Hey Kids! 1993 FEMA coloring book!!!

I just found this little gem in the recycling bin at the library.

Protesting is dead

President Bush is in town today and tomorrow (April 21 & 22)
I found this out because of this flyer I received on campus last week and then again today. So today we headed downtown to see what we could see.

Although it was nice to get off campus the results were underwhelming. We found the 9 blocks enclosing Lafayette Square (between Magazine, Poydras, Carondolet, and Girod) had been blocked off . The NOPD, who really only excel at crowd control anyways, need not have bothered to come out in the numbers they did: they were hardly 5 protesters (ie: people with signs) and mostly they just milled around with the press and the cops behind multiple barriers.

Who in this city really has the resolve to protest anyway? Anybody actually making a comeback in this city by now knows not to depend on the help of any of the local, state, or federal governments for help. So what would be the use in wasting ones energy anyways to gripe at President who only excels at ignoring criticism?

I sound cynical writing this but I believe less in less in the traditional methods of protests today. Ever since the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, the images I've seen in newspapers and magazines of "protests" have been the same shot of a dude (or dudette) with dreads and drums and riot police with tear gas.

I would like to see and hear new methods people have come up with to have their frustrations seen and heard and acted upon. Get at me please.

- Bud R.


"The South, the nation, and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
-Martin Luther King Jr. (A Letter from a Birmingham Jail)

Notes from Salman Rushdie's Speech

Paper*Paper would like to thank Jason Rich for taking these notes from Salman Rushdie's speech in Dixon Hall on April 7.

Conglomerate of News Corporations = Bad News

All said and done, its really a rather bad time to be starting up a new newspaper. But this article about CBS borrowing reporting from CNN has me convinced about the need for more and disparate sources to report on more and disparate news stories. Its scary enough
that last year Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal for 5 billion dollars but news sources have been combing for years now. The Gannett Co. owns and publishes USA Today as well over 90 other newspapers, including my hometown paper, the Tennessean, both of which are terrible reading.

So what am I getting at here? Whats to be done? I'm not really sure other than I need to read more.

Buddha put it well when he said this:

"Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it
or who has said it,
not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your common sense."

CBS and CNN collaborating does not agree with my common sense.

-Bud R.

READ THIS!!!!!! READ THIS!!!!!!

Here we present to you, ladies and gentlemen, the first and only written response Paper*Paper has received about the inaugural. Sure to enrage and inspire and published untouched and unedited just as I received it, this is what Roy B. has to say:

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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