Palestinian emigration, RIPTA, and Minecraft
Volume 51 Issue 5 — October 31, 2025
Hey, Indie here. Welcome to The Clog, the weekly newsletter from your favorite alt-weekly, the College Hill Independent.
Happy Halloween! I spent last night surrounded/kind of being pushed around by a horde of medium-sweaty goblins and ghouls and also a sexy lamp and a guy in a penguin onesie. I look forward to a similar experience tonight and tomorrow night, all while dressed entirely inappropriately for the weather.
Halloween is famously a spooky time, but if you ask me, the scariest part of them all is the looming specter of November. Where did October go? What will November bring? These are questions even Indie can’t answer. But until we find out, assuage your fears and confusions by cozying up with the Indy. We’ve got something beautiful for you this week. Let’s take a peek:
For World, Aboud Ashhab B‘26 (MPA) unravels the long history of Israeli policies promoting Palestinian emigration.
“Although today’s Israeli policymakers obsess over containing and constraining Gazans within an open-air prison, their predecessors were consumed by encouraging urban expansion, mainly as a means to force Gazans to leave.”
In Metro, Elena Jiang B’27 speaks to Rhode Island residents about RIPTA’s importance in their lives. On September 27, the bus system implemented a sweeping round of service cuts—a consequence of a years-long funding issue deprioritized by state legislators.
“Save RIPTA will continue advocating until legislators commit to creating an ideal public transportation system, where people ‘ride transit because it’s good and safe and easy,’ and because ‘it’s faster than driving, better than driving, and more sustainable than driving,’ Burkin insisted. The vision of Save RIPTA lies here: a world where RIPTA can focus on bettering and expanding their routes rather than fighting to keep them.”
And finally, in S+T, Tarini Tipnis B’26.5 investigates the video game Minecraft and asks: what happens to time when death is a “temporary inconvenience?”
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Til next time! xoxo Indie