Ideopolis Volume 7, Issue 1, Fall 2019

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idea noun \ī-ˈdē-ə, -ˈdēə also ˈī-(ˌ)dē-ə or ˈī-dē\: a thought, plan, or suggestion about what to do; an opinion or belief; something that you imagine or picture in your mind polis noun \ˈpä-ləs\: a Greek city-state; broadly: a state or society especially when characterized by a sense of community

The Wonders of Washington

By Jake Hall ‘20 This past May, I was one of six students selected to complete a week-long internship with a Member of Congress from the RI Delegation in Washington DC. I chose to intern in Congressman Jim Langevin’s Office as I had previously interned for him in his RI District Office in the past. It was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to do the internship for a week. I worked a normal workday in the US Capitol from 9AM to 5PM Monday to Thursday, with Friday off to be able to explore the city.

My other responsibilities in the office included answering phones, drafting correspondence, researching bills/legislation, and assisting office staff with various other tasks. While I was not working, I explored the various landmarks and sites Washington had to offer with my father. I also received an in depthtour of the US Capitol from another intern and I was able to see the many historical, significant sites throughout the building.

Intern responsibilities in the Capitol would often vary day to day. Most of my time was spent in meetings and informational sessions about key issues facing the American public. I attended briefings throughout the various House and Senate office buildings located on the sides of the Capitol on the economy, trade, cybersecurity, foster-care, and healthcare. My job was to take notes and report back to Congressman Langevin’s staff about what I took away from the meeting, and how it could help the Congressman make important decisions on legislation.

It was an amazing experience — I encourage all students in the Rhode Island College political science department to apply for the Washington trip for this coming spring. Lastly, if you ever find yourself in the city, here are some attractions (other than the main ones like the White House, Capitol, Monuments, etc.) I recommend you should pay a visit to: The World War II Memorial, Chinatown, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, National Archives, Air & Space Museum, the Wharf, and Nationals Park.

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Meet our Faculty: Yuree Noh

By Kaz Delos Reyes '20 Professor Yuree Noh moved to Southern New Hampshire from Seoul, South Korea to attend high school. She went to Washington University in St. Louis for her undergraduate and UCLA for her PhD. She has traveled and lived all across the United States, but says she is happy to be back in the East Coast.

During her time as an undergrad, she studied Political Science and Economics while minoring in Arabic. During one semester, she studied in Cairo and liked it so much that she stayed until the summer. Even though she was disappointed with how the pyramids were maintained, she became fascinated about the politics in Egypt. This motivated her to pursue Political Science in graduate school — later, her doctoral degree.

NGOs; UNHCR; and both Koreans and Yemenis. She mentioned it would be interesting to combine her knowledge and expertise.

As a graduate and PhD student, she found teaching to be rewarding. She really enjoyed doing research and sharing it with students. While being a professor, she learned it was impossible to control what her students absorb from class. She said she was still learning and continually learns from her students too. She likes that the classes at RIC are small because it gives her a chance to engage with her students, form personal relationships, and hold discussions in class.

When Professor Noh is not pursuing her passion projects, she plays tennis and goes out to dinner with friends. She used to watch a lot of Netflix but she has been doing a good job of not starting a new show this semester. She loves sitcoms and prefers to watch lighthearted shows especially because of the heavy topics she deals within her work. Her favorite shows as Friends and Parks and Recreation. She loves the Harry Potter series and took two different tests to which House she would be sorted into — the results said Gryffindor and Slytherin. She preferred Gryffindor until she read the Cursed Child.

Additionally, she has a series of projects on gender quota laws in the Middle East. Her main goal is to fill the informational gap regarding those laws in the Middle Eastern region because it is only studied mostly in Europe and Latin America. Another project she is working on is looking at public opinion in countries in the Gulf, starting in Kuwait. There is very little information on how citizens actually think, so she figured it was valuable and important for her to study how they think in terms of the economy, politics, security, cyber security, and taxes.

To this day, her greatest accomplishment is becoming a professor. She is glad she ended up in her profession where she hopes she can touch and inspire people to explore the world outside the place they come from. She wants her students to pursue their passion projects.

