Volume 92/Issue 8
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Rhode Island College
Established 1928
November 5th, 2018
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Chatting and Chewing Hearts break with President Sanchez across the world for Pittsburgh
Aaron Isaac Staff Writer
In an attempt to gather feedback from Rhode Island College students RIC’s President Frank Sanchez recently sat down with students for two hours. Students were free to come and go from Donovan Dining Center to ask Sanchez questions or express concerns about RIC. One of the first things President Sanchez was worried about was keeping the price of RIC low saying “What I think about a lot is how do we provide the type of quality experience, programs and facilities that our students expect today, but
Photo courtesy of Tim Caplan at the same time keeping the price point in a place where the public can say, you know what that’s reasonable, some of these schools are just not reasonable.”
Related to prices, President Sanchez reminded everyone about the bonds up for voting in the upcoming Continued in News, page 4
Photo courtesy of The New Yorker Graphic by Wiley Sadowski Samantha Scetta Editor-in-Chief Everyone knows cigarettes are no good, right? Cigarettes have been classified as a group one carcinogen, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), as there is convincing evidence of cancer causing agents in cigarettes. Just a few known carcinogens contained in cigarettes are acetaldehyde, vinyl chloride and formaldehyde. These chemical compounds are absent from the slew of new age smoking devices such as electronic cigarettes and electronic vaporizers. From a marketing perspec-
and the power of The Juul tive, it’s understandable why these products have been so popular with such a young audience-- vaporizers are not directly linked to cancer. Nicotine is one of the chemicals both tobacco and electronic smoking devices have in common, and just might be the reason that so many young people are partaking in the habit of socially smoking once again… Minus the formaldehyde and vinyl chloride, of course The notorious chemical com-
monly known as nicotine is found in the device labeled as a “Juul” which can be easily overlooked as being a flashdrive and is certainly spotted at bus stops and in the hallways of many high schools nationwide. According to the Juul’s website, the pod inserted into the Juul contains approximately 200 puffs, which is equivalent to a
Continued in Health & Science, page 6
Tim Caplan News Editor At Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, PA on Saturday, October 27, a radical anti-Semite opened fire on innocent people celebrating an eight day old Brit Milah’s naming ceremony, killing 11 and harming several. Shortly after the news broke, I went to Twitter and saw a bunch of quasi-political internet personalities blaming the president’s rhetoric for this shooting. To politicize a tragedy means to make a hind-sighted comment placing blame on those not directly responsible or using the deaths of others to justify a political policy and ostracizing those who disagree. In each case for personal gain
or social capital. If you think this mass murder is the fault of anyone but the shooter, you are wrong. I think that if you blame Trump or gun laws for this you’re completely missing a huge problem not so easily solved by simple political answers, while politicizing a tragedy. If you place blame on the government of Israel or the moving of the United States embassy to Jerusalem like GQ writer Julia Ioffe, you are not only politicizing a tragedy, but actively participating in the kind of anti-Semitism that encourages killers like this to feel Continued in Opinions, page 12
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