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WEDNESDAY January 15,1992 Vol. 94, Location of Bertha Issue 40 still a ’moose’tery The University of Montana No surcharge B needed this year, R legislator says By Karen gents approved the surcharge to help R Coates trim the higher education budget, Kaimin but the fate of it is pending the Reporter outcome of the special legislative R There will session. be no tuition Stephens’ proposal, which the surcharge this Senate Taxation Committee voted R year,despite the against 8-3 Monday, would have defeat of Gov. Stan Stephens* pro­ allowed new store agents to either posal to raise $4 million for higher purchase liquor inventory from the education by converting state li­ state, or the state would maintain it quor stores to state agency stores, If all inventory had been purchased, Senate President Joe Mazurek said an estimated $4 million would have Tuesday. been generated, and S tephens would Alain Deroulctlc/Kaimin Mazurek said the money to off­ have funneled that money to higher A STUDENT IN social work and Interpersonal communication, Melena Tripp walks set a proposed tuition surcharge of education. through the arctic air to reach the library Tuesday. The forecast for today is scattered $7.50 per quarter credit has always However, Democrats questioned snow with an easterly wind, high at 35, low at 30. been in the state budget; it is just a whether the proposal could have matter of reallocating the money raised $4 million because it de­ from different areas to the univer­ pended on the sale of all inventory. sity system. Halligan said converting the liquor ASUM seeks four new senators “The students are still safe,” he stores could have raised as little as said. $1 million. By Randi Erickson sition is filled, Hollenbaugh said. what I did in the past,” he said. State Democrats, who control But Victor Bjornberg, the Kaimin Reporter Warden, involved in senate Neuhardt, who will graduate at the Legislature, are committed to governor’s press secretary, said he since Fall Quarter of 1988 and the end of this quarter, said he is providing that money to higher still thinks the proposal would have ASUM Sens. Chris Warden and ASUM president last year, said he refocusing his energies on finishing education so students wil 1 not have generated the entire $4 million be­ Sol Neuhardt resigned on Tues­ left because he must work toward an internship with the UM Alumni to pay the surcharge, he said. cause 93 liquor stores already have day, leaving ASUM to find a total graduation and because the sen­ and finding a job in Connecticut or “It’s (the money is) in the bud­ been success fully converted to stale agency stores. of four new senators, Vice Presi­ ate needs “new blood.” Rhode Island, “so I felt I shouldn’t get,” he said. “It’s in there now and it remains in there. It wasn’t that we “They’re doing very well,” he dent Dana Wickstrom said Tues­ “ASUM is in real need of ra­ be a part of ASUM unless as an had to go out and raise the money.” said. “There’s a record of success.” day. tional, objective people to serve,” active member.” Sen. Mike Halligan, D- “Lawmakers were given an op­ Hollenbaugh said the two addi­ Warden said. Deciding to resign was “not some­ Missoula, agreed that the Legisla­ portunity to offset tuition increases tional seats will be filled along He said he plans to maintain 23 thing I did on a whim,” but was ture would “cut somebody else’s for Montana’s college students,” with the vacancies that were cre­ credits this quarter and graduate necessary, he said. budget and give it to the university he said, but they chose to vote oth­ ated when J. V. Bennett and Danna by the end of the upcoming fall “I hope whomever takes my spot system” to avoid the surcharge. erwise. Jackson resigned last week. The semester, though “for three and can understand the commitment in­ However, the Legislature has not Bjornberg said legislators were senate will review candidates and one-half years I had the funnest volved,” Neuhardt said. yet decided which budgets to cut to “trying to confuse the issue simply choose replacements on Jan. 29. job on campus,” he said. But, he Students interested in the four come up with the money, he said. to stop the governor’s proposal” for Warden will take part in the said, the job was too much. positions may pick up applications In November, the Board of Re­ political reasons in an election year. selection process and remain a “It’s been a long time, and I at the ASUM offices in the UC room member of the senate until his po­ didn’t think I could continue to do 103. ApplicationsareduebyJan.21 King s message carries less influence in ’90s, Budget balancing reaches conflict between parties over tax measure says head of black group By Sarah Silberberg Kaimin Reporter HELENA, host of financial problems for the taxpayers make periodic pay­ Mont (AP)— slate. ments on what they expect their If Dr. Martin Luther King was Plans to bal­ Van Valkenburg said if the bill final income-tax bill will be. alive, his message of non-violence ance the state takes effect this year, the influx of “We still don’t understand would not be as potent as it was in budget en­ revenue most likely would offset why they won ’ t let us implement the 1960s, the president of UM’s countered a cash-flow problems the state ex­ this in an orderly way,” he said Black Student Union said Tuesday potential snag pects by the middle of next year. of the Democratic leaders. after a vigil honoring the civil rights Tuesday when Senate Demo­ The income also would help Adams said if the bill is passed leader. crats disagreed with Gov. Stan the Legislature with its budgeting with a 1992 effective date, he “Lots of blacks today are just fed Stephens on a key tax measure. process next year, since lawmak­ would ask Stephens to veto it. up,” said Lawton, and are more likely The disagreement is over the ers would have a better idea of Stephens declined to say to listen to Malcolm X’s message of bill requiring self-employed how much money the estimated whether he would veto the mea­ “change by all means necessary.” GALEN LAWTON, president people to make * ‘estimated pay­ payments will generate, he added. sure, and referred the question to Conservative blacks consider the of the Black Student Union, ments” on state income tax. Putting the bill off until 1993 Adams. Rev. Jesse Jackson to be their leader, attends a BSU vigil Tuesday. House Bill 14 would provide would postpone the income until The Senate Taxation Com­ Lawton said, but younger blacks are a one-time, $32 million shot of the last three months of the 1992- mittee deferred action on HB14 more likely to look to Nation of Ken Camel, a sophomore in revenue and has been billed as a 93 biennium, and if the money is until Wednesday. Islam leader Louis Farakhan. business administration, said he cornerstone of the budget-bal­ less than expected, ‘‘we’ll have a Lawmakers were called into The vigil, which attracted about came to the vigil “seeking an­ ancing plan. serious cash deficit by the end of special session Jan. 6 to fix a 60 people, was presented by the swers,” and wondered “why is it Senate Democrats say the bill 1993,” Van Valkenburg said. deficit projected to be $106 mil­ Black Student Union. that it always ends the same way?” Young black men who speak out should take effect this year, But state Revenue Director lion by mid-1993. As of Tues­ The Rev. Bob Varker of United are “either literally or figuratively while Stephens wants to post­ Denis Adams said Tuesday that day, legislative action had erased Methodist Campus Ministries said shot down,” Camel said. pone it until 1993. implementing the bill now would the deficit and created a $4.5 he is “frightful that this day will Camel, whose father is black Senate Majority Leader Fred be unfair to taxpayers, who would million surplus. become yet another sale,” like Presi­ dents Day and Labor Day have be­ and mother is Native American, Van Valkenburg, D-Missoula, have to make their first payment However, that surplus is based come, and urged people instead to said that it is appropriate for Mon­ said delaying the bill’s effective April 15. on the presumption that the esti­ “buy into his (King’s) vision of what tana to honor King with a holiday date until 1993 could create a Under the bill, self-employed mated-payments bill is approved.