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SCG profile of Secretary Burke This week we turn our attention to SCG, Inc Secretary Kaitlyn Burke. Moving up from the position of student organization coordinator to secretary, Burke has used her experience in the roll as a springboard.

Treasurer Tyler Dean profiles her for this weeks profile.

The best way to describe Kaitlyn Burke is with the word peach. Maybe even peach muffin. She’s so warm and fuzzy on the outside, with a hard inner core that is unbreakable. Everyday I wake up jubilant and ecstatic that I get to go to work with her. Her hair reminds me of a nice peach cobbler with extra cool whip. When she speaks, her words flow like a nice peach ice tea on a hot day. Who doesn’t love a peach?

What was your path from just another student at RIC to SCG secretary?

My path involved lots of people pushing me to do something they knew I would fit into and grow from. Travis Escobar and Jordan Day specifically pushed me to take out a petition and became involved; I got sucked in and never wanted to get out.

This is your last year at here RIC. In what ways has being a part of SCG prepared you for the “real world”?

I think communicating with students, faculty/staff and administration regularly, as well as working closely with people who have incredibly diverse personalities have been the most major ways in which being a part of SCG is going to best prepare me for the real world.

What are your goals as SCG secretary this year, in three sentences or less?

Communicate, communicate, communicate. I want students to know who I am and what I can do for them here at RIC, in addition to students involved in organizations being kept in the know.

If you had a super power, what would you want it to be and why?

I would want to have the ability to read minds. I don’t believe people always say the things they want or should and I would love to know those things people maybe shouldn’t keep to themselves.

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Secretary Katelyn Burke.

If you could make everyone on campus read one book, what would it be and why?

Dr. Seuss’ “The Places You’ll Go” because of this quote:

Parking comes back to SCG

Quick and dirty SCG update » The freshmen class will have a run-off election for treasurer and sophomore class still needs a secretary. » Parking lots C & E-4 will possibly become open parking lots for students and faculty. » Non-Parliament seats are still available for the Student Organization, Public Relations and Elections committees.

ElishA KAy Aldrich scg burEAu chiEf After a hiatus last week, Parliament reconvened this week to discuss several new actions that directly effect the RIC campus.

The first was was a new library hours contract. In 2011, there was a contract made to expand the library’s hours to provide 24 hour services during the exam periods in both the fall and spring semesters. However, in order to do this every year, Parliament must approve the budget first. Parliament is partnered with the Dean of the Library in order to pay for these hours, and they cover the cost from midnight to 8 am. The library and the college will cover the rest.

The second, and more passionate subject for many students on campus, involved parking, ronically enough, right after The Anchor’s parking issue. President Costa introduced a resolution to make parking lots C and E-4 open lots. According to the resolution, parking on campus has become so bad that it has effected prospective students

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WPRI anchor Mike Montecalvo speaks about choosing to go to RIC. and their families visiting the campus.

The Traffic and Parking Committee found out about the plan when administration simply mentioned it at the end of a meeting, and demanded that the

resolution go through the proper channelsthe students. After some changes to the resolution, Parliament was finally able to discuss it at last week’s meeting.

Many members brought up their

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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own and you know what you know and YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

concerns about parking. Representative Rebecca Allen believes that the open lots will alleviate some of the parking problems on campus.

“This is a really kind of simple way to fix all of that. Its not a big overall fix, but it’ll help stem the bleeding of parking complaints.”

Representative Milka Tolich expressed the same, but also wondered why campus police seems to ticket students more than faculty.

“What is campus police even really doing? Why aren’t

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Project RIIC brings Israeli professors to RIC Elisha Kay Aldrich Anchor Staff The WorldView Lecture Series, sponsored by Project RIIC (Rhode Island – Israel Consortium) kicked off on Wednesday, beginning two days filled with discussions, lectures, and panels about education in an ever changing and diverse society.

The main subject of discourse was education in Israel; its history, its framework and the problems that both educators and students face within that framework. Jack Pastor, from Oranim Academic College in Israel, opened the series with a keynote presentation concerning all of these issues and presented possible solutions.

Pastor began his speech with a small anecdote. He was not born in the United States, and therefore could not speak or read any English. Pastor moved to the U.S. just before first grade, but he had no help in school to learn the new language. According to Pastor, his teacher would leave him in the corner and put him in a dunce cap. By the end of the year, she claimed that he was “retarded,” all because of a language barrier.

“Well, they took a retarded boy and gave him a Ph.D,” he said with a laugh.

Pastor’s anecdote served as a segue for discussion into educational multiculturalism, especially in Israel. Although Israel is only about the size of New Jersey, it has many cultural and ethnic groups within its borders, all of whom have different traditions and ways of life–including education.

This form of education is based off the Ottoman rule of Israel, which was the beginning of autonomous educational frameworks, most of which were based on religious background. After the Palestine Mandate, Israel received recognition for the separate frameworks that had been set up, and the cultural differences in education were respected. In 1948, Israel finally became its own country, and in 1949, the Law of Compulsory Education was enacted, which gave way to staterun schools which set up the streams of education today.

Israeli streams of education are still heavily based on religious background. In fact, there are different education systems for Jews, Christians and Muslims, along with the general education system. Those religious systems can break down even further into sects, such as the Mizrachi and Haredi Jews. The important part, however, is that all of these streams are recognized by the state.

After the government supervised system was enacted, tensions began to rise between new immigrants from non-Western societies and those from Europe.

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Jack Pastor gives an anecdote of beginning school as an immigrant to the United States.

“When it was established,” said Pastor, “Israel had a largely British Jewish population.

Within two years, it had a large oriental Jewish population.”

Oriental Jews are from anywhere that is not Europe, mostly Muslim lands.

“They did not like being told they did not meet some Western, secular ideal and that has stayed until today.”

This is where the educational problems of today begin.

The Israeli government tried to implement the melting pot ideology, which many Americans are familiar with, into the current education system, and according to Pastor, it has failed. Because there are conflicts between the many ethnic groups in Israel, it is difficult for teachers to tailor education to them all.

“How do you prepare teachers who are secular, Zionist and modern, to teach in an ultra orthodox environment or an Arab environment?” said Pastor.

There is also a great concern that the education system is taking steps backwards due to the orthodox religious education style’s influence on general education. For example, state schools have begun to separate female and male students as early as first grade. The problem becomes even worse when the crowded classroom conditions are added into the mix, with the average Israeli elementary school class size of 28.4 students.

On top of the problems at the elementary

level, high school students are forced to take standardized tests called the Bagrut. The Bagrut consists of 16 exams in different subjects, all of which determine what colleges students can attend. But, the Bagrut has severely limited teaching styles and the topics that can be talked about in class. According to Pastor, Israeli teachers have gotten to the point where they can only teach the exam, which becomes pointless because only 48% of students who take the exam pass with a high enough score to attend higher education. Even worse, scores vary between ethnic groups, making it more difficult for some groups to get into college than others. Pastor questioned the legitimacy of the tests.

“If we don’t cancel the Bagrut, what will happen to our love of learning and expanding our horizons?”

But, even with all these problems, Pastor expressed hope because of Israel’s new Minister of Education. According to Pastor, he plans to reform the Bagrut and wants to establish a national council of education consisting of 15 members who will represent the teaching profession and other social groups.

This council will be responsible for planning long term strategies and policies to reform the education system.

“The minister of education can do quite a lot, as long as it doesn’t cost any money,” he joked. “But as long as he doesn’t really, really shake the pillars of the temple, he can do quite a bit.”

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On Saturday, Student Community Government, Inc. held their first reunion. Past members, about 15 in all, attended to talk about old times, see both past and present SCG members and view the current SCG office.

