m m W r n m m m THE NEW MONTANA: Education, Populations and the A rts To protect Grizzlies in the Swan Valley, Lorin Hicks is helping to create FOUR NEW HIGHWAYS. hey’re known as Conservation Agreement. M “Linkage Zones,” and It will coordinate road use, maintain they’ll help grizzlies protective cover, and set up a pattern cross the valley undis- of restrictions on turbed, so they can timber harvesting in forage and mate - areas used by bears. and survive. Plus, Plum Creek l l l l A ' r. \ > _ / The idea began will conduct Z/.y —' >* A with biologists at ongoing research - bk % / ; '.y \ ^ -v BSH k the U.S. Fish and and share the find­ /• ^ > '-sv. ,,^ ' Wildlife Service. ings - to make sure the Agreement is ^ , 'X^S Then, with the actually helping grizzlies to recover. ^ ^ V - help of Plum For Plum Creek, the Agreement and its Creek’s Wildlife Linkage Zones grow directly from our Biologist, Lorin philosophy of Environmental Forestry. 4 Hicks, the idea We’re finding scientifically sound ways to was implemented maintain both the productivity and the bv our foresters health of our forests - and the plants and their counterparts at the Forest and animals D eta ils o f t h e Ag r e e m e n t Service and the Montana Department that depend >-TheSwan Valley Grizzly Bear of State Lands. on them. Conservation Agreement creates They realized that even though four Uniage Zones, or “travel grizzlies are protected by the Endangered corridors, ” with optimal foraging Species Act, people are still their habitat and cover; where human greatest threat. disturbance can be minimized. What’s more, the Swan Valley is >-7hc Agreement is designed to avoid “geneticisolation’' by a patchwork of state, federal and allowing grizzlies in the Mission private ownership, with no way to Mountains to interbreed with manage human activity - or its effect bears crossing the valley from the on grizzlies. Bob Marshall Wilderness. So they took a new look at the valley, >■ The Agreement should help bears using advanced techniques like radio- extend their “home rangesm ale grizzlies cover as much as 500 tracking data and satellite imagery. The square miles before hibernating; result was the Swan Valley Grizzly Bear females, 50 square miles. L orin H icks, PhD . is Plum Creek's Director of Fish and Wildlife Resources. P t u m C r e e k As pa rtcf his research, he uses | 9 C a radio telemetry receiver to Leaders in Environmental Forestry track wildlife. V o l u m e 14 Contents N u m b e r 3 STAFF FEATURES DEPARTMENTS E d it o r Caroline Patterson, 10 2 M.FA. ’94 JOURNALISM, MONTANA STYLE AROUND THE by K r is t in R o d in e OVAL C ontributing The Student Documentary Unit produces another award-winning documentary. W r it e r s a n d E d it o r s 8 Terry Brenner 12 SPORTS Janelle Leader Lamb TEACHING OUR CHILDREN WELL Rita Munzenrider ’83 by Pa t r ic k H u t c h in s Becky Shay ‘96 Montana’s schools are running faster than ever to keep up with changes in education. 26 CLASS NOTES P hotographer 15 Todd Goodrich ’88 RURAL SCHOOL IN THE 1990S 32 La y o u t a n d by Jennifer O ’Loughlin ALUMNI G r a p h ic s Today’s one-room schoolhouse is surprising: Take Reichle School in Glen, Montana. NOTES Mike Egeler A d v iso r y 16 34 B o a r d PARADISE FOUND OR LOST? CAMPAIGN Vivian Brooke by C o n s t a n c e P o t e n MOMENTUM Perry Brown Population growth in Montana: Where are people coming from? Where are they moving? William Farr Bob Frazier 18 William Johnston t h e a r t s i n M o n t a n a Annick Smith FROM WASTELAND TO MECCA: by M a r n ie P r a n g e Dennis Swibold John Talbot In the 1970s, Montana was dubbed a cultural wasteland. Today there is an explosion in activity. W hat happened? A d v e r t isin g R epresentive 21 Jackie Drews (406) 728-1573 POETS, PROSE AND MOONLIT SWIMS by A n n ic k S m ith E d it o r ia l The Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop turns ten. O ffices University 22 Communications 323 Brandy Hall THE NEW FACE OF THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE by Rita M unzenrider The University of Montana- The University Theatre undergoes a desperately needed face lift. Missoula, MT 59812-1301 23 (406) 243-2522 A SPORTS ARENA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Web site: by Rita M unzenrider h ttp :// www.umt.edu The Harry Adams Field House readies itself for a $23 million renovation. The Montanan is Coven Forever the published three times 24 Floating Home by Dana a year by The BOOK CHAT Boussard. Photo by University of by S u s a