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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Our 98th year, Issue 70 ■ ______Kaimin is a Salish word for messages ______Thursday, February 29,1996 Terrain jumping at Snowbowl Pub plan in peril? ▼L/C bar dead in the would also include a grill for burgers and fries. water iffunds aren't The proposal is waiting for found to furnish it, approval from several universi­ ty committees and for President official says George Dennison’s final vote. But before students can Erica Curless drink a few beers and partici­ Kaimin Reporter pate in karaoke, the space needs basic furnishings such as The proposed University a grill, tables and work space, Center pub is a moot point until Lo Parco said. money to furnish the space is “The whole idea of a pub is found, Dining moot if we don’t Gary Huin/Kaimin Services get the space furnished out,” THE 20TH ANNUAL SNOWBOWL CUP GELANDE CHAMPIONSHIP drew 26 professional skiers director he whole idea of last weekend. “Gelande” is taken from “gelandesprung,” which means “terrain jump.” See story page 5. Mark Lo he said. “Our Parco said Ta pub is moot if number one Wednesday. we don’t get the component here “The point space furnished out. is we don’t have Student credit loads increase this spring is not what’s the funding in “We really hoped that for increasing the FTE is to going to go in Our number one place now.” Sonja Lee would happen,” he said. facilitate student graduation the space but The room Kaimin Reporter component here is “Getting kids into classes' is and increase class availabili­ getting the remains empty UM students are taking an ongoing kind of thing.” ty, Bain said.. space fur­ that we don’t have while the equip­ more credits this semester, The increase in FTE’s “Students seem to be hav­ nished,” Lo the funding in place ment list is sent according to spring enroll* shows that the availability of ing a little more success get­ Parco said. right now. ” to the architect ment figures released yester­ classes has improved, Bain ting their classes,” he said. “There’s no for final inspec­ —Mark Lo Parco said. He said he attributes Actual head count at UM funding to tion. Price bids day. Dining Services The full-time equivalent the credit increase to the increased by only around 17 buy the will be taken population, which is stu­ change in the fee schedule students, compared to fig­ equipment to when the list dents taking 15 or more which allows students to now ures from last spring, Phil serve anyone returns, Lo credits, moved from 9,791 take 12 credits and up and Bain, registrar said. in that space.” Parco said. last spring to 10,045 this not pay increased fees. Spring figures also include ASUM President Matt Lee It is unclear where the spring. Phil Bain, registrar, Bain said the administra­ 640 students from UM’s proposed The Study Brake in money will come from, but Lo said last spring students tion’s effort to encourage pro­ College of Technology. January. The beer-and-wine Parco said it is not from the UC took an average of about 12.7 fessors to teach more classes Current head-count is at pub would provide students, renovation fee. credits and this semester the and open more seats also 11,380, which is a drop of faculty and staff entertainment “There is no designated average is a little above 13 was a factor in the FTE about 300 students from fall Monday through Thursday. The funding source for that project,” credits. increase. The primary goal. numbers, Bain said. second-floor establishment he said. UM student chosen to carry torch in Olympic relay a kidney failure in donated,” he said. summer Olympics and volun­ Sonja Lee 1992. Michael then “People like that teering at Camp Mak-a-Dream, Kaimin Reporter donated one of his are the heroes.” Matt also plans to play in the There was a time when Matt kidneys to his But Michael Transplant Games in Salt Lake Jette couldn’t even participate brother. refutes the “com­ City. in high school sports. Now, after After experienc­ munity hero” talk “I’m just trying to get things receiving a kidney transplant ing organ donation, as well. done,” he said. “I guess if Fm a from his identical twin, he and Michael and Matt “There’s just hero now, you haven’t seen any­ his brother will help relay the started an organi­ no hero thing,” thing yet, and there’s a lot more summer Olympic torch. zation to bring Michael said. “It ahead.” Both Matt, a UM junior in recipients, donors was kind of like Matt said after graduation political science and administra­ and their families an obligation to the twins will be ready to spend tion, and his twin Michael, a together. Last society, like rich more time expanding their orga­ University of Oregon student, spring the twins people giving to nization. In the next couple of will take part in the summer kicked-off the non­ poor people.” years, Matt said, he hopes to Olympic torch relay, after being profit organization, The twins’ make