Regional: Late Sunday night, the Denver Broncos defeated the New England Patriots 30-24 to improve to 9-2 on the season. This win for the Broncos was an unplanned turn for the Patriots, who prior to the game had been undefeated this season.  They are now 10-1. Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski dropped to the…
A student at the University of Rhode Island takes gaining field experience through internships to the next level. Surya Moreira, in her fifth year at URI, has gotten the chance to meet big-name stars through her internships at Atlantic Records in New York City and Warner Brothers in California. “Coming into school I thought I…
This past week the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team finished 3-1 in the Cancun Challenge, in which two games were played at the Ryan Center, and two games were played in Mexico. The Rams defeated Cleveland State, Texas Christian University, and Rider University. Their lone loss came to the hands of the no….
Jeremy LeClair was always a music enthusiast, but never considered his own radio show until tuning in to the University of Rhode Island’s FM station, WRIU 90.3. As a freshman, LeClair started out at a small school in Vermont, Green Mountain College. Shortly after his first year there he realized he missed home and was…
The University of Rhode Island women’s volleyball team (20-9) were swept by Saint Louis University in the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Championships on Nov. 21 after defeating Duquesne (14-15) in five sets the night before. URI came into George Washington University, the host for the conference tournament, with aspirations for A-10 supremacy; a…
Dear Editor, As the residents of Narragansett “try to get their town back,†they should keep in mind that it is a team effort.  As Brianna Montecalvo, the Student Senate External Affairs chair said in the article, “Student/resident relations evolve ‘down the line’,†students and residents need to work on cohesiveness.  Not just students,…
(This is in response to the article https://rhodycigar.com/2015/10/10/two-football-players-arrested-for-fighting/. The information on what President Dooley has said about this situation comes from the article http://ripr.org/post/uri-president-david-dooley-campus-violence.) Dear Editor, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Broken noses. Fractured jaw. Fractured arm. These are just a few of the injuries sustained by Chi Phi brothers after members of the URI football team came into…
The traditional college lecture has been around for about 800 years. The teaching style came about because a select few elites would have information, and information was hard to get. At the time, one person standing up and talking for an hour made sense. However, society has evolved immensely from 800 years ago. With inventions…
Not every campus police officer at the University of Rhode Island always had their sights set on law enforcement, but one made his decision after retirement. Officer Paul Hanrahan’s first career was in the military, starting when he joined the air force right after he graduated from North Kingstown High School. He served in…
The International Engineering Program (IEP) at the University of Rhode Island has provided students with unique opportunities to further their education while studying abroad for years. Although many study abroad students opt for a reduced workload and credits which submerge them into a foreign culture, the IEP students push themselves to study their already intense…