At this week’s meeting, the Student Senate voted to recognize two new clubs and elected two new members of the Treasury Committee. The Student Organizations Committee (SOC) announced that it is starting the process for stipend review this week. According to SOC Chairwoman Katie Siegle, this process will continue through the month of February. External…
This special episode of Your Walk to Class celebrates URI’s student newspaper, The Good Five Cent Cigar’s 50th Birthday. Music: Biscuit (Prod. by Lukrembo)
In a close game, the URI Men’s Basketball team was defeated by VCU by 1 point. Photos by James Singer. The epitome of brutality, as CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein would say. Up by as much as 10 in the second half, it looked like the University of Rhode Island’s Men’s Basketball team would secure its…
At the 1971 Academy Awards, George C. Scott declined his Best Actor in a Leading Role award, calling the ceremony “a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.” James Earl Jones, who lost the award, was the only Black actor nominated that year. Almost 45 years later, lack of diversity…
URI’s Climate Survey Working Group is conducting a survey in order to better target improvements to the URI experience for both students and faculty. Graphic by Alison Carpino. Photo by James McIntosh. The University of Rhode Island’s Climate Survey Working Group (CSWG) is creating a survey to understand student and faculty experiences and how they…
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly a quarter of people now get their news from social media, but is it really reliable? Photo by James McIntosh Social media is one the largest and fastest-growing platforms for communication, in the last five years transforming rapidly into a major source for politically-related news. Social media sites…
“I simply recognized a grave injustice was occurring and I felt so deeply compelled to respond to it that I was willing to be arrested over it,” Bree Newsome said. On Tuesday, the Multicultural Student Services Center hosted its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration featuring Newsome as a guest speaker. The event was sponsored…
Daniel Roxbury, assistant professor of chemical engineering at URI, demonstrates his infection-detecting bandage. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. University of Rhode Island assistant professor of chemical engineering Daniel Roxbury has recently made an innovation that could change the medical world as we know it. His innovation, a bandage that can detect infections in a wound, has…
After nearly a year of protests, URI’s multicultural organizations call for the University to improve the experiences of minority students. Photo by Greg Clark. Many students involved in the University of Rhode Island’s multicultural and civil rights student organizations are calling for the University to improve the college experience for students of color. In the…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, URI is currently conducting freshman orientations remotely. Graphic by Alison Carpino. The University of Rhode Island has continued to hold virtual orientation for incoming students as COVID-19 continues to disrupt traditional in-person orientation. Virtual orientation had been offered to new students last summer as well as at the start of…