The Unfiltered Lens

09/23/2013

ATTENTION:
The CCRI Knight Campus is on boil water advisory due to E. Coli contamination. Do not drink the water on campus until the Kent County Water Authority lifts the ban.

Check to see if your area falls into the advisory zone:http://ftpcontent5.worldnow.com/wjar/pdf/bwacoveragemap.pdf

05/02/2013

Student Kelsey Edwards discusses life with Asperger's, we run the numbers on math labs, and KSG presidential debates raises questions about student life in our newest issue.

04/16/2013

Pick up our newest issue and throw in your two cents about surveillance cameras on campus, weigh in on the issue of community here at CCRI, or just see how many places you can name in our Finding Providence: Foxpoint piece. We want your feedback! Who knows? We may just publish in an upcoming issue.

Email us at [email protected]

03/26/2013

You heard them, now get to it

Community College of Rhode Island is the largest community college in New England and has been a leader in education and training for more than 40 years. Faculty and staff are committed to ensuring student success.

03/22/2013

Our new issue is out and we're hard at work on the next! Have a story for us or think we should be looking into something? Email us at [email protected].

02/12/2013

Back up and running. Looking forward to another semester.

12/20/2012

Seems there has been a bit of hubbub at URI. what, as usual, has excellent commentary on the situation and why you should care.

http://www.popehat.com/2012/12/19/professor-loomis-and-the-nra-a-story-in-which-everyone-annoys-me/

12/12/2012

Missing Papers

11/15/2012

There have been three separate evacuations this week on the Knight campus. The Unfiltered Lens got in contact with Lieutenant Kurowski of campus security to get details about the incidents on the 13th, 14th, and 15th.
Tuesday – The alarm went off around 4 p.m., caused by the fumes from the paint and other chemicals used in the renovation of the auditorium. A hit-and-run accident occurred during this time at the crosswalk by the faculty parking lot. If anyone has any information about the accident, please forward it to campus security.
Wednesday – At 9:40 a.m. student Jordyn Payne, who was manning the bake sale, saw smoke coming from the closet on the second floor entrance and pulled the fire alarm. A transformer in electrical closet blew and caused a small fire.
Thursday – Students were evacuated at 10 a.m. due to a sensitive fire alarm. An older heater in one of the ground floor rooms was turned on and security believes that it was a combination of dust and sudden heat that set off the sensitive, new alarm.

11/15/2012

There have been three separate evacuations this week on the Knight campus. The Unfiltered Lens got in contact with Lieutenant Kurowski of campus security to get details about the incidents on the 13th, 14th, and 15th.
Tuesday – The alarm went off around 4 p.m., caused by the fumes from the paint and other chemicals used in the renovation of the auditorium. A hit-and-run accident occurred during this time at the crosswalk by the faculty parking lot. If anyone has any information about the accident, please forward it to campus security.
Wednesday – At 9:40 a.m. student Jordyn Payne, who was manning the bake sale, saw smoke coming from the closet on the second floor entrance and pulled the fire alarm. A transformer in electrical closet blew and caused a small fire.
Thursday – Students were evacuated at 10 a.m. due to a sensitive fire alarm. An older heater in one of the ground floor rooms was turned on and security believes that it was a combination of dust and sudden heat that set off the sensitive, new alarm.

10/04/2012

Did you attend Debate Watch last night? Did you watch the debates at home? (Did you play the drinking game?)

What did you think? Who do you think better represented themselves and their campaign? Who do you think won?

We want to know! Because you know we have our thoughts, and those you will soon read in upcoming issues!

10/01/2012

I know you are probably wondering where your copies of The Unfiltered Lens are, or why the website has not been updated in awhile...

We are currently have repeats of some difficulties from the past, and we can assure you no one is working harder to get them put to rest than we are. Until they are, we'll see about posting the stories directly to facebook, maybe?

Oh, and keep an eye (and ear) out for more information regarding the current batch of resistance your student newspaper is facing.

09/11/2012

GSA Coalition Invitation.
Check it out!!!

06/19/2012

Design Team, take notes... http://i.imgur.com/UXyKc.jpg

06/06/2012

Keep it classy, West Warwick...

http://www.wpri.com//dpp/news/local_news/west_bay/west-warwick-outrage-over-cuts-to-school-sports

Parents, teachers and coaches are outraged over proposed sports cuts in West Warwick.

06/06/2012

So, it seems that very soon possession of less than one ounce of ma*****na may be decriminalised, if Gov. Chaffee were to sign the bill being brought before him. Those caught with the drug would still be subject to fines and the drug would be confiscated. Stiffer penalties would be imposed for multiple occurrences. But still, what do you think about this measure? How about the likelihood of state-run medical ma*****na dispensaries?

http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x655469161/Marijuana-decriminalization-bill-goes-to-R-I-General-Assembly-tonight

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/03/ma*****na_dispensaries_coming_to_ri_gov_legislatur.php

05/18/2012

Commencement is this afternoon! Do not forget to keep an eye out for our special Graduation Issue. It is a collection of some of our more important/interesting/thought-provoking articles from the year, some farewell (including a surprise revelation), some new information, and most importantly of all... the names of the graduates!

Whatever copies are not scooped up tonight will be spread around the campuses... but we are not expecting too many to be left.

