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Page 3 ----------► www r g M O N T A M K A V m m Kaimin is a Salish wordrapPIper W e a mm m « a y M aig 27, 2002 — Issue 79 Mount Jumbo will stay closed due to snow UM students Closure of “During late winter, elk im prove at energy reserves are at recreation areas extremely low levels and lack paying debt extended of food or extra energy to protect elk expended by running from Default rate of disturbances such as people Stafford Loans at Liam Gallagher or dogs can literally be a Montana Kaimin matter of life and death,” UM lower than Supplee said. national average Skiers and snowboarders Every year much of Mount aren’t the only ones reaping Jumbo is closed to protect Natalie Storey the benefits of an unusually the elk that make the area Montana Kaimin long winter this year. their winter home. This year Most former UM students Thanks to Jack Frost’s the number of elk in the area extended stay, the local hills has been exceptionally high. have become more reliable when it comes time to pay back have maintained solid snow- “Nearly 70 animals are their college loans. packs and subsequently kept finding winter forage near UM’s 4.1 percent cohort elk populations in the upper the ‘L’ and above,” Supplee default rate on Stafford Loans Rattlesnake from moving up said. “This is the largest elk is very good, said Mick Hanson, into the hills. To protect the use of the area since the director of the Financial Aid elk, the closure of south record-snow winter of ’96-97.” Office. UM’s rate is lower than Mount Jumbo has been During typical winters, the national average of 5.6 per­ extended into April. elk are able to move into “We felt this year with the cent, lower than the 7.6 percent higher, more protected ele­ default rate at MSU-Billings in elk distribution and the type vations of the Rattlesnake 1999 and the 4.5 percent rate of weather we’re having it’d foothills by mid-March. at MSU-Bozeman in 1999. be best to extend it,” said However, this year’s linger­ Of the 3,486 Stafford Loans John Firebaugh, regional ing snowpack is keeping the that were scheduled to be paid wildlife biologist for Montana herds in the lower eleva­ off by UM students in fiscal Fish, Wildlife & Parks. tions on south Mount year 2000, only 146 went into MFWP, the Lolo National Jumbo. If the area were default. Forest, the Five Valleys Land opened, as it usually is on UM’s default rate on Trust and Kate Supplee, the March 15, the elk popula­ Stafford Loans is down consid­ City of Missoula Open Space tions would be directly erably from 1999, when the program manager, decided on threatened because they’d rate was 6.7 percent. The rate the extension in early March. be pushed out of the area was 5.8 percent in 1998. Supplee stressed that where they forage. Hanson attributes the Missoula residents need to “People have other (recre­ Damon Ristau/Montana Kaimin decline to a number of factors. respect the closure because Mount Jumbo will remain closed through April 1 to help protect ation) options, but elk don’t,” local elk populations. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks extended the “The entire collection repay­ this time of the year elk are Supplee said. “If they loose usual March 15 date because of the heavy snowpack that remains in ment system has become bet­ at their most vulnerable the winter refuge they’ll die the hills. ter,” said Hanson. “There is bet­ times and any interaction out.” their habitat,” Firebaugh let them back off on their ter communication between the with humans could prove Firebaugh made certain to said. own, without pushing them collection agencies and the for­ fatal. remind Missoula residents Firebaugh suggested that away.” mer students. Lenders are “It can just push them that they’re lucky to have an once the area is opened in Supplee said no trespass­ doing a better job of keeping over the edge,” Supplee said. abundance of wildlife so close April people should still ing citations, which come track of students. Also, stu­ The elk have trouble find­ to town and they should remember to tread lightly with a $500 fine, have been dents are doing a better job of ing food as the winter is com­ make certain they help main­ when in elk habitat and to issued, and he hopes it stays keeping in contact with the ing to a close and they can’t tain these healthy elk popu­ always respect the wildlife that way. lender.” eat enough to keep gaining lations. and their surroundings. “We really appreciate that But communication between weight. Any increase in their “I think it’s important “View them from a dis­ people respect the closure up lenders and borrowers isn’t the metabolism or heart rate can because there are not that tance,” Firebaugh said. there,” Supplee said. “And I only important factors. cause them to die, Supplee many towns where you can “Keep your dogs on a leash. think that the wildlife appre­ “Montana students are look­ said. look up and observe elk in Give them some space, and ciate it as well.” ing more at money manage­ ment, they are handling their money better,” Hanson said. Lecture examines history of welfare’s reputation Students who attend univer­ sities with a default rate of 10 Speaker urges University history professor, the elderly, handicapped and “A man receiving old age percent or higher must wait 30 brought her lecture, “Poverty, agriculture business considered people to support a pension could spend it on any­ days after the start of classes to Race and the Politics of honorable,” Gordon asked, thing from opium to liquor,” receive their loan assistance. strong welfare Welfare Reform,” to an audi­ “while programs for women and Gordon said. “Yet, a women Stafford Loans accounted for system ence of about 50 people children are stigmatized?” receiving (welfare) had a super­ $30 million of the $53 million of Tuesday in the North Gordon said that while vised budget, unannounced Kellyn Brown aid that UM students received Underground Lecture Hall. Social Security insurance has home visits, and her morals for the Kaimin through financial aid in 2000, Gordon is part of the Ninth no criterion except age, the tested.” Annual Maxine Van de which is about 55 percent. Women’s History Month is same has not always been true The same pension that men Wetering Women Making “Many students can not winding down this year, and for welfare. Through history a received at an old age the make it the first 30 days of the History Lecture Series. one of the last events was person receiving welfare must majority of women weren’t enti­ year without their financial Gordon drew from the past Linda Gordon’s lecture on the be impoverished and in some tled to if they worked at home. aid,” said Hanson. Since to compare the current state of history of welfare and why it cases morally upstanding, Gordon argued against the Stafford Loans constitute a Social Security to the current has received a dirty name. Gordon said. She gave an widespread notion that if peo­ large percentage of student aid, state of welfare. The latter, “We spend far more money example of a Wisconsin social ple can make money not work­ it is important that the default which used to be guaranteed, is to keep an inmate in prison worker in the ’50s who used to ing then they won’t work at all. rate remains below 10 percent. now restricted due to a bill than we do for a foster child,” go through a welfare recipient’s She emphasized the yearning Stafford Loans are federal passed by Congress in 1996, Gordon said. dirty clothes hamper to ensure that men and women had for funds available to university Gordon said. she wasn’t having sex out of Gordon, a widely published work during the depression so students. There are subsidized “Why are aid programs for wedlock. author and New York See LECTURE, Page 8 See LOANS. Page 8 2 Montana Kaimin, Wednesday, March 27, 2002 [email protected] O pinion Editorial Guest Column_______ ____________________ Rally to support H olst Hogan is selling unrealistic dreams to UM achieve the success of Gonzaga, or even Kent State, too late to matter Column by are at this point unrealistic.