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Rhode Island College
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Website: http://www.ric.edu
Type: Public
Federal Circuit: 1st Circuit
Speech Code Rating
Rhode Island College has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application. Read more here.
Rhode Island College: Violation of Student's Freedom of Conscience
January 28, 2005
At Rhode Island College, graduate student Bill Felkner was asked to publicly advocate "progressive" social changes that he did not believe in. Social work professor Jim Ryczek suggested to Felkner in an e-mail that if he did not agree with the school's political philosophy, he should consider leaving or finding another line of work. Shortly afterwards, Felkner learned that RIC's School of Social Work not only recommended that he adopt a particular ideology but also mandated that he lobby the Rhode Island Legislature for one of several policy positions that he did not support. FIRE wrote to the school, and […]» Read More
Rhode Island College: Punishment of Professor for Refusal to Censor Speech
August 2, 2004
At Rhode Island College, Dr. Lisa Church was threatened with disciplinary action after refusing to punish two mothers for making constitutionally protected comments that offended another mother at RIC's cooperative preschool, of which Professor Church is the coordinator. The offended mother filed a "discrimination" complaint with RIC asking for "some action to be taken" against Church and others at the preschool. RIC college counsel Nicholas Long initially expressed reservations about the legality of proceeding with hearings regarding the complaint, but he later mysteriously reversed himself. RIC then advanced the formal hearing process, informing Church that she faced charges of "hostile […]» Read More
Sexual Misconduct and Relationship Violence Policy for Complaints Against Students
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 12, 2018
Sexual Harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors, and any other verbal, non‐verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: … (3) Such conduct is so severe and pervasive that is has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's education, employment or participation in programs or activities at the College and/or creating an intimidating, hostile, offensive or abusive employment, academic, extracurricular or living or learning environment for the individual at the College.
Examples of such conduct and behaviors that may lead to a finding of sexual harassment include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Verbal: Sexual remarks, comments, jokes and innuendos, communicating unwelcome stories about someone's social or sexual life, and propositions or pressure for social or sexual contact. (2) Non‐verbal: The display of sexually explicit stares, gestures or suggestive pictures, including secretly video recording sexual acts, and/or sharing sexual images via social media without consent. (3) Physical: Unwanted touching, patting, grabbing, pinching, including sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence stalking and rape. Sexual harassment need not be intentional. Examples may also include, persistent and inappropriate personal attention in the face of repeated rejection; unwelcome comments about an individual's sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression; inappropriate written conduct containing comments, words, jokes, or images that are lewd or sexually suggestive or relate in an unwelcome manner to an individual's sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression.
Student Handbook: Residence Hall Policies & Procedures
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: September 12, 2018
The Office of Residential Life & Housing expects that in all relationships with each other, residents will be guided by a mutual concern for each other's feelings, integrity, and the need to live in an environment conducive to academic and personal achievement. These interactions, whether between members of the same or opposite sex, between races, between members of different sexual orientations, or between residents and staff, will be tempered with sensitivity and a sense of responsibility towards others. Within each residential unit, there shall be a commitment to actively promote racial and cultural understanding and to deal honestly, openly, and equitably with all residents. It is expected that all residents will respect each other's privacy and will not subject others to indecent exposure, inappropriate gestures, vulgarity, etc.
Student Handbook: Student Conduct Code- Prohibited Behavior
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: September 12, 2018
Students may be subject to discipline if found to have committed, to have attempted to commit, or to have threatened to commit, or aided and abetted another person to commit the following:
1. Violence, including physical abuse, fighting, verbal abuse, bullying or cyberbullying, threats of violence, intimidation, harassment, coercion and/or conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person.
Office of Student Life: Student Bill of Rights
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 12, 2018
Rhode Island College students possess and retain the inalienable rights granted them by the United States Constitution. Attendance at Rhode Island College does not revoke any of these rights.
Student Forced to Lobby for Progressive Policies is Still Fighting Back
January 6, 2017
By Ashe Schow at Watchdog.org. In 2004, William Felkner was a graduate student in the social work program at Rhode Island College. While taking "Social Work 531," a class about "social work policy and organizing to achieve social justice," Felkner was required to lobby the Rhode Island General Assembly on a topic chosen by the school. Read more here.» Read More
"Only Progressives Need Apply"
December 28, 2016
By Ilya Shapiro and Devin Watkins at The Cato Institute William Felkner was a student at Rhode Island College, a state school, studying social work. The school's faculty explained that as a profession "we do take sides" and are "devoted to the value of social and economic justice." Accordingly, the professors required the students to lobby the state legislature for progressive policies… Read more here.» Read More
Campus Alert: Think like us–or else
June 4, 2007
Columbia University's Teachers College is one of America's most prestigious education schools. For many students, it's probably the best—but not if you don't buy the school's definition of "social justice." Teachers College evaluates students in part on the basis of so-called "dispositions," defined as "observable behaviors" that "involve the use of certain skills." One "disposition" is the student's "Respect for Diversity and Commitment to Social Justice." This warps the discussion of whether a student might make a good teacher into whether that student has the "correct" personal, religious or political beliefs. Evaluating students' aptitude for teaching based on their commitment […]» Read More
Course Requirement or Loyalty Test?
December 16, 2005
James Ryczek, an adjunct professor of social work, thought he was only setting the record straight last fall when he suggested that a student at Rhode Island College might consider leaving the college — and the field of social work altogether — if he disagreed with his professors. "Social work is a value-based profession that clearly articulates a sociopolitical ideology about how the world works," Mr. Ryczek, who is director of field education for the social-work program, wrote in an e-mail message to the student, Bill Felkner. "By and large as a profession, we do take sides." Mr. Ryczek went […]» Read More
Liberating America's Intellectual Gulags
April 15, 2005
David French knows what intimidation is. French, the new President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, graduated from Harvard Law School in the early 1990s. One might say that anyone with similar credentials ought to know the definition of intimidation – but French's experience is a bit more personal than that."As a pro-life, Christian conservative, I received death threats in my campus mailbox, was shouted down by students and (once) was even shouted down in class by my own professor," he says about his years in Cambridge. French now spends much of his time explaining to university general […]» Read More
'Lyle' Portends Life Without Freedom, 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld'
March 10, 2005
Every year when I attend a national conference of administrators for America's colleges and universities, one message comes through loud and clear: claims of harassment, sexual or otherwise, are out of control. At this conference, experts review harassment case law, recent suits and settlements from across the country. They also tell horror stories of absurd harassment accusations they have battled and quote statistics placing the cost of defending just one of these suits, no matter how frivolous, at hundreds of thousands of dollars, with the average award to plaintiffs equally high. In my work at the Foundation for Individual Rights […]» Read More
Grad Student Allegedly Downgraded for Conservative Stance
February 28, 2005
Rhode Island College is under fire for allegedly forcing a student to lobby the state legislature for college-approved policies. Master's student Bill Felkner says the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College (RIC) threatened to reduce his grades if he did not lobby for the school's position on welfare issues. David French with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says the trouble began when Felkner objected to the showing of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 in Professor James Ryczek's social work class last Fall. French explains that when Felkner wrote the professor about his liberal ideological […]» Read More
