Montana Kaimin

The monthly publication combined artful literary styling of student writers with colorful gossip of campus life.

The Kaimin mentioned the depression when it reported in 1933 that UM professors questioned President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to have a national banking holiday.

The Shack proved to be an inefficient facility for the newspaper, so it moved into the newly constructed journalism building.

As enrollment rose, the budget for paper became bigger and the Publication Board voted unanimously to increase the salaries for Kaimin employees.

In 1949, pressure from the campus administration led to confiscation and destruction of an issue of the Kaimin, which carried a cartoon depicting the Montana Board of Education as rats gnawing at a bag of university funds.

Carroll O'Connor, later to become television's Archie Bunker, and Bill Smurr resigned their editing jobs in protest.

[4] On January 17, 1950, the Kaimin was linked to the United Press International Teletype, making it the only college paper in the Rocky Mountains to have the capability to print the latest world news.

In October 1965, Rorvik chastised the Roman Catholic Church for its stand on birth control with an editorial titled, "The Contemporary Lay".

Tim Babcock criticized the paper's view in a phone call to the Kaimin, saying, "I'm the most broad-minded person who's ever sat in this office, but I think the line should be drawn somewhere above that."

In February 1967, the paper reported that one or two students visited the UM Health Service each week for treatment of venereal diseases.

Five days later, the Kaimin and editor T.J. Gilles retracted statements made in an editorial that called Tickell a liar, a two-bit huckster, and a tin-horn gambler.

Another controversy occurred in 1974. when editor Carey Yunker wrote an editorial calling Printing Services Director Al Madison a "congenital liar".

Later in 1984, the Kaimin apologized after negative reactions to a satirical issue titled the "Montana Enquirer", which poked fun at a local political activist's weight.

In 2009, Bobby Hauck became the subject of national controversy when he refused to take questions from the Kaimin following the paper's story about an alleged assault by two Grizzly football players.

After a significant budget deficit in the spring of 2015, the Kaimin permanently moved to a weekly publication schedule to cut costs and focus on web-first reporting.

The printing of the Kaimin was delayed a week in May 1922 due to workers striking at the Missoulian Publishing Company.