Justice (Maybe) for the Detainees

After more than three years and hundreds of unsettling photographs,news stories and eyewitness/witness reports, justice may come to the detainees of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Grahib. 600 U.S servicemen have been implicated with counts of abuse and humilitation of prisoners. This is a huge step in correcting thew wrongs perpetrated by the bush regime and its lack of concern for the basic human rights of military detainees. Watchdog organizations, including HRW are, however, unsure when indictments and trial of the implicated servicement will begin.

apparently a big week for human rights

The darfur issue seems to be reaching critical mass, with a 15,000 person rally on the mall in washington DC, and 5 members of congress being arrested for protesting in front of Sudan's embassy...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-28-protest_x.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/30/us.sudan.ap/index.html

immigration protest backlash?

As everyone knows, a massive protest for latino immigrant's rights will be occuring tomorrow. It is true that this is similar to the civil rights movement in the 1960s, however, is the country ready for this now? There still seems to be a great deal of resentment towards the immigrants--apparently this is true even among the naturalized/citizenshipped latino population. Which leads me to believe that this is possibly more a class issue than a race issue. The protest is not neccesarily fighting to end discrimination, but rather, will highlight the importance of immigrant workers to our economy, in the spirit of the labor movement of the industrial age, etc.

US media

so after trying to surf HRW to find something that hasn't yet been addressed on the blog or in class, i came across this article about the Colombia news media that i found interesting. they are being charged by the Pres. for basically reporting the truth.
"Over the last 2 weeks, major news media have extensively reported on allegations of paramilitary infiltration of the Colombian executive branch's intelligence agency, targeted killings of labor union leaders and academics, and electoral fraud in the 2002 presidential elections. President Uribe has reacted by charging the news media with being dishonest and malicious, and with harming Colombian democratic institutions."

the article then started those little wheels in my brain to start turning, remembering what i've been learning about in leighton's Clash of Civilizations course about the cartoon controversy in Europe and throughout the majority of the world. the questions brought about how far is too far in the media world and the role of the media (which is, if i'm not correct, to INFORM to public and present events and opinions of the public). censorship has been an issue for the media since it's invention and the U.S. still feels the bite of the government on issues today. but this article forced me to step back for a moment and for once be thankful i live in the United States, yes full of ignorance and righteiousness as we can be at times, the freedoms we hold, although sometimes still neglected, throw almost every other country out of the water. just imagine for a moment if the New York Times or CNN was charged by Bush for reporting on botched elections - the country would be in an uproar. don't get me wrong, i've done my share of complaining about the governments influence on the media here and how we don't ever know what's really going on in the world - but, i able to sit in the privacy of my own room and look up information (true or false) about the effectiveness of my government at any given moment without facing charges and all i'm saying is for that i am thankful.

finally some solutions

two years after the initial Abu Ghraib scandal, recent findings show that abuse of detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guantánamo Bay has been widespread, and that the US has only taken limited steps to investigate and punish implicated personnel. more than 600 have now been implicated in detainee abuse.
-so although the general public, including our contexts have confirmed that what these are blatant human rights violations and that they should be stopped as soon as possibly. but what no one seems to have done is to work positively and productively into putting these thoughts into action... until now that is.
the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (a joint project of New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First) has produced a 27 page report that presents the findings of their research. the project is the first comprehensive accounting of credible allegations of torture and abuse in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo.
just thought this was worth posting because it's nice to finally here some solution oriented thinking rather than simply reporting on or complaining about such atrocities.

Outlawing Abortion...

(I guess this supplements Emily's recent post- see below)

As some of you may be aware, the Governor of South Dakota signed into law a bill that outlaws abortions state-wide in December of last year. Although there are some exceptions (preventing the death of the mother, for example), this new law poses many threats to the financial, physical, and emotional well-beings of the numerous women of S.D. who will seek to have the operation performed in the future. For example, before the legislation that was issued from the Roe v. Wade case took effect, many women in the US had illeagal abortions (which severely jeopardized thier health). If this new law isn't appealed, many more women will take the same actions and put themselves at similar risks. I feel that this new law is not only a direct violation of a number of human rights (the most central of them being "Health"), but I also feel that it was passed under the persuasion of religious motives (those of the Governor and of his many coservative supporters). To learn more, you can visit the post link, or the one below.