Donors for Life nationally selected “community heroes” by Donors for Life, by mother, Mary known. United Way. biking from Seattle Jette, said she But despite both Matt and Matt was selected to run to Washington D.C. MATT JETTE, a junior in political science and adminstra- isn’t surprised by Michael’s busy schedules and between one and three kilome­ Matt said after tion, is one of six Montanans who will help relay the summer her sons’ modesty. successes they still maintain ters May 9 as part of the relay the transplant a lot Olympic torch. “They have their modesty. He said he will be running in of things changed. both done quite a “I just don’t perceive myself either Wyoming or Idaho, and is He said taking part lete. He’s Mr. King-pin now, bit,” she said. as a hero,” Michael said. “But if one of only six Montanans to in sporting events, something well, at least he says he is.” “And they are doing whafs other people do, I guess I’m will­ run in the relay he had always wanted to do, Taking part in the relay is an right for them.” ing to step up to home-plate and Michael will also be running was a reality. His brother honor, Matt said, but he said he Last summer Matt was also hit a home run for them.” a leg of the Olympic relay in Michael also noticed the change. really doesn’t see himself as any a cabin leader at Camp Mak-a- Matt added, “This is just one Portland. “The joke now is, ‘1 think you kind of hero. Dream in Missoula and plans story, and everyone has a story. Matt was bom with only one- got the better one” Michael “My brother is the hero on taking part in the camp I think it’s just how you want to fourth of a kidney, and suffered said. “Now he’s the better ath­ because he is the one who again this year. Aside from the write the next chapter ” 2 Montana Kaimin, Thursday, February 29,1996 ______Opinion______More prisons ignore America isn’t ready for integration Dear Dr. King, many people and many voices rise to excellence, is not sustain­ societal problems I write with news that I into one choir, we understood able either, is not — indeed— believe will not make you happy. then that the choir would still even relevant anymore, is a dif­ Montana’s prison population is expected to increase dra­ And to be honest, I feel a little have a director, a conductor, and ficult argument to ignore. matically over the next five years, and state Corrections nervous writing to you at all. I whatever the color of that con­ I realize that rebelliousness Department officials say they have a plan. The proposal, am just a white kid from the ductor might be, he or she would against American culture is as announced Tuesday at the citizen’s advisory council meet­ sticks of Northern Alabama. still be shackled by the same old old as America. And I under­ ing in Helena, calls for additions to the Montana State You — and others— may rules of music, that the laws of stand that each new generation Prison in Deer Lodge and the women’s prison in Billings, deservedly ask, what does this the land would be the same. of youth finds its own way to the building of new pre-release centers person know of prejudice or civil What I’m attempting to say is express its energy and disen­ and a geriatric home for inmates, and rights or anything that you that even in the most liberal franchisement. But I believe I the implementation of a community stood for. And this could be true, segments of American society, can label a qualitative difference Kaimin sex offender monitoring system. All of but I do think that your mes­ integration has most often between that anger and frustra­ tion of today and the hippies of editorial this is in addition to three new regional sage and life’s message encom­ meant, “Sure, you can belong, jails under construction, and one wait­ passed ideas far you can make your sixties and even the disobe­ dient poetry and actions of ing to be built. larger than their Black History Month money, you can Does this sound excessive to you? contemporary be famous, you Americans as far back as Should we really consider spending all of this money on social issues. can certainly Thoreau, whom you so admired. locking more people up? I’m sure some would argue that And it is these ideas which I’d take your children to The hippies, the Beatniks, criminals belong in jail, so if we need more jails then we’ll like to address today. Disneyland, and by all means Whitman, Thoreau, they all just have to build them. While most criminals do belong in I must say — to borrow from we will call your spouse by his used to some degree the spirit of jail, and should stay there, the solution of building more your most famous and now over­ or her proper title, but of course the philosophy upon which prisons only avoids the larger issue: some people currently ly used phrase — that if you had this means you will act like us.” America was founded to argue in jail don’t belong there. a dream, we in America today And understandably, many peo­ against contemporary