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January 2003
	Bear Briefs UM Colosseum-The University hopes to expand Washington-Grizzly Stadium by 4,000 seats before the start of the 2003 football season. If approved, the expansion would be added to north end zone seating. Grizzly Athletics asked fans to buy season tickets for the new section, paying a $75 deposit before Jan. 10 and the remainder by March 1. If fan response was enough - and pending approval by the state Board of Regents - the screaming fans in the north end zone could be more disconcerting than ever for visiting teams .... Musical Marvels-Three UM music majors topped the University's Concerto/Aria competition on Dec. 3. Kathryn Wilkinson of Baldwinsville, N.Y.; Kathleen Regan of Miles City; and Carla Horn of Sturgis, Mich., won the competition, which was open to any UM music major who studies in the private studio of a UM faculty member. Wilkinson, a cellist, is working toward a master's degree in music. Regan, a soprano vocalist, is a UM junior working toward an undergraduate degree in vocal performance. Horn is also a soprano vocalist pursuing a degree in vocal performance. She recently won the Metropolitan Opera district competition. The three students were chosen from a pool of 18 competition entrants for giving the best overall artistic performance. They will perform with the UM Symphony Orchestra this spring. Grizzlies in Detroit-Two former UM quarterbacks - Marty Mornhinweg and Dave Dickenson - are working for the NFL's Detroit Lions. Mornhinweg, who quarterbacked the Griz during 1980-84, has been assured a third season as head coach of the Lions, a team he has led to a 5-27 record during his tenure. Dave Dickenson, the Griz signal caller during 1992-95, was signed last season as the Lion's third-string quarterback. The Lions are Dickenson's fourth NFL team. Top Negotiators-UM's law school American Bar Association Negotiation Competition team performed well in the ABA Regional Law School Negotiation Competition Nov. 8-9 in Portland, Ore. Malin Stearns, a second-year student from Missoula, and Todd Denison, a third-year student from Kalispell, earned second place in the regional competition and will go on to the national competition Feb. 9-10 in Seattle. Teammates Ben Hursh, a third-year student from Miles City, and Patti Bowers, a first-year student from Seattle, came in fifth place in the regional competition. First-year students Heather McDougall of Troy and Ben Kennedy of Fallon, Nev., attended the competition as alternates. The teams were coached by Klaus Sitte, a UM adjunct lecturer and executive director of the Montana Legal Services Association. Deadly Topic-Do you know that bubonic plague exists today in Montana? Do you know what the children's song "Ring Around the Rosy" is really about? UM's fifth annual Community Lecture Series will answer these questions and more as Dr. Herbert Swick and UM professors Paul Dietrich, Kerry Foresman, Linda Gillison and John Glendenning take an in-depth look at the Black Death. The series, sponsored by the UM Alumni Association, will examine social, cultural, religious, political, medical and scientific aspects of the plague. Lectures will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays from Feb. 4 to March 11 in the North Underground Lecture Hall. Series tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for UMAA dues-paying members. Call the Alumni Association at (406) 243-5211 for more information, to purchase tickets or to be put on this year's mailing list. Good Planning-A team of UM alumni and graduate students developed a new venture business plan that was selected to advance to round two of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations. The plan, created for Child Care Resources Missoula, Mineral and Ravalli counties, is one of 80 selected to compete in round two. The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, sponsored by Yale's school of Management, selected the plan from among 655 for both large and small organizations across the United States. The plan was developed by a UM team made up of Jodie Rasmussen, Joy Williams, Gordy Pace, Kelly Rosenleaf and Jesse Pasichnyk. Twenty finalists will be selected to present their business plans to a panel of expert judges at the first conference and awards ceremony in New York May 2-3, when cash prizes will be awarded. Conservation Champs-UM's Environmental Studies Program has been selected to receive a prestigious $230,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The grant will provide financial support for UM graduate students committed to careers as practicing conservationists in the nonprofit or public sectors. Only five of the 48-month grants were provided to some of the nation's top environmental schools. The other four grant-winning conservation programs are at Duke University, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin and Yale University. "This is continuing recognition of the nationally significant Environmental Studies Program we have developed at The University of Montana," UM program