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Next stop: Artist looks under Mustang roundup the surface Page 4 Saturday Page 8 M O N T A N A K A I M I N Friday, October 21, 2005 Volume CVIII, Issue 31 Breaking the silence on domestic violence EMMA SCHMAUTZ MONTANA KAIMIN On Oct. 5, 1991, Jo Reilly, a Lolo resi- about a specific inci- dent and mother of two, was leaving her job dent — not the every- at the Southgate Mall when her abusive day occurrences.” husband approached. He held a gun to her The UC booth, head and shot her three times before taking which contained five his own life. life-size silhouettes Reilly had scheduled an appointment for representing women the very next day to place a restraining murdered by their hus- order against him. bands or boyfriends, is October is Domestic Violence Awareness an “in your face” month. The University of Montana’s approach to getting the Student Assault Resource Center and word out about domes- Women’s Center have sponsored numerous tic abuse, Lyda said. activities to inform students and communi- A plaque containing ty members about the frequency of domes- a a brief description of tic abuse. the woman and the cir- “Domestic abuse is a big problem on cumstances surround- campus,” said Bryan Lyda, SARC outreach ing her death rested on coordinator. “Stalking, as well, is more each red sillhouette. prevalent on campus than other places.” Jose Salois, a 22- Ashley McKee/Montana Kaimin The UM student handbook estimates that year-old student at the UM student Emily Darling, right, teaches her son Jareth Darling the meaning behind the life-size wooden cutouts of women Thursday afternoon in the UC. The 4 percent of women and 2 percent of men University of Montana cutouts represent local women who were killed by some form of domestic violence. on campus are involved in physically abu- College of Technology, sive relationships. died in 1998 of a brain Lyda spent Thursday volunteering at the hemorrhage when her boyfriend threw her who was taking a sabbatical from his posi- around Montana in an exhibit to promote SARC booth in the UC that had a big poster against a wall during a violent argument. tion as an art teacher in the Butte school dis- awareness about abuse against women. where people could trace their hands and Tambi Weinberger, a 17-year-old UM trict to work on his master’s degree at UM, “Ideally men make them,” Lyda said, pledge to never commit, condone or remain student, was beaten unconscious in were shot and killed by Sullivan’s legal hus- “because it’s a way of building empathy and silent about sexual and relationship vio- December 1995 by her boyfriend, who band after he saw the two of them together giving back.” lence. waited nearly 11 hours before calling 911. at a Grizzly football game. The outreach coordinator believes the “Domestic violence and social violence He received an 80-year prison sentence. The five silhouettes are part of a set of 50 are left in silence,” Lyda said. “When we Kathy Sullivan, a teacher and mother of that were created by the Montana Silent See ABUSE, Page 12 hear about it, it’s from a newspaper story three, and her boyfriend Scott Bardsley, Witness Project. The silhouettes travel Interest on student loans may rise UM looks to increase DANIEL PERSON summer enrollment move in the wrong direction. what we as students and adminis- MONTANA KAIMIN “The problem with HR 609 is trators want, but the improve- that it cuts aid when it needs ments that are in there are better ERIN MADISON offering classes that meet four For many students at the more,” Epperson said. “It’s more than what we have.” day a week instead of five, said University of Montana, college cuts at a time when things are not Hanson also said that there is MONTANA KAIMIN Sharon Alexander, dean of would not be possible without going very well for a lot of peo- also a bill in the Senate that serves Continuing Education, the financial aid and student loans. ple.” the same purpose as HR 609 that After experiencing two years department that oversees sum- This fall, a bill in the U.S. Epperson said the United States will influence what the final bill of low summer enrollment, the mer semester. House of Representatives looks to is far behind other industrialized says. Senate Bill 1614 also University of Montana will be “What we’re hoping is that continue these programs, but there nations in providing education, reforms student loan laws, but in offering some four-day-per- will free students up to either are amendments included that something this bill does not help. different ways. week summer classes and help work or go home,” said Peggy have some UM students worried “Education is a right, not a priv- The senate bill fixes interest with financial aid. Nesbitt, program manager for about the fate of student aid. ilege,” he said. rates at 6.8 percent, and Hanson Summer enrollment came in summer semester. “We’re just If approved, House Resolution Earlier in the month, ASUM said it passed committee unani- $300,000 below projections this trying to provide a more flexible 609, also known as the College passed a resolution endorsing the mously, a sign to him that both year. schedule.” Access Opportunity Act, will Stop the Raid on Student Aid Republicans and Democrats were Summer 2003 was the high In addition to a new schedule, increase the interest rate that campaign, and new Student satisfied with the changes in the point for summer school enroll- administrators are looking into banks are allowed to set on stu- Political Action director Rikki law. ment, Provost Lois Muir told the the affordability of summer dent loans. Currently at 5.3 per- Gregory said she was going to “We need to get some kind of Strategic Budget and Planning school. cent, HR 609 sets a new variable work hard to campaign against agreement out of Congress ... so Committee last week. The lack of available financial rate based on treasury bond rates HR 609. that we can continue to offer “The next year it went down aid for students attending sum- that may send rates past 8 percent. But Mick Hanson, the director financial aid,” he said. “As good precipitously,” she said. mer school correlates perfectly According to UM College of UM’s financial aid office, said or as bad as HR 609 and SB 1614 Administrators tried, unsuc- with the decreases in enrollment, Democrats, a student group that is that current changes in laws may are, we have to move these for- cessfully, to bring the numbers Muir said. organizing the Stop the Raid on stand to help students. ward with compromise and hope back up by marketing and offer- “It is true that a lot of the stat- Financial Aid Campaign, these He said that student loan rates for the best as students and admin- ing more classes. ed reasons are financial,” Nesbitt changes may result in a student will never be as low as they are istrators.” “This past year, it went down a said. with $17,500 in student loans hav- now, regardless of the law, and the A spokesman for Sen. Max little more.” Muir said. “We Over the past summer, more ing to pay an additional $5,800 in bill will cause a slight increase in Baucus, D-Mont., said that the were really very surprised that students enrolled for summer interest. what students can borrow. senator supported the bill in con- we didn’t turn it around this last school, but they signed up for Brent Epperson, the president “I certainly understand why the cept but has not studied the details summer.” fewer classes, Alexander said. of UM’s College Democrats chap- students objected to the house See BILL, Page 5 Administrators hope to attract ter, said that he saw HR 609 as a bill,” Hanson said. “It will not be more students next summer by See SUMMER, Page 5 www.kaimin.org 2 M o n t a n a K a i m i n Opinion Friday, October 21, 2005 d the O On The Issue un .. v l. o a v a JACOB LIVINGSTON r e O h t l d KAYLA STEWART A n . u o . r . MONTANA KAIMIN A A . r . l o a u v n O d e t h A deadly bird flu virus confirmed as the H5N1 strain, which is dangerous to humans, has been found in Asia Question 1: Tying a rope between two trees and walk- and is currently sweeping across Europe.