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Montana Kaimin, January 20, 1984 Associated Students of the University of Montana University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 1-20-1984 Montana Kaimin, January 20, 1984 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, January 20, 1984" (1984). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 7553. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/7553 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]. New NCAA panel AIMIN gives school heads Vol. 86, No. 511 Friday, January 20, 1984 Missoula, Montana limited powers By Eric Williams That amendment, proposed Kaimin Reporter by the American Council on The advisory commission ap­ Education, stipulates that the proved at last week's National commission is elected by the Collegiate Athletic Association institutions' presidents them­ meeting in Dallas has less selves. authority than University of The NCAA Council presented Montana President Neil Buck­ proposal 36, which originally lew had hoped for, but he said had the presidents on the com­ he is content to see if the com­ mission appointed by the mission will work. NCAA Council itself. The decision followed debate UM Associate Athletic Direc­ over how much control univer­ tor Barbara Hollmann, who at­ sities should have in policy- tended the convention with making in the NCAA. Bucklew, said that the compro­ Proposal 36 sets up a 44- mise was basically what the member commission of univer­ UM athletic department sity presidents who will have wanted. advisory powers and will be Hollmann, who is on the 14- able to submit legislation to the member NCAA Executive NCAA delegations at the an­ Committee, said the university nual convention. presidents weren’t trying to Bucklew supported proposal gain control of the NCAA, but 35, which would have given the rather wanted more involve­ board power to make policy in ment. selected areas and could delay “The president is the ulti­ implementation of legislation mately responsible person at passed by the member NCAA the institution,” Hollmann said. institutions. “He has to be aware and in­ Proposal 36 was approved volved with what's going on in overwhelmingly, but not until the athletic programs.” an amendment from the al­ Bucklew agreed, and said ready defeated 35 was tacked that intercollegiate athletics on. Bucklew voted for the amended version of 36. See ‘NCAA,’ page 16. Williams calls deployment of U.S. Marines in Beirut by Reagan a 'mistake' By Carlos A. Pedraza Sea) at night, but not bring Kaimin Reporter them back the next morning,” Despite the fact that the he suggested. Marines sleep United States made “a terrible on the ships at night to prevent mistake” in sending the Ma­ terrorist attacks like the one rines to Lebanon, Rep. Pat Wil­ that resulted in the deaths of liams, D-Mont., said that “per­ 241 Marines last year. haps (the) troops have done Williams said that the United some good" by preventing an See ‘Williams,’ page 14. A NEW THREE-WAY HEIMLICH MANU- Performances at 8 p.m. Friday, 1, 3 otherwise “inevitable civilian EVER? No, Just the Magic Movers re­ and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets $1 for massacre” in Beirut. hearsing at the Masquer Theater. kids, $2 students and senior citizens, However, the Marines remain From top to bottom: Katherine Kauf­ $3 general (Staff photo by Ann Hen­ “at risk” while waiting for diplo­ man, Donna Feltman, Mark Magruder. nessey). matic settlement of problems in Lebanon, Williams said in an interview yesterday. UM student files for election Williams was in Missoula this Inside: week to participate in the Uni­ versity of Montana School of to Legislature in District 55 Forestry's “Wilderness Issues” By Ann Joyce conservation and increasing lecture series. Last night Wil­ Kaimin Reporter the powers of local govern­ Dental Servica In liams spoke to the Missoula Part-time University of Mon­ ment. creases cost of clean­ League of Women Voters. tana student and carpenter “Montana and the rest of the ing chompers-.......4>.S Williams said that the pres­ Mike Kadas, 27, is running for country need to deal with nu­ Superbowl dash......p.8 ence of American troops have the state Legislature again. clear arms,” the philosophy UM sprinter headed for kept terrorists from carrying Tuesday incumbent Kadas and economics student said. ‘84 Olympics, but not on out a “bloody” civilian mas­ applied for the District 55 seat “The issue is essential above U.S. team.....................P-9 sacre in Beirut, but stressed in Missoula. No one else has all other issues. If we don’t deal Old Vinyl Classics.