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MONTANA KAIM IN Volume 96, Issue 63 University of Montana Tuesday, January 25,1994 i Vo-tech fees might increase Nancy Storwick restructuring plan to com­ Hollmann said. and Eastern Montana ASUM President J.P. Betts Kaimin Reporter bine UM and MSU with Dennis Lerum, director of College, as well as the voca­ said. “This decision is going other state schools. Missoula Vo-Tech, said stu­ tional-technical schools in to impact higher education in Missoula Vo-Tech stu­ Students at the vo-tech dents at that school already Billings and Great Falls. UM Montana for the next 30 dents could pay increased will be UM students in the have the option of paying will be affiliated with years,” he said. fees but get more in services College of Technology in a fees for services to UM. Montana Tech in Butte and Dennison said university when they become UM stu­ particular certificate or UM President George Western Montana College in administrators have to pre­ dents this fall, UM Dean of degree program, she said, Dennison said other restruc­ Dillon, as well as the vo- sent a list of ideas at March’s Students Barb Hollmann adding they will be treated turing effects, however, will techs in Missoula, Butte and Board of Regents meeting in said Monday. like any students on campus. have to wait until adminis­ Helena. Havre. Reissa Short, student body “Any services that UM trators and faculty can dis­ Restructuring also means “We’re going to move president at the vo-tech, said students are eligible to cuss specifics such as regis­ name changes for institu­ ahead,” Dennison said. she expects tuition to receive will be available to tration, financial aid, and tions. Montana Tech will However, he couldn’t discuss increase as a direct result of all UM students,” Hollmann new student admissions. become Montana Tech of the specifics because he said if he this merger. said. The Montana Board of University of Montana while did so it would be like a deci­ Hollmann said Missoula Some of these services Regents’ unanimous Western Montana College of sion had been made prior to Vo-Tech, which will be include the student health approval of the plan Jan. 21 UM stays the same. discussion. renamed the College of service and ASUM Child means affiliation of campus­ Northern Montana becomes The university system Technology - Missoula, will Care. Students attending es by region beginning in MSU, Northern and Eastern will, however, work toward be a “campus of UM”, under Missoula Vo-Tech will also be July. For instance, Montana will become MSU, Billings. more co-operation and col­ Commissioner of Higher eligible to live in student State will be affiliated with Other changes should laboration, he said. Education Jeff Baker’s dorms or family housing, Northern Montana College start showing up next fall, Abortion memorial Ball crosses tickets vandalized sell Andrew Poertner for the Kaimin Vandals destroyed crosses steadily in Lolo on Saturday night that were erected as a memorial Larque Richter for the estimated 910 abor­ for the Kaimin tions performed each year in Missoula. Tickets to the 77th The Missoula Right to Life Foresters’ Ball sold steadily organization erected the small Monday, and faster than last wooden crosses on Saturday year’s first day of ticket to mark the 21st anniversary sales, said Rob Chamberlain, of the Supreme Court’s Roe who is in charge of logistics vs. Wade decision that legal­ for the ball. ized abortion. The crosses Chamberlain said they were left up overnight for dis­ expect to sell out Wednesday play on Sunday, which is pr Thursday, although he observed as Sanctity of Life didn’t have the total number Sunday by many churches. of tickets sold. The sale will A guard interrupted the continue until Saturday if all vandals, but not before they the tickets are not sold. had destroyed many of the Warren Applehans, Chief crosses. Cyndie Aplin, presi­ Push of the Foresters’ Ball, dent of the Missoula Right to said the sales are “back to Life organization, said that what they used to be when I between 300 to 350 crosses started school,” which was in were knocked down. 1989. “We used to never sell She said the vandalism was out “til Wednesday or not unexpected. Aplin said she Thursday.” just picked up the pieces and Last year’s tickets for the nailed them up as best she 76th Foresters’ Ball sold could. slowly, especially compared Aplin said she has decided to the 75th ball which sold not to involve the police. The out in less than two hours, crosses were taken down and many blamed the alco­ Sunday nightfto prevent fur­ hol ban along with poor ther attacks. CYNDIE APLIN, president of the Missoula Right To Life Organization, repairs dam- Steven Adams age done by vandals Saturday night to the group’s memorial for abortions performed For the Kaimin advertising. The ball will be Aplin said other groups had m Missoula county last year. Saturday marked the 21st anniversary of the court decision that legalized alcohol free again this year, made similar memorials to abortion. but the foresters say it’s not protest abortions. The crosses that big of an issue. were displayed on a private Page 3 Page 5 Page 6 “I was hoping this year’s lot near Highway 93 that had focus with the media would been donated for the occasion. not be on the alcohol because The estimated number of More of your letters to C o w pies, an abun­ Sports weekend there’s so many positive abortions performed in the editor dance of hair and an review and football things (going on),” said Missoula was taken from inflatable sheep awards Amanda Cook, the ball’s state records, which are prob­ publicity officer. “I don’t ably conservative, said Aplin See “Ball” page 5 Kaimin is a Salish word that means “messages:” expressions EDITORIAL--------- Chiapas Uprising: Mexican blues from the South another type of violence, much more Mexico inaugurated 1994 with the subtle and pervasive than the physi­ Baker cheated deadliest and most dramatic indige­ nous uprising of its modem history. Guest cal violence: the institutional violence U-system out of of governments that ignore people’s A group of armed campesinos (peas­ Column real changes ants) named itself the Ejercito demands of liberty, justice and oppor­ Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, tunities to live like human beings. There’s nothing like a card dealer by seized four towns in the southern The PRI, the ruling party created who can shuffle well. The dexterous I bon to “institutionalize” the spirit of the digits, deftly making the cards sing state of Chiapas during the first between his hands. His mixing is hours of the new year, initiating a Villelabeitia epic Revolution, after 64 years in important. It determines the variety of series of military clashes with the power proves well the cynical saying who gets what cards and who wins. Mexican federal army. that every revolution has the seeds of Obviously, Commissioner of Higher Initial death tolls released number its own counter revolution. the dead far beyond the hundreds, through fraudulent means. Education Jeff Baker holds an interest The Mexican government contends Today’s “rebels” have called to for cards. It has led him to reshuffle and independent human rights orga­ mediate on Nobel Peace Prize laure­ nizations report on human rights that “violent and outside profession­ and restructure the Montana ate Rigoberta Menchu (a native abuses by the army in fighting back als” have infiltrated the Zapatistas University System. and masterminded the group’s Guatemalan human rights advocate Under the proposal those colleges, the insurgents. Although it’s too soon to clarify the actions, pointing out that well- who belongs to the same universe of universities and vo/tech schools are trained, well-equipped Guatemalan impoverishment and injustice) and divided into two sections. One would definite figure— as the intensity of the hostilities seem to be dying out leftist guerrillas are behind the plot. the Bishop Samuel Ruiz, a stone in group Montana Tech in Butte and Such rhetoric brings to mind the Western Montana College with the after a cease-fire was declared by the the shoe within the orthodox conserv­ Mexican government two weeks ago days of the Cold War, when guerril- ative hierarchies of the Roman University of Montana as the parent las and coun­ — or to analyze Catholic Church for his advocacy of school. The other sticks Eastern terguerillas the origin and t’s the One Mexico, in all its Montana College in Billings and were financed Liberation Theology (a blend of Northern Montana College in Havre development of the I virulence and rage that has and armed by Christian spiritualism and Marxist with Montana State University in events, it is possi­ equality) as a move to legitimize Bozeman as the main school.