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/take-action/south-dakota-ban.html

PLA and Hamas

ok, I don't know if anyone has been following this, but the US and the EU dropped all of their funding to the PLA about 10 days ago. Many countries have been pledging to increase their donations to the PLA to offset this. Many Arab nations, such as Qatar, have already pledged a dollar amount, and Russia has pledged to give emergency aid but have not stipulated how much. The US and EU can only make this situation more volatile by withdrawing their money. Hamas won the western mandated democratic elections in the PLA and the west didn't like this. Yes, Hamas is a terrorist organization, but taking money from the PLA does nothing to stop the funding to Hamas, it only hurts the peace process. Terrorism as we know it today started in Israel and Palestine and our actions only further the reasons for attack. This was unfair of the US and they need to see their mistakes. Global politics is run by extremist positions, and if we can't negotiate with extremists then we will never have world peace. The US needs to understand that their money and influence doesn't run everything. We can be sure to see more human rights violations in Palestine because of the west's actions.

Sudan vs. Congo?

So yeah, I read a few articles the other day that seemed to me to say that Sudan and Congo are having some border problems. It seems that refugees from Darfur are running to the Congo, where they are being attacked by the Sudanese fighters, undermining the Congo's sovereignty. Congo is under internal political pressure as well, it seems that their president is trying to serve a life sentence. These issues are pretty relevant if you view the world in Samuel Huntington's paradigm of a Clash of Civilizations. You see, the Sudanese-Congo border is a fault-line in the Sahel regionof Africa between the African and Islamic Civiliztions and this could be seen as pressure to expand their borders. Each country is funding resistance in each other's country and also calling for the other to stop. We need some real negotiation here, the problem is, the Islamic and African civilizations don't have a strong core state, leaving them no option but to simply fight it out. I would say that we should step in, but every time the United States steps in somewhere, people complain about cultural imperialism. Oh well, world politics is a sticky thing, I just hope this doesn't evolve into an all out war.

The coal fields of central Appalachia are not free.

The coal fields of central Appalachia are not free.


Somewhere near the Asian values section, Donally talks about the dichotomy between development and human rights. Specifically he talks about whether or not it is acceptable on the international arena to violate human rights for the sake of economic development. The obvious case in example is the third world in general. Specifically, think about the rain forests; indigenous peoples are losing their right to their culture and family lives when they are driven off their traditional lands as the forests are cleared for agriculture, specifically, ranches.
This debate may be difficult to internalize because we are not directly affected by third world development in our everyday consciousness. But what about when human rights are sacrificed for economic prosperity, not development? That is to ask is it acceptable, for the sake of our own economic well-being and comfort for human rights violations to continue to occur in order to feed the fires of the black furnace capitalism?
Case in point: Coal fields of Appalachia are not free; the people live under the dictatorship of King coal and for over 150, the people living in this region have been at the mercy of the violent whims of what is good for the coal industry. Everyday coal miners enter into unsafe working conditions, blatant violations of industry safety standards, so that the rest of the nation might have cheap electricity. Not only are the miners themselves at risk and suffer HR working violations, but everyone living in the area must reckon with the reality of a high impact mineral extraction economy.
Communities all over the coal fields are faced with poisoned water supplies, flooding, the threat of sludge impoundment dam failure, dangerous coal dust, and a public opinion that there is no point to fight for the interests of the people while there is so much power vested in the coal companies. The people living in these areas do not have the same life that the rest of America can enjoy. They live in a sacrifice zone that is being pillaged and ravaged for the sake of cheap electricity.

What other examples are there of such “sacrifice zones” in our own country?

Is the reality of this example and others acceptable if it provides for the stability and growth of our economic system?

Are there other nations that prosper without the exploitation of their citizens?

What kind of actions can we take to lessen our dependence on such HR violations?

Do you think many people think about this sort of thing? If not is that a problem?

How is this a commentary on capitalism, globalization and modernity?

Link to my ASU Comic Blog

I was just posting the link to my blog where I will start posting the comics I do for the ASU newspaper [and any other comics I do, either for the Village Idiot or myself]. I'll also place any feedback I recieve from people and post my responses to those.

