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The Best Of The Anarchives Volume One
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Gregory Kalyniuk a.k.a. nobody
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NOBODY'S EXQUISITELY SPLENDID EDITORIAL
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ON THE TOPIC OF CENSORSHIP
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Many concerned people expressed their disdain for our lack of
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editorial standards after the second issue of The Anarchives!!
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came out. I would like to take this opportunity to explain what
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our philosophy on this subject is, as it is now obvious that we
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did not make ourselves clear before. We believe that anything
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creative, no matter how offensive, deserves to be printed and
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read. Unlike other official student publications, The
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Anarchives!! is committed to bringing you the uncensored
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opinions and art of free-thinking students who are willing to
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submit material to us. At first, we thought we could get away
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with this policy, but it has now been made clear to us by the
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principal that there are certain limits to what we can and
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cannot do if we want to avoid confrontation with the law (this
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topic is written about at length elsewhere in this issue). We
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believe that traditional student publications aim to prepare you
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for the "real" world, a world full of ignorance, mediocrity, and
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utter mainstream ideas. An editorial policy that does not allow
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offensive material to be printed clearly displays these motives,
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because what in essence is being said through such a policy is
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that there are certain opinions that could not be handled by
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you. Of course, the editors of such traditional student
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publications are unaware of what they are really doing, because
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an obedient, conformist attitude has already been permanently
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ingrained in them. Traditional student publications hold back
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controversial material to encourage a bland mainstream outlook
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by the mass student population. By buying into their truth, you
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are succumbing to the control system, and you are simply
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allowing yourself to be conditioned for future manipulation by
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the mass-media. Talentless media monsters such as Madonna make
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careers out of breaking and manipulating taboos for their own
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gain. If the concept of the taboo was ignored to allow total
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freedom in the student press, such media monsters would have to
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become successful on their own creative merits. By suppressing a
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controversial topic, the suppressor only creates hype and
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popularity for the topic. If offensive material was allowed to
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be printed, material inspired by such hype would soon disappear,
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because it would no longer be a focus of attention. Student
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publications from alternative high schools have the freedom to
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print anything. Neoteny, the City School publication, has an
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editorial policy more extreme than our own, and yet most of the
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material printed is quite tame in comparison to some of the
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stuff in The Anarchives!!. Neoteny is proof that if taboos are
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ignored, the sensational need for them to be regularly broken
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will become obsolete. And as for editorial responsibility and
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"protecting" readers from disturbing material, we believe that
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being exposed to this so-called disturbing material can widen
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one's understanding of different opinions and thoughts. The
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sooner you wipe out the reflex of feeling offended by words on a
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page, the freer an individual you will be, because your emotions
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will no longer be controlled so easily. If after reading this
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you are still not convinced of what is really going on, simply
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stop reading The Anarchives!!, and pass it up the next time it
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is offered to you, because we cannot afford to waste our limited
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print-run on timid individuals.
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A NASTY REVELATION
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by nobody, Patron Saint of Insignificance
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Jim-Bob's problems began at 2:00 in the morning when he plopped
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into his easy chair with a cold beer in his hand he picked up
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the remote control and turned on the TV to watch his favourite
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show, Three's Company. While the TV warmed up in a struggle he
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opened the package his midnight snack, bag of pretzels. He
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looked at the screen, expecting to see the two scantily-clad
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co-starlets breasts jiggling blissful expressions clinging to
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the star of the show, goofy-looking sitcom character, and
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expecting to hear the cheery words to the theme song "come and
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knock on our door come and dance on our floor" with the
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manufactured synth music in the background that always made him
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feel so good. To his half-witted bewilderment it had been taken
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off the air so a paid programming ad could be shown which caused
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him of course to spill his beer. "Aw fu. . ." Jim-Bob started
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with his loose profanity but before he was able to finish the
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F-word his easily impressionable senses were recaptivated by an
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image of an attractive nude girl on a beach being projected
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across the cathode. "Whooooooooa-ho ho!" moaned loudly Jim-Bob
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in self-righteous macho reflex "Lookit herrrrr!!!" But of
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course Jim-Bob was alone so it would appear that he was telling
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nobody to look at the sex-vision. The nude girl on the beach
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was looking at Jim-Bob -- and Jim-Bob was looking at her.
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"Would you like to have this?!" asked horny phony articulate
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voice-over.
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Jim-Bob was so excited that he was now sitting on the edge of
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his seat sitting up straight a function he rarely performed.