The reunion, filled with stories of budget battles and passionate speeches past, was held in the current home of parliament meetings, Student Union room 307. Former members told stories of cutting funding to clubs who didn’t follow the rules, how SCG added the ‘Inc’ to its name and even how the working conditions have lead to more than a few SCG romances.

The idea of bringing back those who have filled the seats of the parliament to tell stories again is something SCG embraces. Future reunions are in the works to be held every two years.

The current SCG Executive Board members, President Hillary Costa, Secretary Kaitlyn Burke and Speaker Robert Santurri, Jr. were in attendance, as were current Student Parliament members Rebecca Allen and Ashley Goldberg.

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Congress is coming to campus rEbEccA AllEn nEws Editor On Oct. 16 and 17, Congress to Campus is coming to Rhode Island College.

To help students better understand what to expect from this event, I interviewed Julia Palmieri, the American Democracy Project’s student events coordinator.

decision makers. Over the course of two days, many influential political figures, as well as media personnel will be speaking about various topics at panels in Alger 110. These panels are completely free, informative and will be a great way for students to network and have their questions answered. Students should be excited because opportunities of this magnitude are rarely offered to them.

Who are you and how did you get involved in Congress to Campus?

What are the main events that will be taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday?

I am the ADP student events coordinator. Simply, I am a student event planner helping to provide the student insight to the professors also working on the project. I got involved with Congress to Campus because I was approached by two professors in my department, Dr. Endress and Dr. Israel. They asked me if I would be willing to participate in an event planning independent study.

Knowing how much I enjoy this, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

There will be five panels that students can attend with a range of topics. Neighboring high schools will be sending students to meet the congresspeople (David Minge and Buerkle). Students can have lunch with the congresspeople. Class visitations will take place.

What is Congress to Campus and why might students be excited about it?

Yes. When the panels come to a close, open discussion is encouraged. Congress to Campus participants love speaking with college students. This provides the ability to network and is one of the reasons why this event is so important.

Congress to Campus is a two day event sponsored by the ADP that gives students the opportunity to hear directly from influential

Is there going to be a chance for students to ask questions and talk directly to the Congress to Campus participants?

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Why is it important for students to meet and make connections while still working on their undergrad degree?

Internships. Internships. Internships. It’s so important to connect with those who may be able to help you while you’re still in school. When you graduate, you’re going to be entering a job market that has a scarce amount of jobs to offer. Networking can help to set up those connections early to build a foundation for your career.

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Any final thoughts you’d like to share?

This event, brought to RIC by the ADP, is the perfect opportunity for students to immerse themselves in a range of topics relevant to their futures. Congress to Campus will provide students with the chance to hear from many prominent political figures as well as those in the media. These panels will help guide students, especially those seeking careers in civics and public service.

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Wearable tech goes mainstream fErnAndA bEZiAco Anchor contributor Last Monday’s Glazed Conference in San Francisco, C.A. brought together technology pioneers, founders, executives, influencers and investors to explore points of view about wearable platforms, like Google Glass. Organized by Stained Glass Labs, this was the first event on wearable technology ever made.

The main subject in the conference was answering the hard questions about building, launching and monetizing wearable platforms.

“The emergence of the wearable tech industry is upon us and we believe it is part of our responsibility as the first glass and wearable technology incubator to facilitate the conversation between the creators, developers and investors of this new market,” said the Stained Glass Labs team.

One of the hard questions when it comes to wearable devices is how useful they are.

The devices need to be useful because they have a consumer focus. All these years our devices have been changing to make the technology easier and more useful for us.

Is it certain that the creators behind wearable devices are thinking about how

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an ordinary person can use these devices in ordinary tasks? Are they useful enough? Will they work?

The word wearable opened a new field in technology. There are people at this moment creating and testing smart clothes, smart chargers, smart everything.

There is so much to explore, so much innovation to see and we are just starting.

According to Kyle Ellicott, co-founder of Stained Glass Labs, it’s exciting to know that his company is helping to

bring science fiction to real life.

“I’m excited that we’re the front runners pulling all the pieces of this industry together to give it the direction it needs, because no one is doing that!”

Even though we are a bit far from “Back to the Future” kind of technology, we can see and live all the new things technology is bringing to our time. However, governments and companies all around the world are already concerned about privacy laws when the problem is “your

Government shuts itself down ElishA KAy Aldrich Anchor stAff Americans learned the hard way what can happen during a government shutdown in the days after Oct. 1. The ramifications were almost instant. National park and tourism sites shut down, paychecks to federal employees have been delayed, veteran support centers have been completely unstaffed. But, does anyone have a clear understanding why this came to pass? And what does it mean for college students all around the country?

The short answer is that the government stopped working because of the longstanding debate over the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a Obamacare. But there’s more to it than that.

Obamacare was passed into law in 2009, and after much discussion and change, was ruled constitutional by the members of the U.S. Supreme Court during the summer of 2012. So why is Congress still fighting over it?

There are a lot of reasons. Some extreme conservatives, such as Texas Representative Ted Cruz, want the law completely defunded.

Cruz spent almost 24 hours on the House floor in the last days of September trying to convince his fellow republicans to side with him.

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Many others want the penalty tax completely taken away. A majority of the House of Representatives, which is currently controlled by republicans, believe that Americans should have the right to choose whether they want health insurance or not. If someone wants to opt out of insurance completely, they should be able to do that without being taxed.

The tax is no small fee either. Those who choose to forgo insurance for the first year of Obamacare will be required to list it on their 2014 tax return.

In 2014, the tax penalty for adults is $95, while the penalty for children is $47.50. In 2015, the penalty skyrockets to $325 and $162.50, respectively.

This has lead to several different votes within the House. They have tried to defund it, they have

tried to take away the tax stipulation and they have even tried to delay the tax penalty, giving citizens more than a year to figure out what they are going to do, even though they are already given time between Oct. 1 and March 31, 2014.

The Senate has yet to pass a revised bill the House has handed them. Opposite of the House, the Senate is controlled by democrats, who are equally as headstrong and stubborn as their counterparts. Because of their loyalty to the president, they refuse to see any change in the law and want to pass it all or nothing. In the days before Oct. 1, they continued sending the budget back to the House, to no avail.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been using twitter to voice his outrage at the Republican

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device makes me feel exposed.”

The form and context of wearable platforms are being built-up every day.

Google Glass is the pioneer device in wearable technology and the beta experiment seems to be going well so far.

Maybe our next smartphone will be some kind of glass-phone, who knows?

Geek or not, the technology gets us all. Now we need to know if the technology is wearing us or if it is the other way around.

Party, believing they will not listen to reason.

“I hope my friends from KY, Sen. McConnell, is aware that more than 3K families have enrolled in Obamacare. There’s a hunger for it!” He tweeted on Oct. 3.

“Republicans are in such desperate straits that they have literally accused me of not caring about kids with cancer. Shameful,” Reid tweeted on Oct. 2.

Both sides are angry because they are not getting exactly what they want. But politicians can, for the most part, afford to do that.

College kids can’t. And if this shutdown goes on for much longer, it won’t just be the Smithsonian’s Pandacam that we’ll be missing.

Those who work in federal positions at the state level may soon see their much needed paychecks delayed. College age veterans may see their benefits go away. The state funds that public education institutions receive may completely disappear. In short, college students, who are more desperate for money than they have ever been in our country’s history, may not be able to buy groceries for a few weeks if the shutdown continues.

The worst part? There’s nothing to do but wait. Sure, as Americans we have the constitutional right to protest, which some have already done, but it will not speed up the legislative process until these two warring sides come together. So budget out the next few weeks, because we may be in for the long haul.

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October 7, 2013 they implementing these rules? They were put in place for a reason.”

President Costa answered that there have been new officers hired, and that the rules are indeed being enforced.

