We came together to form a new student publication that questions the institution of journalism and mainstream news reporting. As students we feel it is our responsibility to disseminate vital information which often gets overlooked by other news sources. We use creativity in order to inform, finding new mediums to express ideas. We hope to inspire people to use this information to ignite change in the system. We won't remain stagnant in an outdated system.

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May 2003, Issue One

Scenes from the House Floor: The fight against tuition deregulation - By L. Sage Reinlie, page 2
Book Review: Trading education for cash - By Clay Reddick, page 3
UTIMCO: Pigs at the Trough - By Nicolas Schwellenbach, page 3
Illegal Pleasure: How Texas punishes the renegade dildo - By L. Sage Reinlie, page 4
Don't put that there: Sodomy laws limit rights of homosexuals - By Kena Piña, page 4
Gays, get out of my House! - By Kena Piña, page 5
The Message - By Knowm@diq, page 5
Institutional Racism: Alive and Well: Affirmative Action Debate Rears its Ugly Head - By Katie Pace, page 6
Environmental Resistance and State Oppression - page 7
Learning a lesson from NAFTA - By Andrea Guttin, page 7
Hyperethical - By Javier Arista, page 7
The eyes of Texas are upon you... - By Leah Caldwell and Forrest Wilder, page 8
UTPD, FBI team up to form terrorism task force - By Leah Caldwell, pages 8-9
How to file a complaint against the police - By Lauren Sage Reinlie, page 9
UTPD: Bang! Bang! Shoot 'Em Up! - By Leah Caldwell and Forrest Wilder, page 10
APD brutalizes antiwar activist - By L. Sage Reinlie, page 11
UTPD gone wild: Officer assaults student as punishment for chalk abuse - By L. Sage Reinlie, page 11
The Art of Framing - By Austin Indymedia, page 12
Recycling Task Force - By Ryan Harty, page 12
Fat Hate - By Laura Gladney-Lemon, page 12
A Poem - By Joshua Elliott, page 12
On the narcissism of small differences - By Forrest Wilder, page 13
Doomed to repeat it: A History of War Censorship - By Caren Panzer, pages 14-15
Lady Fest - By Brea Grant, page 15
Freedom to withhold Information Act - By Shelby Tracy, page 16
UT violates law to keep information secret - By Clay Reddick, page 16
The FCC won't let me be - By Zaid Hydari, page 17
Anarchist Soccer - By Brazos Price, page 17
Gaud Save Vintage - By Caren Panzer, page 18
Get Ready to Showdown! - By Sean Sellers, page 20

October 2003, #2

La Raza Unida Returns - By Katie Pace, page 2
Private Prisons: UT's Connections - By Bob Libal, page 3
Last One Standing: the workings of a Texas food co-op - By Caren Panzer, pages 4, 11
How-To Open a Co-op - By Caren Panzer, page 4
UTPD - By Chiefin' Geoffrey Can-the-Van Slike, page 5
By Joe Weisenthal - Well, it's by Joe Weisenthal, page 5
The Global Sellout of Higher Education - By Nick Schwellenbach, pages 6-7
Race: The Pink Elephant in the American Living Room - By Esther Wang, page 8
The Deadly Toxin: Through the Texan's basement door - By Lauren Sage Reinlie, page 9
Buildings Bonds and Breaking Boundaries - By Katie Pace, pages 10, 11
Race Relations turns into public relations - By Esther Wang, page 10
UT's chemical warfare - By John Pruett, page 11

November 2003, #3

Radical Encuentro Camp - By Caren Panzer, page 2
No One is Illegal: Inside Australia's Refugee Camps - By Charles McPhedran, pages 3, 15
Rethinking Higher Education: Student proposal for implementing a multicultural class requirement - page 4
A Meeting of the Minds: Ethnic, Women, and Gender Studies Forum - By Fatima Djelmane and Katie Pace, page 5
Open Records Guide - By Jordan Buckley, pages 6-7
Students Join Farmworkers to Boot the Bell at UT - By Lauren Sage Reinlie, pages 8-9, 15
Fight the FTAA! Why you should come to Miami - By Sean Sellers, page 11
Waller Creek: The effects of urbanization - By Leah Caldwell, pages 12, 15
UT History: 1969: Waller Creek riot - By Leah Caldwell, page 12
Open Source: The Philosophy of Access - By Caren Panzer, page 13
Finding Good Music You've Never Heard Before - By Matt Ely, page 13
MEChA: Chicana/o activist group refutes criticism - page 14
Ghettopoly: Just a game? - By Eric Brown and Katie Pace, page 15

February 2004, #4

Issue Wants You! - By Shawn Rice, page 2
APD Infiltration Exposed: Recently Released Memos Reveal the Names of Four Undercover Detectives, Acknowledge Documentation of Organizers - By Jordan Buckley, pages 3, 19
Pacifying Dissent: The FCC in San Antonio - By Caren Panzer, pages 4-5
From 1984 to 2004: Our surveillance society - By Forrest Wilder, pages 6, 19
Public Institution - Private Agenda: Behind the scenes the UT Regents and the UT System push legislation against the public interest - By Nick Schwellenbach, page 7
What's the FTAA and why the hell should I care? - By Shawn Rice, page 8
Will Texas execute justice...or Rodney Reed? - By Frank Edwards, page 9
Bikes Across Borders - By Ross Guillory, page 9
Bringing the war home: The FTAA comes to Miami - By Sean Sellers, pages 11, 19
Bush's Christmas present to the timber industry: Alaska's Tongass Rainforest - By Gavin Dahl, pages 12-13
dysfunction junction - By Jon Pearson, page 14
indyMedia news briefs - By Austin Indymedia, page 15
Whole Foods busts union in Madison, Who's Fooled? - By Daniel Marakis, pages 16, 19
UT transit workers taken for a ride - By Dana Cloud, page 17
Origins of Modern Policing - By Thomas Speer, page 18