I'd also love to hear feedback from you guys also, because at first I didn't take this job very seriously, but now I am actually trying to do this professionally. So I welcome and criticism- be it negetive or positive.

Thanks!
Vonda

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Human Rights Essay

At first I was not too thrilled that I was required to write an essay on a movie. The assignment was so vauge and I had no idea what to write. I missed all the showings of the movies and just arbitrarily choose a movie to watch. That movie was Hotel Rwanda.

Prior to watching it I knew nothing of this movie. I just knew alot of people said it was very sad and horrible. But I figured I could squeeze atleast 3 pages out of viewing it...but never would I thought that movie would have moved me so much. Granted, I never shed a tear [I'm a pretty tough cookie har har har] but my eyes did water. Throughout the whole movie I kept wishing to myself that this was fiction- that this was not happening with our government's knowledge and we're doing NOTHING to prevent it.

I put so much heart into writing the paper after seeing the film- I even tried to keep it formal and not write in the first person, but the latter half of my paper I just had to put my emotions and opinions in.

So thank you Cynthia for requiring this paper.

Hotel Rwanda: I feel so helpless

After viewing the film, for a few minutes I sat there dazed- my mind was racing and thinking back to how many times situations like this have repeated themselves throughout history. You would think over the centuries, the government would have evolved to fix this error- this practice of turning a blind eye until the trouble hits home. Granted, when we DID try to "help" during the Vietnam war, things got out of hand, but that does not mean that we must abstain from involving ourselves with ANY outside problems.

But I was trying to think of things I could do as an individual to help. I feel the need to get involved now, or atleast make more people aware of such atrocities that are happening throughout the world. Because I beleive if we stay on this path of apathy, soon the things will get too out of hand, and societies will be doomed...

Poor "Human Rights Conditions" for Florida Farm Workers

About a week ago, 9 different human rights groups (including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Oxfam, America among others) submitted to the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Santiago A. Cantón, a letter concerning the "human rights conditions" of Floridian farm workers. The letter revealed that at least 1000 workers have been subjected to forced labor/ slavery and when not being forced to work, the laborers are often paid far below the minimum wage (between $2500 and $7500 even though the poverty line was recently defined as $9310 for a single-person household). Additionally, about 83% of these laborers have no healthcare and, not to mention, the working conditions are often less-than-adequate. Hopefully, the letter they submitted will help expose and relieve many of these human rights violations.

Chinese AIDS sufferers put on house arrest

In recent HR news, China has placed many people infected with HIV/ AIDS under house arrest in order to keep them from petitioning the National People's Congress for compensation they may be entitled to due to a government scheme to profit from blood sales that went awry (some of the blood sold was infected w/ the AIDS virus). These people (23 cases documented thus far) were not only forbidden to leave their homes, but were also denied essential healthcare as well as any imdemnification. So essentially, the Chinese government is not only responsible for the numerous infections that occured in the first place, but is also refusing those people any compensation or even the right to plead for it....pretty lousy

military recruiters: just doing their job or going too far?

Although now we are all in college and it's becoming a bit easier to avoid the recruiters in the student union, the military is now (and has been for the past 3 years) taking extra steps in gaining new recruits. i know at my high school at least, dodging the "Be all you can be" crew was an everyday battle in the cafeteria and common areas. i actually even got in trouble for writing an article in our newspaper about the obnoxious tactics now being used to try pull students in. but either way, invading young people's privacy is becoming a common practice. and if i'm not mistaken, privacy is a human right ( at least according to "the list"). but i came across this article and thought it was definitely applicable to our class. now i'm not saying these recruiters are doing anything that's going to cause mass genocide or world hunger or anything of the sort, but they are certainly violating some lesser "valued" rights, like privacy. Raptivism.com is a good website to check out sometime if you have. Under "News" then "Politics" there are a lot of good articles and under "Factivisms" there are some really interesting facts from varying sources.