trends in There are many crimes in our society that deserve increasingly do not. Although ple no longer want to act like us. America. And although that is prison time. Murder, rape, assault, child abuse and a host you might be surprised at the You yourself seem to embrace partially the case in today’s pop­ of others all should be dealt with in the most serious way number of African Americans the spirit behind the letter of ular art, we are more and more, possible. But non-violent drug and alcohol offenders are now in influential positions of the laws of America. You con­ artistically at least, attempting not in the same category, yet they comprise a large part of academia, government, busi­ stantly referred to the to destroy the very ideological the prison population. Marijuana offenses alone comprise ness, law, and medicine, and Constitution and the foundations of the country. This 17 percent of the federal prison population (with 84 per­ with the fact that the black mid­ Declaration of Independence. It embracing of alternate identities cent being arrested for possession, not selling or manufac­ dle class has grown dramatical­ makes sense that the essentially that do not merely rebel against turing), and an estimated 20,000 more people are in state ly since the late sixties, what revolutionary style of these doc­ traditional liberal ideals, but and local jails for the same reason. Theoretically, if all of you might find disturbing is uments would be appealing. But deny them as a viable solution these non-violent offenders weren’t in jail, we might not that, despite these gains or per­ by embracing them, you also to most anything, certainly did need any new facilities. haps because of them, integra­ embraced a long-standing, clas­ not start yesterday. Many The new DUI law requires that fourth-time offenders tion is not what a growing num­ sic Continental European tradi­ Americans found a kind of serve a minimum of six months in prison. Is this really the ber of Americans of any color tion of what individuality power and self-esteem in the best way to deal with these people, to heap them in with want. What we have come to meant, of what justice meant, of angry, in-your-face, partially much more violent criminals? Drunk drivers should be realize is that integration can be what the relationship between drug-induced lifestyles por­ 'dealt with on a social level, not a criminal one, and should another form of subjugation, government and the governed trayed in movies such as be punished accordingly (the exception, of course, is when that diversity, although some­ meant. Many people in America “Superfly” as far back as the someone is killed or injured). When someone is an alco­ thing to be desired, can be a no longer embrace these con­ early seventies. All I can say is holic, we don’t lock them up, we treat their illness. When double-edged sword. In your cepts. They understand that that I believe it’s more and more someone can’t drive, we don’t lock them up, we forbid them famous “Letter from a their cultures have different prevalent now. In this you were, to drive. You can still have stiff penalties without incarcer­ Birmingham Jail,” you rightly perspectives about what it to borrow a phrase from my ation, but putting them in jail simply ignores the underly­ chastise those clergymen who means to be a person, about youth, dead on. Poor people of ing problem. suggest that Blacks should wait what things are right and which all colors have come to believe These two points illustrate a major Wrong in our society, and be patient for reform. In are wrong. We live in an era of that the American dream is not too many social issues that lead to crime are being ignored, part, you write, fracture. Although America really theirs. And they have and needless prison time for non-violent offenders and “...when you suddenly find might have been willing to let looked at the culture and prison overcrowding is the result. Before Corrections your tongue twisted and your many people of different shapes mythology that theoretically Director Rick Day takes his proposal to the 1997 legisla­ speech stammering as you seek and sizes jump on the bandwag­ allows them to belong but really ture, let’s see if we can some up with some better solutions. to explain to your six-year-old on, we certainly are at a loss has been dangled in their faces We can save some money, and _ , „ . daughter why she can’t go to the like a carrot on a string, and some lives. Brian Hurlbut when those people refuse, and public amusement park that has jump on their own. In his 1969 they have spit on it. It is just been advertised on televi­ book, “Custer Died for Your increasingly a privileged posi­ sion, and see tears welling up in Sins,” Vine De Loria writes that tion of the middle class to her eyes when she is told that the difference between the believe that your actions have Funtown is closed to colored Black civil rights movement and any consequences