“The School for Lies,” a play by David Ives, opens Feb. 23 at the University of Rhode Island’s Fine Arts Center. It is an adaptation of Moliére’s play “The Misanthrope,” with the setting updated to 1600s France. Catia Ramos plays Celimene, who has managed to avoid all suitors since her husband passed away. Then comes…
The University of Rhode Island swimming and diving team endured plenty of ups-and-downs over the weekend on route to a ninth place finish in the Atlantic 10 Championships at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Eleven teams embarked on their quest for conference supremacy beginning on Thursday and concluding on Sunday afternoon. The Rams, despite…
All it takes to expresses you world through writing, sculpting and taking pictures is a $4 Yashica camera. Second-year art major Alex Murdock started shooting photographs with a digital point and shoot cameras in elementary school, and continued photographing on and off until college. He said he tries not to take direct influence from…
For true cinephiles, the calendar year doesn’t end until late February. That’s when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors the best in film from the previous year at the Academy Awards. Unfortunately, this means film buffs, including yours truly, have been forced to stay in the grueling, depressing mindset of 2016 two…
The University of Rhode Island will be breaking ground on a new $5 million visitors center this coming June, which will remain under construction for roughly a year. The new visitor center will offer prospective students and their families more amenities than the current ‘hut’ that stands in its place, according to Project Manager…
The University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s track and field teams finished in second and fourth place respectively this past weekend at the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships at George Mason University’s EagleBank Arena. The men’s team was the only other track and field program that competed in the A-10 Championships that earned a final…
While many students stayed inside to escape the cold during the snowstorms last week, others were not able to find the same refuge. For many students living in Heathman Hall, their heat has not been working for the past few weeks or, for some, the entirety of the academic school year. After multiple complaints…
International students at the University of Rhode Island are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump’s executive order that prevents citizens of seven countries from entering the United States. A graduate student at URI from Iran, who asked to remain anonymous, planned to go visit her family overseas in March, but had to change her…
This past Tuesday, the University of Rhode Island communications sent out a notice covering the recent identity thefts happening on campus. The notice said that “The University has been made aware of some recent student ‘ID Number’ thefts where accounts have been used by imposters to order food from local establishments.” “We’re still doing an…
Wednesday was ’90s night at the Thomas M. Ryan Center, where the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team lost to Fordham University 53- 43 as they now look toward the Atlantic 10 Championships with only five games remaining. Rhode Island started off the first half of the game on a strong 7-2 run, but…