“Firstly, on the default of New York City, let me be clear, as president I will change my mind wherever I want,” said Chevy Chase, doing a self-proclaimed, bad impression of Gerald Ford in the first ever season of “Saturday Night Live,” in 1975. This was the first of countless blows toward the establishment that…
Photo by Joseph Lachance | B.O.N.D delivered 511 cans to Rhody Outpost. The University of Rhode Island student organization, Brothers On a New Direction, teamed up with the Ram’s Den to donate 511 canned and nonperishable goods to Rhody Outpost and other local food pantries. B.O.N.D. is a multicultural organization on campus that focuses on…
Walter Besio, an engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island, is participating in a study involving multiple universities to monitor the brain activity of octopi. Besio attended a neuroscience conference in 2017 and was approached by a colleague from Dartmouth University. Along with a few other professors from different colleges, Besio being the only…
Photo courtesy of Hillel. The University of Rhode Island’s Hillel Center welcomed their new Jewish Student Life director Michael Schreiber on Nov. 12 right in time to begin planning for holiday celebrations. This time of year is very busy for the Hillel Center, as the first day of Hanukkah began on Dec. 2. To celebrate…
The University of Rhode Island has laid out rights for its students that should be honored by professors regarding final exam schedules. The final exam rights for every student at URI is outlined in the University Manual. The rights are designed to ensure that students are treated fairly. There are five final exam rights in…
The University of Rhode Island office of admissions has received around 15,000 applications this year for the early action deadline. Out of the applicants, only around 850 students can be admitted into some of the high demand programs. “[Early action] is mandatory for especially our nursing program since we have the highest volume of applications…
Photo by Sarah Vinci | The Career Center features team members that specialize in different fields. In addition to balancing school work, social life and sleep, students at the University of Rhode Island also face the unknown of what comes after graduation. In order to prepare for the inevitability of post-graduation life, students turn to…
Photo courtesy of Sunny Davis. Senior, Sunny Davis works alongside her peers to direct her film “You Are the Reason.” On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Sunny Davis, a senior film major, will premiere “You Are The Reason,” a short film she directed this semester and has been in production since last July. “You Are The Reason”…
On Dec. 10, the University of Rhode Island Women’s Center will host its first-ever Fem Fest in to promote gender equality inspired by the age of the #metoo movement. The event’s coordinator, junior Shannon McDonnell, said that the event is about celebrating gender equality and discussing modern gender issues. McDonnell said that current events, such…
Photo by Julie Torchia | Rhody Rhapsodies performs a capella with enthusiasm and vigor. Rhody Rhapsodies, an acapella group at the University of Rhode Island, performed their annual Winter Concert on Sunday, Dec. 2. in the Memorial Union Ballroom. The acapella group’s winter concert was composed of nine songs that included a brief intermission for…