Montana Kaimin, December 13, 1996 Associated Students of the University of Montana
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For more information, please contact [email protected]. j F The University of Montana MT ^ ^ Montana Kaunm Our 99th year, Issue 55 Kaimin is a Salish word for messages Friday, December 13,1996 UC renovations call for student fee increases K ortny R olston may be asked to shoulder the needed. ed for 1998, but doubted they increase.” Kaimin Reporter costs of asbestos removal, Ratcliff said the UC needs would be able to do the same Milliken said the commit sprinkler installations and $2 million to cover essential for the following year. tee will look at cost-cutting Faced with staff salary other renovations required to renovations but is unsure how But UC Board Chairman measures to keep students increases and third-floor renova bring the UC’s third floor up the improvements will be Patrick Milliken said the com from paying more. tions, the University Center to building code standards. funded. mittee is unsure about send He said one area that will might be upping its fees to help He said the fee increase “If we do a 20-year bond, it ing the increases to the be reviewed is a plan to add a pay for improvements. would also offset the antici may be a $4 (per semester) regents until renovation plans marketing director and a pro UC Director Gary Ratcliff pated 3 percent pay raise for increase, but if we do a five- are complete and the UC’s gram director to the UC staff. said the center is looking at UC staff. year repayment plan, then it budget is reviewed. The proposal comes with an increasing its operating fee by Ratcliff wants the UC could be $15 a semester “We haven’t thoroughly dis estimated $44,000 price tag. $2 a semester and its renova Board to send the two fee more,” he said. cussed the $2 fee increase,” he “The board’s going to be tion fee by $20 per semester. requests to the Board of Ratcliff said through rent said. “(Ratcliff) may see a reviewing the need for two Ratcliff said no fee hikes Regents for approval, but hikes and cost cutting the UC need for the $2 fee increase, more positions,” Milliken are scheduled for fiscal year with the stipulation that the was able to absorb the but that may not be the way said. “Do we want to spend 1998, but in 1999 students full amounts might not be $40,000 in salary raises slat the UC Board sees the $44,000 on (the proposal)?” Campaign In the spirit... highlights students K ortny R olston Kaimin Reporter With hot topics such as same-sex marriages and prison funding headlining the 1997 legislative agenda, the ASUM Senate wants to push higher education issues into the forefront. The senate is working with other student'govern- ments within the university system to make sure state legislators don’t forget about an important constituency— college students. Ben Darrow, ASUM’s stu dent political action director, is coordinating the statewide lobbying effort, which will include a letter-writing cam paign and education on important issues. Darrow said they also hope to recruit 500 Montana voters from colleges around the state to call their local legislators about issues such as proposed tuition hikes and financial aid. He said they hope to start svrTofu^roL n fM ^ fSTbZ rmSr e UTen-SS ofJoJln F * * * * * and Mahatma Gandhi, senior Susann Framness tends the calling in early January in M arvInn Ron , w . r t , Kmg’ Jri' m a PerformanJ piece about the revolutionary spirit. Framness was one of 25 students when major issues are decid A ^^lhhngB^ ^ p % 7 s Wk° presented thelr understandings of art Thursday morning in front of the Fine ed behind the scenes. “All of (our efforts) togeth er give us the chance to make a mild impact on the Legislature,” he said. “It’s near bottom of nation's payscale Sonja Lee hard to make a big impact, University of Arizona full pro had low salaries, the universi ty where most professors work but we could make a mild Kaimin Reporter fessors as the highest paid. ty can’t expect to catch-up to a for significantly smaller one.” There was a $21,300 disparity moving target. salaries. Although faculty salaries at between the salaries of full But some faculty believe UM’s low pay is attributed UM are creeping up the lad professors at Arizona and UM. the school is on the right track to many factors. But many say der, faculty are still among The implications of low with UM’s collective bargain the Montana Legislature gets the lowest paid people in high INSIDE salaries go beyond faculty ing agreement. The agreement a share of the blame. er education, leaving campus morale. calls for raises over the next “We can only do what the mHobo administrators searching for “The salaries do impact the four years, but the increases Legislature provides us with,” keys to the dollar dilemma. Holiday quality of students’ educa are tied to greater faculty pro Associate Provost Fritz According to a study com tion,” said Jim Flightner, dean ductivity and based in part on Schwaller said. “It’s very frus pleted in March 1996 by Page 7 of the College of Arts and high student tuition and fees. trating to teach more students ACADEME, a national organi Sciences. The raises, however, are and have to teach more class ■ Mullen zation that does the analysis Flightner said the universi improving faculty salaries, es and not be recognized for annually, UM salaries are returns ty has good faculty, but that said Jim Todd, vice president that service.” ranked third from the bottom faculty may not be as diversi for administration and University Teachers’ Union Page 9 in a listing of 25 universities fied as those of universities finance. President Richard Dailey in states with a similar per who can offer better salaries. “Of course, it’s going to take agreed that the Legislature ■ Science capita income. Many UM administrators a few years to get there,” he plays an important role. “I’m even pleased that Complex feel the university will never said. “We’ll always be close to the we’re third to the end,” be able to offer salaries com UM hopes to keep salaries bottom,” Dailey said. “There’s needs bonds Provost Bob Kindrick said. parable to universities such as competitive and have the abil a mentality in the state to do “We were at the bottom a few Page 12 Arizona. ity to attract new faculty things on the cheap, and years ago.” Flightner said because fac members, Todd said, which is there’s an attitude of we’re The study showed ulty members have always not an easy task at a universi See “W ages” page 4 2 Montana Kaimin, Friday, December 13,1996 Opinion 'Yer Town Autumn Semester's 'Best' bargains for the holidays ply too cheap to let finished, you notice that you It’s getting pret most quotable quotes silly concerns over totally neglected to buy a pre ty close to the holi C o lu m n b y our children’s well sent for the friend who “We haven’t gotten stricter in the last year, we’re day formerly being get in the always drives you around just doing our jobs,” Sgt. Thurman on stiffer laws known as when you’re feeling down: against underage drinkers. Christmas, and I way. your car. If your car’s been wouldn’t be worth In other news, jewelers are going singing “Oil I Want for “To say we’re providing diversity is a joke. They a used Weird A1 Christmas” quite a bit lately, won’t even let us play Jimi Hendrix,” disgruntled Yankovich CD if I hogwild this holi then you’ve come to the right KGBADJ. didn’t do a cheery day season. They’ve convinced place. little column on Red’s Towing & Lube real “The landlord tenant law is very how to do your hol legions of unsus ly hits the spot, for low prices K aim in strict, but of lot of landlords haven’t iday shopping pecting males that that is. For $19.95, you get read the act.” Annie Hamilton, around Missoula. women actually ed ito rial the bare bones—about four ASUM Legal Services attorney. So what I did, was prefer shiny dia- quarts of oil, lube and a filter I thought long and — - monds over those “It’s sort of a tradition, we’ve hard about just new-fangled vacu check. Any more than that, done it for a long. Last year we threw a guy’s bike off what most college students um cleaners that get all those and you’ll have to go in and and he yelled, ‘That’s my bike.’” Fiji Rush Chair Paul are shopping for nowadays.