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Think Grizzly, It's Friday | Feb. 6, 2009 | Volume 15, Number 3 
 
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 UM Celebrates 116th Birthday Feb. 12
 

The University of Montana will celebrate its 116th birthday with a noon-hour party and the Charter Day awards ceremony and reception on Thursday, Feb. 12.

The birthday festivities are held each year to honor the University and its dedication to excellence. All events are free and open to the public.

The noon-hour birthday party will be held in the University Center Atrium. The annual Charter Day awards ceremony, which begins at 5 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom, will recognize exemplary campus and community members.

Missoula Mayor John Engen will attend the 5 p.m. Charter Day awards ceremony to present an official proclamation of University of Montana Day. A reception will follow the ceremony.

 


 Expert To Lecture On Blackfoot War Art
 

The O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West will host the 12th Annual Native American Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 12, in conjunction with UM's Charter Day celebration.

L. James Dempsey will present "Overview of Blackfoot War Art and the Issue of Ownership and Reproducing It" at 7:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 106. The event is free and open to the public.

Dempsey, an enrolled member of the Blood Tribe, will give a historical and material overview of Blackfoot war art, which will include changes in designs, various forms used and war designs in the contemporary Blackfoot world. He also will address the issue of ownership of war designs and who can reproduce them.

The O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West is a regional studies and public education program of UM. For more information, call 406-243-7700 or visit the center's Web site.

O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West 


 Film Profiles Historic Girls' Basketball Team
 

"Playing for the World," a new historical documentary that recounts the adventures of 10 young American Indian women who made up the Fort Shaw school basketball team in the early 1900s, will premiere statewide on Montana PBS at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15.

The team members, who came from Indian nations in Montana and Idaho, were invited to attend the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. There, the team defeated all their opponents and were proclaimed "Champions of the World." But when the Fort Shaw team returned to Montana, the story of their sports accomplishments quickly faded.

Montana PBS television co-producers John Twiggs and Alison Perkins interviewed team descendents, tribal historians and authors Ursula Smith and Linda Peavy, who wrote a history of the team, "Full Court Quest."

The documentary also includes archival film and photographs, re-creations of basketball games featuring extras in period dress, and young women in heavy wool uniforms modeled after the originals worn by the Fort Shaw players.

Montana PBS 


 Agreement Preserves Detention Camp Area
 

With the outbreak of World War II, sleepy Fort Missoula became home to about 1,000 Italian nationals, a similar number of Japanese and Peruvian-Japanese aliens and a few Germans. They were housed in the fort's Alien Detention Camp from 1941 to 1944.

The forced detention of these men in Western Montana created a strange and fascinating chapter in Missoula history. And now that history will be protected by a new agreement among UM, Missoula County and the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula.

The parties in the agreement own property once used for the Alien Detention Camp, and they have signed a memorandum of understanding to preserve, interpret and maintain the former camp barracks area.

In addition, they will cooperate to obtain National Landmark Status for Fort Missoula. Then in 2011 they will jointly sponsor a conference about the alien internment period to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War II.

"We feel a responsibility to preserve this historic area and what occurred there for the benefit of future generations," UM President George Dennison said.

 


 Register Now For Service Learning Colloquium
 

Registration is now open for the UM Service Learning Colloquium to be held at the University Center on Friday, March 13.

The daylong event aims to involve UM faculty and students in conversation about institutional engagement, service learning and community outreach. The colloquium offers an excellent opportunity for professional development.

Participants can sign up to attend one or more of the day's sessions or the luncheon. Colloquium events are free, but registration is required and space is limited.

During the luncheon, internationally renowned service learning authority Andrew Furco will give the keynote address, which focuses on institutional engagement.

For more information, call Andrea Vernon, director of UM's Office for Civic Engagement, at 406-243-5159.

A schedule of events and registration is available online.

Schedule of Events and Registration 


 COT Offers Noncredit Online Courses
 

The UM College of Technology has partnered with Ed2Go to offer hundreds of high-quality, instructor-facilitated noncredit online courses. Ed2Go is a Web-based online learning center that offers noncredit courses at reasonable rates -- usually about $79.

No enrollment to UM or COT is required. New sessions of each course begin every month. Sessions are six weeks long, with two new lessons released weekly for a total of 12 lessons.

The courses are entirely Web-based with comprehensive lessons, quizzes and assignments. A dedicated professional instructor facilitates every course to pace learners, answer questions, give feedback and facilitate discussions.

To learn more, call the COT Outreach Office at 406-243-7812 or visit the Ed2Go Web site.

Ed2Go 


 Educator's Research On Display At Smithsonian
 

UM anthropology Assistant Professor Ashley McKeown's research that involves skeletons of early 17th-century Jamestown, Va., colonists will be featured in an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

"Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake" will be at the Washington, D.C., museum from Feb. 7, 2009, through Feb. 6, 2011.

During a three-year postdoctoral fellowship prior to joining the UM faculty, McKeown worked with anthropology curator Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian museum and other archaeologists to excavate and analyze more than 75 burials from Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World. Her work revealed the bone biographies of some of the earliest colonists.

 


 Montana Rep Presents 'Undone'
 

The Montana Repertory Theatre will present "Undone" at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Feb. 10-14, in the Crystal Theatre, located at 515 S. Higgins Ave. in Missoula.

