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Student Parliament dedicated to compromise on DASA
Date: 02/27/13 Call Reason: alarm, Burglar Location: alger hall - Library rd. Action Taken: assistance rendered
daniELLE Lafond assistant nEws Editor Though the most recent Student Community Government, Inc. (SCG, Inc.) meeting was over 3 and a half hours long, no time was wasted. Representatives and executive board members dove headfirst into the controversy of the Dedication to Academic Success Act (DASA) introduced by SCG, Inc. on Feb 6. Jonathan Kmieciak, a mathematics major at RIC, started the discussion during the open forum at the beginning of the meeting. Reading from a prepared statement, he expressed concerns about the act that reflected the concerns of a wider RIC community. “According to Robert’s rules of order, no legislative body can tie the hands of a future one by denying them the ability to change laws,” Kmieciak read, “Putting a time limit on the DASA directly violates this.” The remark was in reference to a stipulation in Article III of the original DASA that the academic standards required to receive a stipend could only be reviewed by Parliament every five years. Kmieciak also addressed the concerns surrounding the privacy of students and the role of SCG, Inc. in academic affairs, saying, “Who are you to judge the academics of other students? It should be a college bylaw, not SCG Inc’s.”
Date: 02/28/13 Call Reason: Larceny/ forgery/ fraud Location: alex and ani art Center - 5th ave Action Taken: report taken Date: 03/01/13 Call Reason: Vandalism Location: L Lot - 6th ave Action Taken: report taken anchor photo by Jon kmieciak
SCG President Kyla Pecchia (left) and Treasurer Jordan Day (right) proposed the amendments that were accepted by Parliament. A rebuttal of sorts was offered by Timothy Valton who also read from a prepared statement in the open forum. “I have a problem with a student leader who can barely keep their academics in order - receiving a stipend for being on a committee that meets less than once a week,” Valton said, “or holding a highly coveted executive board position.” After these remarks Parliament moved through the act piece by piece, proposing amendments and voting on the changes. The bulk of the amendments were made to Article III which originally outlined a set of academic standards that students must meet in order to receive a stipend. It also included a stipulation that if stipend-receiving members of organi-
zations did not meet those requirements they would have to attend SCG, Inc. monitored study-hours in order to retain their stipend. The amendments to Article III which were ultimately accepted by Parliament were proposed by Treasurer Jordan Day, who reminded those gathered at the meeting of the original intent of the act. “You can’t forget at the end of the day that the point is to get a freakin’ diploma. I’d rather get a diploma than a stipend any day,” Treasurer Day said. As of the passage of the original act on Feb 6, students who fell below either the minimum GPA or course SCG completion percentage SEE PAGE 3 requirements would
WXIN is no stranger to holding charitable events. Previous concerts like “Music for Mammary” and a radiothon have raised $2,500 and $1,000, respectively, for the Gloria Gemma Foundation to combat breast cancer and other causes. Most recently, “Beat’s and Rhyme’s to End Dating Crimes” raised $3,481 for the Women’s Center of Rhode Island. Ashley Goldberg, Country Music Director, E-love, World Music Director, and Nate Grist, Director of Alumni Affairs spearheaded the project with help from the WXIN executive board. The radio station sponsored the event along with numerous cosponsors: Sophomore Class Club, Anchor TV, The Anchor,
Spoken, Latin Swing and Dance and HOPE. Seven performers were in attendance at the Fete Ballroom at 103 Doug St. in Providence including the Rhode Island College Women’s Choir, Vulgarity and School of Rock which features kids 13-18 playing covers of Adele and 80’s rock music. Vulgarity also won the 2010 Rock Hunt and the WBRU Rock Hunt in 2011. The February 28 event saw between 250 and 300 people in attendance. Just because the music is over doesn’t mean charitable contributions can’t be made. WXIN is collecting old and broken cell phones. Each phone will bring in $20 to $30. The radio station will be accepting phones all week until March 22. Golberg said, “I plan on working with women’s centers for the rest of my life and eventually opening my own on the south
Date: 03/02/13 Call Reason: Vandalism Location: L Lot - 6th ave Action Taken: report taken Date: 03/03/13 Call Reason: suspicious activity Location: new residence hall - 6th ave Action Taken: report taken Date: 03/04/13 Call Reason: threat/ harassing Calls Location: new residence hall - 6th ave Action Taken: referred to other agency Call Reason: threat/ harassing Calls Location: J Lot - 6th ave Action Taken: report taken Call Reason: alarm, Burglar Location: accounting/ Payroll/ - Cole rd. Action Taken: Building Checked/ secured Call Reason: alarm, Burglar Location: Joseph kauffman Center - salisbury rd. Action Taken: Building Checked/ secured Call Reason: alarm, Burglar Location: murray Center - 6th ave Action Taken: assistance rendered
Beats and Rhymes strives to end dating crimes JUstin gosLant nEws Editor
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Date: 03/07/13 Call Reason: Vandalism Location: william C. gaige hall - Library rd. Action Taken: report taken Call Reason: drug offense (all) Location: willard residence hall - 6th ave Action Taken: report taken Call Reason: drug offense (all) Location: new residence hall Action Taken: report taken Date: 03/08/13 Call Reason: suspicious activity Location: L Lot - 6th ave Action Taken: assistance rendered
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Video resumé, the future of employment niCo montanari anChor staff The RIC Branch of the American Marketing Association (AMA) has recently announced the winners of its video resume contest. The contest was brought about as part of a continuing initiative for the professional development of Rhode Island College students by the AMA. Justin Coffey, the RIC Branch president for AMA, voiced his approval of the
project and in the results stating, “video resumes are gaining popularity in both the employer and employee sense. They give the viewer a much better idea of the personality and character of the individual than just reading something off a piece of paper…it was a unique way to get students involved not only in our organization, but in their own professional self as well. With professional development being one of our main focuses as a group, this contest seemed ideal”. Coffey went on to say that AMA hopes to make this an
Bright beginnings The 3.50 Society inducted 167 Rhode Island College freshmen as charter members of the elite group. A ceremony was held on March 5 to recognize and celebrate the students who achieved a 3.5 or greater point average during the fall semester. Students recited the society’s pledge and were individually called forth to receive their certificates. RIC’s Vice President and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ron Pitt and Holly Shadoian, respectively, led the ceremony though other members of the administration and college community also attended.
have to attend study hours in order to continue receiving their stipend. The act which passed on March 6 amended that criterion to include only students who fell below both of these requirements. Article III was also amended to exclude non-executive board stipend receiving members from being held to the minimum GPA and course completion percentage requirements. “We thought that it was unfair to force a photographer, who receives a $3 stipend if a picture is printed, into the same hours that a full-time executive board member would have to do,” Treasurer Day said. “It’s not the same dedication of time.” Speaker Travis Escobar introduced a motion to add subsidiary boards of student organizations to the list of those who would be held to the rigorous academic standards, but the motion failed to pass.
