I always knew that I was more stressed out than my friends, but I never understood why. Every time we had an exam, I would find myself throwing up or having extreme chest pain the night before and I just thought this was normal. I never thought that I could have an anxiety disorder. I…
Behind the scenes photos from the documentary “In Search of Tzotz” and “Giant Carnivorous Bats” show the incredible place that it was filmed. Photos courtesy of Jason Jacks. Jason Jaacks, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Rhode Island, has been somewhere that most people never will go: inside the roost of a…
“Terminator: Dark Fate” is the latest in a long line of Terminator sequels and is supposed to be a direct sequel to “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” This film had some promise due to the return of Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sarah Conner and the T-800 along with “Deadpool” director Tim Miller as the…
Film professor Keith Brown helps student Robbie Clark with a 16mm film camera. Photo by Grace DeSanti. Keith Brown, a professor in the film media department, has a reputation on campus for going above and beyond the limits of the average professor. According to Matt Digennaro, a graduate student in the department, Brown is unlike…
As a part of the URI 101 curriculum, all freshmen are now required to receive a certificate for completing a Title IX quiz in order to learn about discrimination on the basis of sex in education and the workplace. According to the University of Rhode Island’s Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity’s website,…
Claire Wagner keeps the ball alive. Photo by Autumn Walter. The University of Rhode Island women’s volleyball team dropped their two matches this past weekend to both La Salle and Duquesne, marking nine straight losses for the rams. Going into the weekend the Rams had lost their previous seven matches dating back to the very…
Lotte Black wins A-10 cross country individual title. Photo courtesy of GoRhody. This weekend the University of Rhode Island men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled down the East Coast to Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg, Virginia for the Atlantic 10 Championships. A wonderful crisp, fall day in Leesburg brought in a record crowd to watch…
The University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Institute published a report detailing the economic worth of the Narragansett Bay Watershed that is intended to inform decisions regarding natural resource management and the economy. The Narragansett Bay Watershed is 1,700 square miles of land area and 420 miles of coastline that drains into the Narragansett Bay. The…
The Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) Department kicked off a lecture series this semester that covers a variety of topics within feminism and intersectionality, which is an extension of this year’s religion-based honors colloquium. The lectures include: African American Women in the Suffrage Movement; Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca; Establishing Feminist Perspectives on…
My name is Courtney Cardenas, and I am a freshman here at the University of Rhode Island. Before I explain my concerns about Disability Services here, I do want to say that they are wonderful and they try to do the best they can to help students in need. With that in mind, my experience…