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Anti-Marlenee rally attracts supporters, antagonists Dornblaser parking Use it By Linn Parish Staff Writer While women speakers repeatedly slammed or Republican Rep. Ron Marlenee at a rally of about 100 demonstrators, Marlenee support­ ers showed up in force to defend their candi­ date at the Missoula County Courthouse Tues­ lose it day. With signs saying things like “Ron—We’ll By Jeff Jones Staff Writer remember in November” and “Mothers Again st Marlenee,” the demonstrators chanted “No Unless the Dornblaser park­ More Ron” and “Vote Ron Out.” However, ing lot experiences an increase about 30 Marlenee advocates stood behind in student use in the next 10 them with signs which said, “Mothers For days, it may be closed to re­ Marlenee.” served decal holders on Oct. Bryony Schwan, organizer of the “Women 16, the director of campus se­ Against Marlenee” rally, gave the opening curity said Tuesday. speech. “If we don’t see an upturn in “Ron Marlenee, we are not going to take the participation or a least some kind of legislation you’ve been doling out,” she positive feedback from the cam­ said. pus, then I’m looking at closing Speaker Dr. Nancy Fitch, director of the it,” said Ken Willett, UM secu­ Student Health Service, said people in the rity director. middle class cannot afford health care right Willett said the 212 spaces now, and Marlenee has opposed assisting which are now designated for health care. reserved parking would be “For all Americans to have access to health opened to the public, in addi­ care, vote Ron Marlenee out and Pat Williams tion to the 47 spaces which in,” Fitch said. currently are open to commut­ Leslie Jensen, vice president of the pro­ ers at no charge. choice movement in Montana, said Marlenee He saie projected 10-month has stifled legislation on family planning and cost to run the parking facility, abortion availability. John Youngbcar/Kaimin She said there have been 13 pieces of legis- MISSOULA. RESIDENTS MAGGIE KOVICH (left) and Susan Or), which is on the corner of South lation on the abortion issue since Marlenee demonstrate outside the Missoula County Courthouse Tuesday with signs and Higgins avenues, is $17,400. With only 15 of the See “Rally ” page 8 opposing Republican Rep. Ron Marlenee. Marlenee supporters held signs y’ P B (background) in a group of about 30 people to try to counter the rally. reserved spots sold, Willett said it was simply not a good busi­ ness decision to keep the lot open. Report ranks Montana last for higher ed spending “If I had a 1 cushion of rev­ enue then it would be worth By Kurt Miller UM, the statistics didn’t the risk-taking,” said Willett. Staff Writer surprise him. “But it’s a matter of dollars and “The state supports a lot of cents, and I don’t feel comfort­ Editor’s note: This story is colleges, and that’s a contrib­ able about extending the the first in a three-part series uting factor,” Berger said. Dornblaser program beyond this point.” on the distribution of funding “Montana usually ranks near Willett said that close to between research and instruc­ the bottom on salaries.” tion. $5,000 was put into the reno­ He said there is a large vation of the Dornblaser field A 1992 U.S. Department of number of colleges in Mon­ Education report reveals that area that had been mostly dor- tana considering the number mantfor several years. He said Montana ranks last among of residents in the state. all 50 states at higher with upcoming events such as “Duplicated programs cost a the university’s centennial and education spending per full- lot of money,” he said. time student and faculty conventions scheduled in the The report, taken from the UC, the project would have member in both instructional State Higher Education been done anyway. and research costs. Profiles, was gathered from Willett said if the lot is closed According to. the statistics, state records by the National to reserved parking the shuttle Montana spends, per full- Center for Education Statis­ service to the campus would be time student, almost 68 tics. discontinued but students percent of the national It is based on question­ would still be able to ride the average on instruction, while naires sent to each university Mountain Line bus that stops the state spends about 40 and college in the nation. on South Avenue. percent of the average on * Does not include grants or contracts. Source: U.S. Dept, of Education “They’re filled out at the The director said more research per full-time faculty <Jin« Buysun/Kalmin university level,” Vance people signed up for parking member. last in state spending per But he said colleges in Grant, a statistician for the spaces after the $45-yearly “You will find by any student and per faculty, since Montana are placed low on Department of Education in charge went into effect. measure Montana will rank Montana taxpayers provide the lists of “best colleges” in Washington, D.C. said. “It was an ironic twist that at the bottom of statistics,” more money for education magazines. The budget director for the when we started to charge We Helena Regent Cordell had more participants,” Willett than residents in many other Laurence Berger, psychol­ Montana state Board of Johnson said. said. “Who’s to say what will states. ogy department chairman, Education was out of Helena Johnson said he didn’t happen when the Hellgate “I don’t know the reason said as a professor and and unavailable for com­ know why Montana ranks winds come up and the snow for it,” Johnson said. researcher for 25 years at ment. levels drop below 6,000 feet.” IN THIS ISSUE _________ ■ Page 3—Baucus-Burns ■ Page 4—Research isn’t ■ Page 6—For the first ■ Page 7— Spring semes­ ■ Page 8—UM “Bicycle bill died when U.S. House just a hobby. It contributes time in its history, UM ter in Oaxaca, Mexico, Blitz Days” kick off next of Representatives ad­ to better classroom instruc­ rodeo club’s men’s team offers students credits, as week: police to target journed Tuesday. tion, department chairmen makes finals in every event well as a real taste of speeding bicyclists. say. it competes in. Mexico. Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, October 7,1992 2 MONTANA KAIMIN EDITORIAL BOARD Karen Coates Bill Heisel Kevin Anthony Mike Lockrem Kyle Wood J. Mark Dudick Editorials reflect the views of the board. Columns and letters reflect the views of the author. EDITORIAL---------- Beautiful Dwemer: A Quincentennial Celebration Realty’s visionary CEOs by carving At the dawn of hyper space their likeness out of the purest Living life travel, one Dwemer had a vision. marble (the former churches of the “Wormholes are flat!” its fellow Other) and lighting them at night. Dwemers spake. “No—the universe Dwemers with leisure pilgrimaged, has round wormholes,” said Corpus one channel and it was most Excellent. Except— Corpi. With funding from Dwem liberal Dwemers criticized that the Corp., C.C. hyper-rode into the female Others had no political starry unknown. Ship sensors rights, and their brood no protection at a time sniffed the scent of primitive from forced labor. And so this was electromagnetic signals (television). What would you do with a million fixed. (“Okay, now? Now, is it The trail led to a blue-white planet. alive (“The Uncorporate Trials”). dollars? Good?”) C.C. discovered a New World. Corporate competition escalated Use it to buy a huge hunk of land in Though their elders harbored the Montana and enjoy the world the way it After scanning the electronic and after many hostile takeovers information babbling on the planet, only one company remained— old culture, the Other had lost the Qpce was? Give the money to your local world they had known following cancer research center? Take a trip to C.C. smirked and crowned the Dwem Realty, which declared itself fiscal centuries of modernization. planet New Dwem. Corporate logos a sovereign planetary corporation. Africa, India and all points East? Most native species—cows, poodles, unfurled, the three Dwemer craft And Dwem Realty declared a Or perhaps you would rather just sit beer and wheat—were extinct, and landed in a capital city close by a democracy. (“It is Good.”) in a wall-papered den in front of a replaced by Dwemer domestics. New Dwem ocean. C.C. marveled. Except, however, many of the television as it feeds you cheap plea­ The fields of Other suburbs and sures in discrete, 12-minute slices buff­ This city, now dubbed the White Other occupied prime real estate, nuclei of cities were mined and ered by spangles of commercial glee. Hills, shone with marble and and so were forcibly removed (“The leveled.