[Vision2020] Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Thu Feb 26 05:24:09 PST 2009
Ted -
Would you do me a great favor?
Could you scan page 85 of the 1969 Bear Tracks and send it to me?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease . . .
I have a few of the 60s Bear Tracks (1963, 1965, and 1966).
As you know, I have made copies of the 1970 UI underground newspaper "The
Buffalo Free Press" and posted them. I would like to research the MHS'
Cerberus and locate a copy (if there is a copy in existence).
Thanks.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
> I'll do that. I have the yearbook, I think.
>
> Sue
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ted Moffett
> To: Sue Hovey
> Cc: Tom Hansen ; debismith at moscow.com ; ngier at uidaho.edu ;
> vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967
>
>
> Just look on page 85 of the 1969 Moscow High yearbook "Bear Tracks"
> and you can discover the identities of the originators of "Cerberus."
> There might be a few of the contributors who are not pictured, but a few
> of the ring leaders are...
>
> Ted Moffett
>
>
> On 2/21/09, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:
> Ted, I didn't know about that one. I started teaching in Moscow the
> next year so don't recall it or any references to it. I could probably
> figure out some of the hs kids who might have been involved based on
> their interests and their tenacity.
>
> Sue H.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ted Moffett
> To: Tom Hansen
> Cc: suehovey at moscow.com ; debismith at moscow.com ; ngier at uidaho.edu
> ; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:46 PM
> Subject: Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967
>
>
> A group of Moscow High students in 1967 produced an "underground"
> print media production containing prose, poetry and commentary, titled
> "Cerberus," named after the mythological creature that guards that gates
> of hell. The brains behind this production considered our education to
> be oriented toward masking unpleasant truths about our world, as those
> in hell were kept from escaping by the mythical multi-headed Cerberus,
> and entry to the underworld also denied:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus
>
> "The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as
> having three heads, a mane of live serpents and a dragon's tail."
> -----------------
> We widely distributed issues of this production, featuring a
> picture of Cerberus on the cover, without official notice to anyone,
> throughout Moscow High. Given the production featured satirical pieces
> about a teacher or two at Moscow High, and other content that was
> controversial, the issues were seized by Moscow High authorities, and
> those who wrote for this production were hauled into the principle's
> office for a tongue lashing, threats, etc. Our parents were notified.
>
> The guardians of the gates of hell at Moscow High decided to allow
> organization of a monitored club to ensure that future issues of our
> little experiment in free speech were not quite so free... in other
> words, censored. The name of the production was re-named "The Word," a
> rather silly lame moniker compared to the bold and provocative
> "Cerberus."
>
> On page 85 of the 1969 Moscow High yearbook "Bear tracks" is a
> page, with photos of the "staff," regarding "The Word." At least two of
> those pictured also later wrote for "Buffalo Free Press," censors
> banished.
>
> The 1969 Bear Tracks features this commentary on "The Word:"
>
> "The Word was begun in 1967 as a complement to the official school
> journal, the Wosco. The original Word staff felt that a more relevant,
> if sometimes more radical, copy should be published for the benefit of
> the MSHS student body. The paper is published in a rather elastic
> bi-weekly schedule."
>
> Ted Moffett
>
> On 2/19/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> The thing is you just ain't lived until you read your name in
> the LA Free
> Press following a sit-in at LA's McArthur Park during the summer
> of '68.
>
> But that was back before records of it were expunged (turning 18
> and all).
>
> It was bitchin', man!
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> > Ted,
> > There was an "underground" newspaper in the high school in the
> very
> > early 70s (probably a year or so after you graduated.) It was
> > mimeographed and didn't publish more than a couple of
> editions. It was
> > during the days of the high school paper, the Wocsomonian (I
> never
> > understood the title either) and I think the kids in the
> journalism
> > class had a hand in its publication, as well. It dealt more
> with
> > school issues than other political events. I remember one was
> dress
> > codes, but that didn't get much play because it was about that
> time the
> > dress codes pretty much disappeared in the high school for
> both students
> > and teachers. The printing was done off campus, but the
> distribution
> > was on campus.
> >
> > Maybe some of you early 70s grads remember it.
> >
> > Sue H.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ted Moffett
> > To: deb ; Nick Gier
> > Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:47 PM
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press,Early Seventies
> Underground
> > Newspaper
> >
> >
> > Not an "urban legend."
> >
> > I was wondering what the readers of Vision2020 really knew
> about
> > "underground" newspapers in our area during the sixties or
> early
> > seventies, given I worked and wrote for such a newspaper, that
> was
> > distributed throughout the Northwest, and based in Moscow,
> Idaho. So I
> > asked first, hoping someone would remember... I'm not sure how
> exactly
> > to define an "underground"newspaper, but this newspaper was
> not done for
> > profit, and had little if any advertising, with content of a
> very
> > "radical" social political nature.
> >
> > It was printed on the "Daily Idahonian" (I might have this
> wrong, but
> > that's what "The Daily News" was called then) printing
> presses. We
> > sometimes worked out of the Campus Christian Center during
> brainstorming
> > sessions that I wish I had audio tapes of... I could name at
> least three
> > of the staff (not including me), all capable thinkers and
> writers, one
> > of whom I know Nick Gier knew personally (Nick, if you can
> guess who,
> > please keep it to yourself). I clearly recall once accepting
> a large
> > shipment of this newspaper that I distributed freely, with
> some
> > trepidation, given the "radical" content, to the citizens of
> the Twin
> > Falls, Idaho area, when I was visiting friends in Twin Falls.
> >
> > Apparently, Vision2020 has no one reading or inclined to
> respond who
> > recalls the brilliant and well distributed "underground"
> newspaper (yes,
> > a real newspaper on newsprint, not a mimeograph machine)
> published in
> > the early 1970s in Moscow, Idaho, "Buffalo Free Press."
> Though printed
> > as though a newspaper, it was more of a sophisticated social
> political
> > activist journal.
> >
> > If anyone reading this by some miracle has a copy of one or
> more of
> > the editions of this newspaper I would love to at least copy
> it...
> >
> > Ted Moffett
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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