After a tumultuous season due to COVID, the Ram’s Swim and Dive team placed in the top 10 at the Atlantic 10 Championships. Photo from gorhody.com. The Rhode Island Swim and Dive team completed their season at the Atlantic 10 Swimming and Diving Championships, finishing the competition in 10th place. The championships were held over…
The Graduate School of Oceanography is showcasing an exhibit at the Providence campus featuring works from a youth and a professional art competition. Photo from uri.edu. Painting is by Anthony Tomaselli. In honor of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography’s 60th anniversary, the program hosted a Youth Art Competition and Professional Art…
Cultivates ‘love for literature’ through intellectual engagement The unique perspective and love for literature that English professor Stephen Barber brings into the classroom has inspired him to push his students towards “genuine intellectual engagement.” Barber has been working as a professor in URI’s English department since 1997 but had many adventures before he arrived at…
Here are the Cigar’s picks for this week’s Rhody Sports MVPs. Photos from gorhody.com. Women’s Cross Country/Track and Field: Lotte Black In a season unlike any other, Lotte Black continued to put her best foot forward. Competing simultaneously in cross country and indoor track, Black proved once again that she is among the best distance…
Isaiah Kittle, recently elected President of URI’s Club Sports and Intramural Council, is looking to the future of Club Sports in a post-COVID era. Photo from linkedin.com. After seeing fall, winter and spring athletic seasons disrupted by COVID-19, the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Club Sports plans to restart standard team activity in the…
A member of the Cigar since 2017, Kayla Michaud is saying goodbye after revolutionizing the paper’s entertainment section. Photo by Matt Leake. Picture this: A freshman walks into a college newspaper office with no journalism experience, no close friends and no understanding of how this decision will heavily influence her college career. This quickly turns…
After fulfilling every photography position on the Cigar for at least a semester since joining his sophomore year, graduation looms for James McIntosh. Photo by James McIntosh. I am honestly not sure which thought is more jarring to me: the idea that in just over a month, I will be accepting my college diploma when…
Evan McAlice, after writing dozens of articles and serving as the first social media coordinator in the Cigar’s 50-year history, is graduating from both the paper and the University. Photo by James McIntosh. When I walked into my first Cigar meeting in September of my sophomore year, I was so overwhelmed that I left before…
After six semesters, a truly ludicrous number of articles, think six in one week, and pioneering her own “Ask Abbie” column, Abbie Judson will now be looking forward to graduation. Photo contributed by Abbie Judson. Good morning my sweet tree buds. I hope you all are bursting out of your leafy cocoons after hibernating the…
This week is the last edition of the Good Five Cent Cigar for the 2020-21 academic year. We’ve spent time this semester covering how COVID-19 has affected the University of Rhode Island’s sporting events, written profiles on the most interesting professors around campus and highlighted the innovative work of the URI theatre department. The Cigar…