Montana Kaimin

When people hear the words pole dancing, usually their immediate thoughts are images of scantily clad women in strip clubs, but now as the sport has developed, it may conjure up that of a typical fitness class.

My sole survivors in high school were the ultimate easy-going flora: cacti and air plants. I left the cacti in my bathroom, where the steam from my scalding showers was enough to keep them chugging along. The air plants were watered on a more random than weekly schedule, sometimes left to soak in a bowl for entire days and nights.

McKinley Verhulst swings her axe at a pieces of wood at the Forestry Days logging competition on April 25.

The University of Montana’s softball team has finished its regular season, and a program that has struggled mightily over the past few years seems to finally be turning a corner.

Schafer Bungay, founder of Flathead Fragrance Co. poses with a judge after winning the first place prize of $15,000 in the Gallagher Business Building on April 17 during the John Ruffato Startup Challenge.

This week, the Montana Kaimin called on its visual team to tell the stories of several behind-the-scenes-workers on campus.

Lauren Taylor looks out over the Florence buildings main lobby on the second floor on April 14. Her father owns the building and will pass down the ownership to her. "He really wants to make sure the owners lobe the building as is, and doesn't want them to change it," Taylor said.

Hundreds of volunteers gathered under the pavilion at Caras Park for the annual Clark Fork River Cleanup on the morning of Saturday, April 18. Participants signed in at the registration table and then gathered buckets and gloves from the supply table.

There is a quote hung on my fridge which I admire that reads, “‘There’ is no better than ‘here.’ When your ‘there’ has become a ‘here,’ you will simply obtain another ‘there’ that again, looks better than ‘here.’’’

Celebrities seem to be getting thinner and thinner, and every time I open TikTok, there seems to be a new person complaining about their body or bragging about how skinny