On the Campus

Rhode Island Higher Education Top-20 Rankings

By Carroll Andrew Morse | August 23, 2007 |

Brandie Jefferson of the Projo’s 7-to-7 blog has an item about Bryant University’s top-20 ranking by the Princeton Review in the category of “career and job placement services” Bryant wasn’t the only college to be ranked in the top 20 — or maybe the bottom 20, depending on the category — in the national survey.…

Presidents of Brown, RWU, Salve Regina, and URI Condemn Britain’s Academic Boycott of Israel

By Carroll Andrew Morse | August 14, 2007 |

A large group of American University and College Presidents have signed a letter published in the New York Times, attributed to President Lee Bollinger of Columbia University, condemning the decision of Britain’s new University and College Union to academically boycott Israeli Universities…Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours,Too! As a citizen, I am profoundly disturbed by the…

Jim Baron on Ryan Bilodeau

By Carroll Andrew Morse | July 24, 2007 |

Sure, national recognition is nice, but yesterday, College Republican Federation of Rhode Island President Ryan Bilodeau received the kind of recognition that proves he’s a real up-an-comer — he was covered by Jim Baron in the Woonsocket Call… It’s not hard to think that someone with [his] kind of knack for drawing media attention while…

RI College Republicans Named Top Campus Activists in America

By Carroll Andrew Morse | July 20, 2007 |

Rhode Island’s College Republicans are earning some national recognition for the efforts they’ve made over the past year or two…College Republican Federation of Rhode Island Chairman Ryan Bilodeau was unanimously elected as one of eight members in the nation to the National Credentials Committee of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) this past weekend in…

Toppling Old Men for a Single Word (It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!)

By Justin Katz | July 18, 2007 |

From a press statement put out by “Roger Williams University School of Law student organizers Matt Jerzyk, Majessire Smith and Kim Ahern” on the resolution of the Roger Williams University Papitto melodrama: We are proud of every law school student and all of the faculty, alumni and donors who raised their voice against racism at…

Bilodeau Elected as New State College GOP Head

By Marc Comtois | May 2, 2007 |

According to a press release issued by the RI GOP, URI College Republican Chair Ryan Bilodeau has been elected as the new head of the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island. Comments to this post hinted that a change was afoot within the RI College Republican ranks. From the outside, it would appear as if…

Putting the Other Side Out There

By Justin Katz | April 29, 2007 |

In response to Marc’s post on the DJs’ being fired from Roger Williams’s WQRI, program director Mike Martelli has left the following comment (which I’ve also read his expressing in an email that reached me through a series of forwards): As the Program Director of WQRI it is my responsibility to determine what content is…

RE: Wingfield’s Letter

By Marc Comtois | April 26, 2007 |

I share Justin’s concern that some of what has gone on may not be “out of deliberate strategy” and instead may be for the sake of “the sheer self-gratifying joy of subversion and recognition.” It is this line between publicity-for-its-own-sake and polemic that is sometimes hard to toe. (Ann Coulter comes to mind). So, perhaps…

Re: Outgoing State College Republican Chair: Make Sure What You Say is Politically Correct Before You Say It

By Marc Comtois | April 26, 2007 |

It’s apparent that the sort of bareknuckle, in-your-face ideological battles that his fellow College Republicans are waging is too much for Wingfield. Some may recall that Wingfield was the head of the Reformed Christian Fellowship at Brown University, which was suspended last year. Wingfield perservered and, with the help of FIRE, they were reinstated. Wingfield’s…

Outgoing State College Republican Chair: Make Sure What You Say is Politically Correct Before You Say It

By Carroll Andrew Morse | April 26, 2007 |

Ethan Wingfield has resigned as chairman of the State College Republican Federation (h/t the RI Report website). Mr. Wingfield’s resignation letter includes this vague statement on freedom of speech…As I leave this post, College Republicans around this state have created multiple controversies by exercising our liberty of free speech. We are conservatives, not liberals. Use…