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For more information, please contact [email protected]. * I * ,t ................ 1 1 ^cl Thursday February 7, 1985 Missoula, Montana Vol. 87, No. 60 CB okays SUM party for election ballot By Carlos A. Pedraza and "Every year something has Kevin Twidwell gone wrong with the ASUM Kaimin Reporters elections,” CB member Cindi With little debate and a Crilly said. She said the by­ unanimous vote, Central laws should be enforced and Board last night decided to “we should put our foot allow the Students for the down." University of Montana (SUM) Crilly, the only CB member party on the ballot for the to speak against letting SUM coming ASUM election. on the ballot, said after the Bob LeHeup, ASUM Election meeting she thought the Commitee Chairman, told the board had “done the right board that the ASUM bylaws thing.’’ stipulate that 5 percent of the Although a roll call vote was activity fee-paying students not taken, Crilly and CB must sign election petitions member Dan Henderson, both for a party to be placed on organizers of the Students To­ the ballot. ward Active Government LeHeup said that the Elec­ (STAG ) party, said they had tion Committee had estimated abstained from voting on the that number to be 400. issue because of conflicts of ASUM Business Manager interest. Greg Gullickson said that the Two other STAG members exact figure, based on the running for on-campus seats number of activity fee-paying would have been unopposed students enrolled at the uni­ if SUM had been left off the versity this quarter, is actually ballotr 384. After the meeting, SUM SUM submitted 384 signa­ member Judi Thompson said tures on their election peti­ she was surprised at CB’s ac­ Photo by Kyle Henson. tions. tion. CENTRAL BOARD MEMBER Thornton Johnston, above, criticized the “rainbow coalition” The Election Committee had “I didn’t expect it to be this of campus minority group members running for CB for calling fraternity members on CB earlier ruled that SUM was 16 easy,” she said. “a bunch of clones. If you can find someone on campus that looks like me I’d to meet signatures short of the re­ Thompson said she believed him,” he said. quired number. See ‘C B ,’ page 11. CUP petitioners want Exemptions to state open meeting lawl reduced role for UTU put on the line by proposed bill By Jeff McDowell J 1 1 By Judi Thompson options, he explained. They Kaimin Legislative Reporter Mike Meloy, a lawyer for the press asso­ Kaimin Reporter can retain the UTU represen­ HELENA— There were no secrets Wednes­ ciation said he feels the exemptions conflict The Coalition of University tation or they can do without day as representatives of the press and with state constitutional provisions dealing Professors (CUP) has submit­ any representation. state government debated whether to with the public’s right to know. ted a petition to the Montana No representation means remove certain exemptions to the state Meloy said the original intent of the ex­ Board of Personnel Appeals they have “no formal collec­ open meeting law. emptions was to protect discussions of in hopes of curtailing the role tive bargaining," Jensen ex­ The House Judiciary Committee heard strategy dealing with lawsuits that were al­ of the University Teachers’ plained. The professors them­ testimony on House Bill 413, sponsored by ready filed but that the exemption was Union (UTU) in representing selves decide their wage-bar- Rep. Mike Kadas, D-Missoula, which would being stretched to cover potential litigation. the faculty in collective bar­ gaining actions. remove exemptions that now allow public "A problem may be settled without a law­ gaining. An election will probably be meetings to be closed to discuss strategy suit ever being filed,” Meloy said, "but the According to Robert Jensen, held in March, Jensen said, regarding collective bargaining or litigation. public has no idea what was discussed.” the administrator of the Per­ for UM professors to vote for A third exemption is when the right to Kadas said strategy sessions involving sonnel Appeals Division of the or against UTU representa­ personal privacy exceeds the public’s right collective bargaining should be open be­ State Department of Labor tion. to know. cause they involve "spending public and Industry, the petition will If the UTU is decertified, No action was taken on the bill. money." be posted until Feb. 25. Dur­ “the current collective bar­ Kadas said he had the bill drafted at the "There might be a period where it would ing the posting period, other gaining agreement would im­ reequest of the Montana Press Association hurt a little bit,” he said, "but I think we unions or groups have the mediately become null and because of problems members of the asso­ would get over that.” opportunity to express their void," an information bulletin ciation were having with public meetings Rob Dean, managing editor of the Boze­ interest in becoming an alter­ published by the CUP and being closed on the grounds that “potential man Chronicle also supported the bill, and native wage-bargaining body handed out to all professors litigation” was to be discussed. Meloy submitted a statement on behalf of for UM professors. explained. Faculty contracts Kadas said his bill is intended to stop David Fuselier, managing editor of the Hel­ So far, Jensen said, no would remain unchanged and "abuse of the litigation portion of the law" ena Independent-Record. other groups have come for­ so would the procedures by because discussion of potential litigation When voters approved the state Constitu- ward. if no groups intervene, "can be used as an excuse to close any the professors will have two See ‘Petitioners,’ page 11. meeting.” See ‘Bill,’ page 11. O p in io n Legacy of peace In this era of growing conservatism and sweeping self-interest, idealists seem to have little place. Prag­ matism has replaced idealism, and politics has supers­ eded principles. We are compelled to look for evidence that it isn't so. We look for the good and the truly moral. In looking at our own history, we have found Jean­ nette Rankin, Montana congresswoman, pacifist, femi­ nist and social activist. E d ito ria l In May a statue of her will be unveiled in the Statu­ ary Hall of the Capitol In Washington, D.C. The statue is the work of the Missoula Women for Peace, the Montana Arts Council, the Rankin family and the state government. Rankin's name should be familiar to UM students. The old Psychology building now bears her name, as does a park on Fifth Street. Rankin was from the Mis­ soula area, and UM is her alma mater, though it was only a state college In her time. Rankin's statue Is another worthy memorial for the first woman to be elected to Congress. But more than a memorial, her statue should serve as a reminder to today’s political leaders of her moral conscience and In Defense of Liberty By Bradley S. Burt convictions, and her willingness to suffer their conse­ quences. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 as a Self-destructing Democrats Republican, her first test of conscience came within six days of taking office— whether to vote for or against Last weekend the Democratic National for Reagan. In 1982 after the GOP lost sev­ war on Germany. Committee (DNC) selected a new national eral seats in Congress, the Democrats pro­ She knew a no vote would be political suicide, and chairman (yes, somebody actually wanted claimed the election results a repudiation of would possibly damage the suffrage movement. Never­ the job). Chosen by the Democrats to lead the Reagan mandate. How can a mandate theless, she voted for peace. the faithful was Paul G. Kirk, a former aide that supposedly did not exist In the first Rankin was among the minority in her no vote for to Sen. Ted Kennedy. Kirk said that the place be repudiated? This fuzzy reading of war. It was an act of courage and integrity for it was Democratic Party must overcome Its current the political climate is the reason the Dem­ at a time when the nation was on the verge of war "identity crisis.” In other words, the Demo­ ocrats took it in the shorts In 1984. hysteria, a time when pacifism was considered cow­ crats should not bother to question their Reagan increased his percentage of the ardly and traitorous. ideology after getting stomped by our Ron. vote among all segments of the population She ran for reelection in 1918 and lost. But she con­ So the DNC continues merrily down the with the exceptions of blacks and Jews. tinued to fight for peace, women's and children's path of worn out liberalism sowing the The much-ballyhooed gender gap also fail­ rights, and humanitarian causes.