If it was not obvious already, she is very passionate about her work. Last summer she started a new project on Yemeni refugees in South Korea. She interviewed some

She looks forward to a student asking her for life advice!

Plus, in my opinion she has a great fashion sense.

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A Conversation with Activist Scott Langley

Scott Langley is a freelance photojournalist and activist involved in Amnesty International. Organized by the INGOs program, Langley came to RIC October 23, 2019 to share his position on the death penalty.

By Andres Escobar ‘21 AE: I know the Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project began as college class assignment. Do you remember the assignment and what inspired you to hone in on this topic? Did you expect your once class assignment to expand so greatly?

SL: I was taking a human rights class where we were required to create an art project as part of the curriculum. I chose to share a handful of human rights related photos that I had personal taken. Some of those included a trip I took to stand outside of the Texas death house on the night of an execution. That experience, coupled with some other subsequent exposures I had to the death penalty, were a catalyst to keep the idea going even once the semester ended. I saw that my contribution to the death penalty education movement (and thus, the abolition movement) was to use images to show people what goes on outside of prisons at those moments of execution and the impact that the system has on various people involved – including murder victim family members.

AE: After watching your 2006 documentary, how did you feel about hearing that some of the executioners were, in fact, volunteers? If given the chance to speak to those volunteers, is there anything you’d like to say?

SL: A lot of what I saw on my tour of the North Carolina death house I already knew. I knew that prisoners had orchestrated last meals. I knew they had final words with a chaplain. I knew that correction offers were the ones administering the lethal drugs to kill. I knew that witness were there to see it all. It was just absolutely shocking to have a prison warden confirm it all, and also describe it in such dry, mundane detail – as if it was all just a normal workday and part of his job. It was not only shocking, but horrifyingly disturbing.

AE: Regarding the closing remark of your Execution Timeline photo story, how would you respond to the rebuttal, “what about justice?”

SL: The death penalty is society’s response to murder. We see a tragedy, and we offer tit-for-tat retribution as the healing solution. But it is far from just. The death penalty doesn’t provide closure to the grieving murder victim family members. In fact, it often re-traumatizes them. And it certainly is not protecting us as a society, as there are successful alternatives in place (life in prison, for example), and many perpetrators of violent crime are redeemable – through mental health treatment, drug addiction counseling, and other social services that could have prevented the crime from happening in the first place. Is the death penalty just? I say no. If you tell me yes, I ask then, for whom? Because 3

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in my 20+ years of experience, I haven’t seen any justice for any person or community in this. Everyone seems to be losing – the police, the courts, the attorneys, the jails, the prisoner families, the victim families, and our society as a whole.

AE: How do you prepare for the toll that this kind of photojournalism takes on you?

SL: I don’t do much to prepare in advance, but I certainly have to deal with the aftermath. It is absolutely a secondhand trauma to those of us on the front lines who witness things such as weeping family members outside of prisons while their loved ones are killed on the inside. It is absolutely horrific. So as a journalist that witnesses this, I have to find ways for self-care. It is hard, and a struggle, to be sure. But to keep going, I have to find peace and hope in what I do.

AE: Do you feel disappointment toward the United States because of its use of capital punishment, especially since it is the only western state using it?

SL: I am ashamed to be a citizen of a country that thinks it is okay to deem certain people unworthy of life. It is an extermination program, wrought with injustice and immorality. We need to end it now, and join the rest of the western democracies that have embraced alternatives to the death penalty long ago. Our common allies in the use of capital punishment are countries like China, Saudi Arabia, North Korean, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan so forth. Why are we aligning ourselves ideologically with these nations that we profess to despise? It is absurd.

AE: Do you hope to photograph any celebrities in particular for your “I Oppose the Death Penalty” series?

SL: I have long wanted to photograph Eddie Vedder. As a Pearl Jam fan, it would be humbling to get to meet and photograph a musician who has used his fame to do a lot of good in the world – including being an advocate for human rights issues and justice. So Eddie, if you are reading this, be in touch! :)

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CORNER

The PERKS of Being a PUB AD Major!

