Photo by Denise Robbin | Every spring semester, Campus Recreation offers the Group Exercise Mentor Program, which trains students to lead group exercise sessions for the University of Rhode Island. The program is free for all undergraduate and graduate students of any major. This year, 16 students are participating in the program, according to Fitness…
The University of Rhode Island’s softball team got swinging into their season this weekend at the Elon Tournament at Elon University in North Carolina. Rhode Island played four games over the weekend and sport a 1-3 record after their first weekend of the season. The Rams season opener against North Texas started out the way…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| The baseball team will keep working in practice to combat their losses over this past weekend. The URI baseball teamed opened up their season with a three-game series against No. 9 ranked Texas A&M this weekend, dropping all three games to the Aggies. The Rams went down 3-0 in the…
The University of Rhode Island offers a class that utilizes The Good Five Cent Cigar newspaper utilized as a teaching instrument throughout its lessons. The class, PRS 320 Strategic Media Relations, is a required course for Public Relations majors, and is taught by Hollie Smith and Lisa Bergson in the department. Smith has been teaching…
Photo courtesy of ©WPRO | Senator Nicholas Kettle faces charges of extortion and video voyeurism. On Monday Feb. 19, the Rhode Island Superior Court unsealed a criminal indictment of 27-year-old Republican State Senator Nicholas Kettle. Kettle has pled not guilty to two counts of extortion and one count of video voyeurism. According to a report…
Photo courtesy of the Providence Journal | The No. 18 University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team winning streak of 16 games came to an end Friday night as they fell to the St. Bonaventure Bonnies 77-74, but the team clinched a share of the Atlantic 10 regular season title when they prevailed over the…
Photos by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Above: Families of Mark Matson (left), Mike Pesola (center) and Max St. Sauver are honored at ceremony before their final home game of their URI careers. Bottom: Senior Sauveur plays in the Boss Ice Arena for last time. The Rhode Island men’s hockey team snapped their 15-game losing streak to…
From the moment the film begins, “Black Panther” is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. It’s refined vision of Wakanda and characters fulfill the demands of superhero spectacle with great subtext. The movie follows T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) who returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as King…
Photo by Kristina Erickson|CIGAR| Students have already shown great upset at the fact that “Hempfest” has been cancelled for the first time in over 10 years. After 10 years, the annual Hempfest event organized by Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) will no longer be held because of defunding by Student Senate. Hempfest was created as…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Catch O’Marra at work by tuning into the “Sport Power Half Hour” on WRIU and his own personal talk show on RIU2. The man behind the microphone Rhode Island’s leading non-commercial radio station, WRIU, has been a huge stepping stone on the road to becoming a professional sports broadcaster for students…