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There was also a speaker for open forum this week. Professor Mary Baker, who is the head of the anthropology department, has become known on campus in the past few weeks for her advocacy against the monkeys that were brought to campus during welcome week.

“I want to talk about the use of wild animals in captive settings,” she began.

Baker has spent a lot of time working with captive monkeys, and has learned how they are abused in order to be kept as pets or to be brought to schools like ours. There can be severe damage done to a monkey when they are kept in captivity; they are kept in cages, their teeth may get removed, and some may even put them in shock collars. After the welcome week incident, she claims that she would like to open discourse about

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Monday, Oct. 7 1777: American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.

1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyo. 2001: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

Tuesday, Oct. 8 2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

Wednesday, Oct. 9 1582: Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1635: Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.

Thursday, Oct. 10 1973: Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.

Friday, Oct. 4 1975: The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.

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the subject, and hopes to educate the student body.

In a more lighthearted turn to the meeting, SCG hosted another guest speaker. This week, it was WPRI anchor Mike Montecalvo, who is a Rhode Island College alum, from the class of 1984.

Originally, Montecalvo’s father wanted him to attend Providence College and become a lawyer, but he said that he wanted to go into radio. At that time, PC did not have a radio station, and RIC did. After a small argument, Montecalvo was able to spend his college years at RIC, and have a successful career. He even interviewed New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady before he was the superstar that he is today.

This meeting was also important because there were so many new Parliament members. President Costa gave them a warm welcome.

“This is big time stuff,” she said. “This isn’t the student government you were on in high school. You are representing the RIC community.”

Next week these new members will continue to represent the RIC community, and hopefully for the rest of the year.

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Dear Americans, I am going to address several groups of people throughout this letter. Most important of these groups is the Millennials. They are being addressed throughout this letter as it is our generation that has the opportunity to change things, the opportunity to produce a new revolutionary movement in our government.

Firstly, to the Tea Party conservatives currently in congress–who are directly responsible for this shut down in so much as they are unwilling to relent even a fraction of their demands so that an already passed/ signed law can take effect and people can go to work–you are pigs. You, dear Party who have designed yourselves as libertarians, patriots and revolutionists, are doing nothing new. Nothing you have achieved has caused more than a groan from the majority populous of this great nation. You are a bad itch, far out of reach in an area that no one, not even members within the Republican Party, seem capable of scratching out. The GOP have long been a party for the people. Which group of people do you seek to serve now with this dastardly stalemate? Who benefits from this stacking of blocks? A shame they are not building blocks–which are the preferred pieces of masonry we have expected you to work with when you were elected.

They are roadblocks, preventing progress, preventing change, preventing opportunity.

Only now does the age old anecdote “the opposite of progress is congress” start to really take a terrifying reality. You are not only on the wrong track as leaders, you are chasing down the wrong train. I can appreciate and understand little government. I don’t agree with all of the conservative grievances against big government–I am a fan of government operated, socialist-style healthcare after all–but this does not mean I cannot understand and even agree with some of your remarks. But a shut down government is not a substitute for big government.

Likewise, little government does not mean a dysfunctional, flattened government. How dare you presume you have the best interests of this country in heart when so many, for so long, have constantly re-elected you on your faux-promises of change and cooperation. You are snakes, seething in anger that a man of an opposite party is in the seat. How dare you play bipartisan games when jobs and government are at stake. How dare you continue to be paid when so many cannot.

By playing both the role of the bully and the bullied, Republicans in Congress–specifically the Tea Party minority–have sought

with great determination to undermine all accomplishments made by the White House and, specifically, President Barack Obama– even more specifically, a black president.

The Republican Party’s minority has unfortunately become the overwhelming voice for its majority. But what these wailing man-children have not grasped is that democracy is and was in total effect. The country’s majority made a decision, a decision for affordable healthcare. Yes, smaller companies could and may lose money by paying their workers these benefits. But then we have a nation that is healthier and thus more likely to miss less days of work.

I work in a Walmart, my friends. I am right in the heart of American capitalism. I can vouch that the amount of uninsured co-workers I have befriended who have missed days of work due to sickness and injury, too broke to visit and thus receive a doctor’s note, is a number far too high for my conscience. Nationally, it is a number too high for Congress to sit back and not try something.

Work together and co-operate. Through Democracy, this country established a series of checks and balances, so that a minority will always have an avenue to reach out and find a voice. With this check and balance, we must take the good with the bad and accept that sometimes the minority’s way may not always be in the best interest of the majority or sub-minority, likewise.

The old saying that what’s good for the

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goose is good for the gander is remarkably untrue in this scenario.

To the Millennials who stand to gain only waste and lose only opportunity, stand up.

Shout. You are not a minority. You are an overwhelming majority and while I acknowledge that we bide our time and prepare ourselves in colleges and online discussions, perhaps it’s time we put some of our knowledge to the test. Put our accumulated impatience of a defunct Congress and a weak-willed capital; place our faith in each other rather than this supposed “Golden Generation”or these baby-boomers, politicians who seek to push aside their debt and leave it for us to handle. Take yourself to the booth in 2014 and 2016, write to your congresspeople, your senators and representatives. Make yourself clear, make yourself visible. These games of chicken with American healthcare and federal government budgeting are not amusing, they are not beneficial, and if it keeps up, the real revolution is coming.

In the words of Harvey Milk, “I know you’re angry. I’m angry too.”

And when the day comes, I will be one of the first ones to the picket line, but I cannot do it alone, my fellow generation. Take these old vultures out of office and let’s bring in new ideals and new realms of possibility.

Until that day, Ty Dugan Managing Editor & General Nusiance

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The true face of “the bad” christiAn dEcAtAldo opinions Editor As many of you may have heard, the U.S. government effectively shut down last week, so it would seem odd to hearing any good news–but don’t worry, I’m here to brighten your day.

Last Tuesday, the Affordable Care Act officially went into effect despite the government shut down and already it is doing far better than anyone ever expected. Let me explain what I mean by better. Until now, the health care act has had been riddled with speculative banter as to how it will succeed and how it will fail, how Americans will love it and how they will hate it. Now, however, we have raw data, actual numbers showing that on the first day the act was available, over 4.7 million people visited the website to, at the very least, check it out. There was such a rush of people that the servers couldn’t handle the capacity and caused the site to crash in many areas. Many

who oppose the act view this problem as a great way to poke fun, but if you were to ask any business what the best problem to have is, the answer would be high traffic–especially for Internet businesses. Too many people visiting healthcare.gov site is a point in its favor, though I will admit I’d like to see the data on how many people have actually applied, the high traffic is still a good sign.

If it isn’t obvious to you yet, I like the idea of affordable health care for people. Why, you ask?

Well, to be frank, because “promote the general welfare” is in the constitution. I think if the government wants to help its citizens be healthy, they should do so–that’s one of their jobs.

Speaking of the government and their jobs, I have another bit of good news. Everyone who knows me knows that I’m an optimist; you give me a glass half full of water and I’ll just go to the tap and fill it up. Now its full, no questions asked. But how can the U.S. government shut down be a good thing? I’ll admit, this is a tough one. There is a whole

lot of bad coming from this; people are not just out of work, but some are in life-threatening situations and they need the government to be open in order to receive the help they need. Still, there is something good we can take away from this: the Tea Party republicans are an enemy of this nation and now there is now doubt.

Listen, I’ve never been a fan of the Tea Party. I’ve always seen them as a rather backwards or misguided group of people who’ve been drinking the punch for a little too long and, at the end of the day, I feel more bad for them than hateful toward them. Before the shutdown, they were dumb and loud and disruptive, sure, but it was their right to be that way. I’m not agreeing with it, just acknowledging their rights.