at all, good or Montana Kaimin children, and see ominous Native American movements is bad. People from my neck of the clouds of inferiority beginning to that Blacks want to join the woods look at institutions like form in her little mental sky, The Montana Kaimin, in its 98th Reporters...... Karen Chdvez, whites; Native Americans want court houses and jail houses and year, is published by the students Erica Curiess, Justin Grigg, Jason and see her beginning to distort to be left alone. I don’t think know that they were built by of The University of Montana, Kozleski, Erin Juntunen, Sonja her personality by developing an there is such a large difference those who have things to protect Missoula. The UM School of Lee, Journalism uses the Montana Kimberly Robinson, Morgan unconscious bitterness towards .anymore. And since there is no them from us, who have little to Kaimin for practice courses but Sturges white people; when you have to singular dream, no coherent nothing. assumes no control over policy or Sports Writer...... Brian Crosby concoct an answer for a five- content. Arts Writer...... Zach Dundas identity, to which we all aspire, I am not one who tends to Editorial Board members Photographers...... Jordan year-old son who is asking, we have begun to search, vio­ believe in monolithic portrayals LaRue, Stuart Thurlkill, Ann Daddy, why do white people lently, for our own different of anything, especially some­ Editor...... Lorie Hutson Williamson News Editors Matt Ochsner, Columnists...Jason .Vaupel, treat colored people so mean?’ ones. Certain people today com­ thing as large and complex as Becky Shay, Molly Wood Matt Venendaal .. .then you will understand why Arts Editor...... Brian Hurlbut plain loudly about the violence, America. However, a discussion Cartoonist...... David Green we find it so difficult to wait.” Features Editor...Matt Venendaal Business office phone the cusswords, the emphasis on such as this in a short space Sports Editor...... Thomas Mullen (406) 243-6541 Your choice of examples of drugs, in rap and punk. But necessitates generalization. I Editorials are the product of a Newsroom phone bigotry reveal many of the dif­ what these same people refuse group consensus with heavy (406) 243-4310 am sure you will find others doses of the writer's own opinion. Kaimin On-line ferences between today and the or are scared to realize is that who disagree with me. But if Business Manager ...... Shellie http://www.umt.edu./kaimin sixties. What it seems you want­ the violence, the cursing, the you want the news from today, Nelson LETTERS POLICY: Letters should be ed to a large degree was to Design Editor...... April Jones no more than 300 words, typed and embracing of different or my news is: We are a nation Designers...... Justin Grigg, double-spaced. Writers are limited to belong, the right to do the things deviant or illegal behaviors is floundering. Tofer Towe, Kyle Wood two letters per month. Letters should that whites did, to have them Photo Editors...... Seanna be mailed, or preferably brought, to exactly the point. These artistic Sincerely, O'Sullivan the Kaimin office in room 206 of the treat you and your family with expressions are an exact disem- Michael McKerley Copy Editors...... Jennifer Brown, Journalism Building with a valid ID the same respect with which bracing of traditional American Susan Minogue, Kathie Hayton, for verification. E-mail may be sent Editor’s note: Michael Jennifer Savage to editorOselway.umt.edu Letters they treated each other. And Fm identify. Although I too believe McKerley is a graduate student Production Manager. April Jones must include signature (name in the not saying we no longer desire that the myths these art forms in creative writing. He wrote this Production Assistants.... Steven case of E-mail), valid mailing Millhouse, Danielle Smith address, telephone number and stu­ these things, just that we desire perpetuate are in the end not letter as part ofan assignment Advertising Representatives..... dent’s year and major, if applicable. different things as well. sustainable, their argument is in which he was to tell Dr. Betsy Ehlinger, Andrea Harsell All letters are subject to editing for When America, driven by Office Manager...... Vicki Warp clarity and brevity. Longer pieces that the old myth, the American Martin Luther King, Jr., about a Office Assistant...... Dawn Hayes may be submitted as guest columns. * your beautiful rhetoric, finally dream that anyone of any color contemporary racial problem started the move to integrate and economic background can and how he would solve it. Montana Kaimin, Thursday, February 29,1996 3

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D-COLLECT Montana Kaimin, Thursday, February 29,1996 5 Perspectives GelandesprungI

SOARING OVER THE TOP OF THE KNOLL, Jordan McCormick from Durango, Colo., led the field in the amateur division and captured first place Sunday with a total score of539points.

