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MONTANA KAIMIN A virtual Big Sky Montana directors’ films find life online with Big Sky Film Festival News Surprise! Enrollment is down Page 6 Arts All things Big Sky Film Fest pages 8-13 Sports UM sports recap page 14 Volume 123 Issue No. 20, February 17, 2021 Kiosk Kaimin Editorial Cover Design by Feature photo: Valentine’s Day market Griffen Smith The Montana Kaimin is a weekly independent student What happened to testing newspaper at the University of Montana. The Kaimin office and the University of Montana are located on land originally FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA inhabited by the Salish People. Kaimin is a derivative of a Salish close contacts, Curry? language word, “Qe‘ymin,” that is pronounced kay-MEEN and Montana Kaimin Last semester, it seemed like Curry Health a close contact should get tested. A student means “book,” “message” or “paper that brings news.” Center would test every COVID-19-symp- who has many roommates should get tested. tomatic student as well as students who are That is how the virus can be identified and EDITORIAL STAFF NEWSROOM STAFF close contacts. If you called the health center stopped. And in a community full of people and reported symptoms, more likely than not, who live in communal spaces, it’s more than EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS REPORTERS COPY EDITORS you would find yourself in the alley behind necessary. Erin Sargent Jacob Owens Zandria DuPuis the health center waiting for a nasal swab COVID-19 testing is something the Univer- Mariah Thomas Alicia McAlpine @montanakaimin within the week. At the beginning of this sity and Missoula County can regulate and BUSINESS MANAGER Grace Carr Luke Nicholson semester, UM doubled down and instituted control. We watched UM significantly beef Cassandra Williams Allie Wagner a free voluntary testing program open to all up testing infrastructure, too. They can test 80 DESIGNERS students for two weeks. people a day, and could do even more with SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS REPORTERS Isabella Musgrove But we are now in week six of spring the help of the UM Genomics Core. Jack Marshall John Orzechowski McKenna Johnson semester, approaching the one-year marker Yet Curry is likely doing fewer tests than MaKayla O’Neil of our University’s response to the pandemic, in recent months. To be fair, there have been NEWS EDITOR ARTS & CULTURE REPORTERS Olivia Swant-Johnson @MontanaKaimin and Curry’s resources seem to be spread thin. fewer UM-related cases over the past two Mazana Boerboom Clarise Larson Tests are only being given to those who are weeks than there were on Oct. 4, 2020. Curry Meghan Jonas CARTOONIST visibly symptomatic—and less time is being also said it stockpiled tests over winter break, ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Haley Yarborough Cooper Malin given to contact tracing. Students who have according to pervious Kaimin reporting, and Alex Miller For comments, corrections or letters to come into contact with a positive person no spike has been reported through the first MULTIMEDIA STAFF OFFICE ASSISTANTS might simply be told to wait it out over the five weeks of school. So the testing capacity FEATURES EDITOR Liam McCollum Christine Compton the editor, contact 10-14 days they might be contagious, or until should be there to do more. Addie Slanger Matt Tryan Maura Lynch [email protected] symptoms appear. But if we want to keep Some universities, like the University of Zach Meyer or call (406) 243-4310. battling this virus, we should not back down Michigan, test asymptomatic students every MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Antonio Ibarra Olivares ADVISERS from the higher level of vigilance invested in week. UM has not surveillance-tested for Claire Shinner Sarah Mosquera Geoff McGhee For advertising opportunities, contact contact tracing and surveillance—for all close over a month. At a time when everyone feels Lukas Prinos Jason Begay contacts. a little off from the cold, and people congre- DESIGN EDITOR Kennedy Delap [email protected] or A test is not everything. Curry’s pharmacy gate indoors, Curry should offer more testing Griffen Smith call (406) 243-6541. is doing the important work of vaccinating opportunities to us, the students. people in the Missoula community. And So why can’t we get a close-contact test? DIGITAL EDITOR/COPY CHIEF wearing a mask or two is theWeek most effective of 2/15/21 - 2/21/21 Andrea Halland way to stop the spread of