But the government shut down and threw this country into turmoil because certain Republicans and Tea Party members did not want a law–which made its way through all the proper channels of government, up all the required steps and through all the hoops to become a real, indisputable national law–to go into effect. That is the end of it, that is the all of it. Republicans voted not to fund the U.S.

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government because they didn’t get their way.

The Tea Party has stood up and said that what they want is above the rules and laws of this country, that what they want is above the people they claim to serve and it is indisputable.

This is good news because, now, the lines between good and bad are so much clearer.

Obamacare: Healthcare improvement?

Josh EstrEllA Anchor stAff Depending on which news source you are reading, you are going to get a different picture of what is happening in the nation this week. What it comes down to is Congress’ requirement to come up with a budget each year for the government and, this year, through many political disagreements, they failed to do so.

The major factor in said disagreements is the Affordable Care Act, or as some have nicknamed it, Obamacare. For those unaware, Obamacare is the new health care reform in America. It is meant to increase the availability and affordability of health insurance to the nation, mainly the millions of Americans who are uninsured nation wide. The reason that this act is connected in the shutdown is because republicans in the Senate were so against it they were willing to shut down the nation’s government in an effort to delay Obamacare.

As with most things, Obamacare is not perfect. There are problems that come with it being instituted in our nation. It can be strongly argued that parts of this new healthcare reform are unfair, and for some this is true. By forcing companies to give their employees healthcare, some business owners are using loopholes to avoid the money. Instead of providing people with insurance, some companies are instead paying the fine for not doing so, which will be

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cheaper for them on the whole. Other companies are cutting full time employees to 29 hours in order to elude the healthcare policies. In this capitalistic society, people will do anything to save a buck and, unfortunately, it can be at the cost to working Americans.

The good, however, seems to outweigh the bad. It will be a tough transition, but millions of people in our nation will benefit. The Affordable Care Act brings a plethora of new opportunities. There will be an improvement to women’s health services; annual or lifetime limitations for healthcare will no longer be a problem; cost assistance will be available to individuals and families; no longer will people be dropped from

their healthcare for sickness–just to name a few.

As for the big differences, the act does not exclude people with pre-existing conditions; young people can stay on their parents’ plan until the age of 26; and most importantly, healthcare is going to be more easily accessed for the millions of Americans who do not have healthcare. Since there is good and bad, politicians are at a stalemate on the issue.

What politicians do understand, however, is that the younger generation, everyone from the age of 18 to 26, play a huge role in the Affordable Care Act. Healthy individuals of this generation have the power to make or break this act by deciding to sign up for it or opt out. With the

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premiums they pay, it helps make it achievable for Obamacare to cover the people who are most in need. In an attempt to blockade more affordable healthcare for the masses, people against Obamacare, notably Tea Party Republicans, have been campaigning to gain the opinion of the young generation. One of the largest groups in this battle is Generation Opportunity.

Their message to the college students of America comes from Evan Feinberg, their president.

“What we’re trying to communicate is, ‘No, you’re not actually required to buy health insurance’…you might have to pay a fine, but that’s going to be cheaper for you, and better for you.”

But in reality, is this really better for young American adults? Not only would they have to pay a fine, but they would be left without healthcare. Before our youth falls into the media schemes of these corporations that appear to be on your side, think about where you will be in the case of a car accident, or in need of serious medical treatment. Who will pay the bill?

Political interest groups will say anything to get you on their side, if it means risking real trouble for you or risking the rest of your life with piles of health bills to pay; it does not matter to them.

As the Affordable Care Act stands today, it has the ideals to better the nation and, in many ways, it will. It is flawed, complicated and undoubtedly not the greatest system in the world, but it is a step forward for healthcare improvement in America. It is a beginning.

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Breaking down the walls of patriarchy Jess Bourget Anchor Staff For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term ‘patriarchy,’ the “Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary” defines it as a “social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family...control by men of a disproportionately large share of power.” I define it as a society in which men rule the roost.

Patriarchy comes from the tradition of men being in charge of families and inheriting everything. In a patriarchal society, the experiences of men are seen as the human experience. Today, patriarchy is a society that oppresses women and people who do not fit into gender moulds.

Many people do not think we have a patriarchal society in the United States. They turn on their television sets and see countries in which women have to hide their faces or are not allowed to have jobs outside the home and think, “Wow, I’m so glad we have made so much progress!” But while it may be true that we have made progress from the way women were treated a century ago, we aren’t doing so hot in the U.S. right now. Just because women can have jobs and aren’t only expected to get married does not mean we have an awesome setup in which guys and gals are equal.

For example, the 113th U.S. Congress–the most diverse in our history– includes 101 women, which seems great until you realize there are 535 total seats. Also, consider women

in the working world are paid 80 cents for every dollar men make.

Another sign we as a nation aren’t doing so fantastic in gender equality, are the statistics of sexual assault in our country. One out of six women have been the victim of attempted or completed rape in America, while only one in 33 men have had the same experience (www. rainn.org). Not only are women assaulted more, but so, too, are persons who don’t fit into stereotypical male/female roles. Homosexual and intersex individuals are at times persecuted so harshly for who they are that they feel as though suicide is their only option.

But don’t let patriarchal structure leave you hopeless, there are steps you can take to do change it. In fact, there are a few levels of resistance that I can offer so that you–yes you!–can make a difference.

First is the individual level which is fairly self-explanatory. You resist in your own way, by yourself, like the way you dress or talk, who and what you choose to support by listening to or buying it. Some people fight patriarchal norms by not changing their last names when they get married. Others resist by dressing in ways which their sex typically does not.

The middle level step takes place at the interactional level. This is where you’re really speaking up and showing others what it’s like to resist patriarchy.

It can mean you do something like write a newspaper article telling others about feminism or patriarchy, or that you get your friends involved in conversation about things such as equality for women.

Lastly is the societal level–the big one. This is the highest level and involves resistance via political action, be it voting or becoming directly involved in politics.

So, as you can see, we still live in a patriarchal society. Inequalities still exist between men and women, and, oftentimes, women suffer economically and socially because of it. But there is hope. Each person can make a difference by doing his or her part. It sounds cliché, but every person makes up a small piece of society. Your input may seem like it doesn’t amount to much– my little feminist article isn’t exactly going to change the world–but when everyone does something small, big things can happen. @AnchorOpinions

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Ty Dugan Managing Editor GrooveBoston at the Rec Center last Thursday was the “ground zero of awesome,” a phrase coined by GB DJ Bobby Dutton. The event, which cost $42,000 of student money, was a loud, rhythmic, tempered four-phase experience with great flow.

The laser lights were especially dazzling, as they expertly matched DJs Dutton and Adam Weisman’s musical collaboration.

Before entering the Rec Center last Thursday night, I was expecting to literally walk into the sensation of vitality. After getting the mandatory pat down from hired security guards, I was transported right back to high school. Female students in neon tank tops and booty shorts all huddled around the door to scream ecstatically when their friends walked in; the fellas were scoping the scene, no doubt trying to locate the nearest restroom. There was a point where I actually thought “do people actually have to ask

someone to dance?” This didn’t seem like vitality to me.

They had set up lasers so bright they had to stay ten feet above the crowd and party cannons were on-hand to blast confetti about the masses. When asked how often and if they practice, the two DJs chuckled and simply said, “aggressively.”

When phase one started, the Rec Center was louder than any club I had ever visited prior. The lights were pretty, the music was a high-quality mixing and I found myself wanting to groove–but it didn’t feel like more than a club. Eventually, after pictures were through, people mostly spilled into the auditorium, and the place was starting to really get jumping.

The second phase was the bee’s knees, baby. An opening set that really set a precedence for what to expect for the night.