Freedom at RIC
September 30, 2004
With its decision this month to drop action against a professor who failed to regulate students' conversation, Rhode Island College appears to have come down on the side of free speech.The case centered on Lisa Church, a professor of accounting and computer-information services, who did not punish two RIC students for having made racially insensitive remarks to another RIC student, at the college's preschool. The professor was not on hand when the remarks were made, but was dragged into the affair because she is the preschool's coordinator. RIC President John Nazarian insisted that the matter "was not an issue of […]» Read More
RIC drops complaint against professor
September 12, 2004
Rhode Island College has dropped a discrimination complaint against a professor who refused to discipline two students who allegedly made racist remarks.The professor, Dr. Lisa Church, had told the school it should drop the complaint, made by a student, arguing she did not violate school discrimination policies or other standards.After conducting a closed hearing Sept. 3 – at which both Church and a student complainant testified – Associate Dean Scott Kane recommended the complaint be dropped. "It was determined at the first level of the process that the matter in question was not an issue of free speech, the First […]» Read More
College discusses next move in discrimination case
September 3, 2004
Rhode Island College officials were discussing Friday how to proceed with a discrimination complaint against a professor who refused to discipline two students who allegedly made racist remarks.The professor, Dr. Lisa Church, wrote to administrators this week, saying she believes the college should drop the complaint and not conduct any meetings on the matter.A college spokeswoman said the school hoped to decide by Friday what would happen next, but was obliged to investigate every complaint filed. The discrimination complaint stems from an incident on Feb. 19, when two students, with children in RIC's preschool, allegedly made racist remarks in conversation […]» Read More
Professor faces deadline for hearing on discrimination complaint
September 3, 2004
A Rhode Island College professor called in for a hearing for failing to discipline two students who allegedly made racist remarks has not scheduled the meeting and wants the college to call off its probe.The deadline for Lisa Church to schedule the meeting that college administrators have requested is Friday.Church wrote to administrators this week, saying she does not think the meeting should take place. "I acted both reasonably and responsibly in refusing to consider any kind of punishment of anyone involved in the conversation," Church said in the letter. "To have punished the participants in the conversation in any […]» Read More
Attacking speech at RIC
August 31, 2004
A FRIEND of mine is in the middle of the bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran. It's the story of a teacher in Iran who meets in secret with seven students to read forbidden Western texts — all the time fearing raids by Islamic morality squads who are out to enforce ideological conformity and purge wayward professors.I'd like to believe that this ugly side of human nature — the will to force everyone to think and believe alike, for the common "good" — is a problem confined to the Islamic world, far from the land of liberty. But something akin to […]» Read More
Professor accused of not punishing students for racist remarks
August 27, 2004
A Rhode Island College professor has been called in for a hearing for failing to punish two students who allegedly made racist remarks, and her case is drawing the attention of civil liberties advocates.The professor, Lisa B. Church, could face disciplinary action for her alleged failure to appropriately respond to a student's complaint, but the college says the initial hearing is merely a fact-finding proceeding.The complaint against Church, a professor of accounting and computer information services, was brought to the college administration by a student and mother at the college who claims that Church responded inappropriately when told about racist […]» Read More
RIC hearing focuses on free speech
August 27, 2004
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island College will hold a hearing to determine whether a professor violated college policy for refusing to punish speech that many consider protected by the First Amendment — and prompting a national civil liberties advocacy group to cry foul. The professor at the center the controversy, Lisa B. Church, could face disciplinary action for her alleged failure to appropriately respond to a student's complaint. But the college insists that at this point, the hearing is merely a fact-finding proceeding "and discipline is not the focus of the complaint filed in this instance." The complaint against […]» Read More
Joined by Cato and NAS, FIRE Files Brief in Support of Student Compelled to Lobby State Lawmakers
December 30, 2016
Earlier this month, FIRE filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Rhode Island Supreme Court in the case of Felkner v. Rhode Island College, et al. on behalf of William Felkner, a former student of social work at Rhode Island College (RIC). The brief, submitted jointly with the Cato Institute and the National Association of Scholars, argues that Felkner's First Amendment rights were violated when faculty compelled him to lobby state lawmakers in support of policy positions that he did not hold. Here's the crux of Felkner's complaint, as laid out in the brief: The entirety of the record shows that […]» Read More
Speech Codes of the Year: 2009
December 23, 2009
As Torch readers know, each month FIRE singles out a particularly reprehensible speech code for our Speech Code of the Month award. While all 12 Speech Codes of the Month in 2009 flagrantly violated students' right to free expression, three were so egregious that they deserve special mention as 2009's Speech Codes of the Year. New York University. NYU's Anti-Harassment Policy prohibits "insulting," "teasing," and even "inappropriate jokes" based on categories such as race and religion. Although NYU is private, its policies purport to protect the right to free speech, providing that "[f]ree inquiry, free expression, and free association are […]» Read More
Speech Code of the Month: Rhode Island College
July 6, 2009
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for July 2009: Rhode Island College. Rhode Island College, a public college, has so many restrictive policies that it could be our Speech Code of the Month several times over. One policy in particular, however, really takes the cake—the Code of Social Responsibility for the college's residence halls. That policy provides that [T]he Office of Residential Life & Housing will strongly support the Rhode Island College Sexual/Racial Harassment policies, and will not tolerate actions or attitudes that threaten the welfare of any of its members. (Emphasis added.) The policy further states that […]» Read More
This Month in FIRE History: Victory for Freedom of Conscience at Citrus College; Coerced Student Anti-War Letters Repudiated by Administration
March 13, 2009
As we at FIRE often say, as dangerous as it is to tell citizens what they can and cannot say, it is far worse to tell them what they must say and, worse still—what they must believe. Unfortunately, we have far too many examples of colleges doing exactly that. In February of 2003, Citrus College joined a list of schools that have coerced students to lobby the government for beliefs that they did not agree with. The case began when Professor Roslyn Kahn offered extra credit to students who wrote letters to President Bush protesting the war in Iraq. Several […]» Read More
FOX News Reports on FIRE Case at Rhode Island College
December 17, 2008
FOX News reported yesterday on student William Felkner's lawsuit against Rhode Island College's (RIC's) School of Social Work for denying him a master's degree in social work for his conservative views: Felkner said his problems with his professors began in his first semester, in the fall of 2004, when he objected in an e-mail to one of his professors that the school was showing and promoting Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" on campus. He said he objected because no opposing point of view was presented. He said Professor James Ryczek wrote to him on Oct. 15, 2004, saying he was proud […]» Read More
Rhode Island College Settles Student Group Lawsuit Over Posting Signs on Campus
September 27, 2007
Earlier this week, Rhode Island College (RIC) settled a First Amendment lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU) on behalf of an RIC student group, the Women's Studies Organization (WSO). The settlement—which ends a dispute dating back to December 2005 over signs posted by the WSO and removed by RIC—requires RIC to pay $5,000 to the WSO, as well as $6,350 in attorney's fees to the ACLU. Specifically, the dispute began when the WSO posted signs bearing pro-choice messages near the entrance road to RIC's campus. The signs were subsequently criticized by a visiting Catholic […]» Read More
RI Board of Governors to RIC Lawyers: Knock It Off!
February 8, 2007
Yesterday, Rhode Island College's (RIC's) lawyers made the shocking argument that a First Amendment challenge to the school's sign policy should be dismissed because the school was not a state actor and therefore not bound by the Constitution. As I discussed yesterday, this incredible argument relied on a narrow line of reasoning imported from a string of Eleventh Amendment decisions dealing not with First Amendment protections, but rather with whether or not Rhode Island's public colleges enjoyed sovereign immunity from lawsuits as an "arm of the state." Had the federal district court hearing the present case accepted this slick gambit, […]» Read More
Rhode Island College: Not a Public School?
