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New festivities planned m on ta n a for this year’s Aber Day By STEVE VAN DYKE Library Staff Association. The UM Montana Kaimin Raportar bookstore will donate T-shirts to k a im in the.first 350 people who enter the The times when Aber Day meant Friday, April 25, 1980 Missoula, Mont VoL 82, No. 91 runs. drowning in a sea of beer and listening to rollicking bands such as Jimmy Buffett and Jerry Jeff Two runs Walker, are gone. Two runs are planned, a two- This year’s activities will be the mile race and a 6.2-mile race. The annual campus cleanup, two two-mile race is for the people who benefit runs for the Maureen and do not feel they can run a longer Mike Mansfield Library and an distance but would like to help the evening rock concert in the field library. People who do not want to house. run are still encouraged to make a University of Montana President donation to the library. Richard Bowers has declared May The entry fee is $4 and anyone 21 as Aber Day this year. Classes can apply at Campus Recreation in have been canceled, but offices the Women’s Center. Registration will remain open. ends May 20 at 5 p.m. Runners Last year’s Aber Day kegger met wanting to collect donations are with resistance in acquiring a encouraged to register early. county health permit, but Dave The races will begin at the UM Stevens, chairman of the Missoula Oval and continue around Campus Liquids Assets Corporation, which Drive. put on the kegger last year, said he The morning of Aber Day will be thought his group could have spent cleaning up the campus and (Staff photo by Bob Carson.) received a health permit for a planting trees and shrubs. The kegger this year. ASUM Budget and Finance Com­ mittee Wednesday recommended Major reasons for approval a special allocation Northern Cheyenne and MPC Stevens said the two major request for $500 to buy the trees reasons for not having a kegger and shrubs. Anyone interested in this year are: helping clean up the campus is to reach agreement on Colstrip • the UM administration is asked to contact Campus Recrea­ against it tion, 243-2802. By KURT WILSON stipulates that both parties will cil, a citizen’s group opposed to • the costs of putting it on keep Montana Kaimin Raportar drop the pending suits. units 3 and 4, said yesterday that rising. Four bands Colstrip units 3 and 4 will be his group is “going full speed on One of the benefits of the Programming has scheduled The Northern Cheyenne Indian required to meet the Class I our lawsuit.” keggers in the past has been the four rock bands for the field house Tribe has ended its long-time standards and to insure that they The Northern Plains Resource donation of part of the profits to concert The bands are Mahogany opposition to the construction of do, three of what Wilson termed Council also filed suit against the the Mansfield Library. Rush, Angel, Mother’s Finest and Colstrip units 3 and 4 by the “the best air monitoring stations EPA for granting the construction The library can still hope to Humble Pie. The cost of tickets has Montana Power Co. available” will be installed on the permit. benefit from Aber Day, but this not been decided yet. Cal Wilson, attorney for the reservation. Patten said that many of the year two benefit runs are hoped to Campus Recreation will also Northern Cheyenne, said yester­ Wilson said other stipulations in agreements in the settlement were bring in the dollars, instead of the hold games in the UM Oval during day that a settlement between the the settlement are that Montana things Montana Power had to do kegger. The runs are sponsored by the afternoon and a barbecue is tribe and Montana Power had been Power will give the Cheyenne job • Cont. on p. 8. Campus Recreation and the under consideration. reached and was expected to be preference in construction of units signed late yesterday afternoon. 3 and 4 and will establish a job The Northern Cheyenne training program for tribal previously had been opposed to members. Committee refutes Bowers’ proposal the construction, of the coal-fired electrical generating plants on Social impacts on retrenchment, poses alternative grounds that the plants would Montana Power also agreed to destroy the air quality of the help the tribe cope with the social By DENNIS REYNOLDS because of a conflict with the UTU For example, the report says: Northern Cheyenne Reservation. impacts brought by the construc­ Montana Kaimin Raportar contract. • a program must be found tion. Bowers' plan relies on a contract “exceptional” among other univer­ Two coal-fired plants Wilson said Montana Power is The report from the retrench­ clause that says the need for sity programs in lack of productivi­ Montana Power already has two “ kicking in some money” to in­ ment review committee disagrees retrenchment exists when the ty before being discontinued for coal-fired plants in Colstrip, which crease the police force on the with University of Montana Presi­ present “employed and funded” such a reason. is about 15 miles from the reserva­ reservation. dent Richard Bowers’ proposal to faculty exceeds by 15 the number • before discontinuation of a tion in southeastern Montana. The “We know that all of the impacts eliminate three academic provided for next year by the 19:1 program because of “ lack of cen­ two existing plants generate 350 will not be bad,” Wilson said. “We programs and advises him to funding formula. « trality to the mission of the univer­ megawatts of electricity each. got a great labor deal and the “withdraw” the proposal. According to the committee sity,” the program should be found In 1974, Montana Power propos­ money coming to the reservation is Bowers and the committee are report, Bowers' figures indicate not to be one of the university’s ed building two more plants that a good impact.” scheduled to meet today in Main the faculty only exceeds next central programs. would generate 700 megawatts Wilson said there are 130 Hall 205 at 1 p.m. They will try to year's level by 13.8. • program duplication within each. The Northern Cheyenne Cheyenne working at Colstrip now agree on a single recommendation Bowers' proposal states that the the university system is not “ in­ were opposed to this proposal. and Montana Power has agreed to on faculty reduction to be sub­ faculty surplus is 20.28 positions. herently evil,” and that program After about five years of litiga­ increase that number to about 400 mitted by Monday to John The conflict results from elimination because of duplica­ tion and the environmental impact over time. Richardson, commissioner of Bowers’ inclusion of 6.48 faculty tion should never occur without a examining process, the En­ “There are two buses running higher education. termed “temporary adjustments.” system-wide review to decide vironmental Protection Agency from Lame Deer to Colstrip every The administration is con­ The committee contends these which institution should retain the granted a permit last September day carrying workers to work,” sidering closing the meeting to the positions cannot be considered as program. for Montana Power to begin con­ Wilson said. “The buses go right by public, Mary Ann Caster, assistant currently employed and funded Bowers used the following struction of the proposed plants. the bars where they all used to sit,” to the president said yesterday. and thus cannot be included in the justification for selecting the The Northern Cheyenne im­ he said. The committee’s report, ob­ excess faculty positions. targeted UM programs: mediately filed suit claiming that tained yesterday by the Montana Bowers said yesterday the dis­ • humanities — declining the proposed plants could not The greatest thing Kaimin, while agreeing that cut­ pute is a matter of a “technical enrollment. meet the air quality standards Wilson said the two sides have backs are necessary, opposes interpretation of the language” of • Italian — low productivity. established by the Clean Air Act of been working on the agreement for Bowers' use of program discon­ his proposal, and that he intends to • business education — 1975. “four or five months.” He added tinuance as a means of reducing seek legal advice as to the exact duplication at other state in­ that he thought the settlement “ is the UM faculty. disposition of the 6.48 positions. stitutions. Clean Air Act the greatest thing going down the Program discontinuance is a The committee report also states Also included in the review The Clean Air Act established air ro&d." method provided by the University that the retrenchment proposal committee’s report are alternatives quality standards and classified "It is good for them and good for Teachers’ Union contract for fails to meet other contract re­ to Bowers’ proposal for retrench­ areas in terms of the air quality of us,” he said, because “a lot of retrenchment proceedings.