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Risd Paper November 3, 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 November 3, 1969 had information about a grade poll, a march in favor of the grape boycott and an opportunity to create and design the RISD Commencement ceremony. Also included was the question of funding for RISD students to attend a ceramic convention at Penn State.

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 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 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 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 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 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 November 20, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 20, 1967 issue features articles on jazz musician Charles Lloyd, musician Alan Sondheim, Pete Seeger, Mike Bloomfield, an organ recital, school spirit at RISD, the underground film scene, television host Robert Jungels, draft protesters, Mexicans, and a photography exhibition of Guggenheim Fellows, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 30, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 30, 1967 issue features articles on the March on the Pentagon, "Citizen Kane," marijuana laws in Rhode Island, Fred Sommers, the closing of the Crystal Tap, and Gilbert Franklin, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 23, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 23, 1967 issue features articles on the Montreal Expo, religion in art, Designers in Drama's production of "Too True to Be Good," an anti-draft protest at Kennedy Plaza, a Resistance church service in Cambridge, and the Film Society needing funding from the RISD Museum, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 16, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 16, 1967 issue features articles on a Tent Dance at the RISD Farm, a resurgence of interest in composer Gustav Mahler, a new arts initiative called FANDSO, the Hippie movement, a concert at which The Yardbirds failed to show up, and a draft protest at Kennedy Plaza, along with a review of the film "Bonnie and Clyde," an interview with leaders of Brown student group The Sons of Liberty, a review of the exhibition "Six Sculptors," and other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint May 08, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 8, 1967 issue features articles on the Vietnam War, the RISD Executive Financial Advisor, a rodeo in Cranston, theater at RISD, the philosophy of duality, Bud Williams of the WPRO radio station, the Crystal Tap soccer team, film reviews, the Montreal Expo 67, and the Apparel show, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint May 01, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 1, 1967 issue features articles on the Chairman of the Freshman Foundation Division, a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at Brown, a dispute involving sophomore women students not being allowed to live off-campus, a new Dean of Students, community involvement, and film reviews, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint April 24, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 24, 1967 issue features articles on the Associate Dean of Students, dorm living, a peace march in New York City, a motorcylce event in Massachusetts, car racing in North Carolina, and living conditions in Farnum Hall, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint April 17, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 17, 1967 issue features articles on communication between the administration and students, the Dean of the Faculty, studio hours at RISD, a new Dean of the College, the Crystal Tap Soccer team, interactions between RISD students and the Providence community, the need for a community organization to address moral and political issues, and Providence news, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 20, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 20, 1967 issue features articles on the mounting cost of Take-A-Break Weekend, complaints about the Associate Dean of Students, a new museum exhibit "The Brandeis Exchange Show of Modern Art," housing at RISD, an upcoming lecture by Edward T. Hall on "Design and the Public Good," and Antonioni's "Red Desert," along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint February 13, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 13, 1967 issue features articles on the mission of RISD, a perceived decline in students' workload and effort, a new student musical group "All," future plans for campus construction, a RISD hockey game, a lecture "Design and the Public Good" by Joseph Kraft, a film society screening, an art exchange between the RISD Museum and Brandeis' Rose Art Museum, a forum hosted at Trinity Square Playhouse, and TAB updates, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint January 16, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 16, 1967 issue features articles on men's fashion on campus, an upcoming lecture by education scholar John Holt, a Providence College poll of students' opinions on college rules and student behavior, and Take-A-Break Weekend, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint December 12, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Decmber 12, 1966 issue features articles on a talk by Rev. Canon John Crocker, Diter Rot, visiting guest policies at the dorms, freshman class elections, the opening of the RISD Museum exhibition "Art for Your Collection IV," W.C. Fields films, development around Westminster St. in Providence, a panel discussion held at RISD with Timothy Leary, and an Illustrators' Society exhibit, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint December 5, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 5, 1966 issue features articles on George Lincoln Rockwell, fine art, a RISD Museum exhibition on kinetic and programmed art featuring Nam June Paik in person, the Student Faculty Committee, women being allowed in the men's dorms, and an upcoming lecture by Kurt Vonnegut, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint, November 21, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 21, 1966 issue features articles on Thanksgiving break, the Vietnam War, floods in Florence that damaged art and books, Designers in Drama's production of "Look After Lulu," a RISD Museum retrospective of Walter Murch, and events taking place at RISD, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.