The Anchor - October 22 2018

Volume 92/Issue 7

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October 22nd, 2018

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RIC Women’s Tennis repeats as Little East Champions Jake Elmslie Sports Editor

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or the second year in a row Rhode Island College Women’s Tennis has won the Little East conference championship.

They have done this without losing a single match in two years, going undefeated in both 2018 and 2017.

The Anchorwomen came into Saturday’s championship match against the two seed Plymouth State University Panthers armed with home court advantage and fresh off a playoff victory against the University of

Massachusetts Dartmouth.

RIC got things off to a fast start taking two of the three doubles competitions and from there things moved into singles matches. RIC made quick work of their opponents during this stage of play and it was not long before freshman Clara Siegmund clinched an Anchorwomen championship with a victory out of the No. 5 spot. When asked about how it felt to lock up the title for her team Siegmund explained “well I had a little feeling it might come down to me having to be the one to decide to match and once Photo courtesy of Goanchormen.com

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RIC holds “PrepareRI” summit to unite education and industry in Rhode Island

Tim Caplan News Editor

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hode Island College recently invited educational leaders from the community and surrounding areas to discuss the future of work-based learning in the state of Rhode Island. The name of the event was the “PrepareRI” summit which included professors from eight different colleges and universities as well as teachers from 45 different school districts. This was the third semi-annual meeting of “PrepareRI.” Several prominent figures in education attended the summit including Dr. Andre Perry, who is a fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Brookings Institute is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C. which is devoted to public service through research and education in the

social sciences, particularly in economics, government and foreign policy. It has been called one of the most influential political think tanks in the United States of America. Dr. Perry delivered the keynote speech on Oct. 13.

The “PrepareRI” program was created by R.I. Governor Gina Raimondo in 2017, who stated that the purpose was to create skills based on learning programs that will allow students to prepare for a career while in school.

The event opened with statements from several prominent educators including RIC’s own President Frank D. Sánchez.

“Rhode Island College believes in the importance and the value of workbased learning, both for our students and for the greater community,” said Sánchez.

“Through specifically designed curriculum, student engagement, dedicated and

skilled faculty, and the commitment of business and education leaders to drive work-based learning in their communities and companies, we will lead in pre-

paring students for today’s workforce.”

“PrepareRI” is working to provide internships to 100 different students across R.I. next summer. To learn more

about the “PrepareRI” program visit their website at https://www.prepare-ri.org/.

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Rhode Island College students visit Yale

Aaron Isaac Anchor staff

If you’ve ever wanted to know what Yale University is like you should ask the six Rhode Island College students who went there last weekend. Yale University held an undergraduate policy competition to come up with real policy solutions to a current problem in international politics.

The competition was attended by 350 students from 46 schools separated into teams of four to propose policies to solve different aspects of the dispute concerning the South China Sea. Teams would spend Oct. 13 and 14 at Yale to propose their ideas. The RIC students who competed were Jordan Moment, Sam Tubman, Leslie Medina and Jacob Madore who made up one team. Julia Testa and Aaron Isaac conjoined in a second RIC team.

When the students got to Yale, they were given a

brief description of what issue they would tackle and were told to create a solution in about ten hours.

The RIC teams separated from each other to spend the day brainstorming solutions. Each team was expected to create a brief one page policy with an accompanying powerpoint explaining their plans.

Every team had ten minutes to present their solutions to experts in the field from different organizations such as the Council on Southeast Asia Studies and the RAND Corporation.

Testa stated, “it was an experience” and that she “wonders why they haven’t had more events like this in the past.” RIC students enjoyed not only the competition itself, but also the experience of leaving campus and exploring a new school.

During and after the competition the students dined at various restaurants

Photo courtesy of Rhode Island College and visited the libraries of the university. One place that caught many students attention was The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, one of the largest libraries in the world which is dedicated to rare books.

Not everything was perfect on the trip, however, there were a number of hiccups that the teams experienced during the competition.

Testa and Isaac managed to get another team member who came from a Florida university but they were still without a fourth. Neither of the teams managed to get to the finals of the competition.

Despite these bumps in the road the students took the trip as a largely positive and new experience they told “The Anchor.” Departments at RIC may not all

be sending their students to Yale, but RIC often has some event happening or RIC centered competition to take part in.

To find out which events you might want to take part in you can go to RIC.edu under the campus life tab or talk to your respective heads of department.

Tackling the concept of masculinity

Alison Darmetko Anchor Staff

Rhode Island College recently hosted a presentation

by Dr. Joseph Schwab of the Psychology Department of Bridgewater State University. The topic? “What does it mean to be a man?”

Contrary to any misgivings from the name of the presentation, Schwab’s presentation tackled the effects of master narratives of men being extremely “macho” and strong. Schwab explained his theory that a master narrative is a culturally shared story meant to tell people about a given culture while also providing guidance on how to be a “good” member of said culture. In the case of Schwab’s study, he was studying how master narratives of masculinity and “manly toughness” affect the mental well-being of both college age males and middle aged

males.

The presentation was primarily divided into two main parts based on the age groups being studied.

During the first part, Schwab explained how the concepts of men needing to be independent and strong have negatively affected the grades and academic performance of young men enough to impact national statistics.

His study, which interviewed college students in an effort to find the route of these statistics, found that some young men feel a cultural pressure to engage in what Schwab referred to as the “Three Forms of Silence.” Based on perceived notions of how men are supposed to behave in order to be accepted as men, male college students who are struggling academically often refuse to seek help or voice their problems to

another person out of concern that they will be perceived as “weak” his study indicated.

When they did open up, it was usually to a close female figure, such as a mother or girlfriend, the evidence showed.

In the second part of his presentation, Schwab showed the results of his study on a sample group of men with ages ranging from 40 to 70.

In this group, he found that while this group demonstrated the same forms of silence as the college students, it was more emotionally stunting than professionally stunting.

