newspaper publication

Hey all, here are the article ideas I have. Feel free to throw out other options/ideas or select one of the following to write:



Personal "Conversion" Experience - As we discussed before, a lot of us went through interesting experiences to come from being conservative good-two-shoes to radical nonviolent activists. A lot of students struggle at Messiah when their conscience is confronted with the idea of "pacifism," so it'd be helpful for someone to give their personal experience of that. Maybe then those who are "on the fence" might be comfortably "converted" to our Kingdom alliance.

Brief description of who we are - Though we may not yet have an official name for our Peace Fellowship, we can still describe what we're about and more tangibly, what we are hoping to do on and off campus. I was thinking the article title could be, "Shalohmygod! That group is on campus?!?!"


Recent News on Campus - It has recently come to my attention that a group of campus students didn't like the fact that the $20000 of Messiah rollover money was going to be invested in either new tennis courts, union chairs, etc. Cammie Wilcock who lives in Solly was upset that there was no option for "service" or "giving" - saying that a Christian community should naturally respond selflessly when they find extra cash in their pockets. She (and 500+ students who signed a petition) asked the student forum to put some kind of service option on the thing we're supposed to vote about soon, and although a few students of the forum were trying to cooperate, she was largely shot down by a group of power hungry people. The student body can act for justice by being able to vote for this or we can have a sit-in if we find that necessary, helpful, and a just battle to wage (example - they make new tennis courts, we erect a tent city). This article would be investigative. Contact people would be Cammie Wilcock (I have her phone number), members of student forum, the mass email about the topic that was sent out.

The developing Peace and Conflict Studies major - somebody could give a brief overview on what's up with this new major. Contact people would be Sharon Baker, Anne Marie, maybe Josh and Luiza (since they are/were on the board). Victoria and I (phil) are the first (un)official majors and we could probably throw in a few words too.


Theological or philosophical article - open-ended

Historical article - maybe we should write about the success of a nonviolent movement in the past, just to show people that it actually works and isn't impractical.


Other issues - With all of your permission, I would like to write a theoretical opinion article on how we Americans could literally end the Israeli Occupation by refusing to pay taxes. I would explain the situation in Israel/Palestine and explain the process of how we would eventually be able to end the occupation. Is this cool with ya'll?




Please, make comments. Pick an article you'd like to do, and if anyone you know outside of our group may be interested in a certain article, that's cool too, let them know. Once you have an article picked out, say on here which one ya wanna do. get writing and email it to me and i'll compile, unless someone is good at organizing news layouts (i'm by no means a pro). We gotta throw this together fast because Peace is urgent, a pressing issue of our campus.