As students prepared themselves for spring break this past week, the University of Rhode Island Health Services Department held a Safe Spring Break Party to raise awareness and promote travel, substance and skin safety during break. The event had multiple internal vendors from Health Services at separate stations across the second floor of the union….
The Anna Fascitelli Fitness & Wellness Center offered their free for students self defense class on March 3, in order to teach students the importance of learning and practicing defense techniques before leaving for spring break. The class included students, instructors and alumni from the University of Rhode Island and Innovate Martial Arts, according to…
Word of mouth can be crucial for businesses to survive. For Umi Poke Sushi in Narragansett, it is their sole form of advertising, according to the owner Daniel Kxx. Umi Poke Sushi has been open for less than a month. Kxx has always had a passion for serving people and starting a business. “I always…
The University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media hosted the Communication and Media Career Fair on Feb. 27 in the Memorial Union ballroom for students to speak to future employers for internship or post-graduate jobs. Twenty-one organizations were in attendance including popular ESPN, Hasbro, WPRI 12, Fox and URI athletics to engage…
The press holds the responsibility of painting an objective picture when reporting, so what happens when the language they use perpetuates stereotypes and helps to enable power structures? In his lecture at the Galanti Lounge on Feb. 27, “The Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle,” titled after his book, Shannon King, the associate professor…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration withdrew a speed limit reduction law originally intended to limit ship-strikes for whales on Jan. 15, prompting concerns from Graduate School of Oceanography emeritus marine researcher Robert Kenney. Under the current speed limit regulations, most vessels that exceed 65 feet in length are limited to a speed of 10…
The University of Rhode Island marine affairs department brought in University of Akureyri professor and Fulbright Scholar, Rachael Lorna Johnstone, to give a lecture on the Indigenous people of Greenland’s fight for self-determination under international law on Feb. 25. Johnstone discussed the history of Greenland and the people that have inhabited the land. As reflected…
URi-STAND, the Bystander Intervention Program at the University of Rhode Island, held a screening of “The Hunting Ground” to provide education and awareness of sexual assault on college campuses, on Feb. 19. “The Hunting Ground” is a documentary film produced by Amy Ziering and written by Kirby Dick, and released in 2015, according to IMDb….
3D body scanning technology and virtual reality are providing people an objective view of their bodies, and is becoming a new way to treat body image disorders. “It’s definitely a detailed body image, but it’s not what we usually see,” said fourth-year dietetics major and President of URI’s Eating Concerns Advisory, Abbey Lanier. “So I…
Amid concerns about how the economy is going to affect students at the University of Rhode Island, Rhody Outpost feels prepared to help. The Outpost, a food pantry for students who struggle with food insecurity, was established in 2015. “[The Rhody Outpost is] important because first of all, food is a basic need, food is…