In other words, Schwab’s study indicated to him that this group of middle-aged men often tried to either avoid ever opening up to another person about their personal problems and emotional conflicts, or would ignore these problems all together in the hopes they would simply go away.

Lia Keegan (left) amd Melissa Kazarian (right) Photo courtesy of Kaitlin Dobson While he only studied males in his research, Schwab also felt that master narratives affect all people, regardless of gender or sex,

and that not dealing with them can continue to have damaging effects for generations to come.

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News Where in the World is Jamal Khashoggi?

Sean Richer Anchor Contributor Perhaps the most sensational event rocking the international community this week is the disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist and American resident, Jamal Khashoggi. He was last seen entering the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2 to pick up paperwork for his upcoming marriage, and has not been seen since. Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian citizen, has been living in the United States as a Washington Post Contributor in a “self-imposed exile”. His career as a journalist has been complete with consistent criticism of the Saudi regime.

Current testimony brought forth by the Turkish government implies Saudi

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tially drugged and taken to a discrete room where he was killed and dismembered, by use of the previously mentioned bonesaw.

The leader of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) initially denied having any knowledge of Khashoggi’s disappearance. However, recent reports claim that Saudi Arabia is preparing a statement claiming that he could have been killed in a “botched interrogation” that had no clearance from Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin salman.

These details came during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit with the Crown Prince King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, to discuss the matter.

President Trump issued

a statement just before this visit, saying that the deed could have been carried out by a group of “rogue killers,” possibly being wary as to not implicate the Saudi government. In a later interview with the Associated Press, he equivocated the allegations against the Saudi regime to those levied against Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh by saying, “You’re guilty until proven innocent. I don’t like that.” As the cries calling for White House-led sanctions against Saudi Arabia grow louder, the pressure seems to be mounting on the Trump administration to find a solution, especially in light of the most recent arms purchases by the Saudi government from Washington.

The eyes of the world

descend upon the United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in light of this story.

The U.S. finds itself in the middle of two countries with a historically tense relationship, both of which are allies, and many in Washington are in a hurry to find middle ground.

Saudi Arabia has threatened to retaliate to any actions that implicate them to Khashoggi’s disappearance stating that Saudi Arabia, “has an influential and vital role in the global economy,” being the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil. Through all of this, Khashoggi’s family has called for an international investigation, determined to carry out justice for Jamal Khashoggi.

American Democracy Project: how to consume “fake news”

In an era where an overwhelming amount get their news from Twitter, how do news outlets remain relevant? What happens when the public stops trusting the news? How do reporters write about an administration that is working against them?

The American Democracy Project gathered a panel of highly credentialed journalists this past Tuesday in Sapinsley Hall, to provide insight on these questions.

Panelists included: Jennifer Bendery, a Senior Politics reporter for HuffPost, Josh Israel, the Senior Investigative Reporter for ThinkProgress, Ron Nixon, the New York Times’s Homeland Security Correspondent, and Paul Singer, an Investigations Editor at WGBH in Boston. The moderator was Jill Agostino, a Day Editor at the New York Times.

Agostino wasted no time getting to the foundation

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guilt in his disappearance and alleged killing to U.S. intelligence officials. One Turkish official claims that they are in possession of audio and video footage that captured his torture and supposed murder by Saudi nationals. The current leaked footage shows nine suspected Saudi men entering the consulate after Khashoggi, one allegedly armed with a bonesaw. Further investigation by Turkish and U.S. intelligence has revealed that several rooms in which Khashoggi was suspected to be held, had a fresh coat of paint applied to the walls by a cleaning crew before investigators had access, as well as potentially harmful chemicals being present.

It is currently speculated that Khashoggi was poten-

of the discussion: Election Night 2016. All panelists agreed that the very organization of their days has been altered by the new presidential administration. The panelists claimed journalists can no longer plan a news cycle because they can never predict what information could be released in a given day. “I can’t keep up” said Singer.

Historically when the president wants to announce something there has been a briefing process. Now in the Trump administration, announcements are typically delivered through Twitter.

Jennifer Bendery admitted that she goes to bed paranoid she might miss a lead.

News outlets release stories at a rate similar to popcorn machines. In an age of the smartphone, many news outlets are pressing harder on the speed at which articles are produced. Israel shared his experience covering the statement from Eliz-

abeth Warren that President Trump owes $1 million to charity. After Israel finished writing, Trump responded to Warren in a tweet, so he had to return to the story and edit. While weaving in this information, another response transpired from Warren. This is just one example of the rate at which changes constantly happen before a story can even be published.

They claimed that a need for speed leaves minimal space for reporters to deeply investigate the issues they are writing about. Time is often invested in writing stories with short durations of relevance, or chasing down the truth in a tweet that no one of authority can confirm or explain was the sentiment proclaimed by the panel.

Most pertinent to the audience was the journalist’s advice on the essentials to staying informed as a college student. All agreed

that the basics starting point is to ensure that sources are reliable. Singer suggested to “start by reading The Anchor.” In a larger sense, read locally and then progress to national and international news. Nixon put emphasis on the point to “read information about how the world functions” to procure context on what is read.

As the perceived divide amongst citizens worsens, Agostino asked the panel if they saw any viable ways to return to a place where news consumption incorporates different perspectives.

She In this administration, the president believes that anything not supportive or fawning of our government is “fake news.”

According to Israel, of course “people will have different views of the world based on what they’re hearing or watching,” but that divide has been there for years. Nixon said that the only difference is that now

technology has advanced, enabling people to do it faster.

As for the future of news post 2020? There overriding sentiment was that there was no way a group of five journalists could predict whether it will get worse or get better. It is up to America whether the political climate will divide even further or reconcile.

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Providence bus drivers back on road after day 11 on strike Erica Clark Asst. News Editor

Providence buses are once again back on roads ever since this past Monday morning following an 11-day strike that left thousands of students around the city without rides to and from school. For those school days, parents were forced to find other transportation.

