Tips to get through isolations. PHOTO CREDIT: Melissa Marchese In January 2020, COVID-19 vaccines were becoming widely available to most Americans and for many, the pandemic seemed to be coming to a close, but a year later contracting COVID-19 and quarantining is not uncommon. For many, the term quarantine was meaningless before 2020, but the…
Hello and welcome back to Dasha’s Psych Fact and welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a good and relaxing break. Now, I don’t know about you, but it’s the second week of classes and I am already tired. I didn’t do much over break but work and now I feel it is pretty…
The recent four-game slide is tied for the second longest since 2018. PHOTO CREDIT: gorhody.com The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team’s struggles continued this past week, dropping matchups at the University of Dayton and Fordham University to extend their losing streak to four games. The team now sits at 12-8 overall and 3-5…
Chanell Williams was 1 of 3 Rams in double figures in the team’s 60-52 win on Wednesday. PHOTO CREDIT: Siobhan Richards Another crucial win for an already historic season. On Wednesday, the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team picked up their 10th straight win this season and their 17th straight win at the Ryan…
Sophomore rower Nicole Jones performs a COVID-19 test inside the Memorial Union. PHOTO CREDIT: Erin Brown For the first four months of the academic year, it looked like student-athletes would once again have a somewhat normal athletic season, but as the winter months arrived, that quickly changed with the rise of the more contagious Omicron…
The Rams play on the court has helped them receive attention nationally with the USA Today poll. PHOTO CREDIT: gorhody.com At the beginning of the 2021-22 season, expectations were sky high for the Rhode Island Women’s Basketball team after having one of the best season in program history. Now, 19 games into the season, the…
Well, here we are. This is the first issue of the Good Five Cent Cigar in 2022 and it is also the first edition of the Cigar with me as editor in chief. Though I have been dreaming of and working towards this for the better part of three years, I am still shocked when…
Advance your education in this tech-forward space. PHOTO CREDIT: Greg Clark The Launch Lab at the University of Rhode Island is helping students turn their creativity and passion into concrete entrepreneurial ideas. The lab started five years ago as a way to commercialize the technology that is being developed at URI. Deedee Chatham, the director…
This week from the Senate chambers: unfinished business, a meeting with dining services and reminders of COVID-19 guidelines. The session began with unfinished business from the previous meeting, as the Senate passed a bill calling for an amendment to the Student Senate Finance Handbook to be added and enacted beginning in the fiscal year of…
Buchanan has been tremendous this season, winning the weight throw in all three competitions he’s been in. PHOTO CREDIT: gorhody.com When Johnathan Buchanan began his collegiate career at the University of Rhode Island in 2018, he was a walk-on with a slim chance of sticking with the team. Now, he’s one of the most decorated…