A presence has grown on the University of Rhode Island campus; through word of mouth and social media alike, leading students to ask one question: Who is The Rhody Blunt? The Blunt said it doesn’t matter. “Ultimately, the secret identity thing doesn’t matter that much to me,” The Blunt said. Popping out of the ether…
The University of Rhode Island is eerily quiet. Less than a month ago, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus. Last spring, Columbia University students were facing suspension for camping out while protesting their administration’s financial ties to Israel. Harvard University has become the site of a funding tug-of-war, with President…
South Kingstown has received a $1 million grant from the state of Rhode Island to build a third Emergency Medical Services station to better respond to an increase in call volume. The new station will be built off of Ministerial Road, on land bought by the town from the South Kingstown Land Trust. Totaling 3,000…
The University of Rhode Island Musician’s Guild held a concert featuring bands Strip Mall, 8th Grade Slow Dance and RoboPumpkin on Friday in the Memorial Union. This was the second Guild-sponsored concert of the semester, bringing in local bands to play on campus. URI students were given discounted ticket prices, in this case half the…
The University of Rhode Island hosted 400 high school students for a Biomechanics Day event at Mackal Field House on April 3. The event, a graduate project by kinesiology master’s student Nadia Rajan, boasted 16 stations with various biomechanical innovations for the high schoolers to try. Stations were manned by kinesiology students, both undergraduate and…