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"Would I? Could I? May I? Don't I? I won't! I won't touch
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that dial. . .on my life!!!!!" His adrenaline was now flowing
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nicely for the following cathode-projected image to do work
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effectively an image of the subliminal kind of the hypnotic kind
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he was being put into a trance. Gaping stunned at the TV while
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warm pale barf-green saliva disease retardedly glistening
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trickling down his chin down his chins. New colours undreamt of
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and funny shapes flickering in his eyes reflecting cathode
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controlling him. Now he forgets his worries his fears his anger
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his pent up built in adult ignorance he becomes a child a sponge
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to soak up commands upon command. He hears horny phony
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articulate voice over again a real voice in his mind a voice
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from a man he can see like a dream or something in front of him
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just standing there holy like the Virgin Mary. The dream voice
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man explains listen well and obey him or die like a rodent.
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"What can one Christ your life is hell, and strengthen his
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Church shell. World and bring peace could turn his hellish
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founded this Church, enunciated future if he would adopt the way
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of Christian Science demdas." Dream voice man with horny phony
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articulate voice speaking to Jim-Bob never seen man before never
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hear man before but man seems familiar. Hairy Krishchun saintly
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pious bullshit Eastern religion televangelist from outer space
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here to feed Jim-Bob bullshit he needs to be saved. Jim-Bob
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confused thinks that he's insane godammit where's Jack Tripper
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where's Mr Furley I want my show where's my show? Don't wanna
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listen to this frabba-jabbin' holy spaceman!!!! Then Jim-Bob
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feels a pain sharp ouch in his anus oh it hurts it hurts it
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hurts he cannot stand it like constipation but much worse Hairy
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forcing Jim-Bob to listen obediently. "In this issue of those
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of us who the editors want to Church of Christ, Scientist of the
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way of life: demonstrate the Principle of bull. Fellow members
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expect the greatest assets growth in Christian varnasrama
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society qualities in us." Jim-Bob thinks of the Principle of
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bull his house bull his job bull his pals bull his wife bull his
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life bull everything here is BULLSHIT!!!!!
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Jim-Bob can't believe it's all bullshit he thinks about this
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finds it humourous and laughs a weakling laugh ha huh HUHha.
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Jim-Bob is beginning to understand the Principle of bull he
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thinks back to childhood he sees himself young in school not
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very smart or popular pushed shoved kicked around the
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schoolyard. Teachers children mostly hate him make him feel
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stupid call him stupid. Hey stooooopid fuckin' hillbilly moron
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your mother likes dogs to be in bed with her!!!!! Jim-Bob
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remembers how he used to cry and now he wants to cry nobody
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likes me thinks I'm stupid. Then suddenly Hairy Krishchun has a
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boy a sad boy a crying boy with an inscription tattooed across
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his forehead six bold black capital letters they simply read
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STUPID. Jim-Bob just knows it's him that sad stupid little boy
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it's him it's me. Hairy Krishchun violently rips off the boy's
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skin surprise surprise it's really just a robot a machine.
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"Calls him the Ungodlike character the father of mankind
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surrendered in order to make plow and works the will be a
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struggle at times grains for sacrifice and these traits the more
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peace human culture. Contribution to peace in machine age have
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measured by whether other members of the bull and placed it is
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seen more in the machines. People it is essential that we love
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their cars, their that is God because, as computers, but our
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weight on the side of machines is artificial and dangerous."
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Jim-Bob thinks about cars machines computers JEEZUS Betty-Mae
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Jim-Bob's wife talks walks acts eats shits fucks sleeps is just
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like a fuckin' robot!!!!! Jim-Bob just knows now now that
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Betty-Mae's just gotta be a robot an evil secret agent woman
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from the same God-forsaken planet that this here Hairy Krishchun
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feller comes from!!! Jim-Bob thinks about dinner that night
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about the food about what Betty-Mae was doin' was servin' and
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HOW. Well Jim-Bob was sittin' at the dinner table just mindin'
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his own business waitin' for Betty-Mae waitin' for her to serve
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up 'em mashed potaters but Jim-Bob cool hillbilly dude that he
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is prefers callin'em smashed potaters HAW HAW HAW!!!!