^ n in that the United States should applied for the seat. with the arms race, we won't be Afternoon Delight •**< gradually reduce the number If elected, Kadas said he will able to consider all the other Arte Diary.................P-11 of Marines stationed there. concentrate his efforts as a leg­ things that apply in our lifes.” “We should send them out to islator in three areas: bilateral the ships (in the Mediterranean PAT WILLIAMS nuclear disarmament, energy See ‘Kadas,’ page 16. Opinions s-An Outside View by Larry Howell In 1984, VOTE or get killed Miss Rita and the Land of Cotton A couple of months ago, the Kaimin suggested Univer­ sity of Montana students put themselves in the boots of Until last week, I'm afraid I'd never given the tions, Lavelle’s co-workers said she tried to United States Marines in Beirut so they could appreciate South much credit. The grits, white sheets, hurt Democrat Jerry Brown s Senate cam­ and understand what young people their age are having porcine deputy sheriffs, banjo-playing inbre­ paign by withholding superfund money from to put up with. eds, and hundred years of social progress dumps in California where Brown was gover­ Well, that idea can now be applied to faculty and ad­ separating it from the rest of the country had nor at the time. Conversely, Lavelle tried to ministrators on this campus. Now, profesors, imagine always put me off. And I'd certainly never speed up funds to at least one state where stepping out of an elevator here on campus and sud­ thought the nation could learn anything from she thought doing so would help a Republi­ denly getting two slugs pumped into your head by some its backward Drovince. can incumbent fanatic who justifies your murder by calling It holy. That’s But not any more. The South has charted a And enough evidence of other crimes ex­ what happened Wednesday to Malcom Kerr, president of course the rest of the nation should follow. isted to convince any reasonable person that the American University in Beirut. The exact course needs a bit of adjusting, but Lavelle didn't care at all about doing her job, it’s still good. What specifically changed me about solving one of America's most pressing into a near-Dixiephile was the contrast be­ problems, one that concerns the health of Kaimin Editorial tween two recent series of events. millions of this generation and the next, and The first is the spate of death sentences maybe the one after that. One of Lavelle’s Increasingly, Americans in and out of uniform are that Southern states have executed or tried to subordinates, William Hedeman, said she In­ being murdered just because they represent a country execute. Florida, Texas, Louisana, Georgia, terfered with a survey he conducted to find which has a high profile in the world: it's the leading Mississippi, and one of the Carolina sisters dump sites. She “expressed concern that power of the Western Alliance and Marxist and anti- have all either juiced a lowlife recently, or these sites would provide a basis for expan­ Western groups see it as the target for their revolutionary tried their best but were stopped by the sion of the superfund program," Hedeman struggles against the West. courts, usually Northern courts. said. "She made it very clear that she did not Their mode is terrorism and the Reagan administration The second chain of events is the recent favor an expansion.” is paranoid of It. That's why the White House is now sur­ farcical trial and sentencing of Rita Lavelle. A Another piece of evidence was Lavelle’s ap­ rounded by concrete barricades. Also, thousands of se­ Yankee judge in the Union's capital last week pointment calendar, which showed so many curity personnel from various agencies are preparing to meekly laid on Lavelle a $10,000 fine and six lunch dates with chemical company officials, work overtime at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, a months In a cushy federal prison. The the very people whom her decisions could world's fair in New Orleans and the national political con­ thought that If tried and sentenced In a no- cost millions, that Sen. John Chaffee, R-R.l., ventions in San Francisco and Dallas. In 1984, You don’t nonsense Confederate court. Lavelle might commented that it appeared Lavelle pursued have to be an American in Central America or the Middle well have been squeezed into a death row cell polluters "more vigorously in restaurants than East to be a target of international terrorism-you can stay no bigger than two drums of dioxin while in the courts." A memo Lavelle wrote to the home and get killed.
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