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For more information, please contact [email protected]. www.kaimin.org MONTANA KAIMIN Kaimin is a Salish word for paper Friday February 14, 2003 — Issue 62 Faculty Senate amends class policies Ed. dean Class auditing, passed by the Faculty Senate the Faculty Senate, said that doing that is already in place.” Thursday afternoon. the changes will be added into Lori Morin, assistant dean announces pass-no pass The proposal to not allow next year’s academic catalog of the School of Pharmacy, was rules to change students to switch to audit but she couldn’t say for sure in support of the proposal. after 15 days of instruction how current students will be “We have students who resignation Natalie Storey was made by deans and associ- affected. audit just to avoid getting ‘C’s’ Roberta Evans Montana Kaimin ate deans from a number of Nancy Hinman, an associ- and that’s just ridiculous,” she departments on campus who ate professor of geology, said said. “If you look at the num- to stay on Students at the University said students were abusing professors already have the bers, it is clearly a problem on as professor of Montana will not be able to the audit option by using it to option to keep students from this campus.” audit after the first 15 days of get out of unsatisfactory auditing their classes. Stan Jenne, chairman of Jared Ritz a class and they will receive a grades. The proposal passed “They can always just check the accounting and finance Montana Kaimin grade of “no pass” if they earn with only five opposing votes the box that says ‘not recom- department, said extending a grade of D or less, as a and two abstentions. mended,’” she said. “The mech- After two years as the result of two resolutions Karen Hill, chairwoman of anism to keep students from See AUDITING, Page 12 school’s head honcho, the University of Montana School of Education’s dean announced Convincing candy cutie her resignation Feb. 7 to spend more time with her children. Roberta Evans said Thursday her decision wasn’t easy. “I love this work, and I would stay in (the position) for- ever,” she said, but the rigorous hours she needs to work as dean have kept her away from her children for too long. “I need a little more flexible hours,” she said. “I believe that, in parenting, you must be pres- ent to win.” Evans said that she has two boys, a fifth-grader and a sev- enth-grader, and their sched- ules are starting to fill up with extracurricular activities like sports and violin practice. She said because of this bustle, some of the evening engage- ments she has as dean are starting to get pushed to the side — a trend she would like to stop. “I don’t want to shortchange the school at all,” Evans said, and this decision, although hard, is best for the school and her. Evans said the decision was not made in haste, and she wants to make sure the educa- tion department is not inconve- nienced by her choice. “I’ll serve at least until the summer,” she said. “I didn’t set an exact date to help a smooth Mike Cohea/Montana Kaimin transition.” Three-year-old Wafa waits patiently for a customer while selling Hershey’s kisses as part of ASUM's pre-school child-care fund-raiser that is held annually in Evans was an education pro- the UC. Children from the child-care program, along with a teacher in charge, sold candies to passers-by in the UC with the money going to their general fund. fessor before accepting the dean position and said she will con- tinue to serve as a professor once a new dean is found. V-Day celebrations come in many heartshapes Evans announced her resig- Roses, candy pens to be one of the good ones. “I know my husband is going ‘Jeopardy,’” is what she expects nation at an education planning The 58-year-old University to have a card for me,” she said. — and wants — this holiday. and sometimes meeting last Friday. She said Bookstore employee has a V-Day “I’m hoping for chocolates.” A short 23 years ago, this she will be an active member in apathy tale more than two decades old. Nese said they don’t have any wasn’t the case. the search for her replacement. But when telling it, she is visibly plans just yet — “not that our Nese’s husband hadn’t been John Lundt, an education Jared Ritz filled with fond memories of that romance is dead” — and they one to celebrate, or even professor who has worked with day. will probably sit at home and acknowledge, the loviest of spe- and Katherine Sather Evans at the school for the past She married her husband 37 watch a certain TV show they cial days. Montana Kaimin 15 years, said he understands years ago. Though he occasional- both love. “In our marriage,” she said, “it her dilemma — and respects it. Everybody has a Valentine’s ly has a burst of romanticism, “To be able to sit with my took five years for my husband to “I think it’s a really Day story to tell, some good and Valentine’s Day 2003 doesn’t husband and relax, with my hus- some bad. Amy Nese’s story hap- look to be one of them. band’s arm around me watching See VALENTINE, Page 12 See DEAN, Page 12 Inside Eye Spy: Sports: News: Get crunk with the Clan Injured UM cheerleader steps onto floor Vampires don’t always suck — when Wu-Tang members hit Missoula. of Dahlberg Arena to cheering crowds. sometimes they bleed. Page 9 Page 11 Page 7 2 Montana Kaimin, Friday, February 14, 2002 [email protected] OPINION Editorial Campus Voices Less forest funding, Presidents protect, don’t censor speech to maintain freedom of opinion and expression Column by on the campus. As president, I do not have the more forest fires authority to dictate the views and opinions that Things don’t look good for forests this summer. students and faculty entertain. Nor can I cen- It’s been a dry winter, snowpack levels are around half sor their expressions of those views, so long as their normal amounts and the conditions are already shap- they respect the rights of others to express ing up to become a dry, crispy summer. Perfect for wildfires. their views as well. Nor do I interfere with I have received recently President George W. Bush knows about the drought. He open and free discussion of a range of view- several letters, telephone knows that last summer was one of the worst fire years for points. I do take action to prevent harassment calls and other inquiries the Western states. He knows that fires don’t fight them- from occurring, whatever the viewpoint of the about events that have harasser or the person or group harassed. selves and that they cost plenty of cash to battle. George Dennison occurred or will occur on So with the prospect of another giant fire year ahead of It bears noting that any action against one the campus of the person or group requires similar action against us, what does Bush suggest? A run-of-the-mill average of University of Montana. all others. To that end, I do not suppress view- $604 million to fund firefighting programs in the U.S. Forest The focus of attention has varied from a con- points, but instead work actively to protect the Service. That’s pretty close to the 10-year average for fire ference held on campus last summer to the per- rights of all members of the campus community budgets. formance of “The Vagina Monologues.” In every to freedom of association and freedom of Why so low? Because Bush is going to sit in his air-condi- instance, those who called, wrote or raised expression, so long as they abide University tioned office this summer and say, “Burn, baby, burn.” questions insisted that I take action to prevent policies and accord respect to others who differ It’s not that Bush is some kind of twisted pyromaniac. He the events, or that I should have from them. In that regard, the just sees blazing forests as a benefit to his cause. acted to prevent the events. In As president, I do not have annual Prayer Breakfast spon- When the forests burned last summer, Bush marched out response, I have stated that I the authority to dictate the sored by student groups on cam- to a grassy knoll near the fires and said that this wouldn’t cannot act as requested and still views and opinions that pus receives the same protection have been a problem if only we had been logging the forests respect my responsibility as as the performances arranged by students and faculty to prevent them from growing too thick with undergrowth.