March 2018
URI students ‘March for Our Lives’
Photo by Emma Gauthier |CIGAR| URI students participate show their support at the march in Providence, Rhode Island. One March 24, March for Our Lives (MFOL) organized protesters who stormed the Rhode Island State House lawn as they gathered to show their support for greater gun regulations and raise awareness for school gun violence. “March…
Community Celebrates Persian New Year
Photo by Anna Meassick |CIGAR| Students enjoy the event’s food and special cultural tables. On March 25, at 6:30 p.m., members of the University of Rhode Island’s Persian community held an event in the Memorial Union Ballroom to celebrate the Persian New Year, or Nowruz. This is the second year that members of the community…
SOLC loses $17,000 budget
By Andrew Main, Julia Moro, Samuel Murray, Caitlyn Picard, and Ian Weiner Senate votes 27-3 to unfund student organization After debate, Student Senate decided to defund the Student Organization Leadership Consultants (SOLC) with a vote of 27-3-1 after problems arose surrounding their alleged academic affiliations. Senate approved the final budget last night, in which SOLC…
Proposed bill to help with student debt
Lawmakers and students can agree that the cost of higher education has increased considerably in the last two decades. According to the College Board 2017 Pricing Report, since the year 1988 the cost of higher education has increased 213 percent. Rhode Island Rep. Joseph McNarmara of Cranston and Warwick introduced a new bill to increase…
Have no fear, a job is near
With graduation just around the corner for the class of 2018, future graduates may wonder what their options for employment after obtaining their diploma. Kim Stack, director of the Center for Career and Experiential Education, thinks that opportunities for recent grads have increased in the past few years. “Everything shows us that unemployment rates have…
Police Beat: 3/21/18 – 3/27/18
Photo by Anna Meassick |CIGAR| March 21, 2018 At 1:56 a.m., University Police responded to a medical emergency at Hillside Hall. A student was transported to the hospital. At 3:45 a.m. there was a parking complaint at Complex Road and a vehicle was towed. At 7: 14 p.m. there was an alarm set off on…
Student Senate Report: 3/28
Student Senate discussed the recognition status of three groups on Wednesday night. The first organization was the Student Organization Leadership Consultants (SOLC), secondly the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and lastly The Good Five Cent Cigar. Senate also voted on the budgeting of all organizations on campus. SOLC is an organization on campus that…
News you should know
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country participated in the “March For Our Lives” rally on Saturday, March 24. The rally was held in response to the Feb. 14 Parkland, Florida school shooting, which left 14 students and three faculty members dead. All 50 states had some type of “March For Our Lives” rally….
Students get first-hand look at juvenile justice system in J-Term course
For the first time this past January the Department of Sociology offered a J-term course, Field Experience: Juvenile Justice Immersion, in which students are immersed in the Rhode Island Juvenile Justice System for five days. “It was probably one of the best teaching experiences I’ve ever had and I’ve been teaching for over 18 years,”…