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Griz Gear Up To Grapple With Hawkeyes
Game time is 10:05 a.m. MST Saturday
The Montana Grizzlies, ranked third in the Sports
Network's Division I-AA preseason poll, open their
2006 season Saturday, Sept. 2, with a road game
against the Iowa Hawkeyes. Kickoff is 10:05 a.m.
MST.
Iowa is ranked 16th nationally by the Associated
Press and is on a home sellout streak of 17 games in
a row. The team sold out all six games last season in
Iowa's renovated Kinnick Stadium, which seats
79,585.
Montana is 64-40-2 in season openers since 1897,
and has won 16 of its last 18 season openers. Seven
of those games were on the road. The Grizzlies' last
season opener on the road against a Division I-A
opponent was in 1996, a 35-14 victory at Oregon
State.
UM's Flathead Lake Biological Station will host the
Annual Meeting of the Organization of Biological Field
Stations Sept. 14-17.
The agenda is a mix of plenary and concurrent
sessions dealing with issues faced by field stations,
as well as business meeting sessions. Pre-meeting
field trips to nearby lakes, streams, prairies and
mountains will offer welcome diversions for this group
of field biologists, allowing participants time to enjoy
the biological station and its surroundings.
Established in 1899, Flathead Lake Biological Station
is one of the oldest field stations in the United
States. With Flathead Lake as the backdrop, the
station provides a warm and relaxed academic
atmosphere for the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
An American Council on Education Fellowship will
bring Professor Peter Omara-Ojungu of South Africa
to UM during September.
ACE fellowships foster collaboration and new
partnerships in higher education to help colleges and
universities address the challenges of the 21st
century.
Omara-Ojungu works for the University of Venda for
Science and Technology in Thohoyandou, South
Africa, where he is executive dean of natural and
applied sciences. He will focus on leadership training
during his time at UM.
Omara-Ojungu also will give a
presentation, "Environmental Degradation in the
Former Homelands of South Africa," from noon to 1
p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, in UM's Maureen and Mike
Mansfield Center Seminar Room, located in the
Mansfield Library. The event is free and open to the
public.
New Associate Director Joins Alumni
Susan Cuff, a University of Montana alumna with
more than 20 years experience in public relations,
marketing and communication, began her duties as
associate director of the UM Alumni Association in
August.
Cuff received a bachelor's degree in journalism from
UM in 1981. She came to the Alumni Association from
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where she served as public
information officer for the Panhandle Health District.
Cuff has a long history with the University. Her
father, John Wailes, taught pharmacy courses at UM
from 1954 to 1985. The family endowed a memorial
scholarship fund in his name in 1998.
For the first time in the history of UM, student
employees will receive paychecks twice a month
beginning this fall.
Instead of being paid on the first of the month,
checks will now be issued on the first and 15th,
something students have long lobbied for.
There are roughly 2,500 student employees at UM, all
of whom will now be able to collect every two weeks.
Students are encouraged to sign up for direct
deposit, which will speed paychecks to their bank
accounts.
The catalyst for the new twice a month cycle was
new computer equipment installed at HRS over the
summer. The improved system can handle a higher
processing load and allow for the more frequent
paychecks.
Get Acquainted At Free Ice Cream Social
The fifth annual Ice Cream Social to welcome new
and returning students to campus and Missoula
neighborhoods will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 10.
The event will take place in the 400 block of
University Avenue. Area residents are invited to join
in the festivities to celebrate the energy and
diversity students bring to campus and the
community.
In addition to free ice cream from the Big Dipper and
Baskin-Robbins, the street party will offer door
prizes, music, special guests and activities for kids.
The annual event is organized by a committee of
neighborhood volunteers, student leaders and UM
staff members. For more information, call Don
Simmons at 406-327-7403 or e-mail him at
simble@bresnan.net.
Native American Photos Subject Of Talk
Between 1889 and 1926, Lee Moorhouse took the
time to photograph cultures he thought were on the
brink of disappearance around the Inland Northwest.
A little more than a century later, Steven Grafe,
curator of the Native American Collections at the
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in
Oklahoma City, selected 80 photographs from the
3,000 Native American images chronicling
Moorhouse's work.
Grafe will present "A Voracious Eye: Lee Moorhouse
and His Photographs of the 'Real West'" at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 6, in Gallagher Business Building
Room 122. The event is hosted by the O'Connor
Center for the Rocky Mountain West.
Moorhouse was an agent for the Umatilla Indian
Reservation in Eastern Oregon and a neighbor to
many of the American Indians he photographed.
The event is open to the public and admission is free.
The third annual Mountain Computer Music Festival
at UM will feature a new work for Irish folk
instruments and real-time computer processing.
The piece was written for the festival and will be
performed by Michael Theodore, faculty member at
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The music festival also will feature compositions by
UM alumnus Christopher Stark; French composer
Pierre Alain Jaffrennou; Texan Christopher Morgan;
UM students Tommy Pertis, Mike Gollins and Eric
Davey; and faculty member Charles Nichols.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, in
the Phyllis Washington Park Amphitheater, at the
base of Mount Sentinel's M Trail. The audience is
invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets to sit on
and a picnic to enjoy during the concert. (Rain
location: Music Recital Hall.)
Admission is $5 general and $3 for students.
Griz Soccer Splits And Wins On The Road
The Grizzlies split a pair of non-conference games
over the weekend, defeating Utah Valley State 3-0
and falling to Wyoming 1-0.
The Griz were crowned tournament champions by
virtue of goal deferential. Montana (+2) was first,
followed by Tulsa (+1), Wyoming (-1) and Utah
Valley State (-2).
Senior Kelly Fullerton led the defense that allowed
just one goal in the team's first two games. Fullerton,
who has started 56 of 58 games in her career, was
named tournament MVP for her performance over the
weekend.
UM will play Boise State and Idaho this weekend in a
pair of non-conference matches in The Governor's
Cup in Boise, Idaho. Montana faces Boise at 5 p.m.
today and Idaho at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
The Grizzlies opened their 2006 season last weekend
with three losses at the University of California's
Molten Classic, falling to No. 17 Cal, Baylor and UC
Davis.
UM will continue its non-conference schedule this
weekend at the University of Nevada's AT&T
Invitational. The tournament will involve the Grizzlies
and Wolf Pack, as well as the University of the
Pacific. Montana will face Nevada at 6 p.m. Friday
night and the Tigers at 8 p.m. Saturday night.
The Montana Grizzlies, ranked third in the Sports
Network's Division I-AA preseason poll, open their
2006 season Saturday, Sept. 2, with a road game
against the Iowa Hawkeyes. Kickoff is 10:05 a.m.
MST.
Susan Cuff, a University of Montana alumna with
more than 20 years experience in public relations,
marketing and communication, began her duties as
associate director of the UM Alumni Association in
August.
UM
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