The temperature was hovering in the teens. The The first Gelande competition was started by Alf winds were blowing at 15 to 25 m.p.h. But these con­ Engen in 1964 at Alta, Utah. The following year ditions had little effect on UM graduate Brent Wilson Keith Lange won the first Alta Cup at the very first who captured the Snowbowl Cup at the 20th Annual National Gelande Championship at Alta, Utah. Snowbowl Cup Gelande Championship last weekend The Alta Cup is now a traveling at Missoula’s Snowbowl Ski Resort. national championship event that has Photographed “Like any other sport, been held at Montana’s Snowbowl four and Written bl/ you just have to stay times, 1981, 1988, 1989 and 1990. ------— focused,” said the 26-year- In 1974, Ronald Matelich of GARY THAIN old Wilson. A native Missoula captured the Snowbowl Cup Montanan from Whitefish, at the first organized Gelande event held at Wilson received his bache­ Missoula’s Snowbowl Ski Resort. Since then the lor’s degree in marketing in Snowbowl Cup has become one of the premiere 1995 and has worked as Gelande events.The slope at Snowbowl has been director of the Missoula Ski described as one of the trickiest on the Gelande tour. Education Association for “It (the Snowbowl jump) is the most technical the last two years. He has jump on the tour,” said Brian (Flyin’ Brian) Beck, a competed in ski jumping professional jumper from Sandy, Utah. “You really events since 1993. have to be a skier for this jump.” It’s because of the So what the hell is turn" at the top of the hill approaching the jump and Gelande ski jumping all the sudden “elevator drop,” down to the landing area, about and how did it all plus the hairy turn at the bottom of the slope. begin? Well just hold on to Skiers are awarded points by a team of judges who your bindings as we flash evaluate how aerodynamically correct the jump was back through time and take and if the jump was executed with power, boldness a look at the history of this and precision. At the same time skiers must demon­ sport. strate that they are calm, cool and in complete control According to Rudolph as they fly 150 to 200 feet through the air at speeds of THE 1996 Brasch, author of the book 60 m.p.h. SNOWBOWL CUP “How Did Sports Begin? A Lloyd Thorsrud (“Leapin Lloyd”), a 38-year-old WINNER, Brent Look At The Origins Of carpenter, has won the Snowbowl Cup nine times and Wilson, proudly Men At Play,” ski jumping the Alta Cup five times. He also holds the hill dis­ shows off his reward. first took place at Huseby tance record at Snowbowl, Hill near Oslo, Norway in set in 1990, when he came MICHELLE KOCH 1879. from behind to jump 203 gives pro jumper Farmers from the Telemark Valley descended the feet and score a perfect 10 Rob Davis a good Huseby slope, an incline described as highly danger­ in style. The longest jump luck kiss before he ous and impossible when the snow was fast and in of 229 feet was set by Paul heads up for his good condition, and soared seventy-six feet through Hitchcock in 1976 at final jump on the air stopping at the bottom of the hill, smothered Purgatory, Utah.. Sunday. Davis, in snow dust. Wilson and the rest of who hails from Following World War I an Austrian. Colonel the pro jumpers are heading Salt Lake City, Bigeri, invented the modem ski poles and was able to to Park City, Utah, this Utah, finished 12th make controlled leaps which eventually evolved into weekend, the site for this with a combined the style known as gelaendesprung. The term * years Alta Cup event and a score of 580 points. gelandesprung (the second ‘e’ is now omitted) means chance at the National literally, terrain jump. Championship. 6 Montana Kaimin, Thursday, February 29,1996 Sports Tennis team travels to Washington Brian Crosby Kaimin Sports Writer

UM’s women’s tennis team will make the trek to the Apple State this weekend for three matches. On Friday, the Lady Griz will travel to Cheney, Wash., to face conference rival and host Eastern Washington. In the afternoon they take on non-conference foe Gonzaga University, and Saturday the Lady Griz face the University of Calgary. The Lady Griz are coming off of a split of last week’s matches, losing to Idaho State and beating Utah State and pushed their record at 1-2 for Stuart Thurlkill/Kaimin the season. SENIOR FORWARD SHAWN SAMUELSON takes a breather during a game against Idaho State Friday night. Samuelson hit his Head Coach KrisNord said career high of 26 points earning hint the Big Sky player of the week nomination. the Lady Griz rarely see many of the teams in the conference until the Big Sky Road to Big Sky host winds through Cheney Championships and this early season match-up against the the Big Sky Conference. The Bobcats fun if that weekend meant something,” Eagles