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PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush attended St. John's this morning, and GWB went for a mountain bike ride. The first couple also made a brief television appearance to congratulate the new Iraqi government. Here are the President's brief remarks: THE PRESIDENT: The formation of a unity government in Iraq is a new day for the millions of Iraqis who want to live in freedom. And the formation of the unity government in Iraq begins a new chapter in our relationship with Iraq. This morning, I called the President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker to congratulate...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President is spending the weekend at the White House, where his father is visiting. The First Lady gave a commencement address at Roger Williams College in Bristol, RI, today. President Bush will welcome new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to the White House next week. The two leaders are expected to discuss three key issues: --> The final border between Israel and the West Bank. The United States wants Israel to keep trying to negotiate with Palestinian Authority President Mamoud Abbas over a final border. Israel wants to define the border and pull out...

The $250 award -- which required an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness" -- has invited the wrath of everyone from minority groups and school officials to the chairman of the Republican National Committee himself.

BRISTOL, R.I. - On the sleepy coastal campus of Roger Williams University, a small liberal arts school unaccustomed to student activism, the College Republicans are reveling in the debate they've kicked up by offering a scholarship for whites only. The $250 award _ which required an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness" _ has invited the wrath of everyone from minority groups and school officials to the chairman of the Republican National Committee himself. Jason Mattera, a junior who started the conservative campus group in his freshman year, said...

The phrase “student activists” usually conjures up images of sign-waving protestors railing against various evils of the establishment. Indeed, for decades after the modern student movement began at the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s, such protestors were traditionally liberal —and reflexively so, given that administrations were comparatively conservative. But now that today’s educational establishment is populated with yesterday’s student radicals, conservatives find themselves in the odd position of being the protestors. But rather than rely on disruptive tactics, modern conservatives are improving on plays from the liberal handbook: They’re making their points with wit and humor, not catcalling and...

A "whites-only" scholarship set up as a prank by Republican students at an obscure New England university has ballooned into a cause célèbre, with basic American themes such as race, equal opportunity and freedom colliding. "Why shouldn't I do anything in my power to put myself in the best position possible?" asked Adam Noska, 20, after winning the £130 award at Roger Williams University in New England. "I'm a college student. I live in a house with rats." He had a point. But Mr Noska and his friends had also challenged one of the orthodoxies of today's United States: that...

'White' scholarship ignorant of affirmatice action, racist, intolerant, totally unacceptable Not everyone can laugh at the state of race relations in America. White, black, whatever. Some people have a problem with a serious topic like racism and stereotyping being mocked. Rightfully so, and to each his own. Racially motivated comedy has a huge share of supporters - look up "Chappelle's Show" if the rock you live under doesn't get cable yet - but it has some prerequisites for breaking into the scene. One of those criteria is that you certainly can't be racist. If you're willing to mock something while...

The Multi-Cultural Student Union's members are circulating a petition to try to force RWU to defund the Hawk's Right Eye. They have already taken to the dorms with their petition on the grounds that the White scholarship is offensive. Um...Free speech and tolerance?Not to mention that HRE and the White scholarship are but faintly related; whereas HRE is funded by RWU, the scholarship is privately donated money.

RWU College Republicans Roger Williams University 1 Old Ferry Road Bristol, RI 02809 Press Release For immediate release Contact: Jason Mattera, 401–824–2788, 917–754–3425, jmattera845@rwu.edu, jmattera@rwucr.com Black History Month Speaker to Trash Civil Rights Movement “The Nuclear Reaction to Jesse Jackson” Bristol, RI February 8, 2004—Entertainer, entrepreneur, and lecturer Reginald Jones will speak on “How the Civil Rights Movement Destroyed the Black Community.” The lecture will take place at Roger Williams University’s main campus in Bristol on Wednesday, February 18 in the College of Arts and Sciences building, room 157. Also included in Jones’s speech will be commentary on “how Black...

BRISTOL, R.I. - A student group at Roger Williams University is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action.   The application for the $50 award requires an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness." "Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants," says the application, issued by the university's College Republicans. Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is parodying minority scholarships. "White kids are at a handicap," Mattera told The Providence...

Club offers whites-only scholarship The College Republicans group at Roger Williams University says its $50 scholarship is making a statement against affirmative action. 01:00 AM EST on Sunday, February 15, 2004 BY ALEX KUFFNER, Journal Staff Writer BRISTOL -- The application for the scholarship being offered at Roger Williams University reads like no other. To be sure, it asks for all the standard information -- the applicant's name, age, year of graduation, grade-point average and a list of accomplishments and accolades -- but the topic of the essay sets it apart. " In 100 words or less," it says, "write...

Our Mission by Jedediah Jones The political left controls most media venues and institutions of learning and through them manipulates public opinion to launch a ruthless assault on the traditions, values, and integrity of the United States of America. These so-called “liberals” regulate inquiry, suppress free speech, endorse big government, and promote socialist and communist ideologies in their quest to fulfill false promises of unachievable collectivist utopias, to usurp power from individuals and place it in the hands of the State. In their ongoing effort to brainwash Americans through overt and hidden biases and historic domination of communicative outlets, these...

<p>Most college presidents argue that their campuses and classrooms encourage the free exchange of ideas. Where else but here, they say, can difficult issues be debated?</p> <p>But as campus officials look for ways to accommodate the growing diversity of their student bodies, an increasingly vocal number of students — most of them white and predominantly conservative or Christian — say there is little room for their opinions and beliefs.</p>

Roger Williams University in Rhode Island has shut down the campus' only conservative/Republican publication because it dared to voice a conservative argument against what it considered to be the university's anti-religious policies. Below, FrontPage Magazine has included the article "Roger Williams Witchhunt,"an account of the events as they unfolded, written by RWU student and the editor of the publication in question Jason Mattera. We have also posted the Students for Academic Freedom press release. Following that, we show you the letter Dr. Roy J. Nirschel, president of RWU, wrote voicing his personal condemnation of the conservative publication as "pornographic in...

University to Conservative Students: All Ideas Welcome... Except Yours HERNDON, VA – The Roger Williams University (RI) administration froze funding and attacked a conservative campus organization for advocating diversity of thought through the group’s publication, The Hawk’s Right Eye.Student activist Jason Mattera says the harassment by administration officials began when his group published articles in their newspaper countering attacks on Christianity, freedom of association, and diversity of thought made by two university sponsored guest speakers this fall. The guest speakers were Judy Shepard, mother of slain homosexual Matthew Shepard, and James Dale, a gay man excluded from the Boy Scouts....

At 12 noon on April 6th this Sunday, there will be a support rally for the troops in Providence, RI. This event will be held on the south lawn of the statehouse, and is being put on by the Roger Williams University College Republicans. I encourage all Freepers to come, the RWUCRs are a very patriotic and proactive bunch of patriots. For more info please email them at: rwu_cr@yahoo.com - Tomas Pineiro

Horowitz at Roger Williams U.By Richard SalitProvidence (R.I.) Journal | March 6, 2003 Note:  The following account of my speech at Roger Williams College in Rhode Island appeared in the Providence Journal, a liberal paper in a Democratic state. By and large the account is accurate, but the following three items need correction:1) I said "when your country has been attacked there can be no peace movement," and not just that the fact that we are already at war with Iraq and have been since 1991 means that there can be no peace movement. 2) In my reparations campaign I did...