February 7, 2007
Back in early December, I wrote about a federal lawsuit brought by the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union (RI ACLU) against Rhode Island College (RIC) alleging a violation of the First Amendment rights of the Women's Studies Organization (WSO), a student group at RIC. The suit claims that RIC removed signs communicating support for reproductive rights placed on campus by the WSO, while other student groups were allowed to post signs freely. The suit asks that both the specific removal and RIC's sign policy in general be declared unconstitutional. The trial has started—and it's shaping up to be […]» Read More
ACLU Brings Suit Against Rhode Island College
December 4, 2006
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Rhode Island today announced the filing of a federal lawsuit against Rhode Island College (RIC), contending that the school's sign policy is unconstitutional. Specifically, the suit alleges that the college violated the First Amendment rights of the Women's Studies Organization (WSO), a student group at RIC. According to the ACLU's press release, exactly one year ago campus police acted on the request of RIC President John Nazarian and removed signs expressing support for reproductive rights posted by the WSO. The signs, located near RIC's entrance road, were noticed by a priest driving onto […]» Read More
(Re)Introducing Will Creeley
September 8, 2006
Those of you who have followed FIRE's work closely are probably already familiar with our new Senior Program Officer, Will Creeley. He has been working with FIRE since the summer of 2004, and in the spring of this year—while he was getting ready to graduate from NYU and take the bar exam—he began working part-time for FIRE. With law school and the bar exam behind him, he is now a full-time part of the team, and we are thrilled to have him on board. But enough from me—here's Will: I am extremely proud to begin my professional career at FIRE. […]» Read More
Daphne Patai on 'Dispositions'
December 20, 2005
The invaluable Daphne Patai, who serves on FIRE's Board of Directors, recently sent me some interesting thoughts on the abuse of "dispositions" and other vague, political standards in the modern academy. As loyal Torch readers know, students like Ed Swan at Washington State University and Bill Felkner at Rhode Island College have been the victims of universities' attempts to require students to show a commitment to concepts like "social justice" seemingly without understanding that no two people likely agree exactly on what terms like that even mean. Such standards are an excuse for, and an invitation to, establishing official political […]» Read More
Art and the Myth of the 'Right Not to Be Offended'
October 21, 2005
Check out the fascinating story ("Censoring Art or Protecting Workers?") about censored artwork in Inside Higher Ed. Apparently the University of Michigan at Flint is demanding that a graphic drawing called Hermaphrodite be removed from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center because it is creating a "hostile environment" for workers. Anyone who pays attention to the battle for free speech on campus knows that "hostile environment" is the most abused rationale for silencing expression on campus. As I wrote in a recent column about a legal decision that threatens to badly expand what constitutes "hostile environment": Claims of harassment […]» Read More
This Month in FIRE History: Victory at RIC, Part 1
September 13, 2005
It's hard to believe it's already been a year, but last September we announced our victory in Professor Lisa Church's case at Rhode Island College: PROVIDENCE, R.I., September 10, 2004—Rhode Island College (RIC) Associate Dean Scott Kane stated in a decision released yesterday that he believes no "further formal action" is required in the college's trial of Dr. Lisa Church, a professor who refused to censor constitutionally protected speech. "While the decision is welcome news for Professor Church and her family, RIC still has not recognized the unconstitutionality and injustice of its actions. RIC was clearly trying someone for 'discrimination' […]» Read More
Nontraditional Students
August 18, 2005
One of the more interesting aspects of our case submissions is that a disproportionately high number come from "nontraditional" students—those students who are older, married, or often have substantial work experience. Many of our more sensational and egregious cases—including the recent ban on showing The Passion of the Christ at a college in Florida, Scott McConnell's expulsion from Le Moyne College in New York, Bill Felkner's troubles at Rhode Island College, and Jihad Daniel's case at William Paterson University—have involved students in their thirties, forties, and (in Daniel's case) sixties. I think there is a good reason for this […]» Read More
This Month in FIRE History: Rhode Island College, Round 1
August 12, 2005
Well, it's August again, and apparently that means it's time for FIRE and Rhode Island College to have it out. This time last year, FIRE was engaged in a public battle for the rights of RIC professor Lisa Church, who faced a trial for not punishing two adults for making "offensive" comments she did not even hear. Yes, you read right: Professor Church got guff from RIC administrators for upholding the First Amendment. As we wrote in an August 2004 press release: The planned hearing stems from an incident on February 19, 2004, in which three mothers of students […]» Read More
Censorship as an Act of Civil Disobedience?
May 27, 2005
Despite spending much of my professional life defending students who are victims of the totalitarian academic culture, I can still be surprised by the stunning self-righteousness underlying much of the censorship on campus. Campus administrators and many faculty members know that they have all the right answers regarding issues of race, gender, sexuality, poverty, war, peace, etc., and it is their job to ensure that their students don't just know those answers but believe them to be true. Dissent is a direct threat to their mission, and it must be stamped out—even when administrators know their actions are illegal. Earlier […]» Read More
Rhode Island College Continues Campaign Against Conservative Social Work Student
May 26, 2005
PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 26, 2005—Rhode Island College's (RIC's) School of Social Work is requiring a conservative master's student to publicly advocate for "progressive" social changes if he wants to continue pursuing a degree in social work policy. RIC's appalling disregard for student Bill Felkner's freedom of conscience is the latest in an ongoing string of abuses by RIC administrators and faculty members that violate the right to fundamental freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution. "FIRE has dealt with hundreds of cases, but we have never seen anything quite like this," stated David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights […]» Read More
Providence speech patrol
March 19, 2005
It was hardly unusual for conservative Christians a generation ago to worry themselves silly that they'd lost the battle over free speech. Especially on America's campuses in the 1960s and '70s, outrageous public expressions that struck many as unpatriotic, blasphemous, or obscene regularly gained the protection of the courts. People shook their heads in wonderment. The irony of all that history is that the free-speech issue is being contested all over again these days on America's campuses, although in a very different way. Now conservative Christians are the ones whose right to speak is being challenged—and way too often, they […]» Read More
Occidental College's Ongoing Shame: Part 1
March 1, 2005
One year ago this month, Occidental College radio show host Jason Antebi hosted his popular radio show Rant and Rave for the very last time. In this last show he mocked two student representatives who had previously tried to have him impeached from his student government position. The student representatives filed sexual harassment charges against him, the dean of students fired him from his radio show over the objections of the radio station's student management, and the College found him guilty of violating federal sexual harassment laws. As shocking as this turn of events may be, it is hardly novel […]» Read More
Are Things Getting Worse?
February 25, 2005
A FIRE supporter writes with an interesting question: Maybe it's just me, but it seems that your two latest cases (and some of your other more recent reports from other campuses) almost seem to indicate a "ratcheting up" on the part of those who wish to squelch free speech on campus. The brazenness of their actions is breathtaking. The Summers incident at Harvard comes to mind as well. Do you think this might represent some "last gasp" from these folks? Are they trying to get a few more punches in before they lose whatever semblance of control they have left? Their […]» Read More
Reveling in Bias
February 24, 2005
Daphne Patai, a member of FIRE's Board of Directors and a brilliant teacher and scholar herself, has the following observations about FIRE's case against Rhode Island College: What is most upsetting about cases such as that at Rhode Island College, as Professor Ryczek's comments make clear, is the apparent failure of professors and schools to understand why it is entirely inappropriate for them to prescribe particular political positions to their students. Professor Ryczek's proud claim to "revel in [his] biases" ought to be a deep embarrassment both to him and to the school that employs him. It's bad enough that […]» Read More
RIC Is Not the Only One
February 24, 2005
A FIRE supporter has written us and noted that forced lobbying is "quite common, and apparently accepted, in Social Work schools." He goes on to say: At Washington University Social Work students also engaged in school-directed lobbying of the state legislature on behalf of University-approved positions as part of a course for credit. Since Washington is a private school, such lobbying could endanger the school's tax-exempt status. If these practices are common, it is quite possible that many other students have had their rights of conscience violated and not known that FIRE could help. If there are any other readers […]» Read More
Rhode Island College vs. Freedom—Again
February 23, 2005
FIRE unfortunately often deals with colleges and universities that repeatedly violate the fundamental rights of students or faculty members. The shining example of this is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which keeps trampling on its students' rights in almost the same way, confirming my suspicion as a Duke alumnus that UNC is up to no good. The University of Alabama also has been a notable example of a school that just seems unable to get a grasp on freedom. Yet a new contender for the title has arisen from the shores of the Ocean State—Rhode Island College […]» Read More
Rhode Island College Violates Freedom of Conscience
February 23, 2005
PROVIDENCE, R.I., February 23, 2005—The School of Social Work at Rhode Island College (RIC) has threatened to reduce a student's grades if he chooses not to lobby the Rhode Island legislature for policies with which he disagrees. Last fall, master's student Bill Felkner received a failing grade after protesting a professor's admitted bias in class and after writing an essay in connection with a lobbying assignment that dissented from that professor's approved perspective. Felkner's situation comes in the wake of RIC's attempt to punish a professor for refusing to censor constitutionally protected speech. "Nobody should be coerced by the state […]» Read More
The Censors' Favorite Team
February 4, 2005
