Creating your future podcast

On Nov. 14 in the library, the New MakerSpace hosted a workshop focusing on the necessary skills required to make a podcast. Lena Bohman, a Makerspace Facilitator who graduated from Brown last May, hosted the workshop. Bohman decided not to focus on the skill of interviewing. “URI students don’t need to learn how to interview,”…

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CAA Football Pick-Em

Welcome back for the final installment of the weekly Colonial Athletic Association Football Pick-Em. Last week I hit on four of my six picks, which brought my win/loss total on the year to .500, at 17-17. Let’s take a look at this week’s matchups. In the first matchup of the week the Rhode Island Rams…

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News You Should Know

Twelve people including at least one police officer were killed in a mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California last Wednesday night. The New York Times reports the suspect, 28-year-old Ian Long, was found dead at the scene. Investigators believed he committed suicide. Long was reportedly a combat veteran who served…

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This week in the Cigar’s History

Thursday, Nov. 14, 1996 Headline: Student Senate votes to censure, not impeach Twenty-two years ago this week, the URI Student Senate took action against Senator Scott Sanborn for leaking confidential information from a closed session. In censuring Sanborn, the Senate publicly disapproved of his actions and unethical behavior but did not issue a formal monetary…

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