Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC What's News? Newspapers 9-23-2003 What's News At Rhode Island College Rhode Island College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news Recommended Citation Rhode Island College, "What's News At Rhode Island College" (2003). What's News?. 41. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news/41 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in What's News? by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. What’s News at Rhode Island College Vol. 24 Issue 2 Circulation over 47,000 Sept. 29, 2003 Highlights First-year student admissions reach an all-time high In the News Freshman class largest in 150 years! RIC freshman class is largest in 150 years by Rob Martin Michael Iannone — survivor What’s News Associate Editor of the Station Nightclub fire — returns to RIC hode Island College is the Student Union back in place to be in 2003 – at least business Raccording to the latest admis- sions report showing the College October Series examines: has broken all previous records for Constantly Contesting Art incoming freshman class size. Compared with 2002, the num- ber of admissions (based on paid Features deposits) for this year is up 7.5 percent for freshmen (1,200). Also College of Arts & Sciences up this year are the number of names distinguished transfer/second degree/re-admit- faculty ted students (837), and overall Yael Avissar receives new students (2,037). The report indicated that the combined total of Fulbright for research in freshman and transfer applications Hungary received and processed reached a Twin brothers, Presidential new high – the most in the College’s Scholars 150-year history. The numbers tell the story of an institution on the rise. According to Alumni News a survey and interviews with new RIC students, there are three main Countdown to Homecoming reasons why: affordability, academ- 2003, Oct. 3 & 4 ics and access. A profile of 2002 RIC freshmen Calling all Henry Barnard compiled by the College’s insti- School alums — reunite tutional research and planning with RIC department shows that low tuition Alumni Association invites is the number one reason given for attending the school. RIC is the you to see Hairspray least expensive four-year college in Rhode Island, about one-tenth the cost of an education at Brown Sports University. Hall of Fame 2003 athletes STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: Some of this year’s student body – which includes a record number of freshmen – stroll the quad on their way to class. named Continued on page 3 Spencer Manning named new basketball coach RIC student, survivor of the Station Arts/Entertainment David Sedaris returns to nightclub fire, returns to campus RIC October 1 RIC Theatre presents I Hate by Jane Fusco Hamlet Oct. 1-5 What's News Editor Barbara Cook in Mostly Sondheim Oct. 10 Michael Iannone was the last Station nightclub fire victim from Rhode Island to leave the hospital. Index He was released in July and returned Focus on to campus at the start of this semes- the Faculty and Staff 2 ter to audit classes he missed during his recovery. He plans to return to Marriages Made at RIC 3 full- time studies next semester. Foundation & hen Michael Iannone left Alumni News 4 Professor Daniel Snowman’s Sesquicentennial Wphysics class early one Memories 5 Thursday night last semester, nei- ther of them could have known that Academically Speaking 5 they would not see each other again Faces of RIC 6 until just a few weeks ago, or the horrific reasons why. Arts/Entertainment 10-12 That Thursday night was February Sports 14-15 20, the night of the Station night- club fire in West Warwick, which Around the Campus 16 SURVIVOR: Michael Iannone (left) with friend Beth Boucher. (Photo supplied) Continued on page 3 Page 2– Whatʼs News, Monday, Sept. 29, 2003 Then and Now… In keeping with the Sesquicentennial celebration, we will feature a series of paired photos showing the College “Then” and “Now.” Then Now BACK IN ’73 -’74: Jose M. Gonzalez ’76 sends us this photo of the first Latin LASO NOW: Here is the current Latin American Student Organization. Front American Student Organization (LASO). Jose writes: “ The student club had row (from left) are: Hakim Socorro; Jesenia Rodriguez; Eugenia Fernandes; many wonderful activities and helped bring a greater awareness of the diver- Josefina Jimenez; Erick Bento. Second row: Pedro Montenegro; Juan Gomez; sity that exists in our society and on the RIC campus.” Front row (from (left) Jessica Vasquez; Eddy German; Hilcias Olivo; Steven Atehortua. Third row: are: Roberto Gonzalez, president; Luz Zuleta; Jose Acevedo; Marta Palacio; Avelina Rocchio; Ruth Blanco; David Azevedo. At top: Lammis Ferrer, presi- Alfonso DiGregorio. Back row: Manuel Rivera; Ana Cruz; Jose Gonzalez; dent, and Alvaro Gonzalez, advisor and RIC staff member. Cesar Palomeque and Alfonso Aiello. Focus on the Faculty and Staff Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit items of information about their