Tens of millions of people across America will watch the Philadelphia Eagles take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXIX this Sunday night. In a gesture of magnanimity before the big game, those of us at FIRE's headquarters here in Philadelphia would like to tip our hat to all the New England college administrators we've dealt with throughout the years. Not far from New England's home of Foxboro Stadium near Boston lies Harvard University, home of the Crimson, censorship of business students, and a whole host of due process concerns. Meanwhile, Patriot-supporting administrators at nearby Tufts University in Medford have […]» Read More
Fraternities Must Stand Up to Schools' Squelching Free Speech
October 11, 2004
While there is no shortage of free-speech battles on college campuses, fraternities have the dubious honor of being at the center of many of the least-sympathetic controversies. From Halloween parties where brothers show up dressed as Ku Klux Klan members to fraternity newsletters that graphically relate a brother's sexual exploits with named co-eds, fraternities sometimes express themselves in ways that are not exactly likely to win the battle for hearts and minds. However, although fraternities later may regret the actions of some of their brothers, they must not allow their rights to be stripped away by overzealous or opportunistic administrators. […]» Read More
RIC faculty union challenges policy limiting speech
October 2, 2004
PROVIDENCE — Prompted by the recent furor over free speech at Rhode Island College, RIC's faculty union has filed a grievance, asking that language it finds unconstitutional be removed from the college's policies. Sections of RIC's equal-opportunity and affirmative action plan could have a chilling effect on free speech — the cornerstone of academic pursuit, said Prof. Daniel Weisman, a member of the union's executive committee. The college policy calls for "a positive climate where individuals may learn, teach and work free from discrimination"; and forbids "jokes or demeaning statements about a person's gender, race/ethnicity, minorities, persons with […]» Read More
Rhode Island College Union Files Free Speech Grievance
October 1, 2004
PROVIDENCE, R.I., October 1, 2004—In a welcome development for free speech on America's campuses, the faculty union at Rhode Island College (RIC) has filed a grievance challenging RIC's unconstitutional speech codes. Professor Jason Blank, president of the RIC/AFT Local 1819, filed the grievance in the wake of RIC's decision to subject Professor Lisa Church to disciplinary hearings for her refusal to punish constitutionally protected student speech. "This is an important moment in the ongoing battle against speech codes. The RIC/AFT has recognized that speech codes not only violate Constitutional and moral principles, but also prevent professors from effectively doing […]» Read More
Breaking the Silence
September 29, 2004
Editor's note: Last month, we ran an article entitled, "Backlash 101," by GNN contributor Joshua Holland, editor of USC's progressive paper, The Trojan Horse. Holland argued that heavily-funded conservative groups were taking advantage of an anti-political correctness backlash to make political gains among impressionable college students across the country. Not everyone agreed with Holland's analysis. Minnie Quach, a program officer at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group mentioned by Holland as having ties to powerful conservatives, contacted us with an alternative view. Here Quach argues that Holland painted a much too simplistic picture of the political […]» Read More
Freedom of speech: RIC ends the inquisition, not the debate
September 22, 2004
BROOKLYN, N.Y. ON SEPT. 9, Rhode Island College tried to weasel out of an embarrassing free-speech controversy, in which it had tried a professor for doing nothing more than refusing to violate the First Amendment. And though RIC's decision not to proceed with "further formal action" against the professor was welcome, it did nothing to convince civil-liberties watchdogs that free speech is secure at RIC. The professor, Lisa Church, was coordinator of RIC's cooperative preschool. In February, a pupil's mother went to her and alleged that in a private conversation another parent (both are students at RIC) had expressed racist […]» Read More
Free Speech Victory at Rhode Island College
September 10, 2004
PROVIDENCE, R.I., September 10, 2004—Rhode Island College (RIC) Associate Dean Scott Kane stated in a decision released yesterday that he believes no "further formal action" is required in the college's trial of Dr. Lisa Church, a professor who refused to censor constitutionally protected speech. "While the decision is welcome news for Professor Church and her family, RIC still has not recognized the unconstitutionality and injustice of its actions. RIC was clearly trying someone for 'discrimination' for refusing to punish another person's speech," said David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which wrote to RIC on […]» Read More
An Open Letter to President John Nazarian and Rhode Island College
September 3, 2004
Dear President Nazarian and the Rhode Island College Community: Today marks the deadline for Professor Lisa Church to set up a meeting with Rhode Island College officials about her handling of an incident that has been much in the news in recent days. As you know, Dr. Church refused a request to punish two mothers for offensive remarks they allegedly made at RIC's cooperative preschool. The offended person, a student and mother at RIC, charged Dr. Church with "discrimination" for her failure to punish the people who allegedly made the remarks. Despite Dr. Church's reasonable attempts to handle the […]» Read More
Rhode Island College to Try Professor for Refusing to Punish Protected Speech
August 24, 2004
PROVIDENCE, R.I., August 24, 2004—Rhode Island College (RIC), a public college in Providence, is planning a hearing this week to determine whether a professor violated college policies banning "hostile environment racism" and "intimidation" for refusing to punish speech protected by the First Amendment. Professor Lisa B. Church, who was a coordinator for RIC's cooperative preschool program, was not even present when two adult participants in the program allegedly made comments that another adult participant considered racially "offensive." Professor Church refused to punish the offending participants based on a third-person report of constitutionally protected speech, or to make the private […]» Read More


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DeAndre Brown runs what might be the best known landscape business in areas of Memphis where the yards have brush and trees taller than the vacant houses they completely obscure.
"We operate a little differently than other contractors. Most have subcontractors that work separately," he said. "We are one large crew of 60 men or women. We get the heavy equipment in first. Then a team of weed eaters will go in behind that, then a team of people go in behind them and clean up."
The Blight Patrol, composed of men and women wearing lime green T-shirts, has become synonymous with the larger effort to bring Frayser back after decades of indifference, neglect and lots of assumptions about the blue-collar suburb that lost its factories starting in the early 1980s.
LaSalle Pratt is part of the Lifeline to Success "Blight Patrol" program, which puts ex-offenders to work by cleaning up blighted properties in Frayser.
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Blight Patrol members, including Brown, are all ex-offenders, people who in Brown's words "have had some contact with the criminal justice system." And the patrol is part a larger program called Lifeline to Success, which is focused on more than re-entry after completion of a prison term.
In the July heat, the Blight Patrol can look like a chain gang without the chains if you know the men and women at work used to be in prison. The yard work, however, was the only avenue Brown could find for a goal that is about more than the rehabilitation of ex-felons. It turned out to be a near perfect union.
When he and six other ex-felons showed at a Memphis City Council session three years ago they were interested in not only changing the attitude of those released from prison – they were vocal, even angry, about changing the way those who hadn't been in prison viewed those emerging from prison. They spoke at the end of the council session at City Hall, the spot on the agenda reserved for citizens who aren't speaking about anything on the council's agenda. And they left as frustrated as, if not more than, they were when they got there.
Sometime after that, Brown found his way to the Frayser Exchange Club's weekly luncheons near the intersection of U.S. 51 and North Watkins Road.
"The issue at the Exchange Club meeting that day was some houses that were vacant that no one would cover," Brown said. "We said, 'You know what? Let us do that.'"
Lifeline began its work in the Schoolfield area of Frayser two days a week.
"They embraced our men and women without worrying about their history," Brown said of the club. "That was something that was important to me. And Frayser had the most overgrown lots. So it worked out."
Brown also started bringing those working in the crews to the luncheon as well, as part of their adjustment to life on the outside. The encounters are almost always tentative with those in the green shirts always more tentative than others at the luncheon.
"We wanted to have a way to get them into the public," he said. "Our mission is to change perceptions. The only way we can do that is to be in public doing things that the community sees value in."
Most in the crowded backroom of Sarah Lee's restaurant know the men and women in green are ex-felons. But that rarely comes up. Instead they are recognized for clearing lots and yards that many of those in the Exchange Club drive by every day.
What can seem like anger on the part of those in Lifeline isn't just anger, Brown said. And starting to change that is what happens for two weeks in a classroom setting, then the classroom and volunteer efforts and then noon to dusk clearing lots.
"One of the most frustrating things is to deal with someone who's been in that situation because they don't feel there is any hope," Brown said. "Prison hardens you. I don't think folks really understand what that means. It isn't somebody who doesn't care. It's someone who has had to learn how to deal with situation that they have no control over. They suppress emotions and suppress different feelings that normal people actually go through in a daily cycle. So they come out like they don't feel, like they are strong."
The adjustment is difficult and first tries frequently fail.
Since Brown started the program, he's counseled 1,100 men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. Referrals are by word of mouth. He is the first to admit that most do not complete the program. Many leave of their own accord.
"Many of them don't complete the program because our program is very vigorous. It takes a special person that really wants to change. We've made it tough on purpose," Brown said. "Generally with programs like this, people come in and they feel entitled. They are looking for a handout. … We make them work and earn it. Generally when you put the work in front of people that only want a handout. They don't stand up to it."
Brown's philosophy is that the door is always open for them to return and complete the program.
"It's very difficult to get put out of our program. People use that as an excuse and a crutch – I don't have to try anymore," he said. "We won't put you out. If you come back we will give you some restrictions but you can still stay in the program."
