Titles highlight disparities in resources, pay among URI faculty Adjunct professor, senior lecturer, assistant professor: three job titles that often look the same on the surface to unknowing students, yet have very different job distinctions on closer inspection. At the University of Rhode Island and institutions across the country, there are three main faculty distinctions:…
Fans were welcomed back at Meade Stadium for the first time since November of 2019. Photo by James McIntosh The wind wasn’t the only thing that was roaring Saturday afternoon when the University of Rhode Island Football team took the field against the Delaware Blue Hens. For the first time in almost a year and…
During this week’s meeting, the University of Rhode Island Student Senate voted on a bill certifying the results of the spring 2021 Student Senate elections, which passed with 23 votes. The Student Senate also voted on a bill for a contingency grant requesting funds to help build an outdoor wellness center at the University. The…
The Britney Spears conservatorship saga continues. Photo from iheart.com. Pop princess Britney Spears has become a household name over the past 30 years. However, after witnessing her experience in the spotlight, fans no longer just think of her hit songs when they hear her name; they think of the #FreeBritney movement. Hulu’s New York Times…
From Paul Newman’s days on the Warner Brothers lot taking on movies meant for James Dean, to his establishment as a great actor throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s with films like “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The Hustler,” he was already an established star by the time 1971 rolled around. Fifty…
“Picture director David Lynch, Stephen King, Luis Fonsi, Justin Timberlake, The Monkees, The Blue Meanies, Lord Voldemort and Emperor Palpatine, all drugged, and kept prisoner in an airline’s executive lounge,” that’s how Grammy-nominated artist Eric Alexandrakis would describe his new EP “GMT.” Yeah, that fits – and I mean that as a compliment. “GMT” is…
URI students recently gathered to break it down and break a sweat on the Quad in an open-air zumba class. Photo by Greg Clark. In honor of his second anniversary as a certified Zumba instructor, Pat Laprade hosted a one-hour Zumba session on the Quad on March 27. Going into this event, I was really…
The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography put on a virtual event on March 29 featuring speaker Anthony Geffen that brought viewers through a journey of immersive storytelling and gave a sneak peek into the future of technology, teaching audience members that it’s not far from becoming our reality. Anthony Geffen is the…
Hot on the heels of “WandaVision,” the newest release on Disney+, “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” keeps the Marvel-mania alive. Photo from imbd.com On the heels of “WandaVision,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe has released their second Disney+ show, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” which tackles issues of racism and trauma in a post-Blip…
Netflix tackles the college admissions scandal that shook the nation in 2019 in new documentary. Photo from variety.com. The newly-released Netflix documentary “Operation Varsity Blues” paints a cautionary tale of greed, corruption and competition in the college admission process following the 2019 scandal. The documentary follows the mastermind behind the decades long fraudulent college application…