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  • Required Reading: Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

    The Senate wants you to trust it again, the home of Typhoid Mary and dozens are killed in an Egyptian soccer riot.

  • Montana artist’s life, work revisited

    Professors write book without ever meeting

    Admirers of Fra Dana talk about her as though they all knew her. Stories of Dana's life are retold with such detail and certainty it is as if Dana took each art historian and curator out to coffee and told them about her hardships. But Dana lived in the turn of the 20th century as one of Montana's most prominent female artists.

  • UM releases sexual assault report

    The University of Montana released a public copy of the sexual investigation report Wednesday that hit  President Royce Engstrom's desk Tuesday.

  • Required Reading: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

    UM releases the sex assault investigation report. Facebook looks to cash in as the ACLU looks to slap its wrist.

  • Sexual Assaul Series Part 3: Outreach

    1. Outreach takes time and consistency Many campus officials agree the biggest challenges UM faces in preventing sexual assaults is the transient nature of the student body and the crime's link to the perceptions of a wider world. To be successful, Vice President Teresa Branch says it'll take "consistency and commitment.

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  • Editorial Cartoon: Jan. 27

    Each week, Thayne Palmer shares a cartoon about what is on his mind. This week: Hipsters and PBR.

  • Big ups and Backhands: Jan. 31-Feb. 3

    Backhands to the Justice Department for the flopped and controversial Operation Fast and Furious. Obviously they should have called Vin Diesel and Paul Walker from the start! Big Ups to the Griz Football recruiters for finding Jeremiah Kose's legendary locks, and locking him in as a linebacker for next year's team.

  • Big Ups and Backhands: Jan. 23-27

    Big Ups to the Griz football team. Even though you couldn't get the national title, you still made national headlines. Go Griz! Backhands to South Carolina for backing Newt Gingrich in its primary. If it took him three marriages to "find his morality," think how long it will take him to find his appropriate BMI! Big Ups to Obama's State of the Union Address.

  • Nick Gast Open Letters: Dear gym rats

    Dear gym rats, Let's get one thing out of the way right now: I am not a bodybuilder. Never have been. As my mother so delicately puts it, I'm what you'd call "wiry." You've probably seen more meat on a chip. Having said that, I do (semi-)frequent the Fitness and Recreation Center here on campus in an effort to assuage some of my cram-a-Five-Guys-burger-down-my-cram-hole-and-wash-it-down-with-four-nights-of-drinking-a-week guilt.

  • Letter: Celebrating black history month at the University of Montana

      Celebrating Black History Month at the University of Montana   Black History Month honors the struggles, triumphs, and contributions to American society by its citizens of African descent. The month-long acknowledgment of these accomplishments began in 1926, conceptualized and brought to fruition by Dr.

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  • Art Steward Red-hot Griz ready to brawl in Bozeman

    Montana basketball to face MSU

    The Montana Griz and Montana State Bobcats renew their rivalry on the basketball court this weekend in Bozeman. 

  • Torry Hill Griz vs. Bobcats

    Lady ballers to rekindle rivalry

    The Lady Griz and Lady 'Cats square off on the hardwood this weekend in Bozeman. 

  • Griz Signing Day

    Head coach Robin Pflugrad elaborates on this year's recruiting class, which includes players from Missoula, Mont., Iowa and University of Washington.

  • Robin Pflugrad Griz football adds 24 new recruits

    The Montana Grizzlies signed 24 players on Wednesday, including seven from Montana. 

  • Caleb McSurdy McSurdy, two more Griz to compete in all-star game

    Caleb McSurdy, Jon Opperud and Charles Burton, former Montana Grizzlies will take part in the Players All-Star Classic in Little Rock, Ark., on Saturday at 3 p.m.

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  • ucallus Saving lives or stopping criminals

    Nonprofit designated driving service lends a hand to curb DUIs

    It was dusk, and a storm was building in the western hills, blocking the sunset. The road was filled with remnants of crusted snow and ice, but that didn't stop Kevin Sandberg. "Ucallus Designated Drivers," Sandberg said, answering his cell phone for the third time.

  • No guys allowed: Women’s groups provide social, athletic environment

    On a Tuesday evening in late January, the Montana Dirt Girls, a Missoula-based women's hiking and biking group, carefully navigated Blue Mountain's ice-covered trails in the moonlight. Only a fraction of the group — four out of the 150 women on leader Julie Huck's email list — had shown up for the icy hike, but conversation was abundant.

  • On the Town: First Friday

    The Final Frontier Frontier Space was never meant to be a typical gallery. In fact, the art it displays probably would never hang in the Dana. University of Montana fine art graduate students Nathan Tonning and Will Hutchinson created it because they felt Missoula needed alternatives.

  • Milkcrate Machanic plays the Palace Lounge A funny little thing called Dubstep

    Dubstep dropped into Missoula like last week's storm, and it left an impression more lasting than your snowman.

  • For Your Consideration

    The Artist: Not so awkward silence

    Although it's been a while since the silent movie was the Hollywood standard, Michel Hazanavicius's recent film "The Artist" is bringing audiences back to the motion picture industry's days of yore.