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  • Snowbowl and Missoula

    As Montana Snowbowl celebrates the 50-year anniversary of its marriage to Missoula, it's time to reflect on why the ski area is still around. The snow conditions are hit-or-miss. The terrain's excellent but extreme, and the lifts are aging. But for a low-elevation, two-chair ski area, Snowbowl has a solid fan base.

  • Dustin and Shan I can't help falling in love with you

    ESTHER AND MIKE By Forest Chaput de Saintonge Treadmills continue to whirl and echo through the halls of the Campus Recreation Center as Esther Westover and Mike Huus finish their afternoon workout. The couple met in the Rec Center more than a year ago and have been working out together ever since.

  • Teacher One Those who used to do, teach

    Our teachers can teach us just as much by their interesting lives as they can by their in-depth lectures.

    These stories of three UM professors show that success can be found in disjointed careers and a nonlinear lifestyle.

  • Bowling Lord of the Pins: How the bowling alley works

    The machines are arranged in a row that's 240 feet long: 36 units of gears, belts and levers, the red light atop each one signaling like an airport runway flare. You roll the ball, you knock down pins, and the computer displays your score. But behind the scenes, there is an entire world of complexity.

  • The Living Black Gold

    A story of coffee 4,000 miles from cherry to cup.

  • Andrea Johnson Save the children: Child Welfare Training Program

    Our generation has been raised to believe we can do anything we want. With that principle in mind, we often set out to make the world a better place. But can we really do it? Is it realistic to change the world from Missoula? UM students have set big goals to make a difference in the lives of others. Ten people in the social work program have given up their freedom to choose so they can improve the lives of young Montanans.

  • Burmese Volunteer Program Power of Words: Burmese Volunteer Program

    Our generation has been raised to believe we can do anything we want. With that principle in mind, we often set out to make the world a better place. But can we really do it? Is it realistic to change the world from Missoula? UM students have set big goals to make a difference in the lives of others. Two recent graduates are leaving history behind to help the people they studied.

  • Alison Kearns lab Find a cure: Alison Kearns

    Our generation has been raised to believe we can do anything we want. With that principle in mind, we often set out to make the world a better place. But can we really do it? Is it realistic to change the world from Missoula? UM students have set big goals to make a difference in the lives of others. Alison Kearns, a Ph.D. student, set out to find a cure for brain cancer.

  • Chi Alpha A higher calling: Chi Alpha

    Our generation has been raised to believe we can do anything we want. With that principle in mind, we often set out to make the world a better place. But can we really do it? Is it realistic to change the world from Missoula? UM students have set big goals to make a difference in the lives of others. Chi Alpha helps students scatter seeds of change close - and not so close - to home.

  • Griz for UNICEF Water for all: Griz UNICEF

    Our generation has been raised to believe we can do anything we want. With that principle in mind, we often set out to make the world a better place. But can we really do it? Is it realistic to change the world from Missoula? UM students have set big goals to make a difference in the lives of others. Griz UNICEF unites under common experience to grant basic needs.

  • If you're sexually assaulted ...

    For survivors of sexual assault ... Maybe it was years ago, maybe it was last night. The Kaimin evaluated where you can go,

    and who will be informed you were there. Part Two of a four-part series exploring the culture, law and science surrounding sexual assaults and how they're handled at the University of Montana and nationwide.

  • The Comeback Kids

    Kaimin reporter Spencer Veysey and photographer Sally Finneran explore the attitudes of young voters from Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and, of course, Montana to make sense of our generation's role in the Republican primaries and caucuses.

  • One for One

        A soccer ball bounces back and forth as children run around, soaking up their last few minutes of recess. The sun beats down on a line of girls waiting for lunch. They dress in plaid skirts, knee-high socks and black shoes. Minus the tropical jungle backdrop and the outdoor classrooms, the scene looks like any American school — including the TOMS Shoes on the childrens' feet.

  • Montana man eager for possible release from prison for a murder he says he didn't commit

    A Montana man faces his bail hearing —and possibly a new trial — optimistically after serving 28 years for a murder he insists he didn't commit.

  • Local Legacies; Booze and Brews

    It's Thursday night, and the growler lane in the Myrtle Street Kettle House stretches to the door. All signs point to beer — full bar stools, the sound of glasses, beer-drinkers loud in conversation leaning in just to hear the person next to them and clinking their glasses together to celebrate the end of another work day.