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The Anarchives: The Best Of Volume One.
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Jay Terpstra
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jterpstra@trentu.ca
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Welcome to this year's final edition of The Anarchives. In this
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issue you will no doubt find many more interesting stories,
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provoking articles and imaginative ideas scattered through the
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advertisement-free pages. There have been four issues of the
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Anarchives, each one gaining bigger acclaim than the
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previous.The acclaim is a tribute mainly to Jesse Hirsh, Noah
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Dubreuil, Gregory Kalyniuk and myself, Jay Terpstra who with the
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help of others concieved the life of an unexpected medium formed
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out of a spontaneous reaction against the cesspool of dried-up
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knowledge that was and still is drowning us all.
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One of the original edicts of this paper was to provide a forum
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for radical and alternative thinking. This shouldn't be
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misconstrued as a political message. Rather it is instead
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offering students a resource for the purposes of expressing
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their own unique thoughts, something I have already discussed as
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being repressed in the classrooms at Humberside. Independent
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ideas are never wrong or right or simply left or right. They
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just are. More importantly they are true expressions of raw
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human thought without the restrictions of instruction or
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guidelines. The reason The Anarchives has been so widely
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recieved by various people and assorted cliques is because this
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paper is a direct reflection of actual true thought of people
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with limited access to free expression.
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School fades the independent thinking mind. Too often the
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content and structure of assignments are pre-concluded by
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teachers. Teachers dictate what they expect and we dutifully
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give them exactly what they want in order to make us all look
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good while accomplishing very little. The Anarchives is not so
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arrogant as to make any demands or restrictions on any writing.
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We believe in 100% free speech not available in the school, the
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Garnet, the mainstream media and most homes. The Anarchives
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train does not roar through any tracks of material ambition or
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ego trips. Quite the opposite the ride through this paper is
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diverse, multifaceted and almost muddled like a typical teenager
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or all of our minds when they are truly exercised. Anything that
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is neither borrowed or regurgitated but is rather a product of
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independent original thought can easily find a place in this
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paper. Think what you will with a mind free of glut and sameness
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and write it with the same style and rawness it started out as.
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Quality is not something that can be defined or inserted into
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guidelines. Quality is in the eyes of individual readers. Enjoy
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the read.
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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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THINKING ABOUT HUMBERSIDE
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"Schools teach you to imitate"
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Robert M. Pirsig
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by: Jay Terpstra
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Recently I was talking to a concerned parent who wishes he had
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never sent his son to Humberside because, and I quote "He was
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never provoked to think". I found this an interesting statement
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and, being a Humberside student myself, I struggled to think
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about it. I came up with certain reasons why Humbersiders are
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easily programmed not to think. One is the slave mentality
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engrained in students from grade one, drastically affecting the
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minds of students who have realized that the sole importance of
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school is high grades with or without (often without) real
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knowledge. This mentality is upheld and maintained by teachers
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who are unwilling or unable to put the emphasis of their courses
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on education as opposed to information feeding. Consequently,
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open and thoughtful minds are narrowed to a repressive
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subservience for the mainstream.
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I can remember being forced into senseless discipline in grade
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school and thinking to myself that by the time I reached the
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school where my brother and all the other big people went, I'd
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be treated with respect and given freedoms. I now realize how
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naive I actually was. One day last week I had a class that
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ended a t 3:10. The teacher said she was finished the lesson
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but couldn't let us go because she was afraid we would disturb
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other classes. We, being mature OAC students, old enough to be
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fighting a war as part of an army. As I was waiting to be told
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to line up in a quiet straight row I wondered if every other
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class in the school was waiting impatiently for five minutes to
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be up as they did nothing. I realized after the teacher told us
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to just sit till 3:15 that much of my school career has been
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spent as if I were doing time for a crime.
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Since I wasn't allowed to leave and bang on other classroom
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doors making funny noises, I decided to get out my agenda book.
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I had a maximum 500 word essay to write which demanded an
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"extensive bibliography" even though there would be no room to
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quote or make reference to practically all of the materials.
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Then I wondered what to do for an independent study project,
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quickly realizing I should first read the seven page instruction
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booklet so as to understand how I could independently do a
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project so dependant on department guidelines. After exiting, I
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immediately related to expressions of other regiments of boredom
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and exhaustion floating down the hall.
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And one therefore learns self-confidence as a student only by
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seeing that one's questions, not one's current store of
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knowledge, always determine whether one becomes truly educated.
