Photo courtesy of PhotobyFriday | The Rhode Island men’s basketball team will pack their bags and head down to Washington D.C for the 2018 Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Tournament, looking to become the first team to repeat as champions since Temple University did in 2009 and 2010. However, after starting 13-0 in conference play, the…
Photos by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Samuel Murray found himself at Conspiracy Theory Night hosted by URI’s Debate Union. Kyrie Irving of the Boston Celtics made headlines last year when he went on the “Road Trippin” podcast and claimed he believed the Earth was flat. This statement sparked debates across social media and brought the “Flat Earth…
Photo by Lianna Blakeman |CIGAR| With further independent research into a recent campus safety study, the legitimacy of URI’s ranking is being called into question. By Emma Gauthier and Samuel Murray According to a study published by the National Council for Home Safety and Security on alarms.org, the University of Rhode Island was ranked fourth safest…
Photo courtesy of the Providence Journal | The No. 18 University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team winning streak of 16 games came to an end Friday night as they fell to the St. Bonaventure Bonnies 77-74, but the team clinched a share of the Atlantic 10 regular season title when they prevailed over the…
Photo by Anna Meassick |CIGAR| URI partners with Belmont Markets to track consumer eating habits and will offer an incentive to switch to healthy ones. Researchers in the University of Rhode Island were recently awarded a $300,000 grant to examine healthy food choices through consumer’s shopping behaviors in a local supermarket. The three-year grant comes from…
No. 16 Rhode Island snaps their winning streak at 16 to St. Bonaventure on the road The No. 16 University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team’s winning streak of 16 games came to an end Friday night as they fell to the St. Bonaventure Bonnies 77-74 in a jam-packed and hostile Reilly Center. Cyril Langevine…
Football lands 22 recruits on National Signing Day Jim Fleming and the University of Rhode Island football team welcomed 22 new recruits on Feb. 7 as part of National Signing Day, and the direction of the program has never looked brighter in the eyes of the coaching staff. The recruiting class of 2018 consists of…
Autumn Walter|CIGAR| E.C. Matthews scored six points at the Davidson game. Mid-right: In the first half of the Tuesday night game, Mathews was injured in a collision with Richmond’s no. 33. What was just another night in the Ryan Center turned into complete panic and silence when E.C Matthews went down with a left-knee injury…
Short and looks sweet, but please do not eat Photo by Anna Messick | The trend of eating Tide Pods has gone out of control recently Viral challenges have come and gone over the years, each testing the boundaries of the human body and spirit. Some tested the extreme, such as planking in and on strange…
Aquarius Jan 20th – Feb 19th Listen, kid. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that test you were studying for? You are going to bomb it. Like 50 percent or below. But, suck it up buttercup your parents are going to deposit $20 into your bank account. Pisces Feb 19th – March 21st…