n n a S o n n e n b e r g Todd Goodrich. Montana-Missoula Poetry rich in feast and flesh, a rhapsodic wildflower guide, a masterful novel about a Inside photos by Todd for its alumni and Montana family and an anthology about Montana rivers. Goodrich, except as friends. noted. S p rin g 1997 MONTANAN 1 V o y a g e o f t h e S e n s e s tudents and townspeople alike packed the University Center April 6, to eat Indian tandoori chicken, Russian pirozhki, SNepalese momos and Bulgarian tarator at “Voyage of the Senses,” the seventh annual International Festival and Food Bazaar, which kicked off International Month at The University of Montana- Missoula. Organized by UM’s International Student Association and Office of Foreign Student and Scholar Services, the festival highlight­ ed the foods, cultures and traditions of more than 400 foreign stu­ dents from fifty countries. The bazaar was dedicated to Alex Stepanzoff, who founded the ISA in 1924 with the motto: “Above all nations is humanity.” International Month continued through April and featured a Caribbean jazz concert, a Native American cultural awareness dinner and a model Arab league. Visiting scholars also lectured about cultural, economic and social issues in Japan, Russia, Africa and Asia. Only 25 percent of students at the Indian School for the Blind are completely Mind. Others, such as Joel Grok (pictured), have vision impairments that prevent them from functioning in standard schools. This photo story was taken by Steven Adams, one of four Journalism students honored in the international Grllege Photographer of the Year competition. Part of photo story depicting an afternoon bullfight in Nuevo Laredo. ^ Mexico, these two photographs were taken by Gregory Rec, a semifinalist in the national 1996-97 intercollegiate photojournalism competition spon­ sored by the WilHam Randolph Hearst Foundation. Student Brace Ely placed tenth in the competition’s second round. 2 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN UM News On Line ith our new e-mail newsletter, TGIF (Think Grizzly, It’s Friday), you can W keep tabs on the news at The University of Montana-Missoula from your home computer. To subscribe to the weekly publication, compiled by University Communications' News Bureau, send an e- mail message to: [email protected] and in the message type: sub­ scribe ucomm firstname last- 'iiu n i n Ej rn n i t» f t ro5 rrryiiTTiiM name. (Substitute your first and last name). Note: TGIF will publish two summer issues and resume k'y weekly publication University System saw a $47 million budget CNN, T h e N ew York Tim es and The in the fall. increase? But the final legislative action was Tim es o f London. Balch, UM’s resident positive for the University System. After vari­ expert on cults, had infiltrated the group in ous ups and downs in committees, the the mid-1970s—when it was known as a UFO Griz Earn Montana Legislature approved House Bill 2, cult—and had written several papers about it, appropriating $209.5 million in state funding including a chapter in the book, T h e Qods NCAA’s O K for the University System, approximately $6 Have Landed. Balch was surprised not only he academic success of student athletes million less than the system’s initial request by the media blitz but by the mass suicide as at UM helped intercollegiate athletics In other University-related action, legislators well, since it seemed inconsistent with the score its first-ever certification from approved building projects on UM’s Butte, group’s beliefs twenty years ago. theT National Collegiate Athletics Association. Missoula and Dillon campuses and appropri­ The classification means UM’s athletics pro­ ated funds for information technology and gram conforms with NCAA standards for research and development Attention academic and fiscal integrity, rules compli­ ance and equity. C ampus The certification was the result of a year­ long self-study by UM administrators, faculty, UM C ult S hoppers students and staff. UM received high marks tudents who want the most for their for its commitment to academic excellence, Expert Hits the money can find a good deal at UM, said Dean of Students Barbara Hollman, who edia according to The Student Q uide to chaired the self-study committee. The NCAA M S which A m erica’s 100 B est College Buys, review team noted that Grizzly student ath­ he day after the focuses on schools with the highest academic letes earn higher grade-point averages than news of ratings and lowest costs for the college year.