April 2004, #5

Australians fight degree factory - By the Central Committee of the Education Liberation Front, page 2
Republicans Say the Darndest Things - page 2
Los Alamos: Learning to love the bomb - By Austin Van Zant, pages 3, 15
Los Alamos Q and A - By Forrest Wilder, pages 3, 15
Feeding the Beast: Conglomerates digest the natural food industry - By Caren Panzer, page 4
Colombia: Another forgotten front - By Austin Indymedia, pages 5, 15
Learn - By Tumen Soliz, page 5
The New Pentagon Papers - By Austin Indymedia, page 5
Gentlemen, start your mudslinging - By Daniel Marakis, page 6
The Great Escape - By Austin Indymedia, page 6
Speeding Up the Students: UT as a Factory - By Nick Schwellenbach & Callison Alcott, page 7
This is what Democracy looks like!?! - By Forrest Wilder, page 8
SG Flashback - By Forrest Wilder, page 8
Fast Food Society: Schlosser at UT - By Roland Gonzalez, page 9
Understanding Food: myth & fact - By Sara Panzer, pages 10-11
Teaching Fear: You're With Us or Against Us - By Gavin Dahl, page 12
Bush's gay agenda - By Jon Pearson, pages 13, 15
NOW's Hannah Riddering speaks - By Clay Reddick, page 14-15

September 2004, #6

Stop the presses! More mock objectivity on the way! - By Leah Caldwell, page 2
News Coverage in War Time - By Leah Caldwell, page 3
On the Record: Quotes from officials on civilian deaths - page 3
American (mis)perceptions of civilian deaths - page 3
Under New Management: American Prison Officials Working in Iraq - By Leah Caldwell, pages 4-5, 17
Sworn statements of Abu Ghraib detainees - By Leah Caldwell, page 5
New Iraqi democracy lacks freedom of press - By Lauren Reinlie, pages 6, 17
The Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water in Iraq: The Sweatshop Model of Occupation - By Nick Schwellenbach, pages 7, 17
Fox News: Thinking outside the (idiot) box - By Roland Garcia, pages 8-9
Quotables - page 9
Republican National Convention - By Forrest Wilder, pages 10, 18
Turmoil in Afghanistan spurs movement of revolutionary women - By Caren Panzer, pages 12-13, 17
Los Alamos in the News - By Austin Van Zant, page 14
Guide to Screenprinting - By the LoneStar Collective, page 16
Dispatches from Immokalee: Taco Bell Boycott continues - By Sean Sellers, page 18

October 2004, #7

Student Voting is not what it used to be - By John Pruett, page 2
Election Postponement: The Vanishing 2004 Elections - By Leah Caldwell, page 3
Viva la (conservative) revolution! - Reviewed by Forrest Wilder, pages 4, 15
Interview: Chairman Lauren Conner, Young Conservatives of Texas - By Jordan Buckley, pages 5, 15
Attack of the Killer Blogs! - By Roland Gonzalez, page 6
Walmart Blues - By Jennifer Biundo, pages 7, 15
Modern-day slavery in America - By Amy Sommer, pages 8-9
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - By Frank Edwards and Brent Perdue, page 10
For President: John Kerry - By David Mandel-Anthony, page 10-11
For President: Ralph Nader - By Lauren Reinlie, page 11
For President: Michael Badnarik - By Clark Patterson, pages 12, 15
For President: David Cobb - By Bill Holloway and Jordan Buckley, page 12
Wheatpaste - page 13

February 2005, #8

Gay Family Values - By Leah Caldwell, page 2
A Brief History of Torture - page 2
We hereby chastise... - page 3
United States Penitentiary at Beaumont: Bureau of Prisons (almost) successful at cover-ups - By Leah Caldwell, page 4
Taco Bell boycott continues ... But is student demand subsiding? - By Lauren Sage Reinlie, pages 5, 15
Immigrants hit hard by prison expansion - By Bob Libal, pages 6, 15
Hello My Name is: Al Gonzales ATTY GENERAL; Where's the Outrage? - By Charles Bierley, page 7
What makes a blue state swing? - By Caren Panzer, page 8
Higher Ed Falling off the Lege: How Texas short changes its public Universities - By John Pruett, page 9
An Indymedia history 1999-2005 - page 10
Flat-rate Tuition: I think I smell a rat - By Forrest Wilder, page 11
7 of the top 10 Pentagon contractors are in Austin - By Stefan Wray, page 11
A Walk-Out Manifesto - From McCallum High School, page 12
BRIEFS - page 13
Padre Island: Drillers gone wild - By Spencer Schnier, page 14

June 2005, #9

Freedom Freedom: Notes from Down Under - By Charles McPhedran, page 2
Que los Desaforen a Tod@s! - By Katie Pace, pages 3, 5
Interview with Jennifer Washburn - By Nick Schwellenbach, pages 4-5
Tent State Draws Attention to Legislature's Handling of Higher Ed - By Pedro de la Torre III, page 6
Tent City Blotter - By Pedro de la Torre III, page 7
Local Blog Round-Up - page 8
Doing Time in the Tomato Fields - By Baku, page 8
Putting the Taco Bell Victory in a Global Context - By Baku, page 9
The Right's Assault on Academia: An Interview with Robert Jensen - Interview by Bob Libal, pages 10, 11
Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement occupies land, sees widespread support - page 11
May is Bike Month - By Kena Piña, page 12