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Spoken word “Wrecking Ball” and PALS RIC’s Open Mic Night review tAylor lundy Anchor contributor This semester’s second Open Mic Night was held last Thursday night in the Student Union Café. The audience was unfortunately a bit slim, most likely due to the GrooveBoston rave being held on the other side of campus. Nonetheless, the event was certainly a success.

The night opened with Michael Bl–no wait, excuse me–the night actually began with Joe Brussini. Michael Blaise got as far as the stage before deciding he wasn’t ready and yielded the floor to Brussini, allowing himself more time to prepare.

Brussini was followed by the sultry blues of Yani–no, not that Yanni. I’m a fan of the blues and I know as well as anyone that they aren’t easy to play well, but Yani pulled it off with the right amount of soul as a first timer at Open Mic Night–and I hope this isn’t his last.

Next, Michael Blaise was prepared enough to get on stage to read some of his poetry. The first was titled “Looking in my Eyes” and the second was known as “Benches,” and yes, it was about those things people park their asses on. He then followed his two originals with the first non-original reading by “The Phoenix.” He chose to do a poetic reading of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” to prove that it

was actually a well written song. Even though the mere mention of Miley Cyrus normally aggravates me at least a little, I was actually surprised that the song itself was, in fact, well written, just not well sung, as Blaise pointed out numerous times.

Blaise was followed by the poetry of Pat Rossy and her friend Madeline. It was brought to the attention of the audience that it was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the poetry was thematically linked via sexual abuse. Rossy admitted that she was sexually abused when she was younger, and then again in college. Her poems were extremely graphic and certainly did their job of bringing awareness to the crimes that are unfortunately committed more often than most think. For more information on Pat Rossy and her poetry you can visit her website at www.the-blue-rose.org.

The night ended with special guest, PALS. The three-piece alt/progressive band from North Attleboro is made up of Pete on percussion, Pat on bass and Lewis on guitar, each providing vocals. Even though the band normally plays plugged in, they performed acoustically and pulled it off with brilliance.

In speaking with them after the show, they claimed to enjoy playing at Rhode Island College, saying, “T’was a splendid time,” and that Pete got ice-cream,so he was happy. PALS

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PALS puts on an acoustic performance at Thursday’s Open Mic Night. just released a new EP titled “The Reach,” which can be downloaded for free from www. palsmusic.bandcamp.com, and if you are interested in checking them out live, they are playing a concert on Oct. 21 at The Spot in Providence, and will be opening for Eve 6 at Manchester 65 in West Warwick on Oct. 26.

The next Open Mic Night will be held this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the RIC Café.

The minds, and machines, behind “Vitality” ElishA KAy Aldrich Anchor stAff This semester’s biggest event was filled with sweaty bodies, dry ice, lasers and music. Groove Boston gave the Rhode Island College community a chance to unwind and party after the first long month of school. But, what students may not know is that the even is a well thought out, calculated performance.

Bobby Dutton and Adam Weisman are the brains behind Groove Boston, and we were able to catch up with them after the party. Dutton, who is the director of the company, said that the entire event is staged to create an emotional response from the student body.

“Its really the emotional impact we get. We’re trying to deliver a huge social impact.”

The entire event is set up in three stages, or “phases,” as the company refers to them, in order to give students this emotional impact.

Dutton says that these phases help to put the student body on the same page emotionally, so

that they can bond and experience a great time together, even if they don’t realize it.

Phase 1 is referred to as “the quiet before the storm.” It’s filled with anticipation of what might come. Dutton said that phase 1 is the longest of the phases, in order to build the anticipation and compress the rest of the night.

Phase 2 is the opening DJ. This is where the fun starts for attendees. Dutton said that the point of phase 2 is to remind people of a good house party, or dancing at a bar. Basically just a fun night out with friends.

“Its really interesting to see,” he added, stating that everyone’s reactions are varied, but its where people begin to rise to the same plane emotionally.

Phase 3 is what Dutton called “the beauty part.” Throughout the night, students saw a lot of equipment and a screen that had not been put to use. However, at this point in the party, Dutton says that they want students to be at the point where if it was to end, they would leave happy.

“You’ve forgotten that you might have been expecting more,” he laughed.

The phase starts completely silent and dark, in order to take students by surprise. Dutton and Weisman finally take the stage to DJ and begin a countdown. At the end is where the real fun starts. Phase 3 is comprised of lasers, a video screen, dry ice, and confetti, all to provide the best party experience possible.

“Its an emotional climax,” he said. “People should be out of their minds at that point.”

All of these phases are part of a larger, all encompassing theme that the Groove Boston team comes up with each year. Last year’s performance was called, “Visceral,” and they just wanted students to feel something extreme, to feel intensity at its peak. This year was “Vitality,” which was supposed to entice students into feeling life and happiness, and more importantly, togetherness.

“The whole experience is so much more than music. The fact that you were there with your peers is what made it happen,” Dutton said.

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“We want this to be something that can never be recreated. A new legendary moment.”

Weisman, who is largely in charge of the music used, purposefully plays around with combinations of sounds and genres to create the happy feeling they were going for.

“When we prep the music, we spend 8 plus hours just focusing on music. We take our last show, break it down, and figure out what worked, what didn’t, and rearrange some things,” he explained.

The music is a key part in all of the phases, simply because it creates the mood they want.

Weisman is very attentive to sound and how it plays into the phase they are in. They use the sounds to play with people’s expectations; they can go from a major to a minor key, or go from a dark sound to a wholesome sound. Nothing is scripted other than the lasers, confetti, and other show stoppers like that.

Each week they break down the music and create mixes and

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October 7, 2013 decks. Students were thoroughly enjoying themselves–I even caught Student Community Government Inc. President Hilary Costa shaking her ass, enjoying herself to the utmost degree.

It was evident by phase three of Vitality, where things became really intense, that students appeared to be getting their money’s worth. The laser lights overhead, the remixed beats vibrating within and without and the warmth of energy in the Rec Center transmogrified into a new sensation, birthing the very vitality promised by GB. The fourth and final phase was a crowd-pleasing, energy-filled romp which captured a dance scene unlike any I have ever seen. Stimulated students were raving and rocking to some of the best mixed music I have ever had the pleasure of hearing.

Everything from old school house music to new-wave, modern pop to dubstep, were all thrown together, revitalizing the audience, throwing them into a climactic frenzy. Many a bass was dropped and an undeniably grand time was had by all inside the Rec Center.

Dutton and Weisman stand by GB’s mission, which stresses a creative and unique product, “an entirely new model for concert events,” in which they strive to deliver the “Best. Night. Ever.”

Musically, they’ve got a lot going on. With two formidable DJs, these guys are true engineers of sound and experience within the well oiled GB machine. Their on-stage setup looked as if it was taken right from the bridge of “Star Trek’s” USS Enterprise. Dutton pointed out that “this deck is exactly the right deck we want…everything is exactly as we want it.”

While several website testimonials of the event boasts these guys to be on the scale of Daft Punk, the scene they seek to create is almost wholly different, in that it lives, breathes and consumes all energy. They don’t just create a concert, they offer a unique experience.

Before the event, the two DJs’ expressions were comparable to Willy Wonka, and when I saw the pre-production setup it almost felt like a magical factory where imagination could become reality. They stressed how the music really only takes up about six to eight hours of their work week, while the rest of their time is spent managerially running the logistics of GB. It is their job, it is their lives; they bring a product they’ve been working on since their days as middle school DJs. “Our job is not about what tracks we made,” Weisman said. He believes there’s more to their task. The theme for this year’s event at Rhode Island College was “Vitality.”

They see the concerts this year as a way of reintegrating the “powerful energy” and experiences they learned from last year’s tour and want to cultivate it into something en-

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tirely new: a remix of emotion and energy.

“You’re here to be immersed into the product,” Weisman said, bright eyed, as he waved his hand around in the Rec Center.

