By Paige Clifton-Steele
Twelve men and women met two weekends ago in the basement of Spalt to learn how to make a better democracy. It was the 105th Democracy School— an educational program created by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), author and legal historian Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy.
By Foster Neill
“THEY’RE MORE LIKE BAD FORTUNE COOKIES, REALLY.”
ARIES (MARCH 21 – APRIL 20)
It’s the end of the term so you’re confused. After all, you’re not always the
best at recognizing what’s bothering you. It’s finals, not your friends. If you
stick to your work and you’ll be free from stress and able to enjoy the company
of your friends before you leave.
TAURUS (APRIL 21 – MAY 21)
Steady work could earn you time for a surprise date. Hope it’s your course
work instead of your FWSP job that’s keeping you so busy. Continue reading Horoscopes
By the CCNWSS (Jeremie Jordan)
About eight years ago Reversal of Man proclaimed that “internet and indie-rock are killing hard-core.” Certainly Dayton’s own once prolific extreme music scene has since reached a very stark low. With punk rock bars and venues closing their doors, all-ages shows practically ceasing, veteran hipsters moving away or settling down, and the attempt of major labels to cash in on the pseudo-post-heavy watered down trendy music that passes as punk, metal, and hardcore, the younger bands in the local scene that have any ties to, or play any true form of these styles are very far and few between. Once upon a not so distant past, Dayton was synonymous with creative and ground-breaking music. Our city was known for the quantity of quality music that emerged in the nineteen nineties with such gems as Brainiac, The Breeders, Guided By Voices, The Amps, Twenty-third Chapter, and countless others leading the way and bringing much attention to the energetic scene. The past few years, however, have been marred by bad luck, tragedy, and loss of resources. Continue reading Power Chords and Blast-Beats Pound the Walls of the Union
By James White
I think that the most iconoclastic revolutionaries of all time were not Lenin, Mao, Bakunin, or Zapata, but rather Galileo, Einstein, Darwin, and Newton. Scientists have repeatedly overturned superstition and fought on the barricades against ignorance. Scientists are a testament to humanism, the belief in man, a belief that is essential for democracy.
Basis
Science is a tired pugilist clinging to the ropes, however. A fundamentalist Christian group Answers in Genesis is building a $20 million museum outside Cincinnati. The museum wants to present a myopic view of history that is contradictory to everything known about physics, geology, biology, and chemistry. The people responsible for this affront to knowledge claim to do so to combat the forces of “secularism” (read: empiric knowledge).
Continue reading Science & Democracy
With the recent popularity of ‘social networking’ websites such as myspace and facebook it’s inevitable that Antioch College communities, including current students as well as alumni have jumped on these sites in an effort network, communicate and socialize. However, you might not find some of these spots unless you know where to look. This article is not meant to be a complete list but rather a sampling of some of the ones I happen to have stumbled across. There are some that have a more interesting story behind them, like Friendster, while others are fairly self-explanatory. Probably the best thing about all these sites is that, at least as far as I can tell, no one ‘official’ from the college is running these virtual entities and thus some of the comments on these sites can get pretty interesting. Note, for many of these you’ll need to create an account to access them. Continue reading ‘Social Networking Websites’ and Antioch College