Director Tom Roy said. "Until we became involved with the Duke Charitable Foundation - through their invitation - I don't think we understood how widely respected and recognized our program and graduates are." Brick Buying-Centennial Circle, established in 1993 when UM-Missoula celebrated its 100th birthday, surrounds Rudy Autio's landmark grizzly bear statue located on the western edge of the UM Oval. The circle is paved with red bricks that may be engraved with the names of students, alumni, family members, friends, teachers and anyone else who merits special recognition. Brief messages also are an option. Centennial Circle Bricks cost $150 each and may be engraved with up to three lines of 14 characters per line. Proceeds from brick sales go toward special UM projects and marketing. For more information, call Lisa Arends at (406) 243-2523 or go online to www.umt.edu/urelations/bricks. Remember the Dream-UM will celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with several events in January. Jim Lucas, an actor and federal employee from Washington, D.C., will deliver several of King's speeches at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the University Theatre. Lucas bears a strong resemblance to King and was himself a civil rights leader. Then the movie "Hollywood Shuffle" will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the University Center Theater. And the Thursday, Jan. 30, President's Lecture Series will feature Anne Firor Scott, history professor emerita at Duke University, speaking about "One History or Two: Black and White Women in American History." She will lecture at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre. For more information about the events, call Ray Carlisle at (406) 243-4202. Big Brains-The UM campuses and KECI-TV of Missoula have joined forces to showcase western Montana's brightest high school students competing for scholarships on Brain Busters, a weekly academic bowl that airs at 5 p.m. Saturdays. Program host and KECI anchor Wade Muelhoff squeezes the knowledge out of students during the half-hour programs with tough, brain-draining questions. Contest winners from fall shows have advanced to round two of the competition, which begins later this month. The top team at the end of the academic year will win $3,000 scholarships to any of the UM campuses. Second-place winners will receive $500 scholarships. Test your knowledge by tuning in to Brain Busters on KECI in Missoula, KCFW in Butte and Bozeman and KTVM in Kalispell.
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January 2003
	Bear Briefs UM Colosseum-The University hopes to expand Washington-Grizzly Stadium by 4,000 seats before the start of the 2003 football season. If approved, the expansion would be added to north end zone seating. Grizzly Athletics asked fans to buy season tickets for the new section, paying a $75 deposit before Jan. 10 and the remainder by March 1. If fan response was enough - and pending approval by the state Board of Regents - the screaming fans in the north end zone could be more disconcerting than ever for visiting teams .... Musical Marvels-Three UM music majors topped the University's Concerto/Aria competition on Dec. 3. Kathryn Wilkinson of Baldwinsville, N.Y.; Kathleen Regan of Miles City; and Carla Horn of Sturgis, Mich., won the competition, which was open to any UM music major who studies in the private studio of a UM faculty member. Wilkinson, a cellist, is working toward a master's degree in music. Regan, a soprano vocalist, is a UM junior working toward an undergraduate degree in vocal performance. Horn is also a soprano vocalist pursuing a degree in vocal performance. She recently won the Metropolitan Opera district competition. The three students were chosen from a pool of 18 competition entrants for giving the best overall artistic performance. They will perform with the UM Symphony Orchestra this spring. Grizzlies in Detroit-Two former UM quarterbacks - Marty Mornhinweg and Dave Dickenson - are working for the NFL's Detroit Lions. Mornhinweg, who quarterbacked the Griz during 1980-84, has been assured a third season as head coach of the Lions, a team he has led to a 5-27 record during his tenure. Dave Dickenson, the Griz signal caller during 1992-95, was signed last season as the Lion's third-string quarterback. The Lions are Dickenson's fourth NFL team. Top Negotiators-UM's law school American Bar Association Negotiation Competition team performed well in the ABA Regional Law School Negotiation Competition Nov. 8-9 in Portland, Ore. Malin Stearns, a second-year student from Missoula, and Todd Denison, a third-year student from Kalispell, earned second place in the regional competition and will go on to the national competition Feb. 9-10 in Seattle. Teammates Ben Hursh, a third-year student from Miles City, and Patti Bowers, a first-year student from Seattle, came in fifth place in the regional competition. First-year students Heather McDougall of Troy and Ben Kennedy of Fallon, Nev., attended the competition as alternates. The teams were coached by Klaus