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Web Course Teaches Indian Education
In 1999 the Montana Legislature passed the
Indian Education for All Law, which states
all educational personnel should have an
understanding and awareness of Indian tribes
so they can teach about Native Americans
in a culturally responsive manner.
Now UM offers a new
tool to help teachers and administrators
enhance their Indian-based curriculum. It's
an online graduate course called Indian
Education Leadership Training.
The two-semester, six-credit course started
last fall. It's innovative enough to attract
two participants are from the Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington, D.C. The other 48 educators work
at 10 high schools scattered across Montana --
from Kalispell to Billings to Opheim.
UM intends to continue offering the online
class as a graduate course, making it a part
of the School of Education curriculum.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Asia Pacific Security Affairs James Clad
will speak about key security issues in South
and Southeast Asia at UM on Thursday, March 13.
He will present "Giving 'Lesser Asia' the
Attention it Deserves: Why South and
Southeast Asia Matter to U.S. Security" at 7
p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 123.
The event is free and open to the public.
Clad, whose career has been devoted to Asian
security affairs, has just returned from a
trip to the region with U.S. Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates. His UM presentation
provides a unique opportunity to hear
cutting-edge analysis from a knowledgeable
and highly placed official.
For more information, call the Maureen and
Mike Mansfield Center at 406-243-2298.
Holocaust Scholar To Speak
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen of Harvard
University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies will give the next
installment of the President's Lecture Series
at UM on Monday, March 17.
Goldhagen will present "Hitler's Willing
Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the
Holocaust" at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.
Earlier that day from 3:10 to 4:30 p.m.,
Goldhagen will give a seminar titled "The
Globalization of Anti-Semitism" in Gallagher
Business Building Room 123.
UM will commemorate
Hunger Awareness Week March 10-15 with events
ranging from lectures and a food drive to a
hunger banquet and students sleeping in
cardboard boxes on the Oval.
Hunger Awareness Week is designed to educate
the UM community about poverty and motivate
people to take action to help eradicate
hunger through acts of charity and advocacy.
A Missoula Food Bank Food Drive will be held
March 3-14. Donations may be dropped off at
the Hunger Awareness tables in the University
Center, the Lommasson Center and
most residence halls. Food donations also
will be accepted at all Hunger Awareness Week
events March 10-13.
In addition, a door-to-door food drive will
be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 12,
in the University District. Volunteers are
asked to meet at 3:30 p.m. at the Grizzly
Bear statue on the Oval.
Eileen
Ivers & Immigrant Soul-- an ensemble of
African and Latin percussion and bass
players, Irish instrumentalists and American
soulful vocalists -- will perform at 7:30
p.m. Sunday, April 6, at the University
Theatre on the UM campus.
Tickets are available at all GrizTix
locations and cost $15 for students and $22
for the general public. Prices do not include
ticketing fees. Call 888-MONTANA or visit
GrizTix
online to purchase tickets.
Ivers, an Irish-American fiddler who has been
dubbed "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin" by
The New York Times, has performed for
presidents and royalty worldwide. She and
three other musicians from diverse musical
backgrounds formed Eileen Ivers & Immigrant
Soul in 1996.
'Bill Harley Live' To Air Statewide
"Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live" -- stories
and songs that paint a vibrant and hilarious
picture of growing up, school and family life
-- will premier at 7 p.m. Monday, March 10,
on Montana PBS stations across the state.
The Montana PBS special program was taped at
a live concert in June 2007 at UM. Grammy
winner Bill
Harley will be in Montana to host the
show live from Montana PBS studios.
Harley has long been a favorite of audiences
throughout the state in live performances at
schools and on Montana Public Radio
children's programs. He is nationally
recognized as a family entertainer, known for
delighting audiences of all ages with his
stories and songs about growing up and his
observations about the world and being a
parent. Harley also is a regular commentator
on the National Public Radio evening news
program "All Things Considered."
This year's Spring Dance Showcase at UM
features 17 original
pieces with choreography created by faculty,
students, graduates and a guest artist.
The concert presents two separate programs
offered alternately at 7:30 p.m. from
Tuesday, March 11, to Saturday, March 15, and
a matinee show at 2 p.m. on March 15. All
performances take place in the Open Space,
Room 005 in the basement of the Performing
Arts and Radio/Television Center.
Tickets for the performance cost $7 and are
available at the Drama Dance Box Office,
located in the PAR/TV Center, or by calling
243-4581. The box office is open from 11:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Three UM players tied for
game-scoring honors with 16 points each, as
the Grizzlies defeated the visiting Northern
Colorado Bears 81-66 in a Big Sky Conference
contest Feb. 28 in UM's Dahlberg Arena.
Griz senior forward Andrew Strait and guards
Ryan Staudacher and Cameron Rundles scored 16
points apiece. Forward Jordan Hasquet
added 14 points.
Strait had a game-high 13 rebounds for his
seventh double-double of the season. Hasquet
just missed his sixth double-double of the
year with nine boards, but did have a
career-best six steals.
The Portland State Vikings showed why they
won the Big Sky Conference regular-season
championship, as they handily defeated the
Grizzlies March 1 with a dominating 108-56
league win in Missoula. With the loss,
Montana went to 8-8 (14-15 overall) in the
Big Sky and tied Idaho State for fourth place.
ISU also
finished 8-8 in league, but the Bengals own
the tie-breaker over the Grizzlies, and they
will host Montana in a first-round game in
the 2008 Intel Big Sky Conference Basketball
Tournament in Pocatello tomorrow.
The Montana Lady Griz clinched at least a
share of the 2008 Big Sky Conference
regular-season championship with a 66-55
victory at Northern Colorado in Greeley,
Colo., Feb. 28.
The Lady Griz won their fifth straight game
to improve to 22-5 overall and 12-2 in Big Sky
play. Montana needs to win one of two games
this week to claim the outright
regular-season title and earn hosting rights
to the six-team 2008 Big Sky Conference
Women's Basketball Tournament.
The Lady Griz played at Eastern Washington
yesterday and will play at Portland
State tomorrow.
UM senior Loni Perkins-Judisch won the 200
and 400 meters and anchored the Grizzlies'
winning 1,600-meter relay team to earn
Outstanding Track Athlete honors on March 1,
the second and final day of the 2008 Big Sky
Conference Indoor Track and Field
Championships in Pocatello, Idaho.
Perkins-Judisch broke her own school records
in the 200 and 400 meters and teamed with
senior Stephanie Radke, sophomore Erin Clark
and freshman Jenna Haven to break the Montana
1,600-meter relay record.
The Montana women finished in a tie for
fourth with 94 points-- two points shy of
claiming third outright. It marked the team's
best finish since 1994 and the most points
Montana has scored at an indoor championship.
The Montana men finished sixth with 50
points. Sophomore Chris Hicks was the team's
top point scorer with nine after placing
third in the triple jump and sixth in the
heptathlon.
Sacramento State took the men's and women's
team titles, out-scoring second-place Weber
State by a single point in both races.
Northern Arizona finished third in both the
men's and women's competition.
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