Orange Revolution = Democracy.

The idea of Cold War and Motherland Russia seemed to be simply memories to some of us or simply historical writings in some textbook. Yet few of us would consider any remnants of the Cold War to be left over except for some buildings and symbols left scattered around central and eastern Europe.

Unfortunately this is not the case. The situation in the Ukraine has taken on a significance that far extends the limits of the one or two stories American journalist have given the situation. A peaceful Revolution, a democratic outcry, and a situation all to prevalent in newly democratic nations clashed last month, and the people demanded freedom, yet we continue instead, to receive a death count in Iraq, and stories of cabinet members fleeing the Bush Administration.

To read up on this situation two websites, both pro-Yuschenko and pro-revolution, are good at basic and somewhat inspirational accounts of the events. They also provide good links in English.

http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/
http://www.orange-revolution.com/

Papers Stolen.

Last night, Dec. 6th, an entire Rack of papers were stolen from the UGL. In their place was a flyer that depicted George W. Bush, with pictures of lynching below him.

This is the third time, that we know of, that we have had papers stolen. The first time was last year, and we also received a nice little message on that one.

What cracks me up is that the Left, the opposition to our paper and our philosophy, is supposed to be the big champions of FREE SPEECH AND EXPRESSION. Yet, why then, is our opposition squelching us?

You can read more at: http://www.isi.org/cn/

First Post.

This is the First Post of the WR Blog.

The purpose of this BLOG will be to keep up on daily news, recent happenings, discuss items in the daily paper at Wayne, and a way to keep up to date on news.

We print monthly so sometimes it is difficult to stay "on top" of certain news items, and this is the perfect avenue for that.

Please email me at: jkoss@wayne.edu with any comments or questions. If you would like the monthly edition of the Wayne Review in PDF format, email me also for that.