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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...

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...

V.I. Lenin: Hey Adolph: we got to hand it to those liberals. They have perpetuated one of the greatest lies of all time. The libs' knack for deception and outward proclivity to obtuse individuals (got to love those unrestricted voting laws) have caused many credulous folks to think that your regime, the Third Reich, was actually on the conservative end of the political spectrum. Adolph Hitler: Gosh, I know. What's even better is that this lie is disseminated from my disciples in American Academia. These irrationally reckless malcontents preach that Communism and Nazism are opposites, not rivals. Obviously, the nomenclature...

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...