Lauren Drapeau – Editor-in-Chief For the month of January, I decided to listen to “Mesa Redonda” by Hermanos Gutiérrez on repeat. Part of the reason being that I keep playing the recent songs saved to my Spotify out of laziness, but also because it makes me feel like I’m coasting through a warm desert with…
Juliana Lepore – Editor-in-Chief My Spotify auto-curated playlists have still been dominating my music taste this month, and one song that it’s been pushing on me is “Love Lost” by Mac Miller. Whenever it comes on in my car, I’m immediately put into a more funky mood. Mac Miller is a good artist to get…
Juliana Lepore- Editor in Chief I’ve been recently rediscovering a lot of music I used to listen to back in high school, which consisted of a lot of Ed Sheeran, specifically his album “Divide” (NO Ed Sheeran slander in this paper). One song that sticks out for me on that album is “Bibia Be Ye…
Juliana Lepore-Editor In Chief Miss Olivia Rodrigo released a new album this month, and as someone who was an avid fan of her first album “SOUR,” I had to dig into this new release “GUTS.” While it may be one of the more popular from this album, I can’t help but sing every time “Get…
Juliana Lepore-Editor In Chief I have listened to 5 Seconds of Summer more than any other band for the past 10 years, but this summer, it was different. I went to see their show in Boston on August 13th and it reminded me of how much I love their 2014 banger “English Love Affair.” They…
The Good Five Cent Cigar has been the student voice at the University of Rhode Island since 1971, and part of our responsibility is to provide the community with the truth and to combat false information. Disinformation and misinformation have only become more prevalent in recent years, such as COVID-19 conspiracy theories and political misinformation,…
One of the most pressing and critical issues presently on the University of Rhode Island’s campus are the results of the Campus Climate Survey, which were released earlier this year. The Cigar has written articles highlighting the development of the survey, its completion and multiple aspects of its results that were released on Oct. 7….
Frustrated with social distancing? Tired of quarantining and not leaving your house? Bored out of your mind? We get it. It’s important to stay in right now and to avoid being too close to other people, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It gets old pretty quickly. To help stave off insanity and cabin fever,…
Last Thursday, April 4, the Good Five Cent Cigar published a satirical edition of our newspaper titled the “Bad 5 Dollar Vape.” In that edition, the article “Senate president jumps off clocktower” was published on the front page. In doing so, the organization displayed gross insensitivity and a severe lapse of judgement. We at the…
We’d like to apologize for our recent publication of “Senate president jumps off union clock tower” in our satire edition. It was deeply insensitive and a poor lapse of judgement on behalf of the organization. It was never the Cigar’s intention to make light of serious mental health issues, and we sincerely apologies to everyone…