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Griz Greetings!
Welcome to TGIF
News. This e-mail newsletter
is provided weekly, except during the summer
and scheduled academic breaks, to subscribers
who include students, alumni, employees and
friends of The University of Montana.
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Celebrate Visual, Performing Arts at UM
UM's College of Visual and Performing Arts
will hold a reception from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 9, in the lobby of the
Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center
to celebrate its name change from the School
of Fine Arts.
The college's new dean, Stephen Kalm, will be
on hand to greet alumni and friends and help
inaugurate two Esther England vocal
enrichment and scholarship funds. England, a
mezzo soprano, Fulbright Scholar, UM
professor emerita of music and former
associate dean of the School of Fine Arts,
taught voice at UM for 36 years.
A benefit concert for the Esther England
funds titled "Gershwin & Friends" will be held
later that day from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Music
Recital Hall. The concert features renowned
mezzo soprano Michelle Berger, a former
student of England's and 1971 UM graduate.
Tickets for the concert are $20 at the door.
Goodwill offerings also will be accepted at
the event.
Berger also will give a master class from 5
to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the Music
Recital Hall. The class is open to the public.
For more information or for advance concert
tickets, call the UM School of Music
at 406-243-6880 or e-mail griz.music@umontana.edu.
College of Visual and Performing Arts
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UM Makes Top Colleges List
UM was ranked 132nd out of 258 national
universities by the Washington Monthly in its
annual college rankings released this month.
The independently owned political magazine,
which began ranking colleges in 2005, judges
schools based on social mobility, research
and service. UM ranked 196th, 143rd and 54th
in the respective categories to earn its
overall ranking of 132.
According to Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief
of the Washington Monthly, the publication
uses statistics compiled by the federal
government and independent organizations
nationwide to determine its yearly rankings.
The rankings reflect what colleges are doing
for the country, not just what they can do
for students, he said.
"We appreciate very much this recognition of
the work the University does that benefits
the students, community and country," UM
President George M. Dennison said. "Too often
the rankings have placed more weight on the
dollars expended rather than the actual
outcomes."
Washington Monthly Rankings
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MTPR Brings 'Selected Shorts' to Whitefish
Montana Public Radio will sponsor a live
performance of "Selected Shorts," National
Public Radio's acclaimed on-air program, at 7
p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at the Whitefish Middle
School Performing Arts Center.
The performance will feature award-winning
actors Boyd Gaines and Christina Pickles, as
well as program host Isaiah Sheffer, reading
from selected short stories by authors
Dorothy Parker, Nicholson Baker and David
Schickler.
Tickets cost $25 and are available at all
Montana Coffee Traders locations in the
Flathead Valley, as well as all GrizTix
locations.
Montana Coffee Traders, Whitefish Mountain
Resort and the Montana Festival of the Book
also are sponsors.
For more information, call Linda Talbott, the
station's associate director, at 406-243-4215
or e-mail linda.talbott@umontana.edu.
Montana Public Radio
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Esquire Writer-at-Large to Give Lecture
Esquire writer-at-large Chris Jones, a
two-time winner of the National Magazine
Award for feature writing, will give UM's T.
Anthony Pollner Lecture on Monday, Oct. 12.
Jones, UM School of Journalism's T. Anthony
Pollner Distinguished
Professor this semester, will present
"Accidents" at 7
p.m. in the University Theater. The event is
free and open to the public.
Jones began writing for Esquire in 2002. His
story "Home," about three astronauts stranded
on the space station after the Columbia
shuttle exploded, won a National Magazine
Award in 2005. It also was expanded into a
book, "Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and
Death in Space." Another story Jones wrote,
"The Things That Carried Him," about the
return of a dead soldier from Iraq, won a
National Magazine Award this year.
Jones teaches a UM course in long-form
narrative nonfiction and advises the staff of
the student newspaper, the Montana
Kaimin.
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Event to Benefit Wilderness Association
The UM School of Law will host the fifth
annual Bulls, Blues and Brews Benefit and
Silent Auction at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at
the Missoula Children's Theater.
The event, organized by the Law School's
Environmental Law Group, promotes awareness
of environmental issues affecting Montana.
Along with beer and wine, the evening will
include appetizers and desserts, as well as
live music by Def Cartel. Admission is $10 a
person, and the event is open to the public.
This year's proceeds will go to the Montana
Wilderness Association.
With the increase in global population,
industrialization and loss of open space,
Montana's wilderness areas have come to
represent bastions of solitude that protect
valuable habitat and allow for remote
recreational opportunities. With the support
of nonprofit organizations, lawyers and the
public, litigation is under way to protect
even more of the state's undisturbed natural
areas.
For more information, call Katie Guffin at
406-243-6568 or e-mail katie.guffin@umontana.edu.
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Roundtable Discusses Indigenous Studies
UM will host a roundtable discussion
titled "Indigenous Studies: Intersecting
Global Interests" from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 25, in the University Center
Theater.
The discussion will feature UM faculty
members and visiting scholars from the
University of Tromso, Norway, who will
explore various topics relating to the
world's indigenous people. Among the topics
to be discussed will be protecting sacred
homelands, indigenous rights, and cultural
representation and preservation.
The roundtable, sponsored by the Department
of Native American Studies, International
Programs and the Office of the Provost, will
honor the visiting University of Tromso
delegation of Sami studies scholars, who are
on campus Sept. 21-27. The Sami people, one
of Europe's largest indigenous ethnic groups,
inhabit the northern part of the continent,
including Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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Football Dominates Big Sky Opener
The Grizzlies opened their 2009 Big Sky
Conference season with a 49-17 victory over
the visiting Portland State Vikings in front
of a record crowd of 25,726 at UM's
Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Sept. 19.
The fourth-ranked (Sports Network) Grizzlies
overcame a 14-0 first quarter deficit to win
their 10th straight conference opener dating
back to 1999.
Quarterback Justin Roper, who started the
game, suffered a jarring late hit on a broken
play. One play later he threw a 56-yard
touchdown pass to senior receiver Marc
Mariani, but Roper did not return to action
after that series. Junior Quarterback Andrew
Selle came in to complete 14-of-23 passes for
213 yards and three touchdowns.
Freshman Peter Nguyen rushed only five times,
but picked up a game-high 71 yards.
Quarterback Gerald Kemp, a redshirt freshman,
also sparked the team with his ball-carrying,
gaining 61 yards on 11 carries. Selle rushed
three times for 41 yards. Junior running back
Chase Reynolds had 12 carries for a
hard-earned 28 yards and one touchdown.
Reynolds is now ranked third in school
history with 25 career touchdown runs, and he
moved up to seventh in career rush yards with
1,801.
Mariani had four grabs for a game-high 130
yards and two touchdowns. Jabin Sambrano had
three receptions for 59 yards. Mariani now
has 18 career touchdown catches to move up to
10th on the all-time list, while his 1,761
career receiving yards rank him 17th. Nguyen
had three punt returns for 48 yards, two
kickoff returns for 43 yards, 71 rushing
yards, and a catch for 10 yards for 172
all-purpose yards.
Linebacker Shawn Lebsock led Montana with
eight tackles, including one for a loss,
while safety Shann Schillinger had seven
tackles and a pass break-up. Tackle Austin
Mullins had six stops and also blocked a
field goal. Defensive end Bobby Alt and
linebacker Brock Coyle each had interceptions.
The Grizzlies are at Northern Arizona on
Sept. 26.
Montana Grizzlies
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