Artificial Intelligence in schools – friend or foe? If you ask most students, it’s the best thing invented since the calculator. If you ask teachers, well, some might argue it’s a one-way ticket to an academic apocalypse. However, like most things in life, AI in education is not inherently good or bad. It’s all about…
Who doesn’t love an overpriced iced coffee? If you are going to pay $8 for a coffee, it might as well be good, right? Are you struggling to find a new study spot? No problem, I have curated a list of the best coffee shops near campus. The quality of the coffee is not the…
Women’s Basketball Final (2/15): University of Rhode Island 77-54 La Salle University Final (2/19): URI 70-65 Saint Joseph’s University On Saturday, the Rams hosted the Explorers for their annual Play4Kay game, as well as senior day. The two teams were separated by six points going into halftime, but Rhody scored a season-high 33 points in…
The heat is ramping up on women’s college basketball in the Atlantic 10 Conference with the month of March approaching. Each week, The Good Five Cent Cigar sports staff ranks the 15 teams in the A-10. Here’s how the rankings turned out as of Feb. 17: 15th Place: St. Bonaventure University Bonnies (5-20, 1-13) (-)…
Alarm bells bounce as the sun and I wake, this is it. We share a gaze that neither of us can keep, this is it. Leaves asleep–staining the concrete with their orange hue float away as I run by, this is it. She laughs so loud–the autumn tabby shrills, lively listening to her joyful tones,…
There truly is no place like Philly and no fans like Philly sports fans. So when the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl 44-20 on Feb. 9, I knew it would be well worth the trip to go to the Eagles victory parade. At 5 a.m. my crew and I…
Ten out of 510,000, or 0.0019%, is a minuscule number – yet if you listen to politicians, you might think there has been some sort of takeover. Recently the president of the United States of America signed an executive order stating the White House will only recognize two genders and that gender is finalized during…
If you asked me to explain the principles of quantum mechanics and how the University of Rhode Island’s men’s basketball team is seventh in the Atlantic 10 Conference standings, I think I could better explain quantum mechanics than the rollercoaster ride that has been this men’s basketball season. I’m going to try my best, so…
Former University of Rhode Island professor and composer Zaccai Curtis just won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album with “Cubop Lives!” – but was it Grammy worthy? I’ll start this review off by saying that jazz is usually not my cup of tea when it comes to music. I am a rock and…
Peyton Vesneski, a second-year student at the University of Rhode Island, has over 20 tattoos. Vesneski is a marine affairs major at URI and started his tattoo journey in his senior year of high school. When asked how many tattoos he had, Vesneski didn’t know the answer off the top of his head. However, he…