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Thinkin'bout how those smashed HAW HAW potaters er gonna be
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soooooo fine when all of a sudden PLOP! He looks at his plate
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and there they are -- the smashed potaters!! But where did they
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come from? Heaven?? Well by golly they did! Betty-Mae was
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still in the kitchen so the smashed potaters was a truly
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paranormal phenomenon. He looked up and saw an anus formed into
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the plaster ceiling HOLY SHIT! I got me some smashed potaters
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from God's A-hole!!!! Jim-Bob pulled down his pants and started
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jackin' himself with those there smashed potaters. But where
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was Betty-Mae? Jim-Bob still thinking about the evening he
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almost forgot my God he feels horrified he feels weak and faint
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but he's already passed out anyway right? Well now Jim-Bob's
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certain that those smashed potaters WERE NOT shat there by God
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he is much too kind and benevolent they was obviously shat there
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by that Hairy Krishchun feller himself of course!!! But why?
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Jim-Bob kills Betty-Mae kills his own wife rips off her skin
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just like Hairy did to the boy who was Jim-Bob and well Jim-Bob
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finds to his surprise surprise that Betty-Mae is a robot a
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computer a machine a car. But that happened before this here
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Hairy Krishchun feller messed up the friggin' TV!!!!!
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"The branch Churches simply and using democratically
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self-governed or development process of self-government we
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dedicated them of praying, listening, and of technological not
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acting or reacting against utopian dream of a member's
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background and world. The machine different. These varied and
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the greed of the useful of the members promise a new
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respectfully, together. To make life more about Church
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activities help him exploit the decompose. When viewed more
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enjoyment. Healthy, honest democracy takes away the finer
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qualities." To make life more about Church activities help him
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exploit the decompose help him exploit the decompose help him
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exploit the decompose these words echo through Jim-Bob's mind he
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understands he thinks his head will explode. First Betty-Mae
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now this PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME FACE THE MUSIC!!!!! Jim-Bob gets
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it he is the decompose a pathetic decomposing excuse for a
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worthless human sod and church activities means Hairy controls
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Jim-Bob and people like him!!! Jim-Bob sadly thinks about how
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he spends his day and how utterly small an insect he is. He
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gets up out of bed and bumps his head and walks out of the room
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sauntering like a drunken buffoon he goes to the john (can't
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piss on the lawn) standing sloppily he takes a piss and thinks
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to himself well Betty-Mae she can't do this!! This momentary
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state of fond vulgar reminiscence ends when Jim-Bob remembers
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the toothpaste tube OOOOOH the toothpaste tube but it's not
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toothpaste in there it's his daily dose of grey matter. In the
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morning Jim-Bob goes into the bathroom and opens up the medicine
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cabinet he takes out two large toothpaste tubes he unscrews both
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toothpaste tubes and then takes one into each hand he shoves the
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tube openings into his nostrils and up UP his nose and squeezes
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the tubes' contents into his head NO this is not toothpaste it
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is Instant Brains From A Toothpaste Tube after about five
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minutes of squeezing the tubes are empty and what was in them
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now rests in Jim-Bob's skull now Jim-Bob is ready to face the
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world and burn his brains out once again at his job. Ready to
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face the world Jim-Bob huh and ready to uh burn your brains out
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once again uh at your job huh? HAW HAW!!! Poor old Jim-Bob
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can't even remember what his job is the dumb goof's been working
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it so long it's become second nature it's become his life's
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purpose HAW HAW HAW!!! Jim-Bob thinks about how he would be
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better off dead now because his life seems to have absolutely no
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meaning now with Betty-Mae gone what will he do?? Jim-Bob faces
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the music and this is what he gets in return??? IT AIN'T
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FAIR!!!!!! So many like Jim-Bob so many robots so many machines
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here. Oh give me a chance Hairy Krishchun oh please if I only
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had a brain oh but I want a mind a mind that I won't have to
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burn out every day at my job that I can't even remember
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even!!!!!! Oh PULLLEEEEZZZ Mr Krishchun sir!!!!!!
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Well Mr Krishchun better known of course as Hairy Krishchun or
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just plain Hairy uh the same guy with the horny phony articulate
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voice oh well he still hasn't finished his little uh
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paratelevised pap session sermon called by the way The Hare
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Krsna Christian Science Show and so the preacher continues
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"Certainly many human beings. Everything of conducting business
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world becomes an racy and respect for individual exploitation."