Law enforcement leaders and others in the local criminal justice system are starting to question whether the difficult transition back from incarceration to a life on the right side of the law is a journey so many here and elsewhere undergo.
"The explosion in the American criminal justice system over the last 40 years in unprecedented anywhere in the world," said Shelby County Public Defender Stephen Bush. "We incarcerate 25 percent of the people who are incarcerated throughout the world even though we only have five percent of the world's population. No one's even close to what we have done."
James Coleman, director of Shelby County Corrections Division, agrees.
"When you think about the purpose of a prison. We are looking to get a person in, hopefully to offer him or her services that will help them be better when they leave," he said. "If bringing a person in and once they leave they are really in worse shape, there's a problem there."
Coleman's programs at the corrections center including training in how to operate a forklift and this year he estimates 120 inmates will earn their equivalent of a high school diploma. But getting a job right out of prison for many of those inmates will be a hard process because they will likely be disqualified as soon an employer sees they have checked the box on the application indication that they have been convicted of a felony – any felony.
He is an advocate of "ban the box," the initiative that takes such a box off job applications and puts the issue later in the job interviewing process.
"You get to meet me as a person and then we talk about the incarceration," Coleman said. "We are trying to do some things to not get on an even keel – to at least get them on the playing field."
Brown has a working philosophy that is closer to the day-to-day life of men and women after they leave prison. It is about something as simple as yard work.
"When we began to actually get in the neighborhood and cut grass, all of a sudden doors began to open," Brown said. "We could find a need and we didn't have to talk about it. We could actually address it. And when people saw that we could address something that was of concern, things began to change for us."
And interaction with those who haven't been to prison is essential to the success of what Lifeline is trying to do for those on both sides of the encounter.
"We've become an asset. People actually seek us out," he said. "So, where a man was once a pariah and no one wanted him in the neighborhood, now they see him on the team and they are excited – especially when the grass starts to grow."
Frayser is more to the group than where the most overgrown lots are. Brown is an integral part of the area's comeback.
"We're ready to take back our neighborhoods and make Frayser the next Germantown," he told the Memphis City Council when he returned to City Hall in July 2012, this time to accept a proclamation from the council.
Lifeline is also involved in the schools in the area, working with the Achievement School District.
When Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman visited Whitney Achievement Elementary School this month, Brown was along for the tour.
In the grade school's lunchroom, his attention was immediately drawn to the one child in the lunchroom sitting in a lone seat by the door – a decidedly dour expression on his face, his arms crossed tightly across his chest.
As the lunchroom emptied in orderly lines, Brown approached the child obviously serving the last part of his lunch period in time out and talked with him quietly. The boy's expression remained resolutely hard, or as hard as the stare of an elementary school student in a uniform can be. Brown recognized the look and kept talking, letting the words sink in even if it didn't look like they were getting very far.
"We're setting out to change the culture of Frayser. It won't happen overnight. But if we can get that first or second grader and teach them how to respect authority, then he won't be walking in the street or have his pants sagging," Brown said the next day. "If an adult speaks to him, he'll look him in the eye and give them respect they deserve. That's how we begin to build it. It's always the troubled ones that need the most attention."
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David Bellion - Sunderland to Manchester United
Despite his deservedly formidable reputation as a Manchester United managerial, Sir Alex Ferguson was also renowned for making the odd bizarre transfer involving a decidedly average player on occasion.
One such player was French forward Bellion. Having signed for Premier League Sunderland in 2001, the 30-year-old was powerless to prevent the Black Cats being relegated with a humiliatingly-low points return.
He made the shock move to Old Trafford on a free transfer in June 2003 following the expiration of his contract and did not endear himself to the United faithful in a subsequent three-year stint.
Bellion joined Ligue 1 title hopefuls Bordeaux in 2007.


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1 lb ground pork
1 lb ground chicken breast
1/2 lb sliced pork belly, small diced
3/4 cups cooked brown rice
1 egg
1/2 cup minced cilantro
1/2 cup minced red basil
3 Tbs fish sauce
4 Tbs soy sauce
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 Tbs brown sugar
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When Jim came home from his Opdivo infusion, he told me that while his nurse was filling out his information sheet, she asked him, Is this your first time here?
He explained that he had 2 rounds of chemo, so that he could qualify for Opdivo. And during that time wasted on Chemo, his cancer has spread. Now, instead of curing him, the goal is to keep him alive a little longer, or at least stop it from spreading.
She expressed her displeasure with this protocol, Its so unfair and wrong.
Jims nurse explained immunotherapy and Opdivo to Jim, which Jim then explained to me. Here is my metaphor to describe it.
How Immunotherapy Works
Immunotherapy is like the Department of Defense for Cancer.
White Blood Cells (WBC) are soldiers, armed with the ammunition to fight the enemy, thanks to the Department of Defense.
Red Blood Cells (RBC) are the enemys soldiers, although there are RBC, who arent enlisted in the army.
When a WBC soldier meets an RBC soldier, the WBC kills the RBC.
Opdivo stimulates the bodys immune system to fight cancer.
Whereas, Chemo reduces the bodys immune system, and its soldiers kill off WBC, as well as neutral RBC soldiers.
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Why Immunotherapy Should Be the First Choice, Not the Last Resort, is going to be the title of a letter I intend to write and send to as many venues as possible.
I welcome your suggestions for people/agencies/ organizations/ blogs, etc. to which I should send my letter. Please share your ideas and become part of the movement to change this protocol.
I dont know when, but I will write about Jims experience, and those of millions of other Chemo Cancer Victims (yes, victims) of Big Pharma. It is inhumane to deny a dying person a chance at a longer life, knowing that immunotherapy will work better than Chemo. Knowing that Chemo will make the patient more ill, suffer tremendously with vomiting, nausea, dehydration, weight loss, anemia ~ the list is endless. It is ENDLESS. And knowing, that every day, every week, every month that goes by without immunotherapy allows cancer to spread unabated.
This is essentially a death sentence to cancer patients. Its abhorrent! And unconscionable.
Im just appalled that oncologists are okay with this protocol. Are their hands tied? They are on the front lines of fighting cancer. Why dont they speak up for changing this protocol?
I said to Jim, What about all the compassionate infusion nurses, who have to give you Chemo, knowing it wont help you, will make you sick, and that you have to do it to get immunotherapy? That must be so very difficult for them.
Its simply heartless and cruel. And I am very angry that my beloved Jim is a Chemo Cancer Victim.
Jims nurse told him, You deserve to live, and you need to live for Jon and Rose. I so wish this could have been started for you first.
First do no harm. And yet, physicians are following this protocol, which is clearly doing harm. How is this being allowed? It must be changed, and I will be at the forefront of this fight, with what little energy I have remaining.
Jim could be in remission now, if hed been given Opdivo first, instead of as a last resort.
For the trial study, Jim was asked to donate his tissue, blood, and fluids for research to help future patients. All the while, he would be waiting for test results as cancer consumes his body. And he couldnt qualify for that test trial study, without failing 2 chemo rounds.
I want to help future cancer patients by eliminating this discriminatory, inhumane protocol, so that everyone has a shot at a cure and remission through immunotherapy and tissue testing from the moment they are diagnosed.
Chemo may still help some patients. But if we know going in that Chemo wont help, then give it just to qualify for treatment, which is more likely to help, great harm is being caused to those patients.
Great harm has been caused to my beloved husband and the Worlds Most Wonderful Dad, because of this protocol. And the harm caused to me and Jon, when we lose him to this protocol, will be immeasurable.
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Tito Vilanova's were slow out of the blocks but responded wonderfully to Falcao's sublime opening goal, with Lionel Messi taking his tally for 2012 to 90 during a fine fightback
Radamel Falcao opened the scoring with a sublime solo effort just after the half-hour mark, but Adriano levelled matters five minutes later with an equally spectacular strike before Sergio Busquets put the hosts ahead with cool finish just before the break.
Lionel Messi then struck twice during the second half to take his tally for the calendar year to a staggering 90 goals, thus sealing a resounding win which put their visitors very much in their place.
It was first vs second in Catalunya. Messi vs Falcao. But Barcelona glided to victory through a depressing air of predictability. On Saturday, Tito Vilanova said that in any other league, Atletico would be top. But this isn't any other league. And as the gap at the top grows, that between Atleti and their Madrid rivals continues to diminish.
