No Hot Dogs Here FF A!ers kill elephant with toothbrush page2 Ivy league violates anti­ trust laws page2 Features Chelsea Wessel takes steps page 13 I Unpardoned i Pasta page 14 l Sports l Cliff notes page 15 l Bobcats kick off 1 season against : Sacramento page 15 The Salt Co. Advisor, Chris McRae, hands out icecream on a hot Monday. No hot dogs here. See a hot dog on page 2. I tHA elects two new officers Malone on Montana State thrones across campus. Scott intends to during off-hours for working mothers or : Julie Flaming make the Potty Press into a more Jody Holzworth other students preferring to enroll in -ponent news editor informative and entertaining publication Exponent editor evening classes would expand MSU's this year. horizons, according to Malone. "My position will be to raise the quality MSU Presiden tMike Malone still has Course registration needs improving, Barb Wirth and Kevin Scott were and quantity ofthe Potty Press,"reiterated goals for the university amidst a budget Malone said. This fall students spent scted this week as the newest members Scott, explaining that his ultimate goal is crisis. hours in long lines to register. He is L the Interhall Residence Hall to see more informed residence halls. Malone is focusing on considering touch tone registration to :;ociation's Executive Board, according Black confirmed the ratification of undeq~raduate's experiences by eliminate long lines and difficulty in Interhall RHA President Rebecca RHA's new constitution. The new increasmgthe counseling, class offerings receiving needed classes. ick. The other members of the constitution pares an eight page document and overall quality of education for Plans have been established to tear up tecutive Board were elected last May. down to only three, Jared Shockley, vice freshmen and sophomores. He plans to the pavement of Garfield in center of Wirth will fill a vacant position as the president of personnel, said. Old initiate additional rewards for campus and place additional lawn, trees ,ond vice president of programming. committees and positions which have since undergraduate instructors who teach and benches in the area. MSU is also e will act as coordinator of RHA been replaced by ASMSU committees or large classes. working to get funding for completing '•grams sponsored both b_y Interhall other leadership structures were removed "We need to focus more on students Ryon Lab of the Engineering Building ii by the individual residence halls. from the constitution. during their freshman and sophomore expanding the Plant Growth Center ana thleen Sullivan is the other vice The programming committee was cut years because that is the most important adding parking and lighting. }'s!dent of programming. The two vice down to the two vice presidents of time for a student," Malone said. "The recent parking changes near J'S~dents of programming help the halls programming, while a new elections Expanding MSU's research mission Seventh Street are partofa plan to beautify e1ve program funding, as well as aid committee will establish a definitive and generating additional research the campus," Malone said. •>rs and halls in contacting speakers election policy with established rules for funding is another goal. Currently After MSU shouldered two million 1d suppliers for activities, Wirth running RHA elections, continued extramural research funding is 25 dollars in cuts during the Special J1lained. Shockley. million dollars annually. Malone hopes Legislative Session, receiving funds from 'One of my main goals is to get a lot of Procedures for fund requests are now to increase it by 25 percent. different alumni, foundations and Hple involved and to show them that outlined in a more definite structure. Offering telecommunications courses corporations is becoming increasingly .A is a lot offun," Wirth said. The new constitution sets the number is on Malone's "to do" list. Courses such important. Additional cuts could Kevin .Sco~t's task as vice president of of voting members from each hall at three, as Oriental language, not cur;ently eventually lead to fewer faculty positions -n mumcat1ons should receive a royal offered at MSU would be taught via ---------------- / .(come-The Potty Press is read on See more on "RHA," page 2 satellite. Delivery of these courses See more on "Malone," page 2 SNEWS 2 • Friday, September 4, 1992 • A \1 L f,ponent The Collegiate FFA on tour FFA," Shawn Fladager, state Third Vice President Meta Loftsgaarden said. The workshops will stress both the team and Exponent staff writer individual aspects of leadership, according to Fladager. State FFAadvisor Leonard Lombardi will travel Five ofMSU's top freshman agricultural leaders with the officers to provide in-service education will travel statewide on a high school leadership with agricultural education instructors. Lombardi tour next week Darin Oelkers, Chris Heggem, believes the District Leadership Schools benefit Heidi Hougen, Laura Lambrecht and Shawn the state officers as well. Fladager are state officers with the Montana FFA "The officers get the opportunity to pass on Association. FFA is an agriculture youth information and skills acquired from national organization with activities ranging from public training;· Lombardi said. He ,;ews the workshops spC' ak ing and parliamentary procedure to mechanics as an excellent chance for personal development. and bu!