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Grant Wiggins
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It is depressing to reflect on what is actually valued at
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Humberside. Two events come to my mind. One is the first day
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of my high school career, four and a half years ago, when a
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principal told a gym of small, scared and unsure teenagers never
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to ask questions that weren't well thought out and at the high
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school level. My next memory is of the annual honours assembly,
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honouring those who obviously asked only smart questions. I use
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these two images because they so vividly illustrate what is so
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backward about Humberside. First of all, the student is told in
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no uncertain terms to only act on concepts they are absolutely
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sure about thus creating a perfect environment for
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close-mindedness. The most common, convenient and
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beneficial-to-grades class practice is to shut up and only dish
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out what the teacher wants to hear. I know from person
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experience that a student can achieve high school success while
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learning very little. The grades are presented as the
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all-mighty, dictating both intelligence and potential. For
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several hours every year those with high marks are used in the
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administration's day of show and tell as shining cadets for
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everyone to look up to and strive to emulate.
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Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can
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go through an entire quarter (term) leaving absolutely nothing
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memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an
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irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned
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and some have not. - Pirsig
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The majority of the courses I have taken at Humberside depend
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solely on the grade to give them purpose. Let's use an OAC law
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course I have taken as a premier example. After finishing this
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course last year I was given a low mark and realized I had
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wasted an entire year since I gained only trivial knowledge and
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probably wouldn't use the course as one of my six OAC's for
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University. We spent the whole year obediently copying down
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notes from the board that were directly taken from the textbook.
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At the end of each chapter we would have a monotonous quiz
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testing factual memory. My ISP was interesting but counted for
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a very small portion of the final mark, leaving my fate to
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multiple choice questions and fill-in-the-blanks. I have to ask
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what would that class have been without grades? It would either
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have been non-existent or unattended. Looking back, I wonder
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why the teacher didn't just tell us to read and memorize the
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textbook at the beginning of the year and return to class in
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December for the exam. Again, this is a perfect example of how
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Humberside generally fails to provoke thought or quality
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education.
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Unknowingly, children and young adults can be seduced into
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believing they will climb to the top if they eradicate their
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creativity. Because they are unable to think or feel for
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themselves, they fail to recognize the power drive that has
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destroyed the teacher's creativity and is now destroying theirs.
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- Marion Woodman
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The student's mind should be respected and nourished with
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freedoms and mediums for expression. Imagination and creativity
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are key to individual development and evolution. To encourage
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creativity, the school should allow and value more independent
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work and less structured and narrowed assignments. Teachers
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should treat students as mature people and show the students
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that she or he is interested in the subject and willing to
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change or improve course structure and content. Instead of
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honouring grades to work that is not reflective of true thought,
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the school should honour original work and creative
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participation in the learning process. Unfortunately, however,
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competition and reputation-minded administrators will continue
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to plague the system. What needs to be realized is that the
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public school system is the only relatively free institution
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where the tools for education are available but severely misused.
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The only solution for students comes from a favourite quote of
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mine from Mark Twain: "I never let my schooling get in the way
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of my education."
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The Last Day of Consumerism
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by Jay Terpstra
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I wake up to the blurry vision of my saviour, a new bottle of
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Roalids sitting on the top of the dresser. Gulping a couple down
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to relieve the build-up from the Pizza-Pizza special I had the
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previous night I lock my hands together and pray to my almighty
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12 CD changing mega-booming stereo machine. After my morning
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ritual I remote control some tunes and make my way down my
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personal elevator to my kitchen table where my chocolate cereal
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waits.
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Once I'm dressed I enter my Ford Mustang and tell nobody in
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particular that I have driven a Ford lately. Since I'm headed
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east along the Gardiner I'm confronted by the uninvited sun. So
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I place my Ray Ban sunglasses over my eyes and slap some
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Coppertone sunscreen on my cheeks. Satisfied that I'm protected
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from the evils of the sun I accelerate to 160 Km/h.
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Once in my office I help myself to a cup of Taster's choice and
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listen attentively to a colleague who just read on an article on
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the new microwaves that can cook a meal in just under 2 seconds.
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A convenience not to be missed. After working all morning
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formulating ideas for an advertisement of the new Toyota's I
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check into the Y for my regular squash game with my friend Dan.
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He is wearing new squash pumps from Nike that are made out of
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material that fits every corner and curve of your foot. It kind
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of molds around your toes right down to your heel for ultimate
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comfort and protection. After the game we relax at MacDonalds
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which just brought back their annual bacon, double cheese
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special.
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On my way home I shop for my son's birthday and get him some
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full size Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who kick and punch on
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touch. In addition I got him a high-powered water machine gun
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complete with back pack supply from Fisher Price. On my way out
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of the "Shoppers Paradise Mall" I sweat with the burning heat of
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the mid afternoon sun and gasp for air. Luckily I have an
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instant cool air conditioner in my car and an air mask that I
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put in myself when it was clear that since Brazil was gone and
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forests became in serious danger of extinction that the air
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supply would be a little lower. Back on the Gardiner, I tune in
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to the CBC news and am comforted by the calm soothing voice on
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the other end of my new Sony speakers. Unfortunately though, he
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is telling me that the world has a maximum 4 hours left of
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existence.
