YOUR HELP FOR BRAINSTORMING *Last semester, we put fliers in professors' individual mailboxes, but we got no responses. Perhaps they just don't feel they have anything of interest to say. So, to inspire professors to write for us, we need to offer a few article ideas based on their department. Here's what I've come up with so far: Psychology: +Your experiment and why it's relevent. +Why reports given by eyewitnesses are misleading (you can fabricate a whole event and get people to believe they witnessed it--without any drugs or hypnosis) +Types of controls used in media--ads, news, etc. Government / Political Science: +The president has no real control over the economy, yet people vote presidents in based on the economy. +Other foolish notions the layperson has. Computers: +A few things you wish everyone knew. History: _Things it seems _everyone_ has forgotten and why they shouldn't. Science: +Your experiment and why it's relevent. All departments: +The main thing you want students to take from your class, even if they forget everything else. Please think of ideas for these and other departments, to inspire professors to write for us and email them to me as you come up with them. *We hope to make "A Modest Proposal" a regular feature, but we need more ideas. For those of you who don't know what "A Modest Proposal" is, you can find the full text on the internet (it's by Jonathan Swift). In short, it's a satire on why the rich should be able to eat poor people's babies, with many arguments to explain how much this will help everyone. So far, we've got "Vehicular Darwinism," why we should be allowed to run over pedestrians who are disobeying traffic laws; and one on Capital Punishment--explaining why it should be implemented for every crime. (If you want to read these, they've been sent to [log in to unmask], so check them out there--password "undercurrentthe".) A couple other ideas I've had: one about an economic caste system/capitalism and one about "the woman question." *For the first issue, we want to have an article written collectively about advice to freshmen. What you wish you knew when you were a freshman, in what ways college has changed you, etc. Please give us your views and ideas. *ARTICLES ARE DUE AUGUST 3. The layout is hopefully going to be revamped, and I cannot do this if I have nothing to work with but blank paper. This is a deadline, not a suggestion. We need to have the paper ready to print on the 7th, before a vast majority of our number goes to Chicago. If you have anything you want to do as a regular column, please let us know. Also, if you decide to have a regular column, please take the responsibility to make it regular--it does us no good to have a column title and no column. *We need information for the calendar, and information on meeting times and contact people for all the organizations you can think of. We are going to print over double the usual amount of issues for this first issue, and we are trying to attract new members/writers/readers, so please help make it a good one. In order to fund this, since advertising doesn't seem to be going too well right now, and there are signs that it won't until later in the year, Alex is going to ask Clark Stroud for more funding. Also, Josh is going to try to get us some money from Chickashaw, and we will trade him some issues for it. Here are a few things we've got planned, though not necessarily all for the first issue: +Erin's Worst Movies of the Summer +Eric's What You Missed This Summer, featuring the Chocolate Factory +Modest Proposal +Melissa Wabnitz's Feminist Viewpoint/Information +Reviews of local bands, independent publications, banned books, (and perhaps a return of the obscure movies) +Fake ads (like ad-busters) +Shauna's Composition of the World +Top Ten lists (Erin's got a few, but everyone can submit to this) +A follow-up to the Private Prison article, telling in what ways it has been taken care of +Sex at the University--I've heard that John was writing a semester's worth to leave with us. After we run out of those, we can have various people write about it from their points of view. We also discussed the table at the welcoming day. +it'll be an anti-corporate carnival, with at least some of the following: pin the horns on the corporate monster, a dunk tank (with a Ken dressed as a corporate monster), dart board of the corporate flag, use a bat to bash a computer that is running windows, fake maps [anyone who has any ideas for this, please email those, too. Things like the Fisher-Price School of Business, McCarthy School of Poly-Sci, Gaylord School of Journalism], a display board of us doing fun things as a group, free stuff to give out (buttons, posters, candy, pens, pencils, toys, MG Novelty stuff, etc), fliers, Right-to-Work info, voter registration forms, T-shirt order forms. +Some of this stuff has to be made by us, and our first craft night will be August 1st. That's next Wednesday. It'll be at 10:00 p.m. at Shauna's house (600 E. Lindsey, Apt. A). +More craft nights will be the 14th and 18th. The table will be on the 19th. Next spring, we may do a full-scale carnival, with face-painting, unique monopoly board, stuff from the table, etc. --Michele ===== my website:http://www.squidoctopus.homestead.com my AIM screenname: > my e-mail: [log in to unmask] (that is an L in front) Smile; it's free. :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/