As ever, Diego Simeone's side were rigid and compact, intent on absorbing pressure and hitting their hosts on the counter. And Falcao very nearly gave them a shock lead inside the first 10 minutes, but saw his wonderfully flicked header bounce back off the inside of Victo Valdes' post. Hearts were in Barca mouths again when Colombian raced clear of Carles Puyol after 23 minutes overstretching to drag his shot wide.
Falcao rarely misses – his 16 league goals prior to this evening had arrived via just 52 shots this season. He was never going to miss another, and he opened the scoring with a wonderful goal after half an hour. When Messi lost possession in midfield, Falcao pulled square to receive a short pass. His first touch took him away from Busquets on the halfway line before racing clear to delicately lift his left-footed finish over Valdes.
Barca had failed to carve out a single chance by then, their only two efforts on goal arriving as Messi sent one free kick into the wall and another into the stands. Atleti remained compact; Barca kept probing, waiting for you know who to step up.
But instead it was Adriano who provided a moment of genius. The Brazilian, shifted over to right-back with Dani Alves having just recovered from injury, drew the Blaugrana level with solo effort of his own just five minutes later, cutting inside from the right and smashing his curling shot in off the under side of Thibaut Courtois' crossbar from the edge of the box.
The pendulum swung from that point, and Barca went ahead right on the stroke of half-time when Pique nodded a corner back across goal to Busquets. The Barca midfielder's spatial awareness is an attribute often overlooked, and it was evident as he took a touch on the edge of the six-yard box before ducking inside Mario Suarez and firing past Courtois.
Messi had been oddly quiet for almost an hour, but the inevitable arrived after 57 minutes when he skipped around Juanfran to curl his shot into the bottom corner from 18 yards for his 89th goal of 2012.
Messi then grabbed his 34th of the season to round off the scoring with four minutes remaining after collecting Diego Godin's awful attempt at a back heel inside in his own area to lift the ball over Courtois from close range.
Atletico failed to create a chance in the second period and will be disappointed with their performance after such a promising start.
Yet this defeat should take nothing away from the job Diego Simeone has done since arriving in Madrid. Atleti remain a work in progress – a considerable amount of which has been made over the first half of the La Liga season. And they will end the year rightly positioned as the second best team in the country.
For Barcelona, this was a good end to a fabulous first half of life under Tito at Camp Nou, with 15 wins and a one draw during what has been the best start to a La Liga season by any side ever.
You get the feeling the New Year may well bring more of the same for both sides.


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Law enforcement services in Armenia are provided by the Police of the Republic of Armenia (PRA) which answers directly to the Armenian government. A Chief of the Police appointed by the Armenian President heads the force.
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Nationality: Armenia
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Aussie Family Corinthian Champions At The 2014 US Melges 24 Nationals
17 November 2014
Australian crew AUS 812 Accru+ were crowned the Corinthian Champions and placed seventh out of thirty-one boats in the open fleet at the 2014 Melges 24 US Nationals in Tampa, Florida, 14-16 November hosted by Davis Island Yacht Club. The family crew consisted of skipper Kevin Nixon, his wife Glenda, their daughter Bonnie, son Daniel and his girlfriend, a new recruit Christine Linhart. They represented the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.
Day one concluded with five races in light tricky conditions; Kevin Nixon and his Accru+ team held a tight two point lead over Roger Counihan's Just Add Water. Day two ended with only race and saw Accru+ finish a respectable fourth place. They went on to take out the Corinthian Division after day three with nine points ahead of Ryan Glaze's Gringo.
The Nixon's left their boat in the U.S. after competing in the 2013 San Francisco Worlds. It was delivered to Tampa in Florida and then brought up to speed for the Nationals.
After also purchasing part ownership of their best mate's and arch rival Warwick Rooklyn's boat Bandit 814 in Australia the family put in 6am training sessions throughout winter on Sydney Harbour. Daniel Nixon was part of Rooklyn's 2012 North American Melges 24 championships winning crew. Warwick has been training the Nixons giving valued advice from his wealth of experience. The training sessions consisted of roll tacking and light footing around the deck which has paid off for Accru+ in Florida.
Kevin & Daniel have been cross training on other boats in preparation for the regatta in the off season. Kevin has been sailing on Etchells, Farr 40 and a Farr 400 and in the guest skipper spot on an 18 foot skiff Panasonic LUMIX where Daniel is full time crew. In addition to his 18 foot skiff commitments Daniel also crews on Neville Crighten's McConaghy 38 Maserati. The Nixon's have previously won the New South Wales and South Australian Championships and have come second twice in the Australian championships. They competed in the 2013 Melges 24 worlds in San Francisco placing fifth in the Corinthian division after holding third place until the last race.
The ladies populating the Australian fleet are experienced, dedicated competitors. Many of the women sailing Melges 24's understate their sailing achievements and the Nixon girls are no different. Like a lot of women Glenda's sailing career paused for family, however she used this time to stay involved in the sport as the treasurer and Commodore of Vaucluse Amateur 12 foot Sailing Club.
"We wanted to do a family campaign, our children Bonnie and Daniel really liked the look of the Melges 24 and we were all hooked after watching lots of footage of incredible downwind rides. I have known Karyn Gojnich, Alex Murray, Nicki Bethwaite and Adrienne Cahalan since the 80 s when Kevin sailed the 18 foot skiffs. They are amazing sailors and were my inspiration to give it a go before the body packed up" said Glenda Nixon.
Bonnie had a traditional introduction to sailing in an optimist at the age of eight. "I made my dad paint it my school colours and christened it Koala Leaf. My brother and I grew up sailing sabots at Vaucluse Amateur 12 foot Sailing Club and went from there to Flying 11's and Laser 4.7's at Woollahra Sailing Club and then match racing at the CYCA". Said Bonnie Nixon. After their success this week the Accru+ team plan to spend another family holiday in the U.S. competing in Charleston Race Week in April 2015 and will continue racing in the Australian regatta circuit.


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Sept. 11, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Apparently, all MIT's water polo team needed was a little home cooking. Following last weekend's tough trip to the Navy Invite in Annapolis, Md., in which the Engineers were matched up against nationally ranked Division I opponents, the squad was surely looking forward to this weekend, which saw them host their own invitational in the friendly confines of the Zesiger Center pool. The difference was clear from the outset, as MIT (2-4) notched its first two wins of the season with a dramatic 10-9 overtime victory over Washington and Jefferson on Friday night and a more comfortable 12-3 triumph over Connecticut College on Saturday morning.
Leading the way for the Engineers was sophomore Mike Smith Bronstein, who tallied five goals in the win over Washington and Jefferson, including both a dramatic equalizing goal late in the contest and the overtime game-winner. Freshman Rob Kalwarowsky impressed for the second straight weekend, as he scored five goals total in the two victories.
Defensively, Tech was anchored by senior Kevin Amendt and junior Morgan Laidlaw. Both players were solid throughout the weekend. Rob Truax and Nick Souza split time between the pipes, each making spectacular saves to secure the victories.
Next weekend, MIT will take to the road for the second time this season. The Engineers will be participating in the Air Force Invitational in which they'll face Air Force, Brown, La Verne and California Baptist.


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Fans are becoming more and more interested in the inner workings of the CBA, specifically the salary cap. I know not everyone loves it, but Scott Howson came on my show before the season started for some CBA 101.
Here is the conversation. If you have any other questions you'd like answered email them to me firstname.lastname@example.com and I will try to get you the answer.
Jason Gregor: October 1st is officially day one of the salary cap, and does it work on a day to day basis Scott?
Scott Howson: It does work on a day to day basis. It starts Tuesday October 1st.
The league will have all of the information, they'll make sure that everyone is compliant with the salary cap because there is no grey area, you can't be over the salary cap based on how they calculate it. If your roster is offside, then they are going to talk to you. So everyone will be under the 64.3 number starting today with some exceptions, like long term injury and what not.
Gregor:Do you have to be compliant to the $64.3 million every day or how does that work?
Howson: Yes, they watch every move and they are calculating it on a daily basis. It can get really complicated with long term injury, with performance bonus and what not. The Oilers, we are in a really unique position because no one had the number one over all picks that carry the heavy performance bonuses that we have. This year we have [Nail] Yakupov, [Ryan] Nugent-Hopkins, [Justin] Schultz, who is like a number one pick, with these heavy performance bonuses. So we are in a really unique position. They [the NHL] have someone watching the rosters every day, and if you make a move that is going to take you over the cap, then they are not going to allow it.
