Unlike many art students at the University of Rhode Island, Lila Barber did not begin to explore her artistic side until coming to the university. Because so many art majors have been interested in the subject since they were children, or at least for many years, Barber’s perspective as an artist is quite unique among…
After a brief absence, the University of Rhode Island’s Philosophy Club is back in full force, hosting meetings under new leadership and structure. In 2013, Philosophy Club was popular for its discussion-based meetings where students would gather outside of their philosophy classes to exchange ideas and thoughts about specific philosophical works or theories. The atmosphere…
University of Rhode Island student and cancer survivor, Ian Kanterman, assembled the university’s first head shaving event, which raised about $19,000 for the St. Baldrick’s childhood cancer research foundation on Monday.  Kanterman, a junior engineering major at the university, suffered from lymphoma at the young age of 5. He said that he first learned…
Film Student Robert Riglietti’s journey through filmmaking has taken him to some personal, unique, and very experimental places, helping him create a style and technique all his own. Riglietti, a junior at The University of Rhode Island originally from New York, discovered his love for filmmaking when doing an extra credit project while he was…
As the college basketball careers of the seniors on the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team came to an end last Thursday, so too did the road for senior pep band members. It’s now been four years since I first walked in the service entrance at the back of the Ryan Center and joined…
After Ranger Hall’s groundbreaking ceremony for its renovations this past November, there have been notable disparities between buildings for the arts versus STEM majors. The University of Rhode Island’s communication studies, film/media, journalism, public relations and writing and rhetoric departments will get a renovated building with the completion of Ranger Hall. But other programs,…
The University of Rhode Island’s Community Resource Officers use their skills and their ages to help them handle situations on campus. Michael McCabe and Nicholas DeTroia are two officers for the University of Rhode Island’s Police Department. They are Community Resource Officers that work out of the substation of Barlow. McCabe and DeTroia typically work…
Students at the University of Rhode Island have recently been given the option of a fifth-year master’s level oceanography program that saves them additional years of courses. Started last year, this is a five-year program that allows undergraduate students to take master’s level courses during their undergraduate studies and finish with a master’s degree in…
In 2003, at 8 years old, Edwin Sam packed up a childhood in Ghana, Africa, and moved to Rhode Island with his older siblings. Now a junior computer science major at the University of Rhode Island, he plans go to back one day– just temporarily. He mentioned how his extended family came to wish him…
The penultimate movie of the Tournees French Film Festival, “The Painting,†was shown in Edwards Auditorium on Tuesday evening. The Painting (Le Tableau) is a 2011 animated film directed by Jean-François Laguionie.  The film begins in an unfinished piece of art. The denizens of the painting are divided into different classes, depending on if they…