The union has been at odds with First Student for months, due to negotiations of having drivers receive pensions.

The Local 251 contracts expired in June, the union and First Student have attempted to settle an agreement over a dozen times now. First Student stated that their petition fund is struggling financially and is not able to be offered when drivers are expecting. The union wanted drivers to be added to a regional petition. The company, First Student, would offer 401(k). First Student has offered pay raises and increases in their 401(k) contributions.

On Sept. 13, it was overwhelmingly voted down upon another contract offer. A week and a half later, the 200 union drivers said they were “ready to strike.”

Within the last three days of the strike, it came to the attention of the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) of Rhode Island that it was “unacceptable” for kids with special needs to not be able to attend school because they could not find it.

Photo courtesy of The Providence Journal The ACLU announced another self proclaimed human rights group would take action against Providence Public Schools saying it was “not honoring its responsibility to provide free daily transportation to school with disabilities.”

Both parties reached a tentative deal on Friday.

On the 11th day of the strike, an agreement was made. On Oct. 14, the union voted in favor of a contract.

The union said this is “not exactly what they wanted.” First Student now says they will contribute on behalf of its employees until they start to find contribution plans.

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This archived article is from the October 24, 2006 issue of The Anchor.

Catherine Enos Opinions editor

Though 2006 may not necessarily be everyone’s idea of a long time ago, the problems of yesterday seem to be ever-prevalent today.

The biggest problem that faced students in 2006 (and maybe today) seemed to be the prospect of budget cuts/insufficient funding in higher education.

The legislature today has taken a clear interest in higher education.

An obvious example of that is the R.I. Promise Scholarship, which allows new high school graduates to go to CCRI for free for their first two years of college.

While this program has been a large focus of the media and has proven

successful for CCRI in recruitment, Rhode Island College has felt the impact of not being included in the scholarship program. Just this semester, students saw an increase in tuition.

Twelve years ago, author (and former faculty member at RIC) Barry Schiller talks about how education funding in Rhode Island is amongst the lowest per capita in the United States (it was 46th out of 50 in 2006; in 2017, it climbed up to 41st).

This tuition raise did not directly affect him, but as a former faculty and then-candidate for a state representative position, he felt that this was an important topic to focus on.

In fact, he still does-- in 2017, he published an op-ed in the

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Schiller ends the article by saying the best thing that students can do is talk to the legislature.

He added that “the system responds to pressure.”

Some of the traditional ways to “apply pressure” is to be active both on and off campus. You can do this by paying attention to the legislative bodies that govern you (i.e. the state government, your city/ town government, and even Student Community Government, Inc.) and hold elected officials responsible to keeping their constituents best interests in mind.

Catherine Enos has been the opinions editor for The Anchor Newspaper since fall 2017, and has been reporting on The Anchor Archives since then. She is a senior in college, majoring in both political science and psychology.

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Nowadays, facts come at you fast. News cycles and timelines are on overdrive. Fake news is common place. Clusterfackt is an ongoing series that asks readers to question everything. Think of it as an exercise in critical thinking. Each week readers will be given a giant clusterfackt of scientific findings meant to replicate the dizzying news loops that dominate our lives. However, there’s a catch. One statement within the clusterfackt is entirely false. Identify the falsehood and win a prize by emailing editorinchief@anchorweb.org and don’t repeat anything you read here without doing your research!

Mike Dwyer Anchor Staff This week Clusterfackt is going to get meta-factual by taking a look at the misconceptions, magical thinking and conspiracism that pepper our public discourse.

Unconditional belief in the unproven, or disproven, is not a uniquely American phenomenon but there is something particularly theatrical about the way we indulge in the fantastic.

Let’s take a look at some of the facts regarding America’s love affair with the unreal. As always, one of the following statements is entirely made up- see if you can spot which one!

A recent poll reported that one third of younger millenials do not believe the earth is round. The headline circulated among a few major outlets and seemed to confirm suspicions of America’s scientific decline.

When the data from the poll was reviewed by Scientific American it was found that most outlets misrepresented the responses of participants.

Firm belief in a flat earth was less than two percent, however, uncertainty and ambivalence about the shape of the earth was found in approximately 15 percent of all age groups. Much of the initial reporting indulged in typical millennial bashing.

Some suggested that younger respondents were simply being ironic and that flat earth theory was incongruous with the science of climate change, a topic

that is popular with this age group. However, the Flat Earth Society has officially endorsed the science behind man-made climate change.

The official Twitter account for the society put out a statement on climate change, saying “it would be nothing short of irresponsible to question something with so much overwhelming evidence behind it, and something that threatens us so directly as a species.”

A 2013 survey found that 51 percent of American voters do not believe the official account of JFK’s assassination, 21 percent believe aliens crashed at Roswell, seven percent believe the moon landing was a hoax, and 13 percent believe President Obama is the antichrist, including five percent of Democrats.

Even more worrisome, the survey found that four percent believe earth’s societies are secretly run by shape-shifting reptilian overlords. The results of the poll were widely circulated with sensational headlines such as Atlantic magazines “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country.”

The study had a sample group of 1,247 voters meant to be reflective of the American population, whereas Atlantic magazine has a circulation of more than half a million.

Recent studies suggest that exposure to conspiracy theories increases one’s likelihood of believing in conspiracies, as does a willingness to conspire.

Belief in one conspiracy is often correlated with belief in others and some form of conspiratorial belief is found in nearly all demographics. Providing evidence to the contrary was found to only further cement belief in the conspiracy.

An Irish physicist and cancer researcher has created a mathematical model to predict the failure probability rate of conspiracies involving multiple actors based on examples of previously exposed scandals such as the NSA PRISM project, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments and the FBI forensic scandal.

His model predicts that conspiracies involving more than a thousand active secret-keeping participants quickly become untenable.

