In this week’s COVID-19 update, The Good Five-Cent Cigar will discuss the update on Greek life’s shelter-in-place order and the University of Rhode Island’s testing plan as Thanksgiving approaches. Greek Life shelter-in-place lifted for cooperative chapters On Oct. 26, the University of Rhode Island’s Division of Student Affairs and Department of Public Safety lifted shelter-in-place…
The fifth speaker at this year’s Honors Colloquium at the University of Rhode Island discussed health care disparities and how they affect people with disabilities. Dr. Lisa Iezzoni spoke at the virtual event held on Tuesday evening, which was part of this year’s focus on “Challenging Expectations: Disability in the 21st Century.” Iezzoni is a…
Major social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are attempting to dilute the spread of fake news by implementing independent fact checkers on posts that promote false information about the coronavirus, vaccines, mail-in ballots, QAnon conspiracies or the Holocaust. According to Niko Poulakos, a communications professor at the University of Rhode Island, in a…
URI’s neuroscience program welcomes its inaugural class this semester. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. After many years of development, the University of Rhode Island’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program (INP) welcomed its first class of undergraduate students this fall. The INP offers students a four-year Bachelor of Science program with three major tracks that span across three separate…
Speaker Ryan Sallans shares his personal experience of coming out in celebration of Coming Out Month. Photo from James McIntosh. Speaker and author Ryan Sallans enlightened the community this week with his moving virtual event hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) in celebration of Coming Out Month. Sallans is…
Students and faculty can participate in the Be5K race remotely this year. Graphic from uri.edu. The University of Rhode Island’s annual Be5K will be held virtually this year, but will maintain the same goal of promoting mental health awareness on campus. The Be5K supports the Heather Fund, which was created in memory of former student…
The University of Rhode Island’s Student Senate held a short meeting this Wednesday with a new moderator presiding over the meeting. Caleb Hilyard was nominated as interim moderator by President Austyn Ramsay this past Monday, and was confirmed by the Senate to become Student Senate’s new moderator. This move comes following the resignation of Annabel…
The University recently began their search for the new president. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. To prepare for University President David Dooley’s retirement in June, the University of Rhode Island recently announced the search committee and hiring process for its new president. Beginning last week, both a search committee and an advisory committee are being utilized…
Award-winning historian Martha Jones speaks in second Long Rhode to Vote lecture Martha S. Jones discusses the historical barriers against Black female voters. Photo contributed by Kayla Laguerre-Lewis. “This is indeed a time when we must understand the historical perspectives related to women’s suffrage and civil rights, that form frankly, the underpinnings of democracy,” Provost…
Memorial for Black police brutality victims outside of the Multicultural Student Services Center. Photos by James Singer and James McIntosh. Ahamaud Arbery. Anthony McClain. Breonna Taylor. Calvin Horton Jr. Cornelius Fredericks. Damian Daniels. Daniel Prude. Darius Tarver. David McAtee. Dion Johnson. Dominique Clayton. Elijah McClain. George Floyd. Jamel Floyd. James Scurlock. Jaquyn O’Neill Light. Jonathan…