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The Kingston Emporium’s Cumberland Farms convenience store closed its doors for good this past Sunday after over 30 years of business. When asked why the popular store was closing, Cumberland Farms stated that “We are closing the store as we determined that, based on space and other requirements, we are unable to convert it to…
Students, don’t disregard your general education requirements. A secretarial class turned into the necessary skills Dr. Jane Goodall, primatologist, conservationist and renowned animal behavior expert, needed to secure the job that would kickstart her career and allow her to study primates in the wild. Tuesday night, Goodall addressed a crowd of over 4,300 people to…
The University of Rhode Island Police Department, as well as Narragansett and South Kingstown Police, are cracking down on parties this fall semester. “With the start of the URI school year, there have already been an increase number of calls for house parties and a number of them are underage,” said Cpt. Joel Ewing-Chow from…
The University of Rhode Island Parking and Transportation services sent out a statement in August, which listed new parking changes on campus. Since then, a petition was sent around social media along with complaints that are continually rising towards parking. “I was hoping parking services would react to my petition,” said Marissa DeOliveira, a graduate…
Matt O’Neil has been an anchor in the URI baseball lineup this season. The fifth-year senior is batting .323 with a slugging percentage of .608 on the year while adding 9 home runs and 37 RBI. O’Neil is top three on the Rams roster in all four of those categories standing third in average, second…
The University of Rhode Island’s branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted an information session to establish interest in bringing historically multicultural fraternities and sororities back to campus on Thursday, April 20. “Bringing Multicultural sororities to campus was a big unanimous decision,” NAACP Vice President, Blessing Oyedokun, said. “From there…
The mission statement of the Talent Development Program is being changed to reflect a stronger focus on promoting student success after a program review this past March. They found that the original mission of the Talent Development Program, which was to promote access to students to higher education, should be more focused on promoting student…
“They say ‘don’t play in the mud’ as a kid, but you’ve always wanted to. Now, you get to play in the mud as an adult,” Director of Oozeball, Mike Lawson, commented on what is so appealing about URI’s dirtiest tradition. If you haven’t heard about Oozeball before, you may have been trying to connect…
Mainfare dining hall suffered a flood today due to an unsuccessful switch back to their air conditioning unit. Students eating in the dining hall around 12:10 p.m. noticed water start to leak from the ceiling. It was not long until ceiling tiles collapsed because of the water damage and excess water began pouring into the…