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…
Concern expressed over ‘transphobic’ language A University of Rhode Island professor is facing backlash after writing an article that many community members have described as transphobic. The article in question,“Fantasy Worlds on the Right and Left: QAnon and Trans-Sex Fantasy,” was written by professor Donna Hughes of the gender & women’s studies (GWS) department. It…
URI graduates could have federal student loans partially cancelled Some students are still paying off their four-year degree 20 years or more after they graduated. Photo from kiplinger.com. President Joe Biden campaigned on a platform that included progressive changes for higher education, most notably, federal debt relief for student loan borrowers. Biden campaign officials announced…
With COVID-19 restrictions easing up, it’s time to trim those locks at URI’s Total Image Hair Salon. Photo by James Singer. Total Image Hair Salon has had to adjust throughout the pandemic but it has still been able to provide service to members of the University of Rhode Island community and beyond. Brenda Celona, the…
Do you want to see penguins surfing 50-foot tall Pen Gu Island waves? Then this is the movie for you. Photo from rotoscopers.com. If you have not seen the 2007 computer-animated mockumentary comedy film “Surf’s Up,” you absolutely need to; and if you haven’t watched it recently, I would highly recommend a rewatch. This film…
Disney’s newest release “Raya and the Last Dragon” is a hit with critics and viewers alike. Photo from metacritic.com. “Raya and the Last Dragon,” the most recent feature-length animated film from Disney+, follows the theme of distrust and builds an immersive new world inspired by Southeast Asian culture through beautiful animation and fun choreography. “Raya…
Dylan Farrow shares her side of the story in the HBO documentary television miniseries “Allen v Farrow.” Photo from radio.com. “For the longest time I’ve been trying to set the record straight, because no matter what you think you know, it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Dylan Farrow said at the start of the…
What’s your guilty pleasure? Cigar Editor-in-Chief Kate Leblanc’s is “Gilmore Girls”. Photo from amazon.com. Guilty pleasures. We all have them. Maybe you watch “The Bachelor” every week and tell no one. Perhaps you secretly adored the 17 seasons-and-counting of “Grey’s Anatomy,” or by chance you actually liked “Emily in Paris.” No judgement here. We all…
Members of the URI community were invited to strut their stuff at the final event of the 2021 LGPTQ+ Symposium. Photo by James McIntosh. The 2021 LGBTQ+ Symposium organized by the University of Rhode Island Gender and Sexuality Center featured a series of events starting March 15, ending with a Fashion Show to show off…
New to URI, the Music Therapy major achieves a balance between psychology and music. Photo from adahome.care. Over this past year, the University of Rhode Island department of music has begun teaching courses for a new bachelor’s degree in music therapy. The music therapy major balances both music and psychology classes in a way that…