Well, hello everyone. My name is Juliana Lepore, and I am the new editor-in-chief of the Good Five Cent Cigar. Welcome to the first Cigar edition of 2023. I am so glad that you’re here. This year, you can expect all of the good, quality journalism that you know and love, with some new, modernized…
PHOTO CREDIT: harrington.uri.edu John Pantalone, a professor of journalism at the University of Rhode Island, will be stepping down as chair of the journalism department and adviser of the Good Five Cent Cigar at the end of this semester. Pantalone is an institution at the Cigar, being the first editor-in-chief when he was a student…
The Good Five Cent Cigar has been the student voice at the University of Rhode Island since 1971, and part of our responsibility is to provide the community with the truth and to combat false information. Disinformation and misinformation have only become more prevalent in recent years, such as COVID-19 conspiracy theories and political misinformation,…
On page one of this week’s newspaper, the Cigar covers a story about a racist direct message sent to a player on the Miami Dolphins from a University of Rhode Island graduate student. First, the Cigar condemns the racist words and messages the student used. We do not tolerate racism at the Cigar. In the…
Editor-in-Chief Kate LeBlanc and new President Marc Parlange chat for the Cigar’s first issue of the semester. Photo credit: Nora Lewis. This feels surreal. Seeing campus alive again feels surreal. Going to RhodyFest with hundreds of student organizations feels surreal. Meeting the Good Five Cent Cigar editorial board members I’ve never met in person feels…
This week is the last edition of the Good Five Cent Cigar for the 2020-21 academic year. We’ve spent time this semester covering how COVID-19 has affected the University of Rhode Island’s sporting events, written profiles on the most interesting professors around campus and highlighted the innovative work of the URI theatre department. The Cigar…
Well, this is going to be fun! Welcome to the first edition of the Good Five Cent Cigar of 2021 and, coincidentally, the first edition with me as editor-in-chief. This feels really special. I always imagined my Cigar firsts as editor-in-chief would look different. I’d be sitting at the head of our editorial table, surrounded…
To our readers, The past few months have been nothing short of a whirlwind of emotions, uncertainty and news 24/7. And through the progression of the chaos that we find ourselves in today, our one solace seems to be overloading ourselves with information that is scary and, as we all like to put it, unprecedented….
We’d like to apologize for our recent publication of “Senate president jumps off union clock tower” in our satire edition. It was deeply insensitive and a poor lapse of judgement on behalf of the organization. It was never the Cigar’s intention to make light of serious mental health issues, and we sincerely apologies to everyone…