Some examples of facts that can be found there: "In 2001, there were 932,000 black children living in "exteme poverty" in the United States- the most since 1979" (source: TIME magazine)

and

"South Africa under apartheid (1993): 851 per every 100,000 black adult men incarcerated.
--In the United States under George W. Bush (2001): 7,226 per every 100,000 black adult men incarcerated."

have a good break everyone.
rachel

Human Rights Horrors II: Idi Amin

Idi Amin was the military dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. His regime commited various atrocities against the people of his country--human rights experts hold Idi Amin's regime responsible for the deaths of at least 300,000 Ugandans.

The first human rights violation Idi commited was his call for the expulsion of all asians (Indians, Pakistanis, middle easterners) from Uganda. He later commited genocide against certain tribes he deemed inferior--where the 300,000 deaths come from.

read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/amin.html

The State Made Me Do It

http://humanrightswatch.org/english/docs/2006/02/22/usdom12706.htm

What is being discussed is the involvement of physicians in prisoner executions, and how many states have laws mandating physician involvement. This is clearly a violation of their legal rights, and rights of consent as they are forced to participate against their morals, ethics and spoken oaths. The Hippocratic Oath says that doctors shall strive to foster life, and to never willingly end it. Though there are always extenuating circumstances, no state should force unwilling doctors into aiding in executions.

What Does It All Mean?

While the content of these articles, websites and movies is shocking, it must be taken with a grain of salt. As Dennis has pointed out, the Bush family has ties to the Nazi Party, and to its key supporters. Though this is a leap of faith, the mythology of both the Skull and Bones society, the Thule Society and their links to neo-Babylonian/druidic death rituals is somewhat pointed, clearly there is a vast undercurrent of deception and for lack of a better phrase "bad vibes" going on here. The video also points out the Bush Family's links to the Brown Brothers Harriman which was fundamental in funding the Nazi war machine. It is almost naive to think the the Nazi Party could not have risen to power without American support, pre- WWII Germany was in ruins, and had absolutely no viable credit or dinero; however, though it might be naive, there is absolutely no cause for American to think in this way. This is simply outrageous, and personally, I would have never thought about it...Then again, if the government was to have covert ties (in some respects) to the Nazis, would the want me to know about it? Paralleling this is the Bush involvement with Saudi Arabia, and specifically the Saudi Bin Laden Group, the largest contractor in the Middle East, and one fiscally inseparable from the Wahabi powerhouse of the House of Saud. Both the Bush family and the Bin Ladens/Sauds have millions and millions of dollars invested in each other, not to mention the astonishing billions the Saudis have invested in the US. This leads me to wonder how much of our national policy is dictated on the grounds of making sure that this money is safe, and not to mention the the Saudis invest more money into our hungry pocketses. We all know that money, however glamorous is the root of all evil, I reference Bush and the Simple life in this, and if billions of dollars worth of evil roots have been growing since Nazi Germany in the backyards of the Bushes, the Bin Ladens, the Sauds...I think its pretty safe to say that there is something fishy to be found along the pathways of power and the money that changes hands behind closed doors. I dont believe that somehwere is there is vast evil orchard, but that there is definately something wrong with a government that overtly undermines its core principles and supports the very institutions that it condemns. I suppose the moral of the video is to know your history, to know your father (after all, he may be a Nazi), to watch out for violations of our essential and guaranteed freedoms.

Of course, take what this video has to offer, and what i have said here, with a large grain of salt, maybe even a pillar.

Yours Truly, Matt

Human Rights Horrors: the Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge was a communist regime which ruled the southeast asian country of Cambodia (next door to Vietnam) for the second half of the 1970s. The Khmer Rouge commited some of the most atrocious examples of human rights violations that the world has ever seen.

Among countless other violations, the regime forced relocation through the emptying out of urban centers (bringing the workers away from the evils of the city and into the country for agricultural ventures), commited genocide against not only specific ethnic groups but also people perceived to be "intellectuals" (the government even went so far as to round up and kill any people they could find wearing glasses) and people of any type of religion (buddhist, christian, whatever).