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Poor brainless Jim-Bob right now is in a state of total friggin'
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hysterical paranoia confusion and the poor sucker has just found
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out that he is about as significant as an insect (not to say
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that any of us aren't any better!) and he is pleading with Hairy
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Krishchun sir for a life oh and if he only had a brain. Hearing
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more about this nutty thang called exploitation and how it's
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what our here world is fuelled by just about pushes Jim-Bob over
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the edge Jim-Bob will never be the same. Jim-Bob feels the cold
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steel shaking pressed up against his throbbing temple staring at
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the floor feeling empty and useless he notices the pool of
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spilled beer expanding in all directions wider and wider in
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which he can see the reflection of the TV screen. "Science,
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however, asserts greed, humans become measure of Christliness
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toward each other, member, the oneness of divine beings, and
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toward demonstrated (even demo-karmic reactions business
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meetings). In with humanity, and of Christianity is brought the
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end of the circumstances. God." God. God. Jim-Bob already
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feels dead life just isn't fair when dogma raids your freedom
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like that from birth. "The very different ape understand and
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simple living and humanity can hope to see natural lifestyle and
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follow, the authors human beings are living and high can be
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wonderful."
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Jim-Bob don't know uh not sure if uh he even still alive or if
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he uh ever was alive. Hairy Krishchun combined religions in
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evil manner cause confusion awareness depression nihilism
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suicidal after all two goods make a definite evil. Jim-Bob
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notices the pool of spilled blood expanding in all directions
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wider and wider in which he can see the reflection of the TV
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screen OOPS that's Jim-Bob's blood that's spilled!!!!! But
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how?? Jim-Bob feels the cold steel shaking pressed up against
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his throbbing temple HEY that's a gun or it was a gun!!!?
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BANG!!!! The nightmare is over.
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THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SHIT TO THE WORLD
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by nobody, Patron Saint of Insignificance
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Humans had become such pathetic creatures
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by the closing years of the twentieth century
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that they lost the ability
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to distinguish between
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media that entertained them and
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media that manipulated them.
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So one eminent celebrity
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decided to
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sell the feces
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that he had excreted from his very own anus
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to the stupid world.
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The bastard was a manipulative genius,
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because masses of morons
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bought his shit
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and ate it too;
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the same way that you and I do
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in a less literal sense
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today.
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By Gregory Kalyniuk
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DESTREAMING: A REBUTTAL
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by Jay Terpstra and Gregory Kalyniuk
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Next year, high schools across Ontario will experience a
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change in structure with the implementation of destreaming.
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Destreaming acts in the elimination of the three stream level
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directions in grade nine, and as a one year continuation of
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elementary school-like placement. The quality of an elementary
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school education may well determine which of these directions a
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student is streamed into. There are doubtlessly thousands of
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students each year who are streamed into lower level courses
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before realising their full potential. In many cases, the
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reason they do not realise their full potential is because their
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elementary school failed to provide an environment in which
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mental and social development were properly emphasised. Indeed,
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in many cases streaming is a negatively reprecussive fork in the
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academic road for students who haven't yet realised what they
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are capable of taking on in life. Destreaming aims to integrate
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students in the above situation with better adjusted students in
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grade nine instead of immediately segregating them; in essence,
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giving them one more year to realise their potential in a more
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hospitable learning environment.
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In the November/December edition of the Garnet
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(Humberside's official school newspaper), there appeared a
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well-written article by Brian Gardner on the above topic which
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unfortunately presented an elitist, condescending, poorly
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thought out argument against the implementation of destreaming
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in grade nine, an opinion which is all to common among many
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narrow-minded Toronto students. The rebuttal you are now
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reading is in response to Gardner's ridiculously overblown
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negative predictions for the effects of destreaming. We intend
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to expose this article for what it truly is: a groundless
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travesty of an analysis, concocted by a person who would have us
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suppressed, never realising our full potential, rather than
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growing in an environment in which mental and social development
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is possible for all.
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Let us first make clear now that destreaming will only be
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present up to and not beyond grade nine. It is quite clear that
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Gardner anticipates a life full of cut-throat hierarchies and
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class systems after high school, but it is depressing to think
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that he would want such principles to prevail in public schools
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as well. One strong argument for destreaming is the statistic
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that shows an incredibly large number of young
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minority-background children being dead-ended into the basic
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level direction (that is, being placed in the lowest level
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courses). There are many junior-level students who have yet to
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develop their minds and discover who they are and what life is
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all about. To stream students into near-irreversible directions
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at such a young age shows a lack of effort and insight by the
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system. How many potentially bright children have had their
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glimmer of potential stomped into oblivion by this inconsiderate
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system upon entry into high school, or, more importantly, still
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in elementary school, by ill-equipped elementary school
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teachers? Destreaming is not the catastrophic end to all as
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Gardner arrogantly concludes; it is simply a minor attempt at
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solving a major problem.
