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Feb. 28, 2011 | Vol. 39, No. 21 
 
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Welcome to ForUM, the e-newsletter for University of Montana staff, faculty and administrators. ForUM is published weekly during the academic year except during scheduled academic breaks.

"The President's Update," a video series for UM President Royce Engstrom to communicate with the campus community, is available on the President's Office website and on the official UM YouTube channel.


 Spring Enrollment Tops 15,000 
 

The headcount enrollment at UM this semester is 15,106, a record enrollment for spring semester at the University. Enrollment jumped 484 above spring semester last year.

The new number includes the central mountain campus and the UM College of Technology. UM first topped the 15,000 mark with its highest fall semester enrollment in the University's history last year.

"Access to a successful higher education experience is among our highest priorities," UM President Royce Engstrom said. "People are seeing more and more how important college is to their own futures and the future of Montana. Both new enrollment and retention are strong at all degree levels on all of our UM campuses."

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 'Odyssey' Strikes Up the Band March 19
 

UM's College of Visual and Performing Arts will "Strike Up the Band" on Saturday, March 19, during "Odyssey of the Stars -- A Celebration of Artistic Journeys." Each year "Odyssey of the Stars" features UM students and faculty members and honors performing and visual arts alumni, telling the stories of their artistic journeys and showcasing the many different roads to success that an artist can take.

This year's event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the University Theatre and honors Lt. Col. Timothy J. Holtan, commandant of the U.S. Army School of Music. Holtan received a Master of Music Education degree from UM in 1983.

Tickets are now on sale and cost $30 for the general public and $15 for students. They can be purchased at all GrizTix locations, on the GrizTix website or by calling 243-4051 or 888-666-8262. Tickets also will be sold at the door.

Odyssey sponsorships that help underwrite the event also are available. Sponsors enjoy select seating to the show followed by a VIP champagne reception with Holtan. This year the Islanders Steel Drum Band will perform at the reception. Two-ticket sponsorships cost $125, and four-ticket sponsorships are $200. A portion of an Odyssey Sponsorship is tax deductible. For more information call the College of Visual and Performing Arts at 243-4970.

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 Reading Series Begins March 4
 

UM's Creative Writing Program will present readings by highly acclaimed visiting writers in its 2011 Spring Reading Series on campus during March and April. This year's featured authors are novelist Rick Moody, nonfiction writer Susan Orlean, and poets C.S. Giscombe and Peter Richards.

All of the following reading series events are free and open to the public:
  • Friday, March 4: Moody will open the series with a fiction craft lecture titled "Rules for Revision" from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in McGill Hall Room 210 and a fiction reading at 7 p.m. in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall.
  • Friday, March 25: Author Susan Orlean will give a nonfiction craft lecture titled "Telling True Stories" from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in McGill Hall Room 210 and a reading at 7 p.m. in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall.
  • Friday, April 15: Giscombe will present a reading at 7 p.m. in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall.
  • Friday, April 22: Richards will present a reading at 7 p.m. in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall.


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 Lecture Addresses Reservation Land Issues 
 

Cris Stainbrook, president of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation, will speak about how the challenges of land ownership affect the sovereignty and self-determination of Indian nations on Tuesday, March 8, at UM.

Stainbrook will present "Recovering an Indian Land Base" at 7:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room L14. The event is free and open to the public.

Stainbrook, Oglala Lakota, has been president of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation since its inception in 2002. He will describe multiple efforts to address land tenure problems and opportunities as Indian people, tribal organizations and communities attempt to recover, manage and control American Indian lands.

The lecture is sponsored by UM's O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West. For more information, call 243-7700 or e-mail rocky@crmw.org.

 

 Cyberliberties Topic of Free Colloquium
 

Patrick Burkart, author of "Music and Cyberliberties," will present a colloquium titled "The Cyberlibertarians" at UM on Friday, March 4. The colloquium begins at 3 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 123 and is free and open to the public.

Cyberliberties activism -- activism around online privacy, access and free speech -- blossomed in the wake of the shutdown of Napster in 2001.

Burkart, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, will discuss why music fans were among the first to confront the curtailment of their civil liberties in cyberspace. He will address how prominent groups still use file sharing, hacktivism, culture jamming and lobbying to promote cyberlibertarian projects.

For more information about the colloquium, call Lanell Curry of UM's Department of Communication Studies at 243-4293 or e-mail lanell.curry@umontana.edu.

 

 'Lessons of Our Land' Series Continues
 

The "Lessons of Our Land" speaker series will hold events on Wednesdays, March 2 and 9, featuring Narcisse Blood of Red Crow Community College in Stand Off, Alberta, and Cris Stainbrook, president of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation in Little Canada, Minn.