professional endeavors to What’s News, Office of News and Public Relations, Building 10 or email them to [email protected]. de Deus Beites Manso of the E. J. Min, professor of com- sor of Portuguese and Italian, and book, Reamer Universidade de Evora assisted in munications, has co-edited a director of English as a Second presents a the discussions. special issue of Journal of Asian Language in the Department of conceptually- Pacific Communication entitled Modern Languages, was inter- Thomas Schmeling, assistant based typology “Communication and Culture viewed by RTP Internacional professor of political science, of criminals, in Korea: At the Crosswinds of (television) in Lisbon, Portugal, in chaired a panel and presented criminal behav- Tradition and Change.” The issue June. a paper entitled “Stag Hunting ior and crimi- nal careers. contains articles that provide not The interview, which aired locally with the State A.G.: Anti-Tobacco only new insights into a dynamic Litigation and the Emergence The typology on Cox Cable on July 11 and 12, is designed to culture, but was conducted by Anabela Santos of Cooperation Among State also intersec- Attorneys General,” June 8 at enhance the at the University of Lisbon for the criminal jus- tions between the annual meeting of the Law & FREDERIC REAMER program “Comunidades” on the tice system’s the past and status of Portuguese studies at Society Association in Pittsburgh. present Korean An earlier version of the paper was response to Rhode Island College. Levi was in crime and offenders. Much of the culture and Portugal for the month of June as presented in May at the meeting of communication the New England Political Science book is based on Reamer's work in lecturer and invited speaker at the Rhode Island as a member of the intertwined in University of Évora, where he pre- Association in Providence. a complex web state Parole Board (1992-present), sented a series of lectures. Richard Lobban and Carolyn of regional and so there’s a significant “local” fla- Fluehr-Lobban, professors of international Levi also was interviewed in vor to the discussion. anthropology, geopolitical July by BBC Radio Brazil for its made presen- Gale Goodwin Gomez, associ- power games. show in Portuguese on current E. J. MIN tations at the ate professor and chair of the It will be of political issues. Entitled “De Olho recent 22nd Department of Anthropology, interest to anyone studying com- no Mundo” (With the Eye on the annual confer- traveled to Brazil and the Czech munication and culture. He also World), it addressed the subject ence of the Republic this co-authored “Communication of Islam. Sudan Studies summer. With Education in Korea: Past, Present, During the 2002-2003 aca- Association at grants from and Beyond” with Baekuen Cha demic year, Levi made pre- Georgetown the Faculty (Seoul National University) and sentations at the third annual University. Research Fund Esther Yook (Mary Washington International Congress of the Richard, who is and the Faculty College) in the issue. There are American Portuguese Studies executive direc- Development over 16,000 students who study Association at the University of RICHARD LOBBAN tor of the asso- Committee, communication-related disciplines Massachusetts–Amherst; at the ciation, was a she spent in Korea. The article provides national convention of the Modern key organizer of a month in insight into the history of journal- Language Association of America the conference Brazil, working ism and communication education in New York City; at the 2003 whose theme on final revi- in Korea, as well as suggesting cur- GALE GOODWIN Carolina Conference on Romance was “Crossing sions of a the- ricular changes and cooperation GOMEZ Literatures at the University of Borders: Sudan matic lexicon between scholars of countries also North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in Regional of the Yanomae language. This undergoing structural changes and at the annual meeting of the Rhode Contexts.” Two previously unwritten language growing pains. Island chapter of the American RIC anthropol- is spoken by several thousand Marita Sheridan, assistant Association of Teachers of Spanish ogy program Yanomami Indians in a remote professor of biology, and under- and Portuguese/Rhode Island graduates, region of the Amazon rain graduate honors student, Nicole Foreign Language Association at Kevin DeJesus forest. Later in the summer, Palin, co-authored a report enti- the University of Rhode Island. and Stephanie Goodwin Gomez attended the CAROLYN tled, “Differential Effect of Adult Santos, were XVII International Congress of Levi also delivered a lecture on FLUEHR-LOBBAN Linguists in Prague, where she pre- Female Urine on the Outcome June 23 on the “Portuguese Jewish among the more of Encounters Between Pairs of than 60 who presented papers at sented two papers: “Reflections Diaspora in the New World (1492- of Brazilian Portuguese in the Adult and Pairs of Subadult Male 1820),” and another talk on the the four-day conference.