Using the mathematical model to run simulations on the viability of some of the most popular conspiracies, results suggest that it would take 411,000 people for the moon landing hoax with a failure time of 3.68 years, climate change fraud would require 405,000 conspirators and would have a failure time of 3.70 years when accounting for all the scientific organizations taking part and 22,000 shadowy figures could hide the truth about vaccines from the public for 3.15 years- 34.78 years if only the CDC and WHO were in on it.

The model failed when attempting to calculate the viability of lizard people because little is known about the secret-keeping abilities of reptilian life forms.

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Is the LGBT+ community being represented in gaming?

Alex Cogswell Anchor Staff

October is LGBT+ history month, and as someone who is LGBT+ and an avid gamer, I wanted to look at the history of my community’s representation in video games and how it’s changing now.

As one may assume, the LGBT+ community hasn’t really ever had good or accurate representation in video games or media of any kind. The first video game character to be alluded to as being gay was Vivian Penreath, a character from the 1986 text adventure game “Moonmist.” She is, of course, one of the main antagonists of the game because she wants the main character’s wife.

There is a theme with early LGBT+ characters being villains, mentally ill, or both. We really don’t see any “good” representation until a gay character gets an actual speaking role.

Between “Moonmist” and our next entry of queerness, there are seven characters that are shown, but not heard. These characters are used as a cheap joke or minor side story. Not until 1993, the first gay character to have a speaking role in a video game is Alfred Horner from “Dracula Unleashed.”

He was a minor character that owned a bookstore.

The next big milestone we hit in video games is Curtis Craig from “Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh.”

This was a 1996 interactive horror game that featured the first playable non-heterosexual character.

Craig was also one of the first LGBT+ characters that were considered a main role in a video game. Ten years after Vivian and “Moonmist,” we finally have a queer protagonist.

You may be wondering, where did game developers go from here? Well, there

still wasn’t any good representation in major name games or from the big name developers.

It wasn’t until the 2000’s that we get to see any representation in major games. Bioware, the game developer behind “Mass Effect” and “Dragon Age,” was one of the first major game developers to actually offer same-sex relationship romance options. More developers would start to follow in Bioware’s footsteps, offering up their own LGBT+ characters. But throughout all of this, there are still instances of poor interpretation, to downright censorship of queer characters in gaming.

Even up until the mid2000’s LGBT+ characters are portrayed as also having some sort of mental illness, such as Trevor Phillips in “Grand Theft Auto V.” In the Japanese version of the game, Vivian is shown to be a trans woman, but the

dialogue that alludes to that is completely cut from the English version, with no explanation from Nintendo to why it was cut. Why can’t a character in a game that children play be LGBT+?

Having representative characters in the games we play is so important to every avid and casual gamer.

If these characters are constantly portrayed as the bad guys, is this going to

convey that being queer is bad because the queer characters we see are villains?

Today, everyone consumes so much media and for a lot of us, some of that media is video games.

We don’t want characters who are sexually promiscuous, or mentally ill villains.

We just want to be represented as normal people, or maybe even the hero.

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We don’t need music award shows anymore Sophia Guerrier Anchor Staff Do you remember the last time you watched a music award show all the way through? Yeah, me neither.

Did you watch the American Music Awards last week?

I didn’t either. You would think that watching music award shows would be in the

interests of music enthusiasts, overly dramatic fans and people who could not find anything else on television, but the ratings have proved otherwise.

This year, the biggest televised music award shows collectively received all time lows in viewership. Billboard, the AMAs, MTV’s Video Music Awards

and even the Grammys all plunged in ratings and dethroned their all time lows from the previous year.

Their targeted demographic of 18-49 year olds have also showed their disregard for the annual shows as their viewership has also dropped significantly.

There is not an official answer on why people are not watching music award shows anymore but it is not hard to guess. People, especially 18-49 year olds, are just not interested in seeing the biggest music celebrities holding up a trophy anymore, nevermind for three and half hours.

Social media, especially Twitter and Instagram, have allowed everyone to hear, see and virtually be in the lives of celebrities every day. Everything

about a celebrity is on the internet for consumption so watching them on television is not as exciting as it used to be.

Mainstream artists no longer have a monopoly on the ears of listeners, and the wide exposure of smaller artists -- again because of the internet -- is spreading the interests of listeners as well.

Music award shows for the most part only award artists with the top hits on the charts which does not necessarily represent the “Favorite Male Artist” or “Best Pop Album,” at least not in the state of music right now where there is an abundance of artists being listened to.

With so little emphasis on smaller, independent artists, music award shows

lack the representation that fans actually want, and the high predictability of Taylor Swift winning every category gets tiring.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar’s controversial “robbing” of a grammy by Macklemore in 2014 was one of the earliest indicators that music award shows were going downhill.

Last week, Rihanna won an AMA. She has not released music since 2016.

Hip-hop is the most listened to genre in the United States but the Grammys still do not televise most of its categories.

Problems like these only delegitimize music award shows more; and frankly, they should just call it quits like most of their viewers already have.

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Everything from burgers and dogs, to waffles, asian, latin, and hot coffee and beverages.

Thayer Street FREE // 5:30-8 p.m.

An Evening with Temple Grandin Spend and evening with Dr. Grandin, professor of animal sciene at Colorado State University, as she discusses autism, its advantages in working with animals and the different kinds of minds it takes to work well together.

Rhode Island Convention Center $60 // 5:30-9 p.m.

Friday Oct. 26

Saturday Oct. 27 Freeplay Halloween Party!

The Addams Family in Concert Enjoy this musical comedy about the famously macabre Addams Family.

Academy Players of RI $25 // 7 p.m.

Pilobolus - Come to your Senses A mind-blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers who leap, fly, and test the limits of human physicality.

The VETS $28-$95 // 8 p.m.

Join Freeplay Bar & Arcade along with 92 PRO-FM for their 2nd annual Halloween Spooktacular. Show off your video game themed Halloween costumes or a chance to win prizes.

Freeplay Bar & Arcade $10 // 7-2 a.m.