The language in Article III that disabled discussion or amendment of the academic requirements for 5 years after the passage of DASA was also amended. Parliament is now required to re-evaluate DASA within five years at the latest. Article IV, which outlined plans for a designated area where student leaders could complete the study hours required of them, was struck completely from the act. The amended Defense of Academic Success Act passed unanimously. The vote was followed by a round of applause from members of Parliament and high fives across the table. “I want to congratulate everyone in this room,” Deputy Speaker Ryan Bettencourt said at the close of the meeting. “If we can sit in this room and come to a decision on something that realistically affects all of us as student leaders, I think we can really achieve anything.”
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annual contest for subsequent years and that more students will “see the benefits that a video resume might add to their appeal, as an employee and a professional individual”. Harold Weeden, a marketing student, took first place in the competition receiving a Kindle Fire. Second and third place winners, Samantha Perez and myself, received $50 and $25 gift cards for their entries, respectively. Although the contest did not strictly dictate the sort of material that should be presented in these videos,
the entrants were able to work creatively and produce videos that in the end they were truly proud of. The contest itself required simply a few minutes in length of video in a professional setting and demeanor, addressing aspects of your resume, including personal areas that may not be explicitly stated on the resume. Employers will take interest in potential applicants due to the personable side shown in the video. From this project, one of the applicants received a job offer of which that individual was quick to accept. The employer simply stated he had not seen a video resume in his five years of being a hiring manager, and it truly impressed him.
RIC English Professor Spencer Hall spoke during the ceremony urging students “...not to forget to do things that are spontaneous and fun.” Following that sentiment, inductees played kazoos. The 3.50 Society chapter at RIC is currently petitioning to become part of a national honor society, Alpha Lambda Delta, which also recognizes the academic excellence of freshmen. The honorees signed the ALD roll which will be used to to help secure RIC’s membership. If approved, the 3.50 Society at RIC will be the first of 260 ALD chapters to exist in Rhode Island. Official membership will then make RIC inductees eligible for scholarships and various other perks.
“You can’t forget at the end of the day that the point is to get a freakin’ diploma. I’d rather get a diploma than a stipend any day.” –Jordan Day, SCG, Inc. Treasurer
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Is Questions with Kate unfair to the men?
Advice equality niCo montanari anChor staff In a society dominated by men, I can understand why women have a sense of camaraderie. Feminism has come a long way and personally I think it’s all great, I would love to see the day that women dominate companies, and break down the social stigmas that society brainwashes into our minds. However, I need to draw a line in the sand when these same women who fight for feminism and equal rights then look at men and say, they are worthless and are “scum”. I love my literature, and I particularly have a strong connection with this newspaper, The Anchor. I love my fiction as much as the next person, but has anyone read the tales being spun in “Questions with Kate” recently? I mean, no offense to the author herself, or even to the people asking for advice, but this prior week’s articles really made me consider what is suitable for a student body. I don’t want to say that the message and advice being given is wrong, but that’s exactly what I am saying. In the article, a guy cheated on his girlfriend with the girlfriend’s best friend, and he is obviously a bad person, that’s not the issue I draw. The issue is that, the guy had his belongings thrown into the street, toothbrush defiled, and was thrown out. Kate condoned this and said more should have been done to him; but when questioned about the girlfriend’s friend, Kate simply stated
the girlfriend was better off without her as a friend. There was no fairness or equality in the amount of hate that was prescribed to either party. The whole action took both parties involved and the fact that the man was completely berated but the friend got a simple cut out of her life is sheer inequity. The article went on with another question: when will men stop manipulating women with their words? Kate gave the advice that if a man ever says your special and he has never met anyone like you, then run away, he’s just trying to manipulate and lie to you. From a guy who has been with his girlfriend for two years, I can say I have never met anyone in my life like her, and that’s the honest truth. I know first hand guys can be terrible and manipulative, but I have meant numerous women that are the same way. So, before advice is given that all tender words are evil, try to think about all the good guys that advice is disregarding because we tend to be sensitive, say things to that extent and actually mean it. To wrap this up, very seldom do I ever see a male write in to Kate; I assume it’s for fear of being chastised and verbally castrated. I know that problems and issues are not solely a female pandemic, so by belittling men, “Questions with Kate” is limiting its reader base and the extent of the support her column can provide to the student body. I just believe not all men should be stoned, while women are given what amounts to a free pass in these columns: find some equality.
It’s a common trope in the American story: the generation in power labels its successor “the worst generation in history,” claiming they are irresponsible, immoral, ignorant, arrogant and incapable of preserving the dreams of the Founding Fathers. My most recent encounter with this noxious posturing emerged on the HBO series “The Newsroom.” A small clip of which appeared online as “The Most Honest Three Minutes in Television History,” garnering half a million views or shares on YouTube and Facebook, respectively. While the analysis of what’s wrong with America in this video does have its factual moments, the historical accuracy of how things “used to be” is limited at best. But then, it’s a dramatic speech meant to establish the views of the main character, so one cannot criticize this middle aged man’s yearning for the golden days of yore too heavily. Such is to be expected, since peoples’ memories inevitably conjure a glorious time that only superficially resembles the world of their youth. While the America he idealizes never existed, his speech actually serves as a wonderful road map for what we can aspire to become. However, the unforgivable moment arrives when our self-appointed savior turns to the young college student who prompted his speech and declares her to be part of the “Worst. Generation. Ever.” and cracks about educating her in case she should ever “accidentally wander into a voting booth.” This is ironic, since it was his generation that was directly involved in every problem he bemoans, whilst she (and everyone else in their teens and twenties today) was still in grade school. Now, an apology must be made in advance to the innocents caught in the crossfire of this rebuttal. Many amongst the preceding generation have striven nobly to preserve and improve America’s dreams and ideals. My generation owes everything to you, for we have adopted your causes, your battles, and your invincible spirit. We are your protégés, adopting your worldview and morality as our own. However, your peers have made a grievous error in attempting to blame my generation for the ills of their world, and it is to them I speak now. I believe a strong case can be made that my generation represents not the worst, but among the greatest generations in American history. We’re compassionate, tolerant, caring, and we are working hard to revive
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an American Dream that died on your watch. You created the Tea Party, which celebrated ignorance of economics and history alike. We formed Occupy Wall Street, a group dedicated to building a better world through direct democracy, nonviolent action and informed political resistance. You voted for a Patriot Act that stripped away our rights; we killed CISPA (once, at least) to preserve them. You signed away the Fourth Amendment rights to privacy and dignity online, in airports and in your own bodies by allowing intrusive government surveillance, faux-security at airports that do nothing to stop terrorists and random workforce drug testing that clearly violates our right to demand a warrant before our property is searched. After all, are not our bodies our property? We responded with the DREAM Act, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Get Out the Vote efforts, trying to make America a more inclusive land of opportunity. You created Walmart to crush the middle class; we created Kickstarter to give strangers the ability to live their dreams. You refused to raise minimum wage to keep up with living expenses, we elected a President who vowed to fix your mistakes. You permitted irresponsible, greedy men to crash the world’s economy and then bailed them out; we demanded accountability and the return of the middle class. We are better than you, better than your misguided, misanthropic dreams and petty agendas. And we should not serve as the whipping boy for your actions! This nation is your mess, and we are left to clean it up. The “Worst. Generation. Ever.” is not those coming of age, voting and struggling to make it through the wasteland of the American economy—it is you. And you should be ashamed, not only for your herd-like acquiescence to the creation of this mess, but also for attempting to pass the buck and blame your children for the sins of their parents. Your refusal to acknowledge or rectify your mistakes is contemptible, and no amount of television programs, Youtube videos or Facebook “likes” will ever wash away your guilt.
