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The University of Rhode Island Student Senate’s External Affairs Committee recently conducted a survey on the new housing ordinance that allows no more than four unrelated persons to live in one household in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Participants in the survey included the URI community, local residents and landlords to create a full sense of…
The University of Rhode Island will increase tuition for the 2017-2018 academic year with an additional $908 for in-state students and $1,168 for out-of-state students. “How we do tuition increases at the University of Rhode Island is we calculate how much the tuition increase needs to be, not in terms of percentage but in terms…
The University of Rhode Island Police Department is now accepting donations of unwrapped toys for their second-annual toy drive for children in the surrounding community who don’t receive gifts during the holiday season. “[The] need is greater than the community can support,” said Officer Paul Hanrahan of the URI police force, who is the creator…
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the University of Rhode Island has policies in its student handbook that restrict free speech. In an email sent to select students across 111 different public universities across the country, the organization “delivered a warning to public colleges and universities with highly restrictive speech codes:…
A student at the University of Rhode Island will bring the global charity Help-Portrait to Rhode Island on Dec. 10 to provide the gift of photography to those who cannot afford it otherwise. The Help-Portrait charity, which began in 2008, brings together “photographers, hairstylists and makeup artists to use their skills, tools and expertise to…
Following the results of the presidential election, students and faculty at the University of Rhode Island gathered on Tuesday to express solidarity for one another, as well as their concerns and hopes for the future. The event, which was originally scheduled to take place on the Quadrangle, was relocated to the Memorial Union Ballroom due…
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Recent accidents on Upper College Road have become a cause for concern for drivers and pedestrians after two accidents occurred less than an hour apart on Nov. 1, according to university police. The first accident, which occurred at 1:10 p.m., resulted in the driver being cited for failing to yield to pedestrians, said University of…
In the early morning hours of Nov. 9, Donald Trump was announced to be the official president- elect of the United States after a long night of very tight returns. Despite pre-election polls which showed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a slight advantage, the anti-establishment Republican candidate has come out ahead in the Electoral…
A petition against mandatory class sessions at the new Nursing Education Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is unlikely to effect change despite gaining almost 2,000 signatures in two weeks. The petition, started by junior nursing student Rachel Vafides, was started after an announcement was made that the nursing school’s second-semester juniors and all seniors would…