05/14/2012

The Lens remembers the protest on the Statehouse lawn. We are glad to see Gov. Chafee taking steps to ensure that all people receive equal treatment under the law

Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed an executive order Monday afternoon calling for Rhode Island to recognize same-s*x marriages done out of state.

05/14/2012

See, people, this is why the Lens keeps asking for Sports Writers. CCRI has a number of top notch teams, and the best we have ever gotten is Ian posting the box scores... So, who wants to lend a hand spreading the word about our superb student-athletes for the '12-'13 year?

Contact [email protected] or [email protected] to join.

05/14/2012

Go pick up your caps, gowns, and tickets at your campus bookstore. And, you know, read this article for a chuckle or two...

With commencement weekends now wrapped at many colleges and universities nationwide, it is the perfect time for a glimpse at cap-and-gown meme madness. Top related meme themes: the academic short...

05/04/2012

In case you haven't heard yet, the next Knight Student Government President is James Gracik. Jimmy succeeded in the run-off election held just yesterday 142-122.

Congratulations to both candidates on a well run campaign, and the Lens looks forward to the great things to come.

04/29/2012

We have new information on the SG Election on Knight Campus. The tallies showed no clear winner (the Constitution calls for a majority vote, so 50% plus 1 votes) so there will be a run-off between the top two candidates in the upcoming week. Currently, it is set to occur on Thursday during the Spring festivities being hosted by KSG Executive Council.

04/26/2012

Oh, and for those who are interested, the tallies for the SG Elections have not yet been made public (so far as we know). We will keep you posted as soon as we find out

04/18/2012

We hope you were able to make it to the SG Presidential debates today. Keep an eye out on campus for your copy of the Lens as we are running profiles on each of the candidates in their own words.

And for the love of pete, VOTE! Elections are via MyCCRI on April 23rd through 24th.

04/10/2012

Heads up, folks! The application process for the Student Government Presidential Election closed this past week. Your Lens will be interviewing the candidates ASAP in preparation for the debates...

03/29/2012

Ed Fitzpatrick, of the Providence Journal Bulletin, writes about your Lens. EiC's head grows three sizes too big

Providence Journal

03/28/2012

ATTENTION READERS!!!!!!!!
The Lens is starting a new column about s*x. This column is designed to educate the student body, as well as, answer any questions that readers may have. If you have a question you would like this column to address, contact us.
*at request all names will be kept between the lens and the sender, and can be changed for publication or marked anonymously.

03/27/2012

C'mon OUT, folks! Should be a great night of entertainment

Come support The UFL's own Allie Allard at the Triple Crown RI Pageant.

03/23/2012

Full day of workshops.

03/19/2012

...this may be relevant to your interests

For Immediate Release

Occupy URI Organizers to Question Constitutionality of Tuition Increases
Media Contacts:
Danielle Dirocco: [email protected]; 401.871.9985
Peter Nightingale: [email protected]; 401.871.1289
Occupy URI Organizers to Question Constitutionality of Tuition Increases and Reduction of Higher Education Funding at the Rhode Island Board of Governors Meeting in Narragansett, (TODAY) March 19, 2012.

Occupy URI will be in attendance at the Rhode Island Board of Governors meeting today, March 19, at 5:30pm at the Coastal Institute at the Narragansett Bay Campus to object to the unrelenting diversion of funds from public education in Rhode Island, and to bring to the Board’s attention grave concerns regarding the constitutionality of those diversions.

Article XII of the Rhode Island Constitution explicitly defines the duties for education of the General Assembly. Occupy URI asserts that the State of Rhode Island is in flagrant violation of its Constitution, as Sections 1 and 4 of Article XII unambiguously demonstrate:

Article XII of Education
Section 1. Duty of general assembly to promote schools and libraries. -- The diffusion of knowledge, as well as of virtue among the people, being essential to the preservation of their rights and liberties, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to promote public schools and public libraries, and to adopt all means which it may deem necessary and proper to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education and public library services.

Section 4. Implementation of article -- Diversion of funds prohibited. -- The general assembly shall make all necessary provisions by law for carrying this article into effect. It shall not divert said money or fund from the aforesaid uses, nor borrow, appropriate, or use the same, or any part thereof, for any other purpose, under any pretense whatsoever.

(See http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/RiConstitution/C12.html)

In addition to being patently unconstitutional, the diversion of funds from education is morally reprehensible. Nevertheless, The RI Board of Governors, continuing a trend spanning decades*, approved an explosive 9.5% tuition increase for the University of Rhode Island for the 2012-13 academic term. This has led to an unconscionable burden on those seeking the opportunities guaranteed to them in the RI Constitution. This fact, coupled with shamefully high levels of unemployment and historically low tax rates for the wealthy means that the State of Rhode Island has chosen to doom its students to decades of crippling student loan debt with little hope of relief in sight.
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*For further information regarding Rhode Island’s historical trend of increasingly neglectful treatment of higher education funding,
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/com/Logan/archive/benchmarks/2012_updates/index.html

Section 1. Duty of general assembly to promote schools and libraries. -- The diffusion of knowledge, as well as of virtue among the people, being essential to the preservation of their rights and liberties, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to promote public schools and public libraries, ...

03/16/2012

DID YOU SEE IAN ON TV?!

03/16/2012

A snippet of Ian's Interview! Oh the glamor of it all!