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FEATURE PHOTO CAMPUS Woodruff delivers Dean Stone Lecture Lily Rabil Montana Kaimin

Award-winning journal- ist Judy Woodruff is a self- professed social networking “dinosaur,” but that didn’t stop her from telling an overflow crowd at the University Center Tuesday night about technol- ogy’s importance in educating young voters for upcoming elections. In delivering the 2011 Dean Stone Lecture, Woodruff, who currently co-anchors PBS NewsHour and has worked as a television journalist for nearly four decades, including at CNN and NBC, focused on what the future holds for “Gen- Ben Coulter/Montana Kaimin Second-year political science major Kodie Kunsman asks students to vote against Montana Public Interest Research Group in front of the UC on eration Next,” a term she uses Tuesday while another political science student campaigns for MontPIRG a few feet away. to describe young people who have grown up with technol- ogy and social networking. MISSOULA The Dean Stone Lecture is an annual event held every spring in memory of Arthur Stone, Aging trees need attention the first dean of the School of Journalism. Last night’s lecture Paige Huntoon do wrong when managing either trees on Another misstep when caring for trees began with a short speech from Montana Kaimin their property or trees on city boulevards is cutting too many branches off the tops of current dean of the school, Peg- is excessive pruning and parking within trees, or topping. Gaukler said topping is gy Kuhr, and an introduction The “aged and declining” Missoula tree extremely detrimental because it reduces from journalism professor Lee population needs some attention, accord- the amount of energy available to keep the Banville. ing to Missoula Parks and Recreation Di- tree growing. Woodruff said the young vot- rector Donna Gaukler. “ “It spends all its time healing instead ers of this generation are very The majority of the trees in the Uni- It spends all its time healing of growing. And it can only heal so many politically involved and could be versity District are Norway Maples that instead of growing. And it times,” Gaukler said. the determining factor in wheth- were planted starting in the 1890s and Gaukler said there have been some er President Barack Obama is throughout the first few decades of the can only heal so many times. disagreements with Missoula resi- re-elected in 2012. She said these 1900s, according to former Missoula Ur- dents who don’t properly care for trees young people tend to identify ban Forester Ben Carson, who is now the that are part of the urban forest. She also with the Democratic Party, but director of grounds management at The ” Donna Gaukler, Missoula Parks and Recreation Director said the city forester is authorized to cite resist labels, preferring to mix University of Montana. Those 100-year- people who don’t care for the trees. There and match parti