The events are free and open to the public and will take place in Payne Family Native American Center Room 105.

Blood will share traditional knowledge about the connection between land, language and people from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 2.

Stainbrook, Oglala Lakota, will address Indian land consolidation issues and the American Indian Probate Act concerns for landowners across Indian Country from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 9.

For more information visit the Indian Land Tenure Foundation website, call Jodi Rave at 406-396-8537 or e-mail jodi.rave@umontana.edu.

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 Register for 'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes'
 

The UM Student Assault Resource Center will host its fourth annual "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, on the second floor of the University Center.

During the march to support ending sexual assault and relationship violence, men will show their commitment by walking a mile around the UC in heels. Prizes will be awarded for the best walks and for the sponsoring group who raises the most funds.

The walk is open to the public, as well as to UM students, staff and faculty. Women can participate by cheering the men on or by sponsoring male friends, teachers, residence hall advisers and others to walk.

Participants can register on the SARC website or from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at the UC the day of the event. The registration fee is a $5 donation. Registration is free for student athletes, Greeks and campus housing residents.

For more information call Stoney Sasser, SARC outreach coordinator, at 243-6429 or e-mail stoney.sasser@mso.umt.edu.

Student Assault Resource Center 

 Volunteers Needed for Science Fair at UM
 

The 56th annual Montana Science Fair will be held March 20-22 at UM's Adams Center. The fair brings 600 kids from across Montana to the University every year.

Organizers of the fair need volunteers to help set up and tear down tables and chairs at the Adams Center on Sunday, March 20, and Tuesday, March 22. Those who can help should call Kara Hyatt at 243-2830 or e-mail kara.hyatt@mso.umt.edu.

 

 President Engstrom's Office Hours
 

Each semester President Engstrom welcomes members of the campus community to meet with him to discuss issues and topics of their choice. Please call 243-2311 or e-mail prestalk@umontana.edu to make an appointment to meet with President Engstrom during these times.

President Engstrom's scheduled office hours for spring semester are:
  • Thursday, March 31: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
  • Friday, April 29: 10 a.m.-noon
President Engstrom also will host open forums at 4 p.m. Fridays, March 18 and April 22, in Davidson Honors College Room 119 before the 4:30 p.m. Faculty/Staff Socials in the DHC Lounge.

 

 Faculty/Staff Socials
 

Socials will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. most Fridays during spring semester in the Davidson Honors College Lounge. Spring semester dates and event sponsors are:
  • March 4: School of Extended and Lifelong Learning
  • March 11: UM Foundation
  • March 18: President Engstrom
  • March 25: International Programs
  • April 1: College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences
  • April 22: President Engstrom
  • April 29: School of Business Administration
  • May 6: School of Law and the Diversity Advisory Council


 

 News About U
 

News About U Anthropology and Native American studies Professor Neyooxet Greymorning was invited to Sudbury, Ontario, to conduct a three-day workshop for language instruction and acquisition for more than 40 teachers of Anishinaabe and several administrators. A highlight of the workshop was when teachers asked a person off the street to volunteer as a language learner. After 25 minutes the individual had mastered 16 words and 14 phrases in Anishinaabe using Accelerated Second Language Acquisition.

"Everything" by English Professor Kevin Canty and "Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West" by A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History Dan Flores were named honor books in the 2010 Montana Book Award competition.

History Professor Richard Drake and political science Professor Emeritus Ron Perrin were among six who received Governor's Humanities Awards during a Feb. 24 ceremony at the State Capitol Rotunda in Helena. The awards are presented annually by Humanities Montana to honor achievement in humanities scholarship and service and enhancement of public appreciation of the humanities.

Mansfield Library Associate Professor Samantha Schmehl Hines has been appointed to the editorial board of Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal designed to keep librarians up to date with the latest developments of Internet referencing and librarianship.

Mathematical sciences Professor Bharath Sriraman has been invited to present a paper on international models of mathematical talent development for the 40th Anniversary Symposium of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth March 24-25 at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in Baltimore.

 

 Publications
 

Books and Publications Conway, L. G. III. 2011. "Integrative Complexity of Terrorist Rhetoric." In Using Quantitative Content Analysis to Assess the Likelihood of Terrorist Violence. (Chair) A.G. Smith. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.

Field, R.J. and D. Schuldberg. 2011. "Social-support Moderated Stress: A Nonlinear Dynamical Model and the Stress Buffering Hypothesis." Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 15(1):53-85.

Sriraman, B. (co-author). 2011. "Conjecturing Via Reconceived Classical Analogy." Educational Studies in Mathematics, 76(2):123-140.

 

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