Improv 101: the outsider perspective

One thing that I’ve learned as a Secondary Education & English student is that the art of teaching is one-third organization, one-third content-knowledge, and one-third performance. I am organized: I keep track of my deadlines and work diligently. I have content knowledge: after all, I’ve been studying English here for almost four years now. I…

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The calm amongst the chaos

As senior year continues to roll through, I encounter more challenges, each more difficult than the other. You’d think that senior year would be a breeze, that the “senioritis” could kick in without a worry in the world. That’s what my mindset was up until the second week of September, when I started crashing. I’ve…

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Sully Abroad: A new kind of community

The roar of The Ruckus, the pep band playing and singing the fight song, Rhody the Ram running around, watching our basketball team beat the living [expletive] out of Providence College (knock on wood); these are all things that makeup the University of Rhode Island’s identity. Like other schools in America, athletics and school-wide organizations…

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Do URI’s policies protect us or infect us?

There is a trending notion on college campuses that certain words and ideas are dangerous to intellectual and moral progress and should be squelched without question. This has led students to disrupt, disinvite and physically attack intellectuals, comedians and other speakers whose perspectives and insights could otherwise have been used for critical inquiry and the…

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