Montana Kaimin
The current logo of the Kaimin
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| Type | University Newspaper |
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| Owner(s) | Associated Students of the University of Montana |
| Editor-in-chief | Michael Siebert |
| Staff writers | 51 |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | University of Montana |
| Circulation | Select local businesses, University of Montana campus |
| Website | http://www.montanakaimin.com/ |
The Montana Kaimin is the University of Montana's student-run independent newspaper located in Missoula, Montana. The paper is printed once a week, Wednesday, with special editions printed occasionally. The current editor-in-chief is Michael Siebert. The newspaper is divided into five sections, including news, sports, outdoors, arts and culture, and opinion, and is printed in color.
The name "Kaimin" is derived from a Salish Indian word and means "something written" or a "message".
The Kaimin has been in publication since 1898 and the first issue sold for 15 cents. Charles Pixley was the first editor of the Kaimin. The monthly publication combined artful literary styling of student writers with colorful gossip of campus life. From June 1898 until 1900, the Kaimin was formatted as a monthly magazine. The first weekly edition of the paper was printed in September 1900. In March 1927, the Kaimin began printing twice a week, Tuesday and Friday. The publication changed to daily printing beginning March 1938, and did so until World War II.
Throughout the Great Depression, the Kaimin only mentioned it twice. The first was in 1932 when the football team lost money. A reason cited was the nationwide economic depression. 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. In 1938, the Kaimin changed physical location. It moved from the structure known as "The Shack". The building was built to house Student Army Training Corps during World War I. The Shack proved to be an inefficient facility for the newspaper, so it moved into the newly constructed journalism building.
Throughout World War II, the staff consisted mostly of women. Both the newspaper and the university supported the war, but both felt the war's effect with shrinking enrollment, staff, and budget. The war caused the Kaimin to scale back its production and to revert to publishing the paper twice a week, then just weekly in 1943. This continued until January 1948, when daily publishing Tuesday through Friday resumed. Because campus and paper were predominantly female during the war, much of the Kaimin's news focused on women. A regular column, "Women in the News", ran in 1945. As enrollment rose, the budget for paper became bigger and the Publication Board voted unanimously to increase the salaries for Kaimin employees. The editor's salary increased from $35 a month to $70. 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.
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