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AS UM’s newly appointed senator looks to bring fresh enthusiasm to senate. ** ------- Page 8 A team of horses invades the Visual Arts Gallery in display dedicated to the animals. Page 5 ------ ► J b BINT A M KAIM ffll Kaimin is a Salish word for paper w e dHqfje s d a y September 26,2001 — Issue 14 Proposed city ordinance may pose threat to students Bryan O’Connor ing in one house in the univer­ The Ward 2 member is Monday. Due to the many legal the UAHC. Montana Kaimin sity area. Other zones in adamantly opposed to the mea­ questions surrounding the con­ Baskett said he has been Missoula would allow for three sure, which he said not only dis­ troversial measure, the council working to address concerns University students living off not related people to share criminates against university will study it in detail. from the Montana Human campus may have another housing. The family definition students, but gays and senior One of the measure’s propo­ Rights Council on the issue. obstacle to hurdle when looking rule, which was deemed uncon­ citizens as well. As is, the ordi­ nents is the University Area The proposal calls for a two- for housing due to a proposed stitutional in 1996, was brought nance would not allow students Housing Committee. year phase in period, so it city ordinance that has been before the council again last to live in fraternity and sorority “Single parent families with would not take place immedi­ revived after a five-year hiatus. week. houses, he said. children are at a disadvantage ately. Baskett said cease- and- The ordinance, if passed, “I think this is just as illegal The Missoula City Council because they have to compete desist orders would be issued to would prohibit two or more peo­ as the last ordinance,” said sent the proposal to committee with students for housing,” said renters not in compliance with ple who are not related from liv- council member Jim McGrath. after a heated discussion last Rick Baskett, vice president of See HOUSING, page 8 UM to refund tuition to those on active duty Ted Sullivan Montana Kaimin UM will refund tuition to any student in the military reserves who is forced to quit school to serve active duty, said Phil Bain, UM’s registrar. “We’re going to do every­ thing we can to get their charges to go away,” Bain said. “In other words, they’ll get a full refund.” Roderick R. Paige, U.S. secretary of education, encouraged colleges nation­ wide Monday to refund tuition and other charges to students who are forced to withdraw from their univer­ sities to fulfill military oblig­ ations, and UM is meeting that request. “When these people get called up, the vast majority of the faculty does what they can,” Bain said. Bain is talking to stu­ dents to find out if they paid with financial aid, student loans, grants or scholar­ ships, he said, and then he’ll Director of Foreign Student Scholar Services at UM, Effie Koehn, explains her opposition toward a proposed legislation that would prevent international students from getting visas. ^ work with each student indi­ vidually to get their refunds. “It depends on what’s Possible legislation calls for six-month cancellation of student visas going to be best for them,” Bain said of the students. Ted Sullivan at UM, is against the legislation. with Americans and improve Erin Inkley, a junior majoring About four or five stu­ Montana Kaimin “Foreign students are the international relations, Koehn in wildlife biology, also said inter­ dents have been put on A U.S. senator from California most closely monitored of all non­ said. national students should be active duty and quit school, may propose legislation to pre­ immigrants that visit the United “The openness of international allowed in the United States. Bain said, and there are vent international students from States,” Koehn said. “Few stu­ student scholars fits the interest “It gives us some cultural studying in the United States for dents from Iraq or Afghanistan of the United States,” Koehn diversity,” Inkley said. “It opens other students on active six months, a security measure come to the United States.” said. our eyes a little bit to the duty who are attending that some UM staff members and There are more than 500,000 Tomomi Terada, an interna­ world.” classes while waiting for a students think is unnecessary. international students in the tional student from Japan, said Feinstein told the Times she military assignment. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s plan United States, Koehn said, and the proposed legislation wouldn’t has not made a final decision on Bain met with Lois Muir, — which would direct the federal twenty of them are from be fair. whether or not shell submit the UM’s provost, and Barbara government to temporarily stop Afghanistan. UM has 400 inter­ “I think that’s sad,” Terada legislation. Hollmann, the vice president issuing student visas — comes national students, Koehn said, said. “Our students want to come Even if the legislation were to of student affairs, and they after reports that one man and they represent 70 different here and study.” pass it would not affect UM’s decided to deal with each responsible for recent terrorist countries. It’s important students from international recruiting efforts student individually, Bain attacks was in the country on a Maija Unkuri-Chaudhry, around the world study together, for fall 2002 because those efforts said. student visa, she told The New UM’s student exchange coordina­ Terada said, and students who are more than six months away, Mick Hanson, the director York Times. Feinstein also wants tor, said she is also against the want to study in America are not Koehn said. of financial aid, said his to change the way students enter legislation. terrorists. International students already office will also cooperate, but the United States and the way “I think it’s a very extreme “It’s a good opportunity to studying at UM shouldn’t wony, he added that he is waiting they are monitored, she said. reaction,” Unkuri-Chaudhry said, study in different countries Koehn said. for directions on how to han­ Effie Koehn, the director of and international students because you can learn about “It probably won’t effect stu­ dle future students forced to foreign student scholar services increase UM’s diversity. other cultures,” Terada said. “It dents already in the United They also create friendships benefits education too.” States on visa,” Koehn said. Sec REFUND, page 8 [email protected] 2 Montana Kaimin, Wednesday September 26, 2001 O p i n i o n Campus Voices______ ______ ______ ________________________ _ • Editorial Re-direct, embrace anger; don’t just hide it Give it up; our sidewalks The tragedy of Tuesday much or more, even if we have to add to the suffer­ w ill never grow Column by and the events that followed ing of ourselves and bystanders. In a sense, it _ have left all Americans, even makes no sense, but it seems to be how the desire With all we have, it’s amazing we don’t have prettier Sally Planalp those as far away as for vengeance works. We feel injustice in our guts, a sense of being sidewalks. Montana in emotional tur­ right beyond doubt and the compelling urge to act. Around Missoula, the weather and constant work toward moil. How can we be wrong? There are two ways. property beautification have led to some of the best looking We feel shock and horror at the realization of First, our understandings of the situation that residential, commercial and open park space around. what happened, fear for what is still to come, over­ produce the feelings can be wrong. We can be misin­ Combine those with Missoula’s efforts regarding environ­ whelming sadness at the loss of life on a horrific formed, fail to understand the situation in its full mental protection, MontPIRG, Buffalo Field Campaign, scale, sympathy for the confused, panicked, and complexity, and be blinded to other viewpoints. Rock Creek Alliance, Clark Fork Coalition, etc. It becomes grieving family and friends of the victims, rage at Second, we can take the wrong actions. We can easy to understand why our home city has accepted “the the terrorists and their supporters, frustration that there is so little we can do at this distance, and loss do things that cause more rather than less suffer­ Garden City” as its motto. ing, that cause more injustice rather than restoring What becomes more difficult, however, to understand is of faith in a safe and secure world. It is the human condition to want to escape bad justice, that make us feel worse rather than better.