URI: Historic to its core

Core of URI’s main campus listed as a historic district Photo by Kristain Erickson | Top: Lippit Hall is one of 17 locations on campus recently added to the historical district. Below: East Hall, built in 1909, also recently added to historical registry. 125 years after being established, the center of the University of Rhode Island’s…

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The Rollin’ Rams

Men’s basketball extends winning streak to 13 games Top: Jared Terrell soars to the baskest against Duquesne. Bottom: Rams “dog- pile” on Stan Robinson following his game-winning three as time expired on Saturday afternoon. Photos courtesy of Photo by Friday. The No. 22 University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team recorded their 12th and 13th…

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Life before the Patriots dynasty

I imagine it was a picture-perfect New England, Sunday afternoon in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the fall of sometime in the 1970s. There is a man in his backyard raking leaves, listening to the booming voice of Gil Santos play through his radio. It’s Patriots gameday. Quarterback Jim Plunkett, a former number one overall pick…

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Welcome to the new Cigar

Photo by Abigail Clarkin Getting the proverbial keys to the Good Five Cent Cigar was pretty daunting. Here I am, a junior writing & rhetoric and English major, who now has control of 47-year-old newspaper. Needless to say, I felt very unqualified and unfit for this position. But after a month of throwing away failed…

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