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MONTANA KAIMIN Friday, February 6, 2004 V olume CVI, Issue 59 Debate stalls idle library committee Myers Reece Montana Kaimin There is currently no functioning Library and Archives Committee at the University of Montana due to an ongoing debate between the Faculty Senate and the Mansfield Library’s faculty over defining the commit- tee’s purpose. The Faculty Senate worked on a proposal over the summer to replace the Library and Archives Committee, which has not convened this year, with the Faculty Library Committee. However, the library’s two facul- ty senators, Sebastian Derry and Susan Mueller, said library faculty were not includ- ed in the rewriting process from the begin- ning and want the process to start anew to include them. “We work at the library, and I believe we should be a part of any process like this that involves the library from the start,” Mueller said. Lisa Hornstein/Montana Kaimin While the Faculty Senate and the library “If you rent, you’re not getting your money back. With a house, it appreciates,” said junior Carl Christofferson. The business major just faculty have tried to reach an agreement, the bought his first home in the new Pleasant View subdivision across from Hellgate Elementary, which will be completed in early April. motion has been pushed back twice and was tabled in December, which is still its status. Celia Winkler, the head of the Library Student bucks trend, bags first house Subcommittee in the Faculty Senate, said the new committee would have a more detailed charge that would clear up confusion as to Jesse Ziegler building and selling houses north of Reserve make it look nice. I’d rather just buy a whom the committee should report and would Montana Kaimin Street on acres once belonging to the brand-new house.” strengthen the committee’s role in various Dougherty farm. Their Pleasant View subdi- As co-owner of a successful lawn-irriga- other ways. In two months 22-year-old Carl vision has about 160 homes built and occu- tion business, the business major has figured Winkler, who is also vice chairwoman of Christofferson should be completely moved pied, with another 71 homes paid for and on out a way to afford a home of his own. the Faculty Senate, said she had no idea the into his newly-built Missoula home west of the way. “I’ve been working a lot,” he said. “I’ve process would drag out this long when she town. Christofferson waited nearly two years to always put money away from work.” started heading the subcommittee assigned to He’ll have dished out the $10,000 down have his home be a part of the third phase of Christofferson said with his strong work draft the resolution. payment, accepted his obligation to spend the development. Due to the strong demand ethic and the rent-free support of his parents, “I didn’t anticipate it being this hard of a nearly $1,000 a month for mortgage, tax and for houses in his — less than $150,000 — he has been able to earn and save the money thing,” Winkler said. “It’s been a total sur- insurance payments. Then he’ll gleefully price range, he missed his chance on a house required to own a home. And he’s ready to prise. We didn’t think it was going to be this enter the world of home ownership just in in phase two by one day. live on his own. controversial.” time for his junior year at the University of “I had the earnest money in my pocket and “I do soak off of my parents some,” he Winkler said she didn’t become involved in Montana to end. the day before I went into lock in on the said. “I eat their food. I think I’ll be OK, serious talks about rewriting the committee’s His house will be built in a subdivision house they sold it,” Christofferson said. though. I can cook Hot Pockets, Eggo waf- charge until the end of the last school year, skirting the city limits. All around him will Carolyn Diddel and Pleasant View’s in- fles, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I when Karen Hill appointed her head of the be more than 700 homes of similar size and house realtor Jon Simons said by the time can cook it all.” subcommittee. shape on similar lots with similar owners the project is completed the subdivision will Buying a home at a young age seems to However, Hayden Ausland, the former paying similar payments. have an additional 500 homes and will span run in the family. Christofferson’s older chairman of the Library and Archives He couldn’t be happier. from the Flynn Ranch boundaries north to brother purchased his first home in the Committee, said there was talk of revising the “I get out of my mom’s house,” the KOA El-Mar Kampground. Bitterroot valley before his 21st birthday. His committee’s charge in 2000. Melissa Nicoud, Christofferson said. “Even though I get food For Christofferson, the decision to move parents moved into their current home in the chairwoman of the Library and Archives there as well as the care and comfort of my out of town to a denser subdivision instead Missoula as soon as they were married 26 Committee in 2000, wrote an e-mail suggest- family. Not to mention, in a few years I can of looking for an older home in town was an years ago, when his dad was 19 and his mom ing the need for a revised charge. upgrade to a bigger, better house because I’ll easy one. 17. In the e-mail, Nicoud cited various organi- have equity in mine and I’ll be able to sell it “The cost is a lot higher in town,” he said. He said it’s those examples that influenced zational problems, including a lack of student (for a profit).” “You’d have to put in new carpet, new paint him the most. Four years ago John and Carolyn Diddel’s — just do a lot more (to an older house) to company, Pleasant View Homes, started See HOUSING, Page 12 See COMMITTEE, Page 12 UM Democrat, soldier eyes legislative seat Natalie Storey not to feed the Iraqi children lining “Yeah, we gave it to For Furey, becoming a tion, both important issues for Montana Kaimin the roads his transportation battal- them anyway,” he admits. lawmaker feels like the Furey. ion drove past. His superior offi- Affecting governmen- right decision to make, “We have to educate young peo- If he’s elected to the Montana cers told him there was another unit tal policy was a goal that especially right now. He ple because they are going to be House of Representatives, it’s like- designated to provide aid for the began to seem more said he sees the signifi- our future,” he said. “If we don’t ly University of Montana student children. pressing for Furey, a 21- cance of the invest in them, we won’t have any- Kevin Furey will have to make a But Furey says the image of the year-old political science Legislature’s actions in thing left.” lot of hard decisions. impoverished, starving children is and environmental stud- young people lives and Furey said he thinks legislators Furey, who is running for House one he’ll carry with him for the rest ies major. He was over- wants to take part in should focus more on helping District 91 as a Democrat, made of his life. seas from April to shaping that relation- Montana’s extraction industries the decision to run in the 2004 race “I valued life immensely before I November and was ship. become more environmentally after he returned from Iraq this fall. went over there,” he said. “But allowed to return only Kevin Furey “This is my life and friendly. It was overseas that Furey experi- afterward, seeing those kids, it just because of his ROTC scholarship at my responsibility,” Furey said. “We need to focus on what we enced firsthand how government reinforced that.” UM. He was a transportation con- “I’m the one who’s going to live need to change our economy into policy affects the lives of everyday Not giving leftovers from his trol specialist in Iraq, trained to with these decisions.” and what it should become,” he people, including himself. military-issued meals to the beg- enter U.S. military vehicle informa- Most importantly, actions the said. “We need to stop looking In Iraq, life-affecting choices ging children was a choice Furey tion into a complex computer data Legislature takes have repercus- were everywhere. Furey was told just couldn’t make.