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Horace Mann Censors Student Paper

Some of My Best Friends Are People — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:48:59 EDT

@cdmunch: @cdmunch: Me too, man

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cdmunch — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:39:47 EDT

@The Real JR: Yes JR, I agree.

Signed,

Cdmunch
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TedSez — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:20:28 EDT

@sheistolerable: Just trying to forget my troubles. Without throwing myself into my "real" work.

TedSez

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fellow-ette — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:42:08 EDT

Well, that so-called basketball column was little more than a piece of trash.

But yeah, the Record and the administration have always had a tenuous relationship@HM. Good thing Gawker's on the side of free speech.

fellow-ette

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depardoo — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:38:12 EDT

@Otto-Reimer:

Guess you missed the "Boo(bs)" post yesterday.

depardoo

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sheistolerable — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:01:47 EDT

@TedSez: Would you please quit putting so much "research" and "thought" into your comments? Making the rest of us look bad.

sheistolerable

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Otto-Reimer — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:59:01 EDT

@depardoo: Man, I have thought about Gina since the geschmak pole sliding days in show girls. So I checked out her site and she wrote a book the CAA is cramming down our throats as a movie:

Set to be published in May by Putnam Juvenile, "Camp Creepy Time" is about a young boy who's sent to a summer camp.

He discovers that the haunt is little more than an alien-run smuggling operation. And the camp counselors are turning children into monsters, and shipping them off to zoos on planets around the solar system.

If not college, then definitely her high school experience.

Otto-Reimer

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Dusty in the Wind — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:53:44 EDT

Damn, Julian Bond and Eric Foner up in your grill?

Busted.

Glad I passed on the scholarship and took my schooling business elsewhere...

Ha!

Dusty in the Wind

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Blog of Hilarity Chris — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:29:51 EDT

Horace Mann has a proud tradition of censorship in The Record. When I went there, our weekly intramural basketball column (yes, you read that right) was censored, then canceled for making too many "offensive jokes," mostly in the form of nicknames for people about various embarrassing things they've done/rumors about them.

Blog of Hilarity Chris

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The Real JR — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:28:55 EDT

You know, nothing does the ego better than to look at the achievements and lauds that people can put in their signature lines and see what little you've done with your life.

Sincerely,

The Real JR
Member, AOL (1997-2000), Prodigy (1997-1999), Live Journal (2004-Present)

The Real JR

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TedSez — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:28:10 EDT

If he was fired because of the book, what should we make of this New York Sun article from last September... which is all about how great it is that he wasn't fired because of the book?

"As it turns out, you can eat lunch in this town (or teach history lessons) even after writing a "tell-all book.

"Just ask Andrew Trees, the Horace Mann high school teacher whose New York prep school novel, 'Academy X,' was published in June by Bloomsbury. Despite having detailed the moral pliability of the well-heeled families who send their children to the city's elite private schools, Mr. Trees, 37, returned this fall to his teaching post at, well, one of the city's elite private schools. . . .

"In fact, he said, 'people at the school are pretty sophisticated, and they realize it's a novel. I don't think anyone takes it personally.' "

http://www.nysun.com/article/40562

TedSez

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depardoo — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:22:03 EDT

@Otto-Reimer:

Wasn't that Gina Gershon's college experience?

depardoo

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Glittersauce — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:11:48 EDT

See this is why I left Horace Mann to go to Hewitt
The censorship.
And the fact that I had no friends.

Glittersauce

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Otto-Reimer — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:10:56 EDT

Maybe Horace Mann should get his brother in law to visit Mr. Trees as a ghost to let him know writing a novel is not a scarlet letter.

Otto-Reimer

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depardoo — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:02:45 EDT

By the way, that's the straw that broke the camel's back. In protest, I will spend $31,500 per year for the next eight years on top quality spliff.

depardoo

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depardoo — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:57:32 EDT

Setting a fine example for its readers, the future Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States.

depardoo

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rubyred — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:56:21 EDT

For a minute there, I thought the Herbal Essences color meter thingy was back.

rubyred