The University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team earned another crucial 57-36 conference win over the University of Dayton on Saturday, before falling to George Mason University on Wednesday. “We knew what this team was capable of,” Rhode Island Head Coach Tammi Reiss said after Saturday’s win. “We’re coming together at the right time.” Defense…
The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team split games with George Mason University and St. Bonaventure University, putting itself at 5-7 in Atlantic 10 Conference play with six games remaining before the postseason. URI had its work cut out to try and take down the A-10’s first-place team on their court. A dry second…
Peyton Vesneski, a second-year student at the University of Rhode Island, has over 20 tattoos. Vesneski is a marine affairs major at URI and started his tattoo journey in his senior year of high school. When asked how many tattoos he had, Vesneski didn’t know the answer off the top of his head. However, he…
You’ll likely never see America’s obsession overshadowed during its biggest week ever again. The National Basketball Association has always played second fiddle to the National Football League, especially during Super Bowl week. However, something must be in the Dallas water because Mavericks General Manager Nico Harrison made one of the most shocking trades in American…
The “art of war” is something that the modern American citizen requires a proxy to understand. For many of us, sports give us a taste of battle. The 2024-2025 Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs understood this art. Both teams overcame the attrition of an National Football League regular season to go on crazy…
It can be challenging for University of Rhode Island students to track down finds beyond the stores of heavily-advertised Narragansett and Newport, but the nearby town of South Kingstown has several businesses and restaurants to offer. Eclectic Energy, located at 102 Main St. in Wakefield, opened in July 2023 by URI alum Pam Davis. After…
James Baldwin, a Black man born in Harlem, New York on Aug. 2, 1924, was a prolific author, essayist and playwright on issues of racial justice, religion and homosexuality. I was first exposed to his work in my third year of high school when I read “The Fire Next Time,” which contained two essays by…
The Society of Women in Computing at the University of Rhode Island has been building a community for women within various technological majors since 2018, with goals of fostering confidence and camaraderie. “I feel like SWIC is a safe space for women in computer science and other technical fields,” Riley Maguire, a third-year computer science…
The University of Rhode Island finished its second remodeling stage for Health Services over J-term, adding a wheelchair-accessible front desk counter, replacing carpeted floors with luxury vinyl tile and replacing seated desks with ergonomic ones. During the summer of 2024, the north wing of the building was re-designed with new flooring and blinds in the…
The University of Rhode Island therapy dog team just gained a new member: Betty, a seven-and-a-half-month old English labrador. Betty is about to start training and will soon be a familiar face on campus. The URI campus has been aiming to make the canine support network grow, according to Lindsey Anderson, who is Betty’s handler,…