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Volume 38 Issue 2
September 19, 2000

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District questions student’s loyalty
’60s-era case resurfaces in Communist’s test of oath
BY ANDREW LONG
© MESA LEGEND
In 1961, Barbara Elfbrant, then a first-year high school teacher in Tucson, began a fight by refusing to sign a loyalty oath required by Arizona law.

South campus safe haven for MCC garbage
BY KEVIN CASH
FOR THE MESA LEGEND
The closely trimmed bushes and manicured grass of MCC’s campus suggests a clean and healthy learning environment. But, a closer look may uncover a few blemishes.

The Fading of the Student Protester
BY J.W. WATSON
MESA LEGEND
If the pendulum ever swings back, as MCC history instructor and Vietnam veteran Jesus Peralta suggests it eventually will, the student protesters of tomorrow will be chanting far less romantic and poetic cadences than “Hell No! We Won’t Go!” and “Make Love, Not War!”

Good riddance Ricks
Rice finishes winless in career against Vikings
Ricks College pounded T-Bird football 69-21 on Sept. 16 in Rexburg, Idaho, which brought an end to sixteen years of Western States Football League play between the two schools.

MCC Soccer: Women look to dominate in 2000
As women’s soccer begins its fifth season at MCC, the T-Birds will attempt to continue their dominance of the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference under 1999 Coach of the Year Danny Sanchez.

‘Lysistrata’ cast has high hopes for racy, R-rated Greek comedy
Melody King is one of many Theatre Outback students who are pleased to produce a play that not only pushes the envelope but pushes the limits of controversy.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
— George Bernard Shaw