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Will Cherry: Creating Spark

One of the best defenders in college basketball, junior guard Will Cherry made an impressive trek from Oakland, Calif., to Missoula. Full story

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Promoters rake in cash

Promotion companies are the ones raking it in when shows like T-Pain visit the University of Montana's Adam's Center, said the director of UM Productions Tuesday. Senior Marissa Grinestaff has been director of UM Productions for three years, and said as a student-run and student-operated group, they contract with promotion companies to help get shows up and running in various Missoula venues. Full story

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Q&A with Maddy Murray

UM tennis player Maddy Murray, a native of Dallas, Texas, sat down with Kaimin Sports to answer a few questions. Full story

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  • Required Reading: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

    Iran says no to nuke investigators, Google getting into eyewear and how to forget a memory forever.

  • News Around The Big Sky: A collection of the week's top stories

    Assault Alert — On Friday, the University of Montana sent out an email to students and faculty alerting them to a "possible threat to the community." The school said it had been alerted to two cases of sexual violence that occurred on or near campus on Feb.

  • Food bank serves record number

    As a middle-aged woman sits down in the lobby of the Missoula Food Bank with her son and neighbor, she picks up a clipboard and fills out the familiar questionnaire. On the line provided for her reasons for using the food bank, she writes, "Unemployed.

  • Police Blotter

    Short Snooze Feb. 13 — Public Safety Sgt. Rich Zitzka said police removed a sleeping transient from the music building. He left without incident and he was not cited. Swiped Smokes Feb. 14 — A suspicious person was re- ported at the parking garage outside the Mansfield Library after he asked a woman for a smoke, then took the whole pack.

  • Foresters' Ball to be revamped

    President Royce Engstrom announced Tuesday that the Foresters' Ball must make serious changes if it is to continue at the University of Montana. In a letter to College of Forestry Dean James Burchfield, Engstrom wrote that despite the benefits the Ball provides, like leadership opportunities, the purpose of the event is being overshadowed by inappropriate behavior.

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  • MindFull Media MindFull Media: Winter in the Blood

    Growing up as a Montanan, history classes are loaded with Lewis and Clark and the Battle of the Little Bighorn with a sprinkle about Glacial Lake Missoula. We read about the horrors of reservations and Indian boarding schools and how white men strove to assimilate natives into white culture.

  • Missy Lacock The Full Monte: The Stub Club

    "What do you do with a B.A. in English?" is not only an "Avenue Q" tune, but it's also a question English students freakin' hate. Most of us don't know, so quit probing and just swagger back to your practical pharmacy books. My fellow bookworms will be interested to know there actually are career routes for English majors.

  • Kaimincast episode 1

    We've got a brand new show; welcome to the Kaimincast.

  • Thayne cartoon 2/17/12 Editorial Cartoon: Feb. 17

    "Picking" your class partner.

  • Big Ups and Backhands: Feb. 14-17

    Big Ups to Whitney Houston for making it to the Grammys after all these years! Too soon? Backhands to Cupid for once again missing his mark and making people fall in love with spending money on each other instead of simple romantic gestures. Damn you Roman cherub! Big Ups to Montana's Attorney General Steve Bullock for asking the Supreme Court to maintain Montana's century-old campaign finance law.

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  • Maddy Murray Q&A with Maddy Murray

    UM tennis player Maddy Murray, a native of Dallas, Texas, sat down with Kaimin Sports to answer a few questions. 

  • Will Cherry Will Cherry: Creating Spark

    One of the best defenders in college basketball, junior guard Will Cherry made an impressive trek from Oakland, Calif., to Missoula.

  • Will Cherry Jamar's triple-double powers Griz over Hawai'i

    Montana sophomore guard Kareem Jamar had the first triple-double for UM in more than 30 years, as he scored 21 points, dished out 11 assists and grabbed 11 rebounds and the Griz stomped the Warriors 94-79. 

  • Bracketbuster Highlights

    Griz win over Hawai'i 94-79

  • Mathias Ward Griz to face Hawaii in ESPN game

    Anderson, Ramirez talk about intriguing matchup

    Kaimin sports reporter Erik Anderson talked with University of Hawaii student-newspaper sports editor Joey Ramiriz about the UM/UH contest. 

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  • MindFull Media MindFull Media: Winter in the Blood

    Growing up as a Montanan, history classes are loaded with Lewis and Clark and the Battle of the Little Bighorn with a sprinkle about Glacial Lake Missoula. We read about the horrors of reservations and Indian boarding schools and how white men strove to assimilate natives into white culture.

  • Bring on the pain

    T-Pain and other class acts storm Missoula

    Tuesday night, in the middle of another weird Montana winter, what's a homeboy to do? Rent a movie? Waste hours on Pinterest? Listen to the same crappy music over and over again? Wait, is that the faint sound of Auto-Tune approaching our fair city? Unmistakably.

  • filmfestival On the Town: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

    It's the time of year Missoula film geeks die for: The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is back, this time with a few surprises. The festival kicks off tonight with the first showing in the Wilma Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Over the next 10 days the Wilma and the Crystal Theater will be reeling through 144 original documentaries.

  • Globetrotters Q&A with Harlem Globetrotters' Kris "HI-LITE" Bruton

    The Montana Kaimin chatted with Globetrotters forward Kris "Hi-Lite" Bruton about his NBA career and what is more fun — the Globetrotters or the NBA.

  • MindFull Media MindFull Media: The case for cardboard

    Opinion Editor Dillon Kato will be guest writing MindFull Media this week, a break from documentaries and music to talk board games. Monopoly is terrible. It is one of the best-selling games of all time, but America's favorite capitalism simulator is poorly designed, not fun and tends to drag on endlessly.