RISD Voice (1981-1990)

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. Issues included local and institutional news, a sports column, editorials, comics, and advertisements.

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RISD Voice February 26, 1990

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 26, 1990, includes illustrations and quotes about freedom in the context of the end of the Cold War and Nelson Mandela being freed from prison, a notice that this is the last issue of RISD Voice until further notice, updates from the art world, and an honor roll of sorts for RISD students, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice January 26, 1990

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 26, 1990, includes articles on a freshman's guide to different departments at RISD, updates from the European Honors Program, gratitude to Ned Dwyer for supporting the third RISD Cabaret, Earth Day, the lack of racial diversity at RISD, student group RISD Outreach, opportunities through Career Services, along with excerpts from comic cartoonist Will Eisner's memoir "Getting the Last Laugh: My Life in Comics," editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice November 21, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 21, 1989, includes articles on a student who was hit by a car, registration complaints, student experience in the European Honors Program, a controversy involving the National Endowment for the Arts pulling funding for an AIDS-related art show, colds in winter, issues with spaces and buildings around campus, RISD students participating in a pro-choice rally, and a student response to a recent presidential forum, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice October 25, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 25, 1989, includes the text of a speech by Frank Chow on RISD identity and community, profiles of staff associated with Residence Life, articles on racism, personal safety around campus and Providence, a harsh critique from a department head, and a controversial decision to determine which music is played at the Tap Room, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice October 3, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 3, 1989, includes articles on threats to the National Ednowment of the Arts due to a controversial Mapplethorpe exhibition, a student group "United Students," recycling, racial discrimination, a new student group called "Forum," accidents in the studio requiring medical treatment, imbalances in the Brown-RISD partnership, the Student Board, and cycling in Providence, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice May 19, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 19, 1989, includes articles on a response to racist and anti-gay incidents at Brown, the dismantling of Richard Serra's sculpture "Tilted Arc," art world news, abortion, and newsprint, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice March 23, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 23, 1989, includes articles on Robert Mapplethorpe's death and the impact of AIDS on the artistic community, abortion, poems that a student received from her mother, a March for Equality-Women's Lives in D.C., a Kool-Aid addiction, Sam Kinison's music video for "Wild Thing," the dismissal of an employee from the RISD Store, and hangovers, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice March 9, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 9, 1989, includes articles on abortion, women's liberation, parties on campus, the Student Board, the elimination of student evaluation forms, a RISD play "Master Harold...and the Boys," Transcendental Meditation, the effect of smoking on one's sex life, art world news, the Health and Safety Committee, along with a response to last week's article on sexism and the RISD shuttle, film reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice February 10, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 10, 1989, includes articles on art world news including the death of Salvador Dali, a female RISD student who faced sexism when applying to drive the RISD shuttle, a proposed boycott of Nestle and American Home products, spring registration, a lecture on rape, a sexual harassment support group, the resignation of a RISD Voice editor, burns when creating art, a new RISD/Brown exhibition "Art Against Racism," and selecting new speakers for the Arts and Humanities Lecture Series, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice January 18, 1989

