In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, The Women’s Center and the Peers Learning Educating and Supporting Everyone (P.L.E.A.S.E) will be holding events the week of April 23 to April 27. For those who are not aware, the P.L.E.A.S.E program is a group of students who focus on educating the University of Rhode Island community…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Students will be racing to win the lottery for parking permits. Students have a ’61 percent chance’ of getting on-campus parking Between April 25 and 30, there will be a drawing for returning resident undergraduate students. The reason this is going into effect is to give students who don’t get an…
Photo by Stephanie Erickson |CIGAR| The field of flags greeted students and URI community members as they walked to the library. Students at the University of Rhode Island pass a sea of different colored flags alongside the area outside of Hammerschlag Mall each year, many not knowing the purpose behind them. Being the start of the…
With calls for stricter gun laws after the Parkland shooting, Rhode Island’s legislatures have submitted two bills, one to ban bump stocks and the other to remove guns from people who were “red flagged.” Over the years, five other states have passed red flag laws, Rhode Island is the first state to take action since…
Photo by |CIGAR| The University of Rhode Island’s Paranormal Society held an evidence expo containing all the corroborating evidence they have to support the claim that paranormal activity exists. “Basically we are getting together our best evidence from both on campus and off campus” Riley Pearson, the historian of the group, said.“I think it’s really…
At Wednesday night’s Student Senate meeting, the issue of parking was discussed and presented by Kathy Collins and Abigail Rider. With the loss of parking spots due to the construction of the Visitor’s Center, new engineering building and the Brookside Apartments, the University of Rhode Island is proposing multiple ways to relocate and assign parking…
Two African American men were arrested inside a Philadelphia Starbucks while they were waiting to meet with a friend after an employee believed they were trespassing and called police. The arrest resulted in two days of protest outside the store, as protesters accused the company of only calling the police on the men because of…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| “While tampons may be purchased in the pharmacy or at the CVS in the Emporium, they are not regularly distributed on campus through the departments that routinely give out condoms.” By Kelsey Santmyer and Theresa Brown Access to preventative contraceptives, such as condoms, are a priority for the University…
Photo by Anna Meassick |CIGAR| Officers are trained to ‘do what they have to do’ to keep URI safe In today’s society, shootings or potential bombings are a real possibility and at the University of Rhode Island, it is important to know what procedures are in place to combat these threats. The URI Police and…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR|”However, many students on campus are unsure of what exactly the new system does.” The University of Rhode Island has begun using a new system called Starfish for various tasks with regards to advising. However, many students on campus are unsure of what exactly the new system does. The Coordinator of…