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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 3-13-2009 Montana Kaimin, March 13, 2009 Students of The niU versity of Montana, Missoula Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Students of The nivU ersity of Montana, Missoula, "Montana Kaimin, March 13, 2009" (2009). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 5197. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/5197 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]. UM’s Independent Campus Newspaper Since 1898 Festival features Holy Craps! foreign food Guys and Dolls hits page 8 the stage Tuesday page 10 Montana Kaimin Friday, March 13, 2009 www.montanakaimin.com Volume CXI, Issue 74 Universities, Need a hand? Schweitzer at impasse on tuition Molly Priddy MONTANA KAIMIN HELENA — Higher education officials painted an ominous picture for lawmakers on Thursday, saying that Gov. Brian Sch- weitzer’s funding plan falls at least $8 mil- lion short and his demands for no tuition in- creases are out of line. “We don’t have to be told that doing ev- erything we can do to mitigate tuition is job number one,” said Steve Barrett, chairman for the Board of Regents. “We know it’s our priority.” Officials voiced their frustration at a con- tingency in House Bill 645, which says the state will only provide $10 million in tuition mitigation if the Montana University System does not increase tuition for the next two years. The governor’s budget director, David Ewer, said on Wednesday that the U-System will just have to figure out how to cut costs and balance its goods and services, because the governor will not raise taxes. Board of Regents Commissioner Sheila Stearns said the U-System needs at least an- Bess Brownlee/Montana Kaimin other $8.2 million on top of the $10 million Junior Elizabeth Hunter looks at Shannon M. Moos’ mixed media piece entitled “Vessel” in the Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social already in the bill. This request is “almost Science Building. Moos’ work is being featured alongside several other art students’ pieces as part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts unforgivably conservative,” she said. Senior Thesis Exhibition. The show will open on Thursday evening and stay in the gallery until April 10. Initially, the U-System asked for more than $30 million for price and wage adjustments in See TUITION, page 4 Tougher gen ed requirements Parking fees and fines to be implemented fall semester may increase next year Mark Page ties, he said. Allison Maier New general education general education courses without MONTANA KAIMIN “So a guy could come and get MONTANA KAIMIN requirements at UM are not the knowing exactly what their objec- The hunt for parking spaces experience here for a year and go to If all goes according to plan, only changes in store for next fall. tives were. Other professors have might be more expensive next year Missoula PD,” Lemcke said. “We University of Montana students For a related story on plans for categorized courses as general edu- as the Office of Public Safety seeks pay for the training, and that’s ex- will have new general education common course numbering between cation as a means of boosting en- to increase fines and fees for cars on pensive.” Montana schools, see page 7. requirements in place next fall. rollment in their classes, she said. It campus. Lemcke said one officer had According to G.G. Weix, chair With a final vote by the Faculty got to the point that the number of Fees for a parking pass are pro- gone through extensive training paid of the Academic Standards and Senate Thursday, the new general general education courses swelled posed to increase by $10 to $185 a for by Public Safety, only to go to Curriculum Review Committee, education system was approved to a list of 450. year. Metered parking would go up another department immediately af- this is the final result of a pro- for the fall 2009 catalog. Weix said that is not what gen- a quarter to $1 per hour, and most ter he finished. cess that dragged on for 15 years, Weix said many faculty mem- eral education should be. She said parking fines would go up by $5 or But for these parking fee increas- sparked largely by the univer- bers become defensive when it it’s an ethical obligation to teach a $10. Public Safety proposes to initi- es to be instituted, the proposal has sity’s switch from a quarter to a comes to changing the general general education course because ate the increases on July 1. to pass through a few hoops. semester system in fall 2002. She education program, but general professors should give students The department needs the money Public Safety Operations Man- said work to create a new gen- education has strayed from what it what they’re paying for. And stu- to make up for a budget shortfall ager Shelley Harshbarger said she eral education program started in was in 1983, when it was first cre- dents should want to come to their due to increases in officer salaries, presented the department’s budget 1994, but for various reasons the ated at UM. general education courses, she said. according to Public Safety Director — including the fine increases — to process continued to be delayed. “Its original design was very in- “We wanted to make it true and Jim Lemcke. the Office of Administration and Fi- When Weix took over her job as tentional,” she said. accountable and good,” she said. The increases were needed be- nance on Wednesday, which recom- chair of ASCRC in spring 2007, But since then, Weix said, the So the process started. A year cause Public Safety officers were mended it be accepted. she started making a push toward original faculty who taught gen- was spent creating a framework getting paid between $5 per hour Any increase in actual fees must finally completing a new general eral education courses have drifted for the undertaking. Weix and and $7 per hour less than Missoula go before the Board of Regents education program. and new faculty members inherited See GEN ED, page 7 police officers and sheriff’s depu- See PARKING, page 12 Today On Campus Inside the Kaimin Forecast • Symphonic Wind Ensemble BLOTTER page 4 BESS SEX page 2 University Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Stadium skaters, savage The column doesn’t suck, High 41F $10 general public; $5 students and spectacle, smarting student but you should Low 25F seniors 2 Montana Kaimin Opinion Friday, March 13, 2009 The The Kaimin BIG UPS BessBy Bess Davis SexColumn Backhands Kounts Questions? Comments? Email [email protected] & This week in numbers Welcome back to Big Ups and Backhands everyone. We Making every mouthful matter know you missed us. First and foremost, a public service an- nouncement for all you hormone-crazed co-eds: whatever you I think most people watch way too much Dateline and Oprah. Case in point: do, keep your eyes off the left side of this page. Those of you When I was about 15, my parents and I were sitting in our living room and my dollars who’ve already read the adjacent column, you’re sinners. But mom said, “Bess, I want to talk to you about the epidemic of oral sex among 250Jessica Berry made we won’t hold it against you. On with the week. American teenagers.” My dad peeked over the top of his newspaper and said, dancing at the Fox For starters, an unrelated, righteous Big Ups to UM law “When I was a kid, an epidemic was a bad thing.” Club’s Amateur Night. professor Kristen Juras for raising a stink over a certain sex Needless to say, that deflated her whole spiel, but it did make it clear to column in a certain college newspaper. Thanks for stepping up me how different generations view oral sex. We belong to a generation full of and taking the lead on the long overdue push to PG-rate this people who don’t take oral sex as seriously as in our parents’ and grandparents’ campus of ours. We’ll admit we’re not exactly sure what this minutes it times. 12took her to make it. “sex” thing everyone keeps talking about is, but we’re pretty I’m not saying this is good or bad, but it’s certainly created a gap in the way sure we don’t like it either. we can communicate across generation lines about something that has conse- Next, a similarly unrelated flurry of Backhands to the en- quences, just like vaginal or anal sex. tire staff at the Montana Kaimin for its lewd content and to While our parents might talk to us about sex when we’re teens, I know I men, or that damn First Amendment for protecting it. What kind of 100so, who walked laps on didn’t really get a sit-down about oral, and I doubt many of you did either. country is this anyway? It’s something we had to figure out for ourselves from our friends, media or the University Center’s Turning our attention south, an enthusiastic Big Ups to second floor for a porn.

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