"Undone" is an adaptation by Bernadette Sweeney of 19th-century playwright Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House." Sweeney has taught drama at University College Cork in Ireland and was a visiting faculty member in the UM Department of Drama/Dance in 2006.

Tickets for the Tuesday through Thursday shows cost $10. Tickets for Friday and Saturday shows cost $15. They are available by calling 406-243-4581 or at the Drama/Dance Box Office, located in UM's PAR/TV Center. Box office hours are 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For more information visit the Montana Repertory Theatre Web site.

Montana Repertory Theatre 


 Joan Baez To Play At UM March 24
 

World-renowned folk artist Joan Baez will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in the University Theatre at UM.

Tickets for "An Evening with Joan Baez" went on sale Feb. 3. They are $39 in advance and $41 on the day of the show.

Tickets may be purchased at all GrizTix locations. They also are available by calling 406-243-4051 or 888-MONTANA or on the GrizTix Web site.

In September Baez released her 24th album, "Day After Tomorrow," which was produced by Steve Earle. The album was recently nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award.

For more information, call University Theatre Productions at 406-243-2853 or e-mail thomas.webster@umontana.edu.

 


 International Lecture Series Begins Feb. 11
 

The first event of the spring 2009 UM International Brown Bag Lecture Series will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Old Journalism Building Room 303.

The lecture will be given by Tatiana Sofronova, a visiting scholar from Astafiev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University in Russia.

All lectures in the series are free and open to the public. A complete lecture schedule and information about presenters is on the International Programs Web site. For more information, call 406-243-2288.

International Programs 


 Gerontology Scholarship Opportunity
 

UM students who plan to pursue a career in the field of aging can apply for a $1,000 scholarship from the Montana Gerontology Society by Monday, Feb 16.

Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to apply. Eligible candidates must be currently enrolled in at least six semester credit hours and must take at least six credit hours the semester following receipt of the award.

The society will award the scholarship at its annual conference April 14-16 in Helena. Application forms are available online.

For more information call the Montana Geriatric Education Center at 406-243-2480 or e-mail montana.GEC@umontana.edu.

Application forms 


 Kyi-Yo Basketball Classic Feb. 13-15
 

The Kyi-Yo Native American Student Association at UM will host their 16th annual Kyi-Yo Basketball Classic Feb. 13-15 in the Adams Center.

Kyi-Yo is still accepting rosters for men's and women's teams interested in competing. The registration fee for a team is $400, and the registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 6. Teams registering after then will be charged a late fee.

This year's basketball classic will host teams from around Montana and from as far away as Arizona. Top teams will receive prizes, and MVPs and All-Stars will be chosen. The first-place team will receive embroidered wool jackets. Second place will win Nike jackets, and the third-place team will get hooded sweatshirts.

The basketball classic is a drug- and alcohol-free event. For a full set of competition rules and more information, visit the Kyi-Yo Basketball Classic Web site.

Kyi-Yo Basketball Classic 


 Lady Griz Take First Conference Loss
 

UM senior Mandy Morales scored a season-high 34 points, but Portland State won a battle of unbeaten Big Sky Conference teams with a 72-62 victory Thursday, Jan. 29, in Portland. The loss snapped Montana's nine-game winning streak.

Morales hit 15-of-28 shots to finish one off her career high, but no other Montana player scored more than six points.

The Lady Griz bounced back from the loss with an 81-56 victory over Eastern Washington on Saturday, Jan. 31, in Cheney, Wash., improving their overall record to 18-4.

Montana is tied for first in the Big Sky with Portland, who lost 94-90 at home in overtime to Montana State on Jan. 31. Montana and Portland State are both 7-1 in league play at the halfway point of the Big Sky schedule.

The Lady Griz will open the second half of their Big Sky Conference schedule when they play Montana State on Saturday, Feb. 7, in Bozeman.

Montana Grizzlies 


 Griz Basketball Wins Two
 

Senior forward Kyle Sharp and junior guard Anthony Johnson scored 15 points each to lead the Grizzlies to a 72-65 Big Sky Conference victory over the visiting Portland State Vikings on Thursday, Jan. 29, in UM's Dahlberg Arena.

Sharp was 6-of-8 from the field and 3-of-4 from the line and had a team-high 10 rebounds. Johnson made 4-of-6 shots and was 6-of-7 from the stripe, and UM senior forward Jordan Hasquet added 13 points.

On Saturday, Jan. 31, junior guard Anthony Johnson scored a game-high 20 points to lead Montana to a 60-52 Big Sky Conference win over the visiting Eastern Washington Eagles.

Also in double figures for the Grizzlies were Hasquet and junior forward Jack McGillis, with 12 and 11 points, respectively. Hasquet notched his third double-double of the season with a team-high 10 rebounds. Hasquet now is tied for ninth with Derrick Pope on Montana's all-time list with 675 career rebounds.

Montana is 7-3 in Big Sky play and 13-9 overall. The Grizzlies are on the road for three Big Sky games in a row, beginning with intrastate rival Montana State on Saturday, Feb. 7.

Montana Grizzlies 



Jennifer Sauer, TGIF editor
The University of Montana

phone: 406-243-4878