The Wake

There’s a good chance you missed something on Dec. 2. It was a small but important event on campus. There were stickers, coffee and chocolate, eager students and community members, and handcrafted goods from around the world. Yes, you probably missed it—the Fair Trade Bazaar.

It was held surreptitiously in the Mississippi Lounge of Coffman Memorial Union, and was put on by the …

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If you’ve been to Berlin, you know the colorful swirling forms a city can take. Germany’s capital is saturated in spray-paint expression, and even remnants of the Berlin Wall reflect the city’s “bombing” culture. Graffiti runs free.

Further west, individuals like Bristol-born Banksy have begun to complicate graffiti’s contested reputation even more. Banksy’s identity remains unclear, but his cheeky stencil art has gained worldwide fame. A snarky, skulking rat is his trademark, along …

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Ian Andersen is doing interviews with Japanese magazines. He and his mates from One for the Team have been trotting the country for several months and, after a quick break in Minneapolis, will continue on to the east coast where they’re already fairly well known. Two of them attend the U of M. They’ve put out two records (Good Boys Don’t Make Noise and Build Up), live in Dinkytown, and drive a fifteen-passenger van to …

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