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Risd Paper October 20, 1969, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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This student-run weekly newspaper was known simply as R.I.S.D., or RISD Paper. The RISD Paper ran through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. This issue from October 10, 1969 featured a letter from a student at WPI who wanted to have a newspaper column exchange and a short article about a sick child in Providence. Also there was a journal entry and information about College Work Study. Photos, a poem and a calendar of events for RISD students were also included.

Risd Paper October 13, 1969, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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This student-run weekly newspaper was known simply as R.I.S.D., or RISD Paper. The RISD Paper ran through the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The issue of October 13, 1969 included articles about the plight of farm workers and the California Grape Boycott. There was a short piece by John Torres, RISD sculpture faculty about Black art. Student activism and a calendar for the moratorium events was also included. A calendar of events for RISD students was also in this issue.

Designer's News May 19, 1969, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Designer's News was a student-run weekly newspaper published in the late 1960s. The issue of May 19-25, 1969 featured an article about the RISD Landscape Architecture department's study to save Block Island, RI. There also was an interview with John Torres about summer programs at RISD and at a school in Vermont, and an article about a RISD photo student who taught local pre-teens about photography. Also included was an article about the Rhode Island Art Festival and some RISD students who were volunteering their time to help.

Designer's News May 12, 1969, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Designer was a student newspaper published in 1942. Three issues remain today. The first two issues are written by typewriter on loose sheaves of paper. The issue of May 12-18, 1969 included articles about Apparel Design's annual show Collection 1969, and an article about Man and his Technology, a seminar that was attended by 250 people. There was a brief article about racial troubles at Hope High School in Providence that was from a publication called EXTRA. Comics, ads, letters and art exhibits were also mentioned.

Designer's News May 5, 1969, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Designer's News was a student-run weekly newspaper published in the late 1960s. The issue of May 5, 1969 is the first issue and features an introduction to the publication, along with articles on COLAB II, a new student show opening at Carr House, a speech given by union organizer Carl Braden, and an alumni seminar event on "art and censorship."

Blockprint November 4, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 4, 1968 issue contains only advertisements, a brief events calendar, and an editorial from Blockprint Editor-In-Chief Roy Furman complaining that due to the Student Council reducing funding for Blockprint, they would no longer be able to afford to put out a regular length newspaper. This may be the final issue of Blockprint ever printed.

Blockprint October 28, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 28, 1968 issue features articles on the proposal to boycott California grapes, an upcoming Howard Zinn lecture in Memorial Hall, the upcoming Presidential election, the decline of South Main Street, Take-A-Break Weekend, a new RISD musem exhibition on Renaissance art, and other events and notices.

Blockprint October 21, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 21, 1968 issue features articles on the new sculpture "Daybreak" by RISD Professor Gilbert Franklin, FBI and police action taken against an army deserter in Boston, a press conference with Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Edmund Muskie, a concert at the refectory, and other events and notices.

Blockprint October 14, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 14, 1968 issue features articles on a proposed "ship of peace" to sail around the world, Governor Chafee's campaign schedule, a call to boycott California grapes, a review of the "HAIR" soundtrack, a Providence Art Club exhibit of RISD alum Michael Ashcraft's work, and other events and notices.

Blockprint October 7, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 7, 1968 issue features articles on politics and the upcoming Presidential election, a lecture at Brown by Socialist Workers Party Presidential candidate Fred Halstead, proposed renovations to 312 South Main Street, a new collection of Che Guevara's writings, the Rhode Island State Police, a meeting of the Students for Peace and Freedom, a meeting of the "Brown-Pembroke Committee to Save Biafra," teenagers portrayed in cinema and the film East of Eden, and other events and notices.

Blockprint September 31, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 31 [sic], 1968 issue features articles on an exhibition of Jazz Age caracaturists at the RISD Museum, Robert Rimmer's new book "Rebellion of Yale Marratt," a Stone Ponies press conference, a meeting of the RISD Students for Peace and Freedom, a vigil at Brown, an upcoming Antiques Expo in Pawtucket, music news, and other events and notices.

Blockprint September 23, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 23, 1968 issue features articles on admission stats, how to increase diversity at RISD, US politics, a RISD Museum sculpture exhibition on Pierre LaChaise, political group "Rhode Islanders for McCarthy" (Eugene), Student Council elections, the Bunuel film "Belle du Jour," and other events and notices.

Blockprint September 16, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 16, 1968 issue features articles on an address by Dean Donald Lay on the state of RISD, civil strife in Chicago, advocacy for Eugene McCarthy's Presidential bid, RISD Film Society, GRE testing, graduate study grants, a record review, a Chicago meeting of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and other events and notices.

Blockprint May 13, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 13, 1968 issue features articles on a new exhibition at the RISD Museum, a high school artwork display at Trinity Rep, a new Brown creative publication "Taliesin," a Midland Mall design contest, a Designers In Drama production of Harold Pinter's plays, and other events and notices.

Blockprint May 6, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 6, 1968 issue features articles on the film "Closely Watched Trains," a James Brown visit and performance at Brown, a new season at Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, the resignation of RISD's Associate Dean of Students, and other events and notices.

