On Monday, Jan. 23 -At 6:34 p.m., a report was filed for a drug offense in Coddington Residence Hall on Complex Road. -At 11:32 p.m., a report was filed for a drug offense in Burnside Residence Hall on West Alumni Avenue. On Tuesday Jan. 24 -At 12:34 a.m., University Police were…
Have you ever been interested in working in television or film? Perhaps you’d like to work with the University of Rhode Island’s TV Network or Film Collaborative. These two student groups work on various film projects throughout the semester. The TV Network utilizes the television studio located in Chafee Hall, Room 217. The television studio…
February is now upon us, which means it is now appropriate to begin assessing the scope of the college basketball season. There exists a feeling of faint hope pervading throughout campus, as the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team finds itself walking a fine line between legitimacy and fraudulence. Anything but an NCAA Tournament…
The Student Senate passed two bills at their meeting last night creating representative positions for the College of Educational & Professional Studies and the College of Health & Science and showing their support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The first bill concerned giving liaisons to the College of Educational & Professional Studies and…
I’m sorry, did we all forget the last ten years of Shyamalan? From “The Village” (2004) to “After Earth” (2013), his career has been reduced to the punchline that the critics saw it as. Sure, he showed promise with “The Sixth Sense” (1999), and had two films that lived up to that hype a little,…
The URI Hockey team dropped back-to-back games this weekend to Drexel Univeristy, losing 3-2 on Friday, and 5-4 in a shootout on Saturday. Despite losing the second game in a shootout, the whole weekend might as well have been called one. The Rams peppered the Dragon’s on offense, tallying 121 shots in the series….
Twenty University of Rhode Island undergraduate theatre students and one alumna left Tuesday afternoon for five days to attend the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), at Western Connecticut State University. While at the festival they will participate in workshops and competitions for acting, directing and stage production scholarships. KCACTF is a national…
The University of Rhode Island men’s track and field team started their indoor season at an exceptional rate with two first place finishes, as well as individual success across the board especially from emerging star, junior jumper Casey Burley. The Warwick, New York native is off to an unbelievable start to his junior year indoor…
On Monday, Jan. 30, the University of Rhode Island College Republicans made progress in their pursuit for official recognition after the Student Organization and Advisory Review Committee, or SOARC, agreed to submit a bill calling for their recognition as an unfunded student organization to the URI Student Senate. After being derecognized by student senate two…
In today’s world of click-bait, Facebook and ‘alternative facts,’ it can be difficult to know what information is true, and what isn’t. Students wishing to find reliable information should focus on reputable, established outlets while avoiding information from unknown sources. “The simplest thing to do is rely on time tested, valid, news outlets,” said Professor…