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UM is proud to present Under the M, a website about and for UM employees. It's designed to complement the weekly e-newsletter reaching more than 3,000 Grizzly employees. Under the M (this website) and the employee newsletter are intended to help you feel in-the-know and up-to-date about what’s happening on campus, what our colleagues are doing, and the bear (wink) necessities about... We review content submissions each week. Submit your content by noon Monday for Thursday's edition. On Thursday mornings, the employee newsletter is sent to UM's 3,000 Grizzly employees.

We welcome your feedback. Want another way to connect? Join Under the M – the Team on Microsoft Teams! Any UM employee can post. Let’s share what we know and help each other out. At the beginning of the semester, I asked our campus what it would look like if the University of Montana was recognized as a community that models healthy, respectful dialogue across differences and robust...

Next week's election gives us an opportunity to see what this looks like in practice. First and foremost, it looks like everyone participating in the democratic process by exercising their right to vote. This right is both a gift and a responsibility that is foundational to our concept of democracy. In fact, many members of the Griz community will vote for the first time in a presidential election. UM is hosting a polling place in the James E. Todd Building on Tuesday, Nov.

5, and UDASH will run a shuttle to the election center throughout the day. Get out and vote! In the aftermath of the election, some will no doubt be disappointed, angry even. But the project of American democracy does not begin and end with a single election. For nearly 250 years, our forebears have shepherded this republic through times of great difficulty, and it now falls to us to steward it into the future. Regardless of who serves as our next president, American democracy is a shared and ongoing endeavor.

We should be proud that UM has long been recognized as an institution committed to strengthening the cornerstones of democracy: robust civic engagement, challenging but necessary conversations, collaborative solution building, and service for the... This is who we are. And as we live through a particularly tumultuous political moment in our country, I take confidence in the fact that Grizzlies will continue to cultivate a climate of curiosity, exploration, collective problem solving, and... Our Montana way includes robust dialogue in the classroom, next week's DiverseU events, this spring's Democracy Summit, participation in student clubs and community organizations. Regardless of which candidates are elected to office next week, here at UM we will carry on our efforts to foster the intellectual and experiential understandings that underpin a healthy democracy. As one expression of this continued work, this year's UM Flagship Fund invites proposals for one-year grants of up to $10,000 to foster civic thought, action, and leadership.

These projects may deepen understanding of the diverse human experience; further develop the uniquely human capacities of empathy, teamwork, creative problem-solving and communication; and create opportunities for dialogue across differences. Note: If you know a UM or higher education acronym that's not listed here, or if you find an error, please email internalcomms@umontana.edu. The University of Montana has a very pretty campus. One of its most remarkable features is the view from the west side of the oval with its giant bronze grizzly statue framing Main Hall and the “M” on the side of Mount Sentinel. That’s inspired me to choose Under the Big M as the title of a memoir I’m working on. I was at UM from 1963 to 1967.

Those were heady years there. The arts were alive with Avant Garde plays, painting, sculpture, and jazz. The English Department was headed by one of the top critics in the county, and the sciences had been jolted forward when the Soviets sent Sputnik into space. The University was a cultural enclave of student activism more than a thousand miles from the hotbeds of protest like Berkeley and the University of Michigan. UM Students were going to the Deep South to register Black voters and were beginning to protest the Vietnam War. A thousand students marched on Main Hall to protest the suspension of three men for participating in a snowball fight that newspapers called “a near riot.” Professors complained when students published their classmates’ evaluations...

Women were chafing under university dress codes and curfews. Marijuana was becoming common. The Beetles and The Pill arrived. When I arrived at the university, I was a naive ranch kid from a country of nearly 4,000 square miles and about that many people. Of those people, only one was Black. I had never known a person from another country, not even a Canadian.

I had never heard live jazz or bought art from the person who produced it. I got a part in a major production of Macbeth and wrote a news story that Associated Press distributed across America. Stay current on the University of Montana and other higher education news in Montana with the Missoulian's weekly email, Under the M. This newsletter will land in your email box on Tuesdays. Got a news tip? Want to hear more about something at UM?

Missoula College? The Commissioner's Office? Shoot a note to keila.szpaller@missoulian.com. Health officials said the infected person traveled to Missoula TJ Maxx, Missoula Scheels and Missoula Old Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 22. The Grizzlies and Jackrabbits will square off in the FCS playoffs for the third consecutive season.

The rock legend's new album features a song by Martha Scanlan, an acclaimed Montana songwriter. A Missoula man pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to 13 charges related to alleged sexual assault of two children and two adults.

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