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For more information, please contact [email protected]. www.kaimin.org MONTANA KAIMIN Kaimin is a Salish word for paper Friday March 14, 2003 — Issue 77 UM hires replacement VP for student affairs UM honors Iowa State final selection after more than Christy campus.” Mansfield’s administrator 60 people responded to the Schilke, who Vice President for search and four final candi- served on the Administration and Finance to start in May dates visited UM in February. search com- Bob Duringer said he was Natalie Storey “It was a very emotional mittee to find “ecstatically happy” about birthday Montana Kaimin rush,” Branch said. “It was an Hollmann’s Dennison’s decision to select extremely positive feeling.” replacement, Branch as vice president for Teresa Branch, associate Three-day vice president for student Branch has a reputation for said she was student affairs. Duringer affairs at Iowa State being student oriented, which impressed chaired the search committee celebration University, will replace many said was a key factor in with Branch Branch that brought Branch to UM. begins Sunday Barbara Hollmann as the her selection. from the “As an institution we are University of Montana’s vice “She was very down to beginning. fortunate to get someone of Ramey Corn president for student affairs, earth and she seemed very “I am very, very pleased her quality to come here,” he Montana Kaimin UM President George interested in working with with this decision,” she said. “I said. students,” ASUM Sen. Kyle think she is going to do an Dennison said there were a When Don Oberdorfer Dennison announced thinks back to the birthday Thursday. Engelson said. “She was very amazing job. She will be an number of reasons for his articulate, and she communi- asset to our university.” choice. lunches that he and six other Branch said she plans to men had with Mike Mansfield, begin work at UM in late May. cated very well with every- Administrators and those “She has a lot of support one.” who will work closely with across campus, and I thought one of his strongest memories She will make $125,000 as is Mansfield speaking about Engelson said he was Branch agree. she was an excellent candi- vice president for student China. pleased when, during inter- “I believe that a better date,” he said. affairs at UM. Current Vice When asked about China’s views, Branch voiced her sup- choice could not have been Dennison said he was President Hollmann policies toward its neighbors, port for the ASUM-piloted made,” Dean of Students impressed with Branch’s past announced her retirement in Mansfield began naming all of safe-ride-home program, Charles Couture said. “She experience in issues such as October. its bordering countries and Grisss Ride. will have a very positive and enrollment management and Branch said she was what their relationship was ASUM Vice President very powerful influence on our pleased to find out she was the See BRANCH, Page 16 without notes or any rehears- al. Many of those countries were places that Oberdorfer Dog days of March and the other men had never even heard of. After Mansfield had fin- ished naming the countries, he said, under his breath, “a lot of wind.” He was referring to himself. This was a typical response of Mansfield’s, Oberdorfer said. Mansfield was a man who never put himself forward, and almost put himself down in a sense, he said. The Mike Mansfield Centennial Celebration pro- gram is celebrating what would be Mansfield’s 100th birthday for three days at the University of Montana, begin- ning on Sunday. He died Oct. 5, 2001. Mansfield, who graduated and taught at UM, was a U.S. ambassador to Japan, Senate majority leader, U.S. senator Sean Sperry/Montana Kaimin and U.S. representative. Eiger, a labrador retriever, enjoys a warm sunny spot in front of Jeannette Rankin Hall Wednesday with the company of his bare- Missoula will kick off the next foot buddy, UM student Brandt Geyerman. Showers are predicted for the remainder of the week in the Missoula valley. two Mansfield centennial cele- brations, which will be held in April at the Library of Speaker: Public land laws need rehashing Congress in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Embassy in the Interior during the Clinton Montana is in the midst of dis- of public lands. Common pre- Former Secretary of Tokyo, Japan. All events are administration. tancing itself from its traditional sumptions about these lands are free and open to the public. the Interior lectures Babbitt spoke to a crowd of extraction-based economies, no longer acceptable for the One way UM is memorial- about 300 people at the Babbitt said during his lecture. future, he said. for law conference izing Mike Mansfield on his University of Montana Urey He named three major indus- “It was once thought that Casey Trang 100th birthday celebration is Montana Kaimin Underground Lecture Hall about tries in Montana’s economy that every acre of land was meant for the importance of managing pub- have changed in the past a smiling hereford,” Babbitt said. with the production of an It’s time to reconsider laws lic lands. Babbitt is the keynote decades, though the laws govern- Grazing, like many other eight-minute video titled, that concern the use of public speaker for the 26th annual ing these industries remain the Montana industries, has out- “Glimpse of Greatness.” It will lands, the former Secretary of the Public Land and Law Conference, same. grown the laws that govern it, he feature the six men who ate Interior said Thursday night. a three-day conference at UM Babbitt said the laws concern- said. The existence of cattle on lunch with Mansfield on his “Public lands have served this weekend. The free conference ing grazing, mining and logging public lands has caused adverse birthdays during the later their purpose and it’s time to will discuss past and present poli- need to be changed to better effects like over-grazed fields and years of his life, said Frank redraw the laws,” said Bruce cies for managing public lands. serve the present and future use Babbitt, who was the Secretary of See BABBITT, Page 16 See MANSFIELD, Page 16 Inside Arts: Sports: News: Sister Jane spins Lady Griz advance to next round Husband and wife professor team spirituality at KBGA. of Big Sky tourney. gets Fulbright Grants. Page 12 Page 15 Page 8 2 Montana Kaimin, Friday, March 14, 2003 [email protected] OPINION Editorial Campus Voices University funds cut Cannabis is our friend; don’t fear it poison called solanine, are more toxic to the Column by system. Further, the active isomers in was a shyster move Daniel Katra cannabis are nearly identical in chemical On Monday, after a vote passed to remove from the uni- structure to a chemical naturally secreted in versity system just enough money to fund our environmen- An herb that ancient Chinese emperor the brain, called anandamide. A similar tal studies program, industry lobbyists thought they had Shen Nung once proclaimed to be the chemical is found in chocolate as well. All gotten their way. “Liberator of Sin” continues to be a victim these chemicals have highly developed recep- The House Appropriations Committee passed an amend- of our misperception. Cannabis is still clas- tors located in the human brain, all protected ment to redirect about $700,000 from the Montana sified as Schedule 1 under the federal by the Constitutional amendments pertain- University System’s general fund. That’s about the amount Controlled Substances Act despite over- ing to freedom of thought, speech, religion needed to run the environmental studies program for two whelming evidence that shows this position and the freedom from unlawful search and years. to be a reckless endangerment of American seizure. It’s your mind and body, after all. Fortunately, UM President George Dennison and Bob lives. More than 700,000 Americans are Please, do not fear this plant. It has done Duringer, the vice president of administration and finance, arrested and prosecuted each year for using nothing but continue to grow for thousands of said the program isn’t in danger. this herb, including our sick and elderly years. There are much more dangerous ele- The Legislature can’t take away funding from specific who like the idea of an organic medicine ments to be found in our society than our programs — they can only take money from the total they can grow and use at home better than plants. Fear and suspicion of one another is amount we have. the idea of the hospital or prison. Are the what will bring lasting harm to America, not So while the lobbyists and author of the amendment tried “Grandmas for Ganja” of Massachusetts plants or the people who use them for improved to take the funds away from the environmental studies pro- senile, or is it just our politicians? physical, mental and spiritual health.