Nightmare on Dorrance Street

Sayles Hall Brown University FREE // 12-1 p.m.

Lil Jon at The Strand

Third Annual Ghost Tour

Nightmare on Washington St. Halloween Party with Lil Jon. There will be a cash give away for best costume.

Go on historical/theatrical North Burial Ground Ghost tours and visit with residents of the graveyard.

The Strand Ballroom & Theatre $25 // 9-3 a.m.

North Burial Ground North Main Street FREE // 4-7 p.m.

41 Waterman Street FREE // 6-7:30 p.m.

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Spend the evening watching They Might Be Giants, an American alternative rock band, perform.

Columbus Theater $25 // 7 p.m.

Fall 2018 Urban Vintage Bazaar

Tour de Tentacle: A Weird Bike Odyssey in Providence Inspired by the writing of H.P. Lovecraft, this bike-based quest around the city of Providence will require you and your teammates to solve puzzles, fight (or help) monsters, and ultimately, to save the city from annihilation.

65 Weybosset Street $10 // 2-5 p.m.

Screen print & chill There will be screen printing workshops, t-shirts, tote bags, and designs commissioned from RISD students. Additionally, there will be tarot card readings, boba & tea, doodling, and dinner.

An Evening With They Might Be Giants

Dress up for a psychospooktacular Halloween bash Head down to the Arcade with Glamorama's vintage- Providence and shop over 25 meets-modern soulful vendors of quality vintage sounds. Complimentary horsgoods in one place. d'oeuvres and valet.

The Arcade 60 Dorrance Street FREE // 10-5 p.m. $20 // 9-12:30 a.m.

Brown Bag Concert Casual concerts featuring Brown University musicians playing Chaussson, Monti, Debussy, Bach, Pierne, and Brahms. Guests are welcome to bring their lunch and come and go as they please.

Sunday Oct. 28

Bat Boy The Musical A musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave.

Providence College $5-$15 // 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Providence Premiere: SLICE starring Chance the Rapper

8th Annual Pink in the Rink

Join Gloria Gemma and the In a spooky small town, when Providence Bruins for the 8th a slew of pizza delivery boys Annual Pink in the Rink. are slain on the job, two Cheer on the Providence daring survivors set out to Bruins as they take on the catch the culprits behind the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. cryptic crime spree.

Dunkin' Donuts Center Columbus Theatre $10 // 3-6 p.m. $10 // 8 p.m.

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Arts&Entertainment

10 horror flicks to watch if you’re staying in for Halloween

Jessica Gauthier Managing Editor

Halloween is on a Wednesday, so if you’re anything like me, you will be spending it on the couch with your boo or some friends (or maybe even alone, I don’t judge). Instead of spending an hour flipping through movie titles before deciding to stick with the show you’ve been binge-watching for the past week, I’m going to make your life easy.

Hereditary, 2018

Following the death of their grandmother, a family’s twisted secrets begin to unravel. If you enjoy creepy children and plot-twist endings, this one’s for you.

Don’t Breathe, 2016

Three friends are trapped inside a blind man’s house after breaking in and making a sinister discovery. The suspense in this movie makes it, quite literally, hard to breathe.

It Follows, 2015

The Conjuring, 2013

The Shining, 1980

Poltergeist, 1982

A fatal curse, making itself seen in the form of a friend or a stranger, follows its victims until they meet their eternal doom. If you’re a fan of indie horror flicks, “It Follows” is your movie.

A writer and his family begin to experience disturbing visions and uncover their hotel’s dark secrets. If you dig the whole ‘cabin fever’ vibe, this classic is a good option.

Trick ‘r Treat, 2009

Four stories come together with one element in common: a mysterious character who punishes those who do not follow Halloween ‘rules.’ If you’re looking for something lighter, this dark comedy-horror is your cup of tea.

A supernatural presence terrorizes a small family in their quiet Rhode Island farmhouse. If you don’t plan on sleeping, “The Conjuring” is a really great choice.

A family’s playful communication with ghosts through their television begins to escalate to malice when their daughter goes missing. It is believed that the film was cursed after four actors died throughout the trilogy, which earned its reputation for the “Poltergeist” curse. You’ve been warned.

Hush, 2016

A deaf writer must defend herself from a masked killer lurking outside her house.

Prepare to be petrified to look out your window.

Photo courtesy of The Indepndent

Jigsaw, 2017

The Jigsaw killer, who has been dead for 10 years, seemingly reappears after detectives discover a body that fits his victim profile.

Whether you’re a fan of the “Saw” series or you’ve never seen them before, “Jigsaw” is a gory dream come true.

Halloween, 1978

Serial killer Michael Myers escapes to begin the search for his next victims. If you decide to actually leave your house, you can see the new sequel in theatres to make it a double feature.

Concert Review: James F. Burgess, Jr. Memorial Choral Concert Thomas Yakey Jr. Anchor Staff This week, the James F. Burgess, Jr. Memorial Choral Concert celebrated remembrance and transcendence.

The concert took place at All Saints’ Memorial Church in Providence on Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. All under the direction of Dr. Teresa Coffman, the Rhode Island College Women’s Chorus, Chamber Singers and Concert Chorus performed.

With all the negative things happening in the world, and all the relatives and friends of choir members that were lost, the positive message of the concert seemed like a great idea to many.

“Prayer” by Morten Lauridsen was based on the poem “Prayer” by Dana Gioia.

Gioia’ s words, “Seducer, healer, deity or thief, I will see you soon enough” sum up the piece entirely. This piece was written in remembrance of his son who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It was sung by the Women’s Chorus whose voices soared.

The last piece of the program was “Let My Love Be Heard” a piece by Jake Runestad based on “A Prayer” by Alfred Noyes.

The whole chorus sang Noyes’ “And as grief once more mounts to heaven and sings, let my love be heard.”

