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OPINION
EDITORIAL
Teach-In an invaluable experience
Teach-In and revel in the excitement of becoming Comment on this at OUDaily.com
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'Great War'a tough lesson learnedfor world
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Our View: OU's third Teach-In offers students an
opportunity to learn about a war that OU does not
offer a specific class on, so we encourage students to
take advantage of the full day.
used during the war con-
tained gas, Winter said.
Furthermore, the same
technology was later used
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is the majority
opinion of
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eight-member
million people were killed
in what is now modern day
Turkey in what came to be
known as the Armenian
Our View is the voice of the fcditonai Board which
consists of eight student editors The board meets
at 5 p.m Sunday to Thursday in 160 Copeland
Hall. Board meetings are open to the public
better educated about the history of your own
country. There was a whole lot more to the Civil
War than a bearded man in a top hat and Yankees
versus Confederates.
And really, how else could students better spend
their time on a Monday in March than by expand-
ing their knowledge base and gaining a better
understanding of an event that helped shape the
identity of the U.S.?
Yet Turkey's govern-
ment still fails to address
this issue. The Armenian
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We need a
generation that
encourages
unbiased opinions
and supportive
remembrances
about the war."
generation to remember
historical events and the
impact they have on our
world. We need a genera-
tion that encourages unbi-
ased opinions and support-
ive remembrances about
the war.
Lastly, Winter engaged
the audience by stressing
the importance of com-
memoration. He stated that
our generation must first
establish what he referred
to as “cultural memory.” We
must remember the war
long after its end in order
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college experience — friends, parties and freedom I
— without the stressful part of that experience: I
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first and foremost, we are here for the classes and
to earn degrees that will change our lives. In ad- .<
dition to typical classes, OU affords students the *
opportunity to hear from experts on a plethora of I
subjects through special lecture sessions, such as I
the annual Teach-In event.
March 10 will mark OU’s third Teach-In, and the t
focus of this year’s event will be the Civil War, ac-
cording to The Daily's archives. The all - day event
is open to everyone and will include both a lunch
and dinner, The Daily reported.
We believe OU’s Teach-In is an awesome oppor-
tunity for students to hear from historians about
a pivotal time in U.S. history, and there's free food
too! When else in our lives will we be invited, for
free, to learn from professors from across the na-
tion about the Civil War, a war that changed the
course of the U.S. forever?
Post-graduation there will be limited free
lectures, concerts, operas and plays to attend.
Outside of these four years, we will most likely
never again receive the cultural opportunities we
are offered at OU — at least not without a hefty
price tag.
We urge students to attend the
Teach-In and take advantage of
the learning opportunities avail-
able at OU on a daily basis. We
love TED Talks, and those are the
equivalent of an extra lecture, so
why not get out of bed and go to a
real-life lecture event?
Interested students can RSVP on the Teach-
in’s website — a smart move to make sure you
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1^ pleasure of at-
JL Vending a lecture
by historian Jay Winter.
Winter is a professor at Yale
University and is a subject
expert on World War I.
Typically known as the
“Great War," World War I
was the first war of its kind.
Many factors played a vital
role in the war, including
technological advances
that had never been seen
or used before. World War
I was a war of great trage-
dy, in which ordinary men
leaped into the great un-
known. We, as a generation,
need to remember and
commemorate World War I,
but why?
Winter focused on World
War I’s transformation of
the laws of war. Gas war-
fare was a key point in his
discussion and the weapon one out of every four shells
paved the way for the use
of new technology on the
battlefront.
Gas warfare began be-
fore the invasion of the
Gallipoli Peninsula, Winter
said. Mustard gas was the
primary weapon used in
World War I, and in 1918,
secure some free grub. And who knows, you
might learn something. In fact, we can almost
guarantee you will learn something new about
the Civil War during the Teach-In. With lectures
like "Visualizing the Civil War: Three American
Artists" and "Where Did Freedom Come From?”
there is little doubt you will hear facts about the
editorial board Civil War you never knew before.
Remembering and learning about our past are
so important in understanding where we’ve come
from and where we’re going. Please, attend the
The Ottoman Empire
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during this period, which is Genocide.
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War Graves Commission cemetery at High Wood near Longueval, France. It is the third largest of the Somme battlefield cemetenes, containing an(j mo|d a better future.
Reflecting upon and dis-
cussing World War I is also
important because it allows
us to honor and respect the
countless men and women
who gave their lives serving
to protect the lives of others.
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revolution began in Russia, significant because it is the
which ultimately lead to the location of the first major
country’s defeat in the war. recorded episode of geno-
World War I was a period of cide in the 20th century. On Genocide is considered
change and influence, most April 25,1915, roughly 1.5
to develop napalm, a weap- notably through the col-
on used in the Vietnam War. lapse of various empires.
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Margerum, Kyle. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 107, Ed. 1 Monday, February 24, 2014, newspaper, February 24, 2014; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1813873/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.