Check out this crazy republican student "newspaper."

[DrWeird]

<http://www.theliberty.org/>

I put newspaper in quotation marks, because it's just editorials, not news. They did report one thing recently, that none of the local theaters are going to show the Passion (followed by an editorial about how they're being discriminated against), only they're completely wrong and the local theater's been selling advanced tickets for weeks.

Some of the recent gems include a cartoon entitled "How to Spot a Terrorist" filled with stereotypes of muslims, and only muslims.

Calls to end cultural centers.

An article on "global cooling."

A delightful piece called "Rational Stereotyping."

A scientific story on recent archaeological studies of Noah's Ark.

etc.

I wonder if there's anything I can do about this bullshit. A LTTE would be pointless. I'm thinking of an act of civil disobedience of epic proportions. Yet I just can't think of what.

Any suggestions?

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

1. Got any money?

If so, prepare a newsletter countering their crap.

[thelocalkgb]

2. The Kansan (KU's daily newspaper)..

Announced today that the college republicans finally found enough writers to release their first newsletter. I only read the first paragraph of the first issue and am already laughing. They proudly announced that there are currently 3 African American United States Senators. Last time I checked there were zero.. unless I'm wrong. I'm wrong sometimes.

You can check it out via their webpage:

http://www.ku.edu/~kucr

[mobuto]

7. There have been four African American US Senators

Hiram Revels
Blanche Bruce
Edward Brooke
and Carol Moseley-Braun


But there haven't been any African Americans in the Senate since Peter Fitzgerald defeated Moseley-Braun in '98.

[absyntheNsugar]

3. Oh God...I am ashamed to have these guys as fellow alums

I looked and saw OSU..and feared the worst...then read on and the worst was confirmed.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Oh my, Oregon State

I taught there for two years.

Corvallis is a lovely little town full of countercultural types, but the University is dominated by the Greek system and the ROTC cadets, and I'm sure that the recent ascendancy of crypto- and not-so-crypto-libertarians in Oregon hasn't helped matters. Even back in the 1980s, when I was teaching here, I had students place evangelistic tracts in their finals.

[absyntheNsugar]

5. You taught at OSU

I graduated in 92.

The greek system there wasn't as bad as it is at other schools - but it had its share of dumbasses.

[DrWeird]

6. It's a real ecclectic mix.

Gotta give it that. This paper, according to them, is an answer to the "liberal" Daily Barometer, which is already a mix of decent liberal editorials, some pretty stupid conservative editorials, and a bunch of the general innane bullshit any college paper has.

I've seen drum circles, sick abortion photos on display in the student union buildings, a big outdoor reggae concert, evangelical tracts left lying around the bathrooms, spontaneous counter culture improvisational theater, the list goes on and on.

When I toured the school, I happened to walk past the City Hall downtown. This was just after the bombing of afghanistan started, and there were a few aging hippies out in front protesting. I thought that was pretty cool. When I moved here I found that they did that every monday, and I'd walk by it on my way home.

Every week it kept growing and growing. Then the war in Iraq started, the line was three blocks long and three people deep. And there were four or five freepers on the other side of the street, obviously pissed. It was beautiful.

I think I like this town.

[absyntheNsugar]

8. Corvallis is great

Coffee buzzes at 11am at The Beanery, Beer buzzes at 11pm at Old World Brewery...

The Trail by the Willamette, and yes, the eclectic mix.

Go to Woodstocks Pizza and have a slice for me. Oh and don't forget all 30+ brews on tap next door at Suds and Suds (where you can do laundry and drink beer at the same time)