Blockprint April 29, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 29, 1968 issue features articles on a Rhode Island organization "People Against Poverty," a foreign graduate grants program, a joint humanities lecture series between RISD and PC, faculty promotions, RISD preferences in the 1968 Presidential election, Juan Bardem's film "Death of a Cyclist," an upcoming lecture by Father Daniel Berrigan, a production of "Phaedra" by Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, a new music venue called "Rubicon," and other events and notices.

Blockprint April 22, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 22, 1968 issue features articles on the establishment of Wintersession (called Intersession initially), a RISD Museum lecture by Edouard Roditi on dada and surrealism, electronic music, the Newport Jazz and Folk Festival schedules, a coordinated strike to protest the Vietnam War, and other events and notices.

Blockprint April 15, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1960s. This issue of April 15, 1968 covers the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including editorials concerning the event, as well as more local news related to the school. Also included is a double page spread of photographs from the school's COLAB program of the year.

Blockprint April 8, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 8, 1968 issue features articles on a lack of interest in student councils, a pottery and glass exhibition of RISD grad students at the Abacus Gallery, a new album by jazz musician Charles Lloyd, a meeting of the RISD Committee to End the War in Vietnam, an interfaith conversation in Homer Lounge, a trip to the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) headquarters in Greenwich Village, a forum on aggression, an anti-Vietnam war protest in Boston, President Lyndon B. Johnson's about face on Vietnam, an alumni seminar, and a …

Blockprint April 2, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 2, 1968 issue features articles on the "March of Humanity" mural in Mexico City, a faculty statement supporting students who protest the Vietnam war, the Peace Corps and draft deferments, a new music group "The Rotary Connection," a photography exhibit sponsored by the Camera Club of Providence College, a "Yip-In" demonstration by Alan Ginsberg at Grand Central Station gone awry, a Dada and surrealism exhibit at MoMA, and the Student-Faculty committee, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint March 25, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 25, 1968 issue features articles on a Jimi Hendrix Experience concert at Brown, a convocation with Reverend William Sloane Coffin, a Black Power teach-in with Black artist Dana Chandler, an exhibition of RISD Professor Tom Segouros' work, a project by senior Architecture students, a disappointing Photography exhibition, Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, musical group Country Joe and the Fish, the superiority of the RISD foundry, and a poetry reading by James Dickey, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint March 11, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 11, 1968 issue features articles on new rules for the Blockprint staff as determined by the Student Council, the Peace Corps, an upcoming lecture by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr., a student exhibition at the Providence Art Club, the allowance of "homosexuals" into the military to fight in Vietnam, rehearsals for a new prodcution at Trinity Square Repertory Co., COLAB, monthly meetings of the New England Chapter of the American Foundrymen's Society, new records, a Black Power "teach-in," a folk music concert at Memorial Hall, and other events …

Blockprint March 4, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 4, 1968 issue features articles on an informational faculty meeting about unionization, a Rascals concert at the Rhode Island Auditorium, a faculty meeting on operations at RISD with Bayard Ewing, the RISD Committee to End the War in Viet-Nam, a Tissot exhibition at the RISD Museum, a folk music concert in Memorial Hall, a Student Council meeting, the formation of a RISD Student Association, and the comic "It Makes You Think" by Bill Plimpton.

This issue also includes an insert commemorating Take-A-Break Weekend, with photographs of Janis Joplin and …

Blockprint February 26, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 26, 1968 issue features articles on the faculty exploring unionization, an article in "Eye" magazine advocating for women to be drafted, the policy for dances held at RISD, and the pleasures of Sundays, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 19, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 19, 1968 issue features a reprint of a critical Brown review of the RISD faculty art show, a response to the Brown review, an article promoting a proposed Wintersession, a brief review of Trinity Square Repertory Company's production of "Years of the Locust," an advertisement for a Chambers Brothers concert, and an events calendar.

Blockprint February 12, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 12, 1968 issue features articles on a bazaar/exhibition "Hydra," a proposal for Wintersession, Oscar Wilde plays at Trinity Rep, an increase in dorm fees, consequences of ignoring parking tickets, sports at RISD, and TAB updates, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 05, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 5, 1968 issue features articles on the faculty salary, rumors about the introduction of Wintersession, scholarship opportunities in Europe, the Peace Corps, a new production of "An Enemy of the People" by Trinity Square Repertory Company, Take-A-Break Weekend, and W.C. Fields, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 22, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 22, 1968 issue features articles on "The Bluegrass Kid" John Kornhauser, the new student group Hydra, Take-A-Break Weekend, and an upcoming exhibition by Robert Frank, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 15, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 15, 1968 issue features articles on the censorship of the publication "Avatar" in Boston, a news student communications effort "Hydra," Moby Grape, the Mystic Mexican, jazz musician Charles Lloyd, Take-A-Break Weekend, and the Grateful Dead, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 08, 1968, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 8, 1968 issue features articles on life in the army, marijuana laws in Rhode Island, a Picasso exhibit at MOMA, arrests in Boston for distributing the newspaper "Avatar," and transcendental meditation, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.