will be against a team Anna Maria Della Costa are in Moscow, Idaho, tonight to take Taylor said. that is “much stronger this Kaimin Sports Writer on the Idaho Vandals. If both Montana and Montana State year than they have been typi­ The road through Cheney, Wash., The situation is all too familiar for win both their games this weekend, cally.” tonight probably won’t be straight. the Grizzlies. Last season at this time, they would share the Big Sky The Lady Griz are led by True, Eastern Washington’s men’s UM needed to win its final games of the Conference championship. A coin toss Freshman Vannesa Castellano basketball team hasn’t won a Big Sky season against Eastern Washington would determine the tournament host. who is 3-0 this year in singles, Conference game all season. The Eagles and Idaho to win the Big Sky If UM and MSU split their weekends 2-1 in doubles with partner are dead last in the conference, but UM Conference title. The only difference and Weber State wins their game on Lauren Leger. Castellano is Head Coach Blaine Taylor knows the was the Griz got to finish their season Saturday at Northern Arizona, all three still tied for the No. 27 rank­ Eagles are still searching for that in their own backyard, in Dahlberg teams would be at 10-4 in the confer­ ing in singles play on the “first,” and they always take Montana Arena. ence. Weber State would then host the Rolex collegiate rankings. on a bumpy ride. The Grizzlies won both games, but it tournament because they beat Boise Nord also has been pleased by “I would like to think that our kids took an overtime win over the Eagles State twice, while UM and MSU split other freshman. only have to reminisce back to our first and a come-from-behind effort against with Boise State. Canuso has a 1-2 record in game (this season) against Eastern the Vandals to tie Weber State as co­ If UM sweeps this weekend and singles and is 1-2 in doubles, Washington to get their attention and champions. MSU doesn’t or vice versa, the Grizzlies while Morrell is 1-1 in singles see that we’ve got our work cut out,” This time they’re on the road. They or Bobcats would win the title outright and 2-1 in doubles. Taylor said. will play Idaho on the road Saturday and win the right to host. On Feb. 3, Montana needed a last- night. Taylor said it’s tough to be on the Boise State also has a 9-4 record and minute Shawn Samuelson layup to lift road for the last games of the season, plays Idaho State on Saturday. But the RESEARCH NFORMATM the Griz to a 71-70 win. but it’s an exciting way to end as well. Broncos would have to win their game Largest Library of information in U.S. - aU subjects This time, Montana is coming off a “When I looked at the schedule at and hope UM, MSU and Weber State Order Catalog Today with Visa i MC or COO huge weekend with wins over Idaho the beginning of the year, I saw lose the rest of their games for BSU to State and Boise State to move into a Eastern and Idaho on the road, and I win the conference and host the tour­ first-place tie with Montana State in thought to myself that it sure would be ney. Or. rush $2.00 to: Research Information • 322Idaho Ave.. # 206 A. Los Angeles. CA 90025

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Every Thur, in Feb ALL MICRO Phone fee to help pay computer costs PITCHERS $5.50 ITE SNACKE Justin Grigg because they don’t have a new way to fund it. Spritzer, the department’s Kaimin Reporter direct-connect access to the He doesn’t believe the fiscal officer. network. Cleaveland was money will come from the Cleaveland agreed it is A temporary plan to recov­ unsure whether the cost state or any other outside unfortunate the increase er some of the cost of operat­ would be passed on to agency and thinks the costs came so far into the fiscal ing a campus computer net­ Pantzer Hall residents, who need to be passed down to year, but the problem of fund­ work has many seeing red, do have access to the net­ those using the service. ing the network had to be but the money has to come work. Rita Tucker, associate “It’s easier on us if it’s cen­ solved, at least in part. from somewhere, John director of Residence Life, trally funded, but in many Cleaveland informed acad­ Cleaveland, the director of could not be reached for com­ cases that doesn’t reflect the emic and administrative ExpertTire the Office of Information ment on the charge. realities,” he said. leaders on campus before the Technologies, said For many years the cost of Not many in the campus increase took effect, but did­ Wednesday. maintaining the network has community are happy about n’t send out memos to each UM President George LEAP YEAR been absorbed by UM, mak­ the surcharge. department. Dennison and Cleaveland ing access appear to be