In the climax of this piece, after the choir stopped singing, their chord rang out due to both the acoustics of the church, and the tone quality and pitch accuracy of their sound. Both the audience and group froze and multiple people in the audience were weeping.

Thomas ‘TJ’ Clifford, a freshman music education major commented, “It felt as though time stopped and I was completely invested in such a beautiful and impactful moment of making music with others.” Kate Eminger, a member of the women’s chorus also mentioned, “‘Let My Love Be Heard’ moved me to tears.

It was breathtaking.”

When asked about the concert, Dr. Coffman said, “I think it was the absolute best first concert of the academic year we’ve ever had.

I am amazed at how far all of these singers have come in seven weeks and not just as individual singers but ensembles.”

This goes to show both the strength and progress the choir has had in overcoming both challenges and losses.

Every ensemble successfully made beautiful, expressive music. In addition, an audience member commented that they “could hear every word,” which is a feat very hard to master in conjunc-

tion with having great tone quality.

If you’re interested in seeing all the choral ensembles in concert, the Winter Choral Concert is Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and features all three ensembles. It is free for RIC students and only $10 for non-students. This concert features the “Missa Brevis Joannis de Deo” or the “Little Organ Mass” as well as other non-traditional, and lesser-known composers and pieces in addition to the holiday favorites that everyone knows and loves.

The views expressed in The Anchor, unless otherwise noted, are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Anchor or of Rhode Island College’s faculty, administration or student body.

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Opinions

Your mental health is valid-- shocker Ariella Jeter Assistant copy editor Oct. 10 was World Mental Health Day (kind of ironic because I actually took a mental health day that day).

Mental health is something that we do not take seriously enough in this country, because if we did, we would not need an entire day devoted to reminding you that your mental health is not only valid, but important as well.

Too many of us do not take care of our brains the way that we take care of our bodies. On the other hand, we also misuse mental health terms and excessively self-diagnose ourselves.

Just because you’re feeling a little blue one day does not mean that you suffer from depression, but we can

still make efforts to better our mental health. Our minds are tricky beings and deserve to be taken care of whether or not you have a mental illness.

As someone with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, I know a thing or two about taking care of the machine that basically runs my whole existence.

Suffering from a mental illness does not mean you are weird or weak… it just means your brain is just wired differently. You do not need to feel bad about yourself or embarrassed. What you do need to do is listen to your therapist (if you have one), take your medications (if you take them) and enjoy the little things in life that bring you joy.

Regardless of whether

you suffer from a mental illness, it is important to take care of your brain. Don’t overwork it. If you need a break, then take it. You are not being lazy or unmotivated. Take some time to treat yourself to a few of your favorite things, spend some time in nature, or maybe just lay in bed all day doing nothing if that’s what makes you feel better.

Mental health is so important and is a main key to our functioning. Rhode

Island College recognizes this and offers great counseling services in Browne Hall, suite 100.

For those of you who know the feeling of not being able to get out of bed or not being able to be “all there” or feel any emotion and maybe even stressed to the point that you cannot breathe-- you are not alone.

And for those of you who have only experienced this to an extent or maybe even never at all-- you are not

alone either.

My best advice I can give is to take care of your mind. It is delicate and deserves to be loved just as much as anything else. I can’t say life is this beautiful, amazing thing that we are all blessed with and blah, blah, blah. But what I can say is we are stuck here for a while, so we might as well make the most of it. In order to do that, we need to get our minds right.

Suffering from a mental illness does not mean you are weird or weak… it just means your brain is just wired differently.

POTUS, delete your account

This article is being republished from the Oct. 8 issue, in which authorship was attributed to the incorrect person.

Lauren Enos Assistant opinions editor The person holding the office of President of the United States can use just about any platform they want to make public announcements. In the past, this has meant radio announcements, breaking news TV segments and press conferences. With the advent of social media has come the very modern use of it as a platform to make announcements.

If the POTUS wants to have a private Twitter account for their friends and family, they should be more than able to do so. Twitter is just not an acceptable platform to convey important information to your constituents.

This also brings up the issue of blocking people. Can a person legally be blocked from an account that makes important announcements

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about the country in which they live? That would be like barring people from watching certain TV channels, listening to certain radio shows, and censoring the press. All of those things are illegal. Rather than hash out legal logistics, I think it would be much easier to just keep the POTUS of off Twitter.

I’m not just talking about our current President, either.

Although he has been the only POTUS thus far to use Twitter in a way that is completely unprofessional, he probably won’t be the last.

It is just not the correct platform to use for communicating major policy decisions. For that reason, I don’t think any President should have a Twitter account from which they make public announcements. It’s unprofessional and wouldn’t

Photo courtesy of New York Times be accepted for any other profession.

Imagine if your boss tweeted that he’s decided to downsize and lay off 50% of his workers? But when the President announces that he’s going to make major policy changes, like redact Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, it’s suddenly

an acceptable thing to do?

Here you have the leader of our country tweeting out policy changes that will affect millions of people’s lives and it’s being communicated through a social media website with a 280 character capacity.

This is especially ludacris since it often comes out

that these decisions haven’t been run by anybody, are full of inaccuracies or are downright incorrect and they’re still considered official statements. The citizens of the free world deserve more than this.

POTUS, delete your account.

The views expressed in The Anchor, unless otherwise noted, are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Anchor or of Rhode Island College’s faculty, administration or student body.

Opinions

Halloween age limits: another futile law

Catherine Enos Opinions Editor

Imagine it’s Halloween, you’re 12 years old and you’re out with friends trickor-treating. Now, imagine this: you get arrested and you face fines, jail time and a misdemeanor charge. This is what could happen to 12-year-olds in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Apparently, the ordinance in this Virginia city that sets this guideline is not new. It was originally established in 1970 (according to Chesapeake’s municipal code), but recently gained attraction on social media for its absurdity.

Virginia is not the only state with ridiculous laws- there are examples of bizarre laws across the country. To put things into perspective, there’s a couple examples in our very own state. An example of one of these inane laws states that

“impersonation of town sealer, auctioneer, corder, or fence-viewer” is a criminal offense.

