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TUESDAY April 14,1992 Vol. 94, Issue 82 The University of Montana Financial aid may pay weekly By Karen Coates vision. Kaimin Reporter Mick Hanson, director of Fi nancial Aid at UM, said about The U.S. House has passed leg 3,500 UM students received islation that would allow students Stafford Loans last year and about to receive federal loans in equal 600 got Supplemental Loans for weekly or monthly installments, Students. creating an enormous amount of If3,000of those students opted work for financial aid officers, sev to receive their loans monthly eral financial aid administrators said and a financial aid officer spent Monday. five minutes with each one of Larry Zaglaniczny, an execu them, it would total 250 addi tive assistant at the National Asso tional hours of work per month, ciation of Student Financial Aid he said. Administrators, said the provision However, Hanson said, he is is part of the Higher Education concerned that students will have Reauthorization Act, which passed trouble budgeting their money in the House a couple weeks ago. next year when their financial aid Rebecca Huntington/Kaimin Federal student loans would be has to last them a 15-week se Human rights proponent Bill Wassmuth said Monday at the University of Montana that racist distributed weekly or monthly to mester instead ofa 10-week quar extremists can help Americans see their own prejudices. Wassmuth Is executive director of only those students who want to ter. the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment. receive their money in installments “It presents a major problem rather than in one lump sum at the for the students,” he said. “I am beginning of the term. very concerned. We find that even Maureen Long, a legislative as on the quarter system, students sociate for the U.S. Post Secondary do not budget well.” Education Subcommittee, said the Zaglaniczny said loan install Area supremacists reflect attitude provision would help students hav ments could help students who ing trouble saving enough money are tempted to spend their money to reach the end of a quarter or as soon as they get it common to society, activist says semester. “For some students, they just “The idea behind it was that some don’t have the discipline to hoard By David Carkhuff sizeable number of our society,” Richard Butler came from Califor students have difficulty budgeting,” their money until they need it,” Kaimin Reporter Wassmuth said. “What are they nia in 1970and set up a fortress-like she said. he said. telling us about ourselves: that is compound in Hayden Lake in 1976; The Senate also passed an edu But Jim Craig, the director of The extreme racism of suprema the more important message here three years later Butler started his cation act, which did not include a Financial Aid at MSU, said if cists centered in the Northwest has tonight.” plan to make a white America, origi provision for loan disbursement, students are having trouble man its mirror image in mainstream atti “I suggest that we do some of nating in the Northwest, Wassmuth and a committee of senators and aging their financial aid since the tudes, an area human rights activist the same projections that the su said. representatives will now combine university switched to semesters, said Monday night at UM. premacists do,” Wassmuth said. the two acts to send to President they haven’t gone to him about it “It’s all on the same scale, just on Instead of targeting Jews as the Bush for his signature. "I suggest that we do “The vast majority of our stu a different place on that scale,” Bill cause of economic woes, main Zaglaniczny said he has no idea some of the same dents seem to be able to handle Wassmuth told an audience in the stream Americans pick out the Japa if the final act will include the pro their money all right,” he said. Urey Lecture Hall. “We can un nese, he said. For both the average projections that the cover all of that by learning what the American and the supremacist, the supremacists do," supremacists are telling us about loss of law and order is the fault of Wassmuth said. ourselves.” blacks and lack of jobs is the fault Negotiation meetings Wassmuth, the executive direc of Hispanic immigrants, he said. tor of the Northwest Coalition The drop in national morality is “He advocated that this would Against Malicious Harassment, said attributed to gays and lesbians in be a bloody battle, but it was God’s seek parking solution bigotry against minorities and both attitudes, he said. order,” Wassmuth said. “Richard women would not vanish if all su The Northwest has become the Butler was successful in his rheto headquarters of numerous su ric.” By David Carkhuff to find other options for sharing premacist groups were to vanish. premacist groups, including the The Aryans have held yearly Kaimin Reporter the streets, according to the “The supremacists express issues meetings with other supremacist memo. loudly and clearly, but the message Aryan Nations near Coeurd’Alenc, lies right below the surface for a Idaho, Wassmuth said. Founder See "Racism,” Page 8 The city of Missoula and “We would hope that each ASUM wi 11 negotiate the bound participant in this process could aries of the residential parking come with an open mind and sense district surrounding UM on the of community,” the memo read. ASUM President Galen next three Thursdays in April, Vandals target University Theatre ASUM President Galen Hollenbaugh said the meetings Hollenbaugh said Monday. will “just let us get our ideas out Nick Baker ing and footprints marred a painting Bushong said he couldn’t be According to a memo from on the table.” Kaimin Arts Editor Mato Higashitani had left to dry on lieve that concert-goers or turned mediator Ken Stolz last week, He has said he is optimistic the floor. Similar footprints led from away fans were responsible for Vandals perched on a balcony on April 16, 23 and 30 both that the two sides will reach an the studios to the balcony above the the vandalism. “Would people above the main entrance to the Uni sides will try to reach a compro agreement rather than go to court. theater entrance. blame Programming if the vandal versity Theatre dropped debris and mise on the district. The If negotiations are not successful Rumpel said he thought there ism was in Schreiber Gym?” he sprayed a fire extinguisher onto con Missoula City Council decided by April 30, ASUM will file a could be a connection between the asked. cert-goers as they left the Violent on March 2 to eliminate weekly lawsuit against the city. ViolentFemmes concert and the van Glen Walter, an ASUM Secu Femmes concert Sunday night, daytime parking by students. A City council member Marilyn dalism. “I guess that’s part of the idea rity worker for the ViolentFemmes ASUMProgramming personnel said of rock and roll—it’s supposed to $10 resident sticker is required Cregg was unsure what the out concert, said Security personnel, Monday. bring out the anarchist in you,” he alerted by people who had been to park in the 600,700 and half come of negotiations might be In addition, two canvases in gradu said. soaked by the fire extinguisher, of the 800 block of Hastings but said a compromise was likely. ate art studios in the same building But ASUM Programming Pop tried unsuccessfully to catch the Avenue under the council deci Cregg represents Ward 3, which were vandalized that night. Concerts Coordinator Clay Bushong vandals. sion. includes the parking district. Art graduate student Gene said, “It had nothing to do with the Campus Safety Manager Ken The meetings will last from 7 She noted that everyone inter Rumpel said he found ‘Tuck college concert last night It was a great con Willett said his department is in p.m. to no later than 9 p.m. in ested in the issue should attend fags” painted on a freshly prepared cert People had a good time and they vestigating a possible connection Health Sciences 114, and seek the meetings. canvas in his studio Monday morn left.” between the concert and vandal ism. Montana Kaimin Tuesday, April 14, 1992 2 Spiker courts to be built By David Carlchuff Kaimin Reporter Building fees misused, Hollenbaugh says Two sand vol ley bal 1 courts be last April by the Building Fees ing built near McGill Hall will By David Carlchuff Committee and approved by UM complete a project costing Kaimin Reporter President George Dennison. In $17,805 that will be paid for with cluding the courts, projects ap student building fees, UM Presi Too many student building fees proved from that meeting totaled dent George Dennison said Mon are spent on unnecessary projects $333,936 in a budget of $630,394, at UM, ASUM President Galen day.