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Response to: “America’s greatest generation” J.C. Lamantia Managing Editor Jesse Posl-Rhinehart Opinions Editor Today, we want to briefly respond to several points made by our good friend and colleague Joe Martin in his Opinions essay, “America’s Greatest Generation.” If you have yet to read it, please do before reading any further (see page 6). First, let’s clarify his basic project. Essentially, he is responding to a web-clip in which an older American, probably about your parent’s age, waxes nostalgic for the glory days of his generation. In doing this, he manages to insult the generation currently coming of age, i.e. our generation. Martin sharply disagrees and launches an argument structured around a series of supposedly antithetical generational outputs. For example, Martin claims that while the gentlemen’s generation created the Tea Party, which Martin views as wholly ignorant and misguided; our generation created Occupy, a sterling bastion of social justice and democratic activism. Our response has nothing to do with the claims made by the gentleman. We will also not comment on the quality of this (our) generation—although, we are slightly more pessimistic than our friend Joe if you really are interested in knowing. Rather, we want to address a few issues we take with how Martin puts forth his argument. We take the biggest issue with what he says tacitly. And that is this: our generation is bet-
ter because we are more ideologically to the left than the last. This is more than evident in what Martin highlights as achievements of our generation; Occupy, the Dream Act (still in the proposal phase) and President Obama. So are we to assume that, had we elected President Romney, we would have been a lesser generation? We guess if we had the audacity to question elements of the Dream Act that makes us a terrible person? We guess if our principles were more in line with those of the Tea Party than of Occupy that was also a sin against our generation? Do young conservatives have any place in this generation? This all seems awfully motivated by a political ideology. Why not focus on overall political action? On that front, at least compared with the boomers of the late 60’s, we’re seriously lacking. (We should note that we’re both liberal-leaning). Now this is not to say that we’re not proud of the strides which have been made towards LGBTQ equality. We don’t see much room for principled disagreement on such issues (at least when you are speaking in a civil context). But, when it comes to the issues referenced above, we believe it is right to have a diversity of ideological positions and Martin’s construction of our great generation seems to praise the dominance of left-leaning ideology over most else. Another issue we take with the argument is that it seems a bit presumptuous. For example, Martin notes the gentleman’s generation supported the Patriot Act, which he views as danger to many of our rights. We don’t disagree with that assessment. But, on what ba-
sis can we reasonably say that our generation wouldn’t have passed the Act? Sure, maybe everyone our age seems against it, but if placed in the proper context and presented with the same information, we may have made the same choice. The same reasoning can be applied to what is claimed about what we have achieved. Most of what Martin references was legislated or enacted by the same generation he lambasts. Now, he’ll respond: but you know what I’m saying, we supported their efforts. True, but, please keep in mind that things like the Dream Act have been floating around D.C. for years. Immigration is a tinderbox which needs to be addressed, and, to be a bit cynical, if the immigration issues alone don’t force Congress’ hand, demographics certainly will. The Republicans know that. Martin also sights the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a younger cousin of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). We have a question: what stopped SOPA? Was it our generation? Certainly we were mad about it, but what did we do? Post something on our Facebook walls? Please. What really caught Congress’ eye? Might it was Google’s temporary shut down? Or maybe the very adult lobbying efforts made on behalf of various web-based enterprises which would have been hurt? How is CISPA going down, a K-Street assassin or an angry bunch of Tweets? All we are saying is, let’s not take too much credit yet. We have a long way to go to be politically effective. The last issue we wanted to note was Martin’s discussion of the last generation’s
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economic recklessness. Again, we agree, in a way, because certainly there was much irresponsibility being tolerated. But, the argument pins the collapse of the “American Way” squarely on the shoulders of Wall Street banking houses. Well, that’s a big part of the story, but what about the massive systemic shifts in the global economy which occurred throughout the 80’s and 90’s? What about the unprecedented transformation in the way we live and produce due to the mass-dissemination of new technologies like computers? Martin’s treatment of Wal-Mart underlies this lack of consideration. Sorry, Wal-Mart was not started with the intention of destroying the middle class. Sure, Wal-Mart and its business model didn’t help it in the long run, but manufactures were eventually going to realize that it made no sense to pay $7.25 per hour to a US factory worker to sew a pair of jeans when someone in Taiwan or Bangladesh could do it for .50 cents per hour. And to be frank, if our generation were in charge, we would have made the same exploitative choices. In fact, we’re worse, because we know more about the system than Wal-Mart’s first shoppers did, we’ve seen images and videos of the sweatshops, and we still, on the whole, choose to exploit. In summary, we don’t want you to misread what we’re saying. We’re not generation bashing. In fact, we think thinking in terms of generation is ridiculous, arbitrary and far too fluid. All we’re suggesting is that (a) Martin’s picture is too rosy, (b) ideologically tinged and (c) at times, a bit presumptuous.
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keeping a promise Dear Readers, I would like to thank you for your continued patronage of The Anchor. Week after week, our staff works diligently to produce a sizable, quality student newspaper for thousands of Rhode Island College students and the college community as a whole. During spring break, The Anchor attended the College Media Association’s Spring National Media Convention (NYC13) in New York City. Our purpose for attending the convention was make sure we are delivering on our product for our readers. We were fortunate enough to bring 12 of our members to the convention, all of whom participated in educational panels and workshops. As editor-in-chief of The Anchor, I feel it necessary to reassure our readers of our commitment to the student body. While all 12 of our convention attending members learned much from our time at NYC13, we are currently taking steps to better serve our readers and campus. What I am about to share with you is not my way of puffing out my metaphorical chest, rather it is to share in ernest our experience and path going forward. I had the pleasure of receiving critiques from two different professionals regarding our newspaper. Each critic had insightful feedback for us and we will work toward making the necessary changes to produce a better product. Overall, both critics really enjoyed The Anchor and were extremely satisfied with its visual quality and design, as well as our staff’s ability to turn out such a high level of content for a weekly student newspaper. In fact, Gary Metzker, critic and advisor for the Daily 49er (California State University Long Beach), said The Anchor was easily the best student newspaper he had seen at the convention.
