Pacific Islander’s club takes tradition to the screen
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Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, people are continuing to adapt and figure out how to pull off large scale events in the virtual world. The Pacific Islander’s club (PIC) took its annual Lūʻau from the floor of Viking Pavilion to Zoom on May 15.
“It was definitely a challenge due to everything being remote,” said Maile Sumile, the PIC treasurer and one of the choreographers and dancers at the Lūʻau. “In my opinion, the vibes are completely different when you go to a Lūʻau in person versus watching it through a screen.”
Editorâs note: The Kaimin chose not to name the senator who resigned to protect her from unwanted attention and possible backlash.
The Associated Students of the University of Montana released its Anti-Racism Strategic Plan last Tuesday after a tumultuous few weeks within the organization.Â
The plan comes after a non-white student senator submitted her letter of resignation in early February and presented it as an online public comment, via the form on ASUMâs website, a few weeks later. The former senator, who declined to speak with the Kaimin, said in her comment that sheâd also been called a slur by someone within ASUM.Â
ROB CHANEY
On another March Friday on another planet, the University of Montana Grizzly basketball team was warming up for tournament play in Boise when Seth Bodnar made the call.
âIt was a world ago and the world was shutting down,â the UM president recalled a year later. âI had to call (basketball head coach) Travis DeCuire â they were in the middle of shoot-around â and say âhey, Travis, sorry, weâre ending this. Weâre bringing you back. â
That was March 13, 2020, the day the University of Montana and much of the United States locked down in a defensive crouch. The World Health Organizationâs Inspector General reported 132,000 cases of COVID-19 in 123 countries and territories, and at least 5,000 deaths. A year later, there would be one hundred times that many dead in the United States alone.
Ella Musgrove | Montana Kaimin
The Missoula City-County Health Department (MCCHD) opened all tiers of Phase 1B of COVID-19 vaccinations on March 4, allowing residents who are ages 70 and older, people of color ages who are 16 and older, and residents ages 16-69 with certain qualifying health conditions to receive the vaccine.
The MCCHD began accepting Phase 1B, tier 1 appointments in late January and recently opened tier 2, which consisted of residents ages 16-69 with certain health conditions. Those conditions include cancer, chronic kidney disease, COPD, Down syndrome, heart conditions, immunocompromised from organ transplant, severe obesity, sickle cell disease and Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.
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