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Professors rap Pettit’s appointment procedure By RON WILCOX The committee then reviewed the regulations when selecting Dayton. Montana Kaimln Reporter candidates agreed upon by the com­ “He may have met the letter of the mittee and Pettit, and rejected those law, but not the spirit of the law," she Two University of Montana profes­ candidates, including Dayton, not said. sors are considering legal action meeting the qualifications, she said. Her major concern, however, is that Pettit has made Dayton's contesting the procedure Com­ The committee submitted its missioner of Higher Education position permanent instead of con­ report on qualified candidates to Pet­ ducting a broader search, she said. Lawrence Pettit followed in ap­ tit on Sept. 15 and received Pettit's pointing his new deputy com­ reply on Sept. 21 stating that he had Richard Barrett, assistant missioner. added Dayton as a candidate, Van de professor of economics and Maxine Van de Watering, Wetering said. Pettit also suggested University Teachers Union (UTU) humanities and history associate that he and the committee review the executive board member, said he professor and chairman of the com­ finalists together, she added. "wasn't surprised" at Pettit's mittee appointed by Pettit to screen selection and that Pettit had deputy commissioner applicants, On Sept. 27, the committee sent a “indicated all along that he wasn't said that Pettit's procedure was "very letter to Pettit protesting the addition sympathetic to the UTU’s disappointing." Van de Wetering and of Dayton as a candidate after it had objections." Thomas Huff, philosophy professor rejected him, she said. The UTU sent a letter to Pettit on and Faculty Senate executive com­ Pettit then reviewed the can­ Oct. 12 criticizing his disregard for mittee member, are searching for didates by himself and dismissed the the screening committee's legal grounds to contest the committee on Oct. 4 without a reply recommendations. procedure. to the letter of protest, Van de Weter­ Van de Wetering said she had no ing said. Supports Legal Action objections to Irving Dayton, Pettit announced his selection of Barrett added that the UTU had not academic vice president of Montana Dayton as deputy commissioner last considered any actions disputing the State University, who was selected week. selection, but that he would by Pettit last week as deputy com­ personally support any legal action missioner. But she said that the Mon­ ‘Not Used Property’ contesting the procedure used. tana University System “suffers” Van de Wetering said the com­ Katherine Weist, associate an­ because the procedure used in ap­ mittee was “not used properly" and thropology professor and Faculty ITS NOT A FLY In the sky but one of a swarm ot hang gliders that appears pointing Dayton was so limiting. that Pettit may have violated Equal Senate executive committee above Mt. Sentinel In late afternoons. (Montana Kalmin photo by Bob Van de Wetering said that Pettit Employment Opportunity • Cont. on p. 6. VonDrachek.) had notified the university system of the job opening on Aug. 25. and set Sept. 13 as the deadline for ap­ plications. Less than 20 candidates applied for the position, Van de Wetering ASUM gears tor fight over athletic fee said, which indicated that the position was not well advertised. She By LARRY ELKIN summer that he would seek the im­ general public, he said he feels the order to obtain financial support,” added that most f aculty members are Montana Kaimln Notts Editor position of the fee following the state legislature should bear the cost the report added. absent from the university system release of Cook’s report and of athletic programs at Montana For the past three years, ASUM has during that period. With a battle over a proposed man­ recommendations from Pettit. Pettit colleges and universities. charged that the University of Mon­ datory student athletic fee ap­ has so far refused to comment on Cook cited this position in his tana athletic program is too expen­ Recommended Nationwide Search proaching, ASUM officials are work­ whether he will favor the proposal. report, saying that students “do not sive and has refused to allocate any Van de Wetering also said that the ing on plans to defeat the proposal. He said he may issue his recommen­ wish to support ahtletics at levels student money for the program. screening committee had Last week's release of a report by dations later this month. that the general public, booster recommended, to Pettit that the Marshall Cook, special assistant to groups and the alumni wish ... Fee Opposed Elsewhere search be nationwide and directed Commissioner of Higher Education Hill Opposes Fee groups external to the institution are According to the report, student toward more than just Montana Lawrence Pettit, has cleared the way “There Is no way that I could ever more concerned about the level of leaders this year gave $90,000 to higher education institutions. The for proponents of the fee to seek its consider a mandatory fee accep­ competition than are the students.” athletics at Montana State University, and $95,000 at Eastern committee also recommended that adoption at the next Board of table," ASUM President Dave Hill But the report also stated that the appointment be temporary until Regents meeting. said yesterday. Because athletic "athletics should be considered an Montana College. Students there such a search was undertaken. Regent Jack Peterson said last events are viewed by members of the institution within an institution.” have said that they, too, oppose a mandatory fee because the present Montana intercollegiate athletic teams are underfunded and in system allows them to review the danger of becoming perpetual programs during budget hearings. H W m ill review draws fire losers unless funding is increased, Hill and Pomeroy said other op­ the report maintained. tions for funding athletics include By BILL STIKKER Quality Bureau, defended the PER, McGiffert said it is “foolhardy” to ap­ Cook did not mention the amount having the legislature appropriate Montana Kalmin Reportar saying that the report was an “in prove an expansion before a health of the possible fee. But he pointed additional money to the university depth study" and did not represent a study is completed. “I have the system, reducing the cost of the “stamp renewal" of the application hopeless feeling that we will all be set out that students at three state The state’s controversial schools in Idaho pay $36 per student programs, retaining the present Preliminary Environmental Review that was originally granted in in cement and dumped into the Clark system or trying to make the December, 1974. Fork," she said: per year, and that this figure will (PER) of the proposed expansion at probably soon rise to $41. program self-sufficient by relying on the Hoemer Waldorf mill drew Board member Marilyn Rusoff said gate receipts. negative reactions from some Mis­ Roach said although a com­ prehensive health study was to have the proposal should not be approved Estimated $40 Fee soula City-County Health Board Gate Receipts Insufficient been conducted before the plan was until a plan to maintainthe air quality ASUM Vice President Pat Pomeroy members at the board’s meeting last Pomeroy said early this week that first approved, Hoerner Waldorf at of the entire valley is devised. and Hill estimated that the amount of night. Montana is too thinly populated to that time had agreed not to increase the proposed fee might reach $40 per Roach said his department intends support the programs solely on gate However, no decision was made the sulfate emissions from the mill, student per year. to evaluate all comments about the receipts. She indicated that ASUM whether to accept the PER. and the state decided a health study PER before making a final decision Cook criticized the present may have to accept a compromise, was not needed. The local Health Board has sent a on the expansion on Dec. 14. system, under which Montana teams possibly requiring that students pay letter to the state Air Quality Bureau Concerning the stack sampling, seek funding from student a reduced mandatory athletic fee in criticizing the PER for inadequate Roach said that even though the governments, university general return for some additional state fun­ budgets and outside booster groups. ding. review of the health effects of the studies were done by Hoerner In s id e ... proposed expansion, failure to ad­ Waldorf, the results equaled similar He maintained that the amount of Hill refused to comment on what dress the issue of air pollution levels tests done by the Environmental funding is unreliable, and that alternatives, if any, are acceptable to in the Missoula valley — which ex­ Protection Agency. 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