Whooping Llama

I’ve searched and searched in vain for an original recording of Buck Owens’ 1979 duet with Emmylou Harris, “Play Together Again Again.” So, I took matters into my own hands (as I did way back in this post). I bought the original 45 single on eBay for 4 bucks (S&H included), and recorded it onto my computer using my handy dandy Numark portable turntable. The sound quality’s not quite remaster quality, but I promise you…it’s the best available on the internet (’cuz I’m the only one that’s got it).

Click on either of the links below to download.

Buck Owens - Play Together Again Again (with Emmylou Harris)
Buck Owens - He Don’t Deserve You Anymore

Last one for the year
Articles late as always
One more all-nighter

I added the ragtime piano…

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/25/Floridian/First_Amendment_101.shtml

Found this article on the interwebs the other day, and it’s got me thinking. As I understand it, public universities cannot censor student media because they’re funded by the government, even if the student media is supported by the institution (as most small papers, like The University of Charleston Eagle, are).

The law concerning private institutions like UC is fuzzier. As members of the student media at a university that does not recieve government funding, working for a paper that is mostly funded by the university, what are our legal rights?

Let’s say I write a big controversial article that, although not libelous, makes everyone in the administration mad. Could they just shut us down?

Now, I don’t see that happening (I think the last thing the university wants to do is stifle its students’ voices), but what if it did?

The last issue of the semester always sucks, big time. We’ve got a huge paper coming out (12 pages again with two ads and several reporters handling multiple stories), and it looks like Vanessa and I will be putting it together Tuesday night…to print it Wendesday.

We had our last meeting of the semester on Friday, and some of the writers hadn’t even started their articles for a couple reasons. Some haven’t had time, some of their sources have been sick or otherwise unavailable, some…well, this is a habit for some of ‘em. One of our writers (one of the ones writing two articles this time around) had to pass off an assignment to her twin sister because of her classload.

This happened last semester too, right before school let out for the year. To tell you the truth, I wonder why we’re doing this at all since nobody’s going to be on campus for a month…we put this thing out Wednesday and they all leave Friday.

Oh, well. Maybe they’ll grab a copy on their way out.