Gregor: There is now a performance bonus cushion; can you explain how it works?
Howson: Well they give you a cushion and it's 7.5% of the cap, so it's almost, not quite $5 million. So the Oilers, because we have almost $9 million in potential performance bonuses, they would give us a cushion of $5 million to go over the cap. The problem with that is that if you do in fact go over the cap and all of these players hit their bonuses, then you get punished next year. That amount that you exceed the $64.3 million will come off of your cap next year. It's something that we are cognisant of and we are monitoring on a daily basis.
Gregor: Let's say you went over, by one million, and next year's cap was $70 million, you guys technically would only be able to spend $69 million because of the $1 million penalty from this season?
Howson: That's right, and that's exactly what happened to Chicago. And it's happened to some teams, not to that extent. I think that Chicago has been the team that has been punished the most; of course they won the cup the year before. But it happened to Chicago and it could happen to anyone. If you go over the cap, you're going to get punished next year.
Gregor: So you said you won't have anyone on LTIR (Long term injury reserve). What's the benefit of putting a player on LTIR and how does it count against you cap wise?
Howson: Well it's a complicated procedure, but the benefit is that if we were at the cap, which we are not, we are going to start $1.2 or $1.3 million under the cap, if the roster stays as it is, as I expect it will, but if you are at the cap and we put Sam Gagner on then we would get his salary relief for as long as he was on LTI. So you could bring in another player and if you think about it, it makes sense. If you have a player that's out long term you should be able to replace him even if you are at the cap. So you could use the money that you would save where you would otherwise pay Sam in cap dollars and bring in another player.
It's a complicated procedure, it's a very strategic procedure that you could pick, but because we are not at the cap yet, we don't need to do it. If we have another run of injuries and we have to start recalling players and we get close to the cap, then it's something that we can do retroactively and it's something that we can consider at that point but hopefully we don't have to go there.
Gregor: Today (Monday) you had 21 healthy players on the ice, Denis Grebeshkov was skating afterwards. Do you expect to have 21 healthy guys on the roster, and the rest of the players on IR to start the season? How does that work?
Howson: You have to declare it. We'll start with 22 active players, Grebeshkov will not be on IR. We could put him on if we wanted to but we don't need to because we are well under the 23 man limit. We'll start with Nugent-Hopkins, [Corey] Potter, Gagner, and [Steve] MacIntyre on either injured reserve or injured non roster which is another technicality which just means that they didn't pass their physical in training camp or they were a minor league player basically last year and they got hurt during camp which is what happened to Steve MacIntyre. But for all intents and purposes we will have 4 players on the injured list tomorrow and 22 active players.
Gregor: Did Corey Potter fail his medical and if he is put on the unable to perform IR, does it count differently against the cap at all?
Howson: No, I thought he had failed his physical too, but he did not, he passed his physical but even if he had failed his money would count, he was an NHL player all of last year even though he was on injured reserve.
Gregor: Has the new CBA made it more difficult with the changes to the LTIR and the bonus structure for the players, or has it made it easier from your vantage point?
Howson: No it really hasn't affected too much. The biggest change now that you have, I think, which doesn't factor into Ricky Olczyk's or my job much, but now you can't bury players in the minors. So in the old system once Wade Reddon was down, he was never going to be called up again because someone would take him for half of the money and half of his contract would stay on the Rangers cap for the length of the contract. So he was sitting there in year three of his six year deal or whatever it was, he was never going to get called back up.
They've gotten rid of that re-entry waivers now so a player like Philip Larsen who has been assigned to Oklahoma City he's on a one-way deal, so now that he's cleared waivers, he can come back now without re-entry waivers.
The new system now dictates that the first $925,000 from any deal is exempt from being counted on the cap and the rest of it counts. In the case of Philip Larsen who makes $1,025,000, we count $100, 000 of his salary against the cap. Ryan Jones is down in OKC, he makes $1.5 million, and we count $575, 000 of his $1.5 million on the cap. So we've got $625,000 from players not here counting against the cap.
Gregor: The CBA is spread out over 187 days. Do you and Rick Olczyk sit down on a daily basis and calculate this, do you guys just have a formula that spits it out to you guys every morning that says you have this much in cap space?
Howson: We're calculating it daily, we do have someone that sends us a daily update of where we stand but we are doing it ourselves too. Ricky is doing it every day, probably every minute. Every time that there is a call-up he is looking at it and making sure that we're OK because you really have to plan for the future here. You can't put yourself into a box where you're not going to be able to make moves, or at least you try not to. Sometimes as we've seen in the past some teams have had to ice rosters that were under the 20 player limit because they couldn't bring anybody up.
So you never want to get there but sometimes you run into the string of injuries, and we've run into them here in pre-season, and we're hoping that they're going to stop, but sometimes you can't control that.
Gregor: If you were to run into anymore serious injuries, would you look for relief on the LTIR?
Howson: Probably, yes.
Gregor: What was your scouting report on Luke Gadzic?
Howson: He's a young emerging player, he's put in his time; he spent 3 years in the Dallas system. He's big, he's 6'3, 6'4", he's well over 200lbs, we think that he moves well enough to play at the NHL level and I think that that is probably the biggest question mark on him.
But our scouting staff and particularity our AHL staff with Todd Nelson, Rocky Thompson, Bill Scott, Gerry Fleming were very strong on him, they've played him a lot because they play Texas a lot which is the Dallas Star's farm team. We were going over all of the names all summer and in sitting down and talking to them they said that we should really take a look at Luke and we did. We did during the pre-season, we looked at some film on him, and we decided that this is a player that we had some interest in him. When he went on [waivers] we of course made the claim.
Gregor: You've been covering the league for a long time, analyzing players, scouting them, how do you feel that Taylor Hall has done with the transition to centre?
Howson: I'm really optimistic and pleased with what he's done. I was one of the more sceptical ones during the summer. I've seen too many players try to do this, and it's a really, really difficult transition. I think that he's made it very, very well and I'm sure that there are still some bumps in the road here but especially with Sam going down and out our 2 top centres, I don't know where we'd be if he hadn't done this so well and he's really picked up on what he needs to do and I think that the transition has been better than I had expected and certainly than what could have been expected.
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins took part in contact drills today, and it looks very likely that he could return next Thursday vs. the Habs. There is a slim chance we'll see him sooner, but unless he suffers a setback, I think we will see him no later than next Thursday. His return will be a huge boost for the Oilers.
- When RNH returns, Eakins as two options: slot him in for Marc Arcobello, or keep move Hall to the wing and slide Ryan Smyth down to the 4th line. Strength down the middle is more important for me, so I'd move him in for Arcobello.
- Henrik Sedin will play his 630th consecutive game tonight, tying him for 6th all-time with Andy Hebenton. Contrast that to the Oilers, they don't have one player who played all 130 games the past two seasons in Edmonton. (N.Schultz did play 130, but the first 62 were with Minnesota). Having your best player in the lineup every game is a huge advantage, and if the Oilers could ever dress RNH or Hall every game we'd have a much better idea of how good this team might be.
- Jay Bouwmeester is the active leader in consecutive games played, 637, which puts him 5th all-time. He plays over 25 minutes a night. That is incredible. The Oilers would be ecstatic if they could find a guy who is an automatic in their top defence pairing.
1. Doug Jarvis…964
2. Garry Unger…914
3. Steve Larmer…884
4. Craig Ramsey.. 776
5. Bouwmeester… 637
- Patrick Roy is emotional and his players will like playing for him, but he needs to stop yelling at opposing players. Coaches coach, they don't play and he'll need to learn that. Nothing worse than a coach yelling at the other team.


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2011-01-12 / Events & Calendar
This week's Calendar of Events
The following is a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week. Readers should know that meetings are subject to change without notice. THURSDAY, January 13 •Plainedge Bd. of Ed. Meeting: 8 p.m., Central Office Conf. Rm., District Office, 241 Wyngate Dr., N. Massapequa. For further info., call 992-7455.
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The family of 58-year-old Michael Dutra is calling for his killer to turn themselves in. Dutra's 27-year-old daughter Michelle said a confession won't bring her father back, but it will give the family some closure and help with the healing. Michelle Dutra said her father had been sick and wasn't expected to live, but over the last year pulled through his illness.
