Montana Kaimin, February 11, 1992 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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The University of Montana Four protesters arrested at Baucus' Missoula office By Karen Coates and Randi Erickson Kaimin Reporters U.S. Sen. Max Baucus met opposition to his wilderness bill just about everywhere he went in Missoula Monday, including at his office where four Earth First activists were arrested after locking themselves together around a pillar. The protest was spawned by a similar action last week in which seven members of the environmental activist group chained themselves to the same pillar in Baucus* office. According to an Earth First statement, protesters want Baucus to “discontinue his attempts to place millions of acres of wilderness into the filthy, corrupt hands of Forest Service timber beasts.” Demonstrators filled the senator’s office to protest the Baucus-Burns wilderness bill, which releases 4 million acres of roadless wild lands in Montana for use by timber and mining industries. UM students Dru Carr, Steve Maher, John Montecucco and Joel Thomas-Adams linked themselves together with Kryptonite bike locks around their necks. They lay in Baucus’ office for about 31/2 hours before police officers sawed one lock and took the protesters to the Missoula police station. A fifth demonstrator, Lorijane Moscalello, unlocked herself and left when police officers evicted the press from the office. She said she feared that police would harm her if the press was not present. At last week’s protest, the press was evicted from the office and activists Molly Kramer and Erik Ryberg alleged that they were hurt when police carried them to a van in the alley. Kramer filed a complaint last week with the police department that offic Jerry Redfetn/Kaimin SEN. MAX BAUCUS entertained a crowd of about 40 in his office Monday afternoon, where he fielded ers used undue force when removing her. questions and pointed comments about the wilderness bill he co-authored. After the forum, five people Earlier in the day, about 60 protesters chanting “Kill locked themselves to a pillar In his office to protest the bill. The police sawed through the locks at about that bill,” waited outside Hellgate High School for Baucus 8 p.m. after the protesters had been chained to the pillar for more than three hours. to finish a presentation at an assembly Monday morning. Baucus invited the demonstrators to his office in the is proposed in the bill, but co-sponsor Sen. Conrad Bums animals living together and interacting. afternoon. wouldn’t agree. But Moscatcllo said he left out humans as part of that “All I ask is that we just try to have a good faith “If I had my druthers, there’d be a lot more wilderness in ecosystem, and people could not survive with his wilderness bill, conversation,” he said. “I’ll be straight. I’m willing to this Mil,” he said. “I don’t totally have my druthers.” which divides up ecosystems. listen to anything.” One crowd member asked Baucus to define “ecosys “It’s just crazy that a man like that has so much power and Baucus said he wants to preserve more wilderness than tem,” which he said was a natural system of plants and See "Protest," page 8 Baucus proposes Canadian model Teachers union agrees for American health care system to form strike committee He called President Bush's health By Guy DeSantis but not call official strike Kaimin Reporter care plan, which attempts to make insurance more affordable and avail ByBillHeisel Rod Sundsted, a negotiator Kaimin Reporter for the regents, said his team Calling the state of health care able, “a band-aid proposal.” presented a comprehensive pro in the United States a “crisis,” U.S. He also said he disagrees with the After reviewing the state of posal which increased the total Sen. Max Baucus proposed at a “pay or play proposal,” which has negotiations Monday, the Uni amount of money for raises, and UM lecture Monday night a sys arisen recently. This system would versity Teachers Union decided he would like to see similar con tem similar to the health care plan require businesses to provide health in Canada. insurance for employees, or pay a to form a strike committee but cessions on the UTU’s side. “I Baucus said his proposed single tax for the government to establish not to officially call a strike, the guess from my perspective, I payer system would funnel all insurance pools for the uninsured. union president said. didn’t see much change in their health care dollars to a public or Baucus said this proposal would hurt “We don’t have any need to position,” said Sundsted, the as private agency for billing purposes. the many small businesses in Mon get the faculty together about a sociate commissioner for labor “Such a system would elimi tana. strike yet,” said Professor Phil relations and personnel. nate a lot of overhead, confusion Baucus’ lecture on health care Maloney after a meeting of the McCormick declined to com and wasted time,” Baucus said. “It was interrupted during the question UTU Executive Council to dis ment on the figures in the UTU would make universal coverage a and answer period by an opponent cuss their position following proposal. reality.” of his wilderness bill who shouted, Thursday’s bargaining session. Sundsted said both sides were “We are forming a strike com maintaining a base increase for Under a single-payer system, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus “Wilderness is just as important to Baucus explained hospitals, doc Montana as health care.” mittee, though. Because if they all faculty of 3.5 percent in the tors and other health care provid “In Canada, people have a lot of Another opponent of his bill don’t budge on their offer, we first year and 1.9 percent in the ers wo uld bill one source. He added faith in the medical community. yelled, “How can we trust your health are going to have to go back to second. The regents’ team also that the single payer would most They trust that if they need care care plan if your wilderness bill is so the faculty to talk about a strike.” stayed at a 6.5 percent total in likely be at the state level. urgently, they will get itrightaway. shabby.” Maloney said the strike com crease in the first year, which Before the system is imple And that seems to be the case,” he The moderator of the lecture, mittee would prepare for a pos includes the base increase, ad mented nationally, it should be said. Martin Burke, the dean of the UM sible breakdown in negotiations justments for rank and merit, and tested in one state, he said. Baucus While he doesn’t think the Law school, told the audience that at the next bargaining session a pool for bringing UM faculty said Montana would be ideal as a United States should duplicate Sen. Baucus was at UM to discuss this Friday, closer to peer school salaries. test state because the population is Canada’s health care system, his ideas on health care, not the “Our feeling is that they still The offer made Thursday moved small and the proposal would “be Baucus said this country could wilderness bill. Baucus said he would have a ways to go in their offer,” the second year increase from more manageable here.” learn a lot from Canada. be more than willing to discuss the Professor Dennis McCormick, 2.9 to 4.1 percent, Sundsted said. Baucus said he travelled to After studying recenthealth care bill after the lecture. Only a few the spokesman for the UTU ne “I don’t know what their re Alberta last Fall and was impressed proposals, Baucus said he thinks members of the audience remained gotiators, said. The two teams action will be to putting more with the single-payer system that that the single-payer proposal is after the lecture to talk about the bill met last Th ursday for nearly eight See "UTU," page 8 Canada uses. the nation’s best option. with Baucus. hours. Tuesday, February 11, loo? Nude dancing debate centers on free speech J. Mark Dudick for the Kaimin Those who think there’s no issue of free speech involved in nude dancing should contemplate the pressure felt in speaking out against a proposed ban, a Rattlesnake resident told the Missoula City Council Monday night Bill Clark’s comment was directed at the in tense atmosphere that prevailed during the council’s public hearing on two ordinances ban ning nude dancing and one resolution supporting public decency. The banning-of-nude-dancing supporters who spoke to the overflow crowd out-numbered the opposition. The arguments of both sides centered on the right to freedom of speech.

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