Photo by Kayla Michaud | Rich the Kid was adorned in Rhody gear but fell short of student’s expectations. Rich the Kid, an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer, came to the University of Rhode Island’s Ryan Center this past Saturday, Sept. 29. The concert officially began at 8 p.m., but ticket holders were…
Photo by Autumn Walter | Wide receiver, Khayri Denny, makes a move for the Rams, driving the ball downfield. Never before in the Jim Fleming era have the Rhody Rams won three times in the first month of the season, until now. Fleming and the No. 22 ranked Rams traveled to Cambridge this past Friday…
The state of athletics at the University of Rhode Island has never been stronger. Men’s basketball is fresh off of back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances. The football team looks like they’re on their way to their first winning season since 2001. The team that is tearing it up and still flying under the radar, however, is…
Photo courtesy of IMDb On Sept. 28th, “Human,” a documentary by filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand was screened in Edwards Auditorium to a crowd of over 100 students, faculty and off-campus visitors. The film, released in 2015, took three years, 2000 interviews from 60 different countries to make, and was first premiered at the General Assembly Hall…
Photo by Anna Meassick | Career Closet helps students to put together formal outfits to make sure they are prepared and confident. The University of Rhode Island created the Career Closet two years ago, as a resource to help students find affordable, professional attire and to avoid the difficulty of finding appropriate clothing. The Career…
President David M. Dooley held a forum Monday afternoon in the Memorial Union Ballroom to discuss the University of Rhode Island’s accomplishments and plans moving forward. Dooley began the event by sharing the ways in which URI has grown over the past decade. According to Dooley, in the 2017-2018 academic year, 74 percent of first-year…
September 28th, 2018 Dear Constituents, The University of Rhode Island Student Senate (Senate) is currently involved in discussions regarding the manner in which student organizations are funded and the matters for which they may not be funded. Since May of this year, the Senate has been in correspondence with an organization known as the Foundation…
The University of Rhode Island’s women’s volleyball team went 1-1 last weekend as they opened up their home series in Atlantic 10 conference play. The Rams had their first game Friday night against the La Salle Explorers. Rhody fell behind early in the first set as they started out at a 12-5 deficit and were…
Photo by Kayla Michaud | Director Kendall Moore discusses the choices she made in composing the film. The documentary “Can We Talk?” sheds light on the difficulty of having conversations with underrepresented people of color in the STEM field at its screening last Thursday. This documentary gives the audience a chance to hear from people…
Jennifer Finney Boylan, a professor at the Barnard College of Columbia University, discussed transgender identity at this year’s Honors Colloquium on Oct. 2. Her speech, while also part of the colloquium titled “Reimagining Gender: Voices, Power, Action,” was a joint effort with the University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center. Boylan gave her speech,…