Montana Kaimin, December 9, 1976 Associated Students of the University of Montana
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Bear Backer funds under investigation ■ m o n t a n a By CLAIRE NICHOLS Central Board member Scott Alex because of the “potential severity” of Montana Katmln Reporter ander. the case. k a i m i n Missoula County Attorney Robert Alexander, who is the club The decision to begin the inves Deschamps said yesterday that he is president, said 112 mem bers are now tigation was made by the Bear University of Montana • Student Newspaper investigating the financial records of enrolled in the club. Each member Backers' executive board on Mon Thursday, December 9,1976 pays a $30 membership fee but day, Wallis said. the University of Montana Bear Missoula, Mont Vol. 79, No. 38 Backers for "possible theft" of club profits are marginal since $20 of that Club financial records were turned funds. fee is used to buy an athletic ticket over to the ASUM accountant, Mike Criminal charges may be filed after for each member, he said. T-shirts McGinley, on Monday, he said. the investigation is completed, Des are also bought with the money, but McGinley refused to comment on champs said. Alexander said he was unsure how what he found after he had com He said he is presently gathering much the shirts cost. pleted the investigation. statements from the club members The only two people who have Discrepancies were discovered by concerning the financial dis access to the Bear Backers' funds are McGinley and the executive board crepancies that have appeared in the Alexander and club treasurer Tom decided to hand the case over to the records. Matthews, Mike Wallis, the group's county attorney, Wallis said. According to Deschamps, the vice president said. “We reached a point where we investigation may take a month to couldn't handle it anymore, and so complete. Both Matthews and Alexander are we had to turn it over to the county Deschamps refused to comment required to sign checks in order to attorney," he said. on who might be involved or what the withdraw' money from the club ac nature of the discrepancy is. count, Wallis said. The financial records of the club Bear Backers, a sports-booster Alexander said he has retained at were taken to the county attorney club, was organized last spring by torney Michael Milodragovich yesterday afternoon by Wallis, McGinley and Bruce Barrett, director of the ASUM legal services. Waljis said he was unwilling to make any accusations or say how Time limit sought much money was involved since the problem was “still fairly con fidential." for incompletes Athletic Director Harley Lewis, who is the Bear Backers' advisor, By RON WILCOX credits at the end of their first year to said he knew about the problem but Montana Kalinin Raportar be eligible for financial aid. The was “unaware" that the county at A proposal to revert all incomplete minimum GPA needed for aid in torney had been called into inves grades to a failing grade one calen creases to 2.0 at the end of four years tigation. H T t r f t i r dar year after the incomplete is with at least 150 credits earned. Lewis said he would be very SEASONAL FROST COVERED trees in the University of Montana oval last given, unless an alternate grade is Students may sign up for courses, interested in following the inves week, creating a white winter wonderland. Today's weather forecast calls for given, will be referred to the Faculty receive financial aid and then use tigation and would take part in it if he snow showers with temperatures in the mid-thirties. (Montana Kaimin photo Senate. any of the procedures to avoid doing were asked to. by Bob VonDrachek.) The Faculty Senate Curriculum academic work without lowering Committee voted Tuesday to refer their GPAs, Mullen said. the proposal, made by Stanley Mullen said yesterday that he was Grossman, associate professor of simply presenting observations CB rejects funding mathematics, to the Faculty Senate concerning the procedures to the in light of a discussion on financial committee, not judgments on the aid abuses. procedures. Donald Mullen, financial aids Mullen also declined to cite exam by solar power group director, said that several ples of abuses, saying that he would procedures available to students discuss the matter “only in proper present him with problems when giv forms." He added that the federal Central Board refused last night to gas in order to avoid the "harmful ing that it is political because ing out financial aid. government supplies the financial allocate $450 to Montanans for Solar effects of anticipated shortages." “political parties may oppose it." These procedures include the aid that he gives out. Initiative, which seeks to put a solar The Progressive Student Union ability of students to withdraw from James Polsin, assistant professor power initiative on the Montana 'Public' Group sought $1,022 to hold a series of classes or from school as late as final of interpersonal communications ballot. CB member Michael Berg, senior movies and lectures on en in political science, who is also a week, to withdraw from classes once and scholarship and financial aids The major reason the request was vironmental issues. The special member of the solar group, said the final grades have been received, to committee chairman, told the denied was because a majority of CB allocation request was denied solar group should be classified as a drop courses after registration week, curriculum committee that the members said they believed that they because a majority of CB members “public,” not political, group. to transfer to listener status and to “abuse of Incompletes may be the would be funding a political request said they believed other student take incompletes. single greatest abuse" among if they voted to allocate the money. Berg contended that CB’s funding organizations, such as the Student If used improperly, Mullen said, students improperly applying for aid.' of the group would not be illegal Action Center, already provide en Other requests for student money such procedures may allow students because, according to Berg, the fun vironmental-related lectures. Incompletes are "mechanically the that were rejected by CB came from applying for financial aid to easiest” of the procedures available ding of public organizations with Two organizations were awarded the Progressive Student Union and a manipulate their cumulative grade to students by which to manipulate state money is done routinely. more than $1,000 by CB. point averages (GPA) to remain GPAs, he said. self-proclaimed “social recreation Frank- Mitchell, sophomore in The Silvertip Skydivers received above the minimum GPA needed to department of Program Council” business administration, disagreed $686 to pay for two national Should the Faculty Senate ap (see story this page). receive aid. prove the proposal, it will go into that the group was not political, say • Cont. on p. 6. Students must now have a effect the quarter following the minimum GPA of 1.7 and earn 30 Senate's decision. Possible Rule Violation If the organization is, in fact, a political organization then CB would be violating a ruling made last year by Attorney General Robert H ey, what smells? Woodahl, which states that state By RICH ECKE probably do not care that what Blizzard hits CB money cannot be used to fund Montana Kaimin Contributing Reporter causes the smell is mainly the com political groups. In connection with By GARY WIENS pound hydrogen sulfide, plus its this, Woodahl ruled that student What is that funny smell? Montana Kalinin Raportar organic forms called mercaptans, money is considered to be state That question is one of the first any which "smell like hell, too,” ac money. visitor to Missoula usually asks. The cording to Clancy Gordon, professor Although the snow refuses to fall in order to enhance the Christmas Woodahl's 1974 ruling came in res answer, of course, is that the “rotten of Botany at the University of Mon spirit, for Central Board, and in particular its chairman, a literal blizzard ponse to a special allocation by CB egg" odor is “nose pollution" tana. forced it to come face to face with the holiday excitement. to the Committee to Un-elect generated by the Hoerner Waldorf They probably would be more The "blizzard" occurred after CB refused to grant a request for $1,000 Woodahl. pulp mill, seven miles west of Mis interested that the smell from these to stage a massive student Christmas party tomorrow. Two students, ASUM President Dave Hill said soula at Frenchtown. chemical compounds is "as who said they represented an unofficial “social recreation department yesterday that ASUM intends to The mill, which has been in tonishingly persistent, because the of Program Council," made the request. challenge Woodahl's ruling but he operation since 1957, asked for and tiniest particle of these materials A further feature of the effort to enhance CB's Christmas spirit was said such a move will not be taken received permission from the state of mixed in nearly a billion times its own the singing of “Silent Night” during the counting of the votes on the until Attorney General-elect Mike Montana to expand its operation in volume of air is still perceptible to proposal.