“For a lot of what’s popular today, it was made in a studio with a bunch of people collaborating that’ll never be in the same room together again,” Dutton said. “And then it was remixed by someone 3,000 miles away to make it even better.”

Weisman and Dutton see this as a positive thing as the collaboration can happen over a longer period of time, seeing more and more hands with more unique touches. “It’s bad for live [performance] because who are you going to give 50 grand to to show up and play that? You could, there’s people that will play it, but you don’t need to spend that much money on it.”

Needless to say, GB is a great experience.

Perhaps, after round two, we might need to take an extra long shower and really pool our resources together before we take on this adventure again. At least we will have the memories, right?

Many students and non-students were rejected at the doors of the Rec Center last Thursday night’s GB event. Some ticket holders not allowed in were rejected for suspicion of intoxication or other such problems. It was evident some people were trying to electrify their own good time by dampening others. This was a real shame, because the event was tailored to be a unique dance concert experience. The intent by some to take away the quality of what GB offers by bringing drugs and the like into the scene doesn’t help it.

Most attendees seemed to have a good time inside the building, but the party outside, which spilled as far down as the quad and the steps of the Ducey Student Media Center, was like a frat party gone bad. Especially since some University of Rhode Island students showed up and willingly admitted to me they were intoxicated while moseying around B-Lot. It’s not that a serious number of people were rejected from the doors of the event, but by no means was this event problem-free.

RIC student Jordan Day, the event’s coordinator, said that she understood why there are some events that might have more diversity, but this is GB’s second year on campus and was the most successful event she had seen in her years at the college.

President Costa stressed that “we got it off the ground in the last two years,” but if people want to have it again, some of the clubs would need to “step up” for more costly funding.

There were several medical emergencies with only one deserving a hospital trip. Providence police handled most, if any, trouble, and the only official report made to RIC Campus Police on Thursday night involved a sexual offense, where two blue-light phones by the Rec Center were activated.

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Sunjammer To infinity and beyond Taylor Lundy Anchor Contributor I remember watching “Star Trek” with my father, when I was younger. I was always so captivated by the idea of life on other planets and traveling through space.

However, because of my age, I thought of these things as completely absurd and impossible. But in reality, space travel is quite possible. We obviously cannot go as far into the final frontier as depicted in “Star Trek,” but I for one believe it is not a question of if, but rather of when.

NASA will be taking another small step closer to deep space travel with one of their newest missions. In 2014, a 13,000 square foot solar sail named after the Arthur C. Clarke story “Sunjammer,” will be launched in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, alongside the satellite DSCOVR. Even though its dimensions are massive, it weighs only 70 pounds and when folded up, is the size of a mere dishwasher.

A solar sail is a thin sheet of metal, in this case kapton, which utilizes the pressure from solar radiation as a means of propulsion. Without going into the physics of it, this pretty much means that the sun’s light creates pressure in the vacuum of space and when reflected off the sail, can be used like a sailboat using the wind.

The mission will be a demonstration of this newly developed form of spacecraft, among other things. Sunjammer will go from the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (a point in space well suited for observation of the Sun-Earth system), almost 900,000 miles from Earth, to a distance of almost 2 million miles from Earth. The mission will

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show the cost effectiveness and viability of solar sail technology for use in future vessels like Sunjammer.

The solar sail also has a scientific mission, which is to record data about solar weather using two onboard devices. A magnetometer (MAGIC), provided by Imperial College London, will measure the magnetic field of the solar winds the sail encounters and a Solar Wind Analyzer (SWAN), provided

by University College London, which will monitor the plasma in the solar winds. Sensors will also be positioned to provide researchers with the earliest ever warning of dangerous solar storms.

Sunjammer also has the sub-mission of being the newest form of Earth’s presence in space. Voyager, also in recent news for finally reaching interstellar space, not only gathers information but also acts as a time capsule, containing information about Earth in many languages, as well as its famous gold record. Sunjammer will be a more extensive version of that, containing information about Earth ranging from the usual music and art, to DNA samples and the cremated remains of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife.

After Sunjammer has performed its demonstration and scientific mission, it will be positioned into a permanent orbit around the sun where it will serve as a “virtual planet,” as the mission website calls it.

Sunjammer’s launch is planned for November 2014, and I for one look forward to hearing updates about this enthralling mission. If you are as interested as I, you can visit www.sunjammermission.com and sign up to receive updates about the project.

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“Breaking Bad” breaks record ty dugAn MAnAging Editor Unintentional spoilers may appear. Read with caution!

The Guinness Book of World Records officially marked “Breaking Bad” as the highest rated television series of all time.

“Breaking Bad” has changed the way Americans view primetime TV. The show’s creator Vince Gilligan envisioned a five season TV series which tells the story of Walter White, a brilliant, defunct high school chemistry teacher who, diagnosed with near-terminal cancer, becomes New Mexico’s best meth cook in order to provide for his family after he is gone. But the story is more dynamic than just a meth cooking cancer patient, and is filled with many interesting characters, such as White’s DEA agent brother-in-law, Hank; his partner and former student Jesse; the problem

solving, comically slick bench-sign lawyer Saul Goodman; the ruthless and endearing Grandpa Mike; White’s money laundering wife, Skyler; The Whites’ epileptic, breakfast loving son, Walt Jr.; Gus Fring and his multi-million-dollar-a-day meth operation; the smile-inducing Badger; and an ever-dangerous Mexican drug cartel.

The series explores the subtleties of creative character writing, intelligent plot development and the devastation of a cliffhanger season ending. “Breaking Bad” exceeds so many programs, both long-gone and currently on air, by achieving one thing: turning the show’s protagonist into the antagonist. It could not have been an easy task, but Gilligan, along with talented actors Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn and Bob Odenkirk, the series blew open the doors of what is expected from basic cable programming.

So, besides the obvious loss of missing out on what happens each week, why is it

sad “Breaking Bad” is over? Well, in terms of quality, there’s not a lot out there to take its place. The finale, which sought to tie up all loose ends, arguably delivered what it promised with a heartbreaking end for fans of the series.

AMC has some of the best programming on basic cable, including “Low Winter Sun,” “Hell On Wheels,” “The Walking Dead” and, of course, “The Killing.” But none of them can compare to Gilligan’s masterpiece. The programming on FX struggles to compare with AMC’s comedies such as “Wilfred,” dramas like “Sons of Anarchy” and the horror-drama “American Horror Story.”

Strong as these AMC programs are, none of them can come close to the same style and brilliant writing “Breaking Bad” retained during its tenure. HBO had a recent resurgence in quality TV shows with “Game of Thrones” being a solid number one for countless viewers and ShowTime is expected to make a comeback with some

Making TV scary ty dugAn MAnAging Editor “American Horror Story: Coven” and “The Walking Dead” season four both begin this week (Oct. 9 and 13 respectfully) and with them come all the tricks and treats American television audiences have come to expect from horror television.

After a very successful two seasons on FX, “AHS” seeks to delve into a third and new paranormal tale of mayhem and murder that follows the legacy of Salem Witches to New Orleans. Among the returning cast members are Sarah Paulson, Tarissa Farminga, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, and the indisputable Jessica Lange. Joining the horror anthology troop is Angela Basset and Kathy Bates, well-known powerhouse actresses as well as Gaboury Sidibe, all of whom bring much promise to the third installment of “AHS”. The story (what little of it has been revealed) seems to be centered around Tarissa Farminga’s young character who, in a very Harry Potter-esque revelation, is made aware of her Salem witch lineage and is shipped off to a school for witches in New Orleans. It is here that she comes across Angela Basset’s character (among others) who use the mythical art of voodoo to practice their witchcraft. This season, in comparison to season two’s “Asylum” and season one’s “Murder House”, presents itself as a much tamer type of horror. Fantasy horror mixed with eerie visuals but so far none

quality programs such as “Ray Donavan,” as well as the long-overdue ending of their most popular series “Dexter.” Even if viewers have only watched a single season of “Breaking Bad,” they know there’s nothing else like it.

