This Week in URI History

Oct. 17, 1989:

The previous week, the House of Representatives passed a bill to ban any desecration of the American Flag. URI students shared their opinions on this recent bill, feeling as though the law prohibited their rights to free expression, rescinding the Constitution and thus destroying the foundation of the United States. 

Students in a marketing class, felt as though their professor, Dr. Jean L. Johnson, was making jokes in a hazing manner at students. In the class, Johnson would make jokes aimed at accounting students, asking them in sarcastic and degrading tones why 

Oct. 19, 1989:

A proposed recycling program for the Kingston campus was reported to be taken into effect by Jan. 1, 1990. Prior to the recycling program being taken into effect, recycling bins had been placed in students dorm rooms in order for them to have incentives to recycle themselves. 

Oct. 22, 1989: 

Bob Dylan performed at URI. Tickets were sold $14 for students with an ID and $17 for the public on the day of the show.

Oct. 24, 1989:  

Sarah Weddington, the winning lawyer from the landmark case, Roe v. Wade, spoke to students in Edwards Auditorium on the significance of the abortion cases’ decisions and the impact it will have on civil rights or women’s rights in the future and coming years. 

The question of the week asked students their stance on if the government should subsidize abortions for women who were victims of rape and incest. All six students who were stated in the poll all believed that they were in favor of the government subsidizing abortions for the cases above.