On the Campus
Robert Shibley, vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), slammed Brown and URI for their blatant attempts to squelch First Amendment rights in Friday’s Providence Journal: Brown University was home to one of the most mysterious cases that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has ever seen — mysterious…
The campaign of Hillary Clinton — herself a College Republican — is coming to town today, and the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island will be at the corner of Post Rd. and Airport Rd. in Warwick at 3:30 to express their gratitude for her vote for the war in 2002 and “for pledging to…
We’re rightly wary when credit card companies target college kids. (I’m still smarting from the puncture that I received in the bull’s-eye.) So why is the New York Times treating it as some kind of a rights story that pharmaceutical companies are no longer targeting young women with discounted birth control? The change is due…
Not to pick on the Ivy model of Rhode Island’s College Republican collection, but this line from Sean Quigley, second vice chairman of the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island, treasurer of the Brown College Republicans, and Brown Daily Herald columnist, is too precious to let pass: “I don’t mean to sound elitist, but we…
Putting aside his petty complaints that Dan Yorke and Lori Drew interrupted him on the radio (but noting that I heard him interrupting Ms. Drew moments before chastising her for doing the same), this aspect of John McNally’s thoughts on his appearance on Dan Yorke’s show relates to a question that I’ve had since first…
I just wanted to remind everybody that tonight is URI Professor Donna Hughes’s lecture on “Women’s Rights & Political Islam” as part of the URI College Republicans’ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. It’s certain to be worth attending, if you’re able.
There would seem to be a lesson here for folks prone to the sort of ultra-decisive decision making that occurred on the University of Rhode Island campus between the time when I was impressed, as a high school student, with URI’s reputation as a party school and the time when I found myself there after…
You’ll note the new ad at left for the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island. Click on over to see what they’re up to these days. We rightward Rhode Islanders are always worrying that our opportunities are limited to change the way in which things are done here (and thought here), and it increasingly seems…
You might be interested in some of the events on the URI College Republicans’ schedule for the semester, especially during Islamo-Facism Awareness Week later this month. I’m going to try to make it to both Donna Hughes’s lecture on “Women’s Rights and Political Islam” (October 23) and Robert Spencer’s lecture the following evening (October 24).…
So you’ve traveled with your daughter on the journey that has led her to freshman year at the University of Rhode Island, and within a couple of weeks of looking to the student paper, The Good 5¢ Cigar, to understand the community of which she is now a part — perhaps to glean some tips…