But could there be? Bob Odenkirk has signed on for a prequel series about his character, Saul Goodman in “Better Call Saul,” which is expected to have a more comical tone and potentially use more of Gilligan’s satirical wit. Unfortunately, most, if not all, of the “Breaking Bad” main characters won’t appear, even in cameos, as none of them meet Saul who made his debut in season two. While we will never really know what happened to him for sure at the series’ end, it’s safe to assume a prequel series will be rib-crackingly entertaining.

There’s not much in the way of American television that can compare to “Breaking Bad.” Though it is just a matter of time until a studio and network somewhere, recognizing the show’s impact, okays a pilot which promises to once again raise the bar for a modern American audience. After all, the show wasn’t called “Breaking Even.” remixes for the show.

But Weisman and Dutton also remix songs on the spot to create an even stronger beat so that students may come together as a community.

“You want to experience that visceral feeling but at the same time refocus yourself and remember you’re there with friends,” he claimed.

But, even though they strive for community togetherness, Dutton and Weisman are very aware of the fact that the product their company sells is a huge party. This means they are also aware of the drug use and alcohol consumption that may take place at their events. Thursday was no exception.

But, Dutton claims that they actually prefer students to attend their events sober, so that they may experience the togetherness and happiness they are trying to create.

“We work so hard to engineer this experience, and I’ve never had any of those drugs. I couldn’t tell you what its like to experience this with any sort of enhancement. It makes me sad. It’s just going to hurt people and that couldn’t be more opposite of our theme.”

Dutton even said that he gets kind of bummed out when he sees a student who may be under the influence at their event, because he knows that it’s blocking them from the cultivation and expansion of their college community.

Groove Boston became a night for RIC students to remember, thanks to Dutton and Weisman’s hard work. Although it cannot be said if they provided the community togetherness they strived to achieve, they said they saw students leaving happy, and that was enough for them.

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of the unsettling, gut-churning imagery the promos for past seasons were known for. Regardless, the amount of talent pouring into this season should provide many viewers with a spine-tingling show.

Season four of “The Walking Dead” on the other hand has much to live up to. While the second season limped about like a half-dead zombie, season three strove to actually make some consequential character development and with that came a slaying of many great characters (and one that I personally am grateful for - no spoilers). Season four’s promos introduce a lot of elements right out of the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman. It also seeks to introduce story plots unique to the television series. With the Governor running about, no faction to boss around or town to dictate over, it is up to Rick and his shuffled, tired, crew of survivors to make sense of the carnage of season three and come up with a next step. With a confirmed BBC spin-off series, penned by Kirkman who is also serving as showrunner, we might see some nods or set up into a British perspective of the world wide zombie apocalypse. Plenty to look forward to in this gripping drama.

With season two of NBC’s” Hannibal” already being teased online, before season one is even through mind you, and Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow” turning out to be a surprising sleeper hit, it seems like the latest fad of horror television is only strengthening. Here’s to a few more years of a good thing… before it gets completely overdone like “Dexter.” www.theanchoronline.org

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Winless streak over sAM AllEn sports Editor The Anchorwomen no longer have a zero in the wins column! Last Thursday night on the Murray Center court, the Rhode Island College women’s volleyball team picked up their first victory of the 2013 season against Eastern Nazarene in a non-conference game. The loss was Eastern’s fifth in a row. RIC won 3-1 with match scores of 18-25, 25-22, 25-23 and 25-20.

After earning their first win, the Anchorwomen hosted a tri-match on Saturday with Western New England and Westfield State, but RIC was unable to pick up another win.

RIC took on Western New England first on the day. The Golden Bears got the best of the home team, as they won the first set 25-4. The next set also went to the Golden

Bears, by a score of 25-13 and they closed out the match with a 25-10 third frame score. Senior Amanda Cabral led the Anchorwomen with eight kills, one ahead of sophomore Lauren Palazzini. Cabral also registered four kills on the match, while Michelle Malboeuf picked up three.

In the second RIC match of the day, the home team faced off against Westfield State, who took them down 3-0. The match scores were much closer this time around, though. The Owls won by scores of 25-17, 25-21 and 25-14. Cabral once again lead the team in kills and digs, with 10 and 18, respectively. Malboeuf and junior Karla Santizo had 10 digs each and Palazzini had 12 assists on the match.

The Anchorwomen, now 1-18, will be back in Little East Conference action on Tuesday at home, when they take on UMASS Boston at 6 p.m.

Part 3: Caveman Style

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H.I.I.T. Training ryAn MAllonEy Anchor stAff I know what you’re probably thinking, Where would I find the tools to work out like a caveman? Believe it or not, the human race survived and thrived long before our comforts and modern technology.

Archaeological evidence shows us that people hunted their food and travelled considerable distances by foot. In contradiction to the knowledge of pop culture, these primitive peoples–if they survived childhood infections–could typically expect to live to about sixty years of age. In truth, Paleolithic humans got more vitamin D than modern humans and, even though they had less of a food supply, it was uncontaminated.

Physical fitness was a means of day-to-day survival and not just in prehistoric times, but even as recently as 200 years ago. Day-to-day life for most people involved activities such as chopping wood, pushing a plough and manually drawing water from a well. Typical American lives today consist largely of sitting at a desk for eight hours, then lying on a couch for eight hours and putting in a final eight hours in bed. We “don’t have time” for the gym because our lifestyles are slowly killing us off.

Our bodies were not designed for calf raises, leg curls, bicep curls, tricep extensions or elliptical machines. Our bodies are designed to push, pull, throw and slam with the body functioning in synergy as one movement, much like our paleolithic ancestors did.

Caveman training will cause you to unleash

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the beast within, while building strength and torching fat. Equipment used in this training modality varies, but most often includes sledgehammers, tires, kettle bells, jump ropes, sandbags and chains. These are the tools we use to give the body a primal workout.

Instead of wanting to bench press 300-pounds, the new goal may lie with being conditioned well enough to fight a saber-toothed tiger. Personally, my favorite part of the whole workout is sledgehammering the tire. Whatever is stressing me out in life at the moment is visualized being hit with all my might by a sledgehammer. It can become a detoxification of all negative thoughts and energy if you can focus all your attention.

By its design, caveman training takes you out of your comfort zone and puts a lot of physical stress on your body, which is a great method for strengthening both your body and willpower. Think of Rocky Balboa in Russia, preparing for his bout with Ivan Drago; this is what we attempt to simulate.

It brings out our inner eye of the tiger and pushes us to our limits of effort and determination. When you have the deep knowledge within that you have given your best and overcome your limitations, the feeling can be exhilarating.

The caveman approach to training has been reported to help consistent trainees achieve increases in muscle mass and fat loss. Its superiority in developing total body functional

strength makes it a very popular training method for mixed martial artists. It also lends itself to the average gym rat looking to break plateaus in strength and endurance, because it works the various large muscle groups in a much different way than traditional gym exercises. As an example, lifting a heavy sandbag from the floor works the body very differently than performing a deadlift.

A sample routine that my clients have endured includes: Tire flipping (60 sec.)

Tire Jumping (60 sec.)

Sledgehammering the Tire (60 sec.)

Chain power clean and press (60 sec.)

Ball slams (60 sec.)

Pull ups (60 sec.)

Tire pushups (60 sec.)

(For as many rounds as possible) The workouts are slightly varied for disparity; they typically include a one minute break in between each circuit of exercises. It’s the type of training that challenges you at your very core with the question, How bad do you want it?