the virus. But a coronavirus test is still an important - Griffen Smith | Design Editor tool. It gives us a picture, if limited, as to how KAIMIN COMIC COVID-19 travels through a community. It also helps identify infection clusters and Like it? Hate it? Wish we were dead? Email warn of potential outbreaks. us your opinions at A student in a residence hall who becomes [email protected] SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke Difficulty: Easy HOW TO SOLVE: 9 7 Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and 5 2 each set of 3 by 3 boxes must 1 6 contain the numbers 1 to 9. Answers to Last Week’s Sudoku: 8 7 4 7 1 8 2 9 5 3 6 4 6 1 9 5 2 6 7 3 8 4 1 6 3 8 4 1 5 9 2 7 2 9 1 2 9 6 3 4 1 7 5 8 John Turner, the owner of Turner farms, watches Liberty the Suffolk sheep as she stands beside her 9 3 2 8 7 8 3 5 6 2 1 9 4 “miracle” lamb on Saturday, Feb. 13 at the Valentine’s Day Farm Market. The lamb, named Queen Mary, is 5 1 4 9 8 7 3 6 2 a miracle because her father, Zeke, is a Black Welsh Mountain Sheep; a much smaller sheep than Liberty, 7 1 3 2 7 1 9 4 6 8 5 Turner said. KENNEDY DELAP | MONTANA KAIMIN 5 4 6 1 6 5 2 3 8 4 7 9 COOPER MALIN| MONTANA KAIMIN Copyright 2021 by The Puzzle Syndicate 8 4 9 7 5 6 2 1 3 2 February 17, 2021 montanakaimin.com montanakaimin.com February 17, 2021 3 Week of 2/15/21 - 2/21/21 The Weekly Crossword by Margie E. Burke Horoscope Briefs & Blotter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Yer a blockbuster film, Harry 20 21 22 Briefs: Masks, vaccines and online learning 23 24 25 26 Gianforte drops statewide mask mandate to Missoulians, with around 6,000 fully Those are; “Children, Youth and the Pan- previously might have gone out of state to 27 28 29 30 31 32 immunized. At the statewide level, more demic,” “Mental Health and COVID-19,” finish their degrees. 33 34 35 36 On Friday Feb. 12, Gov. Greg Gianforte than 50,000 people have had both doses of “Dispraportionate Impacts on Specific Jim Caringi, professor and chair at the withdrew Montana’s mask mandate, put the vaccine and nearly 130,000 have had the Populations,” “Fallout: Politics, Remote School of Social Work, said UM is one of 37 38 39 40 into effect by former Gov. Steve Bullock first dose. Work and Loneliness,” “Coping Resilience the last schools in the country to create an last year. An executive order signed by The county also held another vaccine and Health” and “Vaccines, Variants, and online MSW program, and he has been 41 42 43 Gianforte states: “Individual responsibility clinic on Monday out of the former Lucky’s Understanding Pandemic.” getting questions about it since he started 44 45 46 47 remains Montana’s best tool to combat the Market in the Southgate Mall, where For an added cost, and depending on teaching here. He said he has high hopes for spread of COVID-19. Montanans are en- they administered around anoth- pre-approval by the licensing the program, as well as confidence in Wiley, 48 49 50 51 52 couraged to wear masks and should follow er 200 doses. (MB) board, it can count toward which will provide technical and course 53 54 55 56 57 58 the best industry practices adopted by any six hours of the Montana’s development support. business they visit to slow the spread of the ‘Psychology of the Pan- Board of Behavioral “I have the best colleagues, I have sup- 59 60 61 virus.” demic’ online course Health and Board of port from the administration, our dean, the This executive order does not change the Psychologists’ Con- provost. The president is behind this,” he 62 63 64 right of businesses or local governments to The University of tinuing Education said. “So I think we can do it.” 65 66 67 require masks, and Missoula County plans Montana has released requirements. (MB) Caringi said that curriculum develop- to uphold its own mask mandate for now. ment and hiring are ongoing, and the school Copyright 2021 by The Puzzle Syndicate a no-credit online ACROSS (Mazana Boerboom) New online Master of will start accepting applications soon. He course, “Psychology 1 In this way 67 Small particle 30 Concert Social Work program said the program will accept students in the of the Pandemic” on 5 Bailey of "Hello, keyboard ALEX MILLER Missoula vaccination updates summer, spring and fall semesters and will Moodle, which is mainly Dolly!" DOWN 31 Intentions [email protected] OLIVIA SWANT-JOHNSON | MONTANA KAIMIN led by UM faculty mem- The University of Mon- eventually provide the option to complete a 10 Bubbly drink 1 Small sample 32 Easy run Missoula County remained in the first bers Dr.