In order to quell a swelling ego, I submitted a copy of The Anchor to Michael Koretzky, a.k.a. “JournoTerrorist,” who is renowned for ripping apart student newspapers across the country. I was taken aback by his reply, in which he said The Anchor was already good and if he couldn’t say something bad, he’d say nothing at all. I also took the opportunity to peruse approximately four dozen other student newspapers from around the country. While examining them closely, I was able to get a better understanding of what works, what doesn’t and how to apply this knowledge to The Anchor There was constructive criticism that came from the convention. We realized and acknowledged our mistakes, such as improperly marking pages, adding unnecessary rules (black lines below pictures) and placing advertisements in poor locations–among others. In the coming weeks, you can expect minor visual changes to The Anchor. I am extremely excited to share with you our experience at NYC13, but more importantly, I am eager to begin instituting larger changes to our student newspaper. I hope you enjoy the minor changes we have made for this issue. During the last half of the semester, our team of designers and I will work closely together to change the overall quality of The Anchor in order to better serve you, our reader. You are why we do what we do; if we can better serve you, please let us know.
Sincerely, Jim Brady Editor-in-Chief
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What is the best panel you’ve been to and what did you learn?
Name: James Greene School: Hartford Community College Organization: Owl Magazine
Name: Rachel Woolf School: Ithaca College Organization: The Ithacan
Name: Elodie Graham School: Rice University Organization: Campanile Yearbook
The best I heard was Tamsan Fadal from WPIX-TV. She taught me that even though I’m already a bold and vibrant person I could always brand myself and put my name out there.
“Shoot Local.” The photographer Aristide Econompoulos really inspired me by talking about how passionate he was about his own work. I felt his years of experience helped back up his advice to just be yourself as a photographer.
It was a session about online presence for organizations. It focused on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, which are things our yearbook doesn’t use very well.
Name: Andrew Millbrooke School: Clackamas Community College Organization: The Clackamas Print
Name: Nick Griesbach School: Hillsborough Community College Organization: Hawk Media Club
Name: Dante Zaknipov School: Rice University Organization: Rice Threasher
Jeff Pearlman was a Sports Illustrated writer. He now writes books and is working on his 6th book. “Journalism is the best fucking job in the world.” –Jeff Pearlman
Sports Illustrated Cover Story with Lee Jenkins. I learned better ways of covering feature stories and how to go about getting interviews.
Multimedia Storytelling at Mediastorm with Brian Storm. What it means to be a journalist and distribute a product that is about the story. Also NYC Photoshoot 13!
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The varieties of handshakes J.C. Lamantia, managing Editor
Campus Calendar FUNCH mar. 19 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Student Union Café Root beer floats & Luck of the Irish
Bringing Books to Life Presents: Bringin HeLa to Life
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Gentlemen of RIC, welcome back; it’s been a few weeks since the Gentleman about Town has had the opportunity to chat you up. Today, he wanted to discuss the issue of handshaking, that classically manly way of greeting (ladies, this applies equally to you). You’re thinking, gosh that seems trite. Don’t fret, he understands, he hadn’t really thought about it in a while either. But, he promises you when you are in a situation which calls for it, you’ll want to have thought about it. Recently, the Gentleman about Town attended an event at the law school he will attend next year. So many hands; you wouldn’t believe the number of hands needing shaking. Have you ever repeated a word so many times in your head that you suddenly found the sound a bit odd? You may have started wondering, why does this word sound this way? That’s how the Gentleman felt in the midst of all these hands. Why do we do this? We’re civilized, right? Why is it that we need to touch on first meeting? We have language; one would think that it would be special enough. What’s more, have you ever thought of the potential for contracting illness from all that hand-to-hand action? But, the Gentleman about Town realizes that he does not get to set the norms. So, that causes
him to now ask: what is the ideal shake? To help think this through, he categorized several varieties of shake. He encourages you to submit your own favorites. Here they are. Flimsy Fred: Fred, what was that? Treat me as though you thought I was your equal. Don’t coddle me as though you thought I was five years old. Raging Ralph: Gosh darn it, Ralph, I think you may have broken my hand. Thanks for not making the degrading assumption of Flimsy Fred, but next time, please be considerate of your ability to injure me. Clamy Claude: Claude, really! Be considerate, if you can’t keep your hands dry, use a towel. It will be alright! Glad Handing Ginny: Ginny, I know you’ve given that handshake to everyone in your district. Why don’t you pretend to mean it? Long Shake Larry: Okay, Larry, I get the point. You can let go of my hand now. Stationary Stephen: Wow, this shake is not impressive, Stephen. You may want to actually put some shake in your shake. If I didn’t want shake in my shake, I would shake that statue’s hand. Speedy Sal: Well that was rude. I take the time to shake your hand and you pull back in 2 seconds. That was a total waste of my time. Kung fu Grip Kevin: Pleased to meet y-WOW, okay. Thanks... did my knuckle placement just
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change? Germiphobe Gerry: Fist-pumps do not quite cut it. Ideal Ian: Wow, that was quite the shake—just the correct amount of firmness with minimal moisture. You should give lessons. Additional reporting from Joe Martin, Anchor Staff
Join Bringing Books To Life in discussing the open Books, Open Minds discssion book for the year: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”
Leadership Weekend 2013 mar. 22-24
(online applications due friday mar.1) Sponserd By RIC Student Activities and planned by Emerging Leaders program YMCA Camp, Woodstock in Woodstock Valley, CT The program id FREE to RIC students (a $200 value!)
New England Aquarium mar. 24 10:00 a.m - 6:00 p.m
New England Aquarium at Central Wharf, Boston A fun day at the New England Aquarium in Boston for RIC students! Pay only $15, non-RIC friends for $20 and kids (5-17) for just $10! Ticket price also includes an IMAX show at the aquarium.
daniELLE Lafond anChor Editor Last year I ran a half marathon. In January, I decided to attempt to go the distance again and registered for another which will take place in May. Last year’s race was in May as well and I was ready and willing; out every other day for anywhere from 5 to 12 miles of running in good, solid, running-friendly weather. This year is nothing like last year. Last year I purchased brand new running clothes to reward every mile I clocked. This year I find myself dragging myself out of the house dressed in all of them at once because March has been so cold and windy! I’m trying to convince myself that it won’t last forever and the best way to internalize that and keep my spirits (and mileage) up is to gear up again for the warmth at the
end of the wind tunnel. Is there anything better for motivation than shoes? So many companies are launching bright colored footwear to pretty up your workouts. A word of caution, however: getting the right shoe for the job is priority one. Priority two is finding one that’s easy on the eyes. You won’t get far in a hot pink shoe that doesn’t give you what you need, especially if what you need is to put 20 – 30 miles on those shoes every week. Yoga pants were made for yoga but can be worn for any workout. Try a pair with a folding waistband in a contrasting color to spice up your warrior pose or pilates session. For hot yoga or sweatier cardio workouts, go for a tight short or Capri pants in a synthetic fabric to wick moisture away from your body and keep you cool. These often
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have panels and insets in colors that pop to highlight how much good you’re doing for your legs. You can get a camisole from any place that sells active wear, but do you really want another boring tank-top? Here is my secret to awesome workout wear: try shopping from a dancewear supplier instead. The tops often have built-in bras like many sport-specific tops but are more unique and come in a far greater range of colors and styles. For the next week or two you may still be layering on everything you own (running tights under shorts, long sleeved-tee under windbreaker, earmuffs, gloves) before hitting the pavement. Hopefully, seeing those shiny bright shorts and tops waiting patiently in your closet will keep you going through the wind and rain and across whatever finish line you’re aiming for.