Everyone wants to be physically fit, it’s only those who truly want it who will achieve their very best. If this person is you, I offer this class every Saturday at 12:00 p.m. at Gold’s Gym in Pawtucket, and the first class is complimentary. If you are interested, you will need to arrive at 11:45 a.m. to fill out some paperwork. I am always willing to share the experience of this training with anyone with the spirit of the caveman.

Send your comments, questions, or any hot topic you would like covered as it relates to health and fitness to rmalloney_6175@email.ric.edu If I do not include your question in an article, I will at least respond to you directly and do my best to set you on the right path.

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Anchorwomen get blanked

The Anchorwomen take to the road again on Thursday, when they travel down to Bristol to take on in-state rivals Roger Williams.

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After shutting out Becker College in a non-conference match last Wednesday, the Rhode Island College women’s soccer team (3-6-1) traveled to Keene State, where they got shut out.

Keene State wanted to impress their homecoming crowd–and that they did. Keene is tied for first in the Little East Conference, standing at 3-0 while the Anchorwomen still have yet to pick up a LEC win this season.

The Anchorwomen held off the Owls through the first 31 minutes of play, before Kara Pavlidis netted the first goal of the game.

Junior Danielle Peloquin had the opportunity to tie the game with a direct kick, but the ball hit off the post and bounced away. Before

the half was over, the Owls scored again, taking a 2-0 lead. Goalkeeper Audrey Maia kept it from being 3-0 in the first half after stopping a close shot by Pavlidis.

Keene State came out strong in the second half, scoring three times in just 6 minutes, starting in the first couple of minutes into the half. The Anchorwomen had officially lost control of the game after the Owls took the quick 5-0 lead and kept it for the remainder of the contest.

Maia made 13 saves on the day, while picking up her sixth loss of the season. She now stands at 3-6-1.

RIC had five shots on net during the game, three from Peloquin and two from freshman Elsa Almeida.

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During Saturday’s Homecoming match on the Rhode Island College soccer field, Keene State drove home with a come-from-behind, double overtime victory. This is the seventh straight victory for the Owls when facing the Anchormen.

The Owls hit the net first in the ninth minute of action when sophomore Eddie Mercer earned his fourth goal of the season. The score remained 1-0 in favor of the visitors at the end of the half.

Going into the second half, RIC knew they had to make some changes if the were to take control of the game–and they did just that! Less than three minutes into the second half, RIC’s Geoff Sampaio was taken down by an Owl, allowing the Anchormen a penalty kick.

Taking the shot was top goal scorer Emmanuel Asiedu, who blasted the ball past goalkeeper Malcolm Cheney to tie it up at one. The goal was Asiedu’s seventh of the season.

Two minutes later, Camilo Estrada netted another ball, his fifth of the season, and put the home team ahead by one. It was Sampaio once again who

helped set up the goal, this time staying on his feet. He had a perfect pass to the open Estrada who cut to the net and scored the goal. The assist was Sampaio’s first collegiate point. In the 69th minute of play, the Owls tied the game at two a piece.

The game almost ended in regulation, but thanks to good defending by Kwasi Boateng, the two teams were forced into extra time. An Owl raced down the field with the ball, but it bounced off a RIC defender, giving the Owls the straitaway path to the net. RIC goalkeeper Chris Moura stepped out to stop the play, but was played by the Owl ball carrier who avoided him and raced toward the end. Boateng stepped in and stopped the ball from finding the net at the last second. But the heroics wouldn’t provide an Anchormen victory, as the Owls scored the final game’s final goal after a 17 minute back and forth battle.

Keene State and RIC have always been Little East rivals and Saturday proved this, as benches cleared in the second half after pushing and shoving turned into more. By game’s end, six yellow cards were given out to both sides.

On Tuesday, RIC will travel to Montclair State for some non-conference action.

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RIC finishes second on home course sAM AllEn sports Editor On Friday Oct 4, the Rhode Island College men’s golf team hosted the RIC Invitational at Triggs Golf Course. Seven different schools competed in the tournament, including RIC’s cross town rivals, Johnson and Wales University. RIC came in second place while JWU beat them with a team score of 301, just two strokes higher than the home team.

Senior Tim Leigh enjoys the RIC invitational and playing at home.

“The RIC invitational was a good showing for us. It was our lowest team score so far and we seem to be trending in the right direction.

It’s always a good feeling playing on our home course. We are confident in our abilities there and course knowledge is a key factor in tournament golf. Hats off to Johnson and Wales on a great showing and a good win,” Leigh said.

Despite an Anchormen defeat, Pat Ford once again lead his team, tying for first place with JWU’s Pat Paulson with a score of 72 (E).

Ford earned medalist honors though, winning

on a tie-breaking hole. JWU senior Sam Parella placed third, one stroke ahead of Leigh who finished fourth. Right behind him was junior Ryan Butler with a score of 76 (+4).

RIC split their golf team into two groups for the day, so every member had a chance to participate. Freshman Corey Patalano tied for ninth with a 78 (+6), with sophomores Jonathan Cooper and Eddie Francis placing 13th and 24th. Two RIC freshmen, Jonathan Ducharme and John Roderick tied for 29th with a +16 (88) and rounding out the RIC scoring were senior Kyle Garcia and sophomore Peter Camerlengo in 36th place.

Wentworth Univeristy finished third for the day, with Suffolk and Tufts tying for fourth. Finishing out the teams were Westfield State, RIC’s B Team and, last on the day, Roger Williams.

Next on the RIC schedule is the 2013 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championships which are held from Oct 19-20. This year even will be hosted by JWU and played at Cranston Country Club.

The Rhode Island College women’s tennis team now sits at 10-2 for the season and holds onto second place in the Little East Conference after the unbeaten Bridgewater State Bears took the women down on Wednesday.

The Anchorwomen bounced back from a mid-week loss, however, and took down Plymouth State 7-2 on Saturday at home. Securing the RIC victory was sophomore Sadie Campanella who defeated her opponent 6-3, 6-1 at the No. 1 singles spot. Campanella knows she’s not the only power house on this years team, though.

“This year our team is extremely strong.

We are also very young, with one junior, our captain Chelsea Brown, so we’ve had to work hard this season,” said Campanella after Saturday’s win. “No match is easy, but we have a team of girls who will stop at nothing to win, and that determination and the skill it takes to keep going shows in our results. We’ve got an amazing group of girls on the team this year, and everyone puts in 100 percent, so I have no doubt Rhode Island College Women’s Tennis is going to go far.”

Brown and her doubles partner Tressa Cannata remain undefeated this season and picked up their 10th victory at the No. 3 doubles spot. Also winning in doubles was the No. 2 duo of Julie Reddy and Noelle Tiberi.

Campanella and her partner Jorgie Martin were defeated at the No. 1 doubles spot, picking one of two Anchorwomen match loses.

The only other RIC loss was at the No. 6 singles spot. Winning at No. 2 singles was Brown, defeating PSU’s Jane Duggan 6-4, 6-2. Her partner Cannata took down her opponent 6-2, 6-2 at the No. 3 spot. Reddy and Tiberi also won at their respective singles spots.

The Anchorwomen have a full week off before they take to the RIC tennis courts again on Saturday, when they meet Salem State in another LEC matchup.

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Little East Conference Matchup

When: Sat. Oct. 12 @ 1 p.m.

Where: Salem State University

Athlete of the Week Pat Ford–Men’s Golf

Pat Ford has been the leader on the Rhode Island College golf team all season long. Two weeks in a row, he has been named the GNAC Golfer of the Week for his performances in the first three tournaments of the season. Ford feels confidents about his play and his team’s performance so far this season.

“We’ve got a young team full of some real talent and I’m excited about how we look this year. We’ve had a strong start and we just gotta keep the good scores going and keep our eye on the prize.”

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