It's a little slice of 20th century history that is horrifying and often overlooked.

read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

Guantanamo

i know we've all been hearing about the torturing in cuba at the u.s military base, and its obvious violations of human rights. but now there's another twist to the story... on thursday a federal judge ordered the pentagon to release the names of ALL the prisons being held, some of which have been there for 4 years. the majority of the names have previously blacked because of, get this, "fear of violating their rights." i didn't know a whole lot about the details of the story, and if anyone's interested here's a link that has it stated pretty simply (and yes its from a main stream news source and probably has some sort of bias because as we've all learned, there's almost alway bias- BUT- it's easy to understand and get a general idea of what's going on with the case, found it pretty helpful).

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/23/guantanamo.lawsuit.ap/index.html

deal with it

dear everyone,
I know that Donallys book is a burdensome read, but if you plan on staying in college, this is the kind of material you will encounter time and time again. Higher education involves a higher level of engagement with the reading. Although this particular book may indeed have been written by a pretentious scholar dude, he is by no means out of line of the rest of the academic conversation of which he is a part. Books that present lofty theoretical ideas are harder to read. You can sit around and bitch about it or just try your best to get through it. I dont think anyone has a full grasp on the essence of what he is trying to communicate, but by carefully reading and taking notes , it is possible to glean valuable insights from this work. in other words... suck it up.

Is the right to Health positive or negative?

With the debate between political and civil rights versus economic, cultural, and social rights constantly raging in the minds of capitalist economists, here is an article explaining that National Health care could actually potentially save a nation money. That really puts an incentive on "assertive exercise" on this seemingly "positive" right. If creating a program that the government thinks is too costly actually saves the country money, then is it still a "positive" right or does the fact that it takes less effort to enforce a "negative" right? This is obviously still a positive way to assertively exercise this right, but if it makes things easier for the country, isn't that needed to live a life of human dignity?

Ch4 sect 456 outline

sect4
Human Rights NOT static
-web of social practices
-regulate interactions among modern societies and thier members

Role of West in HR developement and practice
-"western twist to internationally recognized HR"
-Both sides of HR coin
-"West is the only region in past 50 yrs to be consonant with and guided by Universal HR
-West is still guilty of many human rights violations
-Popular soverignty
-"freedom"
-HR not exclusively western
-Donally claims should be adopted by the Entire world!

Sect 5
Politics ordered around the state
Shifts in national identity
political vs ethnic identity
HR not dependent on ethnicity but rather humanity ensured by state

Sect 6
Westen HR political/civil??
NO...western conception of indivisibility
not dipsute on end but rather means

Big Group

Ok, no offense to Cynthia, but the big group lectures have to go. Is anyone with me on this? It's too loud to hear and too slow to follow and everyone stops listening about 15 minutes in. The best thing about Joe's big class last year is that we never met in big groups, it was almost all discussion groups. I think I would learn a lot better (and be more inclined to read) if we discussed the readings instead of getting lectured on them. I joined Watauga College to avoid lecture classes and it's my understanding that that was one of the founding principals behind Watauga. Again, no offense Cynthia, but I really don't like the big group and most of the people that I have talked to don't really like it either.

Labor Violations Suck

Yes, labor violations are going on in our backyard, but these things have been going on since the Industrial Revolution, in just about every company ever. Labor is one of a business's greatest expenses and so in order to make good profits, one idealogy is try to convince your workers not to form unions and keep them from knowing their rights. To rape the resources in the benefit of the few. If our society tries to cut corners instead of doing things the right way, then it is on a pathway to destruction. It is becoming an American way to view life as "How can I work the system to my benefit?" I see it when lobbyists get caught bribing officials, when businesses try to bust unions, and even when kids try to squeeze money out of their parents. This is not a healthy way of thinking. Instead of working against each other we need to work with each other. I feel that people should be trying to contribute to their society, instead of feeding off of it. But corrupt officials don't care as long as they come out ahead.

"...between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference - so wide, that to recieve the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels." -Frederick Douglass, THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

It is important to make the distinction between the Christianity that is so easily manipulated to justify evils of all degrees and the "Christianity of Christ." This also applies to Islam and Judaism and any other practice that people take advantage of.

I am so grateful for people who know the difference.

PS- This book is amazing. Even if you don't have Betsy's class, I highly suggest you read it.