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Upcoming Campus Arts Calendar
Schumania! The Lydian String Quartet and Judith Lynn Stillman marCh 27, 1 P.m. & 7:30 P.m. Sapinsley Hall Free, Suggested Donation $10
Lida Winfield In Search of Air RIC Dance Company marCh 28 & 29, 7:30 P.m. Forman Theatre $5 RIC, $15 General
Music: Muir String Quartet aPriL 8, 7:30 P.m. Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center $5 RIC, $35 General Admission
Technological guts and remote control candle shrines richard goulis’ Bannister gallery exhibition ViCtoria ParkEr anChor staff Picture this: a giant, red wax candle, standing taller than you, commanding your attention. Its base is white and numerous flames flicker from the wick. Now, replace those flames with wax models of remote controls, and the base with a color wheel of miniature wax TVs facing inward as if paying homage to the candle. You have just mentally pictured one of the pieces in the Bannister Gallery exhibition “Richard Goulis: You Were Just Mine.” If you haven’t already heard of him, Richard Goulis is a multidisciplinary artist involved in the local art scene. Goulis is a graduate of RISD and is perhaps best known for his controversial and “grandiose” performance art featuring stunts such as the encasement of “his hands and head in a block of plaster.” Remnants from these performances make an appearance in the Bannister Gallery exhibit. One example is the “Mummified America,” a dummy corpse ironically wrapped in and punctured with American flags, placed in a casket called the “Red Box.” However, these performance props are not the main focus of the exhibit. I had the opportunity to question Goulis about these political pieces at the Gallery reception Thursday night, to which he replied, “At the time it was my duty. I feel now that I can be less political, involved more in what’s in front of me. I’m involved in the community rather than [trying to] change the world…But [the political stuff ] informed a lot of what I do now, which is why I included it.” Instead of politics, Goulis has focused his
attention on technology, and particularly, on the television set. The majority of the exhibit is devoted to this iconic symbol of modern day culture; old universal remote controls carefully arranged together, provoking the viewer to pay more careful attention to this everyday object and what it represents… What does it represent? Apparently, a “false sense of control,” leading a person to believe they have control over the television when, in fact, the television has control over us. It may sound like a Sci-Fi movie conspiracy, but looking at Goulis’ pieces, you can’t help but feel it’s kind of the truth. Hence, the enormous candle sculpture I described earlier, a piece called “Enlighten” as in “EnLIGHT-enment.” Just as the television is our modern source of information gathering and entertainment, it is also an all-consuming and wasteful presence; so too is this candle-shrine which “must burn and destroy itself to aid us in seeing this way.” The candle might be a “shrine” to technology, but the television also takes center stage as “World’s Greatest Mother.” “World’s Greatest Mother” is an old-fashioned television set covered with “World’s Greatest Mother” pressed flower placards, in front of which sits a single old chair, covered with children’s books and surrounded by large spools of thread. A giant spool of thread stands at the opposite end of the room, which suddenly functions as a machine with a great buzzing sound that pulls two long threads out from the top of the television, across a ceiling crisscrossed with thread, back to the turning spool. Meanwhile, colored lights flicker hypnotically on the TV screen. In effect, the ironically-titled “World’s Greatest Mother” is an almost nos-
talgic vision of the television from a child’s perspective, while also warning against the danger of a child watching too much TV. Along with the idea of technology is an undercurrent theme of time: dispersed between the various remote controls and TV sets are pieces essentially “frozen in time.” “GUT,” a mutilated scrap of technological something that appears to have been dredged up from the sea, hangs from the ceiling next to “World’s Greatest Mother.” When asked where he finds all of these miscellaneous objects he makes the centerpiece of his works, Goulis replied with a simple, “everywhere.” “You have stuff in your car,” he went on, “that you could use as artwork.” Heck, you can even ask a guy for a piece of a Sleepy’s Mattress sign and turn it into art. Or at least, Richard Goulis can. Discarded letters from Sleepy’s Mattress is transformed into the emphatic “YES,” a bright red neon sign that glows from the back wall of the exhibit. Once again, Goulis proves that he can “collect discarded materials and reassemble them into art.” If you want to check out Goulis’ exhibit in the Bannister Gallery—and I recommend you do—the exhibit will run until March 29. In fact, the closing date of the exhibit will feature a one-time performance that will “animate the exhibition and make it more tangible for the viewer,” according to Bannister Gallery Director James Montford. So if you missed the reception, March 29 will be another great chance to go. Gallery hours are from Tuesday through Friday, from noon until 8 p.m.
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Local Events Wends march 20 8 p.m
$10 The Met Remember The Receiving End of Sirens? Well this is what’s left of that band.
Poetry Slam w/ Sam Sax & Cameron Awkward Rich march 21 8 p.m.
$5 AS220 Get a glimpse into Providence’s nationally renowned poetry scene.
H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Gods’: Atheism and the Cthulhu Mythos march 21
6:30 p.m.
Free John Brown House Niels S. Hobbs hosts a lecture about Providence’s creepiest author
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Singing for spring Django revisited Adam Tawfik Anchor Staff
Victoria Parker Anchor Staff “Life and Death,” RIC’s Spring Choral Concert, commenced Friday, March 8. Instead of going dim, the lights remained on for the first performance as singers filed down the outer aisles, surrounding the perimeter of Sapinsley Hall’s audience. The voices of the RIC Concert Chorus reverberated around the Hall. The effect: unique echoes filling the Hall that emphasized the monastic tone of “Karitas habundat,” a song composed by, amazingly, an 11th century woman named Hildegard von Bingen. I note that the first song of the concert was a composition of Hildegard’s for a reason: Dr. Honey Meconi, guest artist who collaborated in creating the concert’s program, is an expert on Renaissance music and a specialist on Hildegard. The influence of the Renaissance characterized much of the concert, especially in its deeply spiritual overtones. Christian or not, the emotions that coursed throughout the program, be them “hope or despair, anger or acceptance,” were emotions easily recognizable to the listener. As conductor Teresa Coffman stated after the performance, “Dr. Honey Meconi helped us understand that Medieval people were just like us.” The goosebumps on my arms remained from the beginning of the concert until its conclusion. Although I couldn’t understand most of what was sung in “O magnum mysterium” or “Angelus ad pastores ait”—despite the fact that the lyrics were translated to English in the pamphlet, I couldn’t exactly read along with them in the dark—the songs still delivered an emotional connection. No doubt, the beautiful intonation and clear articulation of all three groups, the RIC Chorus, the Chamber Singers and the Women’s Chorus, contributed to the effectiveness of these songs. Some highlights of the concert occurred after intermission, although the song “Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun” performed before intermission was also spectacular. Not only could I follow along with the lyrics more closely, since they were in English, but it was also Shakespeare’s famous funeral song in the play “Cymbelline” sung on stage. Maybe it’s just an English major thing, but I thought this dramatic, beautiful interpretation of Shakespeare by composer David Ashley White was extremely impressive (and of course, wonderfully done by the RIC Women’s Chorus). As I previously mentioned, the works sung after intermission were truly the highlight of the Concert. For one, there was the deli-
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RIC hosted its annual Spring Choral Concert the Friday before Spring Break. cate a capella Italian song “Il bianco e dolce cigno” (meaning “The white and sweet swan”). Another great song was “Death is gonna lay his cold icy hands on me,” a spiritual, blues-y song that featured mezzo soprano Michelle Hill as soloist. Lastly, there was the amazing song “Spared,” another example of literature turned choral music. The subject matter of this poem by Wendy Cote was that of 9/11 and how victims were tragically forced to say goodbye and send “helpless love across the sky.” Sung softly and with total control, the poem’s message was given full attention. Really, I was on the verge of shedding tears. The songs after intermission certainly had a more modern feel to them. However, they were nonetheless the culmination of the previous songs, serving as the climactic works in the concert’s musical theme concerning life, love and death. Monastery or blues, Shakespeare or Hildegard, the Spring Choral Concert transported the audience back in time, musically, while emphasizing the universality of the subject matter. Don’t we all struggle to handle the death of a loved one or have to come to terms with accepting our own, one day? Don’t the human feelings of despair, gratitude and anger transcend time? These provoking questions derived themselves from the source: beautiful music, sung purely, crisply, with perfect tone and tempo; the kind of music that depends on a great performance to demonstrate its worth, something that the RIC Choral groups more than accomplished.
