Formed just last year by a group of students who loved the game of pickleball, the now fully-fledged University of Rhode Island club is competing against fellow New England teams and having fun doing so. The president of the club, second-year Ryan Estus, was the one to officially found it last year. What started off…
Football: FINAL (10/28): URI 34-28 UNH URI battled it out with conference rival New Hampshire on Saturday at Meade Stadium. The game went to overtime, where the Rams would seal the deal. For more on the matchup, visit Aidan Garvey’s recap (page 12, rhodycigar.com). Volleyball: FINAL (10/28): SLU 3 – 0 URI FINAL (10/29): SLU…
The 2023 College Football season is nine weeks old, and the Coastal Athletic Conference has seen its fair share of nail-biters, blowouts and even upsets. The top teams are beginning to gear up for the playoffs and the bottom organizations are starting to look forward to 2024. The Good Five Cent Cigar sports staff will…
The University of Rhode Island is not home to your typical college club lacrosse team. The Rams have held the Continental Lacrosse Conference title for the last three years. Boasting a record of 15 wins and two losses last season, URI entered the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association Division II national championship tournament as the #1-seeded…
In this week’s Student Senate meeting, Vice President Steinweh-Adler gave updates on URI student action for sustainable composting. Student Action against Sustainability and the Senate Campus Affairs Committee received funding from the 11th Hour Foundation. This foundation was started by the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt. Schmidt is giving money to campuses across the…
On Oct.17, the Langevin Symposium held its second event of 2023 in Edwards Auditorium, titled “Polarization and Politics in America: Finding the Center.” The event was moderated by former U.S. Representative Jim Langevin, who represented Rhode Island’s second congressional district in Washington for over twenty years, and is hosted by the University of Rhode Island…
On Friday, the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media celebrated the 16th annual Christiane Amanpour Lecture. This lecture brings notable journalists from around the world to share their experiences in the field and the importance of journalism with the URI community. The Christiane Amanpour lecture series is named after alumna Christiane…
The University of Rhode Island is partnering with Jonnycake Center for Hope, a local nonprofit organization, and the town of South Kingstown to create a program that will improve education for underprivileged students, funded by the Learn365RI state grant. The program, titled South Kingstown Year-Long Learning Supports (SKYLLS), aims to cover initiatives deemed necessary to…
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, the Honors Program hosted their weekly Colloquium series titled “Not Business as Usual: Business for the Common Good” in Edwards Hall at 7 p.m. The focus of this week’s panel was gender equality in business, and speakers Hilina D. Ajakaiye and Lauren Gray presented their experiences being women in business. Carl…
As we end our spooky story series, we make our final stop at Newton, Massachusetts where four-year-old Julielle Kahn claimed that a ghost named Mrs. Woodman lived on the third floor of her new Victorian home. It started when she and her parents first moved into the renovated house, where most of it was rebuilt…