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Bear Briefs
Book Hooks-In an effort to encourage lifelong reading habits, UM has
teamed up with Missoula news organizations and local bookstores for the second annual book
drive for area schoolchildren. The goal is to collect books for the hundreds of children
who have access to books only at school. Suitable new or used childrens' books may be
dropped off at participating bookstores: The Book Exchange, Bird's Nest Books, Hastings,
Sidneys Used Book, Fact and Fiction, Garth's Book Shop and the Bookstore at UM. Students
being tutored through UM's Montana Reads volunteer program will benefit from the book
drive. Smoke Clearing-Continuing Education recently received a
$600,000 contract from the state Department of Public Health and Human Services to
establish a center for the Montana Tobacco-Use Prevention Program. Using money from the
state's tobacco settlement, the Resource Training and Technical Assistance Center will
develop and facilitate workshops and focus groups and coordinate community outreach
efforts throughout the state and on Indian reservations. The contract has the potential
for annual renewal until 2007 for a total of $3 million to $4 million.
New Web-Although still at the old address, www.umt.edu, the University's Web site has a new look. Gordy
Pace, manager of the facelift project, said the goal was to make the site more
user-friendly and attractive. Planning and design took nine months and the hard efforts of
many people across the campus, but credit for the home page goes to students Wendy Foltz
and Gwen Landquist, employees of Spectral Fusion at UM's College of Arts and Sciences. For
daily updates on UM news and events, click on "News at UM."
Gotta Dance-Mo-Trans, UM's resident dance group, will perform 7:30
p.m. concerts nightly Oct. 18-21 in the Montana Theatre of the Performing Arts and
Radio/Television Center. New York and San Francisco choreographers are being brought in to
set pieces, while works created by Mo-Trans artistic director Amy Ragsdale also will be
performed. Tickets are $12/general, $10/students and senior citizens, and $5/required
attendance for fine arts students. Call the fine arts box office at (406) 243-4581.
UM On Parade-Get ready Missoula -- the city's biggest parade of the
year is just around the corner. UM is seeking entries for this year's Homecoming Parade,
scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7. UM's new institutional slogan, "The Discovery
Continues," is the theme for Homecoming 2000 activities. Parade organizer Sharon
Palmer asks that all entries be related to the theme, which could range from the
bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery to future discoveries. Applications
are available at the UM Alumni Association office on Brantly Hall's main floor or from the
Chamber of Commerce, 825 E. Front St. The entry fee is $10, and applications must be
returned to the Alumni Association by Friday, Sept. 29. For more information, call the
alumni office at (406) 243-5211.
Funding Boost-UM's Flathead Lake Biological Station can establish an
endowed professorship in limnology research thanks to a $1.5 million commitment from the
McKnight Foundation of Minneapolis. Because the grant must be matched by $1 million from
other private sources, it provides a strong incentive for the station's fund-raising
efforts. The lim-nology professorship will be the second endowed position at the station,
after the Bierman Professorship in Ecology held by director Jack Stanford.
Habit Kicking-UM's School of Pharmacy has signed a $36,395 contract
with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services to oversee an effort by
selected Montana pharmacies to help people who want to kick the tobacco habit. Twenty
pharmacies will be recruited to enroll at least five Medicaid patients each in a 12-week
tobacco-cessation behavior modification program. Pharmacists will meet with the patients
weekly in half-hour sessions for six weeks. Patients also will use Zyban or the nicotine
patch. For another six weeks the pharmacists will monitor the patients by telephone and
then will do follow-ups after six, nine and 12 months.
On Display-The work of 14 artists from the Northern Rocky Mountain
West can be seen in UM's Henry Meloy and Paxson Galleries. "Forty Freedoms" --
featuring drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture and more -- is a mix of art selected
to represent insights into the remarkable changes that challenge the ecological and
cultural diversity of the Northern Rockies region. The artists represented are Theodore
Waddell, Christopher Warner, Clarice Dreyer, George Gogas, Richard Buswell, Nina
Alexander, Suzanne Truman, Sandra Nykerk, Walter Hook, Elmer Sprunger, Mark Wilson, Steve
Kelly, Ralph Wiegmann and Henry Meloy. The galleries are located off the lobby of the
Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. weekdays. For more
information, call (406) 243-2019 or 243-4970.
Families Welcome-UM's annual Family Weekend is scheduled for Friday
through Sunday, Oct. 20-22. Families and friends of UM students are invited to campus to
visit and partake in the many activities offered over the weekend, including a Big Sky
Conference football contest between the Montana Grizzlies and their rivals the Northern
Arizona Lumberjacks. For more information about weekend events, call Bridgit Sommer,
community relations and outreach coordinator, at (406) 243-2488 or e-mail bsommer@selway.umt.edu.
Homecoming Shopping-Besides a parade, football game and fireworks,
Homecoming 2000 presents some unique shopping opportunities. The Friends of the Mansfield
Library will hold its annual booksale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday. The Homecoming arts
and crafts fair will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Thursday through Saturday at the University
Center. And dues-paying members of the UM Alumni Associaiton will get 25 percent off
almost everything at the Bookstore at UM Friday and Saturday.
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