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Written by Larry Powers - Editorial
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Monday, 01 September 2008 13:46 |
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On the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas is a wilderness area called the Wetlands, a marshy land preserved by Baker University of Baldwin City, Kansas for the purpose of education, research, and restoration to native habitat. A man-made boardwalk winds through the wetlands, a nature trail rising a few feet above the marshy land. Tall native grasses, reeds, and dense wooded areas are prevalent, along with beautiful wild flowers, butterflies, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the wetlands were a place of refuge for young Native Americans who fled the regimented, abusive lifestyle of the United States Indian Industrial Training School. The school was founded in 1884 as part of the U.S. government’s efforts to assimilate Native Americans into the Euro-American lifestyle. The school was modeled after Carlisle Boarding School in Pennsylvania, which was established by a military man, not an educator, Richard Henry Pratt. With government approval, he took Native American children from reservations to his school, over 1,000 miles from their homes. The plan, in Pratt’s words, was to ‘kill the Indian, not man." |
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Written by Derek Helms
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Monday, 11 August 2008 09:54 |
It’s a cop out, we know. Putting Steal This Paper on the cover is a cheap ploy to grab readers. Abbie Hoffman’s 1971 guide to yippie living, Steal This Book, has been satired by bands, businesses and, God knows, magazines. Considering the spirit of Lawrencian, it only seems appropriate. We don’t advocate stealing food or producing Molotov cocktails as a means of social change, but if we can promote getting your newspaper for free, why not? Hoffman’s claim that his book "is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika" could be considered a bit aggressive. Regardless of his intentions, we champion his spirit and applaud the call to action.
"Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps" Hoffman writes. "A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power." |
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Written by Joshua Montgomery - Editorial
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 17:46 |
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 In Georgia innocent civilians are being slaughtered by uniformed Russian troops bent on re-asserting Russian control of a once independent and democratic nation and the US stands impotently by.
Post cold war, post 911 the US spends more on its military than the rest of earth combined. Russian troops are slaughtering innocent civilians and the US stands impotently by. If you ever wonder what the true costs of the Iraq war are, you can see them today. The costs are reflected in the horror stricken eyes of mothers who are losing their children to Russian bombs in Georgia, as the US stands impotently by. What is the US going to do about it? Nothing. We are dependent on oil exports and Russia is an oil exporting nation. Our moral authority is compromised by having started an unnecessary war half way around the world. Our military is engaged in a two front war. It is overextended and bankrupting our nation. |
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Written by KC Compton
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 08:51 |
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On a recent sunny afternoon, two young men ambled down the sidewalk in front of my house, laughing and talking, one of them pounding the other on the arm in that curious way men do when they're bonding. Just two guys hanging out, a completely ordinary sight.
Except that each was pushing a brightly colored stroller. Whenever they paused to offer one baby a sippy cup or adjust the other's position in the stroller, they cooed, then went back to their conversation as smoothly as a Beamer shifting from third to second and back again.
I was so moved, so proud, I nearly wept. If you don't understand why, it's a good guess you're under the age of 50. And you certainly never went through The Wars.
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