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The news update is very interesting, full of experts and polls
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and statistics. The broadcaster states that the exact time of
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the world's destruction depends on whether the nuclear war
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breaks out before the air supply runs out. Experts agree that
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the threat of war is somewhat more immediate due to the fact
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that it would only take a second to blow up the world whereas
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oxygen tends to diminish a little more gradually. However a
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proffessor from UCLA insists that its unrealistic to think the
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middle East could attack the West. He ascertains that the air
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supply in the middle East has most probably already dissolved,
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leaving Washington as the only serious nuclear threat to the
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world. However, a government spokesmean from the White House
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assures the panel that the government has set a mandate for war
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in the next 5 hours if officals from the Middle East doesn't
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remove their specialized sattelites from the moon. "And after
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all", boasts the spokesman, "we never back down on our
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promises". I arrive safely in my driveway just as an ad comes
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over the thinning air about the new microwaves going on sale
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this weekand. You remember, the one that cooks a dinner in just
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under 2 seconds.
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Entering my home I'm suddenly filled with exhaustion from my
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long day. Relaxing on my soft leather couch I turn on my wall
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size Sony T.V. and am swept away by sensationalized soap operas
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of unreal reality. Hours later when the news starts taking over
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the soaps I suddenly remember the awful mess the world is in and
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decide to get up for a drink planning to come back for a CNN
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update. I open the fridge and to my relief there's one
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recyclable Classic Coke can left, sitting majestically on the
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top shelf. Opening the can to a heavanly hiss and an ocean spray
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I become calm and comforted by the fact that whatever happens
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there will always be Coke. What more do you need?
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The Destructive Socialization of Males
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by Jay Terpstra
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The so-called 'gender war' has reached new levels of controversy
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and heated battle as the movement towards equality of the sexes
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is still tested everyday in North American society. The reason
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for this is because no matter how much women's roles, ambitions
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and desires change and evolve for better or worse, one thing has
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not changed: men still rape and exploit women as readily as
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could have been expected a century ago. First of all I want to
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establish that no man is born a rapist. Rape is a conditioned
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power-tripping sex crime that is encouraged by mainstream
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soicety. Traditional feminism understands that men are at the
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centre of the repression of femininity and women's rights. This
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core influence can be reformed. Anti-feminism feminist Camille
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Paglia, accuses feminism of "social constructionism". However
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Paglia's idea that men are born wild animals oblivious to any
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voice of reason is a statement of defeatism and denial. Paglia
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arrogantly claims that "generation after generation, men must be
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educated, refined, and ethically persuaded away from their
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tendancy toward anarchy and brutishness". I for one resent the
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idea that I would kill and rape if not for being "refined" by
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others. Quite the opposite, I believe that brutishness and
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aggressiveness are taught and ingrained into males by a society
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I wouldn't consider "ethical".
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In her insightful book The Rites of Man, Rosalind Miles
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documents how male babies are almost always favoured over female
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babies and treated with more care and tenderness. For example
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Elena Belotti, a professor of psychology found that a boy is
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allowed to "attack the breast" for milk while a girl is
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considered "greedy" for wanting more. Similarly boys are
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encouraged to explore more freely than girls and are permitted
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to play with their genitals, "a source of complimentary jesting,
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pride and attention". Traditionally many mothers have comforted
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male infants through sexual touch. Freud justified this by
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saying that this offered a child "an unending source of sexual
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excitation and satisfaction from his erotogenic zones". Men are
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bred to seek satisfaction whenever they feel like it regardless
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of the circumstances. Subsequently it is easy to understand why
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sexual violations of women are the most common crimes.
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Not surprisingly a study done by UCLA found that 50% of 14-18
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year olds thought it was acceptable for a man to rape a woman if
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he was sexually aroused by her. In a survey documented by Naomi
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Wolf in the shocking and important book, The Beauty Myth, 1 in 4
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girls in grade 13 across our fine city of Toronto reported
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having been raped. In a study done at UCLA in 1986, it was
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discovered that 58% of college men would force women into having
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sex if they could get away with it. These educated men
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obviously have no appreciation or care for women as anything
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more than slabs of meat to be devoured. This is not genetic,
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this is conditioned by patriarchal authorities.
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A boy is taught early on in childhood that to become a real man
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is to divorce himself from everything female which is translated
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into everything soft, humane, dependant, weak and emotional.
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Michael Kaufman, a writer and professor at York University says
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that masculinity is in fact not biological at all. It is a
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learned "reaction against passivity and powerlessness".
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Masculinity is taught every day through sport and exercise where
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children are encouraged to be brutally aggressive and taught how
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to recieve and deliver pain. Many boarding schools around the
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world still promote strong physical discipline to prevent boys
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from growing up "weak". Most people know all too well of the big
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brother beating up on the smaller and younger sibling for
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purposes of toughening up the young one into being a strong
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person and possibly a criminal.
