Recycle This Paper A free press nn of course be good or ~d. but, most certainly, without frMdom it will never be ~@[UJ EXPONENT anythin9 but bild. Our 691h Year Albert Camus Volume 69, No. 26., An ASllllSU Publication Bozeman, MT Friday, Jan. 27, 1978 Winter Fair Extravaganza! Moo. The 32nd Annual Montana Winter Fair gets under way today at the Gallatin .County Fair.grounds. Over 100,000 visitors are expected to pass through the gates before the fair closes Sunday, Feb. 5. This year's event features the Championship Horse Pulling Contest as well as the Second Annual Indoor Chicken Flying Contest. Over 80 commercial exhibitors will display wares ranging from farm equipment to the " Dustamatlc," an automatic household device said to resemble a giant bathroom brush. Other exhibits include irrigation systems, sewing machines, paints, lumber products, poles and fence posts, jewelry, horse trailers and many others. Represented at the fair will be the Gallatin County Humane Society, the Montana Department of Natural Resources, two solar heating companies, a local radio station, a taxidermist, an artificial inseminator, and the women's auxiliaries of all the livestock associations. Food will be provided by the Hope Lutheran Men's Club, the Sheriff's Posse and the 4-H Club. Other groups providing snacks are the CowBelles, the Montana Angus Association, and several commercial establishments. The CowBelles will reportedly serve beef fudge, for the adventurous palates in the crowd. A greatly expanded · Arts and Crafts section this year will feature weaving, painting , sculpture, woodwork, photography and an assortment of other crafts. And for a change of pace, a llama will be strutting around the petting zoo at the Kiddie Korner. This year's fair has been designated a Register of Merit Show by the American Hereford Association. The show is dedicated to Reed Point rancher Sid Fraser. Reg ister of Merit bulls are chosen on the basi-s of the performance of their gets--their offspring--in three of twelve yearly ROM shows around the country. Over 300 Hereford entries are expected at this year's fair, making it one of the more imp<Jrtant shows of the season. There is no gate charge for the Montana Winter Fair. Special evening events, such as the Chicken Flying Contest, do have a small entrance fee. Collective bargaining votes One of the many sights up Hyalite Canyon, Grotto Falls, cascades through its winter shell of snow and Ice. [photo by Julie Evans] UM, Eastern pick agents to set up the structure and organization of the collective MISSOULA (KNS) election, represents faculty at bargaining process. Dorm deposit fee Tension mounted during the Northern Montana College in "This is the first time for vote count in Room 202 of Havre, and at Western collective bargaining at the at MSU tripled Main Hall last Friday evening, Montana College in Dillon. university," he said , "and we as the University Teacher Eastern Montana College's want to do it carefully, do it prepayment fees space was assigned to Union's vote tally was given . faculty is represented by a Dorm right, keep the trust of the from $30 to $100 students who ultimately When the union had a clear coalition of the American have jumped fac ulty and build a good hike will be would not be living there." majority the room erupted in Association of University at MSU . The foundation for bargaining in " As a result, the people cheers from about 20 UTU Professors (AAUP) and the effective beginning next fall the future. who did not notify our office members. American Federation of quarter. of their desire to cancel The union was elected by a Teachers (AFT). Walsh explained: " The Also the deadline for to be decisive margin to represent UTU President James election gave the union legal receiving a full refund has caused many of you on waiting lists or the University of Montana Walsh , professor of psy­ status as the bargaining been moved up to Aug . 1. The placed faculty in collective chology, said this week that agent, but what we bargain previous deadline was Sept. assigned to conference these bargaining negotiations. the union's bargaining for will be determined by the 1 . housing to await be The election leaves only position will be stronger faculty as a whole. There may On Campus Living Director spaces which could not day Montana Tech and Montana because it was elected by a be one formal mechanism by Glen Lewis said that students reassigned until the first State University majority of the entire faculty, which bargainable issues are were using the dorms as a of classes." unrepresented by a collective rather than by a pluarlity. deinfed and positions taken, crutch to insu re a place to Lewis said that financial for bargaining agent. Walsh said the UTU but certainly every group and live. aid will provide loans who cannot raise the The Montana Education Executive Committee and every individual on campus A memo circulated in the students Association , which garnered several ad hoc committees should have his say , and we'll dorms earlier said, "twenty­ money .tor the prepayment three per cent of the available fee only 9 votes in the UM will begin working this week Cpnt \IJed to Pa e JJ - SUBJECTIVELY®~~£~0~@ no sweat Freedom of the press is one of the mo.st treasured of all increase Dear Editor: rights guaranteed by the Constitution. It benefits all of us dorm rate Re : Letter from " A Human even when we do not like it. Included in this freedom is the Female" freedom to commit errors, and to be criticized for these errors. disgusting I would just like to relate a Eric Sevareid , veteran news commentator hike not , outlined this Dear Editor: couple of thoughts to her and process in his farewell address : " To comfort oneself, in times I would like to comment on other supporters of the of error, with the knowledge that the saving grace of the press, kosher the sudden and substantial Women ' s Liberation print or broadcast, is its self-correcting nature." increase in the dorm room Movement (at least I assume Time is the journalist's relentless companion. It is always This is a letter concerning prepayment requirement that she is a staunch sup­ true that this story, or that issue could have been better if there On Campus Living with recently imposed by the On porter ... her letter seems to had been more time to prepare it. However there was not. All respect to the recent price Campus Living Office. reflect her opinion in this journalists must meet the deadline, so some research must be hi ke in residence hall The increase (from $30 to matter as bei ng rather left undone. Omissions and inaccuracies will occur to some prepayments. As of last week $100) has caused un­ serious). extent, because you can rarely get the full story. A journalist the prepayment was raised necessary hardship for many I have held an executive can only make the best effort to get the most important facts from $30 to $100. This was dorm residents, and their position in a business where correct. done, as On Campus Living outraged reaction is men dominated the field . I Space is likewise limited, and this contributes to the dif­ explains, to cut down on the justifiable. nave had to I isten to all the ficulty of producing a newspaper. It Is obviously impossible to number of students who sign What is not justifiable, wise remarks about the way compress even a short interview into a few column inches. The up to live on campus and then however, is (1) the amount of " women seem to think they reporter must omit parts of the interview, and concentrate on don't go through with their the increase, and (2) the way can take over the world." I reporting those elements he feels are most important. The contracts. Some of these in which the administration have had to wear business person giving the interview sometimes disagrees with the students don't show at all but implemented it. suits to work to avoid reporter's judgement. most find apartments in Students should not have comments like, " Lucky Since omissions are inevitable in any story, the reporter Bozeman and then get their to be subjected to a $100 bill dames, get to wear dresses assumes a responsibility to provide background so that the money refunded from On in between quarters, while we sweat away in these story is accurate. A remark printed without this accompanying Campus Living before Sept. especially when they were stupid suits." And I've had to background is misleading. Britain's Royal Commission on the 1 , the refund deadline. In my planning on (and budgeting work twice as hard to prove to Press explains the problem as follows : " neglect of context opinion just by moving the for) a bill of only $30 And the them that I could do just as creates a 'bias against understanding' ". refund deadline date forward administration should have well. The choice of subject matter is crucial for any newspaper. this would weed out most of more sense than to notify Fortunately, my boss , This choice is determined, in a large part by the reading the the people who hold a dorm students of this increase only though a male chauvinist at public's interest. The Royal Commission quoted above stated room just as security in case two days before heart, was very objective. One its opinion that "it is not enough to defend the reporting of bad payments they can't find an apartment were to begin.