One of the most common questions asked of graduating seniors, retiring workers or generally people that their peers deem as old is always, “What advice do you have for those younger than you?” The best advice I can give to any nervous freshman looking to get involved in that club or team is to wait…
2024 International students locations from the Office of Institutional Research | Graphic Credit: Abbie Chipps, News Editor International student enrollment at the University of Rhode Island remains low compared to enrollment 10 years prior, as faculty prepares for the potential further strain from another Trump administration. URI’s international enrollment currently makes up 2.8% of the…
Demonstrators, including Peter McGonagle (left), lined Wakefield’s Main Street on March 4, protesting the Trump administration, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. The protest was organized by South County Resistance, a local Facebook group.
Students in environmental fields are losing federal internship and employment opportunities due to funding issues caused by the Trump administration. Ella Squires, a second-year geological oceanography major at the University of Rhode Island, was working at her local coffee shop on Feb. 13 when she got an email informing her that her internship program was…
As Hannah Hernandez boarded her plane back to Rhode Island in January, and flew away from a charred Los Angeles County, she described the feeling in one word: guilt. “There’s some girls that I know that have to stay back, because literally everything is gone, they won’t ever get to go back home [to their…
Two arrests were made on Saturday night at the University of Rhode Island after a disturbance call was made to Fraternity Circle. Two male URI students, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. Three officers initially arrived at the scene at 10:19 p.m., with two more officers arriving over the…
While the majority of the University of Rhode Island community just has to jump in their cars to travel home over winter break, either driving back through Rhode Island, maybe crossing a state line or two, my process is a little more involved. Another way to put it is that the only transportation method I…
The University of Rhode Island announced its plan to build two new dorm buildings by 2027 on Dec. 4, an accelerated timeline to what was proposed in the Housing and Residential Life Master Plan last fall. The university estimated the dorms would produce over 1,100 news beds on campus, through a public-private partnership with the…
Residential assistants on campus are not satisfied with their overall compensation package, a survey conducted by Housing and Residential Life found. RAs make up 179 students on URI’s Kingston campus, including resident academic mentors and senior resident assistants, according to data from HRL. Out of the 36% of RAs that responded to HRL’s survey, over…
Twenty medical emergencies occurred on campus in the past week – the second most of any week in the semester, behind the week of Oct. 27, which had 22. Seven separate medical emergencies occurred on Wednesday, Dec. 4. That night, two emergencies were reported on Campus Avenue. The first occurred at Hillside Hall where two…