#93460
01/27/2003 5:05 PM
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I'm creating a students' rights webpage offering practical (and sensible) advice about school councils, organising petitions, youth activities etc. but I'm stuck for a name, any suggestions would be greatly aprieciated, thanks!
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#93461
01/27/2003 6:15 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Since when do students have rights? I never had any, so why should kids now have any?
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#93462
01/27/2003 6:21 PM
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How about anticurmudgeon.com? It doesn't seem to be taken.
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#93463
01/27/2003 6:24 PM
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wwh: Huh! Faldage: Huh?  NOTE: Not helpful... I was thinking of some kinda acronym or something catchy. Oh yeah, perhaps rights wasn't exactly the best term to use now since it's associated with all that radicalism and anarchism etc.
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#93464
01/27/2003 6:28 PM
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Oh, that was just a little apprentice curmudgeon's comment on Dr Bill's little rant.
"By tunket, we din't never have none o them fancy computer things when I was kid! I don' see why nobody should have them nowadays."
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#93465
01/27/2003 6:38 PM
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Talk about not living out your childhood dreams through your kids!  Ok, ok, I know your childhood dream may not have been giving advice to other's on how to change the school and you probably didn't go by the motto 'be heard or be herded', but.
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#93466
01/27/2003 6:44 PM
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How about Tubthumper? 
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#93467
01/27/2003 6:48 PM
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tubthumper.com - discover the thrilling sport of bath-diving!
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#93468
01/27/2003 6:49 PM
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Don't tell me you don't know the song, ma petit chien.
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#93469
01/27/2003 6:49 PM
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be heard or be herded
something about "leadtheheard.com"?
formerly known as etaoin...
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#93470
01/27/2003 6:51 PM
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>leadtheheard.com
Hey! That's a nice one!
Thanks!
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#93471
01/27/2003 6:54 PM
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Don't tell me you don't know the song
Song?
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#93472
01/27/2003 7:13 PM
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#93473
01/27/2003 7:21 PM
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Ooh! I've always wondered what that song was called!
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#93474
01/27/2003 7:26 PM
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#93475
01/27/2003 7:42 PM
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www.youthinc.com? (if it's not taken)
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#93476
01/27/2003 7:47 PM
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It's not taken. I like the double meaning.
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#93477
01/27/2003 8:39 PM
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Hmmm, I like that idea as well, I'll design a logo for each (leadtheheard and youthinc) and see which one comes out better. Thanks!
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#93478
01/28/2003 1:41 AM
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Why "heard"? [slow on the uptake e]
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#93479
01/28/2003 10:28 AM
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Why "heard"?well, if you're getting heard, you're probably making a difference, so if you are leading the "heard", then you're probably making the most difference. and now I realize you're probably talking about the word form, rather than the phrase in question, because as I look at the word "heard", it looks pretty bizarre...
formerly known as etaoin...
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#93480
01/28/2003 10:29 AM
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Why "heard"?
be heard or be herded
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#93481
01/28/2003 3:08 PM
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Some interesting and clever suggestions so far. However, being a very straight forward thinker, I would not go looking for the info you wish to promulgate under those headings.
If I was a student and went on a search, I would tend to go straight for the most simple address ike "studentrights.com"
Prosaic but...
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#93482
01/28/2003 4:51 PM
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Perhaps, but rights just seems so much of a strong word for some reason - kinda associated with rather radical, 'let's bring down the system' sort of thinking... I dunno.
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#93483
01/29/2003 6:06 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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So you want to assert students' rights, but you don't want to upset anyone in the process? Hell, things have changed since I was at school ...
- Pfranz
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#93484
01/29/2003 12:52 PM
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students' rights webpage offering practical (and sensible) advice about school councils, organising petitions, youth activities etc
Um...I feel like I'm stating the obvious, but how about
studentgovernment.org ? Possibly abbreviating government?
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#93485
01/29/2003 5:05 PM
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don't want to upset anyone in the process
If one of the key aims involved is to get authorities to even think about trusting the opinions of young people, then to go about upsetting anyone would be counter-productive as it will just enforce some peoples' opinions that young people cannot be sensible, compromising and realistic, with thier campaigns lost in some rather idealitic dream.
The best way to be taken seriously is to be reasonable and inoffensive - especially where it's least expected!
