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Building funds in doubt at session’s end million on the law school library. If By PAUL DRISCOLL happened to the University of Mon­ The university also received The Legislature also allocated Montana Kalmln Reporter tana's $1 million supplemental ap­ authorization to spend up to $659,000 for general maintenance the administration can raise $1.3 propriation for a new science $300,000 in carryover funds from the for the next biennium. million In outside funding, it can building. current biennium. This money, and UM should also receive $4 million spend it to expand the law school Editor* note: This is the first of a two- library. President Bowers said he is part story addressing the work of the One thing is certain: UM will not $500,000 that the House wrote into for its science building if legal get the added money next biennium. UM's appropriations bill, has been problems with the appropriations not at liberty to say where these 1977 Montana Legislature. funds might come from. The confusion lingers from those And there is doubt whether the bill to termed by many as “cushion bill are resolved. final hectic hours of Montana’s 45th help fund the $4 million building was money." legally passed. A minor procedural This $800,000 in cushion money Apparently, legal procedure was Library Funded Legislature. violated when the bill was amended. The Legislature also authorized A question has arisen over whether violation is believed to be involved. will enable UM administration to Officials in the governor's office the UM administration to spend $2.6 one important bill was even legally What UM did get from the 1977 gradually lay-off 68 faculty members Legislature is $20.6 million for the and 50 staff people over the two refused to comment further. million in federal funds to finish the passed by both houses. top two levels of the UM library. This Yesterday, more than a day 1978 fiscal year — a 1 per cent in­ years beginning July 1. Before the The bill was amended at least six means when and if the previously after Wednesday's 4 a.m. ad­ crease from 1977—and $21 -1 million money was added, all of the times. The administration at UM also earmarked federal funds are journment, legislators and officials for 1979 — a 2.2 per cent increase for positions would have had to have received authorization to spend $1.3 released, they may be spent onthe were still analyzing exactly what 1978. been terminated next year. library. But Bowers said that many of the appropriations are inadequate. Bowers said the proposed science building was originally planned to ■ m o n ta n a house the psychology department and the pharmacy school as well as science facilities. Now that may change. - k a i m i n “Four million dollars is not ade­ quate,” Bowers said. "We are very disappointed” that the additional $1 University of Montana • Student Newspaper million was not appropriated. Bowers said the science building Friday, April 22, 1977 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 79, No. 87 will probably be built between the Health Science Building and the Chemistry-Pharmacy Building. Architectural plans have not yet been drawn up, he said. Union actions draw Ted James, chairman of the Board of Regents, said he was concerned about the relatively small increase in charges of violence university appropriations. By G. ROBERT CROTTY them that they’ll lose their jobs if they Regents’ Request The Board of Regents requested Montana Kalmln Reporter make a change (from RCU to MPEA). Some of the guys were threatened $174.4 million in university system Petitions for a union change-over into not going to the meeting.” appropriations. The Legislature by two seperate groups of full time The meeting, sponsored by MPEA, granted $147.6 million — $26.8 University of Montana employes was held April 13. At the meeting, the million less than the regents’ request. have resulted, in charges of alleged employes discussed what their rights “We would have preferred more physical violence and threats, were, the difference between the money," James said. ‘We will have to denials by union spokesmen and RCU and the MPEA and what their do the best we can." further complications. motives had been in pulling out of the During the 1975 Legislature, the A source, who asked not to be RCU, Cordell Brown, MPEA chief of regents requested $131 million and identified beyond the fact that he operations at Helena, said in a phone received $121.5 million — $9.5 works as a custodian at UM and is a interview last week. million less than they had hoped. member of the Retail Clerks' Union, Lawrence Pettit, commissioner of said Wednesday that he was told by higher education, said it will be two men (who are also UM employes Charges Said Untrue weeks before the impact of this and RCU members) that they were Ken Luraas, a spokesman for the year's Legislature can be assessed. threatened into not going to a meet­ RCU, said Wednesday that the Gov. Thomas Judge has signed ing sponsored by the Montana source's charges of threats and neither the university appropriations Public Employees Association. violence were not true. bill nor the bill funding UM's science The source refused todivulge their “Quite frankly, I've heard the same building. Because of the possible names because he said he felt that rumors, but I don’t know of anybody legal flaw in the latter bill, Judge’s they could be physically harmed if who's been threatened or harmed," legal staff is still reviewing it. word of this got out. he said. "We certainly wouldn't do He is expected to sign the ap­ The source also said that .one that because we’re interested in propriations bill sometime next woman (a UM employe and RCU representation. ONE HAPPY PARTICIPANT of the blke/raft rally sponsored by UM law week. member) was physically harmed ‘There's been a petition filed in students yesterday was Jeff Renz, first-year law student. The race began on Judge is by law required ,to either because she signed an authorization Helena giving them the right to vote cycles at the law school parking lot, changed to rafts at Bonner and finished sign or veto legislation by the 25th card: these cards were signed by 30 at Jacob’s Island In the Clark Fork. (Montana Kalmln photo by Natalie day following adjournment—Friday, • Cont. on p. 8. per cent of the UM Food Service Hoover.) May 13. personnel and they allow for a vote on whether RCU or MPEA will represent the Food Service em­ Officials predict summer job scarcity ployes at the bargaining table. Name Withheld Summer jobs will be scarce this Construction jobs probably will filled its regular summer positions, Employers used to recruit in The source also refused to divulge year, according to various Missoula become available during the he said, but it will be hiring through February, so the career service knew the name of the woman because he sources. summer, he said, because construc­ the state job service if a bad fire how many jobs were available, she was afraid she could lose her job. Jobs will be available, but it will tion work is seasonal. However, jobs season develops. said. She recommends that students “They are scaring some of these depend on experience and job with local lumbermillswill be scarce check with the career service about people into withdrawing their preferences of the student. Chuck because the mills are not hiring for Park's Jobs Open jobs now, “because we are getting petition cards," the source said, Polutnik, Montana State Job Service vacation replacements, he said. Temporary jobs were available last more in all the time." referring to the RCU. “They told manager in M issoula, said yesterday. The Forest Service has already summer with the national parks, he UM's Personnel Services filled its said, and those jobs are available summer positions last Friday. now. Polutnik said parks usually Thaddeus Mayer, manager of recruit in February, but now wait un­ Snelling and Snelling, a Missoula til later in the year. private employment service, said Other jobs that might become summer jobs are questionable right Faculty Senate chooses available would be federal public now, but he said he thinks things will work programs, he said, "but you improve. He said he has requested can't always count on that.” job information from employers and Polutnik added, “By law, veterans will provide a free service for Walter Hill as chairman have top priority for all (federal) students “but the student will have to Walter Hill, associate professor of chemistry, and A vote on the document was scheduled to be jobs.” do his own legwork." Katherine Weist, assistant professor of taken during a special meeting of the old senate on Ellen Anderson, University of Jack Large, personnel manager at anthropology, were elected chairman and vice April 20, but was challenged on grounds that by Montana student affairs assistant, Hoerner-Waldorf, said that he is not chairman, respectively, of the University of Montana eliminating a standing committee, the new said job opportunities are "sporadic" taking applications and has a back­ Faculty Senate at the new senate’s first meeting document conflicts with the senate's bylaws.