free. “The reaction to it has “Except for a few isolated SPECIAL made the decision to institute The $30 computer fee that been overwhelmingly nega­ cases no one should be sur­ 90 Day* Same a $5 surcharge per phone line 3 DAYS ONLY-Thursday, students pay is dispersed by tive,” Cleaveland said. prised,” he said. Friday, Saturday beginning with January’s the Information Technology For the Business Cleaveland said he hopes a phone bills. The increase will Policy Advisory Committee Administration department plan to charge for use of the last until July, Cleaveland (ITPAC) to departments the charge means a phone network and Internet access, $5 said. Every Tl across campus based on their bill increase of more than by both direct connections FREE Mounting while you wait < The surcharge will be computer needs. $1,000 from now until July, and through the dial-up ser­ assessed on “every (campus) Because the number of an expense that wasn’t bud­ vice, can be developed by phone line, no matter what people accessing the network geted. July. its use4” with the exception of 139 E. Main • 543-7128 is growing at a near-exponen­ “We wish we could have the majority of resident hous­ tial rate, Cleaveland said, it 1-800-385-6079 known about it a little bit ing and a few other buildings has become necessary to find sooner,” said Kathleen Hours: M on-Fri 7:30-5:30, Sat 8:30-4:00 kiosk The Kaimin assumes no responsibility for advertisements which are placed in the ***LEAP DAY SALE - TODAY!** 29% College graduate for Panhellenic Adviser Classified section. We urge all readers to Off all regular priced merchandise at to four UM sororities. 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Civil rights scholar: ASUM senator resigns

Only one women is left on The resignation won’t hin­ Simpson trial 'racial passion-play' the ASUM Senate after Sen. der the Senate’s budgeting Eldena Bear Don’t Walk process even though student Kimberly Robinson resigned Tuesday. groups are 'lobbying ' ’ senators Kaimin Reporter Sen. for more than Jennifer $500,000 this .J. Simpson had two tri­ Henry is here are other week, Bear Don’t als: one in court, anoth­ now the women, other Walk said. er by public opinion, lone female T “If I sat there Indians, other par­ and wasn’t giv­ Osaid a Columbia law professor member of Wednesday night. the 20- ents on this campus ing my full attention to it, Patricia Williams, a lawyer, member and those are the feminist and civil rights body. what’s the good activist, spoke to more than A death people who need to being there,” she 200 people about the complexi­ in the fami­ pick up and do it. said. “I’ve done ty of race and gender relations. ly and pri­ my time.” —Sen. Eldena “Racial passion-plays have ority The ASUM emerged as a unique art form changes Bear Don’t Walk interview com­ in Americasaid Williams who forced Bear mittee will begin . taking applica­ used the Simpson trial to illus­ PATRICIA WILLIAMS, feminist, author, and law professor at . Don’t trate the nature of these rela­ Columbia University, visited UM this week to give a lecture senes Walk’s decision, she said. tions for the vacant seat next tions. on race relations. “Senate is no longer a pri­ week, ASUM President Matt ority,” said the two-term sen­ Lee said. Lee won’t appoint he began by tracing the ator. “There are other anyone until after budgeting evolution of the opinion Black women had to choose where they have to choose women, other indians and is finished in March, he said. trial which started with between feminists who sides, said Williams. other parents on this campus Sthe stereotype of the “heroic denounced Simpson for his She labeled this thinking the and those are the people who ‘white’ black man” which magi­ abuse or their own racial loyal­ “tyranny of the white ideal.” need to pick up and do it.” —Erica Curless, Kaimin cally transformed into the “vil­ ties. lainous ‘black’ black man.” the gaze Williams discussed the illiams pointed out (of the Superbowl-like atmosphere of that if they sided with white the public opinion trial and the feminists they would ideal) effects popular culture and the Wdishonor their already dishonlies the­ media had in enhancing these ored men. If they sided with dream stereotypes. their race, they would be reject­ house of It became a game of specta­ ing the struggle of women’s our exis­ torship where people chose “the rights against domestic abuse, tence,” black team or the white team,” she said. she she said. One-dimensional arguments said. Williams said the public reduced the trial to one about trial forced black women into race or one about women’s the same black or white mind­ rights. This kind of mentality set. forces people into positions .

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