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February 7, 1983 Missoula, Montana A SU M officials miffed by fee of $30,000 for services provided by UM administration By Eric Troyer tracting the service fee of the But ASUM President David Kaimin Reporter year before from total ASUM Bolinger also disagrees with ASUM officials are upset spending for the y6ar to get the the fee. about a $30,000 service fee net expenses of ASUM. The charged to ASUM by the Uni­ percentage the ASUM expen­ “Within the University system versity of Montana administra­ ses are of total UM expenses is we are the only student gov­ tion, but Glen Williams, UM applied to the total expenses of ernment to be charged an as­ fiscal affairs vice president, the administrative services in­ sessment fee,” he said. says the fee is reasonable. volved to figure the primary service fee. Half of the ASUM Of the other campuses, ex­ ASUM Business Manager accountant's salary is then cept for Montana State Univer­ Greg Gullickson says the ser­ subtracted from that amount to sity, only Northern Montana vice fee is unfair and is like determine the final service fee. College charges its student "taxing the students twice”— Half the accountant’s salary is government a service fee, but it once through tuition and once subtracted because he does a does so indirectly. According through student activity portion of the administrative to NMC Controller Scott Lud­ feesf which fund ASUM .) work. low, the administration invests the student activity fees from the time they are collected until Cart Burgdorfer, ASUM ac­ The fee is figured this way so they are given out. The earn­ countant, says tuitions pay for that the departments billed are NO CHEAP SUNGLASSES for ZZ Top. The tree ings from these investments the services and that student charged a fee which is repre­ hombres of Texas borderline grunge rock are kept by the administration activity fees should go to stu­ sentative of the amount of the cranked H out hot, blue and righteous at their as a service fee. dent activities. administrative services used, Sunday night fandango in Harry Adams Field Williams said. House. See stories below and page 9 (Staff No one at M SU could be photo by Bill Miller). But Williams disagrees. reached for comment. The fee is charged to all de­ Bolinger, Gullickson and “Students don’t pay any­ partments that are not support­ Burgdorfer would like to see Man stabbed in altercation where near the cost of operat­ ed by the general fund but use the fee eliminated, but realize ing the university,” he said, administrative services, such this probably won't happen.during ZZ Top concert break pointing out that student fees as student accounts and Auxil­ Bolinger said a “fairer assess­ account for about 19 percent of iary Services. ment" would be to take the An undetermined number of University of Montana stu­ the University’s operating bud­ percentage the ASUM expen­ dents were involved in a fight during an intermission at the ZZ Top concert Sunday night that resulted in one get. The $30,000 fee is $6,000 ses are of the total university man being hospitalized with stab wounds, LL Jim Ober- more than last year’s fee and expenses and apply that to The service fee, which comes $15,000 more than the year be­ {ASUM spending to get the hofer of the Missoula Police Department said yesterday. Police said the victim was about 19 years old. Ober- to a little more than $3 per stu­ fore that. i amount of the service fee. The hofer said he would not release the name of the victim or dent, is charged once a year fee would then be smaller and the other people involved in the incident or any other de­ for mail, insurance, security The large increases are due “fairly consistent," he said. tails until a report is submitted to the County Attorney's and telephone services to increased spending by provided to ASUM , as well as ASUM and 12 percent salary Williams has talked with the office today. Police have been interviewing people involved, he said. for services provided by the increases in those same years, ASUM officials, but does not A spokesman for Community Hospital said the man, Controller’s and purchasing Williams said. think the administration will who was stabbed three times in the upper left thigh, Offices, Internal Audit, Person­ compromise. spent Sunday night in the hospital and was released on nel Services, and the fiscal af­ “The kind of dramatic in­ fairs and student affairs vice crease we’ve had for the past “I don't anticipate any sub­ Monday. “There is more here than meets the eye,” Oberhofer presidents. couple years I would not antici­ stantial change in policy,” he The fee is calculated by sub­ pate for the future,” he said. said. said, but added, “It is not a big to-do.” Environmental health head deals with air, water and wrecked cars By Doug Loneman “I had been in Washington right,” Bild said. Congress and sentenced to regulations to create the cur­ Kaimin Contributing Raportar long enough and wanted to Lavelle, the ex-director of the jail. rent wood smoke regulations After five years with the Envi­ work at the local level where EPA’s Superfund, resigned in Bild, a New Jersey native, for Missoula. ronmental Protection Agency decisions can have a more di­ 1983 under fire from critics said Montanans are “fiercely The department is also work­ in Washington, D.C., Elaine rect impact, so the timing was over charges that she selec­ independent” and that the dif­ ing “very close!/’ with the citi­ Bild decided the time was right right,” she said. tively administered the fund for ferent levels of education and zens of Milltown and the EPA to move to “quiet” Missoula. Bild’s experience with the purposes politically advanta­ variety of cultures in Missoula on the clean up of the arsenic Bild, the environmental Superfund project and Rita geous to the Reagan admin­ make her job a “real chal­ contamination of Milltown health director for the Missoula Lavelle preceded the appear­ istration. Th e Superfund is lenge.” water. City-County Health Depart­ ance of Lavelle's name in money allocated by Congress With a budget of $475,000 “We deal with everything that ment, was working on the newspaper headlines across to clean up hazardous waste the department of Environmen­ affects the county’s environ­ EPA’s Superfund Project under the nation. sites in the nation. The money tal Health is responsible for the ment from air and water to Rita Lavelle in 1982 when she “A year after Rita took over would be allocated to commu­ monitoring of Missoula and sewage and junk vehicles,” saw a want ad in the Washing­ the Superfund Project every­ nities with waste sites deter­ Mineral County's environment. Bild said. ton Post for the job she now one in the office started notic­ mined by the EPA. Lavelle was The department, under Bild’s holds. ing things that weren’t quite recently found in contempt of direction, revised existing See ‘Bild,’ pege 12. Opinions Letter— tals (Harvard, did you know, Editor: In this day where the there are many who use the A farce of Olympian stature was founded by Christain hedonic lifestyle is so preva­ Bible for their own evil ends; in people) by quoting the bibie. lent, where socitey is so con­ fact Peter warns of this fact in II With the opening of the 1984 Winter Olympics this cerned with loving money, Peter 3:16. But sadly, very few (6) Chrlstains today who are week in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, the International Olympic pleasure, and SELF; Richard people have actually read and fighting for the rights of refu­ Committee is once again faced with the task of deciding W. Mocker's tirade about the studied the Bible and many gees;, political prisoners In the eligibility of some athletes. who quote from it do not really Bible is not surprising! Noticing Com m unist countries, and the A squabble among several countries, including the his majors were Economics, worship the God of the Bible unborn by quoting the Bible! United States and Canada, has developed over whether Philosophy, and French; I but worship the fact that it at some hockey players should be allowed to compete as could only say, Amen, to those times seems to agreee with Actually, Mr. Mockler, while amateur athletes in the Olympics. who are heralding the demise their own perverted sense of you speak of those who are The United States has accused Canada of using four of our educational institutions right and wrong (I mention the filled with hate, prejudice, and players who have signed professional contracts.