With the internet cluttered with more information than ever before, it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate between what information is real and what is not. Professors from the University of Rhode Island formed a panel to discuss “Finding Reliable Information in a ‘Post-Fact’ World” in Chaffee Hall last Thursday. “Facts are important but…
After healthcare loss, Trump moves forward on Obama-era environmental rules Last week, the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the previous president’s signature policy achievement, failed to receive a vote in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said that Obamacare is the “law of the land.” President Donald…
The URI Student Senate approved three internal policy bills, elected chair members, selected a commencement speaker and said goodbye to outgoing senators of the Anderson-Montecalvo administration on Wednesday night. The Senate heard commencement speeches from Frank DiPalama, Vasiliki N. Panteleakis and Colin Rumbel. After a vote, Rumbel was selected as the commencement speaker. The three…
On Wednesday, March 22 at 12:20 p.m. a report was filed for an incident of larceny in Garrahy Residence Hall, on Flagg road. At 11:33 p.m. University Police were notified of suspicious activity in the Flagg Road parking lot. On Thursday, March 23 at 2:43 p.m. a moving citation was issued to a 28-year-old after…
Often we find that in the dissemination of information a disconnect occurs. It is a more complicated process to comprehensively divulge information for mass consumption than people give credit for, but isn’t that the mass media’s job? Providing truth to the people so they can function in a democratic society, and acting as watchdog over…
The year was 1999. The average price of gas was $1.30. Kurt Warner, Dick Vermeil and the St. Louis Rams were coined, “the greatest show on turf,” and the team to beat in the NFL. And the starting five for the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team was Preston Murphy, Antonio Reynolds-Dean, Tavorris Bell,…
Atlanta Alternative Spring: Break Freshmen secondary education and history major, Mary-Kate McGeary, went on an alternative spring break trip to Atlanta as a part of the University of Rhode Island Service Corps. “I went to Atlanta because I have always loved community service, but have never been able to do it on a larger scale,”…
On March 22, 2017 Hydrologist and Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Jay Famiglietti, gave a lecture on the growing concern around freshwater security and communicating concerns around it. “It can be a challenge to explain why we do what we do and [I] think we should embrace that,” said Dr….
While nearly everyone at the University of Rhode Island was closely following the men’s basketball team throughout the playoffs, some members of the community were following closer than others. Thanks to a few plane rides, a handful of Ubers and several hundred dollars, Ramettes Hannah Ritchie, Rachel Silva, Cassie Clifford and Sam Angell were able…
Douglas J Wood, an alumni from the University of Rhode Island, recently released his book “Presidential Conclusions,” the last in a trilogy of political fiction following the second woman president, Samantha Harrison. “Presidential Conclusions” feels like it could be “ripped from today’s headlines” and is full of “imagined conversations with real politicians.” Wood described the…