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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll do that. I have the yearbook, I
think.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=suehovey@moscow.com
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> ; <A
title=debismith@moscow.com
href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=ngier@uidaho.edu href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu">ngier@uidaho.edu</A> ;
<A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Moscow High's "underground"
"Cerberus," 1967</DIV>
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<DIV>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...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ted Moffett<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 2/21/09, <B class=gmail_sendername>Sue
Hovey</B> <<A href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue H. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=starbliss@gmail.com
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com" target=_blank>Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target=_blank>Tom Hansen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=suehovey@moscow.com
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com" target=_blank>suehovey@moscow.com</A> ;
<A title=debismith@moscow.com
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com" target=_blank>debismith@moscow.com</A>
; <A title=ngier@uidaho.edu
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu" target=_blank>ngier@uidaho.edu</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
target=_blank>vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 21, 2009
1:46 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Moscow High's "underground"
"Cerberus," 1967</DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>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:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus"
target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"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."</DIV>
<DIV>-----------------</DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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." </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The 1969 Bear Tracks features this commentary on "The Word:"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"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."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ted Moffett</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 2/19/09, <B class=gmail_sendername>Tom
Hansen</B> <<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target=_blank>thansen@moscow.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The
thing is you just ain't lived until you read your name in the LA
Free<BR>Press following a sit-in at LA's McArthur Park during the summer
of '68.<BR><BR>But that was back before records of it were expunged
(turning 18 and all).<BR><BR>It was bitchin', man!<BR><BR>Tom
Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>> Ted,<BR>> There was an
"underground" newspaper in the high school in
the very<BR>> early 70s (probably a year or so after you
graduated.) It was<BR>> mimeographed and didn't publish
more than a couple of editions. It was<BR>> during the
days of the high school paper, the Wocsomonian (I never<BR>>
understood the title either) and I think the kids in the
journalism<BR>> class had a hand in its publication, as
well. It dealt more with<BR>> school issues than other
political events. I remember one was dress<BR>> codes, but
that didn't get much play because it was about that time the<BR>>
dress codes pretty much disappeared in the high school for both
students<BR>> and teachers. The printing was done off
campus, but the distribution<BR>> was on campus.<BR>><BR>>
Maybe some of you early 70s grads remember it.<BR>><BR>> Sue
H.<BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>>
From: Ted Moffett<BR>> To: deb ; Nick
Gier<BR>> Cc: <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
target=_blank>vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> Sent:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:47 PM<BR>> Subject:
[Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press,Early Seventies Underground<BR>>
Newspaper<BR>><BR>><BR>> Not an "urban
legend."<BR>><BR>> I was wondering what the readers of
Vision2020 really knew about<BR>> "underground" newspapers in our
area during the sixties or early<BR>> seventies, given I worked and
wrote for such a newspaper, that was<BR>> distributed throughout the
Northwest, and based in Moscow, Idaho. So I<BR>> asked
first, hoping someone would remember... I'm not sure how exactly<BR>>
to define an "underground"newspaper, but this newspaper was not done
for<BR>> profit, and had little if any advertising, with content of a
very<BR>> "radical" social political
nature.<BR>><BR>> It was printed on the "Daily
Idahonian" (I might have this wrong, but<BR>> that's what "The Daily
News" was called then) printing presses. We<BR>> sometimes
worked out of the Campus Christian Center during brainstorming<BR>>
sessions that I wish I had audio tapes of... I could name at least
three<BR>> of the staff (not including me), all capable thinkers and
writers, one<BR>> of whom I know Nick Gier knew personally (Nick, if
you can guess who,<BR>> please keep it to yourself). I
clearly recall once accepting a large<BR>> shipment of this newspaper
that I distributed freely, with some<BR>> trepidation, given the
"radical" content, to the citizens of the Twin<BR>> Falls, Idaho
area, when I was visiting friends in Twin
Falls.<BR>><BR>> Apparently, Vision2020 has no one
reading or inclined to respond who<BR>> recalls the brilliant and
well distributed "underground" newspaper (yes,<BR>> a real newspaper
on newsprint, not a mimeograph machine) published in<BR>> the early
1970s in Moscow, Idaho, "Buffalo Free Press." Though
printed<BR>> as though a newspaper, it was more of a sophisticated
social political<BR>> activist journal.<BR>><BR>>
If anyone reading this by some miracle has a copy of one or more
of<BR>> the editions of this newspaper I would love to at least copy
it...<BR>><BR>> Ted
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