Maybe stupidity is “in the eye of the beholder,” but why would a state ever need laws like these? The answer is: they don’t. Lawmakers have to decide where to focus their time and to pick their battles. Their limited energy is going to be focused on areas of utmost importance.

At the end of the day, lawmakers (and we) know that the law likely won’t be enforced. People probably won’t be arrested for impersonating an auctioneer and children won’t really be arrested for trick-or-treating.

So lawmakers don’t waste their energy on giving the law attention.

A law that isn’t enforced has no power and is eventually forgotten-- that is, until

Photo courtesy of wquad.com someone digs it out of the municipal code to snap a picture of and share online.

There’s a lesson in this story: don’t believe everything you read online. Everyone’s guilty of this. This particu-

lar law is a real law, but the vagueness and recency of the viral post lead people to believe that it was a recently-passed law. Social media users were ready to attribute reasons as to why the

law may have been passed.

Maybe there’s some truth in people’s analysis of the text, but you can’t know the whole truth unless you look at the big picture.

Letter to The Anchor Editor

Faculty response to the Lauren Enos article, “Let’s talk about professor evaluations” published in The Anchor on Oct. 15 of this year

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auren Enos raises really good questions about professor evaluations in her October 15 opinion column for The Anchor (“Let’s Talk about Professor Evaluations”). As a professor who cares a lot about my student evaluations, here’s how I would answer some of her questions:

What happens after I fill out course evaluations?

The chair of the department reads them and then passes them along to the professor. Professors can do what they want with them after that, but many keep them on file—I still have every evaluation for every course I’ve ever taught.

Do my professors read my evaluations?

I can’t speak for everyone, but every colleague I’ve ever talked to reads every word of their course evaluations. We may not agree with everything you write, but we take it all seriously. I’ve removed readings, changed topics, and added activities based on my course evaluations.

Do written comments matter?

Personally, I find written comments more helpful than numerical scores. Many of you are more specific in written comments than when you fill out your Scantron sheets. And I can promise you that whether they prefer written or numerical comments, most of your professors are reading both.

Do my evaluations matter?

Absolutely. Your evaluations matter to your profes-

sors, but they matter to RIC as well. Student evaluations are a critical part of whether we get to keep our jobs, used in promotion and tenure files for every professor.

Why are some of the questions so basic?

Lauren is right that there’s a lot more to a good class than whether it starts on time, but these basic questions are important too.

Student evaluations are the only way for RIC to find out what your classes are really like—if a professor consistently shows up late, or struggles to answer questions about course material, your evaluations are the best way to make sure RIC knows about it. If none of the questions on your evaluation form ask about things that were important to you, that’s what the written

comments are for! (Again: I promise most of us read them.)

How can I write helpful course evaluations?

Lauren didn’t ask this question, but I still want to talk about it, since you have control over just how valuable your evaluations are. Here are two things I encourage my students to consider doing.

(1) Be specific. When a student writes, “I hated this course,” that makes me sad, but it doesn’t tell me what they hated. “I loved this course” makes me happy, but it isn’t all that helpful either—I don’t know what they thought was good about the course! The evaluations that are the most helpful to me are the ones that tell me about a specific reading, or assignment, or activity that a student liked or disliked.

(2) Be professional. Your professors are people too!

Comments that swear at us,

or are illegible, or say nasty things about our appearance are unhelpful at best and hurtful at worst.

While student evaluations are valuable, studies consistently show that people who are old, male, and/or white are evaluated more positively than people who are young, female, and/or people of color are. Be honest with us about how the class went, but pay attention to whether you’re giving different kinds of feedback to different kinds of people.

Keep these tips in mind, and you’ll be well on your way to writing professor evaluations that encourage your professors and give them constructive feedback.

Your professor’s future students will be better off because you did.

-Amy Berg Assistant Professor of Philosophy

The views expressed in The Anchor, unless otherwise noted, are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Anchor or of Rhode Island College’s faculty, administration or student body.

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Sports

Who is really America’s team?

Joshua Percy Anchor Staff The Dallas Cowboys, since 1978, have had the nickname of “America’s Team.” The reason behind it was because the Dallas Cowboys were recognizable around the world. However, the question should be raised, are the Cowboys still America’s team?

The Cowboys have not won a Superbowl since 1995, and have 21 Playoff appearances since 1978.

Historically, the Cowboys have always had great players such as Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Deion Sanders. They also have had great coaches such as Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells. However, The Cowboys in the last two decades are not as successful as they once were, With only 6 playoff appearances in the last two decades and only two wins.

When fans think of success in the last two decades they think of the New England Patriots. The New England Patriots have dominated the current football era, and hold the colors of red, white, and blue, not to mention the 5 Super Bowls and 15 playoff appearances in a 17 year dominant run in the NFL that is continuing on to year 18. The Patriots also have had a future Hall of Famer and possibly the best NFL player of all time Tom Brady leading the charge for 18 years, along with possibly the best NFL coach of all time Bill Belichick. Should the Dallas Cowboys still be called America’s Team due to their history? Or have the New England Patriots earned the title of being “America’s Team”?

Photo courtesy of TexasHSfootball

Who is the next mayor of title town?

Joseph A. Griswold Anchor Staff

They call it title town for a reason. Since 2000, no major city has had more championship parades than Boston. The four major teams: The Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins have accounted for 10 championships and have no indication of slowing down.

There is no question that the Patriots have long been the mayor of title town leading the way with five championships with the Red Sox Celtics and Bruins following their lead with five in total. However, with an aging Tom Brady coming to the end of his storied career it begs the question: Who is the next mayor of title town?

Although the Red Sox and Celtics make strong cases, the Bruins are the team that most emulate the template that the Patriots have created for continued dominance.

