Photo courtesy of the Nonviolence Center | Karen Housley, the art director of the United American Diversity Peace Flag, works in preparation to hang the flag in downtown providence “We’ve learned that if we were to simply advertise an event that encourages students to come by and discuss various methods of nonviolence and the topic…
Autumn Walter|CIGAR| The URI baseball team is looking forward to a successful spring season. The weather might tell you otherwise but college baseball season is upon us. The 2018 University of Rhode Island Rams head to College Station, Texas this weekend to battle Texas A&M in a three game series to start the year. …
Photos by Oluwatona Campbell|CIGAR “To celebrate this special holiday, members of the URI community and the Confucius Institute gathered together last Sunday to mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year.” The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is one of the most important festivals in Chinese culture, as it celebrates the start of a…
A school shooting at a Florida high school has left 17 dead and an additional 16 injured. The shooting occurred in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. According to CNN, both students and teachers are among those killed. The school has an estimated enrollment of 3,100 students. The suspect, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was…
Feb. 5, 2018 At 7:42 a.m. a student reported the loss of their phone. At 10:28 a.m. a car hit Christ the King Church. An accident report was filed. There were no injuries and the church was not damaged. At 7:31 p.m. a student reported the theft of their laptop in the library. Feb. 6,…
Photo by Anna Meassick|CIGAR| Current clothing donation bins are tucked away at the top of campus in the Emporium, far from the residence halls. In this modern age there are more people, more production and more waste than ever before and the earth is getting no bigger. The United States is one of the world’s…
The University of Rhode Island Student Senate started off the meeting Wednesday night by approving a bill that gave a contingency grant to the Powerlifting team for their collegiate nationals competition. The team came in to talk about the event they will be attending. The President of the team, Sam Kopech, said that the event…
It’s no secret that the cost of attending a four-year university has increased more than any other time in the last half-century. Experts like Sandy Baum of the Urban Institute argued in a National Public Radio interview that, “it’s not that colleges are spending more money to educate students.” Rather, that, “It’s that they have…
Autumn Walter|CIGAR| E.C. Matthews scored six points at the Davidson game. Mid-right: In the first half of the Tuesday night game, Mathews was injured in a collision with Richmond’s no. 33. What was just another night in the Ryan Center turned into complete panic and silence when E.C Matthews went down with a left-knee injury…
