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Showdown on sports rapidly approaches By GORDON DILLOW united in their opposition to man­ dations he will make to the board. Montana Kaimin Reporter datory fees but divided in their views One thing that the various factions on the value of intercollegiate do seem to agree on, however, is that The controversy over the funding athletics in the university system. intercollegiate athletics, especially of intercollegiate athletics is heating The seven members of the Board football, are expensive. up as a showdown on the matter ap­ of Regents are apparently split 3 to 3 The University of Montana football proaches. on the need for a mandatory fee, with program, for example, cost $240,558 Reports on intercollegiate regents Chairman Ted James hold­ this year. That figure does not in­ athletics are being issued and ing the deciding vote and declining clude fee waivers or salaries forfoot- petitions against mandatory athletic to comment on which way he is ball coaches and staff. Expenditures fees are being circulated. The leaning. And Commissioner of for other intercollegiate sports student body presidents of the six Higher Education Lawrence Pettit is programs for this year are $116,384 units of the university system are keeping quiet on what recommen­ for basketball, $28,242 for track, $11,202 for swimming, $10,982 for wrestling, and about $8,000 each for tennis, golf and skiing. Price increases According to a report by Marshall Cook, special assistant to Pettit, the total 1976-77 budget for men's and women's intercollegiate athletics at plague Kaimin UM is about $884,000, including fee waivers and athletics staff salaries. By G. ROBERT CROTTY Some observers think that is not Montana Kaimin Reporter enough. Cook maintains i.n his report that it The Montana Kaimin may not be able to continue publishing unless a will take $1 million “to support the recent 24 per cent increase in printing costs is rolled back, Kaimin Editor athletic units at the levels of Jonathan Krim said yesterday. competition that are expected by the Krim said that he is trying to have the UM print shop's price increase rolled athletic directors, alumni, boosters back; if that fails, he said the Kaimin will have to go "somewhere else” to ask and that segment of the general for money to operate. public that appreciates quality “I just hope the administration realizes the bind we'll be in if it is not rolled athletics.” back,” said Krim. RABINA FISHER SERVES hot, spicy, apple cider and confections outside Krim added that the outlook of getting money from "somewhere else" is ‘Bare Bones Budget’ the University Center in a business venture titled "Rablna’s Restaurant.” "not optimistic.” UM Athletic Director Harley Lewis (Montana Kaimin photo Bob VonDrachek.) Krim did not rule out the possibility of asking Central Board for a special said in an interview Wednesday that allocation to cover the increased printing costs, although he said he had not the UM intercollegiate athletics "seriously considered" the possibility. program is “operating on a bare ■ m o n t a n a Central Board last spring allocated $24,862 to fund the Kaimin this year, but bones budget.” If the budget were that amount did not provide for the increased printing costs. The remainder of cut, Lewis said, intercollegiate the Kaimin's revenue is obtained through the sale of advertisements and athletics would have to be subscriptions. eliminated. Committee Requests Roll-back And the amount of money saved by -kaimin— Recently, Krim and four other members of the UM Print Shop Advisory eliminating athletios, Lewis said, University of Montana • Student Newspaper Committee sent a letter to A. Dale Tomlinson, vice president for fiscal affairs, would not make up for the intangible requesting that the UM print shop's current rates be roiled back to a level Friday, November 19,1976 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 79, No. 29 gains UM receives from its comparable to those of the 1975-76 fiscal year. intercollegiate athletics program. The letter also asked that the question of “appropriate rate increases be dis­ Lewis said the national recognition cussed in detail” with the committee, and that a meeting be held with "ap­ UM received when it played UCLA in Students tour stadium propriate university officials” to discuss "how and why rates are set and the 1975 NCAA basketball playoffs changed." was an example. Tomlinson, who must authorize all print shop rate increases, said today that According to Lewis, eliminating he had “glanced" at the letter and that he is “not ready to make a decision” on intercollegiate athletics would save courtesy Of KYLT the requests. Tomlinson added that before he makes the decisions he “will be By BRYAN ABAS Director Harley Lewis, and only $168,000, not including talking to the committee.” athletics staff salaries. Montana Kaimin News Editor mathematics Professor Charles Bryan (who is serving as faculty Increases ‘Justified’ "Considering the amount of good intercollegiate athletics gives to UM KYLT radio paid the expenses for representative to the conference). - Al Madison, director of the UM print shop, said that he felt the rate increases that’s a very small figure,” Lewis said. ASUM President Dave Hill and The expenses of sending were "justified." ASUM Vice President Pat Pomeroy Anderson, Lewis and Bryan are be­ Madison said that increases came from a pricing system set.up by Jordale, during their trip to Moscow, Idaho ing paid by their departments. Sliter, and Briggs, a local accounting firm. Could Save $568,000 In arriving at that figure, however, last weekend, KYLT Sports Director Figures compiled by Alexander The system is set up to increase prices gradually and is based on in­ Lewis did not include athletics Bill Schwanke said yesterday. and presented to CB Wednesday as­ formation used in the printing trade, Madison said. faculty salaries, fee waivers, or the Schwanke said he invited Hill and sumed that only three people would Madison said that Don Erickson, the university's internal auditor, compiled costs of women's intercollegiate Pomeroy to go to Moscow to take a be paying for a car to Boise and on these increases and his shop “instituted them.” look at the new athletic stadium at that basis the savings only amounted ■ When asked if an increase of an estimated 50 per cent in the printing bill of athletics. If one takes the $884,000 the University of Idaho (Ul). to $39. Western Wildlands, magazine is justified, Madison said that he had “no figure supplied in the Cook report “We wanted to give people who Alexander said yesterday that no comment.” and subtracts the $31,600 Lewis said might be interested in supporting one has officially asked him to go to Madisoil also said that he was unaware of last Tuesday's meeting, and that intercollegiate athletics receives such a stadium for Missoula an op­ Boise. He said he hoped to go, but he had “no comment at this time" concerning the letter and its contents. from gate receipts, conces­ portunity to look at the Ul complex," did know if he could get off work. The five members of the committee who were at last Tuesday’s meeting and sions, donations and other income, he said. Some CB members questioned who voted to send the letter to Tomlinson were Robert Ammons, committee the amount saved by eliminating president and psychology professor; Joyce Zacek, editor of the Montana intercollegiate athletics could be as Ul recently completed construc­ whether Alexander would represent the student body fairly in view of his Business Quarterly; Emma Lommasson, committee secretary and associate high as $568,000. Lewis estimated tion of a domed, multi-purpose director of admissions and records; Robert Rosenthal, sports information the football program would lose athletic facility. strong support of athletics at UM. Alexander is president of Bear director, and Krim. $110,000 this year. He added, Schwanke said KYLT spent about Other members of the committee who were not at the meeting were Books, however, that very few football $30 plus gas to take Hill and Pomeroy Backers, a student organization that Otto Peterson, a printer in the UM printing shop, and Madison. • Cont. on p. 6. to Moscow. He said KYLT President promotes athletics at UM, and is one Gene Peterson gave his approval for of the more ardent supporters of the expenditure. intercollegiate athletics on CB. CB member Michael Berg began Peterson is a former president of questioning Alexander about his the Century Club, an organization views on athletics at Wednesday's Contamination accidental, that promotes the University of Mon­ meeting, but Hill said the question tana athletic program. was irrelevant. Schwanke said the Century Club is After several board members the main force behind an effort to state health official says voiced disagreement with Hill, Berg begin looking at the possibility of was allowed to complete his ques­ By BRUCE MOATS the food without being observed." Skinner said he was “very im­ building a replacement for tioning.