The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) has recently been questioned for issues regarding unregulated stipend increases and a lack of overall transparency. According to GSA’s mission statement on their website, the organization serves as a “government body maintained by and for the graduate students of the University with the purpose of enhancing…
Tour guides for prospective students are having to learn new routes. Photo by Siobhan Richards. As a new generation of students apply to college, the University of Rhode Island is focusing tours for prospective students on tour guide’s personal experiences. The new tour is tailored to the needs and interests of Generation Z, or “iGen,”…
URI’s Women’s Center to close in fall 2020 due to a combination of funding issues and a lack of residents.Photo by Autumn Walter. Due to decline in residents and funding, The University of Rhode Island’s residential Women’s Center will close next semester, although its services will be moved elsewhere. On Wednesday, Feb. 26, representatives from…
The first of South County Sunrise’s three-part speaker series, Loren Spears lectured about indigenous rights in the climate movement. Photo by James McIntosh. Starting in March, South County Sunrise, an environmental activist group, will be hosting a three-part speaker series focusing on anti-oppression in the environmental movement at the University of Rhode Island. The speakers…
No. 3 for good reason A capacity on hand in Kingston. A primetime game. A charged senior night for two pillars of the University of Rhode Island basketball, Jeff Dowtin and Cyril Langevine. Yet the Flyers remained unfazed in what was a business-like dismantling of the Rams, with a final score of 84-57. “Obviously a…
Redshirt-sophomore Josh Brodeur was named the Atlantic 10 Player of The Week as announced by the conference office on Monday. He shared the honor with Fordham University utility player Jason Coules. Brodeur had a .474 batting average and a .500 on-base percentage against No. 25 Arizona and No. 27 Central Michigan. “It was a great…
The University of Rhode Island’s tennis team lost against a pair of tough opponents this past Friday and Sunday. The first of the two matchups were on Friday, Feb. 28 when the Rams traveled to New York to face off against Columbia, who was ranked No. 21 in the country. The Rams were set to…
Was the proverbial bubble burst Sunday in Kingston? That’s for the members of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Selection Committee to decide. However, Rhode Island didn’t help their chances as they fell to the Saint Louis Billikens 72-62 in Kingston. The Billikens opened up the Sunday matinee on a 7-0 run which forced Rhode Island head…
Vice President Kathy Collins visited the University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate tonight to talk about two topics and bills that were discussed at this week’s meeting. Collins began by answering questions about the Women’s Center, which will be closing and reallocating its resources elsewhere. The Women’s Center, located in an old fraternity house on…
Photo from gorhody.com The past few weeks have not been kind to the University of Rhode Island’s women’s basketball team. After a 47-42 victory against George Mason on Feb. 1, the team has lost five of their last seven games and have dropped to a game under .500. The team had a chance to secure…