Subcultures collide on URI’s campus with students adopting style trends from construction workers’ unofficial uniform: Carhartt hats and Timberland work boots. URI is no stranger to construction work, and with the new engineering building and dorm hall being built this past semester, an abundance of construction workers have been present on campus. While these construction…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate spent a substantial amount of time this week working on their constitution again. Student Senate failed to pass the bill calling for the implementation of a new constitution because numerous senators were absent, required to abstain, or simply abstained from voting and failed to reach quorum. A motion…
Photo Courtesy of Erin Spear. After a successful first run last year, TEDx is being brought back to the University of Rhode Island with new talks focused on the theme “Change It Up.” The theme is open to an individual’s own interpretation and asks presenters to prepare talks with topics of their choice regarding any…
Madness grips URI campus in wake of patriots win Joseph Lachance | A student expresses his disappointment in the Super Bowl half-time show while others riot around him after the Patriots win Sunday Night. by Mary Lind and Isaac Marshall The University of Rhode Island Kingston Campus erupted in riots following the New England Patriots…
The University of Rhode Island and the State of Rhode Island announced three Innovation Campus Projects last December, which will combine academics with commercial businesses. According to a press release from the office of Governor Gina Raimondo, the three projects will be supported by $12 million from a $20 million bond approved by Rhode Island…
Greg Clark | Freshman Tyrese Martin fights through content for a lay-up. This year’s Rhode Island men’s basketball team was always going to be an unknown. Losing five seniors and a majority of your scoring production will hurt any program not among the blue bloods of college basketball. However, I am personally sick and tired…
Anna Meassick | Professors Gayane Daraykan and Manabu Takasawa took the stage as the final act of the first music convocation of the semester performing a piano duet. The University of Rhode Island’s Music Department has many different performances scheduled for all of the Rhode Island community to enjoy this semester. Music Department Chair Mark…
Anna Meassick | The Confucius Institute located in the library remains empty after it was announced the program will end this May. The University of Rhode Island will officially dissolve its partnership with the Confucius Institute this May as federal law prohibits funding to universities that host it. The Confucius Institute is an educational…
College Dems show their support at the statehouse for reproductive rights Photo Courtesy of University of Rhode Island College Democrats. Members of the University of Rhode Island College Democrats attended a hearing for the Reproductive Healthcare Act last Tuesday, Jan. 31 at the Statehouse in Providence. Andrew Boardman, president of the URI College Democrats,…