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MONTANA KAIMIN Volume 97, Issue 18 The University of Montana Tuesday, September 27, 1994 Keeping a sight on the UC... No overtime for contract negotiators Ibon Villelabeitia Kaimin Reporter For more than 18 months, negotiators of the faculty con tract worked evening and weekend sessions, built up unassessed travel expenses and got no extra pay, but they did get the services of highly rated mediators for only $9,500. William and Molly Hobgood, consultants from Virginia, donated their medi ating services for the negotia tions, only charging $9,500 in travel expenses for assisting the parties in keeping the' process on track, James Todd, vice president for administra tion and finance, said Monday. “It’s an extraordinary thing to do, considering their engagement in time and assis QFPOrT CTDizr Steven Adams/Kaimin tance, and without fee,” Todd Surrey SERVICE a8ents and P°lice Patrolled the roof of the UC as part of the security measures protecting the vice president on said. Todd said the Hobgoods were contacted because of their national experience in collective negotiations. Mount Sentinel reopening set on weather Attorney William Hobgood, a former Assistant Secretary of Erin Billings Department said the last time the closure is necessary. we’re worried about.” Labor who specialized in medi Kazmin Reporter Mount Sentinel was closed for “We’ve had such an awfully Willett said Mount Sentinel ation and arbitration, said an extended time was in 1988 dry summer. We are still in hasn’t been the only area Mount Sentinel has been from his office in Virginia that for about a month. real high fire danger.” affected by dry weather in closed for the longest stretch his firm donated their work to One to 2 inches of moisture He said that about four or Missoula. of time in history and might show a commitment to is needed to reopen the moun five times a day he catches “Even yards look dead,” he stay that way until snow falls, Montana. tain, May said. Children play people hiking up the back side said. “Some of them are burnt Director of Campus Security The Hobgoods recently ing with matches, smokers of the mountain. crisp.” Ken Willett said Monday. bought an estate in Whitefish, and arsonists are the people “It’s a real popular area,” Willett said he hopes the “We won’t open it until we and Molly is a UM graduate. most likely to start a fire, he he said. “But in some spots it’s mountain will be open by get a good saturation of mois said. “We wanted to give our con really steep, and you probably UM’s Homecoming. He also ture or snow,” he said. tribution to Montana and help Despite the dangers, couldn’t outrun it (fire).” said he is confident winter The mountain was closed to establish ourselves in the new Willett said some climbers are To date, no citations have will have heavy snowpack, the public by the Department still making their way up the environment,” he said. been given. However, violators thus bringing moisture to the of State Lands in early hill. The Hobgoods assisted six are being warned. area. August, when fire danger parties in the contract negotia “I know a lot of people are “We aren’t looking at this “As soon as we get the word became extremely high. tions—the Commissioner of antsy and want to get back on as a punishment thing,” we’ll change the sign and open Paul May of the Lands Higher Education, the the trail,” he said, adding that Willett said. “It’s their safety the gate,” he said. University Teachers Union, the governor’s office, UM administration, UM students Americorps youths labor, pay for school and the Board of Regents. All six parties shared the $9,500 Rebecca Huntington expenses and a $4,725 stipend that can “I like the fact that it gives me a fee. Kaimin Reporter be applied toward further education or chance to experience all the aspects of William Hobgood praised student loans. There are also 89 part- Montana, like the outdoors,” Abell said. the parties’ involvement in the Armed with wheelbarrows, shovels time members. Carol College graduate Dan Enderlin, negotiations for coming out and a willingness to do hard labor, VanDenEEden wanted the job because 22, plans to pay off student loans and with a multilateral agreement. Missoula’s first Americorps volunteers “it was a conservation core, working with spend the remaining cash on medical “They did a very effective are sprucing up the community and pay people basically my age,” she said. “It is school. effort in identifying mutual ing for school. meaningful community work. Missoula “So far the work is pretty hard,” concerns and putting in the I just think it’s a good opportunity for will definitely benefit from the work Enderlin said. “We have kind of a fun time and effort needed to anyone who would like to give their com we’re doing.” crew. It’s been kind of fun.” resolve them,” he said. munity something back, and it’s a great This crew belongs to the Montana UM graduate Jill Duryee, 24, said He said the collective bar way to pay for school,” said Matt Conservation Corps, one of five building trails, fences and bridges is a gaining that produced the con McGovem-Rowen, 22, a University of Americorps groups in the state. Other schooling of a different kind. tract has no precedence at the Wisconsin, Madison graduate who joined programs are Volunteer Montana!, “It’s something I have no experience in. higher education level. the program to pay for law school. Blackfeet Health and Safety Corps, It’s definitely an education,” said Duryee, UM President George Eight Americorps members based in Salish Kootenai Headstart program and who will use the money for graduate Dennison said the university Missoula have been working for two Fort Belknap recreation-improvement school. But work like shoveling gravel appreciated the Hobgoods’ weeks now, and so far they like it. The program. does get monotonous, she said. Future decision not to charge the par Americorps program is President The conservation corps just finished projects include filling in mine holes at Clinton’s stab at creating a domestic ties for their work and for their making a trail handicap-accessible in the Twin Bridges south of Butte and repair See “Negotiations” page 8 peace corps. Six of the eight volunteers Tom Greene Memorial Park in the ing fences at a historic mining town. were guests at Sunday’s brunch with Al Rattlesnake. They shoveled many wheel For Joshua Holley, 21, Americorps is Gore in the UC Ballroom, where they barrow loads of gravel. an alternative way to pay for school since The Testicle were interviewed. It’s hard to haul gravel down a trail a he has not been able to qualify for finan Festival. An exer Crew leader Ann VanDenEEden, 27, half mile, especially for someone who cial aid. has already finished her biology degree at isn’t used to manual labor, who has been “I’ve been trying to get financial aid for cise in bad taste? the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, sitting behind a desk studying,” said years. I’ve been out of my home since I but she joined the corps to pay off her Shani Abell, 25, who graduated from was 16,” Holley said. Although he stum Find out in student loans. She is among 109 full-time Texas Tech with a degree in political sci bled into the job, he said, “my ideal job is members in Montana. They work 1,700 Wednesday's ence. Abell plans to pay off student loans this, and doing this for a year will get me hours per year for $7,600 in living with the $4,725. in school.” Kaimin. 2 Montana Kalmin. Tuesday, September 27,1994 expression^ Loc on you crazy Gangsta's! Be afraid, very afraid Their Well, I guess the inevitable mavericks got its start in Great has happened. Like spring Falls as a response to the activi growth Column by of initiatives CI-66,67 replacing winter, Mantle suc ties of another Great Falls con and pros ceeding Dimaggio, and the New tingent, the Parkdale Mafia. perity are Montana’s grassroots tax-limit initiatives are bad Power Generation supplanting However, due to the gang’s tight due to news for state government. the Revolution, it has been an nucleus of OG’s (“original gangs equal Constitutional Initiatives 66 and 67 have state gov unstoppable progression. I sup ta’s,” or progenitors of the gang), partshard ernment scared—with good reason. pose we all saw it coming, the L.O.G.’s now enjoy a sturdy work, Gov. Marc Racicot told state gov denied it, and will soon suc membership in several Western punk wis dom ernment employees at the Board of cumb, as is always the way.