<iness management. The officers developed their own workshops to The group will leave September 14 to present present to high school students. They plan to leadership workshops to high school students in develop leadership on all levels. Workshops include Joliet, Winifred, Augusta, Arlee and Manhattan. teamwork/cooperation: officer duties: "What's in it The District Leadership Schools are brought to for mer-an individual development workshop­ FFA members across the state in order to develop and "How to kill an elephant with a toothbrush," a leadership and teach officer duties to high school workshop on creative thinking. members. The other five members of the FFA state officer This year's theme for the workshops is "FFA­ team w1ll be travelling to Hinsdale, Wolf Point, Challenging the Olympic Dream." Plevna and Hyshem, also presenting leadership "We hope to develop the most in FFA members so workshops. Matt Raven, an adjunct assistant thev can make a difference in their school and professor in the Agriculture and Technology community,n State Second Vice President Darin Education Department at MSU, will be working Oelkers said. with the teachers forthe District Leadership schools "I hope to increase member awareness of the in these towns. "Malone"-----from page 1 and lean class offerings, Malone said. "I'm not goinl[ to advocate steep tuition hikes," Last school year's steep tuition increases of$7 Malone said. I predict only minimal tuition per credit for in-state and $47 per credit for out-of­ increases this year.n sta te students placed MSU at peer level for tuition According to Malone, MSU has been budget prices. These recent tuition increases account for trimming for six years and is running out of things a 20 percent rise in cost for the average Montana to cut. student while state funding plunged below peer "If the state continues to cut the universitr's level, according to Malone. budget, that means lost opportunities," he said. Malone has spent many hours meeting with "Administration and research funds have been cut foundations and alumni attempting to gel to the limit while we have done our best to shelter additional funding. Funds created during Malone's the instructional budget. Any additional cuts could recent travels totalled $700,000 . He plans to put MSU in an emergency mode." continue his search for university money. Malone is hoping for an increase in state funding "I believe funding from foundations is the key in the future. to MSU's future since state funding is quickly "Montana's university system is at the bottom of depreciating," Malone said. the heap. Montana is spending more on prisons Students may fl inch at thethoughtofadditional and less on education. That's not how we should budget cuts, but Malone hopes to hold tuition plan for the future," Malone said Court rules against MIT ''RHA'-'-- antitrust case PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The ::\1assachusetts Institute 1 from page 1 Technology says it will appeal a ruling that it violated antitrust la with the Ivy League schools to decide how much financial aid t insuring that no hall can. for offer. example, give its members rugby For 35 years, ~UT and the eight Ivy League schools· shirts out of Interhall funds by Harvard, Princeton, Pennsyh·ania. Yale. Brown. Columbia. Corn bringing in extra people to vote, and Dartmouth - belonged to the Ivy Overlap Group. Shocl<ley said. Members agreed not to use financial aid to oubid each oth• A quorum rule was for talented students and to dispense aid on the basis of need on] implemented which reqmres at The group disbanded se,·eral years ago afler the Justi• least five halls must be Department challenged the practice. The Ivy League schools settIt represented for a vote to take out of court and onh MIT refused to settle. place. The judge rejected 1\IIT's arguments that its financial aid Meetings were also gwen an charity, rather than commercial enterprise, and thus not subject hour-long limit, with a longer laws against price-fixing. meeting requiring a two-thirds "The court can conceive of few aspects of higher educati< majority quorum vote that are more commercial than the price charged to students." I Many items in the old said. constitution were moved into the Yest said the decision could lead to bidding wnrs ,11 bi-laws, which means that onh "effecti' ely erode the freedom ofopportunity to get a collegeeducatio an Interhall vote will be needed regardless of income." to amend it ifit should be deemed Here is how the svstem worked Room , board and tuition necessar) rather than requiring MIT costs $23,565 this year, compnred with $23,700 at Yale.