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URI is planning to hold the inaugural women’s summit to celebrate women’s month. Illustration by: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate is holding its first-ever Women’s Summit to promote interconnection between different women leaders in the community. The event was planned by Off-Campus Senator and Academic Affairs Committee Chair,…
Student senate presidential candidates. PHOTO CREDIT: LinkedIn, instagram.com/voteuri.rj The University of Rhode Island Student Senate elections for president and vice president will be held online from Wednesday, March 1 until Thursday, March 2. This year, there are two pairs of candidates running. For president, Emily Gamache and Ramez Rizk, and vice president, Chris Hoover and…
Invented by URI students who worked in the Rams Den, Razzbulls are a URI staple. PHOTO CREDIT: Aidan Cahill | Web Editor The University of Rhode Island is known for many things: its Division 1 athletics, it being the state’s flagship University and its academic programs. Among the list of accolades that the University has…
Phillips was the only Ram in double figures in the loss vs. Umass, recording 12 points. PHOTO CREDIT: Connor Zisk It was a turbulent week for the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team, who suffered their first two conference losses of the season despite a midweek win at Saint Joseph’s. The week started with…
Community gathers for candlelight vigil for earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. PHOTO CREDIT: Eddie Melfi | Staff Photographer The Multicultural Student Services Center held a vigil on Wednesday, Feb. 15 to memorialize the victims who lost their lives in the earthquake on the border between Turkey and Syria on Monday, Feb. 6. At the vigil,…
What did your favorite song of the month look like? Graphic by: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor Juliana Lepore Editor-in-Chief “Bejeweled” by Taylor Swift While I am not a Taylor Swift stan, I do have to say that this song has been playing on repeat in my car for the past month. A wonderful, catchy…
Picture from the candlelight vigil for earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. PHOTO CREDIT: Eddie Melfi | Staff Photographer In a matter of minutes, the earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6 created a humanitarian crisis with both physical and political impacts. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed tens of thousands of people,…
New artificial intelligence program raises questions in academic integrity and ethics. Graphic by: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence software created by a company called OpenAI, has been making headlines nationally for its ability to generate text similar to the way that humans generate language. This has been raising a lot of…
Students perform poetry for a chance to win a cash prize. PHOTO CREDIT: David Broccoli | Entertainment Editor The Africana Studies department at the University of Rhode Island held a full schedule of events this past week and welcomed the head of the Women and Development Unit at the University of West Indies Open Campus,…
College students help connect elders with lessons on all things technology. PHOTO CREDIT: URI College of Health Sciences At the University of Rhode Island, student mentors teach senior citizens how to use technology in the “Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations” program, according to Skye Leedahl, associate professor in the human development and family science (HDF) department. Leedahl…