The controversy around Tarantino’s Oscar-winning “Django Unchained” continues. In the first of a two-part lecture on the film in contention, Dr. Christina Sharpe found it problematic how many of the spectators who saw “Django” commented more on its aesthetic than the issue of slavery. Include me in that list of guilty perpetrators. In my review of “Django” for the Feb 4 edition of The Anchor, I argued that its chief merit was for its mixing and satirizing the conventions of a Western; never did I think that the film was striving to be a treatise on slavery. Again, I reiterate, “Django” is a film, not a piece of scholarship. Sharpe maintains that “Django,” in regards to its devaluating and depiction of sexualized violence towards black bodies (white bodies did not exactly get treated with kid gloves), parallels to a larger fundamental socio-political structure that exploits and devalues blacks. She relates the events in this film to the murder of Chris Dorner and Obama’s speeches in Newtown and Chicago (hence the title of her lecture “three scenes”). Call me dense, but I felt as though her links between these three subjects is quite tenuous. About Dorner, a former black soldier who was a fugitive from justice after killing three people, and who in turn was staked out by the LAPD and burned in his tent, Sharpe remarked that his demise was a grand scale “lynching.” Ok, so there’s a form of lynching in both cases, but I don’t see how the lynching in the film is associated with that of Dorner. Similarly, the only connection between Obama’s speeches and “Django” was her argument that (white) liberals want our president to take a tough stance, to essentially be a badass Django for liberal causes. But then she goes on to discuss the difference in tone in Obama’s two speeches. Addressing the aftermath of the Newtown shootings, Obama pleas for the (uppity white) community to come together to completely eradicate violence. Meanwhile in Chicago, addressing the alarming number of black murders, Obama
took a less optimistic stance, emphasizing discipline, the need for a father figure, but most importantly that not every child in this (poor black) area can be saved, although they should still try to save the lives of a few. This is damning stuff, but again, I don’t see how it relates to “Django.” I think Sharpe was overambitious in presenting these “three scenes” in the short span of forty minutes; all three of these topics should be their own lectures. As an idiot savant film buff, the “first scene” where Sharpe specifically focuses on “Django” resonated with me most. Sharpe has some sharp insights. For example, in the scene when Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz), Django’s white savior/ friend/business partner sacrifices his life in an epic shootout scene with Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), Sharpe argues this white character’s, whose actions actually almost get Django killed, blindness to the larger racial structural system. After the lecture, when I went to chat with Sharpe one-to-one, she provided me with some food for thought on one of my favorite scenes in the movie, the moronic Klansmen segment. While I conceived it as a parody of “Birth of a Nation,” she argued that it aesthetically spoofed a scene in the landmark 1977 miniseries “Roots.” I watched the scene and she’s right. But for me, that strengthens Tarantino as a film stylist. Yet for the most part, a majority of her criticism for “Django” was based off of interviews conducted with Tarantino. Granted, he says ridiculous shit like scrutinizing “Roots” for its authenticity of slavery or describing the film as “a rite of passage for black men.” These kinds of comments do a disservice to the film, making it seem like this high-minded moralistic, pedantic bore that gets produced by the likes of Spielberg. It isn’t! “Django’s” strength is that it revels in its anarchistic, a historical ironic hodgepodge, that it refuses to beat us over the head with a message. Sharpe’s main goal was to “make us all hate Django Unchained.” Sorry. If anything, her thoughtful insights made me appreciate this 95% stellar film even more.
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‘d’ is for ‘disappointing’ JamEs LUCEY a&E Editor I love horror anthologies. Stuff like “Creepshow” and “Tales from the Crypt.” So when I heard about the experimental anthology “The ABCs of Death,” I perked right up and gave the movie a try with high expectations. The result? It was uneven. Some films soared with revolting, horrendous atrocity. Some were downright hilarious. And that’s cool, I appreciate an attempt at breaking the tension. Most of the films in “The ABCs of Death,” however, were flat and forgettable. I’m only going to discuss the good ones, and I’m about to spoil this movie for you. In producing “The ABCs of Death,” twenty-six directors from around the world were given a letter of the alphabet. That letter served as the premise for a short film about death. For example, the opener, “A is for Apocalypse” by Nacho Vigalondo. This was, admittedly, an awesome lead-in. A woman
attempts to murder her husband in their bed. She botches it. Swinging a butcher knife like a second-grader at t-ball practice, she cleaves her husband’s hand in two. She throws boiling oil on him, beats him with a frying pan and stabs him in the throat, apologizing as he dies. She had been poisoning him for months, but he never died from it. As she weeps, an ominous red light fills the window. She had been trying to save him from dying in the apocalypse, and today, she ran out of time. Good start. The first few films work quite well. They’re scary, and people die in horrific, sometimes mind-bending ways. By letter ‘E’, the quality begins to suffer. I have no idea what happened in “G is for Gravity.” Entirely POV (point of view), some dude gets on a surfboard, falls off and the film ends. It’s less than thirty seconds. I felt ripped off. “L is for Libido” by Timo Tjahjanto is without a doubt one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in video format. It’s an “Eyes Wide Shut” style secret society. A shirtless,
sweaty man awakens strapped to a chair. There’s a naked woman on stage in front of him. There’s a guy next to him, masturbating furiously. It’s a contest. The loser gets a metal spike up the ass. Our hero makes it thirteen rounds, as each sex act on stage becoming increasingly depraved. I’ll spare you, but our hero ultimately ends up on stage himself, carved up deli-style with a chainsaw. “Y is for Youngbuck” by Jason Eisner flatout ruled. Pedophile janitor mops up the gym sweat of little boys with his face. Little boy stabs the creep in the eyes and throws his head through a basketball hoop. Rad. Xavier Gens created the most cringe-worthy film, “X is for XXL.” A heavy-set young woman is accosted for her weight wherever she goes. To make matters worse, she’s in France. So, naturally, she gorges herself on all the food in her house and then systematically carves all the fat from her body. They show it. Like a pretty butterfly, she emerges from her chubby chrysalis as a walking corpse, saturated in blood. But damn it, she looks good. She strikes a pose, and promptly dies. There was a fair representation of animation and special effects; even a claymation about a homicidal toilet. Definitely appreciated. “M is for Miscarriage” and “H is for
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Hydro-Electric Diffusion,” on the other hand, were two of the stupidest things I have ever had the embarrassment of seeing. The Japanese films were blisteringly weird, to my delight. “F is for Fart” by Noboru Iguchi was a romantic romp through the world of flatulent schoolgirls and the women they love. In “Z is for Zetsumetsu,” Yoshihiro Nishimura offers insight to Japanese-American relations in the form of dueling Nazi sworddicks. This thing closes the movie. I’m not sure who let this happen, or why. So, my issue with “The ABCs of Death” was its pace and structure. The quality, length, and tone of all twenty-six films varied significantly. I would have preferred reordering the films to create some sort of an arc, instead of rolling straight from A to Z, because some of these films sucked. The disclaimer at the beginning of the movie states that directors were given complete artistic freedom. I dig that, but when you get a warning for extreme graphic nudity and violence, somehow you expect more than three minutes of it on screen. “The ABCs of Death” was a tidy film festival, compressed to about two hours. It was uneven. The horror anthology I expected, it wasn’t.