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#93486
01/29/2003 9:52 PM
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The best way to be taken seriously is to be reasonable and inoffensive - especially where it's least expected!
Which just about sums up Saddam Hussein's approach to life, the universe and everything since the Gulf War. And look where that's got him!
- Pfranz
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#93487
01/30/2003 5:49 PM
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Ok, "rights" may sound a bit radical, I concede.
studentprerogatives.com ?
No. They prolly cain't spell that.
studentsallatsea.com ?
studentglossary.com ?
studenthelpathand.com ?
startingatcollege.com ?
wheretostartatcollege .com ?
studenthelp.com ?
Allaboutcollege.com ?
studenthelpline.com ?
collegehelpline.com ?
Allaboutcollege.com ?
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#93488
01/30/2003 6:35 PM
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wow: Pfranz: Erk! How do I respond to that??  On the other hand, I'm not accused of war crimes and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction... I just want some teachers to listen to students a bit more!
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#93489
01/30/2003 7:19 PM
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I'm not accused of war crimes and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction...
How do you know you're not? You want to start a students' rights website, well the oldies are just going to assume you are a neo-Marxist in socialist's clothing. That's got to be worth at least three chemical warheads (filled with sulphur dioxide) and half a teaspoon of smelly plutonium carefully gathered from a cyclotron hidden up a camel's rectum.
You are a positive danger to society, and you ought to be locked away.
I dunno what the world's coming to, I really don't. What is all this crap about students having rights anyway? They have wrongs, and even those are doled out with care, only to the most deserving cases, preferably to those students who are quadraplegics.
Bet you turn up to classes, too. Now there's something that's highly suspicious!
- Pfranz
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#93490
01/30/2003 7:40 PM
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Like I said:
Erk! How do I respond to that??
Though like the other thing I said, 'rights' wasn't the the best word, I know that a school can never be a democracy - it wouldn't work, but... well, they can't ignore us!! I mean, I sometimes feel that students are a bit more capable of independant thought than some people give credit for. Anyway, part of the reason there is so much voter apathy seems to be the loss of faith among young people that their ideas can make a difference.
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#93491
01/30/2003 7:57 PM
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little doggette,
don't pay Pfranz no mind. He's an apprentice curmudgeon.
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#93492
01/30/2003 8:08 PM
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studentsorg.org
stewdensewrite.net
ipaythereforeithink.com
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#93493
01/30/2003 9:24 PM
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seems to be the loss of faith among young people that their ideas can make a difference.
It's taken a long time and a lot of effort, but finally we're getting somewhere. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
- Pfranz
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#93494
01/30/2003 9:26 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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don't pay Pfranz no mind. He's an apprentice curmudgeon.
Well, so would you be if you'd lost carpal tunnel status to a mixup over noms-de-plume!
- Pfranz
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#93495
01/30/2003 11:05 PM
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lost carpal tunnel status
You mean there's a cure???
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#93496
01/31/2003 2:31 AM
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No offense bonzaialsatian, but don'tcha think that your other peers would sooner visit an anti-establishment site like... jazzrumblers.orgor deathtofalsemetal.comYou could then give them your unhip messages about pratical matters after you've got them hooked.
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#93497
01/31/2003 7:08 AM
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You mean there's a cure???
Naw, it's like docs everywhere do: It's relabelled as something else, and that turns out to be incurable instead. Such as the move from RSI to OOS. Sounds better, I guess. And the original stops turning up in the "We dunno how to fix that" stats.
- Pfranz
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#93498
01/31/2003 3:25 PM
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You could then give them your unhip messages about pratical matters after you've got them hooked.
I haven't actually seen any sites with practical, more workable advice on the students' rights/freedom/speakandbeheard/tryingtostayinoffensive issue - how'd I know it'd work or not 'till it's been tried? Anyway, it seems like a lot the people who go on the really extremist-seeming sites are either not really serious about change and just wanna seem cool, or have an interesting record of teacher assault and exclusions. (Note I didn't say all)
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#93499
02/02/2003 5:43 AM
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Well, thanks for sharing your opinion, I think! He asked for a name suggestion, not how you felt. You could have at least given him a name. Just because you didn't have students' rights, that doesn't mean the rest of us were without them. It's good to use your brain occassionaly. You should try it.
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