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Let us consider the phenomenon of dead-ended
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minority-background children. Various complex sociological
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factors are at play in making their education of a poorer
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general quality than the education of more privileged children,
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language skills and life experiences being just two
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possibilities. Many less privileged children are streamed into
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the basic and general level directions to go on to become our
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future exploited prolateriats, performing menial tasks;
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certainly not the "alternative" artwork and craftswork that
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Gardner seems to believe basic and general level students go on
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to do. Destreaming's objectives are quite simple and minimal:
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because there are fewer high schools than elementary schools,
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high schools will have enrolled in them students from different
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elementary schools and different backgrounds. Destreaming hopes
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to allow these students to integrate and benefit from their
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mutual differences, over the course of one school year, thus
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allowing the less privileged to make the grade for advanced
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level placement in the following year. A slightly larger number
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of minority-background students will successfully take the
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advanced level direction because they are given one more year to
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develop and realise their ability.
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Carola Lane, the Assistant Deputy Minister of Education,
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has said that destreaming should never be construed as a program
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in which "good students" help "not-so-good students." However,
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Gardner seems to bestow these roles upon students in a
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patronising and insulting manner. After Gardner says that he
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doesn't believe that "good students" should be forced to take on
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the responsibility of "tutoring" "not-so-good students," he goes
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on to say that enriched classes offer a special environment
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where the students enrolled share common interests and goals,
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and that a person having different interests and goals inserted
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into such a class would destroy the learning environment. For
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someone who professes to write about the real world, Gardner
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would seem to prefer being in an elitist atmosphere where there
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is very little diversity of people and thought; a perfect place
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to build self-serving pompous attitudes. He insults anyone who
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has ever been involved in an enriched class when he says that
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such students all think and work in the same way. Such an
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environment would be reminiscent of Nazi Germany, if not to the
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dystopian vision of such science-fiction classics as Fritz
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Lang's Metropolis. For someone who obviously has a deep
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interest in school, it is unfortunate that selective rewards are
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Gardner's priority, leaving the desire to learn to be seemingly
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lost. Learning should not take on the form of a rat race in
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which students are in continuous competition for recognition,
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but rather it should be a process in which the student
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stimulates his own mental/social growth through the successful
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accumulation of useful knowledge. We would certainly not expect
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anyone believing in the former example to be capable of ever
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understanding a topic as complex as destreaming.
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The day that grades one to nine symbolise the Olympics is
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the day that the school system is truly defunct. The Olympics
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are a competitive institution of elite athletes who dedicate
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their lives to attaining the gold medal. We would think school
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to be an environment in which individual growth and learning are
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encouraged, especially in the early grades. If Gardner prefers
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a more competitive, selective atmosphere, we would advise him to
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immediately transfer to U.C.C. or to a school in Japan, where
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competitive schooling is so strong that "not-so-good" students
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often commit suicide. In a recent issue of the Globe and Mail,
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freelance writer Scott Nesbitt revealed that thirty percent of
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Japanese students are streamed out of academic courses by the
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age of fourteen, their dim futures already written. Both of us
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agree that if we had been schooled in Japan, we would either now
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be working low-paying, menial jobs, or we would have (and this
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is a worst case scenario) already killed ourselves out of grief.
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Because we were given a chance in an unstreamed elementary
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school system, we benefitted from placement in a collegiate
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school, and we can both look forward to post-secondary
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education. However, in Gardner's preferred world, both of us
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would be denied future education because we would apparently
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"not belong in the same classes as . . . future doctors and
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engineers any more than a sumo wrestler would belong in the
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national ballet," to quote our elitist counterpart.
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It is the insulting condescension of Gardner's article that
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is most unfortunate. He says that it "would be much better not
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to mislead these people." In other words, if an eight-year-old
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boy has a difficult time articulating what he did on the
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weekend, or cannot grasp mathematical equations as quickly as
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another student, then the system should adopt the responsibility
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of telling that child that he is of a lower intellect, and
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streaming him accordingly. Being streamed into a lower
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direction will only reinforce this message, convincing him that
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he could never cut it in university or even in a community
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college. But Gardner insists that this is a mere "alternative,"
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something determined by a difference in strengths and weaknesses
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in certain fields. We would like to point out again that basic
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level students do not predominantly go on to do artwork or
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craftswork. Such students go on to take the most demeaning of
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jobs, being paid pittance and exploited for all they are worth.