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Continuously Coheed & Cambria tY dUgan anChor Editor There are plenty of bands with the ability to pack the House of Blues in Boston from wall-to-wall. Coheed & Cambria has a cult fanbase similar to a comic book following. Looking at the hordes of people giving themselves whip-lash from head banging to Claudio Sanchez’s magical, melodic, metalriffs, it is very evident the band exists within their own sub-genre. Pools of people who would normally seem out of place for a metal show standing together, picking one another up from the mosh-pit or cheering when a brawling drunkard gets ejected is really what music is all about. The concert was one of the craziest shows I have ever had the pleasure of going to. I say “crazy” because I had no idea what was going on. The trick to Coheed & Cambria is that all their albums are all telling a continuous story (from what I’m told, the band name references the titular characters). The premise is some sort of fantastical/sci-fi based love story,
complete with all the metal motifs of tragedy, loss, vengeance and suffering. The albums are not in any specific order chronologically (you have to assemble the order yourself, which must be as fun as it is daunting) and there is a comic book series by Claudio and his wife that is a companion piece to the soundtrack of their story. Coming in as an outsider was not so hard. Mostly everyone seemed welcoming and helpful. There was no shaming or judgment from the crowd, no sense of elitism. Certain songs seem to provoke more of a reaction from the audience than others, such as “Key Entity Extraction III: Vic the Butcher,” simply because of the relevance to the part of the story, be it very action packed scene or possibly a major plot twist, I couldn’t really tell. Not to underplay the merit of the band on stage, they performed the hell out of that song and Claudio’s voice never let up once. If you have not had a chance to hear Claudio’s singing, you are really missing out. There is not a voice like his in all of metal; it’s near incomparable. The position I was in was prime: right on the floor. House of Blues does a good job with
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Coheed & Cambria perform “The Afterman” from their latest album The Afterman: Descension & Ascension. their security staff and sometimes there are just fans who want to rock a bit too hard. At least four guys got ejected during the show (rather forcefully), but Coheed proceeded unphased. In the land of metal and nerds, I suppose this is a frequent occurrence. Most metal shows have intense images on a screen behind the band. I have seen it with Rob Zombie, Ozzie Osborne, heck, even Dave Matthews Band are guilty of it. Coheed used the eerie robotic voice from the album which must act as some sort of narrative for those who follow the story, because it indicated to the fans opportune times to start getting pumped up. The stage was decorated with partially complete female-bodied mannequins in what looked to be glass boxes. I asked a fan if there was relevance to this in terms of the story. He drunkenly responded “it all clicks if you listen, man.” For those who read the comic series “Armory Wars” and listen to the albums, this
show easily delivers. Everything I had been told about Coheed’s performances rang true. They are a tight, practiced sound. Claudio bounces about on the stage like a spring hare for the audience, and best of all they seem to deliver on what the fans want to hear. Nothing is more upsetting than going to a band and only hearing the new stuff you don’t quite know yet or songs that aren’t even on albums. Josh Eppard, the drums of the group, was noticeably great, adding that element I always look for in a percussionist; turning the set into an instrument, not just a time-keeper. Zach Cooper and Travis Stever seem take-it or leave-it, but the fanbase appears to adore them, or so the fired panties from the mosh pit would have me believe. Coheed & Cambria at the House of Blues on Friday was a great show and if you get the chance to catch these guys, definitely do it. Do yourself a favor though, Wikipedia that shit. Knowing the story adds a whole new element to the performance.
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What to make of Patriots’ offseason EddiE PannonE sPorts Editor The offseason in New England hasn’t really gone the way many expected. Listening to things on the surface, it doesn’t sound good. The team will be without Wes Welker, Brandon Lloyd and Danny Woodhead next year, three key players from a season ago. Many were hoping they would be back, especially Welker who has been a fan favorite over his time with the Patriots. While it’s disappointing that the two sides could not agree, it really shouldn’t shock anyone that the Patriots didn’t want to pay Welker. Many superstars, like Richard Seymour, Ty Law, Asante Samuel and Adam Vinatieri, have all been let go by the Pats because of salary reasons. The team does not want to pay for past performances, and wants the most value for their dollar.
