The University of Rhode Island’s Campus Planning and Design Department is moving forward with their plans of building a new dorm, engineering quad and visitor’s center. Construction for a new dorm, Brookside, will be starting next semester. Brookside will be an apartment style residence hall for upperclassmen only. Its name originates from the White Horn…
The University of Rhode Island Police Department, as well as Narragansett and South Kingstown Police, are cracking down on parties this fall semester. “With the start of the URI school year, there have already been an increase number of calls for house parties and a number of them are underage,” said Cpt. Joel Ewing-Chow from…
The University of Rhode Island’s Campus Planning and Design Department is moving forward with their plans of building a new dorm, an engineering quad and visitors center. Construction for a new dorm, Brookside, will be starting next semester. Brookside will be an apartment style residence hall for only upperclassmen. The dorm will be available to…
Catching up with new students following their first college move-in The day finally arrives–choosing an outfit from your bare closet, eating the last home-cooked meal your mom made you, and frantically packing the car is just the start of a day you will never forget: your first college move-in day. For freshmen, college is a…
The University of Rhode Island will welcome Jane Goodall, Bill Nye and Whoopi Goldberg to center stage at the Ryan Center this upcoming fall. Jane Goodall, an animal rights activist, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist will take the stage Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Goodall was born in London and later raised in Bournemouth, England….
One of the oldest restaurants in the Kingston Emporium, Albie’s Place, celebrates their thirtieth Anniversary this year. Albie Greer, a former brother of Sigma Nu at the University of Rhode Island founded Albie’s back in 1987. Greer, a senior at the time, saw the emporium being built from his room in his fraternity house on…
It is time to say aloha to the new beach restaurant, Flat Waves Food Shack, that is opening in the Kingston Emporium in early March. Flat Waves brings a new Hawaiian flavor to the top of campus. As of now, the Kingston Emporium holds Mexican, Chinese, Italian and Mediterranean restaurants. This Hawaiian cuisine adds more…