Sitte, a UM adjunct lecturer and executive director of the Montana Legal Services Association. Deadly Topic-Do you know that bubonic plague exists today in Montana? Do you know what the children's song "Ring Around the Rosy" is really about? UM's fifth annual Community Lecture Series will answer these questions and more as Dr. Herbert Swick and UM professors Paul Dietrich, Kerry Foresman, Linda Gillison and John Glendenning take an in-depth look at the Black Death. The series, sponsored by the UM Alumni Association, will examine social, cultural, religious, political, medical and scientific aspects of the plague. Lectures will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesdays from Feb. 4 to March 11 in the North Underground Lecture Hall. Series tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for UMAA dues-paying members. Call the Alumni Association at (406) 243-5211 for more information, to purchase tickets or to be put on this year's mailing list. Good Planning-A team of UM alumni and graduate students developed a new venture business plan that was selected to advance to round two of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations. The plan, created for Child Care Resources Missoula, Mineral and Ravalli counties, is one of 80 selected to compete in round two. The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, sponsored by Yale's school of Management, selected the plan from among 655 for both large and small organizations across the United States. The plan was developed by a UM team made up of Jodie Rasmussen, Joy Williams, Gordy Pace, Kelly Rosenleaf and Jesse Pasichnyk. Twenty finalists will be selected to present their business plans to a panel of expert judges at the first conference and awards ceremony in New York May 2-3, when cash prizes will be awarded. Conservation Champs-UM's Environmental Studies Program has been selected to receive a prestigious $230,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The grant will provide financial support for UM graduate students committed to careers as practicing conservationists in the nonprofit or public sectors. Only five of the 48-month grants were provided to some of the nation's top environmental schools. The other four grant-winning conservation programs are at Duke University, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin and Yale University. "This is continuing recognition of the nationally significant Environmental Studies Program we have developed at The University of Montana," UM program Director Tom Roy said. "Until we became involved with the Duke Charitable Foundation - through their invitation - I don't think we understood how widely respected and recognized our program and graduates are." Brick Buying-Centennial Circle, established in 1993 when UM-Missoula celebrated its 100th birthday, surrounds Rudy Autio's landmark grizzly bear statue located on the western edge of the UM Oval. The circle is paved with red bricks that may be engraved with the names of students, alumni, family members, friends, teachers and anyone else who merits special recognition. Brief messages also are an option. Centennial Circle Bricks cost $150 each and may be engraved with up to three lines of 14 characters per line. Proceeds from brick sales go toward special UM projects and marketing. For more information, call Lisa Arends at (406) 243-2523 or go online to www.umt.edu/urelations/bricks. Remember the Dream-UM will celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with several events in January. Jim Lucas, an actor and federal employee from Washington, D.C., will deliver several of King's speeches at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the University Theatre. Lucas bears a strong resemblance to King and was himself a civil rights leader. Then the movie "Hollywood Shuffle" will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the University Center Theater. And the Thursday, Jan. 30, President's Lecture Series will feature Anne Firor Scott, history professor emerita at Duke University, speaking about "One History or Two: Black and White Women in American History." She will lecture at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre. For more information about the events, call Ray Carlisle at (406) 243-4202. Big Brains-The UM campuses and KECI-TV of Missoula have joined forces to showcase western Montana's brightest high school students competing for scholarships on Brain Busters, a weekly academic bowl that airs at 5 p.m. Saturdays. Program host and KECI anchor Wade Muelhoff squeezes the knowledge out of students during the half-hour programs with tough, brain-draining questions. Contest winners from fall shows have advanced to round two of the competition, which begins later this month. The top team at the end of the academic year will win $3,000 scholarships to any of the UM campuses. Second-place winners will receive $500 scholarships. Test your knowledge by tuning in to Brain Busters on KECI in Missoula, KCFW in Butte and Bozeman and KTVM in Kalispell.
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