The Anchor - 11/16/2010

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Week of November 15, 2010

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Vol. 83, Issue #12

Communication

breakdown Information exchange lapses between SCG and PFAC By Rita Nerney Anchor News Editor

Questions over funding for the Performing and Fine Arts Commission have recently arisen following the arrival of the Sculpture Tour on campus. PFAC is a campus governing body that provides studentrun performing and fine arts organizations funding at Rhode Island College. Student Community Government, Inc. started the commission in the 1980s, with the intention being that SCG would still need to recognize organizations before they could

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be under PFAC. In recent years, the relationship between SCG and PFAC has become distant, and certain by-laws of both groups are being stretched. “Even if an organization is

placed under PFAC, it still has to be approved by SCG,” said SCG President Travis Escobar. “We don’t monitor PFAC,” See PFAC Page 6

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At left, SCG Secretary Amanda Berno says that the Sculpture Tour, at right, has not been recognized by student government. Howerver, Prof. Thomas Cobb, center, claims that the PFACfunded organization has filed its paperwork with SCG.

Adams Library earns high marks By Kyle Grant Anchor News Writer

Hedi BenAicha came to Rhode Island College looking to improve Adams Library, and according to the 2010 Rhode Island College Student Census, he has succeeded. The James P. Adams Library has the highest rate of satisfaction of the campus services. “No self-respecting college can exist without an important and valuable library,” said BenAicha. BenAicha was named the director of Adams Library when he came to RIC almost three years ago. He arrived with a vision of what the library should be. “A library is more than a large warehouse of books,”

said BenAicha. “It is the social, cultural, academic center of the campus and is a full collaborative partner with all other departments. Think of it as one giant classroom, open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., providing students and faculty alike to countless trustworthy and highquality knowledge that is easily accessible.” Adams Library provides an unprecedented amount of accessibility, with a hardworking staff and an easy-to-use system of retrieving sources, to make the experience painless and rewarding. “The library is an academic bank,” said BenAicha, “and what good is a bank if you don’t have any access to what you’re

Women in politics By Kyle Grant Anchor News Writer

Despite women politicians becoming more popular throughout the nation, it seems the present wave of women in office has skipped Rhode Island. Women make up 52 percent of our state’s population, but only 13 representatives and six senators in the Rhode Island General Assembly are women. Over the last 220 years, only six women have held statewide office here. No woman has ever become governor in Rhode Island, nor has a woman repreAnchor Photo/Devin Noll

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Adams Library has seen a steady rise in usage in recent years.

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