On the last day of classes, University of Rhode Island students logged onto Zoom, not to attend a lecture, but to join in on a private conversation with Will Ferrell, hosted by Judd Apatow. The first 2,900 students to register were given the opportunity by the Student Entertainment Committee and Office of Student Involvement to…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Events Advising (SEA) office continues to hold exciting events for students, albeit remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. SEA, overseen by the Office of Student Involvement, is designed to help student organizations with event planning and program advising. Despite the shift to complete online learning amidst the pandemic, SEA…
University of Rhode Island alumnus and magician Mat Franco brought magic into the lives of quarantined URI students during a livestreamed show Thursday night. The Student Entertainment Committee organized the “America’s Got Talent” winner’s performance, which occurred on April 23 at 8 p.m. Since graduating from the University of Rhode Island in 2010 with a…
The final Student Senate meeting of the semester consisted primarily of inducting new senators and holding internal elections for special committees. Five new off-campus representatives and one new College of Arts and Sciences representative were sworn in, and positions on the Elections Committee and Summer Senate were decided as well. Caleb Hilyard was elected as…
Students graduating in 2019 did not have to worry about finding a job amid a pandemic; a situation the class of 2020 finds itself in. Photo courtesy of The University of Rhode Island. Graduating University of Rhode Island seniors are grappling with an uncertain job market as the COVID-19 pandemic becomes both a public health…
Since the first time I got my hands on a camera, I’ve been recording what’s around me. Since the moment I received a Barbie outdoor kids camera around the age of four, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a camera in my hands. At the time, I was unaware that all the…
Nursing students from the University of Rhode Island have the opportunity to work on the front lines in the fight again COVID-19. Photo courtesy of the University of Rhode Island. As cases of COVID-19 continue to spike, some University of Rhode Island nursing students are putting their lives on the line to help hospitals and…
The Student Senate held its first full meeting for new senators and officers Wednesday night, in which the Senate made nominations for several positions and discussed the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Senator and External Affairs Committee Chair Allison Lantagne and current Senator John Bagley were both nominated to positions on the Court, which…
The COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, China. Photo courtesy of the New York Times. Ping Xu got to see firsthand how differently the United States and China handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Xiu, a political science professor at the University of Rhode Island, was in Wuhan, China at the start of the pandemic and was brought…
To any University of Rhode Island student reading this right now: I’m with you. Life is weird and extremely heavy right now. I miss being on campus with a normal routine, being a student and hanging out with my friends until the odd hours of the night. As we soldier on through this brutal pandemic,…