The foundation of a dominant dynasty is built upon

the ideals and goals of a great coach. Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy has already shown that he has the skill and knowledge to guide the Bruins to multiple championships. Following his takeover the team in 2017 Cassidy transformed a team that had missed the playoffs the year before into a team that has challenged in the playoffs each year.

Cassidy has transformed the Bruins from the “Big Bad Bruins”, into a team that can compete and thrive in a league that is now centered on speed and skill.

Although great coaching is half the battle, you do not see Bill Belichick out there slinging touchdown passes.

Every great coach needs a star to lead them to victory.

Much as the Patriots and Belichick have Tom Brady, the Bruins have Tuukka Rask. Rask is one of the premier goalies in the National Hockey League and is entering his prime as a goalie. There is no question

Photo courtesy Boston Herald that the Cassidy/Rask combination could bring several Stanley Cups to Boston in the coming years.

The last component of a dominant dynasty is the combination of focused veterans and driven young players. The Bruins are led by arguably the best line in

hockey in Brad Marchand 30 years old, David Pastrnak 22 years old and Patrice Bergeron 33 years old, while also boasting one of the strongest defensive pairs in Zdeno Chara 41 years old and Charlie McAvoy 20 years old.

As The Patriots era likely

comes to close with the retirement of Tom Brady, Boston fans can rejoice in the fact that Boston sports will remain atop the sports world. The key to title town is not lost: It is just being transferred from Gillete to the Garden.

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Sports The Boston Red Sox, World Series champions and then what?

Jake Elmslie Sports Editor

By Tuesday, the Boston Red Sox will be playing in the world series and they are widely regarded as the favorite over the Los Angele Dodgers to take home the Major League Baseball championship. The Red Sox are near the zenith of President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski’s aggressive three year effort to rebuild the team.

They are coming off the winningest regular season in franchise history, and seemingly have one of the brightest young managers in the game, Alex Cora.

However despite all this success the Red Sox may be very close to a point where breaking down their current roster is the best decision for the long term viability of the team.

Obviously the idea of breaking apart a team immediately following a world series bid seems counterintuitive, but upon further

inspection of the Red Sox roster and various contract situations it makes more sense than you might think.

For starters the team is facing a potential mass exodus of talent over the next two years with a bulk of their core players contracts being set to expire. Unlikely playoff studs Nathan Eovaldi and Ryan Brasier both have contracts set to expire after the world series and may command sizeable contracts after their performances this postseason.

Closer Craig Kimbrel’s contract is also set to expire and while he has had a poor postseason he has easily been the team’s best relief pitcher over the last two years and will ether have to be signed to a fairly lucrative contract or replaced in free agency.

Starting pitcher David Price also has the option to opt out of his contract at the conclusion of the world series and become a free agent however his contract is far above market value for a

pitcher of his caliber so it is unlikely he goes this route.

Following the 2019 season the contracts of shortstop Xander Bogaerts and starting pitchers Chris Sale and Rick Porcello are set to expire. Also J.D. Martinez will almost certainly opt out of the below market deal he signed last offseason to seek a contract more in line with his MVP caliber performance this year. Finally following the 2020 season the contracts of both ALCS MVP Jackie Bradley Jr. and likely AL MVP Mookie Betts are set to expire, with Betts having the potential to become the highest paid player in baseball.

While it is possible that the Red Sox will be able to resign a large group of these players they will undoubtedly lose some of their current core to free agency.

The problem for the Red Sox than lies in the lack of routes they currently have for obtaining new players.

Due to the vast myriad of trades Dombrowski has

made over the last three years to bolster the major league roster the Red Sox have been left with one of the worst farm systems in baseball, lacking many talented prospects with potential to make an impact in the MLB. Because of this the team is unable to make any significant trades, lacking valuable assets outside of the players already in the major league. Also this means the Red Sox most likely will not have any impact players coming out of their farm system over the next few years to fill in the holes created when players inevitably leave the team.

This leaves free agency as the only avenue the Red Sox have to improve themselves. This is an unenviable position to be in as even if the Red Sox have much more money to spend than most MLB teams free agency is a fickle beast and is usually not a reliable way to fill specific holes on a team, especially when it comes to pitching.

Because of this if the Red Sox attempt to keep as much of the current team together as possible while attempting to replace them with free agents they have little control over the availability of it is likely the quality of the team’s roster will decrease in both 2019 and 2020.

This is where the idea of possibly breaking up this teams current core comes in. Getting in front of the matter and trading away some of the players on contracts set to expire to rebuild the farm system would allow the Red Sox to assure they have some sort of future after 2020.

While trading away a majority of their current players for prospects would be absurd accepting that it is in the team’s best interest to take a step back over the next few years to assure longterm competitive viability may be the best path for the Red Sox.

Photo courtesy of USA Today

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RIC Women’s Tennis repeats as Little East Champions

Continued from cover I won the last game to make it 5-4 I went alright time to buckle down.” Her teammates were exuberant following her win and she was quickly swarmed by a mob of fellow Anchorwomen.

For her dominant straight set singles shutout RIC sophomore Hailey Raskob was anointed the 2018 Little East Women’s

Tennis Championship’s Most Outstanding Player.

Fellow Sophomore Laurel Ten Eyck also earned the Anchorwomen a singles victory.

Another byproduct of this victory came in the form of head women’s tennis coach Adam Spring becoming the winningest coach in program history, recording his record 91st

career victory. When asked to comment on the record Coach Spring stated “it’s not something I ever thought about until they announced it but I’m thankful to of coached alongside other great coaches here at Rhode Island College” and when asked if he could envision himself coaching at RIC for a long time he simply replied “I’d love that.”

Because of this victory RIC has earned the right to compete in the 2018 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championship, where they will face off against the 48 best teams from across the nation. When asked about

how his team will prepare the tournament, scheduled for this May Coach Spring explained “we’re really excited about that but right now we just want to savour this.”

Photos courtesy of Jake Elmslie and Kaitlin Dobson

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