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Would Mr. Gardner please care to explain how it is that students
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with "different abilities" possess a certain "talent" to (for
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instance) empty the contents of a trash can into a truck full of
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trash? Perhaps if he performed this task for a day he would
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realise that it is not an "alternative," but a dead end.
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Perhaps one of Gardner's most ignorant pieces of pseudo-analysis
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is the statement made that "the world does not function on
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nuclear physicists and lawyers alone," right after setting forth
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the opinion that not everyone should go to university. Does he
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really believe that universities only offer courses for future
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nuclear physicists and lawyers? Is university just another step
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in Gardner's competitive world, the step that bridges the way to
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the big career, and to the continued corporate rat race?
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Students whose ambitions include writing, visual arts, film,
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journalism, educating and just plain accumulation of worldly
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knowledge all belong in university. It is our belief that
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everyone should aim to go to university, not nessecarily to
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learn a profession, but simply to evolve into more cultured
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beings. To sum up his article, Gardner says that "it is [the]
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very fact that people are different that makes life
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interesting." We agree with this, but not with the underlying
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message that Gardner has so craftily interwoven into this
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ambiguous statement. Gardner would prefer these different
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people not to interfere in his Olympic-like ambitions, but
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rather rank many levels beneath him in a class system,
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disadvantaged in that they never reach their full potential.
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Gardner's attitude reminds us of Anglican Archbishop Findley and
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his comments about homosexuals, how he has dined with them many
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times but would never consider allowing them to work in his
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church. Yes, people are different; but you, Mr. Gardner, want
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this difference to dictate which social class we are streamed
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into, and under your rules, both of us would rank many levels
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beneath you.
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It is unfortunate that Gardner views grades one to nine as
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a place to start building hierarchies in which various people
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can be put into permanent ranks and roles. We would prefer to
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look at the interests and abilities of students as simply
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different and without order of best to worst; an abstract,
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unmapped -archy of roles and abilities, if you will. In
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other words, it is great that people are different, but that
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should not mean that they should be segregated into social
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classes. In a classroom full of diverse opinions and interests,
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the student will learn and develop more completely than
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otherwise. Perhaps the reason that it is so difficult for even
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the most esteemed students of Humberside to grasp the concept of
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and reasons behind destreaming is because of the high reputation
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of our own school, with its complete range of advanced level
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courses and handful of token general level courses (and the
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absence of any basic level courses). It is our opinion that the
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elitist, condescending views and attitudes of people like Brian
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Gardner are the exact reason why destreaming should be mandatory
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up to and including grade nine.
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THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ANYBODY WITH ACCESS TO A PHOTOCOPIER
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an anti-intro by Gregory Kalyniuk (nobody)
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Take a step back from everyday normalcy reality friends and
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family take a look at what you do what you've done where you're
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going if you're going and now ask yourself: "What purpose does
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my measly existence serve anyway? What do I do?" Well if
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you're in school working your ass off trying to earn a spot on
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that list plaqued on the wall in the main hall then chances are
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that you are doing nothing nothing nothing. Trying to get good
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marks so you could get ahead in life get married move to
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suburbia spawn and decades later on your deathbed you can
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happily say: "Well, I've lived a normal life just like
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everybody else I've raised brats who reflect my own
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narrow-minded ideals dysfunctions just like everybody else I
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exploited others and was exploited just like everybody else I
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bought into the General Electric truth and only the GE truth
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just like everybody else now I'm gonna die just like everybody
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else and I haven't even tried to leave anything for future
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generations to see that I tried to do my own thing. . .just like
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everybody else. . . ." If you don't believe me now then you
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probably never will. . .because the older you get the harder it
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gets to accept it, 'cause you're selling out more and more every
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year and even if you do understand one day you won't want to
|
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face it 'cause that'll mean accepting that most of it was all
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bullshit. . . . And the only way to go on strike against the
|
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system and have genuine success is if we all get involved. .
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.and of course one of the system's most powerful weapons for
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confusing us away from the idea of strike is the media. .
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.that's why we've got to create our own media. . .we've got to
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create 'zines. . .or, as I prefer calling them now,
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photocopyations. . . .
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Gregory Kalyniak is the founder of nobody photocopyations. He publishes
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comics, short stories and various other kinds of neat things.
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To receive many of his other writings he can be contacted through T.A.O.
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/-/\-\ The Anarchy Organization |
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/ / \ \ Free Minds For Free Lives ( | )
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\/ \/ jterpstra@trentu.ca `_^_'
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