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 18, 1989, includes articles on Martin Luther King Jr., art world updates, changes in spring registration, a new co-op art gallery founded by RISD students and alumni called Moxie Logic, a new Act in Rhode Island mandating AIDS testing of certain segments of the population, the dangers of working with certain materials in non-ventilated spaces, using gouache, RISD meal plans, and life outside of RISD, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice December 1, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, approximately dated December 1, 1988, includes articles on storage at the RISD Museum, the Faculty Symposium "And/Or," a student-run shuttle service, a blood drive, the art world, the RISD shuttle servie, Latvian Independence Day, Museums in Washington D.C., and the death of the political left, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice November 16, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, approximately dated November 16, 1988, includes articles on the art world, a new mandatory recycling program at RISD, the Faculty Symposium "And/Or," a RISD Theater Group production of "Fool for Love," education in America, pro-choice abortion support at RISD, the New York Marathon, and first aid, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice November 2, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 2, 1988, includes articles on campus security, the Women's Center in Providence, radon in homes, the mission of the newspaper, safety concerns in Providence, the US presidential election, RISD Community Outreach, visiting lecturers associated with the Painting Club, the Ottawa International Film Festival, the President's Ball, and renovations to the RISD Library, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice October 12, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 12, 1988, includes articles on a dispute with campus security, efforts by the Brown Animal Rights Coalition, the President of the Student Board, the opening of the Catanzaro Student Center, the US presidential election of 1988, the freshman event "Playfair," the Faulty Biennial, "The Dogs" and "The Cats" RISD baseball teams, History Professor Scott Cook, Student Board treasurer Tom Albrecht, issues with word processors, a blood drive, the President's Ball, and the European Honors Program, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice May 5, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 5, 1988, includes articles on proposed tuition increases, a freshman's experience at RISD, the RISD Yearbook, a foiled theft on campus, parking problems in Providence, a visit from Greenpeace, Store 24, and an encounter with a homeless woman on a bus, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice April 14, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 14, 1988, includes articles on a performance at Brown by Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, RISD's acquisition of the Providence Washington Insurance Company Building (ProvWash), issues in the Architecture Department, and allowing photographs in the RISD Yearbook, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice March 23, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 23, 1988, includes articles on an assault on a student in Providence, the death of Romare Bearden, another assault on a student in Providence, rebellious RISD students, Take-A-Break Weekend planning, the Stop War Toys campaign, the suicide of a columnist's friend, and a known homeless man in Providence, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice March 10, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 10, includes articles on mismanagement of the Tap Room, the power of the media to influence US presidential elections, ventilation and HVAC issues in the Printmaking department, overcrowding at a Maurice Sendak lecture, summer projects in Africa and the Caribbean, and a RISD Athletic Club, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice February 26, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 26, 1988, includes articles on graffiti as art, date rape, the Tap Room requiring IDs to get in, a housing fair, a Sting concert, a visit by filmmaker/artist Suzan Pitt, judgmental RISD students, a Right to Life anti-abortion march in Washington, issues with GI Joe and other military toys, racial prejudice, and the film "Good Morning Vietnam," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice January 27, 1988

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 27, 1988, includes articles on an upcoming lecture by AIDS reporter Randy Shilts, issues with Wintersession registration, Architecture students allegedly cheating on a midterm exam, surplus funds from the student activity fee, and a program on rape, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice November 30, 1987

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 30, 1987, includes articles on an arts and humanities lecture, a drunk driving accident, the RISD Nads, a columnist's friend who has AIDS, and a self-help program called "Lifespring," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice October 28, 1987

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 28, 1987, includes articles on the walk up to the quad, safe sex and AIDS, a new RISD/Brown croquet club, a screening of a film by RISD student Zachary Straits, Monday Night Football, and a Halloween costume contest, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice October 7, 1987

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 7, 1987, includes articles on student organization RISD Solidarity, a weekend to raise awareness about drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS, California, and an architecture forum on "context, continuity, and change," along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice May 20, 1987

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 20, 1987, includes articles on a symposium at Brown on the postmodern novel, the locked book collection at the RISD Library, the RISD Annual Senior Film Show, issues in the Painting Department, safe sex guidelines, and the Student Board, apathy at RISD, along with editorials, notices, and advertisements.
RISD Voice April 22, 1987

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 22, 1987, includes articles on a new student community engagement group called "RISD Solidarity," the end of the Mellon Lectures series, an exhibition featuring RISD women's art, scholarly opportunities at Brown, ways for RISD to engage with the community, the termination of Graphic Design instructor Don Adleta, a proposed bill to divest Rhode Island state funds from South Africa, a project to discover why American towns were named after European cities, and a RISD student who's also a Grateful Dead roadie, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.