Dr. Leazes is happy to announce that the Rhode Island College Public Administration Major is now available to CCRI students through an innovative 2+2 degree program for full-time students. CCRI Students wishing to major in Public Administration at Rhode Island College will complete their General Education courses at CCRI including American Government. They also will complete within the 60 credits taken at CCRI a Rhode Island College Transfer Minor (TMIN) in one of the following areas currently available to CCRI students:

• More than 2/3s of students graduating from RIC are still in RI a year after graduation, and the majority either stay in the state for their entire careers or leave for a time and return; • 2/3s of RIC graduates have jobs closely related to their RIC degree .

This project is timely for two reasons. First the Political Science Department is working on a strategic plan to attract more students.

The alumni data gathered during Spring 2020 will assist the department in its planning because it will document alumni outcomes which may be useful for curriculum decisions, advising and network building for our students and marketing the department. The second reason for undertaking this project now is that Arts and Science departments and majors nationwide find themselves faced with skeptical, utilitarian demands to demonstrate relevancy. One way to address those relevancy concerns is to have good data on postgraduation outcomes for out students.

TMIN 200 Law Enforcement(18 cr) TMIN 201 Paralegal Studies (18 cr) TMIN 202 Computer Studies (21 cr) TMIN 203 Financial Advisory Services (20 cr) TMIN 204 Fire Science (20 cr) TMIN 205 Emergency Management /Homeland Security (21 cr)

A student fulfilling the requirement of one of those areas of study will have satisfied the cognate requirement of the Public Administration PA Majors don’t panic! You will have an advisor next semester. Dr. major at Rhode Island College. We look forward to welcoming more Leazes is preparing an advising form for each of you that will have on CCRI students transferring into the Public Administration Program. it the courses you were advised to take Spring 2020 and the courses you should register for during Fall 2020.

Professor Leazes will be on sabbatical leave during the Spring 2020 Semester to work on an outcomes assessment project. In 2016 I am very pleased that next Semester PBAD 325 Politics of Public Professor Arthur and I were awarded a research grant from the Rhode Management will be taught by Amanda Clarke, the Chief of Staff for Island Collaborative and after our research concluded we wrote a the Rhode Island Department of Administration (DOA). Amanda has a report for policy makers in Rhode Island about the importance of a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and an MPA both from URI. She college educated workforce for the economic future of the state.I am previously was the Deputy Director and a Senior Economic and Policy continuing that work by studying the career paths of Political Science Analyst for the RI Office of Regulatory Reform within DOA. Those Department alumni. Currently that outcome data is captured mostly positions followed her early career as a Project Manager of Public by anecdote. I want to change that for our department by reviewing Policy and Government Relations for the United Way of Rhode Island. the careers of 75-100 alumni to see if their experience conforms to Amanda has guest lectured on numerous occasions in the two key findings of the 2016 Report: Foundations of Public Administration class and the Politics of Public Management course. We are fortunate that she has the time and interest to work with our students next semester.

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INGOS CORNER

In the Know about INGOS? This fall the INGOs program is proud to welcome Professor Yuree Noh. Professor Noh is currently teaching the introductory course in the program, INGO 300 Introduction to INGOs, as well as POL 350 Middle Eastern Politics. Professor Noh hails most recently from Harvard, but conducted her PhD work at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research is on autocracies in the Middle East and North Africa.

Please welcome her to the program!

Spring Courses

POL 341: The Politics of Developing Nations — elective for the minor and certificate, 3 cr.

INGO 301: Applied Development — required for the minor and certificate, 3 cr.

T, Th 2-3:20 — Professor Yuree Noh We will address some of the most fundamental issues about politics and economies of the developing world: why are some nations prosperous whereas others are not? Why are some governments democratic and others authoritarian? The course not only expects students to understand the prevailing answers to the questions but also want them to learn how social scientists try to answer them and why the answers are not always satisfying. We also cover how these issues are at play in specific developing countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

M 4-6:50 — Professor Carse Ramos This course exams the expansive field of international development — a diverse collection of strategies that have been devised by policymakers, academics, advocates, INGOs, and everyday people to end poverty and improve lives around the world.

INGO 302: Social Entrepreneurship and INGOS — required for the minor and certificate, 4 cr.

