<div>I have a copy of the 1969 "Bear Tracks" yearbook, which you can borrow to scan. "Off list" in the subject heading for this, if you wish, so I don't miss it. I do not have a scanner. Or someone else may have already accommodated...</div>
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<div>As to finding a copy of "Cerberus," I have no clue, or at least no clues I now wish to pursue. Most of the copies were seized by Moscow High authorities, before anyone could read them. There was only one issue, as far as I remember. Issues of the followup to "Cerberus," "The Word," may be more accessible, somewhere...</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/26/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Ted -<br><br>Would you do me a great favor?<br><br>Could you scan page 85 of the 1969 Bear Tracks and send it to me?<br>
<br>Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease . . .<br><br>I have a few of the 60s Bear Tracks (1963, 1965, and 1966).<br><br>As you know, I have made copies of the 1970 UI underground newspaper "The<br>Buffalo Free Press" and posted them. I would like to research the MHS'<br>
Cerberus and locate a copy (if there is a copy in existence).<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>> I'll do that. I have the yearbook, I think.<br>><br>> Sue<br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: Ted Moffett<br>> To: Sue Hovey<br>> Cc: Tom Hansen ; <a href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a> ; <a href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu">ngier@uidaho.edu</a> ;<br>> <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:31 PM<br>> Subject: Re: Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967<br>><br>><br>> Just look on page 85 of the 1969 Moscow High yearbook "Bear Tracks"<br>
> and you can discover the identities of the originators of "Cerberus."<br>> There might be a few of the contributors who are not pictured, but a few<br>> of the ring leaders are...<br>><br>> Ted Moffett<br>
><br>><br>> On 2/21/09, Sue Hovey <<a href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Ted, I didn't know about that one. I started teaching in Moscow the<br>> next year so don't recall it or any references to it. I could probably<br>
> figure out some of the hs kids who might have been involved based on<br>> their interests and their tenacity.<br>><br>> Sue H.<br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>> From: Ted Moffett<br>
> To: Tom Hansen<br>> Cc: <a href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</a> ; <a href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a> ; <a href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu">ngier@uidaho.edu</a><br>
> ; <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:46 PM<br>> Subject: Moscow High's "underground" "Cerberus," 1967<br>
><br>><br>> A group of Moscow High students in 1967 produced an "underground"<br>> print media production containing prose, poetry and commentary, titled<br>> "Cerberus," named after the mythological creature that guards that gates<br>
> of hell. The brains behind this production considered our education to<br>> be oriented toward masking unpleasant truths about our world, as those<br>> in hell were kept from escaping by the mythical multi-headed Cerberus,<br>
> and entry to the underworld also denied:<br>><br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus</a><br>><br>> "The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as<br>
> having three heads, a mane of live serpents and a dragon's tail."<br>> -----------------<br>> We widely distributed issues of this production, featuring a<br>> picture of Cerberus on the cover, without official notice to anyone,<br>
> throughout Moscow High. Given the production featured satirical pieces<br>> about a teacher or two at Moscow High, and other content that was<br>> controversial, the issues were seized by Moscow High authorities, and<br>
> those who wrote for this production were hauled into the principle's<br>> office for a tongue lashing, threats, etc. Our parents were notified.<br>><br>> The guardians of the gates of hell at Moscow High decided to allow<br>
> organization of a monitored club to ensure that future issues of our<br>> little experiment in free speech were not quite so free... in other<br>> words, censored. The name of the production was re-named "The Word," a<br>
> rather silly lame moniker compared to the bold and provocative<br>> "Cerberus."<br>><br>> On page 85 of the 1969 Moscow High yearbook "Bear tracks" is a<br>> page, with photos of the "staff," regarding "The Word." At least two of<br>
> those pictured also later wrote for "Buffalo Free Press," censors<br>> banished.<br>><br>> The 1969 Bear Tracks features this commentary on "The Word:"<br>><br>> "The Word was begun in 1967 as a complement to the official school<br>
> journal, the Wosco. The original Word staff felt that a more relevant,<br>> if sometimes more radical, copy should be published for the benefit of<br>> the MSHS student body. The paper is published in a rather elastic<br>
> bi-weekly schedule."<br>><br>> Ted Moffett<br>><br>> On 2/19/09, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br>> The thing is you just ain't lived until you read your name in<br>
> the LA Free<br>> Press following a sit-in at LA's McArthur Park during the summer<br>> of '68.<br>><br>> But that was back before records of it were expunged (turning 18<br>> 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<br>
> 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<br>> editions. It was<br>> > during the days of the high school paper, the Wocsomonian (I<br>
> never<br>> > understood the title either) and I think the kids in the<br>> journalism<br>> > class had a hand in its publication, as well. It dealt more<br>> with<br>> > school issues than other political events. I remember one was<br>
> dress<br>> > codes, but that didn't get much play because it was about that<br>> time the<br>> > dress codes pretty much disappeared in the high school for<br>> both students<br>
> > and teachers. The printing was done off campus, but the<br>> 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 href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:47 PM<br>> > Subject: [Vision2020] Buffalo Free Press,Early Seventies<br>> Underground<br>> > Newspaper<br>> ><br>> ><br>
> > Not an "urban legend."<br>> ><br>> > I was wondering what the readers of Vision2020 really knew<br>> about<br>> > "underground" newspapers in our area during the sixties or<br>
> early<br>> > seventies, given I worked and wrote for such a newspaper, that<br>> was<br>> > distributed throughout the Northwest, and based in Moscow,<br>> Idaho. So I<br>> > asked first, hoping someone would remember... I'm not sure how<br>
> exactly<br>> > to define an "underground"newspaper, but this newspaper was<br>> not done for<br>> > profit, and had little if any advertising, with content of a<br>> very<br>
> > "radical" social political nature.<br>> ><br>> > It was printed on the "Daily Idahonian" (I might have this<br>> wrong, but<br>> > that's what "The Daily News" was called then) printing<br>
> presses. We<br>> > sometimes worked out of the Campus Christian Center during<br>> brainstorming<br>> > sessions that I wish I had audio tapes of... I could name at<br>> least three<br>
> > of the staff (not including me), all capable thinkers and<br>> writers, one<br>> > of whom I know Nick Gier knew personally (Nick, if you can<br>> guess who,<br>> > please keep it to yourself). I clearly recall once accepting<br>
> a large<br>> > shipment of this newspaper that I distributed freely, with<br>> some<br>> > trepidation, given the "radical" content, to the citizens of<br>> 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<br>> respond who<br>> > recalls the brilliant and well distributed "underground"<br>> newspaper (yes,<br>
> > a real newspaper on newsprint, not a mimeograph machine)<br>> published in<br>> > the early 1970s in Moscow, Idaho, "Buffalo Free Press."<br>> Though printed<br>> > as though a newspaper, it was more of a sophisticated social<br>
> political<br>> > activist journal.<br>> ><br>> > If anyone reading this by some miracle has a copy of one or<br>> more of<br>> > the editions of this newspaper I would love to at least copy<br>
> it...<br>> ><br>> > Ted Moffett<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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