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Meatheads with badges

This was yesterday's headline of the paper in my hometown (Bnashville, TN).

"Aggressive side effects worry experts"... and everybody else

Quasi Nonviolence

On this day, the 40th anniversary of MLK Jr's death, its important to remember the impact of nonviolent resistance. Understandably, some people aren't as saintly as MLK and are prone to ocassionally lose their composure when faced with racism. Though tempted by anger they can still resist out and out violence when confronted. Bradley Armoster is one of those men. Here is his story as printed in the Nahsville Scene. -Bud

SPANK THE HONKEY
The victim of a racial slur exacts a special kind of retribution

Knowledge Reigns Supreme

In the printed PAPERPAPER the notes of KRS1's speech are condensed down to two pages but here are all 6 pages of notes I took while he spoke. Here there we present more of the radical and crazy things he said that had the crowd scratching their heads and getting up to leave. Check the call to action on the last page about the responsibility of priviliged white people living in NOLA right now... Ouch, I don't want to be remembered as a nazi. -Bud

Barack Obama preaches Tulane.

Barack Obama spoke to Tulane University. A few days later, Obama was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording of the Year... And we saw him for free. Tough question for discussion: How was Obama's talk not like church? -Sam P.












Link to Times Picayune transcript of the speech: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/barack_obamas_speech.html

Go West.

I've included some extra side notes from Cornel's speech that didn't make it into the printed copy.

Gentrification was a term he chose to specifically define after someone brought it up in the Q & A. Like Nick Marinello said, he was very graceful with his words.

Its also cool how both KRS and Cornel chose to site past examples of courage set by musicians Curt Mayfield and James Brown.

Here's a link to the Tulanian article, "Cornel West: A Bold Voice for MLK Week" by Nick Marinello, as published in Paper Paper (4/4/2008): http://www2.tulane.edu/article_news_details.cfm?ArticleID=7056

-Bud

INTRO from the print copy

Better Reading on Campus

Here it is: the inaugural issue of the Paper Paper. With this publication we hope to take advantage of well written material being produced on campus each and everyday by reprinting it here in this magazine. Essays, papers, prints, and poems all deserve more exposure. So if you feel passionate about the work that you’ve done, we can help you share it with a broader audience.

In this first issue, we reprint three inspiring speeches given at Tulane in the past year. I took these notes and illustrations as I sat listening to each speaker, so that’s why they are composed the way they are - quickly and crudely. To supplement them, I’ve also included an article written by Nick Marinello (a great writer for ‘The Tulanian’) and the transcript of Obama’s speech from the Times Picayune. Unfortunately, KRS1’s righteous and radical talk has no extra commentary to go along with it. But there were four other pages of notes from that speech that I haven’t included here. You can check them out along with other unpublished material online at:

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Take note that this book in your hand is an original copy, one of 50. So when you’re done reading it, share it with your friend and then tell her to pass it on to the next person. I’m putting my faith into self-circulation here and the power of word of mouth to increase exposure.

But truly I’m just happy I’ve managed to get this far with you reading this here right now.

Enjoy,

Robert B. Ries
RRIES@TULANE.EDU
(All submissions welcome and wanted. Tell me what you think)