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The message to young males is clear; physical might is the way
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to achieve power. Men have been socialized to repress emotion
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and subsequently express their repressed emotion with their
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fists. At a Toronto mandatted group for assaultive men almost
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all of the convicted abusers used physical violence to counter
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arguments with their wives that they felt inadequate to compete
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with at a verbal level. Most men are taught to keep feelings
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hidden inside because of the shame most would have to deal with
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at not being the masculine man. Consequently and not
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surprisingly many men express themselves through physical might
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or intimidation.
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Men must realize that the phony masculinity taught by parents,
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schools and mass media is destructive and repressive. Men must
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learn to embrace and express everything that makes them feeling
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human beings. Men must learn to advance past the repressive,
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primitive traits of masculinity. Institutions that promote
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violence and sexism must be transformed. Society must stop
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promoting man as the hunter; the jock; the invincible barbarian,
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while portraying women as the hunted; the fragile beauty; the
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complacent victim of masculinity. Men have to stop limiting
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their existence to the lonely and primitive football field and
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should start appreciating sex as an equal wonder of nature
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rather than an act of pride and cheap accomplishment like a
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winning touchdown.
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Men in power are too outnumbered to achieve continued success in
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fooling women and themselves. However, failure is far away when
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you consider that the highest paying, most accessible jobs for
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women are prostitution and modelling. As part of a controlling
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strategy of fearfull institutions, women are trapped by constant
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images of neccessary unhealthy beauty to achieve success in a
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world where women are encouraged to stop eating and aging.
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Naomi Wolf points out that as a way of keeping women down,. they
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are encouraged to take on careers but not at the expense of the
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home and child-rearing. Repressed sexist men in power are
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finding new and more decietful ways to keep women under their
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masculine wrath. Men continue to destroy themselves through
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conditioned masculine madness while women continue to fall
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victim, despite gains made by the feminist movement. It's time
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to start communicating and sharing with each other so that one
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day we can all join together as whole human beings.
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Expressions of the Unconscious
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by Jay Terpstra
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Suddenly aware of brutish advances
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I gaze darkly around the moon
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stars me as I ride far down
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mourning and boring through cozy
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field levels of blue grass
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Tapering aware into the darkness
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lighted bu unknown allies of doom
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I trap and crawl away to the sun
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Far far hey far off beyond you
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The sunsetted distance is grinding away
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crying with tingles of amazement
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gone through the depths of oceans
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oceans gone sour with human salt
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Come over away through suns of
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carrageen faucets of creel of
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mud of whore of cooked by
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heating suns of guitar guitar
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unworded by mice and more mice
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going to round and fired down
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by seas shore of positive archives
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Moonshined speakers blaring love
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through the tones of speaker
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through to the doorstep of
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mind my obliterated and
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cringed with undoubtless obstacles
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of fantasy storming reality
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in around through and inside
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mirrors of truth locked and
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matured with grooving treads
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of unadulterated cryings over
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love, me , she, T.V. the sun the moon
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the school the bank the dark
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flowers of roaming hills
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far and beyond my mourning
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obstacles obstacles obstacles
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Rhythmic vibrations strike deep
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causing eruptions of impulse
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weaving in and out of matter
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flying around circles of stars
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crying driving diving flying
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gazing deep deep beyond
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the flowers buried deep underneath
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the crusted sick looking soul
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far past the decaying bones
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rotten rotten rotten
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rotten with time
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Bugging into phony flesh
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gazing deep into dirt pools of shallolw truth
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beyond the fields of growing grass
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beyond the mountains of soft stone
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beyond the stars of dazzling light
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beyond the crying storms of summer
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the silent lakes of no-voice
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Overtly undone by sanctuaries of reason
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and starred visions of matrimony
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drumming in and around fire blown
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star lit moonshines driving
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and as coming of days of glisty
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flying through the hymns of
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darkness- darkness everywhere
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down and far away beyond far way
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over the mountains
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Flying fingers of no surrender
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prounce and perform without care
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caring over and around by rocks
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of catastrophe tapering with ice flows
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Ice flows of mind sink
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deep under far cries of what it was
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over my size of tranquility
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you can feel the sun of the heat flying by
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going for a run by down at the suns
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moonshine forth comes the calls
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of mortal and ultramontane
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tarantula-like far going around
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Zeroed into submission
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fearing emptiness demands new soil
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craved by dawns of indifference
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Nothing is whatever
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something can't be
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Something is nothing
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returned with something
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/-/\-\ The Anarchy Organization |
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/ / \ \ Free Minds For Free Lives ( | )
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--|-/----\-\-- yakimov@ecf.utoronto.ca \|/
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\/ \/ jterpstra@trentu.ca `_^_'
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