URI sophomore Kate Ayers recently published her first poetry book, entitled “Gin and Juice Boxes.” Photo by James McIntosh. Kate Ayers lives by the words of Robin Williams’ John Keating in “Dead Poets Society”:“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what…
1n 2004, a film theory professor screened “Paris Is Burning,” a documentary about 1980s ballroom culture. A young African American and Puerto Rican queer student walked back to his residence hall building afterwards thinking about how it could inspire a really good television show. He dreamt up a character of a young gay boy named…
Dear Editor, Trans people are people, period. Full stop. Trans people are beautiful, real, diverse, incredible, fabulous people. And at the University of Rhode Island, we have a thriving community of trans and nonbinary students. Moreover, we have a broader LGBTQ+ and ally community that loves and supports our entire family. Family. As LGBTQ+ folkx,…
While the rest of the state is trending downward, COVID-19 cases at URI spiked last week. Photo by Greg Clark. The University of Rhode Island saw a spike in COVID-19 cases last week, with 181 positive tests and 81 percent of quarantine spaces occupied, according to URI’s COVID-19 Tracker. Ellen Reynolds, the director of Health…
Members of the URI community shaved their heads and donated their hair to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer this week. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. The University of Rhode Island Student Senate held its annual Blue Light Walk this past Tuesday in order to ensure that campus blue lights are fully functional. The blue…
St. Baldrick’s raises $6K, awareness for pediatric cancer. Photo by Ethan Pellegrino. For the sixth year in a row, the University of Rhode Island hosted an event where community members shaved their head to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer in support of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members…
A University of Rhode Island alumnus donated a $50,000 endowment to the Robert and Berdie Lawrence Endowed Scholarship for Black students in the College of Pharmacy. The scholarship is named after the parents of the alumnus, Kenneth Lawrence, who were born in the South during the 1940s, where segregation and racial issues were prevalent. Lawrence…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate will be implementing a program next year to distribute free menstrual products on campus. Michael Bentley, Student Senate’s Campus Affairs Chair, organized the program to get these free menstrual products. Former Senator Tim Berard first pitched the idea at a Student Senate meeting last year. Berard, now graduated…
400 student capacity in venue The University of Rhode Island has announced its plans for the 2021 commencement ceremony, answering one of the biggest questions seniors have had this academic year— what will graduation look like this May? According to Dave Lavallee, the assistant director of communications for URI, it will look very similar to…
SPIN, an electric scooter company based in California that has rolled out in cities and universities all around the country, is working to bring its scooters to the University of Rhode Island. Last month, President Austyn Ramsay and Campus Affairs Committee Chair Michael Bentley of Student Senate met with Nicholas Paparo, a SPIN representative. They…