M, Th 12-1:50 — Professor Robyn Linde

POL 344: Human Rights — elective for the minor and certificate, 4 cr.

We will continue the RIC Food Justice Project in Rhode Island Neighborhoods this spring. This coming semester, we will partner with the office of the RI State Director of Food Strategy as well as the organization, Foot Not Bombs.

Check us out at www.ric.edu/FoodJustice

T, Th 10-11:50 — Professor Robyn Linde We will cover human rights through current and historical case studies. We will also work on a project for an international NGO that will involve crowdsourcing satellite maps to document human rights abuses and/or assist human rights actors.

INGO 303 and 304: Pre-Internship and Internship in INGOS - required for the certificate, 1-4 cr.

TBA — Professor Robyn Linde

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GEOGRAPHY CORNER

Fall 2019

Oh the Places You’ll Go…. with Geography!

In recent years, many students have expressed a clear interest in conducting research and undertaking internships in the fields of renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. A growing awareness among our students about the need for scientifically-informed green energy policy and better stewardship of scarce land resources has led to innovative Readings in Geography (GEOG 470) projects and internship placements (GEOG 463). In the last four semesters, students have conducted supervised field research on cutting-edge topics including, for example: how to develop an economic model for an organic, small family farm in Exeter, RI so that it may successfully serve local markets in the face of much cheaper produce from regional factory farms; how solar energy farms in Cranston can overcome “Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) concerns expressed by abutting property owners, so that the citywide population might reap the benefits of lower energy costs; how Block Island Wind Company was able to secure multi-tiered permitting from federal, state and local jurisdictions to construct the United States’ first off-shore wind farm in Block Island Sound; and how inner-city horticulture collectives are able to use plots of vacant land in low-income Providence neighborhoods to provide children and families with healthy, affordable vegetables. Any students interested in pursuing a Geography Readings Course or Geography Internship should speak with their advisors or contact Dr. Mark Motte directly at mmotte@ric.edu. He will work with you to tailor a guided applied research or internship experience that mirrors your academic passion or intended career path.

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Poli Sci Club’s Essay Contest Winners Earlier this fall, the Poli Sci Club held its second annual essay contest. Entrants chose from several prompts, and the first, second, and third place winners received Amazon gift cards. Below you can read the winning essays. protectionist administration, one that campaigned on the promise of “America first”, is debatable. It is also irrelevant.

Protectionist impulses or not, the Trump administration is failing at what it promised it would do. Trump’s trade war with China continues to escalate with no signs of stopping and is harming the very farmers Trump promised to protect.

Though Trump claimed that as president he would decrease the deficit, between the most recent fiscal year and the previous one the federal deficit has increased by 23%, reaching 747 billion. While it is true federal debt also increased above 1 trillion under the Obama administration, Obama was sworn into office during the Great Recession, which necessitated increased government spending. Trump, meanwhile, entered the Oval Office with an economy that was faring well and yet the budget deficit is on track to reach 1 trillion this year. Furthermore, the economy Trump loves to tout is predicted to experience a recession, likely close to the critical 2020 elections. None of these realities reflect a nation-state that has succeeded in its goals to bolster its economy and prioritize its citizens.

The Loss of Soft Power and Its Meaning for Our Country’s Future — 1st Place

By Katarina Dulude Following the G7 meetings of 2017, German Chancellor Angela Merkel remarked, “The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days.” This was in reference largely to the Trump administration. Since then, Trump has continued to insult the United States’ traditional allies and has cozied up to authoritarian rulers like President Vladimir Putin, President Rodrigo Duterte, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmanand, even after the brutal murder of American journalist Jamal Khashoggi was linked to the latter. While boasting at the United Nations, Trump had foreign nations literally laugh in his face. Given all this, the United States has undeniably seen its soft power on the decline since the president took office. Whether this matters for a

Even if the Trump administration was succeeding in acting on the populist platform it campaigned on, economics is not the only area of politics where soft power can serve a country. Promoting democracy and combating human rights abuses, a major goal of the United States throughout the majority of the 20th century and a responsibility that the Trump administration appears to have abdicated entirely, is one example of this. Another issue of increasing prominence in which soft power would prove useful is the climate crisis that threatens the entire world. While it is true that problems like these are not ones that the Trump administration concerns itself with, whether Trump serves a

