Vol #62, Issue #22 – December 15, 2006
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IN 274 AD, SOLSTICE FELL ON 25TH DECEMBER. ROMAN EMPEROR AURELIAN PROCLAIMED THE DATE AS "NATALIS SOLIS INVICTI," Horoscopes THE FESTIVAL OF THE BIRTH OF THE INVINCIBLE SUN. By Foster Neill The “THEY’RE MORE LIKE BAD FORTUNE COOKIES, REALLY.” GOODBYE! ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 20) It’s the end of the term so you’re confused. After all, you’re not always the best at recognizing what’s bothering you. It’s finals, not your friends. If you stick to your work and you’ll be free from stress and able to enjoy the com- VOL 62.22Record FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006 YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO pany of your friends before you leave. OODBYE Left: The Antioch AURUS PRIL AY G ! T (A 21 - M 21) Steak & Sustainability: community wel- Steady work could earn you time for a surprise date. Hope it’s your course work instead of your FWSP job that’s keeping you so busy. Adventures with Steve Lawry in comes Dr. Dana Berea’s Eco Village Patterson, our new director of the GEMINI (MAY 22 - JUNE 21) By Paige Clifton Steele One side says procrastinate, the other wants to pass your classes. Listen to the granddaughter of Arthur Morgan. Coretta Scott King the right one and you’ll have happy holidays. Listen to the wrong one and OODBYE After 187 miles and four sepa- The drive was filled with conversa- Center for Cultural have mood swings. G ! rate conversational uses of the word tion illuminating and entertaining, and Intellectual “keen”, Steve and I arrived at the especially about Steve’s past work. Freedom. A graduate CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 22) hotel. He parked his 2006 Toyota But when Steve wasn’t talking about of Berea College, Dr. Stop trying to help everyone else do their homework and do some of your Prius (tan, with a tastefully colored his time in the jungles of darkest own. Your friends are old enough to take care of themselves and you could console that told us how much ener- Africa, he was meditating on his Patterson was cho- make someone jealous if you put your energy into what really needs your gy we had consumed on the drive) place at Antioch: sen from among sixty attention. GOODBYE! and we stepped out into the crisp “It must be a big change for you to plus applicants. She December air. Together, we were be running a school,” suggested Pat will replace Beverly LEO (JULY 23 -AUGUST 21) there at Berea College of Berea, after Steve told him about his work Rodgers, who served If you’re leading your peers in the race to be finished with your finals then THANKS FOR READING! Kentucky, to investigate the limitless in nonprofits abroad. you should feel like your regular self. If not, take some vitamins and get possibilities of sustainable energy. Steve kept his eyes solemnly on as interim director motivated. With us were Megan Quinn and the road. “There’s a large degree of of the center for the Pat Murphy, who didn’t look nearly empathy between running a business past year. VIRGO (AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 23) as Scotch-Irish as their names would and higher education. But…it could This isn’t the first time you’ve felt bogged down so you have no excuses, suggest. Megan is their outreach have been a mistake.” not real ones at least. Stop pretending you’re an amateur and you might find Our MUNITION OF THE WEEK: director for Community Solution to Other Steve musings included the Conference in Review: you’re quite talented. By Stuart Tedrick Peak Oil. Pat is that organization’s possibility of putting local businesses executive director of community ser- kiosks in Sontag-Fels building when Democracy School, or: How to Make an vice, besides which he is married to McGregor moves out. A survey of LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23) If you’re just getting over a cold expect a warm social scene. If you’re just Continued....p4 Authentic Democracy with Your Bare coming down with one you might as well start getting your bags ready for the Hands holidays. SKS SEMI-AUTOMATIC CARBINE Panel outside SENS House at Berea College generates 10 round internal box magazine but after By Paige Clifton-Steele SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22) 2/3 of its electricity. that swelled to a surprising pitch when Designed by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov an easy conversion and an after market Most the time your sting is right one, but sometimes it really is you. Have Twelve men and women met two he began to inveigh against the theft in 1945, the SKS Simonov gas-powered magazine, one can