FYI: Summer 2006 Himalaya Trip

Summer 2006 Indian Himalaya Course
May 8-June 1, 2005

Information Session Friday January 20th at 2pm
Rankin Science West 341

Offered by: Kathleen Schroeder & Keith Bosak (ABD University of Georgia)
The Indian Himalaya program (6 credits) will explore mountain geography and sustainable development in the Garhwal Himalaya of India. These courses will introduce students to Mountain Geography and Sustainable Mountain Development using the Garhwal Himalaya of India as an example. These courses will stress the connections between the physical and human geographies of the Himalaya. Students will learn through extensive readings, class discussions, student led presentations and direct field experience including trekking and living in a remote mountain village.

Mountain Geography (GHY 3530/5530) Counts for physical geography credit
Sustainable Mountain Development (GHY 3531/5530/5531)
Counts for human or regional geography credit.

Price: $3460.00 (airfare included—tuition NOT included)

Contact schroederk@appstate.edu; kbosak@uga.edu
Link to write up from last year’s trip http://bostonglobalaction.net/UK/nandadevi/asu.html

Watauga 100

Watauga 100

Next year's Watauga 100 is available online for your viewing pleasure. Come take a look at the eclectic list put together by your faculty for the erudition of our Sophomore Frames students next year.

Watauga Class Photo!

We will be taking a Watauga College class photo on the steps in the courtyard at noon, Wednesday, 4/27. Please help spread the word! Thanks.

Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil (1985)

Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil (1985)

This film will be shown Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. in the Greenbriar Theater as part of Derek and Chuck's Contextures class, but it is free and open to all. Come join us for this strange and wonderful film if you can.

Chuck D and MLK Commemoration Program

Appalachian Announcements - Martin Luther King, Jr Commemoration Program

Chuck D is speaking tonight at 7:00 p.m. at Farthing as part of ASU's MLK Day events. Here's a cultural event opportunity for first year Wataugans, and a not-to-be-missed speaker for everyone else!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to the Spring 2005 semester! I hope everyone had a great break.

If you never received an invitation to join this Blog (or if you did and you lost it) just click on the link to the left that says "Join" to send me an email and I'll set you up.

Have a great semester!

Derek

Derrida: The Movie

Everyone is invited to an early morning showing of a documetary on the philosopher Jacques Derrida who died this year.

The film will be shown T 11/30 in the Greenbriar Theater in the Student Union from 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and is free and open to the public.

Bring a friend!

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Internet Studies Films

Internet Studies Film Series: Fall 2004

You are invited this week to a series of sci-fi films sponsored by the Internet Studies Program and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

All shows are in the Greenbriar Cinema in the Student Union and are FREE and open to the public. Bring a friend!

2001: A Space Odyssey
Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 p.m.

Blade Runner
Thursday, September 23, 4:00 p.m.

The Matrix
Saturday, September 25, 7:00 p.m.

Watauga Sophomore Contra Dance

There will be a Watauga Sophomore Contra Dance on Friday, September 10 from 1:00-4:00 in the Great Hall!

We will have live music, and Beth Molero from Asheville will be teaching us the steps and calling the dance! No experience necessary.

Come as you are, but come to dance. We hope to see you there!

Wataugans Go to Oxford

Wataugans Go to Oxford

Check out the photos of our own Joe Gonzalez and Wataugan Kelly Izlar at Oxford this summer!

IDS Reading Room Election News

Interdisciplinary Studies Reading Room at Appalachian State University

You can find a new section of links to election news, coverage, and polls on the IDS Reading Room page now.

Fall 2004 Watauga College Courses

Fall 2004 Watauga College Courses

Here's another new Watauga College Fall Tangents class: Latin America Today!

Fall 2004 Watauga College Courses

Fall 2004 Watauga College Courses

Here's a new Watauga College Fall Tangents class: Being a Man in America

Mural Pics

Watauga College Music Room Mural

There are pictures online now of the new music room mural.

BlogThis!

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

If you follow the link above, you'll find a button you can add to your browser's tool bar that lets you post a link on our blog to the current web page you are browsing.

Welcome!

Welcome to our new Watauga Blog. If you haven't received an email invitation to join the blog yet, let me know at stanovskydj@appstate.edu, or click on the Join Watauga Blog link on the left, and I will set you up. Enjoy!