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Law Building Dedication Set for Sept. 18
The UM School of Law will dedicate its new
building addition at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18.
The event, which is free and open to the
public, will be held on campus on the east
side of the law building. A reception and
tours will follow the dedication.
The $14.8 million addition adds nearly 46,000
square feet to the original law building,
which contained 57,500 square feet prior to
the new addition. Construction began in early
2008, and the building was ready for students
when classes started Aug. 31.
The new construction added three floors and a
lower level, plus attractive new entrances to
the facility with overhanging balconies. The
addition includes classrooms with better
acoustics, current technology and
audio-visual equipment. It also provides
better access for students and visitors with
disabilities, as well as additional small-
and mid-sized classrooms to accommodate the
increasing number of elective courses needed
to prepare lawyers for legal specialties.
More space also is provided for the school's
clinical program, including its land use,
Indian law, criminal defense and mediation
clinics. This space includes client interview
rooms, student workrooms and office space.
The revamped building also contains an
expanded law library with current technology
to serve the needs of students, faculty, the
judiciary, lawyers and the public.
School of Law
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Nepalese Journalists Visit Campus
Two journalists from Nepal will visit the UM
School of Journalism Sept. 12-20 to explore a
possible exchange agreement.
The visitors are Rajendra Dev Acharya, news
director of Nepal Television, and Prabal Raj
Pokhrel, head of the Central Department of
Journalism and Mass Communication at
Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu.
The Nepalese journalists will visit classes;
meet with faculty members; tour the campus,
community and Don Anderson Hall, home of UM's
School of Journalism; and participate in two
forums open to the public:
- Wednesday,
Sept. 16: a brown bag discussion at noon
in Old Journalism 303 titled
"Nepal: Politics, Culture and Media in the
World's Youngest Republic."
- 7 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 17: a panel discussion in Don
Anderson Hall Room 210
titled "Journalism and Human Rights in South
Asia and China." Other panelists will include
Phil West, Mansfield Professor of Modern
Asian Affairs, and Mehrdad Kia, associate
provost for International Programs.
An exhibition of photos taken by
photojournalism students who have been to
Nepal in recent years, "Nepal: A Turn in
History," is on the third floor of Don
Anderson Hall. It is open to the public from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and until 9 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 17.
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Conference Examines Aging in US, Asia
The world is aging. In America, as in China,
Japan and elsewhere in Asia, people age 65
or older are the most rapidly growing segment
of the population.
This "silver tsunami," as it is sometimes
called, has enormous implications with regard
to the work force, Social Security, national
security, health, housing, transportation and
family relations. It also is clearly at the
center of the current debate over health care
reform.
UM's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center will
host a conference Wednesday through Friday,
Sept. 23-25, that directly addresses these
critical issues from a variety of local,
national and international perspectives. The
event, the center's silver anniversary
conference, is titled "Methuselah's
Challenge: Aging in Asia and America."
All conference events are free and open to
the public.
For a complete conference schedule, visit the
Mansfield Center Web site.
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center
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Transportation Focus of Presentation
James Corless, director of Transportation for
America, will be at UM on Thursday, Sept. 17,
to talk about community design and
transportation policy advocacy.
Local and UM student transportation advocates
also will attend the event, which will
take place at 7 p.m. in University Center
Room 331. The public is invited to attend.
Transportation for America, also known as T4
America, is a coalition of more than 250
organizations working to promote a new
national transportation policy that provides
more choices and is smarter, safer and cleaner.
For more information about the UM
presentation, call Nancy Wilson, director,
Associated Students of UM Office of
Transportation at 406-243-4599 or e-mail nancy.wilson@mso.umt.edu.
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Griz Football Wins Opener 38-0
The UM football team got off to a slow start
but turned on the afterburners in the second
half to register a 38-0 season-opening
victory over visiting Western State College
on Sept. 5 in front of a record crowd of
25,698 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
The Grizzly defense was instrumental in the
victory, holding the Mountaineers to 116
total yards and six first downs. The
fifth-ranked Grizzlies (1-0) dominated the
Mountaineers statistically in the first half,
outgaining them in total yards (233 to 54)
and first downs (11 to 3), but led just 10-0.
Sophomore Brody McKnight's 31-yard field goal
and a five-yard run by junior halfback Chase
Reynolds accounted for UM's first-half scoring.
Montana came on strong in the third quarter,
as senior tight end Steve Pfahler was on the
receiving end of two touchdown throws -- the
first a 7-yarder from Andrew Selle and the
second a 10-yarder from Justin Roper.
The Grizzlies scored twice in the final
quarter. After redshirt freshman wide
receiver Sam Gratton blocked a WSC punt, the
Griz took over on the Mountaineers' 13-yard
line and eventually scored on a 9-yard run
by true freshman halfback Pete Nguyen.
The final UM score came on a 1-yard run by
sophomore halfback Dan Moore with 1:19 left
in the game. Selle and Roper, both juniors,
split playing time at quarterback. Selle was
6-of-15-1 passing for 112 yards and a
touchdown, while Roper was 16-of-24-0 for
149 yards and one score.
The Grizzlies play their first road game of
the 2009 season Saturday, Sept. 12, against
the University of California-Davis Aggies
(0-1), an FCS team from the Great West
Conference.
Montana Grizzlies
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