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second term or not, the damage his administration has wrought is likely to last, and America’s fractured alliances and leadership roles will be something future presidents will be forced to contend with and attempt to mend for years to come. In summation, protectionism is only a viable excuse to deplete one’s soft power if a nation’s protectionist policies are successful, and even then, soft power is still better had than not.

of the laws”. Written post-Civil War, it was a symbol of unification. The amendment was first written to include African Americans' citizenship status after the United States had profoundly scarred their community. It was a time to come together and take a hard look at each other to notice that we were all created equal.

Today more than ever it is an affirmation that hope can still shine through the darkest parts of the world and that we can all become an American no matter our race, religion, and/or sexual orientation. Hope is given to Syrian children whom, childhoods have already been taken away because they were born into a Civil War. Hope is given to a Rohingya Muslim brother who is seen as an outcast and is facing possible genocide in his country. Hope is given to a mother of two from Guatemala that is surviving among violence and constant fear of not able to live for the next sunrise to provide a better future for her children.

Thus, I do dare to say that the First Amendment is not the most important. After all, the United States is only as free as the last one who was not. Built on hope, the United States was the promised land to pilgrims in the Mayflower, that seek to escape their countries’ injustices. The 14th Amendment is the stamp of such promise the Untied States made for all, that anyone has a rightful place under the promised land and that hope is still alive to those that seek freedom. With hope in my heart, I believe that in the future we will once again come together and acknowledge that our past generations have failed to fully recognize that when the founding fathers wrote “all men were created equal” it was more so that we were all created equal.

Hope — 2nd Place

By Ruben Rubio The First Amendment holds that we have a right to freedom of religion, speech, and the press which are freedoms that the United States proudly stands for, however, the First Amendment is not the most important among all amendments.

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The 14th Amendment embodies the few moments in history in which the United States assumed responsibility for the past injustices of their people and decided to make it right. The Amendment held the rights of citizenship, that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States” and that the state can not deny “any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection 9

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The 25th Amendment was put to use right away during the Nixon/Ford Administrations, just a few years after its ratification. In 1973, Nixon’s first Vice President, Spiro Agnew decided to resign from office after pleading no contest to a charge of tax evasion. Since the 25th Amendment was now in place, Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to be the Vice President. He was confirmed by both Houses of Congress that year and was sworn into office. However, just nearly a year later, during the peak of the Watergate scandal, President Nixon resigned from office in August of 1974. As a result, Ford rose to the Presidency, and shortly after, nominated Nelson Rockefeller to fill the office he just held. The power for a President to appoint a Vice President is important because since the Vice President is President of the Senate, he is able to break a tied vote if there is one.

Without a Vice President, this could not happen, and legislation could stall in Congress.

25: The Most Important Amendment — 3rd Place

By Jake Hall

Another important section of the 25th Amendment deals with the concept of an “acting president”. What this means is that if the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office, he may submit a letter to the President Pro Tem. of the Senate, and Speaker of the House that says he is unable to serve for a certain period of time. Then, the Vice President can take over as acting President, and serve until the President notifies the two leaders listed above and acknowledges he can resume his duties. This has actually happened three times since the ratification of the 25th Amendment. Once in 1985, in 2002, and 2007. All three times the President was required to be sedated for medical procedures and designated the Vice President as acting president out an abundance of caution. This is important because if the President is unable to discharge his powers, the Vice President can do so in case of a national emergency.

While all constitutional amendments are important and significant, the 25th Amendment is important in our day in age. Without a Vice President, important pieces of legislation could stall in the Senate, and if the President was unable to discharge his powers during a national emergency, the U.S. could be left defenseless. This amendment has been put to use several times in important circumstances, and serves as a safeguard in the event of a vacancy or emergency.

