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Alex Jones brings conspiracy to campus
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March 22 that the government siderable number of Americans nearly 30,000 friends connect- Jones said they argue over little
who think John F. Kennedy ed to his account on MySpace, issues, but they are pawns to
the government and corporate
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you can go and check. One
story,” he said.
Lottery leaves some without campus housing
ELIZABETH J. PARISH
Casey upper classmen will be avail-
This year, 80 percent of stu-
forced to stand in line for Jennifer Casey said.
The university provides off-
Casey said there are many dents who participated in the
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Life website also offers tips on
tive living arrangements.
“We encourage students to finding apartments.
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Controversial filmmaker and
radio host Alex Jones told more
than 30 St. Edward’s students
continues its commitment to
finding financial resources to
help the students with tuition
able in the Casas in Fall 2007.
Casey said an additional resi-
dence hall is scheduled to open
hours in Ragsdale in hopes of
receiving housing. Now, stu-
dents log into EdWeb a week
prior to housing selection to
receive their lottery number
Junior Dagoberto Garcia,
who works as a resident assis-
an inside job, Mitchell said.
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every two years.
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course Contemporary Theories he said.
not received an apartment by help facilitate a transition to year,
the end of August are strongly off-campus housing if neces-
encouraged to look for alterna- sary, Casey said. The Residence
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at somebody’s suit or their hair
color or eye color or how nice
their tie is and say I choose to
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Nixon didn’t “play ball” with talk. “I generally take every-
the CIA and was taken down. thing you see on his website
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more from the Media” a British conspiracy theorist
Communication class, said who says people such as Queen
she hadn’t heard Jones before Elizabeth II, George W. Bush
Mitchell’s class. “I thought and Kris Kristofferson are
he was a really interesting guy alien reptilian humanoids who
who was well informed, and I control world governments
liked how he pushed us to do and plotted 9/11. Jones said
what he’s doing,” she said. “He Icke goes too far with his con-
had an emphasis on making an spiracies.
impact.” Jones said he does so much
The key, Jones said, is to stay media work that it seems as
skeptical. “There’s a lot of involuntary as breathing. After
disinformation in the alterna- Mitchell’s class, Jones quickly
tive media as well,” he said, left to do a radio show at his
“There’s kooks, there’s weir- nearby workplace.
does, there’s crazy people.”
David Icke, for example, is jbenzin@stedwards.edu
on-campus housing. ate a more user friendly sys- to campus still have the oppor-
Previously, students were tern,” Residence Life Director tunity to get housing.
system. “Students are able to housing. Students who did
choose a space and request a not receive campus living were
roommate and be done with automatically placed on a wait
conspiracy theories and how increasingly popular, particu- refined right-wing propagan-
they are accepted by average larly among young people. This da of something like the Wall L :
citizens. summer, he had a cameo in Street Journal. Then you have Ri
Despite official explanations, Richard Linklater’s film ‘A refined left-wing propaganda p
Mitchell said there are a con- Scanner Darkly” and he has of say The Nation magazine.” IJ
“I’ve listened to him since America that deliberately gloss
middle school,” Whitney over important issues.
journalists and editors on the In addition to his radio show
year, they should at least Photocommunications major
attempt to remedy the finan- Paige Curtis said.
cial aid that has been taken The tuition increase is both
away from a lot of students good and bad news, Kirby
like the Texas B-On-Time said. “The tuition for your
Loan,” Garcia said. dollars is being very well used.
Freshman Joey Meyer wor- That’s the good news. The
ries about the cost of college, bad news is that it’s going
“With my financial aid stay- up,” Kirby said. The fact that
ing the same, it’s not eco- the tuition increase is bad
nomically appealing for me to news is about all students and
go to St. Ed’s,” Meyer said. administrators can agree on.
Dickson said that although “We’re looking forward to
tuition has increased, so has working with the administra-
financial aid, though not at tion to resolve this issue and
the same rate. “The university improve the quality of stu-
radio and cable-access televi- ments of the population,” that isn’t commonly available.”
sion work, Jones is becoming Jones said. "You have the more Ellen Munter, a sopho-
As a result of his films,
and to find out when they will the whole process in a mat- list. As of March 21, 259 stu-
be allowed to register. The days ter of minutes,” Casey said, dents are currently on the list,
students are assigned to log in “We have adjusted the times to “We communicate weekly
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or helped plan the terrorist Jones speak and encouraged Woodward, who uncovered the planet.com.
attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. them to ask questions. Watergate scandal, as a likely Junior Keegan Watkins was
Communication Professor “This goes beyond the hal- government agent. Jones said familiar with Jones before the
believe this person,” he said, enjoy wide popularity “There Jones cited Operation your own webpage, your own
“Go out and fact check what are enough unanswered ques- Mockingbird as a CIA program name, your own information,”
they’re saying.” tions that have allowed skep- to infiltrate the news media, he said. "You need to be part
Jones is perhaps best known tics to question the official allegedly putting respected of this revolution now”
this initiative. “I suppose it
could be factored in, especial-
ly because we have a greater
number of students and more
high-achieving students,” she
said.
“However, I think primar-
ily noticing that 40 percent or
more stu,dents were graduat-
ing with honors in the past
five years, in addition to the
fact that you could earn hon-
ors without ever being on the
Dean’s List, was what prompt-
ed this change,” Minus said.
Mitchell also invited stu- government payroll. and films such as “Terror
dents from his Media For instance, Jones named Storm,” Jones runs the web-
Communication class to hear Washington Post reporter Bob sites infowars.com and prison-
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Residence Life put a lottery “One of the reasons we added can be completed over the typically place about half of early August on the waiting sophomores, juniors and final-
system in place last spring to a lottery to the online housing Internet, students who might the wait list in on-campus list, that’s great. If they want ly seniors. In addition to the
ease the process of obtaining selection process was to ere- not have been able to make it housing.” to secure housing before they current five residence halls and
better suit student schedules with students on the wait list do what feels best for them All freshman are guaranteed
- selection begins at 5 p.m.” and work to get them placed and their situation. If they campus housing. The next larg-
Because the entire process on campus,” Casey said. “We are comfortable waiting until est group is reserved for the
accepting the idea that 9/11 was Jardine, a junior from Mitchell’s “They know you’re sophis-
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