The family of 58-year-old Michael Dutra is calling for his killer to turn themselves in.
Dutra's 27-year-old daughter Michelle said a confession won't bring her father back, but it will give the family some closure and help with the healing.
Michelle Dutra said her father's death was a cruel twist of fate, he had been sick and wasn't expected to live, but over the last year pulled through his illness.
"I know he got better for us," she said. "My dad loved his girls, we had big milestones coming up: my wedding and my sister's graduating from college. Two things a dad needs to be there for."
Michelle said her father and mother were separated, but the family remained close. Her father was a nurse who specialized in treating Alzheimer's patients and had worked in nursing home in the area.
He gave up his driver's license when he got sick and turned to a bicycle for transportation, and moved in to his daughter Michelle's home in Plymouth. The family was to be reunited for a short time. Recently Michelle and her father moved back to the family home on Rocky Meadow Street while the Plymouth home underwent renovations.
Michelle said in the week leading up to his death her father was cooking up storm, making everyone's favorites, pork pie, turkey pot pie and on Friday made her favorite, kale soup. He thought nothing of riding his bicycle to Hannaford's to pick up groceries and had already shopped earlier in the day for the kale soup ingredients. His daughters where just leaving the YMCA when he went riding by on his bicycle. They threw the bicycle in the car and all rode home together.
On that fateful day, Michael Dutra returned to the grocery store a second time to pickup beef for his daughter Michelle to use when she made chili.
Michelle worked the late shift on Friday and called her father when she got out of work. When he didn't answer and she started to worry. Her fear mounted when she got home and saw a note on the door from the police.
"My heart sank when I saw my dad's kale soup still on the stove. I knew my dad hadn't been back."
It was the last meal he was to make for his family.
Michelle knew something was very wrong and called her sister Shannon to her side before phoning the police.
The sisters were told a witness saw an SUV hit their father, never stopping to help. The witness saw things flying in the road when the SUV collided with Durta. The witness stopped to help, but it was too late.
Michelle said it helps a little to know her father didn't suffer, but said anyone who could just leave a person to die in the road is a cold-hearted killer.
"They just left him, you don't treat people like that", Dutra said. "I want everyone to realize what happened and this person should come forward."
Grief stricken since Friday it wasn't until Sunday afternoon when anger set in for Michelle Dutra. She and her family went to the site where her father's life ended on Wood Street and saw the skid in the road.
"Believe me, it's hard enough my dad isn't here, not hear his voice. But to know he was killed … I hope the person who did it feels bad enough to come forward."
So far police are following up a few tips. Michelle Dutra said anything that might seem suspicious, even the smallest thing might help to crack the case and she asks for help in finding the person who killed her father.
Services will be held on Friday at the Crapo-Hathaway Funeral Home in Taunton.
Anyone with information regarding the crash or spots a light colored SUV with front-end damage should call the detective's division at 508-923-4636.


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In April of 2009 I designed and printed fliers for the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus at a Pittsburgh community college. I included facts such as "The Supreme Court ruled that police have no obligation to protect the people." These fliers earned me a meeting with the Dean of Student Development, Yvonne Burns, who angrily promised that the club would never be allowed on "her" campus, and ordered me to destroy all related literature.
I had been in a public quad handing out informational pamphlets-and had asked for permission to do so! Dean Burns told me I was soliciting; she had obviously been fed that line by a superior without thinking about it. When I told her that the legal definition of "solicitation" involved trying to sell something, she told me I was trying to "sell an idea." Wait, isn't that… college?
The SCCC website, concealedcampus.org, contains a link to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE; www.thefire.org), which recognized the violation of my First Amendment rights and worked with me to restore them – not because it supports gun rights, but because it supports free speech on campus. FIRE throws a wrench into the system of disinforming entire generations of college students-who are treated like children in need of supervision and protection from wayward improper ideas-with one simple tool: publicity. So, even if you hate guns or just don't like me – please take a moment to look at www.thefire.org. You'll be shocked by some of the things that college administrators do when they think no one's watching. The moral outrage you feel after reading a few cases might inspire you to want to help FIRE restore liberty to our campuses
As an SCCC campus leader, I welcome opposing points of view. I would love for someone to make me understand how an object can be "bad." There is a disparity between reality and rationale here. There are signs on my campus reading "drug free weapon free school zone." Imagine a drug free college campus… then tell me why I should feel safe from "weapons". Criminals do not follow rules; signs don't stop them! It's already illegal to kill someone. Why should it be against the rules to have one specific tool that can do so? Let the college drain the pool, ban sharp pens and pencils, and forbid cars on campus. We'll all be safer then, right?
Like many of my heroes, I love inspiring people to question their rote dogma; Disinfo favorite RAWilson's tongue in cheek "guns and dope" political party slogan begins "guns for everyone who wants guns, no guns for anyone who doesn't"-but too many colleges are more interested in forcing everyone to hum the mantra "guns are bad" without considering the real arguments about them. For me, refusing to buy a gun because you think it will lead to violence makes as much sense as not sending your kid to karate class in hopes that he or she will never get in a fight. I tried to nudge people to question the college's dogma, even if that questioning only led them to reinforce their existing beliefs, and for that I was treated like a misbehaving child. Thanks to FIRE, my liberty was restored, my club was recognized, and I have new pamphlets which begin "You are an adult entitled to your civil liberties. Please, think for yourself."
Christa Brashier is a student at CCAC/IUP. She is a self-proclaimed constitutionalist who is currently fighting for free speech as an intern for FIRE. The views expressed in this article do not represent the views of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
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Worcester, Mass. -- WPI scored in each of the first four innings to fuel the hosts to an 11-3 triumph over visiting MIT in New England Men's and Women's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) competition on Thursday afternoon. WPI moved to 12-3 overall and 3-2 in the NEWMAC with the win, while MIT dropped to 4-6, 0-3 in the conference.
The Engineers used two base hits and an RBI groundout to take an early 1-0 lead after one inning of play before tallying three more in the second. With one out in the inning, Mitch McClune and Cody McGregor produced back-to-back singles to start the rally before Mark Dignum's double to left drove in both runners. Dignum later crossed the plate on a throwing error as the Worcester Engineers jumped out to a 4-0 advantage.
After a scoreless top of the third, WPI widened the gap by erupting for four more runs in the bottom half of the inning. Senior first baseman Jameson Kokolis singled to lead off the inning and, following a fielder's choice, a Daniel Thomas double provided the hosts with their fifth run. McClune followed with a base hit and McGregor had RBI double before catcher Joe Walsh lined a double to left for two more runs and an 8-0 lead.
The Crimson and Gray rallied for two more in the fourth, as Matt Moreau led off the frame with a single before a ground-rule RBI double from Kokolis and a run-producing single from McClune added to the WPI lead.
MIT was able to break through and narrow the gap in the sixth inning. Left fielder Sean Fannin and third baseman Dan Hyatt picked up back-to-back hits with one out in the inning. Then, with two out and Fannin and Hyatt in scoring position, first baseman Ben Steuck's single to left-center scored both runners and cut the WPI lead to 10-2. Steuck later added an RBI double in the eighth, as the freshman drove in all of MIT's runs on the afternoon.
WPI also added a run in the eighth inning, scoring on Nick Bean's first home run of the season.
WPI starter Ryan Marques pitched a strong game for the Engineers. The senior went six full innings and allowed just two earned runs to move to 4-0 on the year. Marques surrendered seven hits while walking just one and striking out three, lowering his ERA to 2.62 in the process.
McClune was 3-for-3 and Moreau 3-for-5 to lead the WPI offense, while Galligan, Bean, Kokolis and McGregor each produced two hits in the game. Kokolis' two hits boosted his batting average to a team leading .435 on the season.
Steuck was one of three players to post a multi-hit game for MIT in addition to his three RBI. Sophomore shortstop Bryan Macomber and freshman outfielder James McKinney each contributed two hits for the visitors. Relief pitcher Max Ockner pitched well, tossing four innings of one-run ball out of the pen for the visitors. Ockner only allowed two hits while walking none and striking out six.
WPI will be back in action on Saturday, when it travels to Springfield for a 12pm conference doubleheader against the Pride. MIT will head home to take on Brandeis on Saturday at 3pm in a game that had been postponed on Tuesday due to heavy rain.