This September we will mark the 232nd year of the writing of our Constitution. Over the course of 230 years, we have amended the Constitution 27 times for various reasons. For me personally I believe the most important constitutional amendment is amendment 25, which relates to the Presidential line of succession, incapacities of the President, the “acting” President, and vacancies within the Office of the Vice President of the United States. I believe that especially in this day and age, this amendment is significant for two key reasons. One when there is a vacancy in the Office of the Vice President, it is critical to have one since he is President of the Senate, and two, in case of a national emergency, if the President is unable to discharge his powers during a national emergency, the Vice President can become acting president and take over temporarily.

The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967 and established that when the Office of the Vice President is vacant, the President may appoint one and be confirmed by both chambers of Congress. It also established that the President may designate the Vice President acting president through a certain procedure, among other things.

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It’s so hard to believe the semester is nearing its end! It’s certainly been a busy one. This fall, the department welcomed our newest colleague, Dr. Yuree Noh. This spring, in addition to offering a First Year Seminar, Dr. Noh will teach POL 308 and a course the department hasn’t been able to offer for a while—POL 341: The Politics of Developing Nations.

Registration for Spring 2020 If you haven’t registered for your spring courses, make sure you do so ASAP! If you aren’t sure who your advisor is, please feel free to contact me. College budgetary issues mean departments have had to cancel under-enrolled courses for the last three semesters. Unfortunately, we will be asked to do this for the foreseeable future. If you wait until mid-January to register for classes, it will be too late, the class(es) you were interested in may be gone.

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Contemporary Political Controversy before taking most of your other 300-level courses. POL 308, our Writing in the Discipline course, is especially crucial to take before you select your two writing intensive courses. To see which 300-level courses are considered writing intensive, check your advising report, the catalog, or the department’s advising sheet. Writing intensive courses require a 10 to 12-page research paper, and you are not limited in the number you take for the major.

London Course This upcoming summer, you can take POL 444: British Politics and Cultural Studies (3 credits) on campus during the first summer session, and then head to London to take POL 445: European Political Geography (3 credits) during the second summer session. Drs. Rich Wiener and Seth Dixon will be leading a group of students to London to learn about British and European politics, geography, culture, and Internship Courses more! For more information, contact Dr. Weiner at rwiener@ric.edu, Earn credit for getting hands-on experience! The Department offers or Dr. Dixon at sdixon@ric.edu, and go to http://www.ric.edu/ four internship courses. If you are interested in an internship in politicalscience/Pages/londoncourse.aspx. political science, you can choose fromPOL 327: Internship in State Government, which is only offered in the spring, and POL 328: Field Departmental Honors Experiences in the Public Sector, which runs every semester. If you It’s never too early to start thinking about departmental honors. If choose POL 327, you must have a GPA of 2.5 or above. After an you’re a political science student with a major GPA of 3.4 and an interview at the State House, the Rhode Island State Government overall GPA of 3.25, consider doing a senior honors project. In your Internship Program staff will find an internship site for you. Possible junior year, you should come up with a research question or topic that placements include the legislative, executive and judicial branches, interests you and approach a professor who teaches that subject to the various departments of state government, as well as municipal serve as your thesis advisor. A very brief application should be agencies and community and non-profit organizations.Students who completed by November15th to get approval to start the project in are interested in other types of internships (e.g. a political campaign the fall of senior year. For more information on departmental honors or law office) should sign up for POL 328. If you don’t have a and doing a senior honors project, see our honors director, Dr. Claus placement in mind, you can work with the internship coordinator or Hofhansel, and go to: http://www.ric.edu/politicalscience/Pages/ the Career Development Center to find something suitable. You must awards.aspx. have at least a 2.0 GPA to take POL 328.Please see the department’s administrative assistant, Amy Tibbetts, if you want to sign up for POL Finally, I want to thank all of the students who contributed to this 327 or 328. Geography’s internship is GEOG 463: Internship in newsletter, and, a special huge THANKS to Jae Geralde, who Geography, and the INGOS internship class is INGO 304: Internship volunteered to take over the editing this semester. I knew that I was in INGOs. If you are interested in GEOG 463, you should contact the just too busy to do it, and feared that, after six years of publishing director of the Geography program, Dr. Mark Motte. For INGOS 304, Ideopolis twice a year, it would disappear (at least for this semester).

Without Jae, this issue would not exist. contact the director of the INGOS program, Dr. Robyn Linde.

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