While I reflect on my undergraduate experience during my fourth and final year of college, I think about the various general education and elective courses I had to take. The highlight class for me was COM 346: Social and Cultural Aspects of Media taught by Professor Daniel Munksgaard. I took this class in the fall…
The University of Rhode Island’s board of trustees updated its proposed regulations on Feb. 13 regarding land use at the university, which was heavily contested during the fall semester, according to Student Senate President, Argha Goswami. The updated policy allows the distribution of leaflets, the use of amplified sound and protest gatherings as long as…
The University of Rhode Island’s Multicultural Student Services Center hosted a soul food workshop that bridged cultures through cuisine and history on Thursday, Feb. 19. “Today, even though we’re talking about the history of soul food, we are not talking about mac and cheese, collard greens, cabbage and fried chicken,” Brandford Davis ’11, host of…
Female athletes are a largely underrepresented group in sports medicine, according to the National Institutes of Health, which led a University of Rhode Island doctoral candidate to study the effects of relative energy deficiency on these athletes. Relative energy deficiency is the mismatch between energy intake from calories and energy expenditure during exercise, which leads…
“The Synergy Project: A Collaboration of Art and Science” exhibition aims to communicate and explore topics of oceanography through the combined efforts of artists and researchers. The exhibit showcases 50 works created by both artists and scientists from the University of Rhode Island and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, according to the project’s website. “Synergy…
University of Rhode Island students do not feel the university’s comprehensive campus plan addresses perceived needs of parking, disability access and recreation space. URI and Sasaki, a Boston based design firm, hosted an open house session for student feedback on the comprehensive campus plan on Feb. 12 in the Memorial Union. The campus plan will…
The University of Rhode Island’s Spring Student Organization Fair on Feb. 5 featured over 40 different clubs and organizations, including the Resident Housing Association, URI Lego Club, Student Action for Sustainability and the URI 101 mentoring program. Allie Brown is a graduate student advisor for the RHA, a new organization that was formed this academic…
James Baldwin, a Black man born in Harlem, New York on Aug. 2, 1924, was a prolific author, essayist and playwright on issues of racial justice, religion and homosexuality. I was first exposed to his work in my third year of high school when I read “The Fire Next Time,” which contained two essays by…
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority changed its University of Rhode Island/Narragansett/South Kingstown bus route to exclusively on demand Flex service, according to the RIPTA website, which has caused commuter slowdowns. RIPTA made changes to their existing services on Jan. 21, eliminating the time point bus system at the URI/Narragansett/South Kingstown stop. The Flex buses…
Protesters stood at Kennedy Plaza in Providence on Saturday for an emergency rally to oppose Elon Musk’s new roles in the federal government and demand that Rhode Island senators stand up against his actions. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is a revamped department put in place under President Barack Obama, previously named the “United States…