have drop magazines your fun but keep in mind, they are only your friends if you treat them that weekends ago in the basement of Spalt of authority that he believes corpora- rifle was adopted into service by Soviet that load from the bottom and hold from Photo by Richard Olson way. to learn how to make a better democracy. tions have perpetrated against the right- Military forces in 1949 to be the one 10 to 30 rounds at a time. It was the 105th Democracy School— ful majority. He was flanked by CELDF of the main service rifle in the Russian With a loaded weight of 8.8 lbs, overall SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22) Below: Art Zucker, BOT an educational program created by the speakers Eme Lybarger and Kat Walter, infantry. Replaced by the more compact length of 40.16 inches and a muzzle veloc- It’s not the philosophy you should be worried about right now. Someone Chair Community Environmental Legal Defense each activists and scholars in their own AK-47 assault rifle the SKS carbine has ity of 2,411 fps when using the intended deserves your attention in more ways than one. Drop your book and find Fund (CELDF), author and legal histo- right. seen combat in most every war (and revo- 7.62 by 39mm round one can see that them. Now! rian Richard Grossman, co-founder of The class, which was aimed at Yellow lution) since it’s creation and has been this is definitely a gun that that one can On Board with the Chair the Program on Corporations, Law, and Springs residents, drew participants from modified and accessorized to meet thou- run with, fire rapidly and continuously or CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20) Democracy. within and beyond the village. It cost $295, sands of needs. selectively with more accuracy. Plus with Q&A with BOT chair Art Zucker on Everything is bound to go wrong, but you should have the energy to get The school’s full title is “The Daniel a fee that included the cost of the lecture, The basic SKS Simonov is top loading, such a high muzzle velocity and a hood- through it. At the other end is raw motivation and sweat, but you don’t have a Pennock Democracy School”, after a access to a discussion group afterwards, self-feeding, gas powered, semi-automatic ed post front sight and a tangent notch College, Core and Common DNA choice. Or do you? young Pennsylvania man who died of a and a trip to the Dayton International Peace and includes a spike or knife blade bayo- rear sight graduated from 100 to 1000 By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans massive infection after driving a tractor Museum. Also provided was a copy of net that folds under the barrel and into meters, one can hit targets at fairly long BOT, ULC, Toni Murdoch, Art Zucker, John over a toxic sludge-covered field. Holding Grossman’s book Defying Corporations, AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19) a notch the wood stock. There is also distances. Another interesting a tubular Feinberg; these acronyms and names fl y around three-day sessions held across the country, Defining Democracy, and a 364-page Write a to-do list and everything will be fine. Just stay on track. You need a Yugoslavian SKS rifle that is nearly cavity designed to hold an SKS cleaning frequently, but largely remain an enigma to the school aims to teach communities how compendium of supplemental readings to focus to finish this term or else your break will be terrible. identical in design that fires a grenade kit that all fits into a watertight tube. This, many residing on campus. Who are these people to seize control from invasive corpora- ranging from W.E.B. Du Bois to Howard on a wooden dowel directly out of the accompanied by its general durability and and what do they do? The Antioch Record sat tions using ordinances. Zinn to 17th century English charters. PISCES (FEBRUARY 20- MARCH 20) barrel when special high-pressure blanks proved reliability makes it a great assault down with chair of the Board of Trustees Art Gray-haired and wiry, Richard Grossman Grossman first showed his face on So you think you’re so smart, ahead of the game, packing already. Don’t are used. The basic design calls for car- type rifle that can be enjoyed by soldiers, Zucker ‘55, to talk about the roles of the Board, spoke in a disarmingly donnish manner Antioch Campus in McGregor on the worry. Yours is coming. Something will go wrong. If it doesn’t, you’ve tridges to be loaded individually or with civilians, and revolutionaries alike and his memories as an Alum and the future of the missed something important. But don’t worry about it, you can’t change des- metal stripper clips in the staggered 5 or can readily endure extended field use.