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Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| Umergency is a free, easy-to-use application with features to help you in an emergency, tailored to your specific college. It includes emergency contact numbers, a medical consent form, your uploaded medical cad and a GPS service that releases your location to trusted contacts in a dire situation. One in four…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Student Senate mishandles club organization external bank accounts For at least the past three years, miscommunication between members of Student Senate and various student organizations has led to a failure of regulating external bank accounts. An external bank account is any account used for finances in which the flow of…
Autumn Walter |CIGAR| John “JV” Vanner Jr. calls it a career after 10-seasons as URI basketball hype-man. URI hype-man calls it a career Somethings have changed over the past ten years surrounding the University of the Rhode Island men’s basketball team. The team has seen a head coaching change, another Atlantic 10 Championship and another trip…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Senior players Jared Terrell, EC Matthews, and Senior Manager Owen Sammarone sit on the side line frustrated with the loss of their final game at the Ryan Center. By: Stone Freedman & Nick Cardi A regular season championship and senior night celebration, along with the second worst loss in the history…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| St. Augustine’s Episcopal Center, located on Lower College Road, is in partnership with the University of Rhode Island to help acknowledge and improve food insecurity on campus. Food insecurity doesn’t mean that an individual doesn’t have access to food. It’s about needing to choose how they’re going to organize…
Photo by Lianna Blakeman |CIGAR| With further independent research into a recent campus safety study, the legitimacy of URI’s ranking is being called into question. By Emma Gauthier and Samuel Murray According to a study published by the National Council for Home Safety and Security on alarms.org, the University of Rhode Island was ranked fourth safest…
Photo courtesy of ©WPRO | Senator Nicholas Kettle faces charges of extortion and video voyeurism. On Monday Feb. 19, the Rhode Island Superior Court unsealed a criminal indictment of 27-year-old Republican State Senator Nicholas Kettle. Kettle has pled not guilty to two counts of extortion and one count of video voyeurism. According to a report…
Photos by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Top: Marlon Montague came in second in the 500-meter run The University of Rhode Island men’s track and field program took home the Atlantic 10 Indoor Championship this past weekend at Mackal Field House. The women’s track and field team placed eighth in the A-10. The brightspot for the women’s…
Photo by Anna Meassick |CIGAR| URI partners with Belmont Markets to track consumer eating habits and will offer an incentive to switch to healthy ones. Researchers in the University of Rhode Island were recently awarded a $300,000 grant to examine healthy food choices through consumer’s shopping behaviors in a local supermarket. The three-year grant comes from…
Photo by Kayla Michaud |CIGAR| Alumna Renee Kent started her own class of aerial art last year after picking up the sport only three years ago. Alumna teaches aerial arts classes A 1998 graduate of the University of Rhode Island is teaching aerial art classes at Arielle Arts Entertainment in East Greenwich. Renee Kent didn’t…