Ford’s Editor: In response to Larry Warner’s letter of anger concerning negative reaction to Viet May 13: l have been called a moron, a misfit, a namese refugees is, in the true conservative mindless mackerel, a maggot and a naivete, full of water buffalo dung. mealymouth. I have been termed a As a Vietnam veteran, who defended Sol’s butterbrain, a bumbling bimbo and a boob; but high American idealism at Khe Sanh during never (O Lord!) NEVER have l been likened to the Tet offensive of 1968, I find it incredibly that species that can do less than fall sickly repungnent that this country would offer limp or comotose to the "singing” of John shelter to middle class, elitist pigs escaping (Thank God I'm a Country Boy) Denver. from the justice of their countrymen. Come, come now Larry... at least give mis Many of the refugees managed, by virtue of credit only where miscredit is due. their class position and monetary solvency, to buy their sons’ way out of military service. Ron Hauge Many are heavily involved in political repres sophomore, journalism sion of those who did not swallow the American line that capitalism can indeed be ■ montono fun. And, a few, were active in secret police ac tivities from which the Nazis could have learned some new tricks. *\T SURE IS NICE TO SEE THEM C0U.E6E STUDENTS 0EHAAN6 TICMSEIVES >fiAIN!» K a i m i n ---------j L __UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA The fact that 60 per cent of the refugees are rlchard e. lander* editor children says nothing when one realizes that mlchael sol managing editor they would be better off working in production John tteffens business manager Then there is the push of all pushes communes for the benefit of their nation, in Montana—the University of Mon rather than standing in line for McDonald’s hamburgers, hustling quarters on city tana, University Liquid Assets Corp. "Dean. TKm i, sidewalks or being mentally warped by the Benefit Kegger: a thousand kegs of American educational system. The children T f a w e n A it y beer, music, fun, drunkenness, litter, can certainly be forgiven their flight from Viet nam, as many of them had little say in the f o M m e t o injuries—in the name of charity. matter. But their parents can be deemed guilty 6ave anot^en cO uttfa While freaks are still being busted for of their indelible belief in the American way of peddling a joint in the parks, the in-the- life, with all its racism, fascism and passionate over-consumption of natural resources. Published every Tuesday,. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of system pushers are promoting mass the school year by the Associated Students of the University of The Vietnamese refugees have swallowed Montana. The School of Journalism utilizes the Montana Kaimin W .