Fantasy baseball preview EddiE PannonE sPorts Editor Baseball season is right around the corner, so its time to start thinking about who you are going to draft for your fantasy baseball team! Throughout the years I have had many teams and seen many drafts, so I know what it takes for a team to be successful on draft day. My first piece of advice is to do multiple mock drafts before the big day. The way I see players isn’t the way you might see them, so getting experience with the draft board ahead of time to know where players are ranked is important. Let’s start with overall drafting tips for this year’s draft. First off, I’m not taking a pitcher early on. Yes, guys like Justin Verlander and Clayton Kershaw will have great years as they always do, but there are pitchers with good value later on in the draft. There are so many options at pitcher that it would be beneficial to use at least your first three picks on hitters. Within my first four picks, I would make sure I have at least one outfielder on my roster. Unless you stack your outfield early,
Agree with that mindset or not, that is what happened to Welker. The Patriots made a business decision to move on, feeling that paying him what he wanted would hurt the team. His replacement will be Danny Amendola, formerly of the Rams. He has similar skills to Welker, as he is a smaller receiver who boasts good speed and can run after the catch. He will fit right in to the slot receiver role, but his problem has been injuries. Over the past two seasons, he has missed about half of his team’s games. This is concerning, as aside from an ACL injury late in 2009, Welker rarely missed games. Still, Amendola is 5 years younger than Welker, so hopefully this is another case of Bill Belichick finding an unheralded star. As for Woodhead and Lloyd, they too have replacements. The team signed Leon Washington, who is similar to Woodhead in that
which I don’t recommend, you will be deep into the draft with not much outfield depth available. Inevitably, there will be one outfielder in the lineup you aren’t crazy about, but keep those players to a minimum. Don’t overpay for speed. I never want to draft a hitter early on that makes their living on steals and not power. Power hitters that hit for average as well are so valuable, while guys with speed are easier to get and are lower in the draft order. Coco Crisp, Ben Revere and Ichiro Suzuki are all capable of 25 or more steals and all can be drafted past the 14th round. Another position that should not be overpaid for is closer. Don’t pass on someone who can impact your lineup everyday for an elite reliever. The only real value they get you is saves, and mediocre closers will still have many save chances. I’m not saying not to draft a Craig Kimbrel type player, just don’t do it too early. Now for players I like. You can’t go wrong with any of the top ten players, but my top three would be Ryan Braun, Miguel Cabrera,and Mike Trout. Braun is the easy number one pick because he supplies every category and has done so consistently. Outside of them, there are others who could be under the radar stars this year, starting with Victor Martinez. Still with catching eligibility, Martinez is coming off a torn ACL and missed all of last year, dropping his ranking to the 80s. He will have many RBI chances with Cabrera and Prince Fielder in front of him and is always above .300. Don’t be afraid to pick him. Another player I think is poised for a big year is Freddie Freeman. Every year since his rookie season he has improved, and the Braves lineup will be stacked with players
he is primarily a third down back that can make plays out of the back field. He also is an elite special teams returner, another position Woodhead and Welker held. Speedy Donald Jones was also signed at WR, and he offers a versatile option at the position. He too can lineup in the slot, but can also stretch the field and has big play potential. Another WR option for New England is Emmanuel Sanders, as the restricted free agent has reportedly had talks about joining the team next season. Julian Edelman and Sebastian Vollmer both remain important offensive free agents, but whenever Tom Brady is your quarterback, offense likely isn’t going to be the reason why you don’t succeed. What has hampered the Patriots recently has been their defense, and they are aggressively addressing this need. The team resigned Aqib Talib, who completely changed their pass
defense when he was brought over last year. He was one of the best corners on the market, and is capable of taking elite receivers out of the game. Adrian Wilson was brought in at safety, a position the team needed to improve. The physical Wilson is a four time All-Pro pick and is one of six players in history with at least 25 sacks and 25 interceptions. On the defensive line, the team has reportedly talked to Dwight Freeney, John Abraham, and Elvis Dumervil. All three would be great additions, and all three have had great success sacking the quarterback. It appears likely that at least one will sign with the Pats, and these defensive additions surely make the defense the best New England has seen in years. Everyone wants to overact because the Patriots didn’t sign their biggest free agent in Welker. The bottom line is that the Patriots have had a history of letting big names go while bringing in lesser known players. They have had great success with that in the past, and that is what they are doing this year as well.
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who can get on base. A .290, 30 homerun, 100 RBI season is within reach for this young, budding star. As for pitchers, I would take a chance on Jon Lester, CJ Wilson, and Tommy Hanson. All three had very disappointing years last season, but have all had success in the past. They have great offenses behind them, so even their sub par outings could result in
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wins. Each of them can pile up the strikeouts and I expect bounce back years for all three. Other pitchers I like are James Shields, Jordan Zimmerman and Jeremy Hellickson, as each play for good offenses and can strike hitters out. The regular season starts up on March 31, so now is a great time to do your draft. Use these tips wisely and happy drafting!
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Anchormen season underway at Central Florida Invitational EddiE PannonE sPorts Editor
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sCott CanCELLiri anChor intErn The Rhode Island College women’s lacrosse team opened the 2013 season with an 18-7 loss to Bridgewater State on Saturday afternoon. Attacker Danielle Landon had three goals and one assist for four points. Attacker Ashley Signoriello posted a teamhigh of four points with two goals and two assists, while sophomore attacker Jessica Ricci also tallied twice.
Goalie Taryn Carbone made 14 saves, 11 in the second half. Defenseman Sam Nolte and midfielder Ashley Alardi each had three ground balls. Signoriello had five draw controls, while Landon grabbed three. Signoriello got the Anchorwomen off to a good start scoring a goal, assisted by midfielder Jessalyn O’Neill, at 3:40 of the first half, but Bridgewater State struck back with eight straight, which lead to a 13-4 halftime lead. Ricci scored a goal at 17:22, only to see the Bears bite back with three
The 2013 Anchormen Baseball season got underway over spring break, as the team participated in the Central Florida Invitational. They were one of 200 colleges to be invited to the event, with games taking place at various fields throughout the county. The event, which started on March 8, saw the team play ten games in seven days with only one off day mixed in. It also saw them play four double-headers. Overall, their record in the Invitational was 1-9. Their one victory came on March 10 against Daniel Webster, a 12-2 pounding of the Eagles. RIC got off to an early start with 4 second inning runs. After a Justin Rainville single, Matt Foley smoked a triple to give RIC its first run of the game and would score on an RBI groundout from Kyle Mann. Mario Albunia, Zach Hubbard,and Kevin Carey would all reach to load the bases with two outs, and Dean Grasso would smack a 2-run double to make things 4-0 Anchormen after two. With the score at 5-1 entering the fifth inning, Hubbard would extend the lead to 6-1 with an RBI single that scored Cody Ortega. Another run would score on an error by the Eagles’ third baseman, making the score 7-1 after five innings of play.
straight goals. Landon tried to get RIC back in the game with the second half ’s first two goals at 3:18 and 9:20, but five more goals from Bridgeport ruined the Anchorwomen’s comeback. Bridgewater had the advantage in ground balls, 31-15, and forced the Anchorwomen into making 32 turnovers. The two squads combined for 75 fouls, Rhode Island College got 44 while BSU got 31. The next game Rhode Island College will play will be against Mercy College at home on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
In the final innings with the game already in hand, the offense continued to blow out Daniel Webster pitching. RBI hits from Hubbard, Rainville and Albunia, extended the Anchormen lead, and they would win by the final of 12-2. Hubbard led the offensive attack, going 4-5 with 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored. Rainville finished the day 3-4, while Albunia and Foley each had two hits. Grasso had 2 RBIs and a walk. Mike Farias was brilliant on the mound, pitching 6 innings allowing just 2 runs. He allowed only 4 hits while striking 5 hitters. Cory Madore closed out the game with a hitless seventh inning. Hubbard led the team through eight games with a .346 batting average. He also led in runs, hits, on base percentage and walks. Grasso leads in RBIs with 8, and Foley has the team’s only homerun. Pitching wise, players have not had many appearances so far, but Farias and Dylan Cummiskey lead the team with and ERA of 3.00. David Hoey leads in innings pitched with 9.2, and also has a team leading 11 strikeouts. Pitching has not been great for them in the Central Florida Invitational, as their team ERA was above 8.00. The team heads back to RI this week, and their first home game comes on Thursday against Salem State. Game time is 3:30 p.m..
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