On the Campus
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…