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Petition drive fights move to oust Lang By GREG GADBERRY "I don’t think it’s the proper thing Montana Kaimin Reporter to do," he said. "To impeach you AND must show proper cause, as outlin­ MIKE DENNISON ed in the ASUM By-laws. I don't Montana Kaimin N ew t Editor think proper cause exists.” "I think this is setting a very Although Central Board decided dangerous precedent, that if you Wednesday night to begin im­ don’t like someone or don’t agree peachment proceedings against • with them, you throw them out on a ASUM Vice President Linda Lang, malfeasance charge." a petition drive has been started in order to fight Lang's proposed ASUM President David Curtis ouster. said he also does not want to see The drive was started by Darla Lang suffer impeachment, but that Rucker, co-editor of the Student it may have been easier on her if Action Center “Activist.” she had resigned. Rucker is circulating a petition Curtis said that Lang's perfor­ which asks that tbe impeachment mance in working on ASUM com­ A QUICK GAME of Speed Chess, in which the sum total of player’s moves must be made within five minutes is proceedings stop. The petition mittees during Spring Quarter may played by two savants, William McBroom, chairman of the sociology department, and Steve Saroff, junior in states that Lang is being "unfairly have turned CB against her. On geochemistry, square off in intense cdmbat. (Staff photo by Debby Larson.) singled out as a scapegoat for Lang’s recommendation, CB voted current problems of the ASUM late in the sping to wait until Fall administration." Quarter to form new committees, “ I don't know if this petition will Curtis said. And while he said the do much good,” she said. “But I committee work has taken a long ' montana v think it will show Linda has a time, he said Lang’s committee constituency who backs her up.” work this quarter was good. According to CB member Greg Lang was also accused of doing Anderson, who introduced the an inadequate job in her work on motion to begin impeachment, the ASUM faculty evaluations. Lang should be impeached This charge came in a letter because she allegedly failed to live signed by about 15 CB members up to the responsiblities of a vice- and delivered to Lang Tuesday. k a im in president as outlined in the ASUM Friday, Dec. 5,1980 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 83, No. 33 Constitution and Bylaws. Accor­ Lang has refused to release the ding to those documents, the vice letter or the names of the CB _____________________________________ ____ ______________________________________ r president is to perform functions members who signed it, and most assigned by the president, and is to CB members refused to confirm work with student committees. whether they had signed the letter. Work-study hours cut back John Wicks, professor of Cont. on p. 8 economics and a faculty member By JEANETTE HORTICK and an increase in the number of chance to look for alternative to CB, said impeachment takes a Montane Malmln Reporter work-study students. sources of money. vote of two-thirds of CB members This announcement puts many UM gives a work-study student a present at a meeting. Work-study students are upset students in a financial bind. lump sum of money from a federal Lang could not vote in her after being notified Wednesday by Jim Frisbie, senior in history, grant, which is applied toward the impeachment proceedings, Wick BW l their employers that the maximum described the change as a student's wages. The student’s said. Thus, this leaves 22 possible Remember this logo? This number of weekly hours they will “tragedy." He said when "you employer pays the remaining CB members that could vote on the summer the Borrowed Times be able to work has been reduced center a whole year of life around” amount of money. impeachment. Wicks said 15 votes published for the last time. In from 20 to 15. an expected monthly sum of The announcement became out of a possible 22 would be a today's Montana Review, Donald Mullen, University of money, and then “in the middle of effective Monday but students two-thirds majority. beginning on page 9, five Montana director of financial aids, the stream” find out that part of the were not notified until two days This is Wick’s 13th year as a survivors of one of the coun­ issued a memo Nov. 26 to work- income is reduced, it creates a real later while Mullen was out of town. faculty advisor to CB, and during try’s longest-running alter­ study employers stating that work- problem. He was unavailable for comment. that time impeachment native newspapers tell the study students could not work Students are upset primarily Dorothy Kinsley, assistant direc­ proceedings have never been story of a small Montana more than 15 hours per week because they had no forewarning tor of financial aids, said the office brought against an ASUM officer, newspaper that died. because of federal funding cuts of the change and therefore had no Cont. on p. 8 he said. Dorm security,silence policy criticized By MARY SHANAHAN with them and that all sorts of rumors started flying policy. If the dorm officials had come out with the Montana Kaimin Contributing Raportar around the dorms. Barron agreed that the victim’s truth in the beginning, she said, a lot of fear and name should be withheld but not that the crime rumor could have been avoided. Following the Nov. 16 rape of a University of should be covered up. Kathy Trafford, senior in home economics, says Montana student in a Jesse Hall stairwell, many “Their inability to at least inform us of the facts of that she “resents” the university’s no comment women feel that university officials are not doing the crime increased the fear,” she said. policy because off-campus students have no way enough to ensure the safety of women on campus. “All they told us," Koontz said, "was that they of knowing if the incident really happened. She The university's “no comment” policy also has were going to lock us up and enforce the floor said she does not care who the victim is but if rapes been strongly criticized. escort policy.” She said “there were a lot of really are occurring on campus, she wants to know about Tamara Barron, senior in psychology and a frightened people in the dorms.” them. Brantly Hall resident, said that while the 9 p.m. Barron said that even though the Missoulian and dorm lock-up and enforcement of the floor escort the Montana Kaimin reported that a woman had “Women have a right to know what’s going on in policy is a step in the right direction, it is not been assaulted, it took five days until her resident order to protect themselves,” she said. enough protection. assistant confirmed the attack. “When I walk across campus at 5:30 and it’s dark Campus lighting is “inadequate,” she said, Barron suggested that campus security “get out out, I am constantly looking over my shoulder,” adding that areas around the journalism and of their cars” and start patrolling the campus on she said. "When I cut across the Clover Bowl it is so forestry buildings and the men's gym need more foot. Knowing that campus security officers were dark that I can’t even see the ground, not to light. Even the UM Oval, which has lights around it, roaming around campus would make herfeel safer mention another person. is too dark, she said. walking alone at night, she said. "Being afraid takes away so much of your Barron’s roommate, Eileen Koontz, junior in "They can’t hear you with thir windows rolled freedom.” English, said that since the attack she is too up,” she said. Because so many women are afraid to walk on frightened to go out at night alone. According to Ken Willett, campus safety and campus alone at night, Craig Hail is planning a “I am very careful wherever I go anymore,” she security manager, security officers do not patrol university-wide escort service for its female said. the campus on foot because if there was a residents. Both women criticize dorm officials for their no disturbance somewhere else on campus, married Craig Hall President Steve Martin said that one comment policy. According to Ron Brunell, student housing or Fort Missoula, it would take week prior to the rape in Jesse Hall a number of assistant director of Housing, Housing officials will them too long to respond. Patrol cars, He said, use women living in the dorm asked for the escort maintain a no comment policy toward newspapers the university sidewalks during the night shifts to service because they had either been harassed or and restrict information passed on to university better patrol the campus area.